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Database Changes Done Right
Alex Papadimoulis (cs) 2012-02-28
Decided to cut this from the article... the comments seemed like a good place to paste it.
Yes to NOSQL? While NOSQL databases are somewhat based around EAV principles, I can say with 99.999% certainty that NOSQL is not for you. You are not, nor will not have to deal with Facebook-sized problems, and if you ever do, you'll be in a great position to hire a highly-specialized engineer who actually knows how to solve massive scalability problems.
NOSQL databases are not a database evolution by any means. In fact, they’re a throwback many of the systems designed in the 1960';s and 1970's, where a megabyte of memory cost more than a programmer's annual salary. As hardware costs became cheaper (i.e. a megabyte only cost a week’s salary), databases evolved into what we know today: the relational model.
Play with them on your hobby projects, but they don't belong in your work projects. Remember, programming is supposed to be boring.
Ohlmann (unregistered) 2012-02-28
The comment about NoSQL can be quickly wrong. NoSQL are not replacement of database to help performance, that's a common fallacy.
They are just another useful tool for a precise use. Exactly like SQL, but for others needs.
Redis, for example, is useful for precises cases : if you don't need to request data by something else than its id, have concurrent computing problems, and / or have an awful lot of writing, Redis can be a useful tool.
(note that "NoSQL" is by itself a wrong phrase. It's a buzzword tackled on very differents technologies with very different use)
And above all, keep your head cool and use the tool you need. Not using NoSQL is exactly as stupid as using only NoSQL. Do you stop using your car because you can take a plane ? That's the same with NoSQL. Use it when you need it, and don't use fallacy like "I am not facebook, this can't be useful".
übercoder (unregistered) 2012-02-28
We use (something like) www.deltasql.org for versioning of our DB schemas between stable / testing / development branches.
me (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Maybe I'm having a late-term case of post-Monday stupidity, but what the hell does SAP have to do/mean in the context of "being replaced" - do you mean the Germain company or something else?
Matthew Brubaker (unregistered) 2012-02-28
For those interested in doing versioning of their database in the manner Alex specified near the end of the article, the FOSS tool RoundhousE (https://github.com/chucknorris/roundhouse) is the tool we use where I work and have been exceedingly happy with.
emurphy (cs) in reply to me 2012-02-28
Their ERP software, presumably. IIRC it has a reputation of "there are lots of people out there who will customize the crap out of this thing if you have the budget for it".
3rd Ferguson (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Perhaps the most important component of any change management system is organizational discipline. It's particularly true about databases, where tools to automate it and audit it are immature at best. The organization must be disciplined enough to document its way around the lack of tools.
My organization (a large paint company up the road from Inedo) maintains a code repository chock full of DDL code, the latest checked-in version of which is always implemented in Dev, QA and Prod EXCEPT when there is an ACTIVE change request. The DDL is simply "CREATE OR REPLACE" for procedures/packages and simply "ALTER TABLE" when table structures change. (Yes, we know that makes it painful to recover to a given place in the chain of table mods but in 2+ years of being in maintenance mode that has never happened outside of Dev. Let's be realistic about whether we really need to solve that problem.) The change request system is sufficiently advanced to coordinate all the steps required to modify both the DDL layer in the database along with any executable code, scheduled jobs, configuration, etc. Both the business people and the several technical teams involved in most changes can all see the change request as it winds its way along, being notified by email whenever it advances between environments or teams. Whoever the latest person is in the chain sees whatever has already happened and we make sure to pester each other when we're not satisfied with the quality of the entries at each step. It's a metric buttload of paperwork but the process is auditable and repeatable, and that meets the ultimate business need of knowing what's in Production and what to do when it breaks at 3:00AM.
Alex is right about the resistance to change leading to uncontrolled change (and vice versa). Think of earthquake activity on a fault line, where pent up need to shift leads to sudden mass change and often disaster. We avoid that by having a workable, if labor intensive process, for managing lots of small changes. The learning curve on the process is steeper than anyone would like but it's really not that bad after the first few changes and it beats the crap out of the alternative that's been so aptly laid out in various WTFs over the years.
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The Article:
...most developers’ reluctance to master this method leads towards a tendency to simultaneously resist change and change things uncontrollably.
...or to abandon databases altogether and seek out alternate solutions on the pretense that they are either "easier to understand" or "the future" of databases.
Birfhum (unregistered) 2012-02-28
I am glad to be using Event Sourcing and CQRS; database changes aren't an issue.
Myth (unregistered) in reply to 3rd Ferguson 2012-02-28
3rd Ferguson:
That's NIMH, not NIBH.
Alex (unregistered) 2012-02-28
I think it's incredibly limiting to say migrations have to be SQL scripts.
We have a system of migrations with full access to all our application's services, the full object model and the EntityManager (we're running on Hibernate).
Sometimes, these migrations just run an SQL script (like a simple UPDATE to set a new boolean field to false for every row), but often a new field will need to be calculated somehow, and then it's nice to have your actual application logic do the calculations.
Also, if your whole application is using JPA QL, dropping down to SQL in migrations will be bug prone.
The WRONG way to do this is to mandate all database access be done via stored procedures, and then have to run some five dozen sprocs to "update" a database. And store each of these scripts in SVN and never remove them, resulting in a not-quite-migration history of all the changes you've done to your database.
Simple (unregistered) 2012-02-28
I delivered to a customer the truly ultimate, general purpose, totally flexible platform. I didn't even install an O/S on the computer I supplied.
Jon (unregistered) 2012-02-28
+1 For logs. Without, it's Russian Roulette (just a matter of time).
Mike S (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Minor Point: We've used EAV several times when we didn't know what data we'd be capturing, and what we would capture would change regularly. It's a nice general solution to that problem. The only real alternatives I've seen is loads 'o data tables, or the single table with 99+ string columns.
Kemp (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Alembic. That is all.
Matthew (unregistered) 2012-02-28
It made me feel all warm and fuzzy to know I have worked in two different places that did this right. Between source control software, dev/test/prod (along with a dedicated QA team) we never had a problem escape into production. Submitting every db change as a script may have been a PITA, but it worked.
savar (cs) in reply to Mike S 2012-02-28
I haven't replied here in some time, but this article touches on a sensitive topic at my workplace for a few years. In that time we have had 4 different migration systems, including (1) no system at all (2) a perl hackery thing I wrote (3) the official migration system packaged with our ORM and finally (4) a new custom migration system written in the same language as the rest of our project that was thoroughly discussed and planned before beginning the implementation.
I'm not sure our solution would work everywhere, but so far it's solved all of the big problems we've had with each of our previous systems. And it largely matches what Alex describes.
Mike S:
Anyway, I wanted to reply to this in particular. The need for the EAV pattern isn't new or uncommon. Lots of designers face a similar problem with "we don't know what we'll need to store". The problem with putting EAV in an RDBMS is that you lose all of the useful features of the RDBMS such as types, constraints, foreign keys, etc. You also take on some of the negative aspects of RDBMS (such as the change management quagmire mentioned in the foregoing article).
At that point, the only real reason to put the EAV in the RDBMS is because you can't think of any better place to put it. That's usually not a good rationale for designing serious applications.
Depending on your needs, it may make more sense to serialize the EAV to a file (e.g. INI format or a native binary format), serialize to volatile storage (e.g. memcached), or write to a document-based storage system <please don't hit me>. Or you may decide that you're not going to store this EAV at all, and instead you'll normalize the information and tell the client that future changes will not be trivial but it's worth it because the present system will be more reliable, faster, and cheaper to operate.
I don't see anything wrong with having multiple storage systems for a single application. For data that fits the relational model well, store it an RDBMS. For data that fits some other model better, store it somewhere else.
Teotwawki (unregistered) 2012-02-28
EAV. First time I encountered this outside of school was Magento. As much as it makes a lot of sense theoretically, EAV can be very painful.
EAV has its place: college classrooms.
Jacob (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Would anyone care to comment on how well Alex's approach here matches the Ruby on Rails approach (migration scripts written in a database-agnostic DSL, each of which is meant to be reversible; a log in each data environment defining which scripts have been run against that environment)?
Anketam (cs) in reply to savar 2012-02-28
savar:
... <please don't hit me> ...
For the lols and giggles! *Punches savar in the arm*
Teotwawki (unregistered) in reply to savar 2012-02-28
I just knew there would be someone trying to ruin tdwtf by putting informative and well thought out comments on tdwtf!
In particular: "I don't see anything wrong with having multiple storage systems for a single application"
Microsoft's Great Plains software sort of does this. It essentially uses EAV on some tables while using a more traditional approach on others. However, the table names and data definitions being stored in files rather than having useful table names and column names in the database drives me nuts now and then.
Magento has moved a long ways from it's beginning. Nearly everything was in an EAV format in early versions, but now some data has transitioned from EAV to a more traditional column oriented style.
Jay (unregistered) in reply to Simple 2012-02-28
I gave my customers the most flexible system yet invented: A pad of paper and a box of crayons. They can store any data they want, including text and graphics.
geoffrey, MCP, PMP (unregistered) in reply to Ohlmann 2012-02-28
Ohlmann:
NoSQL is a fad invented by programmers who think they have outsmarted giant enterprises when it comes to data storage and retrieval. Nothing more.
Jay (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Side note: It is much harder to fix a bad database than a bad program.
If you discover that one module is poorly written, you can often fix it or even throw it away and rewrite it with minimal impact on other modules. Sometimes there are dependencies, of course, but you can do a lot of clean-up without changing external interfaces. And most of the time -- not always, but most of the time -- the number of other modules affected by changes to a given module is manageable.
But if you discover that a database table is poorly designed, fixing it very often means changing every module that accesses that table, which could be lots. Oh, you can add an index, and sometimes you can change a field length or that sort of minor thing. But if you realize that the employee table really needs to be broken into an employee table AND a benefits table, or that the shipping-info table must connect to order ITEMS and not to orders, etc, you could face many, many coding changes all over the place to support it. Plus, you'll have to write a data conversion program to reformat the data from the old schema to the new.
DB design changes are almost always painful. Adding stuff? Not so bad. Changing existing stuff? Painful.
SRP (unregistered) 2012-02-28
A spirit level of good application code is the ease with which code can be arbitrarily changed without breaking the build.
Are you suggesting that the same applies to the database? As soon as you are unprepared to change the schema, the entire database is likely broken and is in need of an overhaul?
HappyEngineer (unregistered) 2012-02-28
The solution we came up with turned 4 hour DB deployments that often failed into half hour deployments that always succeed. We used to have the horrible system where we had one sql script to deploy and another sql script to rollback (per DB). It failed all the time. People failed to update the rollback scripts consistently and they were rarely tested.
We now have xml deploy scripts that have very short bits of sql and the corresponding bit of rollback sql. For example:
<sql db="cps_cpsdata">
<terseDesc>Add and set cannedRole field on Role.</terseDesc>
<deploy>
alter table Role add cannedRole NUMBER(1) DEFAULT(0);
update Role set cannedRole=1 WHERE company='102' and name not like 'Employee%';
</deploy>
<rollback>
alter table Role drop column cannedRole;
</rollback>
</sql>
We then have teamcity constantly running the deploy scripts against a test DB every time anything changes.
The point is that each <sql> element is in charge of deploying and rolling back. If you drop a column then you need to save the data in another table first so that the rollback can add it back.
With teamcity constantly deploying and rolling back we quickly find out of the script properly rolls things back.
For more complex operations we have actual dedicated deployer types:
<editPrivilege isNew="true" key="View Android Package" name="View Android Package"/>
The "editPrivilege" type corresponds to java code that knows how to deploy and roll back privilege objects perfectly every time.
The <sql> elements can also run against any DB, so deployments that require changes to several DB will all run at the same time and stay in sync.
The final step is the deploy phase. The deployer runs these scripts and then, if a failure occurs, it automatically rolls back. When the deployer is finished the DB is either in the new updated state or it's back in the original state.
DB deploy used to be a nightmare, but in the 2 years of using this system we have NEVER had a failed DB deployment.
Alex Papadimoulis (cs) in reply to Jacob 2012-02-28
Jacob:
I almost added this as an anti-pattern, but ran out of room. So, here goes…
Anti-Pattern: DB Migrate Ruby on Rails developers have championed an “innovative” approach called “DB Migrate” to handle database changes. Essentially, you define structures in a database-agnostic, domain-specific language and then apply those to any supported database platform. I put innovative in quotes because this is simply a reinvention of a bad idea.
Database management systems were designed to solve the problem of tightly-coupled application code and application data. They learned long ago that data not only outlives code, but it works a lot differently and, therefore, needs to be treated differently.
DB Migrate is simply a tightly coupled convention/syntax of the underlying RoR platform and, worse, it unnecessarily abstracts an abstraction. SQL does not need to be “wrapped” with a less expressive language.
The “reversibility” of the migrations is security theater. The idea of a “simple rollback” does lead to a warm and fuzzy feeling, but no one ever tests rollback scripts. Especially against production … where it actually matters. Because if they actually knew how to test stuff, then they wouldn’t need to worry about rollbacks in the first place. So, you’re left with a script that simply makes things worse.
Does it make development faster? Of course it does. Then again, so does writing your code directly in production.
Jeff (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis 2012-02-28
"While NOSQL databases are somewhat based around EAV principles, I can say with 99.999% certainty that NOSQL is not for you. You are not, nor will not have to deal with Facebook-sized problems, and if you ever do, you'll be in a great position to hire a highly-specialized engineer who actually knows how to solve massive scalability problems."
What if my main reason for using NoSQL is NOT the expectation of dealing with Facebook-sized problems?
Say I want to manage a small or medium database, but avoid the development overhead from creating and altering table structures.
If I add a new field to my data model, then in a relational database I'll need to:
Change the code
Create a database change script
Test the database change script
Ensure that the change script runs exactly once
Keep backups of the data in case the change script fails, despite testing
Avoid altering the table during working hours since it involves a full table rebuild
While in a NoSQL database like MongoDB I'll need to:
...and it just works, right away.
If I also want to index the new field for optimum performance, that's another small step, but the signal-to-noise ratio of "what I want to do" and "how much code or queries do I need to write to accomplish it" is still lightyears ahead of RDBMS.
Is NoSQL still not for me?
FuBar (unregistered) in reply to Jay 2012-02-28
Jay:
+1 this. Start with your entities and attributes, people! Validate it with the business! Remember, the data belongs to the organization, not to the application. Repeat: The data belongs to the organization, not to the application. My organization has data that started out on recipe cards in the 1930's. That data was computerized on a mainframe in the 1960's, migrated to a Vax in the 1980's, migrated to MS SQL and .Net in 2011, and will undoubtedly be on something else 20 years from now. This is possible because the first people to computerize the data thought carefully about how to structure it - they kept future generations in mind. The data belongs to the organization, not to the application.
frits (cs) in reply to Jay 2012-02-28
Ever heard of a DAL?
OneMist8k (unregistered) 2012-02-28
NoSQL versus SQL?
Martin Fowler recently put together a few excellent slides on the subject. Read and enjoy.
Jonathan (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis 2012-02-28
So tell us how you really feel about Notes, Alex...
Boris (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Re: "Re-executable Change Scripts", I don't get it. If your intention is to add a column to a table you do exactly what's in the example. If the column already exists in (some versions of) the database, but is defined differently, you know about it and therefore stick an alter column statement to cover it. In fact, it is crucial that a script can be run multiple times while making sure that no changes are made if the script is executed again. People accidentally do that all the time.
Matt (unregistered) 2012-02-28
That's only an anti-pattern because you're using the tool a foolish way. Most of us manage to have a single deploy script that is fully tested. It's called deploying against a restore of a recent backup.
I also find it utterly hilarious that you can create an article called 'Database Changes Done Right' without using the word 'transaction' once.
PiisAWheeL (cs) in reply to OneMist8k 2012-02-28
OneMist8k:
Martin Fowler recently put together [removed to make akismet happy.] a few excellent slides[/url] on the subject. Read and enjoy.
Here's my favorite reading on the subject: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/
And akismet can piss off!
Gunslinger (unregistered) 2012-02-28
If you designed the database correctly the first time, this wouldn't be an issue.
Zunesis, In the Flesh! (Your mom's!) (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Zylon:
Looks like somebody has an itchy comment-deleting finger today.
Looks like somebody was so satisfied with the self-fellation that was today's article that he couldn't allow a hint of dissent.
DiskJunky (unregistered) 2012-02-28
We use a very similar system in my workplace, with some minor changes that suit our deployment a little better. Eg, we have a simple db versioning system where a table exists called ControlRecord that contains Major, Minor and Release columns. Our scripts are batched into; SQL
SQL\Original SQL\Patches\v1.0.10 SQL\Patches\v1.2.00 SQL\Patches...
Where each folder contains a "001) DB Version Check.sql" script that ensures that the scripts in the folder are only every run against the correct version of the database. Our batch file is a little more explicit in that it parses the results of "dir *.sql /b/a-d/on" to ensure that the scripts are run in order (some file systems don't return files sorted by name automatically, eg, FAT32 - why such an FS would be used in production is a different question but you get the idea)
On a side note, you may want to change your scripts to use "sqlcmd" instead of "osql" as "osql" is being deprecated...
EAV Redux: EAV's useful for situations where you have to store structured data, where users are specifying the structure at run time, and the structure's different for different "classes" of data. In the systems that I've seen and worked on, everything else gets stored in 3rd normal form. It's got plenty of downsides (performance is poor, and reporting's a pain), but it's great for what it does. For reporting, we have a tool that converts EAV to 3rd normal format. It spits out over 100 tables into a seperate reporting database.
AN AMAZING CODER (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis 2012-02-28
Either you're not using NoSql as the buzzword it has become, or I can say with 99.999% certainly you make claims off the cuff instead of due diligence.
This is like the fools that think Macs suck because they're not PCs and vice versa. Neither is correct, both are dumb.
Dave-Sir (unregistered) in reply to Myth 2012-02-28
Depends on whether or not you have a cold...
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Peter (unregistered) 2012-02-28
I like the article and it sounds like it is a formula for success, but your comments on all of NoSQL and migration frameworks are...unfortunate.
It's almost like you don't want alternative approaches to work, like you're rooting against NoSQL and rooting against migration frameworks such as RoundhousE (which uses native SQL scripts, not an abstraction).
C (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis 2012-02-28
If you ever use a call to db:migrate:rollback in production, you've done something very, very wrong and should be restoring from backup anyway. If you've not tested your changes against a dev or staging environment, again, you've done something very, very wrong.
On the subject of NoSQL databases, in the case of the document database (mongodb, amazon simpledb), it's quite useful for quickly prototyping and developing. Might not be the best to go enterprise with, but quite fine for prototype stages.
Michael (unregistered) in reply to Jonathan 2012-02-28
I was thinking of that the entire time I read this article.
CAPTCHA: esse. don't stab me, esse.
jinx (unregistered) 2012-02-28
without reading all the comments, check out Liquibase. Not perfect, but does all Alex mentioned.
captcha: f you for posting damn captchas
Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis 2012-02-28
2.(Optional) Code Review – this is optional, of course, but it's always nice to have a second set of eyes
(Optional) Checking for any kind of bugs in any kind of development, anywhere. (Optional) A second set of eyes. (Optional) NO IT IS NOT.
(Optional) Producing front page material. (Optional) The owner of this site suggesting that the avoidance of front page material is Optional.
Rich (unregistered) 2012-02-28
(Optional) Code Review – this is optional, of course, but it’s always nice to have a second set of eyes
Maybe the other eyes can help is true, but a lot of the time the value comes from you having to explain things. If it's just in your head, it can be a somewhat featureless blob of thought. You think "hey, I'll get that when I get there."
But to explain it to someone, you need to take the the featureless blob to something much more concrete. Those 'think of later' things need to be thought of, those loose ends need to be tied.
I keep a bookmark for the Cardboard Cutout Dog around.
myName (unregistered) 2012-02-28
Yes, I'll just run a SQL script against my UniVerse database, that'll work.
Vincent (unregistered) 2012-02-28
I used south with django, which is more or less the same functionality as ruby on rails migrations ( just comment if you think it's not that similar ). I'd say it's really great during development, but while rollback scripts can be handy, I'm not sure if it's really useful or safe on a production database. Such simple automated migrations are useful when the database is really bound to only one application, so let's not compare apples to oranges, on a centralized enterprise database with all kind of applications using it, that would be nonsense.
Then on nosql databases : you still have a schema that may change, and that means you may need data migrations scripts. For instance, a blog post may have comments directly embed in the blog post record ; but it doesn't work well if you have thousands of records embedded in a single parent record. So you may need to create another table with comments, and just keep IDs in the blog post table. So it's easy to create new columns, embed subrecords, or create indexes on the fly ... but using a nosql database does not mean you can avoid data migrations.
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One in three card payments are made using contactless technology as consumers appear to have cast aside any doubts of paying without a Pin.
The number of transactions using contactless rose 31% in 2018 compared with the previous year, banking trade body UK Finance data shows.
Adoption of this technology on public transport and by more retailers has led, in part, to the rise.
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Debit card use had already been rising dramatically at the expense of cash.
In 2017, debit card use overtook the number of payments made in cash in the UK for the first time.
The growth in contactless in 2018 is expected to lead to to a widening of this gap.
Some 6.3 billion payments were made using contactless debit cards last year, a 29% increase on the previous year, the UK Finance data shows. These purchases were worth a collective total of £58bn.
The increase in the use of contactless on credit cards was even greater – with 44% more purchases of this kind in 2018 compared with the previous year.
More consumers have been sent replacement credit cards with a contactless facility, but they are still used far less than debit cards. There were 1.1 billion credit card payments on contactless last year, valued at nearly £11bn.
The average amount spent in a transaction of any kind on a debit or credit card last year was £35.
Eric Leenders, managing director of personal finance at UK Finance, said: “Many of us are now reaching for our cards or mobiles rather than cash to make low-value purchases, as customers opt for the convenience and security of paying with contactless.
“There has also been an increase in credit card use although growth in outstanding balances has slowed, suggesting many consumers are using their cards for day-to-day spending rather than as a means of borrowing.”
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Paul Simon – The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
PAUL SIMON RHYTHM Lp NOT AS GOOD AS NEW DON DOKKEN SOLO ALBUM, REPORTS COLUMBUS DOKKEN FAN
Speaking out at Shari Newman’s Hallowe’en party on Chittenden Avenue in Columbus’s Ohio State University district this weekend, Dokken fan Alan Rich dismissed Paul Simon’s new Rhythm of the Saints album as “not a patch on [just released Don Dokken solo Lp] Up From the Ashes. It may not even be as good as [current Ratt release] Detonator.”
Dressed for the party as the Unabomber in a simple grey hooded sweatshirt, fake mustache, curly wig and sunglasses, Rich called himself an “eclectic” music fan with an “real open mind” though readily admits to being an “absolute, A-number 1 Dokken fan.”
“Basically, I dig everything from classics like Zep, Sabs and Purp to modern stuff like G’n’R and Bon Jovi. So it’s not like I’m not willing to try new things. But this record, with its smooth, complex ‘jungle’ rhythms and literate, cosmopolitan lyrics lacks the basic Les Paul and Marshall stack guitar sound and 4/4 beat that makes great music. I don’t hear one chorus that says ‘party anthem’ like ‘Stay’ or ‘Mirror, Mirror.’ And the ‘The Obvious Child?’ Seriously, what’s that even about?”
“It ain’t obvious to me,” he added with a chuckle.
Pointing out the loud volume at which Rhythm was being played, Rich noted that “It doesn’t even sound good cranked up,” calling that a “sure sign” of the record’s deficiency.
But pre-med student Newman, who received the record in September as a birthday present from long-time boyfriend Kevin Nelson, said she likes music from other cultures, citing David Byrne’s Rei Momo, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo compilation and Simon’s earlier Graceland as evidence of her “world music” credentials. Costumed as Vampira, with black eyeliner and a figure hugging black dress with plunging neck line, Newman enthused about “how he [Simon] continues to use the same conversational style and tone of singing…which works so well set against the vaguely African and Brazilian polyrhythms. The record is more groove oriented and less poppy than Graceland–I think I like it better, but that may be because I’m so sick of Graceland.”
She quickly rejected Rich’s critique, saying, “Oh [Alan] just doesn’t get it if it isn’t heavy metal crap.”
“Anyway,” she said, “he hates Paul Simon because everyone always used to sing ‘You Can Call Me Al’ every time he walked into home room at CAHS [Columbus Alternative High School].”
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What does Charles Leclerc's elevation mean for Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari and F1 in 2019?
What will Leclerc bring to Ferrari? (1:45)
Ferrari announced that Charles Leclerc will join the side for the 2019 season following Kimi Raikkonen's exit. (1:45)
Nate SaundersF1 Associate Editor
• Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes
• History graduate from Reading University
• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014
Ferrari's decision to elevate Charles Leclerc to the senior team is the riskiest driver signing it has made in recent memory.
It's a move which is likely to have several implications: at Ferrari, in the championship and even possibly at main title rivals Mercedes. Below we look at three key areas which may be impacted by Leclerc's rise to the top table.
A better wingman for Vettel?
Charles Leclerc will partner Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari in 2019. Octane/Action Plus via Getty Images
Ferrari has been criticised for its tactics at the Italian Grand Prix, where Raikkonen beat Vettel to pole position. Kimi Raikkonen held the lead into Turn 1 but then the race fell apart for the Italian team: a vulnerable Vettel was passed by his main championship rival Lewis Hamilton at the next chicane. Hamilton went on to win, aided by his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas holding up Raikkonen at a decisive moment later in the race, opening up a 30-point lead over Vettel in the process.
There was a feeling in the Monza paddock that Raikkonen had not played the team game at the team's home race. The Finn had also dithered when given a team order during the German Grand Prix -- something he put down to the ambiguity of the message. Those incidents led to the suspicion that Raikkonen had become less willing to play the team game after discovering Ferrari's decision not to retain him into 2019. Whatever the true story, the way Mercedes used team orders or team strategy at both races helped the German manufacturer secure its two biggest upset wins of the season.
The arrival of Leclerc should, in theory, give Ferrari a clearer hierarchy. Leclerc is highly rated but is not a former world champion like or as popular as Raikkonen -- the last man to win a title in Ferrari colours. Given the support the Italian team has given to his career at this point, and the knowledge that he likely has better years ahead of him, it would not be a surprise if the Monaco native was more willing to play a Bottas-style role to Vettel in 2019. Bottas has played an important role in consolidating Hamilton's lead in this year's championship and that is a tactic Ferrari has to consider going forward, especially considering it was once a hallmark of the team from Maranello.
After five years of having an all-star driver line-up featuring two world champions -- Alonso and Raikkonen in 2014, Vettel and Raikkonen since -- the arrival of Leclerc feels a bit more like the Ferrari of old. Michael Schumacher always had reliable wingmen in Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello and Massa and, as former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo pointed out after Monza, the presence of those teammates helped him secure five straight world championships.
But of course, that all assumes Leclerc comes in and is unable to immediately match his new teammate....
Déjà vu for Vettel?
Sebastian Vettel struggled to match Daniel Ricciardo when the Australian was promoted to be his teammate at Red Bull in 2014. Mark Thompson/Getty Images
The last time Vettel faced a highly rated young teammate who had been promoted from a junior team, it didn't go well. When Daniel Ricciardo made the step up from Toro Rosso to be Vettel's Red Bull teammate in 2014, he blew his more experienced teammate out of the water. Vettel was a reigning four-time world champion but beat the Australian on track just three times over the course of the season, something which played a role in his decision to move to Ferrari at the end of that campaign.
There is also the famous case of McLaren and 2007: a young Lewis Hamilton, a driver with similar hype around him then to Leclerc now, ruffling the feathers of reigning two-time world champion Fernando Alonso. The environment at McLaren turned toxic later that year and Hamilton and Alonso's desire to beat each other to the title ultimately helped Raikkonen and Ferrari claim the championship from under their noses.
There are two very real dangers for Ferrari. One is that the promotion is too much, too soon for Leclerc, and the pressure of competing with Vettel every week is too much to handle -- see the example of Stoffel Vandoorne alongside Alonso at McLaren -- and its rising star is equally damaged in a handful of seasons. The other is the opposite scenario, that Leclerc is as good right now as some say he is and he comes in and starts beating the man the other side of the garage.
Vettel went to Ferrari to win multiple world championships and has played a crucial role in the resurgence it has enjoyed over the past few years. It's hard to imagine Vettel being comfortable in the latter situation and, given the tone of some of his irritated radio messages to Ferrari over the past two seasons, that might well be a recipe for a disaster.
Ferrari shows Mercedes how to treat a junior driver
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Mercedes might want to take a leaf out of Ferrari's book next season. In the hour after Leclerc's move was confirmed, Mercedes junior driver Esteban Ocon was posting a message to Twitter vowing that he would not give up his F1 career without a fight. That a talent like Ocon is actually in a situation where he might not be on the grid in 2019 is ridiculous and down to a number of factors, but at least some of the blame must be placed at the feet of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff.
It is now known Wolff spent the weeks leading up to August's summer break trying to get Ocon in to Renault, only to be scuppered by the team's signing of Ricciardo. Subsequent approaches to the likes of McLaren were also knocked back, with non-Mercedes teams reluctant to take on the man Wolff believes will be the team's next big star. The situation was complicated by Lawrence Stroll's takeover of Force India and the fact his son Lance is likely to take Ocon's place at the team next year. A source within the paddock recently told me that he believes Wolff's biggest problem is that he is constantly trying to spin as many plates as possible at any given moment: the sequence of events outlined here exposed that very clearly.
But there was a simple solution in front of Wolff all along. The team signed Valtteri Bottas to a one-year extension earlier this year but it is understood there remains an element of doubt within Mercedes about the Finn's ability to ever genuinely compete at Hamilton's level. With Ocon and George Russell in the wings, Bottas has always seemed like a stop-gap, a short-term solution. Wolff may have acted differently had the events of the last few months unfolded before his decision was made to retain Bottas, of course, but Ferrari has avoided similar headaches by trusting its instincts and putting its hottest commodity at the sharp end of the grid.
To prevent Ocon finding himself in a similar position going into 2020, Wolff surely has to consider lining the Frenchman up alongside Hamilton sooner rather than later.
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Indian Railways Will Buy ‘Readymade’ Trains From Private Companies; 320 Vande Bharat…
Malvika Gurung Jul 15, 2019
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In order to increase their profits, and reduce their losses, Indian Railways has invited ideas from Indian citizens, and if the ideas are accepted, the sender stands to win prizes worth Rs 10 lakh.
Rs 10 Lakh Cr Allocated For High-Speed Rail Corridor; 50% Discount On Luxury Trains Soon!
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A top railway official has revealed that very soon, Indian Railways will announce a massive allocation of funds for building high-speed rail corridor, connecting all major cities of India. Rs 10 lakh crore is expected to be the budget, for…
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As part of our work as a trans human rights organisation, we monitor trans healthcare services in Northern Ireland and help them change through work with government, activists and health services. However, the most important input to that work comes from people on the ground – trans young people and adults, and the families of trans children. Your input ensures our work is addressing the relevant concerns and focusing our work in the correct areas.
We’re launching our first Trans Healthcare NI Survey, to capture the opinions and experiences of trans communities here in Northern Ireland.
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SwitchArcade Roundup: ‘Super Mario Party’ Impressions, ‘Yo-Kai Watch 4’ & the eShop Sales Ending This Weekend
Posted on October 12, 2018 by Phillip Stortzum
Welcome to your SwitchArcade Roundup for October 12th, 2018. Your life of the party, Phil is here to share some more Switch-related news, impressions, new releases, and eShop sales-related info for your Friday! Today, I have some Super Mario Party impressions for all of you party animals out there. If you have a “Mario Party" like I have, then the party won’t end until everyone stops speaking to each other! …Good times. Good times.
Game of the Day
Super Mario Party ($59.99)
I’m going to do something unheard of and break the rules of the SwitchArcade Roundup. Wait. I just forgot about Rule #1 of the SwitchArcade Roundup–there ARE NO rules! Nevertheless, today I’m combining the Game of the Day with my impressions of Super Mario Party, as I’ve gone through the game’s main modes in-depth enough to know I really like what’s on offer here with the Mushroom Kingdom’s latest bash.
Super Mario Party is an entry that’s a bit of a refresh for the Mario Party series in general, going back to the series’s roots. Part of that is clearly seen by the re-branding of the title, offering a fresh start for Mario Party–excuse me, SUPER Mario Party.
With going back to the roots, Nintendo and developer ND Cube have eschewed Mario Party 9 and Mario Party 10‘s car mechanic, returning to nonlinear boards where every player moves separately. This time around, boards are much smaller compared to the original Mario Party games. There are less spaces, but what’s featured in these boards is something much denser, offering greater variety. A problem I had with past Mario Party games was that games had so many turns where nothing really happened besides movement.
The smaller real estate of boards ensures that players have opportunities for more interactions with the boards themselves. Whether it’s accumulating Stars at a faster pace than usual, landing on Event spaces to shake things up, or interacting with one of the many characters on each board, there’s always something to see and do in Super Mario Party‘s boards.
The boards in Super Mario Party double up their usage, delivering a completely different experience in Partner Party, where two teams of two “partner" up and move freely around a grid-like board. They then work together to win mini-games, earn coins, and ultimately get enough Stars to win the board. This is similar to what was introduced in the Nintendo 3DS’s Mario Party: Star Rush, at least with how movement is handled–being on a grid and all. The boards of the Mario Party mode in Super Mario Party have been re-purposed, offering new events and obstacles to overcome.
While Super Mario Party goes for a quality over quantity approach with its boards (sadly only having four total), the game definitely delivers quality and quantity when it comes to its modes and mini-games. With modes, Super Mario Party gives players the aforementioned Mario Party and Partner Party modes, but also River Survival–where players must work together to paddle down a raging, multi-diverging river, and earn enough time to reach the river’s end. This is performed by playing four-player co-operative mini-games, which thankfully, the AI even on the easiest difficulty assists with beautifully.
Then, there is Challenge Road, the mode for solo players to tackle all 80 mini-games within Super Mario Party. Here, you’re tasked with completing mini-games with certain ground rules attached to them, so even if you get first place in a mini-game, if you don’t complete the goal, you won’t clear the game. Fortunately, even if you fail a mini-game multiple times, there is no severe punishment as you have unlimited continues and you’re even given the opportunity to skip a particular mini-game if you fail it too many times in a row.
The main goal of Super Mario Party is to earn all five gems to determine which character is crowned the Superstar of the party. By completing all boards in both Mario Party and Partner Party modes, clearing Challenge Road, reaching the five different endings of River Survival, and beating all rounds of the rhythm-based mini-games, you earn all five gems and see the credits roll. However, the party doesn’t end there. No, no. There are even harder versions of modes to tackle, online play via specially selected mini-games against players around the world, and other unlockables that I don’t want to spoil (though they’re nothing really mind-blowing, mind you).
Super Mario Party might lack the amount of boards most of us are used to having in a Mario Party game, but it certainly shines in delivering an engaging and most importantly, fun experience for all players of all ages and skill levels. The mini-games of Mario Party games developed by ND Cube continue to be brilliant, and the ones in Super Mario Party use a single Joy-Con controller well. (There is no Pro Controller support, just in case you’re wondering.) This is a party worth RSVPing you. Heck, you don’t even have to RSVP to it! Sure, some of you party animals will have to shell out $59.99 to attend, but that’s better than an RSVP… right?
Yo-Kai Watch 4 gains a Japanese trailer and ten minutes of direct-feed gameplay footage
At Tokyo Game Show 2018 several weeks ago, Level-5 showed off a trailer and some gameplay footage of Yo-Kai Watch 4. At that time, Yo-Kai Watch 4 was planned for release by the end of the year. Now, the game has been delayed to next spring–though this piece of news isn’t focusing so much on that.
Regardless, at TGS, there was off-camera footage of Yo-Kai Watch 4, but today there’s direct-feed footage of the game as delivered directly from Level-5. This includes the game’s debut trailer and some extended gameplay to show it off in action. While the frame-rate is inconsistent, hopefully the delay will afford the development team time to iron it out. For now, take a glimpse at some Yo-Kai Watch 4 in all of its new-fangled home console glory.
Gal Metal gets ready to rock on the Switch with this release date announcement trailer
Taiko no Tatsujin isn’t the only drum-based rhythm game coming to the Switch within the next month. Now, Gal Metal arrives on October 30th in North America courtesy of XSEED while Europe gets the game on November 2nd thanks to Marvelous. Gal Metal previously released in Japan in early February of this year, and it wasn’t quite a hit. Quite the opposite, actually–at least when it concerned sales.
However, now Gal Metal gets a second chance at success with both an eShop release at $29.99 and a physical “World Tour Edition" for $39.99. The latter contains a DLC pack containing five characters with one episode of story content and a song apiece included with the release. Meanwhile, eShop buyers can make a separate purchase of this DLC for $9.99, so everyone can be happy! For those about to rock, I salute you.
The subject of cross-play for Diablo III on the Switch gets touched upon by Blizzard Entertainment
If you’re wondering about the potential for cross-play for the Switch version of Diablo III, Blizzard Entertainment has an answer. Business Insider Australia reports that a representative from Blizzard informed that cross-play for Diablo III on the Switch with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is “a question of when, not if." Seeing Sony’s recent turnaround with cross-play with other home consoles as well as Nintendo and Microsoft’s already enthusiastic approach with cross-play between their own systems, it seems that Blizzard’s response is one to believe.
UPDATE: And just like that, moments before publishing this the source of that original comment has been shot down by an official statement from Blizzard provided to Dualshockers, who says “While we love the idea of bringing our players together across platforms, we do not have any plans to implement cross-platform gameplay for Diablo at this time." Boo!
Onion Games’ Black Bird flies onto the Nintendo Switch next week
The World Ends With You: Final Remix ($49.99)
The power is yet unknown! The original World Ends With You released on the Nintendo DS over ten years ago. It has since seen an updated iPhone version, and now it sees a Nintendo Switch release with The World Ends With You: Final Remix. Containing additional content–such as a bonus chapter featuring a new character–new and updated music, and touch-based controls via undocked mode or controls in docked mode using the Joy-Con’s pointing technology, The World Ends With You remains a fantastic game with a fantastic concept. However, the execution on the Switch with regards to the control setups on offer is a mixed bag for some.
One Overcooked discount ends, while another Overcooked discount begins! This time around, Overcooked! 2 is on sale for a couple of weeks. As for the original Overcooked, this is your last full day to get the game half off. Take a look at the other games losing their discounts this weekend and on Monday, too!
New Games on Sale
Overcooked! 2 ($19.99 from $24.99 until October 21)
Sales Ending This Weekend
Mugsters ($8.99 from $14.99 until October 13)
Overcooked Special Edition ($9.99 from $19.99 until October 13)
Raging Justice ($7.49 from $14.99 until October 13)
The Escapists 2 ($11.99 from $19.99 until October 13)
Worms W.M.D. ($17.99 from $29.99 until October 13)
Devious Dungeon ($5.99 from $7.99 until October 14)
InkSplosion ($3.74 from $4.99 until October 14)
Mummy Pinball ($1.79 from $1.99 until October 14)
The Mystery of the Hudson Case ($4.15 from $4.89 until October 14)
Vertical Drop Heroes HD ($6.99 from $9.99 until October 14)
Sales Ending Monday, October 15th
Alteric ($0.99 from $4.99 until October 15)
forma.8 ($4.99 from $9.99 until October 15)
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition ($13.49 from $14.99 until October 15)
Mulaka ($15.98 from $19.98 until October 15)
Party Planet ($19.99 from $29.99 until October 15)
We’ve reached the end of today’s SwitchArcade Roundup. This was an abbreviated week of the SwitchArcade Roundup, but I’m going to fire on all cylinders next week! Until then, not only do I want to read your thoughts on the week’s news and releases, but I also want you to keep your Joy-Cons charged and your Switches loaded with great games!
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Every child a scientist
Young scientists explore soil in the 4-H On the Wild Side.
The U.S. faces a significant challenge as young people are not prepared with the necessary science, engineering, and technology knowledge and skills to compete in the 21st century. Only one-third of forth-graders and 30 percent of eighth-graders score at or above proficient in science, and that percentage drops to 21 percent by grade 12 (The Nation’s Report Card, 2009). The gap in science literacy is especially prominent for Hispanic and African American youth. The future of our workforce and our communities depends on a science-literate citizenry.
What Has ANR Done?
The National Science Education Standards (NSES) state clearly that students learn science best through hands-on and minds-on activities that encourage skills such as observation, inferring and experimenting. 4-H in Sacramento County serves a diverse, mostly lower-income audience with three such science programs:
4-H Youth Experiences in Science Project (YES), which engages children ages 5 to 8 in exploration and encourages scientific tasks like observing, comparing and organizing.
4-H On the Wild Side, a teen-planned and led environmental education project that brings forth- through sixth-graders to an overnight camp to learn about and appreciate nature.
4-H Water Wizards, a 12-session water project for fourth- through sixth-grade students in after school programs, which balances the need for critical information about water with discovery through exploration.
In all three programs, children don’t just learn about science, but become scientists themselves, solving problems and building understanding as they ask questions, look for answers and explore their world. Delivered in partnership with after school programs, these programs fill the non-school hours with learning that promotes critical thinking and discovery.
The Payoff
4-H helps close the science gap
In the last three years, almost 2,400 youth participated in Sacramento County’s 4-H science literacy projects, 79 percent of whom were non-white. Children show significant gains in knowledge and great enthusiasm for science. The projects provide engaging science experiences for youth, enhance after-school program quality, and build confidence and competency in after-school staff for teaching science.
Supporting Unit: Sacramento County
Marianne Bird, (916) 875-6423, mbird@ucanr.edu
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The Horizon Automation Group (HAG) was established in 1993 with the aim of localizing and manufacturing industrial automation systems to produce high-frequency controllers for controlling and monitoring production lines.
In 1999, following the success of receiving technical approvals, HAG managed to produce the first full-fledged Iranian security system for residential complex apartments with a capacity of 200 apartment units. The system is branded National Protect (NP) and all the units that have been sold since 2000 are still proudly in service.
Beside a lineup of security systems, in 2002 HAG started an R&D process toward a new lineup of power consumption management systems to monitor, control, and minimize power consumption in both residential and commercial buildings to address major power shortage problems in the country.
3 years of R&D helped HAG to release its first NP lighting control system at the International Building Industry Exhibition, Tehran, Iran. Great product/market fit and fully wireless, central, and automatic hardware helped HAG to mass produce the first generation of this product in 2004 which turned out to be a continued success for this company. As of today HAG offers more than 40 generic and 70 specialized Building Management System (BMS) products that offers a higher value compared to the import competitors.
With many years of successful experience in the design, manufacturing, and implementation of high quality BMS products, HAG is striving to promote the green culture of energy savings by providing modern and smart building automation solutions.
HAG is specialized in the following areas:
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8 Best New York Shopping Areas
Where to Shop and What to Buy in New York
New York is a city littered with shops for all tastes and temperaments. Whether you love scouring levels of department stores or sifting through vintage shops for bargain pieces, the diverse neighbourhoods of this city will satiate your shopping desires. Whilst New York streets can get hectic and cramped, the range of shopping that the city offers more than makes up for the mayhem.
The list below is a comprehensive guide to neighbourhoods within the famed island of Manhattan as well as within the ever-trendy Brooklyn. Shop by area or by theme and try your hardest to spend wisely.
For luxury lovers
The Upper East Side is well-known for its wealthy residents and upscale high-rises. Following close behind are the strings of designer shops and high-end department stores on the world-famous Madison Avenue. Think Louis Vuitton, Tiffany and Co., Prada, Valentino and many more, they have it. Although it may be a shopping spot for those willing to splurge, a wander down Madison Avenue allows for a true New York window shopping experience.
With each turn of the season, department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, Barney’s and Bergdorf Goodman will update their windows with lavish displays – which attract thousands of people each year. A little tip – the further uptown you walk, the pricier the stores.
Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY, USA
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For cult brands
SoHo, abbreviated from South of Houston Street, is an energetic neighbourhood filled with trendy shops and cafes – all worthy of an Instagram post. The area has a decent mixture of all types: fast fashion brands like Zara, international brands like Taschen and mainstream finds like Levi’s. It’s a neighbourhood ideal for those who like to explore by foot, and certainly a lot less crowded than Madison Avenue. What stands out the most in SoHo, in terms of shopping, is its cluster of cult brands such as Reformation, Glossier, American Two Shot… just to name a few. Visit these stores to enhance your cool-girl/boy/human status.
Location: SoHo, New York, NY, USA
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For unique boutiques
Nolita, short for North of Little Italy, is the less-visited counterpart of SoHo. The neighbourhood exudes a charming, trendy atmosphere, which is fairly obvious by the mobs of stylish people who strut about the streets. Composed of narrow streets and carefully curated window displays, Nolita boasts boutiques such as Vince, warm, Babel Fair, Lingo, which all sell curated selections of women’s and menswear. Those are just a handful of the boutiques this area has to offer; if you fancy just wandering around, you’re sure to come across excellent boutiques on your own.
Location: Nolita, New York, NY, USA
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For flashback finds
East Village may not seem like the first choice for a day of shopping, but if you’re one of those people who finds pleasure in past trends, the shops in this area will delight you. East Village is often noted as one of the few places in Manhattan that still has quirky character; it’s full of strange little nooks where you can escape into different worlds. Transport into retro-world when you visit Cloak & Dagger – a shop offering below $100 pieces reminiscent of Wes Anderson characters. Other charismatic shops include Cobblestones and VideoGamesNewYork – a walk-in-closet-sized shop filled with games from across the years.
Location: East Village, New York, NY, USA
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For bargain hunters
Canal Street is a popular place to go for people eyeing a designer-looking bag they can’t afford. Found in Chinatown, these make-shift stalls sell everything from “designer” handbags and wallets to watches and perfumes. Visiting these stalls is as much an attraction in itself – vendors are eccentric and friendly and you’ll often hear funny conversations between themselves. Whether you believe they’re real or not, it’s a different side of New York to the glossy streets of Upper East Side.
Not all the products here are genuine, but make sure you know the difference between counterfeit and knock-off pieces; counterfeit bags are the same in model, colour and logo whilst the latter are imitations “inspired” by the originals.
Location: Canal Street, New York, NY, USA
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For a bit of everything
West Village, home to the famous Bleecker Street and the historic Greenwich Village, holds a mixture of chic boutiques and well-known brands. Found amongst the meandering streets of this area are popular brands like Diptyque and C.O. Bigelow, to fulfill all your home décor needs. Hidden treasures include La Vie Consignment Boutique and Madame Matovu, that can be pretty expensive but when it’s vintage high-end discards – who cares. For trend-setting brands, check out Maison Margiela, Marc Jacobs Bleecker Street and Urban Zen (Donna Karen’s new baby circa 2015).
Location: West Village, New York, NY, USA
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For vintage heaven
Williamsburg, found in the almost-too-cool Brooklyn, is sprawling with amazing vintage and thrift shops. This neighbourhood is well worth trekking over the Brooklyn Bridge – not just for the great shopping but also, for its ever-growing supply of delicious restaurants and cafes, as well as upcoming art galleries. A true mecca for vintage-lovers, you can find two sources of vintage goods: stores and marketplaces. Check out Beacon’s Closet or Atlantis Attic – staple vintage stores – and the much-loved Artist & Fleas marketplace and Brooklyn Flea Market.
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
For the “other Fifth Avenue”
Park Slope is that shy but trendy friend who’s far too modest but has all the coolest and newest clothes. When you think Fifth Avenue, the doors of Tiffany and Co. probably spring to mind, but in Park Slope’s case – Fifth Avenue marks a flurry of independent fashion shops selling one-of-a-kind items. Shopping in this area sees you among vintage troves in the form of brownstone buildings; make sure you snap a picture of this Brooklyn aesthetic. Pay a visit to Bird, another fabulous Beacon’s Closet and Diana Kane.
Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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MONTREAL — Hollywood may have dodged a labor bullet by forging new contracts for actors and writers, but its problems are just beginning in the Great White North.
The current agreement between ACTRA, Canada’s main actors union, and the producers (both Canadian and American) expires at the end of the year, with negotiations set to begin this fall.
Top execs from the U.S. majors have told reps of the Canadian film business that the studios will not bring any productions to Canada in the coming months unless they can definitely wrap filming by Jan. 16. That’s the date when Canadian actors can legally go on strike.
The agreement between ACTRA and film producers expires Dec. 31. The two sides will not even start negotiating until mid-October and no one thinks an actors strike is the most likely outcome of the talks. But it can’t be ruled out as a possibility, which is why the studios are so nervous.
The American film companies are taking the same approach to the Canadian labor dispute that they did with the strike threat in the U.S. With no agreement in place with the Screen Actors Guild earlier this year, the studios had to act as if there was going to be a strike and made sure that all film and TV shoots were wrapped by June 30, the SAG strike deadline. The studios aren’t willing to risk that a strike will shut down a pricey production in mid-shoot.
Waiting game
A Warner Bros. rep confirmed that the studio is not scheduling any features or long-form TV projects in Canada that cannot wrap before Jan. 16, just as the studios did with the Writers Guild and SAG negotiations in anticipation of a June 30 work stoppage. Several Canadian shoots already have been canceled, the rep added.
Montreal film commissioner Andre Lafond said studio executives keep telling him they are worried about the labor situation in Canada. Several major Hollywood pics will take a pass on shooting in Montreal if the problem isn’t resolved, Lafond said.
The uncertain labor situation might cost Montreal “Dreamcatcher,” an adaptation of the Stephen King bestseller to be produced by Castle Rock, distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
The film originally was set to shoot here in January, as Quebec is an ideal location for the story set in the snowy woods of Maine and New Hampshire. But Warner Bros. is considering shooting “Dreamcatcher” elsewhere because of the threat of an ACTRA strike. It might move the shoot to British Columbia because the B.C. actors union has a separate collective agreement, which doesn’t expire until March 31.
Worsening situation
The timing couldn’t be worse for Canada. There are no studio shoots here this summer because of the delays caused by the SAG negotiations. The majors all rushed to make extra films earlier in the year prior to the strike deadline and are only now scrambling to ready projects for the fall.
But now they might not be coming to Montreal and Toronto because of the potential labor disruption.
“It’s a critical situation for everyone,” Lafond said. “Toronto will lose. Montreal will lose. It’s very important for Montreal because Montreal is the hot place for Hollywood right now. They’re finally open to Montreal and now we have this ACTRA problem on our hands. All I can say to ACTRA is: ‘Do something.’ Someone is going to suffer. None of ACTRA’s members know about this and they’re going to lose money.”
But Stephen Waddell, national executive director of ACTRA, said it is unreasonable for the studios to demand a promise of labor peace.
“It’s a very odd situation that the U.S. producers would take such an alarming position,” Waddell said. “We are disturbed to hear this and we don’t understand why they’re taking this position.”
Actors off-guard
Industry sources say ACTRA was surprised by the studios’ hard-line position and wasn’t prepared to respond to it. ACTRA is only now canvassing its 18,000 members to come up with proposals and the union will have its final proposals ready only at the end of September.
ACTRA and the Canadian Film & Television Production Assn. have agreed to start negotiations Oct. 15. The current agreement between the actors and the producers has been in place since September 1999. Key issues this time around for ACTRA include Internet royalties, increasing the number of Canadian actors hired on U.S. shoots and upping the basic daily wage for actors.
Waddell said the union is not keen to hit the picket lines, but he said ACTRA’s members will take a strike vote sometime in the fall.
“It strengthens our hand at the negotiating table if the producers understand we’re solid behind our positions,” he said. “But it’s way too early for anyone to be talking about strikes and putting up red flags on that issue.”
(Dave McNary in Hollywood contributed to this report.)
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Endeavor Eyes Possible Bid for Endemol Shine
By Stewart Clarke and Henry Chu
CREDIT: Robert Viglasky | © Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd 2017
Agency heavyweight Endeavor is among the companies exploring a bid for Endemol Shine, the production and distribution powerhouse jointly owned by 21st Century Fox and private equity firm Apollo Global, sources say.
A number of companies are already circling Endemol Shine, which has been presenting itself to potential suitors throughout the summer. A senior Endemol Shine executive said Tuesday that a sale is expected to be completed within the next several weeks.
ITV, Lionsgate and Sony are all thought to be interested in acquiring the company behind “Peaky Blinders,” “Black Mirror,” and “Big Brother.” RTL, which owns rival giant Fremantle, has ruled itself out of the bidding.
Endeavor does not appear to have made an actual bid yet, and it’s unclear how far down the path it is willing to go in what would be a hefty acquisition. But the company has been expanding its production and distribution operations, selling such acclaimed shows as “The Night Manager” and “Killing Eve” internationally, and Endemol Shine would bolster its activities in both areas.
Although ITV, which has acquired a raft of production assets in recent times, is considered the frontrunner, Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster has not commented publicly on the matter. Earlier this week, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall sounded a cautious note.
“Whatever we looked at from now onwards would have to be very financially disciplined because we’re not just growing for growth, we’re growing to profitably grow and to give returns to shareholders,” McCall said. “We have to be incredibly disciplined about any acquisition we make, whether that’s small or large.”
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Category: Fred Freiberger-screenwriter/producer
BUD & LOU, CAT-WOMEN, JEKYLL & HYDE, HOSTILE BRAINS and HOSTILE MARTIANS… IT CAME FROM… AND MUCH MUCH MORE!
Abbott and Costello go to Mars
They’re too wild for one world!
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Directed by Charles Lamont. Starring those 2 brilliant comedians Budd Abbott and Lou Costello, as Lester and Orville. With Mari Blanchard as Allura, Robert Paige as Dr. Wilson, Horace McMahon as Mugsy, Martha Hyer as Janie Howe, Jack Kruschen as Harry, Jean Willes as Capt. Olivia and Anita Ekberg as a Venusian guard.
From Keep Watching the Skies by Bill Warren –“To children in the 1940s and on until the mid-50s, a new Abbott and Costello movie was better than a trip to the circus.”
We all noticed that Bud Abbott was the straight man and Lou Costello was the mechanism to draw out the comic gags. At times Bud even came across as Warren says, “cruel” to Lou and I know for me it made me a bit uncomfortable even back then. Lou was lovable and wasn’t considered an idiot, but rather like a little boy trapped in a man’s body. Again I cite Bill Warren who sums it up beautifully-“His curiosity and haplessness got him into trouble and assured that he would stay there, but the film’s essential unreality always made us feel that Lou and Bud would be out of problems by the end…[…] There was always a sadness to Lou Costello, as there is with almost every clown.”
Directed by Charles Lamont who did all of Bud and Lou’s films here, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) Bud plays Lester, a handyman who works for a rocket research institute, and Lou plays Orville, a handyman who works at an orphanage. Of course the story’s title indicates that they take a trip to Mars, when the pair accidentally launch one of the rockets with them on board! They take a short trip, a very short trip as unbeknownst to Lester and Orville they haven’t landed on Mars, but in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. So when the outlandish and bizarre costumes parade around the duo, they have no reason not to think they’ve landed on another planet…
The film co-stars two wonderful character actors Horace McMahon who plays Mugsy (Naked City tv series 1960s) and Jack Kruschen who plays Harry– both are bank robbers on the lam, who have used spacesuits they stole from the ship as a disguise when pulling the heist. The two criminals hide away on the spaceship equip with paralyzer guns and lots of science fiction gadgets. And it gets launched yet again with our two characters Lester and Orville. This time they are heading for Venus. To go with this silly gendered plot line you’ll have to take it that Venus is run by a Matriarch name Queen Allura (Mari Blanchard)
Allura has banished all the men from the planet 400 years earlier because the King had been unfaithful to her. She also falls in love with Orville. Lou has eyes for Anita Ekberg (who wouldn’t…) she plays a Venusian guard. Queen Allura finds out that Lou is also unfaithful ‘like all men’ and goes crazy with anger. The passengers of the renegade ship manage to get away and crash land back on Earth. There’s a funny scene as they zip around Manhattan in the ship they make the Statue of Liberty duck then they zoom thought the Holland Tunnel giving New York a piece of science fiction slapstick. The film also co-stars Robert Paige as Dr. Wilson, Martha Hyer as Janie Howe, and Jean Willes as Captain Olivia.
In Jim Mulholland’s The Abbott and Costello Book he talks about the film, “The futuristic sets on Venus look expensive , but the film is so silly and is so obviously geared to kiddie matinee audiences that it is almost impossible to endure.”
Well if the adult child in you still adores seeing the antics of Bud & Lou then it should be included in their list of films you want to see.
Mary Blanchard as Queen Allura
Anita Ekberg as a Venusian Guard
Venusian #1: “What is it?”
Allura: “I could be wrong, but I think it’s a man.”
Venusian #2: “That’s a man?”
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Laughs Are Twice as MONSTER-OUS as Ever Before!
Again directed by Charles Lamont. Lee Loeb and John Grant wrote the screenplay working from a story by Sid Fields, based off the character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal science-fiction fantasy novel. With camera work by cinematographer George Robinson (Son of Frankenstein 1939, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman 1943, Tarantula 1955)
With make up both Mr. Hyde and the mouse mask by Bud Westmore!
Our two heroes Slim and Tubby meet Boris Karloff as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
Bud and Lou had already met Frankenstein, Dracula, the Invisible Man and The Wolf Man, it was just a matter of time until they met the conflicted dual personality of Dr. Jekyll and his darker alter ego Mr. Hyde. It was the first time the boys came up against a monster since 1951.
Bud and Lou are American detectives who tag along Scotland Yard, and come to find out that that the menacing Mr. Hyde has been terrorizing London for years. Meanwhile the mild mannered Dr. Jekyll is one and the same man… Boris Karloff. Of course, Lou tries so hard to get Bud to believe that the kindly Dr. Jekyll is actually Hyde. The other players in the film include Craig Stevens as Bruce Adams a newspaper reporter who is in love with Vicky Edwards (Helen Wescott) which poses a problem as Dr. Jekyll himself is in love with Vicky as well.
Bill Warren writes- “This romantic triangle is extremely artificial-Karloff at all time seems avuncular, not predatory-and was apparently added for the obligatory romantic elements, to enlarge the plot beyond Bud & Lou fleeing from Hyde.”
The film shows as Warren points out a “series of set pieces” as they chase Hyde around a wax museum, filled with homages to other films like wax likenesses of the Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula.
Sadly, the film was not well received, people had started to tire of the ‘meet’ films of Bud and Lou and the popularity was waning. Universal had actually been planning a Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon but it never got off the ground.
Craig Stevens co-stars as Bruce Adams, Helen Wescott as Vicky Edwards and Reginald Denny as the Inspector with John Dierkes as Batley.
Slim: Now look! You can’t make two persons out of one. If there’s a monster, there’s a monster. If there’s a Dr. Jekyll, there’s a Dr. Jekyll. But one can’t be the other.
Tubby: Now listen Slim. All I know is that I locked up the monster and when I came back, Dr. Jekyll was there. You know I’m no magician.
FANTASTIC SEA-GIANT CRUSHES CITY!
Eugène Lourié who was an art director working with Jean Renoir. Directed The Colossus of new York 1958, The Giant Behemoth 1959, and Gorgo 1961. He started out designing ballets in Paris, was the art director for Strange Confession 1944, The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945, Limelight 1952, Shock Corridor 1963, The Naked Kiss 1964, The Strangler 1964. Eugène Lourié designed one of Renoir’s most influential films, Rules of the Game (1939), he also designed work on The Southerner (1945) Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and The River (1951) To say the least he has had a wide range of eclectic films.
Eugène Lourié worked with the master Ray Harryhausen on the special effects and the creature which are spectacular!
Screenplay by Bronx born Fred Freiberger ( Garden of Evil 1954, Beginning of the End 1957)
The film stars Paul Hubschmid as Professor Tom Nesbitt, Paula Raymond as Lee Hunter, Cecil Kellaway as Prof. Thurgood Elson foremost paleontologist , veteran science fiction hero Kenneth Tobey (The Thing 1951, It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955) as Col. Jack Evans, Lee Van Cleef as Corporal Stone, Steve Brodie as Sgt. Loomis, Ross Elliot as George Ritchie, Frank Ferguson as Dr. Morton and King Donovan as Dr. Ingersoll.
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City. The film begins when they are testing a nuclear device inside the Arctic Circle, which winds up freeing a prehistoric ‘Rhedosaurus’ which is a carnivorous giant beast that walks on four legs and lives under water and can walk on land too! Tom Nesbitt played by Paul ‘Hubsschmid’ Christian is the only survivor to tell about the prehistoric creature, but no one believes his story.
Eventually the Beast emerges again and sinks a small ship with that survivor telling the same story, identifying the ‘Rhedosaurus’. Cecil Kellaway plays a well known paleontologist that Nesbitt seeks out for help. Now the Beast starts moving toward New York City believed to be the ancestral origin and breeding ground for the Rhedosaurus. It comes ashore on Manhattan, right near the Fulton Fish Market. Elson is lowered in a type of diving bell called a bathysphere so the paleontologist can study the creature up close. Unfortunately he becomes a tasty morsel, a hard candy with a soft center… Yikes!
It then proceeds to smash and stomp everything in it’s path, until it returns to the river. What complicates things is that while it becomes wounded, they discover that it’s blood is highly infectious and deadly, so they need to find a way to destroy it even more than ever.
The wounded Rhedosaurus takes refuge in an old fair ground on Coney Island near a roller coaster which it takes out it’s aggression on by snapping it like twigs in it’s massive jaws and claws.
