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Home Featured - AZ Kevin Byard’s fine is completely ridiculous and shows favoritism toward Dallas Cowboys
Kevin Byard’s fine is completely ridiculous and shows favoritism toward Dallas Cowboys
Tennessee Titans defensive back Kevin Byard recreated Terrell Owen’s infamous “star” celebration this past Monday night in his team’s win against the Dallas Cowboys.
Byard ran to midfield and stood on the Cowboys’ star logo after he intercepted Dak Prescott in the end zone.
Kevin Byard vs Terrell Owens, 18 years apart pic.twitter.com/S8f1x6pCGM
— FanDuel (@FanDuel) November 6, 2018
The NFL fined Byard $10,026 this week for the celebration.
$10,026 is the same amount that Atlanta Falcons defender Damontae Kazee was fined for a blatant late hit/cheap shot against Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton earlier this year.
No excuse for Damontae Kazee putting this late hit on a sliding Cam Newton. It’s reckless. Easy ejection for the officials. pic.twitter.com/ijBD3DiOsf
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) September 16, 2018
In what world is standing on a logo and viciously hitting a quarterback late the same thing?
Especially when the NFL preaches safety over and over.
Should Byard have been penalized for his celebration on Monday night?
Sure. I can definitely understand an unsportsmanlike penalty being called in that situation.
But a fine? For standing on a logo? That seems completely ridiculous to me.
Of course, that’s probably because it is completely ridiculous. There’s no way Byard gets fined for doing this on another team’s field. And there’s no way a Dallas Cowboy would’ve been fined for dancing on the Titans’ logo at Nissan Stadium.
Kevin Byard fined $10,026 for Dancing on the Star. Wonder if the fine would have happened if Byard has danced on say the Bills or Cardinals logo?
— Terry McCormick (@terrymc13) November 9, 2018
There’s always been a double standard when it comes to the Cowboys. I’ll never understand the “America’s Team” moniker that was bestowed upon them in 1979. I feel like a better nickname would be “the extremely casual football fan’s team”. But that’s just me.
For whatever reason, the Cowboys are going to be protected by the NFL. Even when it comes to something as silly as Byard standing on a star. A $10k fine isn’t much, but it sends the message that disrespecting the Cowboys won’t be tolerated.
Perhaps the Cowboys should’ve been fined for their performance on Monday night. It was way more offensive than Byard celebrating after an interception.
For what it’s worth, Byard doesn’t regret the celebration. He told reporters this week “It was a momentum changer. If it was $10,000, it was worth it, because I’ll make that up on the back end.”
The Titans won the game, so it’s hard to disagree with Byard.
Featured image via atthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports
https://atozsportsnashville.com/tennessee-titans-kevin-byards-fine-completely-ridiculous-shows-favoritism-toward-dallas-cowboys/
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US: “Billionaires’ club” controls environmental movement and EPA
4 August, 2014 by Simon
All the money goes to the alarmists
But, but, but… it’s the sceptics that are bankrolled by the rich, right? That’s the only way they could possibly outwit the billions spent by governments on propping up the consensus.
Well, er, no.
It appears that the environmental movement is the one benefiting from the wealthy’s largesse, with a report by the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee shedding light on the shady goings-on:
This report examines in detail the mechanisms and methods of a far-left environmental machine that has been erected around a small group of powerful and active millionaires and billionaires who exert tremendous sway over a colossal effort. Although startling in its findings, the report covers only a small fraction of the amount of money that is being secreted and moved around. It would be virtually impossible to examine this system completely given the enormity of this carefully coordinated effort and the lack of transparency surrounding it.
The failure to openly acknowledge this force and the silence of the media with whom they coordinate further emphasize the fact that until today, the Billionaire’s Club operated in relative obscurity hidden under the guise of “philanthropy.” The scheme to keep their efforts hidden and far removed from the political stage is deliberate, meticulous, and intended to mislead the public. While it is uncertain why they operate in the shadows and what they are hiding, what is clear is that these individuals and foundations go to tremendous lengths to avoid public association with the far-left environmental movement they so generously fund.
Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire’s Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance/anonymity between donations made by well-known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all – the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.
Foundations finance research to justify desired predetermined policy outcome. The research is then reported on by a news outlet, oftentimes one that is also supported by the same foundation, in an effort to increase visibility. In one example, a story reporting on a Park Foundation-supported anti-fracking study was reproduced by a Park-funded news organization through a Park-funded media collaboration where it was then further disseminated on Twitter by the maker of Park-backed anti-fracking movies.
Another service provided to the Billionaire’s Club is the manufacturing of an artificial grassroots movement where it is not the citizen’s interest that drives the movement; rather, it is part of a well-funded national strategy … (link – PDF)
I’m sure we can all look forward to the imminent outrage from ‘the Cause’ about this highly distorting and politicised funding of alarmism and environmental extremism, can’t we? Er…
[Tumbleweed]
Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: alarmism, funding, hypocrisy, US
Millions wasted on climate change research
5 March, 2012 by Simon
Your taxpayer dollars at work
Add the words “climate change” or “global warming” into any proposal for research funding, and your chances of success are improved immeasurably. Government agencies are just desperate to throw away precious funds on anything which might help the alarmist “Cause”, and yet again puts the lie to the claim that sceptics are a tightly-knit well-funded team.
Put the words “climate sceptic” in your proposal, it will guarantee to fail, not least because climate sceptics are just one notch above pedophiles in the politically-correct social strata that we presently inhabit.
Wasting money on pointless “climate change” initiatives is standard procedure for this embarrassment of a government (see here), so it’s hardly surprising that millions of taxpayers money is literally flushed down the lavatory on tenuous climate-related research:
MILLIONS of dollars in government research funding is being ploughed into studies of emotion in climate change messages, ancient economic life in Italy and the history of the moon.
Studies of sleeping snails and determining if Australian birds are getting smaller because of climate change have also been allocated funding in the latest round of grants totalling $300 million by the Australian Research Council.
A study of “an ignored credit instrument in Florentine economic, social and religious life from 1570 to 1790” secured $578,792 for a researcher from the University of Western Australia.
The council insists the study was approved because it had modern day relevance to the global financial crisis as it shows how Florence in ancient times recovered from an economic downturn and because no one had studied that element of history before.
Another project titled “Sending and responding to messages about climate change: the role of emotion and morality” by a Queensland university secured $197,302. The council said it was an important psychology project.
The study to determine if birds are shrinking was awarded $314,000 and another of sleeping snails to determine “factors that aid life extension” was given $145,000. Studying the early history of the moon will cost taxpayers $210,000 and another study looking at “William Blake in the 21st century” comes with a $636,904 bill.
“At a time when every available dollar could be put to backing innovation and research and development to make us more competitive, we have seen a growth in support for some real eyebrow-raising activities,” opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb said. (source)
But who cares about nurses, teachers or policemen? It’s all in aid of “saving the planet”, right? So we don’t need to bother with all that cost/benefit rubbish.
Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: funding
Warmist headbangers go ape over Heartland finance leak
15 February, 2012 by Simon
Seems fair, right?
UPDATE 3: See my latest post on this here.
UPDATE 2: Hilarious comment on MeDog’sGlob:
Hank_ – Tue, 2012-02-14 19:00
Could you guys write just one more article about this exposé? Somehow 4 articles in a row just doesn’t seem like enough. thanks…….
UPDATE: The only mainstream media outlet to even cover this non-story so far is The Guardian (natch). The others are the usual rancid Lefty/alarmist blogs, Puff Ho, StinkProgress, Climate Crocks, MeDog’sGlob – get the picture? Although you can bet that Fairfax and the ABC will lap it up if they get wind of it.
Hilarious to watch the ecotards wet themselves because some trivial documents have been released that show an organisation has not been funding alarmists! Shame on them.
The deluded fools think this is some kind of equivalent to Climategate (v1 and v2), which demonstrated widespread scientific fraud, manipulation of data, destruction of emails and avoidance of FOI requests on the part of the consensus boys.
The Cause has sucked up around $70 billion (that’s billion with a “b”) since the global warming gravy train set off about 20 years ago, but despite the obvious hypocrisy, the warm-mongers are outraged, outraged I tell you, that some “deniers” are getting, er, some small change.
Un-Skeptical Pseudo-Science attempts to coin the phrase “Denialgate”… LOL.
Headbanger site DeSmogBlog goes feral:
Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine – its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm what DeSmogBlog and others have reported for years. The heart of the climate denial machine relies on huge corporate and foundation funding from U.S. businesses including Microsoft, Koch Industries, Altria (parent company of Philip Morris) RJR Tobacco and more.
We are releasing the entire trove of documents now to allow crowd-sourcing of the material. Here are a few quick highlights, stay tuned for much more.
Ooh, you little tease! I can’t wait that long!
-Confirmation of exact amounts flowing to certain key climate contrarians.
“funding for high-profile individuals who regularly and publicly counter the alarmist AGW message. At the moment, this funding goes primarily to Craig Idso ($11,600 per month), Fred Singer ($5,000 per month, plus expenses), Robert Carter ($1,667 per month), and a number of other individuals, but we will consider expanding it, if funding can be found.” (link – Webcite)
Wow, $1,667 a month for Bob Carter. Totally outrageous! That’s less than the minimum wage (around $2,500 per month), and maybe pays for his electricity bill. Tom Nelson hits the nail on the head with this headline:
Gore launches $300 million campaign
Former Vice President Al Gore is launching a $300 million, bipartisan campaign to try to push climate change higher on the nation’s political agenda.
The three-year campaign by the Alliance for Climate Protection will begin Wednesday with network television advertising that will include “American Idol” and other non-traditional shows that reach a non-news audience. (source)
Naturally, the hypocrisy of this is totally lost on their addled brains, and the headbangers’ totalitarian mindset dictates that only those who agree with them should be funded, even if it’s a ludicrously tiny amount as revealed here.
Where’s my Big Oil cheque, that’s what I want to know.
By the way, interesting background on MeDog’sGlob here.
Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Big Oil, Climategate, Climategate II, funding, Heartland, hypocrisy
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HB 4276 Relating to the legalization of certain cannabidiol. Crimes--Drugs (I0185), Agriculture (I0020), MARIHUANA (S3105), HEMP (S0907)
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HB 4266 Relating to the provision of pharmacy services through a telepharmacy system located at a remote dispensing site. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), PHARMACIES & PHARMACISTS (S1192)
HB 3400 Relating to required criminal history checks for nurse aides; authorizing a fee. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177), CRIMINAL RECORDS (S0008), NURSES & NURSE AIDES (S2704)
HB 924 Relating to county surety bond requirements for concrete batch plants. BONDS (S6060), Vehicles & Traffic--Equipment (I0855), Vehicles & Traffic--General (I0865), Business & Commerce--General (I0050), City Government--Roads (I0066), CEMENT & CONCRETE (S0315)
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HB 603 Relating to certain complaints concerning the Texas Medical Board. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), MEDICAL BOARD, TEXAS (V0644), Legislature (I0520)
HB 3399 Relating to the issuance and duration of certain temporary alcoholic beverage permits and licenses; changing the amounts of fees. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION, TEXAS (V0472), PERMITS (S0011), Alcoholic Beverage Regulation (I0025)
HB 1273 Relating to denial of payment for preauthorized health care services. Health Care Providers (I0387), Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)
HB 1274 Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the unwarranted commitment of a person to a mental health facility. Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Health Care Providers (I0387)
HB 101 Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of false caller identification information display. TELEPHONES & TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES (S5657), Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200), Utilities--Telecommunications (I0828)
HB 1373 Relating to the protection of expressive activities at public institutions of higher education. Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065), Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)
HB 733 Relating to the eligibility of certain physicians to provide and receive remuneration for workers' compensation health care services. PHYSICIANS (S1282), Labor--Workers' Compensation (I0470), Health Care Providers (I0387)
HB 602 Relating to certain duties of the Texas Medical Board regarding a complaint against a license holder. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), MEDICAL BOARD, TEXAS (V0644)
HB 1733 Relating to advertising or other information regarding licensed bail bond sureties posted in secure correctional facilities. ADVERTISING (S2680), Corrections--Jails & Prisons (I0092), Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541)
HB 2097 Relating to a pilot program for the provision of health coverage for school district employees in certain school districts. Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246), Education--School Districts (I0220), Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422), Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers (I0242)
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HB 29 Relating to the regulation of the practice of physical therapy. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), PHYSICAL THERAPISTS (S6112), BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY EXAMINERS, TEXAS (V0946)
HB 923 Relating to coverage of an alternative treatment after the approval of a utilization review. ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE (S0300), Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422)
HB 27 Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault or aggravated assault of a federal law enforcement officer. Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170), Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Aliens (I0032), Law Enforcement (I0510)
HB 1798 Relating to the practice of therapeutic optometry; requiring an occupational certificate to perform certain surgical procedures. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), THERAPEUTIC OPTOMETRISTS (S0051), TEXAS OPTOMETRY BOARD (V0305)
HB 9 Relating to the contributions to and benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Retirement Systems--Teachers (I0726), State Finances--Appropriations (I0746)
HB 37 Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of mail theft. Crimes--Against Property (I0175)
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HB 1455 Relating to the audit of wholesale invoices during certain audits of pharmacists and pharmacies. PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS (S0648), PHARMACIES & PHARMACISTS (S1192), AUDITS & AUDITORS (S4334), Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422), MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)
HB 1584 Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer. CANCER (S0658), Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions (I0383), Insurance--Health & Accident (I0422), MEDICINE & PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (S7338)
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HB 3926 Relating to creating the criminal offenses of obtaining medical treatment by deception for a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual and continuous abuse of a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual. Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170), Minors--Crimes Against (I0532), Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200), Disabilities, Persons with (I0380), ELDER ABUSE (S0247), CHILD ABUSE (S4256), Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Aging (I0015)
HB 4106 Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of intoxication assault. Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170), Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Vehicles & Traffic--DWI & DUID (I0863)
HB 509 Relating to the regulation of aggregate production operations by the Railroad Commission of Texas; authorizing a fee; providing administrative penalties and other civil remedies; creating criminal offenses. State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Admin. Procedure (I0763), County Government--Land Use & Zoning (I0098), PERMITS (S0011), ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON (V0334), City Government--Land Use & Zoning (I0064), RAILROAD COMMISSION (V0089), TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF (V8796), Mines & Mineral Resources (I0536), PUBLIC NOTICE (S0264)
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HB 793 Relating to certain government contracts with companies that boycott Israel. Purchasing--General (I0642), ISRAEL (G0257), State Agencies, Boards & Commissions (I0749)
HB 4508 Relating to exempting CBD oil from the Texas Controlled Substances Act. Crimes--Drugs (I0185), MARIHUANA (S3105)
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HB 427 Relating to the punishment for the offense of fraudulent destruction, removal, or concealment of a writing that is attached to tangible property; enhancing a criminal penalty. Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Crimes--Miscellaneous (I0200), FRAUD (S0166), Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)
HB 3107 Relating to notice of the right to object to participation in an abortion procedure for health care personnel of a hospital or health care facility. Occupational Regulation--Health Occupations (I0540), Abortion (I0005), Hospitals (I0400), Health Care Providers (I0387)
HB 1105 Relating to the preemption and prosecution of certain offenses involving the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle. TELEPHONES & TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES (S5657), EMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (S0321), Vehicles & Traffic--Rules of Road (I0860)
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HB 1325 Relating to the production and regulation of hemp; requiring occupational licenses; authorizing fees; creating criminal offenses; providing civil and administrative penalties. HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION (V0177), Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions (I0541), Crimes--Drugs (I0185), STATE HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (V0463), Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205), Agriculture (I0020), AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF (V0566), State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Admin. Procedure (I0763), HEMP (S0907), PACKAGING & LABELING REQUIREMENTS (S0339), HEMP FARMING ACT (P0754)
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28B.20.352 << 28B.20.354 >> 28B.20.356
RCW 28B.20.354
1947 conveyance for arboretum and botanical garden purposes—Part may be conveyed by regents to city of Seattle.
(1) The board of regents of the University of Washington is hereby authorized to convey to the city of Seattle that portion of said lot three (3) of the shorelands described in RCW 28B.20.350 which is within the following described tract, to wit:
A rectangular tract of land one hundred twenty (120) feet in north-south width, and four hundred (400) feet in east-west length, with the north boundary coincident with the north boundary of the old canal right-of-way, and the west boundary on the southerly extension of the west line of Lot eleven (11), Block four (4), Montlake Park, according to the recorded plat thereof, approximately five hundred sixty (560) feet east of the east line of Montlake Boulevard.
(2) The board of regents is authorized to convey to the city of Seattle free of all restrictions or limitations, or to incorporate in the conveyance to the city of Seattle such provisions for reverter of said land to the university as the board deems appropriate. Should any portion of the land so conveyed to the city of Seattle again vest in the university by reason of the operation of any provisions incorporated by the board in the conveyance to the city of Seattle, the University of Washington shall hold such reverted portion subject to the reverter provisions of RCW 28B.20.356.
[ 1969 ex.s. c 223 § 28B.20.354. Prior: 1947 c 45 § 3. Formerly RCW 28.77.320.]
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Falling grad rate adds urgency to turnaround efforts
Lisa Irish/Arizona Education News Service
Arizona school districts and nonprofit organizations are using nationally proven strategies and innovative practices in their efforts to turnaround a high school graduation rate that has declined in Arizona for three years in a row, notably among low-income and minority students, who are a majority of the state’s school-age population.
Arizona is one of only four states whose four-year adjusted cohort graduation rates have declined for the past three years that statistics are available, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
“We need to begin by having tough conversations about the struggles faced by students, particularly low-income and minority students in our state,” said Rich Nickel, president and CEO of College Success Arizona. “Including students in those conversations is key to determining the supports they require for success. Once those supports are identified, we need to move forward with a collaborative approach to putting an end to students dropping out of high school and college.”
In Arizona, 16 percent of students are racial minorities, 45 percent of students are Latino and 43.9 percent of students receive free- or reduced-lunch, an indicator of low income, according to the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Annual Report 2012-13 and the Food Research and Action Center’s June 2013 report “Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2013.”
From 2010-11 to 2012-13, Arizona graduation rates declined three percent for all students, fell five percent for disabled students as well as limited English proficient students, and dropped four percent for economically disadvantaged students.
Arizona graduation rates for students by race/ethnicity were all below the national average for those groups. Over the past three years for which statistics are available, graduation rates dropped four percent for African-American students, three percent for Asian students as well as Hispanic students, declined two percent for White students, and one percent for Native American students.
Latinos represent the fastest growing segment of Arizona’s population, and Latino K-12 students are the majority in Arizona, yet Latino students trail their White peers in almost every education assessment category, including high school graduation rates, according to Helios Education Foundation.
What is Arizona doing to increase graduation rates?
Nonprofits, businesses and community organizations are working together with educators to reverse this trend.
To help boost graduation rates, College Success Arizona is partnering with many groups throughout the state through its Arizona College Access Network (AzCAN), Nickel said.
“AzCAN members work in collaboration throughout the state to improve the high school and college graduation rates of low-income students, minority students and students with disabilities,” Nickel said. “Programs include student ambassadors through Tucson’s Regional College Access Center, Jobs for Arizona’s Graduates (JAG), Elevate Phoenix, Nizhoni Academy and many others.”
Within the AZCAN network, in-school and out-of-school programs focus on both high school and college attainment through wraparound supports, Nickel said.
“These supports help students graduate high school with the knowledge and skills necessary to be college and career ready, setting them on a path to lifetime success,” Nickel said.
Limited English Proficient Students
In response to low graduation rates for English language learners, Arizona education leaders earlier this year approved optional changes to the standard four-hour block of intensive English instruction in reading, writing, grammar and conversation that public schools could use to increase English language learner’s academic growth and also boost high school graduation rates
The approved refinements to the Structured English Immersion model would allow local education agencies beginning in the 2015-16 school year to reduce daily ELL hours from four to two for students who demonstrate intermediate level proficiency on the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) and who are in at least their second year of English Language Development instruction.
Similar alternative models in Glendale Union and Phoenix Union high schools have helped ELL students who have scored proficient in reading and writing, by keeping them in “two-hour model and the other two hours they’re in an English block to earn credit for graduation,” said Evie Cortés-Pletenik, curriculum director for language acquisition for Phoenix Union High School.
To meet the state requirement of 22 credits to graduate, Phoenix Union’s 1,200 ELL students often use the district’s concept, credit recovery, evening classes, online courses and free summer school, Pletenik said.
Increased academic support
Many Arizona high schools are offering increased academic support for students and online options to earn the credits for their diploma.
Maricopa High School in Pinal County is doing several things to improve the graduation rate, said Steve Chestnut, superintendent of Maricopa Unified School District in an article on InMaricopa.com.
“For the past two years we have offered additional remedial math classes at MHS to assist students,” Chestnut said in the article. “Two years ago we began working with the company Graduation Alliance. This company reconnects with MHS dropouts and enrolls them in an online program so they can complete their MHS diplomas. We have had three students earn their diplomas with Graduation Alliance, and one student has completed a GED.”
In Tucson, Pima Vocational High School is helping students who have dropped out of other traditional schools graduate by “providing a supportive atmosphere, youth specialists that work around the students’ obstacles and a low student-teacher ratio,” according to a NBC News 4 Tucson KVOA story.
Many Pima Vocational High School students are homeless and some are parents themselves, said school director Michele Heimpel.
“We want the kids the other schools have thrown away,” Heimpel said. “Those are the students we want because we know that in a very structured, welcoming environment they can learn. They can be successful.”
What’s working nationally?
These Arizona efforts are similar to what’s working nationally to increase the number of high school students earning their diplomas in four years.
Graduation rates nationally are not increasing because of broad national economic, demographic or social trends, but from leadership, reforms and multi-sector efforts at state, district and school levels, according to the “2015 Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic.”
Raising graduation rates for students who have traditionally struggled to earn a high school diploma have driven the gains in the national high school graduation rate, according to the Grad Nation 2015 report.
These efforts have put the nation on pace to meet the goal of a 90 percent on-time high school graduation rate by 2020, according to the Grad Nation report.
Additional ideas
Other steps schools can take to help increase students high school graduation rate are described in the recent Grad Nation report. Among these recommendations are:
Eradicate zero-tolerance discipline policies since students who are expelled or suspended become far more likely to drop out of school completely.
Expand the use of early-warning indicators so educators can intervene at the earliest and most critical times to help students succeed.
Make state funding more equitable so low-income students have the same opportunities as their more affluent peers.
Establish a standard diploma that is available to all students, which limits exit options that prematurely take students with disabilities off track to graduating on time with a standard diploma.
Increase the use of consistent and comparable data that holds states accountable for graduation rates as an important and necessary measurement tool for determining where the challenges exist.
This focus on students shouldn’t stop at high school graduation, but should continue through their postsecondary education to make sure they have the support, guidance and resources they need to be successful, Nickel said.
“Mentors and academic coaches at both the high school and college level are crucial to bolstering degree attainment,” Nickel said. “College Success Arizona and other model programs in our state such as New Pathways for Youth, Destination Graduation, and First Scholars are mobilizing these support systems to assist students along their path to a bright future.”
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Dream Project: Jackie Chan’s “Time Belt”
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I spent this afternoon pounding out an idea for a Jackie Chan “dream project” with my buddy Mencius.
It all started when I asked my buddy:
“If you had Jackie Chan in his physical prime, what movie would you put him in?”
Surprisingly, my answer to this question was rather straightforward and simple, being that of Armour of God III or something like it.
To be honest, I’d still like to see a 3rd Armour of God, as I’ve always felt it could be a good “farewell” movie for Jackie.
Getting back to the matter at hand, my buddy Mencius had something a little more off the wall in mind, something more unique; at least when it comes to Jackie Chan movies.
Mencius’ idea was that of a time travel adventure film where Jackie, playing a kung fu expert/dopey non-hero that accidentally finds himself hurtling through exotic time periods and locales.
Okay maybe the plot isn't totally unique. But The Myth sucked, so it doesn't count.
While I was initially turned off by the idea, largely due to it’s lack of a concrete source of conflict, I found myself revisiting the idea throughout the day, constantly feeding Mencius ideas that I thought could make for a fun movie.
The first idea I felt needed to come into play, was that of a group of villains chasing Jackie through time.
Basically, Jackie is like a janitor in some time travel laboratory, and then a bunch of thieves break in trying to steal the time travel gear; whereupon Jackie accidentally activates the device and gets lost in time.
Using a device with extremely limited time travel capability, the bad guys chase Jackie through time, showing up for action beats throughout Jackie’s adventures.
Mencius and I didn’t really get around to finalizing anything for this idea, but at the end of the day we came up with at least 2 locations the film would visit, namely ancient China, and Victorian England.
Naturally, Jackie would run afoul of plenty of thugs and bad guys in these places, leading to much brawling, yelling of “I don’t want any trouble!”, and weaponization of household items.
In my mind, given that this in fact a “dream” project, and can really include as many stars (in their physical primes) as I’d like, the cast of the movie would be fucking epic.
Imagine this:
Jackie goes back in time to old timey China.
He meets Wong Fei Hung, played by Jet Li.
They fight, and it most certainly doesn’t suck like in The Forbidden Kingdom.
Somewhere along the line, Jackie meets a rotund butcher played by Sammo Hung, and his fiery cohort, played by Yuen Biao.
Pictured: Comedy and Action, GOLD.
Naturally, they all become buddies.
At the end of it all, Jackie, Sammo, Yuen and Jet Li all join forces to take on the local Axe Gang, every member of which is played by a notable Hong Kong villain actor.
Imagine a crowd fight with these 4 taking on the likes of Dick Wei, Billy Chow, Ken Lo, Chin Siu Ho, Fan Siu Wong, Wu Jing, Xing Yu and Al FUCKING Leong, all at the same fuckin’ time.
Hell, I'd pay money JUST to see Jackie take on Al Leong...
Now imagine Jackie, Yuen and Sammo travel to Victorian England, only to be immediately accosted by a thuggish Jason Statham.
After escaping The Transporter, the trio run afoul of the local authorities, the leader of which happens to be Darren Shahlavi AKA Twister:
Now imagine the rest of the movie includes fights with the pursuing bad guys played by the likes of Scott Adkins, Cyril Raffaelli, Marko Zaror, Benny Urquidez, and Brad Allan with DONNIE FUCKING YEN serving as the “final boss.”
Tell me, would this not be the coolest movie ever!?
Anyway, in tribute to the classic Channel 101 show of the same name, I feel it’s only appropriate that this “dream project” be titled:
Jackie Chan’s “Time Belt”
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1745 births, 1799 deaths, Individuals,
William Dawes
William Dawes, Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America
25 February 1799 (aged 53)
Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Political information
William Dawes, Jr. (1745 – 1799) was an American tanner and Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.
Dawes was born in Boston to William Dawes and Lydia Boone. He became a tanner and was active in Boston's militia. He demonstrated his opposition to the British by boycotting their products and wearing a homespun suit to his wedding.
On 18 April 1775, the Assassin Connor met with Paul Revere, who was already meeting with Dawes and Robert Newman. Dawes was assigned to ride to Lexington and warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the impending attack by the British Army. To ensure that the message would be delivered, Revere and Connor rowed to the Charlestown peninsula at the same time. Dawes took the longer land route across Boston Neck. Using guile to pass the roadblock, he arrived in Lexington in time to warn Hancock and Adams, and was soon followed after by Revere and Connor.
Dawes, Revere, and Samuel Prescott then rode for Concord, but were confronted by British troops. Revere was captured, and Prescott managed to escape and warn the militia. Dawes lost his horse and was forced to hide in a barn for several hours, before making his was back to Lexington.
After the Battles of Lexington and Concord had commenced, Dawes and the militia retreated to the North Bridge. There, he vouched for Connor's abilities to James Barrett, the militia leader. While Barrett read a letter from John Parker, another militia leader, Dawes informed Connor that Revere had been captured, but assured him that Revere would find a way out of his predicament.
William Dawes and Robert Newman at Paul Revere's house
Connor, William and James Barret at Concord
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Value added products from poultry litter using fractionation, pyrolysis, and pelletizing
Singh, Kaushlendra
In raw form, poultry litter has certain draw backs for both energy production (high ash content and moisture content, a corrosive nature, and low energy content) and fertilizer (ow bulk density, and low nutrient content). We envisioned combining fractionation, pyrolsis, and pelletizing processes for value added utilization of poultry litter. The dissertation is divided into five major studies. The first “fractionation and decomposition kinetics” study explains the decomposition behavior of poultry litter under pyrolysis conditions. The second “screening and pyrolysis” confirms that the pyrolysis of the coarse fraction (screen#20) produced 44.47% char which retained only 43.53% of total feedstock energy. Overall, the pyrolysis products captured 57.23% of total feedstock energy and 53.86% of total feedstock carbon. The light phase of the condensate (4.94 ± 2.70% of the dry biomass) had a calorific value of 34.83 ± 0.91 MJ/kg and could be further refined as low grade fuel. The third “screening and pyrolysis parameter” study concludes that the highest calorific value of the char coal (17.39 ± 1.37MJ/kg) was made from coarse fraction at 300°C and heating rate of 30°C/min, which captured 68.71 ± 9.37% of the feedstock energy. Most of the nitrogen was retained by char followed by the medium phase of the condensate The third study concludes that the highest calorific value of the char coal (17.39 ± 1.37MJ/kg) was made from coarse fraction at 300°C, which captured 68.71 ± 9.37% of the feedstock energy. Most of the nitrogen was retained by char followed by medium phase of the condensate. The fourth “compression behavior” study concludes that the fine fraction of the poultry litter was densified from a bulk density of 466.65 ± 14.25 kg/m3 up to 1537.37 kg/m3 at 4000 N compressive load or 124.965 ± 0.844 MPa pressure. Neither the aqueous nor bio-oil phase possessed binding properties but did possess lubrication properties. The fifth “Co-firing poultry litter char with coal” shows that the calorific value significantly increased and ash content decreased with increase in amount of standard coal in the mixtures. A mixture of 60% char and 40% standard coal harvested 78% of the coal energy, reduced ash content by 62%, and ammonia content by 41% compared to poultry litter char itself. The results of this dissertation will benefit the poultry industry by reducing storage and transportation cost and generating income from poultry litter through value added products.
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The iPhone may soon steal Samsung’s only remaining unique smartphone feature
Chris Smith @chris_writes
August 24th, 2017 at 12:17 PM
Everybody copies everybody else in the smartphone business, whether it’s hardware or software. Samsung got where it is today in the mobile business after deciding to copy the iPhone at any cost. Modern Samsung phones definitely have innovations of their own, but it’s rare to see Samsung take the lead. Currently, Samsung probably has just one feature left that’s not available from competitors, Apple in particular. But that may change in the near future.
Samsung was the first to make popular phablets with an attached stylus. Soon after the Note came, everybody else started making larger and larger phones, Apple included. But they didn’t also pair them with an S Pen equivalent.
Gone are the days when Apple thought that seeing a stylus on a tablet means that someone somewhere “blew it.” Apple embraced the stylus for the iPad, and it may be looking to bring Apple Pencil functionality to the iPhone in the future. Steve Jobs’s successor Tim Cook hinted about a year ago that the iPhone is soon getting stylus support. “If you’ve ever seen what can be created with that pencil on an iPad or an iPhone, it’s really unbelievable,” he said in a rather surprising comment, given that Apple never embraced the stylus as a tool for the iPhone.
However, patents emerged describing stylus technology for the iPhone. And Patently Apple discovered a pair of new patent applications that describe stylus technology applicable to iPads and iPhones.
Patent application number 20170242499 titled Noise Correction for a Stylus Touch Device explains methods of reducing noise from electrical components when a stylus is in use. The technology is apparently required to allow a more accurate detection of stylus positions, and it may already be employed on the most recent iPads.
That said, it doesn’t mean the next-gen iPhones will come with Apple Pencil support. Or that Apple is making an iPhone with a built-in stylus to rival the Note 8. The company may be looking to cover all its bases by adding iPhone-related verbiage to its stylus patents. If Apple is bringing Pencil support to the iPhone, however, don’t expect it to come free of charge, as is the case with the Note’s S Pen.
Tags: Apple, Apple Pencil, GALAXY Note, iPhone
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'This Cup'
Expositions of Holy Scripture — Alexander Maclaren
'And Jesus took the cup, and grave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28. For this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins' -- MATT. xxvi.27, 28.
The comparative silence of our Lord as to the sacrificial character of His death has very often been urged as a reason for doubting that doctrine, and for regarding it as no part of the original Christian teaching. That silence may be accounted for by sufficient reasons. It has been very much exaggerated, and those who argue from it against the doctrine of the Atonement have forgotten that Jesus Christ founded the Lord's Supper.
That rite shows us what He thought, and what He would have us think, of His death; and in the presence of its testimony it seems to me impossible to deny that His conception of it was distinctly sacrificial. By it He points out the moment of His whole career which He desires that men should remember. Not His words of tenderness and wisdom; not His miracles, amazing and gracious as these were; not the flawless beauty of His character, though it touches all hearts and wins the most rugged to love, and the most degraded to hope; but the moment in which He gave His life is what He would imprint for ever on the memory of the world.
And not only so, but in the rite he distinctly tells us in what aspect He would have that death remembered. Not as the tragic end of a noble career which might be hallowed by tears such as are shed over a martyr's ashes; not as the crowning proof of love; not as the supreme act of patient forgiveness; but as a death for us, in which, as by the blood of the sacrifice, is secured the remission of sins.
And not only so, but the double symbol in the Lord's Supper -- whilst in some respects the bread and wine speak the same truths, and certainly point to the same Cross -- has in each of its parts special lessons intrusted to it, and special truths to proclaim. The bread and the wine both say: -- 'Remember Me and My death.' Taken in conjunction they point to that death as violent; taken separately they each suggest various aspects of it, and of the blessings that will flow to us therefrom. And it is my present purpose to bring out, as briefly and as clearly as I can, the special lessons which our Lord would have us draw from that cup which is the emblem of His shed blood.
I. First, then, observe that it speaks to us of a divine treaty or covenant.
Ancient Israel had lived for nearly 2000 years under the charter of their national existence which, as we read in the Old Testament, was given on Sinai amidst thunderings and lightnings -- 'Now, therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine, and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation.'
And that covenant, or agreement, or treaty, on the part of God, was ratified by a solemn act, in which the blood of the sacrifice, divided into two portions, was sprinkled, one half upon the altar, and the other half, after their acceptance of the conditions and obligations of the covenant, on the people, who had pledged themselves to obedience.
And now, here is a Galilean peasant, in a borrowed upper room, within four-and-twenty hours of His ignominious death which might seem to blast all His work, who steps forward and says, 'I put away that ancient covenant which knits this nation to God. It is antiquated. I am the true offering and sacrifice, by the blood of which, sprinkled on altar and on people, a new covenant, built upon better promises, shall henceforth be.'
What a tremendous piece of audacity, except on the one hypothesis that He that spake was indeed the Word of God; and that He was making that which Himself had established of old, to give way to that which He establishes now! The new covenant which Christ seals in His blood, is the charter, the better charter, under the conditions of which, not a nation but the world may find an external salvation which dwarfs all the deliverances of the past. That idea of a covenant confirmed by Christ's blood may sound to many hearers dry and hard. But if you will try to think what great truths are wrapped up in the theological phraseology, you will find them very real and very strong. Is it not a grand thought that between us and the infinite divine Nature there is established a firm and unmovable agreement? Then He has revealed His purposes; we are not left to grope in darkness, at the mercy of 'peradventures' and 'probablies'; nor reduced to consult the ambiguous oracles of nature or of Providence, or the varying voices of our own hearts, or painfully and dubiously to construct more or less strong bases for confidence in a loving God out of such hints and fragments of revelation as these supply. He has come out of His darkness, and spoken articulate words, plain words, faithful words, which bind Him to a distinctly defined course of action. Across the great ocean of possible modes of action for a divine nature He has, if I may so say, buoyed out for Himself a channel, so as that we know His path, which is in the deep waters. He has limited Himself by the utterance of a faithful word, and we can now come to Him with His own promise, and cast it down before Him, and say: 'Thou hast spoken, and Thou art bound to fulfil it.' We have a covenant wherein God has shown us His hand, has told us what He is going to do and has thereby pledged Himself to its performance.
And, still further, in order to get the full sweetness of this thought, to break the husk and reach to the kernel, you must remember what, according to the New Testament, are the conditions of this covenant. The old agreement was, 'If ye will obey My voice and do My commandments, then,' -- so and so will happen. The old condition was, 'Do and live; be righteous and blessed!' The new condition is: 'Take and have; believe and live!' The one was law, the other is gift; the one was retribution, the other is forgiveness. One was outward, hard, rigid law, fitly 'graven with a pen of iron on the rocks for ever'; the other is impulse, love, a power bestowed that will make us obedient; and the sole condition that we have to render is the condition of humble and believing acceptance of the divine gift. The new covenant, in the exuberant fulness of its mercy, and in the tenderness of its gracious purposes, is at once the completion and the antithesis of the ancient covenant with its precepts and its retribution.
And, still further, this 'new covenant,' of which the essence is God's bestowment of Himself on every heart that wills to possess Him; this new covenant, according to the teaching of these words of my text and of the symbol to which they refer, is ratified and sealed by that great sacrifice. The blood was sprinkled on the altar; the blood was sprinkled on the people, which being translated into plain, unmetaphorical language is simply this, that Christ's death remains for ever present to the divine mind as the great reason and motive which modifies His government, and which ensures that His love shall ever find its way to every seeking soul. His death is the token; His death is the reason; His death is the pledge of the unending and the inexhaustible mercy of God bestowed upon each of us. 'He that spared not His own Son, shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?' The outward rite with its symbol is the exhibition in visible form of that truth, that the blood of Jesus Christ seals to the world the infinite mercy of God.
And, on the other hand, that same blood of the covenant, sprinkled upon the other parties to the treaty, even our poor sinful hearts, binds them to the fulfilment of the condition which belongs to them. That is to say, by the power of that sacrifice there are evoked in our poor souls, faith, love, surrender. It, and it alone, knits us to God; it, and it alone, binds us to the fulfilment of the covenant. My brother, have you entered into that sweet, solemn, sacred alliance and union with God? Have you accepted and fulfilled the conditions? Is your heart 'sprinkled with the blood so freely shed for you'; and have you thereby been brought into living alliance with the God who has pledged His being and His name to be the all-sufficient God to you?
II. Still further, this cup speaks to us of the forgiveness of sins.
One theory, and one theory only, as it seems to me, of the meaning of Christ's death, is possible if these words of my text ever dropped from Christ's lips, or if He ever instituted the rite to which they refer; He must have believed that His death was a sacrifice, without which the sins of the world were not forgiven; and by which forgiveness came to us all.
And I do not think that we rightly conceive the relation between the sacrifices of barbarous heathen tribes, or the sacrifices appointed in Israel, and the great sacrifice on the Cross, if we say that our Lord's death is only figuratively accommodated to these in order to meet lower or grosser conceptions, but rather, I take it, that the accommodation is the other way. In all nations beyond the limits of Israel the sacrifices of living victims spoke not only of surrender and dependence, but likewise of the consciousness of demerit and evil on the part of the offerers, and were at once a confession of sin, a prayer for pardon, and a propitiation of an offended God. And I believe that the sacrifices in Israel were intended and adapted not only to meet the deep-felt want of human nature, common to them as to all other tribes, but also were intended and adapted to point onwards to Him in whose death a real want of mankind was met, in whose death a real sacrifice was offered, in whose death an angry God was not indeed propitiated, but in whose death the loving Father of our souls Himself provided the Lamb for the offering, without which, for reasons deeper than we can wholly fathom, it was impossible that sin should be remitted.
I insist upon no theory of an Atonement. I believe there is no Gospel, worth calling so, worth the preaching, worth your believing, or that will ever move the world or purify society, except the Gospel which begins with the fact of an Atonement, and points to the Cross as the altar on which the Sacrifice for the sins of the world, without whose death pardon is impossible, has died for us all.
Oh! dear friends, do not let yourselves be confused by the difficulties that beset all human and incomplete statements of the philosophy of the death of Christ; but getting away from these, cleave you to the fact that your sins were laid upon Christ, and that He has died for us all; that His death is a sacrifice; His body broken for us; and for the remission of our sins, His blood freely shed. Thus, and only thus, will you come to the understanding either of the sweetness of His love or of the power of His example; then, and only then, shall we know why it was that He elected to be remembered, out of all the moments of His life, by that one when He hung in weakness upon the Cross, and out of the darkness came the cry, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'
III. And now, again, let me remind you that this cup speaks likewise of a life infused.
'The blood is the life,' says the physiology of the Hebrews. The blood is the life, and when men drink of that cup they symbolise the fact that Christ's own life and spirit are imparted to them that love Him. 'Except ye eat the flesh, and drink the blood of the Son of Man, ye have no life in you.' The very heart of Christ's gift to us is the gift of His own very life to be the life of our lives. In deep, mystical reality He Himself passes into our being, and the 'law of the spirit of life makes us free from the law of sin and death,' so that we may say: 'He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit,' and the humble believing soul may rejoice in this: 'I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in Me.' This is, in one aspect, the very deepest meaning of this Communion rite. As physicians sometimes tried to restore life to an almost dead man by the transfusion into his shrunken veins of the fresh warm blood from a young and healthy subject, so into our fevered life, into our corrupted blood, there is poured the full tide of the pure and perfect life of Jesus Christ Himself, and we live, not by our own power, nor for our own will, nor in obedience to our own caprices, but by Him and in Him, and with Him and for Him. This is the heart of Christianity, the possession within us of the life, the immortal life of Him that died for us.
My brother have you that great gift in your heart? Be sure of this, that unless the life of Christ is in you by faith, ye are dead, 'dead in trespasses and in sins'; dead, and sure to rot away and disintegrate into corruption. The cup of blessing which we drink speaks to us of the transfusion into our spirits of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
IV. And lastly, it speaks of a festal gladness.
The bread says nothing to us of the remission of sins. The broken bread proclaims, indeed, our nourishment from Jesus, but falls short of the deep and solemn truth that it is the very life-blood of Christ Himself which nourishes us and vitalises us. And the bread, in like manner, proclaims indeed the fact that we are fed on Him, but says nothing of the joy of that feeding. The wine is the symbol of that, and it proclaims to us that the Christian life here on earth, just because it is the feeding on and the drinking in of Jesus Christ, ought ever to be a life of blessedness, of abounding joy, by whatsoever darkness, burdens, cares, toils, sorrows, and solitude it may be shaded and saddened. They who live on Christ, they who drink in of His spirit, they should be glad in all circumstances, they, and they alone. We sit at a table, though it be in the wilderness, though it be in the presence of our enemies, where there ought to be joy and the voice of rejoicing.
But beyond that, as our Master Himself taught these apostles in that upper room, this cup points onwards to a future feast. At that solemn hour Jesus stayed His own heart with the vision of the perfected kingdom and the glad festival then. So this Communion has a prophetic element in it, and links on with predictions and parables which speak of the 'marriage supper' of the great King, and of the time when we shall sit at His table in His kingdom.
For the past the Lord's Supper speaks of the one sufficient oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world. For the present it speaks of life produced and sustained by communion with Jesus Christ. And for the future it speaks of the unending, joyful satisfaction of all desires in the 'upper room' of the heavens.
How unlike, and yet how like to that scene in the upper room at Jerusalem! From it the sad disciples went out, some of them to deny their Master; all of them to struggle, to sin, to lose Him from their sight, to toil, to sorrow, and at last to die. From that other table we shall go no more out, but sit there with Him in full fruition of unfailing blessedness and participation of His immortal life for evermore.
Dear brethren, these are the lessons, these the hopes, which this 'blood of the new covenant' teaches and inspires. Have you entered into that covenant with God? Have you made sure work of the forgiveness of your sins through His blood? Have you received into your spirits His immortal life? Then you may humbly be confident that, after life's weariness and lonesomeness are past, you will be welcomed to the banqueting hall by the Lord of the feast, and sit with Him and His servants who loved Him at that table and be glad.
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Were the Gospels originally anonymous?
February 25, 2016 11:08 pm / 1 Comment on Were the Gospels originally anonymous?
Sometimes it is fun to play with ideas, and fun to play with common accepted standpoints, whether of so-called ‘common’ knowledge, or ideas prevalent and generally accepted in much research. If no-one dares to plays with ideas, challenge them, maybe even turn them up-side-down, there will be little progress in research.
Some ideas about the origins of the New Testament Gospels are more widely accepted then others, that is, more generally accepted, even though you can always find deviating, or better, opposing positions.
The idea or standpoint that the NT gospels are, even though they by now wear titles, originally anonymous gospels; that is, that they were issued, having no authorial names attached to them, are one such idea.
Most lay people, and some conservative theologians, takes the names like ‘Gospel according Matthew’, Mark, Luke, or John as genuine authorial statements; but many don’t. It seems to be an accepted dogma in scholarly circles that the titles are later additions…
However, Brant Pitre has now published a little book in which in which he challenges the common scholarly opinion, arguing that the names Matthew, Mark. Luke and John may in fact be references to the ‘real’ authors of the Gospels.
Dr. Brant Pitre, Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary, in New Orleans, Louisiana – has come up with a book that challenges many of the more common conceptions about the origins of the gospels:
Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus. The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ (Image, 2016)
I wont say I buy all he is trying to argue in this book, but it is an enjoyable and refreshing reading – so far, but I haven’t read all yet. But have a look at the arguments he presents in favor for the view that the Gospels were in fact not anonymous.
But first, the mainline view of the anonymity of the Gospels:
First, according to this theory, all four Gospels were originally published without any titles or headings identifying the authors.
Second, all four Gospels supposedly circulated without any titles for almost a century before anyone attributed them to Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
Third, it was only much later— sometime after the disciples of Jesus were dead and buried— that the titles were finally added to the manuscripts.
Fourth and finally, and perhaps most significant of all, according to this theory, because the Gospels were originally anonymous, it is reasonable to conclude that none of them was actually written by an eyewitness.
Then, we have the counterarguments of prof. Pitre:
“The first and perhaps biggest problem for the theory of the anonymous Gospels is this: no anonymous copies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John have ever been found. They do not exist. As far as we know, they never have. . . . When it comes to the titles of the Gospels, not only the earliest and best manuscripts, but all of the ancient manuscripts— without exception, in every language— attribute the four Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 14.” *
“Second, notice that there is some variation in the form of the titles (for example, some of the later manuscripts omit the word “Gospel”). However, as New Testament scholar Michael Bird notes, there is “absolute uniformity” in the authors to whom each of the books is attributed.”
“Third— and this is important— notice also that the titles are present in the most ancient copies of each Gospel we possess, including the earliest fragments, known as papyri (from the papyrus leaves of which they were made). For example, the earliest Greek manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew contains the title “The Gospel according to Matthew” (Greek euangelion kata Matthaion) (Papyrus 4). Likewise, the oldest Greek copy of the beginning of the Gospel of Mark starts with the title “The Gospel according to Mark” (Greek euangelion kata Markon).”
“The second major problem with the theory of the anonymous Gospels is the utter implausibility that a book circulating around the Roman Empire without a title for almost a hundred years could somehow at some point be attributed to exactly the same author by scribes throughout the world and yet leave no trace of disagreement in any manuscripts. 20 And, by the way, this is supposed to have happened not just once, but with each one of the four Gospels.”
“Finally, if things happened the way the anonymous theory proposes, then why aren’t some copies attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, but other copies attributed to someone else— for instance, Andrew, or Peter, or Jude? If the Gospels really got their titles from scribes falsely adding them to manuscripts up to a century later, we would expect to find both (1) anonymous copies— which, as we’ve already seen, don’t exist— as well as (2) contradictory titles, with some scribes attributing one copy of a Gospel to Matthew and another attributing the same Gospel to Peter or Jesus or whomever.”
“In short, the theory of the anonymous Gospels suffers not only from a lack of manuscript evidence but also from a lack of logic. It simply does not pass muster when it comes to basic criteria of historical plausibility.”
These are the main arguments of prof. Pitre in chapter 2 of his book; if your are interested in the rest of his arguments, get the book; it is available in paper as well as in a Kindle edition.
*(I’m sorry, I have no exact page references as I use a Kindle version)
How do you do your research?
Prof. James D.G. Dunn (Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham) is probably one of those New Testament scholars whose books I have read most up through the years. I have never had any close contact with him, but have followed his career since his first book (Baptism…), and have both enjoyed and profited much from his research.
Now NIJAY GUPTA has similar experiences, and in one of his latest posts on his blog CRUX SOLA, he has an interview with prof Dunn, mainly concerning his ways of doing research.
I shall not repeat all of what he writes (you can read it for your self here), but I quote here one of the questions and answers that I found most interesting:
How do you approach research as a whole? Do you have a big-picture strategy? Do your research all at once, and then write? Do you do some sketching and reflecting on paper and then dig into research? Do you go back and forth?
My practice over the past 40 years or so has been to identify an issue or subject I want to write on, but to confine my reading to a few major works (to ensure I am alert to the main issues) and to work directly on the text(s) to draft out what seems to me to be the main concerns and arguments. Only then, with a paper in first draft, do I go into intense study of as much of the main secondary literature as I can lay my hands on. This may explain why in most of my writings most of the argument with other scholars comes in the endnotes.
There is a nice Literary biography and bibliography on J.D.G. Dunn here.
Reading more in Gupta’s blog, I see that he has also posted the same questions to a couple other scholars; you can read about Michael Gorman, and Michael F. Bird too.
Update March 4: Gupta now also has an interview with David A. deSilva
Update April 3: Gupta has now added interviews with Craig Blomberg, Helen Bond, and David Horrell.
Another review of ‘Reading Philo’
February 24, 2016 11:16 am / Leave a comment
In the most recent issue of Catholic Biblical Quarterly (78 (2016):185-187), Michael Cover (Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA) has a review of Reading Philo. A Handbook to Philo of Alexandria (Grand Rapids, Mi., Eerdmans, 2014).
The review is quite positive, commenting briefly on the various chapters of the book, and ends up with the following conclusion:
“In sum, despite some niggling concerns, any student of Philo will receive much from reading this volume. It is more than a handbook: it is a contribution, a celebration, and an invitation. In the words of its editor: Tolle lege.
Danningens Filosofihistorie
February 2, 2016 5:11 pm / Leave a comment
Oppdaget en bok i dag jeg burde ha oppdaget før, siden den kom ut så langt tilbake som i 2013:
Ingerid S. Straume,
Danningens Filosofihistorie.
Gyldendal Norsk forlag, Oslo 2013.
Gleder meg til å lese i den. Boken består av en rekke enkeltstående kapitler, skrevet av forskjellige forfattere. Halvor Moxnes, f.eks., skriver om’Jesu dannelse av disiplene i Markusevangeliet.’ Hallvard J. Fossheim skriver om ‘Platon og Aristoteles om dannelse’, og Hermund Slaattelid om ‘Ein danningstradisjon i romersk historie,’ for å nevne de som ligger nærmest mitt forskningsfelt. Boken inneholder i alt 28 kapitler, og er innom både Kofusiansk og Muslimsk dannelsetradisjoner (2 kapitler), mens resten fokuserer på vestlig filosofi opp til vår egen tid.
Men burde her ikke også ha vært et kapittel om jødiske dannelsesidealer? Jeg savner det, og ville selvfølgelig også vært overbegeistret om et avsnitt også hadde handlet om Jøden Filon av Aleksandria! Tror Peder B vil være enig med meg i det!
Men boken representerer likevel et interressant nytt tilskudd til våre innføringsbøker til filosofienss historie.
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Galaxy Note 7 passes durability test but not as scratch-resistant
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is finally available in key markets all over the world. In the US, pre-orders are being shipped out already and anyone can grab a unit at most mobile carriers and retail stores. The South Korean tech giant is expecting the new phablet will be another bestseller, hitting about three million next quarter.
Zac Nelson said that it’s important that we know first what to expect from a phone especially this one that costs almost a thousand dollars. The point of such durability test videos is not to degrade any company for failing the test but it’s more for the knowledge of the consumers.
This Note 7 especially is highly anticipated because it already uses Gorilla Glass 5 screen. Hopefully, the phone will be scratched at a higher level than 6 where most smartphones usually start to scratch. Surprisingly, the Note 7 scratches as early as level 3. That’s interesting because this is the latest Gorilla Glass. It’s shatter-resistant alright but apparently, it’s not as scratch-resistant. There’s a difference. This means Note 7 owners should consider getting a protection from the possible heavy scratching on the glass screen.
It’s the same with the fingerprint scanner embedded at the home button. Other phones can be scratched and the fingerprint scanner still works but not on this one. The scanner has become a bit buggy.
The phone’s build is all-metal for that premium feel. Even the buttons are made of metal so you know the phone is durable. The 12MP lens is made of glass while the S-Pen now pops out easily. The new S-Pen’s top and shaft area are made of plastic but the bottom is metal. The back panel is made of glass and is scratch-resistant.
Testing the screen under fire, the Galaxy Note 7 only turned white after some 8 seconds just like the previous S7 phones. Watch the complete video below:
Bending the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, there’s no effect. JerryRigEverything said that this Note 7 is a tank which means it can survive being sat on.
SOURCE: JerryRigEverything
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TouchPad firesale gives HP the #2 spot in US tablet sales
Michael Crider
Well that settles it: clearly the way to compete with Apple is to mark down your only tablet hardware by 80%, then leave the market in huff. According to The NPD Group, the HP TouchPad made up the largest percentage of the non-Apple tablet market at 17%, with Samsung in a close third at 16%.
Total non-Apple tablet hardware sales were approximately 1.2 million from January through October, giving HP a total run of about 200,000 TouchPads through its brief existence. Something seems a bit amiss with NPD’s numbers, though, as Google’s own statistics say that 3.4 million Honeycomb tablets had been sold as of last month. We’ll chock that one up to conflicting metrics, but it’s clear that the TouchPad has sold extremely well, mostly thanks to an insane $99 firesale at the end of its retail life.
So, what are people doing with their ultra-cheap tablets? A good bit are probably enjoying WebOS’s browser and Facebook apps, and not much else – a $100 tablet running a very solid operating system is a steal no matter what you do with it. But if you’re anything like the average Android Community commenter, you’ve already unlocked that sucker and thrown an alpha build of CyanogenMod 7 on it. You can check out our hands-on of n early Android build here. The possibility, nay, inevitability of an Android port inspired a lot of geeky sales, and the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich version of CyanogenMod 9 only makes it more exciting.
You can expect these numbers to climb significantly over the next year – though not HP’s, natch. Android already commands an impressive 27% of total tablet sales, and with new innovations like quad-core processors and Ice Cream Sandwich dropping soon, the arguments in favor of Android over iPad will continue to grow.
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Hiking Camelback Mountain’s Echo Canyon Summit Trail
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The summit trail to the peak of Camelback Mountain is deceiving — it’s only 1.2 miles from the parking lot to the top. But a steady elevation gain (1,300 feet total) on a trail of boulders and loose gravel makes a rather strenuous adventure. It took a little over an hour to summit and a little more than half that to get back down. But my quads still feel as though they’ve both been charlie horsed after absorbing the shock of the descent.
Awesome hike, tracked here with MyTracks, an open source Android app led by a team at Google.
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SXSW 2011 Highlights
In an eleventh-hour decision, I cashed in some American AAdvantage miles and caught a flight to Austin for spring break — or more specifically, the 25th annual South by Southwest Conference. With all of the networking opportunities, free food, drink, music and friends – some of whom i only see once a year or so – i’m glad i took advantage and visited the great city of Austin. It was a whirlwind four days but the photos and video below provide some flavor.
See my photos from past years at SXSW
The trip began with an amazing takeoff directly into the fading sun over the Pacific. This would be the last time the sun set before Daylight Savings time kicked in. Got in to Austin and met up with Jory, provider of a fine crash pad for the duration of my stay. Then began a serious of meetups, events, and parties: All Hat III, which was a priceless opportunity to visit with many of the folks I most admire in the interactive space who happen to share a passion and commitment to do-gooding.
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Photos from Denali and Alaska to Oregon Road Trip, Summer/Fall 1997
Immediately after graduating from the University of Iowa I hopped a ride out to Seattle with friends who wanted a quick getaway before they began another semester of classes. I took a job for a few weeks with Aramark at one of the hotels in Denali National Park. It was an incredibly cool job — I was essentially the bellman, but all I did was sit in a little room reading Outside magazine all day, writing, and holding and distributing bags for hotel guests. Twice a day I’d walk over to the train station where the train from Anchorage came in and would collect or drop off bags marked for my hotel.
The greatest perk of working in the summer in Alaska is that — even after a 9-hour workday, there are countless hours of sunlight left to play outside, hike, explore, and photograph the natural beauty that surrounds. Which is what I did a good deal of with the Canon Rebel G SLR camera that I got for graduation. Once I took off on a solo hike to Horseshoe Lake after a shift at work — not a long hike, but i knew I had to find camp before it got too dark, which was around 11-midnight by late August. I had my tent, a flashlight, a journal, and some other essentials, including my Martin Backpacker guitar. I wrote a song inspired by what I had seen and experienced in Alaska right then and there – you can hear a version of it below.
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Video: TOMS Shoes 1 Millionth Pair Drop at Andresito School, Argentina, 17 Sept 2010
Three short videos from our first shoe drop on the One Millionth Pair trip. Andresito School was one of the original sites TOMS visited in 2006 after Blake Mycoskie and Alejo Nitti launched the movement and made the first shoes in Argentina.
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Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress in July
Carolyn Kaster | AP
Special counsel Robert Mueller speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington about the Russia investigation, May 29, 2019. The debate over special counsel Robert Mueller's report is getting new life with word that Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before two House committees. Democrats say Mueller will appear July 17 in back-to-back sessions of the Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker and Lisa Mascaro, The Associated Press • June 26, 2019 7:54 am
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify publicly before Congress on July 17 after Democrats issued subpoenas to compel him to appear, the chairmen of two House committees announced.
Mueller’s unusual back-to-back testimony in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees is likely to be the most highly anticipated congressional hearing in years, particularly given Mueller’s resolute silence throughout his two-year investigation into Russian contacts with President Donald Trump’s campaign. Mueller never responded to angry, public attacks from Trump, nor did he ever personally join his prosecutors in court or make announcements of criminal charges from the team.
His sole public statement came from the Justice Department podium last month as he announced his departure, when he sought to explain his decision to not indict Trump or to accuse him of criminal conduct. He also put lawmakers on notice that he did not ever intend to say more than what he put in the 448-page report.
“We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself,” Mueller said May 29. “I would not provide information beyond what is already public in any appearance before Congress.”
Those remarks did little to settle the demands for his testimony. The two committees continued negotiations that had already been going on for weeks, saying they still wanted to hear from Mueller no matter how reluctant he was.
“When you accept the role of special counsel in one of the most significant investigations in modern history you’re going to have to expect that you’re going to be asked to come and testify before Congress,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-California, told reporters shortly after the announcement.
Trump himself simply tweeted, “Presidential Harassment!”
In the report issued in April, Mueller concluded there was not enough evidence to establish a conspiracy between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, which was the original question that started the investigation. But he also said he could not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice. The report examined several episodes in which Trump attempted to influence the investigation.
Democrats say it is now the job of Congress to assess the report’s findings. Lawmakers are likely to confront Mueller on why he did not come to a firm conclusion on obstruction of justice. They are also likely to seek his reaction to a drumbeat of incessant criticism from the president and ask for his personal opinion about whether Trump would have been charged were he not the commander-in-chief.
Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said they issued the subpoenas Tuesday, and Mueller agreed to testify pursuant to those subpoenas. In a letter to Mueller accompanying the subpoenas, the committee chairmen said “the American public deserves to hear directly from you about your investigation and conclusions.”
Schiff said there will be two hearings “back to back,” one for each committee, and they will also meet with Mueller’s staff in closed session afterward.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
Republicans have criticized Democrats for their continuing investigations of the president. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, questioned why they would still want to hear from Mueller after the lengthy report was issued. “He said he didn’t want to talk to us anymore, didn’t he?”
But Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, has said he has no objections to Mueller’s testimony.
“May this testimony bring to House Democrats the closure that the rest of America has enjoyed for months, and may it enable them to return to the business of legislating,” Collins said.
Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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Aasia Bibi and family safely resettled in Canada
International news outlets report that Aasia Bibi, who was acquitted of “blasphemy” charges by the Supreme Court on 31 October 2018 has left Pakistan. Barnabas Fund has been aware for some time that Aasia Bibi and her family had left Pakistan and were safely resettled in Canada. However, at the request of Pakistani Christian leaders we did not publicise this information for her safety and to avoid the possibility of violence on the streets of Pakistan.
The Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik party in Pakistan had threatened to incite national disorder if Aasia Bibi was released and widespread street protests erupted after her conviction was overturned.
Barnabas Fund is delighted to be able to finally share the news that Aasia Bibi has settled with her family in Canada
Hard-line Islamists called for Aasia Bibi’s execution after the acquittal. Her husband appealed directly to the UK for asylum stating, "The current situation is very dangerous for us. We have no security and are hiding here and there, frequently changing our location."
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Comic-Con 2015: Everything you need to know before the Sherlock panel
Ready for Comic-Con? Here is an article from EW.com
The Sherlock hiatus is stretching into its 18th month, giving fans plenty of time to compile conspiracy theories almost as crazy as Anderson’s. With a new episode finally approaching, the show hits Comic-Con on Thursday to tease what’s next. To get you ready for the panel, here’s a refresher on where we left the famed detective and his (sneer it all together now) “friends.”
Where we left off: Surprise! John married a trained assassin. Publishing magnate Charles Augustus Magnussen knows about Mary’s secret past and blackmails her for it, so she sets out to kill him — only to get interrupted by Sherlock. Mary shoots Sherlock to buy herself time. When John learns the truth about his wife, she gives him a flash drive containing her full history; John burns the flash drive without reading it and chooses to forgive her.
When Magnussen reveals that he doesn’t actually have any physical blackmail evidence — it’s all in his mind palace — Sherlock shoots him at point-blank range. Mycroft has no choice but to take his brother into custody and sentence him to the kind of undercover assignment that will leave him dead in six months. Sherlock and John say an emotional goodbye, but four minutes after his plane takes off, Sherlock is called back home. Moriarty is alive, which he’s announced by broadcasting a message across the country: “Did you miss me?” You have no idea.
In other news, Molly Hooper is no longer engaged, Greg Lestrade is “a man and good at it,” and Mrs. Hudson is still not your housekeeper.
What we know about season 4: According to showrunner Steven Moffat, the fun times can’t last forever. Moffat tells EW that season 4 will be all about “consequences,” with plenty of “emotional upheaval” to go along with them. He also hints that the show’s famously analytical fans are missing something: “[Co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me are very exultant about a little thing we’ve set up that no one is talking about.” In true Sherlock fashion, we’re going to have to wait a while to find out what that is — season 4 is expected to begin filming in the spring of 2016.
But take heart: Sherlock will air a 90-minute special this December. “The special is its own thing,” Moffat tells EW. “It’s not part of the run of three episodes.” What is it part of? Victorian London. Check out the BBC’s just-released promotional photo for a glimpse at Sherlock and John’s throwback look — featuring the return of a certain mustache.
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13 May 2012 · 5:51 pm
Herbs galore – now what to do with them?!
Several weeks ago I planted some very small herb plants, and the combination of April showers and quite a bit of sunshine with mild to warm weather since then has led to them exploding. Most of them have now reached the stage where they can be used liberally in cooking, and it’s fantastically rewarding, I find, to have all these fresh flavours so readily available throughout the summer.
I’m determined to make the very best of what’s out there this year, and for that reason I’d like to use this post to ask about your tried and tested favourite recipes or tips for cooking with fresh herbs. Yes, I do have recipe books and (obviously) an internet connection, but over the years it’s been almost always the case that my true favourite recipes have come as a personal recommendation from friends, family or acquaintances. 😉
The picture shows just what’s outside the french windows in the living room – at the top there’s coriander (l), oregano and tarragon (r), in the hanging pots there’s an aubretia (just for decoration – not planning on eating it!) and a nasturtium (now with a stonking orange flower), then at the bottom there’s a jungle of (l-r) rosemary, sage, Moroccan mint, thyme, lemon thyme and lavender. Upstairs on the roof terrace outside the landing window there’s more lavender, parsley, lemongrass, strawberry mint, Thai basil and some (still very small, grown by M from seed) chilli plants.
The herbs I seem to be harvesting most of at the moment are coriander (curries and Mexican food), thyme (anything Mediterranean), tarragon (great in salad dressing and with fish) and that old stalwart, parsley. There are a couple of others, though, for which I’d be particularly grateful for culinary tips…
Sage advice, anyone?
I adore sage and use it relatively frequently with pork, and it also combines well with olive oil, garlic and parmesan to make a simple pasta sauce or (in greater concentration) pesto. I also love sage tea, though I have a very big pack of dried sage bought during the winter that I’m ploughing through for that purpose. The “problem” this year is that the sage plant has already grown to be absolutely mahoosive, with the biggest leaves I’ve ever seen on such a plant. And for that reason I’d like to extend my repertoire of dishes that call for it.
What shall I do with all this (lemon) thyme on my hands?
M is a big fan of lemon thyme, and I have to say that whatever he cooks with it does indeed taste very good. However, my preference is clearly for the more ordinary variety – if I want something to taste lemony, then I’ll put some lemon juice or zest in it. However, maybe someone out there knows of a dish (or a drink or other use – it doesn’t have to be “food” per se) where lemon thyme works really well and has a definite advantage over its more down-to-earth relative.
Anyone got recipes that are worth a mint?
This is where my German friends are expected to say “But you eat mint sauce with everything, don’t you?” and I roll my eyes skywards and grimace. Asterix has a lot to answer for! In actual fact, I really went off mint at some point after childhood, and it’s only now that I’m really appreciating it. Yes, it IS good with lamb, and I use it a lot in Indian cooking (various curry sauces and raita) and Middle Eastern / North African dishes (e.g. tabboulé). However, that still seems a bit of a narrow palette and I’d be glad if I could extend it somewhat. Tea made out of fresh mint is also delicious – I sometimes also mix it with fresh root ginger for a really zingy drink – but I’m looking for more strictly food-based ideas in this case.
Why are there no bad puns on “oregano”?
Oregano seems to be another of those staples everyone has in their herb and spice rack, but I can’t claim ever to have done anything very memorable with it. I tend to use it mostly in combination with other herbs, sometimes in salads or with Italian and Greek food. It really doesn’t have a strong profile with me, though.
I’d be really delighted to receive some tips and tricks for the herbs I’m a bit stuck on, and indeed on any of the others mentioned. And now I’m off to cook a curry!
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16 April 2010 · 10:33 pm
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Tomorrow I will be making another step in my so far successful quest to convince German friends that British food goes beyond fish and chips, haggis, baked beans and spongy square white sliced bread (“untoasted toast” as one student once put it – I guess you have to have lived in Germany to get that one) and is actually rather good.
The main attraction is going to be beef and Guinness casserole with herb dumplings. Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme – a very quaint English-sounding mixture to those of us who grew up with the song “Scarborough Fair” and were aware that it was not written by a couple of folk-rock dudes from New York.
The line is a recurring refrain throughout the song, which in its simplest form is the lament of someone who has been left by his lover and imagines a string of impossible-sounding feats that will win her back. The herbs mantra seems at first sight (or hearing) not to make much sense, but centuries-old knowledge about the medicinal properties of these four herbs can be tied in to give a somewhat clearer allegorical meaning.
Parsley is well known as an aid to digestion (remember Peter Rabbit?) and as a herb to counteract bitterness or acrid tastes (garlic might fall into the latter category). The jilted lover in the song presumably hopes to overcome his own feelings of bitterness.
Sage, whose Latin name salvia comes from the verb meaning “to heal” or “to be / feel well”, is symbolic of strength – it is no coincidence that even today it is used as a herbal remedy for excessive sweating, as a means to “strengthen” the stomach following e.g. a course of antibiotics, and as a more general boost to the immune system thanks to its antioxidant properties. An old rhyming aphorism tells us “He that would live for aye / Must eat sage in May”. The “I” of the song thus wishes for strength to overcome his adversity and recover. In German folk tradition, sage was also used to prepare love potions.
The herb rosemary represents loyalty and constancy (maybe partly because it is evergreen), love and remembrance (Nicholas Culpeper noted that “It helps a weak memory” and that it is good for “all the diseases of the head and brain”), qualities the singer of the song has not been receiving too much of recently, but precisely those qualities and feelings he hopes to rekindle in his beloved lady.
Thyme also contains potent essential oils (the name derives from the Greek verb thyo, “to perfume”) and symbolizes courage. Culpeper said that wild thyme was “excellent for nervous disorders” and that it was “a certain remedy for that troublesome complaint, the night-mare”. The Ancient Greeks believed it strengthened certain masculine characteristics (it does have proven aphrodisiac qualities, apparently), and in the Middle Ages knights often had thyme painted on their shields as proof of their mettle. Today, apart from its continued use in cooking, it has largely been relegated to a remedy for coughs, sadly distant from its rather grander reputation in older thymes …. err, times. However, the protagonist in the song was probably not thinking about his bronchial health.
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Although over 90 books from the second half of the year are already on my radar, I’ve managed to narrow it down to the 15 July to November releases that I’m most excited about. I have access to a few of these already, and most of the rest I will try requesting as soon as I’m back from Milan. (These are given in release date order within thematic sections; the quoted descriptions are from the publisher blurbs on Goodreads.)
[By the way, here’s how I did with my most anticipated releases of the first half of the year:
16 out of 30 read; of those 9 were somewhat disappointing (i.e., 3 stars or below) – This is such a poor showing! Is it a matter of my expectations being too high?
10 I still haven’t managed to find
1 print review copy arrived recently
1 I have on my Kindle to read
1 I skimmed
1 I lost interest in]
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal [July 23, Pamela Dorman Books] Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest (2015) is one of my recent favorites. This one has a foodie theme again, and sounds a lot like Louise Miller’s latest – two sisters: a baker of pies and a founder of a small brewery. “Here we meet a cast of lovable, funny, quintessentially American characters eager to make their mark in a world that’s often stacked against them.”
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton [August 6, Grand Central Publishing / Headline Review] As soon as I heard that this was narrated by a crow, I knew I was going to have to read it. (And the Seattle setting also ties in with Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s book.) “Humanity’s extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a foul-mouthed crow whose knowledge of the world around him comes from his TV-watching education.”
Inland by Téa Obreht [August 13, Random House / Weidenfeld & Nicolson] However has it been eight years since her terrific debut novel?! “In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. … [L]yrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West.” The synopsis reminds me of Eowyn Ivey’s latest.
A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman [August 27, Little, Brown and Company] I loved The Submission, Waldman’s 2011 novel about a controversial (imagined) 9/11 memorial. “Parveen Shamsa, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown [and] travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation.” (NetGalley download)
Bloomland by John Englehardt [September 10, Dzanc Books] “Bloomland opens during finals week at a fictional southern university, when a student walks into the library with his roommate’s semi-automatic rifle and opens fire. In this richly textured debut, Englehardt explores how the origin and aftermath of the shooting impacts the lives of three characters.” (print review copy from publisher)
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett [September 25, Harper / Bloomsbury UK] I’m more a fan of Patchett’s nonfiction, but will keep reading her novels thanks to Commonwealth. “At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous [Philadelphia] real estate empire … Set over … five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past.”
Medical themes
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty [September 10, W.W. Norton / September 19, Weidenfeld & Nicolson] I’ve read Doughty’s previous books about our modern attitude towards mortality and death customs around the world. She’s wonderfully funny and iconoclastic. Plus, how can you resist this title?! Although it sounds like it’s geared towards children, I’ll still read the book. “Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions … to offer factual, hilarious, and candid answers to thirty-five … questions.”
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer [September 17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux] “A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. … A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will … show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious.” (print review copy from publisher)
From the author’s Twitter page.
Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery by Joanna Cannon [September 26, Wellcome Collection] I haven’t gotten on with Cannon’s fiction, but a memoir should hit the spot. “A frank account of mental health from both sides of the doctor-patient divide, from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie, based on her own experience as a doctor working on a psychiatric ward.”
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson [October 3, Doubleday / Transworld] His last few books have been somewhat underwhelming, but I’d read Bryson on any topic. He’s earned a reputation for making history, science and medicine understandable to laymen. “Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.”
The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by Thomas Lynch [November 26, W.W. Norton] Lynch is such an underrated writer. A Michigan undertaker, he crafts essays and short stories about small-town life, the Irish-American experience and working with the dead. I discovered him through Greenbelt Festival some years back and have read three of his books. Some of what I’ve already read will likely be repeated here, but will be worth a second look anyway.
Other Nonfiction
Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell [August 29, Profile Books] The Diary of a Bookseller was a treat in 2017. I’ve read the first two-thirds of this already while in Milan, and I wish I was in Wigtown instead! This sequel picks up in 2015 and is very much more of the same – the daily routines of buying and selling books and being out and about in a small town – so it’s up to you whether that sounds boring or comforting. I’m finding it strangely addictive. (NetGalley download)
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer [September 17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / October 10, Hamish Hamilton] Foer’s Eating Animals (2009) was a hard-hitting argument against eating meat. In this follow-up he posits that meat-eating is the single greatest contributor to climate change. “With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Jonathan Safran Foer presents this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life, and offering us all a much-needed way out.”
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie [September 19, Sort of Books] Jamie is a Scottish poet who writes exquisite essays about the natural world. I’ve read her two previous essay collections, Findings and Sightlines, as well as a couple of volumes of her poetry. “From the thawing tundra linking a Yup’ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressively preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time.”
Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper [October 8, Farrar, Straus and Giroux / riverrun] Ties in with my special interest in women’s religious memoirs. “In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, [Phelps-Roper] left [Westboro Baptist Church], her family, and her life behind. Unfollow is a story about the rarest thing of all: a person changing their mind. It is a fascinating insight into a closed world of extreme belief, a biography of a complex family, and a hope-inspiring memoir of a young woman finding the courage to find compassion.”
Which of these do you want to read, too?
What other upcoming 2019 titles are you looking forward to?
Amy Waldman
Anne Boyer
Caitlin Doughty
cancer memoirs
Eowyn Ivey
J. Ryan Stradal
Joanna Cannon
John Englehardt
Kathleen Jamie
Kira Jane Buxton
Louise Miller
Megan Phelps-Roper
religious memoirs
Téa Obreht
Thomas Lynch
Fourth Blog Anniversary
I launched my blog four years ago today. Is that ages, or no time at all? Like I said last year, it feels like something I’ve been doing forever, and yet there are bloggers out there who are coming up on a decade or more of online writing about books.
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This is my 542nd post, so the statistics tell me that I’ve been keeping up an average of just over 2.5 posts a week. Although I sometimes worry about overwhelming readers with ‘too many’ posts, I keep in mind that a) no one is obliged to read everything I post, b) a frequently updated blog is a thriving blog, and c) it only matters that it’s a manageable pace for me.
In the last year or so, I’ve gotten more involved in buddy reads and monthly challenges (things like Reading Ireland Month, 20 Books of Summer, R.I.P., Margaret Atwood Reading Month, and Novellas and Nonfiction in November); I’ve continued to take part in literary prize shadow panels and attend literary events when I can. I’ve hosted the Library Checkout for nearly a year and a half now and there are a few bloggers who join in occasionally (more are always welcome!). The posts I most enjoy putting together are write-ups of my travels, and seasonal and thematic roundups, which are generally good excuses to read backlist books from my own shelves instead of getting my head turned by new releases.
Some statistics from the past year:
My four most viewed posts were:
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler: Well…
Mixed Feelings about Elena Ferrante
Calypso by David Sedaris
I got the most likes in December 2018, and the most unique visitors and comments in August.
My four favorite posts I wrote in the past year were:
A Trip to Wigtown, Scotland’s Book Town
Painful but Necessary: Culling Books, Etc.
Why We Sleep … And Why Can’t I Wake Up?
A President’s Day Reading Special (No Trump in Sight)
Thanks to everyone who has supported me this past year, and/or all four years, by visiting the site, commenting, re-tweeting, and so on. You’re the best!
buddy read
American Book Acquisitions and 2019 Reading Goals
We arrived in the UK on January 1, after an overnight flight from Baltimore. There was no midnight announcement, no complimentary champagne; nothing. Clearly I had my hopes too high. So we’re feeling a bit cheated out of our New Year’s Eve experience and will be doing a recreated countdown and toast when we have houseguests over for this Epiphany weekend.
It was a low-key, relaxing couple of weeks back in the States, the majority of it spent seeing family and friends. We also made it into D.C. to see the new Obama portraits. Mostly I enjoyed doing not a lick of work. And I acquired books, of course: a secondhand and remainder stack that, after my trade-in of some cast-off books, cost just $4; and a few ARCs I’m excited about.
Plus a few ARCs I brought back from America. The Leung stories came out in Canada last year.
I’m feeling restless in my career, like if someone gave me permission to quit all my gigs I would do it tomorrow. But, of course, only a fool would do so with no plan to replace them with other remunerative work. The year is likely to involve a lot of rethinking for me as I evaluate which of my proofreading and writing jobs feel worthwhile, and what’s taking me in the direction I want to go (not that I currently know what that is).
Life is awfully hard to plan out. Reading is much easier! So here are my fairly modest reading goals for the year, some of them overlapping:
I plan to reinstate the Classic and Doorstopper of the month features I ran in 2017, since otherwise I hardly ever read them. I’m starting with Annabel’s readalong of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, which is just over 500 pages but also conveniently falls into one of the below categories.
The doorstoppers I have around to choose from.
I’ll make a second attempt at getting through some of the travel books and biographies I own, though I won’t hold myself to any particular target. At least five of each would be nice.
I’m determined to up my literature in translation ratio. These are all the books I own that were originally published in other languages – pitiful! – but I will get hold of more through the library and publishers.
Re-reading is something I undertake very reluctantly. I have friends who swear by it, but to me it can feel like a waste of time. Last year I re-read just four books: Little Women, Give Me Everything You Have, Crossing the Moon, and Diary of a Bookseller. In each case, on the second reading I rated the book a star lower. That suggests that, far from appreciating books more on a second reading, I have less patience with them and find more flaws! All the same, I’ve chosen four books to re-read in 2019. The Collins is a longtime favorite about moving to Hay-on-Wye; the Thomas is one of the books that first got me into reading memoirs. I’ve been let down by Lamott’s latest three books so wanted to go back to one of her spiritual classics; I’ve gotten into L’Engle’s writing for adults and want to revisit her most famous children’s book (which I don’t think I comprehended at age nine or whatever I was).
I have a bad habit of racing through self-help and theology books rather than taking my time mulling over them and fully exploring how I might apply them in my life. This was especially true of The Artist’s Way, one of my bibliotherapy prescriptions. I started out with the aim of completing the daily “morning pages” of free writing (though for me they were ‘evening pages’; I’m not a morning person) and each chapter’s self-knowledge exercises. But soon I’d given up on the writing and contemplation and begun just reading the book straight through, which is not the point of it at all. So this year I mean to go back through the Cameron and Rubin books more mindfully, and use the McLaren devotional as it is intended, reading the recommended Bible passages alongside the weekly reflections.
What are some of your goals (reading-related or otherwise) for 2019?
Abigail Thomas
book acquisitions
doorstoppers
Hay-on-Wye
James Lasdun
literature in translation
Madeleine L’Engle
Paul Collins
Paulette Bates Alden
readalong
rereading
Wigtown is tucked away in the southwest corner of Scotland in Galloway, a region that doesn’t draw too many tourists. It did remind us a lot of Hay-on-Wye, the Book Town in Wales, what with the dry-stone walls, rolling green hills with more imposing mountains behind, sheep in the fields, and goodly number of bookshops. Wigtown is a sleepier place – it’s really just one main street and square – and has fewer bookshops and eateries overall, but the shops it does have are mainly large and inviting, and several are lovely bookshops-cum-cafés where you can pause for tea/coffee and cake before continuing with your book browsing. It rained for much of our trip and even snowed on a couple of brief occasions, but we got one day of very good weather and made the best of all the rest.
Wigtown seen from the hill above
Hillcrest House B&B
Day 1, Monday the 2nd: Six-plus hours of driving, partially in the sleet and snow, saw us arriving to our spacious and comfortable B&B by 6 p.m., giving us an hour to freshen up before dinner in the dining room. Cullen skink (leek and potato soup with chunks of smoked haddock); pork chops in a mustard cream sauce with roast parsnips, boiled potatoes and carrots, and mashed swede (aka rutabaga); and chocolate cake with gingerbread sauce. All delicious!
Day 2, Tuesday the 3rd: Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, accompanied by plenteous tea and toast. Off in the drizzle to see some local sites: Torhouse stone circle and Crook of Baldoon RSPB bird reserve. Nice sightings of whooper swans, pink-footed geese and lapwings, and a panoramic view of Wigtown across the way. Back to the car in the steady rain to find that we had a flat tire. Thanks to our foot pump, we got back to the W. Barclay garage in town, where they ordered a new tire and fitted the spare wheel. In the afternoon we drove to the Isle of Whithorn to see the 13th-century St. Ninian’s Chapel ruins and St. Ninian’s Cave. In the evening we went to Craft for beer/cider and the weekly acoustic music night, which, alas, just ended up being two old guys playing Americana songs on guitars.
Torhouse stone circle
St. Ninian’s Chapel ruins
Isle of Whithorn, car with spare wheel
Today’s book shopping: Glaisnock Café, where we also stopped for coffee and a tasty slice of courgette and avocado cake; The Open Book (run by Airbnb customers – this week it was Maureen from Pennsylvania and her niece Rebecca from Switzerland; they’d booked the experience two years ago, and the wait is now up to three years); the Wigtown Community shop (a charity shop); and browsing at Old Bank Books and Byre Books.
First set of purchases
Shy B&B cat
I loved seeing lots of Bookshop Band merchandise around. This was in the Festival Shop.
Day 3, Wednesday the 4th: Vegetarian ‘full Scottish’ cooked breakfast to fuel us for a rainy day of bookshops and explorations further afield. 12 p.m.: return trip to the garage to have our tire fitted. All the staff were so friendly and pleasant. They seemed delighted to see tourists around, and were interested in where we came from and what we were finding to do in the area. Mr. Barclay himself had one of the thickest Scottish accents I’ve ever heard, but I managed to decipher that he thinks of Galloway as “the next best place to heaven,” despite the weather. We spotted a local ‘celebrity’, Ben of the Bookshop Band, in the Co-op, but didn’t say hello as he was trying to pay for his shopping and had the baby in tow.
In the afternoon we ventured to Newton Stewart, the nearest big town, to buy petrol, picnic supper food, and another secondhand book at the community shop there. We retreated from the sudden snow for a scrumptious dinner of smoked salmon, black pudding and haggis (all of them battered and fried, with chips!) at a diner-like smokehouse. Back in Wigtown, we got a mainly dry evening to do the Martyrs’ Walk. In 1685 two Covenanters (Scottish reformers who broke from Charles I’s Anglican Church), Margaret McLachlan, 63, and Margaret Wilson, 18, were tied to stakes on the mud flats and allowed to drown in the rising tide.
Martyrs’ Stake
Super-friendly, super-fluffy B&B cat
Today’s book shopping: THE BOOKSHOP. I’ve meant to visit ever since I read Jessica Fox’s memoir, Three Things You Need to Know about Rockets, in February 2013. Previously based in California, Fox decided on a whim to visit a bookshop in Scotland and ended up here at the country’s largest. She promptly fell in love with the bookshop owner and with Wigtown itself; though she and Shaun Bythell are no longer an item, she has been a major mover and shaker in the town, playing a role in the annual festival and establishing The Open Book.
He collects postcards sent to the shop.
Badger, ladder up to Festival bed
The Bookshop is a wonderfully rambling place with lots of nooks and crannies housing all sorts of categories. Look out for the shot and mounted Kindle, the Festival bed, the stuffed badger, a scroll of bookseller’s rules, Captain the cat, and a display of Bythell’s The Diary of a Bookseller. Together we found £35 worth of books we wanted to buy – whew! – thanks to my husband’s niche nature books, and had a nice chat with the man himself at the till. He signed my book, commiserated with us about the weather and our trip to see “Willie” (Barclay), and gave us tips for what to see locally. You’d hardly believe he’s the same curmudgeon who wrote the book. Now that I’ve been to the town and the shop, it’s time for me to start rereading it.
Cozy fireplace room
The Scottish interest room
My purchases, plus a signature
We also perused the smallish but very nice selection at Beltie Books, where we made a welcome stop for a cappuccino and some cookies, and I bought a cut-price new book at the Festival Shop. (They stock books by festival speakers plus a curated selection of new releases.)
