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GM will stop making these 6 cars by the end of next year
Posted 8:23 AM, November 27, 2018, by CNN Wire
DETROIT, Mich. — General Motors will end production of six sedans by the end of 2019.
North American customers want SUVs, crossovers, hatchbacks and trucks. Sedans have fallen out of favor.
As GM adjusts to changing customer behavior it is also planning ahead for the future. The company announced massive layoffs and is closing five North American facilities as it transitions to self-driving, electric cars of the future.
The soon-to-be closed plants mean GM will no longer make these cars:
LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 18: The new Buick LaCrosse is presented at the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show on November 18, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The LA Auto Show was founded in 1907 and is the first major North American autoÊshow of the season each year. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
January – September sales: 13,409, down 14.2%
The LaCrosse is a large car built by a brand that was a pioneer in small crossovers. Buick is still shifting heavily toward crossovers: Sales of the Encore and Enclave crossovers are both up this year. But Buick is struggling after turning itself around a few years ago.
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 1: Cadillac introduces the new CT6 at the New York International Auto Show at the Javits Center on April 1, 2015 in New York City. The auto show opens to the public April 3-12. (Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)
January – September sales: 7,270, down 10.6%
The only surprise of the bunch, the CT6 is an unusual choice for GM, because it serves as the tech halo for Cadillac. It’s still the only car that has GM’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving technology. But it’s also the least popular Cadillac.
LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 16: The Cadillac 2013 XTS is unveiled during the LA Auto Show on November 16, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
January – September sales: 12,664, up 15.9%
Most XTS cars are sold to limousine and taxi companies. GM recently updated the XTS’ design to keep customers happy, helping drive sales higher. It’s the only car GM is killing that has performed better in the first nine months of 2018 than in the first nine months of 2017.
DETROIT, MI – JUNE 24: The new General Motors 2016 Chevrolet Cruze is revealed at The Filmore Detroit June 24, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. GM touts the new offering as being larger than its predecessor, but lighter, quicker and more fuel-efficient. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
January – September sales: 109,662, down 26.5%
The bestselling Chevy sedan, the Cruze is highly regarded among auto reviewers and enthusiasts. The Cruze was the “Consumer Reports” top pick for compact cars last year. It was beat out by the Toyota Corolla and a handful of other small cars this year, and sales have disappointed.
The Chevrolet Impala is viewed during the first day of press previews at the New York International Automobile Show April 4, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
The recently redesigned Chevy Impala was the 2018 “Consumer Reports” top pick for large cars. But it’s a large car in a market that seems to have forgotten that large cars exist. The Impala is among the worst-selling Chevrolets.
DETROIT, MI – JANUARY 12: General Motors reveals the new 2016 Chevrolet Volt to the media at the 2015 North American International Auto Show on January 12, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
The Volt is a plug-in electric hybrid sedan lost in the excitement of all-electric cars. Chevy has been promoting the electric Bolt hatchback, though Bolt sales have fallen too.
‘A floodier future’: Scientists say records will be broken
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ will continue for at least 2 more seasons
President Trump lifts tariffs on Mexico, Canada, delays auto tariffs
General Motors planning to invest $24 million in Indiana to expand truck production
Supreme Court strikes down ‘scandalous’ part of trademark law
IN Focus: Sen. Braun on trade war, political climate in DC
National & World News Sports
‘A lot of questions’ linger in death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, friend says
1 killed, 1 in hospital after crash on Indy’s northwest side
Major ICE raids didn’t materialize over the weekend, advocates say
TV actor Charles Levin found dead in Oregon
Shooting near Lawrence Central High School leaves 18-year-old dead
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The Side Effects Of Vaccines - How High Is The Actual Risk
Via Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Vaccines are extremely harmful to DISEASES!
anti-vaxxers
Measles Explained: Vaccinate Or Not
This video comes in amidst the social media storm of hysteria, encircling measles, and whether or not people are getting the vaccination, or not. It seeks to explain what it is, its symptoms, how bad it can be, and how the immune system reacts to it. Wonder what the anti-vaxxers will make of this!
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Doctor's Office Calls Out Anti-Vaxxer Beliefs With Slideshow Of Their Own
This doctor's office is NOT messing around when it comes to broadcasting their rules to the population of anti-vaxxers outside their door. They make it clear that their doors are not open to anyone who has actively chosen to not receive the measles vaccination. And if their slides aren't enough to sway any minds undecided on vaccination, then take a peek at this heartfelt Roald Dahl letter. I imagine their unapologetically, fortified stance on vaccinations, and whether people choose or choose not to receive them, has stirred up a ruckus in the community of anti-vaxxers.
anti vaxxer
Heartbreaking Roald Dahl Letter Urges People to Vaccinate Against Measles
In 1986, the legendary author wrote this letter about the passing of his daughter 24 years earlier. This message still resonates today as a reminder of the dangers of not taking steps against the preventable disease. It's a bit of a shame that this message from almost 40 years ago is still relevant, but here we are.
23 Popular Things That Have Been Around Forever
Nothing is new and everything is a lie! Release your inner hipster by telling people that all these things existed before they got trendy. Resent people for not liking things correctly!
16 Times Anti-Vaxxers Really Stunk the Place up with Ignorance
It's hard to get through it all.
People Whose Occupations Demand A Flu Vaccine Are Trying to Lie About Having Taken It
Flu shots are recommended for anyone working in the healthcare industry. Some jobs make this a requirement. These folks are trying to game the system.
Anti-Vax Mom Is Heartbroken Her 19 Year Old Daughter Got Vaccinated
Where do we even start?
I Accept Your Exception
Via tastygamerx
At Least She's Consistently Being a Terrible Parent?
Via BlueCuracao
Turns Out Vaccines Are Turning All of Our Kids into Liberal Zombies. Who Knew?
Via thedude213
Better Pump Out Some Kids, Otherwise Your Opinion is Invalid!
Via drpibbles
Advice of the Day: Surgeon General Tells Elmo Why He Needs a Vaccination
Via The Daily Dot
Anti-vaxxers just got schooled by a little red muppet.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Sesame Street and The Daily Dot have teamed up in a new PSA about why vaccinations are so important.
In the 3-minute clip, Murthy explains to Elmo, who initially isn’t so keen on getting a shot, why he needs one if he wants to stay healthy. He compares it to wearing a bicycle helmet or carrying an umbrella when it rains.
Murthy talked more about the collaboration on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services blog:
Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective public health tools we have for preventing disease and death. They not only help protect vaccinated individuals, but they also help protect entire communities by preventing and reducing the spread of infectious diseases. Among children in the U.S. born between 1994 and 2013, routine vaccinations will prevent an estimated 322 million illnesses, 21 million hospitalizations, and 732,000 deaths over the course of their lifetimes.
And they both took a little dig at the anti-vaxxer movement at the end of the video.
“That was so easy. Why doesn’t everybody get a vaccination,” he says.
“That’s a good question Elmo,” Murthy replies.
Take Your Pick, and You Chose Poorly
Via hippiesinthewind
Who Are These Sociopaths and Can We Put Them on Island Somewhere?
Via cycophuk
The Mother of All Irony: When All the Kids of an Anti-Vaccination Parent Get Whooping Cough
Via Hoof Glormuss
Ponder for a moment the kind of mental fortitude and character it takes for someone to say "I'm not going to beat myself up for it" in the face of all this.
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HomePosts tagged 'American gymnast'
American gymnast
Did You Know? – Fasab’s Fabulous Fact Feast!
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“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureucracy”
Another fabulous fact feast on the fasab blog.
Hope there are a few things in here that are new and interesting for you.
Pepsi-Cola was originally called “Brad’s Drink.”
Most supermarkets place their bakery areas near the entrance
because studies have shown that the aroma of fresh-baked goods
makes customers spend more money.
Although most people think that it was a spin-off from the telephone,
the first fax machine was actually invented over 25 years before the telephone.
The Kentucky Derby is also known as the Run for the Roses.
Not all comets are as “regular” as Halley’s Comet.
Astronomers believe that Comet West,
which last visited our neighborhood in 1975-76,
won’t be seen again for another half-million years.
In 1835, John Wilkes Booth’s father Junius
threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson.
Cashews are related to poison ivy.
The fortune cookie was invented in the early 20th century
by Makato Hagiwara, who designed the Japanese Tea Garden
in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
He intended the cookie to be a snack for people walking through the garden.
Bubble gum is pink because when it was invented,
pink was the only food dye on hand.
The first skyjacking occurred in 1931 in the skies above Peru.
Two rebel soldiers forced the pilot of a Fokker F-27 to fly them over Lima
so they could drop propaganda pamphlets onto the city.
Teddy Roosevelt’s first wife and mother
died on the same day in the same house.
The day was Valentine’s Day of 1884.
The “Crows Nest” on a ship
(the basket near the top of the mast)
used to actually contain a crow.
The ships navigator would use one of the birds as a guide in bad weather,
since they invariably flew towards land.
Only 1% of all the readily accessible water on earth is drinkable.
In 1557, European doctors recommended smoking
to combat bad breath and cancer.
In the 1904 Olympics, American gymnast George Eyser
faired quite well, winning six medals
even though his left leg was made of wood.
Al Capone’s brother was a cop.
The Orange River in southern Africa
isn’t named for the fruit or the color;
it’s named for the Dutch royal family
who sent explorers to “discover” the area.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House
straddles the Canadian and Vermont border.
The actors perform in Canada
while most of the audience sits in the United States.
There is even a painted line running through the building.
The phrase “going commando” originated during the Vietnam War,
a time when American troops spent extended periods of time in hot, humid jungles.
Wearing tight-fitting undergarments reduced ventilation
and increased the risk of fungal infections in the groin area.
Generally, the higher a dog’s cholesterol,
the more likely they are to chase their tail.
Especially if they’re female!
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HomePosts tagged 'Clanbrassil Street'
Clanbrassil Street
What Watch? Ten Watch. Such Much?
April 6, 2014 April 6, 2014 fasab comedy, Crime, Factoids, Humour Accidents, amusing, attempted bombing, blundering bomber, bomb, bomb went off sooner than he expected, Brad Pitt, capture rate, catch themselves, caught in his own explosion, Clanbrassil Street, Comedy, criminal masterminds, criminals, Current Events, darwin awards, Daylight Saving Time, depressing, dripping in blood, Dublin, dumb, dunce, facts, fools, forgotten, funny, gene pool, George Clooney, heist, Hollywood, Humor, Humour, idiots, injured criminal, Ireland, local businessman, master criminals, media, morons, movies, New Street, Ocean's movie trilogy, planting the bomb, police, small time criminals, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, taxi, Volvo SUV, watch forward
You hear now and again on the media about criminal masterminds. And Hollywood is prone to making movies showing these master criminals pulling off some incredible heist or other, like the Ocean’s movie trilogy starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
But by and large most of the criminals out there are as dumb as they come, as was noted in previous posts, for example, “Some Of The Dumbest Getaways In History” or “Little Dumb And Large Dumber”.
What that says about the police whose capture rate for small time criminals is depressingly low is itself depressing.
Sometimes though, the criminals are so dumb that they catch themselves.
Such was the case recently in Dublin, Ireland when a blundering bomber attempted to place a bomb underneath a Volvo SUV belonging to a local businessman. I don’t know the reason for the attempted bombing and for the purposes of this post it doesn’t really matter.
What does matter is that the dunce planting the bomb under the vehicle was caught in his own explosion because….
….wait for it….
the bomb went off sooner than he expected since he had forgotten about the Daylight Saving Time change in Ireland last weekend and didn’t put his watch forward.
The injured criminal idiot was apparently seen stumbling from the scene “dripping in blood” and getting into a taxi on the junction of New Street and Clanbrassil Street in Dublin.
You can’t really make things like this up – and actually with morons like this on the lose you don’t have to.
One for the Darwin Awards if he has the decency to expire and remove himself from the gene pool.
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HomePosts tagged 'Crater of Diamonds State Park'
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Did You Know…. Another Twenty Fascinating Facts From Fasab’s Files
May 7, 2013 May 5, 2013 fasab Factoids, Uncategorized, Unusual 13 couples, AIDS, Alaska, alcohol, americans, Arkansas, Arkansas Diamond Corporation, astronauts, athlete, average person, bald, barbie, beams, birth mark, car accidents, carat, career, cocaine, cockatoo, Cocky, colorblind, consonants, crack, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Crayola, crayon, crayons, diamond, eagle, earth, earthquakes, education, Emerson Moser, Entertainment, events, face, fact, factoid, factoids, facts, feathers, fire, fuel, Haiti, hamburger buns, Harley Davidson, heroin, high-speed cameras, Hoagy Carmichael, homicide, honeymoon, honorificabilitudinitatibus, I’m a Cranky Old Yank, information, July 1874, largest diamond, laser beams, Life, London Zoo, longest English word, longest title, Mary Anderson, Mattel, mileage, mirrors on the moon, Murfreesboro, Nebraska, oldest bird, paint, Prairie Creek pipe mine, rain, rain drops, Random, richter scale, Sahara Desert, scientists, song, Sports Illustrated, Sportsman of the Year, suicide, swarm of locusts, tear shaped, the Moon, the White House, Tidikelt, Tiger Woods, Titanic, tobacco, transportation, trivia, U-Haul trucks, Uncle Sam, United States, vowels, Wesley Oley Basham, white diamond, windshield wipers
Time for another selection of fascinating facts. How you use these is up to you, but some of them may well come in handy sometime.
Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes,
1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale
There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle
– even a bald one!
The average person changes their career every 13 years
The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year
is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon
five times a day for an entire year
Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered
that rain drops are not tear shaped
but rather look like hamburger buns.
570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House
– make that 570 gallons of white paint
Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named
“Sportsman of the Year”
by magazine Sports Illustrated two times
In 1996, toy company Mattel released a “Harley Davidson” Barbie.
This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face
that changes position with every new release of the doll
In the Sahara Desert there is a town named Tidikelt,
which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years
The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser
retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola.
It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind
There are mirrors on the moon.
Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth.
These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few meters.
Tobacco kills more Americans each year
than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide,
suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined
The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who lived in London Zoo.
He ceased being Cocky at the age of 82.
There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic
In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska
covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles.
It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects.
These insects became extinct thirty years later
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
is the longest English word that consists strictly
of alternating consonants and vowels
In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car which is ironic
considering approximately 33% of the country’s budget on imports
is spent on equipment for fuel and transportation.
The largest diamond found in the United States was a 40.23 carat white diamond.
It was found in 1924 at Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Prairie Creek pipe mine,
which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park.
The diamond was named “Uncle Sam” after the nickname of its finder,
Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas Diamond Corporation.
In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers
The song with the longest title is
“I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank
on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama
Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o,
Hirohito Blues”
written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945.
He later claimed the song title ended with ‘Yank’ and the rest was a joke
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HomePosts tagged 'figure 8 pattern'
figure 8 pattern
Did You Know? Another Rummage Through The Fasab Fact Files
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Hello again and welcome to another rummage through the fasab fact files.
As random as ever, this selection covers many centuries and many countries so you should find something of interest.
1 in 5 of the world’s doctors are Russian.
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers
100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character,
received 800,000 fan letters.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain
travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows
to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Canadian researchers have found that
Einstein’s brain was 15% wider than normal.
Isaac Asimov is the only author
to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The shortest British monarch was Charles I,
who was 4 feet 9 inches.
Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
(Something to do with his mother no doubt!)
Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
In space, astronauts cannot cry,
because there is no gravity,
so the tears can’t flow.
There are 1,792 steps in the Eiffel Tower
A silicon chip a quarter inch square
has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer,
which occupied a city block.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet
while they’re still sitting on it.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore
were freshman roommates at Harvard.
In eighteenth century England,
women’s wigs were sometimes 4 feet high.
These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour
and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens,
plates of fruit, or even model ships.
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift
officially married a 50 pound rock.
The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
John has a long moustache was the coded signal
used by the French Resistance in WWII
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First Fasab Quiz Of 2015.
January 5, 2015 December 31, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests 3rd Molars, acid, alkali, alternative name, ancient city, answers, argus, bird, Cantons, chemical symbol, circle, common name, Common Salt, compound, diameter, discus, disease, drinking dirty water, easy, education, elements, Entertainment, fe2o3, federal state, fuel, general knowledge, Geography, give birth, golden, heaviest land animals, history, infection, international news, intestine, jet aircraft, Jonas Salk, killer disease, Lady Amherst, lay eggs, liquid, live offspring, Machu Picchu, mammals, meters, minutes, month, music, nature, Oxford, paper, Pluto platter, questions, quiz, quizzes, River Thames, Robyn Fenty, science, silver, snakes, sodium, stage name, test, tests, tongues, vaccine, Walter Frederick Morrison, week, year
Hello and welcome to the first fasab quiz of 2015.
Twenty questions that cover history, geography, science, music and nature and maybe more.
Some of them are quite easy though, so don’t be alarmed.
And as always, if you get stuck, you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
Q. 1: By what more common name are the 3rd Molars known?
Q. 2: What do snakes use their tongues for?
Q. 3: What is the diameter in meters, of the circle from which a discus is thrown?
a) 1.5 meters b) 2.5 meters c) 3.5 meters
Q. 4: What disease is an infection of the intestine caused by drinking dirty water?
Q. 5: Which federal state consists of 26 Cantons?
Q. 6: What is 9 percent of 9?
Q. 7: What is the more common name for the chemical symbol ‘fe2o3’?
Q. 8: What are the only 2 mammals to lay eggs rather than give birth to live offspring? (You get a point for each correct answer and a bonus point if you get both correct.)
Q. 9: What killer disease very prevalent in past centuries was controlled by Jonas Salk’s vaccine?
Q. 10: What type of fuel do jet aircraft use?
Q. 11: How many minutes are there in a week?
Q. 12: Common Salt is a compound formed from 2 elements, one is sodium what is the other?
Q. 13: Which bird has ‘golden’, ‘silver’, ‘Lady Amherst’ and ‘argus’ varieties?
Q. 14: What alternative name is given to the River Thames as it passes through Oxford, a name that has been very prominent in the international news recently for a very different reason?
Q. 15: What is the second month of the year to have exactly 30 days?
Q. 16: What kind of paper is used to test whether a liquid is acid or alkali?
Q. 17: What are the two heaviest land animals? (A point for each correct answer.)
Q. 18: The ancient city of Machu Picchu is in which country?
Q. 19: Walter Frederick Morrison invented the ‘Pluto platter’ in 1948, but what is it more commonly known as today?
Q. 20: What is the better known stage name of Robyn Fenty?
A. 1: Wisdom teeth.
A. 2: Hearing.
A. 3: The correct answer is b) 2.5 meters.
A. 4: Cholera.
A. 5: Switzerland.
A. 6: It is 0.81.
A. 7: Rust.
A. 8: Duckbilled platypus and the spiny anteater (will accept just ‘anteater’).
A. 9: Polio.
A. 10: Kerosene.
A. 11: There are 10,080.
A. 12: Chlorine
A. 13: Pheasant.
A. 14: It is called the ‘Isis’, the name also used for the militant Islamic terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
A. 15: June.
A. 16: Litmus.
A. 17: The elephant and the hippopotamus.
A. 18: Peru.
A. 19: The ‘Frisbee’.
A. 20: Rihanna.
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Guident adds intelligence pro as adviser
By David Hubler
Guident, a business intelligence, data warehousing and Oracle solutions provider to the federal government, has added Tracy Graves-Stevens to its Federal Advisory Board.
Graves-Stevens is president of ManTech International’s MSM Security Services practice. She has more than 20 years of Defense Department and intelligence community expertise, a Guident announcement states.
Graves-Stevens spent most of her career at the CIA, working in technical and leadership roles. Before joining ManTech, she was president and chief executive officer of Communications Technology Exchange, a provider of software and architectural engineering solutions to the Defense and intelligence communities. Before that, she supported a number of large national security programs as director of Logicon, a defense systems engineering firm.
“Adding [her] depth of knowledge in this target area to our Federal Advisory Board will assist us in fulfilling this goal,” said Teddy Matheu, a partner at Guident, in the statement. “We welcome Tracy Graves-Stevens and look forward to learning from her vast experiences in this niche marketplace.”
“Requirements for the expanded analysis and sharing of intelligence continue to deepen, increasing the need for solutions that facilitate empowered decisions,” Graves-Stevens said. “Guident has demonstrated the understanding of this growing necessity,” she added.
David Hubler is the former print managing editor for GCN and senior editor for Washington Technology. He is freelance writer living in Annandale, Va.
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Gun Groups Mobilize for Virginia Special Session
Gun-rights, gun-control supporters plan to flood Richmond on Tuesday
Stephen Gutowski
Members of the groups will descend on Richmond July 9 as the Virginia legislature begins a special session called by embattled Governor Ralph Northam (D) in the wake of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach.
Warren Endorses Ban on Gun Purchases Without License, Registration
The senator also wants assault weapons ban, other gun control measures
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) endorsed a national gun licensing proposal as well as a national gun registry on Monday.
Biden Proposes Ban on Gun Sales Other Than Theoretical ‘Smart Guns’
Study: Crime Guns Obtained Illegally Shortly Before Shootings
Study says better enforcement of current law could result in a noticeable reduction in gun crime
A study published in the latest edition of the Journal of Urban Health argues perpetrators of gun crimes acquire their guns shortly before using them, and better enforcement of current law could interrupt these transactions.
Gillibrand Invokes Mother of Gun Victim, Hasn’t Contacted in 10 Years
'If you really care, you follow up'
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) always points to meeting a mother grieving the death of her daughter in 2009 as having led to her dramatic shift on gun rights.
Democrats: AR-15s ‘Aren’t Used for Hunting,’ ‘Not Viable for Home Protection’
Two Senate Democrats falsely claimed Monday that the AR-15 is not used for hunting and isn't "viable for home protection" in a tweet promoting gun control proposals.
Harvard Rescinds Acceptance of Conservative Activist Kyle Kashuv
Harvard has rescinded their acceptance of conservative activist Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the 2019 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to its 2023 undergraduate class.
McBath Calls for ‘Gun-Free Society’
Office says she misspoke, opponent says she’s lying
"The time has come to stand up," Rep. McBath said at the end of a press conference. "I hope that you take this charge back to your communities and stand up for a gun-free society."
Trump Considers Banning Silencers
'I don't like it. I don't like it,' says president
President Trump said in an interview on Wednesday that he is going to "seriously look at" banning silencers in the wake of one of the devices being recovered at a shooting where 12 people were murdered in Virginia Beach.
Va. Governor Calls for Special Gun-Control Session
ATF says it can't release info on shooter's silencer
Virginia's governor Ralph Northam (D.) called for a special session of the state legislature in order to take up a collection of gun-control proposals mostly unrelated to last week's attack in Virginia Beach where 12 people were murdered. He has yet to specify when the session will take place.
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James T. Hodgkinson
Washington Post Receives Backlash for Story Connecting Alexandria Shooter to Trump-Supporting Radio Host
The Washington Post received backlash for an article published over the weekend in which the newspaper linked James T. Hodgkinson, the gunman who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) and several others last month, to a talk radio host who supports President Donald Trump.
FBI: Scalise Shooter Googled ‘2017 Republican Convention’ Night Before Attack
The Illinois man who attacked the Republican congressional baseball team last week took to Google to find information on the Republican convention the night before the shooting, according to the FBI.
Alexandria Shooter Hodgkinson Said to Be Abusive Alcoholic
Katelyn Caralle
James T. Hodgkinson, the man who shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) and four others at a Republican congressional baseball practice on Wednesday, is shown in court reports to have been an abusive alcoholic.
GOP Congressman: ‘We’re Going to Play Baseball Tomorrow’
Hospital: Scalise’s Condition Remains Critical
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) remains in critical condition after being shot in Alexandria, Va. on Wednesday.
Ryan to House: ‘An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of Us’
Rep. Chris Collins: ‘I Will Be Carrying’ Handgun at Future Public Events
Rep. Chris Collins (R., N.Y.) told WKBW-TV on Wednesday that he will carry his 9-millimeter handgun at future public events.
Hodgkinson’s ‘Revolution’
Bernie Bro Takes Up Arms Against Republicans
The man who shot five people at a Republican congressional baseball practice Wednesday morning appears to be a diehard liberal, judging by social media accounts under his name. The Washington Post was first to identify the shooter as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois. There are two Facebook accounts for a James T. Hodgkinson and James Hodgkinson living in Belleville, Illinois with the same work history and similar syntax.
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Shooting News UK
War and Peace Magazine
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British Shooting Show – UK’s Premier Shooting Show
War and Peace Revival
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The Greatest Celebration Of Military History and Vintage Lifestyle In The World!
A five-day military and vintage festival at The Hop Farm Family Park, Paddock Wood, Kent, TN12 6PY will be packed full of education and entertainment bringing the Dunkirk Spirit to Kent.
Living History scenes will provide a unique picture of life in conflict with depictions from WW1 to the present – see the British living in trenches, GIs in Vietnam, Russians relaxing with an accordion after a hard day in battle, or Germans plotting their next moves! At all times our re-enactors will adhere to a strict moral code in their displays.
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Thousands of military vehicles gather from around the world representing the armies of the 20th century. Look out for tanks, artillery, armoured and amphibious vehicles, cars, Jeeps, bicycles and motorbikes, emergency and commercial vehicles – and lots more
Its not just about the frontline, get a feel for what life was like for the families at home. A dedicated area for all things vintage and an exciting focus to the Peace element of the Show’s title
“Superb day, fantastic day for the family, already looking forwards to coming back for 2 days next year. “
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“I come every year and this years has been the best by far.”
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Articles tagged “DivaAtTheMet”
10 Farm-To-Table Restaurants In Vancouver, Canada
by Jessica Festa on Oct 22, 2012
During a recent visit to Vancouver, Canada, it was apparent many restaurants are trying to create sustainable, farm-to-table menus. It’s a great city if you’re an eco-conscious traveler due to the many options for any price level. To help guide you, here are some top picks for morally conscious cuisine in Vancouver.
Diva at the Met
645 Howe Street
I’m not sure there are any other restaurants in the city that take creative sustainability to the level Diva at the Met does. Chef Hamid Salimian and his team enjoy foraging when they can, even for the organic matters like stones, driftwood and torched bark that make up the snack plates. Chef Salimian visualizes what most can not even fathom, while remaining as organic as possible. For example, a slice of chicken bacon from a biodiverse farm might be brined and smoked for days and come on a stone slab, while a squid ink-infused mussel bread will be topped with roe and made to look like coral. Seafood comes from Ocean Wise-certified providers, while produce comes from farms with high crop biodiversity. In terms of farms, most of their produce comes from North Arm Farm, Sapo Bravo, Glourish Organics and Cherry Lane Farm. Although an upscale restaurant, meals can be affordable, with prices ranging from $19 to $38 for an entree, to the five-course tasting menu at $55 and the seven-course tasting menu at $75.Cibo Trattoria
900 Seymour Street
Like Diva at the Met, Cibo Trattoria immerses you in a relaxed, romantic ambiance. However, while Diva focuses on surreal gastronomy, Cibo Trattoria serves up rustic Italian fare with a modern twist. What’s really interesting at this venue is they change their menu daily, focusing on what’s fresh and in-season. While certain meats and cheeses come from Italy to get authenticity, much of their ingredients are locally sourced from British Columbia farms, with deliveries coming daily. For example, their radishes come from Aldergrove while their watercress is purchased from Hannah Brooks Farm in Langley. Typical dishes may include a handmade paccheri pasta with meatballs, oregano, San Marzano tomatoes and ricotta salada, crispy ox tongue with marinated heirloom peppers or roast bone marrow garlic and parsley bread crumbs and apple salad. They also do seasonally inspired dishes for fresh ingredients, like pumpkin ravioli with chili, garlic, marjoram and amaretti. You can sample local wines from the Okanagan and Fraser valleys. And although they have to reprint their menus daily, all printouts are done on recycled paper, which is also recycled after use. The menu includes affordable small plates as well as pastas for about $15 and entrees for less than $30.
C Restaurant
1600 Howe Street
As the founding restaurant in the Vancouver Aquarium Ocean Wise Program, C Restaurant was one of the first in Vancouver to deconstruct seafood supply lines, dealing directly with the fisherman to ensure a product that is of the highest quality and ethical sensitivity. Since the restaurant focuses on seasonal freshness, there really isn’t a signature dish. Instead, its signature is to utilize sustainable seafood and local produce as much as possible. Not only is their food sustainable, but their wine program features vintages from British Columbia’s Okanagan Region, as well as global wines made with an organic and biodynamic philosophy. The restaurant is contemporary, with entrees averaging $30.
Juno Vancouver Sushi Bistro
572 Davie Street
You don’t need to eat at an upscale restaurant to enjoy a sustainable meal. And with Vancouver having myriad sushi establishments, it would be wrong not to include one on this list. Located in Yaletown, Juno Vancouver Sushi Bistro doesn’t simply churn out rolls, they focus on high-quality cuisine and fresh ingredients, employing only serious Japanese chefs. Ingredients include wild seafood, natural beef, free-range chicken and heritage KUROBUTA pork, all locally-sourced from British Columbia farms. If you’re in the mood for a local drink, Juno serves sakes from the Granville Island Artisan Sake Maker and BC “Vintners Quality Alliance” (VQA) wines.
Raincity Grill
1193 Denman Street
This high-end restaurant opened in 1992 with a menu that featured locally-sourced food. Eventually, Raincity Grill also added their signature 100-mile menu, which showcased items with ingredients from within 100-miles of Vancouver.
“Our menu is a tribute to the local farmers, fisherman and producers of British Columbia,” it states on their homepage. “The Chef sources out the best organic, sustainable products available … ‘Farm-to-table’ has become a recent catchphrase but at Raincity Grill it has been a philosophy for twenty years.”
Some specific sustainable menu items include “Brioche French Toast” with Fraser Valley compote and house-made huckleberry syrup, a “Spinach And Berry” salad with North Arm Farm spinach, local berries and Okanagan goat’s cheese and “Fraser Valley Duck Breast” with wild coastal huckleberries. If you’re on a budget, check out their $10 fish and chips window. Libations are also in line with their ‘go local’ philosophy, as the restaurant serves wines from the Pacific West Coast.
Edible Canada Bistro
Located on Granville Island, Edible Canada‘s bistro does an excellent job of supporting the farm-to-feast philosophy. While their food is fresh and locally grown, even using onsite plant boxes of herbs and produce and making use of the adjacent public market, their efforts extend beyond eating. In fact, the venue features tabletops made of recycled fir tree, hostess stands created with discarded beach cedar and two complimentary charging stations for electric vehicles. As for drinks, they’re spearheading the revolution of offering wine on tap, an environmentally-friendly way to serve vino as it eliminates the packaging and, because 27% of glass is recovered for recycling, stops millions of bottles from going to the landfill. Menu items range from $11 to $28, while their bacon window also offers inexpensive eats.
The Templeton
1087 Granville Street
Located in Vancouver’s lively entertainment district, The Templeton is an old-fashioned retro diner serving comfort food in a sustainable way. Most ingredients are organic and locally sourced, and there are an array of vegetarian and vegan options, like lentil loaf, tofu omelets, Portobello mushroom burgers and veggie bacon. If you’re a carnivore, The Templeton features organic, free-range and non-medicated meats. Best of all, this venue is cheap to moderately priced with $10 burgers, $10 fish and chips and $16 steaks. Finish it off with a $5 deep-fried Mars bar.
Trafalgar’s Bistro
Trafalgars Bistro and adjacent Sweet Obsession bakery in Kitsilano are pioneers when it comes to sustainability. In the summer of 2011, the venues launched a recycling and composting initiative that was the first of its kind by installing a Green Good composting system. By doing this, they were able to eliminate all organic waste going to landfill, with 99% of the remaining trash being recycled. Additionally, their strong association with Inner City Farms means they can make use of their compost in Vancouver’s urban gardens. In terms of food, their seafood is certified Ocean Wise, all meats are unmedicated and free-range and produce is almost always locally sourced. While the ambiance suggests fine dining, it’s actually a casual and affordable place to eat, with entrees ranging from $17 to $30 and a three-course menu for $30.
Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar
1095 Hamilton Street
Located in Yaletown, the casual yet elegant Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar has always focused on farm-to-table and ocean-to-table. All seafood is delivered to their kitchen daily and only the absolute freshest, exceptional quality fish and shellfish are selected. Most of them are line caught, trap caught or sustainably farmed in British Columbia. During the month of February, they even feature an annual Unsung Heroes Festival, which introduces diners to new experiences and flavors using abundant fish species, showcasing to people options other than over-fished varieties. It’s no surprise the establishment is Ocean Wise, with swimming scallops from the Gulf Islands, Kusshi oysters and Reed oysters from B.C. and sustainably-farmed sturgeon from Sechelt. A typical entree is about $34.
La Pentola
Recently opened in September 2012, La Pentola serves up gourmet Italian dishes while also incorporating the Italian philosophy to source locally. In Italy, the regions are diverse because specific ingredients are important to different areas. Additionally, there are a vast amount of quality, artisanal products and farms around Vancouver, which La Pentola makes use of by working with them to create their dishes. For example, the restaurant uses squab from local livestock farms. Their dish has a sauce made from grapes, and a walla walla onion puree where both ingredients come from local Stoney Paradise Farm. To La Pentola, being cutting edge also means holding yourself accountable to the environment and the community. Expect to pay about $6 to $17 for a starter, $12/$13 for a pasta and $30 for an entree.
[Images via Diva at the Met, C Restaurant, Raincity Grill, The Templeton, Blue Water Cafe + Raw Bar]
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2018-2019 Application Thread
By Leo9, October 7, 2018 in Political Science
polsci
sandmoon 52
Espresso Shot
1 minute ago, PBandMachiajelly said:
Hey gang. Sitting in the middle of a snowstorm atm plugging away on school stuff and trying unsuccessfully to distract myself from my inbox. I'm reading some of the comments above and it's making my heart full. Everyone here is a smart, capable scholar who will find success no matter the result of this application cycle, and I hope everyone's managing to keep it level, regardless of the # of acceptances. Keep on digging through!
digging your username! (and I totally read "sitting in the middle of a snow ATM" lol)
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PBandMachiajelly 47
Application Season:2019 Fall
Program:Political Science
Just now, sandmoon said:
If it's a snow ATM somebody waived the withdrawal fee... it hasn't stopped since yesterday afternoon.
Dwar 56
10 minutes ago, ICanRead said:
I wouldn't stress a ton about BC in particular. It's a boutique program. Not many admits, and very heavily theory focused. Even going beyond theory, their second biggest thing is American stuff, which is itself pretty APT heavy. The extent to which they have been branching out into IR with faculty picks may take a while to affect the kinds of students they're taking. If you're a good showing in IR, they may simply not want IR students this run.
So would you discourage IR or Comparative people from applying to BC?
I'm looking at schools to apply for next cycle, and two out of the three IR faculty have really cool research and it connects to my area of interest, but I don't really want to waste the application if IR students have no shot in hell of getting in.
ICanRead 12
14 minutes ago, Dwar said:
I wouldn't discourage anything. I'm not an insider. I am just speculating here. If you're really interested in their IR people, then you might send one of those people an email and have a chat with them about the program. They will certainly have more insight than I do, and I don't want to potentially ruin a good thing by telling you not to apply somewhere. However, if you want my honest opinion, an IR student might need to shine a little brighter to attract the attention of a BC committee. I want to stress again, though, that I'm just an undergrad you've never met. Do not take my word at face value. Maybe I'm an IR student with my eyes on Boston looking to thin out next year's competition in some elaborate ruse. Get your info from the horse's mouth. Profs don't bite.
Edited February 13 by ICanRead
trinityshot 55
7 minutes ago, PBandMachiajelly said:
Snowing where I am too. My sibling's school has been cancelled twice this week for ice and snow. Unfortunately I still have to go to stats class 😩
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Just now, trinityshot said:
Snow AND Stats? My thoughts are with you in these trying times.
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5 minutes ago, ICanRead said:
I wouldn't discourage anything. I'm not an insider. I am just speculating here. If you're really interested in their IR people, then you might send one of those people an email and have a chat with them about the program. They will certainly have more insight than I do, and I don't want to potentially ruin a good thing by telling you not to apply somewhere. However, if you want my honest opinion, an IR student might need to shine a little brighter to attract the attention of a BC committee. I want to stress again, though, that I'm just an undergrad you've never met. Do not take my word at face value. Maybe I'm an IR student with my eyes on Boston looking to thin out next year's competition in some elaborate rule. Get your info from the horse's mouth. Profs don't bite.
Thank you so much for the reply and the suggestion!
As the cycle dies down and the semester ends, i'll be sure to shoot one of the IR professors an email and ask about the program in general and the chance of an IR admit.
Eh it's not THAT bad... stats is fun y'all! What's not fun is trying to walk up the hill on State St. and sliding backwards despite walking forwards
Stats is fun? Sorry, you've lost my tiny theorist brain. On the other hand, by your description it seems that you've discovered the secret of the Moonwalk.
TheBunny 47
Program:Sociology
Professors at BC are really nice, and they generally answer your e-mails about the program and their research. I spoke to them before the application deadlines, and they were really nice. I also do not know which IR topics that you are interested in but I can say that Boston University has great people who work on IR.
6 minutes ago, TheBunny said:
Thanks for the advice! I'll be sure to shoot them an email in the next coming months.
And I did actually look into BU, but they only have one professor that I would want to work with, while BC has two different professors that I would love to work with.
I thought it was really interesting that out of the 3 IR faculty at BC two of them are researching what I am interested in!
1 minute ago, Dwar said:
From what I can tell, BC has 4 IR profs. I'm not particularly well versed in the field though, so it's possible I'm missing something like one of them being emeritus or retired.
1 minute ago, ICanRead said:
My bad, you're right. there are 4 IR professors.
I see the acronym "APT" a lot -- what's APT? (non-theorist here)
46 minutes ago, sandmoon said:
American Political Thought. It's basically a field that is a grey area, since it relates to American politics and Political theory, both of which are common Subfields.
devotee 6
I see a lot of talk about top 10, top 20 etc schools. Which index is the most common one here? USNews? Times? QS? And do you refer to the whole world or just the U.S? Thank you.
2 minutes ago, devotee said:
I think it generally refers to the US and USNews is the one which is generally used but I also like using THE. I have some problems with the methodology of USNews and QS
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KeepRefrigerated99 2
Claiming a UMD acceptance in IR. For anyone wondering if they had finished sending out acceptances, I guess they hadn't (they only did theory, CP, and american early it seems). I got my email this morning!
Depends. For the most part, USNews is pretty roughly accurate as far as I've heard. Re: theory, though, it's more complicated. For one, there's the question of whether you're doing History of Political Thought or Contemporary theory. In HPT, if people think you're a Straussian (doesn't matter if you actually are or not), they may not take you. Many institutions are very very against it (there was a whole scandal with Yale and Thomas Pangle a while back, though Yale in particular is much more sympathetic these days). So if you're a Strauss-like HPT applicant, you're really only looking at certain places anyway, which kind of nullifies the top 10 consideration. Re: international, it largely depends on where you want to work. If you want to work at an American University, go to one. Even UToronto, which has the largest political science faculty I've ever seen and is Canadian, has some trouble securing American placement. Hope it helps.
Nickleby 4
1 hour ago, ICanRead said:
Is it correct that USNews is based strictly on reputation score, as gathered from the opinions of professors at the 120 or so PhD granting institutions? If this is true, it makes sense that the rankings would seem, on average, pretty "accurate" to most. It would also make sense that rankings are very hard to move, or that they might move quite a lot all of a sudden for some school, due to small shocks, then remain artificially low if redemptive information is slow to disseminate.
e2e4 9
5 minutes ago, Nickleby said:
As I understand it, they ask professors and deans to rank schools on a scale of 1-5. That's it. One question. Yet that score still seems to matter more than the professors you work with for success on the market. So it may be 'accurate' to a degree for placement, but I would be skeptical if it corresponded to quality of instruction, scholarship, and so on.
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nerokoala 1
Any discipline straddlers here applying to Caltech SS?
eggsalad14 115
Anyone have news from Washington University in St. Louis? There's only one thing this year on the survey page and it's about time we've heard from them.
blueoctober 0
29 minutes ago, nerokoala said:
Hi fellow discipline-straddler, I applied to Caltech SS and got the official decision (acceptance) on February 11. There have been some more informal communications (visit day info and such) in the days since.
Edited February 13 by blueoctober
3 minutes ago, blueoctober said:
Hey, I didn't apply to Caltech because honestly their previous math coursework recommendations were intimidating, among other reasons. I'm wondering if you've previously fulfilled all of them (presumably with stellar grades)?
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At year's end, XP usage plunges as Windows 7 and 8 take over
Started By TheSentinel , Jan 02 2014 10:15 PM
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The man in the dark
Summary: It looks like PC owners are finally beginning to relax their grip on Windows XP. According to new worldwide usage share data, XP is down sharply, with Microsoft's two fully supported operating systems, Windows 7 and 8, picking up the slack.
By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | January 2, 2014 -- 04:01 GMT (20:01 PST)
[Update 2-Jan 8:35AM PST: The original version of this article was based on numbers published on January 1 by NetMarketShare. On January 2, NetMarketShare published revised numbers. The text and chart in this post have been revised to reflect the details in those changes, which did not affect the overall conclusion.] Apparently a lot of people made an early New Year’s resolution to ditch Windows XP.
In the latest NetMarketShare numbers on worldwide operating-system usage, Windows XP’s share dropped sharply, to just under 29 percent. That’s an 8 percent downward shift since July after a decline of only 2 percent in the first half of 2013, suggesting that consumers and businesses that had been procrastinating are finally making good on plans to stop using the soon-to-be-unsupported Windows XP. At this pace, Windows XP usage will be well below the 20 percent mark when the end of the line arrives in April.
http://www.zdnet.com...ver-7000024699/
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Is this the era of free operating systems?
Summary: Microsoft's "devices and services" mantra means that the company, eventually, has to make Windows free.
By Matt Baxter-Reynolds for Post-PC Developments | January 2, 2014 -- 10:00 GMT (02:00 PST)
http://www.zdnet.com...ems-7000024700/
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Fizzled Out: How Big Soda uses crafty legislation to defeat taxes on sugary drinks.
Grub Street,
Clint Rainey,
July 5, 2018-
On Sunday, lawmakers in California voted on Senate Bill 872, a piece of legislature that included, among other things, a move to bar any new local soda taxes until the year 2031. If the move seems strikingly counterintuitive and goes against everything we thought we knew about California, don’t worry, it’s not just you. Thanks to an unusual strategy, the bill became bona fide law four days later. So, what happened?
Officials who support sugary-drink levies admitted that they had little choice but to pass the bill, which effectively puts a 12-year moratorium on perhaps the biggest threat to Big Soda’s profits, in the state that developed the most robust anti-soda policies in the country. All Coca-Cola and Pepsi needed to win the most decisive victory yet in the soda tax wars was a hundred days and a few million dollars. Considering the outcome and billion-dollar profits, the maneuver cost the beverage industry basically nothing.
In theory, the tactic could conceivably extend to every other state, says Mark Pertschuk, director of Grassroots Change. Pertschuk fought Big Tobacco in the ’80s, when the combined forces of corporate nicotine titans tried preemption as a means to defeat smoke-free policies in cities. This is “a page right out of their playbook,” he says.
“If California, a progressive state and the biggest in the Union, can’t resist the soda industry’s millions, why would one in the middle of the country say no?” says Pertschuk. “It just shows complete weakness by elected officials regardless of party.”
“California did it, they’ll argue,” he says. “Why shouldn’t a more reasonable state pass this, too?”
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The Enthusiasm of PULSE's Young Professionals
tags: Talent, Young Professionals, Collaboration, Community Prosperity, Leadership
Posted by: Luanne Runge on Thursday, December 12, 2013
My, how time flies! My term as Chair of the Chamber is almost over. Twelve months has really gone by in a hurry. One of the events that will stick out in my mind as I reflect on 2013 is the PULSE Annual Meeting which I attended last week – not as a PULSE member though, since my advanced age disqualifies me from membership. In case you don’t know, PULSE (Professionals United for Leadership and Social Enrichment), is a group for Greenville’s young professionals. Its vision is to serve as a voice for our young talent, connecting members to each other as well as engaging and inspiring them through leadership development and social enrichment. What I observed at PULSE’s Annual Meeting really excited me! There were lots of young professionals attending who networked with each other before and after the presentation and paid rapt attention to the words of wisdom from keynote speakers and prominent state-wide leaders, Aphrodite and Sam Konduros. The energy from the crowd about the opportunities existing in Greenville for young professionals was also palpable. You could feel the enthusiasm these young professionals had for the future for Greenville, and the opportunities which lie ahead of them as leaders in our community. The growth of this group during the past 10 years, the impact it’s made and the legacy it is creating is a tribute to PULSE leadership. During 2013, John Boyanoski has been a dynamic Chairman, leading and challenging PULSE members to think outside the box and reach beyond the norm. His focus has been the driving force behind the Laurens Railline Project. In September, 2013, PULSE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Greenville County to serve as a steward, promoter and community advisor for the redevelopment of 3.4 miles of discontinued rail line running parallel to Laurens Road from Pleasantburg Drive to the CU-ICAR campus. This exciting work is PULSE’s biggest project to date! Based upon Berri Hicks’ demonstrated leadership as she has been preparing to assume the role as Chair for 2014, and her dynamic speech last week, I’m confident she’ll continue the impact PULSE is making in our community with its projects and its people. It’s exciting to think of what PULSE will accomplish in 2014 which makes PULSE and our community even greater! Greenville’s future leadership is undoubtedly in this group of engaged and talented young leaders.