Prof. Thurgood Elson: [in the diving bell, to view the monster] “This is such a strange feeling, I feel as though I’m leaving a world of untold tomorrows for a world of countless yesterdays….[…] It’s unbelievable he’s tremendous!”
Professor Tom Nesbitt: “The world’s been here for millions of years. Man’s been walking upright for a comparatively short time. Mentally we’re still crawling.”
George Ritchie: [referring to the A-bomb test] “You know every time one of those things goes off, I feel as if I was helping to write the first chapter of a new Genesis.”
Professor Tom Nesbitt: “Let’s hope we don’t find ourselves writing the last chapter of the old one.”
Cat-Women of the Moon
SEE: THE DEADLY CAVE OF MOON-GOLD!
SEE: THE BLOOD-THIRSTY BATTLE OF MOON MONSTERS!
SEE: THE LOST CITY OF LOVE-STARVED CAT WOMEN!
Directed by editor Arthur Hilton, who worked on noir classics The Killers 1946, and Scarlett Street 1945. The film stars Sonny Tufts as Laird Granger, Victor Jory as Kip Reissner, Marie Windsor as Helen Salinger, William Phipps as Doug Smith, Douglas Fowley as Walt Walters, Carol Brewster as Alpha, Susan Morrow as Lambda, Suzanne Alexander as Beta, Cat-Woman are Bette Arlen, Roxann Delman, Ellye Marshall and Judy Walsh. originally in 3D– it’s Schlock at it’s very best!
An American space crew is led by the uptight straitlaced Laird Granger (Sonny Tufts) who does everything by the book, but as Kip (Victor Jory) says “some things aren’t in the book” And that’s for sure, when you wind up on a planet with Cover Girls in black leotards. From the moment they leave the base on route to the moon, the crew find themselves in trouble when a meteor creates trouble for the ship, a fire in the bottom of the craft started by acid forces them to land, suggested by Lt. Helen Salinger who is the ship’s navigator and Laird’s girlfriend. She picks the area in between the dark and light sides of the moon. This makes Kip very suspicious though he’s pretty skeptical about most things that’s why he carries a gun with him at all times.
Don’t be too impressed with Windsor’s character playing a Lt, after they crash land she still has to grab for her compact and fix her face, and powder her nose. Marie Windsor (whom I adore) is sultry and perfectly suited for film noir (Force of Evil 1948, The Sniper 1952, City that Never Sleeps 1953, The Killing 1956, The Narrow Margin 1952 ), and is a joy to see in this film even if it’s a true stinker! She’s much better suited for the science fiction obscure gem that has it’s shocking moments, The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963).
Helen leads the crew when they go out to investigate their surroundings and find a nearby cave, they realize that the atmosphere is exactly the same as it is on earth. There’s water and oxygen and so it is safe to take their space suits off. The gang is attacked suddenly by some cheesy hairy horned spiders which they manage to kill. In the meantime someone has stolen their spacesuits and helmets. They go deeper into the cave until they stumble onto an ancient Greekesque city inside the moon where they are greeted by women who look like a dance troupe for Martha Graham and Twyla Tharp in their black leotards. Helen slips away to meet Alpha (Brewster) the leader of the Cat-Women who are telepathic.
They are called Cat-Women for no reason I can glean, or that emerges from the entirely silly narrative. Alpha tells Helen- “Our generation predates yours by centuries.”
The Cat-Women led by Alpha (Carol Brewster) has been in telepathic communication with and controlling Lt.Helen Salinger for years, unbeknownst to the men in the crew. There are no men on the moon but Zeta (Alexander) explains, “We have no use for men.”
Alpha tells Helen-“You are one of us now.”
Alpha has been controlling Helen by imprinting an image of the moon, a white spot on her hand. Once this spot is covered it breaks the control over her.
It’s not that the Cat-Women haven’t been enjoying their lives cavorting around with each other dancing and creeping around in their oh so Mod-erne leotards, it’s that their planet’s atmosphere is breaking up and in order to survive they must seek out a new planet. So the plan is to steal the crew’s rocket and go to Earth, c0ntrol the mind of the Earth women and eventually take over the planet! First they must truly gain Helen’s male compatriot’s confidence in order to find out how to run the ship.
Of course the cynical Kip doesn’t want any part of these gorgeous moon gals…
Kip secretly in love with Helen gets her alone, puts his arms around her, which breaks Alpha’s spell, and Helen tells him what’s going on.
Once Kip (Jory) figures this out he covers Helen’s hand and quickly asks her three questions, two that inquire whether she’s truly in love with Laird or him, the other is to find out how to get away.
But Alpha has already gotten information out of Laird and Walt has taken Zeta back to the ship to show her how it operates.
It was Alpha who helped Helen get her assignment to the space crew. Of course, the men become enamored of Cat-Women in leotards, except for Kip (Victor Jory) who is suspicious of these beguiling tribe of moon temptresses. Walt Willis (Douglas Fowley) wanders off with one of the women to explore the cave that is filled with gold, she stabs him but not before he teaches her how to fly their spaceship. Another of the Cat-Women has fallen for one of the crew members, Lambda (Susan Morrow), falls hard for Doug Smith (Bill Phipps) the radio operator. All she wants is to go back to earth with Doug, romp around on a sandy beach drinking a Coca Cola.
In this soap space opera, the staid and steady Laird has fallen for Helen, and under a sort of mind control has given all the information the Cat-Women need to take over. They make plans to return to earth with Alpha and Beta (Suzanne Alexander). Lambda tries to intervene but gets brutally conked on the head with a large rock and killed. Kip shoots the evil Zeta and Alpha off screen, the remaining earth crew kill the rest of the Cat-Women, escaping with Helen and head back to earth.
Cat-Women of the Moon is one of those so bad it’s good movies that’s just fun to watch! It’s more space soap opera than science fiction but those girls are so outré Mod-erne in their black leotards BUT no physical attributes that make one think of any similarity to cats, their features nor feats of skill… The best part of the film is the dance scene by the Hollywood Cover Girls in their unlike cat costumes. The film was remade in 1959 called Missile to the Moon.
As Bill Warren illustrates how badly filmed this is and in particular how ‘excruciatingly stupid’ the script and visuals are… (i.e.) the chairs the crew sit in are standard swivel desk chairs that roll around the floor on castors.– “Take the spaceship cabin. Ignoring the fact that it looks like someone’s front room and that down is always in the direction of the floor, even when the ship spins end-for-end in an effort to make the meteor fall off (which it does), there is still enough in the room to make a good technical director faint.”
Laird Grainger: “The eternal wonders of space and time. The far away dreams and mysteries of other worlds. Other life. The stars. The planets. Man has been face to face with them for centuries, yet is barely able to penetrate their unknown secrets. Sometime, someday, the barrier will be pierced. Why must we wait? Why not now?”
Alpha: “Four of us will be enough. We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!”
Donovan’s Brain
Directed by Felix E. Feist (The Devil Thumbs a Ride 1947, The Man Who Cheated Himself 1950)
Based on a story written by Curt Siodmak who wrote the script for The Wolf Man 1941, with the script co-written with director Feist. This above average Science Fiction suspense stars Lew Ayres as Dr. Patrick J. Cory, Gene Evans as Dr. Frank Schratt, Nancy Reagan as Janice Cory, Steve Brodie as Herbie Yokum, Tom Powers as Donovan’s Washington Advisor, Lisa Howard as Chloe Donovan.
Donovan’s Brain is perhaps the caviar of Brain in a Tank films to all the other Velveeta films of that sort. Although it is a remake of the quite engaging Lady and The Monster (1944) and Vengeance (1962) both based on the novel Donovan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak.
Siodmak’s story has been retold several times, first with director George Sherman’s The Lady and The Monster (1944) starring Erich von Stroheim, Richard Arlen and Vera Ralston. Then in 1962 it was re-visioned as a British Sci-fi chiller directed by Freddie Francis called The Brain starring Anne Heyward. Because of Siodmak’s talent at storytelling the film is an intelligent and compelling film
And there was at least one radio adaptation I believe through the Suspense series, which is a wonderful version, I own cast with Hans Conried, Jerry Hausner, John McIntire, and Jeannette Nolan.
And Boris Leven’s set design lays out the eerie ‘science gone awry’ landscape, with tanks filled with brains, it doesn’t hearken back to Strickfaden’s elaborate mad scientist milieu but it works for this particular science fiction/horror narrative.
Bill Warren-“One of the few sets apparently actually constructed for Donovan’s Brain is the laboratory, which looks satisfactorily jury-rigged and inexpensive. Unlike most ‘mad scientists’, Pat Cory hasn’t bothered to build elaborate consoles with labeled switches. The tank for the brain is literally a large tropical fish tank, again adding to the air of improvised science.”
Essentially Dr. Patrick Cory (Lew Ayres) and his associate Dr. Frank Schratt (Gene Evans) are doing brain research, they’ve been trying to remove a monkey’s brain and keep it alive outside of the body, though the foundation for doing these experiments aren’t truly spelled out. We just hear that it’s “for the good of humanity.” In these fascinating Science Fiction tales where science hubris and it’s idolization by often well meaning doctors –often see their experiments go awry.
Assisting them is Pat’s wife, Jan played by Nancy Davis, who had just become Mrs. Ronald Reagan. Now, the experiment with the monkey was encouraging –“A brain without a body, alive!” I suppose in 1953, these three hadn’t met Jan in the Pan (The Brain that Wouldn’t Die 1962), or they wouldn’t have been that excited over the prospect of live brains in tanks looking like a benefit to humanity.
As fate would have it, the same day they have success with the monkey brain, a small plane crashes very close to the lab, being doctors Cory and Schratt are called upon to help the victims. There is but one survivor, a multi-millionaire named Warren H. Donovan. Donovan is close to death so the two operate on him, but it’s no use and the millionaire dies. But, it is Dr. Pat Cory who has the idea –“Science can use Donovan’s brain,” though his wife Jan and partner Frank fervently object at first. “What an idea, stealing a man’s brain”-they go along with Pat’s operating to remove the dead man’s brain and keep it alive in the tank…
In many ways, looking past the sci-fi elements of the story, it is a stark crime thriller about the evils of power. This is also one of those science fiction morality plays that informs us that is it ‘science’ itself that is the villain and is ‘evil and dangerous’, especially in the hands of a scientist, even if he is altruistic at heart. Dr. Pat Cory is a good man, who happened to trigger a very bad series of events. It is a story about “tampering with things man (and women) was not meant to know.” In the end he tells us, “I did many foolish things.”
The 1953 film is the closest to the novel. Dr. Patrick Cory, the scientist, attempts to save the life of millionaire Donovan “Donovan carried to an extreme the independence of the self-made man”, Dr. Pat Cory, who is working with the research of the powers of the brain, seduced by the potential of unlocking the secrets of the brain, seizes the opportunity to explore his theories. The danger ensues once he removes Donovan’s brain from the severely damaged body and under very clandestine experimentation not unlike our old Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Pat Cory manages to keep the brain alive in a tank in his laboratory.
W.H.Donovan had been a very famous yet shady character in his business dealings, so his death draws a lot of media attention. So Pat and Frank have to keep their experiment a dark secret. The two scientists also run into a free-lance journalist Herbie Yocum played by Steve Brodie, who wants to take some sensational photos like the operating table where Donovan died. This, Pat Cory agrees to because he doesn’t want to create any suspicion around his death, especially near his laboratory. But Yokum takes a photo of the brain in the tank.
The experiment is a success and Donovan’s brain is taking in all the nourishment it needs to become stronger, it actually begins to increase in size. The equipment in the lab also indicates that there are thought waves occurring in the brain. Donovan’s brain is actually sending out thoughts telepathically. “Donovan’s brain is giving out thoughts. All I have to do is use my brain to receive them.” Pat Cory tells Frank. So he sits in front of the tank and concentrates leaving his mind open, and it works, he goes into a trance and starts to write notes in W.H. Donovan’s handwriting. This terrifies Jan and Frank, who worry about Pat’s state of mind. The next day, Donovan’s brain takes hold of Pat once again, this time actually causing him to limp the same way Donovan used to when he was alive. At this point Donovan is in complete control of Dr. Pat Cory.
But Donovan alive was a very powerful and ruthless business man , one of the wealthiest men in the world who is still asserting his influence from his remote tank. He forces his will over the poor scientist and actually possesses Dr. Pat Cory like an evil demon. Lew Ayres is a wonderful actor who does a great job of playing Dr. Pat Cory. So good at playing sensitive civilized men, here he is at the mercy of a very strong willed cutthroat, who wants to see his missions carried out as planned right before his plane crashed. Pat charters a plane where he takes Donovan’s favorite suite in a hotel he was famous for hanging out in, and he closes out his bank account for $27,000 that Donovan kept under a false name. He purchases new equipment so the poor doctor can now boost his brain power even more. He even orders suits like the ones Donovan used to wear and takes up his dirty business dealings.
Pat runs into Yocum, who has figured out the truth behind all the secretive veil surrounding Donovan’s death/life. He knows that Donovan is still alive and starts to blackmail Pat Cory.
Steve Brodie who plays the smarmy reporter Yocum pays the price of finding out about Dr. Cory’s stealing Donovan’s brain and his plan to blackmail the doctor backfires. It isn’t long before, the ruthless mind of W.H. Donovan takes over Cory’s body again hypnotizing Yocum and sending him off into the desert so he can drive his car off a cliff into a fiery mess…
Gene Evans is very subtle as the inebriated colleague Dr. Frank Schratt. Donovan forces Dr. Pat Cory to continue his tax evasion scheme. He also cuts Donovan’s children out of his will, and plans to have his brain placed in permanent residency at a special installation to house and protect his criminal brain..
Frank tries to shoot the brain in it’s tank-“It’s unnatural, unholy”-but it forces him to shoot himself instead.
From Bill Warren- “When the brain takes over, Ayre’s transformation from Good Dr. Cory to Bad W.H. Donovan are subtle and powerful.”
During a moment when Donovan is not in control, Pat Cory takes the opportunity to send a message to his wife, with instructions on how to destroy the monstrous brain, but we do not hear what he instructs her to do. Later Donovan thinks that Frank (Gene Evans) and Janice (Nancy Reagan) are in the way and plans on having them taken care of the same way he did with Yokum. That’s when Frank tries to shoot the brain as it forces him to turn the gun on himself. Once Donovan has taken over Pat Cory’s body fully, the doctor no longer exists. He tries to strangle Janice Cory, during a thunderstorm, when a bolt of lightning strikes the lab’s lightning rod, which we now learn was part of Dr. Pat Cory’s instructions. He has hook up a special conduit so when the bolt of lightning hits, the juice charges the tank and Donovan’s brain becomes fried dumplings.
Of course Dr. Pat Cory must pay for his profane crime of tampering with science and using an unauthorized brain in his experiments,but his faithful wife Janice promises to wait for him.
Gene Evans (The Giant Behemoth 1959, Shock Corridor 1963) plays the good friend who drinks too much, but he’s dependable and likeable. And have no fear, though he shoots himself he does not die by the film’s end.
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: [after Cory wakes Dr. Schratt up from a drunken stupor] “My dear Dr. Schratt, you sober up with more—[pauses and shrugs] grace than anyone I ever saw. You’re terrific. C’mon, let’s go.”
Dr. Frank Schratt: “Are you kidding?—[He hold out his shaking hand]—Look! Nope.”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: “Frank, don’t let me down.”
Dr. Frank Schratt: “What’s more useless than a surgeon with a hangover? I’m a drunken zero.! I pass!”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: “No, you don’t. I’d rather have you do a corneal transplant for me drunk than anyone else sober—[Pulls him by the arm] Let’s go boy.”
Dr. Frank Schratt: “You’re brilliant but not normal.”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: [Laughs] “So are you, but are you and who is?”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: [after Cory wakes Dr. Schratt up from a drunken stupor] “My dear Dr. Schratt, you sober up with more.” [pauses and shrugs]
… Grace than anyone I ever saw. You’re terrific… C’mon, let’s go.”
Dr. Frank Schratt: “Are you kidding?” [He holds out his shaking hand]
… Look! Nope.”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: “No, you don’t. I’d rather have you do a corneal transplant for me drunk than anyone else sober.” [Pulls him by the arm]
… Let’s go boy.”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: -“Perhaps I’ll cure Frank and every other alcoholic if I can solve the mystery of Donovan’s Brain. I think it’s a matter of chemistry how the brain thinks. The problem is to find out what chemical combinations are responsible for success… failure… happiness… misery.”
Janice Cory: “Sounds impossible.”
Dr. Patrick J. Cory: “But it is not. It can’t be. There has to be a way.”
Four Sided Triangle
Directed by Terence Fisher this is a rare and obscure little film! Stars Barbara Payton as Lena/Helen, James Hayter as Dr. Harvey, Stephen Murray as Bill, John van Eyssen as Robin, Percy Marmont as Sir Walter.
Photo courtesy of: Alamy
1950s had some memorable science fiction films within the genre that entertained us in the decade that saw the heyday of the illusory American dream—where the books and films forged out of fantasy were a great release from the anxiety of WWII and the advent of McCarthy Era paranoia. It was rarity to find American science fiction films of the early 50s that were based on novels of the same name. This was even more of an oddity for British films. Then there was the very provocative Four-Side Triangle, adapted from the novel by William F. Temple and scripted by the prolific Terence Fisher who also directed, co-scripted by Hungarian born Paul Tabori who went on to write several science fiction novels himself, the most well known being The Green Rain. The novel was published in 1939. A first fantasy feature by Hammer with director Fisher’s that predates his stint with the Hammer brand horror/sci-fi The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Horror of Dracula (1958)
Four-Sided Triangle wasn’t received very well, and it’s still considered quite dreary and so it remains pretty obscure today.
And I find it sort of possesses an air of deviance and a serious curiosity piece concerning a love triangle that becomes a twisted kind of quadrangle. The films stars Barbara Peyton who plays a dual role —the object of both men’s desire.
Lena who returns to her English home town to see her old child hood friends, Robin (John Van EYSSEN) and Bill (Stephen Murray) have invented a machine that can duplicate objects by reconstructing matter into energy. Not unlike the transportation device in The Fly (1958) that messed with atomic particulars that re-assembled matter then sends it to another location re-assembling it, sans any contamination in the field like let’s say a house fly… “Eeeeeee….Help me, Help me!”
They try out their experimental machine first using a totally innocuous object — a watch, which they manage to duplicate. Meanwhile Lena and Robin get engaged and leave to get hitched, leaving Bill to mess around with their new discovery. He uses a living subject instead of just an inanimate object. He’s also madly, tragically in love with his brother’s girl, Lena. This is where the story becomes if not risqué it bares the element a of twisted Sci-Fi melodrama. His brother Robin returns from the honeymoon and heads out to London on business. Poor lovesick Bill asks Lena to please submit to his very profane request… to allow him to duplicate her, using the machine, so that he may fulfill his desire for her in some way.
Lena actually agrees to this, and her doppelgänger Helen is born. But as they say careful what you wish for, and while the machine is effective in duplicating the subject, it does exactly that! And what happens… Helen falls in love with brother Robin as well. Oh what a tangled web we weave. It’s a theme about life’s song of irony and the lesson that we shouldn’t meddle with nature. The constant trope that runs through most to all Science Fiction stories. Not to play god, not to tamper with the nature of things, nor to be as bold to force our will upon other people or the natural world, at least not without paying the consequences for these sacrilegious actions.
Of course Bill is devastated by the outcome, and instead of learning his lesson, he delves deeper in the dark recesses of his lower self and tries to wipe out Helen’s memory, in hopes of being able to seduce a blank slate. Bill does wash her mind clean, by electronically eradicating Helen’s memory but there is a fire in the laboratory and one of the women is killed.
I’m sorry, but you get what you deserve when you’re willing to create a woman in a machine that mimics the object of your desire. It is pathetic and outré creepy, and it says that that any woman will do as long as she’s from the same atomic particle ‘mold’ rather than accepting fate. It doesn’t create much sympathy, even if it is born out of a broken heart. Get over it, or get a puppy!
Lena: An empty mind… and a new beginning!
Invaders from Mars
Murderous Martian creatures from out of space! From out of space… came hordes of green monsters! Mankind’s oldest fear…The Alien’s last conquest!
Directed by innovative designer William Cameron Menzies who directed (Things to Come 1936) a surreal & beautiful science fiction dreamscape with a screenplay by Richard Blake. Starring Helena Carter as Dr. Pat Blake, Arthur Franz as narrator/Dr. Stuart Kelston, Jimmy Hunt as David MacLean, Leif Erickson as George MacLean, Hillary Brooke as Mrs. Mary MacLean, Morris Ankrum as Col. Fielding, Max Wagner as Sgt. Rinaldi William Phipps as Sgt. Baker, Milburn Stone as Capt. Stone.
Cinematography by John F. Seitz (The Lost Weekend 1945, Double Indemnity 1944, Sunset Boulevard 1950) and music composed by Raoul Kraushaar (Cabaret 1972)
Invaders From Mars is perhaps one of the most recognizable science fiction gems of the 1950s partially due to William Cameron Menzies eye and experience for artistic design, he creates a dreamlike colorful yet terrifying landscape, with the feel of a comic book horror/sci-fi/fantasy. It’s a vision of alienation, alien occupation and paranoia that we can all relate to at some point in our lives. I know it effected me as a kid, while not growing up in the 1950s I certainly was fed a substantial dose of the product of horror/sci-fi/fantasy that came from the contribution of literature and film that preceded my childhood growing up in the following decade of the turbulent 60s.
The story uses as it’s protagonist a little boy who experiences a nightmare journey that recycles itself in the end, creating the dreaded sense of entrapment. The young protagonist finds his “Own reality is being twisted into the kind of horror…[…] the story is literally a nightmare.”
The story is told from the point of view of David MacLean played by Jimmy Hunt. Bill Warren in his terrific overview Keep Watching the Skies published by McFarland. “Children operate with a different kind of logic than adults: events proceed from cause to effect, but the causes adults and children see don’t produce the same effects, and vice versa. Adults and children are not frightened of all of the same things, nor do they find the same things interesting. It takes a special imagination to achieve this kind of viewpoint.”
David is a young star gazer who is awakened one night by a flash of bright light when he looks out his bedroom window and sees a flying saucer land out over the hill. He wakes his parents, George and Mary (Leif Erikson and Hillary Brooke) to inform them of what he’s seen. The artistic direction and color palette reminds me of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg. The set pieces have a surreal, simplistic yet fantastical color scheme and composition.
Menzies art directions were “like a daisy chain” of dream sequences.
In the morning, father George goes out to investigate near the place David saw the craft go down, the fence seems to disappear into the sand dune. A mysterious hole in the sand swallows up George, who doesn’t return home, his wife phones the police, until George suddenly comes back but with a completely different temperament. He seems like a changed man. He has no emotions at all, yet he bares a strange ill-tempered streak, verging on violent when unprovoked he strikes David hard with the back of his hand, when David questions him about a strange mark on the back of his neck.
“Say dad when you were out there did you see anything?”
“lets not start that flying saucer nonsense again.’
he notices the implant in the back of his father’s neck “Hey dad” “Yeah what do you want!” “what happened to your neck, it looks like there’s a ….?”
Imagine the nightmare of a twist of fate where the people who love you now hate you and the ones who are supposed to keep you safe, become the most dangerous!
The next to disappear in the sand pit are the two policemen Douglas Kennedy and Charles Kane -called out to find David’s father. Once they return they appear to have the same eerie ill mood as George, zapped of any human emotion. Now, when a little girl also disappears, seemingly swallowed up by the sand and disappears in front of David, he tells his mother, but she too returns just as a fire starts in the basement of the little girl’s house. David panics and goes to the police station. Seeking out the symbol of authority and protection right… wrong…!
The little guy talks to the chief. “You wouldn’t believe me.”
“What makes you think the chief will?”
One of the cops who has been taken over by the invaders asks, “What’s the trouble Mac?”
it’s a very creepy tone, that seems menacing in it’s coldness…
David sees that the guy has the same wound on the back of his neck. Pulling his collar over it to conceal it.
When the little guy runs into the police station asking to see the chief, it goes to that place where we feel most vulnerable and the panic sets in when we realize there is no one you can trust, no one to believe you. There is no safe place. And those you love are gone. The threat goes to the issue of trust and sense of safety and not just about creepy aliens lurking around. A film of paranoia and insecurity.
Spielberg says that Menzies gave himself the license to work on the film doing homages using BERTOLD BRECHTIAN sets, because it was a dream. Also the fear that it kept recurring is the notion that there isn’t any escape you can wake up from the nightmare, but it only begins all over again. “It’s a trap. It’s absurd. it’s deadly frightening.”
There the chief of police Bert Freed has also been taken over by the Martians who have submerged themselves in the land behind his house. David is locked up until a psychologist Dr. Pat Blake played by Helen Carter who comes to see him and realizes how genuinely frightened he is. He is petrified when his parents come to pick him up, his mother now showing the same frozen demeanor as his father. So Dr. Blake keeps David in her care and takes him to see a colleague Dr. Stuart Kelston played by Arthur Franz. Dr. Kelston is also an amateur astronomer who not only believes that David saw a space craft land in the back field, but that the earth could very well be under siege by Martians, an immanent invasion could be near. That they might be trying to interfere with local rocket experiments being launched in the area. And of course, that’s where David’s father works.
Kelston has a telescope and he, David and Dr. Pat Blake see David’s father lure General Mayberry (William Forrest) to the sand dune that swallows him up. Soldiers are sent to surround the sand pit, overseen by veteran science fiction supportive actor Morris Ankrum who plays Colonel Fielding along side Sergeant Rinaldi (Max Wagner). Meanwhile the Martians are systematically sending out their possessed humans to sabotage the works. The Martians act like puppet masters who can also control their subjects by exploding the devices implanted in their brains –the marks on their necks are where they’ve been drilled. Lovely thought…
David is told that his parents are getting their control devices taken out through surgery, just as the sand trap opens up right under his and Pat’s feet, they fall beneath the sand into the underground lair that the Martians have been operating from. We get to see two green Martians who walk like they shuffle (excuse me for saying, back in the day my older brother used to say that they walked like they had shit in their pants) actually these Martians do sort of qualify as ‘pants monsters’.
Anyway, the two Martians bring David and Pat unto the grand Martian leader, a very kitschy Martian –a goldish green head including shoulders with nasty tentacles encased in something like a glass orb. The main Martian telepathically uses it’s eyes to communicate it’s creepy menacing power not with squinting veracity but more with a comical sort of soulessness.
The nefarious Martian Intelligence is portrayed by Luce Potter.
Thank God the military saves the day as Fielding, (poor General Mayberry gets killed), enter the Martian’s underground chambers and rescue David and Pat, she was just about to get her brain drilled into, they blow up the spacecraft. After this climatic seen as David is on the surface running away, he awakens from this nightmare, (the rolling flashback in his head is a terrific touch) as it was truly a nightmare… runs into his parents bedroom, thank god the nightmare is over, he goes back to his room falls asleep until he is again awakened by a space craft landing out in the field behind his house, the entire cycle of events to repeat all over again. It’s quite a stunning conclusion… that doesn’t give us any release.
In honoring Menzies incredible eye for design, and how the film was envisioned as if we are experiencing the nightmare through a child’s eyes, I defer to the way Bill Warren sums up some of the visual highlights of the film- “The jail set is especially impressive. The only things on the set are those that would impress themselves on a boy; (I’ll ignore that presumptive gender bias) there is a police chief, one sergeant at a towering desk, and on the wall behind him a clock with hands that don’t move, one cell and one key to the cell. The walls are white and almost not there at all; the hall from the front door to the desk is long and tall, it is a set out of a dream, as if it is only partially real…[…] The interior of the Martian flying saucer is equally imaginative and equally minimal. It’s composed almost entirely of greenish plexiglass. There are no instruments visible at all, there are a couple of tubes which reach up out of sight and a large inexplicable hole in the floor. The sphere with the Martian Intelligence inside rests on a pillar, and is brought to it brought to its perch by the giant green mutants.”
Not to mention the surreal space behind David’s house, the sand pit and the fence that disappears out of site, the winding trees that melt into space. It’s all very much a dreamscape. A reduction of images in which the minimalist elements actually add to the eerie atmosphere the opposite of Grand Guignol and Gothic old dark house set pieces. How can something so simplistic be so menacing. I guess that’s why Menzie’s film is still so gorgeous to experience today.
Actor Mark Hamill-“The Invaders From Mars were no angels. They were here to bend our minds. They were the thieves of love and trust. The film was directed by the great art director William Cameron Menzies who gave it a memorably surreal design on a tiny budget.”
Director Steven Spielberg talks about how Invaders From Mars turned his world around “it got to a primal place which basically says the first people not to trust is your father and mother.”
Director James Cameron “What is the deep seated psychological fear that’s happening here. Maybe it’s a simple and elemental as you’re in a relationship with somebody whether it’s child/parent husband/wife but you never really know what that other person’s thinking. And they might be evil.”
Steven Spielberg “It certainly touched a nerve among all the young kids like myself who saw that movie at a very young age. That you would come home and that you would not recognize your mom and dad they would have changed into people who hate you.”
When the father hits his son so violently that it knocks him down, as Spielberg says “it’s a shattering primal attack on us.”
I had the same reaction, I came home one night and felt like my parents had been exchanged somehow. they were not cruel like David’s parents in Invaders from Mars, yet I felt that they were somehow duplicates. I walked around the block for an hour afraid to go inside the house. These movies certainly made impressions in that deep rooted primal way. The subtleties of films like Invaders from Mars will still leave their mark on your psyche.
The giant green Martian Mutants must have zippers up the back of their velour costumes…
The idea of not being believed works as a trope and it possesses a powerful persuasive tone that seeps inside and effects you as a kid watching Invaders From Mars.
All of a sudden, parents turn into aliens, monsters and cruel. It could be a metaphor for any number of difficult issues children might confront, like alcoholism, abuse etc. It is the changes that the child experiences in private where they cannot convey to people outside the home, that tells the story of alienation and estrangement. It is a terrifying journey they must navigate on their own, while they try to negotiate what is happening to them.
The ship has crashed into the land, over the hill. The sand sinks down like quicksand that drags down anyone who walks over it. The mutants who walk like my brother used to say to me, like they’ve got shit in their pants, worship and serve this giant tentacled head in a glass orb. The whole vision of the ground ‘literally’ collapsing where you stand. it gives the idea that you can’t even feel safe where you stand. It will suck you down into the bowels of the earth where evil creatures will turn you into a mindless image of yourself.
Spielberg says “What really unseats you as a child seeing that movie. it’s all a dream. He wakes up and his mom’s normal and his dad is normal and they don’t believe him, but what happens in the last scene.”
“It starts all over again… It’s the groundhog day of science fiction —lol I thought the same thing Spielberg. that’s pretty much what it is…. he’ll just go through the whole loop and then wake up over and over again. There’s a twilight zone episode like that where Dennis Weaver keeps getting sentenced to death by a jury and goes thought the execution only to wake up and do it all over again… Spielberg puts it like this “it’ll be a never ending mirror tunnel of nightmares.”
Narrator: The heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe, and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atmosphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale? Or dangerously higher? Seeking the answer to this timeless question, forever seeking, is the constant preoccupation of scientists everywhere. Scientists famous and unknown. Scientists in great universities and in modest homes. Scientists of all ages.
XENOMORPHS INVADE OUR WORLD! They can look like humans or change to objects of awesome terror!–From Ray Bradbury’s great science fiction story!–Amazing Sights Leap at You in 3-DIMENSION
From a story by the master of fantasy and science fiction Ray Bradbury
The science fiction film that brought us the amorphous bubbly one eyed Xenomorph.
Jack Arnold’s amazing foray into an alien crash landing that involves stolen identity, invasion fear and the possibility that life on other planets might be benevolent but still really really creepy.
The film stars Richard Carlson as displaced reporter John Putnam, the wonderful Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields, Charles Drake as jealous Sheriff Matt Warren, Joey Sawyer as Frank Daylon, Russell Johnson as George, and Kathleen Hughes as June.
Art direction by Robert F. Boyle (North by Northwest 1959, In Cold Blood 1967, Cape Fear 1962, The Thomas Crown Affair 1968) and Cinematography by Clifford Stine (This Island Earth 1955, The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957,Touch of Evil 1958, Imitation of Life 1959, Operation Petticoat 1959, Spartacus 1960, Patton 1970) Read Stine’s credits on IMBd they are far too many to list! The mesmerizing musical score is by an un-credited Henry Mancini, Irving Gertz and Herman Stein. The memorable visual effects are by David S. Horsley-(The Killers 1947, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948, This Island Earth 1955) It Came From Outer Space was also filmed in the sensationally hyped 3D!
The music is wonderfully inspiring to the mood, especially with the desert’s sense of estrangement and when the presence of the Xenomorphs are near. I think they use it as some of the stock music for Night of the Living Dead… I need to check that out… From what I see about their contributors I cannot link to any of the three music contributors to It Came from Outer Space… but I always get a thrill when the ‘coming near’ motif music happens in both!
In reading Bill Warren’s–Keep Watching the Skies his overview of It Came from Outer Space, gets into the discrepancies about Ray Bradbury’s full participation in writing the screenplay, being totally replaced by Harry Essex who is credited for the screenplay, if it was his memory that was failing in recollecting what happened or if he had been misunderstood and his work co-opted by Essex because Universal didn’t like Bradbury’s treatment of the script. Warren is totally supportive of Bradbury being an un-credited contributor to the script. While he delves into the weeds a bit more about the mystery and contradictions about the facts behind-the- scenes, I think I’ll just stick with Jack Arnold’s beautifully executed science fiction master work here. But the entire section on the film is fascinating if you want a good read and 1950s science fiction is of particular interest, pick up a copy of Keep Watching the Skies by Bill Warren, it’s a sensational compilation of a decade of gems and stinkers, informative, funny engaging even including old published reviews of the films during the time of their theatrical release. I highly recommend it.
First of all,this is one of those science fiction films that’s actually a really good film, with so many elements that work fabulously to transcend genre. This is one of the first major studio Universal – International to release a film in 3D, and one of the first to be shown in what was called wide screen and in stereophonic sound.
It was also the first science fiction film to be directed by Jack Arnold. (YAY!!!) The first using the southwestern desert as a location— the Mojave desert to be exact and not the Arizona desert as plotted out in the story—Donovan’s Brain was set there but made little use of the area as a central focal point. The desert already has an eerie, isolated vibe to it…
The film stars Richard Carlson as John Putnam and Barbara Rush as Ellen Fields.
Ray Bradbury wrote the original story on which the film is based, He was at the height of his writing with The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451 which brought his genius into light.
The story opens as a meteor cuts through the evening sky like a glowing fireball high above the alienating desert landscape. For the locals, this brings about many different reactions, including that of John Putnam, amateur astronomer who’s having dinner with his fiancee Ellen Fields. This gets John so excited that he immediately wants to drive out to the sight to investigate. He and Ellen hop on a helicopter and go and see where the meteor left a large crater.
Meanwhile from the view of what ever the alien life force is, it moves from the crashed spacecraft, revealing that it wasn’t a meteor at all. —“Bradbury describes quick shots of animals fleeing in fright from the alien visitor. The jack rabbit, for instance. At this point, he does not mention the use of a subjective camera technique , which has so often been commented on in relation to the film.” -Bill Warren.
Putnam arrives at the crater and approaches the object that has crash landed in a gaping hole, nearly burned to molten rock. Suddenly a landslide occurs and covers up the opening and the space ship.
Bill Warren–In a sequence (not in the finished film) almost certainly suffused by Billy Wilders’ Ace in the Hole /The Big Carnival 1951, which also took place in the Southwestern desert, earth moving machinery arrives in an effort to uncover the buried pilot. No one believes Putnam’s story. Eventually everyone give up and goes home, including Ellen and Putnam. A strange shape crosses the highway in front of them, they stop to look for whatever it was and a Joshua tree in the dark frightens Ellen, but they do not see the strange shape again. The alien, with the first-person camera emphasized (the camera’s point of view is the Alien’s) watches them leave.
The next day Putnam is interviewed by hostile reporters. A few days later, the excitement of the meteor has died down. They drive into the desert alone. stopping to look around. “It’s alive” says Putnam “it looks so dead out there. And yet, it’s all alive and waiting around us and ready to kill you if you go too far from the road. The sun will get you, or the cold at night, or the snakes and the spiders or a sudden rain that floods the washes will get you. Ohm there are a thousand ways you can die in the desert.”
Here’s Essex’s version of the same scene, which is in the film, “It’s alive.” say Putnam. Ellen nodding adds, “And yet it looks so dead out there.” Putnam goes on. “But it’s all alive and waiting for you… And ready to kill you if you go too far. The sun will get you or the cold at night… a thousand ways the desert can kill.” There isn’t much difference though some of the dialogue is shared by Ellen which is a nice touch.
Putnam and Ellen drive on and meet the phone linemen. Putnam climbs up the ladder to listen to the strange sounds on the wire that the linemen have been noticing since the crash. The elder lineman says —
–“In all my years nothing like that sound. Like Someone’s on the line. Down that way maybe, tapping the wire. Or up the other way, tapping the wire. listening to unlike we’re listening to him… After you been working out in this desert for fifteen years like I have you get funny ideas. There’s that sun in the sky and the heat, and look at the roads, full of mirages. And the sand out there, full of rivers and lakes that are fifty, a hundred miles away…. And sometimes you get to thinking maybe some nights, or some noons like this noon , the sun burns on the wires and gets in the wires and listens and hums and talks like this talk and that’s what you hear now. And sometimes you wonder if some of the snakes and the coyotes and the tumbleweeds don’t climb the poles at noon, far off where you can’t see them, and listen in on us human beings.”
“Once again, Essex condenses and duplicates this speech without understanding the poetic paranoia behind the words. Fortunately director Jack Arnold and actor Joe Sawyer did, and the scene is one of the most famous and best like in the finished film.”-Bill Warren.
Putnam and Ellen decide to help the linemen find out what’s happening to the wires, and head off in the opposite direction from the one the linemen take. The linemen meet the alien , the scene cuts to Putnam and Ellen. who turn around and go back. They meet the alien masquerading as the younger lineman (Russell Johnson) When he quietly walks up and taps Putnam (Ellen in the film) on the shoulder, Putnam spots a body behind a mesquite bush, assumes the linemen are dead, and that what he is talking to isn’t human.
The scene that follows, one of the only two in the film in which Putnam is not the central figure, was added to the screenplay by Essex. In it, the alien George (Russell) tells the real Frank (Sawyer) that they have landed by accident and that they have the power to make themselves look like us.
Bill Warren passionately tries to defend and clarify this.. “I could continue through the entire storyline in this fashion , it would be profitless. Despite all claims by everyone else to the contrary, the story and the best elements of It Came From Outer Space were written by Ray Bradbury, not by Harry Essex. Because of the many influences of this film, Ray Bradbury’s therefor far more responsible for the look, the feel and the approach of 1950s science fiction movies than he has ever been acknowledged or even suspected before.”
In the finished film the aliens apparently literally take on the form of other people, they are actual shape shifters their bodies are malleable enough that they can actually restructure themselves to resemble anyone. In Bradbury’s script, the effect is the same but the power seems to come from hypnosis —the aliens resemble lizards in Bradbury’s treatment.
I learned something really interesting from reading Warrens analysis of the film. I myself have often confused Richard Carlson with Hugh Marlowe at times. Here is partly the answer to that
“In the draft actually called It Came from Outer Space, almost all of the film that was to be was created by Ray Bradbury. In this draft (begun October 1, 1952) Bradbury emphasized scenic and character descriptions much more strongly than the had in his earlier drafts. probably on studio orders. In so doing he created the standard science fiction her of the 1950. who was to be played by Richard Carlson or the nearest equivalent through most of the rest of the decade. Hugh Marlowe, John Agar, Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason. The characters they played were almost always variations on John Putnam the dedicated slightly strange and earnest young researcher. The actors often physically resembled Carlson.”
When it all comes down to it, what Bill Warren is asserting is that he found evidence that Essex’s script was a duplication of Ray Bradbury’s treatment, meaning the result –he isn’t getting the credit for his contribution and Essex is getting credit for Bradbury’s work. And he feels that what Essex did manage to change slightly, didn’t work at all, including inventing some of the poorly envisioned scenes.
What does happen by the end of Bradbury’s final draft is how his incredibly fluid and convoluted description of these alien came to life as close to the poetic description Bradbury put forth. The few times the aliens show themselves they are hard to assess, in form, with the emphasis on their milky jelly like eye in a gigantic impression of a head, surrounded by a foggy mist, with sparkles and glistens like a jello mold … but in the end, the film shows them as close to their poetic description that Bradbury had envisioned. Different than some man in a lizard type pants monster suit with bug eyes, or layers of monster make-up, the floating amorphous alien really does seem to exist on the extra terrestrial plane.
“One of his main contributions to It Came from Outer Space seem to have been the shimmering bullseye effect used whenever the camera ‘is’ one of the aliens. The subjective camera “playing’ the aliens at time is Bradbury’s idea. but the refinements seem to have been Jack Arnold’s–Bill Warren
Another aspect of these aliens is that they are not quite hostile, though they are not benign either. it’s sort of a unique view of them. They are panicked and desperate to get off the Earth, and get back to their original destination “Our mission was to another world, only an error dragged us to Earth” Some of the aliens, such as the one in the guise of Ellen that tries to kill Putnam,are indeed hostile to people. Others are just nervous, such as the Putnam duplicate. or openly friendly , like the one that copied George the lineman. In short, just like real people, they don’t have a common attitude they are not of one mind. They reveal an individual spirit. It’s quite a break away them from other aliens who are a collective group on a mission, unified.
This being director Jack Arnold’s first science fiction film leads with a focus on how the alien relates to this world he has invaded. The result that his films seems less fanciful and more realist than most other of this period, such as The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
Ellen Fields: If we’ve been seeing things, it’s because we DID see them.
Sheriff Matt Warren: [three-shot, characters gazing toward sky into which meteor-spaceship has rocketed] Well, they’ve gone.
Ellen Fields: For good, John?
John Putnam: No. Just for now. It wasn’t the right time for us to meet. But there’ll be other nights, other stars for us to watch. They’ll be back.
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The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016! 🚀 “Keep watching the skies!” Science Fiction cinema of the 1950s
“I bring you a warning. Every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world… Tell this to everybody wherever they are. Watch the Skies! Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!–
Ned ‘Scotty’ Scott — The Thing From Another World (1951)
It’s that time of year once again when Movies Silently, Silver Screenings & One Upon a Screen host a momentous event…. The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016 which will begin August 5th -10th, 2016.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a “literature of ideas. –Wikipedia definition of Science Fiction
This event always promises to be an epic endeavor as there are so many interesting themes and subjects to cover. I am excited to be participating once again with these fabulous hosts who make it possible for all of us to contribute to a wealth of classic film history goodies to devour. Now listen folks, don’t get frightened off! You cast of exciting unknown readers… This has become a real project for me, a work in progress that will unfold over the next several weeks. For the purpose of The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016, I offer an overview that will be a lead in for the entire decade of 1950s science fiction cinema conquering it year by year in separate articles. As I started delving into this project, it began to grow larger and larger as if Jack Arnold and Bert I. Gordon themselves compelled me to GO BIG!
In order to review an entire genre of such an influential decade and do the treatment it so rightly deserves, I realized that I needed to spread it out as a series. Re-visiting these beloved movies that inspired my childhood with wonder and sometimes tapped into my own authentic fears, I fell in love all over again. And though I tend to gravitate towards the classical Gothic horrors that are steeped in mythology, the supernatural and the uncanny, I can’t help but feel my mind expanding by the iconic themes that emerged from 1950s science fiction! So I’ll be publishing each year as individual posts or chapters from 1952 on… over the next several week or so instead of all at once. Talking about all the films I mentioned here and so many more films & things to come!
It’s a collection–a decade of the sci-fi genre, sub-genres and it’s hybrids– some eternally satisfying because of their remarkable ability to continuously shine a light on fascinating & mesmerizing fantasy stories. Well written and adapted as visual narratives and surreal stories by beloved visionaries who set out to reach inward and outward through all of us dreamers and thinkers.
There are also those lovable Sci-fi films that are charming and wonderfully kitsch. And some… are just downright so, so, soooo awful their… awesome!
That’s what makes so many of these diverging films cut through the cross-sections to become cinematic jewels & memorable cult favorites!
There are many films that I’ll cover more in depth, some are the more highly polished masterpieces that have lingered for decades with us as adult children who grew up watching them on a rainy afternoon on televisions with knobs that only had 9 channels and if you were lucky you didn’t snap the knob off every 6 months! Growing up in New York I had Chiller Theater, on local channel 11 or Creature Features on Channel 5, or Fright Night on Channel 9. That’s how I fell in love, and got my fill of the treasures of films & television anthology series that was lurking out there destined to leave long lasting impressions on so many of us!
Chiller Theater
Fright Night WOR
Or back in the day, you went to the Drive-In theater to explore in the back seat of your pop’s Chevy Impala any double feature, and it was an invigorating and entertaining experience and you didn’t even have to get out of your pajamas.
You could spend all day in a musty theater festooned with captivating promotional lobby cards and colorful posters. Too bad, I wasn’t of the age to witness William Castle’s ballyhoo he strategically placed at certain theaters for that interactive live experience , EMERGO, PERCEPTO! You could take in a bunch of the latest scary films, sometimes double & triple features, while sitting on sticky red velvet seats that smelled like hot buttered popcorn and week old spilled Pepsi. A box of Milk Duds in hand and the faint wiff of air conditioner freon at your back. You’d enter the movie theater in the bright light of a sunny Saturday afternoon only to exit into the dark of night, tired and filled with wonder, awe and okay maybe looking over your shoulder a few times. Some films were big budget productions, that contained serious acting by studio contract players, terrific writing that blended deep thoughts and simple escapism pulled from some of the best science fiction, fantasy & horror literature and adapted screenplays, scares and witty dialogue besides and cinematography that still captivates us to this day.
Well… sure some were B movies that have now sustained that Cult film charm and cheesiness, and some… are just downright pitiful, laughable guilty pleasures… and a bunch even came with really neat 3D glasses!
SOME ICONIC GEMS FOR THE AGES THAT I’LL BE COVERING!
THEM! (1954)*INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) *DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)*FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) *THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)*EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956) *THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) *INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) *WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) * CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) * IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)* IT, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958) *EARTH VS THE SPIDER (1958) *THE CRAWLING EYE (1958) *THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959) *IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955) *TARANTULA (1955) *FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) *THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957)* THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957) * THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959)*KRONOS (1957)* THE CREEPING UNKNOWN (1956)*X-THE UNKNOWN (1956
I’LL ALSO BE TALKING ABOUT SOME GUILTY PLEASURES!
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Paul Birch is the alien vampire Paul Johnson in Roger Corman’s Not of This Earth 1957
The Brain from Planet Arous 1957* Attack of the Crab Monsters 1957* The Killer Shrews 1959* The Giant Claw 1957 *Beast From Haunted Cave 1959 *The Monster from Piedras Blancas 1959 *Invasion of the Saucer Men 1957 *The Monster that Challenged the World 1957 *Not of this Earth 1957* The She-Creature 1956* The Man Who Turned to Stone 1958* Invisible Invaders 1959* Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958* The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) * Monster on the Campus 1958* The Unknown Terror 1957* Creature with The Atom Brain 1955 * The Unearthly 1955 * From Hell it Came 1957,
It’s also important to mention some of the ubiquitous actors who graced both the great & guilty pleasure flicks, you’ll be seeing a lot of in the following chapters like John Carradine * Ed Nelson *Allison Hayes *Paul Birch *John Agar *Hugh Marlowe*Peter Graves *Richard Denning *Richard Carlson *Faith Domergue *Mara Corday *Les Tremayne *Marie Windsor *Morris Ankrum * Arthur Franz *Kenneth Tobey* John Hoyt * Whit Bissell and of course Beverly (kicks-ass!) Garland!
One thing is for certain, each film is relevant and all have a place in the 50s decade of Sci-fi / Horror & Fantasy!
So come back and read a little at a time and get some thrills even while you’re sitting under the hair dryer… Do people still do that today? I need to get out more…
This 1955 hair dryer is just begging to be a space-age helmet!
It all started with Georges Méliès 1903 fantasy A Trip to the Moon
Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 – Georges Méliès
As early as 1920 there was the German expressionist film dealing with the arrival of a menacing alien visitor from the planet Algol giveing actor Emil Jannings a machine that awards him unlimited powers. ALGOL aka POWER 1920 directed by Hans Werckmeister —
“That which you believe becomes your world.”
–Richard Matheson from ‘What Dreams May Come’
Science Fiction emerged out of the “Age of Reason” literature reflected a merging of myth and historical fact. Stories filled with an imagination that had no boundaries. While Science Fiction is a literary movement that can be a separate study all it’s own, story tellers who grasped the concepts of science fiction who questioned the endless possibilities, the far reaching machinations of brilliant minds, this project if focused on the history of 1950s science fiction cinematic and all it reveals. Science Fiction cinema flirted blatantly with ideas and images of a world that reached beyond the known, and contemplated aloud, fantastic stories as early as the silent era. Consider Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, re-envisioned time and time again.
John Barrymore lifts the dark conflicting tale of the inward monsters off the pages of Stevenson’s book. Barrymore so fluently moved through the silent stage, reveals that we all just might be harboring in our sub-conscious hidden dark and primal desires. Unleashed by a concoction, a seduction of science creates a fiend! Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920)
The odd yet visually stunning Russian spectacle Aelita Queen of Mars (1924) aka Revolt of the Robots.e
There were a few early visions of fantasy, magic & Science Fiction films from all around the world- At 3:25 aka The Crazy Ray (1924) Directed by Rene Clair-a scientist invents a ray that makes people fall asleep where they stand! The German film Master of the World (1934) (Der Herr der Welt) where a German scientist wants to create an army of Robots to do the dangerous work of laborers so, when he is told it’s too risky he goes mad and it’s too late the machine has a mind of it’s own. It features really cool electronic chambers and more!
And Transatlantic Tunnel (1935) Scientists construct a tunnel under the ocean-stars Richard Dix, Leslie Banks and C. Aubrey Smith.
Metropolis 1927 the dystopian masterpiece by director Fritz Lang was the beginning of the fascination with exploring the fantastic and our unbounded imaginations on film, it’s remarkable set design, imagery and narrative sparked the Science Fiction genre in a big way— spanning decade upon decade, in particular revived in the 1950s!
The first influential science fiction film by Fritz Lang created a dystopian societ in Metropolis 1927. It’s influence has maintained it’s powerful thrust for decades. An inspiration for Ridley Scott’s neo-noir sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982)
“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him”-H.G.Wells
Charles Laughton is superb as H.G. Wells‘ Dr. Moreau a sociopathic sadist/scientist with a god complex whose profane experiments on animals and humans tortures them in the ‘house of pain’ trying to create a hybrid race he can hold sway over on his private island hell! Science has never been more evil! Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Then there was the 1936 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ Things To Come (1936) directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Raymond Massey as Oswald Cabal, Ralph Richardson as The Boss, Margaretta Scott as Roxanna/Rowena and Cedric Hardwicke as Theotocopulos.
“What is this progress? Progress is not living. It should only be the preparation for living.”
Flash Gordon and similar serials provided super heroes for generations of young people in the 30s & 40s, planting the seeds for the future that would give us the Star Wars legacy.
Audiences between the World Wars preferred horrors of a Gothic nature– James Whale’s Frankenstein 1931 & Bride of Frankenstein 1935, as they helped exercise demons conjured up from the 19th & early 20th century.
The electrical secrets of heaven, the lighting, the elaborate sets designed by genius Kenneth Strickfaden with his lights throbbing gizmos flashing and zapping, the creepy atmosphere of murky tones. The consummate Universal monster movie with iconic scenes introducing a new face, Boris Karloff who would become the great father of terror stories …
What’s on that slab?, “It’s Alive, It’s Alive!…” those monumental words that remain ingrained in our consciousness. Colin Clive becomes hysterical as he has creates life from death, but that life would become a whole new ethical, moral and imposing dilemma for Dr.Frankenstein. A horror film with strong science fiction/fantasy tropes. And the laboratory as gorgeous set pieces would become a staple of the science fiction realm.
The 1950s Science Fiction genre took root with it’s profouns contribution to our collective consciousness AS a genre its vision & breadth possessed quintessential & ever-lasting sociological and psychological metaphors, iconic tropes and striking imagery.
The splitting of the atom, ushering in the atomic age and the collective anxiety most definitely was the catalyst for the many of the movie fantasy stories known as the 1950s Sci-Fi film.
“But no matter what else it might be, what makes a science fiction film science fiction is the fact that it is, in some sense, about science—and not only science but futuristic science. By that I mean that science fiction movies deal with scientific possibilities and technologies that do not exist yet but that might exist someday. Science fiction is the realm of the not-yet.” — “Cult Science Fiction Films” by Welch Everman
Ridley Scott – (Alien 1979, Blade Runner 1982) “When you come to the second World War You’ve got a very specific enemy. You know what that enemy is, It’s there for all the wrong reasons and it should be prevented…. Then you got the next phase which is The Cold War again which is to do with paranoia . But I think real, it’s real. Movies started to dip into that.”
“The Splitting of the atom…. forces that can only be explained to us by these guys in white coats… All of a sudden the guys in white coats became these simultaneously kind of rock stars and the most evil thing you could imagine.”
In a scene from The Atomic City 1952– The mother’s child sitting at the kitchen table with his breakfast “If I grow up do you know what I’m gonna do?” The mother turns to him, leaving her scrambled eggs on the stove and corrects him nervously, “It’s when you grow up, not if…”
The Atomic City 1952 trailer
Duck & Cover 1951 classic propaganda film
From the short instructional film Duck and Cover “But no matter where they go or what they do they always try to remember what to do if the atom bomb explodes right then!” (the kids suddenly fall into the brick wall. The narrator says ) It’s a bomb DUCK & COVER!
James Cameron – “All of our fate as human beings, our destiny seems bound up in our technology and our technology is frightening. It’s Terrifying!”
Steven Spielberg- “So there was a great deal of anxiety in the air. It was not just fear of being beaten up by the local bully. But the fear was being NUKED!… But we almost pushed a button on each other during The Cuban Missile Crisis…… I was absolutely prepared for Armageddon and these movies from the 1950s and early 60s played on those fears. And these movies were all metaphors for those fears. ”
George Lucas- “I would say that there was a certain amount of anxiety about that I mean I grew up right in the very heat of that. DUCK & COVER drills all the time… We were always hearing about the fall out shelter. About the end of the world, issues that were always going on about how many bombs were being built. The Cold War was always in the media.”
From The Twilight Zone “The Shelter” season 3 episode 3
1950s Sci-Fi films represented a conservatism or ‘reactionary wing’ that seems consumed by a motive to emphasize the values of 1950s America post WWII, in the midst of a McCarthy era witch hunt that prevailed fueling our fears that seeped into many of the Sci-Fi narratives on screen and in literature. Reflecting the growing internal struggles within American society and the developing mistrust about Soviet aggression and anyone and anything perceived as subversive.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?”
Some films that reflected the paranoia of the period were well regaled by a Hollywood studio system that was itself at the center of the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeting screenwriters and actors as ‘communist sympathizers’ and no one could be trusted. -Just like Invaders from Mars 1953, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, X the Unknown 1956, The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957, and I Married a Monster From Outer Space 1958.
In 1947, in Roswell New Mexico the military reports that they have a UFO in their possession. The phenomena of sightings of UFOs would continue throughout the 1950s, though agencies were fully prepared to explain away the reports. Yet the public had a hunger to and fascination with the possibility of extra-terrestrials.
As Phil Hardy’s insightful take on the genre, all this manifested in a way that the Science Fiction films of the 1950s ‘supplanted horror as the genre that dealt with fear and paranoia.” The films expressed a very realistic look at science within the atomic age, and shed the shadows and expressionism of the earlier Gothic horrors and while not all scientific fact, tried to embrace a world of possibility.
The Flying Saucer 1950 begins the momentum for the decade of Science Fiction cinema’s love affair with unidentified objects and begins to round the edges of space crafts from other worlds that aren’t our American sharp and phallus shaped rockets!
DESTINATION MOON 1950 was featured in COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR. Being hailed the 2001, Space Odyssey of it’s time, it attempts to portray a realism trip to the moon. Phil Hardy calls Destination Moon 1950 ‘a sober celebration of man’s imminent conquest of space that dominated the decade.’
Destination Moon did attempt to accurately portray a trip to the moon given the technology and knowledge that was stuck in 1950.
Then we shot past the moon in cinema and went straight to the red planet with Flight to Mars 1951!
Themes and metaphors that emerged from anxiety about the atom bomb, radiation fallout, the advent of modernity, the space race and the wanderlust to conquer outer space, interplanetary warfare, military vs. science hubris, science meddling with nature, fear of science and technology, invasion anxiety, continued fear of otherness, deviant (in terms of counter-culture not exclusively moral judgement) subversion and xenophobic nightmares.
Sometimes we were even married to a monster from outer space and didn’t even notice much of a difference except for the lack of small talk! Here’s Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott in I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958.
Director Howard Hawk and screenplay by Charles Lederer, created a striking science fiction masterpiece of film noir ambience with it’s chilling back lit set pieces- The Thing From Another World 1951, adapted from John W. Campbell’s story ‘Who Goes There?’, other films that followed the path of paranoia — Invaders from Mars 1953, War of the Worlds 1953, It Came from Outer Space 1953, It Conquered the World 1956 & Invasion of the body snatchers 1956.
There were also science fiction films that rang the warning bell about cosmic calamity and catastrophic world coming to an end, annihilation fantasies like When Worlds Collide 1951.
War of the Worlds 1953 and When Worlds Collide 1951 had as Phil Hardy states, ‘religious dimensions’ that accused us of bringing about catastrophic punishment because of our misdeeds and transgressions.
H.G. Well’s view of Martian invaders created for the public consciousness the idea of destructive beings from another world. It was a great reflexive move for those science fiction films to portray aliens that were sympathetic, yet non-humanoid in appearance. Most Sci-Fi films show aliens as menacing, not only destructive but dangerous because they also wanted to keep us as captives, zap our resources and colonize our planet, sometimes even take our women, oh god no unhand Faith Domergue you pants wearing Mutant!
“Is that a fireball or something?”
Hollywood saw a trend later on in the 50s with Destination Moon 1950 when they came upon a story written by Harry Bates called The Return of the Master this became Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 which has remained one of the best regarded science fiction films of all time. This is one of the rare occasions when the alien Klaatu played beautifully like an intricate clock by the chiseled face, tranquil speaking Michael Rennie is benevolent, bringing with him a sincere and dire warning about earth people’s course and the future of their civilization if they don’t relent about the proliferation of atomic weapons. There were several well intended alien visitors who were met with hostilities as with, Klaatu (Michael Rennie ) in Day the Earth Stood Still 1951, and The Man From Planet X 1951.
Many films, even the low budget excursions dealt with our primal fears of alienation, estrangement & loss of identity i.e.,(communism at it’s core, the ramifications of otherness) nothing hits home more than Invaders from Mars 1953, and the quintessential loss of self and individualism in Don Siegels’ Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
“They would change into people who hate you!”
Steven Spielberg talks about the impact of Invaders from Mars 1953, “It certainly touched a nerve among all the young kids like myself who saw that movie at a very young age. That you would come home and that you would not recognize your mom and dad they would have changed into people who hate you!”
I can attest to the persuasion these films could have over the burgeoning imagination of a child, especially one like me who felt very much like an outsider as a kid. One night, as sure as my name is MonsterGirl, I went home, looked at my parents, decided they had been switched by aliens and ran out of the house, walking around the block for at least an hour before I convinced myself that I was being ridiculous. Or was I? These themes did have a not so subtle impact on a young impressionable mind who could easily question the world around them. Who could you trust? Would would believe you anyway?
There is the outsider narrative, diminishing human forms as in Bert I. Gordon’s Attack of the Puppet People 1958 where obsessed and lonely puppet maker John Hoyt loses his marbles. Although mad -bad science has shrunk down people before the 1950s in The Devil Doll 1936 and in the hands of crazed Albert Dekker in Dr. Cyclops 1940.
There is the quintessential existential crisis, the beautifully thought provoking film by director Jack Arnold starring the eternally transcending man Grant Williams in, The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
And of course there is the matter of GIGANTISM!
Giant insects, sea creatures and people who ran around half crazed and scantily dressed were a by-product of the atomic age!
George Lucas —“Out of that fear came I think a lot the monsters which you mess around with stuff and you’re gonna unleash this unknown monster!… it’s making tangible the unknown… A lot of that has to do with the mystery of this silent death that comes along with it that nobody knows exactly what it is or where it came from or can’t see it, can’t touch it. Well let’s make it easier to deal with by making it a giant monster.”
Some films show the ascension from violence & hyper-masculinity, Women as professionals & bold heroines who didn’t shrink as hysterical victims. Female dominated civilizations (Cat- Women of the Moon 1953, Queen of Outer Space 1958, Missile to the Moon 1958, Fire Maidens from Outer Space 1956, that threatened to maniacally seduce & subsume male voyagers, dressed by 5th avenue they are outré chic. Wanton warriors & nubile space maidens who often never saw the male species before or wanted to destroy them altogether!
A tagline reads “SEE-Astounding she-beasts of Venus!”
In Queen of Outer Space 1958 the masked disfigured Queen Yilana (Zsa Zsa Gabor) imprisons the men who crash land on her planet, intending to annihilate the earth with her beta disintegrator, though her beautiful subjects revolt in the name of love.