Day 4, Thursday the 5th: SUNSHINE, at last! After hearty omelettes, we headed to the hill that overlooks the town to get the best views of the week. On to Monreith for a charming coastal walk up to the Gavin Maxwell monument of a bronze otter. (He wrote Ring of Bright Water, which my husband brought along to read on our trip.) After a lunch stop back in town, it was out to the red kite feeding station about 40 minutes away – I came for the books; my husband came for the red kites. Though they’re common enough in our part of Berkshire, he was keen to see the site of another recent reintroduction. Wales also has a feeding station we visited some years ago, and on both occasions seeing dozens of birds swoop down for meat was quite the spectacle – though here you sit on an open porch, even closer to the action. We did a few other short walks in the area, finishing off with a sunset sit in Wigtown’s bird hide.
Main street, showing The Bookshop
Wigtown Town Hall
Maxwell Monument inscription
Maxwell Monument
Red kite feeding
Today’s book shopping: ReadingLasses calls itself Britain’s only women’s bookshop. They stock Persephone Books direct from Bloomsbury, and they also have a large selection of secondhand books. This is the best place to go in town for a light meal and a snack. We had delicious homemade soup with soda bread for an early lunch, followed by coffee and tiffin. I bought a novel by Candia McWilliam, a Scottish author I’ve only read nonfiction by before.
ReadingLasses
Unfortunate find in biography section
At Curly Tale Books, the children’s bookshop next-door to The Bookshop, we bought a picture book about the local ‘belted’ Galloway cows for our niece. We didn’t realize the shop owner is also the author! She offered to sign the book for us, but we decided that a five-year-old wouldn’t appreciate it enough.
Day 5, Friday the 6th: Full Scottish breakfast to see us on our way, and a farewell to the two B&B cats, including the fluffiest cat on earth. To break up the rather arduous journey, we stopped early on at the Cairn Holy stone circle/tomb and the Cream o’ Galloway farm shop for cheese and ice cream. Home at 7:30 p.m. to find something from the freezer for dinner, unpack and shelve all these new books.
Cairn Holy
Total acquisitions: 13 books for me, 7 books for my husband, 3 books for gifts
Wigtown is more than twice as far away as Hay is for us, so we’re less likely to go back. (It’s also a tough place to find a decent evening meal.) However, I’d like to think that life will take me back to Wigtown someday, perhaps for the Festival, or for a stay at The Open Book – though I’d have to start planning ahead to 2021!
What I read:
Bits of lots of books I had on the go, but mostly a few vaguely appropriate titles:
Under the Skin by Michel Faber was the perfect book for reading on rainy Scottish highways. I’m so glad I decided at the last minute to bring it. Isserley drives along Highland roads picking up hitchhikers – but only the hunky males – to take back to her farm near the Moray Firth. It’s likely that you already know the setup of this even if you haven’t read it, perhaps from the buzz around the 2013 film version starring Scarlett Johansson. It must have been so difficult for the first reviewers and interviewers to discuss the book without spoilers back in 2000. David Mitchell, in his introduction to my Canons series reprint, does an admirable job of suggesting the eeriness of the contents without giving anything significant away.
Shelve this under science fiction, though it veers towards horror and then becomes a telling allegory. I knew the basic plot beforehand, but there were still some surprises awaiting me, and I was impressed with how Faber pulled it all off. Keep an eye open for how he uses the word “human.” This has a lot to say about compassion and dignity, and how despite our differences we are fundamentally the same “under the skin.”
An atmospheric line: “The fields all around her house were shrouded in snow, with patches of dark earth poking through here and there as if the world were a rich fruit cake under cream.”
Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller by Whitney Brown: For a TLS review. Brown, from South Carolina, trained as a dry-stone waller in Wales (where she fell in love with a man who wouldn’t marry her), but we saw plenty such walls in Scotland too. As an expat I could relate to her feeling of being split between two countries. (Releases May 17th.)
I n the Days of Rain: A daughter. A father. A cult. by Rebecca Stott: I read the first two-fifths or so, mostly in the car and over our leisurely B&B breakfasts. One branch of Stott’s Exclusive Brethren family came from Eyemouth, a Scottish fishing village. A family memoir, a bereavement memoir, a theological theme: this brings together a lot of my favorite things. And it won last year’s Costa Biography Award, so you know it’s got to be good.
I also started two books by Scottish novelists, The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay and The Accidental by Ali Smith – though I don’t know if I’ll make it through the latter.
book towns
Candia McWilliam
red kites
Shena Mackay
Whitney Brown
What to Look Out for in April
April will be a busy month on the blog what with four Wellcome Book Prize shortlist reviews plus posts on our shadow panel decision and the awards ceremony, three blog tours within a week, and various other review books jostling for my attention.
To be reviewed at any time.
April 5th seems to be a huge day for new releases. I own four print books that are all coming out on that day; alas, the only one I’ve been able to start is Elizabeth J. Church’s All the Beautiful Girls, for an upcoming Shiny New Books review. I’m approaching the one-quarter point. The others may well have to wait for a quieter time.
April 5th releases.
I started another April 5th release on my Kindle a couple of weeks ago, Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam. It’s about a missionary couple whose lives are disrupted by the return of an older missionary. I was thinking of abandoning it until I got to the last line of the prologue, which threw in a pretty great twist. So maybe I’ll go back to it.
For now, I can recommend the one April 5th release I actually managed to finish:
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
If you loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, I have just the book for you: another feel-good World War II-set novel with characters you’ll cheer for. December 1940, London: Twenty-two-year-old Emmeline Lake dreams of being a Lady War Correspondent, but for now she’ll start by typing up the letters submitted to Henrietta Bird’s advice column in Woman’s Friend. All too quickly, though, the job feels too small for Emmy. Mrs. Bird refuses to print letters on Unpleasant subjects, which could include anything from an inappropriate crush to anxiety. She thinks cowardly readers bring their troubles on themselves and need to buck up instead of looking to others for help. But Emmy can’t bear to throw hurting people’s missives away. Perhaps she could send some advice of her own?
Emmy shares a flat with her best friend Bunty, and they each have a fiancé who is part of the war effort. As a volunteer for the Fire Brigade, Emmy sees the effects of Luftwaffe bombings up close. But it’s only after heartache hits home for both of these young women that they really understand how much is at stake in the war. The novel got a little melodramatic for me in its last quarter, but it’s overall a charming “Keep Calm and Carry On” and Stick It to Hitler-style story that never strays far from jollity for too long.
Other readalikes: My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
“I told myself we could all get blown up by tomorrow so we might just as well enjoy ourselves.”
“Granny didn’t spend half her life chaining herself to railings for today’s woman to moon around waiting for some chap to look after her.”
On Monday we’re off to Wigtown, Scotland’s Book Town, for five days. Though we’ve been to Hay-on-Wye, Wales six times, we’ve never been to Wigtown despite meaning to for years. When I read Shaun Bythell’s Wigtown bookselling memoir last autumn, it felt like a sign that it was time. Did you see his The Diary of a Bookseller has been described in French as le quotidien d’un libraire misanthrope écossais (literally, “the daily life of a misanthropic Scottish bookseller”)?
That’s too good! If only it were the official French title. I will of course be visiting his shop, and asking for a signature on my proof copy if I can pluck up the nerve. We’ll strive to be model customers lest we become the subject of a grumpy Tweet or Facebook post.
Coals to Newcastle and all that, but here’s the pile I’ve packed for Wigtown.
This is mostly for the six-hour car rides there and back. During the days we’ll be busy with outings to the surrounding countryside plus book shopping and café visits, but I daresay there will be some time for reading at the B&B in the afternoons and evenings.
For once I haven’t scoured my shelves for place-appropriate books; I don’t think I own any particularly Scottish reads, unless Michel Faber’s Under the Skin counts (ah wait, I also have an Ali Smith novel on the shelf).
Anyway, this time I’ve really just put together a pile of books I’ve been wanting to read for ages. The only ‘work’-related one is Between Stone and Sky, for a TLS review; otherwise I’m giving myself from Easter through the 6th off. I’m not even sure I’ll take my Kindle, except as a backup – that kind of thing could get you (or, rather, your Kindle) shot in this town. If I do, I’ll be sure to leave it behind in the B&B room or the glove box when we go into town for the day!
What are you up to in April?
A.J. Pearce
epistolary novels
Joanna Rakoff
Christmas Gift Recommendations for 2017
Something tells me my readers are the sort of people who buy books for their family and friends at the holidays. Consider any rating of 3.5 or above on this blog a solid recommendation; 3 stars is still a qualified recommendation, and by my comments you should be able to tell whether the book would be right for you or a friend. I’ll make another plug for the books I’ve already mentioned here as gift ideas and highlight other books I think would be ideal for the right reader. I read all these books this year, and most were released in 2017, but I have a few backlist titles, too – in those cases I’ve specified the publication year. Since I recommend fiction all the time through my reviews, I’ve given significantly more space to nonfiction.
General suggestions:
For the Shiny New Books Christmas special I chose two books I could see myself giving to lots of people. One was A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives by Lisa Congdon, my overall top gift idea. It’s a celebration of women’s attainments after age 40, especially second careers and late-life changes of course. There’s a lively mixture of interviews, first-person essays, inspirational quotes, and profiles of figures like Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Grandma Moses, with Congdon’s whimsical drawings dotted all through. This would make a perfect gift for any woman who’s feeling her age, even if that’s younger than 40. (An essay on gray hair particularly hit home for me.) It’s a reminder that great things can be achieved at any age, and that with the right attitude, we will only grow in confidence and courage over the years. (See my full Nudge review.)
One Year Wiser: An Illustrated Guide to Mindfulness by Mike Medaglia
Drawn like an adult coloring book, this mindfulness guide is divided into color-block sections according to the seasons and tackles themes like happiness, gratitude, fighting anxiety and developing a healthy thought life. The layout is varied and unexpected, with abstract ideas represented by bodies in everyday situations. It’s a fresh delivery of familiar concepts.
My thanks to SelfMadeHero for the free copy for review.
An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe
With its short chapters and stocking stuffer dimensions, this is a perfect book to dip into over the holidays. The autobiographical pieces involve Stibbe begrudgingly coming round to things she’s resisted, from Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” to a flaming Christmas pudding. The four short stories, whether nostalgic or macabre, share a wicked sense of humor. You’ll also find an acerbic shopping guide and – best of all – a tongue-in-cheek Christmas A-to-Z. Nearly as funny as Love, Nina. (I reviewed this for the Nov. 29th Stylist “Book Wars” column.)
For some reason book- and nature-themed books seem to particularly lend themselves to gifting. Do you find that too?
For the fellow book and word lovers in your life:
It’s a pleasure to spend a vicarious year running The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland with the curmudgeonly Bythell. I enjoyed the nitty-gritty details about acquiring and pricing books, and the unfailingly quirky customer encounters. This would make a great one-year bedside book. (See my full review.)
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words by Paul Anthony Jones
Another perfect bedside book: this is composed of daily one-page entries that link etymology with events from history. I’ve been reading it a page a day since mid-October. A favorite word so far: “vandemonianism” (rowdy, unmannerly behavior), named after the penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), first sighted by Europeans on 24 November 1642.
“The Gifts of Reading” by Robert Macfarlane (2016)
This was my other Christmas recommendation for Shiny New Books. A love of literature shared with friends and the books he now gifts to students and a new generation of nature writers are the main themes of this perfect essay. First printed as a stand-alone pamphlet in aid of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, this is just right for slipping in a stocking.
A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda K. Pennington
This charming bibliomemoir reflects on Pennington’s two-decade love affair with the work of the Brontë sisters, especially Charlotte. It cleverly gives side-by-side chronological tours through the Brontës’ biographies and careers and her own life, drawing parallels and noting where she might have been better off if she’d followed in Brontë heroines’ footsteps.
For the nature enthusiasts in your life:
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
Few know how much of our current philosophy of wilderness and the human impact on the world is indebted to Aldo Leopold. This was first published in 1949, but it still rings true. A month-by-month account of life in Wisconsin gives way to pieces set everywhere from Mexico to Manitoba. Beautiful, incisive prose; wonderful illustrations by Charles W. Schwartz.
The History of Bees by Maja Lunde
Blending historical, contemporary and future story lines, this inventive novel, originally published in Norway in 2015, is a hymn to the dying art of beekeeping and a wake-up call about the environmental disaster the disappearance of bees signals. The plot strands share the themes of troubled parenthood and the drive to fulfill one’s purpose. Like David Mitchell, Lunde juggles her divergent time periods and voices admirably. It’s also a beautifully produced book, with an embossed bee on the dust jacket and a black and gold honeycomb pattern across the spine and boards. (See my full Bookbag review.)
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto (1995)
Masumoto is a third-generation Japanese-American peach and grape farmer in California. He takes readers on a quiet journey through the typical events of the farming calendar. It’s a lovely, meditative book about the challenges and joys of this way of life. I would highly recommend it to readers of Wendell Berry.
A Wood of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey
This pleasantly meandering memoir, an account of two decades spent restoring land to orchard in Somerset, will appeal to readers of modern nature writers. Local history weaves through this story, too: everything from the English Civil War to Cecil Sharp’s collecting of folk songs. Bonus: Pavey’s lovely black-and-white line drawings. (See my full review.)
It’s not just books…
There are terrific ideas for other book-related gifts at Sarah’s Book Shelves and Parchment Girl.
With this year’s Christmas money from my mother I bought the five-disc back catalogue of albums from The Bookshop Band. I crowdfunded their nine-disc, 100+-track recording project last year; it was money extremely well spent. So much quality music, and all the songs are based on books. I listen to these albums all the time while I’m working. I look forward to catching up on older songs I don’t know. Check out their Bandcamp site and see if there’s a physical or digital album you’d like to own or give to a fellow book and music lover. They played two commissioned songs at the launch event for The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, so if you’re a Philip Pullman fan you might start by downloading those.
Would you like to give – or get – any of my recommendations for Christmas?
Cecil Sharp
Charles W. Schwartz
David Mas Masumoto
Grandma Moses
Mike Medaglia
Miranda K. Pennington
nature books
Nina Stibbe
Paul Anthony Jones
Ruth Pavey
The Bookbag
the Brontës
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In understanding successful people, we have come to focus far too much on their intelligence and ambition and personality traits. Instead, Malcolm Gladwell argues in Outliers, we should look at the world that surrounds the successful their culture, their family, their generation and the idiosyncr...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Rosling, Hans
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends - what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school - we syst...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World-and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Updated and Revised)
Fisher, Roger
The key text on problem-solving negotiation-updated and revised Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negoti...
The Tipping Point
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new produc...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology to reveal that the difference between good decision making and bad has less to do with how much information we process than with our ability to focus on a few, particular details, Gladwell shows how we all can become better decision makers - in ...
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Weiss, Brian L.
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the "...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Perry, Bruce D.
How does trauma affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Only when we understand the science of...
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Held Evans, Rachel
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really means to be part of the Church. Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy, the politics, the gargantuan building budgets, the sc...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Sacks, Oliver
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is the story of indiv...
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression--and the Unexpected Solutions
Hari, Johann
What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his bra...
How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age
Dale Carnegie & Associates
AN ADAPTATION OF DALE CARNEGIE’S TIMELESSPRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE DALE CARNEGIE’s time-tested advice has carried millions upon millions of readers for more than seventy-five years up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now the first and best book of it...
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Carnegie, Dale
One of the best known motivational books in history: Since it was released in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Carnegie's first book is timeless and appeals equally to business audiences, self-help audiences, and general readers alike. Proven ad...
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Cuddy, Amy
Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our liv...
The Drama Of The Gifted Child
Miller, Alice
Explores the impact of parental expectations on their children, explaining why many successful children and adults are plagued by feelings of alienation and worthlessness and discussing ways to free oneself from the pains of childhood. SC, 136 pages.
Ratey, John J.
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, J...
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Herman, Judith
Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own researc...
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
Yalom, Irvin
The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The bestselling a...
Changes That Heal: Four Practical Steps to a Happier, Healthier You
Cloud, Henry
Many of us struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy. We know that God created us in his image, but how can we be loving when we feel burned out? How can we be free when we struggle with addiction? Will we ever enjoy the complete healing God promises?Changes That Heal by renow...
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
Callanan, Maggie
In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories, we come to appreciate the near-miraculous wa...
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Books Bücher 1 - 10 von 108 in ... the United States hereby cede to his Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever,...
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Travels in the Great Western Prairies: The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and ... - Seite xix
von Thomas Jefferson Farnham - 1843
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...
...pretensions to the territories lymg west and south of the abovedescribed line ; and in like manner his Catholic majesty cedes to the said United States...and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line, and for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories...
Sketches, Historical and Topographical, of the Floridas: More Particularly ...
James Grant Forbes - 1821 - 226 Seiten
...pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line ; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights, claims, and pretensions, 1818. Pero si el nacimiento del Rio Arkansas se hallase al N orte 6 Sur de dicho grado 42 de latitud,...
Sketches, historical and topographical, of the Floridas, more particularly ...
James Grant Forbes - 1821
...pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line ; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States all his rights, claims, and pretensions, 1818. Pero si el nacimiento del Rio Arkansas se hallase al Norte 6 Sur de dicho grado 42 de latitud,...
The diplomacy of the United States: being an account of the foreign ..., Band 1
Theodore Lyman - 1828
...pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States,...pretensions, to any territories east and north of the said line ; and for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories...
...pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line ; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States, all his rights, claims and pretensions, tn nny territories east and north of the said line ; and for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d ...
United States. Congress. House - 1832
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The Edinburgh Encyclopædia Conducted by David Brewster, with the ..., Band 18
...pretensions, to the territories lying west and south of the above described line; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States,...pretensions, to any territories east and north of the said line; and for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories...
The American Annual Register
...pretensions to the territories lying west and south of the above described line ; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States...and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line ; and for himself, his heirs, and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories...
The American Annual Register of Public Events for the Year ..., Or, the ...
Joseph Blunt - 1833
...above described line ; and, in like manner, his Catholic Majesty cedes to the said United States 8* all his rights, claims, and pretensions to any territories east and north of the said line ; and for himself, his heirs, and successors, renounces all claim to the said territories...
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Course of theoretical physics: Electrodynemics of continuous media
Лев Давидович Ландау, Евгений Михайлович Лифшиц, Лев Петрович Питаевский
Pergamon, 1984 - Science - 460 pages
74 pages matching angle in this book
Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
L D Landau,J. S. Bell,M. J. Kearsley,L. P. Pitaevskii,E.M. Lifshitz,J. B. Sykes
Lev Davidovich Landau,Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lifshit︠s︡
Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Volume 8
Лев Давидович Ландау,Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lifshit︠s︡,Lev Petrovich Pitaevskiĭ
angle anisotropy anisotropy energy antiferromagnetic atoms axes axis body boundary conditions calculation charge circuit coefficient coefficients components conductor constant coordinates corresponding cross-section crystal Curie point curl H defined definition denote dependence derivatives determined dielectric diffraction direction discontinuity dissipation domains electric field electromagnetic field electrons ellipsoid energy flux expression external field external magnetic field ferroelectric ferromagnet field H find finite first first term flow fluctuations fluid formula free energy frequency function given gives grad Hence incident induction infinite integral isotropic Landau theory layer linear magnetic field magnetohydrodynamics magnetostriction magnitude medium normal obtain optical particle permittivity perpendicular perturbation phase plane polarization PROBLEM propagated properties pyroelectric quantities reflection refraction relation respect result rotation satisfied scattering shock wave significance solution sphere superconducting surface symmetry tangential temperature tensor theory thermodynamic potential transition uniaxial upper half-plane values variable velocity volume wave vector z-axis zero
Lev Davidovich Landau was born on January 22, 1908 in Baku, U.S.S.R (now Azerbaijan). A brilliant student, he had finished secondary school by the age of 13. He enrolled in the University of Baku a year later, in 1922, and later transferred to the University of Leningrad, from which he graduated with a degree in physics. Landau did graduate work in physics at Leningrad's Physiotechnical Institute, at Cambridge University in England, and at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Denmark, where he met physicist Neils Bohr, whose work he greatly admired. Landau worked in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program during World War II, and then began a teaching career. Considered to be the founder of a whole school of Soviet theoretical physicists, Landau was honored with numerous awards, including the Lenin Prize, the Max Planck Medal, the Fritz London Prize, and, most notably, the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physics, which honored his pioneering work in the field of low-temperature physics and condensed matter, particularly liquid helium. Unfortunately, Landau's wife and son had to accept the Nobel Prize for him; Landau had been seriously injured in a car crash several months earlier and never completely recovered. He was unable to work again, and spent the remainder of his years, until his death in 1968, battling health problems resulting from the accident. Landau's most notable written work is his Course of Theoretical Physics, an eight-volume set of texts covering the complete range of theoretical physics. Like several other of Landau's books, it was written with Evgeny Lifshitz, a favorite student, because Landau himself strongly disliked writing. Some other works include What is Relativity?, Theory of Elasticity, and Physics for Everyone.
Title Course of theoretical physics: Electrodynemics of continuous media
Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Volume 8 of Teoreticheskai︠a︡ fizika (Izd. 2-e) (Landau, L. D, 1908-1968)
Volume 8 of Course of theoretical physics, Lev Davidovič Landau (physicien.)
Volume 8 of Teoreticheskai︠a︡ fizika, Lev Davidovich Landau
Volume 8 of Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engin
Volume 8 of Teoretičeskaja fizika engl, Lev D. Landau
Volume 8 of Landau and Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics
Authors Лев Давидович Ландау, Евгений Михайлович Лифшиц, Лев Петрович Питаевский
Editors Лев Давидович Ландау, Евгений Михайлович Лифшиц
Edition 2, reprint
Publisher Pergamon, 1984
Continuum mechanics
Electromagnetic waves
Science / Electromagnetism
Science / Physics / Electromagnetism
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Identity Opinion Rainbow Racism Solidarity
Read: First they came for the guys in heels
You have to choose your battles wisely; I was steering clear of this one because I loathe the night, but…
My experience of the main dance floor at XXL recalls the United States pre-1968: a white beardie hardcore dominates with an interest only in each other. Black visitors tend toward the back, and then there is a sort of twinky crowd lining the wall. This is the scenario that many core members want to protect.
This Saturday night should be interesting: the popular weekend staple is set to be the scene of protests because the owner, apparently, got trolled online to the extent that he spewed the most shocking diatribe against gay men who were not typical of his core audience, which is to say, white, masculine beardies. MASC 4 MASC, I believe they call themselves.
The proprietor in question has since issued a retraction filled with excuses and PR plugs. In response to his retraction there were many “good on you mate(s)!” from his core audience. I have no evidence myself, but I have heard rumours of door staff roughing up a guy in heels, and banning gay muslims from the club – how does that work exactly?
Sadly, if true, it is unsurprising, especially living in a period where people feel able to be as nasty, superficial and bigoted as they want to be. I’ve also been thrown out of two Vauxhall clubs for suspected dealing this summer. Yes. If a Black man walks into a gay club with confidence it unnerves dealers, especially if the walkers in know a lot of people. So the dealers tell the door staff that you’re on their turf, bouncers believe them – over the black guy – and march you out. Nice. And then a club like Heaven, for example, has been breathalysing black men, of late, and refusing them entry. I know because it happened to me. My white friend was waved in and I was sent packing. I shouted, “This is some racist bullshit.” The bouncer said, “Yeah. Whatever.”
And that is where we are now. Far right slurry is lapping at the throats of the mainstream and it is newly fashionable to be a bigot: Bannon on tour, Farage for London mayor, Trump in the White House, Boris in print and in government, Free Tommy Robinson, and so on. This is not a drill! This is red alert, and authoritarians come for anybody who isn’t a WASPM or a handmaid. To quote a tsunami of twenty-first century activists, Wake up!
I had a sense that this Saturday could be one of the busiest nights ever at the controversial Saturday club night, and I’ve just read a post encouraging that, making a mockery of the “PC police.” I think it’s tragic to see protest publicly mocked in this way by pink pounders. A gay man gets refused entry for wearing high heels, and people, in essence, proudly declare that they don’t care. Let’s party!
Horrifying how casual members of a community can be at the mistreatment of one of their own, as horrifying as that moment when you first come out and discover that gay men are far, far from enlightened. This is immensely disheartening at a point where a proprietor who makes a mint from gay preening, pink pounds and dark room shenanigans, needs to do right by the community that he exploits – sorry – serves, and be on the receiving end of a good telling off.
First they came for the gays in heels . . .
David McAlmont
@davidmcalmont
Watch This Space: Qmmunitypod’s Kevin Morosky
Create: The Wiz@40 Party : Open Call for Cast & Crew
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An Introduction to Lean for Game Development
What is Lean?
There are many definitions of lean and many different applications of it (the main being manufacturing and software development). Here are three I’ve seen and liked:
It’s a way of building complicated stuff
It’s a system-driven approach to applying empirical process control
It’s a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and thus a target for elimination.
Lean practices, including Kanban, offer improved approaches to doing some work better than a pure approach using an agile framework, such as Scrum.
Why Use Lean?
The work better suited to lean:
Is more predictable in workflow and size
Requires less exploration and iteration
Has a chain of specialist work and handoffs that last longer than a typical sprint to produce something of value.
Work, such as level and character production, are good candidates for lean. This is opposed to the work done in pre-production to explore what makes levels and characters fun and good looking, which is better suited to the cross-discipline swarming and iteration of a sprint. The sprint time-box is great for limiting explorations to reasonable chunks of time and cost that can be used to inspect and adapt the game and the plan for it. This time-boxed approach doesn’t fit as well with more predictable flows of work that have their own cadence, such as levels that might take a month or more to complete or bug fixes to an MMO that need to be tested and deployed daily.
What does Lean look like and how is it different from Scrum?
The major visible difference with lean is how the work is managed by the team. For example, using Kanban practices, you’ll see task boards that are more detailed and have more policies to manage them. A typical Kanban board for level production might look like this:
Each column represents discrete stages of workflow from backlog to done. The numbers at each stage are called work-in-progress limits. This setup has several benefits:
The work-in-progress limits increase the speed in which assets flow through.
The columns quickly show when the flow is piling up too much or if there is something blocking the flow that needs to be dealt with.
It allows improvements to be seen in the flow soon after they are introduced.
It gives everyone on the team instantaneous feedback on the big and small view of the work.
Rather than measuring how much is completed every sprint, lean practices measure the amount of time each asset or feature takes, from concept to done. This time, called the cycle time, becomes the primary metric used to evaluate the pace of improvements and the date when the work is forecast to be completed.
Most studios using lean apply a combination of Scrum and Kanban practices commonly called Scrumban. This typically means that the roles and most practices of Scrum are preserved. The main difference is that instead of having a Scrum sprint, where the planning and review of a number of assets or features are done at a fixed time, Kanban planning and review is done on demand. Teams will often still want to hold a stakeholder review of what was completed since the last review and hold a team retrospective. This is referred to as a cadence and is usually set at two or three weeks.
Lean practices work best when there is more predictability and flow in the work. Scrum and lean share a similar mindset of transparency, inspect-and-adapt practices and a focus on continuous improvement. They describe different practices and tools that studios find complementary and ultimately customize as teams find better ways to work and make games.
Article on Kanban and asset creation
Chapter 7 in my book Agile Game Development with Scrum goes into more detail.
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Well, I've travelled for too much time
to see you spend one more dime
on stupid strategy guides
when the answer wasn't inside
Just figure it out you dummy
Then you won't have to spend nine ninety-nine
—Star Salzman, Mega Man X - "Dreams Come True"
Strategy Guides are different from Walkthroughs in that they provide a portable, professional, and easily accessible hard copy while playing. However, they are more likely to avoid giving outright spoilers and munchkin-like hints, preferring to suggest ideas rather than spoiling the playing aspect. Aside from average gaming information, they also usually contain:
Several splash pages highlighting the party members
Maps across areas and dungeons, with associated locations of items
Stats and strategies of bosses
A back index of items, customizable stuff, and a bestiary of enemies
Some bonus content, such a wall map or poster.
Strategy guides are typically based on the pre-release version of a game, which often leads to blunders. In one infamous example, an official strategy guide for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life was released, but the game was subsequently canceled. Maps in the official strategy guide for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas contained Rampage icons that don't exist in the final game.
Because they are generally released alongside the game and can not be updated, they almost never contain any gameplay tips, tricks, or glitches that are discovered by players post-release. However, in recent years many strategy guide publishers have provided free updates and corrections on their websites.
Due to the idea of competition with free Walkthroughs, official Strategy Guides are extremely prominent now, usually containing nice art or extras to justify their price, which is usually around $15–$20 USD. Many companies will sell it along with the associated game at a lowered price.
Some appropriately complicated games will have thicker guides on newsprint paper with only black ink to offset costs.
It is quite unfortunate to note that some games, intentionally or unintentionally, require a guide to complete.
Examples of Strategy Guides include:
Some of the strategy guides for Sierra's old Adventure Games even included novelizations of the stories in each of the games, along with the traditional walkthroughs.
In one particular book that covers the first SIX games as a walkthrough, the events of the King's Quest series up to that point are novelized. There the phrase "Take everything that isn't nailed down, and if it is, check for loose nails or boards" is used by the main character; extremely revealing for the genre.
An alternate collection of guides for some of the earlier King's Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest series featured invisible ink and came with a yellow hilighter. The questions for each puzzle were in normal ink and you could highlight the answers conveniently preventing you from spoiling puzzles or story lines that you wanted to figure out on your own.
I seem to remember hint books with the red strip of see through film that you would use to read the hints. Maybe I am thinking of teh Lucasart Games' hint books though.
Space Quest IV went meta by featuring the "Space Quest IV Hintbook" as an item in the game itself. It featured a few bits of info needed to progress further in the game, but was mostly a send-up of strategy guides.
Sierra actually sold more hint books for Leisure Suit Larry than it did games. This probably had a lot to do with the cover art on the hint books.
The PlayStation 2 version of one of the Myst games (IV?) came with the strategy guide. In the box.
The PS 2 version of Myst III: Exile bundled a "hint guide" into the instruction booklet.
The Tex Murphy games went one step further than that by building the hint guide into the game itself. Each incremental hint cost a certain number of points (gained by solving puzzles) and the system was structured so that it was impossible to "look ahead".
EarthBound was also sold with the Player's Guide included.
The original version of Myst had, among other things, an envelope labelled "Open only if in dire need..."
The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past came with a similar insert - a small, sealed pamphlet called "Sahasrahla's Secrets."
Enix's Illusion of Gaia included a full walkthrough of the game as the majority of the game manual. This is only fair, given that many of the Red Jewels were Guide Dang It, Lost Forever, or both.
Both the Nintendo and Prima strategy guides for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and the Prima guides for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver and Pokémon Black and White are split into a "beat-the-game" guide and a post-storyline/"catch-em-all" guide.
The official guide for Platinum rectifies the issues with Diamond and Pearl's split guides by checking in at 624 pages and having both move data and a full walkthrough.
The Nintendo Power strategy guide for the original NES Final Fantasy contained a number of gaffs, including suggesting strategies not implemented in the final game (the Giant Sword wasn't more effective against giants, for instance), and labeling the contents of every chest without noting that some were "linked" and contained the same item that could only be gotten once.
The swords were intended to work as explained in the guide, bad programming prevented this.
On the other hand, the guide did specifically point out the area where you encounter a group of giants every step, something which is often thought to have been a programming mistake.
Similarly, the official guide for the Final Fantasy Anthology rerelease of Final Fantasy V was next to useless because it seemed written by and for Munchkins. The "strategy" for most bosses was along the lines of "Have everyone master the Ninja class, then change them to Dragoons, give everyone two of the most powerful spear in the game, and jump," rather than practical advice.
The instruction manual for the American release of Dragon Warrior III was largely a strategy guide that literally walked you to the final boss, spoilers and all, if you read it the whole way through.
The Prima strategy guide for the Gamecube remake of Sonic Adventure updated the information for the bonus missions and unlockables, but the information for the connectivity feature of the Game Boy Advance was incorrect. Instead of having information on the Tiny Chao Garden, the guide instead discusses an "Adventure Walk," which did not appear in the released versions of the handheld games.
As mentioned above, some Strategy Guides avoid the pure-spoiler effect by suggesting courses of action. One of the best was for the original Fallout: Each page that had a 'spoiler' or other solution to an obstacle/puzzle/objective would lead you to the conclusion by providing a series of questions prompting you for a part of the puzzle. As you read down the page, the answers got more and more specific until finally all was revealed. This was muchly appreciated because sometimes one DOES just want a little hint to help them out.
The strategy guide for the old-school TBS Master of Magic was a massive tome with information about every unit, spell, and item in the game, along with page after page of data and charts detailing the math involved in combat. This was pre-Internet (or at least pre-GameFAQs) so that information was largely unavailable otherwise.
The official Final Fantasy IX guide was amazingly sparse. It was very general and less than 100 pages. Why was it so empty? Well, it had several codes that would reveal "secret information" if you joined Squaresoft's website and entered them. Yes, they made an awkward competitor to GameFAQs.
Doublejump guides tend to be less strategy guides and more full blown compendiums. Complete listings of characters, enemies, weapons, maps, secret fights, ect. No inch of the game is left uncovered. The actual walkthrough parts are written vaguely enough so nothing will be spoiled (such as boss names), and full blown spoilers are in their own section and printed upside down to prevent accidential viewing.
Final Fantasy XI had a Bradygames strategy guide that became notorious for two reasons: It started becoming out-of-date due to the constantly changing structure on an MMORPG, and some of the job advice presented was laughably bad. Yes, a Monk/Red Mage could use a sort of Flaming Fist with Enspells, but in an experience points party against monsters several levels higher than you, a half-level Enhancing Skill will cause hits to land for 0 extra damage instead of actual additional damage. Brady probably realized the futility of the whole deal with this guide, and hasn't released an updated version since, although the release of World of Warcraft may be more responsible for it.
The author of the Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete guides knew how important it was for a walkthrough to be littered with dirty jokes and all the pictures to have funny captions under them. But most importantly the guides had all the bromides found in the game in the back in convenient sticker form. The second guide even came in hardcover and had little comics in the back.
The strategy guides for the original Sega CD releases (and probably the modern versions too) were co-written by Zach Meston, head writer of the games.
The strategy guide for Riven: The Sequel to Myst contains multiple formats for their hint delivery, the most subtle just outlining what a puzzle appears to involve visually, the most dramatic being a fully-fledged narrative of a person stuck on the five islands and solving the puzzles to get the Good End.
World of Warcraft provides particularly pointless ones, as each new patch makes the guide increasingly inaccurate or incomplete. Also, because there is no circumstance where you would be able to play the game where you wouldn't also have access to free, more accurate, and probably more in-depth online guides.
The Prima guide for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion states that there are 10 Ayleid Statues for the Collector quest, then immediately lists 11 locations.
Well, you have to find 1 statue, sell it and then you have to find the other 10 for the quest.
Fangamer's Mother 3 handbook is truly an awesome sight to behold.
The Prima Official guide for Tales of Vesperia is known for lacking fairly helpful information and listing non-existent Titles for characters.
The strategy guide for Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is notable for including an index not just for itself but for the original rule book that came with the game.
The official Players' Guide for Star FOX 64 is chock full of precious information, including posters depicting blueprints of the vehicles used. Several elements used in later games (Beltino Toad for example) are first mentioned in this guidebook.
A particularly good strategy guide for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time described the proper actions as if you were reading a story about Link's exploits.
The guide for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was written similarly, and was also interspersed with various factoids about the locations you could visit in-game and the people of Hyrule. (The guide for the GBA version was much more generic in comparison.)
There's a strategy guide available for Awesome Gaiden, but even he can't help you.
While they've gotten slightly better about this, Prima guides tended to be full of errata, particularly their Animal Crossing (Game Cube) guide, which had tons of misplaced screenshots and incorrect dates and times. Their Star Fox Adventures and Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards guides weren't even finished, ending before they could tell you how to fight the final boss.
A particularly good strategy guide company was Versus Books. Their guides were basically totally complete walkthroughs. Admittedly, they left very little to the imagination and basically told you how to do everything, but they did it very effectively (and usually with a good sense of humor). They had a tendency to list everything you could get at parts of the game and tell you how to get them, like extra powerups and such. Their Metroid Prime guide was even completely streamlined, having you collect the Chozo Artifacts before you even needed to (or even scan their locations). They usually had a checklist in the back of the guide as well. Their Ocarina of Time guide even had custom illustrated maps. Sadly, they appear to have gone out of business.
Their guide for Pokémon Red and Blue had a glitch section, where they explained several of the game's infamous glitches, from harmless ones like fishing in statues to game breaking ones like Missing No. They also released a guide for Pokémon Gold and Silver, and both guides were notable for suggesting specific Pokemon and moves for various situations, such as beating Gym Leaders and the Elite Four. Compare them to more recent guides which usually just recommend types and don't go much deeper than that. Both guides also had brief summaries of every single Pokemon evolutionary line, usually highlighting their strengths and telling players whether they were worth using or not, all in good humor. The Pokedex section at the end of the guides also featured articles for what they felt were the best Pokemon of each type in the games.
A relatively new player on the strategy guide scene is FuturePress, a company based in Germany that does guides for the European market. The company releases guides fairly infrequently compared to some of their competitors, but when they do a guide they really go all out, with some of the highest quality guides in the industry. Of particular note is their strategy guide for Bayonetta, a 400-page hardcover tome with detailed strategies for getting to 100% Completion in addition to a regular walkthrough. The guide also contains details on every single enemy in the game and every one of Bayonetta's weapons and attacks. The gorgeous guide has received stellar reviews from pretty much everyone who's read it, which... is not very many people since the only version of the guide is the hardcover Collector's Edition with a limited print run. In addition, the guide is a case of No Export for You for Americans and Canadians, since Brady Games (which later decided not to release a Bayonetta guide at all) held exclusivity rights over the North American strategy guide market. Combine all of those factors and you now have a guide which is selling for upwards of $250!!! on Amazon (and people are indeed buying it for that price, though you can also find unwrapped copies on Ebay for slightly less if you're lucky). The success and rave reviews for the Bayonetta guide convinced FuturePress to begin selling guides to the North American market, and their Vanquish, Killzone 3, and Portal 2 guides have all been released in North America to rave reviews.
Fan-made class handbooks exist for Dungeons & Dragons fans for every edition from 3.5 onward. They can be found at Gleemax, GiantITP, and Brilliant Gameologists (the latter having a subforum dedicated to handbooks). These are more min-max related than guides here, but what do you expect from a tabletop game? Links to them are being added to the Class Page.
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On Facebook, Micah Johnson, the Dallas sniper, liked the New Black Panther Party and the African American Defense League.
The NYT reports. The New Black Panther Party is, according the Anti-Defamation League "the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in the United States."
[T]he African American Defense League, which was formed in 2014 by a man named Mauricelm-lei Millere.
“Millere is known for calling for violence against police specifically, on a regular basis,” said Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “Usually after a high profile police-related shooting he takes to social media to encourage violence against police.”
After the killing of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Mr. Millere called for “death to every blue, bastard, hypocrites, killer pig across the nation,” according to Mr. Segal.
Tags: Black Lives Matter, murder, police, racial politics, racists
Just your average friendly community organizers...
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
So am I close enough in guessing that Mauricelm-lei Millere would have been a Patriot, not a Loyalist?.
Organized terrorists. The FBI needs to investigate them for criminal activity not protected by the First Amendment and for crimes excluding gross negligence.
Anti-semitic, huh? Must have heard the Trump dog whistle.
Moneyrunner said...
And the death in Minnesota may not have gone down as advertised. Here's the link: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/08/the-curious-case-of-philando-castile-falcon-heights-mn-police-shooting/
And the headline:
“Riding Dirty” The Curious Case of Philando Castile – Falcon Heights, MN Police Shooting…
There are a few discrepancies to the story being told.
Philandro Castile wass not issued a concealed carry license.
His car does not appear to have a broken taillight; not the reason for the stop.
Philandro Castile looked like a robbery suspect. There is reason to believe that's why he was stopped.
I'm curious about a woman whose lover has just been shot to calmly take out a camera and stream the encounter.
But the narrative has been set and like the fable in Ferguson, like the innocence of OJ, it will be repeated endlessly until it's the God's honest truth.
DanTheMan said...
>>the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in the United States
Wait a minute! I have been assured that blacks cannot be racists...
Has the media tried to find out if these groups are Obama and Clinton supporters? Will there be the cerimonial request of Mrs. Clinton to disavow these groups?
I'm sure in the next few days we'll see David Duke's opinion "trending" on FB, and how it somehow ties to Trump. Duke seems to pop up in trends about every other week.
As if anybody cares what David Duke thinks.
And this is surprising how?
Breaking ... the KKK is anti-Black, Catholics, Jews, organized labor, immigrants.
Also, a big supporter of Trump. Shocking!
Don't worry, AG Lynch and the Civil Rights Division is on the case.
The industrial area foundation, which sponsored the march is soros.
If I ever go postal, so to speak, I will spend the weeks beforehand cleansing my internet presence so I remain an enigma to the Media.
Chances of this happening: Vanishingly small.
Browndog said...
I was withholding personal judgement on the Baton Rouge shooting until more facts came out, but I was dead certain the Minnesota shooting was a bad shooting. No way around it. Now it appears it's possible I was duped yet again!
I'm as cynical as they come when it come to media "reporting", yet it appears they got me yet again.
BTW- The Conservative Treehouse is the blog that exposed the false narrative behind the Trayvon Martin incident.
Now it appears it's possible I was duped yet again!
I know, me too. I am never cynical enough, hard as I try.
Shiloh has checked in this morning and gotten his/her marching orders.
"Now it appears it's possible I was duped yet again!"
They are working hard at it.
Well, I'm sure they have good reasons.
I have had quite a few black friends, colleagues and acquaintances tell me that blacks cannot be racist because they are a minority. They say these things sincerely and without hint of irony. I assume they are not now, nor will they ever, reconsider.
Ah, the KKK gambit. LOL. You know a bit about it, I suppose, it being founded only a few miles from the battle you named yourself after. LOL. Up the road as it were.
Indeed Michael as the KKK was formed by southern Dems who are now all Republicans.
After Shiloh, the South never smiled!
you still paying those rednecks dues? LOL. They don't come up much in normal conversation but they seem to be top of mind with you. LOL. Dude, stick to the one liners, your forte.
LOL!! Dude, you get your history on YouTube? How cool is that Stick to the one liners there.
Crimso said...
"Indeed Michael as the KKK was formed by southern Dems who are now all Republicans."
Yeah, Robert Byrd is dead now, isn't he?
Also, a big supporter of Trump. Shocking
I guess some guys didn't get the memo.
Oh, & David Duke broke with the Klan in 1981. I'm not saying he's now singing Kumbayah around the campfire with his minority brothers, but he's now into mostly antisemitism. You know renewed relations with Iran, BDS, pro-Palestinian causes. Just like a large chunk of the Left.....
tim in vermont@8:57am/
"I try to be cynical, but I can't keep up.."
---------Lilly Tomlin, (great political philosopher while musing about contemporary modern society)
For that comment alone--lefty tho she may be-- she should be praised to the Gods for all eternity, lol
This is so funny! So false. William Fulbright, known racist, never changed parties. Nor did his successor, Bill Clinton. Hell, just a few years ago old Billy J was lamenting the fact that Obama should have been bringing him drinks instead of beating his wife in a presidential primary. Billy ain't no Republican, you Asshole!
Fear not, the party of Jim Crow and internment camps is still the spiritual home of the KKK, of separatism and gnarly bigots like the BLM crowd and the Muslim congressmen who somehow can reconcile their desire to behead gays and their firm stance for LBGT rights. Yes, those contradictory democrats just keep on evolving in a progressive fashion, don't they?
" the KKK was formed by southern Dems who are now all Republicans."
Says the poor dope who gets his/her info from TPM.
Maybe a little O/T but Daily Beast profile of Micah Johnson includes this nugget about his sister Nicole: "Johnson’s anti-cop sentiment was shared by his sister on Facebook. Two days before the massacre, she posted an ominous message about police being harmed.
'Everything coming into the light and I for one think these cops need to get a taste of the life we now fear.'"
Question: accessory before the fact? Is anybody asking her what she knew and when she knew it?
Shiloh: :...the KKK was formed by southern dems who are now all Republicans."
This just in: Republican voters are, on average, approximately 160 years old.
#lefty logic + #thescienceissettled
See Richard Fernandez today.
He cites Michael Yon, who you should also see today.
The business about the mahout and the elephant applies, also the mechanics of social breakdown.
This all is leading to yet more arms sales to the public, who I am convinced are semi-unconsciously preparing for war. Its not crime thats driving all this.
People are provoking each other without concern for the likely consequences.
"you get your history on YouTube"
My youtube acct. and my dad was a Civil War aficionado/expert as mentioned previously. Try to keep up.
Mike/Michael/MK somewhat amusing that smug/arrogant Althouse con sheep, like yourselves, are jumping through hoops trying to give the impression Reps are pro equality/civil rights on any level re: any subject.
Indeed as surely your chosen one, Trump, will lead the party of Lincoln to the promised land.
Old white guys unite!
Does your father get along with you Shiloh?
"Does your father get along with you Shiloh?"
Speaking of smug/arrogant con sheep, my father passed away 23 yrs ago.
Who sees EVERYTHING through the lens of race and class, Shiloh? It ain't the Republicans! It's YOUR party that has to segment people and pigeonhole them based on skin color, sex, national heritage etc. It is YOUR party that filibustered the Civil Rights Act, not Republicans. It's YOUR party that sucks up to the BLM racists.
Funny thing is it's YOUR party that runs all the cesspit cities with the worst life expectancy for black people.
I'm beginning to see a pattern.
Did you get along with him at the time?
Would he have approved of your behavior?
Was he, also, perhaps, a "con sheep"?
I have hung out with a great number of Civil War buffs, there are, or were, many in California. They used to gather at Angel Island and Fort Point in San Francisco. Pretty much gone or driven away by the local Democrats, who dont like uniforms and muskets. Needless to say, said buffs were conservatives to a man, or a woman.
Mike getting all hot and bothered notwithstanding, as mentioned several times previously I'm a registered independent.
The pattern I noticed after a couple days in 2010 = Althouse 95/5 con majority will bend over backwards changing the subject/apologizing/rationalyzing re: the Republican party being the party of overt racism er the truth.
Again, I'm here for the pedestrian entertainment Althouse provides daily.
We used to have a contingent of Civil War re-enactors doing the July 4 parade here in San Francisco. All in blue, btw.
Also driven away.
Show me the "overt racism" of which you speak, Shiloh the Independent.
(Before you pull out a list of Trumpish quotes, think long and hard about whether Mexican and Muslim are terms that denote RACE or not.)
Yes, the KKK was formed 150 years ago by Democrats. Many of whom still vote for their party.
I am an overt racist. Also a foreigner and not a US voter.
Fight with me, or admit you are a coward.
Engage.
"I am an overt racist."
The truth shall set you free!
The subject of this Althouse post is the racist organizations and anti-white proclivities of the Dallas murderer. How is it off topic to point out that the Democrat plantation is the home of racists like him? Shiloh tries the tired old arguments about the racists dems magically turning into racist republicans. I don't adhere to that myth and have never met a racist who wasn't a democrat or demlocrat pretending to be independent.
Mike has never met a democrat pretending to be an independent.
Quite the non sequitur.
Let the record show Mike has met a lot of people.
So what is wrong with Racism?
I am not a Republican, not an American and not a US voter.
Coward Shiloh?
Besides being opposed to fellows dressed in blue with muskets (assault weapons I suppose), around here the friends of Shiloh also objected to the local Italians dressing in 15th century outfits on Columbus day. It was the assault halberds I think.
I'll accept your non-response for what it is Shiloh: an inability to support your wild thesis.
Shiloh!!!
Dude, your Dad was a Civil War buff? Really? Like with the uniforms and hats and muskets? You fucking rock, Mr. S. So you were more or less born into a Civil War family and your deep knowledge just rubbed off from your Dad's scratchy authentic wool Army of the Potomac uniform? do you "reenact" too? Even in the Summer? I might have seen you behind the smoke at Kennesaw Mtn a few years ago with the cannon all jumping and you looking all squinty up the Mtn at the rebels.
Holy shit, comedy gold, comedy platinum, comedy comedy comedy.
Shiloh's dad was a CW expert and thus....
Smoldering old white guy resentment aside, interesting many in the old south are still fighting the Civil War much like Althouse smug, old white guy cons w/their disingenuous sarcasm trying to rebut the Rep party's systemic racism:
Voting rights, civil rights, anti-immigration, equal pay, Nixon's southern strategy, easily nominating birther, anti-immgration, keep Muslim's out, build a faux wall, politician's in every pocket Trump. Trump's father was a die hard racist as well. Go figure!
But, but, but some of my best friends are Black/Jews/Latinos/Hispanics.
Perception is reality as whiny, old white guy Althouse cons continue to blame the MSM for their ineptitude in high turn out presidential elections.
Oops! ~ Top Pennsylvania Republican Admits Voter ID Helped Suppress Obama Voters
And old white guy Althouse cons continue to wonder why they have trouble winning the minority vote. Oh the humanity!
I yield back the balance of my time.
Did Trump turn down a verdict against the KKK?
Obama did that with the Black Panthers. Remember that? Or the lack of any concerns in regards to them intimidating people at polling places? I doubt he'd have let the KKK slide. I am also fairly sure Trump wouldn't have. But he DID let the Panthers slide. I'm also fairly sure Trump wouldn't have.
While the KKK might support Trump, there is no evidence he supports them.
The Black Panthers supported Obama. He showed them far more support than Trump showed the KKK.
Very few segregationists left the Democratic Party. Many stayed for years. Irvin, hero of the Watergate Committee, was a segregationist.
dami, Obama's a Black Muslim born in Kenya so of course he's an avid supporter of all anti-white groups!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do most old white guy Althouse cons have a habit of living in the past.
If true, this could be a systemic problem. Please, take my hand as "we" enter the 21st century!
Well, yes he is anti-white, or anti-not-his-kind-of-white anyway. He seems more in favor of the rich kind in NYC and Harvard.
Its got more to do with his American tribe than his Kenyan tribe.
I live in the future. Which it seems will be more like Iraq.
We can perhaps aspire to the stability of Mexico, but that may be too much to hope for in a place lacking ethnic uniformity.
the Republican party being the party of overt racism er the truth.
As I just posted on another thread...
The Republicans want to treat people as individuals, and treat them equally. The democrats want to treat people as members of identity groups, and treat them unequally. Which is racist?
The Republican Party was formed to oppose slavery, and Republicans wrote and passed the civil rights amendments. The Democratic Party was responsible for every major racist act this country has committed....defense of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation, the Trail of Tears, the interment of the Japanese..etc.
pvt. shiloh
Dude, the Civil War is the very definition of the past. LOL.
BTW, are you a foot soldier or do you have rank? Tell me if you're an officer so we can adjust our mockery accordingly.
I rank you a private but I could be wrong. Sad to hold that rank for the duration but then....
Based on the trajectory of the corporatist-bureaucratic state, I was hoping for an end-state more like Argentina, that is long term stability at a less than optimal economic level, but that may be too much to hope for.
Have you been to Argentina Shiloh?
Michael, I especially enjoy old white guy Althouse con kindergarten name calling so feel free to call me whatever you want.
It's all part of the Althouse entertainment package. And why Freeman Hunt inanely thinks Althouse is the best blog on the net.
Michael, I especially enjoy old white guy Althouse con kindergarten name calling
The hypocrisy is so bad it burns.....
look, private shiloh, it is one thing to suffer your endless racist rants about the KKK without bringing ageism into your arsenal of mini balls and mini thoughts. LOL.
I am sorry that they didn't issue summer uniforms. That wool can make for extra stupid thinking these hot days. But you can take off the cap.
LOL. shiloistic fun this day, shitastic posting from our resident KKKer
I suspect daddy issues here. Dad was a history buff, a Civil War buff, and very likely some sort of conservative. Shiloh has nothing but contempt for such, and anything related. Issues.
Had therapy?
Shiloh: and my dad was a Civil War aficionado/expert as mentioned previously.
LOL so is my dad. And I'm telling you you're an idiot. #WutNowBitch
Hey Shiloh...
How many segregationist Dixiecrat Senators became Republicans after the Dixiecrat movement faded vs. how many ended their careers being reelected for years as Democrats?
I'll wait.
I would leave shiloh alone, he is probably drilling now in the hot July sun. Private shiloh. Miniballs.
I am surprised that no one (not even Shiloh) mentioned, that the name Shiloh originally comes from the Bible. It was the location of the Ark of the Covenant during the time of the prophet Samuel.
He supports racist black groups. Grand. I don't see any evidence that Trump supports any racist white groups. Don't see why Obama is "less racist".
Who said: Indeed Michael as the KKK was formed by southern Dems who are now all Republicans.?
I don't see how correcting incorrect information is "living in the past" when providing incorrect information is not.
I actually researched this once. For both Houses combined, it was between like 5 and 7. Senate? I think 2 (Thurmond and Helms).
"I am surprised that no one (not even Shiloh) mentioned, that the name Shiloh originally comes from the Bible."
Why are you surprised? The biblical reference is not noteworthy re: innate racism in today's Republican party.
trying to give the impression Reps are pro equality/civil rights on any level re: any subject.
The poor dope is still regurgitating mush he/she learned on TPM.
The Republican Party was formed to end slavery. A couple of weeks ago I visited the graves of two ancestors who died in the Civil War. They weren't "reenactors." One was wounded in the 22 May assault on Vicksburg. I have his letters to his wife from the three years he served and I have the letter from the sister of the guy in the next bed in Gayoso General Hospital informing her that her husband had died that morning. June 2 1863.
The Democrats and Nathan Bedford Forrest formed the KKK and Woodrow Wilson had DW Griffith to the White House to show his movie "Birth of a Nation" about it. All through the 1920s and 30s, Republicans introduced anti-lynching legislation in Congress which was always killed by Democrats.
It goes on and on but kids like you never learned any history.
Talking about today MK, not ancient history when you and Aaron Burr were best friends.
"not ancient history when you and Aaron Burr were best friends."
I know. Why the Constitution is 100 years old !
You have no idea how ignorant you sound.
Private shiloh
Do you use a metal detector looking for mini balls? You know you're not supposed to remove them from the battlefields. I am sure your father told you that. He did didn't he?
Juvenal said...
How long until Obama tells us Micah Johnson could have been his son?
Some Reprublican once told me that Democrats can never become Republicans. If they do then they instantly become non-racists.
It's just never happened once, in the history of the world or of America, that people stopped voting for one party and then voted for (or even joined!) another.
That's why we call them "Reagan Democrats." They were Democrats who were for Reagan, but never voted for him or any other Republican. When the south went from a Democratic voting bloc to a Republican voting bloc, it was only the non-racist voters who made that change.
The racists all stayed in the Democrat party. Including "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, who ran on an explicitly segregationist ticket.
Republicans were always very reluctant to take in guys like him. And they never did. (Except for all the Strom Thurmonds and their ilk, etc., etc., etc.)
Shorter Michael K etc.:
"It was wrong for racist Democrats like Robert Byrd to change their views! Instead, they should have just changed their party!"
But Republicans were always less racist!
Try to wrap your head around the cognitive dissonance that rationalization would take. And feel sorry for our Republicans in the comments. Just imagine the type of illogical revisionist bullshit they have to live and convince themselves of. Bubble life!
"Try to wrap your head around the cognitive dissonance that rationalization would take."
As usual, Ritmo makes no sense. Try to write coherent comments.
Your stupidity and inability to understand a comment doesn't make that comment incoherent.
I'm just wondering why you talk about racist Democrats when obviously they all ended up in your party anyway.
The current, longstanding policies of the Democratic Party represent a diverse people who don't seek the division of racial injustice while the Republican Party seeks to only, and often explicitly, represent the interests of rich white folks.
State your very coherent case for why it's wrong to point that out. Or state why, in your infinite coherence, why you disagree.
Or just be a smug asshole and continue to with the ad hominems and your Colonel Klink impression.
Its time to become more racist. I suggest the model should be Chicanismo in California. By this time, in public universities anyway, there is no point having a non-tribal ethic, because the only non-tribal zones are a minority. Everyone needs to have a tribe assigned upon enrollment, and there should be open and honest negotiation between cultural factions.
I suggest the factions, in higher education anyway, should be Chicano, Black, Other Latino, Chinese, Other Asian (that one will be messy), Liberal white (to include gays and feminists), Conservative white. I expect much crossover into both "white" groups.
Acknowledgement of particular interests would help.
One thing I know about assigning tribes upon enrollment is that no one would want to be a part of bouillabaisse putzi's tribe - whichever that one is.
However he identifies, is a way that no one else will want to identify.
Just keep him away from everyone else. He has no culture, no history, no pride. And everyone is ok with that. Just keep it to himself.
I am a foreign crocodile, which is admittedly a rather exclusive group. I suppose it could be extended to other exotic swamp dwelling predators, including natives like snapping turtles and alligators, but relatively few of these attempt higher education, even under todays lax enrollment standards.
Yeah like I said no one cares.
You must have done a lot of acid (or similar) before you started thinking you were an American.
Anti-reptile bigotry!
Its the scales is it? Texture-phobia?
Or maybe some sort of, er, sensitivity, defensiveness, inferiority complex, if we can get specific here. Its all about what I keep in the cloaca isnt it?
Jon Ericson said...
Ahh, I'm just in time for the Ritmo show.
When do we get to the schoolyard taunts?
Or has it started already?
MacDonalds just ended the day shift.
Back to my book.
"I have had quite a few black friends, colleagues and acquaintances tell me that blacks cannot be racist because they are a minority."
They're not your friends.
Well Jon, you must know a lot about schoolyard taunts. Your picture looks you just got out of high school.
Did your parents have that talk with you now that your pubes have grown in?
Again. No one cares.
Does your daughter like her new uniform?
PUBES! You sure have a thing about genitalia.
I knew you'd come through!
The FBI has a uniform? Who knew?
MAN! Did I call it or what?
Interesting to compare the reactions of our wannabe leaders.
Obama: He came down squarely on the side of the police. Not just expressing sympathy for the victims, but also for police officers as representatives of government authority. He was "horrified" after what he called a "vicious, calculated and despicable act."
Obama's response was the most authoritarian. I think part of that is a feeling of racial guilt and also personal guilt for his lack of regard for the military and the police. And also (as always) there is political calculation. In fact all of these responses are very, very calculated.
Hillary: Her response is the most pacifist. She comes across like a 60's liberal in a tie die shirt. She's worried about the children. I do not believe any children were actually shot in these murders. If you are worried about violence against the children, you might re-think your support for Roe v. Wade. Are you running for baby-sitter? Maybe we can censor this violence from the airwaves and Protect the Children.
Big Mommy is dangerous, particularly when she is paying a doctor to get rid of a baby. Clinton is trying to shore up her black support, and her feminist support. Or maybe she is under stress and is expressing her feminine concern for safety. I am pretty sure police officers Protect the Children--as opposed to, say, abortion doctors--so you might want to think about ways to Protect the Police Who Are Protecting the Children. I'm afraid her plan is to disarm everybody and nationalize the police force. Maybe more authoritarian than Obama, actually. If anybody else is shot she will outlaw caffeine, too.
Gary Johnson: I am perhaps most aggravated by Gary Johnson's response. It's a day of mourning. Mourn, idiot. Express your feelings and connect with people. You will never win any election for anything if you cannot express your feelings and connect with people. I applaud your attempt to shift the conversation from race. But your marijuana obsession marks you as an idiot. Marijuana is not the solution to anything, dummy. Our marijuana laws are #9623 on my list of shit of that needs fixing. Pot is way, way, way below gay marriage and illegal immigration, which are also relatively unimportant. Your focus is shit. I believe you are stressed out by these killings and you are afraid you will make a bad leader. So you are subconsciously, or perhaps consciously, sabotaging your candidacy while you pave your way back into the pot industry, which apparently you never should have left.
Donald Trump. He says the Dallas shootings have "shaken the souls of our nation." That's beautiful. He nailed it. I think somebody wrote it for him and he read it off a teleprompter. But I also think Donald Trump is very, very good at catchy soundbites. And he has gotten to the heart of the appropriate emotional response. It's possible Newt or some other smart guy wrote this for him. Nonetheless, his understanding that he must say the right thing is a baby step for him in the direction of being a good President.
Also he is cognizant of a fear among many that he is too authoritarian. I do have some criticisms of what he said. He is still doing the cheap video thing, and he has little or no gravitas. On the positive side, I think Donald Trump is very good in a crisis. HIs poll numbers will dramatically increase after this.
You will too, once yours become adult-male sized.
AND YET ANOTHER!
Truly astounding wit.
Still at it ?
When will Hillary condemn the new black panther KKK party and the African American defense league.
Michael The Magnificent said...
Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics
The left can (and does!) sling bullshit all day long, and blame the Republican party for the KKK, but the truth is the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, who's purpose was to terrorize Republicans and blacks.
He also liked stealing panties.
At least part of Johnson’s manifest transformation seems to have been the result not of PTSD, but of what might be termed PTDD, Post Traumatic Disgrace Disorder.
As reported by one of his bunkmates in Afghanistan, Johnson suffered a particular shame.
“We all knew he was a pervert cuz he got caught stealing girls’ panties,” the bunkmate later said in a Facebook post.
Johnson’s military lawyer, Bradford Glendening, says that a female corporal mentioned Victoria’s Secret underthings when she filed a sexual harassment complaint against his client.
ncBadger said...
When Dylann Roof shot up a black church in Charleston last year, Amazon was quick to remove the Confederate flag from their shelves (accompanied by numerous press releases) because the mere appearance of the flag in the background of Roof's photographs on FaceBook made it culpable for his actions. Anxiously awaiting (/sarc) the massive publicity campaign from Amazon announcing that it is pulling all "black power" merchandise (t-shirts, jewelry, etc) from its shelves now that Dallas shooter Micah X. Johnson has definitively defined the raised black fist that symbolizes "black power" as a symbol of racism and hate.
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Lilac Passages of the ISS
I present a short video, in 4K, of two video clips of the International Space Station in two successive passages across the sky on May 24/25, 2018.
The location was my backyard in southern Alberta.
The clips were shot in 4K in real-time video at 24 frames per second but with a 1/4-second shutter speed with a Sony a7III camera, and with 15mm full-frame fish-eye (first clip) and 8mm circular fish-eye lenses. ISO speeds were 6400 and 16,000.
The clips are sped up by 2x and 4X in post-production to make a shorter video for the web. The background sounds of the night are real-time and were recorded live with the videos.
What I cannot capture is the smell!
The lilacs were in bloom and lent a wonderful fragrant scent to the night air, which added to the sights and sounds of a spring night.
Thus the title of the video.
Much of North America is now enjoying great passes of the ISS. To find out when you can see it from your backyard see NASA’s Spot the Station website and enter your location.
– Alan, May 26, 2018 / © 2018 Alan Dyer / AmazingSky.com
Conjunctions, Satellites & Auroras, Oh My!
October has brought clear skies and some fine celestial sights. Here’s a potpourri of what was up from home.
We’ve enjoyed some lovely early autumn weather here in southern Alberta, providing great opportunities to see and shoot a series of astronomical events.
Venus and Mars in close conjunction in the dawn sky on October 5, 2017. Venus is the brightest object; Mars is below it; while the star above Venus is 4th magnitude Sigma Leonis. The foreground is illuminated by light from the setting Full Moon in the west. This is a single 1-second exposure with the 135mm lens at f/2 and Canon 60Da at ISO 800.
On October 5, Venus and Mars appeared a fraction of a degree apart in the dawn twilight. Venus is the brightest object, just above dimmer but red Mars. This was one of the closest planet conjunctions of 2017. Mars will appear much brighter in July and August 2018 when it makes its closest approach to Earth since 2003.
Satellites: The Space Station
An overhead pass of the ISS on October 5, 2017, with the Full Moon rising in the east at left. The ISS is moving from west (at right) to east (at left), passing nearly overhead at the zenith at centre. North is at the top, south at bottom in this fish-eye lens image with an 8mm Sigma fish-eye lens on the Canon 6D MkII camera. This is a stack of 56 exposures, each 4 seconds long at an interval of 1 second.
The Space Station made a series of ideal evening passes in early October, flying right overhead from my site at latitude 51° N. I captured it in a series of stacked still images, so it appears as a dashed line across the sky. In reality it looks like a very bright star, outshining any other natural star. Here, it appears to fly toward the rising Moon.
Satellites: Iridiums
A pair of nearly simultaneous and parallel Iridium satellite flares, on October 9, 2017, as they descended into the north. The left or westerly flare was much brighter and with a sharp rise and fall in brightness. While it was predicted to be mag. -4.4 I think it got much brighter, perhaps mag -7, but very briefly. These are Iridium 90 (left) and Iridium 50 (right). This is a stack of 40+ exposures each, 2 seconds at 1-second intervals, with the Sigma 24mm lens at f/1.4 and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
Often appearing brighter than even the ISS, Iridium satellite flares can blaze brighter than even Venus at its best. One did so here, above, in another time-lapse of a pair of Iridium satellites that traveled in parallel and flared at almost the same time. But the orientation of the reflective antennas that create these flares must have been better on the left Iridium as it really shot up in brilliance for a few seconds.
A circumpolar star trail composite with Northern Lights, on October 13, 2017, shot from home in southern Alberta. The Big Dipper is at bottom centre; Polaris is at top centre at the axis of the rotation. The bottom edge of the curtains are rimmed with a pink fringe from nitrogen. This is a stack of 200 frames taken mostly when the aurora was a quiescent arc across the north before the substorm hit. An additional single exposure is layered in taken about 1 minute after the main star trail set to add the final end point stars after a gap in the trails. Stacking was with the Advanced Stacker Plus actions using the Ultrastreaks mode to add the direction of motion from the tapering trails. Each frame is 3 seconds at f/2 and ISO 6400 wth the Sigma 14mm lens and Nikon D750.
Little in the sky beats a fine aurora display and we’ve had several of late, despite the Sun being spotless and nearing a low ebb in its activity. The above shot is a composite stack of 200 images, showing the stars circling the celestial pole above the main auroral arc, and taken on Friday the 13th.
A decent aurora across the north from home in southern Alberta, on Friday the 13th, October, 2017, though these frames were taken after midnight MDT. 3 seconds at f/2 and ISO 6400 wth the Sigma 14mm lens and Nikon D750.
This frame, from some 1300 I shot this night, October 13, captures the main auroral arc and a diffuse patch of green above that pulsed on and off.
You can see the time-lapse here in my short music video on Vimeo.
Friday the 13th Aurora from Alan Dyer on Vimeo.
It’s in 4K if your monitor and computer are capable. It nicely shows the development of the aurora this night, from a quiescent arc, through a brief sub-storm outburst, then into pulsing and flickering patches. Enjoy!
What all these scenes have in common is that they were all shot from home, in my backyard. It is wonderful to live in a rural area and to be able to step outside and see these sites easily by just looking up!
— Alan, October 16, 2017 / © 2017 Alan Dyer / AmazingSky.com
Night of the Space Station
The Space Station is now continuously lit by sunlight, allowing me to capture dusk-to-dawn passages of the ISS.
On the night of May 31/June 1 I was able to shoot four passages of the International Space Station on successive orbits, at 90-minute intervals, from dusk to dawn.
The first passage, at 11:06 p.m., was low across the south. It’s the image at top.
Then at 12:45 a.m. the Space Station came over again, now directly overhead. It’s the image above. The Moon is the bright glow at bottom.
One orbit later, at 2:21 a.m., the Station came over in another overhead pass in the bright moonlight.
The final passage of the night came at 3:55 a.m. as the sky was brightening with dawn twilight and the Moon was setting. This was another passage across the south, and made for the most photogenic pass of the night.
Here’s an edited movie of the four passes, with a little music just for fun.
Seeing the Space Station on not one but two, three, or even four orbits in one night is possible at my latitude of 50 degrees north around summer solstice because the Station is now continuously lit by sunlight — the Sun never sets from the altitude of the ISS.
When the ISS should be entering night, sunlight streaming over the north pole still lights the Station at its altitude of 400 km.
To shoot the time-lapse clips and stills I used 8mm and 15mm fish-eye lenses, and a 14mm ultra-wide lens.
The bright moonlight made it possible to use short 2- to 4-second exposures, allowing me to record enough frames at each passage to make the little movies of the ISS flying across the sky. Keep in mind, to the eye, the ISS looks like a bright star. Some image processing trickery adds the tapering trails.
I used the Advanced Stacker Actions from StarCircleAcademy.com to create the trail effects, and to stack the time-lapse frames into single composite still images. The gaps in the trails are from the one second interval between frames.
– Alan, June 2, 2015 / © 2015 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
Meteors and Space Stations over Mt. Cephren
A couple of Perseid meteors streak across the moonlit sky above Mt. Cephren in Banff National Park.
The night before the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower was very clear for the first couple of hours. On Monday, August 11, I positioned myself at the shore of Lower Waterfowl Lake, at a roadside viewpoint on the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, Alberta.
I had two cameras going, one on a fixed tripod aimed west in hope of catching some meteors in a few frames. Two did, and the main image is a composite of those two frames, as the Perseids shoot over the pyramid peak of Mt. Cephren.
Later, the Space Station also flew over, accompanied by the European ATV cargo ship, captured here in a stack of 18 frames from the 555-frame time-lapse, showing their pass from west to east (bottom to top) of the composite image. The gaps are from when the shutter was closed for 1 second between the 15-second-long exposures with the 14mm ultra-wide lens.
In all, it was a warm and beautiful night, with the normally busy viewpoint all to myself all night, under the light of the nearly Full Moon.
The mountains by moonlight are truly magical.
– Alan, August 13, 2014 / © 2014 Alan Dyer
Space Station Over a Star Party
The Space Station flies over a campground of astronomers awaiting the fall of darkness.
Last night was the main night for summer star parties, being a dark-of-the-Moon Saturday in August. As I usually am each year, I was in Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, attending the annual Saskatchewan Summer Star Party. About 330 attended this year, a near record year.
The night was partly cloudy but stayed clear enough for long enough to allow great views. As the sky was getting dark the International Space Station flew over from horizon to horizon, west to east, passing nearly overhead. I had a camera and ultra-wide lens ready and caught the pass in 10 exposures, each 30 seconds long, here stacked in Photoshop. The accumulated exposure time also makes the stars trail in circles around the North Star at upper right.
It was one of many fine sky sights hundreds of stargazers enjoyed this weekend at the SSSP, and no doubt at dozens of other star parties around the continent this weekend.
All-Night Satellites
It was a marvellous night for Space Station watching.
Right now those of us at northern latitudes in North America are enjoying the opportunity to see the International Space Station come over not once but often 2 or 3 times a night, as it is now lit by the Sun all night long (on our nights down here on Earth, that is).
Here are two shots from the night of June 4-5, 2013 taken from my home in Alberta at a latitude of 51° North.
My featured image above is from the ISS pass that began at 1:55 am, and is a stack of 4 tracked 2.5-minute exposures, so the stars are not trailed, but the ground is! On this pass, the ISS came overhead. This view is looking north, toward the all-night perpetual twilight we see on the Canadian Prairies around summer solstice. There’s also a low band of green aurora on the northern horizon.
I shot the image below on the ISS’s pass one orbit earlier at 12:18 am. This image is looking south to the ISS’s high pass across the south. It’s a composite of 4 untracked 2-minute exposures – thus the stars are now trailing in circles around Polaris at the top of the frame.
Both shots are horizon-to-horizon all-sky views with an 8mm fish-eye lens.
The sky isn’t dark, even in the shot taken at 2 am. At this time of year around summer solstice at northern latitudes, the sky never gets astronomically dark but is lit a deep blue by sunlight still streaming over the pole and bathing the night in a glow of perpetual twilight.
– Alan, June 5, 2013 / © 2013 Alan Dyer
Commander Chris Flies Over My House
Commander Chris Hadfield and his crew fly over my house and below the Moon on a spring night in Canada.
It’s been a couple of months since we in Canada have had a chance to sight the Space Station in our evening sky with our Canadian astronaut on board. When I last had a chance in February, Chris was a crew member. Now he’s the commander of the Station, the first Canadian to hold the position.
My shot, taken tonight on the second of two passes this evening, has the Space Station coming up out of the west and rising to meet the Moon. It passed under the Moon and then faded out as it entered Earth’s shadow and nighttime, one of 16 nights they experienced this and every day in orbit around the Earth.
Chris is in orbit with the Expedition 35 crew until mid-May. So this may be our best and last chance to see our astronaut flying through Canadian skies.
This was also the first decently clear night we’ve had in two weeks, since my last post from April 2. We all hope spring is finally arriving
– Alan, April 17, 2013 / © 2013 Alan Dyer
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" EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies! "
EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: RFK Jr., Florida Law Firm to File Federal Whistleblower Suits Against Two Voting Machine Companies!
First Case to be Filed Next Week, According to Attorneys Scheduled to Meet with U.S. Dept. of Justice Officials This Week
Insider Plaintiffs in Federal Fraud Suits Will be Familiar to BRAD BLOG Readers...
By Brad Friedman on 7/2/2006, 6:34pm PT
Since Bobby Kennedy, Jr. and attorney Mike Papantonio have now discussed this out loud on the air on their Ring of Fire radio program (where yours truly will be a guest next Saturday, by the way) and since this week's Rolling Stone references it, we may as well share a few more prevoiusly undisclosed exclusive details about the upcoming federal qui tam (false claims or fraud) lawsuits to be filed against two of the major American electronic voting machine companies.
As previously reported, The BRAD BLOG can confirm that those two federal whistleblower suits will soon be filed by RFK Jr. and Papantonio. They will be filed via Papantonio's Florida-based firm Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor, P.A.
The first of the two suits, The BRAD BLOG can now reveal, is scheduled to be filed late next week --- around the 13th --- according to the attorneys preparing the case. Representatives of the firm are scheduled to meet this week with officials at the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss some of the legal requirements of the first suit.
Because qui tam suits have very specific rules pertaining to public disclosure issues prior to filing, for the moment we can't say too much more about them, but regular BRAD BLOG readers will likely be familiar with some of the players involved in these suits.
Beyond that, we'll refer to Rolling Stone's coverage this week of Kennedy and Papantonio's plans --- with more to come, no doubt, on these very pages in the days and weeks ahead...
Kennedy, meanwhile, is preparing to up the ante on those he believes abetted the GOP's electoral theft. In July, the outspoken attorney plans to file "whistle-blower" lawsuits against two leading manufacturers of electronic voting machines. According to Kennedy, company insiders are prepared to testify that the firms knowingly made false claims when they sold their voting systems to the government --- misrepresenting the accuracy, reliability and security of machines that will be used by 72 million voters this November.
"This is a unique way to try and stop these vendors," Kennedy tells Rolling Stone. "In both cases, our whistle-blowers are familiar with security problems that were well known by the vendors but concealed from election officials during the bidding process. Because we're relying on 'inside' knowledge, it is a far more frightening prospect to the company than a traditional lawsuit might be. And if we prove our case, we will hit the corporations the only place they feel it: in their pocketbooks."
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(188 Responses so far...)
... Cyteria said on 7/2/2006 @ 7:03 pm PT...
Wonderful news. This is indeed the way to go. My hat is off to RFK, Jr. I have my Bobby Kennedy for President coffee mug in a prominent place on my bookcase. Maybe, just maybe, I can use it again.
... Max-1 said on 7/2/2006 @ 7:39 pm PT...
Kennedy, meanwhile, is preparing to up the ante on those he believes abetted the GOP's electoral theft.
This hints at a deeper corruption of the GOP. That elements of the GOP were fully aware of the choices they were making. I'm sensing that certain players in the GOP are sinister players.
Fingers crossed.
Good job Brad.
... Joan said on 7/2/2006 @ 7:50 pm PT...
#2 Max,
"...I'm sensing that certain players in the GOP are sinister players..."
You have a gift for understatement, my dear.
When they file this lawsuit, I hope they drive it in the fast lane.
... Chris Hooten said on 7/2/2006 @ 8:08 pm PT...
Please, God, don't make us use those friggin' machines in November.
-- Chris Hooten
On second thought we better make sure of that ourselves!
... SadButTrue said on 7/2/2006 @ 8:13 pm PT...
I'm not so confident that this lawsuit, even if successful, will hit thes companies in the pocketbook. The Repuglycans will find a way to funnel compensations back to them (or at least back to the execs. who make the decisions), and they will still be sitting pretty on a pile of dirty cash.
Don't you feel that since voting machine insecurity is beginning to garner some attention at last, 'the wizard behind the curtain' will, like water filling any available space, simply direct his attention to the many other nefarious means at his disposal to muck up the works?
I hate to be a spoilsport, but with fingers in every pie & the NSA sucking up terabytes of info in every corner...
... Edward Rynearson said on 7/2/2006 @ 8:29 pm PT...
It drives me crazy everytime I hear a pundit say in regards to the Bush monkey, "Well the American people elected him twice," or "The Democrats just can't seem to get a message that will take them to the whitehouse."
The donkey can't win races with his two hind legs bound together.
And . . . this elephant hole goes alot deeper my friends.
... Winter Patriot said on 7/2/2006 @ 9:10 pm PT...
Right you are, Edward #7
Even the usually very wise Robert Parry has written about Why Busby Lost and the truth is we don't even know Whether Busby Lost!
... leftisbest said on 7/2/2006 @ 9:50 pm PT...
I trust we are keeping the names of the two companies quiet until the filing for good reason. I'm dying to know which two. And is there anything anyone can do to help catch the third one (and the fourth one)?
This could be the biggest story since ... well, I donno - since in a long time I guess. And for once, it looks like the good guys might even win!
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... Chris Hooten said on 7/2/2006 @ 10:34 pm PT...
I think ES&S and DIEBOLD would be a good guess.
... oldturk said on 7/2/2006 @ 11:07 pm PT...
Brad is going to be on Ring of Fire,.. Saturday,..
July 8,.. 4PM?,.. good news,.. good news.
Why doesn't Bobby or Mike ever mention you and/or
Bradblog on the program ? Democrats should learn to network and refer an audience to other sources if
that audience is captured by a specific issue. Why dead-end your audience,.. hand them a road-map to
continue further down the road towards their destination. Election fraud,.. a person of your caliper
who has researched the issue to the extent you have,..
certainly has earned/deserved a mention as the control
central patriot for the cause. If Democrats band together the message disseminated could be broadcast
much more effectively.
qui tam,...
qui tam pro domino rege quam pro seipe
"He who sues for the king (GWB?)as well as himself."
Fraud was perpetrated against the (crown) government,..
you are witness to this fraud,.. if you bring this to their/judiciary attention,.. any damages/recoveries awarded by the court are shared with the witness who reported it.
Qui tam cases require that an attorney draw up the court action paperwork,.. submit it to the court,.. the action is held under seal by the court,.. the details of the case and the name of the defendant are not to be divulged. The government has an opportunity
to review the case and possibly join the court action
as a plaintiff. Once this process is completed,.. the
case is unsealed,.. then proceeds thru the court.
This court action could well be the earthquake this political landscape requires to return democracy to the status we all hope and expect.
Qui Tam Link
Qui Tam info link
... Chris Hooten said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:56 am PT...
I think that many people lose sight of the fact that the most dangerous of all hackers are never found, caught, or even detected. There *is* such a thing as the perfect hack, leaving no evidence whatsoever. When the election hacking has risen to such a level, we are f*ck*d no matter what, if we use machines. Thankfully, the ones doing it currently are arrogant, stupid, incompetent f*ckheads, and will get caught.
"The thing I am most intolerant of is intolerance itself." --- ME
... oldturk said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:57 am PT...
2004 Stolen Election
... Larry Bergan said on 7/3/2006 @ 2:15 am PT...
Edward Rynearson #7
"It drives me crazy everytime I hear a pundit say in regards to the Bush monkey, "Well the American people elected him twice," or "The Democrats just can't seem to get a message that will take them to the whitehouse."
There's nothing that makes me more angry then those statements, and sometimes they come from Democrats (Marco Molitsas)! My neighbors must wonder why I keep calling out "NO THEY DIDN'T!"
... Agent99 said on 7/3/2006 @ 2:29 am PT...
Larry and Edward
I think you guys just put succinctly what it is that irks me about DailyKos, and about this disorienting meme about the Democratic Party's inability to win elections. I'm plenty chuffed about how many Democrats have been comporting themselves, but we DID win both of the last Presidential Elections, and who knows how many Congressional seats went to the losers? It's starting to look as if it has been quite a few.
... Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/3/2006 @ 3:01 am PT...
For Larry Bergan and Edward Rynearson: The New York Times (that liberal monolith that supposedly committed treason by publishing information the 9/11 terrorists knew about well before 9/11) was the exemplar of the phenomenon you're talking about. No mention of the 57,000 claims of fraud in the first 48 hours, no mention of the 102-page Conyers report, but analysis after analysis of how Bush won Ohio "on the ground." It was sickening to read.
This qui tam suit by R.F.K., Jr.'s law firm sure changes the landscape, doesn't it? If the New York Times ignores the case, it will become a laughingstock. If it covers it, the allegations will be news in and of themselves. We'll get the truth about the 2004 election through the "back door" (literally). No claims that can be debunked as "conspiracy theory," no talk of "sore losers," simple allegations of deliberately false statements by company officials, one of whom (O'Dell) has already been forced to resign by his own company.
The burden now shifts to Diebold and E.S.& S. at this point (assuming they're the two)....not the burden of proof, but of deciding whether to defend the suit or not. If they defend it vigorously, they'll lose even if they win, I suspect, because the revelations will be public and will create a loss of confidence in their machines. If they settle the suit, I'm sure the plaintiffs will demand an admission of culpability as part of the settlement. The companies are in a terrible position here.
Sadbuttrue suggests in #5 that the G.O.P. will funnel money back to the executives to compensate for any losses from the suit. There are separate laws to cover this sort of thing. Watch Diebold's stock going forward; it had a bounce to around 46 after that ninconpoop on MSNBC who jumps around and waves his arms recommended it, but now it's back down around 40. Stockholders won't be worried about whether the bosses will lose money, they'll be worried about the companies' ability to sell products going forward. RFK, Jr. is absolutely right when he says the suit will hit the companies in the only place they'll feel it...the pocketbook. If Diebold stock goes to 20, there wouldn't be enough G.O.P. cash in the till to make up for that, believe me.
... Floridiot said on 7/3/2006 @ 3:26 am PT...
I just looked at the local Spanish fox channel, and they have the Con ahead by 1% point 37.1 to 36.1 %, declaring him the winner of the Mexican election, lets see... Fox goes dark about the elections, the two main polling outfits down there won't show their exit polls... they shut down strategic voting locations, claiming riots would ensue in some of the poorest areas where the Lib candidate was sure to win...
the IRI is down there working its magic, hmmm...
I wonder how many election cycles its going to take before some people see the true root of the problem ?
Oh yeah, I wonder who started that 'boycott the vote' group down there, hmmk?
What if the Cons think they need a 10% boycott bloc to swing the '08 election here, I'll guarantee that a "Boycott the Vote" group (voters that normally vote, but won't this time because they're protesting the electronic voting machines) forms here sometime before the next go round
They've got this down to a science
... Dredd said on 7/3/2006 @ 5:29 am PT...
I remember that Bev Harris and Jim March brought a qui tam lawsuit against Diebold in California, and won. Diebold has since violated the injunction entered in that case.
Perhaps some of the facts, at least as they relate to some of the machines, will already have been determined against Diebold under the concept of res judicata in the Harris/March case.
At any rate this is good news and Lou Dobbs should be notified so he at least will feel like something positive is going on and frustration is not the only emotion available.
Harris, March, and Cliff Curtis would be a great help in the Kennedy lawsuit.
At least now the issue can be looked deeply into.
But do not think for a moment the psycho neoCons or those who have constructed the republican dictatorship are going to have a clearing of their minds. Once a mind is lost it is lost.
So focus on moderates and the left for sanity these daze. The right has gone over the edge and have completely lost it.
... DIXIECRAT said on 7/3/2006 @ 6:29 am PT...
Does RFK Jr. know that the Republican controlled Florida legislature declared that hand recounts of paper ballots are no longer considered valid? Even if RFK Jr. manages to sue and win, even if new voting systems are put in place, recounting paper ballots in the state of Florida will be invalid. Seems that the Republicans are, again, one step ahead. They kept everyone busy with electronic voting machines which could be hacked and fixed without a paper trail, which gave them enough time to pass laws to invalidate the paper trail itself.
... Winter Patriot said on 7/3/2006 @ 6:45 am PT...
When sane people regain control of our country, every Florida state legislator who voted in favor of invalidating the paper trail will have a private cell at Gitmo. Long may they rot! ITMFA!
For Dixiecrat: RFK, Jr.'s goal here isn't to influence Florida's election officials. He's smart enough to understand that Jeb's crowd is like the Mafia that murdered his own uncle...they play for keeps, and the rules of polite society don't apply to them. What RFK, Jr. is doing is just what he says, i.e., hitting the companies where it hurts, in the pocketbook.
Put yourself in the shoes of the Diebold C.E.O. who replaced O'Dell. How would you respond to this qui tam suit?