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The Secret Key to the Power to Change the World
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The Geopolitical Effect of Dementia: When A National Leader Has Dementia
I’ve read several news articles about the new king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, that confirm that he has dementia.
King Salman’s ascent to power is essentially a coup from rival family factions in Saudi Arabia. Alastair Crooke wrote a two-part insightful look into Saudi Arabia’s history in terms of the fundamentalism versus modern fight that has Islam as its backdrop: Part 1 and Part 2.
King Salman and his family (many of whom he has already put into power in direct opposition to King Abdullah’s express wishes for the new government) are much more closely tied to the very strict and fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam than King Abdullah and his family.
These closer ties to Wahhabism could mean earthquake-like shifts in the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East and with the West in very quick order.
But I cannot help but wonder how King Salam’s dementia will factor into the mix. My educated opinion is that King Salam will simply be a figurehead with the other people who’ve been brought to power making the actual policies and decisions.
And that’s very, very dangerous for everybody involved.
Americans don’t need to look too far back into their own history and Ronald Reagan’s presidency (it was clear to everyone who was around President Reagan a lot during his second term in office that he was suffering from dementia) to see this in action and how it began the continuing downhill slide of government and began the complete erosion of trust in and trustworthiness of anything related to government.
Will Saudi Arabia – and the world – experience an ever greater cataclysmic effect with another ruler with dementia at the helm?
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What Lovers Do – Maroon 5 ft SZA – Review
Maroon 5 like a change of scene, don’t they? Since their first hit back in 2002, they’ve traversed through rock, pop and dance before ending up here – a summery bit of tropical house. Because tropical house is still going. Because tropical house will never die. Because when the apocalypse comes, all that will be left is cockroaches and tropical house. And maybe Maroon 5 too.
For their latest single, Maroon 5 have teamed up with acclaimed RnB singer SZA in a calculated, mutually-beneficial transaction. While Maroon 5 stand to gain from SZA’s considerable cred (as well as that amazing voice), SZA will get her name stamped on a mainstream hit. It’s more a business deal than a collaboration, the two acts on opposite ends of the musical spectrum, but the result is surprisingly coherent.
‘What Lovers Do’ is very much on brand for Maroon 5. It’s a fairly grating bit of up-tempo pop, lead singer Adam Levine ooh-ing his way through a breezy chorus that relies heavily on old trends. There’s the aforementioned tropical house vibe that already feels kind of outdated, and then there are obligatory hand claps and, of course, a funky bit of bass guitar because we’re still in 2013’s ‘Get Lucky’ hangover. It makes for a bland and formulaic listen, more a tick-box exercise than a pop song.
SZA makes the best of some lazy and meaningless lyrics, her lush vocals somehow managing to imbue lines like “You gon’ make me hit you with that lay down, baby” with some sort of meaning. She sounds surprisingly comfortable , her voice at home amidst the upbeat arrangement while Levine is reedy and shrill. And SZA is the only thing remotely interesting to be found here. Everything else sounds like it was spat out of some Maroon 5 algorithm that boiled all of their annoying, chart-pleasing, innocuous habits into three minutes of jarring beige-pop. It’s abrasive and cocksure, arrogant but harmless, pushy and attention-hungry – essentially, it’s the most Maroon 5 thing Maroon 5 have ever done.
With ‘What Lovers Do’, we may have reached peak Maroon 5. We can only hope it’s all downhill from here.
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Peoples Emergency Center Opens Doors To Low Income Artists
January 25, 2017 | by Michael Bixler | Buzz | affordable housing, Development, Peoples Emergency Center, Promise Zone, West Philadelpha, West Powelton
4050 Apartments fills a long vacant lot on Haverford Avenue with affordable housing for low income artists. | Photo: Peoples Emergency Center
The Peoples Emergency Center Community Development Corporation held a grand opening ceremony today for 4050 Apartments, a new affordable housing project designed for low income artists in West Powelton’s Promise Zone. The residential complex at 4050 Haverford Avenue is the second affordable housing project dedicated specifically for artists to open in the city, following New Kensington Community Development Corporation’s Coral Street Arts House at the former East Kensington Integrity Mills factory in 2006.
Kitchen and loft space inside a unit at 4050 Apartments. | Photo: Peoples Emergency Center
“Lower Lancaster Avenue is home to the second largest community of artists in Philadelphia, who have long been attracted to the area by its stock of affordable housing, public transit availability, active arts groups, and close proximity to galleries and educational institutions,” said Kathy Desmond, president of PEC. “With current housing costs rising to levels that could push out lower income artists, which may also be working families, 4050 Apartments aims to preserve an important part of what defines these communities.”
The three-story, 24,350 square foot apartment complex was designed by PZS Architects and features one, two, and three bedroom units with additional personal studio space. The building’s common areas include shared exhibition and workshop space and a community room on the ground floor. The project broke ground in 2016 on a long-vacant lot at at the intersection of 40th Street, Lancaster, and Haverford Avenues.
PEC staff anticipates the apartment complex to be fully occupied by the end of March. Leasing was open to all applicants within the fixed income limit criteria, with preference of occupancy given to active, early-to-late career artists in need of affordable housing. Qualifications for eligible tenants were based on income guidelines established by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
PEC currently operates 243 units of affordable emergency, supportive, transitional, and permanent housing available to low-income families. “The addition of housing designed to support other households [artists] aligns with goals put forth by the local community during the latest neighborhood planning process,” said Desmond.
Michael Bixler is a writer, photographer, and managing editor of Hidden City Daily. He is a former arts and entertainment reporter with Mountain Xpress weekly in Asheville, North Carolina and a native of South Carolina. Bixler has a keen interest in adaptive reuse, underappreciated architecture, contemporary literature and art, and forward-thinking dialogue about people and place. Follow him on Instagram
I drove past this recently and the photo doesn’t do justice to a very decently designed row.
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Home Education Massey University Uses NZTA Traffic Data For Economic Activity Forecasts
Massey University Uses NZTA Traffic Data For Economic Activity Forecasts
Massey University is partnering with NZ businesses and government agencies in the quest to develop machine learning-based solutions to estimating key economic indicators like GDP in real-time using data from multiple and diverse sources.
May 16, 2019 13:01 IST
A team of academic researchers from Massey University in Auckland has started using traffic data processed by artificial intelligence (AI) to help predict GDP (gross domestic product) trends in New Zealand’s economic activity.
Massey University is partnering with NZ businesses and government agencies in the quest to develop machine learning-based solutions to estimating key economic indicators like GDP in real-time using data from multiple and diverse sources. The team has now integrated a new source of data provided by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) into GDPLive, the group’s real-time GDP predictor of New Zealand economic activity.
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The GDPLive machine learning algorithm, which currently incorporates a huge amount of industry data including real-time data on payments (Paymark) and shipping (PortConnect), has recently become a lot more accurate and the researchers say it will be interesting to see if the new transport data improves the machine learning even further.
With the addition of the NZTA data, GDPLive now incorporates traffic data from over 100 national telemetry sites covering state highways. The raw data is broken down into regions, which will ultimately be useful for augmenting the regional economic activity forecasts. For now, though, NZTA traffic data will only be deployed for national GDP predictions.
NZTA data is recorded once a month and is provided one week after the end of the month that the data covers. The team says it will be watching closely to see if the NZTA data improves its predictions for GDP as traffic flows have been described as a good proxy for economic growth. However, the traffic volume data connection with GDP can also be volatile. For instance, truck movements get affected by weather and roadworks, although overall the link has been remarkably consistent.
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The new information from the NZTA is the same data that the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) uses for its successful ANZ Truckometer economic indicator, which has been running for seven years, is made up of two indexes: The ANZ Heavy Traffic Index based on flows of vehicles weighing more than 3.5 tonnes on 11 of the country’s major roads, and the ANZ Light Traffic Index, which is made up of light traffic flows (primarily cars and vans) on nine roads around the country. The ANZ has found that heavy traffic volumes show a strong contemporaneous link to GDP, while light traffic volumes are a good forward indicator of what GDP will be in six months’ time.
“The new data offers some exciting opportunities to refine GDPLive’s current and future predictions of GDP,” explained GDPLive’s data scientist, Dr Teo Susnjak. “We expect the models to respond to changes in light/heavy traffic volumes; however, there is uncertainty right now as to what the degree of response will be. While it is tempting to think of more data as being helpful, it can deteriorate the accuracy of machine learning if the data is ‘noisy’ and irrelevant. Data quality will always trump quantity.
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By: Raymond Bial
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By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" on the Railroad, along with images of the routes, lives, and hardships of both the "passengers" and "conductors."
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Raymond Bial is an acclaimed photoessayist for children. Four of his books were chosen as Notable Books in the Field of Social Studies by the NCSS. He lives in Urbana, Illinois, with his wife and children.
"Advantageously reproducing first-hand accounts and his own arresting photographs, Bial effectively evokes the era of slavery and its divisive effects on the United States." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
"As Bial says in his introduction, photography was not yet invented when many of the daring escapes on the Underground Railroad occurred, and because everything had to be kept so secret, few documentary records have survived. In his simple photo-essay, he tries to re-create the experience of the brave runaways and conductors. He has photographed the places and objects that tell the story: the rivers the people crossed, the plantations they ran from, the homes that sheltered them with a lit window to signal a safe haven, the secret passages and trapdoors, and the courthouse yard where the slave auctions took place. He also includes drawings and prints from the times and a wanted poster for runaway "property." The text provides a brief historical overview, with quotes from some of the leaders, such as Tubman and Douglass. The book design is handsome, with thick paper, clear type, and fine reproductions; there's also a chronology and bibliography. Like a museum exhibit, the stirring photographs help us imagine what it must have been like for those who found the courage to run and to help others." —April 1, 1995 Booklist, ALA
"Judicious use of first-person accounts and historical documents evokes the hardships that black people experienced under slavery and that eventually led them to seek out conductors who could guide them to freedom. Bial's well-composed, dramatically lit color photographs add life to the book, which is much more than a standard history. A map of the Railroad routes and an antislavery chronology are included." —Horn Book
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Fendi - Couture autumn/winter 2019/20 show in Rome
Title: The Dawn of Romance Location: The Fendi House paid tribute to Karl Lagerfefld (deceased in February) through the 2019/20 Fall/Winter Couture fashion show in Rome, on the Palatine Hill, with the Temple of Venus as a backdrop.Artistic Director: Silvia Venturini FendiCollection: 54 passages to celebrate 54 years of collaboration between Karl Lagerfeld and Fendi.A dressing inspired by the marble of the Roman palaces, its colors and veins that stand out in long empress dresses, clothes, clothes with puffed sleeves, silk pants, also declined in fur marquetry .Some pieces are made of archival drawings. The silhouettes are light and give a glimpse of lingerie. The trompe-l'oeil demonstrates the ancestral know-how of this Roman house, which mixes feathers and furs for games of illusions.Silvia Venturini Fendi greeted with deep emotion the 600 guests gathered for the occasion, including actresses Catherine Zeta Jones and Susan Sarendon.Show music (only to be used in the context of the show, protected under the right to information)
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Fendi is to stage a giant couture runway show inside the ancient forum of Rome, in a homage to the house’s late creative director Karl Lagerfeld, and to the luxury marque’s bond with the Eternal City.
Luxury e-tailer 24S to introduce menswear this autumn
24S, formerly 24 Sèvres, the LVMH group’s luxury multibrand e-tail site, is celebrating two years in business by launching a menswear selection this autumn, featuring exclusive labels like Dior and Celine.
A final farewell to Lagerfeld in Paris with 'Karl For Ever'
They bade farewell in Paris on Thursday night with a one-of-a kind memorial in what became, in the designer’s latter days, his second home – the Grand Palais.
J.W. Anderson’s self-indulgent chic
London fashion's most fertile contemporary mind, Jonathan Anderson, was on display in a novel, if somewhat slight, collection presented Wednesday from the UK-born designer.
In Florence, Milan, menswear hovers between asphalt and jungle
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Bottega Veneta: Bartolomeo Rongone named CEO
Kering has revealed a surprise appointment at the head of Italian label Bottega Veneta. Bartolomeo Rongone, previously chief operating officer at Yves Saint Laurent, will replace Claus-Dietrich Lahrs on 1 September.
Fendi does hip horticulture and Monty Don mode
What a pity that the Chelsea Flower Show took place last month, because the witty and stylish collection by Fendi presented Monday morning in a royal garden in Milan would have been perfect for the event.
CR Runway x LuisaViaRoma closes Pitti Uomo in style
The show staged by Carine Roitfeld to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Florentine boutique brought together more than 3,000 people on Thursday to celebrate fashion with rhinestones, VIPs and heaps of creativity.
Milan: Feels like Ladies’ Day again in the Italian menswear capital
It’s going to be the most female-inflected season in recent memory at Milan Fashion Week Men’s, the four-day Italian menswear runway which kicks off this Friday evening.
Ebay and What Goes Around Comes Around partner for capsule series
Ebay and WGACA are partnering to launch a series of capsule collections, beginning with the ‘Peace, Luxe and Rock and Roll' capsule, made of 1,300 women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, luxury accessories and vintage items.
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The Latest Trends on the Infatuation with Fitness Fads
Posted on May 17, 2011 by gwilliamrobinson
We’ve all seen them – the latest fitness craze workout advertisements on the insanely repetitive advertisement television channels. If it’s not a new way to do a push-up, or the ‘300’ workout (named after the movie), it’s the mocked shake-weight that is striving to be adopted. The masses are continuously being drawn to these new methods of workout, all in an attempt to push oneself and be the one that first adopts a trend in the circuit (excuse the pun). With this consumer behaviour recognised as one on which to profit, here are three of the latest fitness fads that have caught on with people endlessly searching on YouTube for the best workout video to mimic.
‘UFC Workout’; The Ultimate Workout
As the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) has become a more of a mainstay in mainstream media coverage so too has the recognition of the participants in this sport as highly tuned athletes (ESPN ESPY Awards now consider MMA athletes for awards). The main proprietary organisation, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has been the driver in this push towards mainstream, with careful branding of the image of the sport and also the branding of its fighters. So much so that the sport is continually referred to, by the mainstream, as UFC rather than MMA (equate this to people calling the drink Coke, the brand leader in this space, rather than Cola). All this has contributed towards a rise in interest in so-called UFC workouts and MMA workouts that have been recognised as one of the most rigorous workouts to undertake. Similar to boxers, UFC fighters prior to a fight will have to cut large amounts of weight (see here and skip to 2:30) in order to make weight for the weight class they are scheduled to fight in. This has further reinforced the perception that UFC fighters undertake some of the most sought after training methods currently on the market. All of these factors have helped in the explosion of MMA gyms across America and offer of ‘UFC workouts’ to push the everyday blue-collar Joe Bloggs to the limit, all for a healthy sum of money too.
The ‘Tough Mudder’ Workout; Mr. Tom Selleck?
‘Who has done the Tough Mudder workout?’ – posted on Yahoo! Answers (see here).
This now infamous clip of a forty five year old man (yes count ‘em right – forty five) working out in preparation for a Tough Mudder event has resulted in this man being seen as somewhat of a cult hero for many. Tough Mudder styles itself as an ‘British SAS designed’ challenge course, which runs for 10 to 12 miles. They claim that on average only 78% of participants finish a Tough Mudder event. The brand has managed, similar to the UFC brand, to obtain somewhat of a cult status among its community – with the search on YouTube and other search engines epitomising participants want to train to the extreme for the event. A quick search for ‘Tough Mudder workout’ on Google results in numerous results of offers of help to train like a Tough Mudder and forums with discussions on what to do in preparation for an event. In fact, here is a website set up exclusively to cater for workouts and preparation for Tough Mudder, showing that this niche community and search for a Tough Mudder workout does resonate and hold clout with its audience.
The Navy SEAL Workout; Get Some!
‘SEAL-mania grips nation in wake of Bin Laden raid’ (see here).
Lastly, to the latest trend to become a spike on the search engine radar. The recent killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs has led to the ridiculous craze of people searching for the latest information and clips on a typical Navy SEAL workout. It seems as though the entire furore over the killing has led to heightened interest in how NAVY SEALs train and more specifically fitness programs run by former members of the elite service. Google Trends offers a robust support of this fad as Navy SEAL workout and Navy SEAL training show spikes in searches quickly following the release of news of the killing.
Two words that have recently re-entered the workout lexicon with this media coverage are ‘calisthenics’ (using one’s body weight for resistance) and ‘drown-proofing’ (swimming with arms and legs bound) – two elements that make up the core of a Navy SEAL workout. How long the interest in this latest fitness fad lasts, I see may hinge on how long the mainstream media decide to further devote coverage to the event and to Seal Team Six.
What will be the latest fitness craze to swoon America? Maybe the American Government will release some of the data recovered in the above Abbottabad mission, and with it one of them grainy videos of an Al Qaeda training camp in full flight.
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Media Confirmation about : Russia Is Getting Ready for War in the Arctic, Russia – problems with EU and Nord Stream 2 Pipeline as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova April 13, 2018 in her CLAIRVOYANT /PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS FOR SALE : A complete and detailed Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : war 2018 Russia-USA – a Third World War and energy war : Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) , Vagit Alekperov (President of Lukoil ), Leonid Fedun (Vice President of Lukoil), Alexey Miller ( CEO of the Russian Energy Company Gazprom) – http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
Media Confirmation about : Russia Is Getting Ready for War in the Arctic, Russia – problems with EU and Nord Stream 2 Pipeline as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova April 13, 2018 in her CLAIRVOYANT /PSYCHIC PREDICTIONS FOR SALE
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1. Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) – How bad is the health of Sergey Shoygu ? The war in Syria in details – Air strikes of USA, intervention and conquest by USA. The war Russia – USA ? What will stop it? The war Iran-USA – Where it will stop? Where is the dividing line? Where is Bashar al-Assad? The specified war Russia-USA with details – without the victims. The surprise factor – Iran. The war at the Arctic. Problems – Trump and a new war… From where will enter Europe in the war with Syria? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 12, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
2. Vagit Alekperov (President of Lukoil ) – His health now, Internal War, Transformation of the position, How many people will manage Lukoil ? A returning, Problems in Europe, Nord Stream 2 project, the Arctic, Finances, Problems, An attempt for murder – When?… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 9, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
3. Leonid Fedun (Vice President of Lukoil) – What will happen with his heart? Problems with money – When? A “random” hit in the face, He is accurate as a sniper in the life and the business. When year 2018 he will have a new position?… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 11, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
4. Alexey Miller ( CEO of the Russian Energy Company Gazprom) – How will be built the gas pipeline to Turkey and Greece (TurkStream). A new researches about the movement in the gas pipelines with sound waves and … A preparation about war. Problems with the building of the Turkish gas pipeline, problems with the pipes because of diversions, shareholders, participation in the new US Elections, year 2018 and part of year 2019 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 9, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
1. How Russia Is Getting Ready for War in the Arctic
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-russia-getting-ready-war-arctic-37667
2. Russia Criticizes U.S., EU Calls To Block Nord Stream 2 Pipeline December 13, 2018
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-criticizes-u-s-eu-calls-to-block-nord-stream-2-pipeline/29654042.html
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Media Confirmation about Gina Haspel ‘s (Former Deputy Director of CIA) new assignment as CIA Director as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova and Published Paperback April 26, 2018 in her New Ebook and Paperback book : CIA,Syria Strikes, Third World War – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions to – Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, General Joseph Dunford, Curtis Scaparotti – NATO, … Vagit Alekperov – Lukoil , Gazprom … Published Paperback – April 26, 2018 by Dimitrinka Staikova (Author), Ivelina Staikova (Author), Stoyanka Staikova (Author)
Media Confirmation about Gina Haspel ‘s (Former Deputy Director of CIA) new assignment as CIA Director as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova and Published Paperback April 26, 2018 in her New Ebook and Paperback book :
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Gina Haspel (Deputy Director of CIA, Trump’s Nominee for CIA Director) – Very turbulent life, turbulent career, her mission abroad. What will help in her career? The gold from Iraq… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 16,2018, 9 am. – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
Photo : March 13, 2018. Time – after the photo.
…..Gina Haspel’s health March 2018 : Her blood system is swelling by gases. The right side of her head doesn’t function well, the spine, tailbone and her right pelvic area are still inflamed by an old physical trauma. At the tailbone, right pelvic area and the head – there were an old bone bruise (as breaking). Her cervical vertebrae are slightly stiff and connected with a pain in the pituitary. At the pituitary – there at least three cysts – they are seen at the back of the head. And the pain is felt at the front of the head, at left – the eye and close to the jaw (at left). Then (the pain) is moving to the thyroid gland and the heart, and to the left shoulder. The interesting is, that I see two circles of strong energy and one circle of weaker energy – the bio-energy (the vital energy). The second circle is showing the gases (Colitis) in the stomach and problems at the liver and right kidney.
Fron now on – there is a loss of money and investments. Part of her money will be taken and as earned in the future. From two days to two months are starting problems in her work and career. Then follows and a new assignment twice, and then retirement. Exactly jews are staying against her and become the reason for the troubles at her career – insiders , not outsiders. Then follows an intervention of a big energy company and the work and career on a new place will be recovered. A collision of the lobbies of two big energy companies (in the Senate) is leading to uniting of decisions and the landing of Gina Haspel and continuation of her work and career at more terrestrial conditions, connected with an energy company (which belongs to jews). From the first time, she will not like the things with her , right from the second decision.
Until the end of April 2018 is coming the first bitterness – until the first days of May 2018 – there will be a decision – negation – about a future job position (career). Until August 2018 (including) – there will be an intermediate decision . Until the end of April 2019 – there will be a new decision that will make her happy. Year 2018 – there will be talking about a lawsuit against her (in the Senate) as a threat. The threat will take place as a future removal from her workplace. April and May 2018 – I see tracking (on her) and an attempt for assault – a car, fire (she is not in the fire). I see the place where she is living is observed. What she will not see is : above her home there is a helicopter and problems with the equipment of this helicopter – a shutdown of the electrical system ( with a directed beam). There will be no severe consequences.
I see there is a family behind her back. I see a perfectly performing its duties person, but without her own spirit. She will feel the influence of the negative energy on her skin. She must use often in her food nuts and eggs. During a dangerous tasks I see that she is feeling a pleasure ( more adrenaline is separated in her body).
Until the end of May 2018 – I see that she is looking calm. May and June 2018 – her work is connected more with Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Mediterranean Sea (ships and problems with military ships and planes). June 2018 – I see problems with Iran, Lebanon and aid sent to Jordan – military operations. June 2018 – there is a taking of positions – military groups which are sent in Africa and they are remaining there. The end of June, July 2018 – there are collisions with Russia – interests in Syria and Lybia which are fading away quickly.
July 2018 – travel of ships and problems with China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines (islands close to China and oil fields). July and August 2018- there are problems with the gas fields close to Israel, Egypt and near greek islands – there are collisions and talking about war. August 2018 – problems with internal war in USA and with the protection of Trump (because of threats and attacks). August 2018 is more aerial month – the threats are coming by the air.
September 2018 is a game with rope. How high Gina Haspel will jump if she wants to work? She also has complicated relationships with Trump. October 2018 – there is a distribution of money and a big team (detachment) of performers behind her – the interests of a big energy company must be protected. November 2018 – She is included in the political game of the Elections (interviews) because of assaults and terrorist attacks. December 2018 – Gina Haspel will be injured – I see her in bandages, surrounded by close to her people. What will help in her career is the gold and the artifacts exported by Iraq during Trump’s Presidency……
1. Gina Haspel, Trump’s controversial pick for CIA director, has just been confirmed –May 17, 2018
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Media Confirmations about Air Strikes in Syria – May 2018 – Israel vs Iran – Partition of Syria: US and Israel eye Golan Heights oil as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova, Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova and Clairvoyant Ivelina Staikova in the Ebooks and Paperback books : CIA,Syria Strikes, Third World War – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions to – Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, General Joseph Dunford, Curtis Scaparotti – NATO, … Vagit Alekperov – Lukoil , Gazprom … Paperback – April 26, 2018 and MIDDLE EAST PREDICTIONS 2018 Three Clairvoyants predicting to : Bashar al-Assad, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Qatar), Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Benjamin Netanyahu, the Leaders of Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Devlet Bahceli , Kurdistan…
Media Confirmations about Air Strikes in Syria – May 2018 – Israel vs Iran –
Partition of Syria: US and Israel eye Golan Heights oil as predicted by Clairvoyant Dimitrinka Staikova, Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova and Clairvoyant Ivelina Staikova in the Ebooks and Paperback books :
CIA,Syria Strikes, Third World War – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions to – Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, General Joseph Dunford, Curtis Scaparotti – NATO, … Vagit Alekperov – Lukoil , Gazprom … Paperback – April 26, 2018
Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) – How bad is the health of Sergey Shoygu ? The war in Syria in details – Air strikes of USA, intervention and conquest by USA. The war Russia – USA ? What will stop it? The war Iran-USA – Where it will stop? Where is the dividing line? Where is Bashar al-Assad? The specified war Russia-USA with details – without the victims. The surprise factor – Iran. The war at the Arctic. Problems – Trump and a new war… From where will enter Europe in the war with Syria? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 12, 2018 –by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
…….The Surprise factors – the eastern border and Iran. At the future – Iran doesn’t see Russia there. That will happen when the day turns into a night – I see the falling of black air to cover the half of Syria (at East). Then is coming Iran and they are conquering that half of Syria. The Judicial authorities, Prosecution, the State authorities – they are all running through the northern border. There is a forthcoming entering of Iran and staying in the 2/3 of Syria……
May 2018 – the sirens are working a few times – there is a danger only by the air. From May 16th to May 21th year 2018 – there is a taking of final decision. I see fires in Syria (the whole country). There is a strong pressure from two sides – like an air pressure. In the same time, there will be also Climate Changes and Space phenomena – big objects will fall from the Space. June 2018 -…..
MIDDLE EAST PREDICTIONS 2018
Three Clairvoyants predicting to :
Bashar al-Assad, Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Qatar), Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Benjamin Netanyahu, the Leaders of Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Devlet Bahceli , Kurdistan…
Authored by Clairvoyant : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova
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by Clairvoyant Stoyanka Staikova – Jan. 3, 2018 – Part of Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
…..Hassan Rouhani – ….He is seeing a big hill – in the base of this hill there is a big energy and a war.
Israel Launches Major Airstrikes Against Iranian
Forces In Syria
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/10/609994842/israel-launches-major-airstrikes-against-iranian-forces-in-syria
Partition of Syria: US and Israel eye Golan Heights oil
By CHRISTINA LIN APRIL 4, 2018
http://www.atimes.com/partition-syria-us-israel-eye-golan-heights-oil/amp/
Syria and Israel exchange artillery fire over Golan Heights
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/world/syria-and-israel-exchange-artillery-fire-over-golan-heights/news-story/980feb9189f20e8ff86801d0a4853be1
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Photo – April 13, 2018. Time – after the photo.
.….It is forthcoming about the americans to loose a plane.
…. I see a gathering of NATO armies in the future at Black Sea and it will be on a two points of a territory -between Turkey , and Bulgaria and Roumania. May 2018 is a month of political pressure and a temporary stopping (reduction) of the air attacks. Then, there are meetings and negotiations about the redistribution of the World. Everything is formally – as negotiations. Trump has specified everything with Putin long time ago. A theater will be played before the militaries and the politicians. June 2018 ….
NATO naval task force enters Black Sea — http://tass.com/world/1002658
Largest Romania-led multinational military drill in the Black Sea starts on Friday 3 May 2018 – https://www.romania-insider.com/sea-shield-black-sea-2018/
Savannah military plane crash: What is the Air National Guard 156th? – May 2, 2018 https://www.ajc.com/news/local/savannah-military-plane-crash-what-the-air-national-guard-156th/Lxr0cGLwLQdunSoDHMF13I/
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Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions about : Vagit Alekperov (President of Lukoil) ,Leonid Fedun (Vice President of Lukoil) ,Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) , Alexey Miller( CEO of the Russian Energy Company Gazprom) , General Joseph Dunford (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) , James Mattis (US Secretary of Defence) , Mike Pompeo (Former CIA Director , Secretary of State ),Gina Haspel (Deputy Director of CIA, Trump’s Nominee for CIA Director), Valery Gerasimov (Russian General, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia) ,General Curtis Scaparotti ( Supreme Allied Commander – SACEUR of NATO) + Hottest News Predictions January – April 2018
Table of Contents of the Paperback book –
1. Vagit Alekperov (President of Lukoil) – His health-now, Internal war, Transformation of position, How many people will manage Lukoil ? A returning, Problems in Europe, Nord Stream 2, The Arctic, Finance, Problems, An attempt for murder – when?… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 9,2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
2. Leonid Fedun (Vice President of Lukoil) – What will happen with his heart ? Problems with money – when? A “random” hit in the face, He is accurate as a sniper in the life and business. When year 2018 he will have a new position?… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions Aprill 11, 2018 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
3. Sergey Shoygu ( Minister of Defense of Russia ) – How bad is the health of Sergey Shoygu ? The war in Syria in details – Air strikes of USA, intervention and conquest by USA. The war Russia – USA ? What will stop it? The war Iran-USA – Where it will stop? Where is the dividing line? Where is Bashar al-Assad? The specified war Russia-USA with details – without the victims. The surprise factor – Iran. The war at the Arctic. Problems – Trump and a new war… From where will enter Europe in the war with Syria? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 12, 2018 –
4. Alexey Miller( CEO of the Russian Energy Company Gazprom) – How will be built the gas pipeline to Turkey and Greece (TurkStream). A new researches about the movement in the gas pipelines with sound waves and … A preparation about war. Problems with the building of the Turkish gas pipeline, problems with the pipes because of diversions, shareholders, participation in the new US Elections, year 2018 and part of year 2019 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 9, 2018 –
5. General Joseph Dunford (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) – The war in Syria – A beginning without strategy, NATO – obedience of Erdogan, Negotiations, Gathering of NATO armies and ships at Black Sea, A war in Iraq…, His health -April 2018 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions april 14,2018, 10 am.
6. James Mattis (US Secretary of Defence) – Who is giving the order about the War in Syria? The health of James Mattis – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 14,2018
7. Mike Pompeo (Former CIA Director , Secretary of State Nominee) – Mike Pompeo’s health, The War in Syria, Iraq, The relationships with Turkey and the kurds, The war in Greece, The wars in the Middle East and Africa, The internal war in USA, A new rocket fuel, Problems with the studying of the Gravitational waves, A war against Iran, Breakdown of a Nuclear Power plant – details about each month and all events… – Clairvoyant/psychic predictions April 15,2018
8. Gina Haspel (Deputy Director of CIA, Trump’s Nominee for CIA Director) – Very turbulent life, turbulent career, her mission abroad. What will help in her career? The gold from Iraq… – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 16,2018, 9 am.
9. Valery Gerasimov (Russian General, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia) – His health, Meeting with Ilham Aliev (Azerbaijan), Meeting with NATO General Curtis Scaparotti, what they were talking about? What is the situation according to General Valery Gerasimov, Points of agreements, What is the goal of Gerasimov – Why Syria is so much needed to Russia – now – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 20,2018, 11 am
10. General Curtis Scaparotti ( Supreme Allied Commander – SACEUR of NATO) – Health – if he must visit Bulgaria, Meeting in Bulgaria, His meeting with General Gerasimov – about what and which documents they are exchanging; The war in Syria: The world through eyes of General Curtis Scaparotti – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions April 21, 2018 , 10 am.
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….In the present moment, Sergey Shoygu will care , control and check everything (people and machines) which is under his control. He is travelling personally and he is checking fast each military area and he is expanding his travel. The control will be rather quick and aerial. He will end it in the capital and he will declare a war….
There are three different military underground prepared for three leaders. The borders are protected with a weapon which emits a strong light.
Syria – roads and militaries are prepared at the Northern part of Syria. In Syria – I see two circles of battle actions – northeastern and western. At the southeastern end – I see a bunker – Bashar al-Assad and military leaders – the entrance is from South.
There is an underground corridor – it is very long (like a spine), which is passing almost through the middle of Syria (it is closer to the western border). The entrance and the headquarters are again at South.
I see an expected attack and attacking from South of three objects. Entering in this territory flying through the border (South) and a following explosions and destruction of these underground facilities – as tunnels. 2/3 of Syria will be conquered and kept by Russia. 1/3 of Syria, closer to Iraq will be kept by American armies. There is a forthcoming battle and a raid (incursion) of two armies into the opposite territory. The battle and the dividing line are exactly that underground tunnel with an underground military factory .
The American armies in the beginning are entering into the whole territory of Syria (not only as air strikes). Then follows a returning and settlement at the western border. Then comes an establishment of relationships.
So far, everything looks like a military game. Sergey Shoygu is familiar with each detail : what, when, how, why…
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They call them “deepfakes.”
It’s the term for pornography made using artificial intelligence-assisted technology to superimpose a person’s face on another performer’s body – essentially allowing the producer to create fake porn featuring celebrities, politicians or even average every people.
In a report published Wednesday, Motherboard recounted how they discovered a user on Reddit responsible for producing convincing porn videos featuring celebrities like Gal Gadot, Maisie Williams and Taylor Swift.
Pretty soon, the technology used to create “deepfakes” will be widely available enough to be used by extortionists and criminals with only a cursory understanding of how the software works. Another redditor discovered by Motherboard even created an app specifically designed to allow users without a computer science background to create AI-assisted fake porn. All the tools one needs to make these videos are free, readily available, and accompanied with instructions that walk novices through the process.
Two months ago, the first redditor mentioned above created a subreddit dedicated to the practice.
In that short time, the subreddit has already amassed more than 15,000 subscribers. Within the community, the word “deepfake” itself is now a noun for the kinds of neural-network generated fake videos their namesake pioneered, according to Motherboard.
Another “deepfake” auteur created an app called FakeApp, a user-friendly application that allows anyone to recreate these videos with their own datasets. The app is based on deepfakes’ algorithm, but another user who goes by deepfakeapp created FakeApp without the help of the original deepfakes. While none of these people divulged their identity to Motherboard, the user known as Deepfakeapp said in a direct message that his goal with creating FakeApp was to make deepfakes’ technology available to people without a technical background or programming experience.
“I think the current version of the app is a good start, but I hope to streamline it even more in the coming days and weeks,” he said. “Eventually, I want to improve it to the point where prospective users can simply select a video on their computer, download a neural network correlated to a certain face from a publicly available library, and swap the video with a different face with the press of one button.”
Peter Eckersley, chief computer scientist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, fears the technology will soon reach the point where fakes are virtually indistinguishable for authentic videos.
Fakes posted in the subreddit have already been pitched as real on other websites; a deepfake of Emma Watson taking a shower was uploaded by CelebJihad, a celebrity porn site that regularly posts hacked celebrity nudes, as a “never-before-seen video” purportedly from the user’s “private collection.”
Here’s an example of a “deepfake”
Other redditors have taken video trained from celebrities’ Instagram accounts and used it to convincingly fake Snapchat messages.
“Deepfakes” are hardly a new phenomenon. Last July, we reported on a project conducted by Stanford’s Matthias Niessner that managed to create several faked videos of former US President Barack Obama.
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Soon, this technology could create problems for everybody, from governments, to corporations to the news media – which will now find it even more difficult to distinguish veritable “Fake News” from reality.
Source: zerohedge.com
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Call For Applications: IPA x SHS Photo Mentorship Grant
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Call For Applications: IPA x Singapore Heritage Society Photo Mentorship Grant
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS :
IPA x Singapore Heritage Society Photo Mentorship Grant
APPLICATION DEADLINE: SUNDAY, 24TH JULY 2015.
Following our successful Workshop Grant with the Singapore Heritage Society last year, Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA) and Singapore Heritage Society are partnering again to offer a second grant to participate in the 12th Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program commencing in August 2016.
The IPA Mentorship Program is an intensive 3-month program by Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA) for those who wish to further their personal photographic vision and goals. The aim is for mentees to conceive, continue or finish a photo project or series as a method to strengthen their photography and understand the concerns of their individual practice.
The IPA X SHS Photo Mentorship Grant recipient will be encouraged to investigate and interpret history (local or national, private or public), topography, community and locality to author creative site-responsive projects using photography as a medium.
Participants may choose to work on a place or neighbourhood in Singapore of personal significance, or a site of national heritage or historical interest. Research material, be they family or public archives, text, drawings and photographs, serve as raw ingredients to meditate and author the individual responses.
Our previous grant was awarded to filmmaker Clarice Lee and her final project The Island of Everlasting Utility was presented by Singapore Heritage Society at the Ubin Day 2016 community event in Pulau Ubin.
Previous Grant Recipient Clarice Lee’s “The Island of Everlasting Utility: A Pulau Ubin photo project” made during the IPA Mentorship and presented by Singapore Heritage Society at Ubin Day 2016 .
The grant recipient will be mentored by Kevin WY Lee, founder of Invisible Photographer Asia. More information about the IPA Mentorship Program: https://invisiblephotographer.asia/ipamentorship/
About the IPA x SHS Photo Mentorship Grant:
This Grant offers free participation in the IPA Mentorship Program with fees waived.
While the application is to open all members and friends of the Singapore Heritage Society, the selected recipient must become a subscribing member of the Singapore Heritage Society before commencing the mentorship. Details about joining the Singapore Heritage Society:
http://www.singaporeheritage.org/?page_id=72
To apply for this Grant, please follow the instructions below:
Send an email to [email protected] with the subject header: “APPLICATION – IPA x Singapore Heritage Society Photo Mentorship Grant”
And include the following information:
Nationality/Country of Residence:
Age/Sex:
Provide a brief outline proposal of the site you would like to work on during the workshop.
The sites must be located in Singapore and priority will be given to strong proposals on any of the following:
the social life and intangible practices around heritage places
sites or neighbourhoods threatened by significant change
sites or neighbourhoods with a long history (pre-1900)
Applications will be shortlisted by Singapore Heritage Society. The winning applicant will be selected by Invisible Photographer Asia and contacted with further participation details.
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Lola Kirke Quick Info
Date of Birth September 27, 1990
Zodiac Sign Libra
Boyfriend Unknown
Lola Kirke is a famous actress who gained prominence with her role as Tracy in the 2015 film, Mistress America. She has also been cast in a number of movies and TV shows like Reaching for the Moon (2013), Gone Girl (2014), and Untogether (2018).
Lola Clementine C Kirke
Lola Kirke in a selfie in November 2018 (Lola Kirke / Instagram)
Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
Kirke attended Saint Ann’s School and then, she graduated from Bard College in 2012.
Actress, Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Father – Simon Kirke (Former drummer for the rock bands Bad Company and Free)
Mother – Lorraine Kirke (née Dellal) (Owner of a vintage boutique named Geminola, Interior Designer)
Siblings – Jemima Kirke (Older Sister) (Artist, Actress), Domino Kirke (Older Sister) (Singer)
Others – Gregory Morris (Half-Brother) (Commercial Photographer), Vivian Percy Ughtred Kirke (Paternal Grandfather), Olive May Pollard (Paternal Grandmother), Jack Dellal (Maternal Grandfather) (Property Developer, Business Tycoon), Zehava Helmer (Maternal Grandmother) (Israeli Flight Attendant), Nicholas Kirke (Paternal Uncle), Miles Kirke (Paternal Uncle), Guy Dellal (Maternal Uncle) (Businessman), Suzanne Dellal (Maternal Aunt), Gaby Dellal (Maternal Aunt) (Film Director), Diane Dellal (Maternal Aunt), Harley Viera-Newton (Cousin) (Model, DJ), Alexander Dellal (Cousin) (Guy’s Son) (Businessman, Art Gallery Owner), Charlotte Olympia Dellal (Cousin) (Fashion Designer), Alice Olivia Dellal (Cousin) (Guy’s Daughter) (Model), Charlotte Olympia Dellal (Cousin) (Guy’s Daughter) (Fashion & Shoe Designer), Penn Dayton Badgley (Brother-in-law) (Domino’s Husband) (Actor), Cassius Riley (Nephew) (Domino’s Son with Musician Morgan O’Kane)
Kirke is managed by One Entertainment.
Holiday, Alternative, Rock
Kirke has released her music via Downtown Records.
57 kg or 125.5 lbs
Kirke has not dated anyone publicly yet.
Lola Kirke with musician WYNDHAM in October 2018 (Lola Kirke / Instagram)
Multiracial (White & Middle Eastern)
Kirke is of English and Scottish descent on her father’s side and has Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish and Ashkenazi Jewish roots on her mother’s side.
Dark Brown (Natural)
Tattoo on her shoulder
Sculpted nose
Lola has not endorsed any brand yet.
Lola Kirke in a mirror selfie in December 2017 (Lola Kirke / Instagram)
Playing the role of Hayley Rutledge in the Amazon comedy-drama series, Mozart in the Jungle
Having been cast as Tracy in the 2015 comedy film, Mistress America
Enacting the character of Tara in the 2018 drama film, Untogether
As a Singer
In 2016, Lola released her first EP, titled EP, which consisted of 4 songs. She has also released various singles including Monster.
First Film
Kirke made her first theatrical film appearance as Charlie in the 2011 black comedy-drama film, Another Happy Day.
Lola made her TV show debut by guest starring as Gabby Shaw in the police procedural crime-drama series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in 2013.
Lola Kirke Favorite Things
Food – Pizza
Actress – Marianne Rendón
Source – NYLON, Instagram
Lola Kirke posing with a furry dog in December 2018 (Lola Kirke / Instagram)
Lola Kirke Facts
Lola relocated to New York at the age of 5.
Lola appeared in a 2018 film drama film, Untogether, along with her real-life sister, Jemima Kirke.
She is fond of art and likes to draw with watercolors.
Lola is the only person with an American accent in her family.
She likes to practice oboe and work on single notes.
Kirke is not very familiar with classical music.
Lola is best friends with actress Marianne Rendón.
Visit her official website @ lolakirkemusic.com.
Follow Lola Kirke on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Featured Image by Lola Kirke / Instagram
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Mr. Destructo strikes again.
Destructo’s true brand is inflicting damage upon others and their property. Since the day he was able to negatively impact the lives of others, it’s that “evil force,” that has been his trademark calling.
Whether damaging others was his intended purpose through acts of malice, envy, revenge, or a by-product of serving his own interests or needs, or simply a result of his existence, Trump’s presence on earth is simply one of a destructive force.
It’s as if the writers of HULU’s original series, Castle Rock, had been thinking of Trump, when they conjured up the character of the “Kid,” played by Bill Skarsgård. I won’t ruin it for those who have not seen the show or its end, but suffice it to say that when the Kid explains his origins I found his explanation an acceptable one for Trump’s origins.
Yesterday I challenged a Trump supporter I know to give me three instances where Trump’s endeavors to do good things for others on a large scale — before or after being elected — that when it was all said and done, there were no negative consequences or negativity as part of the project. I gave him the tax cut as an example of an act that did not qualify for obvious reasons. Still waiting.
Only 24 hours later and reading your posting, and now today your first two paragraphs seem highly appropriate.
Just think how powerful Destructo’s powers are. In less than two years he managed to bankrupt whatever moral fiber establishment Republican party had left. He has grievously undermined the credibility of the three branches of government. He has now set out to destroy the independence of the Federal Reserve Board. He has impaired this Country’s standing globally to the extent that it is seen as a banana republic in many quarters, whose word, bond and treaties can no longer be trusted or relied on. He’s embarked upon a course of conduct that has, as an ultimate goal, the reduction of our country to a two-bit player by diminishing the importance of our soft power. One could go on and on with such a list, but to end mine: Destructo has emboldened in millions of others some of the worst thinking Americans have to offer and given truth to Clinton’s ill-spoke remark about a basket of deplorables. What we have now is much worse than a basket full or deplorables.
Indeed, Putin has found the most useful man in the world to do his bidding, far beyond his wildest dreams. He is no useful idiot. He is evil incarnate.
Who would ever have thought our strong respectful country could be so vulnerable? Credit does not go to trump alone because he is only the ignorant cowardly tool used by others, i.e., Putin and yes, the deplorables.
I have met a few seriously unstable people over all my 72 years but they were never weaponized and linked as a “mob”. They took advantage of the freedoms of America and when you plug in the greed of FOX and their nationwide unchecked voice that further connects the evils, the cancer was rapidly growing and the uncivilized morally bankrupt people felt free to show their true selves as they watched trump unleash his evil insanity as they cheered for more!
Now our battle to shut them all down or put their asses in prison will be more difficult and we will need some new stronger laws and better controls of crap like FOX and Alex Jones and Hannity types — no longer free to infect our society with their malicious and despicable behavior. No more games of entertainment vs. news and we only laugh at the idiocy of conspiracy theories and the kooks that brandish them. A majority of Americans should have more control over Congress — never again have a situation as we do now and the GOP’s allow a president to run amok.
Step one, get rid of trump and clean out the GOP’s.
We are seeing the beginning of the true impact of Delusional Don policies. Some more than others. Once the negative impact starts gathering steam it will be hard to reverse. Lower stock prices will lead to cost cutting/job cuts. Debt will crowd out investment. He will reverse into a cheerleader going into 2020 to no avail, it will be too late. The good news will be people will see Delusional Don has no clothes and will be out of office. The bad news is we will be haunted by the memory for a long time. He breaks it but someone will hopefully fix it in time. Sad!!!
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Madonna just made her stand-up debut at an Amy Schumer show
When you think of comedian, you probably don’t think of Madonna — but the iconic singer just made her debut on stage. Madonna joined Amy Schumer’s comedy set at the Comedy Cellar, and it sounds like it was an experience like no other.
For those unfamiliar with the Comedy Cellar, it’s a pretty legendary spot for both well known comics and up-and-comers. Throughout New York City, it’s known as one of the most popular clubs for both the talent and the guests fortunate enough to be in attendance.