Mark Hamill –“We sometimes imagined other planets as paradises…. with girls!!! they looked more Hollywood starlets than space aliens, anyway they were eager to please. Their dancing their music their leotards were so Moderne! like Greenwich Village in outer space.” referring to Cat-Women of the Moon 1953.
“May we serve you earth men?”
“You’re the first man I’ve ever seen!” Carol Brewster as Alpha is mesmerized
“Step on it, and don’t spare the atoms!” from Abbott & Costello Go to Mars (1953)
“Their dance, their music, their leotards were so Moderne!”
Missile to the Moon 1958
There’s nothing worse than a space Queen–The Lido (K.T. Stevens ) and one of her maidens in distress…
Mark Hamill who narrates the wonderful documentary written and directed by Richard Schickel Watch the Skies! Sci-Fi , the 1950s and Us presented by Turner Classic Movies also reminds us that “50s science fiction may have shot at the stars but the dialogue often remained earth bound tied up with the battle of the sexes.” Many prevailing sub-texts were also love stories, soap operas involving relationships between men and women.They would create love stories in space!
Project Moonbase 1953 Donna Martell as Colonel Briteis (bright eyes?)
Rocketship X-M (1950) starring Lloyd Bridges and Ossa Massen
Cameron Mitchell plays Steve Abbott in Flight to Mars 1953, who tells Marguerite Chapman as Alita a fellow scientist/astronaut, “I think you’re a prize package and very feminine.”
There is always time for romance in outer space!
There were menaces from without, menaces from within. The ordinary world transformed into the monstrous. There were warnings from benevolent aliens and aggressive attacks by aliens who wanted to colonize our planet.
Sometimes the warnings or threats came from disembodied heads and brains, like Donovan’s Brain 1953, Fiend Without a Face 1958 and The Brain from Planet Arous 1957.
The indie filmmakers introducing teenagers as both heroes & monsters. Many films were horror/sci-fi hybridizations. And by the end of the decade we were left a legacy of impressive productions that remain timeless masterpieces, the cult grade- B Sci-Fi picture with their indelible charm and kitsch emblems, and the true stinkers that are so bad there too good not to appreciate. Sublime, thrilling, provocative & yes campy!
There were collections of stylized works by Jack Arnold, Bert I. Gordon, Edward L. Cahn and one indie auteur who showed us how to make a memorable movie on a shoe string budget who also launched many a career, the inimitable and grand Roger Corman. And of course those guys at American International Pictures (AIP)
Within the 50s decade shedding the Gothic themes of the 30s & 40s, the poetic shadow plays of Val Lewton,1950s Sci-Fi films had a pre-occupation with the modern world and mostly all the central menaces were transformed into non-human threats that we not only couldn’t empathize with but were revolted against as dangerous, vicious, insidious and potentially nihilistic in vision, they were seen as only a threat to our humanity and ultimately would lead to our destruction.
Within Sci-Fi there are so many films which are complex hybridizations of horror/science fiction /fantasy and have become too insurmountable to dissect or decipher all the nuances between the various free-floating genres. Writer critic historian Robin Wood in his Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan.—wagers that “the horror film’s radical potential lies in the fact that ‘the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses’ Jancovich states that the monster “must therefor be seen as a profoundly ambiguous figures which challenges social norms and so reveals society’s repressive monstrosity.”
Killers from Space 1954
This theme is attached to McCarthyism that showed up as coded narratives in the more highly produced Sci-Fi films- “the myth of Communism as total dehumanization—accounts for the prevalence of this kind of monster in that period” -Mark Jancovich -Rational Fears- American Horror in the 1950s.
We can’t forget contributions made by the maestros in the visual effects department, direction, art direction and cinematography from George Pal, William Cameron Menzies and Ray Harryhausen.
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) Ray Harryhausen’s Ymir from Venus
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) Ray Harryhausen’s The Kraken
Cinematographers who brought these visual narratives & landscapes to life- just to name a few!
Clifford Stine (It Came from Outer Space 1953,This Island Earth 1955, Imitation of Life 1959,Spartacus 1960) Sidney Hickox (Them! 1954, The Big Sleep 1946,Dark Passage 1947,White Heat 1949), John F. Seitz (Invaders from Mars 1953, Sullivan’s Travel’s 1941m Double Indemnity 1944, Sunset Boulevard 1950), Russell Harlan ( The Thing from Another World 1951, Red River 1948, Witness for the Prosecution 1959 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962) George Barnes (War of the Worlds 1953, Rebecca 1940, Spellbound 1945) Leo Tover (The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951, Hold Back the Dawn 1941,The Snake Pit 1948, The Woman on the Beach 1947,The Heiress 1949, Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959) Ellsworth Fredericks (Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, Hold Back the Night 1956,The Stripper 1963, Mister Buddwing 1966)
And just as key to the atmosphere and attitude of the films were the musical contributions which defined that certain feel of chills and excitement, screwball antics and off-beat perscussion that filled up your head with pulsing visions of laser beams and other-worldly noises that ran up your spine like a finely coiled wire resonating the confluent sounds of the cosmos! Geesh that was a mouthful!
There were composers who masterfully underscored some of the BEST films and even the worst!, Dimitri Tiomkin * Bronislau Kaper * Bernard Herrmann *Hans J. Salter and Henry Mancini to name a few.
Instrumentalist Clara Rockmore mastered the Theremin which had a cosmic, universal vibe that was, well out of this world!
The Theremin is an electronic musical instrument created by Russian inventor , Léon Theremin controlled by the performing thereminist who makes the dulcet eerie tones by manipulating the two metal antennas that respond to the hand movements which influence the oscillations or frequency with one hand and effecting the volume with the other hand.
Popular were the films that dealt with the hubris of science that ultimately manifested monsters. There were even pants monsters, yes! pants monsters…! The burning sun turned him into a hideous fiend, but he still had time to put on those Haggars casual men’s trousers!
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, Robert Clarke (in doorway), Patricia Manning (second from right), 1959
There was a running sentiment —the notion of us against them, and even at times when not working together to fight a common enemy- you’d see the military vs science… And sometimes, though almost always male hero driven, there emerged some anti-damsels, all-powerful women who broke the cliched mold of the helpless hysterical female and arose as smart, intellectual (a socially constructed gendered male quality), mindful and fearlessly driven woman with guts and composure even if it was to hold off from laughing at Paul Blaisdell inside that cucumber monster from Venus.
Roger Corman’s It Conquered the World (1956) The Venusian cucumber
Just look at Julie Adams as Kay Lawrence in Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954, Joan Weldon as Dr. Patricia Medford in Them! 1954, Beverly Garland as Dr. Andrea Romar in Curucu, Beast of the Amazon 1956 & and her gutsy Clair Anderson in It Conquered the World 1956, Tina Carver as Dr. Terry Mason in From Hell It Came 1957 and Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams in This Island Earth 1955 & Prof. Lesley Joyce in It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955, and Lola Albright as Cathy Barrett in The Monolith Monsters 1957 .
Some sci-fi films were visually surreal landscapes or existential masterpiece such as William Cameron Menzies Invaders From Mars 1953 or Ib Melchior’s The Angry Red Planet 1959 and Jack Arnold’s magnificent adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
The Angry Red Planet (1959) The Rat Bat Spider puppet monster!
Grant Williams sails into the radioactive mist in The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
Invaders from Mars (1953) Jimmy Hunt awakens to a UFO crashing into the sand dunes
“To sleep perchance to dream”-Hamlet-William Shakespeare
This dream-scape is a visual masterpiece, with the appearance of the sublimely brilliant Finnish painter Hugo Simberg, ( I happen to get permission from The National Museum of Finland to use Simberg’s ‘At The Crossroads’ as the cover of my album Fools & Orphans) thanks to the art design by visionary William Cameron Menzies!
A scene from Invaders from Mars (1953)
It is absolutely true about one thing— that it’s wholly complex to begin dissecting what makes a film solely and definitively Science Fiction and what constitutes it being a hybridization of horror & fantasy. There are way too many that fall right on the gray line that either exists in the middle or transects both themes at once.
Vincent Price can’t get that pesky Tingler off his arm in William Castle’s terrific horror/sci-fi extravaganza equip with buzzing chairs-The Tingler (1959)
For example, I am covering William Castle’s The Tingler 1959, because, while the central terror surrounds a monstrous ‘horror movie themed monster’ a creeping fiend that lives inside us all and grips our spines the moment we are in abject fear, it is discovered by scientific and medical research. One could say the film is also a crime drama. There are too many nuances and parameters that intersect. James Whale’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931 is called a Monster movie by Universal and by fans of all generations. But it falls into the deep well of hybridization as so much of it focuses on the very philosophical questions around scientific hubris, the creation of human life and the question of god, ownership of one’s identity, and what is monstrous?
“A lot of science fiction films are also horror films in which monsters are spawned by scientific experiments, but not all horror films are science fiction, because science fiction does not deal in the supernatural. Science fiction takes place in the realm of the not-yet; supernatural horror films operate in the realm of the impossible.” — “Cult Science Fiction Films” by Welch Everman
The enormous influence that Science Fiction cinema had long-lasting effects on the advent of television. Just look at Rod Serling’s Fantasy/Sci-Fi anthology series which aired on CBS from 1959-1964. The show came in on the end of the decade. Stories that were infused by the themes of the 50s and set the tone for future decades to come. The Twilight Zone was groundbreaking and thought-provoking, dealing with issues of war, class, race, it was a socially conscious program that constantly tried to remind us of our humanity. The decade of 1950s Science Fiction also bled into the mindfulness of my favorite early 60s science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits.
The Zanti Misfits-one of the many fabulous Outer Limits monsters!
—There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Orwellian Control Voice from The Outer Limits anthology television series aired from 1963-1965.
Mark Jancovich writes “Again and again, the threats which distinguish 1950s horror
do not come from the past or even from the actions of a lone individual , but are associated with the processes of social development and modernization. In this period, it is the process of rationalization which is the threat, and in this way horror texts were at least as concerned with developments within American society as they were with threats from without… Here rationalization is understood as the process through which scientific – technical rationality is applied to the management of social, economic and cultural life…
… this new system of organization was seen by many as inherently totalitarian system which both created conformity and repressed dissent.”
Vincent Price fights off zombies from a plague that wiped out most of the human race in Richard Matheson’s adapted screenplay from his story I Am Legen- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The outsider narratives– were illustrated as contrasting and conflicting to accepted norms, we see this with Richard Matheson’s writing (I Am Legend which became Vincent Price’s agonizing journey as The Last Man on Earth 1964, and later The Omega Man 1971 and Jack Arnold’s films involving “the reoccurring preoccupation with alienation, isolation and estrangement” -Jancovich- seen in Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954 and The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
Grant Williams protagonist Scott Carey becomes engulfed in a glittery mist of atomic dust particles in The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 the film exudes anxiety of his diminishing masculinity by not only losing his literal size, his physical height but he loses his maleness as a husband and as a regular man. This estrangement become a journey of his eternal soul and it’s place in the vast unknown other-world.
Grant Williams is feeling ‘literally’ like such a small man.
There would be films that embrace the dystopia narratives, and curiosity with technical advancements like robots!
Fritz Lang’s iconic robot in Metropolis (1927)
Robby the Robot and Walter Pidgeon as Morbius in George Pal’s take on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest as Forbidden Planet 1956
These Science Fiction/Fantasy films have left a deep and abiding impression on so many of us. Whether you grew up actually seeing them for the very first time, or becoming a new fan who is excited to embrace the heart and soul of a genre that made you think beyond what if? Either way, Science Fiction is an exploration of our imaginations, both glorious and often terrifying but it’s a genre that is here to stay, and the 1950s in particular truly rang the alarm bell that is still reverberating today!
Added to the mix in many of these film favorites was the essential mechanism of ‘not being believed’ added to the fear and paranoia of the moment!
The Face of Paranoia
Invasion Anxiety
FEAR OF THE ATOMIC BOMB! The Atomic City 1952 trailer
I see you with my million eyes!
Hey big fella got a light!
The theremin ‘the dulcet tones’ that wavered throughout sci-fi and beyond!
‘The modern world’
It’s intermission time! Head out to the snack bar for some 50s refreshments!
LOST WORLDS AND SPACE TRAVEL
Directed by Irving Pichel and producer George Pal along with a screenplay by Robert Heinlein took a very documentary approach to the narrative and the landscapes. The film stars John Archer as Jim Barnes, Warner Anderson as Dr. Charles Cargraves, with Tom Powers and Dick Wesson. The film was a critical success an revived the Sci-Fi genre.
Destination Moon 1950 was an attempt to show a serious technical side to space travel. based on what science actually knew at the time. Actually it was in response to a spread that ran in Collier’s Magazine of series of paintings done by artist Chesley Bonastell of gleaming space craft.
Steven Spielberg had said of the picture, “DESTINATION MOON is a scientific attempt to create suspense based on no bad guys no villains and no aliens.
Similar to almost Apollo 13 (1995) or Marooned 1969)
George Lucas says “At the time it was a very provocative idea because nobody had ever seen anyone go to the moon.”
Though it’s been called the precursor to 2001 Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick never admitted to having seen the movie. Which is highly possible, and given his genius we’ll take his word for it.
In the midst of the Cold War, the film reflects America’s desire to conquer, and according to the generals in Destination Moon, the moon would be the ideal location for a strategic military base of operations. And thus the race for America to get there first. There’s also a conflict seen as there were those who would embrace the new technologies and those who saw the impending modernity as a threat or a ‘bad thing’.
Pichel and Pal wanted to situate this film farther away from the fantastical science fiction ‘soap opera’ serials of the 1930s. Physicists and astronomers were consulted in order to stay true to the realistic view Heinlein, Pichel and Pal desired as their vision of the future. They also used striking paintings by Chesley Bonestell to imagine the gorgeous lunar landscapes along with designer Ernest Fegte who create the realistic cratered look of the Moon.
The film features the first lunar landing that was envisioned as realistic and not melodramatic or surreal. The crew led by actor John Archer manage to land on the Moon but they run out of fuel, that they seem doomed to be stranded. They lose all the excess weight in order to get the ship space worthy again, but till they are over the weight limit. In a noble act of courage and sacrifice Dick Wesson (Tom Powers) figures that he can remove his cumbersome pressure suit and re-enter the ship a lighter and better man in order to save the rest of the crew…
Dr. Charles Cargraves: You can’t buck public opinion; I’ve tried. Have you seen this?
[Newspaper headline: MASS MEETING PROTESTS RADIOACTIVE ROCKET]
General Thayer: That isn’t public opinion – it’s a job of propaganda!
Jim Barnes: You’re almighty right it is. Manufactured and organized – with money and brains. Somebody’s out to get us.
The Flying Saucer
Directed by Mikel Conrad, stars Mikel Conrad as Mike Trent, Pat Garrison as Vee Langley, Hantz von Teuffen as Hans, Lester Sharpeas Col. Marikoff Roy Engel as Dr. Carl Lawton and Denver Pile as Turner! Because we feared the Russians in the early 1950s much of the paranoia around UFO sightings were connected to those pesky Reds! When CIA secret agent Mike Trent tracks a flying saucer to Alaska he finds out that it is a ship built by scientist Dr. Carl Lawton who hopes to sell it to the Americans!
Pat Garrison and Mikel Conrad-50s cool!
Col. Marikoff: Mr. Trent, you’re giving us a great deal of trouble. Why didn’t you stay in New York with your drunken friends of the night club?
Mike Trent: I sobered up.
Prehistoric Women
Laurette Luez as Tigri
Prehistoric Women would find a resurgence in the 60s! Here’s British actress Martine Beswick in the 1966 movie with the same title!
Prehistoric Women (1950)
Directed by Gregg C. Tallas
Shown from left: Jo Carroll Dennison, Joan Shawlee, Laurette Luez, Kerry Vaughn, Mara Lynn
(bending over), Judy Landon
Directed by Gregg C. Tallas, (Siren of Atlantas 1949) offers an adventure sci-fi fantasy film. Prehistoric Women stars Laurette Luez as Tigri, Allan Nixon as (Mesa of Lost Women 1953, Pickup 1951) Engor, Joan Shawlee as Lotee, Judy Landon as Eras, Mary Lynn as Arva, Jo Carroll Dennison as Nika, Kerry Vaughn as Tulie, Tony Devlin as Rulg, James Summers as Adh, Jeanne Sorel as Tana, and Janet Scott as Wise Old Lady.
As Bill Warren puts it in his wonderful series Keep Watching the Skies published by the awesome McFarland Press-Prehistoric Women “Were this picture not so naive, it would seem more sleazy than it does. It’s not good in any way, but has a certain daffy charm because of it’s unsophisticated unbelieveability.”
The Commentator: “And Engor called it Firee, which was his word for Fire.”
The film is narrated documentary style because the cast are primitives who Amazonian cave-women and had little to no dialogue, it just adds to the laughable style and god awful Cinecolor production. I’d like to know how they got a turkey vulture to wear a mask poor thing, the film is so blurring it’s hard to tell what the hell is flying up in the prehistoric blue sky… scourge of the skies indeed! Still, prehistoric films, though considered mostly adventure stories seems to be included in books on the Sci-Fi genre. Though it could also easily be branded as a very cheap sexist exploitation romp!
Look it’s a flying dragon the scourge of the skies!
Bill Warren cites a review from the Monthly Film Bulletin: “They assert feminine superiority ruthlessly, setting their captives to hard labour, clubbing them intermittently and cutting off their escape… {Engor-} (the intelligent troglodyte who invents fire) uses a flaming torch to destroy a giant winged dragon (a disguised turkey vulture they must have tortured off set by putting fake ears and beak on it) that threatens their encampment {and}the girls are stunned with fear and admiration and surrender unconditionally.”
Tigri and her clan hate men but realize that they are sort of needed for some things, so they capture a bunch of fellas and try to force them to become their mates. But when Engor, escapes and discovers fire gets re-captured and not only slays the “flying dragon the scourge of the skies” but uses the fire to fight off the ugly brute who threatens their lives Tigri has a change of heart and all is right with the primitive world again. The women start running around panicked and screaming hysterically and the men are once again in charge… it’s ludicrous.
This giant is a real 9 foot giant… named Guadi in the film is Johann Petursson The Viking Giant was the Tallest Man From Iceland and traveled with Ringling Bros. Circus!
The Commentator: “Strangely enough, the swan dive was invented before the swan.“
Rocketship-X-M
GASP AT THE DARING COURAGE… AS THEY THUNDER BETWEEN PLANETS ON A RUNAWAY ROCKET!
Directed by science fiction story aficionado Kurt Neumann ( Secret of the Blue Room 1933, Half a Sinner 1934, Island of Lost Men 1939, a slew of Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan pictures, She Devil 1957, the outstanding Kronos 1957, and The Fly 1958 ) Rocketship X-M stars Lloyd Bridges as Col. Floyd Graham, Osa Massen as Dr. Lisa Van Horn, John Emory as Dr. Karl Eckstrom, Noah Beery Jr. as Maj. William Corrigan, Hugh O’ Brian as Harry Chamberlain, Morris Ankrum as Dr. Ralph Fleming, and Sherry Morland as the Martian girl.
Cinematographer Karl Struss (Sunrise 1927, The Great Dictator, 1940, Limelight 1952, The Fly 1958) and art direction by Theobold Holsopple create at times a sublime and beautifully desolate landscape using matte paintings, miniatures among the technical effects. For all the scenes on Mars, the film is tinted a pinkish sepia tone (filmed partly in The Mojave desert). Struss lenses an landscape that is eerie and atmospheric.
Rocketship X-M was a B picture designed to beat DESTINATION MOON in the movie theaters, and even with it’s grim ending, it actually did better at the box office. Director James Cameron called it an ‘Anodyne answer to Destination Moon 1950.’ It was a cautionary tale about how we will not be able to control this new technology. It’s a warning about too much hubris surrounding this powerful technology that sometimes ‘precedes a tragic fall’-Mark Hamill.
The crew finds the remnants of a Martian Civilization that was destroyed by it’s own technology much like the revelation in Ridley Scott’s Alien 1979.
The film though with it’s bleak message is quite a surprisingly interesting science fiction tale about a trip to the moon, by way of Mars that is interesting because of it’s earnestness and visual style. And to be honest a lot more interesting and characters more full of life than with it’s predecessor in 1950 Destination Moon.
Rocketship XM
Staffing Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Berry Jr.
You heard this year’s Oscar Winner for Best Actor credit his father for his acting career. Well here he is folks. Third from the left: Lloyd Bridges.
German director Neumann came to Hollywood in 1925 and became best known for his work on The Fly. (1958) Rocketship X-M is a sober and beautifully filmed piece of science fiction realism blended with romance and crisis. Like Destination Moon ,it features the first manned rocket-ship to the Moon that winds up knocked off course winding up on Mars, stranded on the bleak landscape where the crew led by Dr. Karl Eckstrom stumble upon a dome-shaped structure and an odd metallic mask. They deduce from all the radioactivity that there must have been a superior race of intelligent beings who had once inhabited the planet but fell victim to some kind of atomic catastrophe, leaving only a few mutant savages to forage the bones of the now desolate planet.
These crazy looking bald Martians sort of remind me of Pluto in The Hills Have Eyes 1977
The crew is eventually besieged upon by the remains of that once thriving Martian race, which in a shocking reveal shows Sherry Moreland the Martian girl to have a lifeless stare as she is blind. The Martian trogldyte attackers kill Dr.Eckstrom, and Maj. Corrigan, wounding Chamberlain. Col. Floyd Graham and Dr. Lisa Van Horn make it back to the ship, but don’t have enough fuel to get back home. In a very intense and poignant scene as the two hold each other and embrace their inevitable fate with a transcendent fatalistic sense of hope, much like Grant Williams at the end of The Incredible Shrinking Man, the lovers watch through the view finder as they plunge toward Earth to their deaths, in a darker film ending– as they crash. Rocketship X-M seems to have brought the warning not to earth in the form of Klaatu the benevolent, but has placed us on a hostile planet much like Planet of the Apes that gravely warns us that our future could very well wind up the same way if we pursue atomic weapons.
Lloyd Bridges holds Osa Massen It ends badly for everyone. As they look out the porthole “it’s only seconds now, try not to be afraid” She clings to him-Suddenly she is not afraid anymore. She feels like something is lifting them up and holding them right before they crash…
Osa Massen sees her tragic end as a new beginning she sheds her fears and finds a courageous way to embrace their impending death. It’s a rather poetic scene when they hold each other and look out at the view finder and watch as life rapidly escapes them. It’s a very dark ending.
Doomed to crash and burn Floyd and Lisa cannot control the technology. There is a conflict with the machines and mechanisms we build that can either annihilate us or set us free to explore and thrive.
‘Their last desperate hope is for transcendence”
ROCKETSHIP X-M — Director John Cameron calls it a ‘dualistic dance’ with technology -referring to the end being so nihilistic potentially– then the head of the program says they’ll start construction tomorrow.
Already on Earth they are planning another mission called Rocketship X-M2!
PROGRESS MARCHES ON-“No gentlemen the X-M was not a failure tomorrow we start on the construction of the X-M2”
Floyd: I’ve been wondering, how did a girl like you get mixed up in a thing like this in the first place.
Dr. Lisa Van Horn: I suppose you think that women should only cook and sew and bear children.
Floyd: Isn’t that enough?
[Floyd and Lisa comfort Eckstrom, who was mortally wounded by a Martian’s axe]
Floyd: Murdering savages!
Dr. Eckstrom: No Floyd. Poor fear-crazed despairing wretches. Pity them. Pity them!
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NHL all-star game rosters revealed and they’re absolute trash
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Want to get mad? So, here are the all-star rosters: Introducing the 2019 @NHL All-Star rosters. https://t.co/YJh8POAiTz #NHLAllStar pic.twitter.com/4hW37oeIQE — NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) January 2, 2019 A closer look at the Atlantic Division roster: F Jack Eichel, Buffalo Sabres F Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning F Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs (Captain) F David…
All the fourth line needed was Moore Goat
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There is a new fourth line in town and they are…… surprisingly pretty good. The line of Par Lindholm, Frederik Gauthier and Trevor Moore has exceeded expectations thus far and are doing it in their own way. The Leafs top-nine is full of stars and is able to complete tasks on the ice in a stylish…
Toronto Maple Leafs: 2018 Year in Review
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2018 was a bit of a crazy year for Buds fans as the team made the playoffs, crashed out at the hands of Boston in round one, hired a new GM, signed John Tavares, had a contract impasse with William Nylander and are currently set to make the playoffs for a third straight year. Quite…
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A few things are going to transpire over the next few weeks as the NHL season settles into its second half and eventual stretch run. For one, the good teams will start to really break away from the bad, the latter folding up shop and looking forward to the draft. With that, carcasses will be…
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The Informers trailer released
The Informers movie poster
The movie adaptation of The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis has finally had it’s first trailer released.
Published in 1995, the collection of loosely connected short stories captures a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
Unfortunately the word on the grapevine is that the filmmakers have decided to omit the supernatural elements of the book from the film version.
The Informers is directed by Gregor Jordan (Buffalo Soldiers) and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Rhys Ifans and Brad Renfro.
Already premiered at film festivals around the globe, The Informers will be released later this summer.
For all the latest information on the movie including reviews, footage, further trailers and hopefully the odd interview stay with The Scribbler.
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What do you think of the trailer? It looks like the movie will do the book justice. What is your opinion? What are the best and worst movie adaptations in your view?
Words: Dean Samways
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Waterstones’ New Voices 2009 – Interview One – Janice Y. K. Lee
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K Lee
Janice Y. K. Lee has written her first novel to much acclaim, after making it onto the Waterstones’ New Voices 2009 The Scribbler has managed to secure a quick Q&A with the writer.
This interview is the first in a series in which we hope to talk to all the nominated writers competing for the Waterstones award.
Impressing many publications from the intellectual New Yorker to fashion magazine Vogue, Janice Y. K. Lee has managed to impress some of the harshest critiques with The Piano Teacher, a tale of love, passion and survival in 1940s and 50s Hong Kong.
THE SCRIBBLER: What is different about your writing that helps it stand out from other new writers at the moment?
JANICE Y. K. LEE: I think that people like to be transported in a novel, and 40s and 50s Hong Kong is sufficiently far away from most peoples’ worlds that they feel as if they are travelling and learning a little bit. The Piano Teacher has been described as an historical epic and an epic love story and I think both of those appeals to readers.
TS: As a New Voice of 2009 you must be inspired by some very contemporary authors. Which writers do you enjoy reading and draw inspiration from?
JYKL: I do read mostly contemporary writers, partly because I want to support writers working now and also because it is the closest to my heart. I think Shirley Hazzard and Michael Ondaatje are amazing. Also Amy Hempel, Lorrie Moore, Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides. I could go on and on.
TS: Our readers will be very interested in how you approach a writing project. Where do you lift your ideas from?
JYKL: I don’t know that I “lift” them as much as they come floating up to the conscious part of my head. I’ll be thinking about many things, and some will keep coming back, or be resonating for a reason I cannot figure out. I was interested in a long time by people who steal, people who one would never think would do such a thing. This found its way into short stories, characters I would write about, and eventually found its way into the book. TPT started as a short story about an English piano teacher and her young Chinese student. From there, the characters really led me to their story.
TS: When you first began writing how easy was it to find and sign to publisher? Can you talk us through that process?
JYKL: I have an unusual story, which will probably not be that helpful, unfortunately. My teacher from grad school, Chang rae Lee, introduced me to my agent, and she took me on the basis of my short stories but she really encouraged me to write a novel. It took me a while, but after 5 years, I had my novel. She was always very encouraging of it and because I took so long to make sure it was right, it was in good shape by the time I finished it. From there, she sent it out and there were a lot of interested parties and it ended up going to auction. I had a lot of rejection during my 20s with my short stories, but luckily, with this novel, it was a fairy tale sort of story.
Janice Y. K. Lee
TS: What obstacles have you come across in your writing and how did you overcome them?
JYKL: I think writing a first novel, in particular, is difficult as you are writing in obscurity, you are likely not making any money, and people often don’t know what to make of you. All I can say is that you just have to believe in yourself, and in your book, and keep on.
TS: We often hear that artists have trouble dealing with their own pieces (i.e. musicians not able to listen to their albums etc.) How do you feel about your own work? Are you comfortable with it?
JYKL: I haven’t read the book through since it came out. I don’t know when I’ll do that. I do flip through sometimes, and read a passage, and usually I will like it. I suppose that’s pretty good!
TS: Have you already started work on your next book? Is it difficult to leave one piece behind and start new one?
JYKL: Writing a second book is awfully difficult as well! I feel there is a certain expectation as to the kind of the book I will write, and I’m trying hard to let that feeling go and write what I want to write. I think I have successfully left TPT behind but it’s just trying to get to that new place right now.
TS: What is the best piece of advice you’ve been given and advice would you give to our budding readers today?
JYKL: Treat writing like a job. It is a job and you have to work very hard at it. It is not always some romantic life of late nights and wine and talking about one’s process (that may come afterwards! or before!). You have to sit at that desk and write.
TS: In your opinion what is The Piano Teacher about?
JYKL: I think it’s about Claire (the book’s piano teacher), but I’ve been argued down to the ground about that. Others think it is about consequences of actions made under duress, east meets west, wartime. But I’ll stick to my guns and say it’s about Claire’s journey as a person.
TS: What books inspired you to pick up the pen and start writing?
JYKL: Any of the books written by the writers I mentioned above will move me and make me want to write. They have a way of surprising readers, using words differently, illuminating character, that make one pause and savour the language.
TS: What is your learning background? And do you feel it helped you in writing your novel?
JYKL: I went to university and studied English and American Literature which was certainly helpful. I did an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing which was helpful insofar as it gave me time to write in a community of people who were doing the same thing.
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Please take this chance to discuss, promote or rant about Janice Y.K Lee or any of your favourite new writers for 2009, and expect more Q&As with the novelists on the Waterstones ones to watch list 2009.
Words: Seamus Swords
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Toby Young – A Master of nothing?
Toby Young, author of How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
To celebrate the DVD and Blu-Ray release of ‘How To Lose Friends and Alienate People’, The Scribbler talks to the author of the book that became one of the funniest movies of last year.
In an exclusive interview Toby Young talks about how he got into writing, what nurtured his talent and how the transformation from book to film transpired.
Enjoy our little chat with one of the most sought after writers of the twenty-first century below and leave a comment:
THE SCRIBBLER: When, where and how did you first discover your flair for writing, and how was it nurtured early on?
TOBY YOUNG: Both my parents were published authors so, for me, writing a book wasn’t a particularly huge leap. Growing up, it was always something I thought I’d do. In addition, my father was always quite encouraging. From a very early age he used to tell me that I was a natural writer.
TS: What was it about working on The Danube that drove you to follow a career in journalism when you were, at the time, studying very different subjects?
TY: I studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics as a student — a subject known as PPE — and that is considered a typical degree for a journalist to take. I think a more pertinent question is why I didn’t go into current affairs journalism, why I tend to do the softer, more personal stuff, and that was something I fell into by accident. It was just easier to get published on the features page than the op ed page and, having come up that route, that’s the path I’m still on. But as I get older I find myself drifting more towards news and current affairs.
TS: You mentioned that as you get older you feel drawn to current affairs, how has that transition in writing styles and subjects been for you?
TY: I just mean that I enjoy appearing on programmes like Newsnight and Question Time – not that it happens very often!
'The Sound of No Hands Clapping'
TS: Can you describe the move you made from journalism to fiction writing? What differences exist between the two disciplines in terms of having to change your methods? Did you come across any difficulties and how did you overcome them?
TY: I’ve published very little fiction. My two books – ‘How To Lose Friends and Alienate
People’ and ‘The Sound of No Hands Clapping’ – are both non-fiction.
TS: While your two books are non-fiction some creativity must have gone into them, even if it was just finding ways of making scenes sound as colourful as possible. How did you approach writing books like that? Are they not just mammoth features?
TY: I’ve read quite a few books on screenwriting and done Robert McKee’s screenwriting course a couple of times. I found that very helpful when it came to writing books. I think the principals of storytelling are universal, regardless of whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction.
'How To Lose Friends and Alienate People'
TS: How did ‘How To Lose Friends and Alienate People’ come about? Can you briefly describe the writing process of such an auto-biographical book. Was it as much fun writing it as it is reading it?
TY: I worked on the proposal for ‘How To Lose Friends’ for a couple of years, but, after I’d sold the book on the back of that, it only took me about six months to write. I’m not sure “fun” is the right word to use. Hunter S Thompson said, “I suspect writing is a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don’t do much giggling.”
TS: To the majority of readers it would appear you’ve led quite the lifestyle. How do you intent to follow your two books? Do you think you’ll have to turn to fiction to convey the same messages and humour?
TY: Well, my life is certainly less exciting now that I’m married and have four children. I want to write more fiction, but it’s hard finding the time between all my other commitments.
TS: During the film making process of HTLF&AP was it difficult to let some of the book go in the production reasons? How much input did you have in the process?
TY: No, I didn’t find that at all difficult. William Goldman, the novelist and screenwriter, once told me that a writer has to learn how to murder his babies, but that came naturally to me. The producers of the film were initially a little wary of me because they thought I’d fight to preserve every last scene in the book, but when they realized I wasn’t going to do that they were much more open to my suggestions. I knew that if the book was going to be turned into a film it would have to be very different.
TS: Are you happy with the finished piece? Has is inspired you to do a bit of screenwriting?
TY: Yes, very happy. It’s a very entertaining film. On the screenwriting front, I caught that bug about twenty-five years ago and I’m still plugging away. Being involved in the making of a film hasn’t put me off in the slightest.
TS: As the hype over HTLF&AP the movie pipes up again with the release of the DVD what are your plans for the future?
TY: I’d like to keep writing books, plays, movie scripts, etc, but be paid a lot more for doing it.
TS: You’re a bit of a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to writing. Which discipline do you enjoy dabbling in the most and why?
TY: I like comedy writing the best, particularly devising comic scenes. If you can pull that off, it’s very satisfying, particularly when you hear people laughing in the theatre or the cinema.
TS: I was able to contact you quite freely without having to go through publicists or PR. Do you usually work with them? For the budding writers out there, what are the pros and cons of working with such professionals?
TY: I worked with a PR company on How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, but generally speaking I don’t. As far as I can tell, the only advantage of forcing people who want to interview you to go through a PR company is that they take you more seriously.
TS: The Scribbler is dedicated to inspiring and advising would-be writers to get their material published. What is the best piece of advice you could give them, or you have ever been given concerning your work?
TY: When I was about 19 I bumped into Clive James at an airport and told him what a big fan I was of ‘Unreliable Memoirs’. He reciprocated by giving me a piece of advice that I’ve found very useful: Keep it personal. The important thing is to find your own voice, to write in a style that is unique to you. Once you can do that, the rest is easy.
TS: Just how personal are you prepared to go in your writing? How much of yourself do you dare put into your work?
TY: I like to think I’m pretty open and honest, but it is easy to delude yourself about just how open and honest you’re being. That is to say, many people who write about themselves and their reactions to things claim to feel what they think they ought to feel, but which, in reality, they don’t. I don’t think they’re being straightforwardly deceptive – it’s more that the lies they tell themselves spill out on to the page — but it still has the smell of dishonesty about it. The really hard thing about personal writing is to be completely faithful to who you really are and not pretend to be the person you think you ought to be.
TS: What you up to at the moment?
TY: I have a few irons in the fire, but experience has taught me not to talk about anything until you’re ready to unveil it before the public because, so often, these projects come to nothing.
Find Toby Young in cyberspace:
TobyYoung.co.uk
Watch Toby Young interview Simon Pegg (and vice versa) for The Culture Show below:
Are you a fan of Toby Young’s writing? Does the movie do HTLF&AP justice? Post your views, comments and start discussions in the comments box below.
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2 Chainz Robbed At Gunpoint In Broad Daylight [UPDATED]
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Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz might want to rethink who he has in his crew. Apparently, 2 Chainz was robbed at gunpoint and the members of his entourage ran from the scene like their names were Usain Bolt, this according TMZ.
San Francisco Police Sergeant told the media that they received a call about shots being fired around 4:30 in the afternoon. When officers tried to question the rapper, he was uncooperative. He told police he wanted to handle the situation himself. 2 Chainz wanting to handle the problem himself leads one to speculate whether he knew the people who robbed him or if he is just trying to serve his own brand of street justice.
2 Chainz told police that the only thing that was missing was his wallet. Cops said after reviewing surveillance footage, it’s very obvious the hit rapper was the intended target. According to police, the video also shows the rapper and his 14-person crew running from the scene like “cockroaches running from a flashlight.” Although we hope everyone is okay, we wouldn’t mind seeing that surveillance footage.
While police are busy investigating the robbery, 2 Chainz is still tearing up stages as part of the Summer Jam tour. He even retweeted people who asked if he was shot, but never responded to the questions. We’ll see if this story winds up in any of his rhymes.
UPDATE: Accoding to the police, 2 Chainz wasn’t the person who was robbed at gunpoint. It was a member of his entourage. Radio.com is reporting:
Despite an earlier report from TMZ and subsequent pickup from Billboard, rapper 2 Chainz was not the victim of a robbery at gunpoint Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, the San Francisco Police Department confirms to Radio.com. Police did confirm that a robbery took place, but the victim was a member of 2 Chainz’s entourage, not the rapper himself.
“He was not the victim of a robbery,” San Francisco police said in a phone call Monday (June 9). “He was there, but he wasn’t the victim.”
According to police, the rapper was walking with his entourage in the 800 block of Howard Street at about 4:30 p.m. when they were approached by a suspect carrying a handgun, who fired a gunshot. While most of the group scattered, one member of the entourage reportedly fell to the ground and was approached by the suspect, “who robbed him of an unknown item and fled the scene.”
2 Chainz also took to his Twitter account to clear up the robbery rumors. Check the tweets below.
Rule #1 if a rapper gets robbed people usually post items that has been taken. Rings, chains, watch , money etc. 2 answer that question
— Tity Boi (2 Chainz) (@2chainz) June 10, 2013
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Michael PhilippsSouth Western Times
Thursday, 12 July 2018 4:28PM
Camera IconLeschenault Cricket Club’s Steven, Abbey (7) and Tom (7) Hinchcliffe get some cricket tips from president Angelo D’Agostino.Picture: Michael Philipps / South Western Times
Leschenault Cricket Club has claimed the 2017-18 Alcohol.Think Again Country Club Program, winning $5000 for medical and training equipment.
The club was one of 48 cricket clubs in regional WA that committed to creating healthier environments for members and visitors.
Club president Angelo D’Agostino said the award was vindication for the efforts of the club to improve the health and safety of its members.
“The funds will be used to make some purchases including a defibrillator and restocking the first aid kits,” he said.
“Basically we had to provide some evidence of what we are doing in terms of alcohol management, welfare and safety of our players.
“We had photos of people who were watching cricket in the shade, lots of hydration for players, signs showing what we do in terms of alcohol management, sunscreen and hats for the players – that sort of thing.”
The program, managed by the WACA in conjunction with Healthway, was developed to help clubs create healthy cultures.
WACA game and marketing development general manager Jo Davies said the organisation believed in supporting clubs to become healthier and more inclusive.
“We’re extremely proud of the Leschenault Cricket Club for implementing the policies and showing ongoing commitment to encouraging responsible consumption of alcohol at club activities and social events,” she said.
“They have also proven to be a healthy, family-friendly cricket club which is committed to building a positive environment and strong leaders.”
Mr D’Agostino said the club was “chuffed” with the win.
“We see it as vindication of our strategy to set up a sustainable, positive environment from which results are an outcome,” he said.
“At the Leschenault Cricket Club we value good sportsmanship, good citizenship, development and honesty and thus it is more than just about cricket.”
“With an inclusive, family-friendly culture, we aim to provide the full cricket pathway for males and females from entry level programs through to first grade and masters.”
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The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Psalm 34 (Live)
I Am Reminded (Live)
Now I'm on My Way (Live)
God Is Able (feat. Charles Allen)
Only to Him
A Brooklyn Tabernacle Christmas
Declare Your Name (Live Worship)
I'll Say Yes
I'm Amazed...live
Be Glad
I Am Reminded (feat. Nicole Binion) [Live]
God Surprised Me (Live)
Gotta Have Gospel
and 13 other albums
About The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Brooklyn Tab, as fondly known by congregants and fans, are their own genre. Not quite urban gospel, nowhere near classical choral ensemble, they're simply a multitude of voices raised in swaying praise, reverent worship and spirited inspirational gospel. They began as an unassuming, run-of-the-mill (though vast in numbers) choir in a church tucked so deep in Brooklyn you have to take the subway to the end of the line (changing trains at Borough Hall), catch a bus the rest of the way, then walk a few more blocks from there. But when the pastor's wife, Carol Cymbala, stepped up as choir director reluctantly (saying she didn't have the know-how for the position) word got out of the music wafting from this humble corner and the Grammys started to rain. It's something about their symbiosis of voice and spirit, the quietness of their musical power and the amount of "church" in their presentation tha! t sets them apart from even the worthiest of their contemporaries. Amy Bartlett
Bishop Clarence E. McClendon, Chicago Community Choir, John P. Kee, Rev. James Cleveland, Soul Seekers, Times Square Church
Brooklyn Tab, as fondly known by congregants and fans, are their own genre. Not quite urban gospel, nowhere near classical choral ensemble, they're simply a multitude of voices raised in swaying praise, reverent worship and spirited inspirational gospel. They began as an unassuming, run-of-the-mill (though vast in numbers) choir in a church tucked so deep in Brooklyn you have to take the subway to the end of the line (changing trains at Borough Hall), catch a bus the rest of the way, then walk a few more blocks from there. But when the pastor's wife, Carol Cymbala, stepped up as choir director reluctantly (saying she didn't have the know-how for the position) word got out of the music wafting from this humble corner and the Grammys started to rain. It's something about their symbiosis of voice and spirit, the quietness of their musical power and the amount of "church" in their presentation tha! t sets them apart from even the worthiest of their contemporaries.
Amy Bartlett
Urban/Contemporary Gospel
Favorite Song of All
Psalm 23 (feat. Shane & Shane) [Live]
Songs 4 Worship Ultimate (The Greatest Praise &...
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WhiteCoast > Player Characters > SLIM
<-Skills and Learning Intelligence Module->
<-Initialize Transportation->
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<-1) Facilitate Access to Information->
<-2) Convert Information Gathered to Useful Intelligence->
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The man now known as SLIM woke up in a ditch.
"Man, that was a fucked-up dream!"
Like all dreams though, it soon faded into nothing, and the man looked around. He was in a ditch, by the side of a road, in the middle of the desert, and the sun was just coming up.
"Aww, shit. This isn't good."
The man quickly took stock of his possessions: He was wearing multicolored clothing of jumbled green, brown, and black splotches. The very uniformity of his clothing bespoke some purpose for its coloration, what the purpose was, the man had no idea. A solid pair of footwear and a wooden handled knife were the extent of what the man possessed.
Taking one look at the rising sun the man said to himself, "I'd better find some water."
Following some tracks in the road, the man came to a small village within an oasis of threes late in the evening. Consisting of a few houses and one larger building, "quaint", or "tiny" was the word that came to mind. The man ignored these facts and headed directly for the well at the center of town. While quenching his raging thirst, the man heard a noise behind him, like steel on leather. Turning around he took in the other person standing behind him.
Dressed in a green shirt, black pants, and with a bandanna on his head, Dagger struck a not-at-all imposing figure. "Sorry, I thought you were someone else" Dagger said sheathing his sword, "My name's Dagger, I'm the Mayor of this town."
Personally, the man didn't think a few houses rated a Mayor, but what the heck, the water was free.
"So what's your name?" Dagger asked.
The man was taken aback for a moment, what was his name? He tried to think of what it was, surely he'd had a name at some point, or had he been dreaming again? The only thing that came to mind was an acronym: S.L.I.M.
"Well, I guess my name is SLIM," the man said.
"Is that your first or last name?" Dagger asked.
Once again the man was confused, people had more than one name? "I guess it's both."
Thus, the man now known as SLIM came to stay in CrestGrath.
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The best iPhone games 2017
Anthony Sinclair 18th January 2017 July 2nd, 2018
It would take approximately 34,506,455 years to play through every single iPhone game on the App Store. Well, OK, we might have made that number up, but surely we can’t be too far off.
The App Store is crammed with gaming goodies to keep thumbs busy, but not all iPhone games are born equal – which is why we’ve done the difficult job of playing through as many games as humanly possible in order to tell you which are best. After many trials and tribulations, we arrived at the list you’re about to dive into: the best games you can enjoy on your iPhone today.
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Cartoonish graphics. Simple controls. An emphasis on catching ramps, much like in Tiny Wings. You might look at and think: Pah! Easy! Casual gaming! At which point, the game hurls you rudely over the handlebars, leaving you a crumpled, tearful mess, with grazed knees and broken pride.
Pumped BMX 3, it turns out, is a deviously tricky but deliciously compulsive trials game, keen to punish any error, and yet reward those who take the time to master controls and courses alike.
Your best bet is to carefully learn every nook and cranny of each course. Only when you can easily make it to the end unscathed should you start getting clever with the odd stunt, before finally winning the shiniest of medals with the kind of routine that would make BMX aficionados the world over break out into a cold sweat.
Card games have come a long way since the days when you completed a round of solitaire on a PC and were rewarded with said cards bouncing around the screen a bit. In , you’re instead immersed in a fantasy world, where, for some reason, all battles take place by way of card decks. And your reward here is to not get horribly killed by some monster or other.
The solitaire itself is ruthlessly simplified into a game of higher or lower, with you hoping for runs of cards in order to batter down your enemy’s defenses. Meanwhile, they’re lobbing all kinds of attacks at you, from pointy sticks to making cards grow beards that have to be hacked away.
Cards also have energies, which you can collect to enable hurling of spells at your opponent; these can be upgraded during campaigns via the in-game shop.
This all sounds terribly complicated, we’re sure, but really this is a gentle, amusing, entertaining card game with a fantasy twist. And cards with beards.
We’re very much in classic shooter territory with , which has your dinky soldier blasting away at all manner of squelchy foes. It’s a bit Space Invaders (death from above!), a little Pang or Asteroids (monsters inconveniently splitting apart when shot), and a touch Defender (with lurking idiots getting captured, and you having to rescue them).
The game’s controls perhaps betray its origins on platforms that don’t favor touchscreens, but they just about work on an iPhone, enabling you to dart left and right, blast enemies, and reach for a bonus weapon as necessary. (Avoid playing on iPad, however, unless you’ve got incredibly flexible thumbs.)
And although the gameplay might feel a little old-school, everything’s dressed up in smart, modern cartoon visuals, paired with some sassy scripting, as the hero berates the scientists who got everyone into this mess.
Based on the hit TV show, Mr. Robot (or Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa, to give it its full name), immerses you in a world of hacking as you accidentally become entwined with a shady group planning a mysterious world-changing event.
It begins with a smartphone you find and quickly pocket, shortly before it's hacked by its actual owner, the furious Darlene, who then press-gangs you into service. The game plays out by way of a messaging app, your replies selected from canned responses to progress you through the narrative.
This simple structure is similar to the Lifeline games, and there's a distinct feeling of being shoved along a particular story regardless of what you choose to say. However, it's exciting bouncing between different message threads, and smart writing throughout infuses the game with palpable tension.
The core of Riptide GP: Renegade feels like it's been wrenched wholesale from the unhinged water-based faction of 1990s arcade racers. Renegade, for the most part, matches their energy and spirit, as you barrel along splashy tracks atop a souped-up futuristic jet ski, performing death-defying stunts to accrue boost that catapults you along at even more breakneck speeds.
The game's packed full of content, from single races to a challenging career mode, and the premium price means you need skill rather than cash to succeed.
There are times you wish the game would let go a little – the colors are drab and it at times takes itself too seriously – but when it fully unleashes as you blaze through factories or get hurled into the air by the wake from a rocket launch, Renegade is glorious.
Shooting games have more or less split into two factions. The more popular sees the player trudge about as some kind of soldier in a game that wants to be a movie but isn't; the other harks back to when blasting was all about arcade thrills. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions gleefully revels in everything that's great about the second of those categories.
This is a neon-infused twin-stick shooter that hurls waves of tiny foes about the screen with merry abandon with a relentless soundtrack urging you on at every moment. But throughout a 100-level adventure mode, Dimensions refuses to stand still. Levels warp into new shapes, and foist unknown challenges on you, such as having the walls close in, or, cheekily, temporarily relieving you of weaponry.
Surprisingly, this all works wonderfully on smaller iPhone screens, and you can even play with a single digit, the game aiming and firing on your behalf for those tiring commuting moments.
Madcap racer Drift 'n' Drive somehow appears to have arrived from a 1980s home computer and yet feels perfect for mobile play. It's an old-school overhead racer that pits you against a grid of crazed opponents, all fighting to get to the finish line first.
The game only scrolls vertically, and the controls are simple: steer by tapping near a screen edge or prod the centre for a temporary boost of extra speed. Tracks snake left and right within the screen's narrow confines, but sometimes do so abruptly, causing plenty of opportunity for massive pile-ups.
Manage to not crawl in last and you move up the grid next time round. Place better and you start getting cash to upgrade your car. Before long, you're laughing like an idiot while barreling along in a race of two-dozen tiny cars buzzing around the track like flies, boosting into walls, and occasionally wondering why modern racers are rarely this much giddy fun.
Slingshotting cartoon characters across your iPhone’s screen is a popular gaming pursuit. But if you’ve become bored rigid of catapulting miffed avians at kleptomaniac hogs (and, let’s face it, who hasn’t?), try for something that’s somewhat familiar, but with far more spark and heart.
The story is that an evil skull’s turned all the protagonist’s friends into fruits, and so he must bound up vertically scrolling levels, making use of handy levitating platforms and cannons to collect fruit and avoid various nasties ambling about.
It’s a jolly, sweet-natured game with superb hand-made visuals that add plenty of character, and a slightly unhinged edge always lurking just beneath the surface.
Although looks like it’s been wrenched kicking and screaming from a ZX Spectrum circa 1983, this is a thoroughly modern – if clearly retro-infused – flip-screen platform game.
The retro bit isn’t only found in the visuals, with their eye-searing colors, and oddball screen names, but also the nature of the layouts. Each screen becomes a puzzle of sorts, as you figure out how to avoid the various lurking critters and collect the stars littered about.
The modern aspect is primarily the controls. Rather than employ a hideous virtual joystick, I Am Level’s rotund protagonist rolls as you tilt your device and is fired across the screen when you tap to activate pinball-like flippers and plungers.
The result is a charming and challenging title that’s among the best of its kind on mobile.
Harking back to classic console adventures, dumps a trio of friends on an island and then wryly says: “Get out of this one, then.”
Although there’s plenty of leaping about suspended platforms, this isn’t a fast-paced Mario-style effort. Instead, it recalls more thoughtful retro adventures, such as Alex Kidd or even the likes of Dizzy.
The non-linear nature of the game encourages exploration and experimentation, as you switch between characters, discover objects, and figure out where to use whatever you find.
Occasionally, the game is a bit too opaque, and the manner in which screens reset once exited can irk, given that many require multiple lengthy steps to pass.
However, there’s lots to love in Vulture Island’s visuals, ambition, and the devious nature of the puzzles, which will make you feel a bit dumb when you stumble across a solution you really should have figured out far sooner.
Gamebook-style text adventures have had something of a renaissance on mobile, and the adaptations of Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series are among the very best. The fourth entry, suitably titled , again immerses you in a world of fantasy, with you attempting to ascend a mountain, infiltrate a fortress, and recover the Crown of Kings.
If you’ve played previous games in the series, you’ll find a familiar set-up akin to a single-player board game. You drag your character about, respond to scenarios, bash up monsters, and can (thankfully) flip back to save points should you mess up and get horribly killed.
But even for total newcomers, there’s a full standalone adventure here – one that perfectly marries and balances a book, interactive game, and touchscreen experience. (Note that should you fancy trying the rest of the series first, it’s available as a .)
Redbird, Greenbird and Bluebird aren’t birds in the conventional sense. They’re ‘snakebirds’ – grumpy worm-like feathered critters with a penchant for fruit. The tiny snag is they happen to live on tiny islands, and getting to the fruit (and then to the exits that propel them to the next fruity collection point) isn’t exactly simple.
In fact, it’s pretty clear the creators of Snakebird have tried their best to drive you to the brink of insanity with this game. Even the earliest levels are hard going, with you twisting and turning your grumpy snakebird, trying to figure out how to wind it around a floating rock, grab an apple, and not end up tumbling into the sea.
Eventually, you’re faced with multiple snakebirds per level, and increasingly deviously designed puzzles involving movable objects, teleporters, and snakebird-impaling spikes. All the way through, Snakebird sits on the edge of sadism, but you’ll feel like a genius when you crack one of its puzzles, only to realize there are dozens more waiting for your subsequent feeble efforts.
We should hate the game, but Snakebird is superb – a properly brain-mashing puzzler that drives you to despair, but keeps you coming back for more.
Not all good iPhone games are full of subtlety and nuance; Giant Metal Robot is very much devoid of both. You get an inkling for what you’re in for when on starting the game, the protagonist yells for help and the titular monstrous android looms into view, yelling a cartoonish GAGAGAGAGAGA!!
From that point on, it’s all about tilting your device to lure chasing skeletons beneath the robot’s massive fists and then crushing them with a swipe – all before the timer runs out, and without squishing the hapless roof-bound heroine (or her dog, Pinkie).
This is a short-lived game, not that far removed from a Game & Watch, but its immediacy and absurd charms prove compelling, even in an age when iPhone games so often desperately want to ape the kind of fare found on living-room console – and for that reason, it’s worth a small outlay.
Mimpi is a little dog with a big imagination, and in Mimpi Dreams he becomes a canine superhero as he snoozes. Within various dreamtime worlds, Mimpi fends off dragons, leaps atop projectiles blasted between pirate ships, and deals with the dastardly goings on in an evil pollution-spewing factory.
This all plays out as a straightforward platform puzzler. The cheery pup pootles along and you prod and swipe at various contraptions to make them do things so Mimpi can continue. Most of the puzzles are gentle in nature, but hints are generously peppered about and give you an idea of how to proceed by way of comic-like speech balloons.
Much of the joy in Mimpi’s Dreams, though, is immersing yourself in its sheer inventiveness. Only a few times does it slip, with the odd tedious maze to grind through; mostly, the game is a breezy, grin-inducing, vibrant romp through a charming cartoon world.
Bringing together the basic mechanics behind dating app Tinder and the decision-making involved in ruling an ancient kingdom(!), Reigns is an easy-to-grasp but surprisingly deep quick-fire strategy effort.
On each step of your regal journey, you respond to demands and requests by swiping left or right, thereby making distinct decisions. The consequences of each action may affect one or more of the church’s support, the love of the people, the strength of your army, and the size of your gold reserves. If any of these falls too low, chances are you’ll soon be an ex-king.
But death is not the end. Die and you play on as your heir, often finding yourself faced with similar problems, and perhaps taking a different path that time around. Underpinning this swipe-based royal oddness are dozens of side missions designed to propel your lineage onwards.
We suspect Reigns might lack longevity, palling once you’ve played through enough times to crack the missions; but in the short and medium term, it’s a ludicrously compelling, novel and hugely entertaining title that deserves your attention.
Dog Mendonca is a witty and stylistic point and tap adventure that follows the eponymous supernatural detective as he solves a mysterious criminal case.
Stunning visuals are sure to draw you into its comic-book world and the impressive writing will have you solving puzzles and chatting it up with shady characters just to find out what happens next. It’s like things all went a bit wrong for the Thundercats.
When the hero of your platformer is an elastic blob named Goo, the puzzles and interactions you have with your surroundings can get very interesting.
Goo can also upgrade his abilities and stats by collecting crystals throughout each level of Goo Saga, each of which features beautiful cutscenes and an atmospheric soundtrack. Plus, you can even make your own levels and share them with the world if you’re feeling that creative.
Star Knight is a beautiful platformer that follows the journey of a lone knight who must defend his planet and restore its sun.
Stylish levels are sure to catch your eye as you solve its puzzles, defeat diverse enemies, and overcome impressive boss battles with an array of cool weapons and abilities. Upgrade and unlock new skills, then put them to the test by taking on waves of enemies in its arena.
>> Download: Star Knight
Pop balls and save the world in the colorful collection of arcade games in Pang Adventures. Each level has you battling aliens and popping their defenses in various locations all over the world.
You can choose to play one location at a time or challenge yourself with just three lives and see how far you can get. The game also features a frantic Panic Mode that’ll offer you one go at the whole thing to let your properly test your mettle… it’s just like Survival Mode in your favorite fighting title.
>> Download: Pang Adventures – DotEmu
Fold+ is a smart puzzler that requires you to fold or expand shapes in order to finish each level with just one block of each color. Some shapes will drag others along when you fold them, so you need to plan out each move to ensure your last move gets you the desired result.
This puzzler gets bigger and more complicated as you play its 160 levels, so just relax and concentrate.
>> Download: Fold+ – Bulkypix
Sharpen your white water rafting skills in Yakin, a pixelated racing game where mastering its controls will lead you to victory.
Courses challenge you to clear them as fast as you can as your score depends on your time and on how many obstacles you hit on the way to the finish line. Beat each course’s ghost to show off your scores online and even unlock new boats.
>> Download: Yakin – Two Fish One Chips Limited
Orbit’s Odyssey is a one button strategy puzzler that requires you to collect coins and gems on 90 challenging planets and avoid getting captured by its enemies.
You need to run against the planet’s rotation to ensure you don’t bump into any zombie-like foes and collect everything you need in the shortest amount of time.
Levels get more challenging and introduce new features like teleportation rings and time-based mechanics, so you always have something new to look forward to.
Relive the action and excitement of all four of your favorite dinosaur films but with some of that familiar LEGO charm and humor in LEGO Jurassic World.
Play through key moments in the films and control your favorite characters, each with their own unique abilities that make them invaluable during certain missions. You can also play as some familiar dinosaurs or make your own by splicing DNA you’ll pick up on your adventure.
Warbits may look colorful and cute from the surface, but don’t be fooled – this strategy game means serious business. Missions require you to control your tanks, infantry, and other units and make the right moves to ensure you have the advantage over your enemies.
You need to think carefully where to position your troops, as scenarios get more challenging as you play. It’s a game that keeps on giving too, as its smooth multiplayer mode means you have reason to keep playing after your campaign is done.
Take a trip back to the ’80s in Retro City Rampage DX, a game that gives you an entire 8-bit open-world to discover with various missions to complete. Steal cars, beat up thugs who want your money, or take up some part-time gigs for extra cash.
Plenty of arcade challenges, weapons, and customization options give you full control of your experience and its catchy soundtrack will keep you hooked.
Cloaked in shadows, Shadow Bug is on a mission to save his forest from evil by doing what he does best – slicing things up. This action platformer lets you unleash your ninja skills and slash your way through enemies as you collect glowing orbs in each level for that perfect score.
You’ll have to think before you slash sometimes as your only way to get past certain dangers is to use your enemies as platforms – oh, the irony.
Zenge is a relaxing puzzler that will draw you in with its thought-provoking soundtrack and calming visuals.
Each puzzle simply requires you to move shapes around to form an image that tells the story of a lonely journeyman stuck between worlds. Getting to that solution, however, is a little trickier than it looks and requires careful planning and some brainpower to ensure you make the right moves.
Fast and colorful, Chameleon Run is an autorunner that is sure to sharpen your reflexes. You’ll need to think fast and tap the screen to swap colors and match that of the platform you’re about to jump on or else you’re dead.
Increasingly difficult levels further challenge you to pick up various collectibles and complete them with certain restrictions. Collect them all and you’ll unlock even more hidden trials – and we’re really digging the impressive visuals on offer with this one.
Colorful and featuring plenty of inventive levels and challenges, Cattch is one of those great mobile platformers that are simply worth downloading.
As you travel through the world of Cubika, you’ll need to rescue any prisoners needing your help and be wary of traps and evildoers trying to stop you – you know, the standard stuff in fantasy games like this.
Levels change, transform, and are sure to keep you on your toes as you attempt to save the day, which really helps with longevity.
Pug’s Quest is a charming dungeon crawler puzzler that has you guiding a heroic little dawg all over a trap-filled castle to save his kidnapped friends.
Each room randomly generates to keep the action flowing and the puzzles puzzling, so you never know what dangers await you each time you start.
Press buttons, gather keys, and see how far you can go until you lose your last life and are forced to start over again…such is this dog’s life.
Love You To Bits tells the adorable story of a boy who goes out into the far reaches of space to find pieces of his beloved robot girlfriend after she gets blown to bits. Each planet you visit is a compact-sized that you must solve it in order to retrieve a missing part of your significant other.
Vertical Divide is one to test your division skills . This smart puzzler has you dropping blue numbered tiles on a grid. When you drop a tile on top of another, it’ll get divided, and the result will clear the same number of pink tiles below. Any remainders in your calculations will result in even more pink tiles so plan your drops carefully.
Assassin’s Creed Identity lets you create your own assassin and play missions in sandbox-like worlds of past games. Each mission gives you objectives to complete and employs tried-and-true gameplay like blending into crowds, parkour action, and distractions to ensure you get your mark and make it out alive. Gorgeous visuals, smooth animations, and classic series staples are a joy to see and play on mobile.
The Walking Dead: Michonne follows this mysterious and often taciturn character during her absence in the comic books between issues #126 and #139. This episodic game lets you make choices that can impact how Michonne and her newfound companions deal with obstacles, the undead, and the living.