Would you fight it in court? If you do, you're swimming against the tide, because of all the recent tests that proved election machines were hackable, and because in the same week the Hursti/Soncho test was taken in Florida, your predecessor resigned under fire. The discovery process will be public news; do you want to face inquiries about the relationship of O'Dell to the White House, or of Diebold to Blackwell?
But you can't really settle the suit, either, without admitting to electoral wrongdoing. RFK, Jr. is placing Diebold on the defensive. Whether Florida changes its rules or not isn't his concern at the moment, as I read what he said. The best Diebold can hope for at this point is that the media avoid the story and the legal process is delayed until after the 2006 election.
... Jeremy Trudell said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:00 am PT...
With all the legal action going on right now, wouldn't it be a good time for someone to build a new voting machine. I've been thinking, vote counting software is easy. A student in their first semester of Java programming could write a program that took your vote and added them up. It's about one page of code. Incidentally, this is why I get so mad when I hear about "glitches" on these machines. To me, that is the most damning lie.
I have the plan for the perfect voting machine. Once you have voted on it, it will have two receipt rolls. Your votes will be recorded on both with a randomly generated number that will not be repeated. You will get a copy off one roll, the other roll will be for election officials. Later, results will be posted with candidates at the top of columns with all the random generated numbers that voted for them under them. You would be able to check online to make sure the number on your receipt was under the right candidate. If their is any way someone could commit fraud this way, i'd like to hear it.
I could write code for this, but I'd need some help with the hardware...any takers?
There will never be sanity in Florida. You have no idea. Nothing will come of this.
Jeremy Trudell #24
Diebold also produces ATM machines, which are far more complex than are EVM's (Electronic Voting Machines).
So the issue is not difficulty of task, the issue instead is difficulty of being honest.
They obviously could have made the EVM's with the same quality as the ATM's, and the fact that they did not is a prima facia case giving rise to valid suspicion.
What all of the EVM makers should do is join you in a pledge of honesty, because the need for skill is way down on the list of things required to have open, honest, and competent elections in the United States.
Honesty and integrity are at the top of the list.
There will never be sanity in Florida. You have no idea.
You may be right, Dixiecrat, but I refuse to give up hope.
Maybe in some eyes that makes me "remarkably naive", but on the other hand, if we lose hope we stand no chance.
To Robert Lockwood Mills. You are only considering what is happening in the "here and now" and are not thinking beyond this case which is why the Republicans are already two steps ahead of everyone. Sure, this is a good start to restoring Democracy, but I suspect the good intentions will lead to "so what? A couple of business got caught." This lawsuit didn't catch anyone by surprise; they expected it, planned for it years ago and will roll out their counter action in bits and pieces every step of the way. The voting machine manufacturers will probably get the brunt of this and while we're diverting our attention, the next phase will catch us by suprise instead.
Hope is just an abstact concept.
Kennedy has picked a good time to bring the lawsuit. The public more and more is saying they would pick a democrat over a republican:
Asked whether they would be more likely to vote for the Republican or Democratic candidate in the district where they live if the election were held today, 47% said Democrat and 35% said Republican, a two-point improvement for Democrats.
(link here, bold added). Which is just another way of saying they trust democrats over republicans when it comes to honesty.
The polls going into this election and the exit polls at election time may be the spark of revolution in the United States if the election war lords do not allow the people to express their will thru their vote.
Then my description republican dictatorship will not seem to be too far fetched any longer. And those who have been blinded into fostering a modern American dictatorship will begin to open their eyes and will thereafter put a stop to it.
The Supreme Court majority in Hamdan v Rumsfeld is the embryonic beginning of the fall of the republican dictatorship.
That decision contains the bedrock DNA of a revolution that will nip off the buds on the thorny fascist bush of this regime.
... epppie said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:43 am PT...
According to Palaste, there has been an exit poll discrepancy in favor of the Bush backed candidate in the Mexico election too.
Is this where the sh8t hits the fan?
... pal said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:52 am PT...
I am thinking of fitzgerald and how they got to him..Something has to break ..A thousand little cuts and when it all comes down it wont be pretty..
DREDD, You are full of hope.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
... epppie said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:43 am PT...
It depends if the Mexican people are as ill informed as we are in the US, they might have an Orange Revolution
down there, but who knows
I think they have the same type of Right wing media talking points as we do here
... big dan said on 7/3/2006 @ 7:58 am PT...
Dixiecrat: The problem is, and always was, the elites think the way that you mention above, and feel they DESERVE to rule without a democratic vote (kings, etc...)...hence, the Republican party (for the elites) and vote stealing via e-vote machines. They think they should rule, without a vote. Fraud, disenfranchisement, etc... It goes back a long way... The Guilded Age, the few with almost all the $$ ALWAYS think government should work for THEM, and it's their RIGHT, too.
...NOT for the benefit of the many, for the benefit of the FEW who have most of the $$$.
For Dixiecrat: In a courtroom there are no Democrats and Republicans. There are charges, and defenses against charges. There's also a discovery process that precedes the actual trial. It isn't a defense for Diebold, in court, to say, "Democrats commit fraud, too. This is all political." That's irrelevant to the case at hand, which is simply, "Did these voting-machine companies mislead the public regarding their equipment?" Nothing more than that. A whistle-blower need not explain why he's blowing the whistle, or identify himself by political party.
What RFK, Jr. is doing is converting a political process (partisans arguing about the 2004 election, which shouldn't be political but is) into a legal process. Whatever Diebold does here, as the case moves along the publicity should intensify, and unless I'm misreading things, the stock will drop. A lot. This will put pressure on Diebold's management to turn things around (stockholders get very angry when they lose big bucks, especially when it's on account of somebody playing games). What will they do?
If they sell off the election-machine division, the prospectus governing the transaction must include statements concerning that division's business. Those statements must be truthful under penalty of law, and there's no way on God's green earth Diebold would lie in a prospectus at this point. If they try to stay in the election-machine business, stockholders are going to raise hell at the annual meeting. "Why are you sticking with a crooked operation? You're killing us." The same people who voted for Bush (most stockholders are Republicans) just might be angry enough to join with us politically at that point. By then, the media should have all become Lou Dobbs.
The point is, the companies will be on the defensive. RFK, Jr. understands this in his bones, and by preceding legal action with an article in a popular magazine, he created a two-step exposure process.
To Big Dan: I agree with you, but the Constitution doesn't say that only the wealthy get to vote. You just described a Republic which would therefore describe the people who believe in a Republican form of government. The United States is a Democratic Republic and since the elites, the well funded or extremely cunning/intelligent are usually the ones who are democratically elected to represent the people in this country, we will always have that problem.
I'm looking beyond our current situation and will sum up my position by saying that: Republican strategies are far beyond those of the Democratic Party; Democrats should concentrate on the future and not get tied-down with playing catch-up in correcting the past; the American people need to take responsibility for THEIR government (if the elites are taking over, it's because we let them by not electing representatives who will represent them honestly and fairly).
Palast article from today about the Mexican elections Link
Churchill's quote has no followup: He is saying the average voter shouldn't elect our leaders. But then, who should??? He leaves us hanging, or we can imply that he thinks "those that know better" should rule without a vote. But...that leads to corruption. It's a good "theory"...like the PNAC's "good theory" of invading Iraq...
... california drfeaming said on 7/3/2006 @ 8:29 am PT...
Get ready for a Karl Rove attack ... similar to Dan Rather's false docs .. rawstory and Karl's legal problems.
1) Karl and friends will "leak" a whopper of an election fraud story
2) The people who are trying to report the voting fraud issues will latch on.
3) Credibility will be lost when Karl and friends show that the "leak" is a lie
Karl has been doing this for years.
We need to be careful.
Robert Lockwood Mills: I get it- the companies go out of business - yea! What happens next? What form of voting device will be developed to replace the EVM? Don't you think the powers that be are already working on that while we're occupied with the Diebold mess? They already proved it in Florida by making recounts of paper ballots invalid and that was a couple of years ago after the 2000 election. By now they are way beyond the EVM fiasco. They think outside the box in ways you can't imagine and they have the funding. Plans for the 2000 election were probably in the works the day Clinton took office.
This is a new day and we need to think ahead.
... Miss P. said on 7/3/2006 @ 8:48 am PT...
Go RFKJ et. al.!
Speaking of misrepresenting the accuracy and especially reliability of the vote machines, the following must have come up in the testing phase of building these monsters...
Many (all?) voting machine vote surfaces are at a downward slope like an old desk. If the candidates' buttons are one atop the other: When your finger hits the button, make sure the finger comes in at a 90 degree angle to the plane that is the voting surface.
If the alternative candidate is above your selection, err on the side of decreasing the angle (as measured from a point at the high end of the surface). If the alternative candidate is below your choice, err on the side of increasing that angle at impact.
I've always had the feeling that the physical sensors have a bit of gray-area around them. When my vote flipped, the Bush button was above the Kerry button and the angle at which my finger hit the Kerry button was well greater than 90 degrees. My impression was that I "pushed" the vote upward toward Bush when my finger slid somewhat upward upon impact - which was much greater than 90 degress. I don't know what happens under those electronic panels but it may be an areas to research. Perhaps place opposing candidate buttons side by side with plenty of room in between.
This is another manner in which a vote can be flipped without any one person on the ground having to be "in" on the deal. The outcome depends on who is on the top, most of us would push the button at a greater angle than 90 degrees.
... GWN said on 7/3/2006 @ 9:13 am PT...
#25 DIXIECRAT and #27 Winter Patriot
I recall words by Scott Ritter back in 2005. They are depressing but, unfortunately, probably the truth. (I couldn't find the original article on Rawstory)
Scott Ritter: Neocons as Parasites
By Larisa Alexandrovna-Rawstory
http://www.truthout.org/...n/exec/view.cgi/38/10057
Larisa: We talked about this current social crisis as a closed loop during the second installment. Have you ever seen a loop like this throughout the history of the US? What does this mean?
Ritter: The American experiment is much too complex to be destroyed by the neocons. In the end, the neocons will lose. It may take ten to twelve more years, and the costs will be horrific, but America will survive. There will be one hell of a mess to clean up, though, after the fall of the neocons.
Larisa: Where do you see America, should things continue as is, five years from now?
Ritter: At war, bankrupt morally and fiscally, and in great pain ... and only half-way through the nightmare. Ten to twelve years is what we will have to get through, but we will get through it.
Dixiecrat #38
You stated:
if the elites are taking over, it's because we let them by not electing representatives who will represent them honestly and fairly
(bold added). Your post seems to show that you, like many, are conflicted. It can't be both ways.
You do not know whether to believe the 00 and 04 elections were NO CONFIDENCE elections ("stolen by courts and shenanigans"), or whether it is our fault for not electing Gore or Kerry. If "we let them" by the way we voted, then the republicans did not steal it.
A NO CONFIDENCE election is no election at all. It is a faith based mandate that we accept what the election war lords say on faith.
Traditionally we demand seperation of church and state. In church we practice faith, but the state must practice open, honest, verifiable, and no faith elections.
We must know and know that we know that elections are conducted with the veracity of ATM machines ... at a minimum.
Beyond that we must have election officials that are above reproach, meaning above even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Until that happens criticizing someone who "lost" on political grounds ("you did this ... you didn't do that") is contradictory.
If the election results are in doubt, then a doubtless argument is misplaced.
So which is it? The RFK, Jr. lawsuit will attempt to make that more clear, and then we can criticize without being conflicted.
If the elections are no longer in doubt, then and only then can political criticism of the "you forgot this", "you said the wrong thing here", "you were too far right", "you were too far left", and those types of argument will be well placed.
But if it ends up that the elections were stolen, that type of criticism will prove to be nothing more than unfair abuse.
As one who spent 28 years with Wall Street firms, Dixiecrat, I can tell you that if a Fortune-500 company like Diebold goes out of business, or even if it encounters big legal problems, it's big news...in the papers, in financial magazines like Money, Business Week and Forbes, on TV and in corporate boardrooms everywhere. The same Republicans who voted for Bush and sneered at claims of election fraud (or paid no attention to them) will sit up and take notice if Diebold's stock goes to 20 because of ongoing publicity about RFK, Jr.'s lawsuit. Trust me on that.
What caused Wall Street and the S.E.C. to look twice at stock options? Was it a collective sense of guilt that they were being abused? No, it was the bursting of the dot-com bubble; people lost money, and got mad.
If Wall Street gets mad about election machines (and it will if Diebold's stock tanks), I predict the same thing will happen. O'Dell's forced resignation will have been the first sign of things to come.
Will Karl Rove stop trying to rig elections? No, but if angry people on both sides of the political aisle team up to fight it, things will change. Recently, corporate contributions to Democrats surpassed those to Republicans. I'm just more optimistic than you are about the impact of future money inflows; they're the fuel that keeps a corrupt engine going, and Karl Rove can't do it without corporate support.
... Peg C said on 7/3/2006 @ 9:43 am PT...
Great discussion here! For Dixiecrat: hope is NOT an abstract concept...it is the essence of life itself.
... molly said on 7/3/2006 @ 9:49 am PT...
Check out truthout.org's interview with Chavez by Greg Palast. It relates to this discussion because it shows that big oil runs this country. It also shows that good govt. helps it's people. I summed it up briefly on FDL and they wouldn't print it. So, I'll add that so called progressive website to the likes of Kos, which is not progressive at all. Just ranting. If we want good govt. we have to see what it is. Young people have no idea. Chavez is using oil revenues for infrastructure, health care, education and loans to farmers. While our govt. is doing the exact opposite. They've been doing away with family farms since Carter's administration. It isn't a party issue.
One Gregory F. Withrow said:
I really enoyed the headline for this article. The word DIEB in German translates literally as THIEF.
What do you think about that?
I can't do a normal link, cause the software rejects it, so:
https://bradblog.com/?p=3022#comment-84873
I replied to him:
Well, does that mean that DIEBold means an "old thief"?
I don't know German so I do not know if he was correct or not.
... Bluebear2 said on 7/3/2006 @ 11:07 am PT...
Miss P #43
The same thing happens to me with ATM machines. Being rather tall I am looking down at the screen and when I touch a button I often hit the one above it. I find it necessary to croutch down to view the screen straight on to hit the proper button. This is because the screen with the display is a distance behind the touch screen.
A seemingly un-noticed event in the Bilbray/Busby fiasco: Election Certified Thursday Night before 4 day holiday - leaves only 1 day to respond.
... Winter Patriot said on 7/3/2006 @ 11:54 am PT...
BB2 #51: The article you linked here quotes a certain Brad Friedman ... I can't place the name but it does seem vaguely familiar somehow
... Joan said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:01 pm PT...
Thank you for posting the link to that VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE, Bluebear!
Honestly, it makes me weep to read it. I continue to hope that Brad & all those working so hard to bring out the truth will prevail, but Jesus God, the power of the forces against that are truly monolithic.
What a sad & shameful time this is for America.
God bless you, Brad! God bless all of them working against this evil bunch of criminals!!
... Charlene said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:15 pm PT...
Somebody said what would you do if you were the head of Diebold.
I'd call my Bush contact & tell them to start working up a 'special' judge for the trial, so I could get a dismissal.
Or at least, force them to hold the entire trial under silence with no mention of who is suing who, like the Bush Adm. has been doing with certain federal trials for many months (against U.S. law of course)--because it's..it's..it's a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE--yea, that's the ticket..
#24 Jeremy Trudell
Now, THAT'S a smart idea! Good for you.
There's lots of computer professionals here at BradBlog to help you.
... Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:29 pm PT...
Well, Charlene, I think RFK, Jr.'s name recognition is what separates this lawsuit from others that have attracted little attention in the press (they haven't been heard yet, of course). If the White House, at Diebold's request, ever intervened to get the new case thrown out by a judge chosen for that purpose, it would be like a billboard advertisement of Diebold's guilt.
Pray God that it happens! Nothing would unite the Democrats more perfectly than White House tampering with a court case that threatened to call its own legitimacy into question. Wow!
... Floridiot said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:33 pm PT...
Hey BB2, That's one thing Dixiecrats got right, they're lightyears ahead of us in how they scam elections
Could it be IRI solutions or a similar organization that's coaching them in Ca ?
We know they've used choicepoint down in the Mexican elections, Ca is probably next
Floridiot - (C) # 39
Nice link,.. Palast,.. Mexico Election funny business.
Your the "chair" of the Bradblog -
IRI Research Fellowship Department,.. correct?
Did you notice the Palast reference to the
INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE - IRI,.. and the other shadow group Choicepoint ?
Specific references from the Palast article below,..
then link to the specific post where these references can be found.
IRI - intercedes in VENEZUELA - Palast
In Venezuela, leading up to the August 2004 vote on whether to re-call President Chavez, I saw his opposition pouring over the voter rolls in laptops, claiming the right to challenge voters as Jeb’s crew did to voters in Florida. It turns out this operation was partly funded by the International Republican Institute of Washington, an arm of the GOP. Where did they get the voter info from?
IRI - intercedes in MEXICO - Palast
Whether the US “War on Terror” lists will find a use in Sunday’s election, we cannot know. But the use of American government resources to interfere in south-of-the-border campaigns is an open secret. The GOP’s International Republican Institute has run training sessions for the (Mexico's) PAN youth wing, funded by US taxpayers through the “National Endowment for Democracy.”
IRI/CHOICEPOINT intercedes in Venezuela/Mexico
Foreign — that is, American — interference in political campaigns is a crime. That didn’t stop Team Bush. However, when the theft of its citizen files was discovered, Argentina threatened to arrest ChoicePoint contractors until the company returned the tapes — and Mexico’s attorney general did in fact arrest the ChoicePoint data thieves to avoid his party from looking too much the stooge of its Washington patron. Whether George Bush gave back his copy, no one will say.
Link to Palast post for IRI/Choicepoint info
Floridiot - THX for sharing that link.
These guys hold the blueprints for the War on Democracy - via tampering and fraudulent
election practices.
... DIXIECRAT said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:46 pm PT...
First of all...Peg, HOPE IS an abstract concept. WATER is the essence of life.
2. Robert Lockwood Mills...One or two companies going out of business is a blip. Not even Enron Mattered that much. How many people do you think own stock in Diebold?
3. Has anyone heard of HUMAN ENGINEERING? When devices are designed for humans to use, extensive research goes into all aspects of it's use and psychological effect right down to the color of it to make it visually pleasing. The EVM's WERE tested many times to perform just as they were intended to perform - to guarantee a specific result!
4. DREDD...I am not conflicted. I ahve no idea what you were writing about-please stay on topic.
Lets just look at this whole thing as our car breaks down, lets say in some shady neighborhood
Somebody previously, when we were in the store, loosened the distributor cap (the evms), while we are under the hood looking at that problem, someone else is stealing the back tires off our ride (the IRI), only we don't notice it because their is a guy up under the hood, distracting us (the MSM)
... Floridiot said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:00 pm PT...
oldturk said on 7/3/2006 @ 12:43 pm PT...
Heh No, I'm just going insane about this group as we are LITERALLY letting them get away with murder
Kinda reminds me of that Twilight Zone with Shattner and the gremlin beating on the engine of the airplane he was on
Thx for all those links (keep on drilling and maybe we will get it some day)
... DIXIECRAT said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:01 pm PT...
Floridiot gets it! Thanks for "breaking it down" for us to understand.
By the way,Robert Lockwood Mills, only the very palatable tip of the iceberg gets reported in newspapers.
... Charlene said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:15 pm PT...
I hope you ARE right, Robert, for Democracy's sake.
We'll see what happens...
... Agent99 said on 7/3/2006 @ 1:42 pm PT...
Well, obviously Jann Wenner is on our side, and I can't help but think he's got some kind of major connections in the publishing world. He also has some kind of major connections in the rock star/movie star axis. If this isn't getting enough traction, he, and all the rest of us might be able to raise SUCH a noise that there will be no ignoring it, and no sweeping it under the rug. Plus, guess who is Al Gore's internet tv partner.... It is possible to overcome the media befogglement of this issue if every famous person on the planet starts bellowing loudly enough. It's getting to the point where I don't think many of them are going to be too afraid for their reputations anymore. Dixie Chicks are selling like hotcakes, etc.
I don't know if anyone noticed or not, but that IRI solutions was incorporated in 1979, a year before Reagan was installed
... Donnacciola said on 7/3/2006 @ 2:20 pm PT...
Get the call for impeachment placed on the ballot.
http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/ballot.html
Berkeley, CA was successful. Pass it along to all your friends. We need action!!!
While you're at it, research Tom Feeney and the Florida elections of the 1990's/earlier 2000's. He is linked to the original commission of Yang(person or Industries) (perhaps part of NASA) to come up with a ghost program for EVM's and if it was possible to fix an election. His reason - just to find out how it was done so they could recognize it just in case the Democrats decide to do it first. My memory is foggy on this, but the issue was never pursued by media or government- I think Yang or the whistleblower who helped develop this ghost program "committed suicide". If anyone knows the details/history, please help me in explaining this connection - maybe Floridiot remember this hitting the news about 3-4 years ago?
Impeach Bush? For President Cheney?
Impeach the whole lot of them!
ITMFA!
... DIXIECRAT said on 7/3/2006 @ 2:23 pm PT...Brads got all that here on his site Link
Impeach * AND Cheney, and by the time it's a done deal, we oughta be looking at President Pelosi. Don't anyone DARE suggest that could be worse for a living soul than President Hastert. Just DO NOT go there.
re #66 Dixiecrat you're in the right place! LOL!!
CLICK HERE!!
Floridiot:
You are faster on the draw than I am!
That's the story! Thanks Floridiot. Doesn't this pretty much prove they had the technology?
You beat me to the punch re #66! I couldn't believe anyone on THIS blog, of all places, would have to ask "...If anyone knows the details/history..."!
Oh, I see Floridiot did, too.
Sorry, Dixiecrat...I don't mean to sound like an insufferable snot! Someone who's new here obviously might not know all the water that's gone under the bridge.
Re #67
One hopes that if articles of impeachment are ever REALLY allowed to see the light of day & the process goes forward as it should, they will bring enough handcuffs for the lot of them.
... Bluebear2 said on 7/3/2006 @ 2:44 pm PT...
I thought that name might ring a huge bell!
Floridiot #56
Yup another Friday sneak it through the news cycle ploy.
Gee where does that sound familliar? McPherson?
ITMFA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think so Dixiecrat
Those stories make Feeney look like a fumblef#*k, (which he is), but I think it's another distraction now as they are way further into election rigging than those stories
(we've grown a lot since then)
# 74 Joan, Dixie is very busy and just happened to stumble on this site for the first time today cuz it's a holiday and I'm treating myself to some good old fashioned intellectual talk which is almost nonexistent in Florida - Floridiot may be able to back that up. Thanks for being patient, everyone!
Apologies for going ot, but things are getting ugly:
"Unclaimed Territory" - by Glenn Greenwald
Greenwald quotes from a recent piece by David Horowitz:
"...Make no mistake about it, there is a war going on in this country. The aggressors in this war are Democrats, liberals and leftists who began a scorched earth campaign against President Bush before the initiation of hostilities in Iraq.
The initiators of this war were Al Gore and Jimmy Carter who attacked the president's attempt to rally the world against Saddam's defiance of international law..."
It gets worse...
link to Greenwald article
Dixiecrat,
I know what you mean...I'm in Florida, too.
BB2, every time I see ITMFA, the "I" in my mind stands for intubate (with cyanide) the MFers already, for the conservatives out there it would be way more cost effective
... Miss P. said on 7/3/2006 @ 3:37 pm PT...
Dixiecrat, human engineering - actually called "human factors" research. Military wouldn't survive without it. I'd like to see the Diebold, Sequoia, and ES&S User's Guides. Not joking. There should be one for each given upon purchase. And guarantee and return policies? Even more, I'd love to see the raw results and the reliablitiy scores. Guaranteed it's not 1.00. Oh yeah, SHOW ME THE DATA. What, no data? Either way...
Wow, Floridiot! I have a friend who would love any movie you directed. He's an immovable peacenik, but boy does he love that stuff in movies.
I'm looking around today, and it seems just about everyone is faster on the draw than I am. Thank goodness. I'm having one of those walking and chewing gum days, I guess.
Dixiecrat: Thanks for joining us.
... oldturk said on 7/3/2006 @ 3:38 pm PT...
DIXICRAT - Welcome aboard !
We can use your intellectual input to help solve this riddle. Visit,.. come back often,.. tell people/friends Bradblog is here.
Be aware,.. lots of new traffic will wander in attempting to negotiate the terrain. It behooves us to graciously acclimate and welcome them to the premises,.. showing them around. Good karma is building at this site,.. working in unison will permit us to slay this monster of fascism. Any contribution to that cause will bring expediency to attaining that goal.
Lost my E
DIXIECRAT
PS - Tell Jeb and Katherine Harris,.. we send our best.
NOT !
... Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/3/2006 @ 3:46 pm PT...
Enron did make a difference. A huge difference, in fact. Look at the publicity the trial and verdict attracted. Lay and Skilling are symbols of everything that's wrong with Corporate America in the 21st century.
Now, imagine a company like Diebold in the same legal bind. It's a bigger story, because while Enron's problems had significance for its own employees and California's energy crisis, Diebold's fraud extends to every state. And unless they've got an answer for the charges RFK, Jr.'s firm will be bringing, I think they're in an even worse position than Enron was at the same stage of proceedings.
Yeah, we are living that movie right now
"The Fascist takeover of America and the world" I think I'll call it
May I also extend a welcome. Pull up a chair, browse around and I think you'll find much to your liking.
Old Turk #83
Isn't it great to see new faces around here? Even if we don't actualy see their faces!
That title is too wordy - it needs to ring.
How about "1984"? Oh dang - that's already taken!
No! The first movie will be called Fascist Poisoning and it will be plenty suspense-filled because we won't know if the fascists end up poisoning the world to death, or the world poisons the fascists to death.
We can trot-out both endings for test audiences... see which one they like the best.
* will wish he had paid attention to public opinion THEN!!!
... Arry said on 7/3/2006 @ 4:52 pm PT...
# 19 Floridiot - I think it's already starting - or, I should say, they are testing the water. I don't have hard evidence but some strong feelings based on strange "boycott the vote" activity that came out of nowhere a few weeks ago in my area.
Hi Arry, find the man in charge of it, maybe a couple of layers away from him and we will find our culprits
"Expose the Beast, and you will kill it"
... Dredd said on 7/3/2006 @ 5:03 pm PT...
Welcome to the BLOG ... resistance is futile!
Ok, since you say you are not conflicted, which was it:
1) the election in 00 and 04 were stolen
2) then dems Gore and Kerry did not campaign properly and that is why they lost the elections
Dredd, he came on pretty strong... isn't that called spoofing?
Wait! Let me get my tinfoil hat on....
(Just kidding...I even think that the NYT tells the truth on occasion just so they can still be credible as a real newspaper & people can't say they're NOTHING but a political ad.)
So we gots ta scream, "VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! MAKE 'EM HAVE TO STEAL THEM ALL!" I know they're well-defended against "Hollywood Types", but if Brangelina put their adoption gig on hold long enough to do some public service announcements, or at least wear the t-shirts, it would have a huge impact! Expose the vampires to daylight, and expose the deeds through all the national obsessions plastered across the covers of every checkout stand line in America. Get an illiterate to write a book about it so Oprah will turn her minions on to the problem. Let's think outside the box, and turn their tactics against them... election fraud aikido!
... big dan said on 7/3/2006 @ 5:28 pm PT...
FloridaIdiot: Don't forget, these crooks are always thinking a step ahead. If e-vote machines are going down, any ideas on what they've moved onto next??? It is what they do 24hrs/day. It is ALL they do, they're onto the next thing. Which may be more challenges & longer lines at Dem precincts & photo id & voter registration purges. If e-vote machines are going down, everything else is going up!
Dredd and Floridiot
Mightn't you just be reacting to the screen name more than what he says?
I know everyone's paranoid from all the NSA spying, etc., and the endless intrusions by trolls, but, heck, if we get our hackles up just behind a screen name, aren't we ruining our own lives? He could simply mean he is a Democrat in Dixie... people have different associations with that term, and his might not be the same as yours.
#96 Dan, we can tell by whats going on around us, be a Native American, put your ear to the tracks (use your intuition), you will know, be skeptical
#97 99, Only time will tell
Or. He could be a Dixiecrat who doesn't hold with this election fraud shit, no matter WHO is doing it. Isn't that okay by you?
COMMENT #100 [Permalink]
RLM #85
Yes, Dixiecrat seems to be one of those nothing matters folks who are afraid to believe in anything or anyone anymore because to do so means some emotional hurt down the road. They have a good case, but I resist them from time to time.
I try to take things on a case by case basis, and in this case I agree that Enron was and is a big deal.
The movers and shakers in that company had temp offices and beds in the white house. They damaged California severly, and cost then gov Davis his office. They did big hurt but still don't get it.
And the hurt that Enron did really showed that Nader has a valid point, even tho he can't get it across to the American body politic (unless he was the winner in 00 and 04 but it was stolen from him ).
And so I agree that the RFK Jr., Brad, VR, and BBV's EVM efforts are worthy of hope as well.
People can be so psy oped these daze. I have been reading Hamdan v Rumsfeld and noticed something we have not discussed in detail.
The Supreme Court mentioned 9/11 and then stated "Congress responded by adopting a Joint Resolution authorizing the President" to:
“use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks . . . in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”
(Hamdan, citing 115 Stat. 224, bold added).
Notice that the word "military" does not appear in the law, yet it is called the "Authorization to Use Military Force" by the MSM et. al. ... and it has a direct nexus or link back to the attacks on 9/11.
So where is the argument that Iraq "planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks" and that doing what is being done in Iraq will "prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons"?
Yet the debate rages on about a fictitious subject matter (hitting Iraq for doing 9/11 to us and stopping them from doing it again), much like "what the dems did wrong" to loose the 00 and 04 election ... when actually it was stolen from them. Never mind that it would not matter what they had said or done if it was stolen.
Just like Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and therefore we can never do enough, or do anything, to Iraq to insure that they not do a 9/11 to us again.
Not even democracy will prevent Iraq from doing it again, because, they had nothing to do with it in the first instance.
And there is nothing more a party can do to win an election once they have won it, and that win is stolen.
RFK must do what Murtha has done, which is to ask people "what are you talking about"?
#99 99, Sure
While we're in here, freaking, this is out of the box:
http://news.nationaljour...com/articles/0703nj1.htm
* tells Vice-Fuhrer Darth Fudd to dis Joe Wilson to bits.
Agent99 #97
Your reference to "he" tells me you know more about "him" than I know ... could be a "she" as far as I know.
Further, I have no clue what you are talking about unless and until you furnish a post number.
I can't remember "reacting" to a name or a gender ... so you will have to update me on that.
Then I will construct an appropriate response.
Dredd, I was talking about comment #92 and a certain tone prior to that. I'm assuming Dixiecrat is a "he", both because it sounds like a he, and because we used to dispense with all the PC wording malarkey by referring to humans unknown, or as a whole, as "he", "him".... It was easier, and not sexist.
Really. Don't bother responding to me if you're just going to be venting your irk. I can tell you're irked. I was hoping you'd relax with us a little. Wouldn't make you lose your edge.
OT? Maybe not!
If we ITMFA then maybe we can stop stuff like this from happening.
Many thanks to Chris Floyd ... as always!
Agent99 #104
Well if you say so, I guess Dixiecrat is a "he" and I am "irked".
My post #92 simply asks Dixiecrat to take a position. Either the elections were stolen or they were not.
I has become fashionable to diss the dems in the same breath as saying they lost the election ... whether I am irked or not or whether Dixiecrat is a "he" or not.
"No reason to get excited
the DIEB he kindly spoke
there are many here among us
who think words are but a joke
but you and I we been thru that
and this is not our fate
so let us not talk falsely now
the hour is getting late"
Agent86 #??
Taste a little power and you will demand more, no matter what your press secretary is wont to say.
So, does this mean that you think Floridiot and I have violated the sacred realm by point out this link or this link? At least until I post another #100 ... like in the Lemme thread many posts ago?
Whoa, Winter Patriot, my skin is crawling with how TRUE that depiction in our link at #105 is. Attitude! That all-American attitude.
Can't we just say to the administration, and to the troops, "Out Now!"? I want the kids home, and their bosses at The Hague. Period.
Dredd #106
Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, my husband who half lives with me, isn't here.
You sometimes make sublime sense, and other times, well, not so much. I can't figure out what you're driving at here, but I can feel a foul mood, or something really negative, and not in a good way, waffling off some of your posts, lacing through others, and absent in still others.
I brought it up, just in case you give a damn about making people on your side uncomfortable needlessly. (Yep, sometimes there's a need, but I don't see it here.) I like how you try to bring us to the crux of the stolen elections problem. It does mean we can't blame the Democratic candidates, or, really the party. Dirt simple as that seems, it clearly isn't apparent to many.
I don't think you and Floridiot have violated squat, except maybe some people's sensitivities. Oh, I don't know what you're saying up there. You're giving me a headache. Whose press secretary? Wha?
RFK is sitting in a saddle that is worn with time. Dixiecrat thinks it is too worn to be of use anymore.
It was worn when Dugger said this and when Saltman said this.
It is ok to we worn or even warned, but how do we tell when we are worn out (link here)?
Attacking the messenger? Attacking 6 of 7? If you can't keep up keep down!
... JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 7/3/2006 @ 8:21 pm PT...
Your last sentence, in #109, I can't keep up with your line of reasoning here, and I don't think it's up to us poor mind readers to keep down. Or, did you mean that if you can't keep up with the answers to questions posed, or clarify when someone says they can't understand you, that you should ignore them?
Your grasp of Borg lore and the nuances of saddlery are dazzling.
And, burning oil... barons...
Well Agent99, my friggin batteries are down, and I must recharge ...
live long and prosper ...
burn the midnite oil barons ...
take very good care of 86 ...
and keep on truckin in the free world ...
and if 86 turns on you and takes you to prison ... like my 86 did ...
forgive ...
now I lay me down to sleep ... to rise and wear the saddle again with the sun ... rise ...
Happy 4th to all ... independence ... it is not just for Americans any more ...
Sleep tight, Dredd.
... Arry said on 7/3/2006 @ 10:24 pm PT...
Floridiot and Agent99 --- Yes, vote vote vote. Even if the elections are 100% crooked any "boycott the vote" will throw a monkey wrench into precise analysis (evisceration?) of election fraud (or make the analysis more difficult.) How convenient.
BTW, on a related subject,...a case in point. In a local Green group, a very enthusiastic character has joined who advocates boycotting the election. That is his big issue. Now, this guy started posting on the list --- cartoonishly laughable radical stuff --- "raised fists of the people", "capitalist swine", that kind of thing. (He didn't do his homework on Greens.) I pegged him as a plant right away. (His subsequent behavior confirms my suspicion.) I think the Dems planted a "boycott the elections" guy. And no tin-foil hats. It happens.
You know I think of the Greens as an enzyme in the body politic (as a practical matter at this time) and want the Republicans and their minions out. (Not all Greens are alike.) Just thought I'd muck up the water a bit.
... Agent99 said on 7/3/2006 @ 10:40 pm PT...
Arry!
You think the Dems want to boycott the election? WHAT!?!
It sound as if the guy is a plant, wherever he came from, and I think you should confide his stats to one of the people who are trying to investigate this stuff. The only ones who win from a boycott are the incumbents.
Every Green I know is a Democrat until these fiends are tossed. THEN they go back to their thing... which is everyone's thing.
Agent99 --- Well, I was thinking some (possibly ignorant) Dems want Greens to boycott the election. Greens do have a slate of candidates in California. I have discovered that the person mentioned has very deep roots in the Democratic Party (never mentioned by said person).
Heck, I'm campaigning for Debra Bowen and some other Dem candidates and am not entirely happy with some of the Green candidates. I'm probably not totally untypical. Some Dems (like some anybody, I guess) don't think things through.
BTW, I should mention for the record that the Green candidate for Secretary of State, Forrest Hill, is a perfectly good person very interested in election reform. But it simply doesn't make sense to vote for him over Debra Bowen.
Wow, Arry, that's appalling. I really think that ANYBODY, of any political affiliation, would do ANYTHING they could to be sure the Democratic Party, at least, got back Congress, and, well, the Presidency too. That's the only feasible way, short of armed insurrection, to turn back the tide of fascism, turn us back toward the real America.
I'm not saying they are the whole answer, but they have to be in place to keep the place our place to improve. There just isn't any other viable alternative. I'd think the damn skinheads would even agree with this. I actually think almost everyone DOES agree with this, in some form. The big question is if the cheating fiends at the helm will let that play out without a monster conflagration.
Heh, "Forrest Hill" is the Green Party candidate. That is so cute. I'd like to marry somebody with that name. 99 Hill.
Having lived (worked?) in Auburn, you've probably been up to Foresthill. That's what I always think of when I hear his name.
I probably shouldn't have mentioned the bit about the plant. It kinda takes the focus off the very interesting suit that Kennedy and Popantonio will be filing and our basic solidarity here. Just thought it was an interesting bit to throw into the mix as it is a real case that has come to my attention recently.
Thank goodness his name isn't Forrest Lawn, or Forrest Parks, or Forrest Green! He just squeaks past with "Hill". I mean, he would have to --- it's probably in the bylaws somewhere --- pick a different party if his name was Forrest Green, don't you think? I better go to bed now.
This is a GREAT thread!
123 comments and no trolls, just interesting points!
Dixiecrat and Charlene obviously have every reason to be skeptical of anything happening with this lawsuit. We all know the media is going to do everything they can to deflect it, but RLM's stock market angle is eye-opening to say the least! Possible implosion of Diebold without any court win, WOW!
This could be the perfect storm we've been waiting for!
It has a financial angle for the followers of business, which is boring for most of the American public, but it also has an extremely theatric angle!
Already famous protagonists - Robert Kennedy Jr., Rush Holt ect...
Already famous antagonists - Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay ect...
Ingenious investigative Detectives - Greg palast, Beverly Harris, Brad Freidman John Gideon ect...
Unsuspecting victims - The American public.
Let's hope for a happy ending when these modern day confederates are "Gone With The Wind!"
For Larry Bergan: Everyone should read RFK, Jr.'s comments a second time, carefully.
He described his lawsuit as (my paraphrasing) a unique way of addressing the problem of election fraud and said he'd be hitting the voting machine companies in the only place it hurts, the pocketbook. He knows exactly what he's doing. He understands how Corporate America and Wall Street work in the 21st century.
We sometimes lump Corporate America and the Bush administration together. Not without reason...Bush wouldn't have gotten anywhere without his business connections, and he was the overwhelming choice of most people on Wall Street. Not because anyone down there really believed he was the best qualified man to be president; they just like presidents who believe in laissez-faire economics. "Leave us alone to do our thing" is Wall Street's mantra.
The most similar administrations in history to Bush's are Grant's (1869-1877) and Harding's (1921-1923), both of which were dominated by scandals. Harding's eventual downfall was Teapot Dome, and Bush's should eventually be Iraq/Halliburton. Both involved shady government involvement with energy companies.
But in each case, there was no great public outcry at the time. Even the New York Times called the Senators investigating Teapot Dome "assassins of character." There has been no great sturm und drang over Halliburton...yet. Point being, during a Gilded Age scandals don't get the attention they deserve, essentially because people are making money and want to let the good times roll. Oil stocks went up even after Teapot Dome, and Halliburton went sky-high even after people learned about its links to Iraq.
The Diebold case is entirely different. They're trying to sell election machinery to local governments. That machinery enables election fraud. RFK, Jr.'s lawsuit, if it's allowed to go forward, will create enormous negative publicity for Diebold. Unlike the 1870s and 1920s, most Fortune-500 companies are owned by large institutions (pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies, banks, etc.). People running these funds might have preferred Bush over Gore and Kerry, but they care more about making money in stocks and thus keeping their jobs. If Diebold's stock starts to implode, look for them to dump it in large blocks. This will drive it down further.
The weakness in Diebold's stock will be news in and of itself. Taken together with coverage of the trial, the 2004 election will smell like yesterday's mackerel to millions of people who still don't get it. Diebold's board of directors knows this (believe me, that's why O'Dell is gone), and I promise you they're sweating bullets from the no-win position RFK, Jr. has put them in.
Great commentary, Mr. Mills. I believe you are correct. RFK is really smart. He's a great guy, wish he would run for president. He has the optimistic ideals of his father. Whenever you watch him speak, he makes you feel good.
Can someone post exactly what is a "challenge" at the election polls? I read there were 3 million challenges by Republicans in the last election.
Hey Dan 127#, you have another one
Load up the complaint department with bogus challenges, so that the legitimate challenges get shoved to the back burner
Make us a list, I've noticed you've got at least a dozen ways they screw with the process already
Dan, they probably have a hundred ways to screw with the process, they just mix and match them to suit their needs
and not to get caught using the same ones over and over to produce any pattern
But we are catching on
RLM, Bush's claim to fame should be, his brother, through Choicepoint stealing the 2000 election in Florida
and Blackwell through IRI tactics stealing the 2004 election in Ohio
Oh, and in 2002, stealing a few of seats of congress with EVMS in Georgia and Texas
1. Y'all are the GREATEST - each and every one of you! I love this place and the warm welcome!
2. BIG DAN IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK REGARDING COMMENT #96 [Permalink]
... big dan said on 7/3/2006 @ 5:28 pm PT...
3. Hey Old Turk...Katherine loved your greeting and she said that at this point in her campaign, she appreciates every little acknowlegement she can get.
4. Robert...ENRON didn't really resonate in Kansas.
5 Dredd...Kindly, I think you misunderstood what I wrote and I'm not understanding your perspective on this - no need to explain, though. You're a psychologist? Why are you spending so much time analyzing me? You couldn't be more off base so refrain from interpreting my comments for the others and inferencing my character. Of course the 2000 and the 2004 elections were stolen. The plan was in the works from the early 90's. They didn't expect to get caught in 2000, but they did consider it (and had a plan B,C,etc.) and when it happend, we were treated to a very good show courtesy of the Supreme Court.
6. DIXIE=Southern, CRAT=short for Democrat.
... Arry said on 7/4/2006 @ 7:35 am PT...
Agent99 --- At least it's not Forrest Gump.
Maybe that "plant" was a Republican posing as a Democrat posing as a Green. Maybe I'm not giving him enough credit!
BTW, what's funny about the "capitalist swine" remark is that the first time I heard it came from the mouth of someone you know well - Maxwell Smart. He had been captured by Maoists (or something), tortured, brainwashed; but he escaped and said the ordeal didn't effect him at all, not a bit, nada. (I'm sure you can picture him saying it.) So, the guy talking to him says cynically, "What if I were to say I don't believe you?" Maxwell shoots back, "Then I'd call you a filthy capitalist swine!"
Happy 4th.
Never forget this article from RAW Dan, it is the rosetta stone,
with the IRI and The Leadership Institute as the foundation to subverting Democracy here and abroad
And as Bill Clinton mentioned before in a previous post speech, he knows all about this
"Expose the Beast, and you kill it"
For Dixiecrat: It's interesting you should choose that name. As I'm sure you know, Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the Dixiecrat ticket (though its official name was The States' Rights Party). That was long before Thurmond gave up the pretense of being a Democrat (in any 20th century sense of the word) and joined the Republicans in their extreme right wing.
Just out of curiosity...are you a Thurmondesque Dixiecrat, or a moderate/liberal Democrat who happens to live in Dixie and wants to reform the image of Southern Democrats?
I found that old post, Larry Bergan put it up
Quote from Bill Clinton, "what was clear is that the Secretary of State, now their candidate for governor, was a world class expert in voter suppression and that he was doing everything he could to keep voters that he thought were Democrats from voting, in every way that he could."
And do not forget, Blackwell was an executive on the board of the IRI
RLM is making some good points. A lot of people know something about the Harding scandals, but fewer probably realize that the major legal actions occurred years later.
I completely agree that the current administration is very similar in kind to the Grant and Harding administrations in terms of corruption. But I think no one has ever, with so little substance, taken on such imperial, unconstitutional "authority" --- really limitless. It sets the Busheviks dangerously apart from other corrupt regimes, as do the facts of 9/11 - there is no denying it.
I agree that the suit has the potential of being very effective mainly because of the way politics, money, and power are related in this day and age.
Dixie=below the Mason-Dixon Line. Crat=Democrat. Nothing more nothing less. I'm redefing the term by living by example. It means tolerance, freedom and support for the American ideals on which this country was founded. There is a tendancy, on this blog to think in terms of labels, inside the box and in black and white. When one is able to take on the perspective of one's enemies instead of one's own, true understanding can be achieved and therefore victory can be had.
... Laura said on 7/4/2006 @ 9:13 am PT...
#137 Dixiecrat said, When one is able to take on the perspective of one's enemies instead of one's own, true understanding can be achieved and therefore victory can be had. Now that sounds like truth to me!
The only thing is its hard for me to think like a criminal! Because I'm not one. Its a pretty sad commentary on our society. In order for us to save our country we have to put ourselves into criminal mode. Thank God for Bobby and Mike I hope, wish, and pray they are successful on behalf of all Americans in this quest no matter how we get there. I just gotta say ITMFA! Hey by the way with all the polls out there its awful funny there has been none done on impeachment lately. I'm sure their scared about the results. Oh thats right they don't govern by the polls, HAH!
Happy 4th everyone! Have a great day and enjoy your loved ones!
Larry Bergan #124:
I agree, Larry. And you make a good point about the trolls.
I don't think we'll see any trolls until at least 8 eastern time (5 pacific) on Wednesday morning. After all, they are professionals and they take their long weekends seriously.
I certainly agree, Dixiecrat, that we should think as our enemies think in order to gain true understanding. The question follows, "How do we translate that understanding into the victory you say will follow?"
A perfect example of this conundrum is the so-called war on terrorism (a real war can only be fought against a proper noun, not a lower-case noun). Bush is fond of saying, "Terrorists hate us for our freedom."
That's pure bunkum. They hate us for trying to run the world according to our own designs, including a global free-enterprise system. To Bush, "freedom" and "free enterprise" are interchangeable. To our enemies in the Middle East, true freedom includes the right to opt out of economic globalization. That's really liberty, but Bush doesn't understand the difference.
Bush and the neo-cons also told us our invasion of Iraq would be welcomed as a liberation. If Bush truly believed that, he's a fool. If he didn't but invaded anyway, he's a criminal. Point being, in terms of terrorism and the invasion of Iraq, Bush has presumed to do as you suggest we do; he's placed himself in the enemy's shoes. But he's gotten it all wrong. So how do we take on the enemy's perspective, and get it right?
My take on this RLM is the reason he got it wrong was exactly for the reasons you said
Instead of putting the Neo Con, free market, every man for himself view into Iraq, and instead kept all the unions, government, trade workers and the Iraqii guard in place and let them go at the rebuilding, instead of laying off all the workers, bringing in Halliburton, cheap labor, private security contractors, and only our military to pull back and watch, instead of throwing in a quasi Fascist system,
our enemies would probaly been our friends IMO
I disagree with you, RLM on part of your comment #141. I don't think Bush has ever made a serious effort to understand what our enemies think. I think he's only interested in slinging enough bullshit to keep the few remaining real reporters scribbling until he can slip away for another jolt of bourbon. That's what I think. MHO as always of course.
The line "they hate us for our freedom" may be only a prelude to "so that's why we're taking away your freedom, so they won't hate us anymore" ...
And as for the either/or choice you posed: there's no doubt that he's a criminal and it's quite clear that he's a fool, so I claim "false dilemma" on that one.
If you think like your enemy (and all the complicated aspects of that imply, cuz this ain't easy) you can calculate their possible next moves and counter/nullify them ahead of time, be prepared when they make a move or at the very least, you won't be taken by surprise. The Dems had four years to prepare after the 2000 election to get fool-proof EVM's in place for 2004 (ask Jimmy Carter) and they were, once again, caught in the headlights.
1. Don't dwell in the past ad-nauseum. Pick yourself up, ask what lesson is to be learned and calculate some plans for the future. Going back to right the past wrongs will keep you in a position of weakness, on the defensive and constantly playing catch-up - the BURDEN of proof is on JFK Jr. not the admin. 2. Hope or wishing NEVER makes it so. 3. If you have the enemy's perspective, then think of what their next move is and counter it -surprise is always a good old stand-by strategy that works most of the time
... Robert Lockwood Mills said on 7/4/2006 @ 10:39 am PT...
I guess I worded my last post poorly. Let me try again.
How do we tell the difference between a president who pretends to view things through the enemy's prism, and one who actually does?
If Muslims hate us because we built an army base on sacred land in Saudi Arabia (they do), but Bush says they hate us for "our freedom," he's only pretending to think like a Muslim. If Iraqis want to be left alone to run their own affairs, but Bush says they crave what he calls freedom (even 2-1/2 years after Saddam Hussein's arrest), he's only pretending to think like an Iraqi.
But Bush wouldn't pretend unless he saw a reason to. Someone sold him on the idea of appearing empathetic to the Muslim world. He hasn't a clue about how to do it, but the point is valid that it needs to be done.
... Arry said on 7/4/2006 @ 10:42 am PT...
Knowing what you stand for always helps, too. Unfortunately, the Democrats are a huge mess of a party with neocons-types, liars, beltway elite, progressive grassroots types, idealists, environmentalists, corporatists...you name it. (The only view not well-represented is that of true conservatism.) It's kind of a grab bag - which is not the most effective political entity.
Much of the effort of progressives in Brad Blog and other places (not always spoken) is to bring in some focus - if it is possible. And much of the frustration is because it seems so damn hard to do it.
My #146 was meant for #144 and related posts. Robert got one in there above mine.
... Agent99 said on 7/4/2006 @ 11:26 am PT...
Arry #132 ... LOL! Yep, really good thing it ain't Gump. And, I wouldn't even put past them that your mole was a neocon in deep cover.
And, Max has imprinted our whole generation with his jargon, with his transcendent wisdom.
DIXIECRAT #144 ... Sound advice, but I wish you would use the word "we" in these posts. It will make a few touchy-on-the-subject people feel better. WE, even including Republicans, are losing so much, and WE, even including Republicans, need to beat this election fraud business, yesterday. WE have to pull together to get our country back.
Regarding the Grant/Harding comparisons: From all my reading, it seems Grant, most excellent General, was eaten alive by the ratfinks in DC. He was so innocent of all the dirty tricks, that his administration was so awful. I can forgive him for it because he was a country boy with lots of sense, tactical and practical, a great leader, a man with a huge heart, but no understanding of the depths of snaketude that would soon bite him till he was bleeding to death, so to speak.
* doesn't have one dram as much to recommend him as did Grant.
Harding, used to be the worst ever, but * (and Darth Fudd, et al.) have left him in the dust.
JFK, I'm just convinced, would have gone down as the best President in history, for real, and some of my friends argue that RFK would have raised that bar. Which is WHY they are dead.
Let's not forget that these guys don't mind whacking the opposition if everything else fails. I'll go see if I can find a link to Gore's MLK Day speech and some other pertinent stuff, because, far from inciting us to cover our asses, with this, I MEAN this means, no matter what we have to lose, we cannot let that stop us. History buffs? Take a gander at what the founders had to lose! Oh. My. God.
Well, and, Lincoln lost us a few hundred thousand men, sifting through the brass at the War Department... bunch of pencil pushing, politically astute, wastes of good uniforms. And, the Civil War was NOT about freeing the slaves; it was about "preserving the union". The slave part was just to make it sound more virtuous. (The Albanians never refer to the United States by our name; preferring to call us The Revisionists, and everybody knows what they're talking about when they use the term.)
Grant actually had a plan to fully-integrate the South, met with huge resistance, of course, and was trying to buy Cuba so the blacks would have their own state, if all else failed.
It blows my mind, the scale of the differences these men can make on the future! That was 150 years ago! No Cuban Missile Crisis... etc. So, my point is: WE HAVE TO REMEMBER TO BEAR THIS IN MIND WHEN WE VOTE. One issue voters, be they Wall Street Fatties, or Fundamentalist Nazis, can ruin the world.
For instance: I'm rabidly against gun control, scared of them as I am, but I want Gore for President pretty badly anyway.
Here's a link that seems to give you a bunch of choices for watching, hearing, reading Gore's MLK Day speech at Constitution Hall.
http://www.toddalbert.com/node/212
Good to remind ourselves of this stuff, especially on our birthday.
Yes, Grant was a true friend to the ex-slave. It is obvious from his remarks that it was not malarky.
Gore Vidal says Grant's "Memoirs" show him to be a truly great man and they are one of the best such works in history. But, as a president, I'm afraid he was naive and over his head.
It was particularly the Hayes debacle in 1876 that instituted "Jim Crow" for decades.
Anyway, my flag is flying today. They can dump oceans of propaganda on me, they can terrorize Americans with "terror", they can call the Constitution a "piece of paper", they can even throw me into a "detention center"; but I'll still be the American and they will still be those the founders warned against and took such pains to neutralize.
... JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 7/4/2006 @ 12:57 pm PT...
I'm for a two letter Culture in "08" and it's . . . . . " AL ". . .
Big Dan #127 and Floridiot #128
"...what is a "challenge" at the election polls?"
Could this refer to the "Poll Watchers" the repugs dispersed to disenfranchise voters by challenging their right to vote?
DIXIECRAT #137
People sure have been trying to disect your name. LOL
I got it the first time - no need to read all kinds of symbolism into it.
ARRY #132
You have revield yet another facet of Max's personality.
Agent 99 you should have warned me, I will be extra gentle with him when he wakes.
"revealed" sheesh!
It's Time to say in its Full Fledged Nudity, on this Day . . . . . FUCK BUSH 4-EVER ! ! !
Agent BB2
Yep. Max rocks. How else could we put up with him? The snoring, the bizarre forays into clandestine meetings with dead agents of HMSS. Do NOT mention Bond to him when he finally drags his ass out of the yurt at your camp, or he will go off on a string of epithets that would scorch Satan himself. "Consarn shape-shifting effete attention hog vainglorious gadget-dependent show-off..." It goes downhill from there.
I can SEE you up there in your robe, with your gavel, bellowing, "FUCK BUSH 4-EVER ! ! !"
P.S. Is Joan doing a Betsy Ross with her ITMFA flag today? Will she be the history book heroine of the 22nd century? Could happen!
P.P.S. Have I mentioned yet, in all my confusion, that I think Bobby Kennedy, Jr. is a HERO? I've been thinking that for a long time, and this latest is just another in a long string of heroic works.
Agent99 - Cheers ! & I will Be Bicyling to see the Fire Works in Boston . . . . . "From a Distance" . . .
#148 if you are a white registered Republican with a strong Christian faith, you are in the majority and on the winning side right now. Who among them will want to change the status quo when they are in charge and perhaps like it that way? Who among them would trade in leadership and superiority to help minorities, other religions, aliens in the US, non-english speaking and anyone different than they are? In the near future, white people of Western European descent who now are in the majority and in control of the government will become the minority. Be very afraid of this fact as WE near this day because as the white men and women of Western European descent who are in the majority and in charge of the government become the minority, they will attempt to maintian their dominance at all costs. They already know that a democracy is run by the majority and soon that will change. It will take the new majority (old minority)a few years to realize that they can take over the government simply by casting more votes for their candidates, but it will eventually happen. Keep this in mind when you question when the current and future administrations reduce your rights, diminish the power of the people and restrict the democracy.
#145 Robert...ignore what Bush says. This is not about him. Understanding the people of other countries is another matter. I don't want to discuss the Iraq invasion and what went/is going right or wrong as that would acknowledge that we had a right to invade it in the first place. Acknowledging this validates a made-up invalid invasion. As it stood, Bush probably would not have been reappointed if 9/11 and subsequent Iraq invaion did not take place. Sitting Presidents during war-time get re-elected. However, I was specifically talking about winning elections and the Democrats becoming the party in power. If WE want to beat the Republicans, WE have to think like them and outsmart them. WE do not have to be like them - just learn to think like them. Being like them would defeat the whole purpose. People who are drawn to the Democratic Party tend to think differntly from people who are drawn to the Republican Party.
DIXIECRAT: Probably from Dixie it seems so anyway, but Democrats outnumber Republicans, and, yes, the Republicans are the "winners" right now, but we have established that they "won" illegally... not the majority, already the minority. The actual winners, at least in the last two presidential elections, and probably a great many congressional races, have been Democrats. The White Fat Cat Republicans, male or female, who fear minorities becoming the majority are SO ill-advised to mistreat them this badly right now. It's going to backfire in ways they are most definitely going to hate to itty bits, and hotly. If it didn't cost so many lives, I'd love to hang around to watch them burn of it.
Instead, I want to stop them now, before it gets any worse. It's already so much worse than I ever thought it was possible to get in the United States. Again, I'm glad you showed up.
That's the point, Agent 99. Republicans are NOT in the majority. They stole two elections, but that doesn't make them the majority. Democrats acquiesced in the two thefts without obtaining a deal, which they obtained in 1876 in allowing Hayes to be inaugurated in exchange for his promise to pull Union troops out of the South.
Human beings survived because the human brain evolved and developed the keen ability to discriminate friend from foe. Back in the early days of human evolution, everyone looked almost exactly alike. In order for individuals and tribes to survive, humans had to make instant distinctions between members of their own tribe and hostile outsiders. Modern man retains this ability which is where discrimination and prejudging originates. When you walk into a room full of strangers, you will instantly notice (discriminate) the differences of others and be able to determine if they are friendly or hostile (prejudging) which we may call first impressions. Whether one prejudges a negative or positive �vibe� from another person depends on so many environmental and internal factors that are practically unpredictable. The point is, no one can fight or change human nature. The default setting for humans just happens be set at �different=bad� in order to continue to survive. The strong (intelligent, good looking, wealthy or physically superior) will dominate. Government is a way to level the field and create civilizations where all can thrive, but never underestimate the basic nature of humans as government consists of humans and is not a permanent entity. That�s what makes the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights so utterly amazing; it elevates humans from their animalistic selves to the highest possible form where freedom, tolerance, acceptance and equality are valued and protected for the benefit of the entire society.
Well, I'm bugged Gore, with a very good excuse, and Kerry, with no excuse, gave up so easily, but I'm not sure anyone could trust * and the rest of this gang to keep their side of any bargain. It's really a grave new world out there!
JOJ #157
FB4E!
Joan - ITMFA!
How true.
... BOB YOUNG said on 7/5/2006 @ 5:17 am PT...
Miss P
What you pointed out in message #43 might possibly be what happened in your case but it clearly is not what happened in general. Such errors would be just as likely to happen in any other race as the presidential race. They were not!
With the position rotations on the Ohio ballot the errors would be just as likely favor Kerry as Bush. They were not!
The errors could have been the results of calibration errors on some machines. Those errors would be just as likely to favor Kerry as Bush. They were not!
The errors were not random and thus did not happen by chance. They happened by design. Design errors happening is precinct after precinct, in county after county, in state after state and machine company after machine company are the result of fraud. The laws of probability tell us there is no other option.
The odds of n straight errors favoring one candidate over his opponent should be about one in two raised to the power of N. N does not have to get very large before the laws of probability tell us the system is fixed.
At N=10 the odds already reach 1 in 1024.
At N=20 the odds reach 1024 squared to one which is over a million to 1.
At N=40 the odds exceed a trillion to one.
At N =80 the odds exceed a trillion squared to one.
All of the above cases are long shots. Way too much of the data from the 2004 elections fits into the above cases for anyone, who has a good grasp of the laws of probability, to conclude anything other than fraud on the behalf of the Republicans is widespread across this nation.
For Bob Young: The G.O.P. has finally recognized that what you say is true. They hoped people would ignore the laws of mathematics, and that a 5-1/2% discrepancy between exit polls and tabulated vote in the 2004 election was a practical impossibility.
So now they've devised a conspiracy theory of their own, which makes the Loch Ness monster look like a squirrel in your backyard. Here's the deal: Democrats wanted to discourage Republicans from voting late on Election Day, so they rigged the exit polls to make it appear Kerry was going to win easily, thus Bush votes wouldn't matter.
This could have been accomplished in only two ways.
1) A vast army of exit pollsters would, individually, have to have conspired to choose only Kerry voters to interview, meaning all of them would necessarily have been telepathic and corrupt.
2) The numbers were flipped after the fact, from showing Bush ahead by 2-1/2% to showing Kerry ahead by 3%. That's at least plausible, but it flies in the face of Mitosky's own statements, that more Kerry voters were willing to talk to exit pollsters.
More Kerry voters did in fact talk to exit pollsters, because there were more Kerry voters out there. 3% more, in fact.
(...speaking of "thinking ahead" of how the GOP will try to disenfranchize voters besides e-vote machines...)
Voting Rights Act Nailed
To Burning Cross
Behind The 'Delay' In Renewing The Law Is A Scheme
For The Theft Of '08. White Sheets
Changed for Spreadsheets
For The Guardian - UK
NEW YORK --- Don't kid yourself. The Republican Party's decision yesterday to "delay" the renewal of the Voting Rights Act has not a darn thing to do with objections of the Republican's White Sheets Caucus.
Complaints by a couple of Good Ol' Boys to legislation has never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.
This is a strategic stall - meant to de-criminalize the Republican Party's new game of challenging voters of color by the hundreds of thousands.
In the 2004 Presidential race, the GOP ran a massive multi-state, multi-million-dollar operation to challenge the legitimacy of Black, Hispanic and Native-American voters. The methods used broke the law --- the Voting Rights Act. And while the Bush Administration's Civil Rights Division grinned and looked the other way, civil rights lawyers are circling, preparing to sue to stop the violations of the Act before the 2008 race.
Therefore, Republicans have promised to no longer break the law --- not by going legit but by eliminating the law.
The Act was passed in 1965 after the Ku Klux Klan and other upright citizens found they could use procedural tricks --- "literacy tests," poll taxes and more --- to block citizens of color from casting ballots.
De-criminalizing the "caging" lists
Here's what happened in '04 --- and what's in store for '08.
In the 2004 election, over THREE MILLION voters were challenged at the polls. No one had seen anything like it since the era of Jim Crow and burning crosses. In 2004, voters were told their registrations had been purged or that their addresses were "suspect."
Denied the right to the regular voting booths, these challenged voters were given "provisional" ballots. Over a million of these provisional ballots (1,090,729 of them) were tossed in the electoral dumpster uncounted.
Funny thing about those ballots. About 88% were cast by minority voters.
This isn't a number dropped on me from a black helicopter. They come from the raw data of the US Election Assistance Commission in Washington, DC.
At the heart of the GOP's mass challenge of voters were what the party's top brass called, "caging lists" --- secret files of hundreds of thousands of voters, almost every one from a Black-majority voting precinct.
When our investigations team, working for BBC TV, got our hands on these confidential files in October 2004, the Republicans told us the voters listed were their potential "donors." Really? The sheets included pages of men from homeless shelters in Florida.
Donor lists, my ass. Every expert told us, these were "challenge lists," meant to stop these Black voters from casting ballots.
When these "caged" voters arrived at the polls in November 2004, they found their registrations missing, their right to vote blocked or their absentee ballots rejected because their addresses were supposedly "fraudulent."
Why didn't the GOP honchos 'fess up to challenging these allegedly illegal voters? Because targeting voters of color is AGAINST THE LAW. The law in question is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Act says you can't go after groups of voters if you choose your targets based on race. Given that almost all the voters on the GOP hit list are Black, the illegal racial profiling is beyond even Karl Rove's ability to come up with an alibi.
The Republicans target Black folk not because they don't like the color of their skin. They don't like the color of their vote: Democrat. For that reason, the GOP included on its hit list Jewish retirement homes in Florida. Apparently, the GOP was also gunning for the Elderly of Zion.
These so-called "fraudulent" voters, in fact, were not fraudulent at all. Page after page, as we've previously reported, are Black soldiers sent overseas. The Bush campaign used their absence from their US homes to accuse them of voting from false addresses.
Now that the GOP has been caught breaking the Voting Rights law, they have found a way to keep using their expensively obtained "caging" lists: let the law expire next year. If the Voting Rights Act dies in 2007, the 2008 race will be open season on dark-skinned voters. Only the renewal of the Voting Rights Act can prevent the planned racial wrecking of democracy.
"Pre-clearance" and the Great Blackout of 2000
Before the 2000 presidential balloting, then Jeb Bush's Secretary of State purged thousands of Black citizens' registrations on the grounds that they were "felons" not entitled to vote. Our review of the files determined that the crimes of most on the list was nothing more than VWB --- Voting While Black.
That "felon scrub," as the state called it, had to be "pre-cleared" under the Voting Rights Act. That is, "scrubs" and other changes in procedures must first be approved by the US Justice Department.
The Florida felon scrub slipped through this "pre-clearance" provision because Katherine Harris' assistant assured the government the scrub was just a clerical matter. Civil rights lawyers are now on the alert for such mendacity.
The Burning Cross Caucus of the Republican Party is bitching that "pre-clearance" of voting changes applies only to Southern states. I have to agree that singling out the Old Confederacy is a bit unfair. But the solution is not to smother the Voting Rights law but to spread its safeguards to all fifty of these United States.
White Sheets to Spread Sheets
Republicans argue that the racial voting games and the threats of the white-hooded Klansmen that kept African-Americans from the ballot box before the 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act no longer threaten Black voters.
That's true. When I look over the "caging lists" and the "scrub sheets," it's clear to me that the GOP has traded in white sheets for spreadsheets.
Excellent work BIG DAN! Your latest post (#171) is exactly on target. Now we're getting into the important issues for understanding what happened and even more importantly, where we are going. Everyone here has an impressive bank of knowledge regarding the facts. I'm glad to see we're moving toward analyzing that info and thinking about the next steps. It's always nice to know the complete details of what happened, but even better to be able to do something with that information. (just a tidbit regarding post #171: As much as they knew the profile of which voters to prevent from voting, they also knew in great detail the profile of the largest group of registered likely voters with the greatest characteristics in common (the majority of people who would determine the election by how they voted) and the electoral probabilities. With that info, they carefully made GWB to fit the image of the man that the greatest number of likely voters would elect as president. John Kerry didn't fit any of the ideal profile except for his military record and we all know what they did to John Kerry's military experience - swiftboated).
Dixiecrat said,
"everyone looked almost exactly alike. In order for individuals and tribes to survive, humans had to make instant distinctions"
Yeah, they just lifted up the Loincloth and smelled, everyone was a reeker back then
By the time you got that close you were already headless.
Kenneth Lay just died of a heart attack.
Hmm... he must of had something else to say
... big dan said on 7/5/2006 @ 12:02 pm PT...
I'm still trying to find out exactly how a "challenge" works...
http://www.nytimes.com/2...=5088&partner=rssnyt
I think a representative from either party stands at the tables next to the poll workers as the voters file in and sign in to vote. For whatever reason, the "challenger" steps forward and says that they challenge the voter to verify their identity and valid voter registration. I do not know what the voter uses to verify that they are a valid registered voter, but the whole process brings the line of voters who want to sign in to a screeching halt. This then causes back-ups in the line and increases the time for everone to vote. Since people may be on their way to work etc., some people have to give up and leave. Most challenges are done to minorities in democratic precincts.
Seems to me, back at #24, there was a young person with an idea for how to make machines square with the need for a paper trail. It seems silly to go to all that trouble, when we don't really need machines at all, but since so many are insisting on machines... that was a good idea.
The Republican controlled Florida legislature declared that hand recounts of paper ballots are no longer considered valid.
... and Otis said ... " We Be Going Down Mister Lay " ...
What if the minority voter being challenged, "accidentally" punched the guy in the face? That would speed up the lines while he was taking care of his bloody nose! Earlier, and I doubt I'll find it again, I got a search down to only 4 hits, about vote challenges. And it was on the free republic site, someone was saying they needed instructions how to challenge Dem voters. And I clicked on the thread, and it said "thread has been removed."
I believe the following is an example of how a challenge could take place, and did...in Florida.
An African American presents his photo-ID to an election clerk. The name on the driver's license is "James Jackson." The photo matches the person. The election clerk says, "O.K."
Then someone steps forward and says, "I challenge Mr. Jackson. He's a convicted felon."
Mr. Jackson replies, "I've never committed a felony."
The challenger produces a list of felons, including the name "James Jackson." "Look here, he's on this list. There it is. He's ineligible to vote."
The fact that there might be 3,000 James Jacksons in the state of Florida doesn't matter. This might possibly be the same guy. So he's given a provisional ballot, which is later thrown out because it can't be determined which James Jackson is which.
On the same theme, Florida decided that any convicted felon who moved into the state was ineligible to vote, even after serving time in another state which subsequently reinstated his voting eligibility.
You committed a burglary 20 years ago in Kansas, served two years in prison, then went straight. You've been clean ever since. You retire to Florida, and as an ex-felon you're not allowed to vote, either for local offices or for federal offices.
... JUDGE OF JUDGES said on 7/6/2006 @ 8:13 am PT...
Add to #181
http://www.otis.com/prod...PRT30_PST46_RES1,00.html
... Wallace Liddell said on 7/8/2006 @ 10:56 pm PT...
Groan!!! ANOTHER KENNEDY. Will my life ever extended beyond those descendants of a Depression-era bootlegger? And of all subjects for a Kennedy to address--voter fraud! The Kennedys would still be a south-Boston Irish Mafia gang if it had not been for the Daley Machine polling the graveyards of south Cook County and giving that first Kennedy the presidency in the final hours of election night. I shall not buy his book--if he is planning to write one, if he can write one-- {ED NOTE: Completely unacceptable suggestion deleted. --99}
God SAVE the United States--from the Bushes and from the Kennedys. Lord, deliver us! Amen.
re #186 Imagine the audacity to suggest that somebody should be assassinated, and then to close with a prayer.
God please save us all from vicious hypocrites and contemptible pricks like Wallace Liddell.
Winter Patriot
I was immediately going to say the same thing, but it took a while to bring myself to speak. So I used my time making sure I had a lock on where that came from. I might not know as much as God does, now, about #186, but he posts with his middle name, and his 6th cousin's nickname is "Jack".
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Israel First or America First
December 29, 2016 December 29, 2016 by Linda
Donald Trump has a new best friend.
“President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he berated John Kerry in a fashion that would once have resulted in a rupture of diplomatic relations.
Netanyahu accused Kerry of “colluding” in and “orchestrating” an anti-Israel, stab-in-the-back resolution in the Security Council, then lying about it. He offered to provide evidence of Kerry’s complicity and mendacity to President Trump.
Bibi then called in the U.S. ambassador and read him the riot act for 40 minutes. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer charged that not only did the U.S. not “stand up to and oppose the gang-up” at the U.N., “the United States was actually behind that gang-up.”
When Ben Rhodes of the National Security Council called the charges false, Dermer dismissed President Obama’s man as a “master of fiction.”
Query: Why is Dermer not on a plane back to Tel Aviv?
Some of us can recall how Eisenhower ordered David Ben-Gurion to get his army out of Sinai in 1957, or face sanctions.
Ben-Gurion did as told. Had he and his ambassador castigated Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, as the Israelis dissed John Kerry, Ike would have called the U.S. ambassador home.
Indeed, Ike’s threat of sanctions against Prime Minister Anthony Eden’s government, which had also invaded Egypt, brought Eden down.
But then Dwight Eisenhower was not Barack Obama, and the America of 1956 was a more self-respecting nation.
Still, this week of rancorous exchanges between two nations that endlessly express their love for each other certainly clears the air.
While Kerry has been denounced for abstaining on the U.N. resolution calling Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem illegal and an impediment to peace, this has been U.S. policy for years.
And Kerry’s warning in his Wednesday speech that at the end of this road of continuous settlement-building lies an Israel that is either a non-Jewish or a non-democratic state is scarcely anti-Semitic.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history, has warned his countrymen, “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-Democratic.”
“If the bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote” added Barak, “this will be an apartheid state.” Of John Kerry’s speech, Barak said, “Powerful, lucid … World & majority in Israel think the same.”
Defense Secretary-designate Gen. James Mattis warned in 2013 that Israeli settlements were leading to an “apartheid” state.
After Joe Biden visited Israel in 2010, to learn that Netanyahu just approved 1,600 new units in East Jerusalem, Gen. David Petraeus warned: “Arab anger on the Palestine question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnership with governments and people in the region.”
Yet facts and reality, however unpleasant, cannot be denied.
The two-state solution is almost surely dead. Netanyahu is not going to remove scores of thousands of Jewish settlers from Judea and Samaria to cede the land to a Palestinian state. After all, Bibi opposed Ariel Sharon’s removal of 8,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza.
How will all this impact the new Trump administration?
Having tweeted, “Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching,” and having named a militant Zionist as his ambassador, Trump is certain to tilt U.S. policy heavily toward Israel.
Politically, this will bring rewards in the U.S. Jewish community.
The Republican Party will become the “pro-Israel” party, while the Democrats can be portrayed as divided and conflicted, with a left wing that is pro-Palestine and sympathetic to sanctions on Israel.
And the problem for Trump in a full embrace of Bibi?
Britain and France, which voted for the resolution where the U.S. abstained, are going to go their separate way on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, as is the world.
Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf Arabs will be pressured by their peoples and by the militant states of the region like Iran, to distance themselves from the Americans or face internal troubles.
And once U.S. pressure ends and settlement building in the West Bank proceeds, Netanyahu, his hawkish Cabinet, the Israeli lobby, the neocons and the congressional Republicans will start beating the drums for Trump to terminate what he himself has called that “horrible Iran deal.”
Calls are already coming for the cancellation of the sale of 80 Boeing jets to Iran. Yet, any U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal, or reimposition of sanctions on Iran, will further split us off from our European allies. Not only did Britain and France vote for the Security Council resolution, both are party, as is Germany, to the Iran deal.
Having America publicly reassert herself as Israel’s best friend, with “no daylight” between us, could have us ending up as Israel’s only friend — and Israel as our only friend in the Middle East.
Bibi’s Israel First policy must one day collide with America First.
Categories Columns Tags America First, Anti-Semitism, Apartheid, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Democrats, Donald J. Trump, Dwight Eisenhower, Europe, Gen. David Petraeus, GOP, Iran, Israel, Israeli Lobby, James Mattis, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Neocons, Palestine, Sanctions, United Nations, War, Zionists Post navigation
Barack Backhands Bibi
Can Trump and Putin Avert Cold War II?
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2000/01 Italy Home Football Shirt (XXL)
Condition: 9/10 Superb
Size: Adults Extra Extra Large
Chest Measurement: 42-44 Inches / 105-112 CM (tight-fitting jersey)
Manufacturer: Kappa
Material: 87% Polyamide 13% Lycra
Seasons: 2000/2001 & 2001/2002
Player: N/A
Patches: N/A
Official Kappa Italy home football shirt from the 2000/2001 international season.
Condition of this vintage football shirt is 9/10 – Superb (see photos).
In the Euro 2000, another shootout decided Italy's fate but this time in their favour when defeating the co-hosts the Netherlands in the semi-final. Italian goalkeeper Francesco Toldo saved one penalty during the match and two in the shootout, while the Dutch players missed one other penalty during the match and one during the shootout with a rate of one penalty scored out of six attempts.
Emerging star Francesco Totti scored his penalty with a cucchiaio (spoon) chip. Italy finished the tournament as runners-up, unluckily losing the final 2–1 against France (to a golden goal in extra time) after conceding les Bleus' equalizing goal just 30 seconds before the expected end of injury time (94'). After the defeat, coach Dino Zoff resigned in protest after being criticized by Milan president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.
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Sean Kingston Gets ‘Mario Kart’ Tattoo
Jessica Sager
Sean Kingston has a need for speed. No, the Jamaican-born singer isn’t a meth head. But he did demonstrate his love for a certain racing franchise: He got a ‘Mario Kart’ inspired tattoo!
TMZ reports that Kingston hired a professional tattoo artist to inject him with the ink in the comforts of his own Los Angeles pad. The tat cost a whopping $1,250 and took about five hours to complete.
Interestingly, Kingston’s Kart-tat doesn’t feature the normal ammunition from the game, which ranges from Koopa Troopa shells to Mario stars to ghosts and lightning bolts. Instead, Mario’s ride is pimped out with a railgun. Say wha?! That seems more like a Wario move, doesn’t it?
Kingston is embracing his life and making the most of every moment following his near-fatal jet ski accident. The first single off of his upcoming album, ‘Back 2 Life,’ reflects his new attitude. “It came from the accident,” says Kingston about the album and single title. “I’m coming back to life. God gave me a second chance at life, you know. I’m coming back, this is basically a whole new me. I’m more humble. I’m more levelheaded. I’ve been through a lot. I appreciate life, so it’s basically I’m back and this is me.”
For those of you wondering why he’d get a Mario Kart tattoo, keep in mind that Kingston also regularly rocks a crayon box of bling. He’s a kid at heart!
Next: See More Pop Star Tattoos
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Five smart city technologies that Sidewalk Labs is pitching
From underground delivery to universal Wi-Fi and more
An early rendering of what a portion of Sidewalk Labs' mixed-use development might look like.sidewalktoronto.ca
Nicholas Sokic
Cracks in the sidewalk: How will experimental city-building techniques fare in the real world?
Waterfront Toronto chairman has doubts about Sidewalk Labs’ ambitions
Did Sidewalk Labs overstep with their masterplan? It certainly raised concerns at Waterfront Toronto
A look at five of the smart city technologies Sidewalk Labs LLC is offering Torontonians.
Heated sidewalks and bike paths
The Pitch: Installing 1,200 square metres of heated sidewalk and 1,590 square metres of heated bike paths, all powered by hydronic heating, circulating warm fluid just beneath the pavement surface using the neighbourhood’s thermal energy grid. The paths will be connected to real-time weather forecasts and power on two to three hours in advance of a snowstorm. The system will reach two to four degrees Celcius, capable of melting snow, and shuts off whenever the pavement is dry.
The precedent: Although hydronic-heated sidewalks are in operation everywhere from Reykjavik and Akureyri, Iceland, to Bill Gates’ driveway, nothing compares with the scale of Sidewalk’s idea.
Five potential sticking points in Sidewalk Labs’ masterplan for the Toronto waterfront
‘Most people don’t like change’: CEO of Sidewalk Labs says criticism of project was inevitable
Underground freight delivery
The Pitch: Delivering “smart containers” 24/7 through underground tunnels using electric-powered drone vehicles coordinated at a central hub, which will also handle waste, storage and a borrowing service, thereby cutting truck traffic by 72 per cent. The containers can only be opened with a code given to the recipient.
The precedent: Amazon.com Inc. patented a very similar underground concept in 2017, complete with tunnels and drones, but hasn’t built it. “There isn’t really somewhere that does something that has everything we imagined,” said Rohit Aggarwala, Sidewalk Labs’ head of Urban Systems. “There are many companies and campuses that deliver to a central location. The challenge is that the re-sorting and final delivery is expensive, which is where the robots come into play.”
Tall wooden buildings
The Pitch: Using cross-laminated timber (CLT), as well as glulam beams (three to nine layers of timber glued together) to construct buildings to a top height of 30 storeys. Initial plans call for six million square feet of development, with a potential to reach 33 million square feet. Sidewalk Labs believes the panels and glulam beams are as fire-resistant as concrete or steel. Another promise is to make 40 per cent of all housing units family-sized (two bedrooms or more).
The precedent: So far, a wooden neighbourhood only exists in Sidewalk Labs’ imagination, but the tallest wooden building in the world is the Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway, at 85.4 metres. It was built using CLT and was completed in March.
Ubiquitous Wi-Fi
The Pitch: Partnering with telecommunications companies to build a super-Passive Optical Network, which allows for greater connectivity and longer reach per each fibre-optic cable. The network will use “holistically configured routes that allow access for authorized uses only.”
The Precedent: Many cities in the world already offer near universal Wi-Fi access in their public spaces, some only for a few hours at a time. For example, Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Israel, have had free Wi-Fi since 2013.
The Pitch: Using “tenant temperature preferences, operating budgets, building occupancy, weather forecasts and real-time energy prices” to change air conditioning, ventilation, blinds, lighting, plugs and computer use. The “Office Scheduler” would not replace existing building operating systems, but work in concert with them, and keep tenants updated on what’s going on in particular rooms, while allowing them to override it if need be.
The Precedent: There isn’t anything comparable on this level, but it isn’t dissimilar to technologies such as smart-tech thermostats. “We are a sister company of Google and their Nest is an inspiration in many respects,” Aggarwala said. “There are already lots of companies using scheduling data to program their air conditioning.”
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Fly Me to the Moon on a Rocket Player, Modulo a Few Bumps
Posted on Friday, May 24, 2019 Friday, May 24, 2019 AuthorcahwyguyLeave a comment
I’ve written recently about the problems with my iPod Classics, and how I had selected a backup solution on my Android Device using iSyncr and Rocket Player. As I’ve been using the apps — especially Rocket Player — more, I’ve encountered a few hiccups. Some are clear bugs (which I am reporting), some I’m still exploring to determine if they are bugs, and some fall into the category of enhancement requests. The purpose of this post is to keep track of what I’ve reported; I plan to ✔ when something has been fixed or an enhancement made. indicates items added in subsequent updates.
I’m still hoping to figure out the reason why the iPods have been acting up and fix it. But I know that one of these days, the 10 year old hardware will die, or I will exceed the internal database size. So I need a good backup solution (which, until I recover things, is right now my primary solution). Rocket Player is about 90-95% there. I want to help them get the rest of the way to being perfect.
Confirmed Bug List
When a Live List playlist gets empty, it refills as the entire media library, modulo excluded genres. Tested with a playlist of “(plays = 0) & (a number of excluded genres)”
When a Live List playlist is sorted by album, for multi-CD sets, it sorts the album by track increasing, and then disk decreasing, giving (disk,track): 2,1; 1,1; 2,2; 2,1; …
When a Live List playlist has a predicate that results in songs being removed from the list after being played (such as the playlist I have for songs where “(plays > 0) & (last played > 730 days)”, when you set a song for repeat-1 and the list is on shuffle, it plays the song a second time displaying the art for the next song in the live live shuffle, and then instead of the third playing, it plays the song that would have been next in the shuffle while displaying the album art for the song after that. In other words, suppose the shuffle order is A, B, C, D, E. Here’s what’s happens: A, B (press repeat-1), B (displaying art for C), C (displaying art for D, even though repeat-1 is still on), … . Further, when you stop it a few seconds into C, it has already marked C as played.
Tentative Bug List
Note: On these, I think I’ve seen a problem, but I haven’t been able to consistently repeat it. So these might not be a problem after all until I play with it a bit more.
There may be a bug where the first song in a Live List that updates based on last played date does not get updated.
There may be a bug where the Rocket Player lock screen does not prompt for PIN or fingerprint to unlock after sliding the slider.
Support for “Skip When Shuffling”
Splitting the global “Stop after Each Song” flag into two flags: one for music, and one for podcasts.
Add the ability for Live Lists to test on track length, and to sort by track length.
Improved predicate language for Live Lists in order to support constructs like: “A & B & (C | D | E) & F”
Having Live Lists show a count of how many songs on the list have been played.
Having an option to display the time left in a song, vs. the total track length, when a song is playing
Having the ability to go back and replay the last song played, even in live lists that remove the song from the list after playing.
Having the ability to delete a single rule in a Live Live, vs having to clear the list and start over.
Having new string tests in Live Lists, such as “Starts with”. A full regular expression tester would be even better, but ….
Adding a test for “is not” for numeric comparisons (right now, there’s only =, <, and >).
Improved speed in scanning for new songs, when coming into Live Lists, when displaying artists, etc. In general: the program needs to be much faster when dealing with extremely large libraries (e.g., over 40,000 songs).
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App Review: iSyncr + Rocket Player
Posted on Monday, May 13, 2019 Friday, May 17, 2019 AuthorcahwyguyLeave a comment
If you recall, I recently wrote about some problems I was having with my iPod Classics, both of which had been modified with the Tarkan iFlash adaptor to 512GB. Luckily, the fellow who installed the adapter for me was able to get them out of the Reboot loop, and I have restored them. That got me thinking again about non-iPod solutions. There were a variety of options available:
Dedicated music players such as the Fiio or Astell & Kern provide great sound quality, but are expensive, require additional SD cards for storage, do not support smart playlists, and cannot integrate with my large existing iTunes library. There are precious little details online about their interfaces, and especially about their interfaces on the PC side for managing the music libraries.
An iPod Touch does not work, because their storage is not expandable and currently maxes out at 128GB. An older iPhone has more storage, but is also much more expensive, and has been designed by Apple to have diminishing battery life — plus planned obsolescence.
Using my existing Android phone, which can support Micro-SD cards up to 2TB.
When I started exploring the Android ecosystem, the first option was a cloud subscription model. For a multitude of reasons, I do not like streaming music — you need larger data packages for your phone, and you may not always have service where you want it. But programs like Apple Music and Google Play Music (GPM) do allow you to, within limits (50,000 songs for GPM; 100,000 songs for AM), upload your music library to their cloud (where they may substitute existing tracks they have), and then download it into the SD card from your mobile device. Initially, I thought about that option, in particular with Apple Music, which would support Smart Playlists. Both work with iTunes, either natively or with a media manager. They also have other arbitrary limits, such as GPM limiting playlists to 1,000 songs. Both also require monthly payments to Apple or Google, companies that don’t need your money, avoid taxes, and are not longer out to do good, IMHO.