Last night, a few A-listers made an appearance, including Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., and Jon Stewart. So we can only imagine how much more incredible it was to see Madonna join Schumer.
Saw THE greatest line-up I'm EVER gonna witness: Aziz Ansari, Jon Stewart, Louis CK, Amy Schumer & MOTHERF'N MADONNA! #ComedyCellar #NY
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We’re sure the duo was met with a ton of applause.
Both the singer and Schumer herself posted photos of the big debut. You can tell that it was a huge moment for both of them.
We’re just sad that as of right now, there’s no video. What kind of jokes does Madonna tell? We need to know!
While it’s somewhat of a shock to see them together, we shouldn’t be too surprised. After all, the two stars have worked together at least twice before. Back in 2015, Schumer joined Madonna on her Rebel Heart tour — and at a packed show at Madison Square Garden last year, Madonna was the one who introduced Schumer on stage.
Fingers crossed that Schumer’s next comedy special includes a few moments with Madonna. That is, if the singer doesn’t already have a special lined up for herself already.
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Lindsay Lohan appeared in Jimmy Fallon's new Bird Box parody, and this is the comeback we needed
Though Netflix warned fans not to partake in the Bird Box Challenge, Jimmy Fallon couldn’t resist. The late-night host channeled Sandra Bullock’s character, Malorie, for the cold opening of The Tonight Show on Monday, January 7th—with the help of Lindsay Lohan, no less. The skit starts off with Fallon instructing his friends to follow his directions in order to survive their “trip.”
“I’m only going to say this once. We are going on the trip now, but you have to do every single thing I say,” he tells the group. “And here’s the most important thing, under no circumstance are you allowed to take off your blindfold. If we look at what’s out there, we will not make it. We cannot look.”
The group then puts on their blindfolds and make their way through the halls of the NBC studio—where they eventually find shelter in a nearby dressing room. However, they’re not alone. They remove their blindfolds to discover that a dancing LiLo is also in the room with them. Lohan, who appeared on the show to promote her upcoming MTV reality series, Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, invites the group to do the viral Mykonos dance with her (at which point, Questlove decides to put his blindfold back on. Lol).
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Does drinking pattern modify the effect of alcohol on the risk of coronary heart disease? Evidence from a meta-analysis
V Bagnardi1,2,
W Zatonski3,
L Scotti1,4,
C La Vecchia4,5,
G Corrao1
Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Warsaw, Poland
Department of Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy
Institute of Biostatistics and Biometry, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Dr V Bagnardi, Unit of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milan, Italy; vincenzo.bagnardi{at}unimib.it
Objective: To evaluate the strength of the evidence provided by epidemiological literature investigating drinking pattern as effect modifier of alcohol intake on the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).
Design: Meta-analysis of observational studies.
Data sources: Medline, citation tracking, from 1966 to 2006.
Review methods: Original studies investigating the amount of alcohol intake, combined with the frequency of alcohol consumption and/or pattern of alcohol drinking affecting the risk of CHD were extracted. Among them, cohort and case–control studies reporting sufficient data to perform statistical analyses and using people who abstained from alcohol as the reference were included.
Results: Six (4 cohort and 2 case–control) out of 118 studies reviewed met the inclusion criteria. Compared with those who abstained from alcohol, regular heavy drinkers and heavy irregular or binge drinkers showed significantly different pooled relative risks of 0.75 (95% confidence interval 0.64 to 0.89) and 1.10 (1.03 to 1.17) respectively. The dose–response relation between the amount of alcohol intake and CHD risk was significantly different in regular and irregular drinkers. A J-shaped curve, with nadir around 28 grams of alcohol per week, and last protective dose of 131 grams per week, was obtained including drinkers who consumed alcohol for 2 days a week or less. Conversely, in people who consumed alcohol for more than 2 days a week a significant protective effect was seen even when drinking high amounts of alcohol.
Conclusion: This meta-analysis suggests that binge and heavy irregular drinking modify the favourable effect of alcohol intake on the CHD risk. However, this conclusion should be taken with caution because of the small number of studies considered.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2007.065607
There is convincing evidence that moderate alcohol consumption protects against the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).1 On the other hand, it has been consistently shown that heavy alcohol consumption and problem drinking are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.1–3 The combination of protective and harmful effects influence results in a U-shaped or J-shaped dose–response relationship between alcohol and CHD.4
Most studies on this issue were conducted in north-west European countries and in North America. According to a meta-analysis of 51 studies, lower protective effects of alcohol were reported by investigations performed in countries outside the Mediterranean area than in Mediterranean populations.1 Recent evidence from eastern Europe is inconsistent with reference to alcohol and cardiovascular diseases.5 Finally, decreasing cardiovascular mortality rates were observed in Poland in 1981–2, when alcohol was rationed during martial law, and in Russia in 1985, after the anti-alcohol campaign.6 7
These findings could partly be explained by differences in the pattern of alcohol consumption. Daily and regular use of wine, mainly during meals, is the typical pattern of alcohol consumption of Mediterranean populations, whereas consumption of beer and spirits, mainly during weekends, is typical of northern European and northern American populations, and episodic binging intake of spirits is typical of eastern European populations.8
Most studies on the alcohol–disease association collected information on the total amount of alcohol consumed during a period that includes both drinking and non-drinking days. This does not allow the investigation of the role of drinking pattern, especially irregular heavy or binge drinking, in modifying the effect of the amount of alcohol consumed.9 Thus, only few data are available on this topic.
The main aim of this paper is to evaluate whether drinking pattern, defined by the frequency of drinking days as well as drinking intensity per drinking occasion, modifies the effect of alcohol intake on the risk of CHD. We have thus summarised the available data on this topic using a meta-analytic approach including published cohort and case–control studies.
We performed a Medline search of the literature from 1966 up to and including 2006, supplemented by attention to all references in the articles recovered through Medline and in several relevant reviews and meta-analyses published on this subject.1–5 10–25
The search process involved combining all the possible text word terms, and MESH headings, concerning disease (coronary heart disease, coronary death, myocardial infarction, ischaemic heart disease) and exposure, expressed as both quantity or dose of alcohol intake and pattern of alcohol drinking. Owing to the lack of a standard definition of pattern of alcohol drinking, the search focused on frequency of alcohol drinking (regular and irregular) and several terms considered as proxies of binge drinking or irregular heavy drinking (problem drinking, alcoholic intoxication, heavy episodic drinking, hangover).
The search was restricted to studies published in English-language journals.
Each publication identified by this process was reviewed and included in the analysis if the following criteria were met. First, the study had to be published as an original article. This implied that only cohort and case–control studies were included and that abstracts, letters, editorials, reviews and meta-analyses were not eligible. Second, the study reported sufficient data to perform statistical analyses. Hence the reported findings (i) had to be expressed as relative risk (RR, odds ratio or hazard ratio), considering either different combinations of quantity and frequency of alcohol intake (eg, grams of alcohol per day, stratified according to number of days of consumption) or directly defining the drinking pattern (eg, binge drinking, heavy irregular drinking or heavy regular drinking) as exposure categories; (ii) had to report precision of RR (expressed as variance, standard error or confidence interval), or the absolute number of cases and non-cases for each exposure category; (iii) considered abstainers as reference category, or at least reported data allowing to recalculate RRs with respect to abstainers. Moreover, studies reporting intake only during the day preceding the onset of coronary heart events were excluded. In fact, although a high current consumption might be considered as a proxy of binge drinking, we did not consider this definition to be satisfactory.
The full texts of all potentially relevant articles were obtained and two reviewers independently checked the data. If more than one paper with the same data was identified, only the one containing the most comprehensive data was included. A third reviewer from the group was available to address any disagreements.
Study coding
Studies were coded on the basis of design (cohort or case–control) and outcome (incident case or death). Other characteristics of the studies such as first author, year of publication, study population (country, size, age and gender), duration of follow-up (for cohort studies) or source of controls (hospital or population based for case–control studies), and definition of exposure categories according to drinking pattern were also recorded. Finally, absolute number of cases and non-cases, RR, and corresponding precision, were recorded for each exposure category, stratified by gender, whenever available.
Data analysis procedures
First, we tested the hypothesis that the pattern of alcohol drinking implies different RRs of CHD when compared with abstainers. The drinking pattern was classified in two categories according to what was reported in the original article: (i) binge or irregular heavy drinking and (ii) regular heavy drinking. Pooled estimates (RRp), and corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI), were separately obtained for the two categories of drinking pattern, each compared with abstainers. The estimates were derived from fixed effects method, and homogeneity between categories of drinking pattern was tested according to Greenland.26
Secondly we tested the hypothesis that frequency of drinking days per week modifies the dose–response relationship between the total amount of alcohol intake consumed in a week and CHD risk. This analysis was restricted to studies reporting different combinations of quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption. Since studies used different units of measure to express daily alcohol consumption (grams, ounces or drinks), we adopted grams as the standard unit of measure, considering the following equivalences: 28 grams per oz and 12.5 grams per drink. The pattern of alcohol drinking was defined according to the categories of frequency of intake, considering regular and irregular drinkers as those who consumed alcohol for more than 2 days a week, and for 2 days a week or less, respectively. Since both quantity and frequency of alcohol intake were given by a range, we assigned to each level the value corresponding to the mid-point of the range.
Owing to the expected non-linear relation between alcohol and CHD, flexible meta-regression models were fitted. These fractional polynomials fitting aggregate meta-data are described in detail elsewhere.22 Briefly, second-order fractional polynomials are a family of models generated from power transformations of a continuous exposure variable (in our case quantity of alcohol intake), restricted to a predefined set of exponents (in our case the following exponents were tested: −2, −1, −0.5, 0, 0.5, 1, 2). The best fit among the family of models generated from the combinations of exponents is defined as that with the lowest residual deviance. The family offers considerably flexibility, since a rich set of possible functions, including some so called U-shaped and J-shaped relations, may be accommodated.27 28 The comparison between two hierarchical models (the first only considering two power transformations of the exposure level and the second also the interaction terms with the categories of drinking pattern) was tested by the likelihood ratio test. Significance offers evidence that drinking pattern modifies the dose–risk relation between alcohol intake and CHD risk. The Meta Command in STATA929 and SAS macro software22 were respectively used for the first and the second data analysis procedure.
General characteristics of the included studies
The Medline search allowed 1032 articles to be retrieved. Among them, 113 concerned the topic of this study. Eighty-nine were excluded because they did not provide any information on irregular drinking pattern, whereas another five did not present any risk measure. Nine articles investigated overall mortality rather than cardiovascular, and another four studies were excluded because the exposure was subsequent to the cardiovascular event or because the reference category was not adequate. In total, six studies investigating drinking pattern and CHD risk satisfied our criteria and were included in the meta-analysis.30–35
Table 1 summarises their main characteristics according to study design. From the four cohort studies (including 41 946 participants),30–33 a total of 3329 coronary events were observed. The follow-up period ranged from 5.7,33 to 16.3 years.32 The two studies involving a case–control design34 35 in total included 12018 cases and 6555 controls.
Table 1 Selected characteristics of the six included studies of drinking pattern and risk of coronary heart disease
Drinking pattern and CHD risk
As shown in table 1, heavy irregular or binge drinking was defined in a wide variety of ways in different studies, ranging from high consumption in a single occasion30 31 35 to heavy intake a few times a week.33 34 In one study,32 the total volume of alcohol consumed in 1 year was separated into volume consumed during heavy drinking occasions and non-heavy drinking occasions.
Figure 1 shows forest plots of study-specific RR estimates (and their confidence intervals) both for heavy regular drinkers and heavy irregular/binge drinkers compared with abstainers, stratified by study design and gender (when available). Overall, 6 and 10 individual effects respectively looking at heavy regular and heavy irregular/binge drinking affecting CHD risk were used. Individual RRs associated with heavy regular and heavy irregular/binge drinking respectively ranged from 0.4 to 1.4 and from 0.7 to 2.3. Pooled RR of 0.75 (95% confidence interval 0.64 to 0.89) and 1.10 (1.03 to 1.17) respectively were obtained by assembling heavy regular and heavy irregular/binge drinkers individual estimates. The two pooled RRs, also reported in the forest plots, were significantly different (p<0.001). There was no statistical evidence of between-study variation across the individual estimates for heavy irregular/binge drinkers (p = 0.088), whereas for heavy regular drinkers heterogeneity was significant (p<0.01).
Figure 1 Forest plots of drinking pattern and coronary heart disease.
Pooled estimates calculated separately for men and women were not significantly different from each other, both for heavy regular and for heavy irregular/binge drinkers (data not shown).
Drinking pattern and dose–risk relation
Only two studies,33 34 providing four separate dose–response relations, were considered for this analysis. Altogether, 10 094 CHD events were considered (7072 men and 3022 women). Owing to the small number of studies, no attempt to evaluate separate gender effects have been performed. Figure 2 compares pooled curves (and corresponding 95% confidence bands) describing the dose–response relation between weekly alcohol consumption and CHD risk separately in regular and irregular drinkers.
Figure 2 Meta-regression of dose–response relation between weekly alcohol intake and relative risk (and the corresponding 95% confidence bands) of coronary heart disease in regular and irregular drinkers.
A J-shaped curve was found for irregular drinkers: the nadir and the last protective dose were 28 g per week (RR 0.59; 95% CI 0.53 to 0.65) and 131 g per week (RR 0.85; CI 0.72 to 0.99) respectively. The dose–response function for regular drinkers showed an L-shaped curve with significant protective effects even for the highest dose of alcohol intake. The dose–risk curves were significantly different (p = 0.047).
This meta-analysis, including most published information on alcohol drinking pattern and CHD, offers evidence that drinking pattern modifies the action of alcohol intake on the CHD risk. In particular, the well-established protective effect of alcohol on CHD risk is confirmed for regular drinkers, even with heavy amounts of alcohol intake. Conversely, compared with abstainers, binge and heavy irregular drinkers are at increased risk of CHD.
Several studies, using baseline comparators other than those who abstain from alcohol, have consistently shown excess CHD risk among problem drinkers. Compared with non-problem drinkers, a significant fourfold risk excess in subjects consuming six or more drinks per day was found in a longitudinal study from Chicago.36 A Finnish study comparing non-abstainers and subjects with frequent hangover, reported a RR of 2.4 for subjects with hangover at least once a month.37 A Swedish study reported non-significant RRs of 0.8 and 1.8 for men and women who on the same occasion drank at least a half bottle of spirits, or a bottle of wine, or often felt intoxicated compared with subjects reporting never having this drinking pattern.38
In a cohort study, conducted on 38 077 US male health professionals, a significant protective effect (RR = 0.63) of heavy regular drinking (⩾30 g/drinking day per 5–7 drinking days/week) was reported, compared with subjects drinking less than 1 day per week. No significant effect was observed for heavy irregular drinkers (⩾30 g/drinking day per 1–2 drinking days/week).39
Favourable changes in high-density lipoproteins described for regular alcohol drinkers do not affect binge drinkers to the same extent; however, adverse changes in low-density lipoproteins are observed. Irregular drinking predisposes also to histological changes of the myocardial conducting system and to a reduction in the threshold for arrhythmia, in particular ventricular fibrillation.40 These factors may explain the absence of the favourable effect of binge and irregular heavy drinking on CHD risk.
It has been shown that studies finding harmful effects of alcohol on CHD risk have less chance of being published than studies reporting protective effects (publication bias).1 41 Other potential sources of selection bias exist, since the studies included in our meta-analysis did not report information published in non-English language articles and abstract-only publications.
Residual confounding, due to incomplete adjustment for risk factors of CHD and/or to uncontrolled factors, cannot moreover be excluded. In particular, socioeconomic status may play a role, since problem and binge drinkers are more likely to belong to lower socioeconomic groups than regular drinkers or abstainers.31
Binge and irregular heavy drinkers were defined in a wide variety of ways in the included studies. In spite of this, we did not find any evidence of RR heterogeneity across them. However, heterogeneity tests are known to be underpowered.42
Few epidemiological studies included information to test the hypothesis that drinking pattern could modify the protective effect of alcohol on the risk of CHD, and the present meta-analysis reflects the scarcity of data on this issue. These limitations notwithstanding, this meta-analysis still includes most published information on drinking pattern and CHD. Our results support the hypothesis that binge and heavy irregular drinking is associated with excess CHD risk.
Few studies published so far examined the effect of drinking pattern or heavy irregular drinking on CHD.
Our meta-analysis suggests that both binge and heavy irregular drinking do not show a favourable effect of alcohol intake on the CHD risk, as opposite to regular drinking.
Binge and heavy irregular drinking is associated to increased CHD risk.
The unfavourable effect of CHD is an additional reason to avoid binge and heavy irregular drinking.
The work on this manuscript was conducted within the European Commission Public Health Project: HEM – Closing the Gap – Reducing Premature Mortality. Baseline for Monitoring Health Evolution Following Enlargement (grant agreement no 2003121) to the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Warsaw (principal investigator, Witold Zatonski). Additional support for this study was provided by LILT (Italian League Against Cancer). Carlo La Vecchia was supported by a Senior Fellowship of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon.
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Tuesday, Jul 5 2016
Critics: Letting Generic Drugmaker Join PhRMA Akin To Allowing A Spy Into The Fold
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' request to join the powerful trade association has caused alarm in the industry. Teva and some of PhRMA’s longtime members, like Eli Lilly, are on opposite sides of court cases involving patents and other important issues for the future of brand-name drug companies. In other news, a California initiative to curb high drug prices concerns patient advocacy groups, and states are lifting Medicaid restrictions on an expensive hepatitis C treatment.
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Politico Pro: PhRMA Board Member Opposes Admitting Generic Company
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Battlefield 3 Has 99 Problems, But a Bitch Ain't One
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In this teaser trailer for a full length ad to run on television September 27, rapper Jay-Z explains that while Battlefield 3 does have (at least) "99 Problems", not one of those problems is a bitch. And here we were all worried!
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Game Critics' Best of E3 Finalists Announced
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Best Of E3
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Each year journalists from 36 North America media outlets come together to select what they believe are the best games of E3. The annual Game Critics Awards are meant to recognize the games that "will shape the future of interactive entertainment." The only rule? They have to be playable by the judges at E3. The winning games haven't quite been selected yet, but the judges (including myself) have selected the finalists. Best of show nominees are Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, LittleBigPlanet, Mirror's Edge and Spore. LittleBigPlanet managed to get the most nominations across the board, with five, while both Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead nabbed four nominations. EA was the publisher with the most nominations, pulling in a whopping 21. While I mostly agree with the list, there is one stand-out. Early on in the process we were told that Street Fighter IV the arcade machine was eligible for awards. Personally, as much as I love the game, I don't think that's fair. It's not a video game in the true sense of the word. When it does hit consoles that's fine, but I think mixing in arcade games with console and PC titles sets a bad precedent.Best of Show - Fallout 3 - Gears of War 2 - LittleBigPlanet - Mirror's Edge - Spore Best Original Game - Flower - Left 4 Dead - Little Big Planet - Mirror's Edge - Spore Best Console Game - Fallout 3 - Gears of War 2 - LittleBigPlanet - Resistance 2 - Resident Evil 5 Best Handheld Game - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - Chrono Trigger DS - Puzzle Quest: Galactrix - Resistance: Retribution - Rhythm Heaven Best PC Game - Dragon Age: Origins - Left 4 Dead - Spore - Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II - Warhammer Online Best Hardware - Lips Microphone - Rock Band 2 Ion "Drum Rocker" Set - Wii MotionPlus Best Action Game - Far Cry 2 - Gears of War 2 - Left 4 Dead - Mirror's Edge - Resistance 2 Best Action/Adventure Game - Dead Space - Prince of Persia - Resident Evil 5 - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Tomb Raider: Underworld Best Role Playing Game - Chrono Trigger DS - Dragon Age: Origins - Fable 2 - Fallout 3 - Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Best Fighting Game - Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe - Soul Calibur IV - Street Fighter IV - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Best Racing Game - Baja: Edge of Control - Midnight Club: Los Angeles - MotorStorm: Pacific Rift - Pure Best Sports Game - Madden NFL 09 - NBA Live 09 - Shaun White Snowboarding - Skate It - Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09 Best Strategy Game - Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Empire: Total War - Halo Wars - Tom Clancy's EndWar - Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II Best Social/Casual/Puzzle Game - Guitar Hero World Tour - Lego Batman: The Videogame - LittleBigPlanet - Rock Band 2 - Wii Sports Resort Best Online Multiplayer Game - Gears of War 2 - Left 4 Dead - LittleBigPlanet - Resistance 2 - Rock Band 2
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A Freedom River
By Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier (illustrator)
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Publisher Jump at the Sun
Publication date August 1, 2000
Book category Juvenile Non-Fiction
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Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
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Holding the 2020 parliamentary elections under proportional system is commendable but abolishing the threshold poses risks
On June 24, Georgian Dream Chair Bidzina Ivanishvili publicly announced about the initiative to hold the 2020 parliamentary elections under proportional system and with no electoral threshold. Civil society in Georgia has been demanding the move to proportional system for many years now. As a result of the recent developments in the country, urgent change of the electoral system became a board public demand. Against this backdrop, the decision made by the ruling party to hold the 2020 parliamentary elections under proportional system is an important accomplishment for Georgian society.
Holding the next parliamentary elections under proportional system is essential for democratic development of Georgia, for votes to be proportionately translated into seats and for fair political representation. However the initiative to introduce the so-called zero threshold is risky.
Abolishing the electoral threshold may result in the legislature being composed of many parties with a very small support, which may have a negative impact on effectiveness of the parliament’s performance. Presence of unreasonably large number of parties in Parliament may make it difficult to form the government and can potentially create threats of political crisis and instability.
Holding the elections without a reasonable threshold will increase party fragmentation and will lead to creation and potential subsequent election of parties with lack of resources and capacities to adequately engage in parliamentary performance. Georgia had a similar experience in the 1992 elections where 2% electoral threshold triggered extreme fragmentation and the trend of mass creation of political parties. Additionally, amid parties that are leader-centered and lack strong platforms, decision-making process in Parliament may become motivated by narrow individual interests and financial or other benefits.
Having a reasonable electoral threshold serves the purpose of empowering parties, constantly working with voters and safeguards legislature from antiestablishment, radical forces, unless they are supported by a significant part of the society.
Having a threshold is also recommended by the Venice Commission in its report published on March 15, 2010, which reads: “In 2007 in its Resolution 1547 the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly opted for a 3% limit, though with the important reservation that this recommendation applied to “well-established democracies”. This threshold seems a little low, even if we recognize the important distinction between established democracies and less established ones where the party system is still being created. In the former, a 3 to 5% threshold is probably acceptable, subject to the existence of safeguards, particularly for national minorities.”1
Therefore, in the period of transitioning to proportional system it is important to have a 3 to 5% threshold to promote empowerment of political parties and ensure stability.
ISFED once again underlines that the move to proportional system for the 2020 parliamentary elections is crucial for democratic and peaceful development of the country. At the same ISFED urges the government to continue discussions about the threshold in relevant format and with participation of all stakeholders, in order to understand all possible risks and make decision that serves best interests of the country and the society. ISFED is ready to participate in the discussions about optimal electoral system for the 2020 parliamentary elections.
[1]Venice Commission, Report on Thresholds and Other Features of Electoral Systems which Bar Parties from Access to Parliament (II), CDL-AD(2010)007, 15 March, 2010, para.68
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March 28-April 3, 2019 Up Front News Opinion Culture Shot in the Triad Puzzles
At community forum, Forsyth Sheriff updates his position on ICE By Sayaka Matsuoka Newly elected sheriff of Forsyth County, Bobby Kimbrough, faced tough questions about immigration and cooperation with ICE from community members at the inaugural community forum on Monday. Members of the community hounded Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough with questions about immigration and the sheriff’s office’s cooperation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at a community forum on Monday evening. More than a dozen immigration activists held up signs that read “Uncheck the Box” at the Forsyth County Central Library, where more than 120 members of the community gathered for an inaugural community forum hosted by the sheriff who recently celebrated his first 100 days in office. “Currently, we are talking to the US Marshals about that box,” said Kimbrough about a contract between the sheriff’s office and US Marshals that checks off ICE as an authorized user of the local jail. At a February press conference, Kimbrough announced that he would no longer authorize ICE to use the local jail to detain suspected undocumented immigrants under the contract which is up for renewal in April. The contract, which was initially signed under the previous administration in May 2016, authorizes ICE to detain “individuals who are awaiting a hearing on their immigration status or deportation.” Kimbrough walked back his pledge in comments on Monday evening that contradicted his assurance in February that he would renegotiate the US Marshals Services contract to no longer lease jail beds to ICE. “There’s contractual agreements that I have to respect because I can’t cost the county money based on what I feel or what I think,” Kimbrough said at Monday’s meeting. “We are negotiating with the US Marshal Services because what that is, is bed space with ICE,” Kimbrough said. “ICE is not only immigration. ICE handles human trafficking, guns, they handle a school of things. When the contract says ICE, it doesn’t mean immigration… So when we negotiate that contract, what we’ve got to do is… structure that contract specifically with the lawyers to make sure that we don’t address it to where we talkin’ about immigration or to house immigration violations.”
Christina Howell, the public affairs officer for the sheriff’s office, gave context on Kimbrough’s comments via phone call on Wednesday. “It’s not him wavering on his commitment; it’s making sure we uphold our legal obligations with honoring the rights of individuals,” Howell said. “We understand that this is a subject that stirs a lot of emotions. It’s a complex issue, and we appreciate the public taking the time to educate themselves, to do their research, to ask the questions.” She confirmed that they have not decided whether or not to continue authorizing ICE to use the jail when they renegotiate the contract. She said that under the current contract, ICE detainees are only allowed to stay in the jail SAYAKA MATSUOKA Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said his positions on cooperation for a maximum of 72 hours with ICE will comply with federal law. and that they do not have any undocumented immigrants prisoners after they’ve posted bond or enforcement check the immigration being held at this time. completed adjudication. I-203 requests status of “any person charged with a The federal government reimburses are administrative documents signed by criminal offense or an impaired driving the county $70 per day for each prisoner, ICE officers and are not warrants. offense.” Currently, state law requires according to Kimbrough. The sheriff However, Kimbrough stated that if his local law enforcement to check the status told reporters during his press conferoffice were to receive an arrest warrant of anyone charged with a felony or drivence in February that reimbursements from a US judge or federal magistrate ing while impaired, which Kimbrough for ICE prisoners since the beginning to hold someone in ICE custody, that his confirmed that his office does. The bill of the fiscal year on July 1, 2018 have office would honor that warrant. would additionally make it unlawful totaled $38,000. Another community member asked for any office to “prohibit federal law Laura Garduño Garcia with SiemKimbrough what he would do if a bill enforcement officers from entering and bra NC, an immigration that requires local law conducting enforcement activities at a advocacy group, said enforcement to detain uncounty jail, local confinement facility, that Sheriff Kimbrough ‘It could be the old documented immigrants district confinement facility, or satellite shouldn’t have to wait became a law. jail/work release unit.” Those who fail sheriff’s decision, until April to modify the “If it becomes law, it’s to comply would be fined at least $1,000 contract. A paragraph on but he’s the sheriff law and I have to follow for the first offense and $25,000 for each page 12 of the contract it,” Kimbrough said. subsequent offense. now so he’s states that “either party “There’s only so much Lonnie Albright, a Forsyth County may initiate a request for responsible.’ that I can do. And I will assistant attorney who is the police atmodification to this agreeobey the law. I have no torney assigned to the sheriff’s office, said – Laura Garduño ment in writing” and that choice.” in an email to TCB that he believes the all modifications negotiGarcia House Bill 370 was bill is unconstitutional and violates the ated will be effective after filed on March 14 in Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. written approval by both response to several sher“Marbury v. Madison, an 1803 US parties. iff’s departments — including Wake, Supreme Court case, essentially means “It could be the old sheriff’s decision, Durham, Orange and Mecklenburg that laws, rules, statutes repugnant to the but he’s the sheriff now so he’s responcounties — announcing that they will United States Constitution are invalid,” sible,” Garcia said in a phone interview limit cooperation with federal immigraAlbright said in the email. “This oldie is on Tuesday. tion officials. The bill, which is backed still the law of the land and it established “Other sheriffs have done the same by House Speaker Tim Moore, would the principle of judicial review in this thing,” Garcia added. require local law enforcement to honor country… My crystal ball says this has Kimbrough also said at the meetdetainer requests provided by ICE. The about as much a chance of becoming ing that his office does not honor I-203 bill would also require that local law law as does recreational marijuana.” detainer requests from ICE to hold
TCB March 28, 2019 — Furniture is art
Furniture returns to High Point. Abigail Dowd looks inward. Forsyth sheriff changes his tune. And more.
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Foerigners in Istanbul
Foreigners in Istanbul – meet award-winning filmmaker Bradley
17/05/2017 Billur Karabenli No Comments Foerigners in Istanbul, Neighbourhoods, People
We the residents of Cihangir, love our neighborhood for its colorful vibe, cozy corners and elegant architecture. But maybe more than anything, we love it for our neighbors who turn Cihangir into such an inspiring place.
Bradley, a New Yorker who made Cihangir his new home, gives a lovely perspective on what it feels like to be part of it. Having spent most of the last 15 years in Southeast Asia, he seems to be very comfortable here.
And it is not only because of Istanbul’s perfect geolocation from where so many destinations seem to be within hand’s reach – a factor of great importance for a filmmaker like himself. But it is people, he says, that make Istanbul for what it is. Nice and kind people you can trust.
Bradley Cox gained reputation with his highly acclaimed documentary “Who killed Chea Vichea”. Shot over the period of 5 years in Cambodia, it tries to offer answers to the questions about the assassination of Chea Vichea, a Cambodian union leader.
The very first movie to get banned in Cambodia secured Bradley a special place among documentary filmmakers and opened the doors to some of the most prestigious awards.
An ex New York restaurateur, who later turned into a self-taught filmmaker, Brad is now a settled Cihangir resident who mostly works on social and human rights projects. Although a coverage of a violent crackdown on demonstrators by the Thai army in Bangkok 2010 got him severely wounded, he did not give up on his career as a documentary filmmaker, videographer and editor.
To get an idea about the work he does, we recommend you to see his short video portrait of a photographer in Bangkok’s Chinatown district here.
We couldn’t but ask such an expert to give us some movie recommendations.
Here is a list of some of the documentaries worth seeing, according to Bradley:
Searching for Sugar Man by Malik Bendjelloul
Man on Wire by James Marsh
Paradise Lost by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Taxi to the Dark Side by Alex Gibney
The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris
Manda Bala by Jason Kohn
We would like to add “Who killed Chea Vichea” to the list, of course.
Many thanks to Bradley Cox for his genuine and motivating insights. People like him really do add extra color to our exciting neighborhood.
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John C. Wright ( johncwright) wrote,
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SEHNSUCHT, AUTUMN SUNSETS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMFORT
This is what I would have posted had I been doing a daily post, but since I have two books or more overdue at the publisher’s, not to mention working a day job, I can only summarize.
So just imagine the following points were explored, dwelt upon, and ranted about for several pages, perhaps illuminated with video clips of Hammer’s SHE or Fogley’s GIRL GENIUS, and seasoned with really long and obscure words (words like ‘nuncupatory’ – a Jack Vancean word, and ‘cyclopean’ – a H.P. Lovecraftian word in more ways than one, and ‘urticate, salpinx, bordereau’ – words so remarkably Gene Wolflike in character, that they are as rare as an onager with a dulcimer).
Had I been writing in my Livejournal:
On Monday, I would have gotten into an argument with F.P.Barbieri. The topic would not matter: he and I are both argumentative.
On Tuesday, not wise enough to leave well enough alone, I would have discussed whether or not the word “pervert” or “deviant” were derogatory swearwords in the sense that the word “nigger” is derogatory. Naturally, like a good lawyer, I would have rested my case on controlling authority, that is, I would have resorted to quoting the dictionary. (Short version: “nigger” is noted as being perhaps the most offensive term of opprobrium in the English language, according to current use, whereas “pervert” is not: the term carries opprobrium, but because of the thought the word represents, not because the word itself is slang or swearing.) Quoting the dictionary seems (for some reason) not to convince those firmly wedded to the notion that words mean only what the listener wishes them to mean. The convenience of their posture for the rhetorical purpose of putting words into the speaker’s mouth cannot be over-estimated. And that is to their glory—and by “glory” I mean, there is a real knock-down argument for you.
On Wednesday, I would have written my long-ago promised review of the STAR TREK movie. Short version: the Spock-Uhura thing was fine with me; I liked the guy they picked to play young Bones McCoy; I thought the actors playing young Kirk, young Spock, and especially young Scotty did a splendid job; we got to see Sulu swordfighting; and the idea of doing a ‘reboot’ Marvel Ultimates style in a parallel timeline was sheer storytelling genius, for it shakes off the nickpickers and continuity hounds in one fell shrug. According to the “World Wrecker Hamilton” school of story telling, a space opera is not legit unless at least one planet is obliterated with a superweapon, and by that yardstick STAR TREK passes. Plusses? Half-naked green animal-woman from Orion. Also, no mention of money-free futuristic socialism. Minuses? Too much lens flare. Note to cameraman: shining lights in the camera does not add drama nor realism, it is just annoying. Also, not a single Space Princess. Things to make you go huhn? (1) Romulans who do not act or look like Romans In Space (which is their shtick) (2) Building a starship on the ground in Idaho, rather than in orbit.
On Thursday, discussing the significant-for-fifteen-minutes yet soon-to-be-forgotten topics of the daily news, I would have written about South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson shouting “You Lie” during the State of the Union address. You know where I would have come down on this, dear readers. (1) Civility, and a certain degree of unity of mores and manners, is a necessary precondition for a republic to function. A monarchy, I suppose, can be catholic and multi-cultural; and if the monarch’s power is hemmed in by a strong aristocracy, an active and popular clergy, and a middle-class and local authority jealous of their natural rights and ancient prerogatives, I suppose you can have a polity that does not share a common language or a common set of morals and manners. (2) The president was indeed lying, and it is right that someone said so. I recall many lies from the Clinton years, but not about the content of a bill before Congress, which can be verified by examining the bill: the sheer audacity of the lie is what makes its astounding. (3) Equity allows his fellow Republicans to criticize the outburst, but if a Democrat voices discontent with incivility, either this proves that we do not live in a universe where a critical mass of pure hypocrisy causes spontaneous combustion and explosion of the skull, or, if we did live in such a universe, the nation’s capital would be strewn with blazing brain matter and skull fragments, and several important national monuments would be afire. An utter lack of shame and a total disregard of consistency is an important personality characteristic for the Progressive movement.
Let me dwell on point 3 by quoting Jay Nordlinger – while this may seem lengthy for a summary, but keep in mind cutting a pasting a few paragraphs only takes me a moment. (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzFiMWUxNjQ5NzI4YzhkM2I3NjY5NTk0YmNhYjg3YTI=):
“I predict that the chairman of the Republican National Committee will never say, “I hate the Democrats and everything they stand for. This [politics, basically] is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.”
Howard Dean said that about the GOP: “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for. . . .”
I predict that an editor of a conservative magazine will never write a piece called “The Case for Obama Hatred,” beginning, “I hate President Barack Obama.”
A New Republic editor did this, about Bush.
And there is increasing worry about assassination: that someone will take a shot, not just at the president, but at the first black president, which would be extra-catastrophic for the country. A few protesters have carried signs urging violence against Obama, or smacking of violence.
Let me make some more predictions: I predict that a network talk-show host will not show a video of President Obama giving a speech and put the following words on the screen: “SNIPERS WANTED.”
Craig Kilborn of CBS did that to George W. Bush.
I predict that U.S. senators will not joke about killing Obama.
In 2006, Bill Maher had a conversation with John Kerry. He asked Kerry what he’d gotten his wife for her birthday. Kerry said he had treated her to a vacation in Vermont. Maher said, “You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.” Kerry replied, “Or I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
This is the same Kerry who, in 1988, said, “Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they’re to shoot Quayle.” Then he said, “There isn’t any press here, is there?”
I predict that a New York official will not tell a graduating class about assassinating President Obama.
Also in 2006, comptroller Alan Hevesi said to students at Queens College that Sen. Charles Schumer, his fellow Democrat, would “put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with it.”
I predict that no columnist for a leading European newspaper, and leading world newspaper, will write, “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?”
Charlie Brooker of the Guardian did that to George W. Bush.
I predict that no major writer will write a novel debating the morality of killing President Obama.
Nicholson Baker did that to Bush, with Checkpoint.
I predict that no filmmaker will make a “fictional documentary” that fantasizes — and I’m afraid that is the word — about murdering President Obama.
Some Brits did that to President Bush with Death of a President.
Dear readers, I have made very, very safe predictions. If a CBS talk-show host pictured President Obama and said “SNIPERS WANTED,” he would lose his job, of course. He would never work in the media again. I wonder what else would happen to him.”
That being said, however, the criticism of Joe Wilson for his breach of manners is still valid, no matter from what source it comes. The proper response to the President would have been to have Sarah Palin or Ann Coulter deliver the televised rebuttal rather than Charles Boustany, and to have her call Mr. Obama a liar in a polite and even-tempered tone of voice.
But I am not writing any of those editorials! Time does not permit!
But now that it is Friday, I can write a whole and lengthy editorial about, yes, my two favorite topics: SFF and PX! (No, I do not mean the Post Exchange, servicemen! That is a christogram rho chi, it merely looks like a Latin p and an x)
(For those of you interested in plays on words between the two alphabets, a friend of mine has the Greek word for virtue “Arête” written in capital letters on his auto license plate, where is spells APETH, like the thing an Elizabethian who apes something “he apeth my arête!”)
I was reading an article by Matt Cardin (http://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/autumn-longing-hp-lovecraft/) about Sehnsucht — that strange and elusive and poignant desire for the ineffable that such disparate personalities as H.P. Lovecraft or C.S. Lewis or Edgar Allen Poe are prone: in sunsets; in the distant sight of a vale of well-ordered farms in misty October mornings; in the peaks and cornices of stately architecture of edifices whose glass windows shine with red, reflected twilight; the haunted echoes of poems; there comes a longing for the joys of something beyond this world, in Elfland or in Heaven, or in some other life or dream-life.
Lovecraft wrote phantasy and horror, in part because that sense of otherworldliness is integral to supernatural horror, and exists in supernatural beauty as well. Lovecraft was an atheist, an lover of the antique, and a fabulist but Lewis, also a writer of fantasist and medievalist, found this Autumn longing leading him toward the Church.
The article did not mention Tolkien, but anyone familiar with his work, might note that his portrayal of his noble, doomed and melancholy elves were practically living personifications of the Autumnal longing for the Hither Shores, far (to borrow Lord Dunsany’s phrase) from the fields we know. No other portrayal of the inhabitors of the land of Faerie before Tolkien held this note of Sehnsucht, William Shakespeare’s Wood Near Athens where Oberon quarrels with Titania has nothing of this tragic sense of joy and loss, nor do warlike kings who dwell in the heaven of Mercury, the magician’s sphere, of E.R. Eddison’s THE WORM OROBOROS. The idea of elves as exiles, destined to dwindle and depart the shores of Middle-Earth was unique to Tolkien, and has a Roman Catholic sentiment: the words of the Salve Regina could have been sung by Celeborn or Galadriel: ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae (To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve.)
Later, Lewis made the idea of the Autumn Longing of Sehnsucht part of his apologetic argument—
"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for something else of which they are only a kind of a copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
"A man's physical hunger does not prove that the man will get any bread; he may die of starvation in a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man s hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will. A man may love a woman and not win her; but it would be very odd if the phenomenon called falling in love occurred in a sexless world."
With all due respect to Mr. Lewis, and gratitude for his guiding lamp that led me out of the darkness of atheism, I must dismiss this argument as weak. Merely because a longing exists does not necessitate that a means exists to satisfy it.
Who has not longed to fly to the stars? What poet never dreamed to speak to the trees and rivers and hills, and learn their lore, or dance with the sun and moon, or wrap oneself in the shining galaxy as with a mantle, or peer into the thoughts of another, or live his life?
What robust man has not, if only briefly, entertained the longing to fight in the eternal melee of the never-slain in Valhalla, or possess the seventy-two glancing eyed houri of the paradise of Mohammed? What sage wearied with wisdom has not longed to quench his sorrows in the oblivion of Nirvana, and achieve unutterable Oneness? But these longings cannot be sated, even if one could chose somehow one's afterlife, for they are contrary to each other. There is no such thing as the Nirvana of Valhalla.
No, for my part, I can think of far too many longings I or others have never to be fulfilled to be comfortable with the conclusion that nature never implants vain longings in us.
One wag, commenting on the article, dismisses Lewis with that typical contempt one finds in minds who assume all opposition is illegitimate. He said: "I find it interesting that these C.S. Lewis types, after their so-called atheistic spiritual adventures, somehow manage to find their way home to the safety and security of their childhood Christian god. I’m sure it’s psychologically comforting, if nothing else."
An odd response, since it seems to assume atheists who convert were only atheists 'so-called'. I have seen a similar argument used by Christians to dismiss the authenticity of Christians who become atheists.
Speaking as an atheist who converted, I submit that there is nothing so-called in the matter, not for devoted, honest, serious atheists. These are men, and I was one such, who are atheists because belief in the supernatural they conclude to be unsupported, unreasonable, preposterous, or even sinister and sickminded. If there is some additional qualification to be counted a real atheist -- such as that one must never thereafter change one's mind on the point -- it is unknown to me.
The means by which a committed atheist comes to another conclusion would make an interesting study, but it is by no means clear that all conversions can be dismissed so lightly as to say no "real" atheist converts. Such an argument would be circular.
Again, speaking for myself, and perhaps for Mr. Lewis, I would hesitate to call the conversion experience psychologically comforting. Indeed, very much the opposite is the case: unlike my atheist self of yore, I am now beholden to a higher authority, who pins me to a standard of thought and deed very much against my nature and inclination.
I invite you to live as a self-centered and arrogant atheist for 35 years, wait until all your mental and emotional habits are set as if in concrete, and then try to obey the call to be charitable, loving, longsuffering, meek. Make the attempt for a day or a week, and then come back and tell me if it increases your comfort rather than the opposite. Tell me how comforting it is to long for the palm of martyrdom, or to rejoice at being reviled in public.
Contemplate the difference between living in a universe where death is merely oblivion, and one where death is a crossroad leading to something further: and the larger path, the easy one, leads to hellfire. If that is what you find comforting, your psychology differs indeed from mine. By any rational Pascalian wager, the universe where death is oblivion contains far less immense risks of far less pain.
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n Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology - Challenges faced by ex-inmates after their release from incarceration in the democratic South Africa
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Keyword(s) : Challenges faced by ex-inmates on release from incarceration, Finding employment, Problematic relationships with communities into which released and Substance abuse problems
Recidivism amongst ex-inmates has received a good deal of attention from the departments of Justice and Correctional Services, as well as social and behavioural scientists in South Africa. However, less attention has been paid to the challenges facing ex-inmates during and after their release from incarceration. This article briefly describes the conditions in the South African correctional system with reference to the inmate release programme in the post-1994 democratic South Africa. The article briefly discusses the theoretical foundations relevant to this study. In order to understand the identified challenges, namely: substance abuse, lack of accommodation, community and family support and access to employment that ex-inmates face, one-hundred-and-forty-four ex-inmates participated in this study. The data was collected by means of focus group interviews. Two focus groups interviews consisting of eight ex-inmates per group were conducted in all provinces of South Africa. The results of this study indicated that both male and female ex-inmates, upon their return back into society from incarceration, face a number of daunting challenges. These challenges include finding employment, problems related to substance abuse, and maintaining a stable relationship with families and members of the communities to which they return.
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Review: Aladdin at the Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells
Last weekend we had the absolute pleasure of watching Aladdin at the Assembly Hall Theatre in Tunbridge Wells which is currently running for the Pantomime season. I’ve had some pretty awful Panto experiences over the years so was a bit nervous about what might be in store.
However, from the moment Michael Greco appeared on stage for the opening scene as the evil Abananzar it was clear that this was a performance on another level. The next two hours had the whole family captivated, laughing and even dancing in the aisles. A brilliantly engaging show for all ages.
Director John-Jackson Almond has incorporated a range of special effects allowing the stage to be brought to life. There are fireworks, bubbles, water squirts and even snow all of which were received with a range of awe and excitement by younger audience members.
Michael Greco is very convincing as the shows villain and certainly made an impact on my 2 year old son who was utterly terrified of him! Greco was a fantastic sport encouraging the audience to ‘boo’ him as loudly as possible and even gave an impressive performance of Rag N Bone man’s ‘Human’.
Stand out highlights of the show include Jess Robinson’s numerous and flawless impersonations (Shakira, Sharon Osbourne, Cheryl Cole and Alesha Dixon to name a few) as she shone alongside Abananzar as the Slave of the Ring.
Mark Rhodes is hugely likeable as the hero Aladdin, with memorable performances including surfing on his flying carpet to ‘We Need a Hero’ and showing off his very capable singing abilities as he wooed Jasmine to Desacito.
Chris Pizzey’s comical and cool version of Wishee-Washee totally won over our children who all agreed he was their favourite character. There was a particularly funny slap stick scene between Pizzey and Tom Whalley as PC Pong in true Laurel and Hardy style. I’m not sure if they were supposed to make such a mess with the foam on the stage but it certainly caused much hilarity!
Finally, I can’t not mention the wonderful Quinn Patrick who plays Widow Twanky. Patrick has a wardrobe to die for and had us all blushing with his endless innuendos and flirting! I particularly enjoyed the moment Pizzey referred to Twanky as ‘he’ which Patrick didn’t let go unnoticed and had the crowd in stitches.