The Walking Dead’s Michonne’s emotional journey comes to a close in Episode 3 of this engrossing episodic adventure that explores the wounds of her past.
Your choices carry over from the previous episodes and you’ll find out the fate of her newfound friends and what punishment Norma and her people have in store for them. Zombies are the least of your problems in this one.
Your finger is your blade in The Swords, a stylistic action game that tells the tale of an old martial arts master and his long-forgotten styles of swordplay. This means you’ll be using your finger to swipe at your foes in different ways: trace Chinese calligraphy, slash down incoming blades, and discover new styles as you move through simple yet captivating puzzles.
Explore the far reaches of space. exploiting its resources or dominating its colonies in Stellar Wanderer. Customize your ship and gameplay style to your liking, upgrading with materials you find along the way. Choose your profession – fighter, trader, tank, engineer – and defeat other space pirates to open up areas for you to mine and discover.
A PlayStation masterpiece, Final Fantasy IX is now available on your iOS device, meaning it’s the perfect time to relive the adventures of Zidane and his friends in this moving RPG filled with action, love, and some of the most memorable moments from the series. Fully remastered character models bring a welcome update to this classic title.
An impressive and polished platformer, Shadow Blade: Reload follows the story of Kuro as he runs, wall-jumps, and slashes enemies on his mission to save the world from darkness. Each gorgeous level will test your ninja and platforming abilities with its traps, and obstacles requiring finesse and timing to overcome.
Elegant and relaxing, Prism is a puzzler that captivates you with its hypnotic beauty. Each geometric shape is like a piece of origami, and you’ll discover even more puzzles inside with each corner you unfold. Its soft colors and pleasant soundtrack turn this puzzler into an enjoyable meditative experience.
A Short Tale is a puzzler that follows Jason as he figures out how to escape his late brother’s childhood room – after he magically shrinks to the size of a pencil. Explore and uncover clues to solve each of the brain-busting puzzles and teasers. Collect passwords, uncover hidden messages, and take photos to help you remember the combination to boxes with secret compartments. One to put your logic skills to the test.
Abzorb is a tilt-based game that requires you to navigate your way around blue orbs and absorb them – but get too close to the red ones and you’ll lose precious time. The game includes 65 levels, with later ones throwing in special power-up orbs. There’s plenty going on behind the minimalistic beauty.
Unlike that other game about a plumber, Kill the Plumber World lets you play the bad guys and catch the hero before he makes it to the goal. Jump on him, squish him from above, or fling some hammers his way – each level offers up a new challenge in killing him off.
Relive a Game Boy classic RPG on your iPhone with Adventures of Mana, a story about friends working together to protect the Tree of Mana from the Dark Lord of Glaive. This remake updates the original and offers wonderful puzzles, mobile-friendly controls, and gorgeous visuals. Enjoy its combat system and stellar soundtrack as you fight to save the world.
Tsuro is a beautifully meditative board game that comes to iOS, letting you play with friends or against the computer. You and your opponents will take turns drawing cards and placing them on the board for your playing pieces to follow. The objective of this game of paths is to avoid falling off the board. As ever, it’s a mixture of strategy and luck.
Sneak through the corridors of an alien space station and take down enemies while picking up helpful power-ups in the rogueish Space Grunts. This turn-based game only gives you three weapons to defend yourself with so you’ll need to upgrade and stock up on weaponry to take down all the aliens, robots, and security drones standing in your way.
Each puzzle in this minimalistic game lets you transform into different objects and unravels a story about a mysterious rain that is flooding the world. You need to reach the exit in each puzzle you play, so you may need to time your transformations at just the right time in order to get there. Turn into a bubble, a basketball, and even a spider as you discover and solve the game’s mysteries.
Help a lovable robot reach the atoms it needs to repair its ship in Atomi, a casual puzzler that is sure to challenge your logic skills. Each level requires you to create a path out of some shapes provided, and the trick lies in figuring out where to place each shape to ensure the path is sturdy enough. With over 200 levels and two difficulty modes, this puzzler is sure to keep you pleasantly occupied.
Featuring minimalistic and soothing visuals, Open Bar is a casual puzzler that has you placing tiles on the screen to clear out lines of various colors. Sometimes you may need to swap out tiles to make them all line up, and later levels increase the number of colored lines for added difficulty. Its catchy soundtrack and bite-sized puzzles make it highly addictive.
Twofold Inc. may look perplexing at first, but once you get your hands on this curious puzzler, you’ll be hooked. Each time you play, you’ll be given a grid of colored tiles and a few “requests” you need to complete by matching several tiles of the same color. The idea is to complete as many requests as possible before you run out of moves. Match tiles and keep an eye on your available moves as you put your logic skills to the test.
A colorful and upbeat platformer, Super Phantom Cat is sure to put a smile on your face with its retro-inspired levels and unique brand of humor. Jump and make your way through various worlds to collect data and stars, avoiding enemies and uncovering hidden areas and characters. A smooth soundtrack, tricky platforming mechanics, and tons of secrets await you.
Leap into concentric circles in Circa Infinity, a platformer that’s as dazzling as it is dizzying. Each level requires you to get deeper inside all the spinning circles, but you need to jump at just the right moment to actually reach the next one. On top of that, demonic enemies soon appear within each circle. See if you can complete each level without dying once.
Crashlands is an engrossing story-driven RPG that lets you craft and battle your way through a hilarious tale of survival and package delivery. Build weapons and tools out of you the materials you get from your surroundings and complete various side-quests for the creatures you meet along the way. Fresh and addictive, the game is sure to keep you coming back for more crafting and hilarious one-liners that are sure to make you smile.
A beautifully pixelated adventure, Sky Chasers requires you to use your fingers to guide your character along side-scrolling paths collecting coins and completing side-quests for his friends. Your cardboard ship has a limited fuel supply, so you’ll occasionally have to stop by checkpoints to refuel and avoid any pesky enemies that add an element of danger to your otherwise peaceful trip. Solve simple puzzles and upgrade your ship as you enjoy its rich colorful worlds.
Tap your way through dozens of dungeons in the roguelike Dungelot: Shattered Lands. Each room you travel to requires you to tap its paths to uncover keys, treasure, or even monsters to battle. The objective is to make it to the exit in one piece but chances are you’ll die and try again until you get there. Its addictive format and leveling up features are sure to keep you coming back for more.
An elegant blend of colors and sounds, Lost in Harmony is a rhythm runner that follows the intriguing story of two friends and their dream-world adventures. Levels have you dodging enemies that come from behind or in front and tapping on cues in sync with the music. The music, ranging from classical to modern techno, evolves as you progress, and you can even make your own levels to share with the world.
Combine cats and explosion and you have yourself a card game that’s quite the winner. Based on the physical card game, Exploding Kittens is a local multiplayer title that puts a feline twist on Russian Roulette. This means you don’t want to be the player who draws the kitten or else you’re done. Draw cards that help you avoid or move any possible explosions and figure out strategies to make sure you don’t blow yourself up.
The Westport Independent is essentially a censorship simulator that lets you see what the effects your choices in running a newspaper have on society. Will you choose to leave out the less favorable details from your front page story or will you lambast the Loyalist Party in the stories you publish? Your employees will be affected by what you publish and so will your country and its citizens.
We've been after a decent futuristic racer on the iPhone for some time, but none of them really felt right. AG Drive bucks the trend, echoing Wipeout and F-Zero: breakneck speed is married with pitch-perfect tilt controls and suitably shiny graphics. Also, there's absolutely no IAP, so the only way you're going to win is with mastery and skill.
Explore the stylish home of a nefarious spy in Agent A, a snazzy puzzler that is sure to captivate you with its sleek visuals and ingenious puzzles hidden in the environment. Check underneath everything for any hidden trinkets, disable security systems, and keep mental notes of where you think an item is used as you play. Keep your logic skills on point as you enjoy this casual yet engrossing puzzler.
Bears of all shapes and sizes will make you smile as you spell words with the letters on your screen in Alphabear. Each time you make a word, bears will populate your board and grow in size the more letters you use around them. The bigger the bear at the end of your game, the more points you score. Use helpful bear buddies you unlock to give you bonus points as you play through an endless array of word challenges.
Capitals is a word game that requires both a knack for vocabulary as it does for strategizing your enemy’s demise. Each match puts you against an opponent and requires you to spell out words around your enemy’s “capital” or yours. Using his letters will diminish his dominance and using yours will expand your realm. If you or your opponent loses his capital, the game is over. Plan ahead and come out victorious.
Chaos Rings III is one of those RPGs that will suck you in. Featuring rich colors and 3D worlds to explore, this game takes place on a floating continent and brings together a group of different characters on a pilgrimage to reach the Marble Blue planet and uncover the mysteries it holds. Fight your way through countless battles, complete mobile-friendly missions, and enjoy the gorgeous vistas as you explore its world.
This endless take on Frogger finds your cuboid character confronting countless deadly roads, train lines and rivers, before inevitable squashage. It’s the characters that make the game, though – a varied roster of people, animals and ‘things’ won using a one-armed bandit, fed with coins collected en route (you can just buy stuff, too, but Crossy Road also lets you earn by watching videos and bestows regular coin top-ups anyway, making it the least obnoxious free-to-play game with IAP imaginable).
Does Not Commute is a clever game that combines driving and puzzle elements to provide you with a unique and suspenseful experience. Each chapter requires you to drive a number of quirky commuters to their destinations, and once you do, the path you just made is saved and replayed when you control the next vehicle. You don’t have much time either, so you’ll need to avoid crashing and plan your paths carefully to succeed.
Single-screen platformer Drop Wizard is infused with the soul of classics such as Snow Bros. and Bubble Bobble, but it’s also part auto-runner. You can only run left or right, and your wizard blasts magic on landing. Strategy, therefore, involves careful timing, to avoid and zap foes, and then kick them into a tumbling combo that will bounce about in a pleasingly destructive manner before turning into fruit. Because that’s what vanquished platform-game enemies all did in the 1980s.
Fallout Shelter is an addictive resource management game that lets you be the overseer of your very own vault. This means you’ll be responsible for its daily operations and need to assign your dwellers with jobs that benefit from their skills. Farm resources like water and electricity and expand your vault with more rooms and residents, but also protect yourself against accidents, raider invasions, and pesky radroach infestations.
A game needing no introduction to console players, Final Fantasy VII lets you dive into the city of Midgar and join Cloud, Tifa, and a whole party of classic heroes on a fight to save the planet from a villain named Sephiroth. This timeless JRPG now comes with mobile-friendly controls and even some nifty cheats for those who might have beaten the game a few times before and simply want to relive the moments everyone is still talking about.
If you’re looking for a hidden gem of a game, Framed has your name written all over it. It’s a unique puzzle game that makes good and novel use of the touchscreen.
Each scene looks like a page ripped out of a comic book and it’s up to you to guide the character through it. Starting from left to right, you have to organize each panel so that you can run through and avoid harm.
The fate of House Forrester rests in your hands in this Game of Thrones episodic series. Enjoy a gripping storyline with plot twists around every corner as you play as characters trying to keep their family strong and united. The choices you make will have lasting consequences and repercussions, so be sure to play your cards right. But as it is with any Game of Thrones episode, tragedy is inevitably followed by more tragedy.
Tap into your inner rock star as you tap your screen to the music in Guitar Hero Live, the mobile version of the console game that comes free with two songs to try. Crowds will cheer you on if you’re performance is solid, but miss too many notes and your bandmates will be seen shaking their heads and the audience will let you have it. The full game can also be played with a separate guitar controller and comes with over 40 songs and even more you can stream online.
An intriguing little game that lets you play detective, Her Story has received rave reviews for its incredibly engrossing gameplay. As a British woman is interviewed about her missing husband, it’s up to you to search through the clues and discover what happened. An impressive achievement.
Charming, colorful, and lots of fun, Heroki follows the adventures of its eponymous hero tasked with saving his cloudy village from doom. Boasting over 10 hours of gaming, this side scroller features gorgeous worlds with secrets to uncover and menacing foes to defeat. Find collectibles, go on quests, and upgrade Heroki’s abilities to last through some impressive boss battles in this engrossing adventure.
Square Enix would have been on a hiding to nothing converting its free-roaming 3D game to touchscreens, and so it’s great to see the company do something entirely different with Hitman GO. Although still echoing the original series, this touchscreen title is presented as a board game of sorts, with turn-based actions against clockwork opposition. You must figure out your way to the prize, without getting knocked off (the board). It’s an oddly adorable take on assassination, and one of the best iOS puzzlers.
If you’ve ever been mesmerized by impossible shapes and perspective illusion puzzles, hocus. is sure to take you for a spin. Each puzzle requires you to move a small red cube to reach a hole on a shape by guiding it down its sides. These kinds of geometric shapes can be deceiving so you’ll need to figure out which sides will lead to where as you solve its 50 relaxing yet tricky conundrums.
Time was racing games were all about ludicrous speed, gorgeous graphics, and the sheer rush of weaving through a sea of cars to the finish line. Horizon Chase briefly reverses back to such halcyon days, grabs the best bits from the likes of Lotus and Top Gear, before zooming back to the present as a thoroughly modern arcade racer.
It looks gorgeous, with some stunning weather effects, and an odd but pleasing low-poly roadside-object style; it sounds great with veteran games musician Barry Leitch on soundtrack duties; but most importantly, it handles perfectly, and is a joy until the very last track.
Loaf lovers and gluten gourmands are in luck – I Am Bread will fulfill your lifelong wish to become a piece of bread and navigate your way through rooms to become toast…actual toast. Each time you begin a level, you’ll need to keep your eyes sharp and locate anything that can help you get crisp and then tread across dangerous territory to get there. Don’t get too dirty, though. No one likes a dirty piece of bread.
Humans are again getting a kicking at the hands of nasty aliens and it’s up to you to stop them. Cliches aside, Implosion offers a stompy slash-and-shoot experience that feels entirely at home on the iPhone but scratches that itch when you fancy playing something that resembles what you’d find on a ‘proper’ games console.
Anagrams are one thing, but Jollygrams are another form of word scrambles that don’t make sense at first but say them over enough times or rearrange their syllables and you’ll get a phrase that does. Words like Plouse Hant and Band Socks will try to stump you, but think it over a bit and you’ll earn some coins and move on to the next puzzle. Use a hint if you must, but soon you’ll find it’s all a “keys of pake.”
Following in the footsteps of Hitman GO, which astonishingly managed to transform that series into an adorable board game, Lara Croft GO reworks the adventures of the world’s most famous tomb raider. It’s another turn-based affair, with lashings of atmosphere, finding Lara carefully working her way past traps crafted by an ancient civilisation with a penchant for blocky design and elaborate moving parts.
There are also lots of snakes and deadly lizards about, which she’s quite keen on shooting in the head. The five chapters are quite brief, but savour the game rather than blazing through, and you’ll find something that merges early Tomb Raider’s sense of adventure and solitude, Monument Valley-level beauty, and bite-sized touchscreen gaming that’s perfect for iPhone.
Leo’s Fortune finds gruff hairball Leo in search of his gold, which has been dropped in a suspiciously trail-like manner across typically platform-game environments. As he scoops up coins, he finds himself whizzing round Sonic-style loops, solving puzzles by manipulating the environment, and negotiating increasingly complex and deadly pathways. It’s a beautiful game, full of character, and well-suited to quick bursts on your iPhone.
Beautiful to look at and even more amazing to play, Lumino City is a puzzler that’s also an adventure into a world of magic and color. Play as a Lumi, who ventures into the puzzling city following her grandpa’s kidnapping and discovers people in need of her help. Featuring paper-like visuals, the city is filled with unique puzzles for you to find and solve and is sure to charm and invite you in every step of the way.
In Monument Valley, you journey through delightful Escher-like landscapes, manipulating the very architecture to build impossible paths along which to explore. It’s not the most challenging of games (nor one with the most coherent of storylines), but each scene is a gorgeous and mesmerising bite-sized experience that showcases how important great craft is in the best iOS titles.
Play as a dad and a husband in Octodad, a hilarious game that tasks you with accomplishing basic daily tasks as best as you can so that your family doesn’t get suspicious that you’re, in fact, an octopus. Moving around in a man’s world is harder than it sounds and you’ll need to get used to your cephalopodan limbs as you pick things up, move around, and interact with people without accidentally outing yourself.
Bullet-hell meets blood-thirsty vampires in Operation Dracula, a shoot ’em up that boasts some great top-down action, a catchy soundtrack, and a difficulty curve that makes you feel like you’re back in the 80s. Missions have you maneuvering your craft through levels that continuously assault you with enemies, bullets, and some relentless bosses so you need to keep your cool amid the frenetic violence happening all around you.
Get lost in the amazing worlds of Order & Chaos 2: Redemption, Gameloft’s follow-up MMORPG that comes with even more quests to sink your teeth into. Optimized for mobile, this game features a new race to choose from as well as a new story that follows your character as he or she tries to restore peace to the world of Haradon. Plenty of exploration, characters, and dangers await you in this massive adventure.
Pac-Man 256 is a twist on the classic pellet-eating formula and has you racing for your life as the menacing Level 256 glitch from the original game tries to devour you. But it wouldn’t be a Pac-Man game without those pesky ghosts to avoid and power pellets and fruit to collect. Use power-ups like lasers, tornados, and even a “giant” mode to survive when things get rough, but don’t accidentally run into a dead end or it’s over.
Save the world as you hop through the galaxy in Path to Luma, a gorgeous adventure puzzler that lets you harness the power of clean energy and explore planets to find the switches they need to power back up. As you play through the game’s 20 levels, you will have to recharge batteries, turn on windmills, or rotate planets to create new routes to explore. You’ll soon discover puzzles within puzzles that are a joy to solve.
Power Hover is an impressive action game that takes you through a beautiful world to recover a village’s stolen power. Hover through deserts, oceans, and highways, and grind on rails as you make your way to the finish line, chase down baddies, or play through arcade-style boss runs and challenge your friends for the best score. Collect dropped batteries to unlock even more gorgeous and thrilling levels.
Progress to 100 is more than just a puzzle – it’s a cleverly unique experience that will engage all aspects of your iPhone as you figure out what you have to do to move on. As its name states, each of the 100 puzzles you’ll play gets you one step closer to finishing it, but each one also comes with a hint as to how to solve it. Repeatedly tap your screen, put your nose on your device, or move your head to solve its silly and satisfying riddles.
Prune is a meditative experience more akin to the art of bonsai than your usual puzzle game, but its relaxing levels and soothing sounds will captivate you nonetheless. Each level lets you grow a tree with a swipe of a finger and then prune enough of it branches so its buds can flower in the sunlight. As you progress, shadows and red orbs will pose obstacles for your tree as they’ll block it from the sunlight and even poison its branches.
The setting of the sun signifies your doom in Race the Sun, a tense and riveting endless racer that gracefully challenges you to prolong the inevitable and keep flying. Each time you start a race, you need to be mindful of both incoming obstacles that can destroy your aircraft and power-ups that can extend your flight. The world you fly through changes every day so you are always on your toes wondering what lies ahead.
A game of exploration, mystery, and puzzles, Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon once again stars an intrepid eight-legged protagonist and lets you unravel a subtle story with each clue you find. Trap insects in your web as you explore the enormous Blackbird Estate, and solve some puzzles along the way too. What’s more, the game uses your location, time, and local weather to add dynamic features to your experience each time you play.
Strategy is a big part of your success in this colorful roguelike, so you’ll need to plan your steps accordingly or else enemies will ambush you when you least expect it. Use your items wisely or purchase equipment to permanently own them and give your characters a fighting chance when up against some tough bosses. Just don’t be fooled by Sproggiwood’s whimsical music or deceptive cutesy design – this is one tough game.
Super Dangerous Dungeons is sure to bring you back to a time when 16-bit platformers ruled the world. Its 48 colorful levels feature classic traps and enemies that will keep you engaged as you turn on switches, find keys, and avoid dangerous terrain on your way to the exit. Jump your way through bottomless pits and beat giant bosses that require some finesse and careful timing to defeat.
Ah, Super Hexagon. We remember that punishing first game, which must have lasted all of three seconds. Much like the next – and the next. But then we recognised patterns in the walls that closed in on our tiny ship, and learned to react and dodge. Then you threw increasingly tough difficulty levels at us, and we’ve been smitten ever since.
Follow a group of unlikely friends on their quest for greatness in this episodic series set in Pandora following the events of Borderlands 2. You’ll travel to familiar locations and interact with pivotal characters from the action games, but your choices are what matter most as they can come back to haunt you later on. Clever writing and a talented cast are sure to keep your laughing through each hilarious episode.
Featuring more than just boxes to examine, The Room Three expands the format of the original just enough to create a uniquely tactile experience that definitely pulls you into the many nooks and crannies you’ll be entering to solve. Gorgeous box puzzles still play an important role in the game, but many other clever logic games are sure to tickle your brain and condition you to look closely at everything that could turn out to be a puzzle. Three’s a charm indeed.
There are two sides to TouchTone. The foundation is a topical story about intercepting communications, ostensibly to make the world safer. The game itself involves reflecting signals to receivers, using a tiled grid where every item on a row or column moves as one. The story gives you added impetus to keep going, even when you’ve been racking your brains for days to come up with a solution to a particular puzzle.
It’s always great when a savvy developer rethinks a genre and comes up with something that feels fresh. EightyEight Games welds auto-running to match-three in You Must Build A Boat. Deft fingerwork must be married with careful timing, matching keys as the hero approaches locked chests, or swords at the moment an incoming enemy prepares to get all stabby. Get shoved off of the left-hand side of the screen and you’re told YOU WIN!, because every step potentially adds to your coffers. There are missions to complete, abilities to power-up, and a cheeky sense of humour that sets the title apart from its frequently comparatively po-faced contemporaries.
An immersive story, stellar soundtrack, and a fluid turn-based combat system are just a few delights that await you as you journey to the world of Orcanon and uncover the first installment of Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey.
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Understanding Trump’s Rise, Presidency – and Beyond (4)
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The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. — Gramsci
We now come to Nancy Fraser’s analysis (Gramchi) of Trump as President, hence the title adjustment. Previous posts in the series:
Gramsci’s theory of hegemony
Nancy Fraser’s perspective builds on the concept of hegemony as developed by Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist who died in a Mussolini prison. Put simply, hopefully not too simply, the idea of hegemony is that a ruling class needs to make its worldview and values the worldview and values of the groups it dominates. Simply owning the wealth and all the businesses and factories etc is not enough to maintain control. The subordinate classes must accept the belief systems of their rulers for the system to work smoothly. The ruled must accept that their world and their place in it is only natural and commonsensical.
Fraser identifies two types of common sense values that the upper classes expect those they dominate to accept:
they must share a common belief in what is right and fair regarding wages, wealth and ability to get ahead, job status and opportunities, or in other words, a common belief in what is fair and right concerning the distribution of the wealth accumulated within the society;
they must share a common belief in what is right and fair regarding respect and status, personal recognition and esteem, and who has a right to be a part of recognized elites.
Understanding the Rise of Trump (1)
That Election
The progressive populist movement led by Bernie Sanders was desperately knocked out of the race by the establishment elites in the Democratic Party. Rules changes, finding ways to ensure the populist leader’s superior popular support did not win the day, enabled the party machine to position a comparatively unpopular leader who represented the prevailing neoliberal establishment to take on Trump.
As we saw in the previous post significant segments of Sander’s supporters felt the other populist leader was preferable to Hillary Clinton. The reactionary populist victory surprised many though not all observers.
Just as Obama had disappointed his voters by failing to capitalize on his Occupy Wall Street popularity and begin to turn the nation’s back on neoliberalism as we covered in the previous post, Trump also did what so many politicians do: he turned his back on his promises to take on the big business powers who were hurting the ordinary person and to undertake programs to restore employment and job security. In Gramsci’s terms, he abandoned the populist distributive policies (wealth distribution) he had promised. He added insult to injury open displays of “crony capitalism and self-dealing”.
Granted, he canceled the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But he has temporized on NAFTA and failed to lift a finger to rein in Wall Street.
Nor has Trump taken a single serious step to implement large-scale, job-creating public infrastructure projects; his efforts to encourage manufacturing were confined instead to symbolic displays of jawboning and regulatory relief for coal, whose gains have proved largely fictitious.
And far from proposing a tax code reform whose principal beneficiaries would be working-class and middle-class families, he signed on to the boilerplate Republican version, designed to funnel more wealth to the one percent (including the Trump family).
As this last point attests, the president’s actions on the distributive front have included a heavy dose of crony capitalism and self-dealing. But if Trump himself has fallen short of Hayekian ideals of economic reason, the appointment of yet another Goldman Sachs alumnus to the Treasury ensures that neoliberalism will continue where it counts.
(my formatting and bolding in all quotations of Nancy Fraser)
But why didn’t his backers rise up in protest over such a blatant betrayal? It is as if they didn’t even notice what he’d done. But as we shall see some are beginning to notice and realize that their conditions are not improving.
That’s where the second half of Gramsci’s analysis, the rhetoric of recognition values, enters.
Having abandoned the populist politics of distribution, Trump proceeded to double down on the reactionary politics of recognition, hugely intensified and ever more vicious.
On sincerity, we know Trump is aware of the reality of climate change because he is building a wall around his golf course in Ireland to protect it from rising sea levels.
I’m reminded of the tired old countless “classic” cases throughout history and the world today of political leaders raging and foaming bile against outsiders or minorities within to deflect attention from their own failings or ineptitude. No doubt they are sincere. They have to believe their own rhetoric, at least at the time they are saying it, to impress their audience with their “sincerity”.
Having abandoned the populist politics of distribution, Trump proceeded to double down on the reactionary politics of recognition, hugely intensified and ever more vicious. The list of his provocations and actions in support of invidious hierarchies of status is long and chilling:
the travel ban in its various versions, all targeting Muslim-majority countries, ill disguised by the cynical late addition of Venezuela;
the gutting of civil rights at Justice (which has abandoned the use of consent decrees) and at Labor (which has stopped policing discrimination by federal contractors);
the refusal to defend court cases on LGBTQ rights;
the rollback of mandated insurance coverage of contraception;
the retrenchment of Title IX protections for women and girls through cuts in enforcement staff;
public pronouncements in support of rougher police handling of suspects, of “Sheriff Joe’s” contempt for the rule of law, and of the “very fine people” among the white-supremacists who ran amok at Charlottesville.
The result is no mere garden-variety Republican conservatism, but a hyper-reactionary politics of recognition.
Examples, as we know, have multiplied since Fraser’s article was sent to the publisher.
Altogether, the policies of President Trump have diverged from the campaign promises of candidate Trump. Not only has his economic populism vanished, but his scapegoating has grown ever more vicious. What his supporters voted for, in short, is not what they got. The upshot is not reactionary populism, but hyper-reactionary neoliberalism.
New evidence that Trump is losing support even among his base: Trump Fires His Pollster After Polls Show Him Losing In Every Critical State
Since Nancy Fraser’s article was published we have seen further tensions between Trump and his supporters, both business and some of the working class, over his tariff war with China. Tariffs, of course, hurt both businesses and consumers, contrary to Trump’s rhetoric.
Trump is now “ruling” (an appropriate word, I think, given his defiance of Congress — and Congress’s failing to seriously challenge him — in recent weeks) without a coherent or stable hegemonic bloc. His hyper-reactionary neoliberalism does not allow for that. His personal manner does not allow him to work with a trusting and professionally minded team. He relies upon the Republican Party but the Republican Party is far from outspokenly unanimous in their support for him. It appears that many Republicans would like to take back control but are a loss to know how. What we have seen from the White House are chaos, contradictory comings and goings, statements and counter-statements.
Nancy Fraser admits that we have no way of knowing where all of this is going to lead and wonders if there will be a split in the Republican Party. The U.S. is now in a position of another hegemonic vacuum, or at least bereft of a secure one. Recall that it was the hegemonic vacuum — no-one in power to address the problems of declining incomes, joblessness, rise of debts — that led to Trump to begin with.
But there is also a deeper problem. By shutting down the economic-populist face of his campaign, Trump’s hyper-reactionary neoliberalism effectively seeks to reinstate the hegemonic gap he helped to explode in 2016. Except that it cannot now suture that gap. Now that the populist cat is out of the bag, it is doubtful that the working-class portion of Trump’s base will be satisfied to dine for long on (mis)recognition alone.
Back to the gap, the condition that led to Trump in the first place. Infrastructure spending and job creation, serious tax reform and healthcare . . . the policies that were meant to seriously address the breakdown in living standards for his base and all the working and middle class are nowhere in sight. (Though he did say he would work on healthcare more in his next term, right?) Meanwhile, the rhetoric distracts from the wealth distribution failure.
Since the appearance of Fraser’s article the US economy has not significantly improved at all. His supporters have not benefited materially despite his boasts of “the greatest economy ever.” See Why Trump Gets a ‘C’ on the Economy: Forget His Boasts; Growth Is Just Average and Well Behind Reagan, Clinton, Even Carter on David Cay Johnston’s DCReport.
Preparing for More Dangerous Trumps
The potential opposition to Trump is divided. “Diehard Clintonites” remain as opposed to the progressive populist bloc marshalled in support of Sanders. And,
complicating the landscape is a raft of upstart groups whose militant postures have attracted big donors despite (or because of) the vagueness of their programmatic conceptions.
(Americans and others will be more aware of the groups Fraser refers to here than I am.)
Another serious rupture Fraser identifies is division among the Democrats over whether to dedicate themselves to policies framed around
class — that is, to concentrate on winning back the white working class vote that deserted to Trump after Sanders was set aside by Clinton
race — to fiercely oppose white supremacy and win the votes of blacks and Latinos.
The division is serious and agonizing insofar as the two problems really need to be addressed together, not either/or, as Fraser comments.
Fraser’s concern is that if the Democrats do focus on winning back the erstwhile working class Sanders’ supporters the real victor will be the traditional status quo, the same old distributive values of the neoliberals who have established the “regressive economy” in favour of the 1%. It will be a return in some form to the same old progressive liberalism: maintain the economic system and embrace the rhetoric of militant anti-racism.
In other words, the surely inevitable result of such a development would be to turn potential Democrat supporters to Trump instead.
Another dire consequence would be that the Democrats led by Clintonite neoliberals would
effectively join forces with [Trump] in suppressing alternatives to neoliberalism—and thus in reinstating the hegemonic gap.
As noted above, we then come circle back to the very conditions that created Trump. The “hegemonic gap”, with no-one in the political system addressing the “regressive economy”, with both sides entrenching the very problems that have led to both the progressive and regressive populist movements.
To reinstate progressive neoliberalism, on any basis, is to recreate—indeed, to exacerbate—the very conditions that created Trump. And that means preparing the ground for future Trumps—ever more vicious and dangerous.
working-class supporters of Trump and of Sanders would have to come to understand themselves as allies—differently situated victims of a single “rigged economy,” which they could jointly seek to transform
The solution is to organize a wide-based popular bloc that will oppose the neoliberal powers (global finance, responsible for the problems of financialization, deindustrialization and corporate globalization) that both the Clintonites and Trump serve. Currently, neither bloc of progressive or regressive populists
is currently in a position to shape a new common sense. Neither is able to offer an authoritative picture of social reality, a narrative in which a broad spectrum of social actors can find themselves. Equally important, neither variant of neoliberalism can successfully resolve the objective system blockages that underlie our hegemonic crisis.
So the crises of debts, climate change, stresses on community life continue.
A broad bloc cannot come from Trump’s reactionary populism. Its values of recognition exclude large sectors of the population. That movement is not going to attract those working and middle class families who rely upon service work, agriculture, domestic labour and the public sector. Those sectors employing large numbers of women, immigrants and people of colour are the ones Trump is targeting.
The recognition values of the progressive Sanders bloc are at least seek to be inclusive. Is it possible for them to win over Trump supporters in an anti-neoliberal alliance that targets the institutions responsible for their crises.
But They Hate Each Other
We know the obstacle to such an alliance:
the deepening divisions, even hatreds, long simmering but recently raised to a fever pitch by Trump, who, as David Brooks perceptively put it, has a “nose for every wound in the body politic” and no qualms about “stick[ing] a red-hot poker in [them] and rip[ping them] open.”
The result is a toxic environment that appears to validate the view, held by some progressives, that all Trump voters are “deplorables”—irredeemable racists, misogynists, and homophobes. Also reinforced is the converse view, held by many reactionary populists, that all progressives are incorrigible moralizers and smug elitists who look down on them while sipping lattes and raking in the bucks.
Continuing . . . .
Fraser, Nancy. 2017. “From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump—and Beyond.” American Affairs Journal 1 (4): 46–64. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond/
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Just a proofreading note: there is an orphaned sentence fragment in your remarks after the first quote.
“But why didn’t his backers rise up in protest over such a blatant betrayal? It is as if they didn’t even notice what he’d done. But as we shall see some are beginning to notice and realize that their conditions are not improving. Since Fraser’s arti
Thanks for bringing this analysis to my attention!
Is arti a word? And no full stop — you’d think Grammarly would pick that up! Thanks.
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Prayer Nut wood carving art
A small boxwood orb decorated inside and outside with carving on religious themes – Prayer Nut wood carving art
First of all, to produce such a prayer nut required considerable skill. Within the scope of the concave a skillful master carved miniature stories about the life of Christ and his apostles. Noteworthy, the width of a “nut” was no more than 3-5 cm in diameter. And to add flavor to patterns the artist added leaves of spice plants or aromatic oil. Undoybtedly, every Prayer Nut is a true work of art. Only the very rich could afford to order such a pocket-like altar. Therefore, possession of “prayer nuts” underlines the high social status. Designed to be worn on a rosary or belt these orbs could be used for private devotion. In particular, when its wealthy owner traveled. Therefore, they were known as rosary beads or prayer nuts.
The skill of medieval craftsmen still amazes. Every detail of the composition conceived and executed with maximum precision. These exquisite Prayer nuts adorn exposures of the world’s leading museums. Among them the British Museum in London and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Louvre. A few years ago at an auction one such nut was sold for 133,250 pounds.
North Netherlands, first quarter 16th century. Prayer Nut with the road to Calvary and the crucifixion. Sold for 133,250 GBP
If to open this small boxwood orb, you will see two intricate concave reliefs representing Christ on the road to Calvary and the Crucifixion. The two scenes, each less than 4 centimeters in diameter include no less than 27 men, 10 horses, 5 women, a bishop, a little boy, a castle and a camel.
Ancient Prayer Nut medieval wood carving art
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Prayer Nut with the road to Calvary and the crucifixion
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First ever Gerald Cross Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award to be given Thursday
Davis, Lynn (Virginia Tech. University Relations, 2004-11-05)
The College of Natural Resources will present the first Gerald Cross Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award to David Patton, dean of the Professional Schools and School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University, on Thursday, ...
Virginia Tech forestry students to host forum on revised Washington-Jefferson National Forest plan
Virginia Tech's student chapter of the Society of American Foresters will host a public forum to help students and citizens understand best management practices and the various implications of the newly revised ...
Grossman receives Distinguished Research and Professional Activities Award
Lawrence Grossman of Blacksburg, Va., head of the Department of Geography in Virginia Techas College of Natural Resources, received the 2004 Robert McC. Netting Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group ...
200 students, coaches to arrive for National 4-H Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Program
Two hundred 4-H teenagers and their coaches from 30 states will pour into Virginia Tech Thursday, July 28 to Aug. 1 to compete in an annual national wildlife habitat evaluation contest.
Virginia Tech sponsors Fifth International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture
Virginia Tech is hosting the Fifth International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture July 22-25, 2004, at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center in Roanoke, Va. The conference will focus on what's new in the industry.
Researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
The Smith River Research Project will present its research findings at a public forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Collinsville, Va., at the Henry County Administration Building, 3300 Kings Mountain Road.
Wood center provides gavels for Virginia Legislature
The Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center helped to provide the General Assembly with new gavels this past session.
Virginia Tech hosts wood management workshop on lean manufacturing
Virginia Tech's Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management will offer its third workshop in the wood management series on lean manufacturing.
Gregory Buhyoff honored as professor emeritus
Gregory J. Buhyoff, of Blacksburg, Julian N. Cheatham Professor of Forestry in the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech, was conferred with the title "professor emeritus" by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors ...
Virginia Tech partners with Forest Service on Capitol holiday tree
</span> For the first time in its history, the Commonwealth of Virginia is gifting the nation with the holiday tree that will be erected on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
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Review: Silmus – Ostara
Volkoren #46 – CD Time: 29:00
Available at: http://www.silmus.com/ & http://www.youmakemusic.com/music/cd/silmus-ostara
Label: http://volkoren.com/ Photography by: Jan Borger
More Information: https://www.facebook.com/pages/SILMUS/159349577522537?fref=ts
Tracks: 1) Birth 2) Bright 3) Fortunate, My Child 4) Mono No Aware 5) Song For You 6) Clearing Up 7) Lives Lighted Out 8) Ostara 9) Disappearance (The Horse Ride) 10) Storm Lay Down
Some observed rituals are ancient and have roots in far away and nearly forgotten times, and various natural orders remain mysterious until the moment when one is firmly planted within the experience—there is no book to be read (although advice might be given) yet somehow deeply planted instincts guide…trusting that it will all turn out as we hope. There may be unexpected turns, but that is part of the adventure…the journey through life. If I have my history correct, Ostara is a pagan goddess of fertility and referred to centuries ago during the annual Festival of Easter—rebirth, the cycle of life and in some languages ostara also translates as “loop”.
Silmus is Dutch musician Gert Boersma (acoustic and electric guitars, bass, ukelele, vocals), and along with producer Minco Eggersman (guitars, mandolin, percussion and synthesizer), Jan Borger (piano, bass, synthesizer, Hammond, accordian) and Mirjam Feenstra (vocals), Boersma has created a sonic novella of the anticipations, sensations and emotions of becoming a parent—the delight of wonderment and discovery.
Clearing Up
Released in late 2012, this debut album (which is beautifully recorded, mastered and illustrated) contains often dream-like vignettes displaying tenderness and crystalline musicality that guide the narrative without any self-absorbed sentimentality—themes are developed, explored and nimbly resolved. There is an enchanting innocence as the sounds coalesce with ethereal movements in the electric and acoustic instrumentation and occasional subtle voices. This album is curious in that it allows moments of deep and absorbing reflection, yet one is not cast into the depths to awaken in a chilled haze (despite the album artwork); instead the feeling is the presence of warmth and refreshing clarity after the music has gently departed.
A few have placed Silmus’ work in the canon of some well-known ambient artists, but I think his work is more engaging, closer to some instrumental works of Anthony Phillips, selections from albums like New England and Dragonfly Dreams. My favorite track on the album is the nearly-mystical Mono No Aware.
Let’s hope for more from Silmus.
June 25, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Ambient, Anthony Phillips, Audiokarma.org, Children, Daily Audiophile, Dutch, ElectroAcoustic, Gert Boersma, Guitar, HifiZine, Instrumental, Minco Eggersman, Music, Netherlands, Ostara, Parenthood, Review, Silmus, Volkoren | 2 Comments
Revisiting Old Friends and Meeting New
Anthony Phillips: http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/
Ant’s friend and illustrator Peter Cross: http://petercrossart.com/
Ant’s (too occasional) collaborator Enrique Berro Garcia: http://quiqueberro.com/
Although he was 18 when he departed from the band Genesis in 1970, many still associate Ant Phillips almost exclusively with that band (despite his approximately 40 commercially released solo albums and collaborations since 1970 in addition to his vast output of library music compositions and commission work). I have been very fortunate over the years to acquire all of these albums, and each time I place one of Ant’s albums on my turntable or a CD player his music takes me to another place and time (the ups and downs of a life). Ant’s music has been a big part of my life and I owe a great deal of my own creative work to being inspired by his. I think Ant said it best on his second Private Parts and Pieces album Back To The Pavilion (released in 1980): “This album is dedicated to all those who still champion the “old fashioned” ideas of beauty, lyricism and grandeur in art against the tide of cynical intellectualism and dissonance.” Many of Ant’s earlier albums are now being completely remastered (from the source tapes) and reissued (often in double CD releases).
Ant and Quique from PP&PPIII – Antiques: Old Wives Tales
Also spinning these days are albums by:
Three Metre Day – Coasting Notes
http://www.threemetreday.com/
I have a ceramic artist friend (Hayne Bayless at Sideways Studios) to thank for getting me to these folks (often the best music comes from referrals by friends). At times their music is somewhat mournful, but always reflective and passionate—this trio from Canada is Michelle Willis, Hugh Marsh and Don Rooke with guest appearances by bassist David Piltch and drums by Davide Direnzo. The album is up-close, largely acoustic in instrumentation and delightfully musical.
Rhian Sheehan – Stories From Elsewhere
http://www.rhiansheehan.com/
At times the music is delicate and others it’s intense, but it’s always inventive and beautifully recorded. Rhian Sheehan is from New Zealand and has released 7 albums under his name as well as appeared on many compilations and soundtracks.
Iron and Wine – Ghost on Ghost
http://www.ironandwine.com/
I sometimes find Samuel Beam’s work to be a bit too intense and serious, but his latest album is open, hopeful and at times playful. The first single Joy is beautiful.
Wire – Change Becomes Us
http://www.pinkflag.com/
I kind of lost touch with Wire after their albums Pink Flag and Chairs Missing, but I rediscovered their more recent albums when I updated my original recordings with CD reissues. If this new album sounds a bit like it comes from the late 1970s and early 1980s post punk era it’s because many of the songs were written back then, and haven’t seen the light of day until now. The recordings and production are full, with great clarity and this album just makes me want to turn up the amplifiers.
You can listen to the entire album here: https://soundcloud.com/wirehq/sets/change-becomes-us
Montt Mardié – Skaizerkite
Record Label: http://hybr.is/
David Olof Peter Pagmar has taken many identities and until a few years ago he was Montt Mardié (his website is now defunct) and he has since moved on to new projects, but in early 2009 this was his album of excellent pop tunes and ballads—beautifully recorded and produced. The entire album can be streamed here:
Jonas Munk – Searching For Bill (Original Soundtrack)
Jonas Munk has released many great albums and collaborations as Manual and more recently as Billow Observatory, but this is his first soundtrack. The documentary Searching For Bill is Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s debut and it explores the meaning of life for those living on the edge of American society. It’s a sensitive and contemplative soundtrack.
Many of these albums are available directly from the artists’ websites or at online merchants like http://darla.com/
Happy Listening and Spring (finally)!
May 3, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Ambient, Ant Phillips, Anthony Phillips, Audiokarma.org, Billow Observatory, Daily Audiophile, Darla, David Piltch, Don Rooke, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Enrique Berro Garcia, Experimedia, Genesis, HifiZine, Hugh Marsh, Instrumental, Iron and Wine, jazz, Jonas Munk, Manual, Michelle Willis, Montt Mardie, Music, Peter Cross, Pink Flag, Progressive, Review, Rhian Sheehan, Rock, Samuel Beam, Three Metre Day, Vocal, Wire | Leave a comment
Anthony Phillips & Andrew Skeet – Seventh Heaven
CD1 & CD2 #VPD555CD: Total Times: 46:43 and 51:08 Released 2012
Artist Website: http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/
Artist Website: http://www.andrewskeet.com/
Record Label: http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/
Tracks CD1: 1) Credo In Cantus (vocal by Lucy Crowe); 2) A Richer Earth; 3) Under The Infinite Sky; 4) Grand Central; 5) Kissing Gate; 6) Pasquinade; 7) Rain on Sage Harbour; 8) Ice Maiden; 9) River of Life; 10) Desert Passage; 11) Seven Ancient Wonders (vocal by Belinda Sykes); 12) Desert Passage (reprise); 13) Circle of Light; 14) Forgotten Angels; 15) Courtesan; 16) Ghosts of New York; 17) Shipwreck of St Paul; 18) Cortege
Tracks CD2: 1) Credo In Cantus (instrumental); 2) Sojourn; 3) Speak of Remarkable Things; 4) Nocturne; 5) Long Road Home; 6) The Golden Leaves of Fall; 7) Credo; 8) Under The Infinite Sky (guitar ensemble version); 9) The Stuff of Dreams; 10) Old Sarum Suite (five parts); 11) For Eloise; 12) Winter Song; 13) Ghosts of New York (piano version); 14) Daniel’s Theme; 15) Study In Scarlet; 16) The Lives of Others; [sic] 18) Forever Always
When many think of the music of Anthony Phillips, often they first remember his association with the early days of the band Genesis, even though it has been more than forty years since he left that band. After formal music training in the early 1970s, Ant did continue to collaborate with Mike Rutherford on The Geese and the Ghost and Smallcreep’s Day, in addition to Ant’s other solo works such as Wise After The Event and Sides in the mid to late 1970s. Ant has released about thirty albums to the general public, in addition to the many compilations of his extensive catalog.
The younger Andrew Skeet has worked as an arranger and orchestrator for George Michael, Suede, Unkle, Sinead O’Connor and Hybrid. Since 2004 Skeet has worked with Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy on three albums as musical director, arranger, and playing piano as well as touring throughout Europe. Andrew Skeet also established the music production company Roxbury Music with Luke Gordon (former Howie B collaborator) and together their music has been featured in film, television and commercials: The Apprentice, Dispatches, and Banged Up Abroad. Skeet has also orchestrated and conducted scores for The Awakening and Upstairs Downstairs. The album The Greatest Video Game Music was produced in 2011 by Andrew Skeet along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has been one of the most successful classical releases in many years.
Andrew Skeet
Ant and Andrew crossed paths when Universal Publishing Production Music commissioned Ant to write a collection of cinema-related music for UPPM’s Atmosphere label. Much of Ant’s music career for the last twenty or so years has been writing what is often referred to as “library music” or stock music composed for use in films, television or commercials in addition to other commisioned and self-produced works. Periodically Ant has collected these tracks, edited and in some cases re-recorded them for his Private Parts and Pieces, Missing Links or other album releases that are available to the general public (primarily through the Voiceprint and Blueprint labels).
It is always of particular interest to me to dig through Ant’s music to find the roots of some of his library work. I do miss the days of his more rock-oriented albums and singing, but recognize that getting that kind of work published these days is not easy or commercially viable. Ant goes through periods where his work is more keyboard oriented, but in 2005 he released a gorgeous double CD entitled Field Day filled with varying acoustic guitar work written and recorded from 2001 to 2005 (the exception being a re-recording of his 1975 piece Nocturne from PP&PP2 Back to the Pavilion…one of my favorite albums of his earlier solo works).
Field Day forms the basis for portions of Seventh Heaven where some of the solo guitar works have been orchestrated in addition to pieces that Ant and Andrew co-wrote later. Ant is credited with having written ten of the thirty-five compositions. The orchestrated pieces from Field Day that I can identify include: Credo, Nocturne, River of Life, Sojourn, Rain on Sag Harbour and the exquisite Kissing Gate. Each of these pieces is lightly orchestrated and perfectly complements the original to heighten the sentiments of the composition.
For fans of Ant’s prog-rock work this album might be a stretch, but if listeners enjoyed the album Tarka (the orchestral collaboration with Harry Williamson released in the late 1980s) then I think this Phillips and Skeet collaboration will be well received. The orchestration and recording is lush yet is not overdone. Many of the compositions are quite visual and evoke certain moods or a sense of place. The orchestrations vary from solo instrument (guitar, piano) to full orchestra, chamber or ensemble.
There are some really gorgeous tracks, from the opening of CD1 Credo In Cantus (based on Ant’s Credo from Field Day) and the transition into A Richer Earth and the dramatic Under The Infinite Sky. Grand Central evokes a sense of motion as in a view taken from the station in New York on a busy morning. Desert Passage by contrast is a stark and dramatic piece based around (I think) a mandocello with Middle Eastern themes along with woodwind soloist (and collaborator from PP&PP6 New England) Martin Robertson.
CD2 opens with an instrumental reprise of Credo In Cantus and ties the two discs together. A spirited orchestral version of Sojourn follows and then the mysterious piano of Speak of Remarkable Things links to the poignant and beautiful guitar Nocturne from long ago—it has an ageless quality to it. Long Road Home has the image of a beginning (and it is quite cinematic in its breadth) with first full orchestra followed by solo woodwinds and closing with piano. The Golden Leaves of Fall continues a similar piano theme and to me the two pieces seem strongly connected. Mid-disc is Old Sarum Suite in five short movements and it has a brilliant range of instrumentation and themes, and shows the versatility of Phillips and Skeet’s collaboration. It has an historic feel to it similar to Henry: Portrait From Tudor Times from “Geese”. CD2 closes with an introspective piece Forever Always, (a common thread, reflection, in Ant’s own work since “Geese” Collections/Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West).
There are extensive liner notes with the CDs as well as photographs of the recording sessions with the orchestras and biographies on the soloists and principal players (John Parricelli, Belinda Sykes, Martin Robertson, Lucy Crowe, Paul Clarvis and Chris Worsey). The works were recorded in three phases (from 2008 through late 2011), with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in Prague, then with string section at Angel Studios and then some tracks were re-recorded at Abbey Road along with recordings at Ant’s studio. The only quirk that I noticed is that CD2 actually has seventeen tracks, although it skips from 16 to 18 in the liner notes (typo!).
Seventh Heaven is both a collaborative work with Anthony Phillips as well as a splendid introduction to the work of Andrew Skeet. Whether a fan of Anthony Phillips’s prog-rock, instrumental or library compositions, I think this is a great addition to his oeuvre. Seventh Heaven is an expansive, sophisticated, and elegant work.
May 24, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Ambient, Andrew Skeet, Anthony Phillips, Daily Audiophile, ElectroAcoustic, Genesis, HifiZine, Instrumental, Music, Orchestral Music, Prog Rock, Progressive, Review, Rock, Seventh Heaven, Tarka, The Geese and the Ghost, Voiceprint Records | Leave a comment
Gareth Dickson – Quite A Way Away – *UPDATED Happy Easters Video*
CD 43:24 – 12K1070 – 12k Records
http://www.12k.com/ & http://www.garethdickson.com/
1) Adrenaline, 2) Noon, 3) Get Together, 4) Quite A Way Away, 5) This Is The Kiss, 6) Happy Easters, 7) Nunca Jamas (Never Ever), 8) Jonah
More beautiful music to disappear into, discovered this time by an association with a record label that I have quickly come to admire a great deal, 12k. There is quite a story behind this album by Gareth Dickson and it is told best, right here:
http://www.12k.com/index.php/site/releases/quite_a_way_away/
The comparisons to the sound, the voice and the music are immediate: Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and others, yet there are some distinct differences, some technological and some musical. I speculate that some of the tunings and picking are similar to techniques used by Nick Drake (whose work I am far more familiar with), but there are similarities to another guitarist I admire a great deal, Anthony Phillips (Geese and the Ghost, many others, and collaborations with Harry Williamson: Tarka & Gypsy Suite).
With the exception of instrumental piece Happy Easters, each song starts with an extended introduction on the guitar. It sets the mood, the color, space and even establishes a sonic incantation for the coming lyrics (much of which are of love, longing and searching).
The recordings have incredible depth (considering they are classified as “lo-fi”). I’m not sure how the album was engineered, processed or mic’ed, but there are some guitar sound similarities to Neil Young’s recent album Le Noise that was produced and engineered by Daniel Lanois. In Quite A Way Away the guitar sounds as an orchestra (whether strings are muted or being played at their fullest at the heart of the guitar). The instrumentation is as stark as Nick Drake’s Pink Moon yet the sound is as full as Five Leaves Left or Bryter Layter—so wonderful to hear.
Happy Easters, to me, is very strongly reminiscent of the acoustic sections of Anthony Phillips’ Scottish Suite as well as other pieces from his second Private Parts and Pieces series of albums. Quite fitting, since Gareth Dickson is originally from Glasgow, Scotland, and his voice also reveals his roots elsewhere on the album.
Happy Easters
This is not an album of songs with guitar accompaniment nor is it a guitar album with vocals. Gareth Dickson combines both and reaches into the sonorous depths to create a passionate, deeply emotional and soulful music.
Links to other song samples here: http://soundcloud.com/gareth-dickson
March 4, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 12k, Ambient, Anthony Phillips, Bert Jansch, Electronica, Gareth Dickson, Guitar, Instrumental, Music, Nick Drake, Taylor Deupree, Vocal | Leave a comment
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Review: Roger Eno and Plumbline – Endless City/Concrete Garden
LP/CD or Digital Time: 37:43 Hydrogen Dukebox Records: Duke 157djv
Released May 20th in Europe and July 2nd in US and Canada
Label and Album: http://hydrogendukebox.com/ and http://www.endlesscityconcretegarden.com/
Roger Eno and Plumbline: http://www.rogereno.com/ http://www.neutralmusic.com/
Tracks: Side A: 1) Taking Steps, 2) Geometry, 3) Codewords, 4) Suspended Animation, 5) Ulterior Motives, Side B: 6) The Weather Inside, 7) Back to the Beginning, 8) The Artificial Cat, 9) Pulling Strings, 10) Beauté de Passage
Time plays tricks as one gets older…what used to seem like an eternity might now seem like months, weeks or even a blink of an eye. In the proper hands, time can bend under the spell of music. Transparencies, the last album by Roger Eno and Plumbline (Will Thomas) appeared about six years ago…seems like a while ago, but the memory of it is clear enough that hearing their new album Endless City/Concrete Garden, is like picking up a conversation with an old friend that paused mid-sentence and then continued, flow uninterrupted after an unexpected reappearance—like they never left. But something is different, new experiences have somehow changed things.
A paradox exists in this album, on one hand there is an apparent idée fix of love, loss and tragedy (as noted by reference to the curiously obscure works of the poetess Arlette Feindre) yet the album is not gloomy; it is woven with ethereal moments of warmth, reflection and comfort, beginning with the familiar gentle cascades of piano in Taking Steps. There are scenes of rhythmic playfulness, as in Codewords, with a gamelan-like opening. Also an ironic solitude is present in some tracks like Pulling Strings where one could be walking alone late at night in a city full of people and noise, yet remain focused on more powerful inner thoughts (a strange loneliness in a crowded place). Despite the calming softness to this album, it isn’t amorphous; it has a purposeful direction.
Like their album last together, Endless City/Concrete Garden has taken its form across an ocean and between time zones, the contrasts of cities (New York City and Los Angeles) and the countryside of East Anglia in the UK. The pieces this time around often have a foundation in more recognizable instrumentation: piano, guitar and even a koto, with arrangements including violin, cello, percussion and electronic treatments. Percussive mantras also form the basis of some pieces as in The Artificial Cat. Treated field recordings make appearances throughout (I could swear there is a train horn hidden within The Weather Inside). It’s not always clear from whose hands the sounds are created, but Roger Eno’s piano work is unmistakable, as in Back to the Beginning…it starts out like an etude and then moves on to tell a story. The haunting Beauté de Passage appears to open with what sounds like Frippertronics, but with closer listening, I think it could be a treated accordion…how appropriate, how French. C’est tragique, mais enchantant aussi.
Note: The album is being released as an LP with CD included or as digital files. It’s not yet clear to me if the CD will be available on its own—no word from the record label on this.
June 8, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Ambient, Audiokarma.org, Cello, Daily Audiophile, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Eno, Experimedia, Guitar, HifiZine, Hydrogen Dukebox, Instrumental, Koto, Music, Piano, Plumbline, Review, Roger Eno, Violin, Will Thomas | 1 Comment
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Posts tagged “Nick Zammuto”
Temporary Residence TRR 227 LP (CD and D/L) Time: About 39 Minutes for 11 LP Tracks
Artist: http://www.zammutosound.com/ Label: http://temporaryresidence.com/
1) Good Graces 2) Great Equator 3) Hegemony 4) Henry Lee (Trad) 5) Need Some Sun 6) Don’t Be A Tool 7) Electricant 8) IO 9) Stop Counting 10) Sinker 11) Your Time 12) Codebreaker* Bonus on Deluxe LP download with silkscreened cover
Many scientists have labs and equipment, and there are parallels between science and the creation of music. Discovery and creativity take hard work, inspiration and many tools—some of the work is also drudgery and can take a long time to complete. Some experiments succeed and some don’t, but research presses on.
Nick Zammuto’s lab is in Vermont and while Zammuto’s current work is more accessible and song-oriented than work of his previous collaboration with Paul de Jong (The Books), Nick and his bandmates are still looking for music and inspiration in unexpected places (sometimes in quirky infomercial videos, physical inventions, admonitions from a parent and odd audio samples). Sounds are discovered, altered, created and spun into a fabric of song, and more often than not the results are downright fun.
It took about a year from the very successful IndieGoGo campaign to the release of Anchor, but along the way Nick Zammuto kept backers well informed on progress and entrusted early previews of the final tracks, along with the background for inspiration and in-depth technical information on how many of the sounds were developed. The resulting album varies from calming drones to chest pounding beats along with idiosyncratic melodic turns and spirited lyrics. Many of the tracks are based around odd rhythms, some created with scratches deliberately made on LPs at planned intervals.
Although I’m not always an advocate of loud music, I think this album better with the volume knob UP—it’s often an absolute romp. Most of the music is also well suited to their live shows, where Nick Zammuto and his bandmates know how to have a good time, often with accompanying videos. I can attest it’s also a great album for driving (at safe lower volumes!). In general, I find this album to be more reserved (almost cautious, at times) compared than their first.
After Good Graces eases-in, the more dynamic tracks like Great Equator, Hegemony, Need Some Sun, Electricant and the aggressively percussive IO give the album its verve. Anchor also has its quieter and more drone oriented moments, and can be quite introspective at times, as in Henry Lee, Stop Counting, Your Time and the acoustic percussion and guitar swells of Sinker. The bonus track Codebreaker is a syncopated keyboard, guitar arpeggio and electronic percussion pattern study.
I think my only criticism of Anchor is that Zammuto might consider exploring some longer form works. Peculiar and energetic always work for me.
The limited edition deluxe LP with silkscreen print cover
Photos are courtesy of Zammuto’s website, but I participated in the campaign and got myself a deluxe LP.
September 11, 2014 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Anchor, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, HifiZine, Instrumental, Mikey Zammuto, Music, Nick Zammuto, Progressive, Review, Rock, Temporary Residence, The Books, Vocal, Zammuto | Leave a comment
Concert: Zammuto with Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nadia Sirota at the Spaceland Ballroom, Hamden, CT March 29, 2013
http://zammutosound.com/home.cfm http://www.thebooksmusic.com/ http://temporaryresidence.com/
Nick Zammuto – Guitar and Electronics, Nick Oddy – Guitar and Keyboard
Mikey Zammuto – Bass, Sean Dixon – Drums
Valgeir Sigurðsson
http://valgeir.net/ & http://www.bedroomcommunity.net/artists/valgeir_sigurdsson/
Nadia Sirota
http://www.nadiasirota.com/ & http://nadiasirota.bandcamp.com/
Promoter and Venue
http://www.manicproductions.org/ & http://spacelandballroom.com/
I missed the last Zammuto tour in 2012, so I was determined to go see them this time around—and it was a great coincidence that they ended up stopping so close by in Hamden, Connecticut at the new Spaceland Ballroom with promotion by Manic Productions from nearby New Haven. Valgeir Sigurðsson (producer and founder of Iceland’s Bedroom Community record label and Greenhouse Studios) and violist Nadia Sirota started the evening’s show with an introspective and sensitive performance of work from Nadia’s latest album Baroque and Valgeir’s album Architecture of Loss (in addition to some earlier VS work). I think that the performance would’ve been enhanced all the more with a better piano and subwoofer system, but their performance ranged from the contemplative (my son says “chill”) to visceral. I’m less familiar with Sigurðsson’s and Sirota’s individual works, but this performance was a great introduction. My only other hope for this new venue is that the lighting improves to allow one to see the musicians better during their performances (and perhaps some more tables and chairs).
I’ve followed Nick Zammuto’s work since his days with The Books, and have appreciated his mining for music and inspiration in unexpected places, whether from old or new family home movies to skillfully edited (often bizarre) instructional videos. The humor and wordplay also makes his work all the more attractive. The difference (to my ears) between The Books and Nick’s latest incarnation in the band Zammuto is that the music is even more rhythmically infectious and at times, downright joyful. I also appreciate that Zammuto has created in their first eponymous album music created by artists staying true to themselves and their work—always pushing the boundaries and seeking inspiration from the most unlikely of places…making the serious silly and the mundane musical…and to be doing it in beautiful Vermont is all the more enticing. Their work is also an example of what I see as a proper usage of auto-tune technology—not to correct a singer who can’t sing, but to enhance the statement of the art and sound.
Last night’s set was tight, energetic and enhanced by a multimedia show of short films synchronized to the music. Much of the songs were taken from the latest Zammuto album on the Temporary Residence (independent) label. We were also treated to some songs from The Books era, a Paul Simon cover and some unreleased tracks. This was the second performance by new guitar/keyboardist Nick Oddy and he has immediately absorbed the often intense and delightfully quirky parts that Gene Back (up until recently) contributed to the band—bravo!
Zammuto Set List: 1) Groan Man, Don’t Cry, 2) The Shape Of Things To Come, 3) Idiom Wind, 4) Too Late To Topologize, 5) Zebra Butt, 6) FU-C3PO, 7) Harlequin, 8) Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon, 9) Yay, 10) The Stick, 11) Tahitian Noni Juice – That Right Ain’t Shit – from The Books The Lemon of Pink, 12) Classy Penguin, 13) The Greatest Autoharp Solo of All Time – A remarkable bit of video/sound editing!, 14) Smells Like Content – from The Books – Lost And Safe and the non-encore 15) The Fig and the Finger
If you haven’t seen Zammuto live yet, go see them—it was a very memorable concert. The link to their current tour is noted above, and I’m told that Nick is working on material for a new album.