But then I stumbled upon the apps from a small family company, JRT Studio (FB). They have two apps: iSyncr and Rocket Player, that were of interest. The apps had free and pay version, and the pay version was a one time payment. They appeared to do what I wanted to do: iSyncr would read the iTunes database and move the music to an SD card; it would also sync back to iTunes play times, counts, and ratings. Rocket Player was a music player designed to play music from an Android’s internal storage, and provided a widget to add ratings. I use ratings to flag tracks I like, and tracks that need repair.
So, after stumbling on a sale on 512GB MicroSD cards (for $99 at Amazon, half-price!), I decided to go the iSyncr route. I ordered the card, installed it, and attempted to sync. The good news is that, after some stumbles, I was able to get the process working and copied all the music and playlists to my SD card. The Rocket Player works well, and even additionally supports its own form of smart playlists so that I could create ones that do live updates (existing smart playlists in iTunes transfer as a static copy that do not update). In general, the process was easy once I figured it out. Over time, I’m playing with tuning the process to make it more efficient.
I cannot, however, give the products a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating at this time. I have to dial it back to ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ because of some problems.
For iSyncr:
The interface is, at times, user unfriendly, or at least, non-intuitive. It took me a while to realize using the USB transfer that it was calculating the space as a preparation to sync, and that you had to initiate the sync separately. If you want to keep adding playlists slowly, it has to rescan iTunes for each playlist. Establishing the permissions for it to communicate is also a bit complicated, although that is in some ways due to Android and Windows. The Windows component also installs straight to the system tray, and the user interface is not explained well.
The product needs to be a bit more security aware: it may require too many firewall permissions (it is unclear if those can be dialed back, in particular, the public access option if you only want to sync on home networks), and I’m not 100% sure on the Android permissions. They also need to sign their Windows executable. I understand why they don’t sign it (privacy issues), but I believe those should be surmountable.
It would be nice if the product communicated over Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi and USB.
There seemed to be a bizarre interaction after resetting the Android Media Library that resulted in a large playlist (Music) being limited to 100 songs. It appears that everything in the playlist transfers, but that the project of the playlist itself is what is short. We thought it was a license issue, but it turned out to be a permissions problem. It was resolved by deleting that playlist in Rocket Player (which required re-granting permissions to the directory on the SD card), and then re-syncing that playlist via iSyncr on WiFi.
For Rocket Player:
Their live list capability is a bit more limited that iTunes. Here are a few things that I noted:
iTunes smart playlists provide full equation capability — that is: a & b & (c | d) & (f | g). Live lists give each predicate an option of mandatory or optional, where “optional” means connected to the other predicates with an “or” (and that only really comes into play if there is one required component — if all are optional, you get the entire library)
There are conditionals available on iTunes, such as “starts with”, that are not available for live lists. Of course, Apple needs full regex matching, but that’s probably a reach.
There are fields you can test for in iTunes, such as the length of the track, that are not available for Live Lists. This was particularly annoying for me, as I have Smart Lists that partition my podcasts based on length, and I couldn’t reconstruct them in Rocket Player
One of these apps (I suspect Rocket Player) may be a battery drain. I noticed since adding the apps that the battery drains faster, but I haven’t fully figured out the culprit. It appears it may be Rocket Player, when it is in the foreground or rescanning the SD card. It appears to be managable. What is unknown if other players would be equally draining if they were the ones in the foreground and doing the scanning.
However, the biggest problem for both apps was, well, dealing with bigness. The programs do not work efficiently with very large libraries such as mine: 45,600 songs, playlists that are 20,000 songs, and at least 256GB in music and podcasts. iSyncr originally took an hour or two to process the playlists to sync. By tinkering with which playlists I transfer (and recreating the smart playlists and live lists and not transferring them), I’ve gotten the time down to 15-30 minutes. Rocket Player takes a long time to start up and recognize the music, and an even longer time to scan for new music. Some of this may be due to the Android media library, but I don’t think that’s the entire picture. I think they tested in on smaller libraries and it worked just fine; my library is an anomaly and very large.
Given that the products are (currently) a backup, and that I only plan to sync once a day when it is near my computer, the faults are not insurmountable. Still, they are annoying (and thus the 4½⭐ rating). I hope that they can improve the efficiency and user interface of these products in the future.
iPod Woes / Android Music Apps and SD Cards — Recommendations Needed
Posted on Monday, May 6, 2019 Monday, May 6, 2019 AuthorcahwyguyLeave a comment
Yesterday, my iPods went south. I don’t mean that they went to Orange County (although one of them did); rather, I mean that they both are not working. Last night, after syncing them to iTunes 12, they both got into endless reboot loops. Given that this happened to both of them, I suspect a Windows Update corrupted the Apple Device Driver. I will attempt to reset them, and may need to reinstall iTunes, but there is the possibility that they are useless until Microsoft fixes the problem.
Le sigh.
So, the question is: What to do to get me back and running. Here are the critical parameters of the problem:
In my iTunes library, I have over 45,000 songs, and about 100 podcasts, MP3 and AAC format.
Size-wise, this iTunes library is between 256GB and 512GB.
I do not want to stream music; I prefer to play it from downloaded copies
My iPod Classics are my only Apple ecosystem devices. I have a Windows 10 PC, and an LG G6 Android phone.
I would prefer to be able to use my smart playlists and retain my ratings and play counts.
My LG G6 does have a MicroSD slot, and I’m open to getting a 512GB MicroSD for my phone.
I see two options at this point, and I’m open to suggestions about which to do. For the sake of this discussions, let’s assume that I get the SD card, install the card, format it, and mounted it.
Option 1: Google Play Music.
: Google Play Music has a music manager that runs on Windows 10, and can see and read your iTunes library. It permits you to upload up to 50,000 songs to its cloud library, although if the track is already in its library, it doesn’t upload your copy but uses its local copy. It appears to then permit you to download those songs to the SD card and play them from storage. It contains a podcast feature, but it looks like Google Podcasts may also integrate with the same storage.
: Supposedly, Google Play Music will be going away in favor of YouTube Music, but when that will happen is unknown. Supposedly, Google will make the transition seamless. It is also unknown the extent to which Google Play Music supports smart playlists. Playlists may be limited to 1,000 songs.
: $9.99/month. $14.99 family. It looks like you can do a free option as well, but the limitations of the free product are unclear.
Option 2: Apple Music,
: Apple Music integrates with iTunes on the PC because iTunes is Apple Music on the PC: You just set iTunes to upload to your iCloud account. It permits you to upload 100,000 songs to your cloud library, although if the track is already in its library, it doesn’t upload your copy but uses its local copy. It does not upload tracks it considers to be “poor quality”. It appears to permit you to download those songs to the SD card and play from storage. There is a separate Apple Podcasts app that supposedly integrates. Smart playlists supposedly move over.
: First, it is a continuation of the Apple ecosystem. Supposedly, iTunes will be going away and transitioning to the Apple Music model. The impact of this is unknown.
: $9.99/month. $14.99 family. There appears to be a 3 month free trial, although the limitations are unclear.
ETA: Option 3: iSyncr + Rocket Player
While researching Apple Music, I ran across a product called iSyncr. This appears to — for a one-time $10 fee — run in the background and sync iTunes information to the SD card on an Android phone. It syncs stats (bidirectionally if you use their player) and ratings, and handles smart playlists by syncing a snapshot of the playlist. As long as it syncs play counts back, that’s fine. They have a music player called Rocket Player that works with their app. I’d much rather give a mom and pop operation my money on a one-time basis than give the highly-profitable, tax-avoiding Google and Amazon a monthly fee. Right now, I’m leaning towards this option.
Based on my research, it appears that if Windows Update fucked this up and the iPod Classics are dead, I’m going to need to move to a subscription service, about $120/year. That’s the bad part. It does look like I can still keep the music in iTunes and after the time-sink of uploading and downloading, have the music locally on my phone. But which service? Right now, I’m thinking Apple simply because it has a larger song limit and assuredly supports Smart Playlists. Google is appealing to get out of the Apple ecosystem, but (a) it is Google, and (b) it may be going away with the transition unknown.
I’d like to hear your thoughts and experiences.
Pod People Read the News
Posted on Friday, August 10, 2018 AuthorcahwyguyLeave a comment
One of the categories in which I collect news chum is titled “Music and iPod”. The articles I’ve collected here fall into two broad categories. The first looks at the changing music marketplace. The second collects information on potential iPod replacements. So unlock your device, take your scroll-wheel for a spin, and let’s start.
The music industry is changing. What’s old is new again, and maintaining what you have becomes more work. The world is divided between those that want to own their music (some say “hoard, my precioussss”), and others are just fine with leasing it and paying subscription fees. Generational divides are at play here. Here are two articles exploring that divide:
Spotify is fine. But let’s mourn the passing of CDs. Once loved, the humble CD is now derided. It’s forefather, the vinyl LP, is having a resurgence. There are those giving the cassette some loving for the mixtape. But the CD? It’s sound was “too perfect”. Is it time for the requiem?
Wired headphones are having their quartz moment. When Apple decided to get rid of the 3.5mm port for headphones, wired headphones began to be pushed out the door. People were willing to live with the spotty connections and limited battery life of unwired headphones. But just like mechanical watches and vinyl, wired headphones are finding their space.
One of my worries is the eventual death of the iPod and the iPod ecosystem. I’m not sure whether it will be due to the death of hardware, or Apple deciding to remove iPod Classic support from iTunes, leaving iPod users high and dry. So I’m always looking for alternatives. Here are some articles related to that:
Best high-resolution digital audio player: Which DAP reigns supreme?
Fiio M7: Fiio’s new high-res music player is $200 and comes with USB-C.
Fiio X7 Mark II: Fiio X7 Mark II review: You can swap out the amplifier in this Android-based high-res audio player.
HyBy R3: HiBy R3 is a $229 iPod alternative that’s rocking Kickstarter.
A&norma SR15: Astell & Kern put a charmingly crooked screen on its latest music player.
Categoriesnews-chumTagsipod, music
Updates from the Pod People World
Posted on Friday, March 9, 2018 AuthorcahwyguyLeave a comment
The following are some news items that have caught my eye over the past few weeks regarding the iPod, the larger iPod ecosystem, and the world of digital music:
Are Dedicated Music Players Useless? In today’s world of multifunction devices, such as your smartphone, is the dedicated MP3 player useless? The answer is a resounding “No!”, as this article shows. In addition to the 10 ways in the article, there are some even more important reasons. Dedicated MP3 players don’t use streaming bandwidth, and can be used in places where you have no Internet. They are also not visually based, so you can often operate them without looking. Being more narrow function, they are also usable in situations where phones are not (for example, MP3 players are not treated the same as phones with respect to moving vehicles). Lastly, if you upgrade storage, you can often have a much larger music library with you than you can even with services like the Amazon cloud or iTunes match, especially if you come in with a lot of preexisting music.
Upgrading an iPod. Stories about how one can upgrade a later generation (5G or later) iPod classic to use solid state memory come around periodically. The most recent iteration was The Verge and the Circuit Breaker Podcast having an article how to do so. However, they made one major error: they indicated you get the boards and supplies through eBay. Nonsense! I’ve had three iPods updated, and a 4th will eventually be upgraded as well, and in all cases I went straight to the source: the iFlash Adaptor site. I’ve used their iFlash Dual card for all three of my iPod Classics. They also have a useful blog with advice on batteries and memory cards. If you’re local to LA, I’ve found a good person to install the card, if you’re not a hardware person (and I’m not). Drop me an email or a comment and I’ll get you in touch with the person I used.
Digital vs. Physical Music . In the days before there was an iTunes store, how was digital audio and video shared? The answer is: via Usenet, and it was this new style of digital sharing — across a forum originally intended for textual messages — that led Usenet to its slow death, while spurring on the growth of the web and online music and video stores. Meanwhile, we’re seeing the death of the physical form for digitized media — CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays — in favor of streaming. This is a very bad trend, and we must all work to support physical media. There are a number of reasons. First, the physical media made available many rare shows and albums that were saved from obscurity. It also preserved additional information, such as directors cuts, audio tracks, bonus tracks, commentary. Those aren’t present for streaming media, and there is no assurance that rare material will be available for streaming. It is also much easier, with only streamed media, for the media content owner to make the content unavailable. You also can’t easily share streamed media with friends. It is a bad move for the consumer.
End of the Headphone Jack. The simple 3.5mm audio jack. It has been around for over 50 years, coming in with the transistor radio, replacing the large headphone jack. It is now starting to disappear, and we should mourn (if not protest) its demise. There are many advantages to this format. Being analog, it is not subject to restricted digital format or digital rights management. It works across all vendors, and you don’t need different products for different devices. Its analog signal is also adaptable, being used for not only sound but any electrical signal such as a card reader, health monitors, and such. By moving to proprietary digital connectors (as they did with streaming), vendors are tying you to using their product, and their enforcement of accessibility to your music. They are creating waste and making obsolete numerous devices, which often go to landfills.
Music Management Software. Those who use an iPod or Apple device have a love/hate relationship with iTunes. Often you must use it, but it could be so much better. Here’s a review of 7 iTunes alternatives. The problem is that none of them are iTunes replacements: it is unclear if they handle accumulated metadata, such as the number of plays; it is unclear if they can communicate with older Apple devices (such as the iPod Classic); and it is unclear if they support Smart Playlists. Often, these replacements aren’t too intelligent: they don’t understand synchronization, and they presume album-oriented play. That’s great for a college student with perhaps 50 albums; its bad when you have over 2000 albums and over 42000 songs.
Wither iTunes? Of course, the issue with iTunes may be forced. Apple has the ability to make your device obsolete. Just ask the people with first-generation Apple TVs, who are being disconnected from iTunes. Just ask those who use iTunes on Windows XP or Vista. Just ask those hoping to purchase iTunes LPs with additional album content. All have had, or will have, support discontinued by Apple. This is a big worry for me: Why does Apple have any reason to continue to support the ability to synchronize with discontinued iPods, such as the iPod Classic. It is one reason I will not buy an iPhone (requires the latest iTunes), and one reason why I haven’t upgraded from iTunes 11. I still worry that, one day, iTunes 11 will not work on Windows 10, or will no longer support podcasts. At that point, will I be forced to Rockbox, if it still exists? Their iPod Classic ports aren’t stable. Will I need to find a new media player, such as the Fiio Players? What will that mean for my metadata and smart playlists.
We’re going to a world where we may not have physical LPs or CDs for our music. As we age, what will guarantee we’ll be able to bring our music with us? Are we destined to copy our music from server to server (I hope you remembered that backup), or paying companies indefinitely to store it in the cloud? And when that cloud or drive goes “poof”, how will historians discover our music? Analog is essentially forever (or as long as the media lasts), but digital is remarkably ephemeral. Enjoy your music while you have it, for tomorrow it will be gone.
Categoriesmusings (general), news-chumTagsipod, music
Fears and Frailty
Posted on Thursday, March 30, 2017 Authorcahwyguy
We all have fears. Some find strength in them. Some let them shape their lives.
Fear, thy name is Apple.
This post, of course, is brought to you by the letters “i”, “t”, “u”, “n”, “e”, and “s”. Put them together, and they spell “iTunes” — the reason for this musing, especially after reading an article titled “How iTunes built, and then broke, my meticulous music-listening system“. I’m one of those folks: curing my iTunes library, making sure the meta-data is right, the album art reflects the version of the album I have — for all of my 40,000+ songs (yes, I’ve crossed the 40K song mark). Although the article discusses the problem of iTunes with newer devices, I’m dependent on the software to sync with my modded iPod Classic (512GB storage). I’ve even stayed on iTunes 11, because I know that will work with the device. I will never get an iPhone, because that would mean upgrading iTunes — and we all know that will spell doom.
So what are my fears?
Well, my iPods could die. I’d still have the music of course: tracks lovingly downloaded, ripped from CDs, recorded by hand from LPs, extracted from videos. Most of the music not available elsewhere digitally. But that’s why I have a backup iPod Classic. Primero and Segundo. Prime.
But what if iTunes 11 no longer works when I move eventually to Windows 10. How will I sync my music? How will I move everything to another library system. I really do not want my music in the cloud. There are so many places where streaming just does not work. Not to mention, of course, that it is MY music. I paid for it, I should be the only one to control it.
That, by the way, is why I tend to buy digital music from Amazon, but not use Amazon Music.
This brings us to the problem with MP3 download collections. Unlike CDs or LPs, there’s nothing tangible. Nothing to pass on. It is in a fixed format that might not be supported in the future. Then what? Pay for your music again, if you can find it. I can still listen to LPs from almost 80 years ago (alas, I can’t deal with 78s). We can still listen to CDs from 30 years ago. 30 years ago, the MP3 format didn’t exist.
30 years from now, how will we listen to our expensive MP3 downloads? We will probably still be able to find CD players (although forget those CD-ROMs you recorded — they’re likely toast now). We’ll find the cassette players, and LP players. But will our computers still be able to play MP3s? Ask yourself this: Could you open a Wordstar file?
So a big fear of my: My music won’t age well with me. Of course, in 30 years I’ll be 87. I probably will have forgotten how to use a computer. Hopefully, my iPod Classics will still be working 🙂
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Everything Old is New Again (or Refurbished)
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2017 Authorcahwyguy
Let’s start clearing out some of the non-Trumponia news. In this collection of links, we look at things from the past that may be getting new leases on life:
The Triforium. Those outside of Los Angeles probably have no idea what I mean when I say “the Triforium”; hell, most younger Angelinos have no idea either. The Triforium is a art installation that goes back to when I was in high school, a “space-age-looking pointy edifice that stands six stories tall and is covered with 1,494 colorful lights that once blinked in time to music blasted from its four gigantic speakers”. It never quite worked as intended, and for most of its life has been a barely or non-operative artwork in a below-ground mall only frequented by those nearby on jury duty when they go to lunch. But that may be changing. The Triforium Project, co-founded by musician Claire Evans, Tom Carroll, host of the popular local web show “Tom Explores Los Angeles,” urban planner Tanner Blackman and Jona Bechtolt, Evans’ bandmate in the pop-dance group YACHT, has a plan to “replace the computer system entirely with something that is network simple, easy to update, open-sourced and remotely accessible so that we can turn the instrument into something genuinely interactive for residents of the 21st century”. The improvements are now in the approval process.
Downtown Las Vegas Lights. Derek Stevens in Las Vegas is a man with a mission. He’s purchased one of the original blocks in downtown LV, and is tearing down and revamping the buildings, including Fremont Street’s Las Vegas Club casino and several neighboring properties, including Mermaids and Topless Girls of Glitter Gulch. All told, it adds up one entire city block that the Stevens brothers intend to demolish and build up anew. The problem? This block is home to a number of vintage neon signs that feel pretty essential to the character of the street, including Vegas Vickie, the kicky neon cowgirl that debuted with Bob Stupak’s Glitter Gulch casino in 1980; the sign for Herb Pastor’s Golden Goose casino, circa 1974; and the giant “Las Vegas Club” letters themselves, which have been part of the streetscape for more than 60 years. However, unlike many casino owners, Stevens cares about LV history — and is preserving the signs and planning to operate them — in some way — going forward. According to Stevens, “The signs are going to be part of the design. Whether they’ll be internal or external, I’m not quite sure yet. … I’m a pretty big fan of Vegas history. I don’t see anything getting the wrecking ball.”
Nokia Candy Bars. For the youngsters out there, I’m not referring to the candy bars that are more expensive than the street drugs, at least according to our President. Rather, the candy bar phone — the Nokia 3310 — which the new owners of the cell phone name plan to bring back, at least in Europe. This was an extremely reliable, long-battery-life pre-iPhone cell phone, where you only had a numeric keypad (but you had a great version of the game “snake”). The phone, originally released in 2000 and in many ways beginning the modern age of mobiles, will be sold as a way of getting lots of battery life in a nearly indestructible body. The new incarnation of the old 3310 will be sold for just €59, and so likely be pitched as a reliable second phone to people who fondly remember it the first time around. It will be revealed at Mobile World Congress later this month. For those who want to know where this fits historically, here’s a chart of all the Nokia dumpphones released from the first one in the early 1980s until 2006.
LP Records. We all know by now that LP records have made a comeback (it seems everything old is new again, especially analog stuff). So what type of record collector are you? This article attempts to find out, defining 7 types of record collectors. As for me, depending on the genre and artist, I’m either a lifer, a completest, or a casual.
iPod Classics. For some, the iPod Classic is seeing a resurgence; for some, it has never left. For those of us using them, something that periodically resurfaces is the article on how to replace the hard drive with SSD devices. It just resurfaced again. The only problem with the article is that Tarkan moved his site with the boards to http://www.iflash.xyz. These are for iPod Classics 5G and later, and he has boards that can accomodate a wide variety of SSD, including SD cards and micro-SD cards. I’ve been using the iFlash Dual in two of my Classics for over a year now (each is at 512GB) with no problems. We plan to upgrade at least one more iPod Classic (a 7.5G). We also have a 80GB 6G, but we can only take that to 128GB. PS: If you are in the Southern California area and need someone to do the mods, I may have a contact for you.
Categoriesnews-chumTagsipod, las vegas, living-in-the-past, los-angeles, telephony
A Sweet Circular News Chum, with Raisins
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2016 Tuesday, October 4, 2016 Authorcahwyguy
It’s Rosh Hashanah afternoon (L’Shana Tovah to all), and I’m exhausted from the morning. Yet I have a bunch of news chum to post. Let’s see if we can braid it into something sweet and circular, coming back by the end to where I started. This time, we’ll just give headlines and a few comments.
The O shaped iPod? On Rosh Hashanah, you dip Apples in Honey, so where else to start but with a circular Apple product. This article describes a new circular design for the iPod Shuffle that is quite cool, if a Shuffle has enough storage for your needs.
The Taxonomy of Tech Holdouts. As we’re talking about iPods, here are the nine archetypes of planned non-obsolecence, from the Anachronist to the Careful Curator. I think I’m the latter.
Navy scuttles sailors’ enlisted rating titles in huge career shake-up. Moving from holdouts to non-holdouts. The Navy is holding on to specialist ratings no more. Effective immediately, sailors will no longer be identified by their job title, say, Fire Controlman 1st Class Joe Sailor. Instead, that would be Petty Officer 1st Class Joe Sailor.
New college at Onizuka Station pays homage to the ‘Blue Cube’. Moving from the Navy to their sister service, the Air Force. Those in the Bay Area might remember the blue cube, the former Onizuka AFS. It has been converted into a local college, but still plays homage to its history. The walkways leading from the parking lot to the campus are speckled with flecks of blue paint harvested from the cube. Once inside, there is the Onizuka Cafe for hungry students and the Satellite Lounge next door for relaxation and study. Two murals that previously had been inside the cube are now hung in campus hallways. One features the Challenger shuttle with a memorial poem. The other is signed by many former employees of the Onizuka Air Force Station and coincidentally features a large owl—Foothill’s mascot—with a lightning bolt in its talons.
An Abandoned Hospital in West Adams Has Been Filled With Fine Art. Moving from an Abandoned Air Station to an Abandoned Hospital, although this one is still abandoned. The LA Metropolitan Hospital was one of the first black hospitals, but it close a few years ago and is pending redevelopment. However, for the next month, there is an interesting art exhibit in the abandoned hospital.
Texas prisons ban books by Langston Hughes and Bob Dole – but ‘Mein Kampf’ is OK. A hospital is a pubic service building, and so is a prison. So here’s an interesting prison story: prisons in Texas have banned books by Bob Dole, Harriet Beecher Stowe or Sojourner Truth. But inmates are more than welcome to dig into Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” or David Duke’s “My Awakening.” The rationale: they ban offensive language or violence or sex, but not offensive ideas.
Palestinians’ Abbas seeks British apology for 1917 Jewish homeland declaration. Moving from Hitler to another group that doesn’t like the Jews: the Palestinians. According to the Palestinian President, Britain should apologize for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state.
Your Samsung washing machine might be about to explode. Moving from explosive ideas to explosive washers. The problem it appears, is a defective support rod that is causing washer tubs to separate, potentially launching wires, nuts and other parts. Boom!
The one step you shouldn’t skip when cooking with your cast iron pan. Moving from the Laundry Room to the kitchen, here are some tips regarding use of cast iron pans.
Fat Flora? Gut Bacteria Differ in Obese Kids. What do you cook in a cast iron pan? Food. And what happens if you eat too much food? You get fat. Researchers have found that obese children have a different population of microorganisms living in their intestinal tracts, compared with lean children. These microorganisms appear to accelerate the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, which then accumulates throughout the body, the researchers said.
Attack of the plastic eaters: Can mushrooms, bacteria and mealworms save the planet from pollution? Speaking of bacteria, it runs out they may be the solution to accumulating plastic. As it turns out, nature might offer us the solution to our man-made problems. Scientists around the world are harnessing — in test tubes, under glass domes, and within large bioreactors — the power of living things that can digest plastic without suffering harm.
Inside Arizona’s Pump Skimmer Scourge. Of course, if you’re in Arizona, you should keep a close eye on your plastic — not due to bacteria, but criminals that are doing a lot of skimming of gas and other credit cards.
Why the Hallmark Card Company Owns Thousands of Priceless Artworks. Plastic, of course, refers to a credit card, and who is one of the largest purveyors of greeting cards? Hallmark. Here’s the history of Hallmark, and why the company owns lot of priceless art.
UC Berkeley mascot Oski celebrates 75th birthday. Of course, you send greeting cards on an anniversary, and it just so happens that Oski, the mascot of UC Berkeley, is celebrating an anniversary — his birthday.
Horses can communicate with people using symbols. Oski is a bear, and another type of animal is a horse. It turns out that twenty three horses learned to tell trainers if they wanted to wear a blanket or not. Subjects were shown three symbols: a horizontal bar to say “I want a blanket”, a blank square for “No change”, and a vertical bar for “I don’t need a blanket”. They learned the meanings in a day or two and using them to convey if they were too warm or too cold, building the case for self-awareness.
Of course, a square is a simple polygon, and if you keep adding sides to a polygon infinitely, you end up with a circle. An a circle, of course, is the shape of the new iPod Shuffle, which permit us to spiral back to where this post began. Of course, circles and spirals are the shape of a round Challah, which we dip in honey as we wish EVERYONE a happy and healthy new year. May you all be written and inscribed for the happiest of years.
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Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 5:20pm
Good job, Beto. You're rolling in cash.
Gee, I wonder how that happened?
Beto O'Rourke reportedly raised $6.1 million in his first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, according to his campaign, surpassing Bernie Sanders and every other 2020 Democrat who has disclosed their figures. MSNBC's "Morning Joe" crew discusses with WP's Robert Costa and NYT's Yamiche Alcindor.
"This is huge," co-host Joe Scarborough said jokingly. "He now has enough money to write apology notes to everybody for having a self-deprecating joke."
"He's popular," co-host Mika Brzezinski added. "The kids love him."
"I know, they love him, and now he can apologize to all the kids, for actually daring to have a self-deprecating joke that elevated his wife as a great mom," Joe added, referring to a comment from O'Rourke that his wife mostly raised their kids while he was i Congress and running for Senate. "Because I know in today's Democratic Party that is truly offensive."
"The kids" love him. Even if it doesn't show in the polls.
There's just something new and sexy about the phrase "I lost to Ted Cruz" that make all the kids swoon.
Now we've got four establishment "progressives" - Harris, Beto, Biden, and Booker.
The establishment is about to split their vote.
They are giving Bernie a wide lane on the left.
Submitted by Pricknick on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 5:41pm
of big donors.
Ya think?!
But Morning Joe said it was "the kids".
Beto O'Rourke's political career drew on donations from the pro-GOP business establishment
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 9:56pm
Trust Fund Babies
@gjohnsit
Submitted by bobswern on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 10:34pm
It's embarrassing how...
@The Voice In the Wilderness
...obviously lacking he is when it comes to maintaining substantive commitments to most issues. It's, more or less, "I don't know where I stand on most issues; but I'm just so damn cool, you're gonna vote for me for Class President, er....ummm...President of the United States! And...we'll work out the details later. OK?"
Here's something I was going to turn into a post at C99P, last night...but, I went to bed, instead. And, then I woke up to see it being posted on more than one major media outlet, this morning...Jimmy Fallon's take on Beto. He pretty much summed it all up for me in a little over two minutes...
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 10:51pm
How funny
@bobswern
As I said somewhere else here, people want to know what he is actually running on? Here's a panel to answer this question.
"What's his message?"
"He's tall, he's young, he has the most dreamy blue eyes..."
[You can all wish I was kidding] https://t.co/Tf0ijwkNeY
— FThumb (@f_thumb) March 19, 2019
Yeah, Beto's "the" freakin' poster boy..
...of the Third Way/neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party; not to mention the personification of everything that's wrong with the vapid identity politics of our era. He practically acts, and physically looks, like someone who was written out of the final cut of this SNL skit...
Politically, Beto is free of all additives and substance, whatsoever. Purely natural! A veritable living, human version of that old Microsoft commercial with the tagline: "Where do you want to go, today?" But, instead, it's: "Who do you want me to be, today?"
Stomach-turning, really...
Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 6:09pm
Beto?
Smells of big donors.
Beto? It just smells, period!
"I say enough! If Israel wants to be the only superpower in the Middle East then they can put their own asses on the line and do it themselves. I want to continue to eat."
-- snoopydawg
Submitted by WoodsDweller on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 5:54pm
Money is important
but without the context of the number of donors we don't know just what is going on.
Someone wrote (and I don't know if this is possible) that this number includes $4.5 million rolled over from his Senate run. If so that would put the actual donations in the Harris range, which is plausible.
Beto met with Obama recently, I could see Obama making a few phone calls to donors on his behalf. A full $5400 donation for the primary and the general would only take 1130 donors, or 565 married couples to give you $6.1 million. How important is it to the establishment to beat Bernie's opening day numbers by just a little bit?
On the other hand, Beto just finished a race a few months ago where he raised a lot of money and not just from Texas. That email list is probably still good, and the people who donated before probably still like him.
EDIT: If the number of donors was worth bragging about, his campaign would be bragging, so I'm guessing it's pretty low.
Yesterday is heavy, put it down.
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 6:28pm
Here's the tweet on this
@WoodsDweller
Busted! https://t.co/KQfrqnp24D
So yeah it looks like his real numbers are down.
Nice catch!
So that leaves $1.6 million in other contributions, which could be from as few 300 large donors or 150 couples, or could be some legitimate number of reasonable donations. Again, in the range we saw for Harris.
It's still real money that he can use to get his campaign started, and the early money is the most important, but doesn't show unusual grassroots support.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 10:53pm
Maybe they're oil donors?
@WoodsDweller https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/beto-orourke-frien...
"The degree to which liberals are coming to inhabit an alternate reality, impenetrable by facts or reason, is actually frightening." -- Steve Maher
Submitted by Fishtroller 02 on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:20am
If you read the comment thread, there are a lot
of holes in the claims of this tweet.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 6:17pm
seems to me that it's fundamentally stupid
to produce a rolling average over 4 polls when various people were announcing their candidacies during the time frame.
From the archives: A young Senator from Illinois stumping for @BernieSanders in 2006, sounding the call to action for "honest" leadership that puts people ahead of drug companies. #NotMeUs #Bernie2020 pic.twitter.com/t1Vnaj9nyG
— ReasonablyAttractiveParent (@KindAndUnblind) March 18, 2019
Too bad that Obama's ideology never showed up.
Submitted by Le Frog on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 6:55pm
Does anyone think that Barack Obama would campaign for Bernie Sanders if he manages to win the nomination?
Not the current Obama who is out getting his rewards
@Le Frog
for protecting the banks. $400,000 for a speech is a nice chunk of change don't you think? On top of his and Michelle's $65 million for their books and whatever he's getting paid by Netflix. With these types of bennies who wouldn't want to be president?
The American presidency is basically a career move and no one
even tries to hide it anymore. The way the Obamas have enriched themselves thoroughly disgusts me. I was speaking to acquaintance about this, and she said something to the effect of, well, what else is he/they supposed to do? Gee... I don't know... does Habitat for Humanity not need anymore homes built? Does everyone in America know how to read? Is every abused animal rescued and homed? IF ONLY there was some way the Obamas could occupy their time!
Barry is just following Hills and Bill's example
Remember that they left the WH dead broke and immediately got a loan for $2 million which they then bought a house with a mortgage of $10,000 month. Sweet that the house came with lodgings for the secret service agents which they charged the government $10,000 month. Bill then started giving speeches for lotsa $$$$ while Hillary carpet bagged her way into a senate seat setting up Her running for president.
But you're right that there are a lot of houses that could be built for low income persons. This would help Barack minus the karma that he is due.
"The kids love him"
And the kids want to know what he stands for, exactly. (Not just the kids, I imagine.) I don't see the point of him in this race or him in general.
ETA: watching him reminds me of this video
Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 7:21pm
Two apiece...
Two from Hillary's donor syndicate (Harris, Booker).
Two from Obama's (Beto, Biden).
Let the games begin.
Peace Sells
Submitted by MrWebster on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 7:40pm
I am sorta with Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk)
He thinks that the big major donors are currently with Beto as they have surveyed the field and they see no other viable candidate. Well, the point of the choice is first and foremost to stop Bernie. Tulsi and Warren they think they have already defeated.
The primary season will be hard to watch as there will be dirty trick after dirty trick, and lie after lie aimed at Bernie.
Beto is Harris' backup plan
@MrWebster
There was so much hype about her candidacy, but that filtered out very quickly after she declared. Lotsa people heard his Iowa speeches and were left wondering what he said that pertained to what his campaign platform is based on.
In one picture of him talking to some women he's squatted down on a bar top. It looks very weird.
Lmao!!
Read this article about how no drama Beto arrived on the scene.
Beto wants to be like Obama, but is more like Trump
Just that headline is funny. It talks about how his wife sits next to him and doesn't say anything for almost 4 minutes... really it's a hoot.
Submitted by Centaurea on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 9:59pm
Amy O'Rourke
@snoopydawg I don't think Amy O'Rourke is a happy camper when it comes to her hubby seeking high political office. Jimmy Dore talks about how she cried for days when Beto told her he was running for Senate.
I feel a bit sorry for her, $$billions notwithstanding. She's married to a self-absorbed leech. Not a fun road to travel.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Submitted by Snode on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 7:54am
One of the perks of higher office
@Centaurea is horn dogging. He reminds me of someone. Anybody remember John Edwards?
#7.1.1 I don't think Amy O'Rourke is a happy camper when it comes to her hubby seeking high political office. Jimmy Dore talks about how she cried for days when Beto told her he was running for Senate.
Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:44am
@Snode and I wish him similar success.
#7.1.1.1 is horn dogging. He reminds me of someone. Anybody remember John Edwards?
Submitted by Bollox Ref on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 7:41pm
I love the smell of vapidity in the morning....
Is it the goofy grin? I seriously don't understand the whole Robert Francis O'Rourke 'thing'.
Sorry,.... Beto...... (my bad).
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The 3rd largest military budget in the world
I don't mean KSA. I mean just our spy budget alone is bigger than Russia's navy, air force, and army combined.
American intelligence spending could rise to nearly $86 billion, a 6 percent increase that reflects the Trump administration’s proposed boost in defense and national security spending and a renewed focus on threats from Russia and China.
The director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, released the overall proposed budget for American intelligence agencies on Monday, and the Pentagon also released its proposed intelligence spending for the fiscal year starting in October.
The budget covers expenses as diverse as spy satellites, cyberweapons and the C.I.A.’s network of overseas spies and informants. But neither the administration nor Congress releases details about the so-called black budget, which is classified.
Trump supposedly hates the intelligence industry...while giving them a huge budget increase.
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 10:08pm
You really can't compare them like that.
Russia and China don't pay their soldiers anything like what the USA does. Their procurement chains are not full of pork. And dollar comparisons with foreign currency conversions can be wildly inaccurate. for a start multiply China's figures by four. And the ruble doesn't have the international standing (world reserve currency, all oil business done in dollars) that the dollar does, so the currency conversions don't reflect actual buying power.
Better to compare on the number of soldiers, number and type of ships and aircraft, number of artillery pieces and the like. The Russian and Chinese forces will not look that small anymore.
Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:35am
well, for starters the chinese have one aircraft carrier,
@The Voice In the Wilderness @The Voice In the Wilderness
and the US has eleven.
with two under construction (1 will finish next year) and two more planned to launch in the next 15 years.
france has 1
the Royal Navy has 1 (and one under construction)
Russia has 1
italy has 2, but of course, they are "light" carriers. as they had to be.
india has 1, purchased from russia for $2.5 billion. contrast that with $10 billion price tag for our top-o-the-line gerald ford class carriers.
basically, our carrier fleet is twice the size of the rest of the world's, and our carriers are twice the size (or more) of those others, with the exception of the Royal Navy's 65,000 tonne version (ours run a bit over 100K tonnes). we literally have FOUR TIMES the carrier tonnage of the rest of the world.
similarly, our international footprint outweighs that of the rest of the planet. direct comparisons are difficult -- our 38 major foreign bases are outnumbered by the combined "major bases" of the rest of the world's military, but what gets counted as major for them gets ignored for us. realistically, even dismissing all the tiny little radar stations and whatnot, we have more meaningful permanent deployments abroad than all the other countries combined.
also, that 610 billion doesn't include the various research and other expenditures related to our nuclear weapons programs, nor the cost of the VA, or interest payments on war-driven debt, or widows' pensions.
i'm not sure what to say about pork, corruption and general inefficiency, but i'm fascinated to discover that you are privy to specific knowledge of the supply chains and other economic structures of the Russian and Chinese militaries. i expect the NSA and CIA would be eager to learn from you.
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 9:49pm
The aircraft carrier is a classic example of preparing for the
@UntimelyRippd last war. The carrier was new and innovative in WW II before I was born and I'm an old coot. The nuclear submarine trumps the Aircraft Carrier. Besides inertia and fighting the last war, the US needs/wants them because their is no other way for it to fight a war on the Eurasian continent. Russia and China are already there.
Who else has had them? England, Japan and the USA. England and Japan are island nations and North America is just another giant island.
#9.1 #9.1
Submitted by The Voice In th... on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:00pm
No. I learned about them as part of the USA supply chain
@UntimelyRippd in the 1970's.
Details were classified as "secret". Knowing classification mania, they probably still are.
Yes, I was part of the war machine or as I told a postal manager who was a reserve Naval officer (our plant manager actually) "one of those idiots in the bureau". That brought a smile to his face because EVERYONE in the field thinks of the DC establishment as "those idiots in the bureau". I was in the field (Great Lakes Naval Base) before our field activity was consolidated with one in Pennsylvania and I moved to DC instead. I figured as long as I had to move, it might as well be a career enhancing move.
Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 3:13am
Yemen ain't cheap.
Submitted by out of left field on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:18am
OK, let's do a real comparison
Let's compare the Russian navy to the U.S. How many aircraft carriers does the U.S. Navy have? Eleven, ten of which are currently operational. These are all modern, nuclear powered ships, that can cruise for years without refueling. How many aircraft carriers does Russia have? One, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which was built in the late 1980's. Here is a description of it in Wikipedia:
"Admiral Kuznetsov is conventionally powered by eight gas-fired boilers and four steam turbines, each producing 50,000 hp (37 MW), driving four shafts with fixed-pitch propellers. The maximum speed is 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph), and her range at maximum speed is 3,800 nautical miles (7,000 km; 4,400 mi). At 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph), her maximum economical range is 8,500 nautical miles (15,700 km; 9,800 mi).[citation needed]
Admiral Kuznetsov has been plagued by years of technical problems. The vessel's steam turbines and turbo-pressurised boilers have been reported to be so unreliable that the carrier is accompanied by a large ocean-going tug whenever it deploys, in case it breaks down. There are also flaws in the water piping system, which causes it to freeze during winter. To prevent pipes bursting, the water is turned off to most of the cabins, and half the latrines do not work.[16]"
I will add that the Kuznetsov does not have catapults for launching planes, but instead has a kind of ski-jump built into its front deck. Apparently, this more or less works.
According to Wikipedia, the Russian Navy has "Approx. 178 aircraft". The U.S. Navy currently has 2,623 manned aircraft, and the associated Marine Corp. adds another 1,304 aircraft. Plainly, when it comes to air power and the ability to deploy it abroad, there is simply no comparison between the Russian Navy and the U.S. Navy.
See my comment above.
@out of left field
You're spot on with your details, but I argue further that there is no comparison between the US Navy and all the other navies in the world combined. i mean, jesus, 4,000 aircraft.
The Russians don't need 11 carriers.
Let's compare the Russian navy to the U.S. How many aircraft carriers does the U.S. Navy have? Eleven, ten of which are currently operational.
They just need 11 hypersonic missiles.
That's about it
@Not Henry Kissinger and if this multi billion $ spy network is the same that got us into Iraq, we ain't getting our moneys worth.
Submitted by Wally on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 8:35am
Great discussion on military expenditures and might
@Snode Lots of points I never considered or this closely looked into before.
I'd also recommend a couple of books by Tom (Dispatch) Englehardt that provide some more details of US military and "global security" expenditures:
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
The United States of Fear
They are both published by Haymarket Books outta Chicago.
#10.2 and if this multi billion $ spy network is the same that got us into Iraq, we ain't getting our moneys worth.
Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:57am
Those carriers weren't built to threaten Russia
@Not Henry Kissinger @Not Henry Kissinger They were built for "gun boat diplomacy" against weaker armed opponents.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Submitted by Snode on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:10am
Add to that
@Steven D considering the time it takes to build up, equip and bring these carriers on line, the original type of enemy and warfare envisioned may have changed 100%. Sort of not going into the battle with the navy you want, but with the one you have.
#10.2 #10.2 They were built for "gun boat diplomacy" against weaker armed opponents.
Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:49pm
So was the Arizona...
@Steven D @Steven D
They were built for "gun boat diplomacy" against weaker armed opponents.
No matter how expensive, obsolete war tech platforms are only ever good as targets.
And a 'weaker armed opponent' with a Russian S-300 anti aircraft system and Chinese Silkworm anti-ship missiles is more of a threat to a US task force than the task force is to it.
So say the Iranians.
Point is, our industrial age obsession with the number of weapons and the size of the military budget bears very little relation any more to our actual ability to win a fight.
@Steven D
Called "power projection".
Submitted by aliasalias on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 1:35am
We do know this much...
"Former Obama bundler reaching out to top Democratic Party donors to gain support for Beto O'Rourke's 2020 candidacy
Obama bundler Louis Susman is actively working the donor circuit to increase support for Beto O'Rourke's 2020 campaign for president.
The former Obama backer has put together a string of senior Democratic Party donors who are willing to contribute to the former congressman's presidential operation.
In an interview with CNBC, Susman says he's been talking with family and friends about backing O'Rourke.
He also noted that all of his efforts are in "coordination with the campaign."
Susman is a senior advisor to Perella Weinberg Partners and Atlas Merchant Capital."
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/former-obama-bundler-reaches-out-to-dono...
Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 9:39am
The Robert Redford candidate
Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 5:03pm
I was wondering when someone would think of that movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Candidate_(1972_film)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Submitted by Lookout on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:06am
Sirota had a good analysis of his voting record
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/20/beto-orourke-congression...
Someone posted a great tweet that laid out why he would lose if nominated...
Peter Douche's Liaison @SilERabbit
Beto checks all the boxes:
✔️Voted to deregulate banks
✔️Loves AIPAC
✔️Supports fracking
✔️Voted with GOP a lot
✔️Voted to fast track TPP
✔️Broke No Fossil Fuel $ Pledge
✔️Didn't back Medicare4All
✔️Didn't back FightFor15
✔️Lost to Ted Cruz
HE'S PERFECT!
9:14 PM - Mar 13, 2019
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:00am
Beto = Baito
@Lookout
who best represents the new money sourced democratic party? According to the faithful it sure ain't ...
Listen to your higher mind.
@Lookout So he got those 6 mil $ in campaign contributions the old fashioned way, he earned it!
Submitted by EdMass on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:37pm
Here's a ?
How does one declare no PACs, no Corporate $ and then rake in Million$ from High Level Bundlers and then go on to claim "grass roots"?
Bundlers can donate way above the individual limit and say it's just fine?
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 4:08pm
Here's Beto's policies
Damn I didn't listen to him because I was distracted by his arm waving.
"When are we going to get an actual policy from you, instead of just platitudes and nice stories?" Beto O'Rourke is asked.
O'Rourke discusses health care, education, criminal justice reform: "I'm trying to describe not just the goal...but the path that we will take to get there" pic.twitter.com/SmIrc33CsE
— ABC News (@ABC) March 19, 2019
Hasn't anyone said anything to him about this? Ever?
Submitted by Wally on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 4:25pm
He even copied the arm waving from Vermin Supreme
@snoopydawg . . . but it's a lot more enjoyable when Vermin does it.
Submitted by wokkamile on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 6:30pm
I see a lot of
@snoopydawg bobbing and weaving too, lots of foot movement in addition to the arms and hands. He does not want to be stationary, to avoid being hit. Looks like he is in training for a boxing fight, lightweight division.
Submitted by Hetrose on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 1:14pm
Since he needed an appropriate handle
I have dubbed Beto, The Hollow Candidate. I believe that covers it all.
Submitted by WoodsDweller on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 7:21pm
In before this scrolls off the front page...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-orourke-presidential-campaign-fundra...
Beto O’Rourke told reporters Wednesday that the record $6.1 million he raised in the first 24 hours after his 2020 presidential announcement came from 128,000 contributors, who donated an average $47.
As unlikely as it sounds, I've got no reason to believe this isn't accurate. A little more than half of Sanders' contributors, three times the number Harris had for about four times her total.
I don't see any way to shoehorn a $4.5 million payment from the party into this.
showered his unsuccessful 2018 Senate race with a whopping $80 million ― the most of any Senate nominee in any state ever.
Looks like this guy is good at raising money.
Submitted by travelerxxx on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:18pm
I'm sure he's moved to the front of the line then. From what I can glean, this is the main (or perhaps only) requirement for endorsement by the Democratic party machine.
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Gentri's Best is a local producer of kasilyo, the native kesong puti (white cheese) of Cavite made from carabao's milk. Best served with pandesal and coffee, kasilyo has a soft, smooth texture with hints of sour and salty flavors.
Each palm-sized, round piece is handmade. Milk, mixed with vinegar, is boiled and stirred until it thickens. The congealed mixture is then shaped into a ball and soaked in brine until it's ready for packaging. Gentri's Best also makes another variety of kesong puti with no vinegar, which gives it a milder taste. Their other products include fresh milk, yoghurt, ice cream, and pastillas de leche.
Established as a cooperative in 2005, Gentri's Best operates a medium scale processing center and collects a daily average of 250 liters of carabao's milk from local raisers. Their products are sold in their own store in General Trias and distributed through Mr. Moo's dairy stores.
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GBR Museum features a visual narrative of Philippine history with its extensive collection of more than 3,000 original photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The defining piece is a photo of Dr. Jose Rizal's execution in Bagumbayan. Three of the five galleries contain landscape photos of Intramuros and other prominent pueblos in the 1800s; war photographs from the Spanish, American, and Japanese periods; and portraits of Filipino political leaders, indigenous peoples, and ordinary folks. Most of them are works of British photographer Albert Honiss and Spanish war correspondent Manuel Arias y Rodriguez. The two other galleries are about aviation history and development told through paintings and aircraft scale models. Located within the 180-hectare Gateway Business Park, the museum was named after its founder Geronimo Berenguer de los Reyes Jr., an industrialist and great grandson of a member of the 1872 Cavite Mutiny.
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The Myanmar government's reaction to offers of aid for the victims of the cyclone reminds me of President Bush's refusal of help after Hurricane Katrina, except the number of people needing help this time is on a much larger scale.
According to an article from the Associated Press today, President Bush criticized the Myanmar government's slow response and refusal to accept aid from other countries. He said, "Here they are with a major catastrophe on their hands, and (they) do not allow there to be the full kind of might of a compassionate world to help them."
However awkward his wording was, I agree with what Bush says in this quote. But it does seem to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
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Relief to the Katrina victims was delayed by Bush's determination to control everything, using military (including mercenary) force. American citizens were treated as criminals for wanting to survive. Aid was offered--relief organization had tires on the ground, boots on the ground, and were refused entry while people went hungry, thirsty, and died. And even after, there was virtually no effort made to evacuate people with family (let alone neighborhoods) and poor people, who most needed it, were not allowed back in to salvage their own possessions from their own homes lest there be "looting."
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"Immediately after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 1,500 Cuban doctors volunteered to come to the Gulf Coast. They waited with packed bags and medical supplies, and a ship ready to provide backup support. Permission from the U.S. government never arrived."
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NIOSH HPD Well-Fit™: The Future is Fit-Testing
Posted on May 31, 2013 by Captain William J. Murphy, Ph.D.; Dr. Mark R. Stephenson, Ph.D.; Captain David C. Byrne, M.S. CCC-A; Christa L. Themann, M.S. CCC-A
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory
Today is Save Your Hearing Day. For workers and others who are exposed to dangerously loud noises which cannot be reduced or eliminated, hearing protection devices (HPDs) are absolutely necessary to save their hearing. But if HPDs are not properly selected or correctly worn, the devices may not block out enough noise and the wearer may still risk a loss of hearing. How can a person tell if their HPDs are fit correctly? A new development from NIOSH – HPD Well-FitTM – can quickly and inexpensively test the performance of hearing protection. This fit testing technology is a huge advancement in efforts to save workers’ hearing.
HPD fit-testing is not a new concept, and several fit-testing systems have been developed over the past decade. However, until now, limitations of fit-testing technology have made it impractical to implement on-the-job. Commercially-available systems require expensive specialized equipment and can take as long as 30 minutes to complete a test. For many employers, these barriers prohibit widespread implementation of fit-testing at their jobsite. Furthermore, some systems can only test certain HPDs or require specially-modified hearing protectors. NIOSH developed the HPD Well-Fit™ fit-testing system specifically to address these technical limitations and provide a feasible method to obtain measures of earplug performance in the workplace. HPD Well-FitTM utilizes technology that is built into just about every computer sold today, requires only 4-7 minutes to measure HPD performance, and can be used with any earplug.
Using the computer’s mouse as the input device and a high-definition audio output board, HPD Well-FitTM generates the sounds required to fit-test a worker’s hearing protector with the addition of sound-isolating headphones. The speed of the test makes it feasible to re-train and re-test the worker until mastery in fitting the protector has been achieved. HPD Well-FitTM incorporates PC-based video training especially developed by NIOSH for this purpose. This training has been proven to be both very quick and effective. The Personal Attenuation Rating (PAR), a measurement of a hearing protector’s ability to reduce noise for an individual, is calculated using a unique algorithm developed by NIOSH scientists. As a result, HPD Well-FitTM makes it possible to quantify an individual’s noise exposure and ensure that it is safe, rather than relying on best guesses based on noise measurements and a general estimate of earplug attenuation. The impact of this capability on worker hearing health cannot be overstated, and recently won HPD Well-FitTM the NIOSH Bullard-Sherwood Award for Research to Practice.
HPD Well-FitTM has been tested in several field and laboratory studies. In February 2012, HPD Well-FitTM was used to assess the protection of inspectors and engineers responsible for off-shore oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. These workers were exposed to noise levels of 110 dB(A) on a regular basis as they flew to and from the off-shore platforms in helicopters. Fit-testing was completed for 74 workers at four regional offices in the course of two days. Workers who did not achieve a PAR of at least 25 dB (sufficient to reduce their exposure to the NIOSH recommended exposure limit of 85 dB[A]) were reinstructed or refit with a different hearing protector to help them achieve an appropriate protection level . As Figure 1 shows, 92% of the workers were able to achieve the 25-dB PAR. Due to time constraints, it was not always feasible to hold the workers after their assigned shifts and some that were close to the 25-dB PAR were not retested.
In a second field study, workers that perform sandblasting operations for the Grand Coulee Dam were fit-tested using HPD Well-FitTM. The sandblasters’ A-weighted time-weighted average exposures were as high as 118 dBA. With sandblasting activities having durations of up to two hours, there was concern that some workers’ hearing protectors may not have provided adequate protection. Using HPD Well-FitTM, NIOSH demonstrated that the workers received 30 dB or more attenuation from their protectors. Armed with this information, it was possible to conclude that workers’ exposures did not exceed either the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit or the NIOSH recommended exposure limit. Furthermore, five workers involved with sandblasting were fit-tested before and after a work shift to demonstrate that the hearing protection was not shifting during their work. The second figure illustrates the overall attenuations before and after a work shift and the change in attenuation between the two measurements.
NIOSH has licensed HPD Well-FitTM to Michael and Associates which markets it as FitCheck Solo. Custom Protect Ear and Moldex also offer Fit Check Solo*§. NIOSH is working closely with HPD manufacturers, universities, professional associations, and testing laboratories to further develop and standardize HPD fit-testing technologies. In the coming year, we expect to complete an American National Standard for qualifying the performance of fit-test systems. This standard will ensure that all systems meet minimum standards for measuring hearing protector attenuation and calculate a PAR in a uniform way. Rather than relying on the noise reduction rating posted on hearing protector packaging, workers and consumers can now measure the fit of their personal protectors. The future for hearing protection is fit-testing.
Captain William J. Murphy, Ph.D.; Dr. Mark R. Stephenson, Ph.D.; Captain David C. Byrne, M.S. CCC-A; Christa L. Themann, M.S. CCC-A
CAPT Murphy is a physicist and is co-leader of the Hearing Loss Prevention Team in the NIOSH Division of Applied Research and Technology. CAPT Murphy is an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr. Stephenson is a research audiologist and the coordinator for the Hearing Loss Prevention Cross Sector Research Program and is a member of the Hearing Loss Prevention Team in the NIOSH Division of Applied Research and Technology.
CAPT Byrne is a research audiologist in the Hearing Loss Prevention Team in the NIOSH Division of Applied Research and Technology. CAPT Byrne is an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Miss Christa L. Themann is a research audiologist in the Hearing Loss Prevention Team in the NIOSH Division of Applied Research and Technology.
*References to products or services do not constitute an endorsement by NIOSH or the U.S. government.
§ Additional companies added 3/10/2016.
Categories Agriculture, Construction, Hearing Loss, Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas, Personal Protective Equipment
11 comments on “NIOSH HPD Well-Fit™: The Future is Fit-Testing”
Alberto Behar says:
Looks great!!!
How much does the Well-Fit cost?
Mark Stephenson and William Murphy says:
HPD Well-Fit is commercially available from Michael and Associates http://www.michaelassociates.com/ Please contact them for pricing information.
Pam Gunn says:
While I think that this sort of personalised testing is an excellent idea we need to know whether the results can be ascribed to the Well-Fit test itself.
The results could be simply a generalised training effect that could be achieved by almost any sort of intervention and not specifically by the Well-Fit test.
Did any of the field trials mentioned in the blog have a control group that only received training without the fit-testing, and if so are there are any published peer-reviewed papers on this?
William Murphy says:
No, we did not have a control group that only received training without the fit-testing. The following papers address the “training only option” to which you refer.
Murphy, W. J., Stephenson, M. R., Byrne, D. C., WItt, B. K., & Duran, J. (2011). Effects of training on hearing protector attenuation. Noise and Health, 13(51), 132–141. doi:10.4103/1463–1741.77215.
Joseph A, Punch J, Stephenson MR, Paneth N, Wolfe E, Murphy WJ. The effects of training format on earplug performance. Int J Audiol 2007;46:609-18.
ASIT says:
good one but can you please tell me something more about the cost and few more things really a great approach !
Bill Murphy says:
Thank you for your comment. An approximate initial investment for a commercial fit-test system for hearing protectors is about $3000. Depending upon the system that is purchased, there are also consumables that will add to the cost. At NIOSH, we have purchased several commercially available systems for testing and the prices have ranged from about $2500 to $3800. Systems are continually being upgraded and pricing will change.
Other fit-test options that have not been fully investigated are web-based or native apps for mobile devices to conduct fit-testing. NIOSH has developed an iOS version of HPD Well-Fit as well as an HTML-5 implementation as a research tool. The iOS app worked well, but given that NIOSH is a research institute and not a commercial app developer, we have determined not to pursue commercialization of the iOS app given the lack of a funding model to maintain the app. A web-based application, such as the HTML-5 implementation, may prove to be useful. However, the user should be aware of the effect on attenuation when choosing headphones, testing room and the device (desktop, laptop or mobile). To my knowledge none of the web-based or native applications for mobile devices have been rigorously compared to a laboratory fit-test system.
Michael Kalar says:
I have used the Fit-Check for the last 10 years and along with in-the-ear dosimetry (ITED)* technology have been able make a significant reduction in the number of hearing shifts at our location. The personal attenuation data provides an excellent opportunity to train employees on why they need to wear a specific style of HPD’s.
Great tool!
*edited by NIOSH to remove product name
Steve Wilson says:
There are several commercial systems on the market for fit testing. Has there been any kind of independent review of available systems that might aid in the selection of one for use? My impression is that these are non-regulated devices. Can they be certified or calibrated for accuracy?
Fit-test systems are currently unregulated. NIOSH conducted a comparison of three fit-testing systems tested at four laboratories: NIOSH, Michael & Associates, Honeywell and US Army Aeromedical Laboratory. We reported the result of the study at the NHCA conference in Las Vegas (2014) for the first 3 labs, and then again in November 2015 at the 170th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in Jacksonville FL. We have also drafted an article for publication and submitted it to the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, which is currently in peer review and we hope will be published soon. The systems tested were the NIOSH HPD Well-Fit™ , Honeywell VeriPRO, and Michael & Associates FitCheck. HPD Well-Fit and FitCheck exhibited about +- 2 dB agreement with the laboratory sound-field system. The VeriPRO underestimated the sound field attenuations and had a larger error.
3M has conducted a test of the performance of the EARFit hearing protector validation system. Two papers have been published by Jeremie Voix, Jan Pienkowski and Aidan Delnavaz from E’cole de Technologie Supe’rieure (ETS) and another paper by Nicolas Trompette and Alain Kusy from the Institut National de Rechearche et de Securite’ (INRS). The ETS report was a contracted report from 3M to evaluate the EARFit system. The INRS paper was a proceedings paper from the 2013 InterNoise Conference held in Innsbruck Austria The EARFit system exhibited good agreement with the laboratory sound field method.
Several other fit-test systems are available both in the U.S. and in Europe. I am unaware of validation tests performed with these other systems.
LCDR Andrew Hayes says:
Michael Kalar,
I would like to know more specifics on the in-the-ear dosimetry (ITED)* technology
What COTS system do you use? What is available today?
To me the objective answer to this issue insertion loss measurements using a microphone instead of the subject’s input.
V/R,
LCDR Hayes
Andrew.hayes@usmc.mil
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Marianne Combs February 8, 2011, 9:43 AM Feb 8, 2011
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the State Theatre: A private conversation
At the State Theatre on Monday night, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett made fans’ dreams come true–not once, not twice, but three times. Surely it was a dream come true for many audience members just to see the two performers on stage together, but more specifically, the two actually took shouted requests–promptly.
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The Decemberists at the State Theater, 02/06/11
In the end, there was something for everyone on offer at the State Theater on Sunday evening.
– Erik Thompson, City Pages
Dillinger Four, Paint It Black, and others crush the Triple Rock, 2/4/11
If there’s been one ironically consistent thing about Dillinger Four shows over the past 17 years, it’s how utterly unpredictable–performance, banter, crowd, the whole package–they can be.
– Tigger Lunney, City Pages
Thomas Kivi CD Release and Communist Daughter at the Fine Line, 02/04/2011
In a music industry plagued with vapid smoke and mirrors gimmicks, rampant pretension, and ludicrously tight pants accompanied by laughably large sunglasses worn indoors — i.e. the Superbowl Halftime Show — it is refreshing to see musicians that take pride in honest songcraft.
– Pat Dougherty, City Pages
The Decemberists and Mountain Man at the State Theatre: Return to glory
Their Minneapolis show Sunday night at the State Theatre opened with “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade” from their debut album. While it was a nice precursor to a setlist culled from all six of their records, opening with a 10-minute slow-building song isn’t exactly the best way to get an audience’s blood pumping.
– Kyle Matteson, TC Daily Planet
Slug of Atmosphere: ‘Prince was a s****y version of Rick James and Parliament’
There’s a bit of a kerfuffle happening on the interwebs today surrounding a new interview with Slug of Atmosphere published by Pitchfork.
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A ‘Winter’s Tale’ well-told
The Guthrie’s production of the late Shakespeare play seduces with its style and performances.
– ROHAN PRESTON, Star Tribune
A ‘Tale’ of two halves
In the end, you just have to deal with the troubles of The Winter’s Tale and take the pleasures that are provided. The Guthrie has a top-notch cast, a striking design and a piece that moves fairly well, even at three hours in length. And the bear is pretty cool too.
– Ed Huyck, City Pages
Things are not as they seem in suburbia
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A mother’s life during wartime
By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Barbra Berlovitz is chilling as the famous Brecht antiheroine.
– LISA BROCK, Star Tribune
Shirley Valentine to midlife rut: Let the sunshine in
Actor Cheryl Willis brings a natural winning charm to this character who has the courage to change her life.
“Shirley Valentine,” you can’t be serious! I am serious, and I’m at the Jungle Theater
Is Shirley Valentine life-altering? No, but I don’t think it means to be. Life-affirming? Certainly. It’s good to be reminded every now and again not to let your life slip by you without savoring it.
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McKnight 2010 Screenwriting Fellows present work on Tuesday night
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Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line
Whatever was said and done in the Georgia locker room at halftime yesterday, Mark Richt needs to gather that all together, crumple it into a little ball, douse it with gasoline, set it on fire and bury the ashes at sea. Boy, what a letdown.
My question from watching that game isn’t whether Georgia had to play perfectly to beat an excellent LSU team – Georgia, after all, was winning 10-0 mid-second quarter despite two brutal whiffs on touchdown passes by King and Mitchell – but whether Georgia’s best effort of the year would have been enough to pull off the upset.
We’ll never know, of course, but that halftime lead, the only one which LSU has faced the entire season, suggests it would have at least been a close call. That it never came to that in the end I think boiled down to three key spots in the game:
Georgia’s second series of the second quarter. I don’t know if was the result of the Dawgs’ worst field position of the game up to that point, lack of faith in the receivers after numerous drops, a desire to shorten the first half or complete faith in what Grantham’s defense was doing, but Bobo’s play selection was a disaster. Two Crowell runs that were easily stuffed for little gain and a slow developing pass play which resulted in a huge sack put Georgia back at its own three for a punt. Up until then, Bobo had been aggressive, calling for passes on first down frequently; if he didn’t have Chavis back on his heels, he at least had him guessing. The only first down Georgia gained over the rest of the first half was via a personal foul penalty and the Dawgs wouldn’t get their next one until the waning moments of the third quarter with the game already out of hand.
Touchdown, Tyrann Mathieu. This, of course, was Georgia’s immediate reward for Bobo’s play calls. Given its special teams struggles over the season, punting to Mathieu with Butler standing on the end line was a risky proposition to begin with, but with the way the Dawgs’ defense was playing, ignoring the lower risk strategy of a kick towards the sidelines was unnecessary. It was Russian roulette and the gun went off in Georgia’s face. It didn’t cost Georgia the lead, but you could sense the energy and confidence sliding back to LSU’s side of the stadium in the aftermath.
The Murray fumble. Statistically speaking, Aaron Murray is going to enjoy a better career at Georgia than David Greene, but Greene is still my gold standard for Georgia quarterbacks of the Richt era simply because he learned early on about playing within himself and not trying to do too much. That’s a lesson Murray hasn’t learned yet (to be fair, it’s one that Shockley and Stafford struggled with, too). You can’t help but love his competitiveness but that desire to make something happen when everyone around him isn’t gets him in trouble,and such was the case on the opening series of the second half. Not only was it a huge momentum shift at the worst possible time, but it also served to throw the defense’s mindset, which had been rock solid in the first half, completely out of sync. Ten minutes later, the game was over.
I’m not in the mood to bore you with my usual series of bullet points. Instead, I’ll leave you with some of my feelings walking out of the Dome.
It’s been a good year for Georgia football. Richt has righted the ship. This team proved in the first half that it deserved to be in the SECCG. And the loss, while certainly disappointing, can serve to be a platform for better days.
There are plenty of lessons to be learned. Some are pretty obvious: the running game needs shoring up with better (and more reliable) personnel, depth is a high priority on the offensive line and special teams personnel also needs upgrading (huge difference in speed between LSU’s coverage teams and Georgia’s). That’s all fixable with continued success on the recruiting front. And strength and conditioning, while improved, still has a ways to go.
But the biggest challenge that lies ahead is about attitude. This team learned how to compete again. Now it needs to learn how to finish. It’s good enough to take off a play or two and still whip Georgia Tech. And it can survive losing its cool against an improving Vanderbilt team. But not giving your best 100% of the time against a beast like LSU… well, that gets you beat by 32 points. If Georgia’s players and coaches want to return the program to the élite status it enjoyed a few years ago, that’s the biggest thing they need to absorb from yesterday’s loss.
If I’m Greg McGarity, that’s the discussion I’m having with my head football coach in the upcoming weeks. After mentioning how much I enjoyed watching the defense’s play in the first half, of course.
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197 responses to “Semi-tough: Observations from the goal line”
UGAfoo
The hardest part for me to stomach was how it seemed like we just laid down and quit. Maybe that was a result of losing faith in the offense after CMB seemed to go conservative in the second quarter combined with a reenergized LSU team.
After a spectacular first half, the defense was a let down in the second half as well. Even after Murray fumble I thought we would be able to stuff them for a FG.
I knew we had to play a perfect game. The fumble, two INTs, dropped passes, and horrific punt coverage put an end to our SECC hopes.
CTG doesn’t get paid enough.
BTW, Senator you were 100% correct about VT. My apologies.
I don’t think the defense quit so much as completely lost its focus. You can’t get away with that against a team as good as LSU.
And seemed to tire out. I saw limping, hands on hips and slow motion movements of an exhausted group. S&C could be better but I think the fatal flaw in the entire game was our lack of quality depth across the board. They simply wore us down.
Scorpio Jones, III
This, of course. More than play calling which did not meet our standards (Although I have never understood exactly what those are…plays that work are good calls, plays that don’t, whatever the reason are bad calls.)
LSU played at least 10 or 12 defensive linemen during the game. We played five.
But, of course, Mike Bobo should be fired because of our lack of depth on the defensive line.
Ah Scorpio you have stumbled upon the quintessential standard for criticizing an offensive coordinator: if a play works it is a good call, if it does not work it is a bad call. Go over and read the in-game posts at dawgsports sometimes it is hilarious in how much it verifies that view point. If we throw a deep pass on first down and it works, it goes something like this: “Yesssssssssssss! Go Tavarres Go!”; “Touchdown baaaaaaabbbbbbyyyyyy!” no one says, “boy what a bad call, but I’ll take the TD”. If it does not work its more like this…”First and bomb, great call Bobo, chump.”; “Why not try and establish a ground game there so we don’t have second and long” blah, blah, blah.
Why did UGA lose the SEC Championship Game? To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the refs stupid.” When LSU needed help the refs gave it to ’em. That and not enough depth, none at RB.
Scott W.
The offense had regressed back to the point of leaving the D out to dry which had been kept to a minimum since the second game. That and LSU is relentless and deep.
LSU’s relentlessness comes from the depth. One team could stand up to its offense not moving the ball for half the game and the other could not. And that’s why Alabama and LSU are better than everyone else in the country.
gatorhater27
Geez, I thought oversigning didn’t give a competitive advantage. Strange that the two biggest oversigners are the top 2 teams in the country.
No one ever said it didn’t give an advantage. Insider trading gives an advantage and like oversigning it is wrong.
Insider trading is illegal. Oversigning is not.
Noonan
Bingo. Imagine an NFL team with 10 more guys on the roster than their opponent. They would dominate also. Unfortunately “oversigning” is not agaist the rules.
No but it is ethically wrong. I should’ve been more clear.
Which brings it around to the point: If oversigning is legal and you don’t do it then you are at a disadvantage against teams that do (read: LSU and Bama).
Not to confuse the issue or anything, but I thought Ole Miss was the most egregious oversigner in the league…which puts a different perspective on the argument for damn sure.
Hackerdog
And we aren’t deep. Crowell wasn’t. healthy. Behind him, we have two backs under 180lbs. And the better of those two couldn’t play in the second half.
Our starting five offensive linemen had to go against a group of defensive linemen that were kept fresh throughout the game by substitution.
We need more linemen, more running backs, and more special teams athletes.
H-Town Dawg
That’s what it’s all about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!
Tyronn Mathieu was recruited, but not offered, by Bama and Tennessee. When he wasn’t LSU picked him up as an afterthought. There is more luck involved in recruiting than anyone wants to recognize.
As an outsider, I agree with you–the U.Ga. defense seemed to lose its focus and its confidence. LSU’s entire team seemed to sharpen its focus and confidence. I think the Dogs played hard and didn’t quit.
Red Blackman
I agree, for the most part.
Now, for the truth as I see it……
You can place Georgia’s offensive woes on attrition and poor coaching from a former assistant. I am sorry but Carlton Thomas, Richard Samuel and Brandon Harton are not SEC caliber tailbacks. The dismissal of Meshaun Ealey and Dontavious Jackson coupled with the ignorance of Caleb King put Georgia in a huge hole from a depth standpoint.
The offensive line coaching and talent evaluation under Stacy Searles was a complete joke. We have been reduced to four guards and a center for an offensive line. I’m pretty sure that given the time, Will Friend will return the Georgia offensive line into an elite pro style offensive line.
All in all I am pleased with the progress this year. We need some depth at running back and OT. As it stands right now, we have no elite offensive tackles on the roster. For the style of offense we run, that is a huge problem. Thank you, Stacy Searles.
As for the defense, all I can say is ….Wow. Nice game fellas.
It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog.
Cojones
Yea. Thanks Red. And thanks go to Bluto who put up more material than possible to follow and comment on Fri..
Not sour grapes, but LS Lieux held like they were in love with our receivers after the ball was in the air while the refs stared at and did not call it. Did anyone notice that IGA receivers only looked questioning toward the refs using their hands, but no hanky-snatching drivel mimicry. That affected our O as much as dropped passes. Jus’ sayin’.
They still will be fun to watch in the bowl. It will be interesting to watch the recruiting and follow the summer prep after the Spring Game. Go Dawgs! and thanks for picking it up last summer. Knowing we are better than our record, the insertion of Rome and Drew next year and the buildup to next season will capture our interest and , I imagine , will make for good blog-cheering and discussion.
G Marmalard
No sour grapes but . . . Does anybody else feel like bama and lsu have about 25% more players than the rest of us. Is this the fruit of oversigning? And if so why don’t we get on board ? Seriously. Do u think guys prima dona when they know there are 3 more just as good and somebody has to go? I feel like ga got beat by a roster yesterday. Not scheme not execution by lsu, just a huge army of athletes with endless reinforcements.
AusDawg85
Take away the extra players and we still get beat…that’s a good team. But we handle discipline differently, recruiting differently, graduation rates differently, etc. They do it their way to win. We do it our way because it’s right. When the standards aren’t the same, don’t expect fair and equal outcomes.
Please don’t go all GT on us and start making excuses.
Do you think that Richt wouldn’t dismiss a player engaged in a parking lot stomping/beating? He dismissed Mettenberger for playing grab-ass before Murray had established himself as the starter.
I disagree. We have over 100 guys on the roster, same as most other teams. We’ve got to build depth and strength.
Look at Mike Gilliard. The only reason he got to start and play early on was because of injuries. Turns out he was pretty good. We’ve got other guys like him on the sidelines. We just need to continue to evaluate them and develop them. We’ll get there.
Right on, AusDawg85.
Macallanlover
Oversigning is the elephant in the room regarding quality depth, imo. I still don’t want UGA to go down that path by exploiting recruits and players, but the NCAA/SEC offices need to curtail this practice by setting standards that must be adhered to. I recommend allowing everyone to oversign by 2-3 to allow for attrition AND allow them to keep those extra signees of they are able to keep everyone eligible. This isn’t a whine, but we may have the same number of players with a uni, but we are way below the “real” scholly numbers, and we were in August/September.
The game was won by LSU last night for two reasons: 1) OL could not block well enough even if we had every running back on hand for the last two years and, 2) our ST coverage and blocking is totally unacceptable. Everyone can stretch and try to blame Bobo for a paly call here or there (what team couldn’t after the fact), but the coaches did not lose this game. UGA had a chance, we squandered it. Even this close to a emotional game where we went from the mountain top to the pits, I still like the direction we are heading.
Attaboy, Mac! Let’s hold the fan line in keeping with what we ask of our team.
As usual, spot on Senator. I’m too dazed as well to dwell on deep analysis at this point. Scratching my head about CMB’s decisions and lack of depth in key positions were fatal flaws in both games at the Dome.
It’s been a very good season…better than most expected, and showed promise for the future. But I hope both the AD and HC are truly able to see the situation for what it is, and commit to further improvement. To sit back now and just recruit “5 stars” thinking that’s all that is missing would be tragic.
baltimore dawg
so you do blame bobo. . . .
The way the team prepares and shows up for the bowl game will show how much things have been turned around. Showing up each day for practice with a sense of urgency and playing the game with passion will truly demonstrate that things are back on track. I believe (hope) they are, but the next month will be a critical time for both the staff and the future of this particular set of returning players.
Rusdawg
They need to approach the bowl game as if it was a season opener. This will be the opening salvo of the 2012 season. We’re done with 2011. Everything from today forward is about 2012.
No. Please don’t treat it like the season opener.
The Original Cynical in Athens
3 plays in the game:
1. The blocks in the back on the punt return. Yes, it was stupid to punt the ball right to the guy, but if the refs do their job, we go into the half up at least 10-0.
2. The Murray fumble. You summed it up perfectly, Senator. All Murray has to do is not f*ck it up. A punt was a win in that game. And then he f*cked it up by trying to be a hero again.
3. The horse collar on Cornelius Washington. Pretty much summed up the 2nd half. We finally made a great play to stop them and it ends up being one of their better offensive plays of the night.
I still have no idea what happened. Strangest game I have ever seen. Only thing I can compare it to is that ’96 or ’97 UK basketball team with Mercer, Delk, Walker, etc, when you were playing even with them for 8 minutes and look up and your suddenly down by 10 without them or you really doing anything of note.
The result of the game was why i had been hoping all year that Scu would have to be the recipient of that beatdown last night. Everything good that happened throughout the season must now be called into question. Murray once again pissed his pants in an important game. The dropsies came out for the first time this season. Bobo rolled over and freaked out as soon as the going got tough. This team would have been a lot better off not playing in this game, beating up on some mediocre Big 10 team in a bowl game and going into next year riding high. Now, all of the warts that had been hidden for 10 weeks are fully exposed again and we have to wonder if they will somehow gain the mental fortitude to overcome them next year?
Yeah, trying to run up-field on a closing pocket to pick up big first down on a critical second half opening drive is “f*ck(ing) it up by trying to be a hero” and the 14pts of dropped passes, along with other drops, were sign that he “once again pissed his pants in an important game.” Great analysis.
Gary Danielson made one decent point all night. At one point when Murray took off he yelled, “just slide.” The kid just needs to learn that with a defense as good as UGA’s, a punt it not a bad thing.
As soon as we lost the field position battle, we lost the game. LSU completed 5 passes. They had two drives of over 36 yards, both of which were late in the game. Murray has to learn to understand the concept of time and place within the framework of the game being played. Last night was a battle of attrition, and failed to grasp the importance of field position.
Agreed, but if he slides there < 2yds shy of the sticks then people in the stands and on the boards are talking about a lack of heart and unwillingness to lay it on the line in an SECCG. Trying to "be a hero" would be throwing into triple coverage or be Fran Tarkenton and scrambling 30yds deep only to get sacked. Murray, with his mistakes yesterday, was NOT the problem and he hardly "pissed his pants" or "fucked it up."
SCDawg
Agree, Murray did not piss his pants. That’s just silly and more than a little unfair to a kid who always leaves it all on the field.
You and the Mayor are the same person or at least friends.
No. I disclaim any and all responsibility. I also do not think Murray did anything but try his guts out.
“Trying to be a hero” suggests a level of ego to Murray that I don’t think is a fair characterization. To me, the kid’s been a consummate team player. He just tried to do too much there. You hope he learns from it.
Cosmic Dawg
Murray did what he was supposed to – he tried to get the first down. He just fumbled. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t try to run the ball occasionally, it means he should try to fumble less.
How the hell do you “try to fumble less”? Shit happens from a cognitive sense of not trying? You were correct to begin with, “He just fumbled.” End of story.
Zdawg
Is there a ‘Best of Les Miles halftime speeches’ available? Might be a good stocking stuffer for coach. Just sayin’…
At the end of the game he said that he had no halftime speech. They just reminded everyone to do what they always do; – play hard and win.
Get a running game that you can count on and the rest will take care of itself. Once their d-line took away the run in the second quarter it was over and nothing grantham, richt or bobo could say or do was going to change the outcome. I just hope that IC gets it together mentally and physically and that he and Marshall can carry the load in 2012. If so we’ll be playing in this game next year.
Good and succintly analytic post, Derek. No need for us to nitpick players or coaches.
Depth, depth, depth. I understand the attitude part you reference, but that game was about quality, ready to play depth. If I’m McGarity I asking Richt how they plan to better manage the number of players on the team. I’m all for the feel good story of walkons being awarded scholarships, and that will continue as players do stupid things to get shown the door, but it’s clear to me that the roster is too thin and has too many kids that should be playing FCS instead of SEC football. Part of that is the coaches had to play with what was dealt by poor evaluation, coaching and behavior, but Richt has to find a way to bring balance in numbers back to the squad.
+1. When guys don’t have it like it or not CMR has to show ’em the door. They are taking up a scholarship and a spot on the 85 list that should go to someone else. Roster management. That is the bottom line.
Duuuh. What do you think he did this year?
I think he awarded a bunch of schollys to kids that are probably great students, do more than what is asked and weren’t good enough physically to be offered SEC scholarships.
I support Richt, but he and McGarity need to get a strategy together to eliminate the inability to fill a full roster with true scholarship players and not walk-ons that were awarded scholarships because the staff failed to get a full complement of players. It won’t eliminate the King’s and Ealey’s from fucking the numbers, but you can’t sign 20 when you need 25.
I also understand how productive the 2011 recruiting class has been and the staff did a good job putting it together. I’ll also note that it’s sad that they felt the need to call it a “Dream Team”. Richt is coaching in a state where every year could bring a “Dream Team” like haul. What made it highlighted was that Richt certainly didn’t have any “Dream Team” classes the previous three years and his rep in recruits homes have been hurt by the product on the field and his job status. Recruiting and roster management are huge if you intend to compete in this conference and our guy has to get better at it.
The ATH
Maybe that’s a negative, but maybe not. The last time we really “finished strong” after avoiding the sec champ was ’07. That team wasnt very hungry coming in number one.
Will (the other one)
I agree. If the coaches can use the whipping we took yesterday as a teachable moment throughout the offseason, we’re better off going 11-3 than 11-2, because now they know just how high the bar for a MNC is, and that the 10-game streak was nice, but there’s still more work to be done.
Good thought, (the other one). You realize those initials spell “too” as in “me too”, don’t you?
Andy Coleman
Senator, you’re right on about that series being the pivotal point in the game. That series was followed by 3 more just like it, even into the 3rd quarter. Bobo stalled, and the crap hit the fan.
If you think I’m pinning the loss on Bobo, you’re overstating my point.
I know you’re not on the new OC train like I have been for the past four years, I’m just amazed that you admit how crucial it was when we nutted up on that series.
Do you recognize that there may be a direct correlation between play calling changing all of the sudden during a game, and Murray going all bankers mid game?
Both Bobo and Murray were dealing with an offensive line physically challenged all night, running backs who had trouble hitting the holes faster than LSU’s linebackers closed them and receivers who couldn’t hold on to passes to save their lives.
I really doubt Murray was thinking to himself on that third down play, “I gotta do something here… Bobo’s playcalling is killing us.” He was just a kid in a pressure situation trying to make a play to help his team. It blew up. Hopefully he’ll learn from his mistake. That’s all I recognize.
I bet Murray wondered why he was handing it off up the gut on 1st and 2nd down for the 4th possession in a row, only to have Crowell/Thomas run into a wall. There are ways to neutralize D-lines, and off tackle dives and draws on 1st and 2nd down are not them.
“There are ways to neutralize D-lines”? How closely were you watching the game? It wasn’t just LSU’s d-line that was an issue. Those linebackers were obscenely fast closing down the gaps. It was clear that Georgia’s running backs weren’t prepared for that. Although to be fair, until you play against them, I’m not sure how you could be prepared.
Ok, let me change my post to “neutralize fronts”. Either way, same point. Please understand that I think LSU was a better team than the Dawgs. But, I don’t want that to be the case in a few years. I want what is best for this team, and in my (I’m a virtual nobody, but a loyal alum/fan none-the-less) opinion, Bobo ain’t it! Bobo makes top dollar, and we have proven (Grantham) that top dollar can get you a whole lot more if you pick wisely.
Rocketdawg
Bobo does not in fact make “top dollar” by OC standards (I think his salary was somewhere in the $200-250,000 range). Regardless of that fact there was nothing Bobo could do last night, the line couldn’t block after the first few series, our RB’s didn’t hit what small holes were there before they closed, and nobody was getting open against those DB’s. In order to “neutralize” aggresive defenses one would normally run screens and draws, in the case of last night the two bubble screens we ran (and a swing pass to Carlton Thomas) lost yardage, while the draws were losing yardage after the D linemen were shedding their blocks and gobbling up our guys behind the line of scrimmage. Bobo was calling the game safe in order to prevent the “big mistake” which would let LSU back in the game and unfortunately that happened anyway. There was really no other option to turn to, they were squatting on our short routes with safety help over the top. We lost to one of the best defenses in recent memory, with all the youth we have on our offense there is no shame in that.
The receivers sure looked open to me before the play calling took a dive. Some of you are failing to realize that the crap hit the fan AFTER our play calling changed drastically.
P.S. Bobo will make almost $400,000 this year after bonuses. That ranks him in the top 10% of OC’s in the nation. Go look it up if you don’t believe me.
Maybe you should try and walk on if you think that you could hit those receivers last night. They may have looked “open” but they weren’t, that is what zone coverage looks like. I saw a front 7 for LSU whipping our OLine and zone coverage to take away the outs and slants with safety help over the top.
I was a walk on on the UGA baseball team back in 1998, then I got my hand amputated in a wreck. I’m not nearly as accurate with the one that’s left.
According to this:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2010-coaches-contracts-database.htm
He was around 40th out of 907 for 2010, but he got a decent raise this year and about 5-10 that were above him got head coaching jobs.
That’s all assistants mind you, not just OC’s. I’m sure the Senator knows a better database to look that up. I’ve got a crying 6 month old, so I gotta get off this thing! Peace out Dawg fans!
“Peace out” yourself, Andy. You have serious flaws in your reasoning and your anti-Bobo rant. We put that crap to bed on here or perhaps you haven’t kept up very well. Your criticisms are over the top and you ignore the arguments that settled that in most fans minds a couple of months ago. Since you chose to ignore the good analytical input on here that righted the fan’s minds concerning Bobo, we should just ignore you. Everything you say in “MM QBing” can be said about any and all O coaches in D-1 ball and every college out there. Go fly your specious kite where someone who gives a damn might listen.
How’s the weight loss coming? It might get better if you dump your load of shit somewhere else.
Agree 100% about the first series of the second half. No way we should have started with dive plays. That set the wrong tone, and the Murray’s fumble really hurt.
OKDawg
I think the series in the second quarter where the game shifted and backed UGA up for the punt coincided with 1. LSU realizing we had no running game and turning up the heat on Murray and 2. Our offensive line (with no depth for rotation) beginning to spring leaks. Throw in what you mentioned, Senator, re: drops by our receivers and our defense playing lights out, and I don’t skewer Bobo for playing it more conservative at that point (backed up on our end of the field). Kicking to Mathieu with a short field was the more critical tactical error in my opinion.
Two series prior to the second quarter series bobo supposedly screwed up on:
1st-10, LSU44 3:19 C. Thomas rushed to the right for 1 yard gain
2nd-9, LSU43 3:12 C. Thomas rushed up the middle for 16 yard gain
Last first down prior to bobo supposedly screwing up:
1st-10, UGA39 12:10 A. Murray sacked by K. Adams
Clearly running it on the next series was dumb.
Bobo wasn’t willing to give up on play action. That meant he had to call some runs to try to keep Chavis and the LSU defense honest.
Bobo wasnt going to give up on play action because he wanted Murray to be alive for his junior year.