I can’t recommend this show highly enough. The whole family from toddler to teen and even the adults enjoyed every minute of the two hour performance. I guarantee a visit to Aladdin this Christmas season will leave you feeling festive and grinning from ear to ear.
Aladdin is on at the Assembly Hall Theatre until January 3rd 2018.
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My name is Emma, and I’m from Emergence, the postgraduate dance company of the University of Salford.
We are a brand new contemporary dance company, and we are touring for the first time this year. We will be performing at Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells on 7th February. We thought you might be interested in the performance and writing a review on your publication. This would be a huge help to us in marketing our inaugural tour.
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Jack Shafer Gets Results! (But What Are They?)
Jack Shafer takes up the puzzle of the Nick Kristof column that started it all:
A fossil hunter in search of the origin of the Valerie Plame affair would probably trace it to New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof's May 6, 2003, piece, "Missing In Action: Truth." The column cites anonymous sources to report that a former U.S. ambassador had been "dispatched to Niger" after the office of the vice president requested more information about a purported uranium deal between Iraq and Niger.
Ahh, but the column was based on some errors, or miscommunications, or something, a point we have belabored seemingly endlessly.
But now Jack Shafer gets results:
Addendum, 7 p.m.: Sometime between my morning interview with Kristof and this moment, the columnist posted to his Times Web page a clarification to his May 6, 2003. (You must be a Times Select reader to view the clarification.) So far, so good.
That is my tipping point - as a home subscriber, I am entitled to Times select for free. Free! It is only the baffling sign-up procedure of Times Reject that has daunted me the last three times I tried to exercise my rights, thereby depriving my readership of selected excerpts from MoDo's finest thinking on the events of the day (no, the emailed complaints have not been piling up.)
We are undaunted! Fourth time lucky!
But before we bash on, let's note a few points - first. Mr. Shafer includes an appropriate and understated tribute to Mr. Kristof in his column, which we will repeat here:
What distinguishes Kristof from the usual op-ed blowhard is his devotion to reporting, especially of the get-out-of-New-York-and-Washington variety. You may recall that he and his wife Sheryl WuDunn shared a Pulitzer Prize for their Tiananmen Square coverage.
For more contemporaneous examples he could have mentioned Mr. Kristof's coverage of Darfur, or of the Pakistani rape victims. We don't always keep fairness and perspective front and center here at JustOneBashing, but we would like to imagine it is lurking around the fringes of our coverage.
Secondly, let's note the odd symmetry - both the Nick Kristof and Judy Miller journalistic puzzles surfaced around the time that Howell Raines was stepping aside and Bill Keller was taking over as a consequence of the Jayson Blair debacle in June 2003. Mr. Keller explained recently that he deferred a look at Ms. Miller's WMD reporting (covered here by the unrelenting Jack Shafer) because the Times was in turmoil. Might that also explain the long delay in the Kristof coverage?
MORE: Hey, we are lucky! Here we go, from Mr. Kristof's "not a blog" at the Times, rather than his column: [LATE UPDATE: Nick Kristof made substantial, unnoted revisions to his original post in response to the criticisms below, so some of the excerpts below are now passe. More here.]
The indictment of Scooter Libby has called attention to my May 6, 2003, column, in which I wrote about the Niger uranium events. Some bloggers on the right have been fuming about the column – and since I’m big on Cheney opening windows and being transparent, here’s my effort to do the same.
OK, trench warfare - Bob Somerby was on this too, and much as I would love to think of him as a righty, he would never have it.
One of the criticisms from the right is that it sounds as if the vice president dispatched Wilson to Niger, but I don’t buy that objection. The wording in the column is simply that Cheney asked for more information about the uranium deal, and then the former ambassador was dispatched. And that’s what happened.
Oh, bother. Here is where what might have been a good thing goes sour. On more than one occasion, more than one person has noted that Mr. Kristof wrote TWO columns with Joe Wilson as a key source. Let's go to the lead of his June 13 column:
Condoleezza Rice was asked on "Meet the Press" on Sunday about a column of mine from May 6 regarding President Bush's reliance on forged documents to claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
"At the behest". Do I need to get a dictionary? Do I need to count how many times Chris Matthews used the exact word "behest" on his June 9, 2003 show (the show that might have prompted Lewis Libby's irate call to Tim Russert, for those scoring at home.)
Fine. Per Merriam, "Behest" means:
"an authoritative order : COMMAND;2 : an urgent prompting"
And Chris Matthews used "behest" twice, and "request" once to describe Cheney's role in directing the Wilson trip. Let's not pretend that the May 6 Kristof column is the only problem, or that the June 13 column had no impact.
In fairness, though, it is true that Cheney apparently didn’t know that Wilson had been dispatched. If I’d known that I would have said so.
So now we know. Of course, DCI Tenet said that on July 11, 2003, but hey.
The better objection is that the references to the documents themselves make it sound as if the envoy had the documents in possession, while in fact he didn’t.
"Better objection"? Grrr. How about "the excellent objection, as contrasted with the merely very good one"?
Wilson has said that he misspoke when he made references to the documents to me and to two other journalists. By the time we spoke in 2003, these problems in the documents had been pointed out and were in the public domain, but apparently not in early 2002. So while it’s possible that he reported that the signatures were wrong, that seems to me unlikely.
Emphasis added, and I don't even know what Kristof means. Wilson has also said (to Paula Zahn) that those anonymous statements were "either misquotes or misattributions".
Is Kristof saying it is unlikely that Wilson reported that the documents were wrong? Well, on the one hand, yes, we all agree it is unlikely that he debunked forgeries he had not seen.
Per the Senate Intelligence Committee report, Wilson had not seen any documents at all, summaries or otherwise (although the summaries were discussed, and folks were quite cagey in describing to the Senate just what Wilson was allowed to see). But let's add this - anything Wilson saw at his meeting with the CIA and other intel people preceded his trip to Niger. Did he masterfully debunk a few summaries, then leave to learn about Niger and enjoy the tea? Hey, maybe he is that good.
But then again, in his July 11, 2003 statement, DCI Tenet said this:
There was no mention in the report [based on Wilson's debriefing] of forged documents -- or any suggestion of the existence of documents at all.
So, with Mr. Kristof on board at least we all have come together and agreed that it is unlikely that Wilson debunked any forgeries. But when Kristof says "it’s possible that he reported that the signatures were wrong", let me ask - reported to whom? Kristof was there, wasn't he, taking notes and all. What is "possible" about it? Did it or did it not happen, or doesn't Kristof know?
Is Kristof saying that his column misrepresented or misquoted Wilson? Or did Wilson misspeak, or embellish his discoveries in talking to Kristof? Say the magic words. Please. And while on this point, let's not overlook the June 13, 2003 column, which repeated the same story about debunked forgeries. Did Kristof really mis-hear Wilson on two occasions? It's possible! And I suppose we could follow up with Walter Pincus and the earnest toilers at the New Republic, whose gory stories were documented by Matthew Continetti.
But Mr. Kristof is moving on:
There’s also a suggestion from the right that Wilson was wildly spinning me and others and exaggerating how strongly he debunked the deal.
Really? By odd coincidence, Wilson joined the Kerry campaign as an advisor in mid-May 2003. I am straining to think of a linkage, or a reason for Wilson to spin anyone.
So where does that leave us? I think that the attacks on Wilson are overdone. He clearly was wrong in any hinting that he had seen the documents, but he has acknowledged that. He may have exaggerated how strongly he debunked the documents, but that seems to depend a bit on who was listening.
Well, he acknowledged to Paula Zahn that the anonymous leaks about debunked forgeries were due to the sloppy reporting of others, including Mr. Kristof. Quite a stand-up guy. As to "that seems to depend a bit on who was listening", what does that mean? Kristof, Pincus of the WaPo, and Judis and Ackerman of The New Republic all misheard him? If this is a correction or clarification, I am about ready to turn to something simpler, like the Sunday crossword.
More generally, I find the attacks on a private citizen like Wilson rather distasteful. Sure, he injected himself into the public arena with his op-ed column and TV appearances, and so some scrutiny is fair. But I figure it's more important to examine and probe the credibility of, say, the vice president than a retired ambassador.
Uh huh. The credibility of a private citizen who is working as an adviser to the Kerry campaign is off limits when he is, uhh, misheard all over Washington.
Well, if it will raise Mr. Kristof's comfort level, let's not pretend it is all about Wilson - we are delighted to point out that this is also an attack on the journalistic practices at the Times.
Just for example, Wilson's July 6 op-ed more or less contradicted some of the key points in the early Kristof columns. For instance, Wilson wrote that:
"As for the actual memorandum, I never saw it. But news accounts have pointed out that the documents had glaring errors — they were signed, for example, by officials who were no longer in government — and were probably forged..."
Did that tinkle any bells at the Times? Right about July 6 might have been a good time for Mr. Kristof to offer an "Ooops" column. Or maybe the Times editors could have alerted their readers to the possibility that their guest contributor had been changing his story over the past few months. Or something.
Let's see how the Times described Mr. Wilson in his signed guest piece:
Joseph C. Wilson 4th, United States ambassador to Gabon from 1992 to 1995, is an international business consultant.
Well, he was also an adviser to the Kerry campaign, back when Kerry was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Did the Times fail to detect that in their sleuthing, or did they think people would laugh at loud over their Sunday coffee if they read, basically, "Kerry adviser attacks Bush".
And was the Times utterly unaware that Ms. Wilson was at the CIA, in the same division that was locked in a bitter dispute with the White House over the use of pre-war intelligence? Andrea Mitchell of NBC knew that Ms. Plame was at the CIA (and said it was widely known among reporters on that beat), but she did not know where in the CIA. And, per Vanity Fair, Nick Kristof had breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson while Joe told his story. Did they exchange knowing looks? (We will parse Mr. Kristof's "denial" at the bottom).
Maybe a Times investigation would have prompted the following hypothetical identification of Mr. Wilson, author of the guest op-ed:
Joseph C. Wilson IV, the former Ambassador to Gabon, is a Kerry adviser. Mr. Wilson is married to a CIA officer engaged in a dispute with the White House and his story has been changing over the past few months, but here is his latest version.
That would have made for honest, but possibly low-impact, journalism.
Oh, well, hail progress. Mr. Kristof acknowledges what? He spoke to Wilson, and mistakes were made. A bold first step.
DID Mr. Kristof use Valerie Plame as a source? See below:
On Oct. 11, 2003, Mr. Kristof broke major news about Ms. Plame's history at the CIA, telling us that she was moved into an early retirement path in 1994 after possibly being outed by Aldrich Ames.
He also described his own reporting relationship with Ms. Plame:
I know Mrs. Wilson, but I knew nothing about her CIA career and hadn't realized she's "a hell of a shot with an AK-47,'' as a classmates at the CIA training "farm,'' Jim Marcinkowski, recalls. I'll be more careful around her, for she also turns out to be skilled in throwing hand grenades and to have lived abroad and run covert operations in some of the world's messier spots. (Mrs. Wilson was not a source for this column or any other that I've written about the intelligence community.)
Well. "I knew nothing about her CIA career" might mean:
(a) I had no idea she was at the CIA;
(b) I knew she was at the CIA, but I had no idea what she did.
(c) I know what she is doing at the CIA *now*, but I had no idea of the career path that brought her here.
"Mrs. Wilson was not a source for this column or any other that I've written about the intelligence community" is a bit better, but what an odd caveat to include "about the intelligence community" - were the May 6 and June 13 columns about the intelligence community? Or were they about Dick Cheney and the White House misuse of intelligence, with the intelligence community as minor players? Was Ms. Plame a source for some unrelated column from yesteryear about, for example, Iran's nuclear aspirations?
I would think a direct statement would be easy and appropriate - was Ms. Plame a source for the May 6 column, and/or the June 13 column? Was she a source for any earlier columns?
If this Oct 11, 2003 denial is meant to be a denial, then there is no harm in clarifying it.
Of course, if it is meant to be a tap dance, well, here we go again.
And yes, I understand that there are source confidentiality issues. But there is also a little issue of journalistic ethics - if the Times ran the Wilson piece without disclosing the marital conflict of interest, and then sat back and wrung their hands about the leak of infromation which their reporter already knew, well, that is a problem too.
Posted by Tom Maguire on November 03, 2005 | Permalink
The problem is that, as Rush says, Wilson is a media whore. Last weekend or so, he was all over TV - CNN, C-Span, etc. Again. That is not someone worried about the effects of publicity on his family. That is not someone who wants his family left alone. That is someone seeking another 15 minutes of fame.
That said, if you read what Wilson has said, he really doesn't lie. He just misleads. For example, he was apparently sent to Niger to find out if Iraq had tried to buy yellow cake. In his NYT article, he stated that Iraq had not bought yellow cake from Niger. He didn't mention in that article the apparent attempt by Iraq to do so that the CIA apparently seized upon. But, as noted, he didn't lie, he just misled. Ditto for saying that his wife didn't send him to Niger. True. She instigated it and followed up with a memo. But she didn't authorize it, so, she didn't send him to Niger.
Posted by: Bruce Hayden | November 03, 2005 at 10:02 PM
Let's concede that
1. Valerie wasn't covert because she hadn't lived abroad for six years even tho
Larry Johnson says that the requirement is
only that she should have travelled abroad
during those six years, which she did.
2. Lot's of people knew she worked for the CIA.
3. Andrea Mitchell and many others in the media new she was covert (sort of conflicts
with concession #1 , but in for a penny
in for a pound.
4.Wilson shouldn't have been seen in public
with Valerie - don't understand this but
that's what Mickey Kaus claims , so let's
concede it.
5.Wilson lied by saying that Cheney sent him
to Niger.
6.Wilson lied by saying that he personally
debunked the forged documents.
7. When Libby called Russert they talked
about Matthews' earlier show about the yellowcake.
8.No damage was done to national security
by Valerie's outing.
9. Valerie was very influential in arranging
for Joe to go to Niger.
10.Libby may have just misremembered his
conversation with Russert.
And in exchange will you guys agree that
if Libby did perjure himself by saying that
Russert told him that all the media knew
about Valerie's status and involvement
then 1-9 are irrelevant and he's guilty>
Posted by: r flanagan | November 03, 2005 at 10:04 PM
Out, out, damn italics...
Posted by: Sue | November 03, 2005 at 10:32 PM
R. Flanagan,
Larry Johnson also says Iraq/Middle Easterners were behind the Oklahoma bombings. Not sure what to make of Larry Johnson. He likes to send personal emails telling you how stupid he thinks you are.
Larry Johnson says . . .
Say, is that the same Larry Johnson, VIPS member, who lauds "whistleblowing," and whose organization called for illegal leaks in March, 2003?
The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war.
And in exchange will you guys agree that if Libby did perjure himself by saying that Russert told him that all the media knew about Valerie's status and involvement then 1-9 are irrelevant and he's guilty
Can we get an "amen" on that, and an exchange agreement that if Valerie Plame responded to her buddy Larry's request for a leak (via her husband's article), that they are both guilty as well?
Posted by: Cecil Turner | November 03, 2005 at 10:47 PM
"amen"
Posted by: topsecretk9 | November 03, 2005 at 11:00 PM
Say it Preacher!
Posted by: Gary Maxwell | November 03, 2005 at 11:10 PM
amen amen...
Posted by: clarice | November 03, 2005 at 11:11 PM
rflanagan, 1-9 are relevant whether Libby is quilty or not. If he lied to the grand jury he is guilty period.
Posted by: JBS | November 03, 2005 at 11:11 PM
amen! (chorus)
Posted by: BurkettHead | November 03, 2005 at 11:16 PM
Joe is so funny, earnestly telling us now details of his 2/02 briefing with such precise understanding of the Yellow Cake information. A US officer; one wonders who that was.
You really have to be a true believer to fall for him anymore.
Posted by: kim | November 03, 2005 at 11:30 PM
Well, its circular logic - sure, if he perjured himself then he is guilty of perjury.
But in terms of the political/ethical questions, as distinct from the legal ones, I think that in the court of public opinion the truth or falsity of 1-9 is highly significant.
And that debate will become very topical if/when Bush pardons Libby.
Just for example, let's draw inspiration from Dan Rather and go with the "False but accurate" defense.
Suppose Libby is in jail for perjury. Case closed, no further investigation.
Then Russert has the Final Truth-telling on MTP, and says, "Booy, even though I did *not* tell him all the reporters knew, I sure could have, because guess what - we all knew! Lucky guess by Libby - sucks to be him, in jail."
Now, would that admission affect public response to a pardon?
On the dying horse issue of whether Wilson lied to Kristof about the forgeries - it is interesting that Kristof wrote the forgeries were debunked in Feb, presumably at the meeting preceding the trip.
But *if* Wilson is telling the truth about that, hasn't he been lying since his op-ed, when he says he never saw any documents, and could nto have debunked any forgeries, ad Kristof/Pincus misquoted hin?
And shouldn't we be re-writing the entire history of the forgeries (which I guess is the point) to say that the CIA and INR knew, thanks to Joe, that they were debunked in Feb 2002, then sat on that news until March 2003?
And I suppose, the theory is that after accidentally spilling the beans to Kristof, Wilson re-joined the cover-up by switching stories and disavowing his early version.
But doesn't that mean that Wilson is part of the Evil BushCo cover-up? Que pasa? What sinister hold do they have over this poor man? And why can't they get him to STFU?
Or is it a sinister CIA cover-up, which Joe temporarily muddled? But wait, the CIA are the good guys in this story - Valerie and Joe battling Evil Doers in the White House.
Puzzling.
Posted by: TM | November 03, 2005 at 11:31 PM
pollyusa - Back at you.
Stuckincall - You might learn how to read before you go calling other people idiots. Or maybe it's not you, maybe you just got suckered by the SSCI report. Among other things, what you claim is the same report is not; also, you botch the issue of verbatim text v. the very different issue of the source of the report (Italy).
cecil - That last post of yours was uncharacteristically hackish. I remain grateful to you for drawing attention to the fact that on Feb 18th 2002 the embassy in Niamey issued a cable that laid great stress on the names in the verbatim text of documents of an agreement between Niger and Iraq, the same verbatim text Wilson discussed at the CIA the very next day, which makes it pretty plausible to me that he discussed the names that were and should have been on those documents. Thanks. Wilson is clearly a blowhard who enjoys the spotlight. Maybe he's unlikeable and unappealing. But that doesn't make him guilty of all the ridiculous charges a number of you here have launched against him.
Posted by: Jeff | November 03, 2005 at 11:37 PM
You can't blame MSM for being confused about this. They've been confusing the rest of us for two years.
First, I am really confused by the point of this article. You have a group of facts that amount to many many screw ups by the Republicans. No matter how you arrange these facts it was a screw up or at least a chain of failures. The objective seems to be trying more and more innovative ways to string together a row of turds in the hope they will start looking like not-turds.
So far I haven't seen any of this patterns look any more not-turdish so I don't see the point in the attempt.
Second, Wilson working for Kerry and his wife being a Bush hater because she didn't believe Saddam had WMD's is another attempt to convert turds into not-turds. It doesn't matter if they were both virulent Bush haters, they were correct in all the statements and reports they made, whether they jumped the gun or guessed right or not.
At best they are both psychics, but they were right not wrong.
Thirdly you have a group of facts about Wilson and the only ones that seem to be wrong is that he talked about the documents being false before he could have seen them. The argument is not whether the documents were false but that he said it before he could have known.
But unless he was a fortune teller he did know, despite his denials. So isn't the most likely scenario that he was told something by his wife or on being briefed about this at the CIA? He might not be able or willing to mention it because he might have been leaking classified information himself, intentionally or not.
So he can't be a liar, he is either a psychic or a leaker.
Fourthly the Republican need to clean house, and hose away all these turds and the people that did them. Then they can spend their time doing their job instead of trying to construct arguments that are deceitful. They fucked up, and they covered it up. This is the truth and this is the past.
The problem is whether they are going to stay in denial or clean house. Up is downism worked for longer than it should, but it doesn't work any more.
I for one would like to see people own up to all their mistakes, put better people in charge, and go on to make good Republican policy. If they can't or won't then they deserve all the bad press they get.
Posted by: carot | November 03, 2005 at 11:45 PM
For being such an expert, you can't see that Joe is full of shit?
Jeff: You call Joe a blowhard. You call him unlikable and unappealing. So why do you believe him? Better, which of his contradictions do you believe? Don't ask me to cite a contradiction; Joe gives you an example everytime he opens his mouth.
Very cool analysis TM--I always thought the troubling thing for Wilson was the seeing the forgeries before he saw them business..but your take on the Kristof sort of walk back makes it even more complicated..
This might be kind of fun. Write down one thing you think Joe has said. A prize to the first who can think of when he has contradicted himself on that one thing. This game could be endless.
How about 'We shouldn't attack Iraq because Saddam might use his chem and bio WMD on our troops', from his 2/6/03 LATimes op-ed piece.
Posted by: kim | November 04, 2005 at 12:05 AM
Front Side of Tee shirt: I BELIEVE JOE WILSON!
Backside: ///////////////NOW THATS FUNNY
The troubling part about Joe's newfound confabulation Feb 02 knowledge of the forgeries, is that he has done so much rowing back about that after the Kristoff columns. This latest spin from the both of them is just a feeble effort to portray themselves as other than complete fools and knaves.
WooWOO--Some interesting news. Dow Jones has filed suit to unseal the Fitz presentation to the Ct in the Miller case--
[quote]Rather than join this parade of masochism, we thought we'd try to speed things along, as well as end one of the remaining mysteries in the probe. That's why Dow Jones & Co., this newspaper's parent company, filed a motion late Wednesday requesting that the federal district court unseal eight pages of redacted information that Mr. Fitzgerald used to justify throwing Judith Miller of the New York Times in the slammer.
The pages were part of Judge David Tatel's concurring opinion in the ruling against Ms. Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper. Judge Tatel said the eight pages showed that, with his "voluminous classified filings," Mr. Fitzgerald had "met his burden of demonstrating that the information [sought from the reporters] is both critical and unobtainable from any other source."
The pages remain sealed, but now that Mr. Fitzgerald has indicted Mr. Libby and said "the substantial bulk" of his probe is "completed," there's no reason to keep those pages secret. The indictment itself discloses the nature and "major focus" of Mr. Fitzgerald's grand jury probe, including the fact that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. The special counsel's own extensive public discussion of the facts in the case should also have vitiated any protection from disclosure under grand jury rule of evidence 6(e). Future prosecutors and judges trying to decide whether to throw a reporter in jail should be able to inspect the evidence in this case, which will be an influential precedent.
(more)[/quote] http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007504
Guess what? It was made early in the case, and just maybe it includes a lot of factual claims that time has proven to be crap--i.e., that Plame was a covert agent. And if they win, we can see who made the false assertions.
Posted by: clarice | November 04, 2005 at 12:24 AM
Kim=======================================
what makes a poster intriguing?...something tells me, you and he why.
Posted by: topsecretk9 | November 04, 2005 at 12:30 AM
Why would Fitz be so foolish as to proceed?
Don't you think there were a number of assertions in there that in time proved rather preposterous? Tatel found them quite compelling and we know that is a crock..
proceed? The divination among us?
This evening we went to a Borders where my daughter had an old paperback bought a library benefit sale signed by the author. On a whim I pulled out a Shorter Summa, opened it randomly near the middle and looked about midway down the left hand page. I could make no better sense of it than if it had been typewritten by a gang of monkeys. But, I enjoy Chesterton, a new found pleasure.
AnonLib -
If you really believe this shoudn't be a game between liberals & conservatives, perhaps you should consider refraining from repeatedly generalizing about conservative attitudes and simply respond to the folks who are posting here instead.
You may consider Wilson to be a side issue, but the item we're all commenting on happens to be about Kristoff and Wilson which means that Wilson is, in fact, a primary issue here, not the conservative mindset elsewhere. For your benefit, however, I would note that I have heard very few conservatives dismiss the seriousness of the charges against Libby; I have however heard Democrats both on the ground and in leadership positions (e.g. Harry Reid's preface to invoking Rule 21) proceeding as if the Libby indictment itself is both evidence of an underlying conspiracy and an indictment of the White House casus belli -- despite the prosecutor's emphatic, targetted, caveats to the contrary.
In the grand scheme of things, Wilson may be small potatoes, but surely you can't be seriously contending that he is not central to case now heading to trial and any other potential indictments in the offing? Frankly, I find the idea of the prosecutor casually giving Joe Wilson a call on the phone about as shocking as anything I've read on the subject today. I would also note that while Fitzgerald has, indeed, stated that Plame's employment at the CIA was classified info, you'll find that in the press conference you've referenced, he specifically declined to confirm that her status was actually covert. In addition, in discussing the basis for potential charges on an underlying crime, he did not cite the covert outing statute, but rather the Espionage Act (see previous comment here).
In my personal (not-a-conservative!) opinion, only the wilfully blind remain prepared to ignore the systemic malaise at the C.I.A. which disastrously inhibited its ability to provide reliable intelligence, in favor of placing the onus for those failures exclusively on the shoulders of an administration they detest. Only ingenue or acolyte could posit that the agency was apolitical till Cheney came to town. And only the thoroughly partisan could refuse even to contemplate the possibility that the choice of the flamboyant Joe Wilson for one of the most incredibly sensitive, critically important missions in the pre-war intelligence cosmos was symptomatic of existing problems, not curative. The ass covering here has been very nearly universal.
Posted by: JM Hanes | November 04, 2005 at 12:54 AM
Yes, C, someone was very sagacious to ask for revelation of those redacted pages, but if they had blockbuster stuff it probably would have shut down Fitz for him to have since found that he was in error.
Cecil -
Have only just now seen your last comments under "Reporters Who Knew." I can only ditto your perspective on both the prosecutor (whose commentary is decidedly worth a legal parsing) and on the wisdom of proposed legislation on torture. Ditto, ditto, ditto.
Kim, you are probably right..and maybe if we get to see the redacted pages they will just contain titillating information, but assume that the statements were overbroad.
I can't imagine they alleged (per Tatel's comments) that Plame was just an analayst whose position was classified.
(Go to p. 29 of his opinion where he talks about weighing the different interests involved).
Florence --
I couldn't agree more. No one will be more disappointed if Llibby pleads and this doesn't go to trial. I want to hear everybody on the stand and under cross.
(And yes, AnonLib, that means Wilson,esq. under oath for change too:)
Carot:
First of all, your turd metaphor was well played. I was literally laughing out loud. Good job in using it to carry your argument.
That said, the arguments expressed by most of the Wilson detractors are not turds. They are reasonable concerns.
The standard story of the Plame saga is this. Wilson had particular knowledge of a particular line in Bush's 2003 SOTU address. So he blew the wistle. In retaliation, the WH blew his wife's -- super spy Valerie Plame -- top secret cover, jeopardizing and comprimising intelligence essential to national security in the process.
Concern #1: People with supersecret CIA spy-spouses who have done work for the CIA themselves simply do not write highly publicized accounts of thier CIA work, particularly where the spouse suggested them for the work. Which invites the question: Just how covert was Valerie Plame. That is not a turd of a question. I daresay it is the one question most feuling our unhealthy Plamegate addiction.
Concern #2: Wilson was talking (leaking?) a lot to Kristof for a couple of months before he wrote his article. He talked to other reporters. His story was big, big news. It stimulated many very inquistive and intelligent minds in the foriegn affairs and national politics press corps, an aggressive bunch. What led to Wilson's being chosen for the mission would be a question these journalists would inevitably ask, which lead to Plame. Which leads to this question: Was Plame linked known in the press corps before Novak wrote his piece? Which leads to this question: Should we not analyze and parse every word written and spoken by those journalists closest to the story for clues?
Those question are not turds either. They are very legitimate questions flowing inexorably from the facts.
So, no. We are not arranging queing up turds in an attempt to defend the administration. We are asking perfectly legitimate questions to a set of facts that simply do not add up.
If I have misunderstood your argument, Carot, I apologize.
Posted by: Chants | November 04, 2005 at 01:33 AM
We are asking perfectly legitimate questions to a set of facts that simply do not add up.
an additional "amen" for that
Sorry for the apparent circular logic
97 posts or so above. Just trying to save
space in describing the fateful Libby/Russert phone call.
Anyway I now understand that there are to be two trials :Fitz prosecuting Scooter in a DC court house and TM hauling Joe ,Nick Tim , etc before the court of public opinion.
That is , unless , as I expect , Scooter
gets a Cap Weinberger-like pre trial pardon.
And a medal.
Posted by: r flanagan | November 04, 2005 at 01:53 AM
Can I just pay tribute Rick Ballard for a moment?
She was a Hostess god-dammit post...he retorted with this:
And a cupcake too - say maybe the Twinkie defense will work!
TM and Lesley-- day late and a dollar short but...
Wilson pushed the church angle as (MODO, Oct.03 and and WAPO 7-03)
then says what you have noted on Larry King
Now, I'm prepared to think the worst of Karl Rove ever since he told Chris Matthew's that my wife was fair game. And that's tough for me because Karl and I go to the same church. We go to different services, we go to the same church. I know his wife's name because we get a church newsletter. So, why he wouldn't know my wife's name, perhaps he doesn't read the newsletter.
tonight he tells us:
OLBERMANN: Lastly, and it‘s more along the lines of curious twist, almost comic relief, is this true, you and Karl Rove have attended the same church?
WILSON: Yes, we‘re members of the same congregation. We go to different services. I think Karl was in Aspen, Colorado, not too long ago, and he said that I attend the wacky service. I actually attend the service that is a family service for people with kids. We have 5-year-old twins, and so we go to an earlier service than he does. I‘ve only seen him in church once, probably because I don‘t go as often as my wife does. But we do normally attend different services.
OLBERMANN: It is a small town, Washington. But you‘d never think it would be that small.
Um, yeah...small town...but Wilson had only seen Rove at church once (because he doesn't go that much), so...Rove has only potentially seen Wilson at church once...so Wilson's pompous claim that Rove not reading the newsletter is lame (as usual) and that Rove would piece it all together form the newsletter is just another exploitation.
BTW as mentioned, the Wilson's advertised the church connection not Mr. or Mrs. Rove.
Actually, while the MSM love to frame this as humorous silly connection it is just as grossly opportunistic of the Wilson's to mention as they claim of Rove
Tops, you little darling! Thank you for finding that!
Posted by: Lesley | November 04, 2005 at 02:53 AM
It will be interesting to see what Fitzgerald's position will be on unsealing the redacted pages.
Posted by: MJW | November 04, 2005 at 02:54 AM
It will also be interesting to see what Libby's lawyers' position will be.
vnjagvet noted...the little twist of irony that Wilson is fond of pointing out....one of Lib's (there are bound to be some that hate that abbrev..) attorney is:
Jeffress is from the firm Baker Botts, where Bush family friend and former Secretary of State James A. Baker is a senior partner. Jeffress has won acquittals for public officials accused of extortion, perjury, money laundering, and vote-buying, his firm's Web site says.
because after all, Wilson has detailed his time with Secretary Baker in the Politics of Truth...
"...By the middle of December, the beating of the war drums in Washington actually left the Iraqis thinking that we really were not going to attack. One well-informed journalist for the London Sunday Times reported to me: “The Iraqis have concluded that you are bluffing. If you were serious, you wouldn’t keep beating your chests. You would let your actions speak for you.”
I took that to heart and relayed her thoughts to Washington, recommending that we tone down our threats. I remember the cable as being appropriately polite; but Larry Grahl, who hand-carried my message to Secretary Baker, later told me, “I thought you had lost your mind, telling the president and the secretary in effect to shut up.” Then, a couple of days later, when he realized the U.S. government had gone silent, “I concluded you were brilliant,” Grahl said. It was, of course, the British journalist who had had the brilliant idea, but soon the benefit was nullified, as every pundit and member of Congress had jumped on the chattering bandwagon, and silence was not maintained...
...Finally, I took a second to look around the room and woke up. After all, Jim Baker was sitting beside me on the sofa; the president was seated in a chair to my right, in front of the fireplace. Across the room, sitting next to the desk, was Brent Scowcroft taking notes on a legal-size yellow pad. It looked to me like he was writing down everything I said. My first conscious thought, since the moment I had been introduced to President Bush, occurred when I looked at Scowcroft and his legal pad...
...All too soon, Secretary Baker looked at his watch, the signal that the meeting was over....
"I've never once held Joe Wilson out to be a hero or some bastion of truth-telling, so I really don't see what your point is. My point was that many (though not all) conservatives seem to have lost perspective in this affair. They're obsessed with the veracity of the ex-ambassor to Gabon, and utterly unconcerned with the veracity of those occupying the White House. "
I don't see why people can't be obsessed with both Libby and Wilson--why do you think it has to be one or the other? Like it is for many liberals who obsess on Libby and the WH and totally ignore Wilson.
And many liberals and especially the New York Times still haven't admitted the falsities in Wilson's story let alone recognized that he was the one who started the 'Bush Lied' meme because of (1)twisting his story and (2)reading comprehension problems of the press.
And until the above is admitted and settled, don't expect attention on Wilson to go away.
We've spent thousands and thousands of collective hours on Libby and you know damned well we have.
Posted by: Syl | November 04, 2005 at 04:06 AM
Wow. Wilson is sooooo important that every word he uttered was written down by Scowcroft!
Wow. Just wow!
"If the CIA now had proof that the docs were faked and the guy that was sent to Niger as a result of a request from the VP, then the least the CIA should have done was pass this info back to the VP. That they did not seems really wrong to my way of thinking. "
Think of the alternative. Wilson did not debunk anything. So there was nothing to report to Cheney. Mystery solved.
pollyusa
The agencies already doubted the authenticity of a sale though they were intrigued that this memorandum contained more detail than other reports.
There is no way Wilson could say 'forgery!' if he didn't see the actual honest-to-god document this memorandum was about. The memo could have been a lie and not based on a real document at all.
As Wilson himself said (as quoted above by mary mapes LOL):
I was briefed that an officer, a U.S. officer, had either seen the documents or had been briefed on their existence. And my briefing was based upon the transcript or his report about the existence of those documents.
So we have a briefing of a memorandum which was itself a briefing of what someone either saw or was briefed on.
And from that Wilson can claim he debunked a forgery?!?!?
No, even with the cable coming from Niger saying names were wrong, all that would do is put another checkmark in the 'doubt' column. It is not definitive.
Wilson added little or nothing to what the CIA already suspected. Except he added the bit about Baghdad Bob wanting to buy some onions.
Ok, here are some turds which no matter how they are spun just look like turds to me, no blossom to be found.
Turd 1: Either President Bush, Cheney or both of them have known all along that Plame was outed and chose to impede an investigation. However you spin it this is dusgusting behavior for any officials to waste a prosecutor's time for a year. Anyone else who did this would be in jail.
Turd 2: No one on both the right wing or the left wing has suggested Bush would not pardon the conspirators behind this. So virtually everyone including the press acknowledges Bush, their president, has no regard for the rule of law in this. The whole investigation is widely seen as a waste of time because any conclusion is immume from justice through the pardon process.
Turd 3: Whether Wilson was working for the Dems or not, or working against Bush in any way nothing he has said is basically inaccurate. There were no WMD's. The documents were a forgery. Saddam didn't buy uranium from Niger. The truth is apolitical. These things happened and for the Republican party to be credible in the future they must clean house on this, as it cannot possibly be swept under the carpet. Look for example at the way this is breaking in Italy, and Bush is still denying all this with Berlusconi standing right next to him. No lies will work here.
Turd 4: Nothing can be accomplished by making the Dems look bad. Nothing. Why? Because they have had no power at all for the last 5 years. All Kerry is is a guy who ran for president and didn't win, it doesn't matter if Wilson worked for him or not. No legislation the Dems have suggested has been passed to any significant degree. Everything is the Republican's fault, and that turd won't look any better by trying to evade responsibility for it. People aren't judging this on what went wrong, because shit happens. They are judging this on people who stay in denial won't fix the problem.
Turd 5: The Iraq war was wrong. If people had known how it would turn out, no one would have supported it at the start. People are only trying to make a mistake look good somehow now, trying to rearrange the turds, put lipstick on the pig. The best outcome will be a semi democracy that limps along and then turns into Iran. Iran knows this which is why they were behind trying to start the war in the first place. At some point the Iraqis are going to kick everyone out, say thanks for the 300 billion, and no one will have anything to show for the whole venture.
Turd 6: The war was about the oil. If it wasn't then it should have been. Oil is the only reason to have anything to do with the Middle East. Whatever is best to keep the price of fuel reasonable and flowing without interruption, that is the only policy needed towards Iraq.
Turd 7: The Darfur massacre. If Bush really cared about people in the region why didn't he care about them? Why spend 300 billion to stop atrocities in Iraq then let people get massacred next door?
Posted by: carot | November 04, 2005 at 04:29 AM
Jeff Said: "Among other things, what you claim is the same report is not; also, you botch the issue of verbatim text v. the very different issue of the source of the report (Italy)."
I didn't botch anything. What don't you understand about this statement: "Committee staff asked how the former ambassador could have come to the conclusion that the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong" when he had never seen the CIA reports and had no knowledge of what names and dates were in the reports." His response under oath was that he had "misspoken." Wilson didn't respond to this challenge by telling them that he really did know the names and dates or that he had learned the information in one of the briefings surrounding his trip. He said he had "misspoken". For the logically impaired, that means he bailed on his lie when he was confronted with it under oath.
The truth is that Wilson never saw the documents and was never briefed on the specific information regarding the dates or who signed the documents. Maybe Plame knew all the information contained in the forged documents and told Wilson during some spy pillowtalk. Either way, Wilson didn't debunk anything and the documents were irrelevant to the British intelligence referred to by Bush in his speech. Wilson's trip has always been irrelevant to the entire debate on WMD intelligence. Who was it that brought this buffoon into the argument? Oh yeah, it was Mr. Kristoff and his employer.
I say we prosecute Plame for mishandling classified information. We don't need any evidence, we can get Ronnie Earle. Fraudulent prosecutions without any supporting evidence are his specialty. Plame and Libby can share a cell.
Finally, liberals are trying to parse every statement by every party in this farce to avoid the obvious fact that Wilson is a liar. Wilson critics are merely responding to what he said and the importance placed on his multiple lies by the NY Times, Wash. Post, The Nation, the DNC, the Kerry Campaign and other assorted liberals.
Posted by: StuckinCali | November 04, 2005 at 05:57 AM
The whole Wilson/PFlame bit is to cover that Libya was buying the yellowcake for the Iraqi nuke program. The Iraqi nuclear program was being done by Libya.
Lybian deception ops
Posted by: M. Simon | November 04, 2005 at 06:09 AM
When the trial and its consequences are all sorted out, Scooter Libby's business card will have the title, "New York Times CEO and Owner."
Joe Wilson's, Valerie Plame's and several journalists' "business" cards will each have a name, booking number and two portrait photographs.
Posted by: VRWconspiracy | November 04, 2005 at 07:25 AM
Lets see now....
immediately after Wilson talks to Kristof, Kristof writes a column in which the proper sequence of events is described (Cheney ask the CIA for more info, the CIA sends Wilson to Niger.)
A month later, Kristof uses the ambiguous term "at the behest" to describe Cheney's involvement --- and its WILSON's fault.
Maguire, you need to get off the GOP talking points, and get back to reality.
Its obvious that Wilson has been telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, since this thing began. Its also obvious that in discussions with journalists prior to the publication of his own column, Wilson was talking not just about his own role in the debunking of the Niger report, but placing it in a larger context of what was eventually determined.
Its not unlikely that in the course of those conversations, Wilson used imprecise or ambiguous language that may have lead Kristof and Pincus to write that Wilson claimed he proved the documents were forgeries, rather than Wilson proved the claims were bogus.
This, of course, is a distinction without a difference. Wilson was not testifying under oath -- he was coversing with journalists about the manipulation of intelligence, and his personal role in debunking a bogus claim that the administration continued to repeat.
The only thing that Wilson has said that may (or may not) be true is that Cheney was briefed specifically on his findings. (Its not like Cheney and the White House is incapable of lying when it claims this briefing did not happen.)
But if its not true, its an honest and easily understood mistake, based upon Wilson's extensive experience with DC bureaucracies. If Cheney was not briefed, it is ONLY because on the same day that Wilson returned from Niger, Cheney got a briefing that contained the same conclusions that Wilson would reach -- that the reported sale of yellowcake was completely bogus.
You're no longer credible, Tommy-boy. You're obsessive parsing of everything Wilson in an effort to find damning inconsistencies has warped your mind. Instead of trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together with all the new information coming out, your continued obsession with Wilson is evidence of an unhealthy monomania.
Get help.
[Self-parody alert! Although coming from Lukasiak, advice about monomania has a certain "Been there" credibility. Regrettably, his next comment has been deleted for excessive trolling. We will see if his manners and ability to stay on-topic (sorry, this topic, not his) can improve.]
Posted by: p.lukasiak | November 04, 2005 at 08:29 AM
Critics of the administration are getting away with a couple of mischaracterizations of the facts that I find irritating.
One is the idea that Bush was saying that Iraq had purchased yellow cake uranium from Niger. He didn't say that. He said that Iraq was seeking to do so.
Another misdirection is the idea that since the documents from Niger proporting that a sale had taken place were found to be forged that there was no evidence to support the idea that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium. This is of course not the case. In addition, there was other evidence to support that theory. Wilson's own report to the CIA said that the Iraqis were at one point in Niger looking to trade, most likely for uranium, which is why the CIA told the Administration that it was still a possiblity.
If it was "very unlikely" that Iraq had actually purchased uranium from Niger it was still very likely that Iraq was trying to do so, and that was the point, to show the nefarious intent of the Hussein regime. Because, after all, if they were seeking to get the materials to make nuclear weapons they might have found those materials some place else.
Posted by: Frew | November 04, 2005 at 08:36 AM
"Its obvious that Wilson has been telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, since this thing began."
Yeah, and that's why he's backtracked.
If he debunked anything it was a briefing of a memorandum which was itself a briefing of what someone either saw or was briefed on.
Which doesn't matter anyway because the forgeries were a RED HERRING and have nothing to do with the 16 words.
Wilson's entire schtick was propaganda.
And Wilson knew it would work because idiots wanted it to be true. So he can backtrack when he's under oath and it doesn't matter because the idiots still want it to be true.
Stuckincall- That's a nice non-response to the specific things I said you screwed up, which you did. You claimed that what are in fact two different reports were the same, and you used a quote about whether WIlson was told the source of the February 2002 report or not to argue he didn't know about other stuff. As for the quotation from the SSCI you use in your latest post, you might want to know that Wilson has written about that, and said he was not given an opportunity to revisit the relevant information by the committee. In other words, he was thrown into confusion by the committee. You will almost certainly not believe that, but if you are trying to use Wilson's own statements against him, you have an obligation to pay attention to what he actually said.
Most the rest of what you say is just spouting Republican talking points that have been debunked, concerning all the intelligence that led us to war and so on. Oh yeah, you're also an abusive schmuck. And you evidently still don't know how to read.
Posted by: Jeff | November 04, 2005 at 08:55 AM
You keep forgetting that it was more than intelligence that led us to war.
Get a grip.
Syl: "Critics of the administration are getting away with a couple of mischaracterizations of the facts that I find irritating.
One is the idea that Bush was saying that Iraq had purchased yellow cake uranium from Niger. He didn't say that. He said that Iraq was seeking to do so."
The "mischaracterization" is even more egregious than that. The President actually stated:
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." To this day, the British government stands by this information.
Another area of concern is the timing of Wilson's trip to Niger and the appearance & analysis of the forged documents. (I know that this has been address on different threads so please forgive any repetition.) There are four countries in Africa that have exported uranium in recent years - Nambia, Niger, South Africa and Gabon. Joe Wilson claims that he had not seen these "forged documents" so one has to wonder why he/they chose Niger for his fact finding tour - especially if that tour was done at the behest of the VP as he implied. If Joe hadn't seen the documents but the CIA had and they were such obvious forgeries, then why send him to Niger at all if not to tamper with the President statement without seeming to do so as a means of discrediting the administration and the reasons for going into Iraq?
Posted by: arrowhead | November 04, 2005 at 10:41 AM
"been addressed..."
Kaus takes a stab at Kristof--- it's good too!
http://www.slate.com/id/2129234/&#weaselly
Wilson is very unclear on when he deduced that the documents were forged. In the NYT he says:
However, in his book he quotes Kristof as saying (immediately after the SSCI report) "I remember you saying that you had not seen the documents. my recollection is that we had some information about the documents at that time - e.g., the names of people in them - but i do clearly remember you saying that you had not been shown them"
And of course Kristof originally says "The envoy reported, for example, that a Niger minister whose signature was on one of the documents had in fact been out of office for more than a decade."
So what's up? If Wilson was simply repeating what the IAEA had known for a month and that was all over the newspapers, why did Kristof report that as news? Kristof's version implies that Wilson 'reported' the information to the administration (we know know the CIA) in March '02 NOT to Kristoff in March '03.
All in all there is very little in the public record to support the idea that Wilson debunked the forgery to the CIA - Wilson denies it, and Kristof's wording doesn't exactly say that he did, just as it doesn't exacltly say the the VP sent Wilson.
Posted by: nittypig | November 04, 2005 at 12:12 PM
Just to clarify...
Joe Wilson and his wife donated to both democratic AND republican campaigns. Wilson served under Bush 41 and was responsible for getting the hostages home from Iraq when Saddam held them prior to Gulf War 1.0. That flaming lib!
Wilson did not start working for Kerry until AFTER the smear campaign started.
Posted by: DR | November 04, 2005 at 12:45 PM
Mickey Kaus is a Democrat but a fair one. Our Democrat friends here could learn some from him.
I like this conclusion to his take down of Kristof ( making fun of publishing a story in the dead tree version and then later putting up a kinda sorta you know correction):
The B.S. is free. The truth you have to pay for!
Left out the Times Select version for the correction
I love Kaus, too.