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March 30, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Ambient, Audiokarma.org, Daily Audiophile, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Experimental Music, Guitar, HifiZine, Instrumental, jazz, Manic Productions, Music, Nadia Sirota, Nick Zammuto, Progressive, Review, Rock, Spaceland Ballroom, Temporary Residence, The Books, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Vocal, Zammuto, Zammutosound | 1 Comment
A List Too Small – My Favorites of 2012
Thank you to all the artists and record labels for such wonderful and diverse music.
This is one list of many, it’s my list, and it leaves off many other favorites that I have enjoyed over the year in addition to the thousands of other albums and single tracks that make up music throughout the World. What has helped me arrive at this list is what I have always loved about music: Does it move me? In addition, is it creative, well recorded and produced with a degree of care that makes me pay attention to it? There was a time when I was obsessed with highly produced and tightly engineered works, then I learned about artists such as East River Pipe and Sparklehorse, and many other genres of music were opened to me.
If you don’t see your favorite album on this list (or even your own album), it doesn’t mean a thing. If an album has been reviewed on my website this year, it’s meaningful to many others and me, but this is only a very, very small slice of the music world. Often people ask me about new music, and what I recommend. When I started this website in late January, 2012 it was first a means to write about music that I enjoyed, but also to get to know other artists and learn about new music that they create, so I could pass it on. Often, the best new music is that referred by a friend. Please feel free to send me your comments and recommendations.
Special note: There are still three or four late 2012 releases that are either enroute to me, have yet to be released or have just arrived. I need to spend proper time listening to and absorbing these albums. Rather than delaying this list further, and if after listening to those last 2012 releases I feel that they hit a sweet spot, I’ll review those albums in early 2013. I know of at least two 2012 releases that I’ll likely not receive until 2013.
I have three categories: Albums (12), Individual Tracks (6), and Special Releases (3) that don’t necessarily fit into a category.
Albums (Artist – Album Title – Record Label)
1) Twigs & Yarn – The Language of Flowers – Flau
2) Lambchop – Mr. M – Merge Records
3) Zammuto – Zammuto – Temporary Residence
4) Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited II – Inside Out Music
5) Taylor Deupree – Faint – 12k
6) Billow Observatory – Billow Observatory – Felte
7) Gareth Dickson – Quite A Way Away – 12k
8) Pill-Oh – Vanishing Mirror – Kitchen. Label
9) Brambles – Charcoal – Serein
10) Almost Charlie – Tomorrow’s Yesterday – Words On Music
11) Cody ChesnuTT – Landing On A Hundred – One Little Indian
12) Stick Men – Deep – Stick Men Records
Individual Tracks (from other albums)
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/46499688]
1) Library Tapes – Sun peeking through (from the album Sun peeking through) – Self Released
2) Cock & Swan – Orange & Pink (from the album Stash) – Lost Tribe Sound
3) Alex Tiuniaev – Daylight (from the album Blurred) – Heat Death Records
4) Kyle Bobby Dunn – In Praise of Tears (from the album In Miserum Stercus) – Komino
5) Kane Ikin & David Wenngren – Chalk (from the album Strangers) – Keshhhhhh
6) Olan Mill – Bleu Polar (from the album Paths) – Fac-ture
1) Celer & Machinefabriek: Maastunnel/Mt. Mitake, Numa/Penarie, Hei/Sou – Self Released
2) Birds Of A Feather: Michael Frommer – The Great Northern Loon, Porya Hatami – The Black Woodpecker, Darren McClure – The Black Kite, The Green Kingdom – The Great Blue Heron – Flaming Pines
3) Simon Scott, Corey Fuller, Marcus Fischer, Tomoyoshi Date and Taylor Deupree (Recorded live in Japan October, 8, 2012) – Between (…The Branches) – 12k
Record Labels Noted Above
Flau: http://www.flau.jp/
Merge Records: http://www.mergerecords.com/
Temporary Residence LTD: http://temporaryresidence.com/
Inside Out: http://www.insideoutmusic.com/
12k: http://12k.com/
Felte: http://www.feltesounds.com/
Kitchen. Label: http://www.kitchen-label.com/
Serein: http://www.serein.co.uk/
Words On Music: http://www.words-on-music.com/
One Little Indian: http://indian.co.uk/shop/landing-on-a-hundred-1.html
Stick Men Records: http://stick-men.net
Library Tapes: http://librarytapes.com/
Lost Tribe Sound: http://www.cockandswan.com/ Note: I have not listed the weblink to the record label as Google has noted that the website MAY be compromised.
Heat Death Records: http://www.heatdeathrecords.co.uk/
Komino: http://kominorecords.com/
Kesh (Simon Scott’s label): http://www.keshhhhhh.com/
Facture: http://www.fac-ture.co.uk/
Machinefabriek & Celer: http://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/ & http://www.thesingularwe.org/fs/
Flaming Pines: http://flamingpines.com/
December 16, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 12k, 12k label, AffordableAudio, Alex Smalley, Alex Tiuniaev, Almost Charlie, Ambient, Audiokarma.org, Billow Observatory, Brambles, Celer, Chapman Stick, City Slang, Cock and Swan, Cody ChesnuTT, Corey Fuller, Daily Audiophile, Darla, Darren McClure, David Wenngren, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, Facture, Felte, Flaming Pines, flau, Fred Cornog, Gareth Dickson, Guitar, HifiZine, Instrumental, Jason Kolb, jazz, Jonas Munk, Kane Ikin, Kesh, Keshhhhhh, Kitchen Label, Komino Records, Kurt Wagner, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Lambchop, Library Tapes, Machinefabriek, Manley Labs, Marc Ostermeier, Marcus Fischer, Markus Reuter, Merge Records, Michael Cottone, Michael Frommer, Music, Nick Zammuto, Olan Mill, Pat Mastelotto, Pill-Oh, Porya Hatami, Progressive, Review, Rock, Rutger Zuydervelt, Serein, Solo Andata, Sparklehorse, Steve Hackett, Stickmen, Taylor Deupree, Tench Records, The Green Kingdom, Tomoyoshi Date, Tony Levin, Touch Guitars, Twigs & Yarn, Vocal, Will Thomas Long, Words On Music, Zammuto | Leave a comment
Twigs & Yarn – The Language Of Flowers
Flau28 CD – Time: About 43 Minutes (Also available in 12” vinyl LP)
Artists Website: http://www.twigsandyarn.net Record Label Website: http://www.flau.jp
Mastered by: Nick Zammuto: http://www.zammutosound.com
Tracks (*Note: Track order according to iTunes readout appears to be in reverse order, although the music order is correct. The track order that follows is properly sequenced with the sound files on the CD and has been confirmed with the artist.)
1) Laverne; 2) Static Rowing; 3) If Were An Artery; 4) Conscious Strings; 5) Mermaid Wetness; 6) An Honest Moment; 7) Rosy Cheeked Pumpkin; 8) Bristle Of Mundane; 9) Flowers Thirsty; 10) Marigold Ride; 11) Strings Of Complacency; 12) Learning To Glisten
I sometimes listen to shortwave radio, late into the night, or in the early morning, as signals and sleep drift; voices and sounds emerge and disappear. Every so often my radio will lock in on a clear signal, and for a time there are voices from foreign lands, interesting new music, field correspondents reporting, or the strange sounds of open carrier frequencies waiting for a signal to fill them.
The Language Of Flowers is the enchanting (and often quirky) new album by Twigs & Yarn, and it has some parallels to late night radio listening, a mixing of familiar sounds, music and fleeting recollections. Both artists and musicians, Stephen Orsak resides in Texas, and Lauren McMurray is in Japan, and their work takes shape over the airwaves, satellites and international cables via computers and ftp servers. I didn’t discover Twigs & Yarn on my own; I have Michael Cottone of The Green Kingdom to thank for introducing me to their works. I come across new artists by exploring record label websites, visiting the few record shops that are left and (often the best method), word of mouth from musicians and friends. I don’t yet have the LP version, but the CD is packaged in a letter-pressed hand decorated collage (each one is slightly different).
The album opens with the mysteriously diaphanous Laverne, which shimmers like filtered sound-light on a bright morning, then passes quickly into the gentle swaying of Static Rowing. The fourth track Conscious Strings is both the clear reality of a solo acoustic guitar, combined with the meandering voices of a daydream. Some tracks seem to blend together as observations shift, and there is peaceful warmth in the sounds of a given day, whether inward looking as in Mermaid Wetness (with ingeniously repeated cadenced sound-samples) or outward as in the strangely discordant An Honest Moment which merges into street sounds, bells, voices, and then into a tranquil music box and electric guitar reflection in Rosy Cheeked Pumpkin reminiscent of Daniel Lanois’ pedal steel work on his album here is what is.
Bristle Of Mundane is an unexpected contrast, which opens with a heavily-distorted music box, eventually settling into gentle waves. The experience of late night radio listening is present in Flowers Thirsty, tuning in and out from pop-music radio samples to a distant ebb and flow of music and whispers, the mind drifts late into the night, until being awakened by the radio-alarm (this is my favorite piece on the album, mysterious and great keyboard sounds). The gentle pulsing organ of Marigold Ride contains a soft repeated vocal, flowing into acoustic guitar of Strings Of Complacency (sounding a bit like some recent solo guitar work of Ant Phillips combined with light treatments from Eno’s Julie With from the album Before And After Science). Learning To Glisten is the postlude to the album, the purest of all the tracks, with little sonic movement, and is a soothing close.
The Language of Flowers is like rotating a radio tuning knob late at night, or peering into a window overlooking a secret garden, or ephemeral visions in a dream. It’s an assemblage of existence all around, from the broadest landscapes down to the tiniest whispers, and even memories of childhood games as in the gently spirited and delightfully melodic third track, If I Were An Artery. The music, field recordings, samples and instrumentation are assembled with an idiosyncratic aplomb that yield a very cohesive and soothing quality, like a less energetic, more contemplative version of works by The Books combined with gossamers of the dearly departed Sparklehorse. So, it makes complete sense that Nick Zammuto (ex-Book) mastered this album; a symbiotic chemistry.
Static Rowing
Mermaid Wetness
Marigold Ride
September 26, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AffordableAudio, Ambient, Audiokarma.org, Daily Audiophile, Drone, ElectroAcoustic, Electronica, flau, Guitar, HifiZine, Instrumental, Lauren McMurray, Mark Linkous, Michael Cottone, Music, Nick Zammuto, Review, Sparklehorse, Stephen Orsak, The Books, The Green Kingdom, Twigs & Yarn, Vocal, Zammutosound | Leave a comment
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‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Director announces character design change following criticism from fans
May 3, 2019 wardculture
CGI animators at Paramount have ‘gotta fix fast’ in redesigning Sega mascot ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ before the film’s release at the end of the year after criticism from video game fans.
The criticism came after the first feature trailer for the upcoming movie was released earlier this week. Many commented on the blue hedgehog’s not-so-similar appearance to his video game look, even prompting some artists on Reddit to design their own Sonic themselves to replicate the ideal CGI look.
After days of feedback, Jeff Fowler, director of ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ took to Twitter to express how fans were not happy and that Paramount and Sega will be working to improve the character design of Sonic. The titular character, who is voiced by Ben Schwartz (Ducktales), certainly had visual similarities to a hedgehog, but clearly the Sonic we are all familiar with includes big gloved hands and large eyes; these two features make a massive difference when compared to Paramount’s Sonic.
Thank you for the support. And the criticism. The message is loud and clear… you aren't happy with the design & you want changes. It's going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be… #sonicmovie #gottafixfast 🔧✌️
— Jeff Fowler (@fowltown) May 2, 2019
A studio deciding to alter their work following early fan criticism is not common and is interesting to see Paramount take this step. Many fans will be tired of poor film homages to video games with previous efforts including ‘Doom’, ‘Mario Bros.’ and ‘Street Fighter’ all proving to look dreadful. A successful video game movie is long overdue and it looks like the new Pokémon movie ‘Detective Pikachu’ might be the first.
My main hope is that the artists will not be put under a lot of stress or feel like the designs are their fault. This kind of alteration will take a lot of time and effort so fingers crossed it pays off I mean changing a CGI character sounds crazy. My mother hope is that this film doesn’t blow its budget and is a success at the box office, because no doubt there will be hopes for a franchise.
‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ will also feature Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura, The Mask, Dumb & Dumber) as Sonic’s arch-nemesis Dr. Robotnik in what seems like a lot of character development for his character with the lack of features the animated Robotnik has. However at the end of the trailer, we do see Carrey donning the typical look of Robotnik having a bald head and huge moustache. Fans have joked following the trailer that Carrey’s back will be hurting from ‘carrying the film’, if the updates to Sonic are successful, then we might just have a great film in our midst.
The trailer for the film highlights that Sonic appears in the town of ‘Green Hills’ and his speed is affecting electricity throughout America, there are huge portal rings and there’s only one man who can supposedly stop him. The criticism of the movie is a nice change of pace of criticism to Sonic video games…
It would be great to see such distaste from a group of people having an impact on many other subjects.
See the original trailer for yourself here:
Categories: Gaming, MoviesTags: 2019, change, criticism, dr robotnik, eggman, Gaming, jim carrey, movie, paramount, Sega, Sonic, sonic the hedgehog, Video Games
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The Clubhouse With Kyle Bailey H3: Kelsey Riggs Stops By
The Clubhouse With Kyle Bailey H4: Tom Werme Talks ACC
Boone dubs Yanks 'savages' during rant in 6-2 win over Rays
Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, left, and Los Angeles Clippers forward JaMychal Green jaw at each other during the second half in Game 3 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Los Angeles. The Warriors won 132-105. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
NBA rescinds technical on Warriors' Durant, Clippers' Green
April 20, 2019 - 10:09 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has rescinded technical fouls called on Golden State's Kevin Durant and JaMychal Green of the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series.
The players were called for double technicals early in the third quarter Thursday night at Staples Center as they jawed at each other. The Warriors won 132-105 and lead the series 2-1.
Both players protested the call, and the league rescinded it Friday.
Durant had been ejected from Game 1 with a double technical and he had accumulated three of the seven fouls allotted before the NBA would issue a one-game suspension until the latest tech was withdrawn.
Durant said after the game Thursday that he hoped the foul would be rescinded because he doesn't want to jeopardize the two-time defending champions going forward.
More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
Professional basketball
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Kathryn Clark
Twitter: @KClarkwriter
Website: http://kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk/
Agent: Gillie Russell, Aitken Alexander Associates
Published books: YA novel Lightning Ridge on submission
Genre: YA: contemporary realism; speculative fiction; historical; multiple narrators.
MG: contemporary; adventure; magical; historical.
Bio: Kathryn has worked in a wallpaper shop and a call-centre; as an aromatherapist and a researcher. All that time she made up stories in her head, and one day she began to write them down. She has had some success in writing competitions, and several of her stories have been published online and in writing magazines. Kathryn has a degree in English Studies, and an MA in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa university. She is represented by Gillie Russell at Aitken Alexander.
Kathryn lives in rural Gloucestershire with her husband, two teenagers, two cats, and a border terrier. She has a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and loves reading, running, the sea, and earl grey tea.
Experience: I have an MA in Writing for Young People, a very practical qualification, which gave me lots of experience of editing and critiquing, and an insight into the publishing industry. I was one of three co-editors of the 2016 course anthology Paper Worlds. I regularly edit, critique and proofread for fellow YA and MG writers. It’s important to me to give feedback in a kind and constructive way.
Mentoring style: I am happy to mentor either YA or MG and have experience of both. I’ll do a full read through with edits and comments in track changes, and an email with general thoughts/suggestions. I’d prefer to communicate via email, but a skype chat can be arranged if needed.
Mentee style: I’d like to support someone who may be nervous about putting their work out there, or who hasn’t yet found their writing community.
What kind of novel would you like to work on? An empathetic character and a strong narrative voice are far more important to me than genre. I like books that make me think and have some beauty in them. Contemporary realism, the grittier the better; feminist speculative fiction; issue books, particularly mental health.
Favourite novels: Skellig; The Hate You Give; One; The Lie Tree; The Color Purple; The Knife of Never Letting Go; Everything Everything; The Power; Born Scared; Crongton Knights; Amy Chelsea Stacy Dee; Joe All Alone; The Goldfish Boy; The Handmaid’s Tale; To Kill a Mockingbird; Wonder.
Mentoring package offered: choice of Query package (synopsis, query letter, 1st 3 chapters) or First 10k of manuscript
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Top Louisiana Tax Commission administrator faces criminal charges
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The administrator for the Louisiana Tax Commission is facing criminal charges including malfeasance in office, payroll fraud and false public records.
Louisiana State Police say in a Friday news release that 51-year-old Charles K. Abels III of Baton Rouge was arrested after an investigation that began in May.
State police say Abels was paid for time he did not work, that he improperly used a state rental vehicle and that he submitted unauthorized fuel reimbursement requests for the vehicle.
The release says Abels was booked into to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. Jail records were not available online or by telephone as of mid-morning.
The Tax Commission's duties include overseeing the work of local assessors and handling taxpayers' appeals.
Louisiana Tax Commission
Louisiana State Police
Charles K. Abels III
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Sherlock’s Classics: Film Review –..
Sherlock’s Classics: Film Review – The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Set in 1958 in New York, a company president commits suicide so the board of directors installs a young naive business graduate as president of the company as part of a stock scam.
Drawing from Hollywood’s Golden Era and mixing Preston Struges (Sullivan’s Travels), Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not To Be, Ninotchka, Heaven Can Wait) and Frank Capra Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life), with a sprinkling of John Farrow’s 1948 noir classic ‘The Big Clock,’ to name a few, this delightfully extravagant (Gillian-esque) comedy from Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen is a stylish, funny, dark, romantic, perverse and ultimately startling fable of the American dream.
Highly intelligent, witty and bitingly cynical screenplay by Joel & Ethan Coen and Sam Raimi, the meticulous pitch perfect direction by Joel and Ethan Coen propel this to high on the list of an extraordinary and almost unparalleled body of work that includes the chilling ‘Blood Simple,’ the darkly comic ‘Barton Fink’ and ‘Fargo,’ the Best Picture Oscar winning thriller ‘No Country For Old Men,’ the delightfully surrealistic ‘The Big Lebowski’ and the wildly unhinged odyssey of ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ among others.
Bravura performances from Tim Robbins as the unsuspecting but idealistic sap Norville Barnes, Paul Newman deliciously evil and scheming company director Sidney J. Mussburger, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper reporter Amy Archer, and the late great Charles Durning as the suicidal company president, Waring Hudsucker.
Overflowing with many wonderful and unforgettable eye-popping vignettes, including a runaway hoola-hoop and a clock that does more than just tell the time, there are magical moments abound that are a reflection into the mirror of what cinema was created for.
Standout period detail, costume and production design, a special mention must also go to cinematographer Roger Deakins for his startling vision, and to the music by Carter Burwell, who brilliantly accents every emotional moment throughout!
This is an unhinged cosmic comic celluloid tour-de-force, an eccentrically inventive homage of a time, and unique reminder of the sheer joy of watching movies, one that will keep a smile on your face long after it’s over.
A gem!
Stars ****
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Interview with Bullseye TV Show People!
Bullseye has been one of my favourite TV shows for around 30 years. I used to watch it during visits to my Granddad when I was 8, and its just one of those programmes that reminds me of childhood. Jim Bowen and Tony Green giving away amazing prizes like record players and speedboats. (!?)
More recently Bullseye was brought back to TV with a new host, Dave Spikey. It was great to see it back, but for it nothing can top the 80s version.
I’ve already interviewed Jim Bowen about his memories of Bullseye, and Dave Spikey said he would be willing to take part in one too at some point, so it seemed only right that the people behind one of the 80s most popular gameshows shared the spotlight. After all, with out them there wouldn’t have been a Bullseye at all!
So I got in touch with Laura and Andrew from Bullseye HQ, asked a few questions, and they gave possibly the most thorough interview I’ve ever had!
Hi Bullseye people! Are you well?
Hi 80sNostalgia and thank you for having us on your blog!
How much planning, preparation and development went into Bullseye before it reached our screens in 1981?
From initial conception to the night Bullseye was first transmitted at 7pm on Monday 28th September 1981 on ITV I would say around two years.
In 1979 I began to analyse game shows from all around the world & what their formats contained that made them so compelling. After 6 to 7 months of research I had formulated what I considered to be the pillars of strength for a successful game show and from here Bullseye was created.
Did you approach ITV with the idea of a darts gameshow, or did ITV have the idea and ask for a developer?
I approached ITV and presented my Bullseye format to them. From there ITV invited me to do a live run through of the show to their head of light entertainment, Jon Scoffield in the rehearsal room at Elstree Studios.
Jon very much liked the show and from there we went to pilot then series.
Was Jim Bowen in mind to be the host, or did you audition other presenters? How involved was Jim in development?
Despite being the creator, writer and owner of the Bullseye format I had no input into who would host the show. I had suggested Norman Vaughan, however this suggestion was turned down by ITV. Instead ITV chose a new up and coming comedian, Jim Bowen, who went on to become a household name.
Throughout the series, the format changed slightly. As an example, in early episodes one team leaves after each round, whereas in the later ones teams only leave after round 2. Was the format in continual development?
All game shows evolve as their series progress and Bullseye was no exception. Challenge TV recently acquired the transmission rights to series one and two. These shows had not aired since their original transmission dates in 1981 & 1982 and the changes in the format over the years really stood out.
Due to pressure of time one of the first changes we made in series 3 was to remove the first part of the show where the contestants each threw a dart to get nearest the Bull in order to determine the order of play. This was then done in the greenroom prior the recording the show.
The biggest change however was the introduction of co-host and scorer Mr Tony Green…. Which I believe we are going to discuss further in the next question.
Indeed! In the earliest of series there was no Tony Green, and in later series he and Jim were quite a good double act. How did Tony take to being introduced and evolving to he had more involvement?
Tony Green made his first appearance on Bullseye in Series One as the guest profession dart player throwing for charity and from this appearance Tony & Jim hit if off and became great friends and remain so to date.
During the filming of series 1 we had many tapes stops due to the fact that from Jims rostrum it was difficult for Jim to see the exact landing position of the darts especially if the dart landed close to the wire, did the dart land in the 20 or a 5?
These tape stops affected the smooth flow of the show and rectify this we contact Tony Green to be scorer and co-host of the show. Tony was thrilled and delighted to be involved with show and he became an instant part of the team.
Was anyone ever hit with a wayward dart?
Ha! No, not that I recall… Thankfully!
I often wonder how management react when someone in any meeting proposes anything out-of-the-norm. How was the idea of having a massive cartoon bull as the mascot received, and who came up with it?
The Director said to me he though the show needed a logo. I am not a very good artist but I sketched out a Bull as I thought it would compliment the title Bullseye and I decided to call him Bully. My sketch was then passed on to the graphics department of ITV.
Watching the repeats on Challenge TV nowadays, its fun to look at the prizes that were on offer. But back in the 80s, a teasmade and a his-and-hers watch set were quite upmarket prizes. Which were the best prizes you offered?
The prizes have always been a huge talking point on the show and amongst fans on our social networking sites and in particular ‘Bully’s Special Prize’. The best prizes over the years were, the remote control colour television (with teletext!), a video recorder, a weekend for 2 in London with a West End Show, a set of golf clubs, a timeshare apartment, cars, caravans and of course the legendary Speedboat!
What would have happened if everyone decided NOT to gamble at the end? Would you now own a warehouse full of speedboats?
As far as I can recall this only happened once. When the final pair turned down the chance to gamble Jim thanked everybody for taking part in the game and closed the show saying ‘That’s Bullseye’.
Were the winners ever offered a cash alternative, if they won a main prize they couldn’t use? (If they won a speedboat but lived nowhere near water, or a car if they had no licence?)
The winning pair did not have to take the Mystery Star prize. They were able to exchange this for a cash sum.
Come to think of it, why WERE Speedboats chosen for a top prize?
Why not… doesn’t everyone want a speedboat?! (I suppose this IS true!)
Whats all this about the Bullseye Christmas parties? I have a contact at a radio station (Kevin Gurney!) who tells me they were pretty outrageous. So outrageous in fact, that when they asked Jim about them, he laughed and refused to comment. Is this true?!?
Ha! After the Christmas Specials were recorded Jim, Tony, the whole crew and guests were into the greenroom and had a few drinks and a knees-up, great fun indeed!
Where is the Bronze Bully now, the one from the celebrity dart player challenges?
Bronze Bully lives at Bullseye HQ along side Team Bullseye & Bendy Bully. We are one big happy family.
There have been all kinds of Bullseye goodies in shops. Recently I’ve seen a Bullseye Scratchcard, but over the last few years I’ve also seen Bendy Bullies, a Bullseye DVD game, and I’m sure I saw a Bullseye bedspread a few years back! Do you actively try to keep Bullseye in the public eye?
Anyone who closely follows us will know that we are very active on a wide social media platform; Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and through our official website. For us it is a pleasure interacting with our fans, many of who are very passionate about the show and its history.
We have a great demand from the public to continue bringing our more Bullseye merchandise and we recently brought Bulldog Licensing onboard to act as our official Merchandising Agents. We have many new exciting products in the pipeline and we are confident for a strong future in the public eye for Bullseye. After all, you can’t beat a bit of Bully!
And how is Bully himself nowadays? I keep seeing photos on Twitter and Instagram of him in various places. Is he keeping well?
Bully is keeping very well thank you. He is very excited as he has just launched his very own twitter page (https://twitter.com/Bullseye_Bully) and he is enjoying finding his way round Twitter and being able to directly interact with his fans.
He is also busy training for a Charity Mascot Race that he is taking part in on Sunday 15th September at the Windmill on Wimbledon Common. All the mascots taking part are raising money for Centrepoint, the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. Bully has his own just giving page too for anyone that may wish to sponsor him: https://www.justgiving.com/Bully-Bullseye
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The Best Gigs Of 2018 / December 27, 2018 by Aaron Corr
2018 saw some amazing gigs come this way. My absolute best gigs of the year, one, two or three of which are up there in the list of best I’ve ever experienced, I was in attendance but not shooting. So to begin things I’m going to take a look at the best gigs this year that I photographed. Not to be mistaken for the best shows to shoot, these are the best gigs I saw, heard and experienced in all their glory.
Part 1: Best gigs I shot.
Wild Beasts: The Olympia
The band announced their impending split toward the end of 2017, bowing out with three final shows in the new year, one of which was a final Irish show on February 15th in the Olympia Theatre. It was their second last show ever and it was everything you would want from a Wild Beasts gig. They played a selection from all their albums split out over two sets. If you were at a festival and they played either of these sets it would have been brilliant, never mind getting both fully rounded out, and well conceived set lists in one night. There was no support, the whole night was devoted to them and saying goodbye. It sent shivers up my spine at times, and the crowd sang along and reacted like I’d never seen before at one of their shows. They truly ended on a high.
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Paul Draper: Workmans Club
I have to add this to the best of 2018 list, if not for it being great to finally see Paul Draper return to playing gigs, because Mansun’s epic Attack of the Grey Lantern was played in full to mark it’s anniversary. This was an album I came to late in it’s own promotional cycle. I got in to Mansun on time before they ultimately came back with Six, which is one of my favourite albums of all time. Like Wild Beasts, Paul’s gig was comprised of two sets; the first being his solo material (which the crowd lapped up) and then Grey Lantern. It was an incredibly packed and sweaty gig. Paul could let the fans sing as much of the album as needed. It was a fun show. Here’s to when he comes back to pay Six in full.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 3Arena
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are not a band that swing by Ireland very often. I missed them back around 2002 when they played in the High Stool in Limerick. They seemed happy to just play a festival here every once in a blue moon, and the only times I’ve caught them were at Electric Picnic in 2006 and Longitude in 2013. On this night they were more a co-headliner with Beck than mere support. They were touring the anniversary of debut album Fever to Tell, but this was not just a nostalgia show or a run through the album from start to finish. Karen stalked the stage, singing and screaming to songs from all through their career. They played for a good 1hr 15mins, and given Beck’s delays to get onstage, they may have just pipped him to the post with a longer set. While I enjoyed Beck’s set, the first half was flawless while the second half lagged. That’s why I’m highlighting this as Yeah Yeah Yeah’s show to steal.
Click here for full gallery, and here for The Thin Air’s review.
Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever: Whelans
I am still getting used to saying their name right. Even as I typed the header I got it all mixed up. The Aussie’s brought the heat with them on this night as they gave Whelans a very hot and sweaty August gig. They have just been announced to support Idles in Iveagh Gardens in 2019, turning an already great gig into something extra special. There’s not much else I can add to the review below so just take my word and get an Idles ticket if you haven’t already.
Click here for full gallery and here for The Thin Air’s review..
Julien Baker: Vicar Street
This gig took me by surprise. I was a last minute addition to the list to shoot this show, and I can’t say I’d ever heard a track of Julien’s before that night. Her set was extraordinary, her voice is incredible and the guitar sounds were gorgeous. The gig made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up many a time.
Click here for full gallery, and here for GoldenPlec’s review.
David Byrne: 3Arena
One of my biggest gig regrets was leaving the front of the Electric Arena when David Byrne & St Vincent were to take to the stage, to go to the Main Stage to see another band I loved play an alright set. Everything I heard about the show I missed was that it was an “I was there” moment, and I missed it. Finally getting to see him playing a host of classic Talking Head songs and solo material, while putting on an amazing visual performance on stage in the 3Arena made up for it. The atmosphere with the crowd was one of pure joy, with everyone out of their seats and dancing for the majority of the show. Seeing Slippery People, Naive Melody and Road to Nowhere live will stay with me for a very long time. If he brings the show to a Broadway residency I’ll be booking my tickets first thing.
For the first time ever I went to see a full three night residency of a band in the Olympia. This wasn’t entirely planned on my part, but it’s the way it worked out and I’m all the more delighted for it. Over the three nights they relied on the same foundation of a set list but changed up a lot of tracks on each show. Over three nights they played all but Obstacle 2 from Turn on the Bright Lights.
Part 2: Best gigs I didn’t shoot.
Arcade Fire: 3Arena
Seeing Arcade Fire “in the round” was an experience. It brought you closer to the band, the band rotating around the stage so you got different vantage points from the one spot, and the light show topped it off. The set was brilliant, and thankfully didn’t throw in any of the weaker tracks from Everything Now. The show was designed to bring the band and audience together and they succeed completely.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Kilmainham
This show goes down as one of the all time best I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen Nick Cave at festivals a few times over the year, and he is truly one of the best, and most passionate performers you’ll ever see. I wondered how he would bring the intimacy of his smaller Skeleton Tree shows to a large outdoor show but he effortlessly pulled it off. Emotions ran high in the crowd during songs like Into My Arms and Distant Sky, and many tears were shed. He still brought the darker songs out for a run through, as well as bringing many fans to the stage during the murderous Stagger Lee. The gig was epic and unforgettable. Not only is this my gig of the year, I think it has safely secured a place in my top five shows of all time.
The Killers with Franz Ferdinand: RDS
I love a good double header of a gig, especially if it happens to be outdoors and the sun is shining bright. Franz Ferdinand opened the evening for The Killers, and played a shorter version of their Olympia set from earlier in the year. The Killers came on and played a killer set (pardon the pun) and kept the crowd in great form, singing along to all their hits. Brandon channeled an Elvis look in the encore, coming out in a gold suit to finish the night in Las Vegas style.
Idles: Button Factory
This show goes head to head with David Byrne to battle for my second place for gig of the year. I was happy to not shoot it and just take it all in, especially since it turned out to be dark lighting conditions, and full of strobes for the most part for shooting, and you could barely move an inch with all the jumping and moshing in the crowd. I ended up on stage at one point, jumping around with a bunch of other fans while the band played and in the crowd at the same time. They have provided the album of the year and their show does everything in it’s power to try win it’s place as gig of the year. They’ve got two Dublin shows already in line for 2019, both of which I will be there yelling Danny Nedelko at the top of my lungs.
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David Byrne: 3 Arena / November 1, 2018 by Aaron Corr
This will not only go down as one of the best gigs of the year, but on of the best gigs 'I’ve ever been to. As a life long fan of Talking Heads it was a delight to finally see, and photograph David Byrn in the 3Arena for The Thin Air.
I got to shoot the show from the left and right entrance points on the ground floor. This meant having to avoid all the people coming in with their pints to get to their seats, getting in the way of shots. But this didn’t matter. The lights were solid and perfect for shooting, especially at long range. There was barely any photos deleted from this set, they were all so sharp and lit well.
David started on stage with a table and a brain for the first song. I shot from the left side for this and the second song before legging it over to the right hand side for the third song, I Zimbra. When I was done shooting the band began to play Slippery People and I rushed to get my camera lenses detached and packed away so I could run back to my seat and enjoy the full song on time. The show was a joy to watch from start to finish and I want to see it all over again. Let’s see if it goes to Broadway like the stories suggest.
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May Photos / June 18, 2018 by Aaron Corr
Slow Riot
May began with two Limerick bands playing The Grand Social. GoldenPlec sent me to cover London based Whenyoung's first Dublin headline show, but first up on the night was Slow Riot.
Whenyoung
Whenyoung took to the stage with quiet confidence and belted out great tune after great tune. They would later find themselves invited onto the support slot to Nick Cave and Patti Smith in Kilmainham the next month, which is high praise. They are making great buzz for themselves so the coming year should hold big things for them.
Full gallery.
Last year I photographed Liam, and this year I complete the Oasis set with Noel Gallagher in 3Arena for The Thin Air. Photographers were restricted to one side of the stage at a time, no shooting from the center areas. I was delighted when he raised the guitar like a rifle and aimed it at me for a posed shot. He would do something quirky like this if the right photographer caught his eye at the right time, like sticking his tongue out for another.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs finally made a return to Ireland, where they've only played a handful of times in the Republic and never their own headline show since they've become ever more popular. This night was a double headline show with Beck. Covering their show for The Thin Air was a massive highlight. When I arrived at the Arena I was only approved to shoot them, the Beck pass only got confirmed while I was there.
Karen O, as expected, was a legend to shoot. She wore unique designed clothes and stalked the stage being all kinds of cool. Brian Chase behind the drums looked like he was having a whale of a time, looking like the happiest drummer on the world I heard someone remark after. Nick Zinner was just quietly cool to the right, letting the guitar do the talking.
Beck's pass arrived just before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs shoot, it was to be shot from the soundboard and a contract needed to be signed. It literally signs away the rights to the photos which I hated to sign, but I knew in all fairness none of his reps are going to be chasing any of us down to get hi-res copies of a photo(s) taken from a soundboard for promo use. He arrived very late to the stage, due to production delays I presume, and as a result went past curfew to play the same length of a set as YYYs. He opened with a storming three song intro and the lights were great given how far back I was shooting.
The Thin Air kept me busy in May with The Breeders rescheduled show in Vicar Street, with no storm Ophelia to stop them this time. Amsterdam band Pip Blom opened up that evening and were a great support. I look forward to hopefully catching them again.
The Breeders looked delighted to make it back to Dublin after being primed for their last gig but red weather alerts causing everything in the city and country that day to be cancelled. The lights were quickly lowered and a smokey haze filled the stage, much like the last time I shot them here. In the brief time between songs the light was at it's best and that's where I managed to snap Kim Deal with a big smile to the crowd as she bantered with them. This was the type of shot I wanted to get from photographing her.
It had been a while since I was in the Tivoli. I put my name down with GoldenPlec to cover Ezra Furman's gig there. Although my name was on the door to shoot, there was no photopass which caused a little bit of annoyance and confusion with security in the venue, even though there was no pit for photographers.
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Take That: 3Arena / May 30, 2017 by Aaron Corr
My April was spent getting ready for a work trip that I was extending into a long holiday, taking in Orlando, Miami and the Bahamas. I purposefully held back from shooting too many gigs in advance, however I did have one gig on the calendar for the day I came back and that was this one. Take That have always put on huge shows with creative visuals for their fans and I didn’t want to let some jet lag get in the way of what would be a fun shoot.
I knew the shoot would be from the middle of the crowd and that a telephoto lens was pretty much all I’d be using. This doesn’t matter as much with a show of this nature since it’s all about getting the scale of what is on stage. What I found out after the show was that the best was yet to come, and the first three songs was essentially an empty stage by comparison. My sister was at the gig and told me how the show kept getting bigger, busier and better, complete with rain which fell in patterns and shapes, band members being raised up to the rafters. I was there to shoot the three lads in action and I got that, but given the chance to shoot the rest then it would have been icing on the cake.
Bar the distance from the stage to shoot, the only other obstacle was when the crowd got to their feet by the second song. This meant a lot of dodging and moving to try get the angle I wanted and without people’s heads, hands or phones in the way. It wasn’t always achievable and either resulted in a little of them getting in the shot or not being able to capture the image at all as planned. The band moved around the stage quite a bit and were only in the same frame when zoomed in at a handful of times. The rest of the time they would be separately wandering the circular stage to see other parts of the crowd and give them some face time.
Regardless of how tired I was from my overnight flight and lack of sleep over the last two days, if I was offered a seat to stay I would have been very tempted to stay and see the rest of the show they put on. As much as they would have been laughable when I was growing up, listening to grunge, Britpop and everything else, they have aged gracefully ( both as a band as well as musically) and are as strong as a three man group and not showing any signs of losing quality for it.
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November Photos / December 7, 2016 by Aaron Corr
Oops, I forgot to make an October update. Did anything happen? Let me think. Oh yes! I shot Jean-Michel Jarre and Death Grips, then went on holiday to Berlin and Prague. I may post about the Death Grips gig in its own little blog as it was one of, if not the worst gigs I’ve ever shot. I’ll leave those details til then. Back to now, and by now I mean November. What seemed like a lackluster month of shooting again turns out to be quite great in the end. With everything crammed into one week that bled into December I just had it in mind that these all happened in the month of Christmas, and that ABC would be the only gig I’d shoot that month. Not the case, so let’s begin.
Martin Fry and ABC played the Olympia earlier in the month. It was a finely lit show but the only problem is that Martin walked around loads. Sure, it’s better than a boring front-man standing still and doing nothing interesting, but he’d go to the back of the stage where it wasn’t well lit, then at the front he mostly had the microphone right in his face (he is a singer after all), leaving few clear shots of his face when he was brightly lit. The best band part to shoot was the interaction between the saxophonist and the guitarist.
Later in the month I headed to the double whammy that was the Biffy Clyro, with support from Brand New. Brand New were all over my social media pages when they last played in Vicar Street a while back. It seemed like most people I knew were at it, or complaining that they weren’t. I only really know that one song that was played loads on MTV2 years ago, back when we had music channels that mostly played music. I expected dark stage and intermittent spells of light on the band and that’s what I got. The guitarist on the right of the stage was the coolest member to shoot, as he flailed his guitar and hair around on stage.
I had come for Biffy however. Though I’m not a fan of them, I was looking forward to shooting their show. I knew they’d be energetic, have great lights and leave me with some cool shots to use. They didn’t disappoint. The downside was the band’s own video cameras rigs in the pit, and how extra high the stage was to shoot. It didn’t take a whole lot away from the shoot but the higher the stage, the harder it is to take in a cool shot of the band giving it their all on stage in a wide shot. I expected Simon Neil to be topless throughout so lucky for me, and not for any admirers looking at the pictures, he had a long white scientist/doctor coat on throughout.
Hinds are a band that were on my radar a while but who had yet to play Ireland. I’d see cool pictures of them pop up in my Instagram feed by great photographers I follow so when I saw they were playing I put my name down for it. It was quite last minute as it wasn’t well advertised, or at least nothing stood out to me that they were coming. It was supposed to be The Academy but was moved to the smaller, basement level Academy 2 due to sales. This made for a far better gig as the space was packed with an enthusiastic crowd, something that gets lost in a half empty, bigger venue. The tour manager gave the go ahead for photos to be taken during the last 3 songs. That left me and fellow photographer, Colm Kelly, triying to count the songs out from the napkin set list on stage, a short distance away. The tour manager swung by again and said we could get 2 songs mid set as well. I’d seen in images that they tend to crowd surf and realized only then that I should have brought a flash just in case, though we’re never allowed to use it for the regular first three/no flash shoots. This may have been a different case.
The pit was tiny, which made for awkward to squeeze into position, with the singer, Carlotta, asking if she could grab her drink from the space before I tried squeeze by. The lights never changed and the girls were well lit, but for each time I went into the pit I didn’t shuffle around too much for different angles in case I’d annoy fans at the barrier or the band. We shot the last 2 songs, having miscounted, but the band discussed among themselves and did a three song encore. The tour manager gave us the thumbs up to stay where we were. I needn’t have worried about the flash for any crowd surfing. The band opted not to, maybe because of the tight space between the crowd’s heads and the roof of the room. You could tell they wanted to though, they seemed to like Dublin.
Bo Ningen
I was looking forward to potentially shooting Primal Scream during the month and thankfully the photo pass came my way. I headed along early to shoot the Japanese support, Bo Ningen. I figured it was going to be a mass of long hair waving every which way. Combine that with dark red and blue/purple lights and it makes for a tough edit in Lightroom afterwards.
Primal Scream on the other hand can teach many a band a few things about stage lighting. It was perfect, for the first and third song at least. Straight from the start Bobby Gillespie was wandering the stage, doing his rock star poses, clapping and doing his thing. It was hard to take a bad shot, though of course I did initially because all my camera settings were prepared for a darker stage and everything was blown out for the first burst of images. That was quickly fixed. I tended to stick with the 24-70mm on the Canon 6D and only used the 70-200mm zoom on the Canon 7D a little for the odd close up. This is my standard practice but in this instance I wanted to capture the full stage and as much of the band as I could. The set was laced with hits and the band were in top form. More bands should take note of their use of stage lights. Then again, that might make the job a little too easy.
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April/May Gigs / June 10, 2016 by Aaron Corr
The one and only April gig I got to shoot was Girl Band in Vicar Street. They'd been cancelling and rescheduling gigs since their album came out last September so it was great to see them in flying form. They are an absolute beast to behold, fuzzy, distorted and loud. I've seen them a few times in the past but not since they've become an internationally hyped band, doing as well overseas as most Irish bands can only dream of. Dara is an electric front man, he doesn't pander to the audience or play a showman. He just does his thing, looks confident yet somewhat uncomfortable and on the verge of a full on screaming frenzy at any given second.
The show was fine to photograph, there was no backdrops, no fancy lights, just solid yellow lamps for the most part. The guitarist and bassist were less well lit unfortunately but that's standard & was not a total loss for taking photos.
For the rest of April there wasn't much on that interested me and I was busy with non concert related things so I kept my calendar clear.
Kula Shaker played the Academy to a reasonable sized crowd seeking some 90s nostalgia, like myself. I was a big fan of the band around 96/97 after Tattva came out and had only seen them the once at the Trip to Tipp, supporting Foo Fighters, Manic Street Preachers and The Prodigy.
It was a hit laden set with choice newer tracks from albums later in their career, one or two of which stood out. Crispian Mills still has the energy of his hey day and made for a good front man to shoot as he would jump from time to time. The lights were the Academy's usual harsh blues and purples which can be a frustrating time when editing afterwards.
Sadly Jeff Lynne's ELO had to cancel their original appearance to the 3Arena due to his bad throat, luckily it was just put off by eight days to the following Saturday and I was still available to do it. In one way it's unfortunate to do a shoot from the sound desk, or in this case the lighting desk on the balcony but this concert definitely benefited from being able to take it all in from afar. The light show is incredible. The other major gripe I had was that I couldn't stay to watch and listen to the whole show, it was a pure treat for the three songs I was present for.
I was excited to see Blossoms finally. Due to getting my pass far too late in the night I missed their Academy 2 show a few months back, where support came from Viola Beach, who had a fatal car accident the following weekend in Sweden. Blossoms were supporting The Last Shadow Puppets on their three dates in the Olympia. The let down was that the band were at the very front of the stage with little to no direct lighting on them. You'd swear it was coming out of their budget I joked to others in the pit. The odd flash from a strobe helped me catch an okay shot of the singer but apart from that the drummer and one of the guitarists got the best look in for the shoot.
Finally, the last gig of May was The Last Shadow Puppets. This was the first of three shows, the one show that wasn't sold out. The lights wer far better than Blossoms but it still was tricky to shoot. The lights were either too harsh, or once you had focused and composed a shot, dimmed to leave them in shadow. Add to this the movement of the enthusiastic front men.
I stayed for most of the show, only skipping on the encore when I had my fill of their cocky, over confident, smarmy, and in Miles Kane's case laddish behavior. Alex Turner has an effortless cool to him but he veers close to being dis-likable. They have good songs, but not enough to keep my interest for the long set list they had laid out in front of them.
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Review – Winter Soldier #3 (Marvel Comics)
Winter Soldier #3
Writing - 8.8/10
Art - 7.8/10
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Rod Reis
Letterer: VC’s Clayton Cowles
Maturity Rating: Teen +
Publisher: Marvel Comics
With RJ free from Mr. Colt, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, takes the young kid in. Can Bucky help rehabilitate him, or is his humanity already lost?
“Broken Wings” Winter Soldier #3
Bucky Barnes continues to try to make amends for his times as a mind-controlled assassin in Winter Soldier #3. The program he set up with Sharon Carter to help former criminals disappear from their past lives has been going well. Tony Stark has to help with some metal arm repair once in a while but, all in all, things were going good. That is, until RJ was sent to kill him (in issue #1).
RJ is a young kid molded after Bucky Barnes himself. This young child was taken in by the mysterious Mr. Colt and trained to be a killer. Mr. Colt sent RJ after Bucky; luckily, he was narrowly able to get the upper hand on the young assassin and Bucky fled with RJ. Mr. Colt followed and actually shot through RJ to try to kill Bucky. The Winter Soldier was able to “put down” Mr. Colt and save RJ. But now the real work begins as Bucky takes in RJ.
Winter Soldier #3 (Marvel Comics) cover by Rod Reis
I feel like this series is getting “slept on”. I am not hearing a lot of chatter about it, and that is a shame. Kyle Higgins is doing some great work in it. Winter Soldier #3 (of 5) sets up a whole new dynamic as Bucky takes in RJ. Bucky has been wanting to reform criminals and help them deal with their past and now he is confronted with someone just like himself: a young child taken and molded into a killer. Higgins starts to ask great questions about the character Bucky Barnes in Winter Soldier #3. Mainly, has Bucky been able to deal with his own past? And if he hasn’t, how will he help RJ?
The pacing for the series is very well done by Higgins. It being a five-issue mini-series, he doesn’t have a lot of time to waste. He balances everything extremely well. He continues to play with Bucky and Sharon’s ex-criminal rehabilitation program while developing the whole RJ situation. I was afraid that part of the story would fall to the wayside when RJ was introduced in the first issue, but it has a big part in Winter Soldier #3. Higgins also spends a lot of time digging into the mind of Bucky Barnes. How does one deal with the sins of his past? Even though he wasn’t in complete control of his actions, he still did things he is not proud of. Higgins does some good work exploring that aspect of the character.
Tiny spoiler, but Tony Stark does make another brief appearance in Winter Soldier #3 and, once again, it is a delight. I love the way Higgins writes the banter between Barnes and Stark. It is just a lot of fun.
I am, again, not the biggest fan of Rod Reis‘s style, but it works superbly well for this series. His loose line work and more “sketchy” type feeling to his characters feel at home for this series. His coloring style has that painterly type feel to it. It may actually be watercolors—I am not exactly sure. I don’t think it is, because it is a little too tight for watercolors, but if it is, then that is very impressive. But while I may not be a fan of his style, I can definitely appreciate the talent and that it works extremely well for this story.
I feel that Reis’s art heightens the more emotional aspects of the story. It has a little softer feel to it and Reis captures the affections on the pages through his art. I won’t spoil a villain that shows up in Winter Soldier #3, but Reis does some very cool things with his powers and playing with fight scenes and panel structure/layouts with it.
Winter Soldier #3 (of 5) is a great look and insight into the character of Bucky Barnes. Higgins is doing some fantastic work while Rod Reis delivers some delightful art. This is turning out to be a great little mini-series that I hope gains some more traction among readers. I feel like people are missing out on a very good read by not picking up Winter Soldier.
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After El Clasico: Cristiano Injury Update and Barcelona Eyes Griezmann
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Antoine Griezmann, Atletico de Madrid, barcelona, Cristiano Ronaldo, el clasico, Josep Maria Bartomeu, lionel messi, Real Madrid, spain, Zinedine Zidane
Despite his injury, Cristiano will play in the Champions League final (Wikimedia)
(WFI) Cristiano Ronaldo’s sprain in his right ankle is not serious, according to the Spanish press. At least not serious enough to threaten the Portuguese star’s presence in the upcoming Champions League final.
Ronaldo will probably miss a couple of La Liga games, but will be fully recovered for the match between Real Madrid and Liverpool in Kiev on May 26.
His injury occurred on Sunday during el Clásico between Barcelona and Real when he rolled his ankle on a Gerard Pique challenge while scoring the first goal for the visitors in the 2-2 draw. Cristiano managed to stay on the field but was substituted at half time.
Ronaldo will miss this Wednesday’s game at Pizjuán against Sevilla (something he had already planned, since it was part of his resting period agreed with his manager, Zinedine Zidane) and will not play on Saturday against Celta at the Bernabeu.
Zidane had already anticipated after the Clasico that Cristiano Ronaldo’s ankle problem is “nothing serious”.
Meanwhile at Barcelona, signing France’s Antoine Griezmann from Atletico de Madrid seems to be a top priority.
On Sunday Barcelona’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirmed talks with Griezmann’s agent.
Right after the game against Real Madrid, Bartomeu said he spoke with a Griezmann representative back in October, but clarified that he has not been in touch with Atletico Madrid over a transfer yet.
Griezmann’s agent has spoken to Barcelona (Wikimedia)
Griezmann has a release clause of around $120 million and although his contract with Atletico extends until 2022, his departure from the Spanish capital in June seems increasingly likely.
“I have bumped into him (Griezmann) occasionally in the Balearic Islands. With (Atletico Madrid President Enrique) Cerezo I have spoken about a lot of things, but not about this,” said Barcelona’s president
“We are analyzing the season and we will see what we will do with ins and outs,” Bartomeu told Catalan radio station RAC1.
While Bartomeu seems cautious about confirming any possible agreement between Griezmann and Barcelona, Luis Suarez practically confirmed the arrival of the French striker to the Catalan side.
In an recent interview with Uruguay’s Rincon Radio, Suarez said Griezmann “is welcome” at Barcelona while stating “He (Griezmann) is not coming to take the place of anyone, but with the ambition of winning important things.
“It makes the club proud to bring players of this quality like Antoine, like [Ousmane] Dembele and [Philippe] Coutinho came.
“He (Griezmann) is a player who brings a huge amount, he has a lot of years playing at the highest level, always fighting. He rules up front for Atletico and that is fundamental,” said Suarez.
Griezmann has scored 27 goals this season in all competitions. He is one of the reasons for Atletico’s return to the Europa League final against Marseille next week in Lyon, France.
In the past, the 27-year-old French striker was strongly linked to Manchester United but the Frenchman finally chose to stay in Spain.
Griezmann was one of the three finalists in the 2016 FIFA player-of-the-year award behind winner Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
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Coronation Street roses unveiled by Mattocks
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Soap fans will be able to grow roses that are right up their street next year.
The Coronation Street roses
Three patio roses will be launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ITV1’s hit soap Coronation Street.
‘The Rita Sullivan Rose,’ ‘The Jack Duckworth Rose’ and ‘The Hilda Ogden Rose’ came about following a deal between John Woods Nurseries and ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
The Corrie blooms will be launched to gardeners in July through Mattocks Roses. Plant development manager Gavin Shaw said Corrie draws 10 million viewers per episode.
“The Coronation Street patio rose collection was selected to appeal to as many people as possible. They are easy to grow in any garden,” Gavin said.
“We believe they will make excellent gifts for lovers of Corrie,” he added.
‘The Hilda Ogden Rose’ features clusters of pink flowers from June to October while ‘The Jack Duckworth Rose’ boasts clusters of golden and coral tinted blooms from July.
‘The Rita Sullivan Rose’ is noted for its red flowers from June to October. All three plants, which spent 10 years being developed, are said to be repeat-flowering, disease-resistant, compact and excellent for pots.
The roses are due to be available at garden centres nationwide in July 2011, priced at £12.99 each.
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Federal Judge Orders Alabama Official to Disperse Marriage Licenses to Same-Sex Couples
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The south may be a place of tradition and known as the “Bible Belt,” but some officials appear to be observing that time is changing and the countries norms are being altered.
A federal judge has decided that it was time to lift the ban on same sex marriages in Alabama.
U.S. District Judge Callie Granade, made the decision Thursday that allowed same sex couples to be given marriage licenses.
While the officials in Mobile Alabama, have allowed this new policy to take place, other gay couples in surrounding counties are still unable to obtain the required legal documentation to be wed by the state.
Jude Granade, is insisting that Probate Court Judge, Don Davis should follow by example and not to concern himself with the order from the Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore who opposes the idea of gay marriage.
This appears to be a new trend of cases that have been occurring in Alabama, where judges are choosing to follow their own decisions while neglecting previously placed protocols on the subject. This has allowed certain communities like that of Birmingham to hand out the certificates; while other gay couples are being forced to turn away in other parts of the state.
J.Michael Druhan is a lawyer in the county where most gay couples were rejected, putting the scenario in perspective for those who do not understand Probate Judge Don Davis decision, and compared the scenario to that of a U.S. soldier who has stepped on a Vietnamese mine. He states, “If he stands there and does nothing, the snipers are going to shoot him in the head. If he moves, the mine’s going to blow him to pieces.”
While gay couples were standing in line and attempting to be lucky enough to receive a license, one lesbian Toni Quinones from Mobile, wanted to say, “We’re no different than anybody else. We deserve to be able to marry who we love, just like heterosexual couples.”
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LIVE STREAM & Double Coverage Preview: BritBowl XXIX – Blitz v. Warriors, a Clash of Titans
By Double Coverage on 09/04/2015
For the third year in a row the defending champion London Warriors will take on arch rivals, the London Blitz in the British American Football championship game, BritBowl XXIX. In fact, this will make it the 10th straight appearance in Britain’s title game for the Blitz and they have won five. The Warriors have won the last two and are making their fifth appearance.
Britain’s premiere American football website, Double Coverage, has provided us with their preview of what has become the annual cross London title clash.
There’s a little less distance for them to travel this time, Allianz Park is only a 20 minute drive from Finsbury Park on a good day, but once again the top game in the country sees these now familiar rivals take each other on. What has been written before about these two teams still applies. Their players, coaches and management staff have pushed out teams that are untouchable on the field unless playing each other.
As is the norm though, this game is not without intrigue. The Blitz have a QB conundrum, just as last year, with season long starter Josh Adamson playing second fiddle to last years starter Tim Liechti in the last game of the season (a win against the Warriors) and throughout the post season. Do the Blitz go with their start of season number one, or do they once again go for a proven backup who has started in the big show before?
One thing they can rely on is the production of their defence, who would surely have a lot to say if you were to hand the crown of best defence in the country to the team they face this Saturday. The Blitz must be encouraged by their end of season victory, the first against the Warriors in a number of years, especially the younger players who had never been part of a regular season victory over the Warriors.
The biggest step up was made by the Blitz secondary, who looked like a unit transformed from the mauling they received earlier in the season and they’ll need to be on that form again if they are going to challenge.
The game will be physical
It’s been a strange month for the Warriors.
If they had ended the season the same way they started I don’t think many people would be betting against them. The combination of Brad Thompson booming deep balls to Luc Benjamin and the power running of Dwayne Watson had proven to be too much for many teams (apart from the SWARCO Raiders in Austria, who were still given a scare), including the Blitz, who were hammered in the first fixture. However a spate of injuries and absences to key players, including the absence of Watson in the semi finals, has seen the offensive production falter.
A fortnight ago the once untouchable Warriors were made to look ordinary by a fired up Tamworth Phoenix squad that came one ridiculous one handed catch (courtesy of a Jacquet to Benjamin connection) away from being in the finals themselves. However one thing the Warriors have always been able to rely on is the domination of their defence. A unit with talent like Ariel Monfondo, Sam Obi and Leslie Wilson (and I apologise to those I left out!) can never be counted out to make a play when they need to.
Blitz and Warriors tough to predict
So to the game itself.
The quality of the two teams competing can not be in question, they have shown they can mix it with the top teams in Europe as well as dominate their domestic opponents.
Last year, a defensive slugathon took place, but this year with all the question marks hanging over both programs, there is a level of unexpectedness and excitement. It’s very hard to pick between these two teams, but it’s demanded that I have to and thanks to the injuries and issues the Warriors have, I can’t help but feel a repeat of the end of season game may be looming, with the Blitz swarming the run game and asking questions of the Warriors passing game. Blitz to win by a score.
London Blitz v. London Warriors – Kickoff, Saturday September 5, 2:30 PM (3:30 PM CET, 9:30 AM EDT)
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FBLA Exclusive: Former Child Star Central Is Our New Favorite Blog
Freelance entertainment journalist/author/funny woman Joal Ryan has started up a shiny new blog dedicated to a very niche media obsession that has served her well over the years: former child stars. Scoff if you want to, but her blog posts are more addictive than Doritos (and we’re going to guess, better for you, too). Ryan tells FBLA a bit about the philosophy behind Former Child Star Central.
1. What inspired this? The day Dana Plato got arrested for holding up a video store in Las Vegas. I don’t know, something changed. Honestly, this began as a goof, and ended up as my niche because people really care about what happens to the people they grew up with, whether the people be former classmates or former child stars.
I originally intended to have fun with the subject, and I still do. But since former child stars are far too easy to make fun of, I find it’s more interesting to actually think through the stories.
And, by the way, I’ve since visited the locale where Plato pulled her botched heist. Reality checks always spoil the fun because there’s nothing funny about imagining someone reaching the end of their rope in the desert. In a strip mall.
2. What do you do to research this stuff? I’m a very good Googler. Also, I’m very fortunate to have a readership that’s kind enough to pass along tidbits every now and then.
3. Who are your top three favorite former childhood stars?
The three quintessential former child stars are: Gary Coleman; Gary Coleman; and, Gary Coleman.
He is the whole package. He had the top-rate fame. He had the post-adolescent fall. He had the Jackie Coogan-esque court battle with his parents.
And then he had The Moment: Punching a spurned autograph seeker who dare to call him a former child star to his face.
Britney Spears could be pretty good, too, but she’ll probably always be worth way too much money to qualify for quintessential status. At least I hope she will be. I wouldn’t wish an 800-CASH gig on anyone.
4. Have you heard from any former childhood stars about your site? Keith Coogan (“Adventures in Babysitting”) had some fun with my confession that I can never keep him and Scott Grimes (“Critters”) straight.
Claudia Lonow (“Knots Landing”) asked me to remove her birthday. I didn’t. And I feel badly about that because I’m old now, too.
A former costar of Dana Plato’s, Krista Errickson, who starred on a “Diff’rent Strokes” spin-off called “Hello, Larry,” wrote in after Plato’s death. It was an open letter to Plato, and was very touching, and very, very down on the company that produced their shows. Time does not heal all wounds.
Oh, and Brandon Call’s mother–at least she said she was Brandon Call’s mother–wrote in to dispute a sighting in which Brandon Call (“Step By Step”) was called a jerk.
I think more former child stars should read my site. Not like constantly, because they should have lives, but just to reassure themselves. Out of all the child stars I’ve tracked, I’ve come up with only one convicted felon. (Former Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie.)
5. OMG, is that really the girl from Land of the Lost? Hey, you try living among the Sleestacks for three
seasons.
6. Would you let your own child try to be a star? A “star?” No. A child who wants to be a “star,” and a parent who encourages the ambition are on the low road to “My Kid Wants to Be a Star.”
Now, if my child wants to *do* something, that’s a different story. Sing, dance, act, paint–that’s doing. And that’s real.
During the early audition rounds of “American Idol,” there are always these people who cry to the judges that they’ve always wanted to be singers, when what they really mean is they’ve always wanted to be stars. If you want to be a singer, then sing. That’s what street corners are for. Do it. Don’t dream it.
Wow, did I just channel a sneaker commercial there?
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TV Upfronts
No, John Cena Will Not Be Hosting Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues Revival
His 'audition' at last week’s upfront went viral, but it was just a joke for buyers
By Jason Lynch
During last Tuesday's Nickelodeon upfront, John Cena jokingly threw his hat in the ring to host Blue's Clues.
During Nickelodeon’s upfront event last Tuesday, Nickelodeon Group president Cyma Zarghami emceed most of the proceedings, but John Cena spent almost as much time in front of the audience of advertisers, buyers and Viacom staffers. The WWE superstar and actor made several trips onstage at New York’s Palace Theatre, the home of the new hit SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, to talk about all of the projects he has in the works for the company.
But none of his appearances was more amusing than when Cena strode onstage after Pam Kaufman, Nickelodeon’s CMO and president of consumer products, announced that the network would be reviving one of its most popular shows, Blue’s Clues, for a new generation of preschoolers. The series—which ended its original run in 2006—will feature a new, live-action host and CG animation.
Cena donned the green-striped rugby shirt worn by previous hosts Steve Burns and Donovan Patton, and jokingly said he was auditioning for the role, since he was already doing so many Nickelodeon shows.