Bobo wasn’t giving up on play action because he typically runs it 20+ times per game. To the point that rushes start to smile!
*rushers
Dawg 39
LSU had little success running the ball in the first half. They had to keep trying it to keep our D honest. Then their longest run is finally one straght up the gut. To not keep trying to develop the ground game would be stupid for both teams. Murray would have been killed. Bobo called a good game. Very similar to the one called by the Tigers. Bobo will be the QB coach & the OC for the next few years. Nobody with any real input wants to change that. Give it a break, people.
+infinity
For those who settle for mediocrity. And, I’m a semi Richtophile as Sports & Grits would say. I just feel sorry for his inability to fire people. It’s his best and worst trait I suppose.
I actually strongly disagree with you here.
I hope you don’t think I’m being unreasonable, but I don’t think LSU “had to keep trying it to keep our D honest.” LSU had to keep running the ball because that’s all they could do. They didn’t have another option. I think the deep passes they attempted were an effort “to keep our D honest.” They ran it over and over and over because they had no other choice. They found ways to make that work and once they found what was working they kept doing it.
They threw those deep passes so that we couldn’t just load up the box and sell out to stop the run the whole game. But they only threw 13 passes the entire game. They ran it because that’s what they do and that’s what they’re built to do. Murray wasn’t getting killed when we ran for like 34 yards in the first half and carved up LSU’s secondary passing the ball on short routes. Did Bobo call a similar game to the LSU OC? No, he didn’t. They found out they were having limited success running up the middle and tried running it outside. When that worked, they kept on doing it. We were having success on short passing routes and started running it up the middle into a loaded box. When that didn’t work, we continued to do it. We wasted downs and then threw Aaron to the wolves on 3rd and long. That was bad play-calling. After the first quarter, we shut down what was working (like in the Auburn game last year) and stopped being aggressive. From then on, we never gave ourselves a chance.
Adam, amen brother.
Will Trane
Red Blackman gets the whole picture. It all starts on the offensive line. The current interior line is not a good run blocking squad. They seem slow of the line and do not get their pads down. That being said, there is not one RB on the squad who can hit a gap and break out. Not one. Now the line can push with Samuel and Malcome. The most important player in the game is the Frosh RB for LSU, Hilliard. He is a load with speed. Yo i could tell the Dawgs D wanted nothing to do with him. I’m puzzled how over the past 3-5 years CMR has not learned what a former Auburn coach told hime one time. To win big in the SEC you had better have a solid, consistent running game. Running teams are just more physical and disciplined in a big game.
I’m back where I was last season. Think the Dawgs need a QB/RB position coach. Murray has played a lot, I mean alot of snaps, but his progression, technique, and maturity is not where it should be, and I’m not sure he can get it there. For me there is even an off field differnece between him and Mason. Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Will Friend and Coach T have their work cut out for them for the bowl and the off-season. Let’s see how this line can improve by bowl time. I’d recruit linemen hard along with some SEC caliber RB [hint, Lattimore, Richardson, Hilliard].
To watch that game and think our real problem is at qb is to be a total idiot. Sorry to be rude, but that is just stupid. You don’t understand football; quit trying.
69Dawg
See my post below Mark only does what Bobby Bowden taught him, he is still after 11 years looking for his Warwick Dunn. We recruit midgets at running back not for a change of pace but for our running backs. None of our RB’s would be on Alabama or LSU’s 3 deep and that includes IC. We are not a power team Alabama and LSU are power teams. We are a multiple offense that if everything goes well can be effective but we are not going to line up and power the ball against good defenses period.
Yeah that is why Bama recruited IC so hard last year, so he could sit on the bench….
Just Chuck
Lots of guys look like world beaters in high school and many work out in college but some don’t. Jasper Sanks is probably our best example. We need a running back who doesn’t get put on his ass trying to pass block and, for sure, one who can keep his mouth shut and not cost us penalty yardage when it looks like we might be getting something started on offense.
You are totally right about OL problems. We have a mediocre, albeit enormous OL, that has no depth at all.
I am not sure why you’re thinkin Mason is better than Murray. Murray set the season record for TD’s after losing the best receiver ever to play for GA to the NFL, without a decent RB, and throwing to a bunch of freshman, all whille running for his life most of the season. Mason has thrown a couple of balls in mop up duty. I’ve said this before about QB’s and Richt. He’s coached 2 Heisman winners and the winningest QB in the history of college FB (until McCoy broke his record for wins). I am betting Mason is not better than Murray. And that’s why Mason is not starting and may transfer after this season.
Mason seems to be more mature and understand the game better. Plus I think he a better passer and could manage a game better than Murray.
Based on what, pray tell? Garbage time performances?
Herschel Blogger
he must look mature when they cut to shots of him standing near Richt.
to be pissed at Aaron after that game, and this season as a whole, is just wrong.
Brian Dawg
I am not pissed at Aaron, but before you anoint him, at least be honest and say that he lost a fumble and threw two picks. That’s three times HE gave the ball back to LSU. Don’t pin the whole loss on our line or our RBs.
But you’re ready to anoint Mason?
An awful lot of quarterbacks threw INTs against that LSU team. With time in the pocket, Murray is among the best.
We won’t since there is plenty of blame to go sround on this non-NFL team we have fielded this year. If you think that our O linemen are great(and I love all that they have tried to accomplish this season) take a look at the film in the last of the 3rd/beginning of the 4th when we were sending Malcolm up the middle . The left guard was blocking, Jones and Zander had started a push next to him, when #22 LSU came under and flipped a 300+ lb player backwards and off the line then dove left to help stop the play. What should have been a big hole got plugged by an undersize player blocking correctly by getting under the UGA lineman’s pads.
Yeah, we were tired, but it was an incorrect block on our part, no fault of others in the backfield nor the rest of the line where the play was going.
Stop the fault-finding on individual players for individual plays because, point is, there is plentyof nitpicking fault-finding to go around. And there is plenty of good fight as well. Don’t start this dumb rant that was picked apart and put to bed before. The players have owned up before and said they didn’t perform the plays as Bobo had taught and called. It is just ignorant to call this bullshit up again and watch recruits say that they hear it and go elsewhere. What in four hells are you trying to accomplish?
TennesseeDawg
The fact of the matter is the Dawgs dropped 2 sure TD passes that coupled with the White TD and the “no way in hell” that should have been a punt return TD (a block in the back coupled with tossing the ball away before the goal line) would have made it 21-0 at halftime and a completely different game all together. After all the screw ups the Dawgs got down on themselves and the defensive letdowns began.
dawgfan17
This. Who knows what happens after that but if we simply catch the passes that hit us in the hands the game is totally different. If the defense lost any focus it was because they watched as good a half of defense that anyone can play go to waste to dropped passes. If we go up 21 the defense fights and claws all the way to the end. Not sure if we win but I really love our chances at that point.
Here’s hoping OSU is in the title game over Bama just to piss of the Paul Finebaum nutbags.
We were who we thought we were. I wrote on a blog “dawgsports” I think that I saw this game as another SCU type game. We gave it away. The drops, the fumble, the special teams play, etc same as the SCU game. Richt, God love him, only knows what Bobby Bowden taught him and Bobby never had to worry about anything but kickers. FSU’s walk-ons were fast enough for the ACC. Until he changes his hard head about Special Teams we had better score a lot of points to make up for them.
LSU was who they have been the whole year. They have no offense until their depth wears you out. They have 4 count them 4 SEC RB’s that could start for us or anybody else except for the other power Alabama. The D played there a$$es off but could not withstand the fresh legs in the second half. As long as UF and UGA don’t over sign we are screwed, it just remains to be seen if Steve can over sign enough to control the East. UA and LSU have the West and the SECCG locked up for the foreseeable future.
I just hope that there are some good OL guys that want to play ASAP but OL is the one position that takes time to build and I don’t see
us going the JUCO route on it.
Turd Ferguson
“We gave it away”? You must be joking. That was *nothing* like the SC game. Yesterday’s game was like the cliche movie scene in which a 5’2″ 100lb. loser punches the schoolyard bully in the face, maybe draws a drop of blood, and then proceeds to get pummeled mercilessly. We gave nothing away. Nothing.
Huh?! Two dropped passes in the end zone and three turnovers isn’t giving anything away?!
Wow, they had 235 yards, 95 of which came on ONE drive, yet end up with 42 points and you don’t see the parallel? The turnovers and STs blunders changed that game from a possible “last drive” game…and that is before we dropped all the passes (including the two for TDs.) We didn’t dominate the WHOLE game like we did SC, but we gave them the short fields and cheap scores.
+1. Was it 28 points off turnovers and long punt returns? I lost count.
Play calling. Called 85 plays to their 45+. They get 42 points…21 in one quarter. We get 10 off 85 snaps. That is just damn puzzling. And Bobo had said they wanted to run more plays this season. Well, he sure got that against LSU, but it did not help the scoreboard. Bobo is the most unproductive OC in the D1 football. Never put anyone in motion to get them to the edge, create space, slow the rush, gas the LSU D line and LBs to the outside.
LSU is good, but when you only get 237 yards of offense, 45+ snaps,have less than quarter of time than UGA, no first downs thru 2 quarters, and only 10 yards of rushing…how good are these guys? Not good enough for me to say they are the best yet. More so when UGA could have had 21 points and that lead going into the 2nd half. Have that with a running game and the SECCG belongs to the Dawgs. Plus, I’m amazed how many missed honey boys fumble through the end zone. I told my grandson he did not score because the ball did not cross the line. Now why did it take so long for the coaches, TV, announcers, and every freaking body else not to see that.
Frankly, I’m for moving the game out of Atlanta and the Dome. Shame a faciltiy is as bad as this hosts a SEC championship game. Metor Atlanta does not deserve to host the game anymore. Move the game back into the conference, not an ACC site. I’d been for playing it in Baton Rouge or the home field of the highest rank team of the divison champs. CMR has better success outside the Dome.
Let’s see we were 2 drops from quadrupling bama’s output over four quarters and OT in one quarter and you blame bobo’s play calling and …. The building???? WTF!?!
Let’s move the SECCG to Jacksonville!
or at least rotate it between the Dome and Jacksonville! Oh, the sheer logic of it all!
WTF is wrong with the Dome? WTF is wrong with metro Atlanta? Whatever dude. Why would you give the best team even more of an advantage?
Your lack of logic is shocking.
Is it just me or does it seem that all of a sudden the “2-personality fans” are showing up again? It’s like their negative presonalities don’t want to understand what has already been resolved and now they chip in as if they have been laying in wait.
Loved the defense in the first half, what a bunch of warriors! We lost, but I like the direction the team is going in and I hope McGarity somehow lets the recruits know that Richt will still be here for years to come. Gotta get this next class signed, the Dream Team has already made an impact, need to get another stellar class.
charlottedawg
Call me crazy but we may look back on this season and this game as exactly what our program needed when we needed it. The season to make the program and fans believe again and the game as a reality check as to what we still need to do to go from good to elite. Does it suck to watch one of arguably the best college teams ever just come back and embarass you? yes. But it does not diminsh the path we took to get here. This team has the ingredients to be great again and I am doubtful they will lay an egg in the bowl game or “quit”. Starting 0-2 then relling off 10 straight shows moxie, talent, and most of all fight and resolve regardless of how your schedule is perceived. There’s work to be done for sure but to state this year was an abberation is an insult to a team full of damn good dawgs.
+1 This is why I will never get the reasoning that is wishing uSC was playing in the SECCG instead of UGA.
Good for you, Charlotte. Spot on.
S.E. Dawg
I think it’s going to be hard to finish as you say while other schools oversign and we do not. When a school as LSU has quality depth three and four deep, that makes it tough. We don’t have that and it shows and makes it difficult to compete on their level. I know, beating a dead horse but it is what it is.
^True dat!
I saw a really young team yesterday. My biggest disappointment is that the score wasn’t as indicative of the effort that I thought our guys put up. We really were playing four offensive guards yesterday, and we have to do something about consistency in our RB position. If we can do that we definitely have a bright season ahead next year.
Funny, I saw an incomplete team yesterday. Guards playing tackle, lack of RBs, and not enough depth on the O-line and D-line.
Krautdawg
Honestly, I´m VERY happy we played this game. For one, we dominated the best team in the country for 30 minutes. The coaches had a winning game plan. We couldn´t execute it for 60 minutes against a team with a 6-deep of 1st-rounders at every position, but did you see that defense? And those open receivers? There´s plenty to build on there.
More importantly, our young team was able experience elite competition. Nothing increases focus and motivation like getting your whatchamacallit handed to you. This game, and the reality check it provided, will be bugging our players and coaches throughout the off-season. To me, that´s a good thing.
And I´ll say it again: it´s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! Auf geht´s Bulldoggen!
I understand Mason gets mop-up play. But his performance in the fourth quarter was good. I think he sees the field better, gets the ball out quicker, and is as accurate. We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues. But I can not put any reliance on an OC decision making and judgment based on his play selection in the first few series in the 3rd quarter. That was an embarrassment. If you do not think so, then consult the 18 rankings in the polls. Bobo and McClendon are some of the most tenured coaches on staff. Granted the O numbers improved, but when you look at Murray’s performance against Carolina, Boise, LSU, Kentucky…well, I am all in with Ben Dukes.
But let’s discuss the play book. When LSU went man up on the WR and TE well, that sealed Bobo. They could not get downfield and the line could not hold their DL and LB out. They killed the timing on pass plays. That is why they started to the shorter routes. Now do you not think going in [game plan] you expect that from Chavis. Georgia’s receivers go get the ball, b ut LSU out played them for most of them. But Murray has had 2 full seasons to develop. How many will it take him? Because under the current scheme and coaching it will not go forward. Murray had numbers against Auburn and Tech. Hell Alabama passed at will on Auburn. And anybody can throw on Tech. Those games were not accomplishments. The running game. heck most of us have gave up on that….none for 3 seaons. Martinez was an issue on D and it took CMR 3 years to get around to that change but only after pressure. No, the LSU game was a game not only to win but to show recruits you have an OC and RB coach to move up your
play. Did not happen. Wait on Friend to see what another year produces, .
We know Murray was second string to Mettenburge before his off field issues.
No. We don’t know any such thing. G-day play doesn’t mean shit. And Richt said that Murray was his number one all along.
Jeebus, Will, you put more weight on meaningless playing time than anyone else who comments here.
I usually think that your posts are scattershot, but that you make a lot of good points. But your fixation on Murray in this comment thread is absurd. When was Murray second string to Mett? I don’t recall ever seeing any indication of that in the offseason, regular season or G-day game. I’m sorry, but if Mason was better than Murray, he would be starting. There has never been a time in Richt’s tenure when he consistently started the less capable of two quarterbacks. But, as always, the guy on the bench looks better (even if the starter is likely to be All-SEC, apparently).
Will, before last season started, I had that argument with Hale and it amounted to “stop the posturing for Murray to start and let good ole competition decide it with Mett”. Unfortunately, Mett did himself in and noone influenced the outcome except Mett. That is long gone water under the bridge. Whether one is better on the playing field than the other will probably be measured next year when Mett is the QB for LSU.
Not to say that Murray is a darn good QB is disingenuous at this point. Add a great heart, Bulldog courage , leadership and a quality person and we have our Dawg of Dawgs who can take a lick and keep on…. . He has shown resolve when we needed it, great skill when throwing to Freshmen in their first year of SEC play and attitude galore. So is he a few ticks shy of perfection and did we propose that he would stack even higher his Soph year? Yeah. You seem to forget last year when he ran down the sideline and dove in the endzone and fearlessly endured the dizzying hits in the Auburn and other games. Give me this indestructable man all last year, this year and for the future. He will work on the things you feel leaves him shy of perfection and the Second Coming (and he already is half qualified there by birth). Patience with him has been well earned. Let’s try to line up with him and go after “their” ass. That’s the least he deserves.
No one wants to be the super QB that can and will lead us to a NC than Murray. To compare with other QBs-in-waiting is folly. We don’t know if they could take the licks or fail entirely where he has already proven himself. We need to quit worrying whether QB#2 or #3 will not wait patiently for their perceived chance. If they do or don’t wait has nothing to do with Murray and his abilities. As I remember he came in as a 5-star vs Mason as a 3-star. Hell, we have another 4 or 5-star waiting in the wings (LeMay). Do you wish to put Mason above him? Mason will do what he has to do for his future and whatever he chooses, I have no argument. But to compare him with Murray at this point is a no-brainer and I sure hope Mason stays to duke it out next year.
“Hell, Alabama passed at will on Auburn.” A flea-flicker and a misdirection TE throwback are trick and constraint plays. By definition, they´re the opposite of passing “at will.” The same applies to 3- to 5-yard TE out routes and RB screens.
Normaltown Mike
I don’t recall but did LSU have any self-inflicted wounds yesterday?
I really don’t recall anything. Maybe a personal foul?
It’s hard to beat the best team in the country when you throw a pick 6, fumble on the 20, can’t run the ball and can’t cover a punt (albeit against an amazing return guy).
We fell to 0-2 when turnovers and poor special teams coverage hand the other team 4 TDs or more.
Hard fought game and UGA gave their best shot. The miscues and drops have got to be frustrating, though.
Unrelated, though, what is the whole story behind Grantham’s lip thing at the second half? Tracy said hip had a bloody lip but the shots of him looked like he was wearing Lady Gaga lipstick in the second half….wtf
I noticed that too. But I had the sound turned (as usual) so I don’t know what was said.
cousin eddie
Hard to blame the coaches or the players they got wore out by a deeper team So did a few other teams this year). The game plan to start was pefection but as the game wore on it played into LSUs hands and with the depth they have due to oversigning and lack of attrition. I know I have been critical of IC but was glad to see him give it a go with a bum ankle. The oline played hard to begin with but that Dline has given everyone fits all year.
Give Grantham’s agent a call and do what it takes to keep him happy.
Bobo ‘s future should be decided by someone that knows more about football than me. Sometimes he looks good and sometimes, well not so much.
Ga Girl in DC
At the top of my Christmas list for UGA is an OC who is the offensive equivalent to Todd Grantham. I think Richt’s loyal-to-a-fault history makes it unlikely that I’ll get my wish, but I can still dream.
That is a shameful post if you are a Dawg fan. Your separation on quality is based on what?Backing the general line of the bullshiters?
Ga Girl, just to fill you in…if you dislike Bobo, you cannot be a Dawg fan. It’s a rule. Balls said so. It’s all bullshit too, even if you’ve posted valid arguments. Wait, never mind, nothing is valid if it doesn’t concur with Balls’ own opinion. He’ll just curse at you and call you names on his computer. You know, the way grown-ups debate.
shane#1
UGA was beaten by a better team. That is the game in a nutshell. LSU did not expect the passing attack but they caught on and dropped their safeties back. They have probably the best D backfield in college football and lots of depth on D, so Bobo saw fewer hats in the box and tried to get the running game going. When you can’t run the ball and you are in the shadow of your own goalpost and all those ballhawks back there are licking their chops and waiting for you to throw you are in trouble. To me UGa’s biggest areas to improve are special teams, Rbs and O line. Then depth on the D line. LBs and DBs seem set.
Bobo did not drop the balls throw to him,he did what any person with good sense would do. He went to another rout when at least two maybe three touchdowns were left on the ground with drop problem. The game plan had nothing wrong with it. The youth and nerve problems and etc will have to wait. The bigger problem we have now is driving from the back seat and gripes with every breath. We need to appreciate this years efforts instead of crying all the time. It gets old and hurts the program.
DCityDawg
A few simple thoughts.
1- Coaches should have never punted to Tyrone. Kick it out of bounds. There’s 14 points we gave away.
2- Murray’s meltdowns continue, missed several wide open receivers (I counted 10), and threw in 2 intereceptions and a fumble. This is getting old, and I am tired of watching a great team unravel because of Murray’s boneheaded plays and decision and inaccurate throws.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Is this a planned invasion from Dawg Vent? The blog, not you Dawg Vent.
Wow really 10 WIDE OPEN receivers…..dude there haven’t been 10 wide open receivers against LSU all YEAR, much less last night.
Bobo had no back up plan in case Crowell couldn’t go.
Like Branden Smith. Or Malcome.
Terrible preparation.
Did you miss the first quarter?
We should have either gone with Malcome or Smith at running back, the whole game, maybe both. It was our only shot. We were not prepared. Thomas and Crowell did nothing. Had to have a better plan than that. Bobo’s plan seemed to be pass every play, Chavis adjusted to that after the first quarter, and we nevber scored again. Did you watch the 2nd-4th quarters? Who made better adjustments? Wasn’t Bobo. It’s not who has the best first half. It’s who makes the best adjustments and who has the best game plan and backup game plan. Along with Murray’s inability to execute passes to wide open receivers, and punting the ball all game to a Heisman candidate, we deserved to lose.
I smell a troll.
Did Bobo? Why did he call two completely different games?
Senator, gotta squabble with you on point #3.
You know what Murray’s fumble reminded me of? Greene’s fumble in Baton Rouge on 9/20/03. Greene was outstanding, but also fallible.
They beat us, but we beat us, too.
1. No reason why a program like Georgia shouldn’t have more depth on the o-line, year in and year out – sorry, I just don’t get it. We’re acting like it’s a fact of nature or the result of a lottery or something that we don’t have more o-linemen ready to go.
2. I don’t know how much you pin on the o-line and depth, but the fact is that Murray gave it away three times yesterday. A lot of players may not look ready for prime time, but you put them on the field and they make it happen. I am a huge A. Murray fan, I really am, but I think it’s time to let Mason take every third or fourth series.
3. I’m not a Bobo hater, but after the creative, inventive first quarter, we went back to throw the bomb and run the draw what seemed like every single play. I’m not sure we tried to throw a 10 or 15 yard pass in the 2nd quarter. Maybe he dialed them up and they were covered, but I was heartsick every time I saw #1 in the game as the lone back in in the backfield. I do not understand not bringing in Tree and Figgins to lead the way in a power I running game at that point.
Here’s the deal – we keep saying “Once we found out we couldn’t run on them” or “after our o-line got gassed” – to let Bobo off the hook, as though these are surprises. The whole point of having an OC is so he can evaluate where our team’s strengths can be stressed and our weaknesses can be minimized vs our opponent. It may be that there was no way to beat LSU yesterday, but handing Crowell the ball so he could stand in the backfield waiting to get hit (rinse, repeat, x 50) is not really dialing it up, is it? I have given Bobo credit for calling a great game in the first quarter, but he kept doing the same thing over and over in the 2nd quarter, with predictable results. In fairness, we dropped a lot of passes, but you have to keep working.
4. Not sure I’ve seen anyone mention this, but I believe our D really fell apart when LSU started running the option. I thought that was as big a factor as the stupid punt returns. We had no answer for that.
muckbeast
How many times did Bobo say in a post game interview “Well we took our foot off the gas because the defense was playing so great.”
What a lazy piece of shit.
The defense giving 110% doesn’t mean the offense can give 20%.
Not only is that a stupid plan, but it is a level of laziness and complacency that rots the whole team.
Mike Bobo is a cancer. He absolutely must go.
Im right there with you Muck. Its so disheartening when intelligent fans like Senator take up for a guy like Bobo that won’t go balls out like Grantham.
Who’s a “balls out” OC in your mind?
Spurrier & Sean Payton come to mind immediately. Spurrier goes with what he’s dealt better than them all. He even knows when its the RIGHT time to go conservative. Of course no one is perfect. Id have to do some major research to find who fits the mold that UGA could coral.
Andy, if Richt can hire either one of them, I’ll be the first one to cheer him on.
Since you’re on record as wanting Bobo gone, how ’bout giving me a realistic replacement of somebody who’s “balls on”.
You’ve called me out. How long do I have to research? I love so many spread guys, but it scares me to go all spread in the SEC. I love our current scheme of pro set base with spread undertones. I’ll put up a post on my blog this week of my wife, work, and the youngin’s don’t get in the way. They always come first!
I hear you on having a life. 😉
Richt’s not gonna go spread. And to be honest with you, I’m not convinced you can win the current version of the SEC running the spread unless you’ve got a freak at QB. There are way too many dominant defensive teams.
Holgerson’s offense threw for 460+ on LSU. 533 yards of offense.
West Virginia has a bad defense and they lost by 26.
But… that included 4 turnovers to none.
WVU punted, LSU scored. WVU gets a good 3rd and long conversion, but fumbles and LSU gets the ball. WVU forces them to punt. WVU gets a good drive going and throws a pick and LSU scores. Then WVU drives down and scores down 13-7. Looking good and LSU hits a deep pass (one of their few all year) and goes up 20-7. Then a pick returned to the 1 and it’s soon 27-7 LSU. WVU’s Offense makes some good adjustments and comes out and scores twice. Now it’s 27-21. About to be a game… 99 KO return for a TD. 34-21 WVU gets the ball and a TO on downs early in the 4th on 4th and 3. LSU gets the ball back and scores 40-21. WVU driving… fumbles and LSU goes down and scores again. 47-21.
Actually kind of similar to our game except that WVU continued to have success. Killed themselves on offensive mistakes and ST errors. But Holgerson’s offense was moving the ball on LSU. without stupid turnovers, they likely would’ve kept on scoring. we had our stupid turnovers… but we had long since given up on scoring.
i think there are other offenses that would be plenty successful in the SEC.
If they ever reduce the SEC regular season to one game, you have a valid point.
I just think that people don’t know at this point. I wonder what a school like Florida/Bama/LSU/Georgia would do with a good DC, a good recruiting coordinator and Mike Leach. The SEC schools have the best players and best position coaches/coordinators. But the quirky offensive guys haven’t often been given a fair shake in the SEC. Al Borges and Tony Franklin are NOT Dana Holgerson or Mike Leach IMO (as far as talent, innovation, etc.) They’re not even Kevin Sumlin.
Just like the argument that the Air Raid (and similar offenses) could never succeed in the NFL… I really wonder. Maybe if they were given a few years and some serious talent, they could. West Virginia is going to keep getting better, but they won’t be in the position to consistently compete with the SEC elite because it’s WVU. They won’t have the players. They won’t have the defensive staff. If Florida runs Muschamp out on a rail in 3 years and they hire Holgerson and a competent defensive staff, who knows what will happen? Those guys have never been in that position because the general thinking has always been “it won’t work.” People said that about Urban’s system. Maybe Urban had to have Mullen and Tebow to make things work. Maybe he’s going to OSU because Braxton Miller is there and he’ll leave in 3 years when Braxton finishes up.
I see your point about the one game thing, but… I’m not sure that means that those other systems *couldn’t* be successful. We’ve only ever even seen those systems played by lesser teams against the SEC elite in games like the WVU/LSU game this year or in BCS games. If Leach were going to a big school (and maybe he will be in a few years), maybe we’d have a better idea. The highest I can remember these guys being is at Kentucky (Mumme/Leach), or Leach being the OC at Oklahoma in Stoops’s first year. Have they gone and failed somewhere else at a big time school?
Did people think Spurrier’s offensive philosophy wouldn’t work when he went to Florida? I’m not old enough to know, honestly. Did people say that SEC defenses were too physical and too good for his offense to succeed throwing the ball all over the place? That’s an honest question, not a rhetorical or sarcastic one.
But, even with all that… I’m not saying we have to switch schemes. I’m actually not even on the side that Bobo is terrible at his job. I just think that there’s a pretty good chance that we could hire someone better and that UGA should have the best coordinators we can possibly. The defensive staff seems to be much better at their jobs than the offensive staff is currently. And I don’t see how we can justify that. Again, I’m not blaming Bobo entirely or anything. I just think that we could do better.
Do you honestly think that if Richt went after a new OC the same way he went after a new DC (and staff) that we wouldn’t improve on offense?
I also think that Chad Morris coming from Tulsa to Clemson had a huge impact on their success this season. They made a change and it made a big difference.
Adam’s right. CMR should go after an NFL coach to be OC. You said above that you want a name and here it is–Bill Musgrave, QB coach of the Falcons.
No longer. I think he’s reunited with Matt Schaub as the Texans’ OC.
Musgrave is the OC of the struggling Minnesota Vikings.
Though it is his first year and he has a rookie QB, so it’s hard to say much about him.
But I wasn’t sure if you meant that as mocking me or not, Mayor. I know I may be rambling to some degree, but I’m trying to be pretty reasonable.
If Bobo is as inept as you say and he clearly needs to go, it would seem as though you could readily produce any number of better candidates. Candidates who are not active NFL head coaches that have won a Super Bowl or an active SEC head coach who has won a MNC.
Yes, and I hear you on being called out with no good reply. “Fix it before you break it ” might be a good motto for you Andy.
Richt should be able to land either one of those guys. Also, if Grantham lands another gig this off-season, let’s hire Bill Belichick as our new DC.
I will not be happy unless we hire Vince Lombardi as our QB coach.
I apologize to all I have offended by not having good replies like the two above (Chicago Dawg and Spence).
If we don’t get Ditka I am not making my Hartman fund contribution. I just won’t stand for sub standard coaching. Maybe Joe Gibbs is available…..
Turner Gill and Mike Sherman, should they not get HC offers, would be proven guys-I think you go after a guy with a resume if you pull the plug on Bobo
Here’s the best I’ve got for now: http://theugablog.blogspot.com/2011/12/curious-case-of-bobo.html
Andy, with all due respect, the kind of guy you want for OC isn’t the kind of guy Richt would hire.
I refuse to believe that, though it may very well be true, because I love Richt so damned much.
That’s McGarity’s job to find.
It isn’t my job to find an awesome OC.
I didn’t have to know the perfect replacement back when I knew Martinez needed to be fired. I was on this very blog saying it for years while defenders said it was fine. Its no different now with Bobo than it was then with Martinez.
The worst counter argument of all is “if he’s so bad, who do we replace him with.”
How the heck is that my job to know? I have my own job and life. I watch the Bulldogs and I watch maybe 15 or 20 other college games a year. I don’t watch 200. That’s McGarity and his staff’s job.
So let me get this straight…..you KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bobo sucks. I mean his awful and an affront to football loving people everywhere, but yet you can’t name one guy to replace him. If you can’t name one replacement on what are you basing the criteria for which you use to judge Bobo’s performance?
I’ll hang up and listen….
If he’s anything like most of us, his family and job get in the way of memorizing potential OC candidates names. Most of my spare football reading and watching time is given to all things Dawgs. I do watch hundreds of high school, college, and NFL games each year, but shockingly I don’t know but a handful of OC’s by name. Most of them would be impossible to get, so give me a day or two to write piece on potential candidates. Then you can call me names all you want! Like Neal Boortz always says, “if I had a dollar for every time I heard ‘you’re an idiot’…..”
My point is that both of you (hmmmm….maybe it’s just you posting under two names) seem to have this raging hatred for Bobo but you offer no alternative. You can’t even say why type of offensive philosophy you would replace him with. If you can offer a viable and realistic (realistic being the key word) but I am betting you can’t. Look I was all over Bobo the past two seasons for his playcalling and inability to adjust to what the defense was giving him, this year starting with the S.Carolina game he has turned the corner. I think that every game since (to include last night) has had a solid offensive game plan. The execution has been lacking in some areas but the plan has been solid. When you have a patch work Offensive line and zero depth at the RB position it kind of limits what you can call and where on the field you can call it. There are going to be some head scratching calls but there are for every OC in every game. There were a few in the Falcons game today and I don’t hear anyone calling for him to be fired. Statistics are the only way to compare Bobo’s performance to everyone else’s and based on that I would say he is doing a good job. Before you or someone else trots out the “he pads his stats against the crappy teams” I am using only SEC numbers and guess what…..all the OC’s pad their stats against crappy teams. Why the hell do you think Tebow played into the 4th quarter in blowouts? Stat padding to win the Heisman.
Newsflash: Bobo is just as responsible for execution as he is for the gameplan.
* He’s responsible for our shitty Oline.
* He’s responsible for our shitty run game.
* He’s responsible for our joke tailback situation over the last 5 years.
* He’s responsible for our offense choking and giving away craploads of turnovers and TAINTS (Touchdown After INTerception) in big games.
==> He is responsible for every single aspect and facet of our offense.
Why is it somehow necessary for me to know the replacement in order to be aware that Bobo is doing a shit job?
Our offense sucks. We pad our stats against sucky teams. We disappear in big games. That’s what I see right in front of me as I watch our team.
I don’t live and breathe college football. I don’t want 200 games a year and scout new OC talent from other teams. That’s Greg McGarity and CMR’s job.
Your family doesn’t seem to get in the way of the time spent blathering on blogs and watching hundreds of highschool, college, and NFL games.
Sure they do, otherwise it’d be 1000’s.
How in the hell is it my job to find a replacement?
I can’t cook, but I know if the food in front of me tastes like shit.
I’m sorry but I’m not the AD. Its not my job to find a good OC. But as a fan and a donor I can sure as hell tell when our OC sucks ass.
Its that simple.
/apology for profanity
Bad analogy. You’re not a cook here, you’re a food critic. And how are we supposed to judge your ability to assess Bobo’s value without the context of knowing whom you believe is a competent OC?
I’m curious where you got that quote from. This is the only thing I could find:
“We pretty much called everything we had on our sheet,” offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said.
Not saying you didn’t hear it, but that’s a pretty different sentiment from what else he said.
Let me translate that for you: “I called all the situational plays that were listed on my predictable call sheet, after I went conservative because Grantham’s D was playing lights out.”
So you’re saying that’s what Muckbeast heard, rather than what Bobo said?
I was just being a smart A.
Let’s stay on this. It is one thing to have an opinion, but if someone is attributing quotes that are made up just to support that opinion that is a real issue for the credibility of the blog for you Senator. I may have made some different calls during the game,, perhaps used different personnel packages, but I saw nothing that indicated the offense backed off. And if Bobo said something that dumb in a game we never led confortably, then maybe he does need to go…I just don’t believe it in the context it was quoted. Our problem was lack of OL blocking, period, and it has been for years.
Senator, I was paraphrasing what he’s said in like 10 different interviews throughout the season.
Ah now the omnicient Muckbeast can read minds too.
I argue with muckbeast on here quite often (though sometimes it’s all internalized and I resist the temptation to actually post about it), but Bobo has said in post-game interviews that he slowed down the offense because the defense was playing so well and he didn’t want to risk us making a mistake on offense.
That has, many times, explicitly been his plan this year.
I do see how “don’t screw this up for the defense” is different from “stop scoring and hope the defense wins it” in theory. But in practice… they sure do look a lot alike.
Just a quick hypothetical: if the offense were scoring quite a bit, and the defense (as I said hypothetically) could choose between playing hard and trying to keep the other team from scoring or just let them burn 5 minutes and kick a FG every time they had the ball… would it be ok for them to just let the other team kick those field goals? Or would we still want them to try to force turnovers and get stops? If the defense’s goal was to simply limit mistakes and not do something that could cost us the game ASSUMING the offense continued to play lights out, would we be happy with the defense?
The offense has relied on the defense to help us win close games by not letting the other team score a single point in the second half while the offense has been useless for long stretches. How is that fair? That kind of game turns into a blowout win for teams who produce on both sides of the ball.
Read minds?
Bobo is the one who said it. I’m sorry that I don’t have the exact quote, but everyone here who has been following the season knows what I am talking about.
He’s given that same excuse after countless games when he shut off the offense in the 2nd or 3rd quarter like a lazy assclown.
Junkyard Dawg '00
Just like you know that your gay a$$ hovercard is shit, but you fail to replace it? In all due respect Muckbeast, you and Andy’s argument about this is as compelling as a two year old child’s attempt to speak on the subject. You both can’t name a single coordinator that you’d rather have, you both ignore the stats that prove Bobo is one of the better OC’s in the conference (which is an NFL talent rich defensive conference), and Bobo is a disciple of coach Richt and, as such, runs the offense under the philosophy of Richt. So, honestly, just enjoy the turnaround this year for what it was and send in your donation and ticket money next month and if you don’t contribute any money then maybe it wouldn’t hurt you two to shut up and let the big boys handle it.
I dont typically argue using stats because of instances like throwing 5TDs in a quarter against New Mexico State. There is a place for them in some instances. I could give you 10 names off of the top of my head Id rather have as OC, but I would rather research and give readers real candidates, not pipe dreams. I told you the two best in the game in my opinion, Spurrier and Payton. Now, if you really want to hear my legitimate candidates, Ill put them on UGABlog.com within the week.
BanjoEarl
When Malcome averaged over 7 yards a carry, and the other guys were at about 1 or 2 yards per carry, why didn’t we try that earlier in the game?
Did you see who was on the field when Malcome did most of his damage?
Yeah. LSU defensive players.
Even LSU has a 3rd string (and walkons) and honestly at the end of a blowout like that why would you not have them out there.
C’mon, Mayor, you can do better than that.
The comments about how UGA has not recruited depth at OL are simply wrong. Yes, we lack depth there, however it is not because we have not signed big uglies.
2007 – We signed 8 offensive linemen (they would be seniors if they redshirted). Bean, Boling, Ben Harden, Scott Haverkamp, Chris LIttle, Tanner Strickland, Sturdivant, and Vince Vance (JUCO).
2008 – 4 OL signed. Cordy, AJ Harmon, Ben Jones, and Jonathen Owens.
2009 – 4 OL. Chris Burnette, Kwame Geathers, Dallas Lee and Austin Long
2010 – 3 OL – Brent Benedict, Gates, Kolton Houston
2011 – 6 OL. Watts Dantzler, Zach DeBell, Hunter Long, Nathan Theus, Xavier Ward
That’s a total of 25. In that time, LSU signed 4, 6, 4, 2, and 4 for a total of 20. UGA signed 25% more OL in the past five years than LSU.
Bama signed 2, 3, 7, 3 and 4 in those years (19).
The thinness of UGA’s offensive line is not because of lack of recruiting numbers. Perhaps it is talent evaluation, development, bad luck, or some combination thereof. It is NOT because of over signing.
Hopefully those that signed last year will be ready to play significantly next year along with John Theus.
Got to figure out how to win like LSU.
In 2nd half we should have:
1- made this a field position battle
2- run the ball and punt it high
3- rely on defense
4- rely on special teams
5- not turn the ball over
And Santa Claus with his reindeer making up the rest of this wish list.
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Trump’s Pollution Rules Rollback to Hit Coal Country Hard
Posted on September 4, 2018 by NETWORK CDM Comments Off on Trump’s Pollution Rules Rollback to Hit Coal Country Hard | 5 Views
It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.
So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan rolling back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.
Trump left one thing out of his remarks, though: northern West Virginia coal country will be ground zero for increased deaths and illnesses from the rollback on regulation of harmful emission from the nation’s coal power plants.
An analysis done by his own Environmental Protection Agency concludes that the plan would lead to a greater number of people here dying prematurely, and suffering health problems that they otherwise would not have, than elsewhere in the country, when compared to health impacts of the Obama plan.
Knotts, a coal miner for 35 years, isn’t fazed when he hears that warning, a couple of days after Trump’s West Virginia rally. He says the last thing people in coal country want is the government slapping down more controls on coal — and the air here in the remote West Virginia mountains seems fine to him.
People here have had it with other people telling us what we need. We know what we need. We need a job,” Knotts said at lunch hour at a Circle K in a tiny town between two coal mines, and 9 miles down the road from a coal power plant, the Grant Town plant.
The sky around Grant Town is bright blue. The mountains are a dazzling green. Paw Paw Creek gurgles past the town.
Clean-air controls since the 1980s largely turned off the columns of black soot that used to rise from coal smokestacks. The regulations slashed the national death rates from coal-fired power plants substantially.
These days pollutants rise from smoke stacks as gases, before solidifying into fine particles — still invisible — small enough to pass through lungs and into bloodstreams.
An EPA analysis says those pollutants would increase under Trump’s plan, when compared to what would happen under the Obama plan. And that, it says, would lead to thousands more heart attacks, asthma problems and other illnesses that would not have occurred.
Nationally, the EPA says, 350 to 1,500 more people would die each year under Trump’s plan. But it’s northern two-thirds of West Virginia and the neighboring part of Pennsylvania that would be hit hardest, by far, according to Trump’s EPA.
Trump’s rollback would kill an extra 1.4 to 2.4 people a year for every 100,000 people in those hardest-hit areas, compared to under the Obama plan, according to the EPA analysis. For West Virginia’s 1.8 million people, that would be equal to at least a couple dozen additional deaths a year.
Trump’s acting EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist whose grandfather worked in the coal camps of West Virginia, headed to coal states this week and last to promote Trump’s rollback. The federal government’s retreat on regulating pollution from coal power plants was “good news,” Wheeler told crowds there.
In Washington, EPA spokesman Michael Abboud said Trump’s plan still would result in “dramatic reductions” in emissions, deaths and illness compared to the status quo, instead of to the Obama plan. Obama’s Clean Power Plan targeted climate-changing carbon dioxide, but since coal is the largest source of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, the Obama plan would have curbed other harmful emissions from the coal-fired power plants as well.
About 160 miles to the south of Grant Town, near the state capital of Charleston, shop owner Doris Keller figures that if Trump thinks something’s for the best, that’s good enough for her.
“I just know this. I like Donald Trump and I think that he’s doing the right thing,” said Keller, who turned out to support Trump Aug. 21 when he promoted his rollback proposal. She lives five miles from the 2,900-megawatt John Amos coal-fired power plant.
“I think he has the best interests of the regular common people at the forefront,” Keller says.
Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy program would dismantle President Barack Obama’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, which has been caught up in court battles without yet being implemented.
The Obama plan targeted climate-changing emissions from power plants, especially coal. It would have increased federal regulation of emissions from the nation’s electrical grid and broadly promoted natural gas, solar power and other cleaner energy.
Trump’s plan would cede much of the federal oversight of existing coal-fired power plants and drop official promotion of cleaner energy. Individual states largely would decide how much to regulate coal power plants in their borders. The plan is open for public review, ahead of any final White House decision.
“I’m getting rid of some of these ridiculous rules and regulations, which are killing our companies … and our jobs,” Trump said at the rally.
There was no mention of the “small increases” in harmful emissions that would result, compared to the Obama plan, or the health risks.
EPA charts put numbers on just how many more people would die each year because of those increased coal emissions.
Abboud and spokeswoman Ashley Bourke of the National Mining Association, which supports Trump’s proposed regulatory rollback on coal emissions, said other federal programs already regulate harmful emissions from coal power plants. Bourke also argued that the health studies the EPA used in its death projections date as far back as the 1970s, when coal plants burned dirtier.
In response, Conrad Schneider of the environmental nonprofit Clean Air Task Force said the EPA’s mortality estimates had taken into account existing regulation of plant emissions.Additionally, health studies used by the EPA looked at specific levels of exposure to pollutants and their impact on human health, so remain constant over time, said Schneider, whose group analyzes the EPA projections.
With competition from natural gas and other cleaner energy helping to kill off more than a third of coal jobs over the last decade, political leaders in coal states are in no position to be the ones charged with enforcing public-health protections on surviving coal-fired power plants, said Vivian Stockman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.
“Our state is beholden to coal. Our politicians are beholden to coal,” Stockman said outside Trump’s West Virginia rally, where she was protesting. “Meanwhile, our people are being poisoned.”
And when it comes to coal power plants and harm, Schneider said, “when you’re at Grant Town, you’re at Ground Zero.”
Retired coal miner Jim Haley, living 4 miles from the town’s coal-fired power plant, has trouble telling from the smokestack when the plant is even operating.
“They’ve got steam coming out of the chimneys. That’s all they have coming out of it,” Haley said.
Parked near the Grant Town post office, where another resident was rolling down the quiet main street on a tractor, James Perkins listened to word of the EPA’s health warnings. He cast a look into the rear-view mirror into the backseat of his pickup truck, at his 3-year-old grandson, sitting in the back.
“They need to make that safe,” said Perkins, a health-care worker who had opted not to follow his father into the coal mines. “People got little kids.”
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Medical School Honors Chaminade Graduate Jacquelynn Pratt with ‘Diversity Excellence Award’
June 16, 2017 by University Communications & Marketing
Chaminade University alumna Jacquelynn Pratt has received the “Diversity Excellence Award” from A.T. Still University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, where she graduated this spring. The annual award recognizes her commitment to diversity and inclusion in graduate healthcare education.
Born and raised on Oahu, Pratt majored in Biology and English at Chaminade. She earned both bachelor’s degrees in May 2006, while receiving the “Outstanding English Graduate” award.
Pratt participated in numerous research programs at Chaminade in the fields of psychology, cancer biology, ecology and epidemiology. She was also highly involved with campus clubs and organizations, including the Delta Epsilon Sigma and Sigma Tau Delta honor societies.
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State’s Lead Cleanup Efforts Hampered By Concerns Over Privacy Of Blood Test Data
Experts say the information could be used to pinpoint the children most affected by the lead that spewed from the Exide battery plant in Vernon. But the state Department of Public Health says it is prohibited by medical privacy law from releasing data showing individual test results.
The Los Angeles Times: State Isn't Using Blood-Test Data That Could Help Focus Exide Cleanup Efforts
The state of California has blood test results showing high levels of lead in children living near the closed Exide battery plant in Vernon but is not using the information to direct its massive cleanup of lead-contaminated homes and yards. (Barboza and Poston, 3/26)
In other health news from around the state —
The Ventura County Star: Four Years In, Not One More Raising Awareness In Simi Valley Heroin Battle
Four years into its run, Simi Valley anti-heroin group Not One More has yet to achieve the goal implicit in its name. There have been heroin deaths in the city since the group's founding. But they have trended downward, from seven in 2011 to zero in 2014 and 2015, police say. Pat Montoya, president of the grass-roots organization that marked its fourth anniversary last month, says the nonprofit group deserves some of the credit. (Harris, 3/27)
The Press Democrat: Sonoma County Poised To Hike Price Of Cigarettes
Will minors be deterred from buying cigarettes if they cost $7 a pack? Sonoma County health officials are betting yes. Under a sweeping county proposal set to go before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the price floor for cigarettes would rise to $7 per pack at nearly 140 stores outside of city limits. (Har, 3/27)
The Sun: Community Supports Hospitalized Shooting Victim With Blood Donations
Members of the community came out to support Kristin Bauer, the 28-year-old woman taken hostage Thursday and shot by her estranged boyfriend in Redlands. Bauer remained in critical condition Friday, according to Loma Linda University Medical Center. (Valenzuela and Hernanadez, 3/25)
The Marin Independent Journal: Marin Drug Treatment Center Sued By Dead Client's Father
The father of a man who died at a Center Point drug treatment center in San Rafael three years ago has sued Center Point, alleging the facility's failure to follow state regulations led to his son's death. (Halstead, 3/28)
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Monday, Dec 6 2004
Union Officials Announce Lawsuit Alleging Sutter Health, Staffing Agency Violated State Labor Code
Officials from the Service Employees International Union Local 250 said they filed a lawsuit Friday in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that Sutter Health and its temporary staffing agency violated state labor laws by not disclosing to replacement personnel that they would be hired to work during an ongoing labor disagreement, the Sacramento Bee reports. At press time Saturday, the court could not confirm that the lawsuit had been filed, according to the Bee (Rapaport, Sacramento Bee , 12/4).
Sutter locked out until Monday employees who went on strike Wednesday to protest what they say are unfair labor practices by Sutter, including staffing issues, career advancement and training programs. The striking Sutter employees -- represented by SEIU Locals 250 and 707 -- include vocational nurses, nurse assistants, lab assistants, dietary workers, housekeepers and supply workers. The nurses participating in the sympathy strike are represented by the California Nurses Association ( California Healthline , 12/3).
According to the Bee , California labor laws require employers to "plainly and explicitly mention ... that a strike, lockout or other labor disturbance exists" when recruiting replacement workers.
Lawsuit Details
SEIU 250 officials said staffing agency Modern Industrial Services ran a "false and misleading" advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle indicating that workers would receive full-time pay and benefits for work during a labor dispute. The suit specifically names California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where a contract with hospital personnel represented by SEIU 250 expired Nov. 22.
The suit seeks damages, including back wages for striking workers who were locked out. SEIU officials also said they requested that the San Francisco district attorney launch a criminal investigation of the alleged labor code violations.
John Borsos, SEIU hospital division director, said, "This is a clear-cut case where Sutter illegally replaced our workers."
Sutter spokesperson Bill Gleeson said, "Our affiliated hospitals were well within their rights to arrange for multiday replacement workers," adding, "Temporary agencies routinely provide this type of service and routinely inform their workers of the conditions they will be facing."
William Gould, a Stanford University law professor and chair of the National Labor Relations Board under President Clinton, said that hospitals have the same right to lock out striking employees as hospital employees have to organize a strike. He added, "Even if Sutter makes a case that they did not handle the advertisements to recruit workers, the law could still hold Sutter liable for recruitment efforts that failed to explicitly mention the strike" ( Sacramento Bee , 12/4).
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Purdue Students Interning in New State Security Ops Center
U Edinburgh Develops Solar Cell-Based Wireless Communication
College of the Canyons Deploys Wireless Network Security
Valencia, CA-based College of the Canyons has selected Enterasys equipment to provide secure connectivity for 3,000 wired and wireless devices serving 24,000 students, faculty, and staff. The college decided to implement 10 gigabit Ethernet network connectivity throughout all campus buildings to support increased bandwidth and security needs brought on by recent expansion.
"We selected Enterasys solutions to meet our IT goals because they took the time to understand our exact requirements without applying a lot of pressure; and the products were proven to interoperate very well with our existing vendors, including Fortinet and Adtran," said James Temple, director of IT. "Enterasys has also been instrumental in our campus wireless project, which has enabled us to offer students and teachers secure wireless network access in every classroom. Our goal was to have reliable, always-on connectivity for students, faculty, and staff, regardless of their location. Enterasys products were simple to implement and worked immediately out of the box. We didn't have to think about it--it just worked!"
The vendor's Matrix N-Series flow-based switches serve as the core of the college's network. The campus has also implemented Enterasys Network Access Control to monitor access to the wireless network and the college's servers while quarantining suspicious network connectivity attempts. Temple and his staff of four network support people manage the network using NetSight Management Suite.
The company's products are also in use at Boston College, Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, and Southampton Solent University in Hampshire, UK.
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Obama Foundation draws high dollar, international donations
The Associated Press April 19, 2019
CHICAGO — Former President Barack Obama’s foundation collected contributions of more than $1 million from 11 firms and individuals in the first three months of 2019, records show.
The Obama Foundation’s donor list, which is updated quarterly, included the AT&T Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, along with other family trusts and foundations. The list also included foreign investors like Malaysian businessman Tony Fernandes, who is chief executive of AirAsia, and Rumi Verjee, who is a member of the British House of Lords.
The foundation, which is responsible for developing the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, lists the donors by monetary range instead of detailing the specific amount each donor gave. Other notable donors who gave from January through March of this year include Dropbox co-founder Andrew “Drew” Houston and the San Francisco 49ers.
The latest update that includes wealthy and charitable individuals and families differs from last year’s list of donors. During 2018, the Obama Foundation drew celebrity support, including from Oprah Winfrey, Shonda Rimes and NBA star Stephen Curry’s foundation.
The foundation didn’t disclose how much money it has on hand specifically to build the presidential centre campus. The foundation’s annual report and tax documents show that it raised more than $232 million from private donors during 2017 and spent about $21.3 million on operations.
The foundation plans to build the Obama Presidential Center on about 19 acres of parkland on Chicago’s South Side. Officials want to break ground this year on the estimated $500 million project but a federal lawsuit and federal review process have stalled construction.
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Cardio-Oncology
Rationale for setting up a cardio-oncology unit: our experience at Mayo Clinic
Sergio Barros-Gomes1,
Joerg Herrmann1,
Sharon L. Mulvagh1,
Amir Lerman1,
Grace Lin1 and
Hector R. Villarraga1Email author
Cardio-Oncology20162:5
© Barros-Gomes et al. 2016
Accepted: 6 April 2016
The diagnosis and management of cardiovascular complications have become a clinical concern for oncologists, cardiologists, surgeons, interventional radiologists, radiation therapy physicians, internists, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, and all the stakeholders involved in the care of cancer patients. Anticancer therapies have extended the lives of patients with cancer, but for some this benefit is attenuated by adverse cardiovascular effects.
This review article aims to provide an overview of the rationale of setting up a cardio-oncology unit and reflect on our own experience establishing this service, and conclude with some fundamental aspects of consideration for evaluation and management of patients with cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Cardiotoxicity can lead to congestive heart failure and cardiac death. In fact, chemotherapy-related cardiac dysfunction may carry one of the worst prognoses of all types of cardiomyopathies, and has a profound impact on morbidity and mortality in oncology patients. Other complex clinical situations involve cancer patients who might benefit from a highly curative drug in terms of cancer survival but face limitations of its administration because of concomitant cardiovascular diseases. Indeed, the balance between the benefits and risks of the cancer therapy regimen in the context of the cardiovascular status of the individual patient can sometimes be extraordinarily challenging. A subspecialty with a multidisciplinary integrative approach between oncologists, hematologists, cardiologists, among others has thus emerged to address these issues, termed cardio-oncology. Cardio-oncology addresses the spectrum of prevention, detection, monitoring and treatment of cancer patients with cardiovascular diseases, or at risk for cardiotoxicity, in a multidisciplinary manner. In this field, cardiologists assist oncologists and hematologists with cardiovascular recommendations. This can be mediated through e-consultations or face-to-face evaluations.
Cardio-oncology is a subspecialty that assists in the overall care of cancer patients with and without cardiovascular disease in an interdisciplinary fashion. We believe that this partnership of sharing responsibilities and experiences among health-care team members can potentially decrease cancer therapeutics-related cardiovascular complications and improve clinical outcomes.
Cardiotoxicity
Cardiovascular risk factors
Cardio-oncology program
Population growth and ageing as well as improvements in early diagnosis and anticancer therapies has led to a projected nearly 19 million cancer survivors in the United States alone by the year 2024 [1–3]. As successful anticancer therapies are developed, the benefit comes with an increased number of cardiovascular complications [4–6]. In the past decades, the risk of congestive heart failure (CHF) with high cumulative dose of anthracyclines was found to be from 3 to 26 % [6–11]. With improved knowledge and reduction of the total anthracycline-dose, this cardiotoxicity risk of anthracyclines has been reduced to nearly 2-3 % over a time period that extends at least 5 years [12], but with the increased incidence and survival rates of cancer patients in an aging population that is at greater risk for complications with chemotherapy, the number of patients with cardiac complications remains high [1, 3, 5, 13, 14]. Although it has been extremely difficult to know the incidence and prevalence of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity (due to limitations on the definition, the lack of reportable data regarding cardiotoxicity, and the presence of selection bias in recruiting special populations, etc) [15], this has also been outlined in a cohort of patients referred for endomyocardial biopsy that chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy carries one of the worst prognoses of all types of cardiomyopathies [16]. Additionally, there are other chemotherapeutic- and radiotherapeutic-related cardiovascular complications besides overt cardiac dysfunction that can negatively impact the overall outcome of cancer patients, including hypertension, ischemia, and arrhythmias [5, 17–19].
Therefore, early recognition of cancer therapy-related toxicity has become a clinical concern for hematologists, oncologists, and cardiologists [12, 20, 21]. A subspecialty that includes an integrative multidisciplinary approach to this issue has established, termed cardio-oncology [22–24]. The origins of the discipline date back late in 1960s, when cardiac dysfunction resulting from anthracyclines was first recognized as an important side effect. The field since then has arisen in few centers, and in the past years has rapidly evolved and become more a formal subspecialty with smaller units emerging within major centers. The scope of cardio-oncology includes not only the prevention, detection, monitoring and treatment of cardiovascular toxicity related to cancer therapy but also to assist in the overall care of cancer patients from cancer diagnosis into survivorship. The goal is to provide optimal care for patients with cancer and cardiovascular disease. A brief discussion of the cardiotoxicity disease spectrum is provided in the first part of this review article. We will then provide an overview about the rationale of setting up a cardio-oncology service line and our initial experience of establishing a collaborative cardio-oncology program within our practice will be presented, emphasizing important points of consideration in the cardiovascular evaluation before, during, and at completion of anticancer treatment.
There are different cardiovascular manifestations related to chemotherapy. There are agents that primarily affect cardiac function (eg, doxorubicin [anthracycline], cyclophosphamide [alkylating agent], and trastuzumab [tyrosine kinase inhibitor]). In addition, there are agents that indirectly contribute to cardiac decompensation by altering preload (imatinib [VEGFi] through fluid retention), afterload (bevacizumab [VEGFi] through hypertension), and heart rate (ifosfamide [alkylating agent] through arrhythmias) and agents that cause cerebrovascular disease (5- cisplatin [alkylating agents - platinum], 5-fluorouracil [antimetabolites]) [19–25]. There is also radiotherapy that has an all-inclusive involvement of the heart (myocardium, pericardium, valves and coronary arteries) [26] and can affect extra cardiac structures such as the great vessels where accelerated atherosclerosis can occur [27]. However, a reduction in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and subsequent development of CHF has drawn most of the attention among physicians. Cardiac function impairment as a consequence of cancer therapy was first recognized in the 1960s [28], may be reversible or irreversible, and can occur acutely (at the time or within 1 week) or chronic with early (<1 year) and late onset (>1 year) after completion of chemotherapy [29, 30]. Importantly, chemotherapeutic agents are implicated in the development of myocardial ischemia, hypertension, hypertensive heart disease, or a combination, which may lead to left ventricular dysfunction [31, 32].
An operational classification model has been introduced distinguishing two types of cardiotoxicity [33]. Type I causes a direct irreversible damage to the cardiomyocyte, mainly in a dose-dependent manner [34, 35], as observed with anthracyclines [11]. Conversely, a type II cardiotoxicity pattern entails cardiac dysfunction with less prominent structural injury or irreversible cell damage since electron microscopy has shown structural changes in the animal model with trastuzumab [36, 37]. Type II cardiotoxicity does not exhibit dose dependency, is usually transient and carries a better prognosis [31].
Rationale for a multidisciplinary approach
Cardiovascular complications from cancer therapy have become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer survivors [7, 38]. Anticancer therapies have extended the lives of patients with cancer, but for some at the cost of adverse cardiovascular events [6, 12]. Increasing age, underlying heart disease and other comorbidities are contributing factors. Moreover, a variety of cardiovascular scenarios can occur in this population. For patients with an advanced metastatic tumor, the development of heart failure compromises their quality of life and palliative care. In contrast, for patients with a high likelihood of cure, chemotherapy-induced heart failure significantly impacts their long-term outcome [12]. Additionally, we are often confronted with challenging decisions on drug therapies beforehand based on the curative benefit on the one hand and cardiotoxicity risk on the other hand in patients with significant cardiovascular risk factors. These challenges have advocated the compelling need for the multidisciplinary integrative approach of cardio-oncology [22, 39–41]. Cardio-oncology aims not only to detect and manage cardiotoxicity but also to assist in the overall care of cancer patients with and without heart disease in an interdisciplinary manner that ranges from the initial assessment of cardiovascular diseases and cardiotoxic risks to survivorship and long-term follow-up.
The multidisciplinary role becomes even more important as cardiotoxicities are identified at earlier stages of cancer treatment than they used to be. However, while much progress has been made in early detection and management of toxicities, there has been less progress in the understanding of short- and long-term outcomes of cancer therapies and intervention efforts. The cardiologist needs to know the goal of the oncology treatment, whether this treatment is curative or palliative, and the potential anticipated benefit of anticancer therapy to further assist the oncologist/hematologist [40]. Mutual understanding and the communication between the cardiologist and oncologist/hematologist needs is paramount for risk stratification and decisions on the therapeutic window for any given therapy. Indeed, there is a critical balance between potential benefits and risks of different chemotherapeutic regimens and the need of the patients.
Accordingly, one of the main goals of cardio-oncology is to promote open discussions between team members in order to share expertise and responsibilities. Integrating expertise from all health-care members provides a constant high-level standard of care. It is our expectation that this discipline will reduce the incidence of cardiotoxicity, improve development of new anticancer drugs, and positively impact overall patient care. The integration of all involved health-care providers and patients is a key element to improving the quality of care [41, 42] Fig. 1.
Cardio-Oncology Multisciplinary Team. The integrative approach increases the coordination, communication and collaboration between health-care members and improves the overall care of cancer patients
Setting up the cardio-oncology practice
Mayo Clinic has established a Cardio-oncology Clinic to improve the overall acute and long-term outcome of cancer patients. This subspecialty was initially created: 1) to facilitate the diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of cancer treatment related cardiovascular complications; 2) to evaluate baseline cardiovascular risks prior to cancer treatment and implement strategies for risk reduction of developing cardiovascular complications; and 3) to assist the patient with cardiovascular care through long-term follow up. The multidisciplinary team consists of cardiologists with additional expertise in prevention, heart failure, vascular disease, and cardiovascular imaging. It also encompasses oncologists, hematologists, internists, nurses, pharmacists, and all others involved in the care of cancer patients. As previously mentioned, the interdisciplinary communication and coordination is crucial to the operational functionality of the cardio-oncology practice.
At our institution, the cardio-oncology practice was initially established through the internal electronic referral management system (“e-consults”). E-consultations are electronic-based consultations where the specialist the “e-consultant” answers questions and provides advice about patient care. The referring provider generates a question to the consulting specialist with the appropriate clinical material and the e-consultant specialist answers it through the electronic medical record. There is no patient verbal contact, only medical assistance through the patient medical records [43–45]. These electronic-based consultations are provided by a cardiologist of the cardio-oncology team in response to specific questions. These types of consultations emerged as a mechanism to provide efficient clinical care in a timely manner. In cardio-oncology, for instance, this method enables cardiologists to further assist oncologists and hematologists to assess risk factors and manage existing cardiovascular diseases. The implementation of e-consultation is only feasible in the presence of an electronic medical record (EMR), which is another crucial element that avoids the fragmentation of data between patients and providers [46]. The EMR system provides a continuum of communication and clarification of information, wherein physicians have easy access to patient’s charts, laboratories, and procedures (ie, ECG, echocardiogram, etc). This integration between two systems (e-consult and EMR) delivers a high-quality coordinated care that potentially avoids the time and wait of a visit between the patient and specialist.
With the growth of the cardio-oncology practice as well as based on the explicit demand of cancer patients or their providers, face-to-face consultations were added and became the main mode of service. It is recognized that the cardio-oncology patient has a high diagnostic and treatment complexity, prompting more direct interactions with the individual patient. Each cardio-oncology service faces particular challenges that are associated with the size of the hospital, the volume of patients, and the scope of cancer treatment. Joint meetings with oncology and hematology counterparts were held to define this practice and its logistics. This included discussions on criteria for referral as an e-consult or face-to-face consultations, standards of pre-orders of tests, and best possible location and timing of a full clinic. Other topics of discussion included educational seminars and conferences for patients and health staff, the establishment of a database for future research, and the development and integration of a cardio-oncology-specific fellowship program as shown in Table 1 [47, 48].
Setting up a cardio-oncology clinic
Define practice and logistic
Recognize gaps and priorities in cardio-oncology
Joint meetings with cardiologists, oncologists, hematologists, nurses and nurse practitioners, pharmacists, nutritionists, rehabilitation services, palliative care, and social services
Discuss criteria for referral consultations, standards of pre-orders of tests (biomarkers and strain), location and timing of a full clinic, integration of services, education and training of staffs
Implement a coordinated service
Exchange patient information with the counterparts, allow a flexible scheduling system to accommodate a multidisciplinary team, ensure an updated medications list (cardiac and oncologic regimens)
Health staff education
Teaching material on cardio-oncology, updates, educational seminars, symposium and conferences
Provide awareness of the cardio-oncology program
Patient booklet, educational website, seminars, symposium, and community events
Standardization of care
Create algorithms, cardio-oncology group meetings, joint educational sessions with oncology, hematology and cardiology
Conduct lab-based experimental studies, apply for funding and awards, registry expansion (clinical data and bio bank), and create clinical and laboratory facilities with new techniques (biomarkers and strain)
Every other month meetings with updates and outcomes
Establish targets and goals
Bold data emphasize the most important content from the Table
A formal Cardio-Oncology Clinic was then started and had a significant growth over the past 2 years. The monthly number of visits has increased by 101.3 % since 2014 to a 2015 monthly average of 15.33 (Fig. 2a-b). The ratio between new and old patients is 3:1. Breast cancer was the most frequent (56.7 %), followed by hematological cancers (24.11 %) (Fig. 2c). These are usually complex patients that demand a complex care, which require medical assistants, nurse and nurse practitioners, and physician extenders (physician assistant, fellows and internists). Some of these patients are in the intermediate or high risk category for coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease or heart failure. This management also includes coordinated home health monitoring of blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diuresis, medications adjustments, and evaluation of new symptoms through e-mail or phone calls. Nurse, nurse practitioners, and physician extenders are able to see more stable or return patients, therefore allowing the cardio-oncologist more time to see more complex patients.
Cardio-Oncology Visits and Referral Source. a and b Bar charts showing the average monthly visits in 2014 and 2015. c Cardio-Oncology Referral Source. Pie chart displaying the proportion of type of cancers referred to the Cardio-Oncology Clinic
The Clinic has slowly expanded to avoid miscommunication in the coordination of patient care, since this is a multidisciplinary team and all efforts have been focused on avoiding errors due to a lack of adequate communication among team-members. This is accomplished by an integrated electronic medical record that ensures that all the clinical impressions, reports and plans are available to all the care team.
Our goals for this current year are to establish Cardio-Oncology group meetings every other month and standardization of care (Mayo algorithms); expansion of care (increasing referral and patient volume as well as further integration into survivorship and rehabilitation); joint educational sessions with oncology, hematology and radiation therapy, applications for institutional, extramural, and industry grants; initiation of new lab-based experimental studies; continuation of ongoing experimental collaborations; continuation of two cardiovascular prospective awards; registry expansion (clinical data, bio bank) with research nurse support; and a Mayo Clinic Cardio-Oncology Symposium. We hope that we and other new cardio-oncology programs may bring improvements in clinical outcomes and may contribute to health and well-being in patients with cancer.
Baseline and monitoring evaluation of oncology patients
From a clinical practice standpoint, prediction of the risk of cardiotoxicity has a very high priority as it allows for better allocation and individualization of therapy. A formal recommendation has been recently proposed from the ASE Expert Consensus Group [20], wherein cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) is defined as a decrease in LVEF of > 10 percentage points, to a value < 53 %. Mayo Clinic established a standardized approach based on this consensus and our own experience.
Accordingly, it is our practice that patients at risk of type I cardiotoxicity undergo a comprehensive echocardiographic evaluation and biomarkers screening at baseline, completion of therapy and 6 months later. As per consensus [20], we recommend echocardiographic evaluation with strain (global longitudinal strain [GLS] using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography [2D-STE]) and serum cardiac troponin (cTn) after a cumulative dose of 240 mg/m2 has been achieved and additional evaluations before each additional 50 mg/m2 of anthracycline. In those at risk of type II cardiotoxicity, echocardiograms and biomarkers are performed every 3 months during treatment. For those receiving combined therapies with drugs with both type I and type II toxicity risk, echocardiograms and biomarkers are performed every 3 months during therapy and at 6 months after completion of treatment [20]. Figure 3 illustrates our baseline and serial monitoring of the oncology patient with drug therapy at risk of developing Type I and Type I toxicity [20].
Type I and Type II cardiotoxicity. Baseline and serial evaluation in patients receiving combined therapies with drugs with both type I and type II toxicity risk. Echocardiogram and cardiac biomarkers are performed during baseline. For abnormal baseline screening, we suggest cardio-oncology consultation. For normal baseline screening, we suggest serial monitoring with echocardiogram and biomarkers every 3 months during therapy and 6 months after completion of treatment. F/U indicates follow-up; GLS, global longitudinal strain; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; cTn, serum cardiac troponin
It is important to recognize that this follow-up may vary according to risk factors and individual patient characteristics and/or genetic susceptibility. For patients at increased cardiac risk, a more aggressive cardiac monitoring regimen should be considered. Thus, the recommended cardio-oncology consultation strategy includes a detailed medical history (eg, with emphasis on any heart disease and a comprehensive echocardiogram with strain imaging), type of anticancer therapy to be initiated (including planned cumulative dose and rate of administration), and the presence of risk factors. For risk assessment, a thorough history and physical examination is obtained, including age, cardiovascular risk factors, and history of prior exposure to agents and/or radiotherapy. In combination with information on planned therapies, the overall perceived risk can be illustrated by a score value [21]. The elements are in agreement with a recent meta-analysis that integrates specific risk factors for cardiotoxicity [49], age (<15 or > 65 year), female, prior cardiomyopathy, ischemic heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, use of anthracycline, and chest radiation were associated with increased risk. Based on that, a baseline risk assessment should be performed and a cardiotoxicity risk score can be calculated as shown in Table 2 [21]. Hemodynamic parameters, such as volume status, heart rate, and blood pressure should be optimized before initiating treatment.
Risk assessment and monitoring associated with left ventricular dysfunction
Patient-related risk factors
Medication-related risk factor a
1 point for each risk factor present
High (risk score 4): Anthracyclines, Trastuzumab, Ifosfamide, Cyclophosphamide, Clofarabine
Age (bimodal distribution): <15 or > 65 years
Atherosclerosis (coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral artery disease)
Preexisting heart disease or heart failure
Prior anthracycline
Prior radiation therapy to the chest
Intermediate (risk score 2): Docetaxel, Pertuzumab, Sunitinib, Sorafenib
Low (risk score 1): Bevacizumab, Imatinib, Lapatinib, Dasatinib
Rare (risk score 0): Etoposide, Rituximab, Thalidomide
Cardiotoxicity Risk Score (CRS)
Medication-related risk score + number of patient-related risk factors = CRS > 6: very high; CRS 5-6: high; CRS 3-4: intermediate; CRS 1-2: low; CRS 0: very low
Mayo Clinic monitoring recommendations
Very high risk: Echocardiogram with GLS before every (other) cycle, end, 3-6 months and 1 year. Optional ECG, cTn with echocardiogram during chemotherapy
High risk: Echocardiogram with GLS every 3 cycles, end, 3-6 months and 1 year after treatment. Optional ECG, cTn with echocardiogram during chemotherapy
Intermediate risk: Echocardiogram with GLS, mid-term, end and 3-6 after treatment. Optional ECG, cTn mid-term of chemotherapy
Low risk: Optional echocardiogram with GLS and/or ECG. cTn at the end of treatment
Very low risk: None
Risk assessment, cardiotoxicity risk score at the time of baseline assessment, and monitoring for patients undergoing anticancer therapy. ECG indicates electrocardiogram; GLS, global longitudinal strain; cTn, serum cardiac troponin. From Herrmann J et al. [21], with permission. aMedication-related risk factor (1-4) was based on the risk for a decline or dysfunction in the ventricular function. Bold to emphasize the most important components
As an important part of baseline clinical work-up prior to cancer treatment, we recommend chest x-ray, ECG, biomarkers (cTn and/or brain natriuretic peptide [BNP]), and echocardiography with strain imaging in all patients who are to undergo treatment regimens that bear cardiotoxicity risk (Fig. 4). Abnormal echocardiographic examination (reduced LVEF or GLS obtained by 2D-STE) and/or biomarkers (elevated cTn or BNP) require a cardio-oncology consultation. Quantitative assessment of LVEF using 2D Simpson’s biplane, and/or 3D echocardiography, with or without contrast (as needed for optimization of endocardial border definition) are clinically indicated. It is well known that LVEF is not a very sensitive index to detect subtle changes in myocardial contractility [20, 50]. More sensitive indices, such as GLS by 2D-STE, can detect early changes in intrinsic myocardial function and thus predict CTRCD. We have recently shown in patients with lymphoma [51], breast cancer (mainly anthracycline based chemotherapy) [52], and those undergoing treatment with VEGFi [53] that GLS measured by 2D-STE can detect early cardiac damage before a decrease in LVEF is identified. The method has been widely used to monitor cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy [20, 50–56].
Cardio-Oncology General Practice. Figure depicts our general cardio-oncology practice before, during and after chemo and/or radiation therapy (from Herrmann J et al. [21], with permission). abn indicates abnormal; CAD coronary artery disease; CXR, chest x-ray; ECG, electrocardiogram; QTc, corrected QT
Also, cardiac biomarkers have been shown to have incremental value in the detection of CTRCD [54–60]. cTn in particular was able to predict CTRCD in a very early phase of treatment [57, 58]. Cardinale et al. demonstrated that patients without cTn elevation after chemotherapy completion have a good prognosis whereas persistence of positive values for 1 month is associated with a higher incidence of cardiovascular events (87 %) [61]. In particular, cTn can be used to identify lower risk patients (higher negative predictive value). However, its predictive value is not superior and possibly not additive to that obtained with strain imaging (ie, GLS by 2D-STE) [55, 62].
Although much progress has been made, we believe we do not know the best method of monitoring these patients, how long they should be monitored, or the ways that these new techniques (strain imaging and biomarkers) will impact on survivorship. Anticancer therapies have brought hope and cure and extended the lives of patients with cancer, but for some these remarkable advances are attenuated by adverse cardiovascular effects. Mutual understanding and open discussions between team members in order to share expertise and responsibilities are required to achieve the best outcome for the patient.
A subspecialty with a multi-disciplinary integrative approach has emerged termed cardio-oncology. Cardio-oncology has the scope of diagnosing, preventing and treating patients with cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The discipline assists in the overall care of cancer patients from cancer diagnosis into survivorship. In this field, cardiologists assist oncologists and hematologists to further assess risk factors and manage existing or developing cardiovascular diseases. This partnership of shared responsibilities among multi-disciplinary professionals is a key element in improving the quality of care for cancer patients. This can be mediated through e-consultations or face-to-face evaluations and reported in an electronic medical record for better communication with all stakeholders involved in the care of the cancer patient. It is anticipated that this multidisciplinary approach will have an impact in decreasing cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction and improve patient outcomes.
2D-STE:
two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography
BNP:
brain natriuretic peptide
CHF:
cTn:
serum cardiac troponin
CTRCD:
cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction
ECG:
e-consult:
electronic referral management system
EMR:
GLS:
global longitudinal strain
LVEF:
left ventricular ejection fraction
VEGFi:
vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor
HRV and SB-G were the main manuscript authors. Study conception and design: SB-G, JH, and HRV. Acquisition of data: SB-G, JH, and HRV. Analysis and interpretation of data: SB-G, JH, and HRV. Drafting of manuscript: SB-G, JH, SLM, and HRV. Critical revision: SB-G, JH, SLM, AL, GL, and HRV. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Mayo Clinic, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Home Reviews ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ at Synetic Theater by Doug Poms
‘Jekyll and Hyde’ at Synetic Theater by Doug Poms
Doug Poms
Synetic Theater has started its new season with another spectacular show. This time the talented company takes on the classic tale of good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and adapted for Synetic by Nathan Weinberger and director Paata Tsikurishvili. Led by a tour de force performance by Alex Mills in the title role, Jekyll and Hyde is one of Synetic’s most powerful and strikingly visual shows to date.
Alex Mills as Jekyll and Hyde. Photo by Johnny Shryock.
The play tells the iconic story of Dr. Jekyll, a well intentioned scientist who is pursuing a formula for extracting evil from his soul, as he is about to embark on a new marriage. Of course, things go horribly wrong along the way. The iconic story lends itself to dark and colorful imagery and Synetic rises to the occasion.
Daniel Pinha’s set design is amazing. What initially looks like simple scaffolding comes to life as a sinister laboratory with the long poles evoking test tubes bubbling over with dangerous potions, and yet at the blink of an eye, the set becomes a formal ballroom and then morphs into a strip club with the poles becoming the stripper’s standard working apparatus. On the set is a large TV screen surrounded by smaller screens. The large and other screens are used effectively by Multimedia Designer Riki Kim to project disturbing yet effective images illustrating the psychotic emotion and duality tormenting Dr. Jekyll. This multimedia element adds greatly to the show’s sinister tone.
The powerful images, psychedelic screens along with the spooky jerky choreography (by Irina Tsikurishvili) by an exemplary ensemble, who act as physical manifestations of Jekyll’s evil nature, make the show look like some of the finest MTV music videos (think Michael Jackson’s Thriller). The choreography, as usual for Synetic, is quite rigorous, and this terrific ensemble is up to the task. At times, you feel you are watching the masterwork of a classic modern ballet. The choreography cleverly makes regular insider allusions to popular sequences from historic ballet choreography, including from the recent horror dance film, Black Swan.
Alex Mills (Jekyll and Hyde) Brittany O’Grady (Fiancee) and the Ensemble. Photo by Johnny Shryock.
Alex Mills is stunning as the beleaguered Dr. Jekyll and frenetic Mr. Hyde. This show is all about the battle of good versus evil within one man and he powerfully portrays the conflict within the man’s soul. In one scene we see the doctor break into his fiancée’s bedroom and approach her sleeping in bed. Mills expertly shows us how the doctor’s dark side desires to ravish his intended while his good side is fighting desperately to save her from himself. Mill’s physical manifestation of the doctor’s anguish over his divided soul is astounding to watch.
Others in the ensemble shine too. Peter Pereyra does a fine job as Dr. Jekyll’s horrified friend, Lanyon, while the lovely Brittany O’Grady is excellent as Dr. Jekyll’s delicate fiancée. Jace Casey makes a fine sexy Synetic debut. The other real standout in this production is Rebecca Hausman, who impresses as a seductive turned battered stripper.
The costumes by Chelsey Schuller are perfectly suited to the material and help transition scenes in and out of the spooky horror sequences. Andrew Griffin’s lighting is sublime, and make a key contribution to setting the show’s overarching eerie tone amidst the lighter more festive scenes. At times, haunting shadows dance on the walls amidst chaos while at other times stunning spotlights are used to great dramatic effect.
The music is also very effective. In a rare turn, well known pieces are used along with the effective original scoring by sound designer Konstantine Lorkipanidze (who worked with Irakli Kavsadze on the strong sound design). The lively score references well known songs from Pachabel’s “Canon” to The Wizard of Oz, to great effect.
This excellent wordless show proficiently and powerfully directed by Paata Tsikurishvili benefits from a strong and terrifying narrative, thrilling choreography and top notch production values.
Synetic’s Jekyll and Hyde should not be missed!
Alex Mills (Jekyll and Hyde). Photo by Johnny Shryock.
Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission
Jekyll and Hyde plays through October 21, 2012 at Synetic Theater – 1800 South Bell Street, in Arlington, Virginia. For tickets, call (800) 494-8497, or purchase them online.
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Doug is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.S. Commerce and J.D.) and George Washington University (M.B.A). Doug has lived in the DC area over 20 years and has been attending DC-MD-VA, NYC and London theater regularly for 15 years. Doug has written articles and poems and short stories for a number of publications and websites. Doug made his Broadway “debut” as a speller in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2005. Doug is also a big fan of movies, pop music, novels and quality television.
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Naomie Harris To Topline Cop Thriller ‘Black And Blue’ For Screen Gems
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomie Harris (Moonlight) has signed on as the lead in the Sony Screen Gems body cam cop thriller Black And Blue (formally titled Exposure), which is being directed by Deon Taylor based on a screenplay from Peter A. Dowling.
The plot centers on a rookie cop (Harris) in New Orleans who witnesses corrupt officers murdering a drug dealer, an event that is captured by her body cam. When they then fail to execute her she escapes and is hunted throughout the night by the narcs who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment is producing with Taylor’s Hidden Empire Film Group production shingle. Hidden Empire partner Roxanne Avent will serve as exec producer while Eric Paquette is overseeing the project for Screen Gems.
Harris has starred in tentpole films like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre and most recently Warner Bros’ Rampage pic opposite Dwayne Johnson. She can be heard in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, the long-awaited Jungle Book take from Andy Serkis, which debuted last week on Netflix.
Harris is repped by WME, Untitled Entertainment, Tavistock Wood, and Ziffren Brittenham.
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NBCUniversal Launches 'Lights Off. Screens On.' Campaign in Ramp Up to Earth Week
The seventh annual Green is Universal Earth Week celebration will include green-themed events, programming and public awareness.
Building on its commitment to sustainability across the entire company, NBCUniversal’s Green is Universal initiative will celebrate its seventh Earth Week with a slate of environmentally-themed events, programming and public awareness initiatives.
This Earth Week, Green is Universal will launch an ambitious new energy awareness campaign, "Lights Off. Screens On." The campaign will ask consumers to reduce their carbon footprint by turning off the lights when they turn on screens to watch their televisions, computers, tablets or smartphones.
If every household in the United States turned off two light bulbs for one hour every day, more than five billion kilowatt-hours of electricity would be saved nationwide each year, according to calculations based on government statistics.
"From the ongoing discussion on climate change to simple things people can do every day to live a greener lifestyle, the environment is an important issue for our consumers," stated Beth Colleton, NBCUniversal Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility. "Our ‘Lights Off. Screens On.’ campaign is just one of many actions NBCUniversal is leading to help educate consumers on simple ways to live more sustainably. NBCUniversal has been committed to using the reach of our many media and entertainment platforms to engage consumers in environmental awareness and education, and promote a healthy future."
NBCUniversal properties will actively promote the campaign by driving traffic to www.lightsoffscreenson.com during Earth Week. Starting on April 21, consumers will be able to take a pledge on the interactive site to turn off the lights, and in exchange receive the option to enter a contest to win an energy-efficient television and other environmentally-friendly prizes. Visitors to the site will also be able to access a variety of special NBCUniversal programming. The contest ends at 12 noon on April 28th.
NBCUniversal’s Earth Week celebration will also be in full swing at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando and Hollywood.
On Earth Day, April 22, Universal Orlando Resort will give park guests the opportunity to attend the "Earth Week Recharge Experience" at Universal Studios Florida. The event will be complete with a solar recharging lounge, live music, and playground equipment that will "power" the event. Park guests will also have a chance to share pictures taken from NBCUniversal’s famous studio sets with the hashtag #LightsOffScreensOn.
The Green Is Universal Earth Week party will move to Universal Studios Hollywood on April 25th with a "Lights Off. Screens On. Music Fest." The concert will feature DJs and pop/rock bands along with Syfy’s McKenzie Westmore and mun2’s Liz and Jackie. The energetic crowd will help power the event by showing off their best moves on a kinetic dance floor. Additionally, a complimentary solar recharging station will allow guests to "power up" their personal devices so they can share the night with the campaign’s hashtag #LightsOffScreensOn.
Reaching over 30,000 park guests during last year’s Earth Week theme park events, PR News recently named NBCUniversal its winner for "green-focused corporate social responsibility events."
In addition, various NBCUniversal on-air and digital properties will incorporate environmental education and themes in content, including NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, USA, Sprout, Syfy, E!, Bravo, and the Golf Channel.
A new slate of environmentally themed The More You Know public service announcements will also run during Earth Week and throughout the year across the networks. The new spots feature NBCUniversal talent providing their favorite conservation tips including: turning off the lights, recycling electronics, eating locally, and conserving energy and water. Participating talent include: Alison Sweeney, Ken Jeong, Kelli Giddish, Retta, Erika Christensen, Jim Cramer, Reza Farahan, Meghan Markle, McKenzie Westmore, Chris Hayes, and Fernando and Martha Vargas, among others.
Employees at dozens of sites in the U.S. and in countries around the world where NBCUniversal operates will also do their part for the planet on Earth Week by participating in environmentally-related community volunteer projects in connection with Comcast Cares Day, the company’s signature day of service.
NBCUniversal also integrates sustainability into the way it operates and constructs facilities. The building of the news center in Los Angeles is the latest example. The state of the art, adaptive reuse project features LED studio lighting, fiber optic wiring, advanced cooling systems and efficient power-management controls that help the facility conserve energy. Ninety-six percent of the debris generated in demolition of the old facility was recycled as verified by Los Angeles County.
About Green Is Universal
Launched in 2007, Green is Universal is NBCUniversal’s ongoing green initiative dedicated to raising environmental awareness, effecting positive change to the environment, and making its own operations more sustainable. Through the year, NBCUniversal uses it numerous media and entertainment platforms to educate the public on the environment, with green-themed content airing across more than 50 NBCUniversal brands.
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2020 Ford Excursion, Diesel, Engine, Release date and Price
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 - Ford
Ford has big plans for the biggest SUV, Expedition. One of the plans to make it the second largest in the sector. but how? It depends on the full-size F-150 truck. What could be greater than that? The answer is: 2020 Ford Excursion, the largest new SUV based on pick-up F-250 for heavy duty. This model was already available at the beginning of the millennium. Now, back to take the same place between 2000-2004.
We can see the expansion of various types of crosses and SUVs. We can classify these models in compact, medium and full size models. In addition, there are some strings between the levels. But the 2020 Ford Excursion takes another step: it expands the sector with respect to the larger model.
Depending on the Super Duty class, some details about the 2020 Ford Excursion are revealed. The SUV is likely to get a V8 engine. In any case, there is a possibility that Excursion is a kind of test mule for the new 7.0 liter unit. Diesel is another possible option.