DR, Joe was a Scowcroftian--you know doing nothing substantive in the ME except pressure Israel to concede more--gave us 50 "years of peace".Like the bien pensant layabouts in the DoS and CIA, he opposed the Bush proactive approach. He hsaid this mildly beginning in Feb 2003. And reserved his his attack on the Administration until May of 2003. Ass backwards your contention is.
Wilson denies it, and Kristof's wording doesn't exactly say that he did, just as it doesn't exacltly say the the VP sent Wilson.
In both cases, Kristof's second article is more definite (on positions we now know to be incorrect . . . partly because Wilson has disavowed them):
That was not just a case of hyping intelligence, but of asserting something that had already been flatly discredited by an envoy investigating at the behest of the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Immediately upon his return, in early March 2002, this senior envoy briefed the C.I.A. and State Department and reported that the documents were bogus, for two main reasons. First, the documents seemed phony on their face — for example, the Niger minister of energy and mines who had signed them had left that position years earlier.
I don't see much to suggest an alternate interpretation, nor is it an unimportant point. Wilson's case depends on having debunked the Niger claims and having told the Administration about it (otherwise his "twisting" accusation makes no sense) . . . and both are false.
Might want to recheck your dates. Wilson started working for Kerry's campaign in May, 03.
Though the June 13 article did say "at the behest", it also includes this:
Italy's intelligence service obtained the documents and shared them with British spooks, who passed them on to Washington. Mr. Cheney's office got wind of this and asked the C.I.A. to investigate.
The agency chose a former ambassador to Africa to undertake the mission, and that person flew to Niamey, Niger, in the last week of February 2002. This envoy spent one week in Niger, staying at the Sofitel and discussing his findings with the U.S. ambassador to Niger, and then flew back to Washington via Paris.
There's a lot that bugs me about this affair. For example, though Kristof says that Wilson showed the documents were wrong, he doesn't attribute that to Wilson. Perhaps I missed something where "a person present at the meeting" was a subtle way of talking about Wilson himself.
It's crazy. The only time we see words that we know damn well are Wilson's, he says flat out that he never saw the documents... yet everyone concentrates on Kristof's columns and the Post story, either, or both, of which could have been unclear.
The worst part of this is, while a lot of people are calling Wilson a liar, if you take away a claim that he specifically debunked the documents (that is: if we assume that he did not make that claim, and it seems likely that he did not), then the "lies" vanish. What else is left? That his wife didn't have anything to do with sending him? Well, she couldn't authorize the trip, and couldn't order anyone else to. It's a little careless, since she said he might be willing to volunteer his time, but given that his wife was harmed by her exposure, "she's got nothing to do with this!" is going to be on the tip of his tongue, anyway.
There aren't any other meaningful lies people can point to. Wilson never claimed that Cheney had sent him, and only reported that he assumed his trip had settled the matter... not that he knew, for a fact, that it had.
Given what he found (that there was solid accounting for the uranium and strong controls), it was reasonable to make this assessment.
Posted by: John Palmer | November 04, 2005 at 01:09 PM
"...After returning to the United States, the envoy reported to the CIA that the uranium-purchase story was false, the sources said. Among the envoy's conclusions was that the documents may have been forged because the "dates were wrong and the names were wrong," the former U.S. government official said...."
Wilson and his channelers would seem to like to forget the previous Pincus and Kristoff columns and begin reality on July 6. Wilson has 3 versions for this...
1. He told SSIC he "mispoke" when confronted with (in particular) the statement above
2. He was "misquoted or misattributed" when confronted again
3. That he was purposely blind-sided by Committee staff--- by not given an opportunity to review relevant reporting that caused him to say the statement above, so therefore he was too confused to answer, so responded he "mispoke"...
(side note here, let's not forget ...when asked how he "knew" that the Intelligence Community had rejected the possibility of a Niger-Iraq uranium deal, as he wrote in his book, he told Committee staff that his assertion may have involved "a little literary flair." while we are at it.)
Wilson confuses the issue in his letter to SSCI by glossing over and Ignoring Pincus and Kristof, and only addressing July 6 Op-Ed. It's actually a clever way to re-write or rather RE-FRAME the issue. Committee staff know that Wilson has no need to refer to the "relevant" reporting because her was clear and consistent in his admitted source comments to Pincus and Kristoff. But Wilson tries to slice and dice his own OP-ED, the OP-ED that was written to cover or back pedal the very statements made to Kristoff and Pincus, in an effort to show he never asserted as such and pulls up the his much needed memory provider, the relevant reporting to illustrate his OP-ED is consistent and accurate....well, all fine and well, if he hadn't said so much to Pincus and Kristof (and his own book)
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/07/con05233.html
Posted by: dogtownGuy | November 04, 2005 at 01:14 PM
You say :
There aren't any other meaningful lies people can point to. Wilson never claimed that Cheney had sent him,
Are parsing too or did you forget about his speech to EPIC that we have a transcript where Wilson says he was sent "by the government not the CIA the government"
Now I will grant that does not have Cheney name in it but he was retailing the story that the Adminstration sent him just as sure as I am 2 +2 gets you 4.
Yes--and in that EPIC speech he affirms (in the Q and A) that he was the source of the Pincus and Kristof articles, Neither at that time nore in his subsequent appearances did he say the article misquoted him--until July of this year. Not only was he silent if the reports were in error, he affirmed them, I'd say.
The Op-Ed also says:
"In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake — a form of lightly processed ore — by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office. "
This states flat out that his charge was to investigate whether there had been an agreement signed between Niger and Iraq.
Per the SSCI this is untru about this:
"The talking points were general, asking officials if Niger has been approached, conducted discussions, or entered into any agreements concerning uranium transfers with any 'countries of concern'.... The talking points did not refer to the specific reporting on the alleged Iraq-Niger deal"
He was sent to investigate whether Iraq had had any meetings with Niger on uranium. He states he was sent to investigate the alleged deal, which was the geensis of the trip. The former PM told Wilson that he had been approached by Iraq in 1999, and he thought that the approach was about uranium sales.
Wilson's Op-Ed is simply wrong about what the CIA charged him with doing in Niger. This allows him, in the Op Ed, to hide the fact that he found evidence that Iraq had been seeking uranium from Niger.
How did the Kerry campaign learn that Joe Lies! was Kristoff's source? Or was it just conincidence they hired the former ambassador who caused such a kerfuffle throughout the remainder of the summer?
Did the Kerry campaign use the NYT? Or did the Kerry campaign and the NYT work in conjunction? (Recall the NYT used their six-degrees-of-separation argument to discredit the Swiftboaters. The Left then dismissed them based on this coverage.)
Posted by: Eric | November 04, 2005 at 04:07 PM
Carot-
Oh Lordy, I just can’t resist! You’re shovelin’ turds alright:
#1: Historic Republican Talking Point, repeatedly denouced by Dems in the 20th century, newly resurrected for use in the 21st. “Anyone else who did this would be in jail.” Yet Clinton roams free!
#2: Shit-for-Logic: The President may actually exercise the authority granted to the Chief Exec. by law, thereby proving he has no respect for the rule of law. Bonus points for a classic Everybody-Knows premise.
# 3: “Whether Wilson was working for the Dems or not, or working against Bush in any way nothing he has said is basically inaccurate” (excepting, of course, all those times he mispoke or was misquoted).
Geez, why didn’t you relay this turd to candidate Kerry? He apparently thought Wilson had been thoroughly discredited and felt compelled to expunge the guy from his campaign website as though he never existed. Bonus points for gratuitous advice, speaking of which, you might want to clean up the following:
“There were no WMD's” Should read: “There are no WMD’s.”
“The documents were a forgery.” Never cited by the Administration.
“Saddam didn't buy uranium from Niger.” Who said he did & when did they say it?
“The truth is apolitical.” which is why it’s ignored so routinely in the capital.
“No lies will work here.” Absurd on its face.
#4: “Everything is the Republican's fault…” This should really be Turd Numero Uno! “Nothing can be accomplished by making the Dems look bad,” and when the Dems figure that out, their election prospects will improve considerably. Unfortunately, they remain in denial, which, I must agree, is probably why they can’t seem to fix the problem.
#5: “The Iraq war was wrong.” The past tense here is an esp. nice touch. Run, don’t walk, to Murdoc Online with your prognostications so that he can update his list.
#6: “The war was about the oil. If it wasn't then it should have been.” Choose one; we’ll talk.
# 7: “If Bush really cared about people in the [Darfur] region why didn't he care about them?” Oh dear, I'm afraid I’ll just have to wing it on this one: Because the he decided to take Kerry’s advice and go the U.N. route? Because he’s saving his pennies for the invasion of North Korea? Because President Bush doesn’t like black people? So many turds, so little time!
Posted by: JM Hanes | November 04, 2005 at 04:27 PM
can someone here explain to me how the documents which claimed that a sale of yellowcake had been arranged could be something other than forged, when it was proven that the information in the documents was bogus?
Seriously, explain how BOGUS information about an IMPOSSIBLE sale could be gotten from GENUINE, UNFORGED documents...
[Third time lucky. TM]
Posted by: p.lukasiak | November 04, 2005 at 04:33 PM
Can someone explain to me why the FACT of documents being FORGED is so important if information contained in them was BOGUS?
Posted by: Syl | November 04, 2005 at 04:40 PM
You see, it has not been established that the information briefed from a memo which was a brief someone had gotten from a briefing was ever PROVEN BOGUS.
And can you explain to me why the fact there was ever a DOCUMENT that was FORGED means squat when the information it contained was never used in the 16 words anyway?
Eric - No doubt, the Kerry campaign used the New York Times. Don't forget, Kerry's media guru at the time was Chris Lehane, the guy who got the "Rats Ad" story planted on the front page of the Times in the 2000 campaign. He was VERRRRRY good at manipulating reporters; in fact, a NYT story later in the campaign about Lehane specifically mentioned his uncanny ability to get reporters talking to each other about a story he planted, so that eventually nobody remembers where it came from. Sound familiar?
Posted by: Wilson's a liar | November 04, 2005 at 04:52 PM
well herein-lies the problem...per the talking points Wilson was not charged with "DE-BUNKING" anything, rather dispatched to go find out if there was any truth and/or additional information that could be used by the Intelligence Community, not him, to ascertain the validity of foreign intelligence reporting. And He did!
He provided the Intelligence com. an affirmative on an effort.
The problem is the Lame Stream Media is ignorant of the actual scope (via the talking points) of Wilson's trip, so they allow Wilson to proclaim (lie) that he not only "debunked" a sale, but that he "de-bunked" the forgeries as well.
This is why Kristof looks like such a fool.
Self-appointed self-help pseudo-guru p.lukasiak condemns search for for "damning 'evidence' that is easier to explain by miscommunication than by lying." Chastened Democrats see the light and agree amongst themselves to stop calling their Chief Executive a liar. "After all," conceded one former partisan, "the President's miscommunication skills are indisputable." "Intelligent discussion of the C.I.A. (A.K.A. "The Leaky Sieve") may now commence!" declared an anonymous official of dubious rank.
UPDATE: The nomination of Tim ("Tommy-boy") Maguire, whose Obsessive Parsing recently earned him a Nobel Prize, for top dog at Justice is widely expected to sail through the Senate. In other news, CNN's popular "Where Are They Now" reports on the conviction of p.lukasiak for the "wanton practice of psychiatry without a license" and "spurious distinctions which may (or may not) make a difference." One juror explained that changing your comments ex post facto just doesn't cut it in the court of public opinion. Lukasiak has been sentenced to a year in Remedial Logic 101.
I don't know, p. (can I call you p.?), from a quick perusal of your website, I presume you would be the forged document expert here.
Posted by: Joe | November 04, 2005 at 06:40 PM
good question. An even better question is why didn't the White House say "Joe Wilson is "debunking" a claim that we didn't make.... and although Mr. Wilson's efforts were essentially redundant, and we had no intention of making claims based on those documents because they had been discredited by other means, we do appreciate his efforts on behalf of the US government"...and let it fade into history?
and the answer to that is simple -- there were lots of other examples of the administration making claims about Niger. One major example was a State Department Fact Sheet dated 12/19/2002 created in response to Iraq's Declaration to the UN about its WMDs. The 'fact sheet' said...
The Declaration ignores efforts to procure uranium from Niger. Why is the Iraqi regime hiding their uranium procurement?
Unlike Bush's SOU statement, that is specific with regard to the country in question (Bush said "Africa") and was not qualified with "the British government has learned."
So while the White House could have "rebutted" Wilson's column with regard to the reference to the State of the Union, they still had the rest of the administration statements, which were specific and unqualified, to contend with.
Joe Wilson became the focus of the White House efforts to discredit its critics because he was providing answers at the point in time that the media was finally starting to ask questions. Lots of Bushco's claims had been rebutted in the run up to the war, and the media ignored it. But no WMDs were being found, the media was asking "Why", and Joe Wilson had the answer.
I believe the Administration was punctilious is not making claims not justified by the intel at hand. They stuck on the WMD question to the matters in the NIE as to which EVERY US intel agency signed on to. (Even Wilkerson admits that).
I am getting so angry about this Dem political nonsense...GRRR And when I get that angry watch out...........It's about time for me to dust off the secret memo to Rockefeller and writing in Jewish publications what a shanda it is that Levin and Waxman are behaving this way..Hell, Maybe I'll sign up for a tour of Hadassah with Ed Kock, and those gals are more ferocious that I am.
p.l.
"Joe Wilson had the answer." Joe Wilson had tea with a bunch of folks who -- as you would put it -- might (or might not) be terminally stupid enough tell a party guy about their deepest, darkest, oh-so-clandestine illegal dealings with anybody on the oh-so-obviously-just-shoot-me-wrong side of the U.S. ledger.
"The Declaration ignores efforts to procure uranium from Niger."
But there were efforts to procure uranium. Even Joe Wilson discovered that.
So what's your point?
Lost in all the noise is that the infamous "16 words" are in fact true. And can be determined to be true from the information gleaned by Joe Wilson on his trip to Niger.
In February 2002, Wilson met with Niger’s now former Prime Minister Ibrahim Mayaki who told him of a visit by an Iraqi delegation in June 1999 who were interested in “expanding commercial relations” with Niger. Mayaki said he interpreted the overture as a bid to buy uranium yellowcake. (See Senate Intelligence Committee report, Page 43.)
So the crux of the Joe Wilson Op-Ed piece in the New York Times (i.e. "Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium" was untrue, based on forgeries) can be disproven by the every information that Joe Wilson reported to his CIA debriefers in March 2002, which he conveniently forgot to mention since then. Afterall, "Ibrahim Mayaki" isn't exactly a household word, not even with Nexus-Lexus. Has anyone held Joe Wilson utter "Ibrahim Mayaki" ?
And besides, how would Joe Wilson know that the "16 words" were based on forgeries and not his own statements, unless his wife or one of her colleagues told him otherwise, but of course, it would be illegal to do so.
Posted by: Neo | November 05, 2005 at 10:58 AM
The whole problem I have with the "Bush Lied" mantra is the image of all of those soldiers (and imbedded reporters) getting in and out of their chemical warfare outfits every time there was Iraqi artillery fire. You would think that if Bush was telling a lie so elaborate, it would be easy enough to plant some WMD and find them. As I recall, nobody expected to find nukes. The real danger on the nukes was that unless we left 100,000 troops on his border in the midst of unfriendly populations, he would have reconstituted the program, or eventually, started carrying on a suicide bombing program in Kuwait on the troops we had stationed there.
Posted by: TP | November 05, 2005 at 11:18 AM
A Tough Case? No Lie
It's Never Easy To Prove Perjury
By Michael N. Levy
Sunday, November 6, 2005; Page B01
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Iguazu Falls – The Argentina experience
“Let your soul be sated with the unique beauty of this landscape, that although you search the world through your travels, you will never find anything like it. “Extract from poem by Alfonso Ricciutto (translated)
Rainbows over the falls
Unlike most other waterfalls which have only one or two cataracts, the Iguazu Falls (also spelt Iguacu Falls and Iguassu Falls) boasts an amazing 275 cataracts which are spread over a 3-kilometre-long horseshoe-shape. To put it into perspective, they are around four times wider than Canada’s Niagara Falls. No matter how many photos you see before you go or how much you read about it, nothing will prepare you for the actual falls. Its prestigious status as one of the world’s New 7 Wonders of Nature, located in a UNESCO World Heritage site, is well-deserved and it attracts over a million visitors a year.
The Jungle Train
When visiting the Iguazu Falls, everyone should experience them from both the Brazilian and Argentinian sides. The views and experiences are very different on both sides although both take you very close to the falls. On the Argentinian side you walk on trails that weave between the tropical rainforest and allow you to experience the full power of the rushing waters. The Brazilian side offers more panoramic views facing the waterfalls. Expect to get wet on both sides.
En route to Devil’s Throat
The Argentinian side has three circuits: the upper circuit, the lower circuit and the Devil’s Throat circuit. The Upper Circuit takes you to the top of the canyon and allows you to look down over the edge of the falls. The Lower Circuit takes you to the base of the falls and offers great views of the waterfalls via lookout points. The Devils Throat circuit takes you to the top of the highest waterfall, the 80 metre Devils Throat. Here, fourteen waterfalls drop with a powerful force creating a permanent cloud of spray overhead.
We opted to visit Devil’s Throat first. To get there, we took the complimentary Jungle Train to the Devils Throat Station, then proceeded to walk on 1200 metres of metal walkways over the Parana River. The long walk only heightened our sense of anticipation. En route, we saw catfish and aquatic birds in the river below us. As we got closer to the waterfalls, a thundering sound and mist in the air heralded our close proximity. A few minutes later, we reached the platform over the falls. The roaring, rushing water took our breath away. We had never seen anything like it in our lives before. We were surrounded by the falls and engulfed by them, in the midst of Devils Throat.
Devil’s Throat
When we finally managed to tear ourselves away from this spectacular sight, we took the train back to the Falls Station, the starting point of the Upper and Lower Circuits, and proceeded to the other trails. There were many viewpoints on this side and unlike the Devil’s Throat trail, we didn’t have to walk far to see the waterfalls. The views of the falls amid the lush greenery were stunning and there were vibrant rainbows everywhere. Our cameras wouldn’t stop clicking. We spoke to several other travellers who said that they had seen beautiful waterfalls all over the world but this was the best they’d ever seen.
Waterfalls everywhere
Iguazu National Park is teeming with animal and bird life. As we walked through the verdant rainforest, we saw the ubiquitous coatis, members of the raccoon family, everywhere. They would run in between the people sniffing for food too. However, visitors are warned not to feed them as this can cause them to become aggressive.
A coati runs between the people
Now and then, we saw indigenous monkeys and iguanas too. Other creatures like the puma and the jaguar remained more elusive.
Monkey in the forest
We had a delicious lunch at Restaurante La Selva, the park’s main restaurant, which offers daily buffets. There was a variety of meats, seafood and vegetarian dishes, as well as some decadent desserts. When my picky kids went for second and third helpings, it just confirmed that the food was definitely good.
Restaurante La Selva
There are a number of activities available in the park. These include guided 4X4 ecological safaris which will acquaint you with the flora and fauna in the park, nature trails, and boat rides to San Martin Island, which offers more great views of the falls.
You need at least 6 hours to visit the Argentinian side of the falls. Don’t do what I did and get there late. Rather go early and spend the whole day there, in order to experience everything the park has to offer.
The name Iguazu means “Great Water”.
How to get there from Brazil
We were staying in Foz Do Iguazu in Brazil. We took a taxi from our hotel to the Argentinian border, went through border control, then took another taxi to Parque Nacional Iguazú on the Argentinean side of the falls. Some taxis will take you all the way. Ours didn’t. On our return journey though, we found a taxi driver who took us from the falls to our hotel in Foz Do Iguacu.
For more information, and to book, visit Iguazu Argentina.
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BMW i3 Repair Process In Detail product 2014-07-16 16:00:13 https://insideevs.com/news/323076/bmw-i3-repair-process-in-detail/ BMW i3 General, carbon fiber
Jul 16, 2014 at 12:00pm
By: InsideEVs Editorial Team
The BMW i3 is truly a revolutionary new car. Revolutionary, however, is not exactly what the repair shop wants to hear when it comes to fixing a totally new car.
Never before has any manufacturer made such extensive use of carbon fiber in a mass produced car. One of the main benefits of the Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic used in the BMW i3′s Life Module passenger compartment is that it weighs about 50 percent less than traditional steel and also about 30 percent less than aluminum. The Drive Module houses a 22 kWh battery, the chassis and the 170 hp electric motor.
Therefore, the new lightweight materials used in the i3 comes with totally new repair processes.
*Editor's Note: This post appears on BMWBLOG. Check it out here.
BMWBLOG had the opportunity to tour the BMW North America Training facility where technicians for U.S. dealerships come to learn how to repair the very unique lightweight i3. Most consumers won’t really care about the details of how the i3 is repaired but one thing they will care about is what the BMW i3 costs to insure. The more complex and expensive the repair, the higher the insurance premium. A more complicated and challenging service and repair process directly leads to higher ownership costs which will ultimately impact sales.
Fortunately, BMW states that the cost of repairs for the BMW i3 are similar to a BMW 1 Series. This is intriguing given that once a carbon fiber piece is broken, there just is no repairing of it. The entire part/body panel must be replaced. Nonetheless BMW knew the implication of building a car of CFRP and thus designed specific cut away sections in the i3. These are defined segments that when cut will allow the technician to remove the damaged CFRP piece and then bond the new CFRP segment back in with glue.
THE DRIVE AND LIFE MODULES
BMW constructed the i3 in two segments, the Drive Module and the Life Module. The Drive Module contains the electric motor, suspension, lithium ion battery and is the backbone of the car. This module is made mostly of aluminum and its repair process is very similar to other aluminum chassis components that BMW has been producing and repairing for years.
The Life Module is the occupant cabin and its backbone is made of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic. This frame and roof are all CFRP where as attached to the sides of the i3 are composite plastic panels. These panels are designed to absorb what would normally dent a metal car and pop back into shape. Added bonus: your i3 isn’t’ gonna rust.
Aluminum: BMW states that standard “Cold” repair methods for the aluminum components will be used in repair. These include bonding and riveting. These methods have been used by BMW workshops since 2003.
Panels: BMW designed the panels to be replaced via standard screw/clip on plastic plated parts, so not much different really than a standard car.
Glass: The CFRP body which is surrounding and holding the glass can be damaged by a standard glass removal tool, so there is a special tool required here. Overall the mechanism of removing and replacing is similar. Standard glass removal tool uses a strong metal wire that would damage the carbon fiber, so BMW’s tool has something like a super strong fishing line.
Carbon Fiber Body: This is where repair techniques change significantly from standard cars. There is no pounding out damaged CFRP. In order to repair the i3, the damaged section will need to be cut out at one of the predefined points. These are located at the top of the A, B, C pillars as well as forward and aft of the floor pan.
BMW requires a specialized cutting device that looks part bone saw on the business end and part Dr Who Villain, a Dalek, to vacuum up the carbon fiber particles. Once the carbon fiber body has dis-articulated at the very specific points, the technician then places the new section on and bonds/glues it back together.
This is where my favorite part of the tour came. “This isn’t very complicated but it needs to be very precise,” says a BMW technician. He further added that the time it will take to repair i3 electric vehicles will actually be less than standard cars and thus decreased labor costs with auto repair.
BMWBLOG is happy to report that the insurance cost for the BMW i3 is similar to a 1 Series Coupe. Adding a BMW i3 to my automobile insurance policy will only raise the monthly payment by $42. Take that with a grain of salt as car insurance policies range all over the place depending on driving history, use and location.
The BMW i3 has a 22kWh battery powering a 170 hp electric motor good for an 80 mile range. It has been tested as the most efficient electric car available on the market due to its low weight with extensive use of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic: 124 MPGe. The Range Extended version has a small generator in it which never directly drives the vehicle’s wheels but rather charges the battery while adding roughly 330 lbs to the vehicle curb weight.
Pricing (before federal or local incentives) starts at $45,200 for the i3 Range Extender model and $41,350 for the pure electric i3.
Check out BMWBLOG for more BMW i3 repair images.
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34th All-Star High School Football Game set for Friday
By: Contributors - Updated: 6 months ago
SALINAS — Toro Bulls Youth Football and Cheer announced the date and head coaches of the 34th Annual Central Coast 2018 All-Star High School Football Game.
Local high schools from Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito and South Santa Clara County high schools had their respected head coaches nominate their players.
“The premier post high school football event on the Central Coast brings together some of the most outstanding high school athletes from across the area,” says Committee Chair Mali Cuda. “We love football and know local community wants to see this game continue.”
The 2018 Central Coast All-Star High School Football Game will bring together the premier high school football players from around Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Benito and South Santa Clara Counties to one field.
South County players include: Gilbert Flores, Gonzales; Raul Morales, Gonzales; Dominic Emery, Gonzales; Nael Vasquez, Gonzales; Miguel Arreola, Gonzales; Andres Espinoza, Greenfield; Isaias Gonzales, King City; Luis Briseno, King City; Alex Villasenor, King City; Gabriel Ortiz, King City; Angel Olivas, Soledad; and Victor Ocampo, Soledad.
This year's game will be held at Rabobank Stadium in Salinas at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11.
The 34th annual game is sure to bring excitement, competitiveness and an all-around good time. For many of the players that attend, it is time to meet the peers they have competed against throughout their high school career.
Not only has this year’s game been blessed with talented players, but the teams have been honored with amazing coaches from all over the central coast. The teams will be led by retiring Head Coach Louie Walters of Scotts Valley High School and Coach Art Berlanga of Gonzalez High School. Together they have compiled coaches to staff their teams from other high schools throughout the four-county area.
Coaches Walters and Berlanga have each chosen a local charity for their team to represent; Monterey County Special Olympics (MCSO) and Valley Churches United (VCU). Donation bins will be setup around the stadium in support for these causes. The money raised will be donated to each charity after the game and the winning team will be awarded a bonus donation for their cause.
Tickets are $11 general admission, $6 students w/school ID, $6 age 65 and over, $6 12 and under and $6 military. All youth players and cheerleaders wearing their youth football team jersey or cheer jacket will receive free admission to the game. Parking is $5.
This is Toro Bulls Youth Football and Cheer’s seventh year organizing the event. Toro Bulls is dedicated to assisting youth in developing the characteristics of citizenship, discipline, teamwork, sportsmanship and physical and mental wellbeing through the spirit of youth sports.
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Toro Bulls Youth Football and Cheer announced the date and head coaches of the 34th Annual Central Coast 2018 All-Star High School Football Game.
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‘Nutcracker’ brings holiday tradition to King City
By: Staff Report - Updated: 1 year ago
Photos by Kellie Hicks
KING CITY — The cast of “The Nutcracker Ballet” (above) line up to the applause of the audience in the Robert Stanton Theatre in King City after their performance last weekend, under the direction of Janette Harkness.
Below, 11-year-old Quinn Villanueva (far right), who played the lead character “Clara,” stands with her parents Mark Villanueva and Andreaa Lopez-Villanueva and aunt Tina Merkle (second from right), who also played Clara in that same theater. This was the first time that two family members have played the same part of Clara in the production’s history.
More than 1,200 people attended the 58th annual production of “The Nutcracker Ballet,” which was jointly produced by the Monterey County Dance Foundation and Monterey County Dance Theatre.
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How Louisville family medicine residency managed their inpatients
Dr. Jeeshan Chowdhury
University of Louisville family medicine residency is a busy hub. Aside from outpatient clinics, the team also manages inpatients at three hospitals in downtown Louisville. They needed an efficient tool for hand-off communication, so that the residents, interns, and attendings could stay continuously updated.
The Louisville family medicine residency is a fast-paced program that coordinates inpatient care at three urban hospitals in the downtown core.
The program directors knew that finding a better patient tracking system would help them meet ACGME accreditation. So, they decided to use the opportunity to make their junior staff’s lives easier, by selecting a tool everyone wanted to use.
The residency had an EHR for outpatient appointments, but they also needed to track inpatient care. Inpatients were also a diverse group. They covered a charity hospital with many high-acuity, low-insurance patients, a private hospital for the well-to-do, and finally, a pediatric hospital, and geriatric care.
The well-established program coordinated family practice attendings, residents, and interns. Each hospital had three or four residents per team, and one or two interns with two open calls per day.
They were open for business — all day, every day. But patient volume varied; it could be anywhere between two to 20 patients at a given time.
They needed a reliable way to maintain a central patient census, safely handling essential information.
The ideal solution would allow multiple people to update the list in real-time, in any location, regardless of the local EHR. (Bonus if it worked on mobile!)
Everyone had a smartphone, but texting didn’t give a cohesive picture. And it wasn’t secure.
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You are here: Home / Questions of Women & Men / What Is Woman’s Greatest Victory—Appearing Beautiful or Seeing Beautifully?
Margot Carpenter, Aesthetic Realism Consultant to women, discusses Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth.
Aesthetic Realism comprehends the depths of women, including explaining for the first time, the fierce battle which agonizes women, and did me. It is the battle between the desire to appear beautiful, to justify our existence by seeing in the approving eyes of people, especially men, evidence that one is a superior being; and the desire to use our minds honestly, accurately to know the world, and see it beautifully. In an Aesthetic Realism lesson, Eli Siegel asked me, “Do you think when a being came out of geological matter, he asked, ‘How do I look?’ or ‘What am I seeing?’ Which one is more primitive?”
The answer is the second, and Aesthetic Realism shows that we judge ourselves every minute on how justly we see as we look at anything—a book, our mothers, objects, a man, the world itself. We see a tree beautifully, for instance, when we see it is a relation of opposites—it is itself and related to earth, water, air, and other trees, is assertive and yielding, strong and delicate, rooted and in motion. And while bare in winter, a tree has within it rich green leaves that will come forth in Spring, welcoming birds.
We see a man well or beautifully, by seeing he is unique and related to other people; he is known and unknown, energetic and thoughtful, confident and self‑doubting. And we want to encourage what will have him stronger, and also criticize what in himself stands in his way. To see reality accurately is the greatest victory, the most luscious achievement for a woman’s life—it is what we were born for, what our minds, our selves are made for.
But mistakenly, women often make the most important thing how beautiful we can appear, to have a big effect, without wanting to know a man or be affected deeply ourselves. This comes from the ugliest thing in us, the desire to have contempt and make ourselves superior. One woman told us in a consultation when we asked about her charming manner, “Oh, you mean my weapon?” She saw the world as an adversary to conquer and charm into being nice to her. This purpose makes a woman look ugly to herself, because in having contempt, we sell out the beginning purpose of our lives.
We arrange ourselves and betray ourselves
Early, a girl sees she can get approval though looking sweet or lively or demure. This victory, begun with her parents, continues with everyone she meets. The world is seen as existing to praise us, not for us to know and be fair to.
As I grew up, I spent hours before the mirror, playing dress‑up in my mother’s best clothes. At eight, with my mother’s help, on Halloween, like many other girls, I was “Carmen Miranda,” and at 11, in a flowing white sheet, entwined with gold rope, I was “Venus.”
I also began to study ballet, and worked hard. I didn’t know it, but it was the way opposites were one that I loved in ballet—lightness and heaviness, power and grace, exactitude and freedom. But I also liked the glamour of dressing like a swan or a sylph, and seeing I could impress people.
At 18 when I moved to NYC for a stage career, my life centered, both professionally and socially on arranging myself. The more I went after dazzling people, the more the rest of the world looked dull. Unknowingly, I fostered a steep division between how I felt inside, and how I knew I could appear.
In one of the greatest works ever written comprehending women, “The Everlasting Dilemma of a Girl,” Eli Siegel wrote:
While girls have wanted to be liked “for themselves”—as men do, too—there has been that in them impelling them to be liked for something else….And so a girl in the thirteenth century “arranged” herself to have the most effect on a man. If successful, she could hardly think it was a victory for herself…when we are liked or loved, we want it to be us.
When I read this, I felt like dancing on the roof tops. What had pained me so was placed with girls of all time. One evening, for instance, I had “arranged” myself to affect a man, Ben. After a candlelight dinner, he kissed me, and told me he wanted me. Surprising both of us, I looked at him and said, “You can’t want me; I don’t even want me,” and began to cry.
Mr. Siegel explains in his essay:
So far in history girls haven’t gone around asking, “Do I deserve the praise that Wilfred gave me yesterday?” or, Do I deserve that longing, disturbed yet approving gaze that Walter gave me?” That doesn’t mean that the question doesn’t exist, and hasn’t. It does.
This was at the heart of what I felt, because my purpose was not to see who a man was, but to have him see me as irresistible. I didn’t care a bit about his feelings. I had contempt, feeling I had fooled him, and I loathed myself.
I learn our most dazzling possibility is having good will
In Aesthetic Realism lessons and classes, I learned what every woman needs to know. Mr. Siegel asked me: “At this moment which is first for you: liking yourself or charming people?”
MC: I want to like myself.
ES: I hope so. But it happens we can’t believe we like ourselves unless we can charm people; that’s the proof.
MC: But if we really like ourselves…
ES: Don’t make the question easier….A person has a right to see the world as well as possible. A person has a right to look as good as possible….Which do you think is first?… You want to see the world in the best way at a time when you’re sufficiently fortunate, or appreciated, or made enough of.
MC: That’s right.
ES: Well, I say to you, Margot Carpenter, want to see things, the persons of the world in the best way you can, and get praised second. And you’ll find that as you do that, things are praising you.
I saw this was true! I began to see everything has the structure of the world in it—the opposites. I saw city pigeons, with their black and grey feathers and iridescent necks, rise in their weightiness and then glide gently down, together and separate. As a woman walks, thinking just of herself and who’s looking at her, she misses the meaning, the mystery in ordinary reality that can thrill a person.
I learned the essential criterion for seeing truly, and the only basis for a woman to look beautiful to herself, is by wanting to have good will, which Mr. Siegel defined as “the desire to have something else stronger and more beautiful, for this desire makes oneself stronger and more beautiful.” (TRO 121). In a lesson a year and a half later Mr. Siegel said:
ES: The way that you have changed, and that others have, is that you have a better heart….The word “heart” is one of those words that takes in the whole person.
MC: I know I’m surprised how much I think about people.
ES: Those feelings have to be related to the feelings of victory, achievement, and dazzle. When people begin thinking of good will as brilliant, and a kind heart as dazzling, we’ll get to something. A kind heart is as witty as all get out. A kind heart is as smart as a most delicate whiplash.
The desire to have a kind heart is the same as good will—it puts together encouragement and criticism, because we want a person to be better, not to flatter him senseless when there is more he wants from himself. I’m grateful to learn more each week in classes with Ellen Reiss, taught with scrupulous integrity—how to have this purpose in my marriage to Aesthetic Realism consultant Robert Murphy—to think about his life, what is in his mind, how he sees truth in its largeness—which we have met so grandly in Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism—and in its everydayness. I want to know him, how he sees his work as a consultant, his parents, art, construction and carpentry which he loves, and people. And I’m so grateful that because of his own Aesthetic Realism education, this is what my husband asks of me. I love him passionately for it. With many others, I saw in Eli Siegel the person whose seeing was always sheerly beautiful. Whatever he looked at—a book about Newfoundland, an arrow from New Guinea, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a current article, or the feelings of a man worried about his job, or a woman, or an infant, his desire to see, to be completely fair was utterly clear and resplendent.
The struggle in her is in women today
In “The Everlasting Dilemma of a Girl,” Mr. Siegel writes:
Girls then have had to make a choice between being seen as beautiful and nothing more, or insisting that the way they be seen be beautiful too; a way they could respect. To ask the second, implied that a girl like the way she saw herself, and the way she looked at things.
A woman in literature who stands for this inner struggle is Lily Bart, the heroine of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel, The House of Mirth. I was very moved to look at a copy now in The Eli Siegel Collection library with many passages marked by him.
The story begins when Lily is twenty‑nine. Her parents, once high in New York society, lost all their money when she was eighteen. Lily looks beautiful and the big thing in the novel is how she uses this. Edith Wharton writes:
Her beauty itself was not the mere ephemeral possession it might have been in the hands of inexperience: her skill in enhancing it, the care she took of it, the use she made of it, seemed to give it a kind of permanence. She felt she could trust it to carry her through to the end.
Lily’s thought centers on how her beauty can secure for her a wealthy husband—and this is not good; in fact, it is contempt. But in Edith Wharton’s prose, as ugly purposes women often try to hide are described exactly, we can understand something of what it means to see beautifully. Mrs. Wharton has her eye on the object; and as she describes a way of mind that weakens women, the way opposites like slowness and speed, rising and falling, strength and grace, are one in her sentences, is beautiful.
For example, in Chapter Two, Lily is on a train to the country, and finds a man she is after is on the same train. Here are portions of a passage which was marked in Mr. Siegel’s book:
She began to cut the pages of a novel, tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack….She guessed that…she would have to devise some means of approach which should not appear to be an advance on her part. It amused her to think that any one as rich as Mr. Percy Gryce should be shy…. (She walks passed his seat) The train swayed again, almost flinging Ms. Bart into his arms.
“Oh, Mr. Gryce, is it you? I’m so sorry—I was trying to find the porter and get some tea.”
In these sentences, we see the deep charm of the world, even as charm is misused by a girl. Then, she asks about books he fervently collects:
And how,” she said, leaning forward, “are you getting on with your Americana?”
His eye became a degree less opaque…and she felt the pride of a skillful operator….
She questioned him intelligently, she heard him submissively, and prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.
The rhythm of that last sentence in its rise and fall, its neatness and circuitousness has a lively critical clarity about a woman’s deviousness. Edith Wharton was a keen, compassionate observer.
The man who sees and affects Lily most deeply is Lawrence Selden. He is not rich enough to pursue as a husband, and as they talk, we see Lily thirsting for criticism. Every woman does, because we have to be able to like how we see.
Don’t you see,” she continued, “that there are men enough to say pleasant things to me, and that what I want is a friend who won’t be afraid to say disagreeable ones when I need them?…You don’t know how much I need such friends.”
Selden and Lily talk philosophically about society and freedom, and he criticizes the “waste of human lives” that make some people rich, and what she sees as her need for luxury. She says:
“You despise my ambitions—you think them unworthy of me:”
Selden smiled…”Well, isn’t that a tribute?”
And he tells her the life she is after, will not make her happy.
What a miserable future you foresee for me:”
“Well, have you never foreseen it for yourself?”
The slow color rose to her cheek…”Often and often,” she said. “But it looks so much darker when you show it to me.”
Selden has Lily see more truly, and it moves her deeply. And he is stirred, not only by her beauty, but by her desire to show herself and her self‑questioning.
But when a woman sees her physical attractiveness as the chief thing about her, even when she does affect a man with more of herself, she will not believe in it. In a consultation, we asked a young woman, Angela Lewis, who told us, “I think a woman’s greatest success is affecting men,” “Do you think the way you want praise makes you feel you don’t deserve it even when you perhaps you do deserve it?”
Were Lily Bart having Aesthetic Realism consultations, we would ask Lily Bart, as we have other women, “Do you want to see who Lawrence Selden is? Which is a greater triumph, if he cares for you because he sees depth in you, or because he can’t resist the power of your appearance?”
Lily has some real feeling for Selden, but we cannot see a man any better than we see the world itself, and so when Selden shows he cares for her, she has contempt for him. She thinks it—
…the culminating moment of her triumph: the moment when she had read in his eyes that no philosophy was proof against her power.
Much happens in the novel; Lily goes after victories for which, in time, she cannot bear herself. “Can you imagine,” she says to a friend—
“looking into your glass some morning and seeing a disfigurement—some hideous change has taken place?…Well, I seem to myself like that—I can’t bear to see myself in my own thoughts.”
When a woman uses her attractiveness to conquer the world, she disfigures the best thing in her, the ability to see exactly and to have good will. When, towards the end of the book, Lily, having lost her place in society, is penniless, living in a rented room, unable to sleep without sleeping drops, she talks again with Selden:
I want to tell you that I have never forgotten the things you said to me, and that sometimes—when I seemed farthest from remembering them—they have helped me, and kept me from really becoming what many people have thought me.”
She (wanted him to) understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.
We see, deeply, it is her desire to see and to be “whole” that matters most to her. Here Lily represents what we’ve seen to be true about every woman.
Wanting to know brings together inside and outside in a woman
At 25, Angela Lewis was pretty, lively, and a successful computer programmer, who wanted to have Aesthetic Realism consultations to learn how to see the outside world, people, and herself more exactly. She had been able to get the approval of men; but felt, she said, “empty and a fake.
Ms. Lewis felt driven to affect men on the one hand, then had terrific scorn for them which pained her. She was very angry at her father for leaving her mother, and had used this to feel she had a right to despise the whole world and all men. We asked:
Consultants. Do you see men as real? Have you generally given men the right to have questions about themselves like you do?
AL: Not enough.
Consultants: Do you think your father is still trying to know who he is?
AL: Maybe so. He’s got the attitude, “I’m not good enough, but I’m superior.”
Consultants: Can you see your father as standing for humanity, with the opposites of the world in him? Is he both high and low?
AL: I guess he is.
Consultants: Are you? What does a man feel after leaving his children? Do you think he ever forgets?
AL: No. I never thought of that.
Ms. Lewis had a lovely look of wonder, thinking about her father more truly. She was learning to see a man as related to the whole world, not just existing to hurt or praise her.
Consultants: The desire to know gives a person dignity and there’s nothing in the world more beautiful. Do you think there’s anything in the world, that if you knew it, wouldn’t add to you?
AL: No.
Consultants: Then the more you know your father, the more you’ll be?
AL: Yes, I see that. Thank you.
How Angela Lewis saw her father changed dramatically. She said, “I want to give my father what he deserves.” And she told with pleasure of their many conversations.
She wrote assignments about the opposites in men and in the world. “I want to like how I see,” she said, “and to like the way my mind works as I’m getting to know a man, Ken Banks. I don’t want that narrow, conquering purpose I have had with men.” She wrote:
Through studying Aesthetic Realism, I no longer feel depressed or driven as to men….My mind and my interest in the world are growing larger, I am interested in economics. I care for works of literature…poetry…and this is thrilling! The main thing that I am so grateful for is through the principles of Aesthetic Realism, reality can be known, understood, and liked.
What a woman feels inside and what she shows can be one when her purpose is to know and be fair to other people, a man, her family, the world itself. Angela Lewis, along with many other women, is living, happy evidence for this.
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Interview, Part 1: Jim Sabia, CMO, Constellation Brands
Industry veteran Jim Sabia became CMO for the entire Constellation Brands portfolio of wine, beer, and spirits brands last June, after serving as CMO for the beer unit since 2009.
With Constellation’s pending sale of 34 lower-end wine and spirits brands to E.&J. Gallo for $1.7 billion, Sabia now oversees marketing for a streamlined portfolio that’s weighted heavily to the premium-and-above segments. Constellation accounted for nearly 20% of all wine media spending in the U.S. last year at $15.6 million, according to Kantar, although that marked an 11% decrease from the previous year. SND executive editor Daniel Marsteller spoke with Sabia to get an update on the company’s marketing agenda moving forward.
SND: How does the marketing strategy change across the Constellation wine portfolio now that it’s been consolidated via the Gallo deal?
Sabia: We’re focusing on our power brands, putting more resources against them and developing more of a 360-degree integrated approach to marketing. It’s not just TV, social, digital, and other above-the-line ads. It’s also about things like retail promotions and sponsorships. Meiomi is now the official wine of the PGA. Kim Crawford is the official wine of U.S. Open tennis, and Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi has sponsorships with football. This week we’ve just launched new campaigns behind Woodbridge and Kim Crawford, putting forward the unique selling propositions for those brands.
SND: What are your goals for the push behind Woodbridge?
Sabia: Woodbridge is almost a 10-million-case brand, with a large percentage of the business in the 1.5-liter ($13). But what we’ve learned is that our household penetration is a little bit lower than some of our competitors. The main objective is to communicate to consumers why Robert Mondavi created this brand. It was to put a quality bottle of wine on every American table. He realized that he had to make the wines approachable from a price point perspective in order to do that. So we want tell the story of why and how he did it, increase household penetration, and bring new and younger consumers into the franchise.
SND: What’s the approach with the new Kim Crawford campaign?
Sabia: Some of the work we’ve done is to understand the aided awareness of these two brands—giving consumers a list of wines and asking them which ones they’ve heard of. Last year the aided awareness of Kim Crawford was only 17%. So we have a lot of opportunity to increase that, even though the brand is already over 1 million cases. We realized that the folks who love this brand are female consumers who say it gives them confidence and is a crowd-pleaser. So in the new advertising, the vignettes we’ve executed show female drinkers in those types of occasions, expressing confidence, and that’s the strategic direction for the brand.
SND: What other areas of the wine portfolio are ripe for investment?
Sabia: Ruffino, particularly its Prosecco, is a brand that continues to grow. We think there’s still a lot of upside for it. We’re also taking a very close look at Simi. It has so much history, and we’re doing a lot of research on how to position it. We’re taking these brands that we feel have so many equities and attributes and looking to position them in a way that’s interesting and emotionally connected to consumers.
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New insight from Great Barrier Reef coral provides correction factor to climate records
June 18, 2019 by Lois Yoksoulian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Using newly developed geological techniques, researchers, from left, microscopy expert Mayandi Sivaguru, Kaitlin Fouke, geologist and microbiologist Bruce Fouke, Kyle Fouke, Lauren Todorov and their colleagues made discoveries about the formational history of Porites coral skeletons to fine-tune the records used to make global climate predictions. Credit: Fred Zwicky
Newly developed geological techniques help uncover the most accurate and high-resolution climate records to date, according to a new study. The research finds that the standard practice of using modern and fossil coral to measure sea-surface temperatures may not be as straightforward as originally thought. By combining high-resolution microscopic techniques and geochemical modeling, researchers are using the formational history of Porites coral skeletons to fine-tune the records used to make global climate predictions.