As part of my upfront coverage, I tweeted a picture of Cena onstage in his Blue’s Clues garb:
. @JohnCena auditioning to be the new #BluesClues host. pic.twitter.com/zuLXMCtHQ8
— Jason Lynch (@jasonlynch) March 6, 2018
That tweet went viral, sparking a wave of stories speculating that the audition was real, and that Cena indeed was in consideration for the hosting job. The wrestler contributed to the speculation himself by Instagramming a caption-less Blue’s Clues photo.
A post shared by John Cena (@johncena) on Mar 8, 2018 at 3:18pm PST
The story received new life on Tuesday, when original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns spoke to TMZ, and said that if Cena was indeed interested in the gig, “he and I should wrestle for it. I’m calling you out, Cena!”
Nickelodeon then tried to play peacemaker on its Twitter feed:
Maybe we can find a green striped polo big enough for both of you ? https://t.co/bgwXPXa0lM
— Nickelodeon (@Nickelodeon) March 13, 2018
But as all the buyers and advertisers in the Palace Theatre audience were well aware, Cena was never actually auditioning for the role. It was all just an upfront bit, one of many involving talent, network execs and buyers that upfront audiences will undoubtedly see at many of this year’s events. During last year’s NBCUniversal upfront, the company played a clever video in which Ice-T, in character as his Law & Order: SVU alter ego, interrogated buyers who were strapped to a lie detector machine.
After Cena exited the stage following his faux-audition, Zarghami told the audience, “John truly is the definition of a good sport. But he is not the host, just to be clear.”
And to erase any lingering doubts, Nickelodeon confirmed once again today to Adweek that Cena won’t be the next Blue’s Clues host. The network is holding a casting call next month to search for the revival’s host, on April 14 in Burbank, Calif.
While he won’t be a part of the revival, Cena is working with Nickelodeon on three other projects for 2018: hosting the Nickelodeon 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards on March 24, for the second consecutive year; executive producing a new game show Keep It Spotless, which premieres later this month; and voicing a new villain, Baron Draxum, in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the network’s reboot of the famous franchise, due to air later this year.
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Tigers roars into Thurrock as it stalks e-commerce demand
Tigers' New Thurrock facility
Logistics firm Tigers has opened a new facility in Thurrock, near London Gateway, to continue with long-term UK investment plans and to meet growing e-commerce demand.
Tigers has moved its existing Basildon facility to the larger location in Thurrock with the creation of more than 50 jobs, which will establish Thurrock as another flagship location for Tigers in Europe.
“Tigers is committed to investment in the UK, and the opening of the new Thurrock facility is perfectly timed as we welcome new clients on board for both B2B and B2C global e-fulfilment,” said Shahar Ayash, managing director UK and Europe, Tigers.
“This is a multi-million-pound investment by Tigers in the UK, despite Brexit, and not only will it create new jobs, it will also secure our future as a leader in the logistics and supply chain industry as e-commerce demand continues to grow.”
The new facility is conveniently located off the M25 with proximity to the Port of Felixstowe, central London, and all main road routes to the Midlands, Wales, northern England, and Scotland.
“We have always viewed the UK as an important market and remain committed to investing in the expansion of our e-commerce and fulfilment operations,” said Andrew Jillings, chief executive, Tigers.
“The Thurrock facility significantly expands our UK presence and provides us with a strategically located hub to cater for increased customer demand.”
The Thurrock facility will use Tigers’ logistics platforms, providing B2B and B2C fulfilment, UK and international distribution, and warehousing solutions.
The opening of the new Thurrock location follows the recent expansion of the Tigers facility in Miami, Florida, to meet growing e-commerce demand, the launch of Cloud-based platform SmartHub:Connect (SH:C), and becoming the launch customer for new instant freight rate quote engine, Doozee.
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Why Jewish Camps Matter | Camps Airy & Louise
Why Jewish Camps Matter
Posted by Talia Klein Perez on February 07, 2018
Why is Jewish summer camp so important? It’s a question that is asked and answered by Jewish sleepaway camps across the entire spectrum of affiliation and observance. Jewish summer camps range from the ultra-Orthodox to non-religious Zionist camps to those directly affiliated with the Reform movement, as well as unaffiliated sleepaway camps like Camps Airy & Louise. While each type of camp presents its own variation of Jewish identity, each contributes to the building of a strong Jewish identity among our youth.
Here are the five main reasons why we believe sending your children to a Jewish summer camp is valuable:
1. CAMP STRENGTHENS JEWISH IDENTITY
This is particularly true for children who don’t live in Jewish areas. Former Louise camper Sandy Minskoff said, “I grew up in a very non-Jewish area in rural Virginia. My Jewish experience was primarily at camp. Nobody understood really what it meant to be Jewish. I didn’t have a lot of Jewish friends at home.”Minskoff grew up with a strong Jewish identity, thanks in no small way to her time at Camp Louise.
The same fact can also be true for children who live in very Jewish areas. When kids attend camp, they learn that Jewish identity doesn’t end at school, synagogue or Hebrew school. At summer camp, Jewish learning and experiences are bound up with all the activities they do. A 2011 study conducted by the Foundation for Jewish Camp found that adults who had attended Jewish sleepaway camp as children ‘are 21% more likely to feel that being Jewish is very important.’
2. JEWISH SUMMER CAMP TRANSMITS JEWISH VALUES
Summer camp is an ideal time to transmit Jewish values. Camps Airy & Louise place a great deal of emphasis on training campers in values such as hospitality, kindness, gratitude and leadership.
Every week, a different positive character trait is highlighted in the ‘Midah (Hebrew for “value”) of the Week’ at Camp Louise and in the ‘Mensch on the Bench’ at Camp Airy, and campers are honored for exhibiting it. Campers are encouraged to practice this trait and to notice it in their friends.
At camp, children absorb Jewish values happily and without pressure. Campers realize that everything they do during summer camp can encapsulate Jewish ethics and values without being directly ‘religious’ activities. For example, hospitality doesn’t only mean welcoming guests to the Shabbat table but also being welcoming to new campers and generosity extends beyond giving to charity. Values that build strong individual characters are also strong Jewish values.
3. JEWISH SUMMER CAMP CREATES A SENSE OF COMMUNITY
Overnight residential camps nurture strong connections between campers, with counselors and by extension with the entire wider Jewish community. This sense of being part of the worldwide Jewish community is enabled as an outgrowth of the feelings of belonging and community that are developed in camp.
The diversity that campers experience at camp also helps them to see all Jews as brothers and sisters. Campers may have different ethnicities and come from different social backgrounds and income brackets, but their Jewish identity overrides all these separations. In the same way, they come to see that their connection to their fellow Jews is paramount even though they live in different countries, speak different languages and wear different clothes.
4. SUMMER CAMP STRENGTHENS GIVING TO CHARITY
The same 2011 FJC study also discovered that former Jewish summer campers are 25% more likely to give to Jewish charities. Like many summer camps, Camps Airy & Louise highlight the importance of tzedakah (charity). At Camps Airy & Louise, campers decide how to allot money through Kiva, the online charity that funds small businesses. Camps Airy & Louise foster campers’ sense of personal responsibility to camp and through that to their wider community.
5. SUMMER CAMP INCREASES CONNECTION TO ISRAEL
Camps Airy & Louise are proud to be among many summer camps which welcome counselors and educators from Israel for the summer. American Jewish campers gain insight into the lives of young Israelis close to their own ages. At a time when Israel is under consistent scrutiny, camp plays an important role in building young advocates for Israel. Another finding from the 2011 FJC study noted that former campers are 55% more likely to feel emotionally attached to Israel. Simply put, summer camp increases the connection that American Jews feel with the Jewish state.
These are just five of the many ways that Jewish summer camps matter to their campers. Discover more in real life by joining Camps Airy & Louise this summer!
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Christina Jane McDowell (1918 - 1997)
Christina Jane McDowell was born on February 5, 1918. She died on January 6, 1997 at 78 years of age. She was buried in Willamette National Cemetery Section K Site 4435-A, Portland, Oregon.
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Willamette National Cemetery Section K Site 4435-A, 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland, Oregon
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Christina Jane McDowell lived 8 years longer than the average Mcdowell family member when she died at the age of 78.
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Branch of service: Us Army Air Corps
Rank attained: T SGT
Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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Mayflower Mine 1903 Oregon
Glenn Alvin McDowell
Timothy James McDowell
Alexander Nicholas McDowell
Alva James McDowell Headstone
Cornelius Boyle, James O'hara & friends, Pennsylvania 1930
Irvin McDowell - Major General US Army
Ada McDowell Graduate of University of Denver
Zion McDowell, sisters Rosa and Ada
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Laura McDowell Niston and Children
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1918 - In the year that Christina Jane McDowell was born, in January, President Wilson presented his Fourteen Points, which assured citizens that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and outlined a plan for postwar peace in Europe. The only leader of the Allies to present such a plan, the Europeans thought Wilson was being too idealistic. The points included free trade, open agreements, democracy and self-determination. They were based on the research and suggestions of 150 advisors.
1927 - At the age of only 9 years old, Christina was alive when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
1944 - When she was 26 years old, on November 7th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term as President of the United States. Running against Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, Roosevelt won 53.4 of the popular vote, Dewey got 45.9%.
1947 - Christina was 29 years old when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.
1997 - In the year of Christina Jane McDowell's passing, on June 26th, the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling was released. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was an immediate success and spawned not only sequels but also movies, video games, plays, and amusement park attractions. J.K. Rowling, at the time of the first book a poor single mother, has become a multi-billionaire.
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Christina Jane McDowell died on January 6, 1997 at 78 years old. No cause of death has been listed. She was buried in Willamette National Cemetery Section K Site 4435-A, Portland, Oregon. She was born on February 5, 1918. There is no information about Christina's immediate family.
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Willis Leon McDowell (1934 - 1993)
Horace G McDowell (1922 - 1997)
Mark L McDowell (1955 - 1997)
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Miles Saunders McDowell (1969 - 1964)
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Terrance J McGough (1927 - 1997)
James Mitchell (1944 - 1997)
Norman Julius Porter (1931 - 1997)
Natividad Rivera (1927 - 1997)
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Juan Carlos Cintron (1976 - 1976)
Sherry Lynn Neff (1955 - 1997)
Sheldon A Cutliff (1975 - 1997)
William H Roberts (1934 - 1997)
Alfred James Davis (1925 - 1997)
Thomas W Klein Iii (1946 - 1997)
Harry Bernard (1969 - 1980)
Mary M Jones (1931 - 1997)
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22 Jan 2018 // Latest Airline Route News // Comments OFF
Edelweiss Air makes Orlando its fifth US service from Zurich
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Seen cutting the ribbon and Disney-inspired cake at Zurich Airport on 16 January, to officially open Edelweiss Air’s new service to Orlando, is the carrier’s CEO Bernd Bauer. The carrier will operate a weekly (Tuesdays) rotation on the 7,709-kilometre link, the carrier’s fifth US destination from Switzerland’s largest city. With this launch, Orlando is now connected to nine countries non-stop in Europe.
Orlando greeted the arrival of its newest European carrier – Edelweiss Air – with this airline-branded two-tier cake, topped with a tailfin of the Swiss airline. Orlando becomes Edelweiss Air’s fifth destination in the US to be served from Zurich, while Orlando is the carrier’s second route to Florida after Tampa.
Edelweiss Air, a carrier which flew 1.46 million passengers in 2016, commenced its latest long-haul route from Zurich (ZRH) this week, with the Swiss operator starting a link from Switzerland’s largest city to Orlando (MCO). The latter city is the airline’s fifth destination in the US after Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Tampa. Launched 16 January, the carrier will offer a weekly (Tuesdays) rotation to its second Floridian destination, with the carrier serving the 7,709-kilometre route year-round on its A330-300s. No other carrier currently operates between Zurich and Orlando. According to OAG schedules, Edelweiss Air offered over 173,700 seats to/from the US in 2017, an increase of 19% when compared to the 146,300 seats it provided in 2016. See how Orlando Airport’s FTWA compares to others from around the world.
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Jet2.com leaps into Krakow from Leeds Bradford
Krakow celebrated the arrival of Jet2.com’s first flight from Leeds Bradford on 9 November, with the inaugural crew being presented with a ceremonial route launch cake. The UK carrier will operate its latest Polish connection twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays, facing direct competition on the sector from Ryanair.
Jet2.com launched a new route from Leeds Bradford (LBA) to Krakow (KRK) on 9 November. The 1,510-kilometre connection will operate twice-weekly on Mondays and Fridays. The airline will deploy its 737-800s on the sector which will face direct competition from Ryanair, which already operates four weekly frequencies on the airport pair. Jet2.com has served Krakow since 2006. This latest route from Leeds Bradford becomes the airline fourth route to the Polish city, with it already flying to Krakow from Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle, while it will add a connection from Glasgow in November 2019. Ready more about Jet2.com in anna.aero’s in-depth analysis of the carrier’s planned operations for S19.
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Clear Vision (17+) review
Clear Vision (17+) by FDG Entertainment is a sniper-themed first person shooter (FPS) app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. We conducted this review using an Apple iPhone 4S. It’s worth noting that there is also an application called Clear Vision (12+). The 17+ version reviewed here is bloody and uncut. The 12+ version of Clear Vision is essentially the same program but intended for a younger audience. This application is also optimized for iPad playback using the same gameplay and graphics.
The Clear Vision story is a bit absurd and centers on Mercy Tyler, a supermarket employee who becomes a professional hitman after being fired. In addition to the paid assignments Mercy accepts, there are jobs that involve his personal story and the ongoing unraveling of his life. Some users may find the subject matter unsettling, and parents may want to try both versions before letting the kids play.
If you can look past the unsettling subject matter, Clear Vision is a superb sniper-style game. In fact, we’ll go as far as to say that it’s the best one we’ve ever played on a mobile device or even any handheld platform. What may surprise you is that the graphics are not particularly stunning. People are essentially stick figures and the backgrounds are basic in a South Park way.
After a cartoon introduction that shows Mercy Tyler’s story so far, it all begins with a tutorial at a shooting range. There you’ll learn to target, fire and reload as you practice on cans that that are as far as 1,500m away. The tutorial also introduces the concept of adjusting for wind. The tutorial is well done and succinct, and within less than a minute, it teaches you all of the essentials.
Once past the tutorial, Clear Vision feels a lot like a Grand Theft Auto. Your house is your base of operations. It’s here that you’ll receive notifications, accept assignments, organize your weapon collection and so forth. When you exit the house, the game presents you with a top-down street map, and you use the map to drive to hit sites as well as locations like Big Ben’s Weapons and Underground Boxing, where you can fight and even bet on yourself to earn some additional cash.
Although the GTA elements make the app engrossing, the sniper mode is what makes it worth playing. When we started the review of this application, we had some doubts about how they could make the sniping aspect interesting over the long term. They pull it off by making the missions diverse and creative. For instance, some hits need to look like accidents, and those missions are essentially puzzle boards where you’ll have to figure out how to kill without a direct hit. Clear Vision is a blast, only $0.99, and we’re certain that we’ll be playing this iPhone app for a long time to come.
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AppSafari Rating: 4.5/5
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Istanbul Design Biennial Curator Jan Boelen Is Positioning the Turkish City as an Innovating Creative Hub
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Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The city's Design Biennial kicks off next weekend.Photo: Getty
At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Istanbul is steeped in Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman history. Its design heritage is just as rich, a colorful swirl of hand-woven carpets and ancient mosaics. But on the cusp of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (September 22–November 4), presented by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and sponsored by Turkish bath company VitrA, the city is abuzz with talk of innovation. That’s exactly what Jan Boelen, who curated the show with the designers and writers Nadine Botha and Vera Sacchetti, wanted. Entitled "A School of Schools," this year’s incarnation of the event emphasizes investigation and critical, radical thinking, transforming six prominent Istanbul arts venues—Akbank Sanat, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, Pera Museum, Arter, SALT Galata, and Studio-X Istanbul—into dynamic, collective, educational hubs that reinterpret the norms.
Boelen, who serves as artistic director of both Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium, and the experimental laboratory Atelier LUMA in Arles, France, also heads the Master in Social Design program at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The Biennial is an extension of his holistic, boundary-pushing philosophy toward design, encompassing such interdisciplinary themes as the infrastructure of food, the relationship between the planet and humans, and information hierarchies, explored by practitioners from around the globe. Here, the Belgian native talks about craved connections, the proliferation of bland ideas, and how the evolution of design demands a new paradigm for learning.
Jan Boelen, curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial.
Photo: Veerle Frissen
AD PRO: Do you think that your own work as an educator directly influenced your vision for the Istanbul Design Biennial?
Jan Boelen: Certainly. I cannot deny it. People often ask me how I can work on so many things at the same time, but I see it all as one interconnected project, a kind of attitude to deal with the world shifting. Every year I receive approximately 300 portfolios from people who apply for the Master in Social Design at Eindhoven, and that’s to say I’m regularly disappointed by the quality and ambition. The world has changed, so design has changed and education has also changed, becoming more a template that commoditizes the students, the work, and what they propose. They are the result of the template almost, molded by the technology—the renderings, the software—delivered to them. After talking to people in Istanbul and hearing that their education issues were similar to those of other countries, I thought 99 years after the Bauhaus was founded to set up another kind of discussion. How and why do we need design education? What could it look like? What are the new strategies and models?
AD PRO: Instead of curating traditional exhibition spaces, you and your colleagues cleverly reimagined a half dozen of the city’s most renowned cultural institutions as schools. What was the inspiration?
JB: For ideas to collide. How can an exhibition inform and how can cultural institutes become alternative places of learning? How can a diverse public gather there, and how can they start working together?
SALT Galata, one of the fair venues.
Photo: Mustafa Hazneci
AD PRO: The Biennial aims to engage a wide swath of people, and one of the ways this was cemented early on was the open call for both open-ended school ideas and learners, no matter how scant their design backgrounds, to participate. What was that experience like?
JB: We thought that maybe 100 projects would be submitted and we calculated two days to review them. Then we would announce our selections and work with these 100 people. But more than 750 people applied. It’s clear that what we are addressing is urgent, because there were so many proposals and so many people thinking and motivated to collaborate on and discuss this, so we took one step back and left the open call there. We had to rethink: Which projects do we want and how can we fundamentally change the discourse? Which projects are interesting to show? To share? To learn from? Then we looked into an expanded notion of design and how can it develop not only solutions and pragmatic approaches, but how can it be speculative, political, critical, and build relations?
The view outside from the Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, another venue.
Photo: Koray Senturk
AD PRO: Since being named curator, did you spend much time in Istanbul? What did you observe?
JB: I went every month for several days. I also did an extensive research trip throughout the rest of Turkey to understand the fabric and the society. There’s a hunger there to collaborate with the rest of the world. Although Istanbul is a global city it feels, at this moment, in a pocket, a bit isolated. The Biennial helps bridge that gap and build connection. The school model is an answer to the situation. People are so happy to see, to talk, to exchange.
I think you can sense the urgency for change, politically and economically, around the world. Istanbul is a fast-expanding city, and here you can feel the frictions in the contemporary world and how they come together and manifest. But in between the cracks there is a dialogue. We’re not ignoring it. We’re formulating projects, developing them, and now presenting them.
AD PRO: What do you hope attendees take away from the Biennial?
JB: That they are in doubt. The curatorial statement is really designing doubt. Is what we are doing good or not good? We tend to prefer a mode of consumption in society, but what I want is that we go into a mode of production, an active mode so that people start to participate. We don’t want just an institutional approach, creating awareness. I think people are already aware we are in trouble. Our hope is to empower people, to help give them the tools to change something.
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People love SUVs and crossovers, but not everyone uses them to haul a litter of children and a couple of pets. At this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, Lexus has debuted the two-row LX 570. The updated model ditches the third row, helping expand cargo capacity by 15 percent without the need to deal with removing the seats. The two-row model comes in a single mono-spec trim, dropping the base price to $86,175, which is $5,000 less than the three-row model.
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As a manufacturer of the world's most popular frontal-head restraint, Autosport Performance safety partners SCHROTH know a thing or two about making top-end safety devices.
Their most recent offering, the SHR Flex, is only the latest example of their pioneering approach to driver protection, developed over the past 70 years.
Designed to pass the US-standard SFI Spec 38.1, the Flex device is eligible for competition in the States and non-competition use in the UK - meaning for now it's licensed as a track day product. SCHROTH will submit the device to the FIA once the governing body defines how new devices are homologated.
The Flex can be used in virtually any vehicle that uses two FIA or SFI shoulder belts as part of the driver-restraint harness. It is available in medium and large sizing, which is based on body size and shape, and at $575 (£438), the device falls into the middle of the price range for the SCHROTH-produced HANS device - which, by the nature of their design, are restricted to specific types of racing.
Among the technological advances achieved with the Flex is a dynamic articulating collar and angle-independent low-collar design, which means it is not restricted to a specific type of car or seating position. This makes the Flex ideal for use on trackday events, where clients and instructors alike sample multiple cars.
Multiple GT champion and trackday guru Calum Lockie tested the Flex recently and reports that he would be interested in using it regularly for trackday coaching, citing its comfort and ease of use.
An integrated padding system, and the pliable legs that form-fit the device to the user's upper body and chest, allows for enhanced comfort compared to a more rigid frontal-head restraint. The device also comes equipped with SCHROTH's patented Slip Stop System and Retention Winglets to keep the belts in place after a secondary impact or in particularly intensive off-road scenarios, such as rally raids.
"It is light, and, owing to rubberised construction, good for jumping in and out of customers' cars without scratching or bashing trim," says Lockie.
"The hinged construction is great. Different cars have different seatbelt arrangements and it often happens that the rigid carbon HANS doesn't fit well and tends to be uncomfortable, particularly on collar bones, and is sometimes very hard to get properly tight."
Lockie notes that the twin-web system allows for easier head movement, another plus point for its use on track days - and adds that "the Flex has narrow shoulder strap flats with a small upright to hold the belts in place, which is excellent for narrow-belted cars."
The Scot uses a HANS device normally and has those posts fitted to the crash helmet, which is different to what the Flex requires. SCHROTH explains that this is because the HANS clips are patented, so the Flex attachments "are designed to be mounted to the exact same position as the HANS clips and use an M6 thread, as do the HANS clips."
SCHROTH's user guide highlights the change required if the driver's helmet has HANS clips attached: "Remove and screw on the SHR Flex - this is allowed. If your helmet is pre-drilled without a threaded insert, the SHR Flex also comes with an M6 insert to slide into the helmet."
To avoid risking serious injury, avoid using the device with double-shoulder belts and/or with any type of sternum strap.
Promoted: The latest in head restraint tech
The SHR Flex is the latest development in frontal-head restraint technology from safety experts SCHROTH. We asked Calum Lockie to try it
By SCHROTH
Published on Friday July 21st 2017
The Flex can be used in virtually any vehicle that uses two FIA or SFI shoulder belts as part of the driver-restraint harness. It is available in medium and large sizing, which is based on body size and shape, and at 5 (£438), the device falls into the middle of the price range for the SCHROTH-produced HANS device - which, by the nature of their design, are restricted to specific types of racing.
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Translation Tuesday: “Blind Spot” from Brief Cartography for Places of No Interest by Marcílio França Castro
September 5, 2017 | in Translations | by Heath Wing
"We banished from cartography all lions, mermaids, pygmies, and dragons. The sterilization of maps only confirms the disdain we have for nature."
When I first met Marcílio França Castro at a coffee shop in Brazil during the winter of 2016, he showed up toting a bag full of presents for me. When he dumped the bag onto the table, out came books, like he was some sort of combination of Jorge Luis Borges and Santa Claus. What most impressed me was his eagerness to promote Brazilian literature in general; several of the books were from his peers and not just ones he had authored. And perhaps Borges is a good comparison for Marcílio; indeed, his writing is in line with the likes of Borges, Calvino, and Cortázar. Yet he does not simply imagine other worlds, he perceives with brilliance unsuspected oddities in places of absolutely no interest. In his short stories, which range from traditional length to flash fiction, and with a prose that is at once economic and yet never lacking in precision, Marcílio França Castro transforms his culture’s most unsuspecting spaces into fantastic reading. The author and I have worked together in producing translations for many of his stories, overcoming differences in idioms, metaphor, sentence structure and other obstacles found in the passage from Portuguese to English. Most importantly, this project kept the translator sane during the subsequent North Dakotan winter of 2017.
—Heath Wing.
The manuals say such devices are made to take anything. Bumps, turbulence, high winds, lightning. Even crashes and hurricanes. It’s said they come out unscathed from the most intemperate of weather. You know the protocols. For every inconvenience there is a plan, an automatic fix. An aircraft like this one, with all its resources, ought to be, according to the manuals, practically uncrashable. That’s why, if it were up to manuals and manufacturers, our role would be merely to maintain course and keep her steady, taking advantage of the dignity of flight and the charm of our profession. And that’s really what we do here, before this gorgeous instrument panel, full of buttons and colorful lights: with the prudence it conveys, we relax and commend our fate and everyone else’s to the invisible wisdom of the display.
Look ahead. The sky’s magnificent, full of stars; someone might say it’s a painting commissioned to decorate the cockpit. A captain, from the moment of departure, always has his beard well-groomed, his uniform impeccable; he pilots the plane with swan-like indifference. That’s how the passengers see you. We fly calmly. The seats are anatomic and dinner well-balanced. An almost anesthetic experience. The Pacific is nothing more than an enormous tapestry of black silk that clips the horizon. We think and act as if the world outside no longer existed, as though the clouds and the ocean below us were but unfailing radar bleeps or a set of geographical coordinates. In truth, as we fly we simply ignore the substance found in Earth’s elements. Try this coffee, it’s wonderful.
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Phoenix teacher runs marathon to, around Arizona state Capitol for #RedForEd
He was inspired by a group of Oklahoma teachers who walked about 11 miles to their state's Capitol to bring awareness to low teacher pay.
Phoenix teacher runs marathon to, around Arizona state Capitol for #RedForEd He was inspired by a group of Oklahoma teachers who walked about 11 miles to their state's Capitol to bring awareness to low teacher pay. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://azc.cc/2GSuG4N
Lauren Castle, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 1:20 p.m. MT April 11, 2018 | Updated 1:20 p.m. MT April 11, 2018
Landon Benson was inspired by a group of Oklahoma teachers who walked about 11 miles to their state's Capitol to bring awareness to low teacher pay.
Physical-education teacher Landon Benson shows off his #RedForEd t-shirt before taking off for his 26.2-mile run in support of the grassroots movement.(Photo: Lauren Castle/The Republic)
Thousands of parents, teachers and students demonstrated today in support of #RedForEd
To show his support, a Phoenix teacher ran 26.2 miles
He was inspired by a group of Oklahoma teachers who walked to their state Capitol
Almost three hours before the school day began on Wednesday, a group of about 30 students, parents and teachers met at Sonoran Foothills School in Phoenix.
The 6 a.m. huddle was for physical-education teacher Landon Benson.
"Teachers support our kids every day," said Lisa Eggebrecht, a parent. "So the least we can do is to get up early and support them."
Benson was not expecting to see a crowd at his school when he decided to run 26.2 miles to and around the Arizona state Capitol on the same day that more than 1,000 school walk-ins were scheduled across the state in support of the #RedForEd movement.
The 14-year teaching veteran was inspired by a group of Oklahoma teachers who walked about 11 miles to their state's Capitol to bring awareness to low teacher pay.
Teacher Landon Benson (second from the left) poses with his father (left) and two friends before embarking on a 26.2-mile run to the Arizona State Capital in support of the #RedForEd movement. (Photo: Lauren Castle/The Republic)
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"I am one person, but if I can do something, all of us can do something," said Benson dressed head to toe in red. "Hopefully, that can bring attention to the governor, to the Legislature."
When hearing about Benson's plan, friends and parents shared his story.
Chad Briggs, a parent of three children who attend Sonoran Foothills, chose to run with Benson after hearing about his plan.
"We need to protect the future," said Briggs. He said he believes helping teachers will lead to more educators staying in the field.
Sharon Millett, a fourth-grade teacher, stood in the school parking lot with the group.
"Landon is a big supporter of teachers," Millett said. "He has taken it a step further … He is spotlighting our cause."
Arizona schools host walk-ins for #RedForEd on April 11
Marthana Hall, a math teacher at San Tan Charter School in Gilbert, leads chants during the state-wide teacher walk-in on April 11, 2018, in support of more educational funding. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Supporters of increased school funding chant outside San Tan Charter School in Gilbert, during the state-wide teacher walk-in on April 11, 2018. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Cienega High School teachers, staff and students gather at the flagpole in unison to protest low pay and funding at the school, 12775 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way, on April 11, 2018, in Tucson. Cienega participated with the state-wide walk-in protests before classes began. Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Melanie Yarger, of Mesa and a a parent of a second-grader at San Tan Charter School in Gilbert, expresses her support for increased school funding during the state-wide teacher walk-in on April 11, 2018. Tom Tingle/The Republic
Teachers, staff and students at Cienega High School gather at the flagpole in unison to protest low pay and funding at the school, 12775 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way, on April 11, 2018, in Tucson. Cienega participated with the state-wide walk-in protests before classes began. Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Michelle Dexter (left) and Jill Graham stand with teachers before a walk-in at Tarwater Elementary on April 4, 2018. Dexter and Graham are parents whose children attend Tarwater Elementary. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
Teachers walk arm-in-arm with students and parents into Tuscano Elementary School as they stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Stefanie Lowe, right, wipes away a tear as she talks with fellow teacher Nanette Swanson, as they join teachers, parents and students at Tuscano Elementary School to stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Shaun Stevenson, right, talks to other teachers, parents and students at Tuscano Elementary School as they stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
A teacher at Tuscano Elementary School joins dozens of teachers, parents and students as they stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Nanette Swanson pauses as she listens to another teacher at Tuscano Elementary School talk about the hardships of low pay as teachers, parents and students stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding as they walk into school on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding as they arrive at the front entrance of the school on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Nanette Swanson, a teacher at Tuscano Elementary School, begins to cry as she joins other teachers, parents and students as they stage a "walk-in" for higher pay and school funding on April 11, 2018, in Phoenix. Teachers gathered outside Arizona schools to show solidarity in their demand for higher salaries staging "walk-ins" at approximately 1,000 schools that are part of a statewide campaign for a 20 percent raise and more than $1 billion in new education funding. Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Teachers and students hold a #RedForEd walk-in at Casa Grande on April 11, 2018. Ricardo Cano/The Republic
Parents, students and teachers at Madison Traditional Academy in Gilbert participate in the #RedForEd walk-in on April 11, 2018. Kaila White/The Republic
Teachers at Tarwater Elementary in Chandler participate in a walk-in with their students in solidarity with #RedForEd on April 4, 2018. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
Walk-in organizers at Peoria High School on April 11, 2018, encouraged participants to sign in online, so #RedForEd organizers can better track their support. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
Teachers and supporters at Peoria High participate in #RedForED walk-in before school on April 11, 2018. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
Teachers at Tarwater Elementary in Chandler stage a walk-in with parents and students in solidarity with #RedForEd on April 4, 2018. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
Teachers and supporters at Peoria High School gather on April 11, 2018, in support of the #RedForEd movement before school. Lorraine Longhi/The Republic
'Education should be first and foremost'
Running is a family tradition for Benson. He started running as a child and went on to run in college at Northern Arizona University.
The teacher didn't have to ask his father, Lenny Benson, to join him on his marathon to the Capitol. His father just wanted to support his son.
"Education should be first and foremost," said Benson's father. "We shouldn't settle for 43rd."
Landon Benson spoke to the students before taking off for the Capitol with his father and two friends.
Landon Benson ended his more than 26-mile run at the state capitol building in support for the #RedForEd movement. (Photo: Lauren Castle/The Republic)
"I'm honored to do this for our teachers, our schools and, really, for you guys," said Benson to the students dressed in red. "This is what it is all about. It is why we are here."
The children, parents and teachers huddled up. "One, two, three, Bobcats!" they yelled.
Benson and his father arrived at the Capitol at about 11:10 a.m. to cheering family and friends. Benson's young son ran to his father with a big water bottle and a smile.
"This is something that I could do to support teachers, support educators, support public schools," Benson said. "I grew up in the public school system and I teach now in the public school system."
Teachers protest outside Gov. Ducey radio station appearance
Teachers protest outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Gov. Doug Ducey was making an appearance at the studios. Michael Chow/The Republic
Tawnia McGurthy, second grade teacher at Arrowhead Elementary, and other educators protest outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Gov. Doug Ducey was making an appearance at the studios. Michael Chow/The Republic
Teachers protest outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Michael Chow/The Republic
Teachers call for Gov. Ducey to act on their demand for pay increases outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Michael Chow/The Republic
Teachers protest outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. This was the second time the group protested outside one of Gov. Doug Ducey radio appearances at KTAR. Michael Chow/The Republic
Teachers try to listen to the brodcast outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Michael Chow/The Republic
Tawnia McGurthy, second grade teacher at Arrowhead Elementary, leads a chant with other teachers and educators protesting outside the KTAR studios in Phoenix on April 10, 2018. Michael Chow/The Republic
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Kyrgyzstan, U.S. eye co-op issues
3 April 2014 15:45 (UTC+04:00)
Kyrgyzstan and the U.S. discussed the cooperation issues of mutual interests during the meeting of Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Nisha Biswal on April 3.
Biswal thanked Kyrgyz leadership for supporting coalition's efforts to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, Kabar news agency reported referring to the Kyrgyz presidency.
She stressed significant contribution of "Manas" transit center in providing security in Afghanistan and Central Asian region as a whole.
President Atambayev said that the regional security issues are crucial for Kyrgyzstan.
Cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and U.S. will further form on the basis of national interests, according to Atambayev.
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Miami gets B+ in latest comparison of potential Amazon HQ2 cities
By: Emon Reiser
In the latest comparison of the Top 20 cities that Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. has chosen as a potential home for its second headquarters, Miami did OK, but not great.
Business news TV channel CNBC, which is visiting each region on the shortlist, gave South Florida a B+ – a rating brought down mostly because of the region’s lack of technology workers.
Although economic development agencies across the tri-county area teamed up to submit the bid, CNBCfocused on a pitch that would make the massive development part of Miami Worldcenter, currently under construction in downtown Miami. Wherever the e-commerce giant’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) HQ2 ends up, it would bring a $5 billion investment and up to 50,000 high-paying jobs.
“We have one of the most diverse talent pools you’re going to find anyplace in the United States, and it’s a talent pool that is highly educated. People are coming here from all over the world,” Miami-Dade Beacon Council CEO Mike Finney told CNBC.
Also part of the pitch: South Florida’s recently improved transportation options such as Uber and Brightline, and possibly appealing to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos‘ ties to the area.
In a breakdown of the B+ rating, CNBC gave Miami an A+ for its robust population, a C+ for its talent, a B+ for location and a B+ for its “stability,” referring to its business climate.
“The broader pitch, though, is that Miami is a great place for transportation, including a gateway to Latin America. It’s got low costs, relatively friendly regulations and it has people,” said Scott Cohn, CNBC special correspondent in Miami.
Cities that received overall A’s from CNBC include Dallas and Austin, Texas.
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Aussie InfoSec Researcher to Be Sentenced
Police Charged Researcher With Network Intrusion Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 26, 2019
Photo: GoGet
An Australian computer security researcher will be sentenced May 1 after pleading guilty to several charges related to unauthorized intrusions into the network of GoGet, a vehicle sharing service.
Nikola Cubrilovic of Penrose was charged in January 2018 with gaining unauthorized access to GoGet's network and parlaying the access to use GoGet vehicles without consent more than 30 times between May and July 2017.
GoGet runs a fleet of 3,000 vehicles across five Australian cities that customers can rent by the hour or day.
Computerworld reports Cubrilovic faced 39 charges, but the majority of the charges have been dismissed. Cubrilovic, who is free on bail, pleaded guilty earlier this month to four charges of taking a vehicle without consent, one charge of dealing with identity information and one charge of obtaining a financial advantage. He was originally due to face trial this week.
Efforts to reach Cubrilovic via Twitter and LinkedIn were unsuccessful. A GoGet spokesman says the company has no comment.
Known Bug Hunter
Cubrilovic was known within the Australian computer security community and had received media attention for his research.
In 2015, he discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities within the government's myGov site, which lets people file their taxes and access a variety of other support services and benefits. According to The Age, Cubrilovic found he could use the flaws to hijack anyone's myGov account.
"With the assistance of company staff, investigators identified that unauthorized access was gained into the company's fleet booking system and customer identification information from the database was downloaded."
—NSW State Crime Command Cybercrime Squad
He was fairly prolific on Twitter until about a year before his arrest at his home in Penrose in January 2018. Police seized computers, laptops and storage devices.
Detectives with the New South Wales State Crime Command's Cybercrime Squad began investigating the GoGet situation around July 2017. The squad formed a task force, called Strike Force Artsy, to investigate unauthorized access into the administrative sections of GoGet's website.
Police said at the time that GoGet quickly approached police when it noticed irregularities, which aided in the investigation.
"With the assistance of company staff, investigators identified that unauthorized access was gained into the company's fleet booking system and customer identification information from the database was downloaded," according to a police news release on Jan. 31, 2018.
Police: Payment Cards Accessed
Security research can be a legally dicey area, and it's not unheard of for researchers to get into tangles. Companies have occasionally accused researchers of hacking and contacted law enforcement, but the situations are usually resolved without charges once the air clears.
But Cubrilovic's case did not appear to be one of misinterpreted but well-intended research.
Initially, he was charged with 33 counts related to using GoGet vehicles without consent, two counts of unauthorized access and "modification, or impairment with intent to commit serious indictable offense," police say.
Police say it didn't appear that some of accessed customer information, which included a "small number" of payment card details, had been fraudulently used or distributed.
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Whiteway
These are the bus routes that will be disrupted for six weeks while Kelston View is resurfaced
Six bus routes are being diverted as a stretch of the road is closed for roadworks
Bronte HowardTrainee news reporter
Amanda Cameron
The council is resurfacing a stretch of Kelston View in Weston
Bus routes will be severely disrupted for six weeks as the final stage of major road repairs take place on Kelston View.
Six bus routes are being diverted as a stretch of Kelston View in Whiteway is closed while the road is resurfaced.
Kelston View is one of the busiest bus routes in the city, with more than 200 a day travelling in the area.
The number five, 17, 20A/C, RA3 and A11 will be diverted from Monday (July 10) and the number 17 will be withdrawn by the bus operator a week later on July 17.
Views over the city from Kelston Road (Image: Ki Fletcher)
The number five will start and end at Wedgwood Road, not serving Whiteway Circle or Haycombe Drive.
The 17 will run as usual until Wedgwood Road before diverting to the Mount Road Shops via Poolmead Road, Whiteway Road and The Hollow.
Resurfacing of Kelston View in Whiteway means bus diversions and no on-street parking for six weeks
The 20A/C will divert between Wedgwood Road and East Way via Poolemead Road, Whiteway Road, The Hollow and Kelston View. Whiteway Circle will not be served.
The RA3 will start at the Redland Park stop at 7.40am, run east along Newton Road and High Street, up The Hollow, turn right into Kelston View and resume the usual route at Whiteway Circle.
The worst section of Kelston View lies between North Way and Wedgwood Road
After Whiteway Circle, the A11 will divert via The Hollow, High Street and Newton Road before resuming the usual route at Pennyquick.
Dine Romero, councillor for Southdown, and resident Sarah Moore are pressing bus operators to provide a shuttle service to transport residents during the disruption.
First Bus runs the 5, 17 and 20A services. Wessex Bus also runs a 17 service and operates the 20C. Abus runs the RA3 and A11 services.
Ms Moore said: “This is the worst part of the reconstruction because the road is closed for 24 hours a day.
“This is a big inconvenience for the residents, especially the elderly and the less abled.
“Hopefully we will be able to plan a shuttle service for the parts without a bus service.”
Council confirms whole of Kelson View in Whiteway to be resurfaced over the summer months
The reconstruction and resurfacing is being carried out as some of the roads are badly damaged, with large potholes being dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians.
Ms Moore, who lives on Kelston View, said that the roads are waterlogged underneath the concrete slabs which have become loose, splashing pedestrians when a vehicle drives by.
Residents are also unable to park on Kelston View for up to six weeks while the final stage of the work is carried out.
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'Rabit' technology unleashed on metal thieves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17498775
Image caption The new technology can accurately pinpoint an incident to a road or street
BT has launched a new weapon in a bid to tackle cable thieves across Scotland - the Rabit.
The burglar alarm technology can act within minutes and detect when a cable has been cut or damaged.
Rabit (Rapid Assessment BT Incident Tracker) can also accurately pinpoint an incident to a road or street.
The system alerts BT's security control centre and police response teams when cable thieves attack the company's UK telephone and broadband network.
BT said a trial of the technology had already forced cable thieves to flee crime scenes empty-handed.
BT Scotland director Brendan Dick said: "BT's new burglar alarm on the network will make thieves think again.
"We are now able to inform the police of the exact location of malicious network attacks and, if trials are anything to go by, it won't be long before they start catching the thieves in the act."
'Major deterrent'
British Transport Police deputy chief constable Paul Crowther said Rabit would act as a "major deterrent" to criminals engaged in metal theft.
He added: "More importantly, communities and businesses should see a sharp reduction in the disruption caused by this type of theft."
The numbers of arrests related to BT cable theft are continuing to rise, with the average number of arrests per month up nearly 8% on last year.
In the past 11 months the number of arrests has reached more than 480, already more than the 446 arrests in 2010.
BT has recovered 240 tonnes of stolen metal in the past eleven months, as a result of visits to scrap metal dealers and working with police forces on targeted operations.
Metal thieves 'threaten Scottish heritage'
Cash payment ban to tackle scrap metal thefts in Scotland
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Boris Johnson: Police called to Tory leadership contender's home
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Conservative Party leadership contest
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Police were called to the London home of Boris Johnson and his partner in the early hours of Friday after neighbours reportedly heard a loud argument.
The Guardian said Carrie Symonds was heard telling the Conservative MP to "get off me" and "get out of my flat".
The Metropolitan Police told the BBC it "spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well".
In a statement, it said "there was no cause for police action". A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: "No comment".
Mr Johnson refused to answer questions as he arrived at Birmingham ahead of the first of the Conservative Party's leadership membership hustings.
Earlier, a neighbour of Ms Symonds in Camberwell, south London, told the Guardian they had heard a woman screaming followed by "slamming and banging".
The paper said the neighbour was inside their own flat when they recorded the alleged altercation.
'No offences or concerns'
It said that in the recording - heard by the newspaper, but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and told the woman to "get off" his laptop, before there was a loud crashing noise.
Ms Symonds is allegedly heard saying the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine: "You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything."
Another neighbour, who would only give her name as Fatima, told the BBC: "I heard a female voice, shouting and screaming, and then I heard things smashing, it sounded like plates or glasses.
"I couldn't hear what she was saying but she sounded really angry."
Conservative MP Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he could not comment on the Guardian's report specifically but said character was relevant in the contest to be leader of the party.
"They are going to be in a position of responsibility where they have to make very important decisions," he said.
The former attorney general added: "Clearly, things like reliability and honesty are very important things.
"And I think they matter in one's private and personal life, and also they matter in one's public life."
Image caption Carrie Symonds has been in a relationship with Mr Johnson since 2018
By BBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson
Boris Johnson would have preferred his politics - not his private life - to be making headlines.
As we enter the final stage of this leadership campaign the scrutiny of the two men who want the top job will no doubt increase.
There will be intense focus on their every move; their past, their present and their future.
It's not surprising given the importance of the job they want - running the country.
But does what allegedly happened in the London flat Mr Johnson shares with his partner really matter? His critics will say yes.
They argue that we need someone of good character who can make difficult decisions and work under pressure.
Supporters of Boris Johnson disagree. Whatever happened, they say, was an entirely private matter between two people in a relationship which should never have been recorded by a neighbour.
Journalist Sonia Purnell, who has written a biography of Mr Johnson, told the Today programme she believed it was important to know a future leader's character.
She said: "It is the most unbelievably pressured job, crises will be coming at you day and night. You have to have equilibrium, a clear head, a stability in your life to be able to cope with that."
'Would be toast'
But, political commentator Tim Montgomerie told the BBC that until a complaint was made by Ms Symonds, the row "should be a non-issue".
He added: "If there was any domestic violence, Boris Johnson's candidacy would be toast and would deserve to be.
"But all we have at the moment is a partially overheard conversation between two people late at night.
"Unless there is a complaint I think we should draw a line under this."
Some of Mr Johnson's supporters have also taken to social media to defend him.
Brexit minister James Cleverly questioned the motives of the "person who recorded Boris and then gave the story to the Guardian".
Tory MP Michael Fabricant appeared to confuse Camberwell with Islington but wrote he was glad he did not have "nosey neighbours" recording private conversations, sending them to newspapers and "wasting police time for political advantage".
Bookmakers' favourite
Mr Johnson's relationship with Ms Symonds - a former director of communications for the Conservative party - became public after Mr Johnson and his wife announced they were divorcing in 2018.
Ms Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson's leadership campaign launch on 12 June.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "At 00:24 on Friday 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in the SE5 area of Camberwell.
"The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.
"Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action."
Image caption A poster opposite Boris Johnson's London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid
Mr Johnson is the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and the UK's next prime minister.
The former foreign secretary and Mayor of London is in a run-off with Jeremy Hunt, with Tory party members due to vote over the next month.
Mr Johnson came top in a ballot of Tory MPs on Thursday. The first hustings of the second phase of the leadership campaign takes place on Saturday.
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Bphone 3 – the world’s first Android smartphone with bottomless design, slim and equal bezel at 3 edges
09:36:32 | 12-11-2018
On October 10, 2018, Bkav Corporation officially launched its third generation smartphone Bphone at the National Convention Center (Ha Noi, Viet Nam). The launching event was attended by more than 2,500 guests including reporters, partners, Bphone Fans Club members, customers and tech lovers in Viet Nam.
In the morning of the 10th October, Hanoi was quite cold with an early-season rain from the previous night. However, since 7 a.m, the community of Bphone Fans Club and many other guests all gathered at the National Convention Center, where the launching event of Bphone 3 took place.
One hour before the opening, the reception lobby was full of guests queueing up to attend the event. Inside the large hall with a capacity of up to 3,000 people, a giant screen of 18mx10m with the system of modern sound, lighting, and professional cameras were ready for the ceremony.
9h30, the launching event officially started with a clip and a review of Bphone previous generations.
9h35, Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, CEO - Chairman of Bkav Corporation appeared on the stage with Bphone 3 - the central point of the ceremony on his hand. Mr. Quang claimed: "Bphone 3 is the first Android smartphone in the world to have a design that we call bottomless design".
The first Android smartphone in the world to have a bottomless design
The screen of Bphone 3 almost touches its bottom that holds the antenna. This is a great challenge for all manufacturers in terms of electronic and mechanical design. That is also the reason why most smartphones on the market have a relatively thick ribbon at the bottom, called the "chin". It is not easy to have a bottomless and chinless design like Bphone 3, but Bkav's engineers have succeeded in overcoming the challenge of antenna design and mechanical design, creating a new generation of smartphone with the screen almost occupying the front.
Bphone 3 is a smartphone with the slimmest equal bezels ever
From Bphone 1 to Bphone 3, Bkav has always pursued the design philosophy of a blocked aluminum frame that combines two surfaces of glass, as simple as a glass sheet.
Mr. Hoang Manh Cuong, Design Director of Bkav shared on the stage: "As a glass sheet, it must have equal bezels, which we had wished to do from previous versions but technology conditions at that time did not allow this. And with Bkav's technology now, Bphone 3 has a design that is asymptotic to a glass sheet. A simplified design as the design philosophy that Bkav has set up".
Bphone 3 has an impressive bottomless design, with slim bezels, just 2.25mm and equal at three edges, creating a homogeneous display, being asymptotic to a glass sheet and creating a different feeling. It can be said that Bphone 3 is the smartphone that owns the slimmest and equal bezels ever.
A render of Bphone 3
Single camera with AI operating throughout and DeepLap algorithm of Google
Bphone 3 belongs to the group of smartphones with camera of best configuration on the market today: sensor equipped with PDAF Dual Pixel technology, large pixel dimension, etc. The hardware configuration of camera on Bphone 3 is equivalent to the configuration of iPhone X.
In addition to hardware, Bkav has also invested in research of technologies and algorithms for camera on Bphone 3 to be more excellent. With the technology of low light capturing called sNight, camera on Bphone 3 is able to take night photos in an excellent way, creating night shots that are very clear and especially have no noise. The manufacturer confirms that in the same condition, most of other smartphones will produce photos with noise.
Camera on Bphone 3 is single camera, but capable of taking excellent bokeh photos. Bokeh technology on Bphone 3 is combined between the semantic image segmentation technology of Google's DeepLab open source project and Bkav's Nature Bokeh Dual Pixel technology. With this semantic image segmentation, Google certificates that the ability of bokeh on single camera is of equivalent quality to dual camera of high-end smartphones and much better than smartphones of other segments. With Nature Bokeh Dual Pixel of Bkav, the bokeh of photos is handle naturally and deeply, creating emotional images.
With Bphone 2, Bkav was the first manufacturer in the world to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) to camera of smartphone. On August 8, 2017, Bkav launched Bphone 2 with AI camera. One month later, on September 12, 2017, Apple was the second manufacturer to equip its smartphone with artificial intelligence. The manufacturer claimed that on Bphone 3, AI would appear throughout in all operations of camera.
Bphone 3 is equipped with the highest level of anti-theft protection
As a manufacturer with the starting point in network security, Bkav has equipped its Bphone 3 with the highest level of anti-theft technology. With Bphone 3, even if the device has been reset to factory settings (factory reset), the owner can remotely perform such operations as positioning the phone, taking pictures with front or rear camera to see who is using the phone, commanding to lock the device, etc.
Bphone 3 is protected by Bkav Mobile Security antivirus software of special version, integrated deeply inside the kernel of BOS operating system.
Bphone 3 is a virus-free and spam-free smartphone equipped with AI technology in the virus protection and anti-spam filtering technology called Smart Filter.
Users will be fully protected because Bphone 3 is a smartphone of top security, anti-theft, anti-virus and spam-free. Apart from Bphone 3, there are no other smartphones in the world that can provide such comprehensive protection.
Bphone 3 has 50% greater performance than Bphone 2
Compared with Bphone 2, the performance of Bphone 3 is 50% greater due to being equipped with the processor Kryo 260, which supports the tasks related to machine learning. With this configuration, Bphone 3 can handle all heavy games today.
Battery of Bphone 3 is comfortable for use in 1.5 days and the experience of battery usage is better than Bphone 2. According to the manufacturer, there are three factors contributing to the durability of battery including energy saving chip, optimal design of electronic circuit and antenna design technology. For the phone to be used comfortably in 1.5 days but with a bottomless design like Bphone 3, it is a huge challenge in terms of antenna design. And Bkav has used smart antenna technology to solve this design problem.
Compared with Bphone 2, the screen of Bphone 3 is 30% brighter, its color accuracy is better, screen area is 15% larger, while overall size is smaller.
From Bphone 2 to Bphone 3, Bkav has always used more than 90% high-end components from American, Japanese and Korean suppliers to ensure the quality of the product.
"Components are key to the endurance, performance and power consumption of the phone. Today the component market is divided into three levels of quality. Tier 1 usually consists of suppliers from the US, Japan, Europe. Tier 2 is usually suppliers from Korea, Taiwan, etc. Tier 3 is components from Chinese manufacturers. Phones equipped with low-cost components are cheaper and the quality drops significantly over time", said Mr. Tran Viet Hai, Mobile Hardware Director of Bkav.
Bphone 3 uses the operating system BOS 3.0 with full gesture
At the launching event, Bkav also introduced the operating system BOS 3.0, the latest version for Bphone 3. Bkav put into BOS 3.0 a full gesture system that completely eliminated the navigation bar. All common daily tasks such as Back, Home, multitasking interface, control panel, sound adjustment, brightness adjustment, screen off, etc. can be done with gestures easily. With a full gesture system, there is almost no need for hard keys.
BOS is an operating system developed by Bkav for Bphone based on the Android platform. BOS retains and promotes the openness of Android while giving users smoother and more convenient experience.
Bphone 3 is capable of IP68 waterproof
Bphone 3 is towards IP68 waterproof, which means the phone can be immersed in water at a depth of 1.5m over a 30-minute period. With this waterproof standard, users can shoot movies and take pictures underwater. To achieve this goal, Bkav has invested in waterproofing technology, mechanical engineering, as well as used advanced waterproof materials to equip Bphone 3.
Bphone 3 does not have any problems when being spilled with coffee or orange juice, or dropped into the soup, fallen into the sea, etc. In these situations, users can use water to wash, clean, and then use comfortably with no effect to the device.
On the stage of the launching ceremony, Mr. Vu Thanh Thang, Vice President of Bkav's Engineering Division said that: "After being taken out of the water environment, the phone's speaker would have a slight cracked sound at first. But there is nothing to worry. Speaker diaphragm is still exposed to the outside environment for sound to escape, so water can reach the diaphragm, but water can not enter the device because the diaphragm of Bphone 3 is waterproof".
Bphone 3 is the first smartphone in the segment that is equipped with IP68 waterproof technology.
Qualcomm is astounded that Vietnam can create breakthrough designs just like top brands
Mr. Thieu Phuong Nam, General Director of Qualcomm in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia shared a few words at the event:
"With over-30-year investment in innovation and nearly $45 billion invested in research and development, Qualcomm is proud to be Bkav's technology partner from the very beginning. And today, we congratulate Bkav on launching Bphone 3 in Vietnam.
We are amazed that Vietnam not only enters the smartphone market but also creates as innovative design as leading brands.
As regularly working with Bkav, I see their endeavors are truly exceptional, their methodical way of working is just as leading corporations in the world that I've known.
As a Vietnamese, I am very proud of this product".
Bphone 3 is priced at 6,999,000 VND
At the end of the launching event, the manufacturer introduced the third-generation Bphone with two versions Bphone 3 and Bphone 3 Pro.
Bphone 3 has two color options of Black Titan and White Silver. Black Titan option has the back in black and the frame in titanium. The White Silver has white back and silver frame.
Bphone 3 has a screen of Full HD+, camera of 12MP, F1.8, Dual PDAF, Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chip, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal memory and dual SIM.
Bphone 3 Pro has two color options of Black Gold and White Gold. The Black Gold has the back in black and the frame in gold. The White Gold has white back and gold frame.
Bphone 3 Pro has a screen of Full HD+, camera of 12Mp, F1.8, Dual PDAF, Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chip, 4GB RAM, 64GB internal memory and dual SIM.
Both versions have impressive bottomless design, excellent camera, and IP68 waterproof of the flagships.
CEO Nguyen Tu Quang said: "We have put the features of high-end flagships into mid-end and upper-midrange smartphones. This is truly the great effort, enthusiasm of Bkav, of more than 1,500 Bkav people".
Bphone 3 is priced at 6,990,000 VND.
Bphone 3 Pro is priced at 9,990,000 VND.
"Bphone 3 is truly a QUALITATIVE smartphone – high-end smartphone Made in Viet Nam", Mr. Quang concluded.
Bphone 3 Pro
Bkav has set up a chain of over 300 stores across the country to distribute Bphone 3
Bkav has set up more than 300 chain stores across the country to bring Bphone 3 closer to its customers. This is a new strategy that Bkav has studied for a long time.
"Bphone 1 and Bphone 2 had the problem of not enough places and phones for experience across the country", said Ms. Dong Vu Mai Phuong, Marketing Director of Bkav. "With Bphone 3, we want to give our users the experience of Bkav-standard dedicated sales service and customer service. With its expanding network, Bkav wants Bphone 3 to reach out to more people. Thereby, we will bring Bphone 3 to each house".
Bkav will officially sell Bphone 3 on October 19, 2018. On the opening day, users can come for experience and buy Bphone 3 at Bkav's chain of 300 stores nationwide or order Bphone 3 at Bphone.vn. The list of chain stores is available on Bphone.vn.
Before the opening day, users can order Bphone 3 at Bphone.vn. Pre-order program is available from October 10th to 18th:
+ Discount of 500 thousand VND for first 1000 customers that order Bphone 3
+ Discount of 1 million for first 500 customers that order Bphone 3 Pro.
On the 19th of October, Bkav will send the first products to customers. Warranty policy of Bkav is still to change for a new one for smartphones sold within 30 days.
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Moonlight and Night School. Four small words that are creating excitement across theatreland as the city prepares for the Harold Pinter season at the Harold Pinter theatre, a magnificent run of seven productions which together cover 17 of the playwright's finest one act pieces. Serious theatre lovers walk this way for an star-studded event you'll remember for years to come.
Are you ready for two Pinter classics in one magical production? Directed by the Olivier Award winner Lyndsey Turner, Moonlight was first shown at the Almeida Theatre in 1993. It weaves the disturbing tale of Andrew, a man on his deathbed, who reflects on his youth, his loves, and the times he betrayed his his wife, Bel.
Andy's sons Fred and Jake, fierce anti-intellectuals like their dad, hover close by in the dark. They talk in circles, unable to justify their own estrangement from their father, the love and hate they feel for him and the howling gap that yawns between them. The play looks into the isolation we experience at the point between life, death and the afterlife, but the pain is soothed by young Bridget, who manages to bridge the gap between youth and age, life and death.
Night School is another example of Pinter at his strange, weird and wonderful best, rich in comedy but equally menacing, delivering a combination of emotions that leaves you disturbed, thrilled and fascinated. The play, which was first published in 1961, follows an East End criminal who, on return home from a stint in jail, finds his room rented out to a mysterious female tenant who has a dark secret. Set in the tatty night clubs and seedy boarding houses of 1960s London, it's beautifully directed by the brilliant young director Ed Stambollouian.
The Pinter season runs at the Harold Pinter theatre from September 2018 to February 2019, and theatreland is already holding its breath in anticipation. It's rare to see so many Pinter marvels produced in one season, and even rarer to see so many of the playwrights old friends and associates getting involved. If you're looking for a classic to end all classics, you can't beat tickets for the Pinter at the Pinter season.
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Home Departments Plant Management & Operations Rystad Energy: Chevron emerging as the clear leader among all Permian players
Rystad Energy: Chevron emerging as the clear leader among all Permian players
Today’s announcement that U.S. supermajor Chevron will acquire Anadarko Petroleum in a deal valued at $50 billion is reflective of multiple trends that are becoming increasingly evident in the global energy market, according to industry expert Rystad Energy.
Commenting on the deal, Jarand Rystad, Rystad Energy founder and chief executive, says:
"Energy giants recognize that they need to invest more in the shale sector and in renewable energy. At the same time, due also to the lower cost of capital prevalent today, it makes sense for modern E&P companies to favor higher leverage and lower equity share, and instead use debt capital to fund investments and operations, while enhancing shareholder value through share buy-backs and higher dividends."
He adds: "This acquisition represents a golden opportunity for Chevron to achieve a more leveraged capital structure that is better suited for the lower risk energy projects of the future."
Looking at the respective asset portfolios of Chevron and Anadarko, Rystad Energy founding partner and Head of Research Per Magnus Nysveen remarks:
"We have always considered Anadarko as having the best positioned acreage in the sweetest spot of the Permian Delaware basin. Combining these shale assets with Chevron’s strong legacy position in the same area, we will now see Chevron emerging as the clear leader among all Permian players, both in terms of production growth and as a cost leader."
Nysveen continues: "The combined entity will be by far the largest producer in the Permian, which is the fastest growing basin in the world, well ahead of ExxonMobil. By 2025 the merged entity will be able to produce as much 1.6 million barrels of oil per day from the Permian basin alone."Chevron and Anadarko, which currently rank as the world’s 10th and 41st largest producers of oil and gas, respectively, will climb to seventh place after the merger. The new entity will jump ahead of Shell and BP in the rankings, and will trail only ExxonMobil and the five biggest national oil companies.
Rystad Energy also sees strong synergies between the two companies in the US Gulf of Mexico, where the merged entity will become the largest producer, surpassing current leaders BP and Shell. Synergies are also apparent in East Africa, which is emerging as a vital region in the buoyant global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG). Chevron and Anadarko also have overlapping portfolios in Latin America.
Nysveen concludes: "Despite a 37% premium, we think the deal value price of $50 billion is surprisingly good for Chevron. The implicit oil price in the deal is 60 USD/barrel, while oil price today is 71 USD/barrel. Adding synergies, we see a strong potential for value capture here.”
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The best business plans offer profits for all parties involved. Carbon Tanzania even brings triple or quadruple wins. The business enables Tanzania’s forest communities to actively protect their land while preventing deforestation. It also offers companies and individuals elsewhere an opportunity to offset their carbon emissions. “Win-win in its purest form”, says Sarah Borman, Business Development Manager of Carbon Tanzania.
Carbon Tanzania has found a way – and a viable business plan – to prevent deforestation in forests that store over tens of thousands tonnes of carbon per annum. “The carbon credit revenue pays for forest protection. In that way, it is a model for commercial financing of environmental services.”
The concept works for the Hadza, one of Africa’s last hunter-gatherer communities. These people have been living in Tanzania’s Yaeda Valley for thousands of years. It is their ancestral homeland, their source of food and place of shelter. The forest is currently under threat of deforestation from outsiders looking for new grazing pastures and farmers clearing land for crop production.
Forest officially protected
With the help of Carbon Tanzania, 35,000ha of forest in the Yaeda Valley is now officially protected in a REDD+ project (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). The company has helped the Hadza secure the land rights of their ancestral homeland. With the money that Carbon Tanzania makes with the sale of carbon credits related to the Yaeda Valley, forest community land use plans are set up to designate protected zones and farming zones.