2020 Ford Excursion engine
One reason for the interruption was efficiency. The flight uses huge engines that consume a lot of fuel. At their alignment were the Triton engine trains of 5.4 liters and 6.8 liters. The SUV also uses 6.0 liter and 7.3 liter diesel units.
What can Ford lead the 2020 Ford Excursion? None of these meet the emission and efficiency requirements. After that, the new four-wheel drive can borrow an engine from its closest brethren, the F250 and the F350. It is a 6.2 liter unit that produces 385 horsepower and a torque of 430 lbs. This still does not reach the production we get from the Ford Expedition. The twin turbo engine is capable of providing 375 hp and 470 lb. of torque. Well, the V8 will provide a fantastic towing capacity: over 10,000 pounds. The new 10-speed automatic transmission is a real power steering for any engine.
But, there is another possibility. For a while, we heard rumors about the new 7.0-liter DOHC engine coming into the Ford F-150 Raptor. The same motion range can be the biggest surprise for the 2020 Ford Excursion. We believe this unit will be able to create about 450 hp and 500 pounds of torque. However, Ford has yet to confirm what this vehicle is and which vehicle will be the first to get it.
2020 Ford Excursion Diesel
Since it depends on Super Duty line, we must mention the other engine in this part: Powerstroke unit with turbodiesel. A 6.7-liter V8 engine produces 450 hp and a 925-hp torque. With such performance, the 2020 Ford Excursion will be out of all SUVs. We can not compare it with the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk and its Hellcat engine with the ability to produce 707 hp since 2020 Ford Excursion can pull much more.
Again, we must compare the 2020 Ford Excursion with its sister truck sector. Since these mules are working, the new SUV is likely to be one of the leading companies in the country. However, it still depends on the configuration you get. V6 is very strong. With this, a new flight will be able to transfer 8,500 pounds. The larger V8 adds more power and its towing capacity reaches 10,000 pounds. Finally, the turbocharged engine is the most mutilated engine, and the final result will be 18,000 pounds and more than the diameter capacity.
2020 Ford Excursion Exterior
Ford Excursion 2020 will be the largest new SUV in the US market. The chassis platform will be used in the same frame as the Ford Super Duty class. The new SUV will have some similarities with its predecessor, although it has been closed for 15 years. They will look like the joint designers of the F-250 and Expedition SUVs. The extended body will have three rows of seats. However, there will be enough space behind the rear seats to load. This is another factor for total diameter capacitance. However, we believe that the SUV body will not limit the capacity of the country on a turbocharged engine or a 6.2 liter engine.
2020 Ford Excursion Interior
Again, the 2020 Ford Excursion will combine elements from his younger SUV brother and a heavy duty truck. The latter addresses a new generation. In 2020 we will see a new series of Super Duty pills. Well, Excursion SUV will use similar designs and features. However, Ford Expedition is also packed with interesting features, especially in its higher trim levels. The base model comes with three rows and capacity for eight people. As an Expedition, the 2020 Ford Excursion could cut a place in premium versions to add captain chairs in the center row. The company will offer few levels of equipment, with the Platinum and Limited SUV models that exceed the range.
2020 Ford Excursion Conversion
We were able to see custom trips during the last years. Specialized companies managed to convert the F-250 truck into an SUV. However, the owners of these vehicles would be left without guarantees. Also, the conversion is not exactly what real fans really want. Therefore, the 2020 Ford Excursion will be a real business, especially because the CABT company is not converting 2016 trucks into SUVs.
2020 Ford Excursion Release date and price
We are listening carefully to any information about the comeback of the 2020 Ford Excursion. Because this SUV is close to being a brother of the Super Duty segment, we could see premieres of both types of vehicles together. Spy photos of the heavy trucks are already available, while photographers have not yet captured the new Excursion. That means that enthusiasts will have to be patient for a while. The first test mules will definitely be seen during 2019.
As for the price, we can again compare the 2020 Ford Excursion with its closest relatives: Expedition and F-250. The full-size SUV starts at $ 52,000 and costs up to $ 75,000. On the other hand, a modestly equipped van is a cheaper option with an initial price of $ 34,000. However, heavy versions of this vehicle can reach $ 85,000.
Therefore, the new SUV will probably get equipment similar to that of its younger brother, and the functionality of a truck will be available at a cheaper price. The perfect price for the tour would be around $ 45,000. But, since it is larger than the Expedition, it is likely that Ford will add a couple of large quantities to its price.
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The largest SUV in the world is about to get a diesel engine, finally. The 2020 Ford Excursion Diesel will return in 2019 and the 2020 model will see diesel variation. Once in a popular SUV, the SUV is always popular. Attention to the return of the promenade is high, as this was the largest and most resistant model we have ever seen.
The size matter and this SUV was much larger than a full-size SUV. As before, the tour will be based on a pickup truck from the Ford lineup, possibly the F-150. You can expect some minor changes, a sudden trailer rating, and not very impressive fuel economy figures.
2020 Ford Excursion Diesel is based on
Model F-150
Blue Oval Automotive will again offer a traditional exterior design. 2020 Ford Excursion Diesel will remain at its roots, which is for sure.
Like the first generation, the new Excursion will be built on a truck, possibly on the F-150. This means that we can expect the same platform that supports the featured group. Thanks to lighter platform and more aluminum material, the round will be lighter than before. It’s a modern piece of design and design, so SUVs will benefit safely in the mileage section.
When it comes to design, the promenade will not be as unique as before. Most features will be taken from the F-150. This includes front grill, headlamps, lines, characters and much more.
2020 Ford Excursion Diesel Interior
From the inside, the 2020 Ford Excursion Diesel will feature a unique design. To get started, the painting will be new and the interior will offer many new materials. The trip is the largest existing SUV, so there is no need to talk about the interior space.
The interior space is extreme and there will be room for eight or nine passengers. Even the cargo area would be incredible. Although difficult at home, Excursion is a hidden SUV when it comes inside. In any case, the cabin will be modern and equipped with the latest features and systems. Optional things will make this SUV more luxurious including Wi-Fi, premium audio and much more.
2020 Ford Excursion Diesel Powertrain
The next SUV is already offering a gasoline engine. Now, the F2020 Ford Excursion Diesel will also have a diesel engine. The most likely candidate is the 6.7-liter PowerStroke, which can generate nearly 400 hp.
We still do not know the torque numbers, but we can expect a much higher torque than the gasoline-powered model. So the mileage will be improved.
fuel economy Rating
If the manufacturer puts this engine, buyers can expect to save on fuel consumption by about 25 mpg combined and a new 10-speed automatic transmission will be provided. In general, the new flight will be a much better model than the current model. After all, the drag capacity will also be much better.
2020 Ford Excursion Diesel Price and Release date
The cost of alternative diesel will be slightly more than the gasoline version. The 2020 Ford Excursion Diesel’s standard cost is about $ 50,000 and will cost a $ 55,000 diesel trip.
There will be three or four levels of equipment in offer, and we can even expect a high-performance variable in the near future. The largest Blue Oval SUV will be launched for sale in the first half of 2020.
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The State of IT Security in 2019
What can we expect to see in the future, from a rapidly changing IT security landscape? We ask our expert panelists Andy Burston, William Brennan and Sascha Giese for their thoughts
In today’s modern world, the blurred edges between the physical and digital domains means that cyber security is quickly finding itself at the forefront of the global conscience. As British mathematician Clive Humby opined last decade, if ‘data is the new oil’ then the protection of that data becomes a sovereignty imperative transcending from the national level through to individual citizens.
Andy Burston, our panellist from ISSA UK, says that rather than using an oil comparison, data is actually like sunlight - it will not run out anytime soon. If handled well then we greatly benefit, if handled poorly or we ignore it, we burn.
After 2017’s headlines on how the NHS was affected by the WannaCry ransomware, the public sector has been relatively quiet in terms of the changing IT security landscape. However, the lack of a specific targeted attack against the public sector causing this kind of widespread disruption in 2018 should not be cause for complacency.
The same automated tools developed to assist digital purging will lend themselves to a number of alternative applications including a police service looking to solve long standing missing person cases by contrasting the photograph of many years ago to the masses of data online today. Or perhaps a health authority seeking to recognise the tell-tale symptoms of disease and ill health in a single individual across as many sources of bulk digital evidence as possible.
Andy suggests that this enables the broader ethical approach to data retention. The more options made available to an individual in respect of just how much they ‘opt in’ and how accurately their data is retained and presented, then the more confidence others will have in the security and data protection approach of the organisation concerned.
Bill Brennan of Leidos says that, when considering what we can expect to see in cyber security’s future, the challenges are extensive but the requirements coalesce into a few critical areas. Sascha Giese is in complete agreement, claiming that there is no question that the threat landscape is diversifying and changing as public sector security teams and hackers face off in an ongoing race against each other. Giese also points out that it is not just the threats that are diversifying, but also the angles of attack.
As we move to an always-on, always accessible digital culture, attackers no longer have to lie in wait, watching for an opportunity. Research shows that the cyber attack surface is ever growing with the advent of the Internet of Things and its 31 billion devices projected by 2020. You only have to read our second Panel of Experts discussion in September with Gabe Chomic, Simon Daykin and Paul Parker to be reminded that, while IoT is a natural evolution of our technology enabled and connected world, it also poses a security risk. This is part of the dichotomy of moving to the cloud. On the one hand, the cloud offers a standardised approach that is easier to manage. On the other, adopting cloud infrastructure puts control of the physical and network access in the hands of a third-party provider. This means that tremendous quantities of data are made readily available in computers no longer protected by an organisation’s own security infrastructure. While the cost, speed, and functionality benefits of adopting cloud computing are irrefutable, data-centric cyber security has to be a key strategic element.
Many of these devices were never engineered with security in mind but instead the priority was put on connectivity and functionality. This provides bad actors ready access to control everything from cameras, to automated doors and locks through security systems from the safety of their home locations. As more devices become Internet connected it is imperative that our cyber security solutions protect these devices without impeding the functionality they are intended to deliver. While security is regularly seen as a binary, all or nothing endeavour, the modern solutions must recognise and balance risk effectively.
Then we must consider how well directives are followed. Sascha highlights how people seem less engaged with critically considering the security implications of new infrastructure; when organisations receive a directive to adopt the cloud, for example, it can be difficult for individuals to feel confident and enabled to disagree or challenge the decision from a security perspective.
A big part of this is the need for general awareness, throughout public sector organisations. These days people expect there to be physical security when you’re at a train station, and it can be useful to apply a similar level of vigilance to IT threat awareness in public sector security. IT users might not know how a cloud works, and they don’t need to, they just need to ensure that it is secured.
Bill Brennan emphasises that there is a worldwide dearth of cyber professionals, with a projected shortfall of over two million openings worldwide by the end of the decade. This is also complicated by a dramatic lack of diversity in the cyber security workforce which further shrinks the workforce capacity. Without significant increases in the global workforce this shortfall will further compound the challenges of securing IT devices.
Planning to educate end users about security matters is a task that IT should be devoting the same level of preparation to as, for example, planning to secure operating systems. Sascha and SolarWinds establish three steps public sector organisations can take, in the defence space and beyond, to be more prepared for whatever IT security threats emerge in 2019: root out vulnerabilities; keep your security procedures checked and up to date; and embrace a range of defences.
The watchword for 2019 is very much vigilance when it comes to the changing IT security landscape. As threats diversify and cyber criminals get smarter in their targeted assaults, it will be all down to ongoing preparation to be able to withstand any attack. Leidos suggest that the solutions to the future challenges in cybersecurity will be found in achieving visibility and by optimising the human/machine interaction. As Bill says, ‘you cannot protect what you cannot see and you cannot control what you cannot track’. Future success will be dependent on finding secure ways to protect the devices holding and processing organisational data. Additionally, a keen understanding and execution of data governance, understanding what data is and its importance/risk to the organisation, separate successful organisations from their peers.
Andy Burston, ISSA UK
Andy Burston is a member and advocate of the Information Systems Security Association UK, a registered charity and membership body to help others further their career and to ensure that providers have a safe environment to collaborate and share ideas.
Final thoughts: “Innovation and fresh thinking are key for the cyber security industry to maintain their competitive advantage. However, the security future in the next five to 10 years will be just as much a change of mind-set as technology.
"Organisations will increasingly carefully consider their behaviours and responsibility to data long after the noise surrounding high profile breaches die down. Consumers cannot assume that the mere adoption of technology or services makes them any more secure than previously thought without first taking the appropriate steps to identify what personally and corporately matters most.”
William Brennan, Leidos
In this role as senior director, William uses his 15 years of experience in cyber security to protect Leidos Corporation and support the cyber goals of clients around the world.
Final thoughts: “In the near future the reliance on machines for automated cyber defence must exponentially increase; this is not to downplay the importance of humans but instead underlines their key role in success. The advent of modern SOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response) technologies will change the role of humans from operators of machines to curators of actions.
The closer integration of machine learning and eventually artificial intelligence into cyber defence will require humans who can not only do the action themselves but teach a machine how to make the decision to take that action automatically in the future.”
Sascha Giese, Solar Winds
Sascha Giese holds various technical certifications and has more than 10 years of technical IT experience, four of which have been as a senior pre-sales engineer at SolarWinds.
Final thoughts: “As the IT security landscape changes, the main challenges will be awareness and user education. Remaining vigilant and prioritising training to meet new and emerging threats is a useful first step.
"On top of this, investment in the right range of IT security tools such as automated patch management, device tracking, network monitoring, and firewalls can help public sector organisations be ready for whatever 2019 may bring.”
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Navigating complex markets
In the last week of June, the 2018 Behavioural Exchange conference brought together experts, policy-makers, academics, and practitioners in behavioural insights to explore and create new and better policies. We went along to hear how these cutting-edge findings could be further applied to our consumer engagement research.
Kicking off the event, Martin Parkinson, the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, reflected on the failure of the NeoNurture, which Time Magazine rated the number one invention in 2010. An incubator designed from leftover car parts for use in developing countries without adequate medical facilities, the NeoNurture was only ever used by one baby after its invention (who modelled it for Time Magazine) – because the developers failed to consider how prospective choosers might respond to the invention. Parkinson recalled that Ralf Speth, Jaguar’s CEO, once quipped, “If you think the cost of good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.” Here at CPRC we agree.
In our Five Preconditions of Effective Consumer Engagement report, we strongly recommend regulators and policymakers adopt customer journey-mapping exercises to ensure interventions intended to improve consumer choice address the barriers people face when making decisions. Refining information fact sheets for example, is unlikely to improve consumer choice where individuals are unaware they exist, or if they remain incomprehensible for the purpose of comparison.
Parkinson also emphasised the need for the APS to ‘get to know the public we serve – in all the breadth and depth that encompasses’. It is essential that policymakers develop interventions that address the range of circumstances individuals find themselves in. We think this a good guiding approach for all sectors – industry, academia, policymakers and regulators – this is especially the case when attempting to remove barriers for vulnerable consumers.
In opening the second day’s proceedings Professor John A. List spoke to the importance of not just trialling interventions before widespread adoption but for a need to replicate results to provide policymakers to avoid ‘voltage drop’ when taking behavioural interventions to scale. This makes an awful lot of sense, especially sharing the results so that others can also learn from these trials before designing a new intervention.
Some examples of this were outlined in following presentations from the Australian Energy Regulator, Behavioural Insights Team and Behavioural Economics Team Australia exploring a range of trials completed, both in the UK and in Australia to improve consumer comprehension of retail energy information, a sector that remains particularly fraught for consumers.
Professor Rick Larrick spoke to the importance of providing consumers with comprehensible information, especially information that signposts key aspects or features of a product or service. Here, Larrick outlined how consumers have historically been provided with limited and flawed energy metrics, such as miles per gallon, to quantify energy use. His research proposes four principles informed by behavioural insights for designing comprehensible consumer facing measures to help consumers make more informed decisions. This has direct relevance to CPRC’s second precondition – ensuring consumers have access to key information that is clear, comparable and comprehensible.
Arguably the big drawcard of the event, Professor Cass Sunstein’s plenary session explored and addressed a number of misconceptions about nudges, and provided rejoinders, along with a preliminary outline for a “Bill of Rights for Nudging”.
Professor Sunstein highlighted that nudges can be a particularly useful tool for policymakers and regulators to help individuals make better choices, and are generally more popular than mandates or bans. He also noted a key aim of nudges is to improve the navigability of life’s difficult choices, particularly for those with limited attention or capacity to do so. His example of a GPS is apt – calculating the quickest, easiest way home as a guide, which retains freedom of choice for the user.
CPRC’s Five Preconditions report drew heavily on behavioural insights, and this concept of navigability permeates much of our conceptual framework. Our fifth precondition in particular requires policymakers and regulators ensure consumers are aware where they can seek help, are aware of key product and service information, are aware where to compare products and services, and are aware how to switch between providers where this suits their preferences. The issue of navigability is particularly pertinent for those already encountering disadvantage.
Watch Sunstein deliver his Holberg Prize address:
Notably, in the address, he cited MIT scholar Ester Duflo:
“We tend to be patronising about the poor in a very specific sense, which is that we tend to think ‘why don’t they take more responsibility for their lives?’ And what we are forgetting, is the richer you are the less responsibility you need to take for your own life, because everything is taken care of for you. And the poorer you are, the more you have to be responsible for everything about your life… Stop berating people for not being responsible and provide the poor with the luxury the rest of us have, that a lot of decisions are made for us.”
CPRC considers improving the navigability of complex products and services is paramount, especially where policymakers have determined that markets should deliver these services. We’ll be doing more work on these concepts over the coming year.
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Tag: The Gabba
Ashes Daily – England’s bowling attack requires fire and brimstone
Day One of the first test at the Gabba.
The English bowlers were well below their best at the Gabba last week. Broad and Anderson struggled to find rhythm, while Ball and Woakes looked tame at times and downright predictable at others. It seems to me that there is a lot of sameness about the English attack. Where is the out and out quick that strikes fear into the hearts of the batsmen? History tells us that if you want to stay competitive in an Ashes series, you’re going to have to try some short stuff from time to time. It worked for Australia at the back end of the first innings and most of the second – particularly against the tailenders – but England don’t have the bowlers capable of replicating this tactic.
Anderson, Ball and Woakes are all in the team to pitch the ball up and make it swing, but this plan of attack is ineffective when the pitch isn’t offering the sideways movement of Trent Bridge or Lord’s. When playing on flat wickets, the likes of which England will encounter at the SCG and MCG, bowlers must bend their backs and intimidate rather than float it up and pray for seam movement. Broad is the man that posses the pace required to execute a leg-side trap, but Anderson – whose record in Australia is rather disappointing for a bowler of his calibre – Ball and Woakes are all working towards a common goal that in Australia, with a Kookaburra ball and flat drop-in wickets, can be a frivolous task.
England would do well to bring in a Mark Wood, who is currently on tour here in Australia with the Lions, or Liam Plunkett, who appears to have been pigeonholed in the shorter formats. I must admit I haven’t seen a lot of Overton and he could well be the man that adds some variety to an otherwise similar bowling attack. If so, the sooner they get him in the side the better. An attack featuring Ball and Wokes alongside Anderson and Broad is incapable of getting the job done at the WACA, where pace and bounce – and more importantly, who uses it best – often dictates the outcome of the game.
We all knew not having Stokes in the side would greatly weaken the English batting lineup, but it seems it has hurt the bowling unit just as much. Not only does he add the mungrel to get under the skin of the Australian batsmen, he adds variety to the pace attack that can trouble batsmen on flat wickets where swing bowling won’t cut the bacon during the second innings.
Adelaide and the pink ball will suit the English quicks because the wicket will play into their hands and allow them to gain reward from standing the seam up as they would in England. As soon as they move on to the WACA, they require a point of difference to avoid the embarrassment of the Gabba. That point of difference is someone who can successfully execute a 145 kph short ball directed at the batsman’s badge.
Posted on November 30, 2017 November 30, 2017 by Jordan CrickPosted in Ashes 2017, Cricket, Day/ Night Test, UncategorizedTagged Adelaide Oval, Ashes 2017, Australia, Chris Woakes, Day/Night Test Cricket, England, Jake Ball, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, The Gabba. 1 Comment
Ashes 2017 – First Test Review
If England are to take one positive away from the first test at the Gabba, it is that they were in the contest for the best part of three days.
Many touring sides walk away from the ‘Gabbatoir’ with egos damaged, reputations tarnished and careers in tatters.
This was certainly the case in 2013/14 when England came to the Gabba and were blown away inside four days by Mitchell Johnson.
Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swan were left with psychological scars so deep they returned home, while the remainder of the English dressing room were left puzzled as to how they would go about thwarting the firebrand quick for the rest of the series.
They never recovered and went on to lose 5-0.
Years earlier Simon Jones, who had shown signs he could become a prolific wicket taker for England in the few overs he got to bowl before plugging his knee in the Gabba outfield during the first test of the 2002/03 series, was whisked off to hospital and took no further part in the tour.
England also had 350 runs put on them on that first day at the Gabba after Nasser Hussain decided he would make his bowlers toil on a wicket harder than the M1.
To no one’s surprise, England lost that series 4-1, with their only relief coming in the final test of the summer at the SCG.
The first test of this summer didn’t follow the conventional Gabba storylines.
Few England players have been left with deep psychological scars despite the fact they lost by a margin of 10 wickets and many key batsman failed to score runs – Alastair Cook being one of those.
Normally it is the quicks who leave batsmen fearing for their collective futures at the Gabba. But the first test of this Ashes summer belonged to Nathan Lyon, and you get the feeling most of the English left handers will be losing sleep over him rather than Starc and Hazlewood.
Malan and Stoneman were both dismissed in the second innings prodding at a ball that ripped and turned from the footmarks outside off stump.
They had no set plan to the off spinner and spent most of their time plonking their front foot down the line of off-stump, hoping the ball would go straight on to hit the middle of the bat.
Kevin Pietersen made mention in the aftermath of the first test that the English batsmen must go after Lyon or risk being bogged down and eventually lose their wicket without progressing the score.
Hazlewood to Malan on Day one at the Gabba.
You sense that Lyon was able to contain the English batsmen during the first test because, to put it simply, they were scared to leave their crease.
With the ball spinning and bouncing, the risk of being stumped became far greater and so they reverted to playing with soft hands and a vertical bat.
Taking one method of dismissal out of the equation betters your chance of survival, right?
Nathan Lyon is the kind of bowler that will immediately find a second gear if he gets a sniff.
With many of the English batsmen new to the test arena, Lyon was able to play on their vulnerabilities and improve his chances of taking a wicket by removing the only way he is ever put off his length – the dancing feet of an opposition batsman.
When a batsmen is rooted to the crease, as the likes of Bell and Prior were back in 2013, Lyon fires.
He can build up pressure around the bat and let the rough do the talking while the batsmen push and prod in the hope of survival.
If a batsmen goes after him, as many touring sides have done in the past, he begins to drop the ball short and run scoring becomes far easier.
The sooner the English batsmen realise this, the better chance they are of scoring over 400 in Adelaide and beyond without Stokes.
Of course, there is still the quicks to contend with, but they will be far less threatening if Lyon isn’t building up pressure down the other end.
For the better part of the first innings at the Gabba, Australia’s bowlers were far too short. This could easily be blamed on the slowness of the Gabba wicket, for if it had played normally – as it did in the second innings – the shorter length may well have been effective.
But the Australian quicks, Cummins in particular, were too short too often and went looking for a mode of dismissal that was nigh on impossible during much of the first innings.
Only when the wicket quickened up did the back-of-a-length tactic pay dividends.
For the reminder of the summer, the WACA aside, the wickets will be flat, slow and might even seam from time to time.
The benefit of touring Australia is that you play on drop in wickets that are devoid of life and flatter than a pancake after a day and a half.
If England can win in Adelaide, there’s a chance they can win the series. Lose and there is no coming back with a game at the WACA to come.
Tests at the Gabba and WACA are so often seen as the games that make or break a series because the wickets at both venues play into Australia’s hands.
But Adelaide is now seen as the tie-breaker because the games at the MCG and SCG could go either way.
If England lose in Adelaide, the series is all but sewn up for Australia.
If this scenario transpires, all hell could break lose in England’s camp and we could witness a repeat of the carnage and turmoil of their last trip down under.
Australia have the upper hand but Adelaide will tell us a lot about the direction this Ashes series is headed.
Posted on November 29, 2017 by Jordan CrickPosted in Ashes 2017, UncategorizedTagged 2017, Ashes, Australia, Cricket, England, First Test, Test Cricket, The Gabba. Leave a comment
Pakistan depart Gabba with ascendancy despite loss
Australia have plenty to ponder over their Christmas lunches having fought back from the brink of defeat in what was almost one of the great test match robberies.
Pakistan’s efforts on day one and two left many, including myself, wondering what they would be able to take away from this series, and in how many days Australia would romp to victory. But the resilience they showed with the bat in a remarkable turnaround that stunned the punters has given them all the momentum they need to take out the Melbourne and Sydney test matches.
Before they reached our shores, Pakistan where notorious for their dogged determination, willingness to win the scrap and ability to steal back the ascendancy like thieves in the night. They lived up to those expectations with a performance that showed the world why they are the sleeping giants not to be taken lightly, even if they haven’t played a test on their home patch for seven years.
The Gabba at night on Day One
They’ve left Australia to walk away with a win that is barely palatable and will have them thinking about the pre-planed tactics they employed and their relative ineffectiveness in bringing about false shots on a regular basis. If anything, Pakistan have taken more away from this test match than the Australian’s who waltzed into the Gabba like a pack of hungry lions expecting to rip their pray to shreds without a fight. At the completion of the first innings, they were well within their rights to assume that the game would pan out in such a manner, but their complacency gave Pakistan’s underrated batsmen a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel that they fell agonisingly short of making a tangible reality. 39 runs short in fact.
Opponents should beware. If you give Pakistan an inch, they will take a mile. How the game was allowed to shift from a forgone conclusion to a nail-biting game for the ages is a concern in itself and shows how vulnerable an outfit Australia are at the moment, and how 2017 could quickly become their worst year in over a decade. A bumpy road awaits filled with multiple twists, turns and speed humps that could result in unfavourable results that eclipse the humiliation of their thrashing in Hobart and the fallout that followed. The vastly improved Bangladesh shapes as a danger-filled series, while the Ashes at the beginning of next summer will be the ideal yardstick to judge Australia’s positioning amongst the world’s elite.
Starc, Hazlewood and Bird are world class fast bowlers who posses unrivalled qualities, while Lyon is a long-underapreciated spinner who still has plenty to offer the Australian side at home and in the sub-continent. But their inability to bowl sides out in the final innings of a game is a reoccurring theme that will not only put more pressure on the batsmen to amass a large first innings score, but also force them to bowl injury inducing excess overs. Australia’s fresh faced batting line-up relies greatly upon its bowlers to keep the opposition’s totals to a minimum in order to make their job a great deal easier. And this will only be accentuated when they reach India in February.
Their first innings performance against Pakistan was the equivalent of a cricketing symphony. But they lacked potency in the second dig and bowled far too many deliveries that enabled Pakistan’s seasoned batsmen to fill their boots. When Starc wasn’t busy delivering a barrage of bouncers, which worked on the odd occasion but yielded few wickets when compared to the number of deliveries bowled short, Hazlewood was over-pitching and allowing Pakistan to play to their strengths. The UAE is home to some of the slowest and lowest wickets in the world and batsmen local to these regions are natural born drivers. Anything pitched on a half volley length is money for jam.
Jackson Bird delivered the timely knock out blows that rendered Pakistan’s run chase moot, and his presence provides the calming influence that frustrates opposition batsmen into rash strokes making him the perfect foil for Starc and Hazlewood.
His unerring ability to put the ball on a troubling length and make it seam is an indispensable value that will be required when Australia visit South Africa and England. But the career clock is ticking and he has a host of younger bowlers like Pat Cummins, Jason Behrendorff and current squad member Chadd Sayers breathing down his neck. Will he still be around beyond the end of this series? Or will his time be up by the Sydney test.
Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jordan CrickPosted in Australia v Pakistan, Cricket, Day/ Night Test, Gabba, UncategorizedTagged Australia, Australia v Pakistan, First Test, Pakistan, Test Cricket, The Gabba. Leave a comment
Late wickets sink final nail in Pakistan coffin
Pakistan fought valiantly to push the game into a fifth day, but the loss of crucial wickets at important junctions has all but written off their late dash to the finish line.
Asad Shafiq’s hundred and the belligerence of tail-end batsmen Amir and Wahab have put Pakistan in with a fighting chance of defying the historical odds stacked heavily against them. Yet the probability of breaking the age-old record to crack Australia’s 490 is slim, and will require a one up on the heroics they displayed this evening.
Pakistan’s elder statesmen needed to be the one’s to guide the ship home, but they were both dismissed in a fashion that would have had coach Mickey Arthur pulling at his hair. Younis, with his wealth of experience totalling 110 matches, was able to keep Australia at bay for a session with a typically defiant innings, before playing a stroke born of frustration to become Lyon’s second victim. His brain fade, that came in the form of a reverse sweep, was labelled “ridiculous” by former Pakistan quick Waqar Younis in the Channel Nine commentary box. But it was more of a crime than an act of stupidity and may have been the catalyst that caused the pins to start tumbling late in the day.
The grounds crew prepare the wicket at tea on Day One.
Younis Khan has the great ability to frustrate sides and opposition captains to the edge of insanity. He did it against England earlier this year at the Oval – a game Pakistan managed to win thanks to his score of 218. You could see Starc and Hazlewood’s frustration flowing from their ears. The short pitched bowling that followed was a byproduct of the pain that Younis and Azhar had managed to heap on in a matter of just two short sessions. But his reverse sweep, which came during a period of the innings that required patience and unfailing concentration, was unbefitting of a man with more combined test match experience than half the Pakistan side combined.
Misbah-ul-haq was guilty of similar crimes. The stroke that brought about his demise might not have been as extravagant as Younis, but the risk factor was practically identical. He pushed at a good length ball from Jackson Bird with all the might and flamboyance of an invincible and battle hardened cricketer but with the footwork of a newly born calf. It was a carbon copy of his dismissal in the first innings. A danger sign for the Pakistan stalwart who must find a way to play on Australian wickets again before his flaws reach a stage where they are beyond repair.
Australian captain Steve Smith will be sleeping uneasily tonight with the thought of ‘what if’ a reoccurring theme in his dreams. His own drops, including what would have been the prized scalp of centurion Asad Shafiq, have kept Pakistan in the contest and might yet prove to be bigger slip up’s than those that allowed former Olympic speed skater Steve Bradbury to take out the gold medal at the 2002 winter Olympic Games.
Pakistan are the underdogs who couldn’t put a foot right on the opening two days of a series defining test match. Australia are the grinning cheshire cats who shifted into cruise control this morning having set Pakistan a seemingly unassailable total. There have been some terrific tales of the little man overcoming the unbreakable giants: David v Goliath; England v Ireland (and the Netherlands); Leicester City v 5000/1 odds. But none would be greater than this if Shafiq can combine with Pakistan’s last remaining warriors to make up the remaining 107 run deficit.
Posted on December 18, 2016 by Jordan CrickPosted in Australia v Pakistan, Cricket, Day/ Night Test, UncategorizedTagged Australia, Australia v Pakistan, CA, First Test, Pakistan, Steve Smith, Test Cricket, The Gabba. Leave a comment
Australia v Pakistan, first test, day three – Pakistan falter…again
If Pakistan still held aspirations of winning this test match at the beggining of the third days play, they needed to avoid making the same mistakes as the first innings. That they did, at least for brief periods in a checkerboard pattern that barely resembled an improvement at all. There were glimpses of what Pakistan are capable of, but some old habits reappeared and they were there for all to see once again on what was likely the test’s penultimate day.
Sarfraz Ahmed made a bright and breezy start to the day alongside the sport-fixer turned actor Mohammad Amir, but even his shot selection was questionable at times and it looked as if he was just a streaky shot away from losing his wicket for much of his innings. “That’s the way he plays” the commentators quipped, but there is a distinct difference between busy and reckless, and many of shots that evaded the fielders by a finger-nails length could certainly be seen as an exemplar of the latter.
The Gabba, from deep in the Stanley Street end stand, during day two.
When it came time for Pakistan to bat again, just hours after being dismissed in their first innings, there were signs that they had failed to change their ways and others that suggested they awoke to an epiphany. Sami Aslam looked circumspect after starting with the flair and intent of a man who was given direct orders to play positively or risk having the blame heaped upon him for Pakistan’s middle and lower order failures. There were noticeable improvements early on, but he resorted to scoring at a snails-pace thereafter before eventually snicking one into the unfailing hands of Matt Renshaw at first slip. There’ll be no prizes for guessing the shot that brought about his demise. It was a prime example of Pakistan’s ongoing failure to adapt. The problem that must be keeping coach Mickey Arthur awake at night knowing that he holds the formula to mastering these conditions having served Australia in the same role for three long and unsatisfying years.
Even earlier though, shortly after Pakistan had snared the crucial wickets of openers Renshaw and Warner to put themselves back in with a chance of restoring an iota of respectability and loosening Australia’s grip, Misbah-ul-haq brought his smiling assassin into the attack in a move that mirrored a tactic that worked oh so poorly in the first-innings. Worse still, he had three men set back on the leg side and Yasir, as he did in the first innings, bowling into the pads of the Australian batsmen. Shane Warne was in disbelief when he saw the spin and bounce that was on offer for the leg-spinner to exploit, but wasn’t utilising, and left many more wondering why one of the world’s leading names had suddenly changed his tact after months of sustained success.
It’s no secret that spinners enjoy bowling at the Gabba, Nathan Lyon made this point well known before the test match began. But Yasir Shah must be viewing it as a spin-bowling graveyard having taken just three wickets across two innings in close to 60 overs for 174 runs. Spinners should be having a far greater say in game’s at the Gabba than what Yasir has been allowed to have. They are the game breakers. But they can also be the game makers. Australia have selected Shah as the bowler to go after and have structured their batting around the runs they have been practically gifted off his bowling.
Australia have a few problems of their own, though, that will likely underpin the struggles or success they have in a new year that promises to paint a clearer picture of where Australia are positioned in world cricket. We may have seen Nic Maddinson’s last test innings, last and only boundary and last glimpse of a spritely and uninhibited half century – that never eventuated – filled with shots played under the guise of youthful exuberance. Australia made three changes following the Hobart test and two have cemented themselves in the side as first-rate options to lead Australia into its next major spring cleaning. An admirable strike rate given the pressure cooker environment the young players were immediately subjected to upon their arrival to test match cricket. If they can handle two day/night test match’s under inauspicious circumstances without copping a sucker punch, it suggests that they are made of the right stuff. Shaun Marsh is predicted to be fit and firing by the time the Boxing-Day test rolls around in a week’s time. He will slot straight into the number six position forcing Maddinson to return to First-Class cricket low on confidence but in the knowledge that he is a class above his opposition. A thought that will hold him in good stead to raise his mediocre average above 45, allowing him to stake his claim once again as a candidate for test selection.
The Gabba under clear skies at night on Day two.
In more promising news for the host’s, Khawaja showed us once again with an innings stabilising 74 why he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Smith and Warner. He is now a member of Australia’s elite three and is as valuable a player as either of his aforementioned counterparts. At the beginning of the season he was on the outer and treading water following an unproductive tour to Sri Lanka where he was dropped from the side for what felt like the millionth time in a career that has had more bruising bumps in its five year journey than most players, who have surpassed 20 tests, have experienced. He was involved in the homeworkgate saga instigated by Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur which threatened to turn his career on its head. It has played snakes and ladders ever since but the rich vein of form he found in Adelaide and continued at the Gabba has reaffirmed that the talent and ability he has was once hiding under the covers required a simple combination of time, patience and faith to appear as indispensable to the selectors.
Nathan Lyon is another exceeding expectations following a quiet start to the Australian summer. The Brisbane Lions AFL side have made the Gabba their fortress since their three-peat premiership success in the early 2000’s, but for the last three days it has been Australia’s cult hero Nathan Lyon ruling the den. The fans chant an almighty “Gary, Gary, Gary” in unison whenever he fields the ball or his name appears on one of the two big screens at the ground to announce his arrival to the bowling crease. His light-heartedness and availability has made him a man of the people and, as Ian Chappell quite rightly pointed out on commentary today, one of the first off-spin bowlers to have his name celebrated with unadulterated joy. He’s taken just the sole wicket in this test but appears to have regained the confidence he lost a month ago following a series where he was taken to the cleaners. He’s a key ingredient in Australia’s four test tour to India. Confidence and a reassurance of his position in the side are vital if he is to have the kind of impact Ravi Ashwin has had in a record breaking year.
Day four will in all likelihood be the last taste of test cricket for Brisbane locals until the Ashes begins in November next year. Pakistan have shown the fight that was vacant in their first innings to reach 70 for the loss of two wickets at stumps, but the lead of 419 that Australia still hold boarders on an impossible task. Younis is still at the crease while Misbah is eagerly awaiting a second chance in this test after a first-innings failure. There is hope for Pakistan, but it is slim.
Posted on December 17, 2016 December 17, 2016 by Jordan CrickPosted in Australia v Pakistan, CA, Cricket, Day/ Night Test, GabbaTagged Australia, Australia v Pakistan, David Warner, Pakistan, Steve Smith, Test Cricket, The Gabba, Usman Khawaja. 1 Comment
Pakistan continue the trend of touring side woe under the Gabba lights
Pakistan made a resurgence early on day two but it was Australia who took the honours on an entertaining second day thanks to an inspired session of bowling from Hazlewood, Statc and Bird under the Gabba lights. The day began promisingly for Pakistan when they took the wicket of Steve Smith, averting any further damage that the previous day’s centurion showed signs of inflicting early on. But Handscomb, the man who played second fiddle to his captain for much of the first day, made sure that Pakistan wouldn’t be let off the hook, bringing up his maiden test century and pushing the Australian first innings total beyond 350. His technique is a little unorthodox, both in the way he sets up and the point at which he strikes the ball, and his fluency may have been stymied by a better bowling attack with greater variation. The all left-arm attack of Pakistan played right into Handscomb’s hands, with the angle across his body allowing him to run the ball off the face of the bat from deep in his crease down to third man. An area that proved to be particularly productive for him despite the protection Misbah had in place when he quckly became aware of Handscomb’s strengths. One must wonder how this technique will cope in countries like England where the ball swings a great deal more and the bounce is not nearly as high as what he will have experienced on the grounds he knows so well here in Australia. What was most pleasing about his innings was the patience and level-headedness he showed when wickets were tumbling at the other end. Lesser players would have looked to push the rate and reach their hundred before the well of tail end batsmen ran dry. But there was Handscomb, defending resolutely when the ball was pitched in a good area and attacking when the opportunity eventually presented itself. At no stage did he look to shelter his partner at the other end by rotating the strike to ensure he faced the majority of the deliveries at the back end of the innings.
Fans, including myself, gather outside the Gabba nets to watch the players prepare for day two.
Everything about Handscomb, his temperament, mindset and willingness to take on the bowlers screams experienced test cricketer. But he is just 29 and hasn’t yet become a fully fledged member of this Australian side. The future is bright.
The success Pakistan experienced in the morning session was quickly extinguished when they took to the batting crease under cloudy skies with the lights on the cusp of taking full effect at a venue that has shown its night session to produce more wicket taking deliveries than the previous two day/ night venues. There were so many flash points throughout the day’s play that to cover them all would take up a great deal more than the usual 1000 words.
First came the continuation of the first day’s unusual field settings and inconsistent bowling lengths, before Wahab and Amir combined to clean up the Australian tail for an insurmountable total of 429. But that wasn’t without a terrific rearguard action from Bird and Lyon who provided the knockout blow that might yet ensure Australia bat just once in this game.
Then came Pakistan’s astonishing and unforeseen capitulation. What would be most disappointing for them upon reflection of each dismissal would surely be the way in which they were caught in the slips pushing at deliveries that in Australian conditions quite simply should not have been played at. This is part of the learning curve touring sides face when they reach our shores and they must be awake to these glaring deficiencies if they wish to return from this series in a state that isn’t far from where they left off in England. The entire top order, including experienced campaigners Misbah and Younis, were all dismissed in a similar fashion to deliveries pitched in a zone that forced them to play with hard hands when they should have been shouldering arm’s. Particularly during the early stages of their innings.
The Channel Nine television camera’s in operation at the Stanley Street end mid-afternoon
Australia’s fast bowling cartel showed once again why the Gabba has become a fortress that touring sides despise. The bounce of the wicket caught Pakistan off guard and the procession of wickets that followed were all a product of their inability to adjust to the foreign conditions. Australia face a similar proposition when they tour India early next year. They must compensate for the low bounce and turn of the sub-continent wickets in order to avoid leaving with their tales fixed firmly between their legs. A feeling Australia know all too well of late. The steps are already in place for them to achieve, now it is simply a matter of the players executing their skills and repaying the selectors faith. There is no room for passengers in series’ such as these that could go awry and expose technical flaws no sooner than the players have stepped off the aircraft. Pakistan have shown a total unwillingness to battle and scrap like so many Australian side’s have on the road in the past, and have looked as adept at countering what the Australian’s have thrown at them as Nic Maddinson has looked a man who knows his place in the test arena. They are a team full of weak links that are on the brink of being the umpteenth touring side to get chewed up and spat out by the alien conditions. Sides from the sub-continent have tried and tried in Australia to find a method that garners a favourable result, but the result is often as frivolous as the attempt. Particularly at the Gabba, where Australia have remained unbeaten since 1988. Pakistan, from what they’ve shown us across the opening two days, look as if they are destined to suffer the same fate as many that have gone before them but without showing the same fight and perseverence under adversity that we have become accustomed to seeing from recent Asian touring sides India and Sri Lanka. It’s difficult to see where Pakistan’s runs will come from given the impatience that has made an epidemic like spread through their batting line up since the first test in New Zealand.
Posted on December 17, 2016 December 17, 2016 by Jordan CrickPosted in Australia v Pakistan, Cricket, Gabba, UncategorizedTagged Australia, Australia v Pakistan, CA, First Test, Pakistan, Test Cricket, The Gabba. Leave a comment
Pakistan’s plight allows Australia to dominate day one at the Gabba
Shadows descend on the Gabba as the game moves into the twilight period
Australia could hardly have asked for a better start to the series. Each batsman who walked to the crease, with the exception of Khawaja who fell in the most inconspicuous of circumstances to the bowling of Yasir Shah, got at least a start and have set up the game nicely for Australia to build momentum going into the test match’s most crucial days.
Pakistan’s ultra conservative field placements, unthreatening bowling and lack of effort was evident throughout the day and has cost them dearly. New ball pairing Mohammad Amir and Rahat Ali produced too many deliveries over the course of the first hours play that failed to utilise the Gabba’s notorious pace and bounce, which allowed the Australians to build the foundation required to mount a significant first innings score. Warner and Renshaw looked at ease for the majority of their innings thanks to some rather peculiar field placings and bowling changes by Pakistan captain Misbah ul-Haq who, despite his age, looked out of his depth during the clutch moments. Yasir Shah, who came on in the tenth over of the day’s play and shared in a third of the 90 completed overs, was made to bowl to an ultra conservative field which featured three men deep on the leg side (long-on, deep mid-wicket and deep fine-leg). Perhaps it was a plan architected in the bowels of the away dressing room prior to the bowling of the first ball. You’d certainly hope for this to be the case given the number of deliveries targeted at the batsmen’s leg stump, and the number of shots played freely through the leg side. No test match spinner should be giving away that many runs so easily if his initial aim isn’t to have them caught sweeping or fending.
Smith’s hundred came as no great surprise but was a pleasing sight for an Australian side gearing up for a monumental tour to India in two months time. Pakistan’s impatience and incapacity to bowl one line, on one side of the stumps, led to their downfall and allowed Smith to play in a fashion that was not only devoid of risk, but let him ease into his innings by playing his natural game. For a large part of the day, Pakistan were unable to build up maiden overs and the pressure put on the incoming batsman was similarly non existent. Of course, the two are inextricably linked, and there was no greater sign of this then when Smith sent anything pitched short by Rahat Ali into the mid-wicket fence and anything full careering into the sight screens at either end of the ground. They didn’t bowl to Smith’s weaknesses, nor did they make a concerted effort to pepper away at a consistent line and they have payed the ultimate price as a result. Steve Smith is 110 not out at stumps. God only knows how many more he is capable of putting on tomorrow if Pakistan come out as uninterested and pedestrian as they did today.
The lights in full effect at the Gabba on Day One.
At no stage, other than during the last ten overs, did Pakistan ever look as if they were ready and raring to take on the challenge of a young Australian unit on a wicket that gave them a fantastic opportunity to make early inroads. They were late to the party and the score had ticked over to a hundred for the loss of one wicket by the time they finally appeared to awake from their slumber. By this stage, though, the opportunity to take the game away from Australia had already past them by. They needed to set the tone early and fire warning shots at the fragile Australian dressing room that are only now recovering from the turmoil they underwent less than a month ago. But they weren’t reactive enough and couldn’t adjust to the conditions at their feet. If they are to play themselves back into this game (which looks unlikely at this stage) they must start by finishing off the Australian middle and lower order by no later than mid-way through the second session tomorrow. If Australia surpass 500 on a Gabba wicket that promises to quicken up with age, there may be no coming back. Particularly when you consider that Starc and Hazlewood are likely to be unleashed under the Gabba lights with a new pink ball in hand. An ugly scenario for Pakistan’s top order to negotiate after one and a half days spent toiling away in the field.
It’s difficult to tell, but Smith and Handscomb are at the wicket in this photo.
Pakistan are a side capable of topping the world rankings once again if they find it within themselves to produce the performances we saw in England on a regular basis. Their lethargy in the field, indiscipline with ball in hand and lack of knowledge of local conditions has put them on the back foot in this series already. They look a side devoid of options in the bowling department and are easily swayed by the recent form of batsmen against opposing nations – as the field placings to David Warner exemplified today. The New Zealand tour has bruised ego’s, and the road to recovery following an error ridden first day is a rocky one.
Side Note – The Gabba also received a big tick for the attendees it managed to attract to the first day following calls for the grounds neck by CA officials and other commentators during the week. The innovations brought in by CA in partnership with the ground where instrumental in producing a crowd in-excess of 26,000 fans and has likely diverted attention away from Brisbane’s apparent declining interest in test cricket for at least the course of this test match.
There will be a more comprehensive wrap after play tomorrow on not only the game’s progress, but also a few things about the pink ball that caught my eye.
Posted on December 15, 2016 by Jordan CrickPosted in Australia v Pakistan, Day/ Night Test, Gabba, UncategorizedTagged Australia, CA, First Test, Pakistan, Test Cricket, The Gabba. 1 Comment
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XP for Missing Players?
By warchild1x, August 28, 2018 in Game Masters
Malashim 63
Now in SW, I stick to increments of 5 for XP rewards but in our last System, the amount of XP for one session varied from 6 to 9 and the amount of XP you could do something with was sometimes as low as 2. Back then there was a possible point of XP per session for good RP per RAW. In the later periods, I tried something new by letting the players decide which character moments were their big favs this evening or who they thought just nailed it RP wise. The whole Table decided who gave them the best IC moment(s) and so the group allocated the bonus XP. I gave them around half the amount of Players in such bonus XP so they needed to decide together where to drop that XP (and no one could vote for themselves).
At my table, it worked out great it was a pure moment of recapping the most awesome stuff from that session and they surprised me more than once which actually were their favourites that session. It also turned out to give me more insight into what kind of interactions they overall preferred and could try to put more like those into the plot to have more awesome moments to choose from.
The other big benefit was shifting the Bonus-RP-XP from a possibly biased GM viewpoint (we sometimes don't see everything and possibly tend to favour some kind of interactions over others) over to what gave the whole table the most fun that evening.
Such methods could, in my opinion, counter some (if not all) of the maybe "being punished" bitterness when it comes to individual bonus XP. At the time I used it for different reasons but I think it can work that way also.
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Nytwyng 3,933
Since this whole idea of a missing player not receiving XP keeps getting classified as “punishment,” despite numerous request to explain how it is, it might be beneficial to establish a baseline understanding of what, exactly, the word “punishment” means.
Here’s the Merriam-Webster definition, which jives with every other I could find:
pun·ish·ment | \ ˈpə-nish-mənt \
Definition of punishment
1: the act of punishing
2a: suffering, pain, or loss that serves as retribution
b: a penalty inflicted on an offender through judicial procedure
3: severe, rough, or disastrous treatment
That’s how I’ve always understood it to be, and that’s how I’ve been applying and interpreting the term in this conversation.
”Consequence” and “punishment” are not synonyms.
In the circumstance of a player missing a game, it seems pretty clear that not receiving XP is (unless the GM retroactively makes a big deal of it) clearly not being punished any more than one is being punished by not receiving a burger if they’re unable to make it to a cookout (for example).
Likewise, I don’t think any of us who are establishing long-time play experience are trying to assert any particular degree of expertise, but rather are using that as a means of comparison, as it appears that the ideas of both receiving XP when not present and that not receiving it is a “punishment” appear to be relatively recent phenomena.
Edited May 21 by Nytwyng
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7 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:
despite numerous request to explain how it is
Which have been answered.
23 minutes ago, Stan Fresh said:
To the effect of, “The players think it is.” But, that doesn’t make it so. They may not like it, but that doesn’t make it a punishment. A punishment requires punitive action designed to correct behavior. As I’ve described it, a player simply not being present and thus not receiving XP is not a punishment.* It’s a consequence of not attending, but, again, “punishment” and “consequence” are not synonymous. There’s no intent of correction or retribution.
Which is exactly why I felt it would be beneficial to see if we’re all interpreting the term the same way.
*(I do allow for the existence of d-bag GMs who don’t accept that - as a former manager of mine used to say - life happens, and who do go out of their way to try and “correct” someone having something come up to prevent attending.)
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To the effect of, “The players think it is.”
There’s no intent of correction or retribution.
Also false.
There's no need to act as if all these things haven't been thoroughly explained already.
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21 hours ago, Archlyte said:
Again with the punishment. I didn't go to work yesterday and didn't get paid. Why am I being punished?
But did you get a participation trophy?
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1 minute ago, Stan Fresh said:
I’ll have to ask you to refresh my memory, then.
Joe can’t make it to the game.
Joe isn’t there when the GM distributes XP.
How, exactly, is the GM seeking retribution against Joe, and/or what behavior is the GM attempting to correct?
If the answer is, “The GM is trying to make sure Joe always comes to the game,” you’ll have to show me where that is established. The GM isn’t slapping Joe on the wrist; Joe just didn’t happen to be there to get the XP. (Again, I do allow for the existence of d-bag GMs who might do this. “Well, if you’d bothered to show up, you would have gotten XP.” I posit that they are the outliers.)
To illustrate again,
Joe can’t make it to the cookout.
Joe isn’t there when the GM (Grill Master 😏) distributes tasty burgers.
Is Joe being punished?
Worth noting, too...while I’ve never personally experienced a group that routinely distributes XP whether a player attends or not, I have nothing against groups that do. But, this constant characterization that the mere concept of not receiving XP must be a deliberate, punitive act by the GM is inaccurate.
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27 minutes ago, Nytwyng said:
To the effect of, “The players think it is.” But, that doesn’t make it so.
I'm all for "perception creates reality" but what sort of players are at the table that think this way? The kind that wouldn't be invited back, but that's of course just my way to be.
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You could, you know, read the thread in which you are participating.
1 minute ago, Nytwyng said:
4 People sit down to play poker. One person continues to play better than the others and scores more chips. Do the other players get to take chips to catch up? What about the 5th buddy who couldn't make it? Should chips be set aside for them, lest they feel punished?
At the end of the day I'd not tell anyone else how to play at their table, but it's my hope that the "but but me too!" generation can understand why this seems so preposterous to others. It seems to me that the effort spent trollishly gnashing teeth here about imaginary points being punishment could be better spent actually helping people where there is in fact a real need for effort.
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Just now, Stan Fresh said:
If my understanding of the explanations has been, “If someone thinks it’s a punishment, it’s a punishment,” then retreading the same explanations is unlikely to change that understanding.
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You can't win this one buddy.
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2 minutes ago, themensch said:
Great example.
My wife and I used to host a monthly poker game that would have anywhere from 4 to (one month) 10 (!!) players. From the sound of things, with the fluctuating numbers each month, there were many people who were regularly punished at that table.
I won twice, in about 3-4 years of games. I was so punished.....
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15 minutes ago, themensch said:
lol nope. I got a day off, and that's fine. I'll get paid for the next day I work and won't begrudge anyone who worked for pay on the day I was off.
Come at it with an open mind, then. The onus is not on others to provide an explanation at your convenience just because you can't be bothered to read through a discussion.
6 minutes ago, Archlyte said:
So, technically, you were rewarded by the other activity you chose to do, and thus didn't have them feels about being punished? 🤔
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I see the work metaphor is still appropriate *for one side only*. Funny that.
Ok so here is how I see this:
If you play the game mainly to get XP and be able to buy up the tree you will be really disappointed if you don't get XP when you want to get it, so you need to be really open and express when you would like to have your XP so the GM can oblige you. The GM is not a mind reader.
IF the GM is ok with having players who are there mainly for XP then no issue
BUT if the GM has other priorities or wants to have XP awarded based on any other convention than the player's desire for XP then something has to give.
The player can accept that the GM is going to give XP as they will and reset their priorities to other aspects of play
OR the player can either quit, or try to get the GM to give XP in a way they originally did not want to give it. This gambit could result in the GM either kicking the player or letting the game run in a way they don't like, thus endangering the game.
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No one has to play and can vote with their feet. If they feel that bad about it my thing is that they can take one for the team (leaving or sucking it up and driving on) and let the game go on as the GM intended. Somebody chose that person to run the game so let them run the **** game.
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And yet I have read through it. Some posts, multiple times.
When the question has been asked, the answer has consistently been to the effect of, “The player feels like it is,” (perception) or, “The player didn’t get what the others did,” (consequence, not punishment).
It’s pretty clearly been a matter of not interpreting the term “punishment” the same way - some applying the definition of the word, others using it to mean something akin to “any perceived negative consequence.”
Franigo 242
First of all, there is really no need to quote whole posts if you only want to answer a single point.
Secondly, if you actually read what I wrote, you might notice that I am talking about trying to "correct" player behaviour using in-game stuff in general. And even if you do not act like this, the idea to punish players for perceived bad behaviour using the game often comes up (also in this thread), and it is a big No-No. Using XP is only one example of that, but it is as counter-productive as the rest.
Also, as has been pointed out to you, your metaphor sucks. Gaming is not work and the GM is not an employer. And I for one would not want to game with anybody, GM or player, who thought that way.
8 minutes ago, Franigo said:
Cool. Yeah right after I posted that I agreed it was a bad analogy but that was not visible enough I guess. Welcome to the argument I don't know how it's a No No as what flies is what will fly in the real world of games. The kind of stuff that goes on in community games is appalling. Sometimes these behavioral things are done in response to a player rather than some overbearing initiative by the GM.
Edited May 21 by Archlyte
2 hours ago, Nytwyng said:
They are not. I have been playing like this well back in the nineties, and I know tons of people who did the same. I also played Rolemaster 1st Edition back then and we earned and calculated every single XP. It is just different ways of handling things, and no big deal, really. It only gets to be a bid deal if folks make it one.
16 hours ago, Vorzakk said:
Given how strong the feelings are on this topic, I actually asked my players about it. Not a single one of them thought that they were entitled to absentee XP. The one who misses most frequently actually thought the idea was ridiculous.
And that's how you do it. Discuss it within your group, establish a baseline, and everybody's happy.
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Not the GM my players need, but the one they deserve.
I'll give credit where its due. Good job to @kmanweiss for re-opening a contentious thread that had previously fizzled out. I missed reading the same 3 arguments back and forth. This helps my day go by faster.
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Improving healthcare commissioning for probation: mapping the landscape
Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC)
Clinical Trials for Elderly Patients with Multiple Diseases (CHROMED)
Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk)
Carers of Alzheimer’s Disease Sufferers: Empowerment and Efficacy via Education (CADS:E3)
Exploring factors increasing Paramedics’ likelihood of administering Analgesia in pre-hospital pain (ExPLAIN)
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Improving healthcare commissioning for probation: mapping the landscape 2011-14
Funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Porgramme, awarding £150,000. Key contact: Dr Coral Sirdifield.
This study, funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit Programme aims to produce a toolkit which will help commissioners and staff delivering health services to effectively measure and improve the quality of probationers’ healthcare.
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Funded by the European Commission, awarding €62,000. Key contact: Dr Coral Sirdifield.
This study, which involved over 30 countries in Europe, North America and Australasia, investigated which aspects of the structure and organisation of primary care are the most important in promoting service quality and equity while minimising costs. A team from CaHRU, led by Professor Niro Siriwardena, ran the UK section of this study, which involved recruiting GP practices from across the East Midlands and South Yorkshire region. Each practice was asked to complete a fieldworker questionnaire, a GP questionnaire, and questionnaires on patient values and experiences. Through this we increased understanding of the variety of ways in which primary care is structured and organised in these regions, and patients’ experiences of accessing primary care services and which aspects of care they particularly value.
Clinical Trials for Elderly Patients with Multiple Diseases (CHROMED) 2013-15
Funded by the European Commission, awarding €2,563,530.75. Key contact: Dr Jo Middlemass.
This three year study involved eight academic and third sector partners in five European countries. The hypothesis of the study was that integrated home care electronic monitoring will improve the quality of life for the patient and reduce healthcare management and service use costs for co-morbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). CaHRU worked with Lincolnshire Community Health Services to develop and evaluate clinical protocols and organisational models based on the new technologies. The programme consisted of an initial feasibility study (April-May 2013), with a full randomised trial running from September 2013–April 2015.
Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy 2014-15
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This project aims to develop a and test the feasibility of a complex intervention comprising an interactive, educational programme (ProAsk) for health practitioners to guide and enhance communication with parents of infants about obesity risk identification and prevention strategies.
Carers of Alzheimer’s Disease Sufferers: Empowerment and Efficacy via Education (CAD: E3) 2014-15
Funded by the University of Lincoln Research Investment Fund, awarding £36,545. Key contact: Dr Jo Middlemass.
This a one year study which aimed to develop develop a complex psychoeducational intervention for carers of people with dementia to improve carer and patient outcomes.
Exploring factors increasing Paramedics’ likelihood of administering Analgesia in pre-hospital pain (ExPLAIN) 2016-17
Funded by the Falck Foundation, awarding €33,000. Key contact: Dr Zahid Asghar
The aim of this study is to investigate patient and practitioner factors affecting paramedic pain management practice in adult patients attended by ambulance services and to explore whether paramedic initiated analgesia differs according to factors such as the age, sex, ethnicity or type of pain of the adult patient and paramedic factors such as sex or role seniority.
Prehospital Differences In Care by eThnicity’ (PreDICT) 2015-18
Unfunded study. Key contacts: Dr Zahid Asghar and Viet-Hai Phung
This study aimed to investigate how processes and outcomes of prehospital care for common emergencies attended by ambulance staff vary by ethnicity and to conduct a systematic review of the barriers and facilitators for ethnic minority groups in accessing urgent and pre-hospital care.
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On the evening of May 2nd, heavy rains began in Jagannath Puri. All mobile networks started to go inactive and no contact was able to be established with anybody through the phone.
The devotees in the math, which is situated on the seashore, began to move many hundreds of kilos of rice from the basement to the top floor of the temple building so that they would not get destroyed in the cyclone due to flooding.
They were in a dilemma in regards to if the deities should be moved upstairs or not but nobody was sure as to what the conditions would be during the cyclone. The deities remained in the thakur-ghar (diety room).
On the morning of May 3rd, mangal arati and parikrama were conducted as normal. At about 5:30 am, all power was cut off in Puri. After temple prayers and the morning program, the devotees began to notice that the ocean was engulfing the beach sand. This was at 7 am and the storm had not begun as of yet; however, the ocean was looking violent, already.
The cows were moved into the white guesthouse building ground floor and all the temple doors were shut and bound with ropes. At 7:30 am, the wind started picking up to very high speeds and by about 8 am, the glass windows began shattering on the top floor of the temple. The thakur-ghar (diety room) was closed. The white guesthouse began shaking and the ocean was coming closer and closer to the temple. By about 8:30 am, the wind was so fast that coconut trees seemed to be falling over. There was nowhere to go except into a corner bedroom to the right of the Thakur-ghar (diety room). The wind was so fast that the entire outdoor kitchen set up blew away. Tin roofs were flying in the air and were destroyed. Windows were slamming open and close and the glass on the windows were constantly shattering and flying into the temple hall.
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Some devotee was injured in the knee; some other got a dislocated thumb. Then, the devotees tried to close the doors and keep them shut by pushing some beds and chairs against the doors and then tying them with some cloth with the hinges of the door. This worked for a few minutes, but the doors flew open again. The cyclone was just gaining more and more speed. The hall was flooding. Only whiteness could be seen outside. The wind was so high and the pressure was so low that everyone’s ears began clogged up; it was deafening. This continued for two hours from about 10 am to 12 pm.
Everyone was afraid that the thakur-ghar (diety room)doors but they did not open, thankfully. Then, one devotee got an idea and took down all of the heavy-duty cables that were running along the walls of the temple hall. Then the devotees used those cables to partially keep the main temple doors shut through cross-binding. This seemed to work. The thakur-ghar (diety room) doors were similarly cross-bound shut with similar cables. The storm continued from about 8 am to 1 pm. Then, finally, the wind speeds started slowing down. Luckily, nothing happened to the thakur-ghar (diety room) or to the deities.
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Flowchart - Evergreen Noise Is Flexible / The Spirit of Kenny G
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Genre: Electronic, Pop Rock, Drone
1. Of A
2. Evergreen Noise Is Flexible
3. Euphemistic Toys
4. Dream Song of Magnetic Travels
5. The Spirit of Kenny G
6. Glorious and Prosperous
7. E-Flare Pop
8. Drunken Mini-Musik
9. No Microchips
Sean O'Neal's Flowchart project still thrives. However, it sounds nothing like it did during the mid-90's. While Flowchart is more based around computer-based digital frolic these days, Flowchart still seems to be more well-known for their synth-heavy, kitschy, one-note pop-rock and drone.
This CD consists of two long out-of-print EPs consolidated onto one disc. Each EP sustains a charmingly irresistible indie-pop sound. Some songs are drone-y and drug-y while others are uppity pop-jungles doused with sarcastic humor and mind-twirling spacey-ness. Some feel that these two EPs show a more developed sound than their usual stuff, which often generated a plentitude of critical comparisons to Stereolab and My Bloody Valentine. A journalist once wrote: "Flowchart outgrew such criticisms with "The Spirit of Kenny G," which has more straightforward pop songs and floating melodies. (The 12-inch "Evergreen Noise Is Flexible," which goes for more abstract compositions, also helps.) "Spirit of Kenny G" utilizes deep vocals and a guitar wah effect for a sound between blaxploitation and marijuana indulgence."
"Evergreen Noise Is Flexible" was originally released on 12" in March 1996 on Carrot Top and Fuzzy Box Records. These four tracks consist of the original Flowchart line-up: O'Neal, Brodie Budd and Craig Bottel (along with Bill Nace on two of the tracks). The one- and two-note space-rock drones and jams in slow motion -- laced with whining organs, sweeping synths, laid-back drum-lines, and occasional breathy female and male vocals -- where your head begins to drift amidst the polished lo-fidelity. Kickin' Records in London liked the opening track, "Of A," so much that they licensed it for a space-rock compilation. Dot Allison (formerly of One Dove) sampled a hefty chunk of the second half of the song "Evergreen Noise Is Flexible" which you can hear looping underneath her lyrics and a sitar in her song "Morning Sun" from her "Afterglow" album released on Heavenly/Arista in 1999.
"The Spirit Of Kenny G" was originally released on CD and 12" in September 1996 on home-fi label Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club. Primarily performed by O'Neal, the five-track EP is happy-ish, synth-driven indie rock/pop with simple, irresistible melodies, comical wit and droning guitar brilliance. Two more radiant tracks (the title track and "E-Flare Pop" -- which features hilarious lyrics about O'Neal taking ecstasy at a rave and rubbing the shoulders of a very young girl while huffing on Vapor-Rub) -- are more upbeat-y and on a pop-jingle level. Meanwhile, "Glorious and Prosperous" is drug-y one-note drone with a funny ZZ Top-meets-Pink Floyd guitar solo that comes tearing through the ambient wash. And "Drunken Mini-Musik" is head-twirling electronic, synth-sweeping, eerie drone that was recorded live at the Knitting Factory in New York City during a show with Windy & Carl and Simeon from the Silver Apples. Apparently, the EP was quite a hit in Tokyo where it was one of the top-10 best-sellers in three different stores for a long period of time at each -- including being the #1 best-seller at Rough Trade Records.
Ahhh...So now you have both EPs on one CD. Even though Flowchart has enough releases in their discography to cover an entire wall, these two EPs seemed to have sparked more attention and praise than almost all of Flowchart's other releases. These days, nostalgia is the in-thing. Now it's Flowchart's turn to be a part of the trend.
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Deep Ellum Station
Good-Latimer Expressway and Gaston Avenue
(450 N. Good-Latimer, Dallas 75226 - Mapsco 45M)
Railroads formed Deep Ellum, but much has changed since then. The brick structures that remain have been home to businesses as diverse as the people who frequent them — blues and jazz clubs, meat markets, pawnshops, restaurants and bars, vaudeville theaters, sheet metal and auto repair shops, as well as houses of worship. With the area's oral history fading, artist Julie Cohn has taken an empty canvas and made it beautiful. Deep Ellum Station is also home to a three-part stainless steel sculpture series called The Traveling Man created by Brandon Oldenburg of Deep Ellum's own Reel FX Creative Studios and Brad Oldham of Dallas-based Brad Oldham Inc. Deep Ellum Station is served by DART Rail Green Line trains.
DART Rail Schedules:
Connecting Bus Routes:
11, 19, 76 (buses stop on Gaston Ave.)
DART Rail System Map
Customer Features:
Passenger Shelters
No Public Parking Available
Popular Attractions and Destinations:
Deep Ellum arts and entertainment district
Latino Cultural Center
The Traveling Man, a three-part sculpture installation
Please note: You may need to connect to a DART bus to complete your journey to a destination. Please contact DART Customer Information at 214-979-1111 for trip planning assistance.
Station Art:
Your guide to the art along the Green Line
Use this guide to plan your tour of Deep Ellum Station.
Deep Ellum Station - Linking the Past and the Future
Station artist Julie Cohn strikes a thematic balance between Deep Ellum's legendary past and its hopes for the future. The artwork on the windscreens is a kind of palimpsest - an ancient manuscript that has been written on, scraped off, and used again, creating a layered effect.
"Deep Ellum has had so many iterations," she says. "I really wanted to capture that." The windscreens feature old and new imagery from the neighborhood that shifts depending on the viewing perspective.
Windscreens at Deep Ellum Station
The Traveling Man
For decades, motorists entering the Deep Ellum neighborhood from downtown Dallas on Good-Latimer would drive through a long railroad underpass with concrete walls that became a canvas for local muralists. When it was decided that this iconic "gateway to Deep Ellum" would have to be removed to make way for the new Deep Ellum Station, DART set out to provide the area with a new public art hallmark.
In what has been dubbed "The Deep Ellum Gateway Project," DART hosted a design competition for an imaginative and highly visible public art project to welcome all visitors who enter Deep Ellum. Brandon Oldenburg of Deep Ellum's own Reel FX Creative Studios and Brad Oldham of Dallas-based Brad Oldham Inc. won the commission in 2007. The result - a three-part stainless steel sculpture series called The Traveling Man - delivers spectacularly.
The superstructure of Traveling Man is shown prior to the installation of stainless-steel skin.
The Traveling Man - Walking Tall
Good-Latimer & Swiss Avenue
Traveling Man stands 38-feet tall, creating a stunning welcome to neighborhood visitors and residents. With a jovial step from the southeast side of the lot, he links the neighborhood with the rail station.
The sculpture is brushed stainless steel connected with hundreds of visible stainless steel monobolt rivets. The stainless steel birds on the ground serve as functional seating as well as part of the sculpture. The birds are polished to a mirror finish and made of the same material as the famous Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park.
The Traveling Man - Waiting on a Train
Good-Latimer & Gaston Avenue
A nine-foot Traveling Man leans against a concrete portion of the original Deep Ellum Tunnel and strums his guitar while waiting for the next train. The circular shape of the guitar body resembles the core of his own body, reminding viewers his music comes from his heart.
The Traveling Man - Awakening
Good-Latimer & Elm Street
The Traveling Man's eight-foot-wide head rises from the ground as if he is emerging from the earth below Deep Ellum. As people meet, talk, sing, wait, and spend time in Deep Ellum, they can lounge on his approachable head. Here again, sculptural birds offer their bodies to guests for generous seating.
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Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers3
Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") (Hip Hop Flyer Designer, active in the 1970s and 1980s)1
Eddie Ed (Hip Hop flyer designer, brother of Buddy Esquire)1
Poo2 (Hip Hop flyer designer)1
Sisco Kid (Early Hip Hop flyer designer)1
fliers (printed matter)3
Bronx, New York, New York, United States (borough)2
Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (inhabited place)1
Afrika Bambaataa (Hip Hop DJ from the South Bronx. Instrumental in the early development of hip hop.)3
Afrika Bambaataa and the Cosmic Force (One of Bambaataa's many groups. Featured emcees Lisa Lee, Ikey C, Chubby Chub, and Ice Ice.)1
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Almighty Kay Gee (Hip Hop performer, member of Cold Crush Brothers)2
Charlie Chase (Born Carlos Mandes. Hip Hop DJ, born Manhattan, NYC, member of Cold Crush Brothers)1
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University3
Cornell University Library Hip Hop Collection (#8021)3
1. T-Connection, May 24, 1980
Sisco Kid (Early Hip Hop flyer designer)
Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") (Hip Hop Flyer Designer, active in the 1970s and 1980s)
Hip Hop Party and Event Flyers
2. Elks Lodge, Aug. 15, 1981
3. T-Connection, Mar. 27, 1981
Eddie Ed (Hip Hop flyer designer, brother of Buddy Esquire)
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Benefit change could raise costs for patients getting drug copay assistance
|In Health Care Plans, kaiser health news, benefits, employee benefit plans, health care benefits
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Health plans may change with time. Know what to expect and how to respond with these tips on how to avoid unexpected changes.
Since Kristen Catton started taking the drug Gilenya two years ago, she’s had only one minor relapse of her multiple sclerosis, following a bout of the flu.
She can walk comfortably, see clearly and work part time as a nurse case manager at a hospital near her home in Columbus, Ohio. This is a big step forward; two drugs she previously tried failed to control her physical symptoms or prevent repeated flare-ups.
This year, Catton, 48, got a shock. Her health insurance plan changed the way it handles the payments that the drugmaker Novartis makes to help cover her prescription’s cost. Her copayment is roughly $3,800 a month, but Novartis helps reduce that out-of-pocket expense with payments to the health plan. The prescription costs about $90,000 a year.
Those Novartis payments no longer counted toward her family plan’s $8,800 annual pharmacy deductible. That meant once she hit the drugmaker’s payment cap for the copay assistance in April, she would have to pay the entire copayment herself until her pharmacy deductible was met.
Catton is one of a growing number of consumers taking expensive drugs who are discovering they are no longer insulated by copay assistance programs that help cover their costs. Through such programs, consumers typically owe nothing or have modest monthly copayments for pricey drugs because many drug manufacturers pay a patient’s portion of the cost to the health plan, which chips away at the consumer’s deductible and out-of-pocket maximum limits until the health plan starts paying the whole tab.
Under new “copay accumulator” programs, that no longer happens.
In these programs, the monthly copayments drug companies make don’t count toward patients’ plan deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums. Once patients hit the annual limit on a drugmaker’s copay assistance program, they’re on the hook for their entire monthly copayment until they reach their plan deductible and spending limits.
Catton put the $3,800 May copayment on a credit card. She knows her insurer will start paying the entire tab once she hits the pharmacy deductible. But, she said, she can’t afford to pay nearly $9,000 a year out-of-pocket for the foreseeable future.
“I’m talking to my doctor to see if I can I take it every other day,” she said. “I guess I’m winging it until I can figure out what to do.”
Drug copay assistance programs have long been controversial.
Proponents say that in an age of increasingly high deductibles and coinsurance charges, such help is the only way some patients can afford crucial medications.
But opponents say the programs increase drug spending on expensive brand-name drugs by discouraging people from using more cost-effective alternatives.
Switching to a cheaper drug may not be an option, said Bari Talente, executive vice president for advocacy at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
“Generally the multiple sclerosis drugs are not substitutable,” she said. “Most have different mechanisms of action, different administration and different side effect profiles.” Generics, when they’re available, are pricey too, typically costing $60,000 or more annually, she said.
Most MS drug annual copay assistance limits, if they have them, are between $9,000 and $12,000, Talente said.
Employers argue that the drug copayment programs are an attempt to circumvent their efforts to manage health care costs. For example, employers may try to discourage the use of a specialty drug when there’s a lower-cost drug available by requiring higher patient cost sharing.
There’s also the issue of fairness.
“From an employer perspective, everyone under the plan has to be treated the same,” said Brian Marcotte, president and CEO of the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), which represents large employers.
If someone needs medical care such as surgery, for example, that person doesn’t get help covering his deductible, while the person with the expensive drug might, he said.
According to an NBGH survey of about 140 multistate employers with at least 5,000 workers, 17 percent reported they have a copay accumulator program in place this year, Marcotte said. Fifty-six percent reported they’re considering them for 2019 or 2020.
If there is no comparable drug available, drug copayment programs may have a role to play if they can be structured so that participating patients are paying some amount toward their deductible, Marcotte said. But, he said, assistance programs for drugs that are available from more than source, such as a brand drug that is also available as a generic, shouldn’t be allowed.
In 2016, 20 percent of prescriptions for brand-name drugs used a drug copay assistance coupon, according to an analysis by researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Among the top 200 drugs based on spending in 2014, the study found that 132 were brand-name drugs, and 90 of them offered copay coupons. Fifty-one percent of the drugs with copay coupons had no substitute at all or only another brand drug as a close therapeutic substitute, the analysis found.
Advocates for people with HIV and AIDS say copay accumulators are cropping up in their patients’ plans and beginning to cause patients trouble. Drugs to treat HIV typically don’t have generic alternatives.
The biggest impact for the community their organizations serve may be for PrEP, a daily pill that helps prevent HIV infection, said Carl Schmid, deputy executive director at the AIDS Institute, an advocacy group. A 30-day supply of PrEP (brand-name Truvada) can cost nearly $2,000. Drug manufacturer Gilead offers a copay assistance program that covers up to $3,600 annually in copay assistance, with no limit on how much is paid per month.
“They’re at risk for HIV, they know it and want to protect themselves,” Schmid said. “It’s a public health issue.”
Earlier this month, the AIDS Institute was among 60 HIV organizations that sent letters to state attorneys general and insurance commissioners across the country asking them to investigate this practice, which has emerged in employer and marketplace plans this year.
Compounding advocates’ concerns is the fact that these coverage changes are frequently not communicated clearly to patients, Schmid said. They are typically buried deep in the plan documents and don’t appear in the user-friendly summary of benefits and coverage that consumers receive from their health plan.
“How is a patient to know?” Schmid asks. They learn of the change only when they get a big bill midway through the year. “And then they’re stuck.”
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"Before the world of DiscoverOrg, it was pretty manual. So, our team would spend hours researching on LinkedIn and Google searching. All of that time spent is now better spent actually engaging with prospects. Because at a push of a button, you get that intelligence; you get the hierarchies; you get the organization charts."
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Can Douyin/TikTok Be Used for Travel Brands?
Douyin, aka Tik Tok, is the hottest app in China right now, but can this short video platform be used effectively by travel brands? We weigh the pros and cons.
20 Jun 2018 Article by: Sienna Parulis-Cook Tags: Digital Marketing, Video
‘Chinese culture, wonderful world’ is Douyin’s campaign to showcase Chinese culture, which includes a cooperation agreement with the Xi’an Tourism Commission
(This article was updated in January 2019 to reflect the fact that TikTok can now be downloaded outside of Asia, as well as new user numbers)
Douyin, aka TikTok, is the hottest app in China right now, but can this short video platform be used effectively by travel brands? We weigh the pros and cons.
Douyin is a Chinese short-video streaming app that launched in September 2016, and has skyrocketed in popularity since the start of 2018, growing 52% between March and August 2018. In November 2018, Douyin reported 400 million monthly active users, and 200 million daily active users. It’s owned by ByteDance and shares a founder with news-sharing app Toutiao (aka Today’s Headline). The international version of the app, TikTok, was rolled out first to other Asian countries in 2018, and is now available to download for free from both the US and UK app stores.
According to numbers released by Douyin in November 2018, the app has 200 million daily active users, and 400 million monthly active users — this is up from 150 million DAU and 200 million MAU reported in June. 72% of Generation Z (that’s ‘post-95s’ in Chinese) open Douyin every day, and 32% spend more than an hour a day on the platform.
The platform started as a way to create short music videos, and still has lots of dancing and lip-synching, as well as babies and puppies, but the content has diversified, and there is an abundance of travel-related videos, mostly featuring attractions and food. For example, a search for ‘Paris’ brings up many videos of the Eiffel Tower, shopping, and fashion shows.
Douyin originally only allowed videos with a maximum length of 15 seconds, but now users with over 1,000 followers can create one-minute videos, and by the end of 2018, Douyin had also trialed some two-minute videos.
(Left) A Douyin search for ‘Paris’ brings up many user-created videos of the Eiffel Tower. (Right) A user-created Douyin video from Auckland, New Zealand.
Who is using it?
Like overall user numbers, this is changing quickly. But overall, Douyin’s user base is very young. Currently, 40% of Douyin’s users are aged 24-30, and this actually indicates that the app’s audience is getting older than it used to be. While users are shifting from post-95s more to post-90s, they are also moving away from first-tier and second-tier cities, which used to comprise the majority of Douyin users. Now, more and more users are located in third- and fourth-tier cities, similar to China’s other leading short-video platform, Kuaishou. Despite being young, Douyin’s audience is relatively well educated, with over 40% having a bachelor’s degree or higher.
How can travel brands use it?
Like many other social media platforms, Douyin has official, verified accounts that are marked with a blue ‘v’. While currently there are no such official accounts for international airlines, hotels or tourism boards, the app is being used by many municipal and provincial Chinese tourism commissions, as well as Chinese airlines, including China Eastern and Xiamen Airlines.
At the end of April, 2018, the Xi’an Tourism Commission signed a cooperation agreement with Douyin to produce four video campaigns to raise awareness of Xi’an’s culture, cuisine and attractiveness as a tourist destination. Even before the campaign was announced, one Douyin video on making roujiamo – Xi’an’s specialty shredded meat sandwich – had received over 100,000 views, and a student-made video featuring songs of Xi’an got over 180,000 views. In an interview with Chinese travel media Lvyou Kan, Brand Manager for CYTS (China Youth Travel Service), Hao Yu’ang said that Douyin was helping to bring a fresh, youthful appeal to a city known for its ancient history and traditions.
(Left) The Xi’an Tourism Commission’s Douyin account. Note the verified check mark for an official account, circled. (Right) A Douyin video of roujiamo sandwiches being made in Xi’an.
Xi’an’s videos will show off both the ancient and modern sides of the city, and also take advantage of Douyin’s popular ‘Challenges.’ A Douyin ‘Challenge’ is essentially a hashtag that users create videos around, competing to get the most views – which is often incentivized. This is an excellent way to drive user-generated content, which can work particularly well for a travel brand (see Tourism Australia’s 2017 #MeInAustralia WeChat campaign) and help stimulate positive word-of-mouth promotion.
Any Douyin user can create a Challenge, but to get the virality that pushes the hashtag to the Douyin Challenge homepage, it’s best to work directly with Douyin or a KOL. Like many Chinese platforms – including travel sites Qyer and Ctrip – Douyin has an in-house team of KOLs, and this is a good point of entry to the platform, though just one video by a top influencer could cost you up to 120,000 RMB (over US$18,000!).
Douyin is growing at an astronomic rate, and it’s a great platform for positioning your brand as young and trendy, and reaching and inspiring young Chinese. The app has received a lot of publicity lately, but in terms of travel – especially outbound travel, it’s not overcrowded yet, and offers a fresh way of grabbing the attention of new consumers. And getting on a platform or into a market before it’s over-saturated can bring benefits for years to come.
What are the drawbacks?
Considering that most Douyin videos are only 15 seconds, you don’t have very long to send your message to users, and most will watch so many videos in one sitting, you can be easily lost among clips of viral dances, cute puppies and trending food. The young, short-term nature of the platform means that so far, the commercial success it’s inspired has centered around fast food – so this might not be the best place to convince someone to plan a long-haul international trip.
Another complication is that while the international version of the app, TikTok, is now available to download outside of China, the two apps are actually separate entities, with different content on each. This has to do with Douyin’s compliance with Chinese video censorship laws. The result is that to reach Chinese users of the app, you will need to open your Douyin account in China.
Douyin can also be fairly insular. Douyin videos were recently banned on WeChat, whose parent company, Tencent, sees ByteDance as a competitor. Weibo has also been accused of blocking Douyin videos. This means it won’t be easy to publish a Douyin video and share it on all of your other platforms. And although this platform offers a great opportunity for overseas travel-related companies to inspire and attract Chinese visitors, the future of Douyin is still uncertain, as there have been many government crackdowns on short-video and live streaming apps in the past year.
So should you use it?
Opening an account to monitor hashtags and pick up on travel trends, or what’s being said about your company or destination, can help reveal the preferences of young, up-and-coming travelers – but note that the app TikTok downloaded outside of China will not show you the same content as Douyin downloaded from within China.
If you have the resources and want to establish a presence on the platform early, your best results to maximize exposure will come from working with Douyin directly. In terms of being able to predict if this kind of campaign will actually attract more tourists, we’d recommend following domestic tourism accounts and monitoring their results – apart from Xi’an, the city of Chongqing and Yunnan Province also stand out for popular tourism-related content.
Because the platform is so new, and Douyin is still working on ways to make it friendlier to marketers, it might be too soon to dive in now, throw a lot of money at a KOL and hope for the best. But before you write it off completely, remember that the general consensus around WeChat mini-programs was very negative even a year ago, and they have since taken off as a really useful and valuable tool for both destinations and hotels. Especially if you’re looking to go beyond WeChat to try something new with your social media marketing in China, and you want to appeal to post-90s, Douyin is the place to be.
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Advanced Lockpick System
AdvPickStateCfg
AdvPickTransCfg
AdvPickSoundCfg
Setting it Up
Picking locks in Thief is boring. Either a lock can be picked, or it can’t. And if it can, it’s just a matter of waiting until it’s finished. Unless there’s a guard in the area, picking locks can really drag a game down.
But little-used in Dromed 2 is a different kind of lock-picking, the Advanced Pick System. Advanced lock-picking is expanded from just three stages to eight. And the result of picking a stage can be progress forward or backward. Stages are also defined by time in milliseconds, instead of the confusing “pins” and “time percentage”.
Setting up an advanced lock is done with three editors: AdvPickStateCfg, AdvPickTransCfg, and AdvPickSoundCfg. They can all be found under Dark Gamesys.
This is the first thing you add when you want to set up an advanced lock. Check the Enable Advanced System box, and specify the source bits of the lockpicks you want to use. Only three lockpick sources can be used to pick a single lock, but you can have up to 32 different lockpicks in a mission. Lockpicks are asigned a bit that identifies them. When specifying which lockpicks can be used to pick a lock, you combine all the bits together. So if you have three lockpicks: 1, 10, and 100, you can have the first pick source work with the first and second lockpicks by entering 101, and the second pick will work for the second source by entering 10. You also must specify how long it takes to pick each stage. Enter the time in milliseconds.
The real work is done with this editor. There are eight locked stages, 0-7, and one unlocked stage, stage 8. The lock starts at stage 0. When you use a particular lockpick in the current stage, the lock moves to the stage specified. The first box is for the first lockpick at stage 0. Next is the second lockpick at stage 0, then the third lockpick at stage 0. The next three boxes are for stage 1, then stage 2, etc. When stage 8 is reached, the lock is open, so the lockpick settings for it don’t matter. Picking a stage can go to any other stage, and you don’t have to fill in the stages in order. Entering -1 makes that lockpick ineffective at that stage. A stage that’s all -1 is a dead-end.
This editor lets you set a sound that is made while the lock is being picked. The purpose is so the player can receive a hint as to which pick is the “right” one to use. The layout is similar to that of AdvPickTransCfg, and the name of the sound is the LockState schema tag. Possible values are locked, unlocked, good, bad, critical, and bland. Locked and unlocked aren’t really meant to be used as picking indicators. However, the sounds for good, bad, and critical aren’t included by default. If you want to use these sounds you have to create them yourself; they’re named lockgood.wav, lockbad.wav, and lockcrit.wav.