The new findings are reported in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
For over 500 million years, corals have been passively keeping track of changing sea-surface temperature by recording the ratio of calcium to strontium and oxygen isotopes within their skeletons, the researchers said. The coral skeletons—which are made of calcium carbonate mineral—grow layers like tree rings that have increased amounts of strontium and the lighter isotope of oxygen during the warmer season. Climate scientists take advantage of this process to track sea surface temperature through time.
However, this climate-tracking technique is not without its flaws, said University of Illinois geology and microbiology professor Bruce Fouke, who led the new research.
"We can ground truth coral-based sea-surface temperature records against records made using temperature probes," Fouke said, "Remarkably, the coral records are accurate most of the time, but there are instances where measurements have been off by as much as nine degrees Celsius, and this needs to be rectified."
A scanning electron microscope image shows the crystalline growth history of aragonite that makes up the skeletal wall of Porities. Image is 200 micrometers across. Credit: Mayandi Sivaguru, Bruce Fouke Lab, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, U. of I.
To grow their skeletons, coral polyps deposit aragonite. However, the mineral also crystalizes from seawater, the researchers said, and that can cause problems when analyzing the original coral skeleton chemistry. As seawater flows through the porous coral structure, it deposits newly crystalized aragonite on top of skeletons. That new aragonite, which may record a different sea-surface temperature, alters original skeletal chemistry through a process called diagenesis, Fouke said.
"It is difficult to tell the diagenetic aragonite from the original coral skeleton without using high-powered microscopes," said Kyle Fouke, a Bucknell University undergraduate student, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology affiliate and co-author of the study. "It is also challenging to know exactly when the diagenetic alteration took place—days or decades after the skeletons were formed. Unless you are using the newest microscopy techniques to help select your samples, you could be collecting and measuring a mix of the two very different temperature records."
To test this, the team collected drill cores from the skeletons of living Porites coral heads at 10 to 100 feet water depth on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. These large coral heads reach nearly 10 feet in diameter, and some have been growing for hundreds of years.
"Based on our analyses, we see that the older portions of the coral heads growing in deeper seawater contain a higher concentration of diagenetic aragonite," Kyle Fouke said.
"Using a broad array of light, electron and X-ray microscopy techniques—made available under the direction of study co-author Mayandi Sivaguru, an associate director at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Microscopy Core at the U. of I. - we were able to clearly differentiate between the original skeleton and diagenetic aragonite, when present," said Lauren Todorov, a molecular and cellular biology undergraduate student and study co-author.
A polarized light image shows the growth history of diagenetic and skeletal wall aragonite in Porities. Image is 150 micrometers across. Credit: Mayandi Sivaguru, Bruce Fouke Lab, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, U. of I.
Using these techniques, the team uncovered a multitude of different aragonite crystallization histories, ranging from seasonal variations in skeletal growth to smaller-scale processes that could be occurring on daily—even hourly—cycles.
By taking the extra steps to sort out the relative timing between the skeletal and diagenetic aragonite crystallization, the team integrated its data with chemical-mixing models for calcium, strontium and oxygen isotopes from geochemical studies of Porites from Papua New Guinea. From this, the team created the first reliable and reproducible correction factor that determines the magnitude of error that diagenetic alteration can place on sea-surface temperature measurements.
"Additionally, because this has been achieved using the carbonate mineral aragonite, which is ubiquitous among marine life, this same correction factor can be used with other sea creatures that secrete carbonate skeletons and shells," Bruce Fouke said.
Sea-surface temperature records derived from coral skeleton chemistry are the gold standard for accurate climate reconstructions and future predictions, the researchers said, and this new insight only further strengthens this tool.
More information: Mayandi Sivaguru et al, Correction Factors for δ18O-Derived Global Sea Surface Temperature Reconstructions From Diagenetically Altered Intervals of Coral Skeletal Density Banding, Frontiers in Marine Science (2019). DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00306
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The Beatniks took it up.
He is also a music scholar and has published several articles including one that discusses the relationship between music and math as well as one discussing the phenomenon of music and technology.
The positive references to jazz music in her works makes her a valued early proponent of jazz music, and her jazz-related poems reinforced jazz music as an intellectual and socially acceptable form of entertainment.
Examples in religious life of this vision include Buddhism, Taoism, many primal religions and pagan visions, as well as the Romantics' love of nature.
Neither one of us could remember ever having come across a musician who, when pressed, could define his or her work as anything but essentially spiritual. This precious gift has been given to [humans] alone that [they] might thereby remind [themselves] that God created [them] for the express purpose of praising and extolling God.
Also, I think there is a general lack of mystery in our culture to begin with. As for Jack himself. If it is true, one could also assert that poetry in music can serve to call sensitive moderns to life lived in a higher state of consciousness.
There is probably no need, and there is certainly not time, for me to relate a grand history of music in the service of Spirit. The simultaneous evolution of poetry and jazz music was not lost upon musicians and poets of the time. We almost never used a microphone.
There are indications on YouTube that Boone might be characterized as a nebbishy technician in the Michael Brecker tradition, with a similarly populist taste in material, but there is little sign of those qualities here. Lavienna Campbell is an extraordinary vocalist who has captivated Cincinnati audiences for over two decades.
Tracy, the vision of God is the one we in the West are most familiar with.
Jazz artists make appearances in jazz poems as well: It is willful in its ignorance. The Waste Land was read to jazz, all of it, shortly after it appeared. The Epicureans recognized this vision early on. To hear it — one has to listen closely and be humble.
But 35 quality minutes beats an hour and a quarter of tripe. Here we are not to fear life but to participate in it. Those of us who enjoy jazz poetry do.
Clinging to status, commerce or mere entertainments, and bored by what they cannot immediately control, purchase or consume, these unfortunates drift along through their time on earth — untethered by meaning, vacant of deeper purpose and often afraid of death. Why is jazz poetry? I believe Langston Hughes recited poems to jazz many years ago.
I grew up in it and sat in high chairs at the Brevoort and Lafayette. To do so, both main line believers and post-enlightenment, post-moderns must look to aesthetics — to music and poetry — to hear the hints and guesses sounded like chiming bells.
Cannonball Adderley, a leader in the funky, post-bop school, said that the move "to recapture the audience and reestablish the hot Jazz expression. They listen, they like it, they come back for more. I have been introduced to painters, photographers and textile artists who have created work inspired by jazz.
Cummings had written their works with an increasing lack of formality and conventional style. Somehow we seem to go together like ham and eggs.
Jazz gains by a new vocal content which can match its own seriousness, depth and complexity. Katz would later play in Chico Hamilton's Quintet.
Throughout his short life's work he encouraged all who felt the questions burning and gnawing in the depths of the night.
Hughes first book, The Weary Blues, contained the first major collection of authentic jazz poetry. Not so much poetry and jazz, as story-telling and jazz.
University of Illinois Press. Boone's settings for Levine's poems are modest, dignified, institutional small-group postbop, their attractiveness not at all diminished by occasional obviousness - a disjunct tenor blues like "Blue 7" for the Sonny Rollins tribute "The Unknowable," ably carried by Chris Potter; Branford Marsalis's paraphrase of "Naima" for the touching Coltrane tribute "Soloing"; an alto contrafact of "Lover Man" by Greg Osby on Levine's invocation of Bird's famous performance of that tune, "Call It Music.
The mastery of an instrument is an existential exercise.
There is nothing wrong with this. Both poetry and religion make truth claims, and demand to be taken seriously. The light is, as it were, sealed in the protection of our flesh — inscribed like a secret text of nature.
Jazz and poetry are visions in which no one has ever seen God.A New Jazz Culture: Jazz music influenced all aspects of society. Jazz poetry, fashion, and industry were effected by the "basement" music that took the United States by storm.
Jazz poetry, fashion, and industry were effected by the "basement" music that took the United States by storm. The best places for poetry or spoken word are primarily in coffeehouses that turn into lounges as the sun goes down.
Celebrate National Poetry Month at these Atlanta venues. came out to the Jazz Poetry Cafe on March 15, and dropped some deep poetry in our ears!
A native Washingtonian, whose been writing, seems like, forever and spittin' for 5yrs. Attended Tuskegee Institute & American Universty, mother of a 5 yr old.
Jazz and Poetry Cross-Fertilization Langston Hughes Born in Kansas, Similar time frame to Ellington, Louis Armstrong High School in Cleveland Studied Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman Influenced by Sandburg’s Jazz Fantasies, () Fused poetry and the music of black “Americans as the prime source and expression of their cultural truths” (Rampersand, Rossel, Collected Langston.
Langston Hughes has been called the 'Poet Laureate of Black America,' but his work reaches beyond the boundaries of race. Inspired by the rhythm and romance of jazz in s' New York, Hughes introduced the language of jazz into his poems and changed the sound of modern poetry.
What a handy thing to have in your head when you come home to a pre-foreclosure notice in the mailbox and a large two trunked red oak tree across your driveway!
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US says trade talks resuming as China demands end to tariffs
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The Trump administration said trade talks with China are starting up again as Beijing reiterated that it’s essential the U.S. removes all existing tariffs for a deal to be reached.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed last month to re-start trade talks and suspend new tariffs, but they gave no time-frame for further negotiations or a deadline to strike an agreement. While Trump said he would hold off imposing additional tariffs on USD300 billion of Chinese goods as part of the truce, his top trade negotiators have insisted that some duties will stay in place even after a deal as a way to enforce it.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have been speaking with China’s top trade negotiator, Liu He by phone and that more talks are planned. He didn’t elaborate on the substance.
A face-to-face meeting is also “in the cards” and will happen “at some point in the near future,” Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said on Bloomberg TV on Friday. “There is no timeline, the issue is if you want quality, we do not have to have speed.”
Negotiations between the world’s two largest economies collapsed in May after U.S. officials accused China of backtracking on draft commitments, and amid key sticking points like China’s demand that the U.S. lift all the punitive tariffs put in place since the trade war started almost a year ago.
On Friday, an influential blog connected to Chinese state media said the talks will “go backward again” without the removal of U.S. tariffs, echoing the line from the Ministry of Commerce’s weekly briefing on Thursday.
“If the two sides are to reach a deal, all imposed tariffs must be removed,” Ministry of Commerce Spokesman Gao Feng said Thursday. “China’s attitude on that is clear and consistent.”
Scrapping all the punitive tariffs the U.S. imposed is the “most important” request and that won’t change during the trade talks, according to a commentary by Taoran Notes, a blog run by the Economic Daily under a pseudonym on the WeChat platform.
Separately, Kudlow says it’s likely that Huawei Technologies Co. will “remain on the entity list” although the Commerce Department may expand licensing for American companies to complete transactions with the Chinese telecommunications firm. “We will not open licenses for any national security areas, be they chips or whatever,” Kudlow said.
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HOW DO YOU BRING ABOUT CHANGE? Do you do it through art, or technology, or words? Do you go protest on the streets? For people like Florin Bădiță, there’s no need to choose. A self-described problem solver, Florin is a man of many hats, but his efforts all lead to one goal: to use whatever means he has to make Romania a better place.
He explains his approach with an example: “My activist self wanted to gather data about spendings on Christmas decorations from all the cities in Romania,” he explains. “My geek self gathered all the email addresses for every city and sent 326 “Freedom of Information” requests for the data, and created a program where I could keep track of who replied and when. My artist self wanted to display the data so that people could see the results visualized.”
One of Florin’s most notorious projects—which won him the title of “European Personality of the Year" and put him on Forbes’ “30 under 30 Europe” list—is Corruption Kills, which he started after a fire burned down a nightclub in Bucharest. The fire killed 64 people and sparked massive anti-corruption protests that eventually forced prime-minister Victor Ponta to resign.
“The goal of the movement was to inform people about the danger of corruption and how it can impact everybody,” says Florin. The Corruption Kills Facebook page now has 126,000 likes and is regularly updated with news about corruption in Romania.
These days, Florin is involved in a number of different projects, including Activist House, a public space that organizes trainings and hosts debates and campaigns; Civic TV, an upcoming multimedia platform that broadcasts civil initiatives; Civistarter, an incubator that helps young people get involved in social issues; and finally, the European Activists Conference, an event for activists from across the EU and neighboring regions, who strive towards a better future for Europe.
Learn who is representing you in the European Parliament and go meet this person, or at least just send them an email.
What can we do to be more involved in local as well as European issues that affect our daily lives? According to Florin, it’s not rocket science. Civic change is a marathon, not a sprint. “Go vote! Inform yourself about the options you have,” he enthuses. “Each of us should do their own part. For example, learn who is representing you in the European Parliament and go meet this person, or at least just send them an email.”
But wait, what if someone wants to get even more involved? “Donate your time, expertise or money to the people that are doing the work,” he advises. “Send a message asking them: ‘Hey, how can I help?’"
And finally, he says, “Remember that learning is a lifelong process, so always keep improving yourself.”
Nicu Calcea
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Mrs Norris, the Cat From Harry Potter is a Maine Coon
July 22, 2018 | MaineCoon | Breed , Generic
Maine Coon cats don’t only make great pets, sometimes they also make great cat actors. Do you remember in the Harry Potter movies, the cat that wandered the halls at Hogwarts? Her name was Mrs.. Norris and she was the trusty cat of the castle’s caretaker, Mr. Filch played by David Bradley. Mrs. Norris was played by not one, but at least four different Maine Coon cats.
Mrs. Norris In The Harry Potter Books
Mrs. Norris is an important animal character in the Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling described her as a scrawny, dust-colored creature with bulging, lamp-like eyes.’ Mrs. Norris belonged to Mr. Filch, the caretaker of Hogwarts School of Wizardry. She was more than just a pet or companion though, she seemed to have an almost telepathic connection to her owner. Mrs. Norris would wander the halls checking for any mischief and foolery. If she found any of it, her owner Mr. Filch would be close behind to catch the perpetrators.
Mrs. Norris found Harry and Ron out of bed and sneaking through the halls in The Chamber of Secrets, permitting Mr. Filch to catch them in the act. After the group acquired the Marauder’s Map, it was easier to stay away from Mrs. Norris & Mr. Filch. The caretaker and his cat had different moving spots on the map and, that way, the kids always knew where they were.
J.K. Rowling commented that she named Mrs. Norris after an odious character in the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield-Park. A very fitting name for such a malevolent cat character.
The Casting Of Mrs. Norris For The Harry Potter Movies
When it was time to cast Mrs. Norris the cat for the Harry Potter movies, the art directors and producers decided that she would be played by a Maine Coon cat. The description of Mrs. Norris in the books was of a scrawny and messy cat but Maine Coon cats are stocky and usually large. To keep the original feel of Mrs. Norris with a Maine Coon, the trainers and cat animal makeup artists kept their the hair messy and prickly with special products while on set.
The casting and training of Mrs. Norris were done by Birds & Animals Unlimited. They are a team of animal trainers who prepare animal actors for movies. The search for the cats that would play Mrs. Norris covered most of the United Kingdom. They visited lots of Maine Coon catteries and shelters and ultimately used around four or five cats. The most memorable of all the cats that played Mrs. Norris were three rescued cats; Alanis, Cornilus and Maximus and a retired older cat from a UK breeder, called Pebbles.
Most animals in movies are played by more than one animal. This is because most of the time one animal won’t respond to all the commands that trainers teach them. For example, in regards to the cats that played Mrs. Norris, each of the cats had a specific role. Alanis was always the one being carried because she was great at staying still, Pebbles was the one that walked the long hallways because she learned to stop at a specific mark, Maximus was trained to jump on Mr. Filch’s shoulders, and Cornilus was one of the extra cats that was trained to sit still, look around on command and other such actions.
Even though cat training is tough and takes a lot of work, no Maine Coon cats were hurt in the filming of the Harry Potter movie series. Neither were all the other animals that acted in the films.
Pebbles, The Maine Coon Who Became A Star
Of the four cats known to have played Mrs. Norris, only Pebbles has a published backstory. Pebbles belonged to Dawn Talman from the Kittycoonz cattery in southern England. Pebbles was a breeding Maine Coon who had two complicated pregnancies which resulted in caesareans. Her owners and veterinarians decided that she needed to be spayed for her own well being. After that, her life in a cattery became difficult as he couldn’t breed any longer. She became bored and started acting up. Her owners decided it was time to find Pebbles a better home.
Before Dawn Talman and Kittycoonz could place Pebbles somewhere, they received a called from Gary Gero from Birds and Animals Unlimited. These are the same trainers behind the new cat movie, Keanu. Gary and his team where contacting lots of Maine Coon breeders in the UK asking if they had any cats in their family which could potentially do well in a movie. Dawn told Gary about Pebbles and the team went to meet her in person. The trainers from Birds and Animals found that Pebbles was perfect and a cat star was born!
Pebbles was trained for weeks to walk to a mark and stop. This became her expert trick and therefore was chosen to be the cat actor that would star in the scenes in which Mrs. Norris wandered the long halls at Hogwarts School of Wizardry. In the first few movies, Mrs. Norris was given red eyes with digital editing, but in the last of the movies she had blue eyes.
How Are Cat Actors Trained
Pebbles and her companion cat actors who played Mrs. Norris, were tested to see what commands they responded to best. All the cats were probably taught all the commands but were then separated for training in the ones they performed better at. Animal trainers use a series of clicking and buzzing sounds along with treats and rewards to train the cats to do certain things.
Pebbles was trained to hit a mark, which is walking in a specified direction and stop at a mark on cue from the trainers. For scenes in which the cat must sit in a specific place and move its head in a certain direction, trainers use long pointing sticks with a treat attached to the end of it. Attention and response to commands with clicks and buzzers are always rewarded with treats. After a while, all it takes is for a spoken command and a set of clicks for the cat to do what the trainer asks him or her to do.
When a number of cats are used to play the same role, the trainers do their best to find a group of animals that look extremely similar to each other. But sometimes there can be minimal differences in color patches for example. To fix this problem, makeup artists help the trainers to match the colors between the cats with animal friendly makeup. It’s a rumor on the internet that for Mrs. Norris, the FX department created a special collar for the cats to wear which had a longer tuft of hair that would look the same on all the cat actors. This is called film costume continuity and is also used with humans sometimes.
Memorable Mrs. Norris Moments In The Harry Potter Movies
As one of the important cats in the Harry Potter universe, Mrs. Norris has plenty of appearances in all of the movies. In some cases she is the center of attention in a scene.
In the first movie, The Sorcerer’s Stone, Mrs. Norris first appears in the sorting room when all the kids come in to be sorted into the different houses. She then shows up in the third floor hallway, causing Hermione and the boys to hide quickly before Mr. Filch finds them. Another time as Harry was sneaking into the library with the invisibility cloak, Mrs. Norris followed him almost causing an accident. She was very quickly portrayed as a mean and sneaky character inside the Hogwarts Castle.
In the second movie, The Chamber of Secrets, Mrs. Norris is the first victim of Basilisk, the Serpent of Slytherin when the chamber of secrets is opened. Mrs. Norris sees the reflection of the Basilisk in a water puddle outside the abandoned bathroom which serves as the entrance to the chamber. She is paralysed as an effect of seeing the Basilisk. Ginny, possessed by Tom Riddle, hangs her by the tail from a hook on the wall. Thankfully, after much suffering by Mr. Filch, Mrs. Norris was revived with the help of a mandrake root at the end of the school year. The petrified cat in the movie was most definitely not played by a real cat, but rather by a cat puppet.
Once, Mrs. Norris was put inside a suit of armor by Peeves the ghost and Mr. Filch had to rescue her. She was also seen swatting at the owls escaping from the fighting in the Battle of Hogwarts. In the fourth film, Mrs. Norris is seen dancing with Mr. Filch, portraying the closeness of their relationship.
Not only does Mrs. Norris hate the students and is always watching them, she seemingly also spies on Harry Potter particularly. None of the students like her, or Mr. Filch for that matter. Hagrid said on occasion that he would like to introduce his dog Fang to Mrs. Norris, probably so that Fang would attack her!
Fan Theories About Mrs. Norris
Harry Potter fans love speculating things about the story and the characters in both the books and the movies. The theories revolving Mrs. Norris are mostly about how she can find someone sneaking around all to easily. Fans asked in Harry Potter forums if Mrs. Norris was maybe half Kneazle, a creature known for being able to track people and beings doing sneaky things. Hermione’s cat, Crookshanks (played by ginger Persians) was half kneazle but J.K Rowling confirmed, through a tweet, that Mrs. Norris was definitely an ordinary cat that simply had an uncanny ability to find wrong doers around the Hogwarts castle hallways.
Another fan theory is that Mrs. Norris is actually Mr. Filch’s wife reborn as a cat, or somehow in a cat’s body. One of the first pieces of proof about this theory is that Mrs. Norris shows up in the Marauder’s Map. She is the only animal to show up on the map, which actually shows humans and some ghosts. It can be argued that when the map was created, Mrs. Norris was included because she is the complete opposite of wrongdoing and that is the map’s main purpose. Either way, this fan theory has not been confirmed nor denied by any Harry Potter official commentary.
Fans were also quick to notice how Mrs. Norris’s physical appearance in the books does not match that of a large and furry Maine Coon cat. In the books she is meant to be scrawny, with yellow eyes and grey colored fur. Maine Coon cats are essentially the opposite to that, so it must have been a decision from the art department to give the mean cat a fluffy look instead of a mean skinny demeanor, much like her owner. Having chosen a Maine Coon cat, the art department of the Harry Potter movies gave the character a deeper and more interesting role.
No Harry Potter character is free of a little fan fiction. There is one that tells a story of how Mrs. Norris and Mr. Filch are actually twin brother and sister, she a wizard, he a squib. As they grew up in Hogwarts School of Wizardry, she learned all the things about being a wizard while Mr. FIlch wandered the halls. She then learned to turn into a cat like an animagus but then couldn’t turn back into a human. Then Dumbledore offered Mr. Norris the caretaker role in the castle and the rest is history.
The Role Of Cats In Wizarding History And The Harry Potter Universe
Cats have always had an important role in wizarding history. Black cats have always been portrayed as the companions of witches since the middle ages. In the era of the Salem Witch Trials, many cats were mentioned as familials of the tried witches. Familials are animals that serve a purpose to a witch or wizard, either as messengers or companions or even servants.
In a written piece inside Pottermore, the famous Harry Potter website about all things Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling published a piece about Familials. In the Harry Potter books and movies, there aren’t really any familials, all the animals taken to the castle by the students are essentially pets. The only one that fits the bill somewhat is Mrs. Norris. Ironically enough, Mrs. Norris’s owner Mr. Filch doesn’t even have magic. Some fans do argue that the owls are familials since they deliver and receive the magic mail.
Other cats in the Harry Potter universe are the animagus of Mrs. McGonagall, a grey cat which she can turn into, and Hermione’s half cat, half kneazle Crookshanks. All played by cats trained by Birds and Animals Unlimited, the trainers of the Maine Coon that played Mrs. Norris.
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The New Face of Global Manufacturing
Local micro-factories democratize innovation, making production more readily available to all entrepreneurs, inventors and makers.
Amar Hanspal | Bright Machines
The production of goods has evolved significantly over the past few decades. Today, large factories in low-cost regions, primarily in Asia but also increasingly in Eastern Europe and South America, build many products.
This has largely been good for consumers. Products manufactured overseas have powered our cars, connected our networks and furnished our lives. Lower manufacturing costs have made more products more affordable for more people.
However, there are signs that this approach has reached its limits. The industry is exhausting low-cost labor pools in distant countries, and in manufacturing settings closer to consumers, the growing global middle class is proving unwilling to do repetitive tasks, fueling high turnover.
Millennials are changing the landscape of industrial buying. Find out what’s in store here.
Not only is it getting harder to find labor in low-cost regions to build products, the growing impact in terms of local jobs, the environment and delays in product distribution around the world is becoming even more serious.
In tandem, consumer demand for local, personalized products is a trend that’s been steadily growing. Several years ago, research found that more than half of consumers said they prefer customized purchases, and the majority of those said they’d even be willing to pay more for a customized product or service.
This new consumer paradigm presents massive opportunities for large corporations to succeed in a localized economy — if they are set up to take advantage of them.
The key to unlocking these opportunities lies in a distributed manufacturing operation — one that relies on a network of smaller, more nimble and flexible factories around the world located closer to customers. Simply put, companies must increasingly think globally (in terms of emerging customer needs) but build locally (in terms of executing those needs).
Enabling innovation
The possibility of smaller, distributed factories with accompanying ecosystems that serve regional markets, compared to a large production center that ships product worldwide, may seem counter to how industry typically thinks of cost efficiency and scale.
“Companies must increasingly think globally but build locally.”
Automation is proving to be an important link between large companies and their localization strategies. It enables not only localization in manufacturing but innovation — and at lower costs and higher efficiency.
This is where micro-factories come into play. These smaller factories utilize automation, ensuring quality and consistency in product while enabling scale through efficient output. With their lower operating costs, micro-factories effectively democratize innovation by making manufacturing more readily available to entrepreneurs, inventors and makers.
For example, if someone today has an idea for a new product, even if they have the technical skills to do so, they cannot manufacture that product at scale without investing significant capital. In 10 years, we’ll see cost-effective micro-factories drive a new wave of innovation across industries as manufacturing becomes accessible to all people.
Getting closer to customers
Closer geographic proximity to customers also means closer proximity to customer tastes and preferences.
Not only can a company localize the actual product to best suit that particular market, it can focus its marketing efforts on locally designed and produced goods — and take pride in those efforts.
Geopolitical policies amplify this trend, as goods produced closer to the consumers who buy them aren’t subject to the same threat of changing tariff structures. Further, smaller manufacturing footprints help companies reach their sustainability goals.
“In this fast-changing world, a localized approach to manufacturing is imperative for companies to succeed.”
The benefits of automated micro-factories far outweigh losses. According to a study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, every manufacturing position creates 2.5 jobs in local goods and services, and for every dollar of value created in manufacturing, another $1.37 is created in additional value in other sectors.
Ultimately, job growth driven by local manufacturing is an important development. There’s been much pontificating on the labor impact of Industry 4.0, but a “think-global, build-local” approach bodes well for the future.
Globalization, simply put, is changing. In this fast-changing world, a localized approach to manufacturing is imperative for companies to succeed.
Intelligent automation will enable companies to embrace localization and build closer to their customers than previously possible.
In this world, product innovation trumps cost advantages — with no player too large or too small to reap the benefits.
This article originally appeared on World Economic Forum and was republished with permission.
Amar Hanspal is the CEO of Bright Machines, a company that is transforming factories around the world by delivering intelligent, software-defined manufacturing. He previously served as Autodesk’s co-CEO and Chief Product Officer.
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Isaac damages could hit $2 billion
by Jennifer Liberto @jenliberto August 31, 2012: 10:59 AM ET
Tropical Storm Isaac could cause up to $2 billion in insured losses.
Tropical Storm Isaac's slow, rainy march up the Mississippi River valley is expected to cause as much as $2 billion in insured losses, according to one disaster modeling firm.
The storm, which hit Louisiana Tuesday night as a Catagory 1 hurricane, continues to wreak havoc, with heavy rainfall flooding waterways. Working its way up to Missouri, the storm has left more than 800,000 without power in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, power companies told CNN. Hundreds of residents in coastal areas and along rivers have had to be rescued. And 28 Louisiana parishes were without safe, clean water on Friday.
The catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said early Friday they estimate the storm has caused between $700 million and $2 billion in insured losses. That includes residential property, commercial property, energy production and the interruption of business but excludes most flooding damage.
"Isaac's slow forward speed and refusal to dissipate will exacerbate wind damage," said Tim Doggett, chief scientist at AIR.
Related: Gas prices rise again on Isaac impact
Earlier this week, another modeling firm, Eqecat, a catastrophe modeling firm, suggested onshore insured damage would run between $500 million and $1.5 billion. The firm has yet to update its figures.
Both firms exclude flooding because the federal government insures against flood damage for most properties.
At those estimates, Isaac, with winds topping out at 80 miles an hour, is far less damaging than Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm, with winds around 125 per hour. Some 1,800 people died after that storm when New Orleans levees failed to hold back rising flood waters. Katrina caused $45 billion in private insurance damage, excluding flood losses, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
Can insurers weather Isaac?
But Isaac resembled Hurricane Gustav, a 2008 Category 2 storm that followed a similar path and caused $2 billion in insured damages.
While flooding isn't included in the newly released damage estimates, Isaac's total economic damages, including damage due to floods, are expected to grow, as the storm slowly crawls through Arkansas today. More flash flooding and tornadoes are expected.
"It's looking more disorganized, but it is still putting out quite a bit of rain," said Charles Dalton, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Little Rock, which was expected to get 5 inches of rain on Friday.
The longer the storm lasts, the risk that more flooding damage occurs, said Michael Kistler, director of model solutions at RMS, another catastrophe modeling firm.
"Because of it's staying in one place a long time, there's the potential for storm surge," Kistler said. "This is not a Katrina," he added later.
CNN's Lateef Mungin contributed to this report.
CNNMoney (Washington) First published August 31, 2012: 10:59 AM ET
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Here comes Dow 25,000
by Matt Egan and Danielle Wiener-Bronner @CNNMoneyInvest December 17, 2017: 8:00 AM ET
Stocks soar in Trump's first year
1. Here comes Dow 25,000: Don't blink -- or you'll miss another market milestone.
Next up: Dow 25,000. It could happen any day now, especially if Congress passes the massive package of tax cuts that has seriously fired up Wall Street.
Whenever the Dow tops 25,000, it'll be an incredible feat. Not just because it's another milestone in a year of milestones (Dow 20,000; 21,000; 22,000; 23,000; and only three weeks ago 24,000), but because it shows just how far the stock market has come from the crisis.
Consider that the Dow crashed to just 6,443 in March 2009 during the Great Recession. The world's most famous market barometer has nearly quadrupled from that crisis low, with most of the gains occurring prior to President Trump's election.
There's no question that Trump's promises of tax cuts and deregulation has lit a fuse under the stock market. But the market would likely be up a bunch even without Trump's stimulus agenda.
That's because economies are strong, in the United States and around the world. The good times mean record-high profits should be able to keep going, even without the windfall that would come from the tax overhaul that the GOP is on the verge of enacting.
No wonder the business community is euphoric. Confidence among small businesses, manufacturers, homebuilders and consumers is the strongest in aggregate since the early 1980s, according to a recent report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. That optimism is "consistent with 5-6%" GDP growth, the firm said.
That's why BofA is calling for the S&P 500 to race to 2,863 in the first quarter. That would be a 7% advance from already elevated levels.
But could the post-election surge then finally mellow out? BofA is warning that early 2018 will likely bring a "Big Top in risk assets" (read: stocks and junk bonds), especially if inflation finally rears its ugly head.
"Excess bullishness won't take long," BofA concluded.
2. And here come the tax votes: House and Senate Republicans are on track to deliver a tax reform plan to Trump by Christmas.
GOP leaders agreed on the final text of the bill last week and revealed it to the public on Friday. The House will go first: It's expected to vote on Tuesday, and the Senate will follow soon after. Then it will go to the president's desk.
Related: What's in the GOP's final tax plan
The plan, which has been rushing through Congress, has been criticized by some experts -- including outgoing Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen. During her final press conference, Yellen warned last week that the deficits the bill will bring -- about $1.46 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation -- could make it harder to fight a future recession.
Related: Janet Yellen: Tax plan's deficits could make it harder to fight a recession
The bill drops the corporate tax rate down from 35% to 21%, repeals the corporate alternative minimum tax and restructures the way pass-through businesses are taxed.
3. Consumer brands report earnings: Americans are spending. Retail sales rose 0.8% in November, confounding expectations and showing that U.S. shoppers aren't cutting back this holiday season. That's good news for the consumer brands that report earnings in the coming week -- most of which could use a boost.
Related: News flash! U.S. economy already looks strong
Shares of FedEx (FDX), which plans to report on Tuesday, dipped in October following news that Amazon (AMZN) may launch its own delivery service. General Mills (GIS), which is set to share its financials on Wednesday, missed forecasts in the last quarter. And North American sales for Nike (NKE), scheduled to announce earnings on Thursday, fell by 3% last quarter compared with 2016.
4. Bitcoin trading kicks off on CME: CME, the derivatives marketplace, kicks off electronic bitcoin futures trading on Sunday, a week after futures trading began on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Bitcoin jumped soon after trading began on the Cboe. We'll see if the cryptocurrency streak continues this week.
5. Coming this week:
Monday -- Official trade date for Bitcoin futures on CME
Tuesday -- Fedex, Darden (DRI) and Carnival (CCL) report earnings
Wednesday -- General Mills earnings
Thursday -- Nike earnings; Final estimate on 3Q U.S. GDP
Friday -- El Gordo lottery in Spain
CNNMoney (New York) First published December 17, 2017: 8:00 AM ET
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‘Shazam’ Review: A Delicious Slice of Big Red Cheese
Let’s get the big gripe out of the way, because I really only have one, and otherwise Shazam! is a pretty terrific superhero entertainment. The basic concept here is that when 14-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) says “Shazam!” he turns until a big buff dude with lightning powers (Zachary Levi). It’s like the movie Big, if Josh Baskin turned into Tom Hanks, and Tom Hanks could also catch falling buses with his bare hands.
Angel is solid as Billy; sad, sensitive, and a little broken inside. Levi is funny as Shazam; awkward, uncomfortable, and fumbling — basically a walking pubescent growth spurt. The problem is Billy and Shazam are supposed to be the same person in two bodies, but their personalities are very different. Billy broods in silence. Shazam never shuts up. Ultimately the movie works anyway because both of them are good, and the rest of the film around them is smartly conceived and sharply executed. But I would have liked to see a stronger connection between those two.
Otherwise, I’ve got nothing but positive things to say about Shazam!, which is about as likable as any superhero movie of the last ten years. It’s filled with sharp humor, strong relationships, and big exciting (and clear!) set-pieces. It’s thrilling. It’s an escape from your troubles. You feel good when it’s over. In other words, after Aquaman and now Shazam! we’ve stumbled into a delightful Bizarro Universe where DC movies are suddenly fun again.
The earlier installments in the DC Extended Universe are referenced, at least enough that we know this film is set in the same world as Batman v Superman, albeit in a sunnier and more upbeat corner of it. That would be Philadelphia, where orphan Billy Batson moves into the latest in a long line of group homes. His new foster family includes his roommate Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer in a star-making performance), who’s obsessed with superheroes. Freddy’s knowledge of comics comes in handy when Billy is brought to the mythical Rock of Eternity, where an ancient wizard (Djimon Hounsou) gives his the powers of seven legends: The wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury. Hence the acronym “Shazam.”
The wizard promptly vanishes, leaving Billy to figure out what abilities he now possesses and how to control them, leading to some very funny scenes where Freddy tests Shazam’s limits by smacking him the chest with baseball bats or setting him on fire. Levi and Grazer have terrific comedic chemistry and director David F. Sandberg gives them room to banter; every scene between the two is filled with laughs and energy. Shazam! isn’t one-dimensional though. Part of Billy’s journey is his quest to find his long-missing birth mother, and there are some tough scenes about his search. The darker and more serious moments make the answers Billy finds that much sweeter.
Before those answers, though, Billy and Freddy need to get a hang on being a superhero, because a candidate the wizard rejected named Sivana (Mark Strong) wants Shazam’s magic for himself, and he’s made an alliance with the living embodiments of the Seven Deadly Sins in order to get them. Strong makes a perfect foil for Levi as he struts around with a glowing purple eye of evil, a perpetual scowl, and an absurd suit.
If that sound a little silly, it should: Comics, unlike the first, disappointing wave of DCEU movies, are silly sometimes. That’s part of their charm! Fans occasionally refer to Shazam as “The Big Red Cheese” and this movie is very faithful to the spirit of that nickname. It’s warm and sentimental about blended families, and it sincerely believes in the importance of being a hero and doing the right thing. It’s got plenty of goofy kid-gets-to-play-superhero-for-real humor. And other than some friction between Levi and Asher’s performances, it all works.
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Universal picks up ‘Worst Case’
Universal picks up Worst Case
Brian B.
— May 19th, 2005
According to Variety, Universal and Working Title have acquired Worst Case, a crime thriller spec script by Rafael Yglesias and Tom Schulman.
Working Title won the script in competitive bidding that pushed the price into the high six figures. The project marks the first collaboration between the two vet scribes.
Schulman's credits include Dead Poets Society (for which he won an Oscar), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and What About Bob?
Yglesias' credits include this summer's horror pic Dark Water, From Hell and the 1998 adaptation of Les Miserables, starring Liam Neeson.
Co-founder of Movieweb. Heavy-metal-horror head. Guitar in Ignite & Into Another. Freshly minted Pinball guy. I like to create.
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Goriest IT Chapter Two Scene Is Carrie on Steroids with 4.5K Gallons of Blood
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Celestial Navigation, Part I–Credit Where is Due
tags: bora bora, celestial navigation, cruising hawaii, equator, hilo, honolulu, kauai, singlehanding, storm at sea
Local Noon Position (1126):
By GPS: 12.40.43N by 145.25.75W
By Sextant: 12.42.8N by 145.24W
Note: All sights today in cloud, and I was surprised how well the sun shades work to pull an orb shape out of a grey sky.
Course: 310 degrees true
Speed: 6.8 knots
Wind: 10 knots NNE
Sea: 1 – 2 feet S
Sky: 100% occluded. Entering yet another large, dark cell now (noon). Bar: 1011
Temp: 79 degrees
Since last noon: 145 Best single-day of Murre’s cruising career! Total for passage: 1871
Daily average: 117
Miles to Hilo: 691
DAY SUMMARY
Our remarkable mileage for yesterday is due to sailing fast and having a current with us. Wind has been steady now for two days at 9 to 12 knots from ENE to (briefly) NNW, and as I write, it appears we may be reaching the edge of this frontier of deep cloud cover–nothing but open sky ahead–which could announce the end of the ITCZ. We shall see. Today wind has moved more into the NNE than I could wish; we are close hauled, and I am glad I made all the easting I did. Some light rain today that, in combination with the heavy rains overnight, which I caught in a five gallon bucket at the main mast goose neck, allowed me to wash face and hair in fresh water for a change. This morning a blue footed boobie attempted to land on the main mast and got a good thwack when the mast head rolled back off a swell. I heard a squawk, saw a ruffle of feathers as the bird tried to recapture itself in flight, and then off it went. No more attempts. Other birds in groups: fairy terns and sooty terns with my gadfly petrels. A pod of eight dolphins played at Murre’s bow wave for an hour some time later, and just now (dusk) I saw a large pod of dolphins on the hunt and cutting up the water something fierce. All of which makes me feel like we are getting close, though Hilo is still nearly over 700 miles away.
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(Note: Spending so much time in conversation with itself, the mind of the singlehander comes to regard its own fascinations as necessarily fascinating to all. Along those lines I have been contemplating a series of short articles on Celestial Navigation that, you will be relieved to learn, are unlikely to be birthed. However, this first little piece I have been wanting to share for some time.)
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION, PART 1–CREDIT WHERE IS DUE
My fascination with seafaring I owe to my father, who was a merchant marine the first half of his working life.
The frame of his tale has classic elements: born poor in the midwest; unhappy childhood; at twelve ran away to the big city (Chicago); searched-out by his father and forcibly returned home; at thirteen hatched a better plan, took a menial job on a Great Lakes coal ship and never came back.
Later he joined the deep-sea merchant service. He was enterprising; he studied his craft, and, when age allowed, took his exams and passed for mate. Over time he advanced to captain. He was in the merchant service during WWII, serving on ships whose routes passed into threatened waters. One hit a mine and was sunk. Another caught a torpedo. He has been rescued from the icy Atlantic by a submarine.
His early mentor was a captain with the salty name of Jellison, a terse, demanding, but even-tempered northeasterner whose only display of emotion was, when angry, to walk to the bridgedeck and “spit dry”. Another captain for whom he served was a drunk who secretly stowed cases of whisky in his cabin, which he rarely left. During one passage, this man shot dead one of his crew for insolence. As an officer, my dad often carried a large, metal flashlight in his hip pocket to aid with the enforcement of discipline and for self defense.
For years he was on the Boston to Seattle run for a company called Luckenbach. He has seen winter storms whose waves were so great that the whole ship dropped into the trough at a 45 degree angle; green walls of water bodily over the bow would send a shudder through the superstructure, and to those on the bridge, her resurrection was not at all certain. “I have held onto the bridge railing so hard, I left a hand print,” said my dad.
To a boy, this was like having a dad who was an astronaut. It was excellent. Nothing seemed more exciting or manly than being a sailor, nothing bigger or more important than a ship. By the time I was born, my dad had retired from the sea: he went to college, started a family, got regular jobs like other men. But select artifacts of his early life remained in the house like treasure. In his closet hung his officer’s uniform and medallioned hat, which I often wore when he wasn’t around. In the cupboard where mother kept the vacuum was his set of large black bridge binoculars. For a time, his mates license hung from the wall looking like minted money. On the bookshelf was a fat Maritime Dictionary in blue cloth with drawings of hoists and great metal bulkheads and engine rooms and diagrams of tall masts with their yards and rigging and sails. Next to it was an old copy of Moby Dick, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, whose pictures were so evocative I never tried to read the book–pine tar and whale fat and danger oozed from the pages.
On the shelf above these books was the most mysterious of dad’s sea-faring items. Its varnished mahogany case was propped open and tilted back and on a wooden frame inside the box rested his brass sextant, held as if it were a museum piece. The handle was polished wood and the mirrors of a mercurial silver. Filling the frame were diagonal supports that looked like flying buttresses. At the end of the index bar a tiny scope hung over the micrometers whose minute, engraved numbers spoke of precision and care. It was so heavy I struggled to hold it to my eye. “With this arm you bring the sun down to the horizon,” my dad would say. And I was amazed. I had thought only Joshua could command the sun.
A father does not teach celestial navigation to his young boy when the family lives in forested mountains hours from the sea and when the boy’s enjoyment of mathematics is in grave doubt. I was taught other things. On clear nights when we were sitting in the front yard dad would talk about the constellations and show me how to find the North Star. He taught me the proper, seaman’s way to tie a bowline, a clove hitch, a reef knot, that buoys are always “Red Right Returning from sea”, and that compass variation is “East, add it on.” He taught me that when given an order, the sailor responds with “Aye Sir,” and repeats the order. “Aye Sir, go clean my room.” I always thought he was overly fond of that particular sailor’s rule.
Dad never spoke of the sea romantically. Sailing was a job and seamanship a serious, uncertain business. He never waxed poetical over sunsets or moonrises; he never talked of the dazzling colors of waves or flying fish as a spray of diamonds, but I know he felt it, a sense of deep wonder. Over the years his sextant has come to symbolized both, the serious side of seamanship and the grandeur. For as Cunliffe says, “Only the most cynical never felt a tingle of awe at the thought that they had fixed their position to within a mile or two on the planet we call home by observations of stars and galaxies marching in silence through the infinity of space.” And so as I bring the sun down to the horizon each day I am reminded of my dad. I hope he is enjoying this passage as much as I for I would not have done it without him.
My old man was born in 1921 and turns 90 this month. Please join me in wishing him a happy birthday.
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Happy Birthday Dad! From one of the young pups who was most proud to make your acquaintance in the late ’70s. A love of the sea: what a fine value to instill into your son. Wishing you all the best –KR.
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New Songwriter Class Actions Against Tidal and Slacker
More on this to come, but Yesh Music has brought class actions against both Tidal and Slacker:
Yesh’s case against Tidal is assigned to Judge Kimba M. Wood (who heard the Limewire case if memory serves and had an interesting encounter with one Fred Von Lohman when he worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation). According to Entertainment Weekly, Tidal responded thusly:
“TIDAL is up to date on all royalties for the rights to the music stated in Yesh Music, LLC and John Emanuele’s claim and they are misinformed as to who, if anyone, owes royalty payments to them,” a TIDAL representative said in a statement to EW. “As Yesh Music, LLC admits in their claim, TIDAL has the rights to the Master Recordings through its distributor Tunecore and have paid Tunecore in full for such exploitations. Their dispute appears to be over the mechanical licenses, which we are also up to date on payments via Harry Fox Agency our administrator of mechanical royalties.”
The class action against Slacker is assigned to Judge Edward R. Korman. We haven’t found any news coverage on the Slacker class action.
Artist Representatives Embarrass Themselves Again By Not Signing Their Clients for SoundExchange Royalties
There’s another list circulating of some well-known artists who are not signed up for SoundExchange. There’s always an implication somehow that this is the fault of SoundExchange as opposed to a failure on the part of the artist’s managers, business managers, accountants or lawyers.
Newsflash: SoundExchange can’t force anyone to sign up as a featured artist. It is the role of the artist representatives to encourage their clients to get this done.
Newsflash: It’s EASY to sign up. In fact, it’s never been easier.
Newsflash: Joining SoundExchange is one of the only ways a US artist can collect foreign performance royalties for sound recordings.
Affiliating with SoundExchange should be on the top of every representative’s new client checklist–right next to affiliating with ASCAP, BMI or SESAC. If the manager failed to get their artist/songwriter client affiliated with a PRO, or let a PRO just sit on money they’d collected it would be management malpractice, right? Why do these managers get a pass on SoundExchange?
Let’s get it together, people, please. This is embarrassing.
Future of What Podcast on Songwriter Class Actions Against Spotify
The Future of What is a great podcast series with the awesome Portia Sabin on important topics in the music business. In this episode, Portia dives into the class actions against Spotify with a series of interviews including songwriter (and plaintiff) Melissa Ferrick, Howell O’Rear, Christiane Kinney and me.