The program – and the carbon offset revenue – provides salaries to community guards who protect the forest from deforestation and wildlife eradication. “The Hadza are trained to scientifically measure the carbon stock of the forest”, Sarah Borman explains. “From the sale of carbon credits, we can support a Hadza health fund, school fees, emergency food provisions and ongoing village development.”
Masailand, chimpanzees
The Yaeda Valley project, officially certified and operational since 2012, was the stepping stone for more projects, such as the Makame Masailand Carbon Partnership. It supports the pastoralist Masai in managing and conserving woodlands in Masailand that are rich in wildlife such as elephants, lions, African wild dogs, zebra and various antelope species. There is also an initiative in Kilwa District to protect forests from deforestation while allowing for the sustainable harvesting of high-value timber. Last but not least, the Mahale Landscape Carbon Project offers protection of habitat for 9 species of primates including chimpanzees. For Sarah Borman, Carbon Tanzania has developed a proven format to help combat deforestation that currently accounts for approximately 10-15% of the world’s carbon emissions. “If we can stop deforestation, we can help slow down the rate of global climate change.”
Global interest
The carbon offset opportunities of Carbon Tanzania attract global interest from businesses and individuals, via the company’s own online offset link and via third parties. “First, we assess the level of your carbon emissions and develop a plan of action to reduce them, which often has the added advantage of identifying opportunities for cost reductions. We then offer solutions to offset your remaining, unavoidable emissions through buying forest carbon offsets from the REDD+ forest conservation project of your choice”, Borman explains.
According to Sarah Borman, Carbon Tanzania has multiple pathways of achieving impact. “We employ community rangers who patrol and protect the forest. The communities share in the revenues from the sale of carbon credits. The communities literally become master of their own domain, through the land rights they acquired to tens of thousands of hectares of ancient forest, that will allow them to maintain their traditional lifestyle and culture.”
Other countries?
Now that Carbon Tanzania’s business has taken off in this country, can the concept work in other African countries? Borman: “Though we have no clear plan for next steps outside Tanzania, I am sure other countries may find the concept of paying for forest protection with carbon offset revenue very appealing – and worth a closer look.”
Carbon Tanzania is one of the businesses from the varied African portfolio of impact investor Hooge Raedt Social Venture (HRSV), that focuses mainly in East Africa. Joris de Vries, Investment Manager of HRSV: “As an impact investor we want to assure that our investments are making an absolute difference, not just in the lives of the poor, but also to the businesses that we invest in. We do this by balancing our return expectations with the impact we seek. Investments range from as small as $75,000 to $500,000 and often we are the first or second external investor in these businesses, because we accept the risk that come with these investments.” Sarah Borman, Carbon Tanzania’s Business Development Manager: “The $80,000 funding from HRSV in 2015 gave us a head start. It allowed us to speed the realisation and professionalisation of protection activities and create a firm, professional base for our activities, instead of making small steps with every dollar of carbon offset revenue.”
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How to spot a hoarder
October 7, 2011 - 10:40am
By Teri Karush Rogers
There are a lot of reasons hoarders make bad neighbors: Their pathologically cluttered apartments present a fire risk and can also become a haven for pests of all kinds, including bed bugs. Apartments of hoarders are, in fact, notorious reservoirs for bed bugs, and can literally doom the efforts to de-infest building.
How do you know if you have a hoarder in your midst?
"Unless you're granted access to a person's home, it's often hard to tell if someone in your building is struggling with hoarding," says an article in the September issue of The Cooperator (not yet available online).
The article goes on to point to some circumstantial evidence:
You see your neighbor going through someone else's trash or junk mail
He or she doesn't put out as much trash as other people
Curtains are pushed up against the windows, "typically caused by stacked items...and windows are closed all year long"
No one is ever allowed in the apartment, which implies shame or embarrassment, or fear that they will be forced to throw things away
For more info on what comes next, see 'My upstairs neighbor is a hoarder. What can I do?'
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Meet the Ukrainian artist turning the ruins of a refugee camp into poignant sculptures
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Ukrainian artist Stanislava Pinchuk spent half a year mapping the remains of Europe’s most notorious refugee camp: “The Jungle” in Calais.
As well as gathering data, Pinchuk — who works under the name MISO — collected remains that refugees had left behind during the camp’s forced evacuation at the end of 2016. The trampled mix of broken toothbrushes, SIM cards and tent poles were ground down to become the basis of her latest work, Borders (The Magnetic Fields). Beautiful from a distance, up close the polished terrazzo blocks reveal the true, human nature of the camp and those who stayed there, living ordinary lives among gruelling hardships.
Pinchuk has mixed the sculptures with her own topographical map of the area: markings which show how the camp changed the land itself, the artist says. The meshed fabric is a symbol of connects and belonging, but also acts as a subtle nod to Calais’ traditional lacemaking heritage. As a whole, the work — which helped Pinchuk rise to Forbes’ prestigious 30 Under 30 list — unites both past and present with the very land itself.
To see more of Pichuk's work, visit her Instagram here.
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South West owners value a view over a profit
Homeowners and renters in the south west have been taking part in a survey which has had some surprising results
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South West homebuyers prefer lack of pollution over profit
People living in the south west rate well-being, great views of nature and green scenery over making a profit.
This is according to a new survey conducted by construction firm, Saint Gobain. The construction company in conjunction with the UK Green Building Council saw them contact 3,000 homeowners and renters, with nine per cent of respondents coming from the South West.
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The results showed that households in the South West identified as being the healthiest eating - and that they often rate well-being factors, such as low noise levels, views of nature and a relaxing atmosphere were rated three times more desirable than the ability to add value.
Further results from the survey showed that 84 per cent of people want a more eco-friendly home, but that only 16 per cent are prepared for it.
High energy bills, levels of cold in the winter, and noisy neighbours where the top issues that those renting wanted to address.
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This is all a part of the UK Home, Health and Wellbeing Report which aims to establish links between well-designed homes and better health and well-being in homeowners and renters in the future – informing builders, designers and landlords on what consumers are really looking for beyond the obvious aesthetic elements to a property.
Stacey Temprell, Habitat Marketing Director at Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland, said: “Looking to how the study can step change the industry, it’s clear that putting wellbeing at top billing for property and rental listings, as well as influencing the building factors for new properties could be huge. The report detailed that 91 per cent of 18 — 24 year olds for example, are the most likely group to be influenced by energy ratings when it comes to choosing a home to rent or buy – and these are our future decision makers.”
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Bed and Breakfasts near Hampnett, St George's Church, Gloucestershire
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Bourton-on-the-Water (4.3 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
Broadlands Guest House
Accommodation Type: Guest House
Welcome to Broadlands Guest House. We are located in Bourton-on-the-Water which is an extremely attractive Cotswold village situated on the banks of the river Windrush.
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 2DN
Cirencester (5 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
The Hare and Hounds
Accommodation Type: Inn
Situated on the Fosse Way, close to the Roman town of Cirencester, the Hare and Hounds offers the perfect setting to enjoy award-winning food and drink, as well as ten en-suite rooms set around a …
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 4NN
HISTORIC PROPERTY (Bourton-on-the-Water, 5.1 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
Mousetrap Inn
The Mousetrap Inn is a small family run Inn, set in the traditional Cotswold village, Bourton-on-the-Water. The village has become known as the "Venice" of the Cotswolds with its bridge spanned river meandering through …
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 2AR
Lansdowne Villa Guest House
Lansdowne Villa is a four star rated family run guest house in the pretty village of Bourton on the Water, one of the standout villages in the Cotswolds. It is convenient for Bath and Bleinham …
HISTORIC PROPERTY (Guiting Power, 5.6 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
The Guiting Guest House
Guests are assured of a very warm welcome at the Guiting Guest House which is a delightful and tastefully restored 16th Century Cotswold stone former farmhouse with all modernised facilities. Everywhe
, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 5TZ
Guiting Power (5.8 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
The Hollow Bottom
Accommodation Type: Bed and Breakfast
The Hollow Bottom is a privately owned free house in the heart of The Cotswolds. We are proud of our countryside and racing heritage, fiercely fond of food and dedicated to our customers.
Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 5UX
Cheltenham (7.5 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
Colgate Farm
Accommodation Type: Farm
Colgate Farm is in a peaceful location 3 miles from Cheltenham town centre in the Cotswolds area. It offers free parking and Wi-Fi and enjoys views of the Gloucestershire countryside over the Severn and into …
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 4EZ
HISTORIC PROPERTY (Cheltenham, 7.9 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
The Green Dragon Inn
Situated in the heart of the Cotswolds the hamlet of Cockleford provides a tranquil and picturesque setting for rest and relaxation. For visitors seeking an alternative to the bland uniformity of many a modern town …
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, GL53 9NW
Stow-on-the-Wold (8.2 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
Cotswold Garden Tea Rooms
A warm welcome awaits visitors looking for Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the beautiful Cotswold Town of Stow on the Wold. The Tea Rooms offer charm and style retaining many of its original features in …
Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 1BN
HISTORIC PROPERTY (Stow-on-the-Wold, 8.5 miles from Hampnett, St George's Church)
The White Hart
The White Hart Stow on the Wold. Welcome to our stunning boutique' style Inn set in Stow on the Wold in the heart of the Cotswolds. The White Hart has recently been beautifully refurbished throughout. …
Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 1AF
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BRS Realizes Distribution through Recapitalization of DTLR
NEW YORK, December 18, 2012 — Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. (“BRS”), a New York-based private equity firm, announces a distribution to its limited partners resulting from the recapitalization of DTLR (“DTLR” or the “Company”). DTLR, based in Hanover, Maryland, is a leading specialty retailer targeting the young urban male. The Company operates 84 stores in six regions: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, the Carolinas, Virginia and Washington, D.C. DTLR is committed to the urban lifestyle and offers its customers the hottest urban footwear, apparel and accessories. BRS acquired DTLR in partnership with management in October 2005.
“We are pleased to complete this recapitalization, which represents the third distribution to our limited partners in three years by DTLR” said Rashad Rahman, Principal of BRS. Golub Capital and Wells Fargo provided the financing necessary to complete the recapitalization.
About BRS
BRS is a New York based private equity firm with $1.4 billion of committed capital under management in three investment partnerships, focused on investing in middle market consumer goods and services businesses. Since 1996, BRS has purchased over 40 portfolio companies for aggregate consideration of over $6.4 billion. In addition, BRS portfolio companies have completed approximately $1.9 billion of add-on acquisitions. Prior to forming the firm, the founders of BRS were in the financial acquisition business at Citicorp Venture Capital where they closed 25 transactions with aggregate transaction values totaling $5.8 billion.
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India has 53,725 DigiLocker users and 43,121 documents stored in the digital form. The top three states in number of users are Gujarat (9,178), Uttar Pradesh (7,667), and Maharashtra (6,186). DigiLocker is the national Digital Locker System launched by the government and can be accessed through the website www.digilocker.gov.in.
It was launched by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, under the ministry of communications & IT in February.
Individuals can register using their Aadhaar number. Each digital locker gives 10MB of free space to store documents and links of government department or agency-issued e-documents. The plan is to subsequently increase the storage space to 1 GB.
DigiLocker will minimise the use of physical documents and provide authenticity to e-documents. It will provide secure access to government-issued documents and reduce administrative overhead of government departments and agencies, making it easier for the residents to receive services. The facility of e-sign provided as part of the system, can be used to sign e-documents.
Issuers of documents will have the facility to upload and share these with any registered agency or department. The aim is to make it easy for agencies to share e-documents and minimise the use of physical ones.
Online storage platforms like Google Docs and Dropbox also offer storage space. But you have to digitise the documents yourself.
You can store documents like property papers, those related to investments like mutual funds, shares, insurance, medical reports, PAN card, passport, tax papers, birth or marriage certificates, etc.
Private agencies offer similar document management services for a fee. One of them is Kleeto.com, which offers physical and digital space. The charges range from Rs 1,200-2,000 a year. Customers can store from 500 pages of physical and 500 digital documents with Kleeto.com. The company offers doorstep pick-up and return of documents a certain number of times, depending on the package you sign for.
"Although transactions are increasingly becoming digital, physical creation of documents has not stopped. Even when you buy something from an e-commerce website, you still get a receipt when it is delivered. With people owning more gadgets such as mobile phones, there are more warranty cards and user manuals to keep track of. This makes it difficult to manage documents," says Sunil Mahajan, of Kleeto.
ICICI Bank offers similar locker services, using which customers can store documents at one central secure location and access these anytime conveniently. The documents can be accessed through your ICICI Bank internet banking or ICICI Direct account login. The bank provides it free to its privilege banking and wealth management customers.
The storage facility is up to 1 GB, with no limit on number of documents to be uploaded. However, each document cannot exceed 10 MB.
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German killer nurse probed in 84 deaths
The nurse, known as Niels H, was jailed for life two years ago
A nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two patients in northern Germany is now a suspect in at least 84 other murder cases, police say.
The 40-year-old, named only as Niels H under German reporting rules, was convicted of attempted murder in 2006 and murder in 2015.
His victims received lethal drug doses at units where he worked.
Relatives of patients who died in clinics where he worked had urged police to investigate further.
A commission was set up in 2014 to investigate the scale of his crimes, which could make him Germany’s worst post-war killer.
The medication caused heart failure or the collapse of patients’ circulatory systems.
Judges said he was motivated by a desire to win approval by resuscitating the patients he had drugged.
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During his 2015 trial, he admitted applying the drug to about 90 people at an intensive care clinic in the town of Delmenhorst.
Police say the abnormalities stretch back to 2000 at another clinic in Oldenburg.
They said staff had a meeting there in 2001 to discuss the strange levels of deaths and resuscitations, but did not report the levels to police, and Niels H was able to move to the Delmenhorst clinic.
A special police commission was set up in 2014 to investigate the case.
It has been analysing hundreds of medical records and exhumed 134 bodies to test samples for drug residue.
The investigations have been made more difficult because many patients were cremated.
“The findings continue to breach any imagination,” said Oldenburg police chief Johann Kuhme. “It is simply not possible to say how many people were killed.”
Mr Kuhme warned the number could still rise further. The new charges are now likely to be filed at the beginning of 2018, he said.
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Regional capacity building workshop to support progress on the implementation of the Regional Observer Scheme of IOTC (Resolution 11/04): Oman, I.R. Iran and Pakistan
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A capacity building workshop to support the implementation of the Regional Observer Scheme of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) was organized by the IOTC Secretariat in cooperation with the CMS Secretariat in Muscat from 18-22 October 2015. The Oman Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries hosted the workshop which was opened by Dr Ahmed Mohammed Al-Mazrouai, the Director General of Fisheries Resource Development. Dr Al-Mazrouai is the current Chairman of the IOTC Commission.
The workshop provided expert training to support the creation and implementation of observer schemes in Oman, Pakistan and Iran with a specific focus on gillnet fisheries. IOTC Contracting Parties are required by IOTC Resolution 11/04 to create observer schemes.
Recognizing that without good data sound fisheries management that also minimizes migratory marine species caught incidentally in fishing operations is not possible, five managers from each country took part in the 5-day workshop to learn from each other and from international experts about the elements of effective observer schemes. They also learned how to identify and, where possible, release migratory species such as marine turtles, cetaceans, sharks and seabirds caught incidentally in purse seines, on long lines and in gillnets. Training was designed to support implementation of national programmes that would increase capacity of the three countries to manage their tuna and tuna-like fisheries sustainably, minimize incidental catch of migratory species and ultimately help the countries provide fisheries and by-catch related data to the IOTC Secretariat to fulfill their IOTC reporting requirements. Minimizing by-catch would also assist the three countries in fulfilling their obligations either under CMS to which Iran and Pakistan are a Contracting Party as well as their responsibilities under the CMS Indian Ocean South East Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that all three countries have signed.
Consistent and accurate reporting underpinned by high quality and complete data assists the IOTC Commission in making scientifically based decisions in relation to the various fish stocks it oversees. Information has been particularly lacking in relation to both coastal and off-shore gillnet fisheries which are rapidly expanding in the IOTC region. The situation is challenging for Oman, Pakistan and Iran where upwards of 70% of the catch is from artisanal fishers operating from relatively small boats numbering in the tens of thousands often in difficult operational conditions. The sheer number of boats complicates efforts by governments to establish and resource effective on-board observer schemes. Workshop participants discussed how technology may be able to assist as well as fishers can be encouraged to minimize by-catch of migratory marine species.
Working closely with the IOTC Secretariat the CMS Secretariat identified three experts to act as resource people to the meeting: Robert Baldwin (CMS IOSEA Marine Turtle MOU Advisory Committee member), John Carlson (CMS Sharks MOU Advisory Committee Chair) and shark expert Rima Jabado (Gulf Elasmobranch Project). The latter were financially supported by the CMS Sharks MOU. They were accompanied by Tim Collins (IUCN Marine Mammal Specialist Group and the Wildlife Conservation Society) and Moazzam Khan (WWF-Pakistan). The workshop participants were exposed to the by-catch issue, safe handling and release of marine species, the identification of sharks, rays, marine turtles, and seabirds as well as best practice guidance to support implementation of IOTC’s observer scheme. Lyle Glowka, Executive Coordinator, CMS Office – Abu Dhabi, attended the workshop and introduced participants to the Convention, as well as the work of the CMS Dugong MOU, IOSEA Marine Turtles MOU, the Sharks MOU, and the Agreement on Albatross and Petrels on conservation and by-catch.
CMS’s contribution to the workshop is one example of the long-standing strong working relationship between IOTC, CMS and the CMS Family of instruments to help ensure the conservation and management of CMS listed marine species caught incidentally within the IOTC agreement area. Building synergies between IOTC, the Convention and CMS Instruments will help the respective members of each organization - a significant number of which are the same countries –minimize the by-catch of marine migratory species thereby supporting IOTC and Convention requirements including CMS Resolutions 6.2 and 9.18 (By-catch) and Resolution 10.14 (By-catch in Gillnet Fisheries), Resolution 11.20 (Conservation of Sharks and Rays) as well as mandates under the Convention, the CMS Sharks MOU and IOSEA to cooperate with regional fisheries management organizations such as IOTC.
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The prince and the shoe girl
By Laura Fowler
Marilyn Monroe's high heels to go on show in Florence
As My Life With Marilyn hits the big screen, Salvatore Ferragamo announces a show of the iconic blonde's shoes.
The Italian shoemaker designed more than 40 pairs for Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. Now the starlet's shoes have been bought by the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, in Florence, and will go on show next year, settling the question of whether she really did have half an inch cut off one heel to give her that signature sashay.
The exhibition will feature all Monroe's size 7AAs (5-6 in UK sizes) made by Ferragamo, including these red crystal 'Marilyn' pumps (pictured) and the stilettos she wore in Seven Year Itch, paired with that white dress in perhaps the most famous movie still of all time. As well as footwear, the exhibition will include costumes, history and works of art of the actress, and runs from June 2012 until January 2013.
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Palazzo Spini Feroni, Piazza Santa Trinita, Florence (00 39 055 3360 456; www.museoferragamo.it)
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CLINIC AND OFFICE OVERLAY ZONES
19.16.010 User guide.
19.16.020 Repealed.
19.16.040 C-O clinic-office overlay zone.
The regulations of this section apply to specific geographic areas in which the symbol “C-O” is attached as a suffix to R-3, R-4 or R-5 zone. To understand the regulations for clinics, medical-related activities, and offices in these areas, you should read this chapter. (Ord. 3617-18 § 37, 2018: Ord. 1671-89 (part), 1989.)
19.16.020 C clinic and medical-related activities overlay district.
Repealed by Ord. 3617-18. (Ord. 2538-01 § 9, 2001; Ord. 1849-92 § 9, 1992; Ord. 1671-89 (part), 1989.)
19.16.030 O office overlay district.
Repealed by Ord. 3617-18. (Ord. 1849-92 § 10, 1992; Ord. 1671-89 (part), 1989.)
The C-O clinic and office overlay zone is applied to certain areas within the R-3, R-4 and R-5 zones indicated in Map Number 16-1. Uses permitted within the C-O overlay zone and the standards applicable to such uses shall be as established in this section.
A. Permitted Uses.
1. Any use permitted in the underlying R-3, R-4 or R-5 zone, subject to the standards of the underlying zone which are listed in the use-standards table, except as otherwise provided by subsections A.2 and A.3 of this section.
2. Clinics and medical-related activities within a building containing not more than twenty thousand square feet gross floor area of nonresidential space devoted to clinic or medical-related activities. Clinic and medical-related activities need not be located in a building containing a mix of residential and clinic or residential and medical-related uses. For clinics and medical-related activities with more than twenty thousand square feet of nonresidential space, there are two options, subsection B or subsection C of this section.
3. Offices in buildings where the office space is more than twenty thousand square feet must be in a mixed-use building as provided for in subsection C of this section.
B. Land Uses Permitted Subject to Review Process as Described in Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures.
1. Any such use permitted in the underlying R-3, R-4 or R-5 zone;
2. Clinics containing more than twenty thousand square feet gross floor area.
C. Land Uses Permitted Subject to Review Process as Described in Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures. Government administrative offices, offices, and clinics and medical-related uses are permitted in the R-3, R-4 and R-5 C-O zones subject to the review process described in Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures, and the following restrictions; provided, however, the planning director shall have the authority to require a government administrative office use to be subject to a higher level of review process if he/she determines that additional public notification is necessary to address impacts for the proposed use that may be greater than other uses normally allowed in the R-3, R-4 and R-5 C-O zones:
1. Permitted only in a mixed-use building in which thirty-three percent of the gross floor area, excluding off-street parking within a parking structure, is devoted to multiple-family housing;
2. No portion of any building constructed as a residential building prior to June 1, 1999, may be converted to government administrative office uses;
3. A covenant shall be recorded on the property acknowledging the limitations stated in this section.
D. Parking Requirements. See Chapter 19.34.
E. Setbacks.
1. Front: All clinic and/or office buildings shall be located so the front building facade is located on the front yard setback line. This requirement shall not apply to single-family dwellings which are converted to professional offices or clinics, unless the gross floor area of the dwelling is increased by more than fifty percent.
2. Side:
a. Corner—same as in underlying use zone;
b. Interior—same as in underlying use zone.
3. Rear: five feet.
F. Building Height.
1. R-3 zone: thirty-five feet;
2. R-4 zone: sixty-five feet; provided, that only residential uses are permitted in any portion of the building above the fourth floor;
3. R-5 zone: sixty-five feet.
G. Map No. 16-1, Clinic-Office Overlay.
Map 16-1: Clinic-Office Overlay
(Ord. 3617-18 § 40, 2018: Ord. 2538-01 §§ 10, 11, 2001; Ord. 2445-00 § 1, 2000: Ord. 2397-99 § 38, 1999: Ord. 1849-92 § 11, 1992; Ord. 1671-89 (part), 1989.)
19.16.050 Map number 22-1—“C” clinic overlay zone.
Repealed by Ord. 3617-18. (Ord. 1671-89 (part), 1989.)
19.16.060 Map number 22-2—Office overlay zone.
19.16.070 Map number 22-3—Clinic office overlay zones.
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Wanted: Photographers with a story to tell
The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts is holding its third-annual Storyteller Festival juried photo contest, and the deadline for submissions is Aug. 6.
Aug 1, 2018 1:00 PM by: Erika Engel
Last year's winner of the BMFA Storytellers Festival juried photo contest was Christine Pott, for her photo entitled: Gatekeeper of the Silent Stone Walls. Contributed photo
If a photo is worth 1,000 words, these storytellers get 1,006 words to tell theirs.
The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts (BMFA) is once again presenting The Story Continues photo contest.
This is the third-annual contest, but it developed from the 23-year-long juried photo contest held in the past. Photographers are encouraged to submit a photo online with a title that is six words or fewer and both the title and the photo together must tell a story.
The concept of a six-word story comes from a tale often told about Earnest Hemmingway. He was challenged to write a story in six words. He wrote, “Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.” and he won his bet.
The photographers submitting entries into this year’s juried show are allowed up to six words for a title, and the title is worth 25 per cent of the grade.
“The entrants have to tell a story between the two of them,” said Judy Morrison, chair of the photo contest and a volunteer on the Storytelling Festival board of directors. “It’s a very high-calibre of photography. We’ve had some really amazing photos submitted over the years.”
Submissions for the photo contest are accepted online only and the deadline for entries is August 6. Judging will take place by two accomplished photographers, Tannis Toohey and Peter Stranks, on Aug. 19 and 20. The finalists will be selected for a photo exhibition at the BMFA new location in the Simcoe Street building (65 Simcoe Street) from Sept. 26 to Nov. 4. There will also be an awards reception on Sept. 30 from 1 to 2 p.m. at 65 Simcoe St. There are cash prizes for the winners in each category.
For the contest rules and regulations, click here.
The Storytelling Festival takes place for the month of October. Other events include Reel History on Sept. 28 at the Simcoe Street Theatre. This screening will feature three films by Mountain Goat Films on local apple growing, skiing and the Indigenous people of the area.
On Oct. 13, Dave Conning and his daughter Laura will be at the Simcoe Street Theatre presenting 25 Years - A Young Life in Poetry and Music.
On Oct. 14, Darci-Que and Emile will present a children’s workshop with a Halloween theme at the Collingwood Public Library.
On Oct. 19, cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the For Better or For Worse comic strip will be giving a talk at the Simcoe Street Theatre.
Tickets for these events will be available by the end of August on the BMFA website.
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Boris Castellanos
CJN Story on 'The Rescue' (Abuelo El Salvador) publised on April, 2014
Here is the article that came out on the Canadian Jewish News while we were busy filming in Israel this past spring. We made some great connections as a result of the article... Thanks CJN!
PAUL LUNGEN
In 1972, Jose Arturo Castellanos was living the quiet life of a retired diplomat when acclaimed novelist Leon Uris came knocking on his door. Uris wanted to speak to him about World War II and Castellanos’ role in it – specifically how he used his position as a diplomat to save Jews.
A native of El Salvador, Castellanos shared his countrymen’s modesty and didn’t particularly like to blow his own horn, said two of his grandchildren, Alvaro and Boris Castellanos. Their grandfather’s exploits were not widely known at the time outside of family circles.
That was about to change, as Uris’ subsequent interview drew widespread attention to Castellanos’ key role in drawing up citizenship papers that saved the lives of an estimated 40,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Castellanos was subsequently named as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, taking his place alongside war- time heroes like Raul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler.
Today, the Castellanos brothers live in Toronto. Their grandfather is long dead, but the two are hoping to keep his memory alive through two films they are making about him. The first, a 15-minute doc- umentary, is already complete. They will present it on April 29, two days after Yom Hashoah, at the House of Quality Jerusalem, a centre for artists and cultural life in the Holy City. A three-minute trailer for the film can be viewed at castellanosmovie.com
They are currently working on a full- length, 90-minute film that they hope to complete in a year or two, if they can get the funding for it. The brothers travelled to Israel last year to interview survivors. They’ve also met their grandfather’s diplomatic colleagues, and they’ve talked to historians.
They think there may be a Canadian connection to the story. Given that many of the Jews their grandfather helped were from Hungary, and there is a substantial Hungarian Jewish population in Toronto, the brothers are hoping that anyone with a tale to tell will come forward, and per- haps be included in the film.
“We were thinking, what are the chances that someone in Canada was saved by one of these documents?” Boris said.
For the brothers, their grandfather’s deeds have particular meaning, and not just because they are proud he saved many lives. “We are Salvadorans rescued by Canada from a very bloody civil war,” said Al- varo. “To have a Canadian angle to the story, by people who have been rescued, is very important to us.”
“That is a powerful part of the film,” added Boris. Not only are they reaching out to survivors who personally benefited from the documents their grandfather provided, they are asking survivors’ children to come forward with their stories, or perhaps with the original wartime documents they may have come across in their parents’ files. These could be a compelling visual representation of his exploits, they said.
When Castellanos was assigned to the El Salvadoran diplomatic corps in the late 1930s, there was little to suggest he would play an important role in saving so many lives. He had been a bit of a trouble maker back in El Salvador, advocating democracy, so the fascist regime dispatched him to Europe in 1937, where they thought he couldn’t cause much trouble, Alvaro said.
He was first assigned as part of a weapons procurement team, but was later appointed consul general in Liverpool, England.
In 1941, Castellanos was assigned to Hamburg, Germany, where he issued visas to Jews to enable them to leave the country. Later he named George Mandel- Mantello as first secretary, a fictitious post that didn’t exist in the Salvadoran foreign service. Mandel was a Hungarian Jewish businessman whom Castellanos had met earlier in his career. To make his name more Spanish, Mandel changed it to Mantello.
In issuing citizenship documents to European Jews, Castellanos was violating instructions from his government. Later, he would tell his family, “Anybody else would do the same. It was part of my job,” Alvaro recalled.
Clearly, his Salvadoran modesty played a role in downplaying his achievements, but his flouting of the rules could have gotten him into deep trouble. Their grandfather, however, was disaffected with the country’s dictatorship, so his reaction was “to say screw you, Fascists,” Alvaro explained.
For the next two to three years, after being reassigned to Geneva, he and Mandel-Mantello issued life-saving documents to Jews facing deportation and death.
Jews in Budapest in possession of the papers could find refuge in international safe houses, such as the Glass House, a former glass factory in which the Swiss government harboured thousands of Jews who possessed Salvadoran papers and those of other countries.
“Granddad arranged the documents, and Mantello found Jews to be helped,” Alvaro said.
After the war, Castellanos returned to El Salvador but was exiled to Mexico for advocating democracy. In 1950, he was reappointed to the diplomatic corps. He retired in 1956 and died in 1977 at age 86.
Alvaro conceived of the documentary 12 years ago, based on the stories the boys had heard since childhood. The project was put on hold after their mother suffered a stroke, but it was revived thanks in part to the encouragement of their Jewish friends and clients.
“Our Jewish friends and clients who found out we were in research for our documentary really encouraged us to go to Israel and start our film project,” Alvaro said.
“For me, that brought the whole thing back,” Boris said. “Some Jewish friends are the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.”
Now, the brothers, filmmakers and artists, have put their event planning business on hold – though they still do work for longstanding clients like ORT Toronto and Ve’ahavta – and they’re focusing their attention on their film project
If they succeed in getting the funds to complete the full-length documentary, their grandfather’s remarkable story will reach an even larger audience, Salvadoran modesty or no modesty.
Survivors and their family members are asked to contact Boris at: 647-780-2674, or send an email to: alvaro@castellanosmovie.com
Newer PostMultimedia Event & presentation by Alvaro & Boris Castellanos: Anatomy of a Rescue NOV. 1, 2014 Toronto
Older PostDocumentary short screening and blog launch event in Toronto
Post #therescuefilm screening in NYC
Filming in El Salvador
While shooting in El Salvador (NTP)
www.castellanosmovie.com Boris and Alvaro Castellanos
Shooting in El Salvador
Filming in Rome
Production in Rome
Interview on #univision with Teresa Rodriguez Aqui y Ahora #miami @tererodrigueztv
At the #nationalpressclub in Washington DC
Tickling the ivories while waiting on the #trumanpiano at the #nationalpressclub
#nationalpressclub washington DC
At the #smithsonian Museum of American History in DC waiting for the snow to stop
Interview at spanish #cnn about our film #TheRescue in Washington DC - Entrevista en CNN en Español sobre el documental Abuelo El Salvador
#timessquare ! - Filming in NYC - October 2013
Setting up for NYC interview shoot - October, 2013 #castellanosmovie #documentary #jac
The #deadsea taken spring 2013 while on our first shooting trip to #israel
Interview shoot in Jerusalem - April, 2013 #documentary #josearturocastellanos
#mamshit national park - #israel while shooting - April 2013
Taking in the sights while filming in #jerusalem - Spring 2013 #westernwall #israel
#telaviv #sunset while filming in #israel - spring 2013
Films by Alvaro and Boris Castellanos, TORONTO, ON, Canadainfo@castellanosmovie.com
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Grand Central centennial
Southwest view of main concourse in Grand Central Terminal with light shining through windows in 1927 or 1928.
Credit: MTA/Metro-North
Grand Central opened in 1913, with over 67 subterranean tracks and thousands of people departing and arriving daily. While it is commonly known as a train station, it
The southern side of the terminal, along 42nd Street in Manhattan, is seen in this undated photo.
Grand Central Station sometime around 1915.
Artist's rendering of Grand Central Station published in the New York Tribune, June 26, 1910.
Inside the Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal, date unknown.
An officer with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority stands guard at Grand Central Station early Oct. 8, 2005, in New York.
Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer
Inside Grand Central's Main Concourse.
Grand Central terminal is packed with rush hour commuters, Dec. 21, 2005, in New York.
Inside the Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal.
Travelers at Grand Central station arrive and depart during the Thanksgiving holiday in New York, Nov. 23, 2005.
Credit: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
The facade at Grand Central Terminal.
Exterior view of Grand Central Terminal's south facade.
Grand Central's main concourse.
Grand Central's southern facade, seen in this undated photo.
The exterior view of New York's Grand Central Terminal.
The terminal's southern facade is seen from Park Avenue South, from around 41st Street.
The terminal's southern facade is seen in this undated photo.
The Information booth at Grand Central Terminal, date unknown.
The clock at the information booth inside Grand Central Terminal.
The Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal.
The exterior facade at Grand Central Terminal.
The Zodiac ceiling at Grand Central Terminal.
The ticket booths at Grand Central Terminal, during morning rush.
Ticket windows inside Grand Central Terminal ca. 1930s-1940s.
The Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal, during morning rush.
Passengers move through the sun-splashed Main Concourse in this undated photo.
Photograph of Grand Central Terminal Head House unders construction in 1912. Building is surrounded by scaffolding, some of the facade is still being added, and the lower levels are open to view, May 10, 1912.
The exterior of Grand Central Terminal.
The Main Concourse seen in this undated photo.
The exterior of Grand Central, date unknown.
A chandelier inside Grand Central Terminal.
A suburban ramp inside Grand Central Terminal, date unknown.
Service windows of the Lost Property Room inside Grand Central Terminal, date unknown.
Grand Central Terminal ticket windows, ca. 1940s.
Grand Central Terminal interior view, man studies a poster offering New York Central Railroad system jobs to college graduates at the Information Booth in the Main Concourse, ca. 1960-1970.
Grand Central Terminal's Clockmaster Jake Bechtold calibrates the clock above the board to his pocketwatch.
Grand Central Terminal interior view, close-up of East or West window in Main Concourse.
The Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central Terminal interior view, Hyatt Passageway, ca. 1937-1940s. View of tailor's storefront.
Grand Central Station as seen from the exterior, date unknown.
The Park Avenue Tunnel.
Grand Central Terminal interior view, Hyatt Passageway, ca. 1937-1940s.
Grand Central Depot, date unknown.
Interior view of Grand Central Depot train shed, date unknown.
The Whispering Gallery at Grand Central Terminal. People standing in one of the corners can hear others speaking into the opposite corners.
Exterior view of Grand Central Depot, 1871.
Exterior view of Grand Central Station, ca. 1904
Looking south past Grand Central Terminal to the New York Central Building and the Pan Am Building.
Park Avenue looking north to Grand Central Terminal, from around 39th Street.
Exterior view of Grand Central Terminal's south facade and roadways surrounding, taken from a nearby building, ca. 1944.
Exterior view of Grand Central Terminal's south facade, taken from Park Avenue South and East 40th Street.
People, possible homeless, sleep in the terminal's waiting room in this undated photo.
View of Grand Central Terminal's East Balcony and windows, including the Kodak Colorama display, information kiosk, and rays of sunlight falling on a small platform with a car display, circa 1950s.
Interior aerial view of Grand Central Terminal Express Concourse March 20, 1984.
Grand Central Terminal baggage claim area. In the left of the shot, two men handle a roped trunk. A man with his back to the camera sits at a desk, filled with dustly ledgers, confers with a red cap. A heavily stickers suitcase visible in the foreground.
Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, ca. 1980s.
Main concourse seen in this undated photo.
Interior view of Grand Central Terminal - Track Gates 29, 28, 27.
Grand Central Theatre entrance, ca. 1940s. Posters advertise News Reels, and "Up to the Minute World News".
Interior view of Grand Central Terminal Suburban Level train gates, ca. 1939-1949.
Interior view of Grand Central Terminal--Track Gate 28, passengers boarding for the Twentieth Century Limited to Chicago.
Interior view of Grand Central Terminal Main Concourse, looking past the information booth to the West Balcony, Dec. 16, 1914.
A car approaches automobile entrance to the terminal. Out of focus passersby appear in blurry streaks, ca. 1940s.
Exterior view of Grand Central Terminal automobile approach, showing center of South Facade, close on clock and statues of Mercury, Minerva, and Hercules, and the pedestal statue of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1963.
Line of cabs outside 25 Vanderbilt Avenue doors, Grand Central entrance, ca. 1940s.
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50-46 Overall | 3rd AL West
Rangers .251 515 137 5.03
AL West Division 3rd 1st 5th 4th
American League 8th 4th 8th 11th
HITTING PITCHING EXTENDED HITTING EXTENDED PITCHING
2 Jeff Mathis C .227 22 4 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 7 8 .400 .273 .673
14 Asdrubal Cabrera 2B .387 31 5 12 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 11 .459 .387 .846
13 Joey Gallo LF .241 29 2 7 3 0 0 4 1 0 5 14 .353 .345 .698
17 Shin-Soo Choo RF .222 27 4 6 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 7 .324 .296 .620
5 Willie Calhoun LF .190 42 3 8 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 .286 .238 .524
6 Chase d'Arnaud SS .286 14 4 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 7 .444 .500 .944
12 Rougned Odor 2B .355 31 6 11 3 0 3 7 1 1 4 11 .429 .742 1.171
15 Carlos Tocci CF .286 28 4 8 3 0 2 9 0 0 4 3 .394 .607 1.001
3 Delino DeShields 2B .324 37 7 12 2 0 0 3 4 2 4 4 .390 .378 .768
21 Patrick Wisdom 3B .171 35 7 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 4 14 .275 .314 .589
47 Eliezer Alvarez 2B .250 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 .571 .250 .821
24 Hunter Pence RF .385 39 10 15 5 0 3 7 5 0 3 8 .455 .744 1.199
38 Danny Santana CF .314 35 10 11 4 2 2 10 1 0 3 13 .359 .714 1.073
41 Logan Forsythe 2B .261 23 1 6 2 0 1 5 0 0 3 9 .346 .478 .824
40 Matt Davidson 3B .206 34 3 7 1 0 3 5 0 0 3 14 .325 .500 .825
-- LeDarious Clark LF .500 8 4 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 .600 .875 1.475
9 Isiah Kiner-Falefa SS .455 22 6 10 3 1 0 4 0 1 2 3 .520 .682 1.202
16 Nolan Fontana 2B .394 33 6 13 2 0 0 8 1 0 2 7 .429 .455 .884
11 Ronald Guzman 1B .323 31 5 10 1 0 3 5 2 0 2 7 .371 .645 1.016
28 Jett Bandy C .211 19 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 .286 .211 .497
80 Eli White SS .121 33 2 4 1 0 0 2 2 1 2 6 .171 .152 .323
-- Josh Altmann LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .667 1.167
1 Elvis Andrus SS .500 26 3 13 2 0 1 9 0 0 1 2 .500 .692 1.192
-- Tyler Depreta-Johnson SS .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .500 .000 .500
-- Preston Beck 1B .320 25 6 8 0 0 1 7 0 1 1 3 .379 .440 .819
-- Franklin Rollin 2B .200 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .333 .400 .733
43 Ben Revere CF .286 21 1 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .318 .333 .651
-- Ryan Dorow 2B .200 10 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .273 .300 .573
66 Zack Granite CF .222 18 5 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 3 .263 .389 .652
30 Nomar Mazara RF .243 37 4 9 3 0 0 5 0 0 1 11 .256 .324 .580
-- Yonny Hernandez SS .167 12 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 .231 .167 .398
-- Bubba Thompson CF .111 9 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 3 .200 .444 .644
71 Jose Trevino C .118 17 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .167 .118 .285
-- Diosbel Arias SS .000 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .125 .000 .125
-- Curtis Terry 3B .500 4 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 1.000
-- Leody Taveras CF .375 8 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 .375 .375 .750
-- Preston Scott LF .333 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .667 1.000
86 Andy Ibanez 2B .300 20 3 6 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 .300 .450 .750
-- Sam Huff C .200 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .200 .200 .400
-- Jax Biggers SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
-- Frainyer Chavez SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Brendon Davis 3B .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Michael De Leon SS .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Eric Jenkins CF .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000
-- Charles Leblanc 3B .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Julio Pablo Martinez CF .000 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Jonah McReynolds SS .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
63 Adam Moore C .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
-- Anderson Tejeda SS .000 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 .000 .000 .000
Total .271 840 135 228 53 6 21 126 22 10 89 222 .346 .424 .770
Last Updated: Wed Mar 27 09:31:49 EDT 2019
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REPORT: Walsall 3-2 Sky Blues
Sky Blues knocked out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle...
Scott Rowland
@ScottRowls
The Sky Blues were knocked out of the FA Cup in the first round, as Walsall ran out winners in a thrilling end-to-end fixture at the Banks's Stadium.
The Sky Blues began the game the better team and fashioned the first sight of goal of the afternoon with only three minutes on the clock.
Jordan Shipley stole the ball on the half-way line and mounted a three-on-three attack with support from Jordy Hiwula and Jonson Clarke-Harris. Shipley carried the ball and passed it out wide to Clarke-Harris who cut in from the right, faked a shot and then took a heavy touch to allow the defender in to smash the ball clear.
Minutes later it was Clarke-Harris feeding Jordan Shipley to go one-on-one with Liam Roberts, with multiple defenders trailing behind him. Shipley took a touch and slipped at the last moment before Roberts came out and dived on the ball to relieve any pressure.
With 12 minutes on the clock, the visitors were ahead. A deep cross was delivered to the back post that was picked up by Zeli Ismail. Ismail ran to the byline and back-heeled the ball into the path of Andy Cook who stabbed the ball home from six yards.
Immediately from the restart, Clarke-Harris had the chance to level the scores, but the striker took one touch too many and stretched for his shot that ended up lacking power, and was saved by Roberts.
With 20 minutes on the clock, the Sky Blues should have found themselves level. Determined running from Shipley allowed him to close down centre-back Russell Martin as he was clearing the ball, and the ricochet fell the Irishman's way.
Shipley ran onto the loose ball - which had bobbled into the box - and unleashed a low left-footed shot aimed across the 'keeper and towards the back post, but the ball whistled just wide with Luke Thomas sliding in for any rebounds.
The home team began to build up a head of steam earning a succession of freekicks around the Sky Blue box. None of the free kicks resulted in a clear-cut chance, but Josh Ginnelly popped up 25-yards from goal and smacked a vicious effort just inches over Lee Burge's goal.
With just under half an hour played, the Sky Blues' deficit doubled as Ginnelly latched onto Jordon Thompson's attempted back-pass and rolled the ball underneath the on-coming Lee Burge and into the back of the net.
The Sky Blues had an uphill battle on their hands and did not waste any time in attempting to mount a fight back, as Jordy Hiwula saw his curling effort fly just wide of Liam Roberts' right-hand post.
And the comeback was on only five minutes after the Saddlers had doubled their lead. Clarke-Harris capitalised on a slip from Jon Guthrie and calmly slotted the ball underneath the on-rushing Liam Roberts.
As the half was drawing to a close, the Sky Blues were pushing to find the equaliser and great interplay between Hiwula and Shipley saw the ball fed to Luke Thomas on the right wing. Thomas cut in and let an effort fly but his shot was blocked and the danger cleared.
HALF-TIME: Walsall 2 - 1 Sky Blues
City came out for the second half and immediately took the game to the Saddlers and nearly fashioned a goal-scoring chance within the first couple of minutes.
Neat play between Thomas, Thompson, and Doyle ended up with Shipley spraying a 50-yard ball to Hiwula out on the left, who attacked the full-back and then played in Shipley who superbly followed his pass. The ball was played into the midfielder but his touch ran away from him before he could get his shot off.
City's dominance finally paid off in the 56th minute as Luke Thomas fired a volley underneath the body of the diving Liam Roberts from the edge of the box to level up the scores.
Before the Saddlers' goal was breached for the second time in the afternoon, City kept the ball brilliantly for the large majority of the second half, patiently waiting for their opening.
The Saddlers were fighting back and with just under half an hour left on the clock, captain George Dobson attacked the Sky Blue defence. He made his way into the City box and went down under the challenge of Jordan Willis and looked for a penalty, but the referee waved play on.
Minutes later, the Sky Blue crossbar was rocking as Andy Cook rose highest in the City penalty area and diverted his header goalward.
The home side had fought their way back into the game and were carving chances out for themselves. Efforts came and went for Josh Gordon and Andy Cook, as did another penalty shout as Gordon went down in the area under the challenge of Jordan Thompson, but the referee waved play on once again much to the home side's dismay.
The home side were pushing for their third goal of the afternoon, and nearly found one but for a goal-line scramble. Guthrie met the incoming freekick at the back post which was denied by Dom Hyam, and then the goal-line scramble ensued which resulted in a freekick for City.
However, Walsall were back in front minutes later as Nicky Devlin ran on to a ball on the right wing and smashed his first-time shot emphatically past Lee Burge and into the top corner.
Following Walsall's third goal, City found it hard to gather any momentum by way of creating any chances. The home side managed the last 15 minutes of the game well and limited the Sky Blues who failed to muster up an effort on goal for the remainder of the game.
FULL-TIME: Walsall 3 - 2 Sky Blues
Sky Blues XI: Lee Burge (GK), Jordon Thompson, Jordan Willis, Dom Hyam, Brandon Mason, Michael Doyle (C), Abu Ogogo (71), Jordan Shipley, Luke Thomas (71), Jordy Hiwula (81), Jonson Clarke-Harris
Subs: Liam O'Brien (GK), Jack Grimmer, Jodi Jones (71), Conor Chaplin (81), Junior Brown, Tom Bayliss (71), Amadou Bakayoko
Walsall XI: Liam Roberts (GK), Luke Leahy, George Dobson (C), Jon Guthrie, Nicky Devlin, Andy Cook, Zeli Ismail, Josh Ginnelly (90), Liam Kinsella, Josh Gordon, Russell Martin
Subs: Chris Dunn (GK), Kieron Morris (90), Maz Kouhyar, Connor Johnson, Dylan Parker, Connor Ronan, Alfie Bates
Yellows: Thomas '56, Mason '75, Martin '76, Cook '87
Goals: Cook '12, Ginnelly '28, Clarke-Harris '33, Thomas '56, Devlin '76
Attendance: 4,760 (2665 Sky Blues)
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2019 Youth Theme Resources Include Album and Concert—by Youth, for Youth
Contributed By Eleanor Cain Adams, ChurchofJesusChrist.org Church News staff writer
Youth artists from the 2019 Mutual theme album receive applause at the annual Mutual album concert on January 15, 2019, in the Tabernacle at Temple Square. The youth recorded and helped write songs for the album If We Love Him.
Songs from the Mutual theme album entertain and strengthen testimonies of youth.
Now youth can watch the video of a concert featuring performances of songs recorded and written by youth for the Mutual Theme album.
“[The Mutual album] is a really strong driving force, especially for youth that are looking for things that are positive in the world today.” —Judy Alba, Temple Square Performances administrator
Watch the 2019 Mutual theme album concert.
Explore 2019 Mutual theme resources.
Find youth articles, social media pages, and other youth resources.
Youth started filling the Tabernacle pews at Temple Square, smiling and chattering as their ward leaders shuffled them along to settle in their seats before the concert began. But those few hundred Sunday-dress-clad youth weren’t the only ones about to watch the 2019 Mutual theme album concert.
Thousands more youth as far away as the Philippines, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia were tuning in via Facebook live, sharing their excitement for the concert through Facebook comments with smiling and waving emoji.
Although Temple Square Performances coordinator Stephen Breinholt suspected some youth attended the Tuesday-night concert somewhat reluctantly (as Breinholt, his own ward’s Young Men president, would know), he saw their attitudes shift the moment the music began.
“Some youth seem to come with a lot of skepticism—not sure if they're going to like the activity,” Breinholt laughed, “and then they hear this music—they see these youth singing, they hear the talent level, they get the connection to what some of the text is in the music—and it starts to really impact them. I think they’re shocked. They’re surprised that it’s as powerful for them as it is.”
The 2019 Mutual album concert on January 15 showcased music from the 2019 Mutual album, If We Love Him. The album is one of the Mutual theme resources available for Latter-day Saint youth as they learn more about the 2019 theme in John 14:15: “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
The Mutual album concert—now in its second year—featured performances from youth singers who helped record and write songs on this year’s Mutual album, including the 2019 theme song, “If We Love Him.” The album (available for free download) is now in its seventh year and features a variety of uplifting, modern songs by youth, for youth worldwide. The video of the concert is another good resource to help youth learn and appreciate the 2019 Mutual theme.
“Our audience is way out there in other places across the world,” Breinholt said of the concert’s intended international audience, “and they really appreciate this concert. They’re looking for these kinds of resources and connection.”
A unified message for youth everywhere
Each year, the Mutual theme song is translated into over 30 languages. Often, the song is performed and recorded by Church members all over the world. The entire album is translated in Spanish and Portuguese, though some local areas in Europe and other countries also translate and record songs themselves.
Mutual theme product manager Fernando Camilo said the theme has a special unifying power for youth across the globe. From sharing the same 2019 theme T-shirts at For the Strength of Youth conferences to singing the same theme song in their native language, he said the single message creates a camaraderie between youth everywhere in their journey to learn about the Mutual theme scripture.
“There are youth in Japan and youth in Ghana and youth in France all learning about this scripture together—a lot of them memorizing it,” Camilo said. “It’s a unique experience that every year there’s something to look forward to. They love it—just look at the social media comments.”
Jordan James sings his song, “Merciful,” from the 2019 Mutual album at a dress rehearsal for the Mutual album concert. Photo by Judy Alba.
Elica Moore sings her song, “Rest,” from the 2019 Mutual album at a dress rehearsal for the Mutual album concert. Photo by Judy Alba.
Claire Westcott sings her song, “His Name,” from the 2019 Mutual album at a dress rehearsal for the Mutual album concert. Photo by Judy Alba.
Indeed—over 18,000 viewers tuned in to the 2019 Mutual album concert via Facebook live alone, leaving almost 500 comments of praise: “This music is beautiful!” wrote one youth; “I can feel God’s love through these songs. Thank youuu!!!” commented another. Youth even left comments in other languages: “Gracias por esto, lo necesitaba” (Thank you for this, I needed it).
Youth were also invited to participate during the concert via social media by sending Instagram messages to @ldsyouth explaining how the gospel has brought them happiness.
One of many responders, a young man named Marshall wrote: “There’s one thing I can always, always rely on: the grace of God. He hears us, He knows us, but most importantly, He loves us. Hearing these singers and the Spirit that has been here so far has brought me so much joy and happiness. Christ truly does live, and, by His grace, loves us more than we will ever know.”
For Camilo, the songs on the Mutual album can serve as reminders of testimonies youth already have about gospel principles. “The Spirit touches them in a way that reminds them of the truth of the principle in the song, and the good melodies just help to carry the message through.”
The power of music to build testimony
Seeing other youth on stage performing faith-building songs about Christ and the Church was powerful for the youth watching the concert, said Temple Square Performances administrator Judy Alba.
“They didn’t realize that these songs were so tailored to them and to what they’re going through,” she said. “Some of them had never even heard the songs before they came, so they were excited to know that there was something out there especially for them.”
Talin Everett sings his song, “Forget,” from the 2019 Mutual album at a dress rehearsal for the Mutual album concert. Photo by Judy Alba.
Many of the youth leaders in attendance were surprised as well, Breinholt said. After all, most of the songs aren’t exactly the sort you’d expect to find in a typical sacrament meeting. “In some ways, that’s a real bonus,” he said. “It’s the kind of music youth want to listen to during their week to get them pumped up and jazzed up.”
But more than that, the songs are geared toward giving youth a testimony-building resource to turn to amid the negative media pervading their daily routines. Music, Alba said, can be an especially poignant tool for good.
“Music is the quickest way to touch somebody’s soul,” she said. “It just seems to be something that can immediately give a feeling or bear testimony of the words that are spoken. It’s a really strong driving force, especially for youth that are looking for things that are positive in the world today.”
More than anything, Breinholt pointed out, the 2019 Mutual album and concert are meant to help youth know that there are positive, uplifting resources for them to access through the Church.
“We want to help the youth—wherever they are,” Breinholt said. “Since we have powerful music that's been created, my hope is to get that music out so that people know it's there and know that this is a resource to help them out.”
2019 Mutual theme resources
Youth, leaders, and other Church members are welcome to explore the following free 2019 Mutual theme resources on the 2019 youth theme homepage:
Download all the songs on the 2019 Mutual album or stream them on the LDS Music app, Spotify, or YouTube.
Watch the 2019 Mutual theme album concert on the LDS Media Library, or via the LDS Youth Facebook page.
Find free “If We Love Him” sheet music (female and male versions).
Read more about the 2019 theme from the Young Women General Presidency.
Find more inspiring content for youth on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org youth homepage.
Follow @LDSYouth on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for more uplifting messages.
Download 2019 Mutual theme posters, T-shirt designs, and logos.
Download and share the “If We Love Him” music video.
Nicole Luz, a youth singer from Brazil, performs a song in Portuguese at the 2019 Mutual theme album concert on January 15, 2019.
Youth artists from the 2019 Mutual theme album take a bow after the Mutual album concert on January 15, 2019, in the Tabernacle at Temple Square.
Youth artists from the 2019 Mutual theme album sing at a dress rehearsal. Photo courtesy of Judy Alba.
Church composer Nik Day and guitarist Brady Bills accompany youth performers at a dress rehearsal for the 2019 Mutual theme album concert. Photo by Judy Alba.
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Building ongoing formation into organizational culture enables leaders and staff members to continue to ‘tell the story’:
‘Our “originating memory” is important but it is more important that “the story must go on”. In other words, a sense of mission and identity is partly developed through a dialogue with past traditions on the one hand and the imaginations of those who join these faith-based institutions today.’ (John Honner)
Each organisation will shape and model its Catholic identity and express its mission in different ways through understanding and articulating its own particular heritage and telling the story in new ways through the talents, imagination and passion of those who join it today and into the future.
Ongoing formation, exploring in greater depth the riches of Catholic identity and the Mission and culture of the organisation, builds upon the initial formation experience of Orientation/Induction. In many Catholic health, education and community service organisations, these further formation opportunities occur incrementally, with formation experiences becoming longer and deeper with the length of years served or because of the seniority of the position held.
Most of the ongoing formation experiences listed below have been painstakingly designed specifically to lead employees, and especially leaders, to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the charism, heritage, culture and values of particular organisations. Most of these programs are sequential, aiming for an incremental deepening of commitment. Most of them are able, however, to be adapted to the needs of other Catholic organisations and used as templates
Catholic Health Australia has produced an excellent video series of reflections by senior leaders and experts in response to questions about Catholic identity and mission. Although the focus is on health and aged care services, the material is easily adaptable and provides stimulating material for workshops and discussion groups and features, among others, Brian Lucas, Cath Garner, Therese Carroll, Julie Edwards and David Ranson. www.cha.org.au/mission/webcasts.html
Mercy Mission and Charism Formation Framework: This resource book is aiming to develop a strong Mercy culture. Leading participants into a deeper appreciation of Mercy mission and charism over their years of employment. This ongoing formation process lends itself to adaptation by other organisations. For more information click here.
Edmund Rice Education Australia Formation in Identity series is a suite of programs that incrementally lead participants to a deeper understanding of identity and mission in the Edmund Rice tradition. A sophisticated ‘journey’ inviting greater involvement and commitment at each level from initial induction to long term commitment by leaders. Open to adaptation, this series provides a template for ongoing formation with a strong scriptural basis: http://www.erea.edu.au/programs
Campion Jesuit Retreat Centre, 99 Studley Park Road, Kew. Provides various informal courses in the Ignatian tradition and accredited graduate courses linking leadership and spirituality. Graduate courses are provided through the Sentir Graduate College of Spiritual Formation affiliated with the University of Divinity, Melbourne. For information, go to: www.campion.asn.au
Heart of Life Spirituality Centre, 96 Albion Road, Box Hill, offers a number of short courses in spirituality of interest to health, education and community service providers. Go to: http://heartoflife.melbourne/ for further information.
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Apple and Qualcomm end their long legal war
By Buster Hein • 1:35 pm, April 16, 2019
It’s finally over!
Photo: Qualcomm
The legal war between Apple and Qualcomm is finally over.
In a surprise announcement, the two companies revealed that they have agreed to drop all litigation against each other, bringing an end to a dispute over royalities and patent infringements that spanned multiple countries.
Apple and Qualcomm have been fighting in courts for the last few years. Qualcomm contended that Apple owed it money for royalty payments related to its technology while Apple said the company was trying to try an unfair rate for essential technology. Both sides scored victories in various court systems but they’re finally calling a truce.
“The settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm. The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019, including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement,” said Apple in a press release.
Qualcomm stock rose over 20% on the news of the settlement. Recent reports claimed that Apple and its suppliers were seeking nearly $30 billion in damages from Qualcomm. In the end, Apple had to make a payment to Qualcomm to settle the dispute but it’s unclear how much the amount was.
Enter the 5G iPhone
Settling the dispute with Qualcomm could give Apple access to 5G modem chips in time for the 2019 iPhone lineup launch, though a 2020 debut is more likely. The company has been developing its own modems but those weren’t expected to be ready until 2020 at the earliest, with 2021 being a more realistic date.
As someone who covered the Apple vs Samsung legal battle, I’m beyond stoked for Qualcomm and Apple to finally resolve their differences. This litigation nightmare seemed to span even more countries and courts and had more money at stake. Neither side could really afford to lose, so it’s friggin delightful that they surprised us with a happy ending.
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Young Archaeologists Discover Bronze Age Cairns On Moor
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Photo: YAC members explore the remote Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. © YAC
A group of young people on an archaeological holiday in Cornwall with the Young Archaeologists' Club (YAC) were astounded to find two previously unrecorded oblong, grave-shaped stone mounds on Minions Moor, part of Bodmin Moor.
Experts have now examined the cairns, which could date from the Bronze Age, and further work will be carried out to identify them when the summer growth of bracken and gorse has died back.
Photo: carefully recording the new finds on Minions Moor, part of Bodmin Moor. © YAC
Two keen young archaeologists, Emily Gilchrist and Lewis Golding, made the discovery. The party was lead by retired headmaster and stalwart of the YAC, Tony Blackman.
"Just before we stumbled on the find, one of them even said to me - 'I wonder if we are going to find anything. Just about everything there is to be found here has already been found!"
A few minutes after that, Emily and Lewis, using the observational techniques they'd learnt in YAC, had spotted the mounds on the horizon. Closer inspection by the group raised more questions than answers, and excitement mounted.
"It's all about looking," explained Tony Blackman. "The close look, the far look and the extended look." Blackman has seen many of his young group members go on to become professional archaeologists, "though I do warn them to expect a life of penury if they do!"
Photo: Tony Blackman, leader of the Cornwall holiday showing YAC holiday members satellite-based location recording systems. © YAC
"Young people are sharp-eyed and open-minded - key attributes for making interesting new discoveries," said George Lambrick, Director of the Council for British Archaeology. "YAC gives them a hands-on experience of what archaeology is all about - and they can make a real contribution to our knowledge of the past."
So what is a cairn anyway? Cairns survive in relatively large numbers in uplands such as Bodmin Moor. The newly discovered examples may be funerary monuments - covering either single or multiple burials - dating to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC), or alternatively 'clearance cairns' created by prehistoric and later farmers removing stone debris off the land to bring it into cultivation.
Either way, their discovery will help archaeologists gain further insights into the evolving economy, culture and organisation of Bronze Age society. Although Bodmin Moor has been extensively surveyed by archaeologists before, the cairns discovered by YAC had not previously been recognised.
Many of the cairns, field systems, settlement remains, standing stones, stone circles, stone rows and other monuments in this part of Bodmin Moor are protected as nationally important 'Scheduled Monuments'.
Photo: YAC holidays aren't all about tramping across moors and getting wet and filthy in trenches - you get to get messy as well! This young archaeologist is learning about wattle and daub. © YAC
The Young Archaeologists' Club, which is run by the Council for British Archaeology, has a UK network of 70 branches and its members regularly make new archaeological discoveries.
"Many of our Branches work in close contact with local archaeologists and the results can be amazing," said Alison Bodley, Co-ordinator of the Club.
"For example our North Downs Branch recently found a previously unknown Iron Age enclosure whilst field-walking near Maidstone. The area was to form part of a country park, and the plans for the design of the park were subsequently altered in order to preserve the site."
Branches of the Young Archaeologists' Club run a programme of varied activities including recording graveyards, excavating sites and preparing museum exhibitions.
Membership costs just £7.50. Call 01904 671417 or click on this link to visit the YAC website in a new window.
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Budget Process Begins Soon
Next week, the House and Senate Budget Committees are expected to adopt their respective federal fiscal year (FFY) 2016 budget resolutions. The budget resolution serves as a blueprint for the appropriations committees to refer to as the year progresses. It also will give some indication on whether the Republican controlled House and Senate will perhaps consider any reforms to entitlements such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In past budgets, the Republican controlled House did propose the block granting of Medicaid and SNAP, but the proposals were never considered by the committees with jurisdiction over the programs.