Using advanced lock-picking can be very complicated. The path from locked (stage 0) to unlocked (stage 8) can go backward, forward, loop back on itself, and even reach a dead-end. Before typing values in the editor, you may find it useful to draw a diagram showing how each stage connects to the other stages.
Most importantly, you have to be mindful of how difficult the advanced system is to the player. You should use complicated locks very sparingly. Keep most of them simple, with no backward movement. Or just use the regular type of lockpicks for normal things such as doors and small boxes. Save the advanced system for high-security uses, like a bank safe. Players will also appreciate hints that suggest those locks are more difficult, like a note written in a book. And if the lock is extremely complicated, leaving a hint on what steps will unlock it may be a good idea. You should rarely use a lock that dead-ends. And never do so when there’s no other way to open the lock.
On objects that support it, each stage in the lock will appear as a degree of rotation in some joint. For example, the handle of a door or the bar on a standard lockbox. So stage 1 is only slightly turned from stage 0, stage 4 is turned half-way, and stage 7 is almost to the unlocked position. Use this to your advantage to let the player know how far he’s progressed. The amount the lock turns after picking a stage should be comparable to how much time was spent picking it. If it took almost three seconds to pick a stage, it should move more than just one stage forward. Nor would it make sense for a very brief stage to turn almost all the way. In particular, while picking the lock the player should be able to judge how much more work has to be done. When a lock is at stage 7, and the player hears footsteps approaching, he might risk staying where he is and finish picking the lock just in time to avoid the guard. When it works, it increases the excitement, and thus the enjoyment of the game. But when picking the lock takes longer than it appears, and the player gets caught, the game is frustrating and not as fun.
— Magus Telliamed 2006/08/01 02:06
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The Case for Large-Scale Electric Multicopters
Posted by Brad Hughey on March 24, 2012 at 8:51am in Aircraft platforms
This discussion thread is a follow-on to several conversations I've had with people in the forums who are particularly interested in the aerodynamics of vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Much of the dialog in these forums appropriately surrounds the mechanisms for robotic automation of VTOL aircraft, and in those contexts, I am much more a listener than a contributor. There are some brilliant engineers, code smiths, and experimenters who frequent these hallowed pages. The group effort to yield such a marvel as the APM platform is nothing short of astounding.
However, I think we can all agree that the primary functionality of anything that flies is related to how it generates forces to oppose gravity. Much of the focus here has been on the control system, for a myriad of reasons. Seemingly ignored is the aerodynamics of propeller thrust, but fairly speaking, it is unromantic as having been largely figured out 90 years ago. In fact, here's a link to the NACA (forerunner to NASA) original paper entitled "The Problem of the Helicopter", dated 1920. It is of interest to note that we widely applaud Sikorsky for inventing the modern helicopter, but his contribution was one of a control scheme; he gave us cyclic pitch variation for thrust vectoring coupled with a variable pitch tail rotor to counterbalance torque.
http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/1920/naca-tn-4.pdf
If technical papers like that make your eyes glaze over, perhaps an essential basic treatise is in order.
We go back to Newton's basic laws here, and one in particular: Force=Mass X Acceleration, or F=MA. In order for our craft to fly, we need it to generate a force equal to and directly opposing the force of gravity. To produce this force, we normally take the air around our craft as our readily available mass, (except in the case of the rocket and to some degree, the jet engine, where the mass is a product of combustion), and accelerate it (add to its velocity) toward the ground. Yes, rotors, wings, and propellers all do this, and they all rely on the same principles.
However, there is another factor to consider. While this particular law is not attributable to Newton, it is still a primary expression: energy is equal to half the mass times the velocity squared, or E= 1/2M X V^2. So while the lifting force is linearly proportional to mass and acceleration, the energy required to perform the acceleration increases exponentially with the change in velocity. It naturally follows, then, that taking a lot of air and accelerating it a little takes a lot less energy than taking a little air and accelerating it a lot. This is why heavy-lift helicopters have such large rotor spans, and their technically analogous cousins, sailplanes, have long wings. (I drive some people in the pseudo religion of ducted fan technology crazy by pointing out that all their purported efficiency gains can be had by merely making the propeller blade longer...ah, but I digress...)
In the final analysis we must be concerned about lifting efficiency. The basic expression for us in comparing efficiencies of different designs can be simplified to merely the number of watts (power) it takes to produce a pound of thrust (mass). Of course, we cannot simply make our rotors infinitely large and fly with no power expended at all. There are therefore some engineering compromises which must be made in a VTOL aircraft design. I hope you can see now why aerodynamic designers first examine the ratio of lifting surface area to the weight lifted as an indicator of potential efficiency. In the rotary wing world, this ratio is called disk loading, and it is expressed as so many pounds per square foot of total rotor swept area.
Disk loading is a basic predictor of hovering efficiency, but it is by no means the only one. In my next message, I'll get into evaluating basic rotor (or propeller) blade design criteria.
I hope you've enjoyed this little introduction, and yes, I do plan to eventually show that electric multicopters can be a very viable solution for large payloads compared with conventional helicopters. However, we need to "level set" on the concepts. Let the discussions begin.
Permalink Reply by Brad Hughey on April 27, 2017 at 8:26am
@Gary McCray - Thank you for your kind words, Gary. When it comes to control, it's poles and zeros, baby, poles and zeros. For a time I was working on a passive variable pitch prop, but the IP protection ecosystem is truly crowded with players. When I see grossly overlapping claims between competing patents, all I can think of is the lawyers ending up with all the money. But that was just a sidebar project to the ultimate goal: manned electric VTOL fight with an entry price of < $30K.
Permalink Reply by John C Hansen on April 27, 2017 at 5:08pm
@Brad Hughey, I enjoy your input on this subject. As I read your last comment in this thread: "...the angle of attack range can be very limited. This means that there's a very narrow range of speeds (advance ratios) in which such blades can operate." My limited understanding of the terms used here brings me to ask for clarifications. Are you saying that because "the angle of attack range can be very limited" this diminished the usefulness of a given propeller at a specific Reynolds number? Or, does the propeller airfoil stall and stop providing lift at a higher angle of attack?
Perhaps if we are to limit the design parameters of the multicopter that uses this propeller to fit within the narrow range of advance ratios that allow the propeller to remain reasonably "high-performance", we will have a pretty good design? When we stop expecting high flying speed (angle of attach) and focus more on hovering and modest lifting, can we expect to get a propeller that efficiently fits that criteria?
And let's be more specific about this.... let's say we need an efficient system that hovers and are willing to trade off some efficiency as the angle of attack increases, how narrow is that narrow range? Are we dealing with a craft that sinks badly at an angle of attach that propels the craft at perhaps less than 1 meter per second? Or is the issue one of just using a bit more power to maintain altitude at a rather slow speed? What if we are willing to pay the price of inefficiency when flying so that we can have high efficiency while hovering? What if 80% of the time in flight we are expecting the multicopter to perform only minor movements and primarily are asking the craft to hover? At what angle of attack does the craft stop flying altogether?
And, why are these "high efficiency" propellers very difficult to find? Is it because prop manufacturers CANNOT make them or that they have not yet been asked to make them? Is this an issue of engineering impossibility, or one of low market demand for the propellers in question? Why don't we simply ask them to make the propellers that we need?
Permalink Reply by Brad Hughey on April 28, 2017 at 2:34pm
@John C Hansen - You're asking a lot of good questions, but at the heart of the matter is the universal engineering axiom: compromises must be made. The two essential attributes of an airfoil shape are the coefficients of lift and drag. The Cl expresses how good the shape is at diverting the airflow down, and the Cd tells you proportionally how much work that diversion is going to take. It follows that for optimum efficiency you want to use the highest Cl to Cd ratio airfoil you can get. The Cd is roughly correlated to how thick the airfoil is compared with it's width (or chord). Because of the properties of air, the Cd also goes UP - all other things being equal - as the Re goes down. That's why low Re wings (and naturally, propellers) are made very thin. However, thin airfoils have the unfortunate attribute of having proportionally lower stall angles. Generally speaking, fat, well-rounded leading edges are best for stall resistance, but the worst for efficiency.
5 (!) years ago when I started this message thread, the vast majority of electric multicopter companies were using model airplane propellers because they were easy and cheap. That may no longer be the case, especially in higher-end units, but I have not been paying attention. Perhaps all is as it should be for the < = 50 LBS class.
If you're curious enough about how all the design attributes of a propeller interrelate, you should visit Dr. Martin Hepperle's excellent AeroTools site. Just download JavaProp and JavaFoil (or use it in the cloud) and play around.
mh-aerotools
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Permalink Reply by George Kelly on April 28, 2017 at 5:51pm
Given the severity of the trade-offs - I have wondered if a hybrid approach might work.
A large, central rotor similar to traditional heli, (or perhaps a co-axial pair for torque neutrality). But fixed-pitch, for mechanical simplicity and the possibility of optimizing airfoil efficiency.
The primary, or sole, purpose of which is to do most of the sheer 'grunt work' of offsetting gravity, ie providing almost enough lift , or just enough, to get, and stay airborne, but no requirement to play a role in stabilization or lateral movement, thus allowing larger rotor diameters and higher efficiency, without control penalty. (though, of course, they would inevitably affect lateral movement greatly by default)
Combined with a ring of smaller, electric rotors around the perimeter of the craft. Also fixed-pitch for simplicity.
Freed of the bulk of the 'grunt work' of lifting, they could be smaller in diameter, thus conferring the benefit of responsiveness. Their primary responsibility is to stabilize, and initiate and end lateral movement.
The central, lifting, rotors could be made gas-powered, to capture the (still) much higher energy density of gas, for doing most of the lifting.
Instead of 'big (props) vs small', 'electric vs gas', 'fixed pitch vs variable', could we not have the best of all worlds in the same craft?
Permalink Reply by Rob_Lefebvre on April 28, 2017 at 6:02pm
Brad!
The best thread in the history of DIYDrones lives.
That Olaeris AEVA machine.... count me as being skeptical. Looks like nothing but a bunch of renderings to me. Coupled with half an order of magnitude improvement over anything coming before, and not a single flight test video. Throw in some cheezy looking marketing materials and... I've seen this story told too many times in the UAV industry. If it didn't claim Dr. Pound's involvement, I'd be sure it was fake news.
I see so many small craft being marketed that I wonder if a larger rotor that is so much more efficient must bring with it new technical issues not discussed in this thread.
Yes, absolutely.
It's been a few years since I read this thread. But IIRC, it only touches on the theoretical hovering performance of multirotors, and does not delve into the complexities of the control dynamics. Something I've become quite acquainted with over the years.
I actually have in house, a quite high performance large multirotor. It can hover for up to an hour with no payload, or lift up to 13lbs of payload for 20 minutes. It accomplishes this with T-motor U8 motors and 28" propellers in an X8 configuration. However, it's not a successful design, because while the flight time numbers are impressive, it doesn't fly well.
The compromises necessary to achieve that flight time, kill the dynamic performance. 28" propellers are large, heavy, and with very high inertia. The motors, are the minimum size possible to carry the load. They have little power overhead needed to change the speed of the propeller. The situation is not helped, that the only propellers available, are designed to support 27.5 kg, but in this application, each are only carrying about 1.7kg. They are therefore much heavier than they need to be. But such is the compromise one has to make when using COTS components.
Anyway, the machine can hardly deal with 5 m/s lateral airspeed without flipping over. I have a helicopter UAV, with similar specifications. Only it's smaller, lighter, uses the same exact batteries, and it can fly for the same period of time. But it can fly at 30 m/s in complete control.
I agree with Gary, that there's a limit beyond which multirotors using fixed pitch propellers, begin to have serious difficulties with control. Only, IMO, its around 18" where it starts happening.
There's something else that I think is not talked about often. I haven't figured it out the theoretical reason yet, just observed it in practice. And that is the incredible amount of power increase required for multirotors to fly with lateral speed. My helicopter hovers on about 50A, but that drops to 40A by 15 m/s due to the benefits of translational lift.
My Octocopter however, hovers on 35A, but it's pulling 80A if I hold it on the 30 degree pitch limit, and it's only doing 13 m/s. Why? I don't think it can be attributed purely to the increased airframe drag. I think it is probably due to the airflow through the rotors.
We know that with helicopters at high flight speeds, some of the retreating blade is actually subject to reverse flow. The airflow is going over the blade the wrong way, and it's destroying lift. I suspect this effect is even greater for multirotors. Particularly those designed for long duration, with very large, slow turning propellers.
Unfortunately, no, I don't think so.
You should get a copy of Gordon Leishman's Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics, even if only to read the first chapter, which is a primer on the development of helicopter technology. Many concepts like this were tried. Actually, multirotors were tried before the standard helicopter design of today was settled on. And many variations, some not unlike what you are proposing.
The problem is, that you are ignoring the effect of disymmetry of lift on the large main rotor during forward flight. This would need to be countered by the stabilizing thrusters. And if the thrusters were large enough to counter the main rotor torque during forward flight, they would also be much larger than your theoretical design would want for efficiency. Pretty soon, you would find you had surprisingly large thrusters, and surprisingly small main rotor.
Another way you could solve the disymmetry of lift problem, would be to use articulated main rotors. But then... since you're articulating them anyway to solve DoL, why not just go ahead and make them to cyclic control while you're at it.
This parallels the development of VTOL flight. There were no successful designs until they instituted cyclic control
I actually designed a coaxial helicopter sort of like this years ago, and it didn't work out. It used a fixed pitch top rotor, and a variable pitch bottom rotor with cyclic control. In order to get good flight control, I had to increase the size of the lower rotor, while decreasing the size of the top rotor, so that the bottom rotor had sufficient cyclic authority to overcome the moment being generated by the top rotor. But then, in order that the top rotor could still counter the torque of the larger bottom rotor, I had to add more and more pitch, until it was at the point where the top rotor had a silly amount of angle of attack and it was killing efficiency.
It started out as an interesting design, mechanically simple, but eventually evolved into a disaster as we tried to actually make it fly.
There's a lot of good reasons why the conventional helicopter design was converged on from several different directions, and then has remained largely unchanged for 100 years. It works.
George Kelly said:
Freed of the bulk of the 'grunt work' of lifting, they could be smaller in diameter, thus conferring the benefit of responsiveness. Their primary responsibility is to stabilize, and move laterally.
Yes, I hadn't considered Dissymmetry of Lift.
Though, would a pair of large, fixed pitch co-axial rotors in the centre remove that problem? (albeit with attendant co-axial issues)
What I imagined would be the big problem would be the central rotors amplifying the corrective thrust changes of the outer thrusters too massively, forcing the thrusters to provide even stronger corrections in the opposite direction, and so on, in an unstable feedback loop, followed by disaster.
Analogous to the potential in current multi-rotors, I guess, just much more so.
Rob_Lefebvre said:
@ Rob Lefebvre - It is good to see an octocopter that has made the leap from paper to a real aircraft that flies.
The performance stats for this octocopter that you have mentioned here bring me to ask:
Why did you use motors that do not have higher capacity for work that would allow the octocopter to be more controllable?
What made you choose 18" rotors over any other size?
What 13lb (or any weight) payload would you want to lift and fly with this craft? And based on that payload, why do you want it to fly so fast that it requires a 30 degree pitch?
Why did you choose 8 rotors rather than 6? (Are these 8 rotors in 4 stacked counter-rotating pair?)
Permalink Reply by Darrell Burkey on April 28, 2017 at 7:40pm
Cool thread! Missed it first time around. Thanks for explaining these things in a way that I could understand them. Very interesting indeed!
Permalink Reply by Gary McCray on April 28, 2017 at 8:04pm
There was actually an Indian gentleman 5 years ago (eternity) that built a man lift capable gas powered Septo copter with one large gas powered non-variable pitch, non-cyclic control central rotor (small aircraft prop I think).
He had it chained in the middle of his patio area, I don't think he ever tried it with a person in it, but the videos I saw were not promising and looked a lot like that old movie of the guy with the 2 cone shaped umbrella things that reciprocated up and down.
There was another later smaller electric multicopter that was built using a single central rotor with 6 conventional prop motors around it that was successful.
Possibly successful is too strong a word, it did fly, but control was very marginal and the surrounding motors had to be installed at a considerable angle off of vertical to counter the torque direction of the central prop unit.
Basically it was a complete pig (apologies to pig).
Single rotor helicopters for a given size weight are almost certainly higher performance and more efficient than an equivalent multicopter.
The cost is in complexity of variable and cyclic pitch control of the rotor.
It seems like the efficiency larger equivalent rotor diameter more than makes up for the inefficiencies from pitch control in comparison to a bunch of smaller props on a multicopter.
Also because of the pitch and cyclic control it appears that helis can totally outperform multicopters in every possible way.
Multicopters main advantage really seems to be simplicity and, with a microcontroller, ease of piloting, maybe sometimes at least safety, big heli blades can be and have been literally killers at times.
It is also possible that at some sizes / rotor diameters multis may at least sometimes have superior handling or safety in ground effect.
That helis have been so minimized in the emergence of multis as THE drone, is not based on performance or even reality.
It is based on the faddish popularity of multi's and their emergence simultaneous with decent computer automatic pilot systems.
When things settle down and the new wears off, I am very confident that helis will be back in a very significant way.
Certainly and foremost in the serious and commercial end of things.
I do get the superiority of traditional helis, and of gas power.
I think Brad's point was that fixed-pitch is not only mechanically simpler, but potentially more efficient because the airfoil can be optimised for a single pitch, which isn't possible for a rotor that has to pitch up and down so much, so rapidly. Maybe this isn't significant enough to be important (?)
I'll also assume now from the examples given that any central rotor would almost have to be co-axial - as this would negate the Dissymmetry of Lift problem, as well as the problem of the perimeter rotors having to fight the torque of the central rotor instead of mainly just stabilising horizontal attitude
I don't doubt that other configurations have not necessarily gone well, but I do wonder how many similarly bad outcomes accompanied the first attempts at conventional electric multicopters before the control issues were worked out.
Anyway, I'll remain a little curious.
Gary McCray said:
At least in conventional helicopters versus multicopters it is truly no contest, for a given size - weight capacity the Helis single larger rotor is always more efficient than an equivalent multicopters multiple props, it is a simple fact that prop/rotor diameter has an overwhelming effect of efficiency versus all other characteristics.
It is true that a heli blade is less efficient than a fixed pitch prop blade of the same diameter, but if you are stuffing 4 or more smaller diameter prop blades into the same are covered by the single heli blade, the heli rotor is way more efficient period even with it's assorted losses.
So 8" multicopter propeller versus 8" helicopter rotor advantage multicopter, but 4 - 8" multicopter propellers versus one roughly equivalent say 16" helicopter rotor, no contest heli wins by a huge margin. Even with the tail rotor.
As for coaxial helicopter, there seems to be an unavoidable 10 to 20 percent loss going with the stacked rotors, but they do counteract torque and varying speed can even be used to yaw copter.
That said a conventional heli tail rotor is considerably more efficient than a coaxial setup.
Diameter is king.
BTW there was a University attempt with Coaxial center rotors and conventional multicopter prop units around it, but it did not seem to work out for them, I suspect efficiency was crap.
There have also been quite a few attempts with variable pitch single motor driven multicopters and some of those have been remarkably successful especially Curtis Youngblood's, but the mechanism is tricky and they are somewhat fragile so they tend to break a lot, but they are really cool while they work.,\
They hover perfectly well upside down and have phenomenal performance.
The simple fact is a lot of this stuff has already been tried and even analysed.
This thread is really about large (man carrying capable) multicopters and those seem unlikely to get made with truly fixed pitch propellers, the mass of the prop (and the air it is displacing) is so large that the propeller simply can't speed up or slow down fast enough to provide necessary control response times.
There are various strategies for providing an intrinsic automatic pitch control with a mechanism simpler than that found in helicopters.
Where those lead will be interesting, without it man carrying fixed pitch multicopters are just an accident waiting to happen.
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SPOILER REVIEW: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
WARNING! This is my spoiler-filled review of Infinity War, if you haven’t seen the film or just generally don’t want any spoilers my spoiler-free review is here.
Now I don’t think this will be in any particular order and I definitely won’t manage to talk about everything, these are the things that stuck with me the most that I wanted to talk about.
I loved this film. There may be stuff to nit-pick, but I can see past any flaws it might have because I think it’s such an achievement. Characters are introduced to one another organically and there’s no part that feels slow or boring compared to other parts. There are quieter moments, especially the ones with Thanos and Gamora but they are still just as compelling as the action sequences.
Infinity War does a great job at balancing humour and drama and there’s so many great character moments for a film chockfull of characters. I love how smoothly everyone comes into play and the various team-ups make for some great comedic moments. I love Bucky picking up Rocket as they both shoot a bunch of aliens. I love Steve introducing himself to Groot in such an honest way. Thor’s arrival in Wakanda with Rocket on his shoulder and Groot by his side is one of my favourite things in the whole film. Closely followed by the moment when one of Thanos’ children says to Wanda she’ll die alone and Natasha is like “She’s not alone” and then Natasha and Okoye fight together against the baddie lady (can’t remember her name) and finally Wanda delivers the killing blow. Loved seeing those three badass ladies fight together.
The sequence on Titan with Tony, Strange and Peter and how they meet the rest of the Guardians is brilliant. I love how Thor’s the connection between all of them and knowing him is the reason they actually start to talk to one another. The fight with all of them against Thanos is stunning and is probably my favourite action set piece in the film.
Now let’s talk about our fallen heroes – and there’s a lot of them. I feel I, like many others, were very naïve about the collateral damage this film would bring. I was like “Oh a couple of characters will probably die but no one major” and how wrong I was. I always thought Loki would die, he failed Thanos before and he had sort of become someone who would do anything for his brother and to a lesser extent his people, so his death wasn’t a surprise, but it was still brutal seeing Thanos break his neck and then Thor cry over his body.
Heimdall was a sad death too but I liked how he sent Hulk to Earth because if he hadn’t have done that then Earth would’ve had no warning whatsoever. Heimdall is the real hero of this film. Side note: before seeing the film, I theorised that Loki would’ve been the one to use magic to send Banner to Earth, but I like that it was Heimdall.
Gamora’s death was a sad one because she, like me and probably a load of other people, couldn’t believe that Thanos really loved her. When she was begging for Quill to kill her and he eventually did pull the trigger but Thanos manipulated reality, that got to me. He did the hardest thing ever, but it still came to nothing.
Speaking of characters who made difficult decisions that came to nothing – Wanda having to kill the one she loved to save the world and then Thanos just reversing time to bring Vision back and rip the Mind Stone out of his head! That was tough.
Then Thanos snaps his fingers and people start turning into dust! I was stunned when that happened. The fact that Bucky was the first to go, saying Steve’s name and then disintegrating, was a shock because he’s my mum’s favourite character and I immediately thought about her and what her reaction would be when she saw it. Side note: if you haven’t seen it, I recommend reading my Twitter thread about my mum’s experience watching Infinity War and the friend she made.
Then there’s the battle fields of Wakanda and so many people disappear and M’Baku is left standing there in shock. The fact Black Panther disappeared before Okoye’s eyes was another big shock, then Sam and Groot and Wanda. And then it goes back to Titan and the Guardians disappear, then Strange and finally Peter – jeez Spider-Man got to me here – as he fell in Tony’s arms desperately saying he didn’t want to go and finally sorry. That one got me right in the feels.
And out of all the characters you’ve met over the years, the only ones you definitely know are alive are Tony, Nebula, Rocket, Steve, Bruce, Natasha, Rhodey, Thor, Okoye and M’Baku. I couldn’t put into words how I was feeling when the credits started to roll. I was just stunned.
Then there’s the post credit scene with Nick Fury and Maria Hill which I loved for a lot of reasons. One, just before they crash into a car Nick says to Maria “Tell Clint we’ll meet him-” meaning that my fave Hawkeye was keeping an eye on the crazy stuff that was happening and was ready to fight (can’t wait to see him in the sequel!). Two, that not only was half the universe wiped out, but because those people are no longer around there’s going to be collateral damage eg car and plane crashes and even probably instances in hospitals when doctors disappear mid-operation. And finally, three; Nick sent a message to Captain Marvel! Carol is going to come and save the day! That was a great little moment and I’m so pumped for her movie.
Thinking about what’s going to happen in Part 2, I don’t want to go searching out for theories too much because I want to be as surprised with this film as I am for the next one. I think it’s pretty cool that five out of the six original Avengers who were on screen in this film survived, it’s like they took it back to the beginning. I think/hope the characters who died before Thanos snapped his fingers stay dead because those deaths really mean something. I’m guessing that in the next film everyone or at least most of those who turned to dust will be brought back somehow.
I know some people are saying that the end of the film has no real impact as you’re pretty sure that the characters who disintegrate must come back to life, but I don’t think that’s the case. Even if/when half the universe is brought back, it doesn’t take away from the emotional impact you felt when you see these characters die before your eyes. No matter if they all come back and save the day, nothing will take away from that stunned silence that is present when the credits roll.
I will say that I believe our heroes had to lose in order to win, and Tony will be the key to saving the day. I say this because of Strange. When he, Tony and Peter are on the ship heading to Titan, he tells Tony that even if his or Peter’s life is in danger, he would not give up the Time Stone. Later on, he sees over 14 million possible realities and only one of them they win. Then Tony gets stabbed (a moment I gasped at) and Thanos is about to kill him, Strange gives up the Time Stone for his life, despite what he said before. And even as he was fading away, he said to Tony that it was the only way. I believe they had to lose, they had to let Thanos get all of the Infinity Stones and wipe out half of the universe, in order for them to beat him in the end. And the way the beat him will be because of something Tony says/does or he will sacrifice himself.
I have no idea how it will all work out in the end, but I that’s just my vague idea of how it will all play out. Also, if we don’t get a scene of Nebula and Tony having to work together to pilot a ship back to Earth I will be seriously disappoint. The two of them are so different that their interactions would be fascinating.
I’ve seen Infinity War three times in the cinema now and I think it’s a film that just gets better each time you see it as you notice more things and are not so numbed as you are the first time you watch it. I don’t think I can watch in another time in the cinema, (can’t deal with the emotional rollercoaster) instead I will probably leave my next rewatch till it’s out on DVD/Blu-Ray and I can watch it just before Part 2 is released next year.
Can’t believe we’ve got a year to wait! I will definitely be doing my best to avoid any spoilers and setphotos in that time frame as I want to go into Part 2 knowing as little as possible.
If you’ve got to the end of this over 1,500-word post of spoilery thoughts, I congratulate you! I’d love to know what you thought of Infinity War, both the good and the bad, and what was your favourite moment or character. I’ve got to say, I’ve always liked Thor, but I’ve never loved him like I did in this film. he’s conversations with Gamora and Rocket was great, and you really got to see how super powerful and God-like he is.
OK, I’m going to stop now because this post could go on forever. Until next time!
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I was surprised by how much I liked seeing Thor with the Guardians of the Galaxy, especially with Rocket! There are so many brilliant character moments throughout! I’m dying for the next movie.
Yes! Thor worked so well with the Guardians and I loved his heart to heart with Rocket.
Exactly! It’s such a huge thing but every character got their moment to shine, it might’ve been smaller than other characters but it was still there.
Can’t believe we gotta wait a year! 😫
Hoping to see it this week. fingers crossed.
Hope you enjoy it when you get the chance to see it!
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Most of us have come to realize patriarchy - rule by a male-dominated society revering solely a male God - is not working for Mother Earth or most of the people on the planet. How do we counter beliefs that there is no option but the authoritarian father? How does society go about making a course correction? How do ideas that permeate every level of society from womb to tomb, boardroom to bedroom, voting booth to the workplace shift into a more fair, equal, and just world of partnership, sharing, caring and peace? Those are exactly the questions discussed on the long-running radio show, /Voices of the Sacred Feminine/, hosted by Rev. Dr. Karen Tate in her show dedicated to the Sacred Feminine as deity, archetype and ideal. Never before has an internet radio show cast such a wide net to include so many voices whose ideals are in alignment with “sacred feminine liberation thealogy.” If we can imagine it, vision it, and restore ancient truths swept beneath the rug and kicked to the curb by patriarchy, then we can manifest it! Hear solutions from these visionaries, scholars, wayshowers, foremothers and activists - women and men - dedicated to reshaping our world... Noam Chomsky, Laura Flanders, Gloria Feldt, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Phyllis Chesler, Barbara G. Walker, Riane Eisler, Matthew Fox, Roy Bourgeois, Starhawk, Charles Eisenstein, Genevieve Vaughan, Carl Ruck, David Hillman, Judy Grahn, Nicki Scully, Normandi Ellis, Selena Fox, Patrick McCollum, Jann Aldredge-Clanton, Cristina Biaggi, Charlene Spretnak, Shirley Ranck, Elizabeth Fisher, Amy Peck, Art Noble, Jeanette Blonigen Clancy, Joan Norton, Andrew Gurevich, Gus diZerega, Lydia Ruyle, Vajra Ma, Ava, Donna Henes, Candace Kant, Sandra Spencer, Layne Redmond, Isadora Leidenfrost, ALisa Starkweather, Joan Marler, Tim Ward, James Rietveld and Karen Tate.
When We Were Free To Be
Author: Lori Rotskoff
Editor: UNC Press Books
If you grew up in the era of mood rings and lava lamps, you probably remember Free to Be . . . You and Me--the groundbreaking children's record, book, and television special that debuted in 1972. Conceived by actress and producer Marlo Thomas and promoted by Ms. magazine, it captured the spirit of the growing women's movement and inspired girls and boys to challenge stereotypes, value cooperation, and respect diversity. In this lively collection marking the fortieth anniversary of Free to Be . . . You and Me, thirty-two contributors explore the creation and legacy of this popular children's classic. Featuring a prologue by Marlo Thomas, When We Were Free to Be offers an unprecedented insiders' view by the original creators, as well as accounts by activists and educators who changed the landscape of childhood in schools, homes, toy stores, and libraries nationwide. Essays document the rise of non-sexist children's culture during the 1970s and address how Free to Be still speaks to families today. Contributors are Alan Alda, Laura Briggs, Karl Bryant, Becky Friedman, Nancy Gruver, Carol Hall, Carole Hart, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Joe Kelly, Cheryl Kilodavis, Dionne Kirschner, Francine Klagsbrun, Stephen Lawrence, Laura L. Lovett, Courtney Martin, Karin A. Martin, Tayloe McDonald, Trey McIntyre, Peggy Orenstein, Leslie Paris, Miriam Peskowitz, Deesha Philyaw, Abigail Pogrebin, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Robin Pogrebin, Patrice Quinn, Lori Rotskoff, Deborah Siegel, Jeremy Adam Smith, Barbara Sprung, Gloria Steinem, and Marlo Thomas. Publisher's Note: Late in the production of this book, the text on pages 252 and 253 was accidentally reversed. As a result, one should read page 253 before turning to page 252 and then proceeding on to page 254. The publisher deeply regrets this error.
Femmevangelical
Author: Jennifer Crumpton
Editor: Chalice Press
Damaging social contradictions, pervasive patriarchal structure, oppressive gender biases - no wonder women are abandoning formal religions! But our faith is still important to us, leaving many conflicted and frustrated in the quest to cultivate and practice our authentic female spirituality and authority. Jennifer D. Crumpton, author of the popular blog Femmevangelical, takes us on a journey to find the good news in the gospel of Jesus that encourages us to seek a different reality of equality, freedom, and wholeness. These stories and meditations - mixed with theological exploration and a closer look at church history - are dedicated to those who have searched for themselves in the Greater Story and been forced to take on an ill-fitting and soul-killing role to be included. It is a companion for anyone who seeks a devotional book not written to prove a religious ideology or uphold an institution, but to prove and uphold our unique experiences, potential, and worth. Femmevangelical supports the risks, hope, and faith it takes to follow our instincts, create change, and find the God we know exists beyond what we've been taught; and to commit our lives to creating the world in which we were truly made to live.
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11 of Europe's most bizarre buildings
By Jessica Benavides Canepa, Special to CNN • Updated 24th January 2013
Bizarre is in the eye of the beholder.
With modern architecture, that can mean just about anything.
Some of the extraordinary edifices above were designed to entice a reaction -- contemporary museums and exhibition centers come to mind -- while others astound by their mere existence.
The most controversial are the buildings inspired by whimsy; designed by architects with free rein to exercise their creative impulses on ordinary spaces.
Whether you consider the buildings above awe-inspiring in their architectural complexity or hideous monstrosities, there's no question they capture your attention.
Inspirational, intriguing or visually grating? What do you make of our selection of buildings above? Let us know your favorite bizarre buildings.
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Where to see the buildings
1. Atomium: Atomiumsquare B1020, Brussels; +32 (0) 2 475 47 77; open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; www.atomium.be
2. The Banknote Building: Taikos str. 88a, Kaunas, Lithuania (office building); www.1000lt.com
3. Casa Mila: Provença, 261-265. 08008, Barcelona; +34 934 84 59 00 ; open November 5-February 28: daily, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., March 1-November 4, daily, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; www.lapedrera.com
4. Castel Meur: Brittany, auto route D25, 29260 Kernouës, France. (Private residence not open to public)
5. Dali Theatre-Museum: Plaza Gala-Salvador Dalí, 5 17600, Figueres, Spain; +34 972 67 75 00; open November 1-February 28, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., March 1-June 30, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., July 1-September 30, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., closed Mondays; www.salvador-dali.org
6. Nationale-Nederlanden Building: Rašínovo Nábřeží 80, 120 00 Prague 2. (It's an office building and not open to the public, but there's a restaurant/bar on the top two floors, details here.)
7. Futuroscope: Avenue du Téléport (avenue René Monory), 86360, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France; +33 (0) 549 493 080; opening times vary, check website for dates and times; futuroscope.com
8. Guggenheim Bilbao: Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48001, Bilbao, Spain; +34 (0) 944 35 90 80; Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
9. Krzywy Domek: ul. Haffnera 6, 81-717 Sopot, Poland; +48 (0) 58 55 55 125; krzywydomek.info
10. Kunsthaus Graz Museum: Lendkai 1, 8020 Graz, Austria; +43 316/8017-9200; open Tuesday-Sunday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; www.museum-joanneum.at
11. Eden Project: Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall, UK; +44 (0) 1726 811911; opening times vary, check website for dates and times; www.edenproject.com
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Home»Digital Workspace
Communication tools create connections with students, staff and parents
Wendy McMahon
Wendy McMahon is a freelance writer and general tech geek who has been writing about technology for over 10 years. Follower her on Twitter at @wendymcmahon.
Cluttered bulletin boards, garbled loudspeaker announcements and missed memos are becoming a thing of the past as a growing number of schools turn to digital signage. The tools make communicating with students, staff and parents easier, more effective and even less expensive.
A recent report from Technavio found that revenue from digital signage in the education market is expected to grow 10 percent by 2021.
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How Schools Use Digital Signage
Technavio analyst Jhansi Mary J says schools are finding plenty of uses for digital signage at an affordable price tag, including:
welcome messages and videos during events
notifications about curriculum, assessments and emergency situations during regular school hours
time-bound dayparting information
different messages for specific audiences on a school campus (e.g., lunch menus near the cafeteria, building directories in the main entrance and announcements in hallways)
Apart from these factors, Jhansi also says, “Digital signage displays add to the aesthetic appeal of the campus as they declutter hallways and corridors from bulletin boards and posters.”
Tackling District Communication Challenges
Klein ISD, one of the fastest-growing districts in Houston, recently adopted 50 large-format TVs for digital signage as part of a three-year technology growth plan.
Chris Cummings, director of IT for Klein ISD, says with the scale and pace of a growing district, finding effective ways to communicate can be difficult, but digital signage is helping the district tackle that challenge.
“Whether it is helping students stay informed of upcoming events and deadlines or creating student ownership and loyalty to the campus, schools use the signage to share important information, schedule updates or even promote student successes,” says Cummings.
He also says the flexibility of digital signage creates time and cost savings for the district: “Campuses enjoy being able to brand and share their content for the entire school to see without having to print paper. This saves considerable time and money. They can promote activities to students while using the same technology to guide parents to the corresponding events.”
Looking forward, Cummings says, the district hopes to leverage digital signage for safety purposes as well. “As we integrate solutions and centralize management, getting critical information to a large student body in a timely manner will become possible. This guarantees the necessity and importance of digital signage in our campuses,” says Cummings.
Mobile Integration Engages Digital Natives
Digital signage also offers mobile integration, so schools can push information to devices like smartphones. (This also lets staff use mobile devices to update, operate and monitor digital signage systems.)
That’s a major boost in a school’s ability to communicate effectively with both parents and digital natives when you consider the large-scale adoption of mobile devices both inside and outside the classroom.
In a nationally representative survey released in 2015, the last time this data was made available, education publisher Pearson found that 53 percent of 4th and 5th graders, 66 percent of middle schoolers, and 82 percent of high school students regularly used a smartphone.
Add to that findings from a Pew Research Center report that show 77 percent of US adults own a smartphone, and it’s clear that connecting digital signage with mobile devices is an effective way for schools to get their messages out.
As Technavio’s Jhansi puts it, “Delivering the same content to the users' devices can further accelerate connectedness.”
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Functional Airspace Blocks: building a European Sky
Challenging simulations for a fabulous idea.
Back in 2004, as part of the implementation of the Single European Sky, the European Commission established the requirement for the creation of the Functional Airspace Blocks. EUROCONTROL Network Manager worked closely with all the Functional Airspace Blocks from a very early stage, even before their official establishment.
What is a Functional Airspace Block?
A Functional Airspace Block (FAB) is as an airspace block based on operational requirements and established regardless of state boundaries. It aims at creating a common airspace through which more efficient air navigation services are provided in a larger airspace. There are currently nine FABs established in Europe.
What are the benefits of FABs?
For airlines and their passengers the FABs are expected to deliver shorter and more efficient routes leading to savings of hundreds of millions of euros, millions of flown miles and tonnes of fuel. The air navigation service providers will be able to make better use of the available airspace by sharing more common cross-border sectors, managing more efficiently the military areas and, eventually, further reducing the air navigation costs.
Why is EUROCONTROL with its Experimental Centre involved in the FABs?
As these airspace blocks are by nature covering a large volume of airspace that includes a high number of control centres, EUROCONTROL, with its large and flexible world-class simulators, is a natural partner to conduct real-time simulations covering the vast geographical area of a FAB with civil and military actors, each with their own control system.
How did the Experimental Centre contribute to the FAB projects?
Over the past almost 20 years, EUROCONTROL invested considerable resources to assist the service providers with the establishment and design of functional airspace blocks. This materialised in the conduct of a series of impressive large-scale real-time simulations for DANUBE*, FABEC** and NEFAB*** FABs; some of those simulations included up to 6 civil and 2 military control centres, involving more than 60 air traffic controllers. The Experimental Centre strongly supported the creation of the CEATS****, later FAB CE*****, with the foundation of a dedicated research and simulation centre in Budapest, Hungary. This centre was a replica of the EEC infrastructure and was subsequently taken over by HungaroControl. It is still providing simulation services in support of FAB CE and regional projects in the area.
The fifth FAB that benefited from EUROCONTROL’s simulation services is BLUE MED******, with the setting up of a simulation centre in Rome (ENAV), initially supporting free flight operations in the Mediterranean area, later working for BLUE MED.
* DANUBE: Bulgaria and Romania
** FABEC: Europe Central – Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland
*** NEFAB: North European FAB: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway
**** CEATS: Central European Air Traffic Services
***** FABCE: FAB Central Europe: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
****** BLUE MED: Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, (with Egypt, Tunisia, Albania, Jordan as observers)
Over the past almost 20 years, EUROCONTROL invested considerable resources to assist the service providers with the establishment and design of functional airspace blocks. This materialised in the conduct of a series of impressive large-scale real-time simulations for DANUBE*, FABEC** and NEFAB*** FABs; some of those simulations included up to 6 civil and 2 military control centres, involving more than 60 air traffic controllers. The Experimental Centre strongly supported CEATS****, later FAB CE, with the creation of a dedicated research and simulation centre in Budapest, which replicated the EEC infrastructure. This centre was subsequently taken over by HungaroControl and is still providing simulation services in support of FAB CE and regional projects in the area.
The fifth FAB that benefited from EUROCONTROL’s simulation services is BLUE MED*****, with the setting up of a simulation centre in Rome (ENAV), initially supporting free flight operations in the Mediterranean area, later working for BLUE MED.
FRA: how Free Routes unlock the skies
NEFAB (North European FAB) : Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway
NUAC: Denmark, Sweden
BALTIC FAB: Poland, Lithuania
FABEC (Europe Central): France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland
FABCE (FAB Central Europe): Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
DANUBE: Bulgaria, Romania
BLUE MED: Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, (and Egypt, Tunisia, Albania, Jordan as observers)
UK- IRELAND FAB: United Kingdom, Ireland
SW FAB (South West FAB): Portugal, Spain
RECAT: a new framework for more “turbulent” aircraft
CREDOS : Crosswind-Reduced Separations for Departure Operations
A major simulation of Paris airspace
Time-Based Separation: making the wind work for us
CAMES: synchronising air traffic in real time
Point Merge: descending at the correct pace
RVSM: new flight levels for European air routes
CPDLC: freeing up the radio waves
GNSS: welcome to the satellite era
TCAS: preventing mid-air collisions
A-CDM: collaborating to improve airport efficiency
ODID: the disappearance of paper strips
MODE S: the art of radar
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Pavlo Hyrb’s Condition Continues to Deteriorate, Not Given Proper Medical Attention
Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hryb has portal hypertension which requires specific medical treatment that he is not receiving in Russian prison
Photo Pavlo Hryb Screenshot from UNIAN
Conditions of Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hryb’s imprisonment in Russia have not changed after Ukrainian doctor Vasyl Prytula’s visit and given recommendations. Prytula said that a patient with portal hypertension cannot be kept in prison, Pavlo Hryb’s father, Ihor Hryb, said, according to the news outlet Hromadske.ua. This was reported by UNIAN.
Portal hypertension is an increase in the blood pressure within a system of veins called the portal venous system. As a result, increased pressure in the portal vein may lead to the development of large, swollen veins (varices) within the esophagus, stomach, rectum, or umbilical area (belly button).
According to the doctor, Pavlo does not feel well, as he has nausea and pain in his abdomen. The doctor recalled that at a recent meeting on March 15, they had to call an ambulance for medical assistance for the political prisoner.
Ihor Hryb says that the court pays no attention to the complaints of Pavlo and his lawyer Marina Dubrovina. Pavlo’s mother is staying in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, he said. The prisoner’s father says he does not expect an acquittal.
The North Caucasian District Military Court of the Russian Federation on March 15 scheduled debates on Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hryb’s case for March 21 and 22.
Pavlo Hryb is being tried in Russia on trumped-up “terrorist” charges as investigators claim he instructed an accomplice to set off an explosive device at a Russian schoolyard. He was just 19 when he was abducted by the FSB from Belarus on August 24, 2017, after going there to meet who he thought was a young woman he had chatted with online and fell in love with.
Hryb is diagnosed with portal hypertension, which requires daily intake of necessary medications and a special diet, the lack of which could become fatal. Russian authorities have not allowed Ukrainian doctors to examine the political prisoner.
Ukrainian commissioner for human rights Liudmyla Denisova said on January 29 Hryb’s condition was very serious and he needs immediate heart surgery.
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Word for someone who overly nurtures their online image
I have a friend who sometimes removes comments from his Facebook posts that are slightly off-topic or detracting from the point of his post where the post is intended to boost his reputation and kudos in a certain topic.
It's not egotistical or egocentric or really narcissistic as it can be seen as a valid thing to do, but it's in contrast to what others do, and allow conversations to flow freely and even go off-topic and don't remove any comments unless of course they are offensive or insulting.
So, what would be the word to call this person, someone who is overly self-conscious about and overly nurtures and maintains their online presence/image/persona?
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NeoNeo
+1 I know exactly what you're talking about. It's a phenomenon that only exists on the net because of how easily one can edit their image (like deleting unflattering posts). – Ataraxia Apr 18 '13 at 0:08
I would call such a person image-conscious. – user13141 Apr 18 '13 at 9:18
self-conscious sounds more apt and less insulting. they are self conscious of their image online and how they portray themselves – RhysW Apr 18 '13 at 10:38
Thanks, and that is certainly correct, but self-conscious is a little broad. Image-conscious might be OK, but I'm trying to find a word that doesn't just concatenate two words together. A more definitive single word, maybe a noun even. – Neo Apr 19 '13 at 22:13
There is the concept of Online Identity Management which describes exactly this activity, but there's no convenient adjective resulting from it.
Image-conscious is possibly kinder than most of the other words that come to mind, or even image-obsessed or maybe just vain.
But this management and presentation of public image is practically the same thing as is practised routinely now by public figures like celebrities or politicians, and in those spheres is generally known as "image management" or "impression management", or if you're more cynical, PR (Public Relations) or "spin".
So you could turn to the political language that describes these things, and choose words like stage-managed, self-aggrandizing, propagandizing and so on.
Probably best to avoid the phrase sexed-up though.
njdnjd
Yep. I'd go with vain. – Matt E. Эллен♦ Apr 18 '13 at 15:25
Try an online control freak — or, if you don’t mind neologisms, a webomaniac or a personaholic.
P. O.P. O.
I was looking for a more official word, that doesn't necessarily have to have an Internet context. A word that could be associated with someone who is equally careful about their persona/image in the real world, like distancing themselves from certain people because of their opinions just because other people may view it unfavourably, even though they themselves may not. – Neo Apr 17 '13 at 16:05
@Neo As good a question as this is, I don't think there is a legitimate word for it. This is a relatively obscure phenomenon, that isn't really spoken of often enough to warrant its own word. – Ataraxia Apr 18 '13 at 0:07
Self-editing perhaps? – Mynamite Apr 18 '13 at 0:25
Thanks to njd's answer above, I was able to navigate Wikipedia and find other good candidates for a suitable word or description stemming from impression management.
Erving Goffman has numerous mentions on various Wikipedia pages and creates a sociological concept that hijacks the use of the word dramaturgy (takes it from the stage into real life).
Some relevant pages I found are one about maintaining face, one about self-image maintenance, one about self-monitoring and one about ingratiation.
From these, I can derive a number of possible candidates for the right word: 'impression manager', 'self-image maintainer', 'face maintainer', 'self-monitorer', and 'ingratiator'.
'Dramaturgist' would've been good, but it has a different meaning related to the original meaning of 'dramaturgy'. And 'facist' is definitely a no-no! :)
'Ingratiator' seems to be my favourite as it is a single word and it comprises self-presentation, which is closely associated with impression management, which is exactly what my friend is doing on Facebook.
He's an ingratiator!
The activity you asked about is sometimes described as curating one's online presence / image.
Erik KowalErik Kowal
This action could be described as airbrushing your online image. I realize this is an action rather than a description of the person who does this. Perhaps you could call them an airbrusher?
airbrush, verb, represent or describe (someone or something) as better or more beautiful than they in fact are. "an airbrushed version of the decade"
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Michael really spends a lot of time airbrushing his Facebook page to make it look seamless.
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Red Stars acquire Kristie Mewis from Spirit for 1st round pick
Dan Lauletta
The Chicago Red Stars have acquired Kristie Mewis from the Washington Spirit in exchange for a conditional 1st round pick in 2018. The Spirit will get whichever of the Red Stars 1st rounders comes in higher. They had previously acquired the Reign’s to go along with their natural pick. To make room on the 20-woman roster, the Red Stars waived rookie forward Morgan Proffitt.
“Kristie adds a much needed, physical presence in the midfield and makes us significantly more dangerous on set pieces, which is an area we have not been good enough this year,” Red Stars coach Rory Dames told The Equalizer.
The Red Stars once looked more likely to win the NWSL Shield than miss the playoffs, have lost three in a row, all at home, and are suddenly just two points clear of danger.
“No one values the draft more than we do,” he continued, “but we have to be in the here and now and we felt this move will help us in some areas where we have struggled this season in our push to win the league.”
Mewis, 26, may get a crack at her former team right off the bat. The Red Stars are in Washington for a Saturday night clash in which they will attempt to snap a three-game losing streak and four-game unbeaten streak. In 14 appearances for the Spirit this season Mewis had 2 goals and assist, all during a four-game span between May 13 and June 3.
The Spirit acquired Mewis in an off season trade with the Breakers that also brought them Kassey Kallman. Also acquired in that trade was the top ranking in the Distribution Ranking Order which the Spirit later used to acquire Mallory Pugh. Ironically, the insertion of Pugh in the lineup began to cost Mewis minutes.
“We want to thank Kristie for all she’s done for the club this year,” Spirit head coach and general manager Jim Gabarra said in a team statement. “She’s made several strong contributions to help our team this season. We wish her all the best in Chicago.”
At 4-10-4 the Spirit are at the bottom of the NWSL table.
Mewis is an NWSL original. She was the 3rd overall pick by FC Kansas Cty in the inaugural college draft of 2013. After one season she was traded to the Reign for Amy Rodriguez and then flipped to the Breakers for Sydney Leroux At that time she briefly became a subsidized player and appeared for the national team. Since going to Boston, where she spent three seasons, Mewis’s clubs are an aggregate 17-54-11.
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Top 5 Tech Articles You Might’ve Missed - Week of November 4, 2013
Multiscreen and live content, Saudi Arabia, network DVR, and power—that’s what’s in this week’s news.
Half of all ad campaigns will be multiscreen in the next three years; that’s according to a study in MediaDailyNews. Are you ready for multiscreen ad insertion?
A study in Rapid TV News found that 84 percent of pay-TV subscribers want their subscription available live and streaming on their connected devices. Delivering content across all screens is not enough; it has to be ALL content across ALL screens…
Which brings us to ARRIS news, where this week, we were in Dubai at TV Connect MENA talking to Digital TV Europe about providing cable and IPTV infrastructure to Saudi Arabia. Stateside, CEO Bob Stanzione told FierceCable about the multiple ARRIS customers that soon will be deploying network-based DVRs to augment in-home DVR functionality.
And speaking of network DVRs, Broadband Technology Report wrote about their value in home energy conservation by taking DVR processing to the cloud. BTR spoke with ARRIS director of IP engineering, Carol Ansley, about other energy-saving measures, including our own initiatives at the chip level.
Which trend do you think will have the biggest impact on the industry -- integrated multiscreen media campaigns, improved DVR functionality or energy efficient set-top boxes?
Half Of All Ad Campaigns Will Be Multiscreen By 2016 (Nov. 1) By Wayne Friedman, MediaDailyNews: In three years, about half of all media campaigns are expected to be multiscreen campaigns, according to a study from the Association of National Advertisers and Nielsen. Multiscreen is defined as two or more screens -- TV, computer, tablet, mobile phone and digital place-based media -- running in a similar time frame.
Pay-TV users demand live linear streaming (Oct. 31) By Joseph O’Halloran, Rapid TV News: Having live content delivered through streaming or through traditional channels is not an either/or for pay-TV subscribers, according to new research conducted by The Diffusion Group and iStreamPlanet.
Arris to supply TV infrastructure for Saudi industrial cities (Nov. 5) By Staff, Digital TV Europe: Video and broadband technology provider Arris has secured a contract to provide cable and IPTV infrastructure for the petrochemical industry cities of Jubai and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia.
Arris: 'lead customers' to launch network DVR service in 2014 (Nov. 4) By Steve Donohue, FierceCable: Multiple customers of Arris will soon deploy network-based DVRs that will be used to "augment in-home DVR functionality," Arris CEO Bob Stanzione told analysts last week.
Power – the Right Amount of It – to the Set Tops (Nov. 6) By Carl Weinschenk, Broadband Technology Report: Since its earliest days, cable has been a powerhouse. From developing new ways of delivering video to becoming a voice and data provider of choice, the industry has exuded power. It’s a business power, a technical power and a political power.
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Our New Leadership Team
We recently completed our acquisition of Pace —positioning ARRIS as a global leader in our industry with an unmatched body of talent.
Today, we’d like to welcome the Pace leadership team to our ranks, where we’ll leverage their expertise to bring our vision of the future to new markets.
At the executive level, Bob Stanzione will continue on as Chairman and CEO of ARRIS, along with Dave Potts as EVP and CFO. Larry Margolis will lead integration of the combined organization as EVP of Corporate Strategy & Administration. Larry Robinson and Bruce McClelland will continue to serve as President of their respective business units, which will maintain their current structure: CPE and Network & Cloud and Global Services. Ron Coppock will lead our new, dedicated international sales organization and continue to lead marketing, as President of International Sales and Global Marketing. Tim O’Loughlin from Pace will bring his sales expertise and relationships to his new role as President, North American Sales. Jim Brennan will continue as SVP of Supply Chain and Quality, Patrick Macken as SVP, General Counsel and Secretary, and Vicki Brewster as SVP of Human Resources. Finally, Pace’s Phil Baldock will serve as ARRIS’s new SVP, CIO.
We expect many members of the Pace senior management team to take on leadership positions at ARRIS—a testament to Pace CEO Mike Pulli’s work in creating one of the industry’s leading talent organizations and one that matches ARRIS’s culture of success.
"The people of ARRIS represent the future of our company," said Bob Stanzione. "Today, we have the industry's leading talent under one roof. And in the coming months, we'll begin to leverage the full potential of our combined expertise-broadening our global footprint, tapping into new markets, catalyzing innovation, and transforming entertainment and communications for millions of people around the world."
Acquisition Bob Stanzione Bruce McClelland Dave Potts Jim Brennan Larry Margolis Larry Robinson leadership team Pace Patrick Macken Phil Baldock Ron Coppock Tim O’Loughlin Vicki Brewster
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Adani gives final approval for $4 billion Australia coal mine project
On Tuesday, Adani said the project would create 10,000 direct and indirect jobs, with pre-construction works starting in the next few months.Reuters | June 06, 2017, 08:46 IST
SYDNEY: Adani Enterprises said on Tuesday that it has given final investment approval for its controversial $4 billion Carmichael mine and rail project in Queensland.
"The project has Final Investment Decision approval, which marks the official start of one of the largest single infrastructure and job-creating developments in Australia's recent history," Adani Chairman Gautam Adani said in a statement.
The company, which has still to line up funding, plans to build what would be Australia's biggest coal mine, but has faced opposition from environment groups who argue it will contribute to global warming and damage the Great Barrier Reef.
On Tuesday, Adani said the project would create 10,000 direct and indirect jobs, with pre-construction works starting in the next few months. Coal from the mine will be exported to India.
The Carmichael project is located in the remote Galilee Basin, a 247,000 square-kilometre (95,000 square mile) expanse in the central outback that some believe has the potential to become Australia's largest coal-producing region.
"We have been challenged by activists in the courts, in inner city streets, and even outside banks that have not even been approached to finance the project," Adani said, calling the project the biggest single investment by an Indian company in Australia.
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Australia's third biggest state had been hit by a resources downturn which has hit mining firms across the country.
Adani's final decision "is a vote of confidence not just in the Queensland economy, but in Queensland people", she said.
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ReviewsDVD Review
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It’d be inaccurate to classify Abbas Kiarostami’s 1990 film Close-Up as “suspense,” though it does get more gripping as it plays on, if more on a philosophical and spiritual level than a narrative one. Kiarostami based Close-Up on a bizarre 1989 incident in which a mentally unstable film buff named Hossain Sabzian befriended a middle-class Tehran family by pretending to be filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Sabzian was charged with fraud, and Kiarostami filmed the trial, while also convincing the con man and his marks—the Ahankhah family—to recreate a few scenes from their story. Close-Up cuts between the documentary footage and the re-enactments, all while raising questions about why people escape into art, and the dotted lines that divide pretense and truth. The questions get more complicated as the judge’s verdict looms.
Close-Up was a landmark film in Iranian cinema, because it broke away from the gentle neo-realism that had previously been the hallmark of Iranian films, and subsequently reached a wider international audience on the festival circuit. It remains a bracing piece of work even now, not just for the issues it explores, which are fairly standard art-film fare, but for the way Kiarostami explores them. Close-Up is formally daring, starting with a 15-minute pre-credits sequence that follows a journalist as he takes a cab up to the Ahankhahs’ home on the day the police arrest Sabzian. The lengthy scene—a re-enactment—allows Kiarostami to establish the story quickly, yet once he’s done that, Kiarostami shifts his interest away from the journalist and toward the cabbie, as the man asks for directions, talks about how he doesn’t watch movies, and kicks a can around on a sun-dappled autumn morning. Much later in the film, Kiarostami continues the scene from the journalist’s point of view, and at last lets us see Sabzian get nabbed, in a moment almost Hitchcockian in its tension. But from the outset, the director lets us know that this won’t be some sensationalistic crime story. Close-Up is more about the power of images, and how what’s on the screen at any given moment can hold our attention completely, even if it has nothing to do with “the story.”
Kiarostami extends that theme of how movies shape reality into his documentary footage, as when he interviews cops who insist that “people out to con others have a certain look,” and when he films the testimony of Sabzian, who says he understands that Kiarostami’s camera will be his “audience.” The testimony—held in tight, static close-up—makes up the bulk of the movie, and Sabzian’s natural-sounding response to the judge’s questions contrasts sharply with his stiffer performance in the re-enactments. And yet when the Ahankhahs’ grown son is asked to respond to Sabzian’s contrition, he complains, “I get the impression that he’s still playing a role.” (Which in fact he may have been, since Kiarostami reportedly scripted a lot of Sabzian’s replies.) The facts frequently get tangled up in Close-Up’s staging, especially at the end, when the audio cuts in and out just as Sabzian meets Makhmalbaf in person. Are these real seams showing, or have these seams been manufactured by Kiarostami to make his movie look more “real?” And what does it say about Kiarostami that in documenting the tale of a wannabe filmmaker, he ropes all concerned into working for him, to make a movie about his concerns, not theirs? Perhaps it says only that Kiarostami is a true artist, not a phony. Because true artists know how to manipulate people without getting arrested.
Key features: A commentary track by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum, two candid half-hour interviews with Kiarostami, a documentary about Sabzian’s sad life six years after Close-Up’s release, and—best of all—the complete 1974 Kiarostami feature film The Traveler, about a boy who skips school to go to a soccer match.
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TBC Bank profit rises on lending growth , while shares reaches New 1-Year Low at $1,270.00
TBC Bank Group PLC (TBCG.LN) said Thursday that fourth-quarter profit rose strongly amid loan growth, according to MarketWatch.
The London-listed lender, which is Georgia's largest bank, said its quarterly net profit came to 130.1 million Georgian lari ($48.9 million), up 35% from the year-earlier quarter.
TBC's gross loans and advances to customers rose 7.8% in the quarter to GEL10.37 billion. The bank's net interest margin, the difference between the money it earns on loans and pays out on deposits, came to 6.7% for the quarter, down from 6.9% the prior quarter, according to MarketWatch.
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Delta allows passengers to Dominican Republic to cancel their flights
Posted 9:21 AM, June 26, 2019, by CNN Wire
Delta Air Lines is giving passengers to one of the Dominican Republic's airports the right to change or cancel tickets without the usual penalty.
Delta Air Lines is giving passengers to one of the Dominican Republic’s airports the right to change or cancel tickets without the usual penalty.
The flights covered by the waiver are those going to and from Punta Cana, on the eastern tip of the Island, where several American tourists have died in the last year.
Delta said it is granting the waiver for travel through August 15, and if passengers are going to rebook they must begin travel no later than November 20. But if passengers cancel the flight altogether, they will get a credit that they can use on Delta for a period of one year from the original booking date.
The airline said it is granting the waiver “due to recent events” in Punta Cana. Delta said it is working with passengers traveling to the two other Dominican airports — those serving Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros — on a case-by-case basis. Other airlines, such as American, JetBlue and Sun Country, also say they will work with passengers wanting to change or cancel Dominican flights on a case-by-case basis.
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Flight cancellations to and from the Dominican Republic are soaring, according to travel analytics firm ForwardKeys. New bookings to the island are off sharply since the beginning of June.
Between June 1 and June 19, cancellations increased 51% compared to the same period a year ago. The pace of cancellations has picked up even more than that in recent days with cancellations more than double year ago levels on June 18 and 19.
New bookings for July and August to the Dominican Republic from the United States have fallen by 74.3% compared to the same period in 2018. Bookings were up 2.8% in April and May, before the news coverage of the deaths began.
David Tarsh, a spokeperson for ForwardKeys, said the decline is similar to what happens sometimes after violence strikes a country. “You can get a long continued problem or things can recover quite quickly, depending on whether people see the threat as being contained or ongoing. The problem you have here is the uncertainty, because the deaths are a mystery.”
Bookings to rival tourism destinations have jumped, Tarsh noted. June bookings for summer flights are up 45% to the Bahamas, up 31% to Aruba and up 26% to Jamaica.
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At least 10 American citizens have died in the Dominican Republic in the last year, according to the US State Department, victims’ families and the involved resorts.
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At least some of the deaths are believed to have been from natural causes, and so far a connection between the deaths has not been established.
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Most unique albums?
brightfield
I've listened to a lot of metal in my life and unfortunately, it seems a lot of it sounds the same, mostly due to imitation (even bands imitating younger versions of themselves!). Some albums stand the test of time, however, in terms of being unique. Here are some of those albums for me:
Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Lugubrum - Albino de Congo
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Urfaust - Geist Ist Teufel
joppek
Location: Suomi Finland Perkele
lykathea aflame's elvenefris is the only death metal album (let alone a bdm one) i ever heard that has this joyous beauty to it. completely different approach than any other dm album
while not a unique single album, since they made a couple of them, i haven't heard another band that sounds anything like atheist's original run - tho' i figure there must exist some total worship band somewhere, since they're such a big name
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RichardDeBenthall
This is quite a tricky one because almost every one of those albums that sparked off whole new genres was at some point probably completely unique. Imagine hearing Det Sem Engang Var by Burzum for the first time! Not exactly unique now but at the time there was nothing like it. I think it may be more interesting to list those records that are still, despite the benefit of hindsight entirely unique.
Off the top of my head I'd go:
Orchid by Opeth (I've never heard an extreme metal release that had this particular blend of death metal and black metal before. Every riff seems to be harmonized which really sets it apart from their later material for me)
Ocean Machine by Devin Townsend (His solo stuff is so varied but each album kind of has it's own vibe and I don't think he ever quite returned to the vibe of this record. Damn shame because it's his best by far imo. So dense and I dunno, watery...)
dirty_harry
Atrocity - Hallucinations. Weird, unique, advanced, ahead of its time, dark, twisted and wonderful.
PluviaSomniums
Botanist’s last EP, ‘Green Metal’, has no guitars with the riffs being played only on distorted dulcimers. It actually sounds sweet, though not super brutal. Still a unique record.
The two Acid Bath albums for sure. There’s nothing else with that sludgy yet still melodic, songwritery vibe that doesn’t skimp on the riff destruction.
DHG’s Umbra Omega is a really unique album, a sound I’ve heard nowhere else with their schizo opera tendencies and crazy piano riffs.
into_the_pit
Location: Hedonist Occupation Government
sort vokter's folkloric necro metal for sure, especially considering the clone bands spawned by the *somewhat* similar main project ildjarn. if there's anything like it, I'm definitely interested in it.
gorgoroth's incipit satan. it's hard to come up with a black metal record that has this overarching theme and tone of, well, love, if you get what I mean.
woods of infinity - förintelse & libido. this one is just insane, totally demented with all the weird samples and vocals. also different from the rest of their discography. I'm also keen to check out similar stuff.
diapsiquir - crasse. even though this is technically a demo, it still feels like an album because of the rerelease on hospital. defies any description. totally sick, totally french. again, I'm interested in similar stuff.
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"Chainsaw Gutsfuck."
Diabolical Masquerade's "Death's Design", without a doubt. It sounds completely unique.
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I would actually also put De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in this bracket. As a Black Metal album I think it basically stands alone as a crowning jewel of a genre due to its ferocity, its atmosphere and tone and Attila's eerie vocal performance. The production is cold but fairly clear and really quite bass heavy for BM. Everyone talks about the legions of imitators but I can't really think of another BM album that really sounds anything like this. I would argue most modern BM is much more musically inspired by Dissection, Ulver, Darkthrone and Burzum than Mayhem, but it's this album that I think will eternally rule the roost of "trve" second wave albums.
Rippingheadache
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead
A death/thrash masterpiece that sounds unlike any other. Rutan's technical, unorthodox riffing style reminds me a lot of Morbid Angel's "Blessed are the Sick" and unknown death metal heroes Mass Pyschosis. This album can be chaotic as FUCK sometimes, but there's a perverse elegance beneath the madness that elevates this gem to truly macabre territory.
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
This album is absolutely filled to the brim with inventiveness. I'm not a fan of a lot of so-called "Avant-Garde" metal albums that prioritize Diablo Swing Orchestra-styled wankery over truly imaginative songwriting. This is just excellent. A funky, psychedelic, synth-drenched roller coaster of an album that remains fresh its entire duration.
joppek wrote:
Have you listened to Mithras or Sarpanitum? They remind me a lot of Lykathea Aflame with their ethereal approach to brutality. Very exultant and triumphant sounding.
Gravetemplar
Location: Antarctica
RichardDeBenthall wrote:
The last Mare album is great and sounds a lot like DMDS.
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PhilosophicalFrog
The Hypercube
Agreed with LA's death metal - that is an astounding work. Completely surreal and unlike any other album.
Other highlights.
Liturgy's The Ark Work. From my review: "[It was] almost by design, destined to fail in the traditional metal scene. It's the whole and wholesome visions of a figure that the scene cannot accept as genuine. It's an enthralling and extremely complex piece of music that reveals in intimate detail, the creator's passion and focus, and great works that do that will either fail or succeed wildly. explosive, organic and warm. It's an invitation to participate with the album, to listen to the nuances and the slight changes - to get lost in it. Every change from the previous albums was Hendrix's particular choice - the move to a warmer production is to reflect that heavenly nature, the chants replaced the screams to create a more religious atmosphere, and the move towards bells, horns, and all of that is to give Liturgy an otherworldly feel. This is the diametric opposite of so much in extreme metal right now - it's not cavernous, or "echo-drenched", it's not old school or menacing, it's not jarring and clanging - it's impossibly bright [and] cathartic.
Bolzer's Hero. An emotional, explosive album filled with sludgy yet bright and evocative riffs. Primal drumming that is both minimalist and devastatingly effective. The album is a full drive into a prelapsarian time, exploring spiritualism, tribal forces, and a search for transcendence. Musically it's not black metal, it's not death metal, it's not heavy metal, but it is definitively metal and nothing else sounds like it now. Unbelievably provocative and emotional album. Every time I listen it feels like a journey. It's so different from their earlier work while being a continuation of the themes.
Jute Gyte's Senescence - maintains traditional black metal roots while taking the genre to an extreme and poetic end. Riffs are simultaneously melodic, epic and distinctly USBM while still being insanely nuanced and serpentine. Amazing album that is unmatched by its peers.
Mayhem's [i]Grand Declaration of War[i] - Mayhem's best, most challenging, most brutal album. A complete examination of the death of religion and the wars and chaos that follows - a true harrowing experience where the riffs careen over each other and Hellhammer's (normally annoying) incessant blasting fits so perfectly into the chaotic mold of the album that it's hard to describe it as anything other than apocalyptic. The lyrics are goofy and over the top but the theatrical nature of it works so well. The electronic bits are well placed among the black metal and the ambient loops. A fantastic album.
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the only one I know that sort of *comes close* to DMDS is ofermod's mysterion tes anomias, at least subjectively speaking in terms of atmosphere and aesthetics, and it's not even one single recording (session).
btw I fully agree with you on its unique character
Rippingheadache wrote:
i'm familiar with both (and think they're both great in their own ways), but while they also aren't so actively angry and hateful like most death metal, i don't really get the huge opposite positivity from them either, like i do with elvenefris. i guess sarpanitum is a bit closer with the happy feels, but it's also musically more dismemberish melodic (as an adjective) death metal, compared to the huge contrast in lykathea aflame's brutality and joyful harmony
rexxz
Where's your band?
I don't really get any kind of positive or joyful vibes from elvenefris, personally. It's a pretty cool album though.
Hexenkraft - diabolical cyberpunk darksynth
Cosmic Atrophy - extradimensional death metal
Thy Shrine
Location: Golgotha
I don't think I've ever heard anything else that sounds like Nuclear Deaths Carrion for Worm. It's just so fucking out there.
Disembowelment is a good one too, very unique and very good album.
Can't really think of two many albums that sound like Consuming Impulse either, but that could be due to that awesome phaser effect all over the record.
Ripping Corpse Is a good mention, except those were Shaun Kelly's riffs, not Rutans.
I think Realm of Chaos from Bolt Thrower is pretty unique sounding as well, super fucking heavy atmosphere too.
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Endorama by Kreator.
It is impossible to categorize that album into any sort of genre.
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Hail Spirit Noir's Pneuma is the first thing that comes to mind. One of my favorite albums of all time and there's really nothing it can be compared to.
https://hailspiritnoir666.bandcamp.com/album/pneuma
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Demilich - Nespithe. Not really oldschool death metal, but also not technical death metal. Also not progressive, nor avant-garde death metal.
Krisiun - Black Force Domain. Sounds like a peculiar mix of oldschool death metal with modern brutal drumming
Hellwitch - syzisifdsfnlal miscreancy. ADHD thrash metal
shwartzheim
Two of my all-time favourites that most definitely fit the bill here
Ved Buens Ende – Written In Waters
Monumentum – In Absentia Christi (this one in particular is HUGELY underappreciated. Some type of atmospheric/avant/goth-doom but so much more.)
Anything by Type O Negative also wouldn’t be out of place in this discussion.
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Oxenkiller
Liturgy's "The Ark Work."
They don't like play grim music and they don't like wear corpse paint. And theyre kind of like sickened by like sort of reveling in negativity. And they wrote a like manifesto which is called 'transcendental black metal.' Which is the genre of music that they play. Basically two aspects of transcendental black metal. One is insofar as it is like, like, like a rejection of black metal, and, and the second is insofar as it's actually sort of like, like and attempt to like take black metal as seriously as you can possibly take it. And so, so that that this indication of kind of like transcendence and affirmation and ecstasy is I think something that is, have locked in, or, uh, like latent sort of, sort of like beneath all the kind of like of grim vibes of black metal theres this kind of like spiritual ecstasy. They are very interested in romantacism and I think that uh, romanticism is also a big of part of black metal, but that, when, when once again, like people, its sort of like an unacknowleged influence almost or something like that. Like, you know, like, like the tremolo, the tremolo picking and like black metal guitars like create the effect of like a string orchestra. Like you know like, that's what it does, and that's why like tonal harmonies work in black metal. But I think that a lot of black metal lacks the momentum and the development and sort of like the structure of like sort of like ecstatic romantic harmany and uh and so, so, so like part of the completing of Liturgy is sort of in this like sonata form vibe almost making sure it kind of starts somewhere and creates this like huge rapturous amount of momentum. Which comes from romanticism which does have a natural connection to black metal, though it's not always acknowledged.
And it isn't the only, the only thing that's composed in advance is like, the arc of decelerations and accelerations, you know, so it's like alright, when, when this chord comes up like it has to accelerate and then hit this like, grind moment or whatever you know. But then it's like what did I, what did I happens for like so many bars or, or not or whatever like that, um. That, that kind of just depends on sort of how, how we're vibing.
Hey man, this is straight from the source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6LguUL-e8
But on a serious note, this is how I felt when I listened to Voivod's "Dimension Hatross" all the way through. It was one of my favorate albums for a while, and I'm not usually that into weird/progressive stuff like that.
zemat
Mandatory Faith No More's Angel Dust mention
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PhilosophicalFrog wrote:
Don't really know your other picks so I'll definitely have to check them out, but definitely agree with this one- though I might add that the THORNS album is potentially in at least the same ballpark.
But while we're on MAYHEM, I'd throw in ORDO AD CHAO as well. A great band that gets a lot of points for simply ignoring trends & doing their own thing each time out, which to me, is a large part of what black metal is really about (DARKTHRONE get points for this too, imo, even AS they move further from true black metal).
And while we're in the realm of bizarre cyborg/militaristic/industrial/futuristic, etc., (or however one would classify 'Grand Declaration Of War'), I'll mention ABIGOR'S 'FRACTAL POSSESSION' because it's similar in ways but still fairly unique in its own right.
Gemini Rising
Also, I didn't want to get too convoluted in one post so this is better separate, but back to Darkthrone, 'GOATLORD' is kind of unlike anything else I can think of
Big_Grand
boris - Smile
The album had all of the genres they do mixed into one and did it the best I think compared to Pink. I don't think any dom, drone, or shogaze band can come close to boris/Boris's style.
Empyrium - Weiland
Sure there's a lot of neofolk/bm out there, but this album had a dark tone to it and combined the right pinch of bm into the mix with some of the tracks. I haven't heard any other bm/neofolk that can incorporate bm elements into their music but still be neofolk purely like that album was.
Enslaved - Monumension
A lot of bands now do a lot to incorporate proggy or spacey effects into their music, primarily Ukrainian/Russian stuff like Khors and Kroda, but Enslaved did some of the most psychedelic stuff with this album I've ever heard in bm. Songs like The Voices and Enemy I had a bad trip mixed with a 90s Disney Channel horror movie with all the blackened grime of late 90s black metal. It's hard to find albums that got it like they did.
Sun Stone Grimoire/Perdu En Soi (black metal)
https://soundcloud.com/a-p-perdu
Black/Doom label and distro(all metal genres)
http://www.temptationsofresonance.com
lordcatfish
shwartzheim wrote:
October Rust was my first thought upon seeing the topic title. A very unique band for sure.
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Xymosys
Tiamat - Wildhoney & A Deeper Kind Of Slumber
I still haven't found anything like it...
You can't beat me...you can't beat the demons, I insist.
Enslaved are a great shout actually! They're late 90's/early 00's stuff is pretty much in a genre of it's own. Mardraum to Isa is such a good album run it's untrue although I think you could definitely lump Mardraum/Monumension together in terms of style. Below the Lights and Isa (I knot it's two separate records) have some of the most specific, transcendent and peculiar atmospheres in all of "Black Metal" to my ears.
raspberrysoda
Location: Edgystan
lordcatfish wrote:
Xymosys wrote:
Ved Buens Ende, Monumentum
let's not forget:
Mr Bungle - s/t
And Oceans - The Symmetry of I the Circle of O
Amesoeurs - s/t
Beyond Dawn - Revelry
does it djent?
stainedclass2112 wrote:
It was a joke you darn can of fizzy sweetened liquid
Somebody is getting murdered but poor razz just wants his beauty sleep.
Stonectomy - Brutal Slamming Stoner Doom (new EP out NOW!)
BenjaminC81
Basically any album by Dødheimsgard, but specifically anything they released since 1998. Their last album was unlike any (black) metal album i heard before. They are definitely pushing the boundaries with their own unique sound and keep morphing into something new.
Sigh is of course in the same ball park, none of their album sound the same and they manage to successfully combine some of the most weird genres you can think of.
Morbid Angel's "illud divinum insanus" is certainly unique although for all the wrong reasons...
schizoid
Unity wrote:
This. I tried to (drunkenly) write a review for it once, but it got rejected. I think I was too vague in trying to explain an album without any real reference point.
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Manilla Road - basically anything by them, but we'll go with Mystification since it's my current favorite
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Going for more of an intrinsic weirdness here... as opposed to the more outward "let's throw in all different genres into a blending pot," these are bands who just compose songs in ways unlike anyone else, and have riffs and melodies that are strange and affecting and powerful.
Bishop_Drugsalot
Location: Purgatory
Any of the last three A Forest of Stars albums. Part psychedelic black metal, part neofolk, part victorian era theatre, wholly weird and unique. Their latest even had the balls throw any and all vocal structures out of the window, reducing it to mad spoken word ramblings.
A Forest Of Stars are another great shout, very unique BM. The vibe in particular is outstanding, that whole Arthur Machen-y Victorian cult thing.
PvtNinjer
I just listened to Watershed Between Firmament and The Realm of Hyperborea by The Clearing Path... I haven't really heard anything quite like this band. Very cool, dissonant and cavernous death metal with a melodic, atmospheric and psychedelic edge.
HeavenDuff
Location: Quebec, Canada
Demilich - Nespithe
Weird album, very out there. A special brand of death metal that's very unique, complex, muddy and dirty (in a good way), and the structures are just so freakin' different from everything else you hear. And it's the band's only release. So it has got this aura of mystery and uniqueness because the band came to life, released this unique and weird monster, than disappeared.
Agalloch - The Mantle
Often bands have tried to imitate Agalloch, but none of them ever came close to mastering the sound. The Mantle is the most unique of their records. It's folk, it's black metal, it's doom metal, it's gothic rock, it's post-rock... it has got a great variety of instruments and the atmosphere is absolutely unique and recognizable.
Ulver - Bergtatt
The atmosphere! Especially on Troldskog Faren Vild, the first track on there, the atmosphere is just wow! With Varg's clean singing, his voice and the norwegian lyrics, mixed with a few riffs that repeat to build an amazing atmospheric black/folk track, they really had one hell of a receipe. The rest of the album is also quite amazing since the tracks all follow the same kind of song structures, but without the clean vocals.
Seconded on the Acid Bath records.
Seconded on Sigh's Imaginary Sonicscape.
Seconded on Bolt Thrower's Realm of Chaos. Great combination of british death metal and grind with the distinctive BT sound. Love it.
I second Ulver, and I must add their "Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell" here as well. Not sure if it qualifies for metal record, but it sure is an oddball, in a good way.
SculptedCold
Agreed especially with DHG. Their last 3 have just been.. beyond. Truly demented. A Forest of Stars have been characterful, though their place in the genre's traditions is more identifiable.
Elvenefris is still unique. There's another uniquely happy-sounding record (two) from The Senseless; Sam Bean's post-The Berzerker project. In the Realm of the Senseless is a pretty joyous and irreverent take on the hyper fast, clinically brutal DM sound laid down by The Berzerker. Speaking of them, the s/t is still a totally unique industrial/noise/grind/DM experiment, better than and unlike the more stabilized lightning DM they'd play going on. Sam Bean took that later sound and made another unique blueprint in DM with The Senseless. Check em out.
I'm a little sceptical about these famous black and death metal albums being mentioned (Mayhem, Bolt Thrower) because they don't sound unique exactly, just haven't been totally paralleled as of now. Sometimes the atmosphere sticks out on a personal level, but it's difficult to tell others why.
I got turned onto Panegyrist - Hierurgy a while ago and that's a great avant-garde black metal album with all kinds of special atmosphere and techniques.
I think Melvins definitely deserve a place in this conversation. Some of the things they've done are unique within their own discography, such as The Bootlicker, which I call the "whisper album".
It has just dawned on me:
This timeless masterpiece, still misunderstood and challenging a listening experience after all those years: La Masquerade Infernale. The alpha and omega of uniqueness.
Nuclear Death - Bride of Insect
Nuclear Death - Carrion for Worm
Nuclear Death - All Creatures Great and Eaten
Nuclear Death - The Planet Cachexial
Consistent run of absolutely unique and perfect material.
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TV3’s The Project – A Babyboomer lowers the boom
2 April 2017 Frank Macskasy 2 comments
“TV3 have attempted to make current affairs for people who listen to the Edge, the problem is that generation doesn’t watch TV. So TV3 have alienated Gen X and Boomers who want actual current affairs at 7pm to gain a generational audience who don’t bother with the platform TV3 are using.” – Martyn Bradbury, 26 March 2017
I don’t often comment on other bloggers who have contributed a piece for The Daily Blog. Ninety percent of the time, my ideals, values, and beliefs are muchly similar to those expressed by others on this forum.
Martyn Bradbury’s piece on “The Project meltdown“ raised a point that has been on my mind since I saw the very first ‘Project’ billboard in Kilbirnie, Wellington. Waiting patiently at the lights, my gaze wandered over to the billboard on my hard right (metaphor?);
The Billboard was situated just above clothing bins where unwanted stuff is dumped by people. (Irony?)
At first, I was stumped. I couldn’t work out what ‘The Project’ or the logo, ‘+HR=E’ was supposed to signify. My first impressions were that it was promoting a new New Zealand comedy movie. Or a novel, upmarket chain of childcare centres was entering the country. ‘+HR=E’ would be a pretty nifty corporate logo for the latter. ‘+HR=E’. Three year olds. Geddit?
A few moments later, as the lights were still red, I noticed the blurb “News delivered differently” and “Weeknights 7pm”, and then it dawned on me. It was Mediawork’s latest effort to wrest primacy of the 7pm timeslot from ‘Seven Sharp’ and ‘Shortland Street’.
The lights turned green, meaning my *facepalm* moment had gone and I kept both hands gripping the wheel as I mercifully left the scene of the Braindead Zone I had stopped in.
My thoughts turned to another image I remembered from Google Images;
Oh, how times change.
From sombre anchormen (and they were all men during Phillip Sherry’s time at the NZBC), to… muppets. Yes, really, muppets. ‘The Project’ has muppets on its set. Here’s the evidence, from an episode on 4 March 2017;
Let’s play a game, children… see who can spot The Muppet.
Can’t pick it?
Ok, it’s probably this one;
(But I could be wrong.)
Now, I’m not suggesting for one micro-second that we return to the era when our NZBC was practically an off-shoot of the 1950s-version of the BBC.
But Mediaworks already had a well-recognised, well-respected ‘brand’ in the form of TV3’s ‘Campbell Live‘. It was solid journalism covering a wide range of stories, from the sombre and thought-provoking to the occassionally light and frothy.
Its in-depth coverage the GCSB Bill, and the Ian Fletcher scandal in 2013 and 2014 were perhaps one of only two serious media analysis (the other being Radio NZ) of National’s widening of the surveillance state in this country;
‘Campbell Live’s‘ on-going investigation of post-earthquake events in Christchurch also raised new standards of journalism, as well as nationwide consciousness of events and on-going problems in that stricken city.
Indeed, John Campbell and his talented team at TV3 were so successful at raising public awareness on the GCSB issue that it provoked our former-Dear Leader Key to respond in his usual trivialising, shoulder-shrugging, *meh*-sort of way;
Jessica Wright: “How do you think that Kiwis feel about the bill?
John Key: “I think they’re much more interested in snapper quota.”
Jessica Wright: “But I’m not talking about snapper quota, I’m talking about the GCSB Bill. How do you think that they feel about the GCSB Bill?”
John Key: “Yeah, I think they’re much more interested in snapper quota.”
Jessica Wright: “Why?”
John Key: “Because they like catching fish.”
Despite ‘Campbell Live‘ rise in ratings, it was insufficient to save the programme from it’s apparently pre-determined doom. It was soon followed by the jaw-droppingly inane New Zealand-version of ‘Come Dine With Me‘;
Rivetting stuff. Almost as engaging as watching grass grow.
By sheer coincidence the producer of ‘Come Dine With Me‘ was none other than Mediawork’s Board Member, and unReality TV porn-purveyor, Julie Christie.
When Mediaworks axed ‘Campbell Live‘ in May 2015 – most likely at the behest of corporate head-kicker Mark Weldon, aided by his trustee henchwoman, Julie Christie – they opened a can of worms.
There were (unsubstantiated) rumours that Key had contacted Weldon, demanding that Campbell be gotten rid off.
The short-lived garbage that was ‘Come Dine With Me‘ was considered unappetising by the viewing public, and was quickly canned after only two months. It was followed by ‘Story’ in August 2015 but seemed not to engage viewers. The last chapter of ‘Story’ was broadcast in December 2016.
Now we have ‘The Project‘.
Firstly, I have no idea where Mediaworks execs get their ideas from or why they think that something as vacuous as this programme would appeal to the public.
As “Bomber” Bradbury succinctly put it;
“TV3 have attempted to make current affairs for people who listen to the Edge, the problem is that generation doesn’t watch TV. So TV3 have alienated Gen X and Boomers who want actual current affairs at 7pm to gain a generational audience who don’t bother with the platform TV3 are using.”
We ‘boomers are the generation that grew up on serious investigative journalism. We are the who watched as Muldoon was taken down by a younger Simon Walker and John Campbell took on Helen Clark. We’ve enjoyed the stellar talents of committed professionals like Lindsay Perigo, Louise Wallace, Brian Edwards, Maggie Barry, Bill Ralston, Kim Hill, Ian Fraser, Mihingarangi Forbes, Liam Jeory, Kathryn Ryan, Carol Hirschfeld, Paul Holmes, Anita McNaught, Cameron Bennett, Melanie Reid, Guyon Espiner, Genevieve Westcott, Mike McRoberts, Lisa Owen, and so many, many more.
Regardless of their politics, these were dedicated journalists who we could rely on to ask the questions that we ordinary Citizens were rarely in a position to do. They were persistent. They asked the hard questions which demanded answers and in doing so, challenged those in authority.
That is the purpose of journalism.