Tags: Christiane Kinney, David Lowery, Future of What Podcast, Howell O'Rear, Kill Rock Stars, Melissa Ferrick, Portia Sabin, Spotify Class Action
New Shit Has Come to Light: Google is Buying Spotify
February 24, 2016 Chris Castle 1 comment
Remember when Kara Swisher reported (July 21, 2014):
Omid Kordestani, who has just temporarily replaced Nikesh Arora as chief business officer of Google, is joining the board of Spotify, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
In addition, sources said, one of the search giant’s former execs, Shishir Mehrotra, will become a special adviser to CEO Daniel Ek and the company’s management.
The move is a fascinating one, especially since sources inside Google said that new YouTube head Susan Wojcicki has expressed interest in acquiring the popular online music service if it were for sale. It is not currently and there are no such discussions going on between the pair about such a transaction.
Thus, the new appointments appear unrelated. And, to be clear, Google’s top execs often join boards of companies, both with corporate ties to them and not.
Swisher then reported one day later (July 22, 2014):
Today — based partly on a previous filing by Google about an unnamed foreign company it tried and failed to buy for $4 billion to $5 billion and a line I had in a story that noted that a top exec at the search giant had expressed interest in buying Spotify — the Journal is reporting that Google tried to buy the music service, but walked away because the price was too high.
Riveting, perhaps — but not so much, again.
According to multiple (I just dialed my little fingers off) sources at both companies, there have been neither formal nor informal discussions between the companies about an acquisition, directly or indirectly.
That said, Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek has indeed met with Google execs about various and substantive commercial deals at YouTube, Google Play and Android.
Spotify has announced that Google is taking over Spotify’s “infrastructure”:
As a company most often associated with amazing music recommendations and awesome parties (not to mention life-changing employee benefits) [and not to mention shit royalties and stiffing songwriters], it’s rare that we get to talk about the exciting world of technical infrastructure – the real power behind the music – but today is special. Today we are announcing that we’re working with the Google Cloud Platform team to provide platform infrastructure for Spotify, everywhere.
This is a big deal. At Spotify we are obsessed with providing a streaming experience that feels as though you have all the music in the world on your phone. Historically, we’ve taken a traditional approach to doing this: buying or leasing data-center space, server hardware and networking gear as close to our customers as possible. This approach has allowed us to give you music instantly, wherever you are in the world….
Recently that balance has shifted. The storage, compute and network services available from cloud providers are as high quality, high performance and low cost as what the traditional approach provides. This makes the move to the cloud a no-brainer for us. Google, in our experience, has an edge here, but it’s a competitive space and we expect the big players to be battling it out for the foreseeable future.
What really tipped the scales towards Google for us, however, has been our experience with Google’s data platform and tools. Good infrastructure isn’t just about keeping things up and running, it’s about making all of our teams more efficient and more effective, and Google’s data stack does that for us in spades.
Here’s my bet–and I’m going out on a limb here–Google is buying Spotify. Why? Because it is becoming increasingly apparent that Spotify can’t render a royalty statement with a straight count, has probably never accounted properly to songwriters and is about to be audited by every mothers son.
First step towards acquisition by Google. Also, how much do you want to bet that Google gave it for almost FREE. https://t.co/1U6vPKYkzy
— Om Malik (@om) February 23, 2016
And if they’re not now, they will be after discovery starts in the two songwriter class action cases brought by songwriters.
Another reason I think Google is buying Spotify is because the tech IPO market is essentially dead for 2016 based on what I see in the markets and hear from friends in that world. (Check out the “Downround Tracker” reminiscent of fuckedcompany.com.) Spotify is trying to borrow $500 million in debt financing, remember? The real question is whether Spotify is also issuing IOUs instead of royalties, at least to major labels and publishers. And if you wonder what happens to those–also known as unsecured debt–check out the Rdio bankruptcy filings.
Which leads one to ask–would Google buy the company direct or would Spotify declare bankruptcy first in an attempt to wash out any copyright infringement claims and completely screw the equity holders–including the much vaunted equity holders among record companies–as well as their artists and every songwriter on the planet.
Another reason I think Google is buying Spotify is the absence of puffery from puffters about how Google is not buying Spotify.
I’m sure all the geniuses in our business anticipated this move, right? Because we’re not going to allow another MTV to be built on our backs aside from the last ten times we allowed another MTV like, oh say YouTube.
How would you feel about Google being in control of Spotify? Since Google clearly does not give a rats ass about what artists think of them and intend to continue to sell advertising on pirate sites that they drive traffic to through search among other activities that shock the conscience of everyone who doesn’t work in the Obama White House or Justice Department–they’re a perfect partner for Spotify.
And because ex-Google lawyer Renata Hess runs interference for Google at the Department of Justice and since Google pretty much owns the Federal Trade Commission, there will be no antitrust review of the transaction in the United States. Europe, of course, is another story.
Remember–on May 12, 2014, Spotify’s director of economics Will Page gave a presentation at the Music Biz Conference in Nashville (hosted by the Google-dominated Music Business Association, formerly known as NARM in a soon to be forgotten day). As reported by Billboard, Will Page gave the audience a good deal of evidence of Spotify’s domination of the online music market:
Spotify claims to have represented one out of every ten dollars record labels earned in the first quarter….Page’s claim shows the speed at which subscription services are gaining share of the U.S. market. According to IFPI data, all subscription services accounted for 10.2 percent of U.S. recorded music revenue in 2014. If Spotify had a 10-percent share in the first quarter, it’s safe to say the overall subscription share is well above the 10.2 percent registered last year.
Much of Page’s presentation seemed aimed at Spotify skeptics in the audience. While explaining how streaming “is no longer an outlier in the business,” Page noted Spotify has launched in 32 of the 37 countries where streaming is the primary digital source of revenue. Page also pointed out that Spotify is half of the $1.5 billion global subscription streaming market. In the U.S. market, Spotify made up approximately 90 percent of last year’s growth in subscription revenue, according to Page.
These numbers suggest that while Spotify may have a significant share of overall U.S. recorded music revenue, Spotify is clearly dominant in the global subscription market with its now 25 million subscribers and probably is dominant in the U.S. music subscription market. (Assuming you can believe any of Spotify’s numbers, of course.)
So don’t you think that the European Commission should take a close look at the competitive effects of combining Spotify and YouTube?
But here’s the good news–aren’t you glad that the labels traded away your royalty rate for equity?
Guest Post by Keith Bernstein: Holy GAAP! Publishers Not Getting the Upside
February 22, 2016 Editor Charlie Comments off
[Editor Charlie sez: This is a guest post by Keith Bernstein, CEO of Crunch Digital and its sister company Royalty Review Council. In a nutshell, non-cash components of licensing agreements–like stock–have been a hot topic lately when The Verge “leaked” a copy of Sony’s agreement with Spotify. Years ago, the statutory streaming mechanical license rules attempted to include the value of shares of stock (or other non-cash consideration) in the “total content cost” of sound recordings. That way, songwriters would get some of the benefit of the stock, etc. Keith Bernstein suggests that due to an archaic use of the accounting rules called “GAAP” (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”), the digital services can cut off that calculation and songwriters will get no benefit at all–shocker. GAAP deals with issues like depreciation that have little or nothing to do with calculating royalties. Will the fox put a chicken in every pot?]
I want to bring to your attention something that could be (or probably already is) problematic in Section 115 and the related regulations for the calculation of the amounts owed to publishers for certain streaming royalties. In short, the concept of a royalty pool for publisher payments that is defined to take into account all cash and non-cash consideration given to record labels (referred to as the applicable consideration in the regulations and known as “total content costs” (“TCC”)) appears to accomplish nothing for music publishers – despite the perception that it would when TCC was negotiated and announced a few years ago.
Look closely at the definitions in Section 115 for streaming and the related applicable consideration definitions. For publishers, wasn’t the intent that there would be a royalty pool that would include all the various forms of consideration—cash and non-cash items such as stock shares given to record labels (hence “Total Content Cost”)? With the references to GAAP in the way the regulations calculate TCC as we read them it appears that if cash and non-cash items given to labels are not expensed under GAAP by the streaming service, those items are not required to be included in the calculation of the royalty pool for publishers. If you are a streaming service you are probably not going to elect to expense under GAAP what was given to record labels if it means you can exclude amounts from the TCC. Excluding non-cash items from TCC has no impact on the labels – but direct impact on publishers.
Here is a story from Billboard in 2012 that outlines the intent of “total content costs”. The article states:
“The use of a total content cost will allow music publishers to potentially partake in whatever upside occurs when music labels negotiate in a free market how much they charge to supply their music to digital music service providers.”
“Also, if a major comes up with a creative deal that includes an equity stake in a digital music service provider or a guaranteed allotment of advertising, those items are assigned a value and included when figuring total content cost, which allows music publishers to participate in such deals.”
What the TCC was meant to accomplish may not actually work in practice.
This brings up two important points:
Why is GAAP referenced in the regulations at all as it relates to TCC? The answer is probably that most people think that if you throw GAAP in to a provision that it means certain standards and principles will be applied when it comes to royalty calculations and audits. However, GAAP is not always applicable and can lead to unintended outcomes – and for Section 115 streaming royalties it appears that the reference to GAAP completely undermines the intent of the provision.
Audits. As you know, there is no audit right under Section 115 licenses. So, you cannot check to see what is actually included in the publisher royalty pool.
This may be one of the reasons behind why U.S. publishers feel that royalty payments from music subscriptions services seem so low – that’s because publishers are probably not getting paid from a royalty pool that they thought was clearly defined to include certain cash and non-cash consideration paid by streaming services to labels.
On a related note, Michael Simon of HFA announced at the AIMP meeting on October 15, 2015 in Los Angeles that HFA is conducting an audit of a subscription service client of theirs to confirm the accuracy of reporting that HFA prepares on their behalf. Does this mean that HFA is effectively auditing themselves and their client as it relates to the accuracy of the statements that HFA prepares? Am I missing something? If true, this is like asking the fox (no pun intended) to do an after action report for the assault on the chicken coop. Chickens? There were no chickens.
If HFA is both (1) performing an audit of their subscription service client and (2) they may have insights from the accounting statements that they prepare for their client, they should be in a better position to know than anyone outside their client what’s being included and excluded from the publisher royalty pool. (It appears that this HFA audit is one that would not be available under the current version of Section 115 which does not permit audits of statutory licenses—and sheds light on the need to provide an audit right to everyone.) Michael Simon indicated from the AIMP dais that the audit is underway, so hopefully soon HFA can let music publishers know from their audit if their client is excluding amounts from the TCC that most publishers thought would be included.
How much in royalties have publishers already missed out on? With revenue from streaming music services predicted to be the dominant source for the music industry in the future I would suggest getting this potential TCC GAAP requirement issue sorted right now.
The Great Triangulator: Whatever Happened with David Lowery’s Spotify Complaint to the NY Attorney General?
Digital Music News is reporting that David Lowery sent a demand letter to Spotify around December 15, 2015 regarding Spotify’s failure to license some of his songs. More about that later.
What’s interesting about that is that it suggests that Lowery was getting nowhere with his November 9, 2015 complaint to the New York Attorney General that Spotify was operating a massively infringing music service. Not being able to get Spotify to address the problem and striking out with law enforcement authorities, Lowery didn’t have much choice.
Realize that Lowery was simply asking the current New York Attorney General to do that which his predecessor had done a decade before. You can read about it in a press release from the AG’s office:
State Attorney General Spitzer today announced a deal with the nations top recording companies that returns nearly $50 million in unclaimed royalties to thousands of performers.
The agreement comes after a two-year investigation by Spitzer’s office found that many artists and writers were not being paid royalties because record companies had failed to maintain contact with the performers and had stopped making required payments. This problem affected both star entertainers with numerous hit recordings and obscure musicians who may have had only one recording.
As Lowery wrote:
I see no difference between the 2004 situation regarding record companies and the 2015 situation involving digital services. I think that highly sophisticated and well-funded high-tech digital services like Spotify and Google should be held to at least the same standard as the record companies regarding unpaid royalties if not a higher standard—if licensees don’t know who to pay, then why are they using the music in the first place?
The implication being that at least the record companies owned or distributed the works for which they were not paying royalties unlike Spotify. Seems pretty reasonable, doesn’t it? What’s good for the goose, etc.?
Why would the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman simply ignore a letter complaining of such foul treatment? Good question.
Recall that Spotify recently hired political operative Jonathan Prince, who has a long career in New York political circles as well as working in the Clinton White House and State Department–but also being the campaign manager for New York State Controller Bill Thompson‘s run for Mayor of New York as reported in the New York Times.
Jonathan Prince will be Mr. Thompson’s chief campaign strategist and manager. A former campaign adviser and speechwriter for President Clinton, he worked as the national deputy campaign manager for John Edwards’s 2008 bid, and more recently served as a top State Department official, focusing on the Middle East. A longtime Manhattan resident, Mr. Prince also worked on Fernando Ferrer’s unsuccessful 2005 race against Mr. Bloomberg.
And guess who endorsed Eric Schneiderman for Attorney General?
You don’t suppose…
That’s the same Eric Schneiderman who opened a short lived investigation into Apple Music the week Apple launched their streaming service competitor to Spotify. But he can’t manage to respond to David Lowery.
You don’t suppose….
Spotify Strikes Out Again
MTP readers will remember that David Lowery sued Spotify for failing to license, account and pay mechanical royalties for David’s songs as well as those of a potential class. Naturally the early maneuvering in Spotify’s response to the case has to do with whether a class action is the appropriate vehicle for pursuing what appears to be Spotify’s massive infringement of songs.
Recall that there was another class action filed by Melissa Ferrick, a songwriter. Melissa’s lawyers also represent The Turtles aka Flo & Eddy in their unrelated lawsuit against SiriusXM and Pandora for infringing pre-72 recordings. (That case is still proceeding although the major labels settled outside of the class for $210 million against SiriusXM and $90 million against Pandora, for a total of $300 million–a number evenly divisible by…let’s see…Sony, Universal, Warner…3.)
Spotify’s papers in their Motion to Strike contain this chunk which kind of jumped out at me:
Plaintiff may seek to rely on a recent decision by another judge of this Court granting class certification in a copyright case. But that decision, Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 2015 WL 4776932 (C.D. Cal. May 27, 2015), is incorrect. But more importantly, it is readily distinguishable.
That is an odd little passage. First of all, it is the classic straw man argument–Lowery’s lawyers never raised the Turtles case in their complaint against Spotify. At all. It’s almost like the lawyers are planning to do a cut and paste job on this pleading to use against Melissa’s lawyers or maybe left the language in the Lowery motion by mistake.
But the oddest thing about the passage is that they say that the Turtles case–decided by a judge in the same courthouse where Spotify is fighting the Lowery case–“is incorrect.” That is very strange.
However inartful the words may be, if you were going to say something so broad and sweeping that puts you squarely in opposition to fairly compensating Aretha Franklin, the heirs of Duke Ellington and many others, you would expect that “is incorrect” would be followed by some kind of citation or at least an argument. I read that passage about 20 times trying to figure out what I was missing, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not missing anything.
These New York lawyers actually said that a Court’s considered decision is incorrect. Not over reaching, not too broadly stated, not anything except “incorrect.” Note that the “incorrect” statement is followed by “it is readily distinguishable.” What one would have expected to see was something like “the Flo & Eddie decision is readily distinguishable,” followed by the argument for why the Flo & Eddie case may appear to apply to the case at bar but can be shown not to.
Not the bald statement that a case that has not been raised against Spotify so far by anyone is both “incorrect” and “distinguishable.” Distinguishable is done all day every day in the law. “Incorrect”–particularly when said to a judge about the ruling by another judge (especially in the same courthouse) is just bizarre. And, frankly, in my opinion, rather rude.
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Mena Police Department – November 24 – 30
Shane Haarmeyer December 3, 2013 Features, Police Reports 14 Views
Mena Police Department Report
Polk County Sheriff’s Report
Polk County Arraignment Report
The following information was received from Mena Police Department for the week of November 24 – November 30, 2013. The charges against those arrested are allegations and the cases are still pending in the courts. Individuals charged and whose names appear in this column may submit documentation to us at a later date that the charges have been dismissed or that they have been found innocent and we will include that information in this space in a timely manner.
Report was taken of a fight between several teens in an alleyway. The suspects fled the scene before officers arrived. Case is pending.
Members of administration at a local assisted living center reported that someone had embezzled cash from the center and from an individual. Case is pending further investigation.
Manager of a local car sales reported the theft of four tires and wheels from a car on their lot. Case is pending.
Keith Rawlins, 45, of Mena was charged with DWI, following too close, driving on a suspended for DWI, and carrying a weapon. He was also served two warrants, one felony and one misdemeanor.
An 11-year-old Mena girl was charged with disorderly conduct after a call to a local school regarding an unruly student who was displaying out-of-control behavior.
Report was taken of a woman breaking windows in a local residence. Case is pending review by prosecutor.
Report was taken of a local man threatening to burn down his girlfriend’s house and kill her. Case is pending.
A 28-year-old Mena woman was charged with second-degree assault on a family member after an incident involving her 18-year-old sister.
Brandon Everett, 22, of Mena was charged with battery after an incident at a local residence.
No criminal reports taken.
A 13-year-old Mena boy was charged with shoplifting after a call to a local retail store.
Joshua Dean Fernandez, 27, of Mena was charged with battery, interference with emergency communications, endangering the welfare of a minor, obstructing governmental operations, and resisting arrest after officers were called to the local hospital.
A local woman reported that someone had stolen her cell phone from a counter at her place of employment. Case is pending.
Michael Chance Martin, 29, of Mena was charged with DWI and careless driving after officers were called to an accident.
Officers completed an additional seven reports and worked six accidents.
Shane Haarmeyer
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Guests on Volume 95: Stewart Davenport, on how nineteenth-century Christians separated the moral and practical aspects of economic life; William T. Cavanaugh, on how theology and economics are necessarily intertwined and on how a larger understanding of the meaning of "freedom" would change our economic actions; J. Matthew Bonzo & Michael R. Stevens, on Wendell Berry's concern for the dislocating and fragmenting forces in modern life; Craig Gay, on how language—specifically the spoken word—is central to our human experience; Eugene Peterson, on how Jesus' use of ambiguous language encouraged active spiritual engagement; and Barry Hankins, on how the late Francis Schaeffer moved from being a defensive fundamentalist to a prophet of cultural engagement.
Stewart Davenport on how nineteenth-century Christians separated the moral and practical aspects of economic life
Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860 (University of Chicago, 2008)
"What is first and foremost for these clerical economists is that they simply wanted stability. They love order… They didn't want [the U.S.] to go the way of France: poverty-stricken and potentially revolutionary."
—Stewart Davenport
This issue of the Journal begins with a conversation with Stewart Davenport on the beginnings of a transformation in economic understanding with the birth of modern capitalism. The nineteenth century saw the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations , and Davenport wanted to understand the response of Christians during this transformative period. He found that clergy and laymen had a number of responses to the new economic thinking and social structures that developed in that time. Some of these responses resonated the popular Enlightenment notions of autonomy and scientific objectivity to the exclusion or marginalization of moral concerns. The roots of contemporary dualism between economics and morality and ethics among Christians can be traced in part to this separation of "facts" and "values" in discussing Smith's theories. Many Christian contemporaries of Smith believed that if Smith's economics rested on purely objective observations about natural laws and scientific principles, they need not bother with thinking about ethical and moral concerns when discussing economics. Indeed, opposing this new science could render God and religion irrelevant in the face of changing times. Others saw in capitalism a stabilizing force that would ensure social health and promote the strength of America and, in so far as America promoted the kingdom of God, the reign of the kingdom of God as well.
William T. Cavanaugh on how theology and economics are necessarily intertwined
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008)
"Professors are constantly admonishing [students] to stick to the subject and to separate these things. But I think they have a very good and real sense that in real life things are not separated: that the way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship."
—William Cavanaugh
The next segment in this issue features William T. Cavanaugh on how theology shapes how we understand and evaluate economics. Cavanaugh discusses the particular temptation that Christians face to compartmentalize parts of their lives so that finance or business or economics or politics is separate from religion and theology. In many ways, such compartmentalization makes it easier to cope in contemporary society. One example of compartmentalization is how greed is good in economics though it is evil in the religious aspect of our lives. Another is the way "freedom" is understood as different concepts when we're being religious than when we're being political. The "freedom" that autonomous individuals have in modern democratic societies contrasts with the Christian understanding of freedom as rightly attached to our God and neighbor in love.
William T. Cavanaugh on how a larger understanding of the meaning of “freedom” would change our economic actions
"Churches ought to have a role in creating local economics spaces where discernment about what the human good is can go on in a real concrete way. So it's not a matter of churches making monetary policy or whatever; it's really much more a matter of scaling the economy down and trying to make these kinds of face-to-face interactions..."
William Cavanaugh continues his conversation with Ken Myers on economics by questioning some of the typical assumptions underlying contemporary economics. He questions whether "freedom" is best understood without reference to the ends one can desire and wonders whether the two options of a individualistic economic free-for-all on the one hand or statist collectivism on the other exhaust the possibilities for economies. Might there be a substantive place for churches and other non-government groups in our economics? He also talks about Thomas Aquinas's view of property, advertising's cultivation of perpetual dissatisfaction, and the need for communities to embrace interdependence as part of human flourishing.
J. Matthew Bonzo & Michael R. Stevens on Wendell Berry’s concern for the dislocating and fragmenting forces in modern life
Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide (Brazos Press, 2008)
"One thing that Berry stresses over and over again that really resonated with students was this idea of 'How do you create a home not as a retreat from work, but as a place where you can do meaningful work?'"
—J. Matthew Bonzo
In this segment, J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael Stevens discuss themes from their recent book on the life and thought of Wendell Berry. Berry's main concerns are related to the ways in which community is undermined and destroyed by the ways modern people live in and treat the land and the rest of creation. Because community is tied to the creation as the realm in which we live our lives, the exploitation of creation by rationalistic approaches to controlling and dominating nature in our work and life serves to fragment relationships and dislocate men and women from community. In divorcing our humanity from creation, the relational reality of created humanity itself is denied in the breaking of relationships and the reduction of the world to mere raw material that must be antagonistically mastered for profit.
Craig Gay on how language--specifically the spoken word--is central to our human experience
Dialogue, Catalogue, and Monologue: Personal, Impersonal and Depersonalizing Ways to use Words (Regent College Publishing, 2008)
"Where we are and who we are and what it means to live and how we ought to live… these are not questions that can be answered simply by making careful observations of our circumstances, but there are rather questions that can only be answered by listening... to what God has said."
—Craig Gay
This segment features Professor Craig Gay on the essential linguistic nature of humanity: how our growth--or decline--in life is tied to words. Language is not merely a tool for humans to use, but it is a part of our very being as creatures made in the image of the God who is the living Word. Because of this, words are essential to our life. Gay further discusses the distinction between "seeing" and "hearing" as metaphors of knowledge and understanding. Gay stresses that our culture does not encourage us to know by receiving words from a person or a personal God, but by making impersonal observations. For Gay, this mode of understanding, while extraordinarily valuable and necessary, is nevertheless partial and insufficient for life.
Eugene Peterson on how Jesus’ use of ambiguous language encouraged active spiritual engagement
Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers (Eerdmans, 2008)
"Poets don't make things plain. They makes things more complex. But as they become more complex, they start to resonate all over the place."
—Eugene Peterson
This issue continues with a conversation with Eugene Peterson on the kinds of language Jesus used when talking to people. He points out that Jesus rarely gave sermons in the gospels, but spent most of his time speaking normally and conversationally, and the Spirit infused this normal speech. He observes that many Christians generally do not understand their everyday language to be a participation in spirituality; for them, spiritual language is a contrived, churchy kind of language. For Jesus, Peterson reflects, there was no such division or distinction: his normal, everyday speech was always seasoned by the Spirit without artificiality. Moreover, Jesus' language was often ambiguous, radiating meaning on different levels and encouraging listeners to pursue and participate in multi-dimensional, personal truth, rather than one-dimensional, impersonal data. In this way, Jesus' language conformed to the nature of truth as personal and complex as reality itself.
Barry Hankins on how the late Francis Schaeffer moved from being a defensive fundamentalist to a prophet of cultural engagement
Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America (Eerdmans, 2008)
"[W]hereas in America the intellectual stuff of fundamentalism was used primarily to defend the faith [against theological liberalism], in Europe Schaffer could use the intellectual stuff of fundamentalism to evangelize. In other words when he would sit down with European young people from universities, he had to intellectually make a case for the veracity of the Christian faith, not with regard to defending it against liberalism, but with regard to making it coherent to people who were intellectually searching for a philosophy that made sense."
—Barry Hankins
The last segment on this issue features Professor Barry Hankins on Francis Schaeffer. Hankins describes Schaeffer as, after Billy Graham, the second greatest influence on evangelicalism in the 20th century. He started off a disciple of Carl MacIntyre and saw himself as a general for fundamentalist orthodoxy whose war front would be in Europe. As a leader of fundamentalism, he advocated separation from secular culture and the positive, militant defense of the faith against theological liberalism. But when Schaeffer arrived in Europe, he found that there wasn't much Christianity, orthodox or not, to defend; consequently, his mission of defending the purity of the faith was replaced by a mission to re-evangelize a post-Christian Europe. Schaeffer channeled his intellect to understanding the cultural moment in Europe, and his efforts led him to engage the existentialist philosophies and cultural institutions expressing those philosophies in order to provide answers to the questions plaguing the young Europeans he encountered.
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The Daily Grind: Are MMO developers obligated to give new stuff to all factions at the same rate?
So World of Warcraft is bringing us another allied race in the form of the Mag’har (uncorrupted Orcs, don’t you know). We haven’t had this confirmed just yet, of course, but we’ve had enough stuff get mined out by this point that it’s only a mystery in the broadest sense of the term. We don’t know when, but we can rest assured that it’s happening. But nothing has been mined out about another allied race joining the Alliance as well, and really, the options for the Horde feel a little bit more populated than the Alliance ones.
It seems unlikely that the Alliance wouldn’t get something as well, based on the history of the game, but at this point nothing has yet been made evident. So here’s the question: Is that so unacceptable? There’s nothing contractually obligating the developers to give allied races to both factions at the same rate, after all, and really Mag’har have been part of the Horde since they first were introduced. At the same time, it also doesn’t exactly feel fair to players on one faction who get a big fat nothing while the other side gets a shiny new toy. So what do you think, readers? Are MMO developers obligated to give new stuff to all factions at the same rate?
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Specus
Developers are not obligated to give new stuff to all factions at the same rate, but, I believe they should strongly consider doing what’s necessary so that they don’t bias the user base toward one faction or the other.
Jack Pipsam
If anything they should try to put a bit more attention on the faction with the smaller population.
Loyheta
Tired of two-faction system… so lazy.
I think they’d be foolish to not add allied races in pairs, one of each faction. Now if they just haven’t added it to the alpha… well that is not the same as saying alliance won’t get one. Here’s hoping we get Vulpera.
Dug From The Earth
They arent obligated to do anything.
Is it wise for them to? Yes. Since the point of games is keeping players happy, so they buy your game and expansions. Upset the players, they stop spending money.
Ashfyn Ninegold
Factions is so old-hat. ESO got away with it because it had very little meaning originally and now with One Tamriel it has none.
But, back to WoW. Factions were never balanced. All the same, Blizzard’s preference for the Horde is pretty obvious. The main driver of the WoW story arc is the horde, in all its permutations. I suppose Horde is meant to be BAAAD and that means Alliance must be GOOOD. And we all know how boring Goody Two Shoes is. Writing compelling characters that are good is much more difficult than writing compelling characters that are bad, primarily because good characters don’t have any where to go, whereas bad characters tend to be troubled, which means they are dynamic.
The problem Blizz has now is that they haven’t really developed any good secondary Alliance races. They’ll have to get them from somewhere if they keep giving more allied races to Horde.
Armsbend
“I suppose Horde is meant to be BAAAD and that means Alliance must be GOOOD.”
You’d be wrong then. The Legion was Bad. The Horde fought against the Legion – same as the Alliance. They just go about things differently.
Most people associate the Tolkien books with the Orcs of Warcraft, and then subsequently blanket the entirety of the Horde, when it really isn’t the case. For one Horde example take the Tauren. The Tauren are modeled after the American Indian and are anything but evil. They are as much in touch with Azeroth’s nature as the Malfurion’s elven homies.
That’s my take on the basic light vs. dark lore. At least currently.
johnwillo
I take your point, but I think that the Forsaken have proven themselves to be BAD every chance that they had. Those guys would really prefer for everybody else to be dead. On both factions.
Kinda one of the reasons I prefer Horde over alliance is each of the factions really has their own thing going on.
I just started a forsaken character tbh I’m still delving into that one. The beginning of the story is really cool.
Sally Bowls
The Legion was Bad.
Although that is more pre-Chronicles. After Chronicles, one could argue that the Void Lords are bad. The Legion is, if not good then at least doing good by battling them. The problem is their treatment plan to the Void Lord problem, destroying all life in the universe, is deemed too aggressive by those getting destroyed. At least it is more nuanced than just destroy everything.
:-) One sees the same thing IRL here: for many, destroying gaming companies is not the direct goal; merely a consequence of trying to purify the world of the heresy of lockboxes.
American Indian and are anything but evil.
If New World comes out and is something MMOish that I follow, I wonder if they can get through that political correctness minefield.
You’d think when they chose the setting in New World they’d have brought that up at some point. It will be a minefield. If it is released as the game in my mind (it won’t) I plan on being the embodiment of evil – to the settlers. I shall right the wrongs of those early braves. The fields will be soaked in the white hair’s blood and I will send their women screaming – back to the land whence they came. The streets of London-town will know my name as a demon – that walks free in a land in which they are not welcomed.
Or a homely cobbler that trades horseshoes for corn.
I haven’t decided.
Schmidt.Capela
The thing about the Horde being bad is that it isn’t, or at least not all of it. Most of the Horde think of themselves as doing the right thing, when judged by their own values (which does differ from race to race, sometimes creating internal conflict in the Horde).
Writing a compelling character that is purely bad (as in evil) is just as hard as writing a compelling “Goody Two Shoes”, and making it relatable to the audience can be even harder as the typical person thinks of himself as more good than evil. Interesting characters rarely come from those extremes.
Daniel Reasor
WoW’s last three expansions were Invade Orgrimmar and Topple the Warchief, Go Back In Time and Kill the Horde’s Parents and Grandparents, and Sylvanas Gets Thwarted While Human, Draenei, and Night Elf Heroes Defeat the Legion.
If this is Blizz favoring Horde, then please stop favoring us, Blizz. Uncle.
PlasmaJohn
They’re about as obligated to do that as a player is to give them money. So, literally “no” but if a player feels slighted they might just return the favor and unsub.
Bruno Brito
If it creates imbalance between these factions and their conflict isn’t fixable by any means? Yes.
Anstalt
I think if you’re going to have hardlined factions like WoW then yes, you have an obligation to deliver at the same rate. It’s not contractual, but it’s in the interest of fairness. If players start to feel like they’re being treated unfairly, or that they are getting less value for money, they’re going to start quitting.
I peronsally prefer the SWG method – everyone’s neutral until they specifically decide to join a faction, after which it’s still basically just a pvp flag.
They only are obligated when it’s about the faction I play getting the short straw!
But jokes asides, that’s usually more about marketing than anything and there’s always the chance that they want to push something because they think the other “side” doesn’t need to be encouraged to buy… taking your audience for granted is not unheard of in blizzland, specifically.
Abolish factions and half your problems are solved. Yes, for that to happen you have to imagine your world as a virtual world populated by people with actual agency on their allegiances, not a facade for lobby-based games. Like many, I consider segregating the players into hardlined factions an utter idiocy and no, I don’t care how “commercially succesful” that may or may not have proved to be: stupid things can sell, fidget spinners say hi. :P
Zen Dadaist
While I doubt there’s anything written into contracts, EULAs or other obligation-specifying locations, factions getting ignored or overly-focused on feels unfair to those on the other sides. If players feel neglected, forgotten, skipped or missed out then they are going to be dissatisfied. It’s a good way to lose support in the customer base.
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What comes to mind when you think about the most physically demanding jobs? Professional athlete? Farmer? Park ranger? Product engineer? The last one might seem out of place but, believe it or not, some engineers spend all day on their feet, commonly walking a 5k or more during one shift. However, engineers usually aren’t provided with a masseuse or yoga instructor, so pounding the pavement for 50 hours per week adds up to serious stress on the joints over time.
Robert Bishop, 64, is a product engineer in Faribault, Minnesota, and knows firsthand the damage extended daily walking at work can do. Robert has worked as an engineer throughout the country, and the daily treks to check different workstations across the plant started catching up with him.
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Robert then saw Travis Roethler, a physician assistant in Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic Health System in Faribault, Minnesota, who recommended an X-ray and pointed out that both of Robert’s hips were in bad shape, with the right being the worst. Travis referred Robert to John Sauer, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, who told Robert that if he got to the point when conservative care, medications and injections were not working anymore to alleviate the pain, he should come in to discuss surgery.
“In the meantime, lots of people were telling me about their orthopedic surgeries and saying they wish they had done it sooner,” Robert explains.
After the diagnosis, he traveled to Alaska to visit his sister. Although Robert received a cortisone shot in his hip before the trip, he says it didn’t help and he couldn’t do the things he wanted, such as hike or fish.
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Robert and his family took another trip over the holidays to visit his children in Virginia. Once again, his lack of mobility kept him from doing the things he enjoys. He loves skiing, but he was unable to do it on that trip.
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In February, after dealing with joint complications for nearly a year, Robert underwent a total replacement of his right hip, and the ball and socket of his femur and pelvis were replaced with prosthetic implants. He quickly began the road back to mobility.
“The surgery went fine, and the providers were wonderful,” he says. “The care team had me up and walking the afternoon of the surgery, and I was discharged around noon the next day. I used a walker for one day, a cane for several days and was shoveling snow a few days after that.”
Robert says the most trouble he had during recovery was putting on his socks and shoes, as Dr. Sauer had warned him about bending certain ways and popping out the new hip joint. Not only are things back to normal now, it’s almost as if he never had joint problems.
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Home Intrigue George P Bush remembers the Alamo audit wasn’t doctored after all
George P Bush remembers the Alamo audit wasn’t doctored after all
Patricia McConnell
George P Bush, Photo Gage Skidmore (CC2.0)
Besides being the last remaining member of the Bush political dynasty in public office, George P Bush is also the custodian of another bit of history: as Texas Land Commissioner he is responsible for managing the Alamo. Before his March 6th Republican primary Bush described a leaked copy of a highly critical Alamo audit as “doctored.” Now, successfully nominated as the Republican candidate in November, the audit has been published – with the same unfavorable conclusions as before.
Not so doctored then.
Remember the Alamo Trust
George P Bush set up the Alamo Trust to look after the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” in 2014. It was a controversial and unorthodox move: Bush joined the board of the new trust even though it reports to Texas’ General Land Office (GLO). As Texas Land Commissioner, Bush is also the head of the GLO.
An internal audit of the arrangement was leaked to the Austin Statesman, which in turn extensively reported on the issue. According to the Statesman, the Alamo audit was not favorable to the new structure: “The GLO’s use of a nonprofit to manage the Alamo’s day-to-day operations was unduly complicated and sometimes led to practices that run afoul of state requirements.”
Surfacing just a few weeks before the March 6th primary, the story was an ideal campaign issue. His Republican opponent Jerry Patterson slammed Bush, saying, “When is he going to learn, it’s not about looking good for the next election, it’s about doing your job. He still appoints the entire board of directors and has already signed contracts for both contracting parties. What a sham.”
Bush’s reaction to the leaked audit was anything but contrite. Speaking to reporters following the leak he undermined its conclusions. “I can’t really comment on the document,” he said. “I cannot disclose, but we do have evidence that it was a doctored memo.”
Bush spokesperson Brittany Eck simultaneously announced that the Texas Department of Public Safety was investigating the issue because of possible “personally identifying information” being made public improperly.
Although it would have settled the matter conclusively, the official “undoctored” edition of the Alamo audit was kept under wraps in the lead up to the March 6th primary. George P Bush won the four-way Republican nomination contest outright with 58% of the vote.
The Alamo Audit is finally published
The Alamo audit is now available to the public to read, and surprise, surprise it is essentially the same as the “doctored” version that has been under investigation. The damning opening paragraph in each version was word-for-word identical:
“GLO should reconsider the structure and funding model it uses for operating the Alamo. A contractor performs the daily operations, but it uses state resources to do this, as it does not have its own funds or other assets. This is an unusual situation that has created complexity and a lack of clarity regarding the nature and the use of the funds used for Alamo operations. It is also the root cause of several of the observations in this report.”
The response of the Alamo Trust (which Bush is on the board of) is also included in the latest audit version: “Management concurs with the recommendations.”
Writing in the non-profit Texas Tribune, Ross Ramsey gave Bush full credit for his Machiavellian maneuvers:
“The land commissioner’s suggestion that the draft memo was ‘doctored’ temporarily sunk the stories about his management of the Alamo, for the most part, and it did so at a critical time: Less than two weeks later, early voting in the primary elections began…Now that the final audit is out, you can audit the land commissioner’s political spin. Give him an A-plus.”
Bush is now safely through the Republican primary, but the Democratic primary winner Miguel Suazo will do his best to keep the Alamo audit issue alive until November. After the audit was made public he tweeted, “Every Texan should be concerned by the findings of the audit. Bush has operated the Alamo with a complete lack of transparency and in violation of Texas law. It demonstrates that George P. Bush is in over his head, lacks competence to manage our state’s most historic landmark.”
With five months to go before election day, however, the chances of the Alamo audit still being in the headlines when voters head to the polls seems unlikely. Whatever Suazo says, when it comes to political intrigue George P Bush is hardly in over his head.
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Crawford stands tall again as Wild hit new low
By Ryan DadounJan 11, 2015, 10:47 PM EDT
The Minnesota Wild’s descent continued on Sunday as they matched a season-worst five-game losing streak with a 4-1 decision versus Chicago.
The Wild’s latest drop is actually worse than their previous slump in practical terms as they’ve only earned one consolation point over this drought compared to three from their Dec. 16-27 losing streak. Of course, both slumps have essentially blended together as part of a horrendous 2-7-4 stretch that has threatened to knock Minnesota out of the playoff race well before the conclusion of the season. This in the third campaign of the Zach Parise/Ryan Suter era that was supposed to lift the young franchise to previously unseen heights.
As was the case in Chicago’s 4-2 victory over Minnesota on Thursday, Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford stepped up. He turned aside 36 of 37 shots to earn his 17th victory of the season. However, this wasn’t a game that he stole for Chicago.
A combination of some heads up, skill plays by the Blackhawks and defensive mistakes by Minnesota put the Wild behind early tonight:
Chicago took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission. Brad Richards and Johnny Oduya added two more for the Blackhawks in the second frame.
Minnesota’s Matt Cooke found the back of the net at 15:08 of the third period but it was far too late to save his team. Unless the Wild wake up soon, Cooke’s goal could turn into an allegory of their season.
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What Is Divination (Part III Of IV)
March 29, 2018 in Healing
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After taking a week off due to a minor injury, I'm back with Part III of this series focusing on Tarot.
Tarot is a divinatory system steeped in the esoteric and mystical canons of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, namely the Kabbalah, Christianity, Islam, particularly Sufism) and also ancient Egyptian spirituality, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The tarot is comprised of 78 cards split into to two groups: twenty-two are known as the major arcana numbered 0 - 21; and the minor arcana, split into four suits, cups, pentacles or coins, swords, wands or rods.
The major arcana represent major life phases and structures the human experience into a journey from 0, The Fool, to 21, The World. The minor arcana provides detailed insights into these major life phases, understanding them through the lens of the aforementioned religious traditions but also numerology and astrology. The minor arcana are numbered similarly to playing cards Ace to King, except that in place of the Jack, there is the Knight, there are no Jokers, and there is a fourth court card known as the Page. Each suit corresponds to an element: cups - water, pentacles - earth, swords - air, and wands - fire. Also, there are correspondences between the minor arcana and the major arcana, which in many Rider Waite Smith decks, are depicted in the image on the card. These elements have their correspondences in astrology and numerology, which allow for deeper meanings and readings.
Meaning in the Tarot
In my experience, the first determinant of meaning in Tarot depends on the experience and style of the diviner, and the school of tarot they employ. Many experienced readers are proficient in both Tarot de Marseille (French School) and the Rider Waite Smith (Anglophone School). Much of what you see online, particularly in the United States and the UK is centered in the Anglophone school. The difference between the two is more than palpable.
The Anglophone school, I find, is very hardline. In certain scenarios it is just downright doom and gloom; however, I will say it's thoroughness, especially in the hands of an expert diviner, never ceases to amaze. The French school, I was delighted to learn, is more hopeful across the board. As an example, when the The Tower appears, titled Le Maison de Dieu (The House of God) in the Tarot de Marseille, yes there is the immediate dismay of the crumbling Tower as a metaphor for your messy life; however, if you know anything about Catholic Churches, they often had wine in the cellar along with tombs of the dead. In the Tarot of Marseille, while the house of God may be crumbling, you will fall down, towards the cellar, and your job is to bust it open and swig some wine until the dust settles.
Comical metaphors aside, the Tarot de Marseille can be a vastly different divination system particularly where the minor arcana are concerned. Notably, the minor arcana in the Tarot de Marseille, excluding court cards and aces, employ minimalist imagery so you must know the actual meanings rather than relying on the card to guide you (see the 5 of wands referenced on the image above).
Let's look at the 5 of cups in the Tarot de Marseille. See the chart below for meanings. (I have included small portions of the meanings offered. Click bolded links for more info.)
5 of Cups - Anglophone School (Reference: Biddy Tarot)
"The Five of Cups represents a lack of fulfilment or non-attainment of expected results. You are feeling disappointed that a situation has not turned out as you had hoped, and instead of moving on to greener pastures, you are wallowing in self-pity and regret about what has been lost..."
5 of Cups - French School (Reference: Yoav Ben Dov)
Links. Popularity, relations with many people. Becoming the center of attention in a group. Relying on connections with other people to advance oneself or to overcome difficulties.
5 of Cups - French School (Reference: Predictions Voyance Avenir)
A positive period in your love life. You can count on your partner to provide you with a lot of happiness and to know how to listen. A period of pleasure and leisure with your family/
As you can see, where the Anglophone tarot has just told you are on the verge of depression, the Francophone tarot is telling you that not only are you the main event, but that your love life is blossoming.
Learning and Divining With Tarot: My Experience
As with any divinatory system, to become proficient you must study. To become an expert is a daily - intense, if not obsessive -endeavor. I have been studying Tarot since July 2017. I have pulled at least one card just about daily since then. I am fortunate to have a mentor and godmother who is a tarot aficionado and has provided a treasure trove of study materials. I am also a part of two Facebook tarot study groups that aid and add to my practice. The habit of pulling a card daily has helped me to memorize the order of the cards, the suits, the imagery (particularly important with Rider Waite Smith decks). Once I achieved that, I was able to derive greater meaning through beginning a cursory study of numerology and a gradually broadening study of astrology.
I must add, however, that my Tarot practice is quite different from many tarot readers precisely because I am an Espiritista. There is a particular muerto (dead person) I work with who pushed me towards Tarot and whose style and energy are the driving force behind the interpretations that emerge during a reading. In Espiritismo, we call this kind of engagement with a muerto, estar presente or presente (being present). It is, though some may disagree, a kind of divination conducted through non-trance possession where the medium is in a state, which permits the steady reception and transmission of messages from the muerto with whom he/she is working. When combined with Tarot, the muerto offers information using the medium as the mouthpiece, and the Tarot as the body of knowledge, together with it's spiritual assessment of the querent.
A Quick Guide for Beginners
Six steps for the emerging Tarot reader:
Get a tarot deck based on the Rider Waite Smith standard. It's iconography provides an aesthetic roadmap to understanding the meaning of each card.
Find a reliable source of information to help you learn the history and meanings. I cited Biddy Tarot above, which I love. There is also Labyrinthos, which has smart phone apps you can download. There are numerous books as well. One of the most popular is Benebell Wen's Holistic Tarot. I adore the Yoav Ben Dov's The Marseille Tarot Revealed: A Complete Guide to Symbolism, Meanings & Methods.
Find a mentor and a reliable group of people to study with.
Take notes on each card incorporating basic understandings of suits, their corresponding elements, as well as astrological and numerological correspondences.
PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY! (this means on your own, with your mentor, and/or find classes by reputable instructors)
Perfect your divining style. Many take an intuitive or psychic approach. Others, like myself take a spiritual approach. Study the variety of styles that exist and adopt and develop the one that feels right to you.
The forth and final installment of this series will focus on African-rooted divination practices connected to the Lukumi and Palo Mayombe spiritual traditions. Stay tuned and until next week!
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MindGames Premier Championship Dangles #2.5m Prize Money At Chess, Scrabble Players
November 9, 2018 finixsports
A total cash prize money of 2.5 million Naira will be on offer at the Grand Finale of the second edition of the Mindgames Premier Championship scheduled to hold at the Lagos Country Club from November 10 to 11 this year.
Contestants will compete in chess and scrabble where winners have been guaranteed a cash prize of 500,000 each in both sports while the first runners up will go home with 250,000.
Organisers said players who finish in the top 10 position will also get various cash prizes.
Regional qualifying tournaments were held in Sapele, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos earlier in the year to determine players who will qualify for the Grand Finale.
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The Mindgames Premier Championship is the brainchild of former Scrabble World No.9 Lukmon Owolabi who said the tournament was designed to deepen and develop the intellectual capacity of individuals especially students in
the country and beyond.