Given the Republican majority in both houses, there is a greater likelihood that the budget resolution will contain budget reconciliation instructions. The budget reconciliation process has been used in the past to make changes to entitlement programs and make changes in revenues. Such a process is exempt from a Senate filibuster because it limits floor debate and only requires a simple majority in the Senate for passage of a bill. President Obama still has veto power over any bill and it would take a two-thirds vote of the Senate to override him.
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The House passed unanimously the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (H.R. 181). The Senate counterpart (S. 178) is expected to reach the floor this week. Both bills emanated from the judiciary committees.
The measures use an existing structure and identified funding source within the Department of Justice. Competitive block grants would be available to states and counties addressing the issue, with grants focused on collaboration and funding for services provided by entities involved with sexually exploited youth.
Since the bills are slightly different, the House and Senate would have to reconcile the two measures before final passage and submission to President Obama for his signature.
Last month, the House Agriculture Committee held two hearings on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, calling them the beginnings of a ‘top to bottom’ review of the program. Republicans remain concerned about the significant increase in recipients during the recession and the relatively slow decline in the caseloads as the economy recovers. Since the farm bill was adopted last year, however, there does not seem to be any real opportunity to adopt any additional changes to SNAP in the near term. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has stated that he will not re-open the farm bill this year. It appears that any changes to the program would have to be made in a possible budget reconciliation bill.
Elder Justice Act (EJA) Reauthorization
While the EJA authorization expired last year, funding for the program continued, with the first $4 million appropriated in FFY 2015 for competitive grants for elder justice programs. A funding announcement has not yet been issued. Many other federal programs have not been reauthorized, but they continue receiving funding. Representative Peter King (R-NY) has introduced a five year reauthorization bill (H.R. 988) with no policy changes proposed. Such a bill would serve as a legislative vehicle if Congress decides to review the EJA.
Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee adopted unanimously a reauthorization of the OAA. The bill (S. 192) contains a greater focus on elder abuse through prevention and screening training for Area Agencies on Aging staff. The reauthorization also refines the funding formulas last reviewed in 2006 to account for changes in the older adult populations among the states. States, however, would be held harmless for the changes between then and 2015. The Senate has not yet scheduled floor action. The House has not considered a similar bill.
Bill Prohibiting TANF Work Waivers
Last week, Representative Tom Reed (R-NY) introduced the Preserving the Work Requirement for Welfare Act (H.R. 1179). The bill is similar to one introduced last session. It would prohibit the Obama administration from waiving the work requirement in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The issue first arose in 2012 when the administration announced that it would consider waivers requested by states to use other policies to otherwise comply with the work participation requirements through different ways of engaging TANF recipients. Republicans contend that such waivers would no longer require work. No state has requested a waiver.
Ways and Means Hearing on Poverty and the Economy
The Human Resources Subcommittee which has jurisdiction over TANF, child welfare and other human services programs met for the first time last month. Four of the six Republican members are new to the Committee, so the Subcommittee is planning hearings to educate them on the issues. New Republicans include: Noem (SD), Meehan (PA), Holding (NC), and Smith (MO). The new chair is Charles Boustany (LA). The first hearing was a broad brush review provided by academics on the state of the economy, labor force and poverty trends in recent years.
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Psychotropic Medication Use
CWDA joined a coalition of national and state groups supporting the Obama administration’s FFY 2016 budget proposal to provide $50 million a year under IV-E foster care to decrease the disproportionate use of psychotropic medications among foster youth and increase the use of psychosocial interventions. The proposal also includes $100 million a year in Medicaid incentives to states to improve the coordination of medical care for foster youth in order to decrease unnecessary psychotropic use. A coalition letter demonstrating this support will be sent next week to the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over the matter.
Therapeutic Foster Care
After reviewing the bill, CWDA signed on to a coalition letter supporting the Family Based Foster Care Services Act introduced by Sen. Baldwin (D-WI) and Representative DeLauro (D-CT). The companion bills (S. 429/H.R. 835) enjoy bipartisan support. The legislation creates a uniform, national definition of therapeutic foster care and baseline measures for quality of providers. The legislation also specifically addresses support for kinship families.
Cathy Senderling-McDonald Hill Visits
During the National Association of Counties’ Legislative Conference, Cathy joined me in visiting the Majority Staff to the Ways and Means Committee and the Minority Staff of the Senate Finance Committee. Cathy briefed them on the collaborative efforts by CWDA, the state and California legislature to address the overuse of psychotropic medications among foster youth. Congressional staff also provided CWDA with some leads to pursue on how other states have addressed the issue.
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Cosmetic company creates show-stopping product launch using influencers
Industry: Cosmetics
Service: Ski incentive for nine influencers in Verbier, Switzerland
A cosmetics company was releasing their new range of skincare products for men and wanted to create buzz and excitement around the launch. To do so, they wanted to immerse a selected group of social media influencers into the cosmetics brand, to use their profile to promote the new products. The end-goal was to increase engagement and followers on the company’s social media channels.
The company tasked CWT M&E with creating an unforgettable experience in the Swiss Alps for the chosen vloggers. Capitalising on the location, they expected an incredible itinerary that would inspire the vloggers to post organically across social media channels. Three of the four vloggers had attended the previous year’s launch, so it was also important to offer different activities and experiences this time.
Rather than return to the French Alps, CWT M&E took the group to the prestigious ski resort of Verbier in Switzerland. The award-winning five-star location then set the tone for a luxurious and modern two-night stay.
The action-packed itinerary was full of thrills and surprises. The fun began the moment their plane touched down, with the party taken by helicopter directly to the top of the mountain for skiing. The action didn’t stop there; they were also treated to paragliding, professional snowboard lessons and an evening guided sled run.
The trip was also about more than memorable activities – there was a product to launch. Crucial to the success of the trip was ensuring the company had the time to explain the new ranges and immerse the influencers in the brand. To do this, CWT M&E booked a 5-star hotel’s most exclusive suite and worked with a creative designer to bring the space to life in-line with the product branding.
The influencers were encouraged to explore the products while relaxing in the comfortable suite, which included a balcony with candles and rugs where they could sit to watch the sunset. Each product line had its own hashtag that the influencers could use in their posts. CWT M&E arranged for film footage and stills to be taken that could be used after the event on the client’s social media and YouTube channel.
The hoped-for explosion in social media coverage was achieved, with the event delivering outstanding results. Throughout the trip each guest posted stories on Instagram and tagged the cosmetics company, driving their audiences to the brand. The influencers’ vlogs of the experience also drew thousands of views on YouTube, with the engagement and followers of the cosmetics company’s social media channels increasing in response to this.
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£250million given by Britain to the Nigerian president with five homes who sends his daughter to a £26,000-a-year English school
Government giving nearly £250m in coming year to oil-rich Nigeria
Their president sends his daughter to a top school in England
Nigeria has the highest-paid government officials in the world
By Mail on Sunday Reporter
Published: 20:23 EDT, 7 May 2016 | Updated: 12:11 EDT, 7 December 2018
The presence of Nigeria’s president at David Cameron’s anti-corruption summit this week may surprise many in his nation – which receives vast amounts of UK aid.
Self-proclaimed ‘People’s President’ Muhammadu Buhari began a war on corruption after taking power last year, but critics allege it is a political witch-hunt.
The Government is giving nearly £250million in the coming year to oil-rich Nigeria, whose president sends his daughter to a £26,000-a-year English school.
The presence of Nigeria’s president at David Cameron’s anti-corruption summit this week may surprise many in his nation – which receives vast amounts of UK aid
In April the opposition PDP party unearthed a ticket stub showing Hanan, 16, had flown first-class from London to Nigeria, despite her father’s ban on officials using premium travel.
And a Nigerian newspaper claimed Mr Buhari has spent £150,000 on educating his daughter Zahra, a Surrey University student.
The president is reported to have failed to give a full account of his worth, but even his partial admission included more than £1million in the bank, five houses and two plots of land.
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Supporters say 49 arrests of members of the previous regime show the anti-corruption war is genuine, but opponents say it is politically driven.
Nigeria has the highest-paid government officials in the world but is one of the largest beneficiaries of UK foreign aid.
The Nigerian Embassy did not comment.
Self-proclaimed ‘People’s President’ Muhammadu Buhari began a war on corruption after taking power last year, but critics allege it is a political witch-hunt
Britain to give £250m to Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari with five homes
Heartbreaking picture emerges of Honduran father visiting his daughter, 13, on life support in NYC after she hanged herself because ICE rejected his asylum for FOURTH time - but he's now allowed to switch off her machine
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Robert Caro plans an audio-only project 'On Power'
Filed under Books at Mar 2017
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NEW YORK — Robert Caro's next project is for ears only.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is planning an audio-only release, On Power, drawing upon his years as an investigative journalist and his research into the lives of President Lyndon Johnson and municipal builder Robert Moses. On Power will be narrated by Caro and released through the audiobook producer and distributor Audible Inc., which has set a May 9 release date.
"My books are an attempt to examine and explain political power: how it is created, how it works, how it can be used —for good and for ill," Caro said in a prepared statement. "I thought it was important to try to do that because that power shapes all our lives — in ways large and small. And I felt that the more America understands about political power, the better informed our voters would be, and then, hopefully, the better our democracy would be."
Robert Caro with The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power in 2012.
"Over and over again," he added, "I have come across aspects of political power that I had not previously understood, or, indeed, known existed. I agreed to do On Power because I thought it might add something if I talked, in a more informal manner than in my books, about some moments that helped me personally in that learning process."
Caro, 81, is known for his biography of Moses, The Power Broker, and for his epic series on Johnson, which he began more than 40 years ago. All five of his previous books have been released in audio editions, none narrated by Caro. (His books sometimes run more than 1,000 pages.) He is proudly old-fashioned in his working methods, preferring typewriters to computers, and On Power should prove a brief diversion from the fifth and presumed final volume about LBJ. No publication date has been set for the book, one of the most highly anticipated releases for a work of history. The previous four Johnson books have brought Caro a Pulitzer, a National Book Award and many other honors.
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The audio narrative was initiated by Audible after senior director Tyler Cabot saw Caro speak last September at Harvard University during a celebration of the Pulitzer's centennial and contacted the historian. Caro, in a telephone interview Monday, said he liked the idea because he puts in extensive time on his speeches and has regretted that they didn't exist in a more permanent form. On Power is an adaptation of two of his public talks into a single, new narrative and will likely run less than two hours, compared with more than 60 hours for the audio version of The Power Broker.
"I've never done anything like this before," Caro said of the audio work. "And some of the stories I tell I've never told in public before."
According to Audible, an Amazon.com-owned company, On Power will provide Caro fans "a more personal introduction to his body of work and life" and a showcase for "his trademark wit and revelatory insight."
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Audio sales have soared in recent years, although audio-only releases by authors of Caro's stature remain relatively uncommon. Previous audio-only works include Tom Wolfe's novella Ambush at Fort Bragg and Jeffrey Deaver's novel The Starling Project.
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From football to fluoride, Texas local governments too smug — and far from candid, critics tell Texas senators
Filed under Texas Legislature at Aug 2016
Robert T. Garrett, Austin Bureau chief
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AUSTIN — Led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's Senate, Texas lawmakers continue to put local governments and school districts under a microscope.
The read out: Many of the Legislature's most conservative members don't like what they see.
On Monday, a Senate panel heard accusations that city governments abusively have tried to squelch ballot initiatives and complaints that school districts and other local taxing entities too often aren't candid when they ask voters to approve bond issues.
It was a preview of more fights to come in next year's legislative session over bonded indebtedness and local control on issues that include transgender people in bathrooms, red-light cameras and fluoride in the drinking water.
Tea party groups and many Republican senators say that local governments are crushing homeowners with high property tax bills, killing innovation with unneeded rules and defying state leaders with meddlesome bans on plastic bags, tree removals and refusals to sell wedding cakes to same sex couples.
"Local control is a tool, not a rule," freshman GOP Sen. Konni Burton of Colleyville wrote on the Empower Texans group's website last month. "When the political subdivisions of the state overreach, it is the responsibility of the state to intervene on behalf of its citizens."
Bennett Sandlin, the Texas Municipal League's executive director, though, has said critics oversimplify when they accuse local officials of crimping individual liberty.
"No one wants their neighbor to have the 'liberty' to put a junkyard next door," he wrote last year. "The real issue is who can do the better job of mediating these conflicting interests, your City Council or politicians in Austin?"
This week's hearing by the Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee was a foretaste of coming battles. Last fall, Patrick asked the panel to study whether more information about proposed local borrowing should be provided to citizens in the voting booth and whether about 300 "home rule" cities have too much leeway in flicking off unwelcome referendum petitions.
Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican, said he asked Patrick to issue the "interim charge" on bond election ballot information because local debt is growing too fast in Texas.
Texas Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston
2015 File Photo/Austin American-Statesman
Last year, he authored a Senate-passed measure that would require bond issue propositions to state how much total debt the local entity has assumed, and how much property tax the average homeowner would have to pay to defray existing debt and repay the proposed bonds. It died in the House.
James Quintero of the free market-oriented Texas Public Policy Foundation supports the legislation and said it ought to go further. It should include a requirement that ballot language inform voters of the total principal and interest payments over the life of the bond issue, Quintero said.
Last spring, a bond issue proposition passed in the McKinney school district didn't specify that $50 million would go to a new high school football stadium, he said.
Daniel Combs, assistant superintendent in Alvin schools near Houston, though, said state aid for school facilities has dwindled. Many districts have no choice but borrowing to build new campuses to keep apace of population growth, he said.
Months before a bond vote, the Alvin district creates a 60-member advisory panel, mails newsletters, creates a website and runs local newspaper ads to inform voters, he said.
"However, inside the voting booth isn't the place to provide all the facts," said Combs, who represented the Fast Growth Schools Coalition, a group of 70 districts that included Frisco and Allen.
"The ballot is the point of decision and not the point of education," he said.
On ballot initiatives over home-rule city ordinances, Bettencourt elicited detailed testimony about all of the hurdles shoved into religious conservatives' path before they successfully upended a Houston gay rights ordinance in November.
He chided former Houston Mayor Annise Parker and former Houston City Attorney David Feldman for overzealous defense of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO. The Houston City Council passed the ordinance in 2014. Among other things, it barred discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
In a lawsuit over opponents' petitions for a referendum to overturn the measure, a large law firm working without pay for the city issued a subpoena for the sermons of five pastors who opposed the ordinance, Bettencourt noted.
"When government goes this far, it's not even past stop signs ... we've gone into the twilight zone," he said.
Lawyer Andy Taylor, who represented HERO opponents, said cities should provide uniform petition applications and give organizers the same amount of time to gather signatures. He recommended 180 days — more than four times what Houston allows.
Residents also should have recourse if municipal officials "don't play it straight" in crafting clear, concise ballot language, he said.
"We've all grown up hearing, 'You can't beat City Hall,'" Taylor said. "We need the Legislature to change that so you can beat City Hall."
He urged a "loser pays" law, which would make cities pay legal fees for petition organizers who successfully challenge municipal actions on ballot measures.
Bill Longley of the Texas Municipal League, though, said lawmakers should be careful.
The costs would fall back on taxpayers, he noted.
Sam Brandon of San Marcos, who has helped lead a drive for a successful 2015 referendum to remove fluoride from his Central Texas city's drinking water, said lawmakers should consider slapping criminal penalties on high-handed behavior by city officials trying to chill public participation in policy setting.
"You've got to remove the immunity from these people," he said.
Cities and counties are almost always on the defensive at the Legislature. But last year, newly installed Gov. Greg Abbott raised the stakes by saying that Texas cities were causing the state to be "California-ized" by "ridiculous, unnecessary" regulations.
Countering Denton's municipal vote to ban fracking, lawmakers tightly restricted what cities can do to regulate oil and gas drilling operations.
In May, some state GOP leaders sharply criticized the decision of Austin voters to reject a proposal, backed by ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft, to get rid of the city's rules that require fingerprint-based background checks.
Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, blasted cities for creating a "patchwork of inconsistent and anti-competitive regulations," announced he will file a bill next year to create statewide rules for ride-sharing companies.
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High bail set for two men caught with 50 grams heroin on Highway 10 in Becker County
By News Staff on Mar 13, 2019 at 11:38 a.m.
High bail amounts were set for two Minneapolis men allegedly caught with more than 50 grams of heroin in their vehicle.
Titus Terrell Martin, 43, and Guntallwon Karloyea Brown, 29, both of Minneapolis, were arrested and charged in Becker County District Court with felony first-degree controlled substance crime.
According to court records, on March 6 a state trooper saw their vehicle weaving in and out of the westbound traffic lane on Highway 10 in Becker County. Martin was driving. The trooper allegedly smelled marijuana in their vehicle and his K9 dog hit strong on the center console. The drink panel and molding were removed and a bag of light brown powder was found. It allegedly field-tested for heroin and weighed 51.19 grams with packaging.
According to a news release, officers with the West Central Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, Headwaters Safe Trail Task Force and Paul Bunyan Task Force were involved in the investigation. The heroin has a street value of over $15,000.
On March 8, both men appeared before Becker County District Judge Gretchen Thilmony, who set bond for Martin at $70,000 with standard conditions of release or $120,000 without conditions.
Bond for Brown was set at $60,000 with standard conditions of release or $100,000 without conditions.
An omnibus hearing was set for March 25.
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Gender in Constitutional Law
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Gender in Constitutional Law is a comprehensive three-volume collection of formative and influential scholarship in a dynamic area of legal development and social change. Compiling theoretical, empirical, and practical analyses from leading scholars, judges, and nongovernmental organizations around the world, these volumes are comparative and international in range, representative in content, and illuminating in depth. Particular attention is paid to intersectionality, culture, and custom. Mapped by an accessible, incisive introductory chapter, the collection provides basic sources and cutting-edge guidance in constitutional processes. The assembled curated works, together with the introduction, offer an invaluable cross-disciplinary research tool for generalists and specialists, scholars and practitioners, thinkers and activists, students, teachers, individuals and groups alike. Learn More
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This Handbook brings together leading interdisciplinary scholarship on the gendered nature of the international political economy. Spanning a wide range of theoretical traditions and empirical foci, it explores the multifaceted ways in which gender relations constitute and are shaped by global politico-economic processes. It further interrogates the gendered ideologies and discourses that underpin everyday practices from the local to the global. The chapters in this collection identify, analyse, critique and challenge gender-based inequalities, whilst also highlighting the intersectional nature of gendered oppressions in the contemporary world order. Learn More
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Shoshana Grossbard, a leading scholar in this field, has selected the most influential classic and recent articles which highlight the economic importance of marriage and related institutions. The volume first considers marriage and related outcomes, including cohabitation, matching, brideprice and dowry, and law and economic questions relating to divorce. It then investigates the consequences of marriage and marriage markets for labour supply, household production, wages, consumption, household finance, education and fertility. A clear original introduction by the editor provides an illuminating guide to the selected articles and to their place within the economic and demographic literature. Learn More
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For much of the twentieth century, women lagged considerably behind men in their educational attainment. However, in recent decades, young women have become an important source of human capital for labor markets in modern societies, as well as potential competitors to the male workforce. This book asks whether or not women have been able to convert their educational success into gains on the labor market Learn More
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Gender, Development and Disasters
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The Costs of Children
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The expert contributors provide an assessment of how countries can handle the fair allocation of the costs of childcare. They look at the experience within Europe in recent years and show in particular how these interrelate with the objectives of improving income, employment and social inclusion. The book’s conclusion reveals that choice is the key ingredient as families have different views and different degrees of support available from their relatives. Income and social inclusion can provide choice but ironically employment does not always. An employment-based model can sometimes narrow people’s choices, particularly for people on low wages. The major concern is that most existing systems effectively discriminate against mothers. Learn More
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The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explores how gender equalities may be promoted in a changing world. Gendered Lives offers many novel and sometimes unexpected findings that contribute to new understandings of not only the causes of gender inequalities but also the ongoing implications for economic well-being and societal integration. Learn More
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Kwon, Pyo, Lee, Seo, and Koh: Cognition and Visit-to-Visit Variability of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in De Novo Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
J Mov Disord 2016; 9(3): 144-151.
Published online: September 21, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14802/jmd.16012
Cognition and Visit-to-Visit Variability of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in De Novo Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
Kyum-Yil Kwon1, 2, Seon Jong Pyo1, Hye Mi Lee1, Woo-Keun Seo1, Seong-Beom Koh1
1Department of Neurology and Parkinson’s Disease Centre, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Neurology, Soonchunhyang University Gumi Hospital, Soonchunhyang University School of Medicine, Gumi, Korea
Corresponding author: Seong-Beom Koh, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and Parkinson’s Disease Centre, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, 148 Gurodong-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul 08308, Korea / Tel: +82-2-2626-3169 / Fax: +82-2-2626-1257 / E-mail: parkinson@korea.ac.kr
Received March 10, 2016 Revised June 30, 2016 Accepted August 3, 2016
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We sought to identify whether the characteristics of long-term visit-to-visit blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) are related to baseline cognitive profiles in, Parkinson’s disease (PD).
We selected drug-naïve PD patients who visited our hospital at least 10 times with a baseline assessment of the Seoul neuropsychological battery. BP and HR were measured at each visit, and the variability of the systolic BP/diastolic BP (DBP) and HR was derived from the parameters of serial 10 office visits. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in PD patients was determined according to the proposed criteria with a cut-off value of z-score ≤ -2.
Forty-seven patients with PD (mean follow-up duration = 22.3 months) were enrolled in the study. Compared with non-MCI PD patients, MCI PD patients revealed a significant increase in HR and/or variability in DBP.
This exploratory study showed that baseline cognition in drug-naïve PD patients might be related to the visit-to-visit variability of DBP and/or HR.
Key Words: Parkinson’s disease; blood pressure; heart rate; variability; cognition
Non-motor symptoms, including cognitive and cardiovascular dysfunction, are commonly observed, even in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) was documented to range from 14.8% to 36% at the time of PD diagnosis [1,2]. Cognitive function declines as PD progresses; therefore, up to 83% of PD patients can develop dementia in the late stage of the disease [3]. Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction has been widely observed in the early stage of PD. Functional studies with metaiodobenzylguanide (MIBG) myocardiac scintigraphy not only showed the reduced uptake of MIBG [4] but also demonstrated the diagnostic usefulness of PD even in the early stage [5]. Moreover, Goldstein [6] reported that 60% of early PD patients had significant orthostatic hypotension.
Previous studies have not yielded consistent results with respect to the association between cognitive impairment and blood pressure (BP): some showed that hypertension was highly related to cognitive dysfunction [7], whereas others reported that low BP or antihypertensive therapy was associated with worse cognitive function [8,9]. In contrast, there has been increasing evidence to support the idea that cognitive dysfunction might be related to the variability of BP or heart rate (HR). Orthostatic hypotension was more frequently observed in cognitively impaired people [10], and abnormal nocturnal BP fluctuations were found in elderly patients with MCI [11]. Moreover, MCI subjects exhibited abnormal findings in BP as well as HR variability, which suggested that cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction is associated with MCI [12]. Nevertheless, the relationship between cognitive decline and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction remains to be further elucidated, especially in patients with PD, although Kim et al. [13] showed that cognitive dysfunction was related to cardiovascular abnormalities, including orthostatic hypotension and supine hypertension, in the early stage of PD.
Recently, the visit-to-visit variability of BP in the real office setting has turned out to be reproducible within individuals over time and independent of any association with mean BP [14,15]. Increased visit-to-visit variability in systolic BP (SBP) was regarded as a new independent predictor in the elderly at high risk of stroke [16,17]. In the general population, Muntner et al. [18] exhibited that visit-to-visit variability in SBP was related to all-cause mortality. Additionally, visit-to-visit BP variability was associated with not only cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s dementia [19] but also an increased risk of dementia in the elderly [20,21]. However, to our knowledge, there has been no report on the visit-to-visit variability of BP and/or HR in PD populations. Thus, we aimed to investigate whether the visit-to-visit variability of BP or HR is related to non-motor symptoms, including cognitive impairment, especially in de novo patients with PD.
We retrospectively selected forty-seven de novo patients with PD by reviewing medical records at the Parkinson’s Disease Centre in Korea University Guro Hospital from January 2009 to March 2011. The inclusion criteria were as follows: 1) patients were diagnosed with de novo PD according to the UK brain bank criteria [22]; 2) 3-T MRI scanning, including axial fluid attenuated inversion recovery images, and a full battery of neuropsychological tests were conducted in the same subject; 3) we excluded patients with dementia or moderate to severe ischemic or other structural lesions, based on the review of their brain MRI images; 4) all patients had visited our clinic at least 10 times; and 5) the existence of non-motor symptoms including rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD)-like symptoms and subjective hyposmia was analyzed. The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Korea University Guro Hospital (KUGH IRB #14236).
Neuropsychological assessment and PD-MCI
The neuropsychological tests were administered in a constant protocol. The Seoul neuropsychological battery (SNSB) was performed on all patients with PD. The Korean version of the Mini-Mental Status Examination and the Geriatric Depression Scale was assessed in the same session. Because normative data of the SNSB from healthy Korean subjects were available, age-, gender-, and education-matched percentiles were obtained from the raw score of each test and thereby converted into z-scores. According to the task force guidelines from the movement disorder society [23], each test of the SNSB was categorized into five cognitive domains: attention and working memory, executive function, language, memory, and visuospatial function (Supplementary Table 1 in the online-only Data Supplement). MCI in patients with PD was defined according to the recommended Movement Disorder Society task force criteria [23]. Impaired cognition in each test was determined with a cut-off value of 2 standard deviation (SD) below the appropriate norms. The subtypes were classified as follows: single-domain PD-MCI (amnestic or nom-amnestic type) was derived from impairments on two tests within one single domain, with the other unimpaired, and multiple-domain PD-MCI was defined by abnormalities on at least one test in two or more domains. Because only one test was available in the SNSB for language and visuospatial function, abnormality on one test within such a domain was considered the fulfillment of a single-domain MCI pattern in the present study.
BP and HR measurements and visit-to-visit variability
Clinic BP and HR were measured in the sitting position after resting for approximately 5 to 10 minutes using a validated automatic oscillometric device (Model FT-500R, JAWON Medical Co. Ltd., Daejeon, Korea) at each visit. Overall, 10 values of BP and HR were obtained in 10 serial consecutive visits. The mean, maximum, and minimum values were calculated from the measured parameters, including SBP, diastolic BP (DBP), and HR. For the visit-to-visit variability, both the SD and coefficient of variation (CV) were assessed. CV was derived from the ratio of SD to the mean (CV = SD / mean × 100%).
Group comparisons for non-MCI vs. MCI were conducted using Student’s t-test for continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical data, respectively. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was performed using Bonferroni correction for visit-to-visit BP and HR parameters between PD with and without MCI. To predict MCI in de novo PD patients, logistic regression analysis was conducted. Because univariate analysis showed only one significant variable, multivariate analysis could not be performed. Correlation studies between cognitive tests and variability of BP and HR were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. A p value < 0.05 was defined as statistically significant. Each statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 20.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Cognitive profiles of MCI in de novo patients with PD
Based on neuropsychological data described in Supplementary Table 1 (in the online-only Data Supplement), subtype classification was performed in the study population. The cognitive profiles of patients were distributed as shown in Figure 1: 45% (21 of 47 patients) with normal cognition, 28% (13 of 47) with non-amnestic single-domain MCI, 19% (9 of 47) with multiple-domain MCI, and 8% (4 of 47) with amnestic single-domain MCI.
Clinical characteristics between non-MCI and MCI in de novo PD
Baseline examinations included age, gender, duration of education, parkinsonism motor symptoms, disease duration at the first and last visits, daily equivalent dose of levodopa at the last visit, body weight, height, current smoking status, and past medical history (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, previous stroke, coronary disease, other heart disease, and chronic kidney disease). Table 1 summarizes the results of those characteristics in the comparison between the non-MCI and MCI groups. Only the level of education revealed a tendency of having shorter durations of education in PD MCI compared with PD non-MCI (mean 6.7 years vs. mean 9.1 years, p = 0.082). The rest of the clinical characteristics did not show any differences between the groups.
Visit-to-visit BP and HR parameters between non-MCI and MCI in de novo PD
For the profiles of visit-to-visit SBP, DBP, and HR, the comparisons between the non-MCI and MCI group are shown in Table 2. The primary parameters of SBP, DBP, and HR including mean, maximum, and minimum vales were not different between the groups. The visit-to-visit variability of DBP and HR is shown in Table 3, Figure 2, and Supplementary Table 2 (in the online-only Data Supplement). ANCOVA in Table 3 exhibited not only a higher variability of visit-to-visit DBP (p = 0.042) but also a tendency of visit-to-visit HR variability (p = 0.078). As shown Figure 2, PD MCI patients revealed a tendency of higher variability of visit-to-visit DBP, compared with non-MCI patients (SD values of 7.6 ± 2.7 mm Hg vs. 6.4 ± 1.4 mm Hg, p = 0.057; CV values of 11.1 ± 4.0% vs. 9.4 ± 2.2%, p = 0.080, respectively). Moreover, the visit-to-visit HR variability was greater in patients with PD MCI (SD = 8.7 ± 4.2 mm Hg; CV = 11.1 ± 5.9%, respectively) than in those with PD non-MCI (SD = 6.4 ± 2.5 mm Hg, p = 0.027; CV = 8.0 ± 3.0%, p = 0.020, respectively). However, there was no difference in the visit-to-visit SBP variability between both of them.
In addition, univariate logistic regression analysis was performed to predict MCI in de novo PD. As shown in Table 4, we found that visit-to-visit HR variability showed a significant risk factor for having MCI in de novo patients with PD.
Additionally, because anti-hypertensive medication could affect the variability of BP or HR, we compared the hypertensive and non-hypertensive PD groups, as shown in Supplementary Table 3 (in the online-only Data Supplement). The BP and HR parameters, including variability, were not different between the groups.
Correlations of cognitive test and visit-to-visit variability of BP or HR
We conducted correlation analyses for each cognitive test of the SNSB and each variability parameter in Supplementary Table 2 (in the online-only Data Supplement). The visit-to-visit SBP or HR variability did not show any correlation with cognitive tests. However, the visit-to-visit DBP variability was connected with memory function. Specifically, the visit-to-visit DBP variability was strongly associated with verbal memory: one test displayed a significant negative correlation (r = -0.389, p = 0.007), and the other two tests revealed a tendency for a negative correlation (r = -0.283, p = 0.054; r = -0.273, p = 0.063, respectively). In addition, one test of the visual memory domain resulted in a negative correlation with visit-to-visit DBP variability (r = -0.316, p = 0.030).
Visit-to-visit BP and HR parameters based on RBD-like symptoms or subjective hyposmia
Approximately 28% (13 of 47) and 43% (20 of 47) of the patients reported subjective hyposmia. In Supplementary Table 4 (in the online-only Data Supplement), although the visit-to-visit variability of SBP and DBP showed no difference in subjective hyposmia, visit-to-visit HR variability was significantly increased in the presence of subjective hyposmia. In Supplementary Table 5 (in the online-only Data Supplement), none of the parameters of visit-to-visit variability of BP or HR were dependent on RBD-like symptoms.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate the relationship between cognition and the visit-to-visit variability of BP and HR in de novo PD patients. The current study showed that MCI was 55% (26 of 47 patients) in drug-naïve PD patients (Figure 1). This was a relatively higher proportion of PD with MCI compared to previous studies, which reported MCI values of up to 42.5% in de novo PD populations [1,24]. This high prevalence of MCI in newly diagnosed PD might have been derived from the following: 1) at the beginning of enrollment of de novo PD patients, a total of 54 patients revealed no or minimal structural lesions in brain MRI. However, seven patients without MCI were excluded because they were all lost to follow-up before 10 serial office visits. In contrast, all PD patients with MCI and 10 serial visits were included. Thus, the prevalence of MCI in the current study was approximately 48% (26 of the 54 de novo patients). 2) Our Korean cohort revealed a female preponderance, which might affect the prevalence of MCI. In general, the PD population showed a male preponderance. One Korean study with an early PD population revealed a female preponderance in both the MCI and dementia subgroups. However, our point of view remains uncertain and thus should not be generalized.
We found that clinical characteristics, including age, gender, and level of education, did not affect the cognitive impairment in patients with de novo PD (Table 1), although only PD with MCI showed a tendency (p = 0.082) of longer duration of education compared with PD without MCI. Disease severity, including total motor score and Hoehn and Yahr stage, depression score, comorbidities, and last PD medications, were not significantly different between the two groups. Moreover, our results showed that the BP or HR parameters, including variability, were not dependent on the usage of antihypertensive agents (Supplementary Table 3 in the online-only Data Supplement). Collectively, our results suggested that we could not predict the existence of MCI in early PD patients according to baseline clinical features.
PD MCI showed significant differences in the visit-to-visit variability of HR and DBP, compared with PD non-MCI. However, the SBP variability was not different between the groups. Consistent with the literature [13], our findings showed that cardiovascular fluctuation was associated with cognitive impairment, even in the early stage of PD. According to neuropathological studies [25,26], α-synuclein aggregates were accompanied by neuronal cell loss in the sympathetic ganglia, indicating that cardiac sympathetic degeneration could lead to visit-to-visit variability in both BP and HR in PD. However, the mechanism of how visit-to-visit variability in BP or HR influence cognitive dysfunction remains unknown, especially in de novo patients with PD. As previously described, the BP variability might predict cognitive deterioration in the elderly or patients with Alzheimer’s dementia [19,20]. Two review articles reported that increased BP variability is related with vascular brain injury, including stroke or asymptomatic brain lesions [27,28]. Recently, Nagai and Kario [28] proposed the following hypothesis: arterial remodeling induced by high visit-to-visit BP variability might deregulate cerebral circulation and reduce cerebral blood flow; therefore, subsequent silent brain injury could influence cognitive impairment or deterioration. These previous studies demonstrated that cognitive dysfunction was associated with the visit-to-visit variability of SBP rather than that of DBP, while we found that cognitive impairment in PD population was related to DBP and HR variability, apart from SBP variability. Therefore, our results suggested that the pathophysiologic mechanism of BP or HR variability in PD might differ from that in stroke or Alzheimer’s disease.
We correlated each cognitive test with the visit-to-visit variability of SBP, DBP, and HR in Supplementary Table 2 (in the online-only Data Supplement). The DBP variability in PD subjects not only showed a significant association with recognition memory in verbal as well as visual tests but also revealed a negative correlation with verbal and visual recall memory. One group reported that both SBP and DBP variability showed associations with several cognitive deficits, including immediate and delayed memory function, in the elderly [29]. Interestingly, the study revealed that hippocampal atrophy was related to the increased visit-to-visit variability in SBP as well as DBP. Thus, there is a possibility that the BP variability might be associated with the volume of the hippocampus.
In addition, we analyzed whether other non-motor symptoms, including RBD-like symptoms and subjective hyposmia, could affect visit-to-visit BP or HR, respectively. Neither RBD-like symptoms nor subjective hyposmia was related to MCI in patients with PD (data not shown). HR variability was associated with subjective hyposmia but not with RBD-like symptoms (Supplementary Table 1 and 5 in the online-only Data Supplement). Oka et al. [30] previously revealed that olfactory dysfunction might be related to cardiovascular dysfunction in PD. Taken together, our results suggest that a common neurodegenerative pathway or network may be involved in both olfactory and cardiovascular systems in PD.
The present study had several potential short-comings. First, our study was a retrospectively designed study with a relatively small sample number, and the baseline neuropsychological assessment and BP/HR variability showed some associations in our study population. However, they could be separate manifestations of the neurodegenerative progression of PD, and our results should be interpreted with caution. Second, although we tried to minimize the effect of vascular burden in the brain by only including patients with no or mild ischemic lesions on their MRI scans, we did not investigate the relationship between vascular lesions and cognitive impairment in the current study. Therefore, we could not rule out the possibility that vascular lesions might affect cognitive impairment in patients with PD. It remains unknown whether subtle ischemic changes could affect our observations. Third, we could not adequately control unknown confounding factors, including visit time. Conversely, this indirectly reflects real clinical settings in the treatment of PD. Fourth, other non-motor symptoms, including RBD-like symptoms and subjective hyposmia, were not checked by using objective assessment tools.
In conclusion, we showed that the visit-to-visit DBP and HR variability might be related to cognitive dysfunction in de novo PD patients. Additionally, the visit-to-visit HR variability was associated with subjective hyposmia, regardless of cognitive impairment. The current study suggests that clinicians should pay more attention to the office BP and HR of patients with PD in clinical practice. Because this study is a preliminary study, well-designed studies with large sample sizes will be required to uncover the detailed relationship between non-motor symptoms, including cognitive dysfunction and cardiovascular variability, in patients with PD.
The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.14802/jmd.16012.
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Cognitive profiles of de novo Parkinson’s disease (PD) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the study.
Visit-to-visit variability of blood pressure and HR between non-MCI and MCI in patients with Parkinson’s disease. A: Standard deviation (SD). B: Coefficient of variation (CV). *p < 0.1, †p < 0.05. SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate, MCI: mild cognitive impairment.
Clinical demographics in de novo PD patients with and without MCI
Non-MCI (n = 21)
MCI (n = 26)
Female gender, n (%) 11 (52) 18 (69) 0.366
Onset age (years) 67.6 ± 7.0 66.4 ± 5.9 0.540
Duration of education (years) 9.1 ± 4.9 6.7 ± 4.1 0.082
Disease duration at initial visit (months) 11.0 ± 10.5 15.1 ± 18.0 0.330
First SBP (mm Hg) 127.1 ± 17.7 132 ± 13.8 0.267
First DBP (mm Hg) 70.2 ± 11.8 72.6 ± 7.9 0.371
First HR (/min) 78.7 ± 11.8 80.0 ± 12.2 0.707
Weight (kg) 59.6 ± 8.2 58.9 ± 7.3 0.788
Height (m) 1.56 ± 0.06 1.56 ± 0.07 0.911
BMI (kg/m2) 24.5 ± 3.4 24.2 ± 2.5 0.808
Current smoker (%) 1 (5) 2 (8) 0.855
Diabetes mellitus (%) 6 (29) 8 (31) 1.000
Hypertension (%) 8 (38) 8 (31) 0.758
Beta blocker 3 (14) 1 (4) 0.311
Calcium channel blocker 4 (19) 3 (12) 0.684
ARB/ACE inhibitor 4 (19) 4 (15) 1.000
Diuretics 5 (24) 5 (19) 0.734
History of stroke (%) 0 3 1.000
Coronary disease (%) 4 (19) 2 (8) 0.386
Heart failure (%) 0 (0) 1 (4) 1.000
Chronic kidney disease (%) 0 (0) 1 (4) 1.000
K-MMSE 25.3 ± 3.1 24.0 ± 3.4 0.172
Depression Scale 13.1 ± 8.0 14.2 ± 7.8 0.665
UPDRS, motor score 17.4 ± 6.3 21.1 ± 9.7 0.123
Hoehn and Yahr stage 2.0 ± 0.3 2.1 ± 0.4 0.174
Follow-up duration (months) 22.8 ± 8.4 21.9 ± 7.3 0.445
LEDD at last follow-up (mg) 547.0 ± 317.0 519.5 ± 336.7 0.775
Levodopa (mg) 430.36 ± 332.39 399.04 ± 368.16 0.764
Dopamine agonist (mg) 116.67 ± 159.78 120.48 ± 128.45 0.928
Data with continuous variable are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Student t-test for continuous variable and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variable. PD: Parkinson’s disease, MCI: mild cognitive impairment, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate, BMI: body mass index, K-MMSE: Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination, LEDD: levodopa equivalent daily dose, ARB: angiotensin receptor blocker, ACE: angiotensin converting enzyme, UPDRS: Unifed Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.
Visit-to-visit blood pressure and HR parameters in de novo PD patients with and without MCI
Mean values
SBP (mm Hg) 126.5 ± 13.4 124.6 ± 10.0 0.592
DBP (mm Hg) 68.5 ± 8.1 68.3 ± 4.9 0.944
HR (/min) 80.4 ± 12.3 79.2 ± 8.2 0.726
Maximum values
Minimum values
HR (/min) 70.5 ± 10.6 65.4 ± 13.7 0.153
SD values
SBP (mm Hg) 10.7 ± 4.0 11.8 ± 3.7 0.304
DBP (mm Hg) 6.4 ± 1.4 7.6 ± 2.7 0.057
HR (/min) 6.4 ± 2.5 8.7 ± 4.2 0.027
CV values
SBP (%) 8.6 ± 3.4 9.5 ± 2.8 0.333
DBP (%) 9.4 ± 2.2 11.1 ± 4.0 0.080
HR (%) 8.0 ± 3.0 11.1 ± 5.9 0.020
Data are presented as mean ± SD. PD: Parkinson’s disease, MCI: mild cognitive impairment, SD: standard deviation, CV: coefficient of variation, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate.
ANCOVA for visit-to-visit blood pressure and HR parameters in de novo PD patients with and without MCI
PD non-MCI (n = 21)
PD MCI (n = 26)
ANCOVA p value
Bonferroni-corrected p value
SBP (mm Hg) 126.5 ± 13.4 124.6 ± 10.0 0.356 NS
DBP (mm Hg) 68.5 ± 8.1 68.3 ± 4.9 0.613 NS
HR (/min) 80.4 ± 12.3 79.2 ± 8.2 0.675 NS
SBP (%) 8.6 ± 3.4 9.5 ± 2.8 0.054 NS
DBP (%) 9.4 ± 2.2 11.1 ± 4.0 0.007 0.042
HR (%) 8.0 ± 3.0 11.1 ± 5.9 0.013 0.078
Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Data are adjusted for age, gender, UPDRS-motor, Depression Scale, MMSE, and levodopa equivalent daily dose. PD: Parkinson’s disease, MCI: mild cognitive impairment, ANCOVA: analysis of covariance, CV: coefficient of variation, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate, NS: not significant, UPDRS: Unifed Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, MMSE: Mini-Mental Status Examination.
Univariate logistic regression analysis predicting MCI in de novo PD patients with or without MCI
Age 0.970 0.885–1.064 0.524
Gender, male 0.489 0.148–1.614 0.240
Education 0.885 0.772–1.015 0.081
BMI 0.972 0.783–1.203 0.792
Depression Scale 1.017 0.944–1.096 0.656
UPDRS, motor 1.058 0.981–1.140 0.144
Hoehn and Yahr stage 3.236 0.549–19.080 0.194
K-MMSE 0.875 0.720–1.063 0.180
SBP 0.985 0.937–1.037 0.571
DBP 0.997 0.911–1.090 0.939
HR 0.989 0.934–1.048 0.707
PD: Parkinson’s disease, MCI: mild cognitive impairment, BMI: body mass index, UPDRS: Unifed Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, K-MMSE: Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination, SD: standard deviation, CV: coefficient of variation, SBP: systolic blood pressure, DBP: diastolic blood pressure, HR: heart rate.
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Judge Rules in Favor of Big Banks and Against Richmond and EBMUD
By Darwin BondGraham
Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Business / Law Enforcement & Crime
In January, several Bay Area public agencies, including East Bay MUD and the City of Richmond, filed lawsuits against the world's largest banks, alleging that the banks rigged a key interest rate to steal millions of public dollars. But on Friday, a federal Judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed these cases in favor of the banks.
The ruling comes as a big blow to cities, counties, and public agencies that are seeking some sort of justice and restitution after the complex financial fraud involving the London Interbank Offered Rate, known as LIBOR. Now cities like Oakland and San Francisco, both of which have been contemplating filing their own lawsuits, will have to regroup and consider their options.
LIBOR gets it name from the City of London.
As the Express reported last month, the banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup, allegedly rigged the LIBOR rate downward during the financial crisis, forcing governments to pay more for interest rate swap contracts signed in previous years. While no one knows just how much money the banks were able to extract from the public, Oakland's finance and legal staff estimate the city may have lost several hundred thousand dollars from the fraud.
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled in her order dismissing the case that the lawsuits cannot proceed under US antitrust and RICO Act laws for several technical reasons. First, under antitrust law, a plaintiff must show damages resulting from antitrust activities such as price fixing, or underselling competitors. Judge Buchwald noted, however, that the setting of the LIBOR rate was never in fact a "market" process. Instead it was always a product of a private trade group, the British Bankers Association. Therefore even though the banks lied about LIBOR, and rigged the rates, the crime cannot be said to be a violation of antitrust laws because the interest rate was never set through a free market. The banks may have lied and cheated their public clients, but they didn't violate the letter of the Sherman Act or the Clayton Act — the two key laws that prohibit market manipulation and antitrust conspiracies.
Per the RICO Act, which outlaws coordinated criminal enterprises, Judge Buchwald said the location of the crime, London, puts the banks beyond the jurisdiction of US law.
Judge Buchwald justified her decision by claiming that US, European, and Japanese regulators are already investigating and punishing the banks for the LIBOR conspiracy. "We recognize that it might be unexpected that we are dismissing a substantial portion of plaintiffs’ claims, given that several of the defendants here have already paid penalties to government regulatory agencies reaching into the billions of dollars," wrote Buchwald in her order, referring to the penalties paid by the banks. "The broad public interests behind the statutes invoked here, such as integrity of the markets and competition, are being addressed by ongoing governmental enforcement."
However, officials have only forced three of the sixteen banks that set the LIBOR rate to forfeit a combined $2.5 billion. Many experts have estimated that the banks reaped far more from rigging LIBOR, going back to 2005 when the British bank Barclays admitted to having begun manipulation of the rate, and through at least 2011 with the other LIBOR panel banks.
None of the banks have been criminally charged for the conspiracy except for a subsidiary of the Swiss bank UBS. Oakland had an interest rate swap contract with UBS for several years that likely lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the UBS and the other banks' rigging of LIBOR.
Plaintiffs can appeal the order, but have not yet indicated whether they will do so. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is set to hear a report on LIBOR manipulation later this week. Oakland's City Attorney and financial staff are still weighing their options under the law.
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Anderson’s dazzling starting debut spoiled in A’s loss
A's bats mostly silent in 6-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays
Oakland Athletics’ Tanner Anderson during the first inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays Monday, June 10, 2019, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
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PUBLISHED: June 10, 2019 at 7:29 pm | UPDATED: June 11, 2019 at 4:19 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — One mistake. That’s all it took to spoil an otherwise dazzling major-league starting debut from A’s right-hander Tanner Anderson on Monday night.
Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe picked on Anderson’s sinker that didn’t sink, slamming a one-out, two-run homer in the sixth inning, jump-starting Tampa Bay’s 6-2 victory at Tropicana Field.
The A’s avoided their third shutout of the season on Stephen Piscotty’s one-out RBI double in the ninth, followed by Robbie Grossman’s run-scoring single (his 500th career hit).
Overall, though, the A’s struggled mightily against Rays right-hander Charlie Morton (8-0), who allowed just two hits in seven innings of work.
Morton retired his last 14 batters before giving way to the Rays bullpen. He received a seventh-inning cushion on Kevin Kiermaier’s two-run homer off A’s reliever Yusmeiro Petit. Then Rays first baseman Ji-Man Choi made the margin wider with another two-run shot, this one off Joakim Soria in the eighth.
For the longest time, though, Anderson matched Morton’s work in a spirited pitching duel.
Anderson (0-1), who had six relief appearances last season for the Pirates, was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas and asked to provide some quality innings. He did just that — and more — as a rooting section of 40 family members and friends cheered his every move.
In 5 2/3 innings, Anderson permitted just three hits, while walking two and striking out five.
Anderson, a graduate of Tampa’s Plant High School who earned a science degree from Harvard University in 2015, has mostly labored in anonymity during five professional seasons. This time, his effort was especially memorable.
Through five innings, Anderson allowed just two hits and three baserunners, holding the Rays to 2-for-17.
As the lineup turned around for a third time, the Rays finally got to Anderson in the sixth. He surrendered a leadoff walk to Austin Meadows, then was taken deep by Lowe one out later. After striking out Avisail Garcia, and reaching his 92nd pitch, A’s manager Bob Melvin headed to the mound.
Anderson was finished.
With a punchless offense that managed just four hits (two by leadoff batter Marcus Semien), so were the A’s.
Here are more observations from the opener of a three-game set in St. Petersburg:
Sweet music from Anderson
It’s the last line of Tanner Anderson’s A’s media-guide biography.
“Plays the violin.’’
Actually, Anderson doesn’t play the violin any longer. Now he pitches. Make no mistake, on a night when the A’s needed Anderson to eat some innings, he played some sweet music.
Who knows? Anderson might soon be headed back to Las Vegas. Or maybe not. Monday night’s performance might have earned him another look (or two or three).
With his locked-in parents, Lee and Lisa, looking on from the Trop’s Section 105, just to the left of home plate, Anderson appeared composed and very much at home while playing at the venue where he attended a few dozen games as a kid.
“He performed beyond our expectations,’’ Melvin said. “
Composure-wise, it looked like he’d been pitching and starting all year for us.’’
“Everything was solid,’’ said A’s catcher Beau Taylor, also making his first MLB start, from the Florida town of Rockledge (about three hours away). “Tanner’s tempo was exactly what we were planning for. He was great.’’
Before Lowe’s homer, Anderson’s only early trouble spot occurred in the third inning. Kiermaier led off with an infield single, then moved into scoring position when Daniel Robertson drew a one-out walk. From there, though, Anderson retired Meadows (the American League batting leader) on a fly-out, then got Tommy Pham on an inning-ending grounder.
Regardless of what happens with Anderson’s immediate future, Melvin said the pitcher performed at the optimum level on Monday night.
“We will discuss it (keeping Anderson on the big-league roster),’’ Melvin said. “The front office has some say in this. He pitched well enough to get another look. We’ll see what kind of configuration we need.
“He saved our bullpen, too. If we could get a deep start from somebody, we would really benefit from it. He did that very well.’’
Dreamy night
You couldn’t help but smile at the honest sentiment of Anderson, who said his first dream was to play in the big leagues. He accomplished that last season with the Pirates.
“My second dream was to play (a major-league game) in Tropicana Field,’’ said Anderson, who previously played at the Trop in a 2011 high-school all-star game. “I can’t thank the Athletics enough for giving me the opportunity.’’
Anderson played at Tampa’s Plant High School, just ahead of Pete Alonso, who’s enjoying a banner rookie season with the Mets.
Anderson is best remembered for multiple prep match-ups against the late Jose Fernandez, then of Alonso High School, who became the 2013 National League Rookie of the Year with the Marlins.
“I had a lot of (scouting) eyes on me because I always seemed to be pitching against Jose … and I think we lost all those games 1-0,’’ Anderson said.
“It was a long road to get here (starting in the big leagues). I had nerves up until an hour before the game, then they left. Last year with the Pirates, my nerves were so bad. I felt like I was gong to throw up. This time, I felt more relaxed. It was more familiar.’’
When you’re hot, you’re hot
Semien, the reigning AL Player of the Week, recorded both of the hits against Morton. Semien has hit safely in eight consecutive games, batting .429 (15-for-35) over that stretch, including four multi-hit games.
Against Morton, Semien didn’t hit it hard, but still reached base. According to StatCast, Semien’s first-inning single, a bloop over the head of Ji-Man Choi at first base, left the bat at 63.4 mph and carried an expected .160 batting average. His third-inning single — a punch to the right side against Tampa Bay’s shift — left the bat at 58.3 mph with an expected .240 batting average.
Struggling lineup
The A’s salvaged some offensive pride with two runs in the ninth. Beyond that, though, it was a struggle. Melvin said his team was “dragging,’’ but refused to use the road trip’s travel rigors as an excuse.
But there were missed opportunities.
Ramon Laureano was 0-for-4 to snap his streak of reaching base in 28 consecutive games, the longest active mark in the majors.
Khris Davis struck out three times, including a critical at-bat in the third inning when the A’s had the bases loaded against Morton with one out. After Davis was punched out, Piscotty followed with an inning-ending grounder.
Davis also struck out in the first when the A’s had runners on first and second with one out.
Morton had plenty to do with silencing the A’s. His pitch count by innings was 18-8-26-12-10-12-8. He’s 6-0 with a 1.48 ERA in his last nine starts.
“He (Morton) is going to make them really good,’’ Melvin said. “They identify a couple of guys at the top of the rotation they can count on, then do things a little differently. They do a good job building the roster, for sure.’’
They were robbed
Morton made it look easy by retiring his last 14 batters. But the Rays defense helped considerably.
In the fifth, Matt Chapman flirted with a home run, but it was pulled back near the top of the left-field wall by a leaping Pham. In the seventh, a drive by Jurickson Profar seemed destined to produce extra bases, but Kiermaier closed quickly and leaped for the catch against the left center field wall.
On a night when opportunities were sparse for the A’s, both of those plays loomed large.
“I’m not even surprised by it anymore,’’ Morton said of his outfield’s stellar play. “They are awesome. You get so much confidence in the guys behind you.’’
Joey Johnston
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Accenture encourages insurers to invest in AI
A recent study indicates that investment in AI could increase revenue for businesses
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to revolutionise business and can be used to personalise corporate trips, streamline operations, and save costs. Accenture is now encouraging insurers to commit to the technology following a study conducted by the consultancy firm.
Accenture’s Future Workforce Survey indicates that insurers who invest in AI at the same rate as top-performing businesses could receive an average revenue boost of 17% by 2022. According to SAP SE, nine in ten C-Level execs also agree that AI will fundamentally affect their long-term business growth.
Accenture’s report found that companies must also employ “applied intelligence,” a term that denotes the collaboration of humans and machines. The report insists that “AI, when synthesised with human ingenuity across the enterprise, will achieve exponentially more.”
A recent study from GlobalData echoes Accenture’s findings. The digital media firm recommends that businesses incorporate AI into their operations over the next five years, and failure to do so could result in a huge decline in market-share.
Ravi Malhotra from Accenture, asserted that “There are many applications of artificial intelligence that insurers can leverage.” He added “Many of these can make the insurer more efficient and also enable better experiences – for customers, employees and intermediary partners.”
Strategic investments could also lead to a positive impact for brokers. According to Malhotra, brokers could “benefit from faster underwriting decisions, greater transparency and new options for claims and other servicing processes.”
AI has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of brokers, but the technology is innately susceptible to bias. Malhotra contends that “AI needs to be carefully trained to avoid biases” and “solutions trained on data that is incomplete, misrepresentative or biased will make decisions that would be obviously incorrect to a human.”
There are also financial limitations, and some brokerages lack sizeable budgets. Malhotra argues that it is possible to implement AI on a smaller scale, however, and “customer relationship management (CRM) and other enterprise software providers are now embedding AI capabilities into their offerings.”
An accumulation of reports indicate that AI is integral to business growth, and Accenture’s conclusions serve as a solidification of a wide ranging set of studies. Although the capabilities of AI are almost unfathomable, there is no doubt that the technology will continue to innovate and improve operations in a broad set of industries.
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FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – The Fort St. John Huskies started off the new year right with a win as they hosted the Sexsmith Vipers on Saturday at the North Peace Arena.
At 4:40 into the game, Joel Bourgeois scored a goal with a feed by Curtis Hammond and Aiden Craig-Steele making the score 1-0 over the Vipers.
Then with 8:14 left in the first frame, the Vipers would score one on the Huskies, tying the game at one apiece.
In period two, at 32 seconds into the frame, Brady Marzocco score a goal with a double assist by Gary Loewen and Jared Loewen making the score 2-1.
Then at 4:27 left in the period, in a power play, Aiden Craig-Steele would get another goal for the pups with a feed from Nolan Legace and Gary Loewen sending the score to 3-1.
The scoring continued as, at 14 seconds left in the frame, Geoff Dick netted the puck with an assist by Gary Loewen and Matthew Apsassin making the score 4-1 as they headed into the third period.
At 6:00 into the third period, Curtis Hammond would make a goal with a feed from Joel Bourgeois and Aiden Craig-Steele, setting the score at 5-1 over the Vipers.
Then in a powerplay situation, at 9:10 left in the frame, Aiden Craig-Steele would send one into the Vipers net with an assist by Nolan Legace and Matthew Apsassin making the lead 6-1.
But with 4:18 left in the game, in a power play, the Vipers would make a final attempt to catch up by scoring on the Huskies making the score 6-2.
The Huskies would end up winning the game 6-2 over the Vipers.
Huskies Coach, Todd Alexander, says they performed well despite some of them not having any recent practice.
“Some of these guys didn’t practice on Thursday, so coming out of the gate to have 50 minutes of good solid puck movement we’re pretty happy with that for sure.”
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Tableau makes licences available to charities
Tableau has announced that has extended its free software programmer into the UK for UK registered charities, this extends the program initiated in the US in September earlier this year.
UK registered Charities that have an annual operating budget of less than £3 million will now be able to obtain a two year licence for Tableau Professional software. This will be through for a small administration fee via the Technology Trust, a partner organisation to Tech-Soup through which Tableau distribute their software in the US. The tt-exchange charges applicants £40 for each of up to five licensed products to cover administration costs. A significant reduction from the $1999 (£1311 based on www.XE.com rate) that the software normally costs.
Neal Myrick, Corporate Social Responsibility Director at Tableau Software / Tableau Foundation
Neal Myrick, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility at Tableau commenting on the press release said: “We started the Tableau Foundation with a mission to encourage the use of facts and analytical reasoning to solve the world’s problems.
“The Tableau for nonprofits programme supports this mission by helping small nonprofits to better manage programs, tell impactful stories, or increase the effectiveness of fundraising efforts through data.”
Data Scientists give back
Emma Prest, General Manager at the UK chapter of DataKind
We spoke to Emma Prest, General Manager at the UK chapter of DataKind an NGO that has worked with Tableau for some time in an unofficial capacity in the UK.
DataKind runs events and projects where data scientists can help charities within the UK over short intense periods. One example is the weekend in Bristol between 4th and 6th December, sponsored by Which? that will be helping the Alzheimer’s Society Bristol Older People’s Forum to draw insights from their data. This event, which involves 100 data scientists was fully subscribed with 2 weeks of its announcement.
While both delighted and surprised that it filled so rapidly it also shows an appetite among data scientists to give back to the community. Tableau already recognised this in the US by creating the Tableau Service Corps, and has now extended that organisation into the UK with this announcement.
The Tableau Service Corps enables Tableau employees to spend time helping charities to deploy and make use of Tableau Software within their organisation. In response to the news Prest commented: “We were thrilled when we told that there was more of a formal partnership and that Tableau were giving out free licenses to charities”.
The Tableau Service Corps will help any size of organisation and the non–profit just needs to apply on the Service Corp Website. While there are only four employees listed at the moment one can expect this to climb rapidly. Prest commented that: “A Lot of volunteers who come to our events are Tableau employees and Tableau gets used a lot.”
While analytics is still fairly new for charities have been collecting data for decades according to Prest, but they cannot afford the salaries that data analyst skills command. This need can be attractive to data scientists who not only get to work on diverse data sets that are interesting but they can also make a significant difference to the charities that hold the data.
What can charities and companies do?
Recent research from the UK’s Institute of Fundraising revealed that while 80% are collecting data less than a quarter are actually doing anything with it. Prest is more blunt about this challenge and optimistic about what Tableau are offering them saying: “Most UK charities don’t know what to do with their data …but there are a subset who are doing really interesting work and who are embracing digital tools and innovation. They are really hungry for this kind of thing and have really been stuck using tools that are very limited. Being able to import a chunk of data into tableau and be able to slice it and dice it in new ways is pretty important for them”
She cited the North East Child poverty commission as an example of how charities could help themselves: “We worked with the North East Child poverty commission which is only a one man band. They have used Tableau a lot and started to get their head around it, if they can do it any charity can do it.” Their website has an example of what is possible.
So what can charities do with the data? Prest answered: “Whether they are disadvantaged youth, or homeless people or vulnerable elderly actually analysing that data, because a lot of it hasn’t been analysed, and looking at what is working, what isn’t working and which clients respond to different services and which don’t, you can predict when a customer comes to you how likely are they going to be to benefit from something. This is all totally new, totally eye opening for charities especially considering the current climate of limited funding.”
Datakind specifically helps with larger data science projects, but the Tableau Service Corps will help a wider section of charities at lower levels. It is likely that at some point in the future Tableau will also open up the Service Corp to its channel and possibly customers.
However these companies can do more themselves. Prest feels that companies should look internally first: “First look at internal CSR and look at which charities are already supported the approach that charity. Start with that existing relationship by finding out how that charity is working with data. Do they need any tech or data support? Do they have internal volunteers who want to do it, as opposed to just giving money? You have some really elite skills in your company that these charities can benefit from.”
When asked whether there was one company who stood out for her she said: “Aimia has the most amazing CSR program that looks at four charities every year.” Aimia are the analytics company behind Nectar, but any size company with data analytics experts should be able to help their charities. With the Tableau licenses now available for those smaller charities then this will need less investment for both the sponsoring company and the charity as well.
This is another significant step in improving the Tableau CSR program. Interestingly it also enables a lot of other companies to strengthen theirs as well if they look to their own supported charities and see what help they can offer them.
Emma Prest summarized its importance by saying: “Data is an important and largely untapped resource for charities. Charities often sit atop mounds of rich data, but due to a lack of internal expertise and resources they struggle to realise its potential. From identifying new patterns of need to predicting who needs their support most, charities can hugely benefit from exploring and using data, through visualisation, to make a greater impact.”
While a cynic might say that this is another way that Tableau gets its brand and software into the hands of a wider audience, in the same way that its free iPad app does (Vizable), it is showing the way for other analytics companies. The amount of good that this announcement could do for UK charities in increasing efficiency and delivering help to where it is most needed and most effective could be substantial. If other companies take note of this initiative and do similar things then the UK might be a better place.
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