Not to look like this;
I can’t speak for all Babyboomers (of which I am a member of that privileged demographic), but I want my current affairs and news more like BBC/Al Jazeera/Radio NZ/CNN/etc instead of this;
I want to see this;
And most certainly not this;
Next, the number one rule in business is;
#1 The customer is always right
The second rule is;
#2 If in doubt, refer to Rule One
That rule may not always apply. If a customer requests cyanide in their latte, that request can be rightly declined (or not, depending on what is clearly stated on the menu board).
Aside from issues of life and death, public morality, and physical/biological impossibilities, the customer (in the form of the Viewing Public) is always right when it clearly expressed a desire to keep ‘Campbell Live‘ very much alive. So, how right was the customer?
Viewers:
Campbell Live – 23 May 2015: 330,830
The Project: – 24 March 2017: 144,000
According to comparative ratings, approximately 186,830 customers were very much right. They “walked” from TV3, en masse. Consider me one of them.
Instead of telling us, the viewers what we want to watch, perhaps Mediaworks should have listened to us in the first place. Businesses that turn a deaf ear to their customers usually end up like this;
If Mediaworks is attempting to cater to Babyboomers, then shite offerings such as ‘The Project‘ will not cut the mustard. It is a pale, immature, sickly parody of professional journalism. What else can you call something that is fronted by people whose day-jobs are comedians? (Though, to be fair, Jesse Mulligan and Josh Thompson are pretty damned good comedians. I’ve enjoyed watching their gigs on ‘7 Days‘.)
It is an insult to my intelligence.
It is an insult to the intelligence of every person who has grown up (or not) watching real journalism, covering real stories, in a real, professional manner.
To be blunt, Mediawork Execs, if you can’t cobble together credible meaningful journalism for your 7pm timeslot, just repeat F.R.I.E.N.D.S or M*A*S*H* or anything else with excessive punctuation marks in the title.
Or just show this;
Add a bit of background elevator-music and you’re sorted.
Or, you could try something Different/Not Different. Hire a bunch of the most respected, experienced, capable journalists; resource them properly; and give them sufficient editorial-independence to do their jobs properly.
Guarantee them security from interference by the Mark Weldons and Julie Christies of the world.
Spend money on promoting the product. If Mediaworks can spend millions promoting ‘The Block‘, ‘The Batchelor‘, ‘The Project‘, and other programmes of dubious value – then it should be able to promote a serious, flagship current affairs programme.
Treat the viewing public with respect.
That is how a business succeeds.
It’s not that hard. Does it really have to be explained?
Radio NZ: Labour calls for inquiry over GCSB appointment
Scoop media: The GCSB Bill – We at least have to try
Fairfax media: Come Dine with Me to replace Campbell Live
Fairfax media: John Campbell bows out of Campbell Live show
NZ Herald: Political roundup – Who killed Campbell Live?
Wikipedia: Story
NZ On Screen: Tonight – Robert Muldoon interview
NZ On Screen: 3 News – ‘Corngate’ interview with Helen Clark
Throng: TV Ratings – 22 May 2015
Fairfax media: MediaWorks boss – Project is here to stay and will win the ratings war
The Daily Blog: The Project meltdown – when Executives come out to support your 7pm Show, that’s when you know you are in trouble
The Standard: I want that left wing bastard gone
The Curious World of the Main Stream Media
Producer of ‘The Nation’ hits back at “interference” allegations over ‘Campbell Live’
Campbell still Live, not gone
Friends, Kiwis, Countrymen! I come to praise John Campbell, not bury him
Mediawork’s Julie Christie at war with NZ on Air – Possible conflict of interest as first reported last year on TDB
Blogger threatened with lawsuit over questions of conflict-of-interest regarding Mediaworks
This blogpost was first published on The Daily Blog on 27 March 2017.
Categories: Media Tags: Campbell Live, crap tv, Julie Christie, Mark Weldon, Mediaworks, muppets, The Project, TV3
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In the early 2000s, Sylvester Stallone was struggling to rebuild himself from some of his cheesy action movies of the 90s, and these efforts didn’t all meet with much success. Get Carter is a remake of a 1971 film of the same name starring Michael Caine in the title role, and this remake was received with negative criticism and a poor box office take. However, I saw this film on opening weekend, and I have very much liked it ever since. Having still not seen the original movie, I imagine I have the ability to view it much more objectively. Still, almost any movie promising Sylvester Stallone in a fist fight with Mickey Rourke and a hilarious John C. McGinley is pretty cool to begin with, but I honestly feel the film has a lot of worthwhile merit in many regards.
His name is Jack Carter, and you don’t want to know him. When it’s your time to settle your debts, you pay what you owe, or Carter will make you pay. While working for the mob in Las Vegas, Carter (Sylvester Stallone) learns that his brother has died, and returns home to Seattle in order to learns the how’s and why’s. His brother left behind a wife, Gloria (Miranda Richardson), and a teenage daughter, Doreen (Rachel Leigh Cook), which Jack feels he must now take care of since he was not around when it mattered most. Though, when digging into the death of his brother, Jack comes to suspect that is was no accident, and that someone has to pay up.
Now, what even some of the middle of the road reviews gave credit to was that Stallone is solid as Jack Carter, and I enthusiastically agree. I really like that Jack is a guy who carries a weight of regret with him to where he has this post-facto sense of responsibility. He might be a guy who beats people up for a crime syndicate, but there’s a certain moral compass to Jack which Stallone grasps onto perfectly. There’s a lot of subtlety to his performance showing the superb reversal on the over-the-top action hero roles of Judge Dredd or Demolition Man. He brings with him a low key presence of intimidation, but still finds those moments of clever signature Stallone charm and wit. Jack Carter has a warm heart and compassion for those he cares about, and this comes so very naturally to Stallone. There’s such a great depth of dimension to what he does here. Sly gives us a complex character who intensifies the emotional drive of the film. It’s also amazing seeing how bulked up Stallone got for this movie. He’s larger than ever, and it really works for Jack’s tough, bad ass presence. Yet, it is that softer side of Jack Carter that really impresses as he shows a lot of pain after a certain point really hitting you deep in the heart, and that translates into a venomous vengeful determination in the film’s third act. It’s an awesome, compelling performance by Sylvester Stallone that amazingly reminds you that he can be a stunning, complex actor. I think it’s one of his best performances since First Blood.
A lot of the depth of heart and substance is carried on through Miranda Richardson and Rachel Leigh Cook. Richardson is great as Gloria who is in this constant uncertainty about Jack. At times she can confide in him about her problems with Doreen, but at other times, can condemn Jack for bringing further trouble upon them and being absent from their lives until Richie died. Richardson has pitch perfect chemistry with Stallone standing strong on her own while showing the emotional turmoil inside. Meanwhile, Cook very easily endears herself to Jack and an audience with some sad sweetness and sympathetic charm. As certain things are revealed, and far more tragic layers are peeled back from Doreen, Cook is really able to demonstrate the soul of her heartbreaking talent. It really ends up being the pulsating emotional core of this film.
I really like the scenes between Stallone and Mickey Rourke. These are two actors who genuinely seem like they enjoyed working off each other. They’ve got the right rhythm and chemistry that these two characters should have being old acquaintances and all. Rourke has the right charisma and air of sleaze as Cyrus Paice which makes him very entertaining to watch, but also, a real piece of scum that you want to see get busted up by the end. Rourke and Stallone are two buffed up bulls ready to lock horns regularly, and when they do finally trade punches, it’s a straight up bad ass brawl.
Anyone who loves John C. McGinley’s comedy work would also love him here. He plays Con McCarty, an associate of Jack’s in the Las Vegas syndicate, and I swear he ad-libbed the majority of his dialogue. It is just so brilliantly quick witted, off the cuff, and hilarious that he’s an utter, endless joy. It’s a performance like this which shows that this is a film that is interested in balancing the heavyweight drama with sharp beats of levity. And Alan Cumming is quite good as the geeky wet rag dot-com millionaire of Jeremy Kinnear who has gotten in way too damn deep with seedy individuals. He is a pleasure to watch in this role as Stallone looms over him with his brute intimidation. Of course, Michael Caine does a fine job in a somewhat small role as Richie’s now former employer, and Caine and Stallone have some solid scenes together. Apparently, even Caine endorsed Stallone as a respectable successor to his original role, and including him in this cast was a really nice touch.
I really adore the look of this film from director of photography Mauro Fiore. It’s soaked in this somber tone of overcast gloom of blues and greens that really absorb you into the tone of the movie. Director Stephen Kay really pushed hard to have this filmed in Seattle, and the beauty of the rain soaked city makes the film feel a little more unique. There’s also some unconventional style to Get Carter that might not work for many films, but all of the artistic flourishes really meld together beautifully, in my opinion. The strategic slow motion beats add a sense of grace to the photography, and Fiore moves the camera extremely competently with plenty of steadicam. I like that when Jack’s whole world turns upside down so does the camera accentuating a particularly unique filmmaking style that I really like here. There is some stylish editing with a few jumpy cuts, flash frames, and speed changes. I could see how some would find that irritating, but I really got absorbed into the mindset of this movie. Stephen Kay uses these stylistic choices to slip you into a character’s perception such as Jack’s world fracturing. Get Carter was edited by Academy Award winner Jerry Greenberg who also edited The French Connection, Apocalypse Now, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Scarface. Here, he superbly executes Stephen Kay’s vision right from the opening credits sequence onward.
There is a great, moody collection of music here in addition to Tyler Bates’ unique and stylish score. The original theme for the 1971 film by Roy Budd is utilized and remixed for this remake, and it is a beautiful composition that just tingles my senses. There are some techno tracks infusing some dance club style vibes into the movie. I particularly love the ethereal Moby track during the funeral scene. All of this music creates a very soulful or energized originality to this film that melds well with its visual stylings.
There is some really well put together action including a couple of very smart, tense car chases. Action directors who love their shaky cam could learn something from this film. Stephen Kay does make use of some unsteady photography and tight framing, but the editing is properly paced so to not confuse an audience. There are quick cuts, but because the lighting is clear, the compositions are just right using good angles, it all works. The latter car chase is really great, and it has a really cool stunt crash at the end. Yet, while there is exciting action, this film maintains that emotional and character based focus as Jack Carter delves further into the seedy underbelly of Seattle.
When Jack goes into full-on revenge mode, this movie gets dead-on bad ass. The grit really surfaces in the visual style and Stallone’s performance. Everything gets pretty dark and intense as Jack deals out his sense of personal justice in violent, sometimes lethal ways. This is a revenge movie driven by a lot of emotional depth and substance. Jack is going to clean out the trash, but the mending of emotional wounds is just as important to him, if not more so. It’s all wrapped up in his personal sense of obligation to the extended family he’s neglected, and a need to prove to himself and others that he can be a better man than his history has shown. There’s also a subplot where Jack Carter is involved with the syndicate boss’ woman back in Vegas, and this runs through the film a little. It’s another emotional tether that puts stress upon Jack especially when Con is sent to “take care of business” with much intended finality. Most revenge movies are just about the violent retribution, but this movie really delves you deeply into the hearts and souls of its sympathetic characters.
Get Carter is damn good, in my opinion, because it does take the time to develop its character and give you a dimensionality to connect with. You feel Jack’s pain and his need to put things right, and your sympathy easily flows for Doreen as the film progresses. Stephen Kay did do a really exceptional job with making these characters feel poignant, and have the consequences of everyone’s actions feel like they carry the weight of the world. This is really the kind of revenge thriller that truly captivates me because it’s not just gunning people down for ninety minutes, which does have its satisfying qualities. The substance of everything here saturates the film, and Stallone carries it all so amazingly well. The ending might have used a little more weight and veracity, but the payoff is satisfying regardless. I highly recommend this remake of Get Carter. If you’re a Stallone fan, like me, you should definitely give this a watch.
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I have a tendency to miss out on great films in the theatre due to an uncertainty about them. I can get so used to how mainstream films are marketed that when I see something distinctly different, it’s hard to be sold on it. Thankfully, better late than never, some trusted word of mouth finally got me to check out Drive. To my sensibilities, this is an astonishing, flat out amazing film. This feels like if Michael Mann made a movie between Thief and Manhunter, and was scored by Tangerine Dream. This is fully evocative of a 1980s neo noir crime thriller with its sense of tone and atmosphere and using a magnificent soundtrack to envelop an audience into its emotion. Beyond that, I feel Drive is also brilliant.
Ryan Gosling stars as a Hollywood stunt driver by day that moonlights as a wheelman for criminals by night. He’s employed and aided by Shannon (Bryan Cranston), a former stuntman who is propositioning the shady Bernard Rose (Albert Brooks) to invest in a race car venture with this “Driver” as their star. Though a loner by nature, the Driver can’t help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband. After a heist goes wrong, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals including Rose himself and the bull-headed Nino (Ron Perlman). Soon he realizes the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash, and is forced to shift gears into a brutal, unrelenting head-on collision.
I will grant that the film is not heavy on plot. It’s fairly simple and straight forward keeping itself contained to a small collection of characters. Some might find that a letdown. However, the substance of this film is in the presentation. Ryan Gosling’s character is very minimal on dialogue allowing his presence and the atmosphere of the film to carry the Driver’s weight. The performance alone is very understated and low key, but not skimping on intensity or humanity. His carefully chosen words hold purpose, and Gosling’s soft spoken delivery forces an audience to focus their attention closely. Sometimes, a lack of dialogue can bring a mystique and an intriguing quality to a character, and Gosling sparks that magic. His performance allows you to read more into the man instead of him telling you about who he is, and that’s not an easy thing to pull off. The scenes where the Driver and Irene are together bring a subtle charm and heart to the surface. You see the brightness in the soul of this character that contrasts, and later, compliments his grittier, darker side. When he has to become that more intimidating, brutal person later on, Gosling has no problem being convincing. You can feel his visceral intensity permeating the screen. I was impacted hard by those razor sharp moments, and this all comes together in a rock solid piece of work by Ryan Gosling. This is my first exposure to his talent, and I couldn’t be more blown away. Also, wrapping him in that Scorpion jacket is just wickedly cool.
Carey Mulligan puts in a gracefully beautiful performance. She and Gosling have a fine chemistry that gives the film its warmth and purpose. Their performances reflect nicely off of one another with heart and subtlety. She never has to say a word to reflect Irene’s emotional conflict over her feelings between her husband and the Driver. Mulligan touchingly shows that in her eyes and expressions, and how she gravitates to this new charming, under spoken man in her life. It’s an engaging and inviting piece of work.
Albert Brooks is a shocking powerhouse heavy here. He’s intimidating as all hell while still having his light hearted, humorous moments. Still, I never stopped getting that shady feeling from him that he was a mob boss that could slash your wrist or stab you in the eye with a fork without batting an eyelash. There’s such a fine line the character treads that Brooks walks with ease. Even when he’s being friendly, there’s still that sense of unease behind everything he says, and even before you know he’s a mob boss, you get the feeling that there’s something not entirely straight about Bernie Rose. For me, he ranks amongst the best like Christopher Walken in True Romance or Robert Prosky in Thief. He can turn from being your best friend to your absolute worst enemy in half a heartbeat without even seeing a shift in the character’s manner. It’s all rather matter of fact with him, and Brooks carries the appropriate weight to achieve these character traits throughout the picture. I love Albert Brooks’ performance supremely.
The supporting cast is also finely textured. Bryan Cranston has a broken down heartfelt sympathy as Shannon, the mechanic and former stuntman that aids and endorses Gosling’s character. He’s a good natured person who gets in too heavy with the wrong people, and you can’t help but feel for him when things turn worse. Ron Perlman’s gangster character of Nino is interesting. He’s a Jewish man trying to make himself out to be an Italian mobster. It’s not an overt part of his performance, but it ties into Nino’s motivations for being a “belligerent asshole,” as Bernie Rose puts it. Nino has plenty of bravado and ego, but not a lot of good sense. Perlman nicely inhabits those qualities with plenty of enthusiasm. Oscar Isaac does well as Irene’s husband Standard. The character clearly stands out as a person stuck in a number of unwanted situations. These criminals are violently pressuring him to do this job for him to pay back his debt, and it’s subtlety obvious that his wife does not want to be with him, anymore. Isaac shows the character’s regret well, and comes off more of a sorry man than a sympathetic one. He’s a guy that’s made a mess of things, and knows nothing will ever be okay ever again. The damage is done, and he’s just trying to sweep it under the rug as neatly as possible. However, he’s endangered the lives of his wife and son, and the Driver has no sympathy for the man. He only helps him out for the benefit of Irene and Benicio. These actors all add a strong array of emotion to the film which heightens the tone and atmosphere.
Now, speaking of atmosphere, the score constantly hit me as something very akin to Tangerine Dream’s score for Risky Business. It has that very light, dreamy quality to it most times, but does delve into very dark, heavy territories. There are foreboding, tense moments in this score that are just mesmerizing. Cliff Martinez crafts a deeply enveloping auditory experience which soaks into nearly every fiber of the film, but the filmmakers pick key moments where silence holds more weight than a soundtrack. The collection of songs in this film retain that 1980s ambient synth-pop quality, but have a modern quality that is beyond my ability to articulate. From my own independent filmmaking experiences, I know how insanely difficult it is to find modern original music that sounds like it came from the 1980s. So, the fact that music supervisors Eric Craig and Brian McNeils discovered and assembled music of this amazing style and quality impresses me to no end. I purchased the CD soundtrack, and it now ranks as one of my absolute favorites of all time.
The chase scenes of Drive are masterful. The first one is exceptionally smart being tactical in evading the police instead of going for outright action. That aspect come later after the botched robbery. It’s short and to the point being very slam bang intense, and not over indulging in itself. The opening sequence is exceptionally refreshing by being intelligent. On top of being realistic and smart, it is an excellent introduction to our main character showing his precision as a getaway driver. These scenes are expertly shot accentuating the distinct tones and tensions of both sequences.
When this film gets brutal, it holds nothing back, and hardly goes in predictable directions. The Driver never relies on a gun, and instead, goes with blunt force trauma to inflict violence upon people. The scene where he goes into the strip club wouldn’t be nearly as effective if he just brandished a gun the guy’s face. When you see the Driver pull out a hammer, you know this is going to be dead serious business, and it’s not going to be pretty. It’s a startling, powerful sequence which further propels the character’s threat level. He’s not just some cool headed amazing driver, he’s a dangerous man not worth crossing. The violence overall is graphic and gory, and shockingly unsettling. Emotion just pours through these scenes.
I am further floored by the cinematography talents of Newton Thomas Sigel. I’ve previously reviewed his work on The Usual Suspects and Fallen – both gorgeous films with their own identities. Drive is no different. No shot is ever wasted, and every composition is chosen with purpose. How the film is shot reflects the artistic vision realized with the music, acting, and editing. The film has inspired moments of absolute cinematic beauty due to Sigel’s artistic brilliance. The elevator scene late in the film is a magnificent example of this. The lighting and color tones used throughout create rich visuals which enhance the film’s atmosphere further.
This is a film where every element is cohesively used to create a powerfully enveloping experience. The conservative editing style of Matthew Newman allows Sigel’s shots to hold their weight, and establish a somber or rich tone that draws an audience into every moment. The music enhances those moments to create a wonderfully vibrant sonic quality for even the most still or fluid sequences. I haven’t seen a film like this since Manhunter. The music plays such a prominent role in creating a rich atmosphere that is as in the forefront of the picture as the actors. Each aspect is integral towards what is a wonderfully engrossing motion picture.
Drive is something which shows what independent film can do. It takes chances. It goes for a filmmaking style that has not really been around in more than twenty years. It takes an immensely effective way of crafting and presenting a film that a major studio would likely not embrace. It’s an intelligent, fresh, and creative film that feeds the senses. It gives you white knuckle action, a heartfelt romantic storyline, strong character drama, graphic brutality, gorgeous cinematic moments, intelligent writing, amazing performances, and a beautiful, exciting soundtrack. It’s hard to imagine all of these phenomenal visual and auditory elements coming across in a screenplay, but Hossein Amini clearly wrote something truly inspiring on those script pages to inspire the amazing film we ultimately got. I know nothing of the James Sallis novel this was based on, but clearly, the written word captured the vibrant imagination of these filmmakers. I will admit that Drive is not a mass audience movie as it requires an appreciation for a certain filmmaking style, but for those that love a slick 1980s style crime thriller that utilizes strong atmosphere and a prominent synth-pop soundtrack to wrap you up in its story and characters, this is absolutely for you. In my view, Drive is a meticulously crafted masterpiece of cinema born out of a bold vision from director Nicolas Winding Refn. I love this film thoroughly, and I cannot give it a higher recommendation than that.
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Evaluation of faults and their effect on ground-water flow southwest of Frenchman Flat, Nye and Clark Counties, Nevada: A Digital Database
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Geologic Map of the Scotts Mills, Silverton, and Stayton Northeast 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, Northwest Oregon: A Digital Database: Scotts Mills Quadrangle
This digital map database, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits of the Scotts Mills 7.5 minute quadrangle along the eastern margin of
Geologic Map of the Scotts Mills, Silverton, and Stayton Northeast 7.5 Minute Quadrangles, Northwest Oregon: A Digital Database: Silverton Quadrangle
This digital map database, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits of the Silverton 7.5 minute quadrangle along the eastern margin of th
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Maps Showing Inundation Depths, Ice-Rafted Erratics, and Sedimentary Facies of Late Pleistocene Missoula Flood in the Willamette Valley, Oregon
This digital dataset, compiled from previously published and unpublished data sources, contains a personal geodatabase and raster data of features related to the repeated inundation of the Willamette Valley and Portland basin by Missoula Flood waters in L
Geologic map and database of the Roseburg 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon
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The World Ends with You Final Remix
This 2008 Nintendo DS game has been updated for Nintendo Switch with HD visuals and a new epilogue that sheds new light on the game’s story. Players can join rhythmic battles using either Joy-Con controllers or the Nintendo Switch touch screen.
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Home Politics VIDEO: Mahama’s comeback a done deal, not even Jean Mensah can stop...
VIDEO: Mahama’s comeback a done deal, not even Jean Mensah can stop it – Agbenyo
A Deputy National Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said John Mahama’s victory in the 2020 general elections is assured despite seeming sabotage from both the incumbent party and the Electoral Commission (EC).
According to Fred Agbenyo, there will be a massive change in 2020 with the come back of John Dramani Mahama and that is what Ghanaians are saying everywhere.
“Let the National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) be appointed as the EC boss, NDC will suffer but will emerge the winner in 2020,” Agbenyo said on Peace FMs Kokooko Morning Show.
He stated, “We (NDC) are convinced that Ghanaians have tasted both parties and knows which of them is better in terms of governance, therefore, we are advocating the youth of this country to go out and register so that they can vote out the NPP in 2020”.
Mr Agbenyo indicated that politicians always see things differently when they are in government and opposition. He said the governing party will always try to justify every situation and see it as perfect whilst their counterparts in opposition will always oppose or criticize what is being done.
“Sadly the NPP sees everything the EC does as perfect, and this doesn’t help the stakeholders in elections,” he said.
“We (political parties) have been on the ground and knows all the constituencies as well as their challenges, therefore we should raise concerns for the EC to address since the commissioners are new to the job,” Mr Agbenyo stressed.
Mr Agbenyo noted that the ruling NPP seems to be scared of the youth of this country, therefore, they are not willing to call them (youth) to go and register in the limited voter’s registration.
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GHOSTBUSTERS 3 Update From Writer Lee Eisenberg & Producer Joe Medjuck
Movie Bill MurrayDan AykroydIvan Reitman about 8 years ago by Jim Napier
Ghostbusters 3 writer Lee Eisenberg and producer Joe Medjuck have on separate occasions discussed the stalled production of this highly-anticipated franchise. Each conversation ended up touching on Bill Murray's reluctancy to sign-off or even read the script on the Ghostbusters‘ final installment.
During a visit to his alma mater, Eisenberg spoke in a series of lectures at Connecticut College here is what he had to say:
“Right now, we have a script we haven’t worked on probably in a couple of months, and we’re waiting for Bill Murray to read it. People seem excited about it, and the studio seems high on it. … We’re very proud of it. We worked really hard on it, and I think it’d be a really fun movie.”
He also mentioned how involved Reitman, Aykroyd and Ramis have been during the writing process:
“We’ve been working really closely with Ivan Reitman for a couple years on it. Dan Aykroyd has been really involved. Harold Ramis has been very involved -- we’re sharing a story credit on it with him. Then we reworked the script. I mean, that script went through a lot of rewrites, and it kept getting, we think at least, tighter and funnier. It took a little bit to really understand the tone of a movie likeGhostbusters. It’s really scary when you’re writing characters you grew up on. … The last thing you want to do is disappoint.”
Joe Medjuck, Ghostbusters 1, 2 & 3 producer attended a screening of Ghostbusters at the Arclight Cinema. After the film, Medjuck and members of the special effects team (including William Atherton) took part in a Q&A.
Medjuck gave a closer look at Bill Murray's process:
“Sony says they’d like to make it, everyone thinks it’s a good script. Bill has heard it’s a good script, but he hasn’t read it. Bill’s like that – he just says he’s busy.
Harold tells a very funny story about the several months it took to get Bill to read the script for Groundhog Day. Every week or so, [Bill] would go up to Harold and say, “You know, I read 10 pages… they’re really good. Is it going to stay this good?”
He hasn’t even read 10 pages [of Ghostbusters 3] yet, to the best of our knowledge.
[Regarding the original Ghostbusters] Bill just committed to it… he just said yes. He went to India to make The Razor’s Edge. I don’t think he even read the script [forGhostbusters] until he arrived back, [and] the day he came back, we shot with him.”
Check out the full Q&A below and share your thoughts:
Please let the planets align properly so that Bill Murray will agree to a film, fans are hoping for the day that this happens. What are your thoughts on this news?
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Dance of the Flamingo_Story by Sanku
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Re: Dance of the Flamingo_Story by Sanku
Postby Sanku » 11 Jun 2010 13:58
Thanks Sir; to carry on now....
Dance of the flamingo -- Post 40
“Ah Sqn Ldr Singh, I am so glad to see that you have taken to Russian so thoroughly that it’s the language of choice for newspaper selection.” A middle aged avuncular man, possibly the lead of the group said in the matter of introduction. Manav was to keyed up to be flustered and replied in English, “Not really friend, but I thought might was well take the time to work on it, and who do I have the pleasure of talking to?”
“Vassily Mitrichev, Polkovnik*, FSB”
“Hello Vassily. What may I do for you.” Manav stiffened slightly, but did not get up to greet his visitor.
“Could we trouble you to come with us please?”
“All in good time Sqn Ldr, please accompany us for the moment.”
“Certainly, let me just call the Embassy first and inform my superiors of the new developments.”
Vassily smooth tone hardened just a little, “I am afraid we cannot let you do that right now Sqn Ldr, we will take care of informing your people, don’t worry on that count, for now why don’t you just come with us.”
Manav saw that the Russians had moved around him, surrounding him and practically cutting him off, he slowly got to his feet, and saw the Russians stiffen in response, “I am afraid comrade, that I will have to protest, this is very unorthodox, the consequences could be severe.”
In response, Vassily pulled out his left hand from the pocket, just enough to show the butt of a pistol, “Fast acting tranquilizer dart, clubs and chloroform, and of course other methods too if you force us. It would just be better for all of us if you cooperated on your own accord. Please come with us, we do not intend to make you disappear, if we wanted to do that, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Right now just come.”
Manav stood there, unsure of what to do, staring into Vassily’s eyes, trying to test his resolve, wondering if she should make a break for it. “They certainly would not dare shoot a Indian military officer in waiting lounge of a international airport would they” As Manav thought through his options, he saw the distinct cold blooded menace in the eyes of his opponent, it was clear that he would not hesitate to shoot, but probably he would not even need to do that. Manav sighed.
The Russians formed a tight knot around Manav, with one of them picking up his bags. Vassily stayed at his side, two of his men leading the way. The group quickly made its way into the bowels of the airport, using doors meant for security. Once in a isolated official corner of the airport, the agents stopped, but only to put a blindfold around Manav’s eyes. “For your own safety” he heard Vassily say, “Of course” Manav replied dryly as a pair of handcuffs went around his wrist.
Manav was led out of the room into the corridors once again, but after a very short walk found himself being helped into a car, “Please mind your head Sqn Ldr, we don’t want you hurt” Manav felt a tinge of anger at what he thought was a taunt but nevertheless continued behaving in very much the same way as before, not giving away anything in his manner. As he settled into the car he realized he was in the rear seat of a large vehicle, probably an SUV. Shortly he was joined by two Russian on either side, one of them being Vassily, at whose word the driver started the engine, with the faint voice of the conversation of two more people in the front seat joining in. As Manav strained to follow the motion of the vehicle, he thanked Devi once again that the Russians had not thought it necessary to give him a pat down so far, with that faint hope giving him strength. He cleared his mind to focus his remaining senses on whatever they could pick up.
*Colonel
Judging by the rhythm of the cars movement, Manav could sense they were exiting the Airports security perimeter, the smooth slow moving pattern with turns and stops turned into one of jerky acceleration and breaking as their vehicle merged with the by now heavy traffic of the highway. Once well underway, Manav heard Vassily speak in Russian, which he understood to be a phone call, probably one which Vassily had made, since he had not heard the ring. Manav strained his ears to try and follow the rapidly spoken Russian. “Yes Sir, we have detained him, after the check point as discussed. Nyet, we have not searched him yet. Yes Sir, no trouble at all, the Airlines know to take off without him, we gave them instructions. The Indians should not realize for next 5-6 hours that there is anything wrong. At least that much time we have. Yes Sir I will get him to <> interrogation center immediately, in two hours. Yes Sir I realize the need to get to the bottom before the Indian pressure builds up for his release. If Indeed the Indians have run a spy ring against us there should be ample evidence to back it up. I have already sent his belongings with a different group to Lubyanka. No Sir no harm will come to him, I understand that. I believe that covers everything. Thank you Sir, I shall give you next update shortly.”
Manav smiled despite his conditions, “bas ab yahi baki tha*” – “Col Vassily, may I now know to what do I owe the honor of this treatment? Since when Indian military officers get treated like Talibans in Russia?” That remark hit home and Vassily barely muttered something in reply. Manav persisted; “Fine take me where ever, but I have been cooperative, I trusted the long standing relationship between our countries for my safety, can I not at least be told what am I accused of?” Vassily retorted, “Sqn Ldr, please don’t play these emotional games with me. I am too old and too bitter for that sort of thing. We will tell you what we want to tell you when we want to tell you.” Manav spoke softly, “I do not know if there was enough time for you to run a full profile on me before you picked me up. I do understand Russian you know.” That startled Vassily, he was not expecting it, and for his captive to share that knowledge so simply, surely he understood what advantage he was giving up, “Why tell me?” Manav added humbly “Consider it a token of cooperation in good faith”. Vassily turned towards Manav, who of course could not see that, “Despite what you just heard?” Manav chuckled a little, “You suspect me of spying, is that why I had a bad accident? I know your people haven’t done it, for if it was so, you would not bothered to arrest me. So why do you think I am limping?” Vassily did not answer for some time; “Sqn Ldr it is not my job to speculate, my job is to know, in this case your particular role.” Manav was not the one to give up on a point, “It still leaves the question open does it not, who benefits? Specially if I am supposed to be a spy?” Vassily grunted, “Fine, I will pass it on to my superiors, along with other points.” Manav ignored the brush off, “You would have anyway done that, I am sure this would be part of many other things I would say once under the serum. But is this how you behave with a friendly national of a partner country?” Vassily snapped, “I told you before Sqn Ldr, spare me the maudlin, I find the whining distasteful.” Manav laughed, “No doubt, your job is to be clinical, but if it was just a interrogator they needed FSB would not send a Colonel would they? Clearly I am important enough for your organization to bother you. If you see I am trying to suggest that there is a frame up.” A sigh escaped Vassily’s lips, “That may be so Sqn Ldr, but please understand my job is not be friendly with you, that will interfere in my judgment, and your attempts are only making me angry as they aim to dilute my focus. We will talk, all in good time.” The last bit of conversation shut Manav up, he knew he was stonewalled, but then he was not one to give up without trying. That path closed he returned to his attention to monitoring the motions of the car.
The motion of the car had turned smooth by now, fast and regular, judging by the pleasant hum of the engine. Manav could deduce that they were on a village road with fairly low traffic, probably heading for a safely tucked away center for FSB somewhere in rural outskirts of Moscow. He let his body relax and rested his back against the seat, there was no point in getting worked up now. The drive had lasted for about just over an hour in all when the quiet was broken by a tense update by the driver, “Col, we are being followed.” Manav stiffened and he could feel Vassily sit up bolt upright “Are you sure?” “Positive Colonel, I waited to be sure before telling you.” Vassily snarled, “Inform headquarters, now” and Manav could hear the agent next to the driver pick up the radio and start calling in, but before that could happen, the driver spoke up again, almost shouting “Roadblock”. Manav could not see, but the car had been running in a road with hedges on both sides towering away, restricting visibility and the driver not see up ahead until the last moment when he turned a corner. “Ambush!! Get off the road” At Col’s word his driver swerved hard to left, breaking through the hedge, bouncing roughly over fields, escaping a ball of fire which had appeared where they would have been that moment if they had not reacted.
*only this was left to happen
“RPG! RPG!” the person to Manav right shouted and pulled out his gun. The other agent in front dropped the radio and instead pulled out his gun, Vassily screamed at him “Idiot, first contact headquarters, Blatsky get us to a position where we can defend from.” Manav slunk back in his seat, trying to not to attract attention, somehow he did not think this was his rescue party. “Col, they are behind us” Manav heard Vassily swear as he crouched down in his seat, the thudding noise in the background telling him what he feared to know. “We are taking fire from an assault rifle, for Christ’s sake get us to cover quickly” Manav suddenly felt a warm wet patch on the side of his arms, “Vassily; your man”. Vassily leaned over Manav to check, “Christ!!” It hadn’t taken Vassily long. “Vassily, get off my blindfolds for god’s sake, you will need to fight. “ The response was hard on the side of his face, his ears ringing. “You fool, they want me dead, it’s me they are after don’t you understand, let me help, I am more useful alive than dead” Manav roared through the pain, the slap had hit where his face was damaged the most. The savagery in Manav’s voice clicked with something in Vassily’s brain, “Don’t try anything funny” he said pulling aside the blindfold. Manav held up his hands, Vassily hesitated for second, when another series of thuds helped him make up his mind. He reached in the dead agents pocket and pulled out the keys to cuffs. His hands free, Manav picked up the fallen machine pistol and started patting the fallen man for ammunition. “Inside the barn” Manav heard the agent shout.
The Driver had found a cluster of farm buildings which included a robust looking tractor shed, it was to this building that they tried to get to, while their pursuers tried to cut them off. Blatsky was faster however, and he took the SUV right up to the entrance of the structure and stopped parallel to the entrance, blocking it with the car for others, while they themselves scrambled in, the doors of the car opening into the gate of the barn. The cover of the car provided them the needed crucial few moments to get out safely, as the car took the full brunt of a full automatic blast. “Get away from the window, Sergi take the loft, Blatsky behind the drums, come with me Sqn Ldr” Once on ground, Vassily had quickly swung back into command and distributed his little team to form as effective opposition as they could, trying to use as much cover as the surroundings could provide. “They have stopped Sir, and dismounting, I can count five people, they are taking cover behind the car doors.” Sergi shouted from above, peering out from a small skylight. “Don’t fire unless in range and sure of hit, preserve ammunition.” With that instruction Vassily pulled out his cell phone to call for help. “More company, the people manning the roadblock have also joined, five more in another van.” Sergi added from his perch. “Damn it, I can’t get through, Sergi did you radio in?” Vassily’s was expecting the answer that came, “No Sir, could not get through either, seems like one of their cars have a Electro Magnetic disruption device mounted.” Vassily cursed, his voice echoing through the sudden silence that had fallen in the area, the firing had stopped, and although the engines of the assailants car were still running, they were purring at a idle now. “Updates Sergi”. He barked.
“They have thrown a cordon around us Sir, groups of two, one group with each car and three others elsewhere in cover, they are not moving right now.” Manav chimed in, “Preparing for a assault most probably.” Vassily threw him a surprised look, he had forgotten Manav in the heat of the moment; “Yes Sqn Ldr, I would not have thought that” he added sarcastically. Manav was spared further taunts by Sergi’s alarm which came in just then, “Two units moving in, heading towards entrance and side windows.” “Sergi, you are not to fire unless someone is already inside, we need to keep you hidden.” Everybody else, keep down, it’s a probing routine, fire only when you see the whites of their eyes.” The FSB people had made good use of the barn, Blatsky had taken a corner facing the windows and the entrance both and was for good measure behind the cover of a pile of mechanical junk and barrels filled with mud. The barn being made of brick and heavy wood, he had a fairly secure corner, safe against explosions even. Manav and Vassily were a little more exposed, protected from gun fire by an agricultural machine on one side and the heavy beams holding up the roof on the other, but relatively exposed to blasts. Sergi was the safest hiding on the loft behind a pile of bricks, nothing but a direct hit by a rocket would take him out. The group held their breaths and waited for the assailants to show up, every one quiet now, not daring to speak for the fear of giving away their positions.
It was not long before the expected contact was made, there was a quick movement near the windows and form flashed past, followed by sound of footsteps on metal as the attackers climbed up the car blocking the door way. Yet the group stayed down, Vassily not willing to risk exposure still. There was crash as the glass in the windows were taken out, the panes replaced by snouts of rifle barrels, setting up a field of fire across the barn. Two objects were thrown in through the barn door as the other unit reached it, “Flash bang!!” Vassily shouted and flattened himself against the floor, Manav following closely behind. The loud explosions would have stunned them, had they not braced for it, eyes tightly shut, fists against their ears. Manav though not trained as others, was quick witted enough to follow the Vassily as he made the dive. Barely had the shock waves passed when Manav heard footsteps come in through door, the first unit was in. Vassily still held back, “What is he waiting for?” Manav got his answer a moment later as the men moved in toward the middle of the barn framing themselves against the windows, “Now”, the command was drowned in nearly simultaneous sounds of gun fire from Sergi and Blatsky. The unit inside did not even have a idea of what happened as they were taken out by accurate fire at nearly point blank range. The firing had stopped as soon as it had started, and Manav found himself still crouching behind cover, when the first episode ended. There was no reaction from the group outside the window, who could not barely understand what had happened. That did not last very long though, as the bursts of automatic fire filled the barn. The attackers had not gotten a good bearing on their opponent however and the random firing was not particularly effective. Manav realized that the Russian were much better trained, although spooks they had probably been drawn from a prior military service.
Taking advantage of a break in fire, Vassily moved out from where he was hiding and ran to the window, asking Manav for cover fire, who loosed off a random burst in the direction of the window, breaking the remaining panes and promptly drawing a hail of bullets in his direction. Vassily meanwhile had been running along the walls at a crouch and was at the windows, reaching up he grabbed the barrel of one of the gun which had just been poked in and pulled it inside, the gunman whom it belonged to was not expecting anything of the sort and lost his grip, dropping his weapon inside, his partner making the fatal mistake of reacting haphazardly by appearing at the window to target Vassily and presenting himself as a target for Blatsky and Manav. Both their bullets found their mark, and the man dropped out of sight. Vassily quickly rolled to a new cover in another corner, asking Sergi for updates. “One down, wounded badly, he is crawling away from the barn, the guy who lost his gun his crawling back to the car.” Right then take him out if he is range” Col Mitrichev figured that his look out had been spotted anyway. “Aye” Sergi shouted even has he leaned out of the window aiming at the man getting away, there were quick rounds fired, followed by a cry of exultation “Got him”. His happiness however was short lived, “RPG!! RPG!!” Sergi shouted getting away quickly from his skylight. Even as Sergi was making his way down the ladder, the Grenade came in through the Skylight and hit the top, the explosion blew a hole on the roof of the barn and threw Sergi down heavily, who thudded to ground and lay still. The debris from the explosion still falling around him, Manav darted out from behind the machine and reached Sergi, “Still alive, probably broken bones and concussion though”, letting others know of their comrades fate, he pulled him to relative safety behind a pile of junk into a repair bay and returned to his cover.
They were blind now and had now situational awareness, although they could guess that the others must be moving in now, although it was not just yet. Another RPG streaked through the open door in the gap over the car and hit the rear wall of the barn, the resulting explosion even more powerful in confined space. While Blatsky was safe, Manav and Vassily were both seared by the explosion. Even when crouching. While still in shock they saw their car blocking the door blow up and throw itself away, another RPG had found its mark there. Manav ground his teeth as he forced himself as close to the floor as possible, squeezing in the gap below the machine. The scouting party seemed to have done its job, relaying the layout of the barn and their positions before they were knocked out, the others were using that to target RPGs on them as accurately as possible while the others moved close in for the kill, the prey softened by bombardment. Manav aimed at the open door, he expected at least one party to come through there, as yet another RPG exploded in the barn, which was now burning, numerous items catching fire. He had no idea how others were doing, the dust, smoke and repeated shocks had disoriented him too much to have any sense of awareness left, Manav solely focused on the broken door and waited for the next attack, trying to keep himself alert and focused while the time seemed to drag on slowly, torturously.
“Chopper” he heard someone shout, although he could not say who, and tried to revive himself, trying so see if he could figure out anything. Sure enough there was a dull throbbing tell sound of helicopter rotors; enemy or friend he could not tell, although he felt his heart lift at the noise. It took him a minute or two to realize why he could hear the bird, the firing and explosions had stopped, whatever the bird was, it had distracted the finish up job. When the firing restarted, it seemed distant, the explosions were afar, it seemed the RPG crew had switched targets, as well as sound of shooting from more distant sources. The confused noises lasted for a while finally ending with a series of explosions in around the barn and some distance from it, a sudden and unnerving silence after the sustained battle roar. Manav spoke a soft prayer of gratitude and let his body slump down, his face level with the floor, breathing softly, letting the silence wash over him, his mind drifting away.
He was roused by pair of strong hand gently pulling him out from below the tractor like thing he had wedged himself below, “Sorry for taking so long, but we weren’t prepared for need of such a… dramatic intervention. It took some time to put together a task force.” Manav heard a familiar voice say, the calm and collected voice that he had come to rely on so much. Manav looked at the man groggily, the black clothed figure seemed familiar, even though the face was covered in a black ski mask, he tried to think “someone at the embassy? But who”. Propping him up against the machinery, the man broke his thoughts as he spoke again. “Relax, you are safe now, the FSB is on its way here. You have lived, and that is critical, had you perished, it would have cemented the lie that was being planted. With no one knowing enough to break through the charade.” Manav saw there were a couple of other similarly dressed men moving around the barn, tending to FSB agents, the Man spoke again “Col Mitrichev will live, he is badly wounded but will be fine in time. He will bear testimony to what happened and your role, the Russians will know it was an attempt to destroy the investigation in the spying case, though not by the accused, but by others who knew that the investigation would probably reveal a story different to one they had in mind.” Manav had closed his eyes, his lids and his beards were badly singed, his face burning with scalds, he could barely bring himself to speak, he forced a question in hoarse low voice, “the others?”. “One will live, he appears to have broken bones but was under sufficient cover to escape the worst, the other, I am afraid, did not make it.” His rescuer was patting him over as he talked, looking for something which he found after a brief search and pulled it out of Manav’s pocket “I am taking back the tea, you will not need it any more I think.” Getting up the man continued “rest now, the others would be coming, I will have to leave, the commandoes will remain and help till they come.” Manav heard the man walk away, and remembered that he had not yet said thanks, but then he was so tired, so tired, that was the last that could register as he fell into a deep sleep, assisted by a morphine shot, given by a commando who had come to tend to him.
A white ceiling and uniformed figure were the first things that were in sight when Manav woke up next, he did not find either particularly appealing and promptly fell asleep again. When he woke up again nothing had changed, and he found himself falling back into nothingness, but this time he did not go all the way in. Floating in and out of sleep and into various states of consciousness, he was aware of activity around him, the familiar motions of white clothed figures. The feeling of déjà vu bringing a knot in his throat, Manav found himself unable to breath, and pushed himself up on his elbows coughing, the shock finally bringing him fully back in his senses. The figures in white rushed to his side, helping him up, supportive, soothing, Manav lay back on the pillows of his hospital bed and tried to smile to those who had helped him. “How long” Manav coughed out a question, still numb, almost detached from his senses still. “Shh quite, keep resting, let the doctors look at you, only if you feel fine without sedatives will we talk about other things.” The matronly nurse propped him up in reclining position, checking the various critical indicators once again. Manav did not find himself in a position to insist, he relaxed and let himself be taken care of, he did feel that he was out of a condition of unbearable pain, as he started feeling various parts of his body once again, they did not return with a complaint other than general weakness. The doctor who was called by the nurse to check on him agreed with that assessment as well, after inquiring about whether Manav felt well enough to face the world at large, he informed him that the Russian and Indian officials were waiting anxiously to debrief him, and had been held back only under strict orders of medical say so. “So is it up to me to choose when to talk to them?” Manav asked the doctor, his voice clearer now, his jaw healed better, the doctor just nodded a yes with a smile. “Well I guess, I might as well get it over with then, perhaps they will let me rest uninterrupted then.” Manav replied soberly. Giving instructions to the nursing staff for further care and clean up, the doctor left Manav to arrange for his debriefing, which given the circumstances was better done under medical supervision.
After about two hours during which Manav was sponged, dressed and moved out of the ICU to different and larger room, Manav saw Commodore Prakash come in with a senior Russian officer in full uniform, a large salad bar on his chest. There were two more officials, a Russian and a Indian, probably from the intelligence departments by the look of it. Commodore Prakash came up to his bed and shook his hand. “I am glad to see you better Sqn Ldr, how are you doing? Are you sure that you are up to this right now?” Manav looked around his spacious room which painted in pleasant bright pastel shades, a large window was letting in plenty of early summer sun, the grounds outside were lush greens, with trees full of fresh leaves and flowers in the shrubs. Manav smiled at his senior, “When Moscow sees this season Sir, it is hard to be unwell, yes I would like to talk about what happened as soon as I can.” For the next one hour, Manav presented the entire story as it had played out, sparing no details, accurately and entirely free of contradictions, but of course omitting the parts about his special friend. The two men who had come along with the military officers carefully took notes, while they themselves listened intently, not interrupting him for clarifications or questions. Finishing up Manav felt that he was entitled to some information in turn, after all there were some pieces that he did not know too and was keen to find out, “That Sir is pretty much it, and unless you have any more questions for me, could I please also be told as to what actually happened? I am still not clear as to who came in at the end as well? What now?” Commodore Prakash did not answer but looked questioningly at the Russian officer who in turn looked at the other two men, who stayed silent, the Russian shook his head, “Nyet, no more questions. For now at least, the good Sqn Ldr has given a detailed and crystal clear answer. So Cmdr Prakash, you can take a call on how much you want to tell him.” Commodore Prakash exhaled deeply and looked at Manav for a moment before he launched into his bit.
“Well Sqn Ldr, the Russian had credible intelligence reports, faked as it turns out now, that you were spying for some technical details with the help of some Russian friends, initially there was incriminating evidence which they got, but the incidents and investigations over last four days; oh yes you have been recovering for last four days; points to the fact that it was not necessarily so. So for now your name seems to be in the clear. The hit was by hired mercenary hands, we think we have been able to track down who commissioned it, and that went a long way in clearing things up. You did us a favor by surviving, things would have been infinitely more confused and complicated if you and Col Vassily had cooperated with the bandits.” A smile seemed to dance on Cmdr Prakash’s lips, of thoughts that would remain unsaid, he paused for breath before continuing, “As such, we expect you to be fully cleared in about two to three weeks, mostly formality and cross checking you know, much of which time you will need hospitalization anyway, and some well deserved rest on full pay in Moscow.” The Russian officer added, “As you said Sqn Ldr, a good time to be in Moscow, even the flamingos return from your country this month to Siberia, enjoy our hospitality for a while, we owe you much but at least this for certain.” Manav was surprised, the last Russian officer he met had very different views, for them to change so much even under the circumstances, there was something under the surface which was not being told and it was unlikely that he would ever find out ever anyway; but there was at least one question that he must find an answer to. “Thank you Sir, you are most gracious, but it is I who must thank you, had the commandos not turned up in time, we would not survive it was a only a matter of few more minutes. How did they ever come to know about us Sir? We never could send a SoS?” The Russian officer stayed quiet, and Commodore Prakash chose to reply “Well a friend of yours from India had called the Embassy insisting that you were to call him before the plane took off and you never did, he was frantic that something had happened to you. Normally we would dismiss this as a crank call, but considering the strange circumstances we tried to investigate and got confusing answers, so we called the Russian liaison and raised hell.” The Russian officer joined in, he looked a little embarrassed, “Meanwhile the counter terror unit had a call indicating that there were suspicious armed people in rough area where you were supposed to be, on course of your way to, umm, Russian authorities. That coupled with Indians pushed us to try and find what’s happening. We tried to raise Vassily but failed, so we ordered the QRT in, but by the time they got there, you people had already done most of the resistance hadn’t you? You people deserve some medals even if we will never be able to acknowledge this action in any of our records.” As the Russian finished his part, Manav digested what he had been just told, “already done most of the resistance?”, he mused, “But we had not, there was still a lot left over when they were suppressed by RPG fire. So some people must have been on the scene before the QRT arrived, holding out.” Then aloud “Thank you Sir” Manav said after a while, “how are the others?” “Well as you know we lost one person in the car, as also Blatsky, Sergi is fine, although he remembers nothing of what happened after he fell. Col Vassily will take far longer to heal, but he has been able to talk already and mentions how you saved Sergi and mounted a defence with Blatsky after the initial RPG rounds started coming in and he lost consciousness. He commends you highly and send his apologies, for what he did not say.”
The officers would have spent more time talking to Manav, but the medical supervisor insisted that they had already taken far longer than the scheduled hour, and the patient had to rest, though Manav felt well, better than ever in many ways. He had one more question while he still had the chance, “And what about my actual assignment Sir, what’s going to happen to the FGFA project planning?” Cmdr Prakash gave a hearty laugh in response, startling the Russians, who did not expect such a booming laughter from his wiry frame, “Ever the diligent one aren’t you Manav. Rest assured that you have done such a good job that it can now fly on auto pilot, Dr Saharsbuddhe and Mr Mathur have made sure they are sending a competent replacement for you to take it forward. Your involvement with that part is over, after all this formality is finished you will return to New Delhi, and who knows you may get a promotion of sorts. For now you need to just forget about everything and recover.” Winking at him Cmdr Prakash stood up and after all round wishes to him for a speedy recovery, the party left, the supervisor goading them out.
Manav watched the others leave, and when he was sure that he was alone, he reclined on his bed with the raised back and relaxed, looking out in the garden, feeling a sense of emptiness creep over him, but not in bad way, in good way, of burdens lifted, of a task passed on. He looked around the room once more, searching for a book perhaps to occupy himself when he glanced on a beautiful flower bouquet next to his bed, in a vase. He picked up the card next to it and looked at it. It was a simple get well soon card unsigned but for piece of soft satin stapled where the sender would usually put his name, drenched in a perfume he was familiar with, and had taken a liking for. Manav smiled, perhaps his remaining stay in Moscow was going to very interesting after all.
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Thanks every body for the good words and thanks to Ramana and Chaankya for pointers on publishing. ManuJ I will be dropping you a mail shortly, may be we can discuss our thoughts on publishing outlet etc.
The stand stone building with a lofted driveway going up to the first floor was a the distinctive feature of the sandstone building, built in a neo-classical architecture, adding clean lines, along with circular shapes and flowing grandness of older buildings of New Delhi. On the ground floor which was set deep into the sunken gardens, a set of well appointed suites for attached to the main building were tucked away in the quiet corner, providing residential facilities for the use of institute members and their guests. The lights were out in most of the suites although it was only nine PM on a warm evening, the summer having settled in early, in most but one such a suite that is. In that one suite, next to the teak wood table done in dark shade, two men stood poring at a map and sheaf of papers. Neither of them were young, although one was distinctly older than the other, in a crisp white Dhoti tied around in style from the southern parts of India, the senior man stood looking increasing worried as the other man pointed out various features on the map. The map itself was political map of the Northern western areas of the Indian subcontinent, but it was not like any political map seen before, for one the vale of Kashmir had ceased to be with India any more, a brutal line cutting it from Jammu across the pir panjal all the way up to Ladakh, where now Pakistan shared a border with China and not India. A new deep green patch in size and shape of a egg lay upon the western part of the map, straddling both sides of the Durand line, a new autonomous region of Pakistan with firm borders to Punjab province of old Pakistan was born. Afghanistan was shadow of its previous self a small strip of land acting as a buffer between the green patch and rest of Central Asia. At various places on the political map though, marks of military nature were placed, indicating troop concentrations, border guards and in places, marks indicating the presence of external peace keeping army. It was these points that were being pointed out right now, in all regions of the world.
“But it can’t happen now, can it? After all, this could not happen without international support, and right now the threat of UNSC voting against us has receded.” The white clad figure asked, hoping to find a silver lining, somehow.
The other man, dressed in a formal shirt with rolled up sleeves, grey trousers and polished black shoes, looked every inch the military man that he was. His battle scarred face did not exhibit the hope that he was being asked to provide. “Sir I can’t speak about the political fallout, that is not my area of expertise as you well know. What I can tell you from a military perspective however is that nothing on the ground has changed, at least what I can find out through my assets.”
The politician grimaced, “But you channels are very limited General.”
The stoic man was unmoved, “That is true Sir, ARCs and RAWs help would be needed for confirmation of various details. I however am fairly sure of my channels. Even without those I can quiet certainly say that the plan would be put into motion soon. In fact the events in Moscow seem to have thrown them off a little, and that is why we have a little bit of breathing time, this is the right time to move.”
The elder man took off his black square framed spectacles and rubbed the bridge of his nose, “I *will* have to take to the CCS, General, I cannot do what you are asking me to. I don’t have the authority.”
The general shook his head, “Negative Sir, the recent events have clearly shown that we have mole in the establishment, someone high up, someone providing support to powers outside the country by influencing political decisions, even if that person does not know how he is being used, to what ends and what is the game plan.”
“Even then we will need RAW to track down the mole, even if it is a powerful minister, General. I just don’t see how it would hurt.”
“If there has to be plausible deniability it is better that the matter never makes it to any file Sir, in any manner” The General stopped to see his minister’s reaction. “That is why the defence secretary is not in the room either. And of course if we wait for RAW to first unearth the mole and then move ahead, we will lose this god given chance Sir. The time window is small, before the storm hits.
“It is not that I don’t see you point General, but what of the exact intelligence that is needed, how will you get that?”
“We will get help sir, it does not have to be done formally through CCS alone.” Mr Mathur had prepared him well, he had the answers.
This seemed to amuse the politician, he chuckled in his now famous trademark style, “And what about my colleagues, General? The Home minister will have me breakfast if he knows about any of it, and we have not even started talking about the PM” He turned around and faced his chief of staff, “And what about the law of the land Sir and what about our oaths to the constitution. This would be wrong. I will need to talk to the PM.”
The General stayed quiet with his head bowed down, he added quietly “What if the leak is from a close confidant of the PM sir? Do you think in your opinion the PM would act without his advice, would he be able to act without it even if you push him to make a decision on his own.”
The chief had never seen his minister angry, and he was happy that it would be the first and the last time. The cool, collected and normally unflappable man was angry, and his body shivered, eyes boring into the General. A lesser man would have melted, but of course there could be few men tougher than this legend of Indian army, if he had flinched, he didn’t show it. The Raksha Mantri raged, “That is unacceptable General, you just cannot make a allegation against such a senior bureaucrat, that man has served India all his life, and more over, you cannot cast an aspersion on our Prime Minister and his abilities or relationships.” The chief stayed silent, waiting for the storm to blow over, in time the RM collected himself a tried to calm down “You are not supposed to be political man by your own admission General, then what makes you say such a thing?”
The Chief allowed himself a smile, “Well Sir, the air of New Delhi breathes politics, it is hard not to know what connections really exist under the surface, and I do have friends too, even a man like me.” What the General left unsaid was of course, who exactly had told him of the Prime minister’s political dependencies, or the process by which they the needle of suspicion had pointed where it did.
The RM had was back to his usual self now, “I won’t probe of course, but I need to know, how sure are we of this possibility, you know I have the highest regard for your judgment, if you think this is cast iron, I will take your word for it.”
The CoAS in turn trusted the man who had explained the situation to him implicitly, “I am certain that this must remain between the two of us Sir.”
“So it comes down to me is it?” RM sighed deeply and sat down, suddenly his age showed, hair looking grey and face creased, the telegenic powerful politician replaced by a man, old and tired. “Very well, I will sign what is need to be signed, and give you in principle approval for those actions that you want to take without signatures. I just want to be briefed of ALL details though, all you understand. All, barring none.”
CoAS looked at the man in front of him and felt a deep surge of respect. He came to attention and clicked his heels, turned on it and left.
Epilogue – Episode I
The first light had yet not broken, but the camp had started breaking up, the Lashkar would need to move again soon, they had to get to the Indian border in time, the push had to happen as soon as the call went up in the valley, the elements who would attack from within were already in place and were only waiting for all clear. They still had some way to go and surprise was essential, the Indians must not notice the build up till it was too late. The leaders were going from tent to tent, waking up their units, trying to achieve cohesion, in the quite misty darkness of the beautiful valleys, the sleepy guards never had a chance to raise alarm when the first flash lit the sky over their heads, never expecting a attack in any case, and under no circumstances one from the heavens. Few had a managed to look up to see the brief brightness, the short lived flicker dying before their still lazy movements could orient them. There was going to be another such display for their benefit shortly, but those looking up would unfortunately not be in a position to enjoy that. In the miniscule fraction of a second that it took for the other flash to make its appearance, the earth around them had responded to the first flash in its own way. The sublets dispersed by the airburst of GLASNOSS guided ammunition had reached the ground, the dark grenade sized balls, falling unseen in darkness all round the camp, and the earth responded to the Sky lustily, the little flash rewarded by a series of brilliant and sustained fire balls blanketing the area. The mixed unit of Pakistani army, Ranger and various Punjabi and Afghan irregulars found themselves in very middle of the love making and felt the heat of passion intimately. The sky made its next overture with another flash, but the humans in the camp were too preoccupied to watch the dance, the survivors from the first group awake trying to make a run for it away from the camp, or look for shelter in any natural trench or cover. Their wake up call to their comrades was not needed anyway, some of whom they were trying to wake up would now never need to be woken up, and the remaining could not get a better bugle for their reveille. Not that it did any of them any good anyway. The earth replied yet again, more passionately this time, the fires from the previous explosions mixed with the new ones, air full of splinters and flying shards of metal. The play between the elements lasted for two minutes maybe, before the sky climaxed, coating the earth with a flow of viscous inflammable liquid, making the throbbing ground reach out to her elemental lover with bright flames of heat, covering the area, making sure no witness remained of their tryst.
The Su 30 MKIs had stayed above, gathering photographic evidence of what they had just unleashed, at around 30000 feet above sea level, the advanced recon equipment developed by DRDO getting a rare chance to see a first time test in real time conditions. Confident of their handiwork, the pair turned around and headed up, to join its patrolling CAP much higher, and together they made their way away from India, following the route they had come in through, back to the Farkhor air base, flying in and out over Afghanistan and Occupied Kashmir much above the ranges of any radar surveillance, being guided passively by a Russian AWACs loitering lazily over Tajikistan, with associated EW suppression aircrafts over Afghanistan airspace, just in case of eventuality. However Farkhor was not their eventual home, and they would only touch their briefly for updates before they flew back north to where they really came from, busy as Farkhor would be hosting other birds that night, a proper nesting ground in the summer season. By the time any hostile air defences could be prepared, the Indians and long left the airspaces covered by either PAF or those of NATO units to their north and west, and the Rawalpindi was beginning to lose track of the number of places which had been hit. The reports reaching them were confused, while most spoke of sudden airbursts, newer reports coming in from Afghanistan theater spoke of a large number of low flying objects. The officer commanding the emergency room, made a prayer to Allah and picked up the phone to inform his superiors, he was not happy about what he had to do, the Pakistani Army had a reputation for dealing with people who brought bad news.
Epilogue – Episode II
Donald Ramson kept the radio down, and jerked out the latest teletype from the encrypted satellite transmission, the writing was on the wall, their last hopes were gone, the Pakistani lie had cost them dearly much more dearly than they expected, but even he could not understand the reports of cruise missile attacks from Northern Afghanistan, he was sure that Indians had not sent any missile units into the area. He would also be sure if any of the high tickets Nirbhay missiles was *missing* from Indian inventory. It was inexplicable, and he was afraid that his allies would think of these as American tomahawks, after all, who else could do that from Afghan territory? In any case these answers would need to wait, the most important thing for him was to get out there quickly, he could not hang around in the changed circumstances, the tribesmen would be baying for blood and they would not care whose it was right now. He reached below his desk and opened a trunk exposing a clean sheet of metal with a keypad and display. He quickly punched out a self destruct sequence for the powerful weapon which was inside. He had to make sure that no remote trace remained of his presence here, and or of any equipment, for anyone. He straightened out and closed the lid, putting the lock back on it. The device was now set to go off at his remote command, or if he fell, which ever was earlier. Pulling a cowl over his turbaned head, he made his way to the door, few minutes were all he needed to get out now.
The flimsy door feel down with a bang as the towering warlord strode in, Ramson’s own till then loyal guards by his side, and for the first time in life, Donald was afraid.
“You back stabbed us. You filthy Kafir” Amir Omar Haqqani told him matter of factly.
“No Amir, we had nothing to do with this, I did warn you about the lying Pakistani’s, did I not? We always suspected a critical leak, but the ******** covered it up.” Ramson stuttered.
“And we will deal with them later, thank you very much. This is the last time we ally with the pigs. But who told us to make this alliance you tell us? Who asked us to stop fighting the Army and Nato and work together? On whose word and promise? You promised to ensure that the world conditions will be such that the Indians won’t be able to act after we attack, you told us their weapons won’t work, their satellite connections will be broken, their allies will desert them in UN, they will not get spare and munitions” Omar hissed, his voice rising just a little. “Did you tell us or did you not?”
Donald Ramson found himself unable to reply, stuck rooted to the spot as if turned into a stone, hypnotized by the snake eyes of the man opposite him, he could barely whisper.
“Instead they could make a pre emptive attack and hit the most critical centers. The plan is dead before it could take off. Our men are dead, my brother is dead. Who will pay?” The black turban asked.
That was something Donald understood, he came back to life “I understand, we can work something out, we would not like to see our allies weakened, we can reach another compact, money will not be a problem.”
Amir Haqqani gave a mirthless laugh which chilled Donald to the bone, “Son of a money lender, Jew! This is all you understand don’t you. Well you will learn, we thought you had learnt but we were wrong, no problem, we will send a message this time that they will remember.”
Many things happened at once, Donald reached for his gun, and the body guard lunged at him, Amir drew his sword which flashed out and Donald fell down bleeding from a deep cut across his arm, an artery severed, the gun lost. He looked up to Amir and spat at him, he did not want to end up in a video for his family to see, if he had to die, the room would be best, drawing satisfaction from the thought that the man whom he had always deeply loathed would die with him. His act had the desired effect, the Afghan roared in anger and swung his sword, decapitating the American with a single swing. As the body fell back, spouting blood, the monitoring systems attached to his body started beeping in concern, the loss of heart beat was felt by them deeply and as message sent out when it did not come back on line. The message that the box in the room above was waiting for. As Omar stood above the body glaring at dead man, blood dripping from the sword, a ball of fire went up around him, and then spread around the village, the tactical nuclear device vaporizing the entire stronghold in an single instance.
At least Donald Ramson never failed in the task that he had to carry out by himself; never.
Dileep
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Postby Dileep » 22 Jun 2010 14:06
Great work!! Sanku!! You are the man!!
Thanks very much all. And especial thanks to Dileep for providing the motivation and engaging with me in the initial discussion when the story was launched. Thanks in general to Ramana for acting as a motivating force for various things.
If not for their push, I would not write it.
Also I truly appreciate the support of all those who cared to give feedback, that sort of engagement keeps you going, and thanks to all those who spared their time to read it.
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Home»Odds to Win Super Bowl 54: Patriots Once Again Leading the Pack
Odds to Win Super Bowl 54: Patriots Once Again Leading the Pack
Stephen Campbell | Thu, Jul 18 2019, 3:45pm
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Do you find yourself feeling an empty void on Sundays? Are you getting tired of having to actually talk to family members and friends on the last day of the weekend instead of sitting on your couch and watching NFL football all day? Well, I have some good news.
The 2019 NFL season is less than two months away! When it comes to odds on which team will hoist the Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl 54, the New England Patriots remain supreme.
The Patriots are the +700 favorites to repeat in the big game at Bovada, with the Kansas City Chiefs (+800), New Orleans Saints (+850), Los Angeles Rams (+900), Chicago Bears (+1200), Cleveland Browns (+1200), Indianapolis Colts (+1400), Los Angeles Chargers (+1600), Philadelphia Eagles (+1600) and Green Bay Packers (+1800) comprising the rest of the top 10.
Patriots Remain the Standard of Success
Even with the loss of retired star tight end Rob Gronkowski and an underwhelming receiving corps, it’s no surprise to see the Pats topping the list. Fresh off their sixth championship in the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era in Super Bowl 53, the Patriots have proven to be the class of the NFL and can never be counted out.
You won’t find much value in their +700 Super Bowl price or their -800 price to make the playoffs, but if you think the Patriots can put forth yet another dominant campaign, they’re available at -130 to go OVER their 11-win season total.
Cleveland Rocks
The Browns have been the doormat of the league since the second edition of the franchise returned to Northeast Ohio in 1999, but those days already look like they’re in the rear-view mirror. Thanks to a spirited second half of the 2018 season that saw Cleveland finish with a 7-8-1 SU record, the Browns proved to be a competitive bunch for the first time in recent history.
Baker Mayfield looks like a bona fide franchise quarterback after only one season, and general manager John Dorsey shifted the team into win-now mode by making a blockbuster trade with the New York Giants that brought megastar wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to Ohio and signing Kareem Hunt to bolster the running back position behind Nick Chubb.
With rookie head coach Freddie Kitchens at the helm, the Browns and their lofty +1200 championship price have a lot to prove in 2019.
Which clubs do you think will raise some eyebrows on the gridiron this season and which ones will falter? Have your say in the comments section below.
Here’s a look at the Super Bowl 54 odds for all 32 NFL teams:
Super Bowl 54 odds
New England Patriots +700
Kansas City Chiefs +800
New Orleans Saints +850
Los Angeles Rams +900
Chicago Bears +1200
Cleveland Browns +1200
Indianapolis Colts +1400
Los Angeles Chargers +1600
Philadelphia Eagles +1600
Green Bay Packers +1800
Pittsburgh Steelers +2000
Dallas Cowboys +2200
Minnesota Vikings +2500
San Francisco 49ers +3000
Seattle Seahawks +3000
Atlanta Falcons +3300
Baltimore Ravens +3300
Houston Texans +3300
Jacksonville Jaguars +3300
Carolina Panthers +4500
Denver Broncos +6000
Oakland Raiders +6000
Tennessee Titans +7000
Detroit Lions +8000
New York Giants +8000
New York Jets +8000
Tampa Bay Buccaneers +8000
Arizona Cardinals +10000
Buffalo Bills +10000
Washington Redskins +10000
Cincinnati Bengals +12500
Miami Dolphins +15000
Odds as of July 18 at Bovada
The NFL draft is typically a beacon of hope for every fan base with the excitement of a talent injection from the first round. Bettors will usually try to sneak in and grab lower-end teams with value to win Super Bowl 54 but they may need to wait a little longer for a team to usurp the reigning Super Bowl champions on the oddsboard.
Online sportsbook Bovada has the New England Patriots along with the Kansas City Chiefs as the co-favorites to win Super Bowl 54. They’re followed by the Los Angeles Rams (+900), New Orleans Saints (+900), Chicago Bears (+1200), Cleveland Browns (+1200), Philadelphia Eagles (+1400), Indianapolis Colts (+1600), Los Angeles Chargers (+1600) and Dallas Cowboys (+2000) to round out the top 10.
Let’s identify some of the best “value” teams after the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft:
I think they’re being slept on a little too much. The Colts have a stout offensive line, a game-changing quarterback and a ton of draft capital still left after trading out of the first round. They get to play in a relatively weak division in the AFC South and look to be a team on the rise with a ton of cap space. I’m not saying they can go into Foxborough or Arrowhead Stadium and win on the road in an AFC title game but crazier things have happened and it’s not a given that those two teams will be there at the end. At +1600, now would be the time to grab them because they get to play 10 games this season against non-playoff teams.
Look, hear me out. This is a team that could improve in a hurry. The Raiders drafted three solid first-rounders to help their defense because last season, they were one of the worst units in the league. They were last in points allowed per game and last in sacks, so taking a flyer on Clelin Ferrell at fourth overall should help on that front and getting RB Josh Jacobs should fill the void of Marshawn Lynch’s retirement. Remember, this is only based on value so if the Raiders get hot, their value will drop and you’ll be left picking at scraps. They also have a relatively weak schedule on the back end with only three of their last nine games against playoff teams from 2018.
This is strictly value only because we know in the NFL how a rookie quarterback can rejuvenate a team’s fortunes in a hurry (ahem … Cleveland Browns). The Deadskins were able to get their quarterback of the future in Dwayne Haskins and didn’t have to trade up to get him, which means they can spend the rest of the draft and free agency on other key areas like their secondary. Another player who is going unnoticed is running back Derrius Guice from LSU. The second-year runner tore his ACL in training camp last season but all reports coming out of Washington are suggesting he could usurp Adrian Peterson as the lead RB. The ’Skins were pretty decent defensively last season and were in the driver’s seat to clinch a wild-card playoff spot before Alex Smith broke his leg. At that value, it might be worth throwing $10 on just to have your bases covered when we get into the nitty-gritty of the regular season.
Think other teams have better value and are worth a wager to win Super Bowl 54? Join the discussion and let us know in the comments section.
Odds To Win Super Bowl 54
Odds as of April 26 at Bovada
NFL free agency usually just yields a couple of moves that are yawn-worthy and maybe stir the pot enough to steal the attention away from the NBA for a few hours. However, three teams in particular are using the offseason like they’re in GM mode of Madden with the Cleveland Browns, New York Jets and Oakland Raiders making the biggest splashes and seeing their Super Bowl 54 odds shift as a result.
Online sportsbook Bovada likely has had to update their odds by the hour due to trades and signings, with the Browns climbing into the upper echelon with a big jump from +2200 to +1400 to win Super Bowl 54 after they acquired WR Odell Beckham Jr. This is a huge move for the perennial doormat of the NFL as it was just a year ago that we were focusing on what a disaster their 0-16 regular season had been.
Another team that made a splash was the Raiders by acquiring WR Antonio Brown from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their odds have gone from +10000 to +6600 to win the Super Bowl.
The final domino to fall was Le’Veon Bell as the star running back agreed to a massive contract with the Jets but, surprisingly, their odds have actually gone in the other direction by increasing from +10000 to +12500.
It means the Browns are not playing around anymore. GM John Dorsey has completely remodeled this franchise and while Beckham Jr. is the splashy move, they also made efforts to solidify their defensive line with the addition of DT Sheldon Richardson. They are now heavy favorites to win the AFC North with the Steelers and Ravens being gutted by key players walking out the door. I don’t necessarily think they can win the Super Bowl this season but the fact you can get arguably the third-best AFC team for +1400 right now should not be dismissed.
For the Raiders, not having to give up one of their three first-round picks to get arguably a top-five receiver of all time should be commended. Along with Antonio Brown, the Raiders also signed safety LaMarcus Joyner and left tackle Trent Brown. Not a bad offseason for Jon Gruden and company and they might not be done with all the draft capital they still have. It could be a shrewd move by bettors to get on them at +6600 because if QB Derek Carr can bounce back and regain his form from the 2017 season when he was an MVP candidate, they could be good in a hurry.
And last, but not least, the J-E-T-S. They had a ton of cap space so they were obviously one of the front-runners to land Bell but I’m not sure it actually will put them in contention in a crowded AFC playoff picture. The road through the AFC East still goes through New England but by adding Bell and MLB CJ Mosley to the defense, the Jets won’t be a walkover like they’ve been over the last two seasons.
Here is the full list of Super Bowl 54 odds. See below for where your favorite team stacks up to win the title:
Odds as of March 13 at Bovada
New York Jets +12500
The dust has settled, the champagne has been popped and the confetti has fallen on the winners (and losers) of Super Bowl 53 with the New England Patriots winning their sixth Super Bowl in franchise history. Well, oddsmakers have wasted no time picking the favorites to win Super Bowl 54 next February, with the Patriots and Los Angeles Rams at the top of the list.
Online sportsbook Bovada has both the Pats and Rams at +700, followed by the Los Angeles Chargers (+800), Kansas City Chiefs (+800), Indianapolis Colts (+1000), New Orleans Saints (+1000), Chicago Bears (+1300), Pittsburgh Steelers (+1600), Green Bay Packers (+1800) and Minnesota Vikings (+2000) to round out the top 10.
Let’s dive into why the Rams and Patriots are the favorites and which teams have decent value and which ones are ripoffs.
Rams and Pats Have the Goods To Make Another Run
Although there wasn’t much offense to speak of for the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 53, they’re pretty much set at the key positions going into next season. QB Jared Goff, RB Todd Gurley, WR Brandin Cooks and DT Aaron Donald are all 27 or younger with the latter three all on new well-paid contracts that won’t need attention for a couple of seasons. Goff is still on his rookie deal so the Rams will be able to avoid having to give him a hefty payday this offseason and concentrate whatever cap space they have left to fill out the pieces on their roster. The Rams were a top-three offense for the entire season and at +700, bettors can’t be faulted for investing in Los Angeles.
As for the Patriots, what else is there left to say that hasn’t been mumbled by Bill Belichick at a press conference? New England just played in its third straight Super Bowl and fourth in the last five years and has been to the AFC championship game for the last eight seasons. The beat goes on for the Patriots, even if their quarterback is over 40, as Belichick continues to put them in a position to succeed. At +700, now would be the time to get on them because I expect the Pats to get more veterans chasing a ring when free agency hits and even if they struggle to start the season, online sportsbooks rarely drop their odds.
Teams with Value
An all-world defense, a QB still on his rookie deal, an offensive guru for a head coach and a great kick– … oh wait, too soon. The Bears were undone by their kicking game in the playoffs and anyone with a set of eyes knows they were better than the Eagles despite falling victim to a double-doink. Chicago was hands down the best overall defense in the NFL last season, first in turnover differential and only lost one divisional game, in Week 1 against the Packers. I think the Bears will win the AFC North again and at +1300, that’s great juice for a team that held the opposition to 17.7 points per game last season.
Sticking with the same theme for the Bears, the Jaguars defense is still legit but they were done in by their quarterback. The Jags offense only managed 15.3 points per game last year but the defense still ranked in the top five in points and passing yards allowed per game. Blake Bortles’ days are numbered in a Jacksonville uniform and GM Tom Coughlin has made it known he will be actively searching for the next signal-caller for the Jags. Based on value alone, the Jags at +5000 is excellent considering it was just over 13 months ago that they were playing in the AFC title game.
Teams To Avoid
It’s a cute story and while I think they can finish with a winning record next season, it will take a lot for them to make the playoffs, let alone win the Super Bowl. The Browns still have a lot of holes at linebacker and offensive line and unless they rectify those issues in the offseason, they’ll still be chasing the Ravens and Steelers. The other part of this equation is the competition to get into the playoffs in the AFC. The division winners aren’t going anywhere, the Chargers should remain competitive and the Colts/Texans/Jaguars should all still be in the mix. I think it’s best to avoid the Browns for this season and start getting your money together for Super Bowl 55.
Where to begin? Cap issues, a quarterback who shrinks in big games, a running game in shambles. These are just some of the concerns for why I think the Vikings’ Super Bowl window has closed but the main reason is playing in the NFC. There is just so much competition for the six playoff spots that I just can’t see how this team can improve based on the lack of cap space. They’re likely going to have to part with their best linebacker in Anthony Barr and their offensive line is still a train wreck. I like a lot of their pieces (Thielen, Diggs, Cook) but at +2000, this bet hinges on Kirk Cousins and I think you’re a fool if you think the Vikings win Super Bowl 54.
Odds To Win The Super Bowl 54
Odds as of February 3 at Bovada
Oakland Raiders +10000
Detroit Lions +10000
Denver Broncos +10000
New Orleans Saints +1000
Los Angeles Chargers +800
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Occupy Boston
Boston police warn protesters to leave part of the Greenway tonight
By John M. Guilfoil
Boston police were warning the more than 1,000 Occupy Boston protesters tonight to leave a large section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway that they occupied earlier and relocate to Dewey Square or a small, adjacent strip of the Greenway.
Police were visible around the areas in small batches tonight, while protest organizers held a meeting on the Greenway, answering questions from the demonstrators.
Occupy Boston, in a statement tonight, answered the police warning by issuing a call “for any and all people to join the occupation as soon as possible.”
“From the beginning, occupiers have worked tirelessly to maintain a positive working relationship with city officials. Today’s threats by the Boston Police Department represent a sudden shift away from that dialogue,” the statement said.
Officials do not want the protesters, who originally settled in Dewey Square, to occupy the space across Congress Street on the Greenway because it recently underwent an expensive renovation project where expensive improvements were added, according to Elaine Driscoll, police spokeswoman.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s office said the city would not clear protesters from Dewey Square, however.
If police do move in on protesters tonight, some said they are prepared to be arrested.
“I think we will stand and be arrested,” said Nadeem Mazen, who called himself a part of Occupy Boston, speaking in front of the movement’s media tent.
Hundreds of protesters, mainly college students, marched today from Boston Common to Dewey Square in support of Occupy Boston and to demand fundamental and lasting economic and political reform, Occupy Boston said in its statement.
Two restaurant workers in the financial district said they saw a convoy of police vehicles, wagons, unmarked cars, and motorcycles pass by several hours ago tonight with more than 200 officers. The convoy was driving away from the Greenway toward another financial district building where protesters believe they are staging for a possible late-night confrontation.
Police also seem to be conflicted about what to do with the Greenway gathering. “I hope we don’t do anything,” said one officer.
Tensions and new questions arose late tonight when, at about 11:15, police issued written instructions and expectations of the growing group of protesters if officers demand that they disperse.
The notice informed the group of laws against trespassing on a new patch of the Rose Kennedy Greenway — bordered by Congress Street, Atlantic Avenue, Pearl Street, and Purchase Street — where tents have sprung up since about 4 p.m, and is also private property.
In a section titled, “What Occupy Boston Participants can expect from the BPD,” the statement said officers will “arrest those knowingly in violation of the law if necessary,” and that they will “conduct themselves in a professional, respectful and proportional manner.”
Police will use of video to identify participants deemed to be breaking trespassing and unlawful assembly laws, which could apply to the demonstrators, who planned to encircle the camp, lock arms, and resist ejection.
Police said that if five armed people, or 10 unarmed people, are found to be unlawfully assembled, “police can demand that they immediately and peaceably disperse.”
The notice also included the potential legal consequence for unlawful assembly (up to one year in prison and up to a $500 fine) and trespassing (30 days in jail and $100 fine).
At both the Greenway and at Dewey Square, “medical tents” have been set up with large red crosses taped on them and volunteers claiming to be EMTs, paramedics, and others trained in first aid with red crosses taped to their backs and shoulders.
Protesters have held up signs with the phone number of a lawyers’ group in Boston in case people are arrested, and the ACLU has passed out cards with instructions on how to deal with police if someone is stopped or arrested.
Globe Correspondents Derek J. Anderson, Matt Byrne, and Martha Shanahan and Matt Lee of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. John M. Guilfoil can be reached at jguilfoil@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @globe_guilfoil.
source: Boston police warn protesters to leave Greenway tonight, or be moved out – Metro Desk – Local news updates from The Boston Globe
Occupy Boston protest one for all ages
by Peter Gelzinis
The usual blowhards have already dismissed Occupy Boston as “a bunch of dirty hippies at Dewey Square.”
So, how do you explain Marty Leibowitz?
This retired 71-year-old gentleman, who ran his own corporate headhunting firm, journeyed from Brookline to this pup tent village yesterday afternoon … on his bicycle.
“I’d like to see the group more focused on applying pressure to specific areas,” Marty was saying to Ryan Cahill, 27, a spokesman for Occupy Boston.
With two infantry tours in Iraq, Ryan Cahill is working on a finance degree at Bunker Hill Community College. Fact is, he looked more conventional than the former corporate consultant in the bike helmet.
“For instance, how about targeting all of this wonderful energy around changing the campaign finance laws?” Marty Leibowitz said. “And needless to say, there’s the taxing of millionaires and billionaires at the rate of 5.6 percent.”
I never did ask Marty Leibowitz if he was a billionaire, or even a millionaire. But he did make a living placing candidates into corporate leadership posts all across the country.
“I think this is great,” Marty said, “because it conjures up in me a lot of positive memories. It’s the way I feel on July 4th, down at the Esplanade with half a million people. I don’t see a mob, but people connected to one another, people doing something worthwhile that just might affect this country for the better.”
The most vociferous bashers of this populist movement targeting bank bailouts and Wall Street abusers have been — not surprisingly — Tea Party apostles whose primary focus was to get government out of their wallets.
“What we’re down here trying to achieve” Cahill said, “is real dialogue that sparks a positive change, one that can hopefully narrow the disparity between the few who seem to have everything, and the many who are struggling just to keep a roof over their heads.”
On my way out of this garden of tents and Coleman lanterns, I ran into another social justice veteran, the Rev. Robert Kennedy, pastor of St. Monica/St. Augustine parishes. My pastor, who proudly went to jail in solidarity with workers treated so shabbily by the Hyatt Hotel chain.
“Peter, this is where I’d expect to find you,” said the exuberant priest, who is a bit older than Marty Leibowitz.
“Father,” I said, “it’s a good place to be.”
source: Occupy Boston protest one for all ages – BostonHerald.com
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Philippine President threatens to quit United Nations
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has denounced the UN after it called for an end to killings blamed on his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation and invite China and others to form a new one.
Two UN human rights experts last week urged the Philippines to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte won the presidency on a promise to wipe out drugs.
About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on May 9.
Duterte on Sunday denied that the government was responsible and – in a late night news conference in his home town, Davao – said the deaths were not the work of the police and invited UN experts to investigate themselves.
“I will prove to the world that you are a very stupid expert,” he said, urging them to count not just the number of drug-related deaths but also the innocent lives lost to drugs.
He then launched an attack on the UN and its members – including by inference the Philippines’ traditionally close ally, the US – saying, it could not fulfil its own mandate but was “worrying about the bones of criminals piling up”.
“I do not want to insult you. But maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,” he said.
“Why do you have to listen to this stupid?”
Criticising the UN for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite China and African nations to form another global organisation.
“You know, United Nations, if you can say one bad thing about me, I can give you 10 [about you]. I tell you, you are an inutile. Because if you are really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and killing.”
Asked about the possible consequences of his comments, he said: “What is … repercussions? I don’t give a sh*t to them.”
He said the UN should have acted according to protocol by sending someone such as a rapporteur to talk to him.
“You do not just go out and give a sh*tting statement against a country,” he said.
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Monument MHG13109 - Ledmore
MHG13109 - Ledmore
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FIELD SYSTEM (Post Medieval - 1560 AD to 1900 AD)
Sites and Monuments Record Card © Highland Council id: 26300 (click to open this file in a new window)
Field System. Grass cover. Elevation: 152m (500') OD. NC 248 125. <1>
Visited by the Assynt's Hidden Lives project in December 2009. Situated in heather moorland, enclosed by two earthen banks are areas of improved ground. The most westerly enclosure is sub-rectangular with its SW end truncated by the road. It is 100m long, aligned NNE-SSW, with a subdivision running N/S across its eastern side. The eastern enclosure is L-shaped, 50m long, aligned NE/SW with a subdivision running N/S through its W side. Both enclosures have overgrown earthen banks which are 2m wide and up to 1m high. There are no obvious entrances to either enclosure although there are a number of eroded/damaged areas on both. <2>
<1> Mercer, R. J. & Howell, J.M., 1980, Archaeological field survey in northern Scotland, 1976-1979, 11 (Text/Report/Fieldwork Report). SHG2510.
<2> Cavers, G & Hudson, G, 05/2010, Assynt's Hidden Lives: An archaeological survey of the the parish, 101, p.114 (Text/Report/Fieldwork Report). SHG24882.
<1> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Mercer, R. J. & Howell, J.M.. 1980. Archaeological field survey in northern Scotland, 1976-1979. University of Edinburgh. 30/01/1980. Paper and Digital. 11.
<2> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Cavers, G & Hudson, G. 05/2010. Assynt's Hidden Lives: An archaeological survey of the the parish. AOC Archaeology Group and Historic Assynt. 01/08/2010. Digital. 101, p.114.
Centred NC 2484 1254 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
NC21SW
ASSYNT
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