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Nigeria’s Chess Pro Tour Enters Crucial Stage As IM Olufemi Balogun Battles IM Oladapo Adu
May 7, 2018 finixsports
The Chess Pro tour will enter a crucial stage with the commencement of the Masters’ Series (a.k.a Battle of the Titans) event between IM Olufemi Balogun and IM Oladapo Adu, the battle between Former Nigerian national Champions which will hold at the Orchid Hotels and Event Center Lekki on the 12th of May, 2018.
Olufemi Balogun
Amongst the notable achievements of the seasoned Olufemi Balogun who has a 2255 FIDE ratng, and he’s also Chess Pro Tour Card holder as well as the highest ranked on the Pro Tour. He also holds the distinction of being the only African or Nigerian to play against a current world champion, although he eventually lost the match against Magnus Carlson, the current FIDE World Champion during the 2017 Fide World Cup.
Orchid Hotels and Event centre Venue of the Nigeria Chess Pro Tour 2018
On the other hand IM Oladapo Adu, who has a 2273 FIDE rating is also a former national champion who has represented Nigeria in many Olympiads. Adu qualified to play in the 31st Chess Olympiad in Moscow and became the Nigerian national champion in 1995. Adu also qualified for the 32nd Chess Olympiad, but Nigeria withdrew due to lack of resources. He has since played in further Olympiads for Nigeria,
Oladapo Adu
including the 33rd Chess Olympiad.
In 2015, Adu qualified for the Chess World Cup 2015, but he was knocked out in the first round by Veselin Topalov.
The Pro Chess Tour is an elite program developed to transform chess into a professional sport in Africa and especially Nigeria. The tour comprises of the following circuit of events; Q-SCHOOL, OPEN CHESS CLASSICS (OCC), the Premiere League, the Masters’ Series and the Grand Slam
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Chess Pro Tour Debuts in Nigeria
March 22, 2018 finixsports
A private initiative to stimulate the pool of talents Nigeria is blessed with in the sport of Chess has introduced a series of championships that will throw up established and budding chess players in the country.
The championships tagged “Chess Pro Tour” will begin on the 30th of March and end on the 16th of December,2018 offering Chess enthusiasts the longest event calendar in the history of the sport in Nigeria.
At the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the sport property owner Fijiventures and Orchid Hotels that is the official venue partner of the tour, the events for the year were also revealed to the admiration of other stakeholders present.
L-R:GM Orchid Hotels Mr Francis Akpu,MD Fijiventures LTD Mr Joachim Idada,Chairman Orchid Hotels Rev Jonathan Ordega,Founder Afrochess Mr Obinna Ogbonnaya,GM Asenntv Jide Olaniran at the signing of the Chess Pro Tour Memorandum of Understanding in Lagos.
Chairman Orchid Hotels Rev Jonathan Ordega exchanging a handshake with the MD Fijiventures LTD Mr Joachim Idada while others observe at the signing of the MOU for the Chess Pro Tour 2018
The Managing Director of Fijiventures Limited Mr Joachim Idada who is the brain behind the tour is excited to be back after a long hiatus from the sport he promoted years back in primary and secondary schools in Lagos
“Chess is life and it is a dream come true to be introducing professionalism into chess again, the chess tour will be giving the youths of Nigeria the opportunity to play the game, learn and also earn something for a living as you can see that the theme for the tour is “Changing lives”.
On his part, Reverend Jonathan Ordega who is the Chairman of Orchid Hotels canvassed more support for sports that have the potential to develop the nation like chess.
“Chess is one game I love a lot because it teaches you about the reality of life, when it appears you are winning watch your back, so as a nation we must embrace what will develop our capacity to compete favourably with other nations,it is quite unfortunate that in Africa we spend so much money on dance and music but we need to realise that the world is going STEM an acronym for Science,Technology,Engineering and Mathematics”which are part of the values Chess embedded in the the game of Chess”.
The tour will adopt its own ranking system according to the head of technical team Obinna Ogbonaya “we won’t be using the FIDE ranking for the tour rather we have chosen an innovative way to rank the players which is by their earnings through out the tour”.
Entries from all over the country are welcome by the organisers who are ready to go all the way in the tour which comprises Players Championship, Masters’Series, Grand Slam and the Premier League.
The organisers have also concluded plans with an online media organisation ASENN TV to transmit Live some of the Championships that made up the Tour on Facebook and YouTube.
Chess players who are interested in competing in the Tour can log on to http://www.protour-ng.com
Chess Pro TourFijiventuresOrchid Hotels
Ofowino Rules at First Lady’s Chess Tourney
May 10, 2017 finixsports
Last week Sunday was another mile stone for dominant National Female Chess Champion, Toritshemuwa Ofowino, when she emerged as the winner of the First Lady’s Chess tournament organised for all female chess players in the country.
The one week event, which was held at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan was sponsored by one of the legions of the brain game from USA, Mr. Ayo Oguntuase, in honour of the wife of the President of Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF), Mrs. Adebola Adeyemi, to raise the gender awareness of the game in the country, had the dominant female star maintained her status among her peers.
The tournament which was a combination of Swiss and knockout pairing had Ofowino led the pack till round five with 3.5 points to move into the money spinning knockout phase starting with the quarter final stage alongside Labake Coker, Peace Sampson, Assa Oluwaseun, Vivian Dzaayem, Deborah Akintoye, Doris Adebayo and Nkem Omishogbon.
While Ofoniwo edged out veteran Dzaayem, former national female champion, Coker proved better against Sampson just as Akintoye won against Omishogbon and Adebayo lost to Assa.
In the semi final setting, it was a clash of the former and current female champions as Ofoniwo had to dig deep to edged out Coker in 1.5-1.0 result just as Akintoye was better in the other semi final match against Assa before the dominant chess star in the final match in a grand style in the presence of large number of chess enthusiast present at venue and thousands who followed the daily live streaming of the cerebral sport online.
The winner, Toritshemuwa Ofowino receiving the champion’s trophy from the President of Nigeria Chess Federation, Mr Lekan Adeyemi at the closing ceremony in Ibadan last Sunday.
In his closing remarks, the NCF President, Mr. Lekan Adeyemi, commended the sponsor, Mr. Oguntuase, for coming to the aid of the federation in the development and promotion of the game in the country. He advised all the participants not to limit their chess prowess at playing against each other but needs to play in the stronger pool of men as a step towards international domination.
Cash prizes were given out to all the winners in the main event and those who continued to complete the Nine-round Swiss event.
First Ladys Chess tournamentLekan AdeyemiToritshemuwa Ofowino
Sicilian Master, Adu Dominates Others to Win Millionaire Chess Championship
July 20, 2016 finixsports 1 Comment
International Master Oladapo Adu showed shades of his genius on the big the big stage following the massive victory at the just concluded Millionaire Chess Championship at the Chevron Recreation Centre, Gbagada, Lagos.
Playing in the pool of best players in the country, Adu opted something different, he played different openings in the tournament, with the English opening as white and Queens Gambit most used during the grueling nine-round Swiss event pairing which he won convincingly to pave way into the final knockout phase which he also won.
The feat means that Adu who has triumphed in six previous tournaments among his contemporaries, has won the ticket to represent the country at the forth coming Millionaire Chess Open in Atlantic City, USA this October.
“Its the Lord’s doing for all the successes I have achieved in the last one year in Chess. This is the seventh time that i will emerge top in a major tournament among my other rivals,” Baku Chess Olympiad bound Adu commented after the victory.
After securing a quarterfinal slot by scoring 7.5 points from nine rounds to lead other contenders in to the final knockout phase, Adu dismissed Udeme Edet in three straight wins to hit the semifinal and won against fellow Baku bound chess Olympiad Dr. Adeyinka Adesina with same result.
NCF Boss presents International Master Oladapo Ado with a symbolic Ticket to represent Nigeria at the forthcoming Millionire Open Chess tournament in Atlantic City, USA in October.
The defining moment of his triumph came in the final match against ambitious FIDE Master Daniel Anwuli. The champion had to dig deep after being down to half out of two points in the rapid, I needed to win the two blitz games to become the overall tournament champion with a 2.5-1.5 thereby securing the ticket to the Millionaire Chess championship in Atlantic city, New Jersey, USA.
In his closing remarks, the President of Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF), Mr. Lekan Adeyemi, commended all the participants including the other category of players for their comportment all through the four-day event.
He enjoined them not to lose focus on the plans the present board of NCF has for them inspite of non availability of funds from the Sports Ministry since the inception of the current board of the federation.
“We hope to organise more rated tournaments event even after the World Chess Olympiad aimed at making more aspiring players to improve on their ratings and earn titles,” he remarked.
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Nigeria Chess Masters Set for Millionaire Championship
July 11, 2016 finixsports
The 2nd edition of the much anticipated Millionaire Chess Championship gets underway from today with all the notable chess players in line for particpation at the Chevron Recreational Center, Gbagada Lagos.
As expected, it will be a fierce battle among the top ranked players to pick the sole winner of an all expense paid trip to USA and participate at the forth coming Millionaire Chess Open in Atlantic City USA in October.
International Master Bunmi Olape who won the maiden edition and was part of the galaxy of chess stars that participated in the main event held Las Vegas last October will no doubt have stiff opposition from the emerging rank of players who are aiming to dislodge the old order.
“It was a unique experience last year in Las Vegas and I will be glad if I can win again but knowing fully well that the road to glory just like in the last edition will be tough but I am equal to the task,” he responded in a telephone interview last night.
Top players like International Master Oladapo Adu, Bomo Kigigha, Abimbola Osunfuyi, Daniel Anwuli, Adeyinka Adesina, Ochuko Emuakpeje, Adebayo Adegboyega, Ademola Sorungbe are among players likely to be part of the event.
According to the President of Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF), Mr. Lekan Adeyemi, “the event is an initiative of Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) which also intends to put promising chess players on the continent to play at tournament on the global level aside the regular World Chess Olympiad and annual World Chess Championships,” he remarked.
However, only players registered with African Chess Federations are eligible to win the satellite ticket to the Millionaire Chess Open in Atlantic City which will come up from 6th-10th October this year.
Aside the main event, there are also side tournaments such as top two finishers in the youth category will qualify to represent Nigeria at the World youth 2016 Russia and African youth 2016 South Africa but the players need to be members of Nigeria Chess Federation prior to 10 July 2016 in order to be eligible.as well as chess prizes.
In the prize list made available last night, the second placed player will recieve a cash prize of N50, 000 just as N40, 000, N30, 000 and N20, 000 would be available for other winners respectively.
Consolation reward of N10, 000 each to 6th-10th placed winners are on the card just as Best Lady will receive a cash prize of N30,000 and N20, 000 for runner up while best junior player will take home N10,000
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Kigigha, Adu, Ofowino, Others Qualify to Represent Nigeria at World Chess Olympiad
June 6, 2016 finixsports 1 Comment
a International Master Oladapo Adu (2314) and FIDE Master Bomo Kigigha (2328) are among other eight players that will represent the country at the forth coming 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan later this year.
According to the statement from Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF) yesterday, the duo alongside three other male players namely; the rave of the moment and FIDE Master Daniel Anwuli (2338), Candidate Master Adeyinka Adesina (2286) and Ochuko Emuakpeje with elo rating of 2272.
The five female players that qualified for the tournament are; Omolola Sadiku (1910), Deborah Akintoye (1856), Toritsemuwa Ofowino (1779), Olufunmilayo Akinola (1751) and Mandy Enarevba (1710).
The following top players however missed out in the Olympiad train namely; Adebayo Adegboyega (2271), Olufemi Balogun (2262), Odion Aikhoje (2253) and Ademola Sorungbe (2246). Some top female players that missed out are Omolabake Coker (1660), Sandra Aramide (1648), Doris Adebayo (1612) and Olabisi Rabiu (1609).
The tournament will hold in Baku, the birth place of former World Chess Champion, Gary Kasparov from 1st-15th of September this year and most pundits have seen the method of selection by NCF as a clear departure from the past when a traditional Olympiad trial hold sway.
However the Technical Director of the federation, Alhaji Bode Durotoye, explained that the qualification process of the team was based on the current FIDE rating list released on the 1st of June and the activeness of players in tournaments in a stipulated calendar year.
“In the past, we have invited players for either open trial or selected trial based on their ratings but we have realized that it’s more like a tournament that only produce winners by any means of a tournament rather that genuine form of individual players that will give the country a good representation at the biennial tournament,” he explained.
Nigerian male team at the World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey in 2012.
In the last two years, the Lekan Adeyemi led board in collaboration with the Chess Players Association of Nigeria (CPAN) has organized several rated tournaments which is unprecedented in the history of the cerebral sport in the country and players have been more active in the recent times to give way to selection based of merit over time rather that producing winners to the the tournament which most time is subjective.
NCF boss, Lekan Adeyemi also explained that with over 30 FIDE rated tournaments in the last one and a half years is quite enough to get the best players put them in camp for training for a period of time before the Chess Olympiad.
“We need to get the players in camp before the event in Baku and based on the report from the Technical Committee all hands must be on deck to ensure good outing by the players. As a former athlete, I feel for all those who missed out but we can only be fair enough to everybody,” he explained.
Plans are underway to get the team in camp in mid August but the venue of the camp is yet to be decided as at the time of this report.
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Guess who supported the Emergency? Commies, of course
Modi disguised himself as a Sikh during the Emergency
Every anniversary of Emergency in India (June 25, 1975) and worn-out clichés on muzzling media, despotic Indira, state repression and the complicity of judiciary begin to do rounds. Now a senior journalist Arun Anand has done a piece in Indian Express edits which deserves everyone’s attention.
Two takeaways from Anand’s piece would bring a silent chuckle on the faces of millions who are relentlessly resisting and overthrowing the Tukde-Tukde gang inch-by-inch in the last half-a-dozen years. Those on the other side of the divide, the Congress-Left-Sickular “ecosystem”, would surely be squirming in discomfort.
Anand quotes from an article, “The Empress Reigns Supreme”, published in August 1976 in The Guardian: “…Pro-CPI (Communist Party of India) journals in India are being given some latitude by the censors because the party is in favour of even stronger measures to suppress the non-communist opposition.” Communist leader Sitaram Yechury, a savvy Twitterati who short of blaming BJP for everything but cataract in his eye, surely deserves a forward of this piece. A reaction from him though is a long shot.
The same article goes on to state that the Indira government was pressurizing King Birendra of Nepal to hand over some of the RSS members who were running the underground movement against the Emergency from Nepal. The article, quoting a source, said: “…Kathmandu will never hand over to the Indian government members of the RSS, banned by the Gandhi regime shortly after the promulgation of Emergency.” So please be easy on Rahul Gandhi, the RSSphobia is in his genes.
The article has some interesting anecdotes on the fate of foreign journalists present in India when the Emergency was declared. Anand informs us that the correspondent from The Washington Post was expelled from India within four days of the draconian imposition. The correspondents from The Times (London), Daily Telegraph, Newsweek and Far Eastern Economic Review didn’t budge and hence had to leave the Indian shores. They fell foul of the “Press Censorship Guidelines” issued by Information & Broadcasting ministry, headed by Vidya Charan Shukla. The BBC had to shut its office in 1975. Accreditations of many foreign journalists were cancelled. One, KR Sundar Rajan, was even detained under the draconian Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA).
Christopher Sweeney, a correspondent for The Guardian and The Economist, gave an account of his ordeal thus:
“…I came under obvious suspicion within days of my arrival in the country…after arranging meetings by telephone, odd characters would turn up to observe who I was seeing each morning, others would be waiting in red sarees in the entrance of the Delphi hotel. People I spoke to openly would be later stopped and questioned. At least twice my hotel room was broken into and searched…
“When I complained of the continued harassment by the Government agents and asked Mr Haksar (A.N.D Haskar was the chief government spokesperson) to explain why it had been necessary to organize breakings to my hotel rooms, he replied that unless I left the country as soon as possible, there ‘would be a further prospect of physical inconvenience’.”
Don’t you now sympathize with Lutyens Media who dug themselves deep under the soil to avoid the searchlight of The Emergency? I mean poor guys what could they have done but wag their tails? Don’t you have decency to shame them now, 40-odd years hence, for the sins of their predecessors? Isn’t there a mountain of material to shame them on their own sins?
Anand is matter-of-fact on the Emergency but unwittingly he has held forth a mirror, be it on Congress, Left or Indian media—the order of the “ecosystem” is more or less same to our day. The only difference is unlike today, the foreign press of those days was singing paeans in praise of RSS.
Sample a piece titled “Yes, there is n underground” published in The Economist:
“The shock troops of the (underground) movement largely come from Jana Sangh and its ideological affiliate, the RSS, which claim a combined membership of 10 million (of whom 80,000 including 6,000 full-time party workers are in prison).”
So, the Communists supported the Emergency and RSS resisted it tooth and nail. Delicious, isn’t it.
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Verizon blocks Google Wallet over security concerns
09 Dec 2011 8 Google, Mobile
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Citing security concerns, Verizon Wireless is blocking the use of Google Wallet on the upcoming Galaxy Nexus smartphone running on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, according to news reports.
Verizon has denied such reports, which claim that it’s blocking the mobile payment application on the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, slated to launch in the United States this Friday for $299.99.
But Google has issued this simple statement to the contrary:
Verizon asked us not to include this functionality in the product.
Bloomberg Businessweek quoted a Verizon Wireless spokesman, Jeffrey Nelson, as saying in an email statement on Tuesday that the company is working to have “the best security and user experience.”
Verizon, the largest wireless carrier in the United States, will allow the Google service “when those goals are achieved,” according to Nelson’s statement.
Nelson also told eWEEK’s Clint Boulton that Verizon isn’t blocking Wallet, per se; rather, “Verizon is engaged in ongoing commercial discussions on the matter.” Boulton continues:
Why the ongoing negotiations? Nelson said Google Wallet is different from other mobile commerce services.
"Google Wallet does not simply access the operating system and basic hardware of our phones like thousands of other applications," he added. "Instead, in order to work as architected by Google, Google Wallet needs to be integrated into a new, secure and proprietary hardware element in our phones."
As mobile aficionados well know, Google is pinning its hopes on the Galaxy being a flagship device that will carve away at sales of the iPhone 4S.
Verizon and its wireless buddies don’t necessarily share in that ambition. Verizon Wireless and its partners AT&T and T-Mobile USA have their own game plan, having invested more than $100 million in a joint venture: a competing wireless payment system called Isis, due to debut in 2012.
At first glance, the security question seems like it could well be little more than a stalling mechanism.
Google Wallet will be protected by a four-digit passcode. That’s certainly not the pinnacle of safe-password heights, as Sophos’s Graham Cluley has pointed out.
Cluley is, of course, right about a longer password being potentially a more secure, less easily guessed password.
But a four-digit password is also plenty more secure than a plain old plastic card. For my part, I refuse to put my signature on the back of a card, instead choosing to write in large block letters PLEASE SEE PHOTO ID.
Even that barely works; a small minority of clerks follow through with my requested compliance with two-factor authentication.
Computerworld’s Matt Hamblen on Wednesday described in detail the security issue that Verizon’s supposedly worried about:
What seems to be at issue is whether Verizon's security team can integrate Google Wallet into a "secure hardware element," or the system for storing private data, in phones with near field communications (NFC) technology. Google Wallet would need to work with whatever secure element Verizon and its partners in the Isis mobile payment venture are using. ...
A smartphone's secure element is usually a chip or a group of chips that bolsters security by recognizing a person's credit credentials apart from the phone's operating system, thus attaching an additional layer of proof for a transaction to go through. The secure element contains a user's personal information that allows a payment to be made, and that information is usually obtained with a cryptographic key.
This brouhaha between Google and Verizon is actually just the latest skirmish in a battle over who should control that secure element, Hamblen writes. The wireless carriers want security on a SIM chip, while smartphone and mobile operating system makers such as Google want it either on an NFC chip or embedded within a separate chip.
These questions seem to boil down to insider baseball. For the consumer, what really matters is that Google Wallet, or Isis, or any given mobile wireless payment system, is secure, not which party gets the right to control that security.
Can we pick secure four-digit passwords? Many of us can, and many of us cannot. That will never change.
Does it matter, given that payment processing players such as MasterCard will protect us from whatever password dopiness we commit on smartphones, refunding the funds we lose if and when our passwords are compromised?
My guess would be no, not really. This Verizon-Google chest-bumping seems to be more about profit and control than real security concerns.
8 comments on “Verizon blocks Google Wallet over security concerns”
Dr. X says:
The last line of this article says:
"This Verizon-Google chest-bumping seems to be more about profit and control than real security concerns."
So if it has little to do with security and more to do with profit, why are you reporting on it?
Lisa Vaas says:
Blogging: the art of informing while voicing an opinion. I just made up that definition. Seems pretty apt though, eh? If everybody's squeaking about a subject, it's permissible to both inform and put it into perspective, to my mind. Just furthering the conversation.
"So if it has little to do with security and more to do with profit, why are you reporting on it?"
So, if you think it's not an appropriate subject for Naked Security's newsletter, why did you read the entire article?
"little to do with security" also means "something to do with security". It doesn't mean "nothing to do with security". Sheeesh.
I also think there is a valid security concern here. When companies start fighting over who gets to make the big bucks it means they are concentrating on profit and not on whatever it is they were supposed to be doing. In this case a squabble over phone payment systems is likely to mean a less well thought out security implementation.
I for one think that Google is likely to do a far better job of security than the Telco's. They aren't exactly good at mobile software, just look at the way they made phones look and feel until Apple refused to change the iPhone and broke their stranglehold on phone design.
So Lisa, please keep us up to date on the outcome of this spat.
@ylixia says:
Debit & credit cards only have a 4-digit PIN, and that's plenty secure enough as long as you don't pick 1234 or suchlike. Actually my bank won't allow you to choose a sequence or all 4 digits the same anyway, no reason Google couldn't block "obvious" combinations.
btw don't you have chip & PIN cards there yet?
@ylixia
united states do not have chips in debit or credit cards and until forced to i do not think they ever will on their own – much cheaper to leave us open to fraud and scam us to be responsible for their refusing to use existing means to stop it
It's of course a profit issue. However I take issue with the implication that we ought not worry about proper encryption–that "Mastercard" will take care of our errors, which is the kind of mindset which denies individual responsibility for one's own security, which can only lead to additional control and domination by large business enterprises or their governments.
sciatic nerve pain says:
A similar thing happened back in 2008. Verizon restricted the GPS functionality to only certain apps on their phones i.e. they wanted to force you to use their V Navigator..when Google Maps became the standard, people were in an uproar over it, Verizon quickly updated the software to control what apps could use GPS. It will take a lawsuit probably to get them to react.
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Nano Express
Synthesis of silver nanoparticles using reducing agents obtained from natural sources (Rumex hymenosepalus extracts)
Ericka Rodríguez-León1,
Ramón Iñiguez-Palomares4Email author,
Rosa Elena Navarro3,
Ronaldo Herrera-Urbina2,
Judith Tánori3,
Claudia Iñiguez-Palomares5 and
Amir Maldonado4
Nanoscale Research Letters20138:318
https://doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-8-318
© Rodríguez-León et al.; licensee Springer. 2013
We have synthesized silver nanoparticles from silver nitrate solutions using extracts of Rumex hymenosepalus, a plant widely found in a large region in North America, as reducing agent. This plant is known to be rich in antioxidant molecules which we use as reducing agents. Silver nanoparticles grow in a single-step method, at room temperature, and with no addition of external energy. The nanoparticles have been characterized by ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy, as a function of the ratio of silver ions to reducing agent molecules. The nanoparticle diameters are in the range of 2 to 40 nm. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and fast Fourier transform analysis show that two kinds of crystal structures are obtained: face-centered cubic and hexagonal.
Silver nanoparticles
Rumex hymenosepalus
Green synthesis
The synthesis of nanomaterials is of current interest due to their wide variety of applications in fields such as electronics[1–4], photonics[5–7], catalysis[8–10], medicine[11–15], etc. Most of the applications are due to the fact that matter at the nanometer scale has different properties as compared with the bulk state. For this reason, many research groups around the world are trying new methods of synthesis of different materials at the nanoscale. One goal is to control the size and shape of atomic clusters or nanoparticles and their ordering in 1D, 2D, or 3D arrays. In particular, silver nanoparticles have been used with promising results as bactericides[16–21], antimicotics[22], and anticancer agents[21, 23, 24].
Several methods have been devised in order to prepare metallic nanoparticles. For instance, one of the current methods crystalizes nanoparticles in microemulsions, using a variety of chemicals as precursors and large amounts of surfactants as stabilizing agents. The different preparation methods have been successful in the synthesis of nanoparticles of several materials: metallic[25–27], dielectric[28, 29], semiconductor[30, 31], and magnetic[32, 33]. However, the intensive use of solvents and synthetic reactants is harmful for the environment. For this reason, it is very desirable to devise alternative, ‘green’ methods of nanomaterial preparation that use environmentally friendly reactants. The silver nanoparticles obtained by the green synthesis method are candidates to be used in biological systems.
In the case of silver particles, the nanocrystals are usually grown from Ag+ solutions. The silver ions come from a salt like silver nitrate (AgNO3). The ions are first reduced to atoms by means of a reducing agent. The obtained atoms then nucleate in small clusters that grow into particles. Depending on the availability of atoms, which in turn depends on the silver salt to reducing agent concentration ratio, the size and shape of the nanoparticles can be controlled. In this method, two elements are needed for the nanoparticle grow: a silver salt and a reducing agent[34, 35].
On the other hand, in recent times, there is a growing interest in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles by ‘green’ methods. For this purpose, biomass or extracts of different plants have been tried with success as reducing agents. For instance, in the literature, there are reports of the synthesis of silver or gold nanoparticles using extracts of different plants[17–20, 23, 24, 36–49]. The present work is part of this new line of research.
In our study, the reducing agent comes from extracts of Rumex hymenosepalus, which is a plant rich in polyphenols. In the literature, there is no report on the synthesis of nanoparticles using extracts from this plant. It is a vegetal species abundantly present in North Mexico and in the south of the USA. In Mexico, it is collected, dried, cut, and packed for selling to the public. This plant, also known as canaigre dock or wild rhubarb, can be of interest for green synthesis because it contains a large amount of natural antioxidants. Among the antioxidant molecules this plant contains, polyphenolic compounds, like flavan-3-ols (tannins) and stilbenes, are found in large quantities. These molecules are potentially strong reducing agents due to their numerous OH groups that promote their antioxidant activity[50, 51].
In this paper, we present results on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles using extracts of the plant R. hymenosepalus (Rh extracts) as reducing agent in aqueous silver nitrate solutions. We have extracted the antioxidant fractions from dried roots of the plant. We have characterized the resulting nanoparticles by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature on nanoparticle synthesis using extracts of this plant.
We have purchased dried, slice-cut roots of R. hymenosepalus in a local convenient store (Comercial Zazueta, Hermosillo, Mexico); we present a picture of the dried roots in the Additional file1: Figure S1. Ethanol (99%) and silver nitrate (AgNO3 99%) are from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). For the UV-Vis calibration curves, we have used epicatechin (98%) and epicatechin gallate (95%); both molecules were purchased in Sigma-Aldrich. We have used ultra-purified water (Milli Q system, Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA).
In order to prepare the plant extract, we have put 15 g of a dried R. hymenosepalus sample in a flask, and then, we have added 100 ml of an ethanol/water solution (70:30 v/v). The flask was stored at room temperature (T = 25°C), and the extraction was allowed to proceed during several days; the visual appearance of the liquid was monitored on a daily basis. Its color changed from a light red the first day to a darker brown. After 15 days, the extraction was considered complete since no change in the color was noticeable. The sample was then filtered, and the resulting liquid is the Rh (R. hymenosepalus) extract that has been used as reducing agent in the nanoparticle synthesis. The Rh extract has been characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy (Perkin Elmer Lambda 20 spectrophotometer, PerkinElmer, Waltham, MA, USA) and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) experiments with a Bruker Avance 400 apparatus (Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI, USA) operating at 400 MHz, at 25°C. For the NMR experiments, a portion of the Rh extract was concentrated on a rotary evaporator at 37°C and dried under vacuum. The resulting dark brown solid was washed three times with 100 ml of tetrahydrofuran (Aldrich 99.9% purity) and purified using a glass filter. The filtrate was evaporated and dried under vacuum. With the solid, obtained NMR tubes were prepared in deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO-d6). The internal reference was tetramethylsilane.
For the nanoparticle synthesis, we have prepared one solution of AgNO3 in water; the concentration was 0.1 M. Different volumes of this solution have been mixed with a fixed volume of the Rh extract (VRh = 200 μl); the total volume of each sample was adjusted to 4 ml by adding the necessary amount of ethanol in order to prepare samples with different AgNO3 concentrations: 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 15 mM. The extract concentration was 5% v/v in all the samples.
For each AgNO3 concentration, the reduction reaction has proceeded along 96 h. The experiment was performed under regular, indoor illumination. The samples were analyzed every 24 h by visual inspection and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The nanoparticles have been observed with TEM using a Jeol 2010 F apparatus (JEOL Ltd., Akishima-shi, Japan) operating at 200 kV. We have deposited 10 μl of the nanoparticle suspension on a formvar-carbon coated copper TEM grid (300 Mesh). The sample was vacuum-dried for 24 h before observation. From the TEM micrographs, the size distribution was obtained, as well as the average diameter. The chemical composition of the nanoparticles has been obtained with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) using a Bruker Quantax 200 detector (Bruker AXS Inc., Madison, WI, USA). The crystal structure of the nanoparticles has been obtained from high-resolution TEM (HR-TEM) experiments and from the corresponding fast Fourier transform (FFT) plots.
The extraction procedure from dried R. hymenosepalus roots yielded a dark liquid which we examined spectroscopically. The UV-Vis and NMR experiments confirm the presence of polyphenols in the Rh extract. The absorbance of the sample presented a peak in the range of 277 to 280 nm as characteristic of polyphenol molecules. On the other hand, the 1H NMR proton spectra display a wealth of peaks characteristic of plant extracts (Additional file1: Figure S2). We have identified some of these signals as corresponding to polyphenol molecules[52] (Additional file1: Figures S3 and S4). In particular, some peaks correspond to catechines and stilbene molecules. For instance, at least five chemical shifts of our spectra match those of epicatechin, as reported in the SDBS spectral database of organic compounds (no. 22007HSP-44-526). The coincidences are shown in Additional file1: Table S1. The chemical shifts also match those reported for epicatechin gallate and epigallocatechin gallate (Additional file1: Table S1). In the Additional file1: Figure S5, we display the chemical structure of these molecules. On the other hand, ten of the peaks match those reported for a stilbene compound extracted from roots of the Terminalia sericeae tree[53] (Additional file1: Table S1). These signals correspond to a stilbene molecule known as stilbene glycoside (Additional file1: Figure S6). The NMR results obtained so far allow us to assess a significant presence of polyphenolic compounds in the plant extract of R. hymenosepalus. These compounds are potential reductor agents in the synthesis mechanism of silver nanoparticles. From UV-Vis calibration curves (using pure compounds), we estimate the concentration of two of the reducing molecules: epicatechin (241 μM) and epicatechin gallate (91.1 μM). Additional NMR experiments are under way in order to further characterize this plant extract. The results will be published elsewhere.
Since the R. hymenosepalus extract contains polyphenols, we can anticipate that it will serve as reducing agent for the nanoparticle synthesis. In fact, the same molecular mechanisms that give antioxidant properties to these molecules must promote the reduction of Ag+ ions to Ag atoms. The main mechanism is hydrogen abstraction[54] due to the OH groups in the polyphenol molecules.
We have thus prepared silver nanoparticles using the R. hymenosepalus extracts as reducing agent. For all the AgNO3 concentrations, the samples changed their visual appearance shortly after addition of the plant extract, indicating that a reduction reaction took place. Initially, the reacting mixture was a slightly yellowish liquid; as the reaction proceeded, the solutions became orange, red, and brown. This is a strong indication of the formation of silver nanoparticles: the change in color is due to the strong absorption of visible light due to excitation of the nanoparticle surface plasmons[55–58]. In Figure 1, we show vials with reacting samples for different AgNO3 concentrations (0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 15 mM), and different times after the reaction started (24, 48, 72, and 96 h); the clear time evolution is a signal of the growth of silver nanoparticles. The time scale of the visual evolution depends on the AgNO3 concentration. For instance, for CAgNO3 = 5 mM, nanoparticle formation is visually appreciable after 4 min of the beginning of the reaction.
Visual appearance of vials containing the Rumex hymenosepalus extract and AgNO 3 solution after different reaction times. The vials correspond to different AgNO3 concentrations: (a) pure extract, (b) 2.5 mM, (c) 5 mM, (d) 7.5 mM, (e) 10 mM, and (f) 15 mM. The change in color is an indication of the growth of silver nanoparticles.
The change in color, and thus the formation of silver nanoparticles, was confirmed by the UV-Vis experiments. In Figure 2, we show the spectra for a reaction time of 96 h. The curves display a pronounced peak around 425 nm, as expected from the plasmon resonance of silver nanoparticles. The UV-Vis peak is more pronounced for higher AgNO3 concentrations, indicating that more nanoparticles per unit volume are formed when this concentration increases. Note that in all the spectra displayed in Figure 2, the polyphenol peak (observed in the Rh extract) is also clearly visible around 278 nm. In the inset of Figure 2, we also display the UV-Vis spectra of the AgNO3 solution; it has a peak around 217 nm, as expected for Ag+ ions.
UV–vis absorbance for samples with different values of AgNO 3 concentrations. (a) Pure extract, (b) 2.5 mM, (c) 5 mM, (d) 7.5 mM, (e) 10 mM, and (f) 15 mM. The peak around 425 nm corresponds to the absorbance due to surface plasmons in the silver nanoparticles. Note that peak intensity increases with the AgNO3 concentration and that the absorption due to the reducing agent (polyphenols from the extract) is observed around 278 nm. For comparison, in the inset, we display the absorption of the pure AgNO3 solution (A), the plant extract (B), and a sample where nanoparticles are growing (C). The reaction time was 96 h.
Note that we have performed control experiments in order to discard the action of ethanol and microorganisms as reducing agents. In the case of ethanol, the UV-Vis experiments show no significant Ag+ ions reduction when AgNO3 was dissolved, without Rh extract, in pure ethanol and in an ethanol/water mixture (see Additional file1: Table S2 and Figure S7). On the other hand, we have verified the absence of microorganisms in the samples. We have performed aerobic plate count experiments for mold, yeast, and aerobic mesophilic bacteria[59, 60], for the reacting sample where the silver nitrate concentration was 15 mM. In the case of the aerobic mesophilic bacteria test, we used plate count agar as culture medium; the sample was incubated at 35°C for 48 h. The results show that no mesophilic bacteria grow in the plate (see Additional file1: Figure S8). In fact, the colony forming unit (CFU) is <1 CFU/ml. For the mold and yeast count test, we used potato dextrose agar; the sample was incubated at 25°C for 5 days. No mold or yeast was detected in the plate (the resulting CFU is <1 CFU/ml) (see Additional file1: Figure S8). Thus, we can be sure that the synthesis of nanoparticles was performed under fully abiotic conditions.
We have characterized the silver nanoparticles with transmission electron microscopy. The size and abundance of the resulting particles depend on the AgNO3 concentration. Their diameter is in the range of 2 to 40 nm. In Figures 3 and4, we present micrographs of the obtained silver nanoparticles after 24 and 96 h of the beginning of the reaction, for the different AgNO3 concentrations. For a reacting time of 24 h (Figure 3), we can appreciate that for CAgNO3 = 2.5 mM (micrograph A), the population is composed mainly of scattered, small nanoparticles. As the CAgNO3 increases, bigger nanoparticles are observed, while the proportion of small nanoparticles decreases. This trend is somehow maintained for a reacting time of 96 h (Figure 4). From the micrographs, we can observe that a population of big nanoparticles, in coexistence with a small proportion of small particles, is clearly appreciated. Furthermore, the size of the bigger particles increases as CAgNO3 is increased, while at the same time, the proportion of small nanoparticle decreases. Note that we do not observe particle coalescence, probably due to a stabilizing effect produced by the antioxidant molecules.
TEM micrographs of the silver nanoparticles obtained for different AgNO 3 concentrations. (A) 2.5 mM, (B) 5 mM, (C) 7.5 mM, and (D) 15 mM, after a reaction time of 24 h.
We have quantified these tendencies by statistically analyzing a population of more than 500 nanoparticles for each reaction time. The results are shown in Figure 5, where for matters of clarity, we present the full histograms for 96 h of reaction time, and only a representative curve for 24 h. For the shorter reaction time (24 h, black curves in Figure 5), most of the particles are small, with an average diameter around 3 to 5 nm. For 96 h after the beginning of the reaction, two populations are clearly distinguishable in the histograms. The first one is a subpopulation of small nanoparticles of average diameter around 4 to 5 nm. However, there exists also a considerable fraction of nanoparticles with larger average diameters, of the order of 10 to 20 nm. The average diameter of these larger particles grows with an increase in the AgNO3 concentration.
Size distribution of the obtained silver nanoparticles for different values of the AgNO 3 concentration. (A) 2.5 mM, (B) 5 mM, (C) 7.5 mM, and (D) 15 mM, and two reaction times (24 and 96 h). For clarity, we display the full histogram and a fit (green curve) for 96 h, but only the fit (black curve) for 24 h. Note the two populations for a reaction time of 96 h. The statistical analysis has been performed with more than 500 nanoparticles in each case.
The chemical composition of the obtained particles was assessed by EDS spectroscopy. From the EDS spectra (see Additional file1: Figure S9), we have confirmed that the nanoparticles are mainly composed of silver (subtracting the Cu, Si, and C contributions from the TEM grid and the detector window). Some amount of oxygen is also displayed in the EDS results (see Additional file1: Table S3), probably meaning that some trace amount of the extract is still present in the TEM grid.
The crystallographic analysis confirms that the nanoparticles are indeed silver crystals. For instance, in Figures 6 and7, we show HR-TEM images of two representative nanoparticles, with the corresponding FFT plot. Very interestingly, these results show that the nanoparticle population has a combination of two kinds of crystal symmetries: face centered cubic (fcc) and hexagonal (4H). The prevalence rates of these geometries are 79% (fcc) and 21% (4H). We have computed the interplanar distances from the micrographs and the FFT plots. In the case of the fcc nanoparticles, the interplanar distances are d1 = 2.316 Å, d2 = 1.517 Å, and d3 = 1.159 Å. They are, respectively, associated with the planes (111), (220), and (222) corresponding to the fcc structure of a silver crystal. On the other hand, the interplanar distances for the 4H structure are d1 = 2.405 Å, d2 = 2.275 Å, d3 = 1.407 Å, d4 = 1.249 Å, and d5 = 1.149 Å, corresponding to the planes (101), (1-12), (110), (008), and (203) of a hexagonal 4H structure[61]. We have characterized the nanoparticle population for both the fcc and 4H structures, analyzing 100 particles. The results are shown in Figure 8. We observe that the fcc nanoparticles display two size populations: one with a small average diameter (around 10 nm) and a second one with a larger diameter (around 28 nm). On the other hand, the hexagonal nanoparticles have only one size population and larger diameters (around 38 nm). Note that the results shown in Figure 8 correspond to samples where the reaction time is of 30 days.
HR-TEM images of a representative nanoparticl, with fcc structure. HR-TEM image of a silver nanoparticle, the crystal planes correspond to a fcc structure (A) with its corresponding FFT plot (B). The other figure (C) is an integrated image from the FFT plot. The reaction time was 96 h.
HR-TEM images of a representative nanoparticle, with hexagonal (4H) structure. HR-TEM image of a silver nanoparticle, the crystal planes correspond to a hexagonal (4H) structure (A) with its corresponding FFT plot (B). The other figure (C) is an integrated image from the FFT plot. The reaction time was 96 h.
TEM micrograph displaying both fcc and 4H nanoparticles. The population histogram for each crystal structure is also displayed. The statistical analysis has been performed with 100 nanoparticles. The reaction time was 30 days.
The observed features in the TEM, UV-Vis,, and visual observation experiments can be summarized and understood as follows. The polyphenols contained in the R. hymenosepalus extracts act effectively as reducing agents for the Ag+ ions due to their antioxidant activity. The reduction reaction promotes the nucleation and growth of nearly spherical Ag nanoparticles. As expected, the kinetics of nanoparticle formation, as well as the resulting nanoparticle populations, depends on the AgNO3 concentration. Higher silver nitrate concentrations yield more nanoparticles for reacting times of 24 h, because more material is available for the nanoparticle growth. However, when the reaction time is 96 h, two populations of nanoparticles are present. In this case, most of the silver atoms are accommodated in large nanoparticles.
We have prepared silver nanoparticles using extracts of R. hymenosepalus, a plant abundantly found in North Mexico and in the south of the USA, as reducing agent. The results are very promising since the extract promotes the formation of nanoparticles at room temperature with a fast kinetics and with no harmful chemicals. Our method is easy to perform in a single step. NMR and UV-Vis spectroscopy experiments show that R. hymenosepalus is a plant rich in polyphenols, such as catechines and stilbenes, molecules that have antioxidant activity and are also found in plants like green tea and grapes. The same molecular mechanisms responsible of the antioxidant activity allow the use of these molecules as reducing agents and stabilizing effects for silver nanoparticles. The silver nanoparticles synthesized by this method are strong candidates for its use in biological systems. The diameter of the silver nanoparticles is in the range of 2 to 40 nm, as shown by TEM experiments. Interestingly, the silver nanoparticle population is composed of a mixture of face-centered cubic and hexagonal structures. The presence of the hexagonal crystal atypical structure 4H for silver nanoparticles was obtained by this method, opening a new route to study catalytical activity, antimicrobial properties, and the optical response of this nanomaterial.
This research was partially funded by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt - Mexico): grants 128192 and 105236. ERL acknowledges a graduate grant from Conacyt. The TEM experiments were performed in the Laboratorio de Microscopía Electrónica de la Universidad de Sonora.
11671_2013_1552_MOESM1_ESM.pdf Additional file 1: Dried roots of Rumex hymenosepalus (Figure S1).1H NMR spectra of Rh in DMSO-d6 referenced to TMS (Figure S2). Section of the 1H NMR spectra of the Rh extract (Figure S3). Following section of the 1H NMR spectra of the Rh extract (Figure S4). 1H NMR chemical shifts for the Rh extract (first column) as compared to those reported in the literature (Table S1). Molecular structure of the catechin compounds found in the Rh extract (Figure S5). Molecular structure of stilbene glycoside found in the Rh extract (Figure S6). Composition of samples without Rh extract (Table S2). UV-Vis spectrum of solutions without Rh extract (Figure S7). Sterility test of (A) aerobic mesophilic bacteria and (B) mold and yeast (Figure S8). EDS spectra for a silver nanoparticle (Figure S9). Chemical analysis of the EDS results for a silver nanoparticle (Table S3). (PDF 768 KB)
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ERL, RIP, and REN carried out the experiments. ERL, RIP, REN, JT, RHU, and AM analyzed the data. CIP conducted the plate count experiments. ERL, RIP, JT, and AM developed the conceptual framework, and AM supervised the whole work. ERL, RIP, and AM drafted the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Departamento de Investigación en Física, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, México
Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Metalurgia, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, México
Departamento de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, México
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Sonora, Apartado Postal 1626, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, México
Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo A.C, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83304, México
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the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is an impressive piece of technology, bringing some of the best we've seen in a smartphone, and unlike Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is dual cameras give you bokeh shots and lossless zoom .
Speedy performance
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The fingerprint reader is really awkwardly placed - too high up and right next to the camera.
The loudspeaker scores a Good rating in our test, pretty much at the level of the competition. It's still just a single speaker, though.
The Note8 borrows its great 8MP, f/1.7 autofocus selfie shooter from the S8 pair as well. It is bright enough to perform well in most lighting conditions.
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Samsung has taken the flagship game to the next level with the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 , both in size and in price, but if you’re not into the s-pen is it worth choosing over something like the Samsung Galaxy S8 plus, we are nasphones.com and this is our Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Review .
with its polished aluminum frame covered by Gorilla Glass the Galaxy Note 8 has a glossy Sheen that really catches the eye, it’s a big phone, built around a 6.3 inch display the no date is a little bit larger than the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus .
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is definitely a two-handed affair though and with this tall aspect ratio it may stick out when you put it in your pocket, still the build is solid in with an ip68 rating water isn’t a problem for this phone .
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it is further away from the camera lens though which makes you a little less likely to smudge it, we really prefer to use other unlocking methods like the iris scanner or the face recognition, we both work fast and the iris scanner even works in the dark .
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and when the phone’s asleep the always-on display gives you the time and notifications at a glance, our Galaxy Note 8 has an Exynos 8895 (10 nm) – EMEA chipset and 6 gigs of RAM, but depending on the market you can find it running on a snapdragon 835 .
in benchmarks Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with both chipsets perform equally well and are near the top of the pack for this year’s flagships, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 opens apps just fine too, it’s one of the snappier phones we’ve seen . Read More : Samsung Galaxy A8+ 2018
at 3300 milliamp hours the battery in the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is a bit smaller than the one in the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, it’s a bit strange as it’s a larger phone, it’s battery life is just as good though and scored 89 hours in our proprietary test routine .
with quick charge 2.0 recharge the battery from 0 to 40% in 30 minutes and it also supports wireless charging which is pretty convenient .
the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has the same F/1.7 camera found on the galaxy S8 but for the first time for Samsung there’s also a second telephoto camera, this one at f/2.4 both our 12-megapixels and both have OIS .
pictures come out with great detail, high dynamic range and really low noise, colors are vibrant there may be a bit over saturating .
the telephoto camera allows for two times lossless zoom on your subject, shooting through this camera is a little slower and softer than the main cam, but is still one of the sharpest telephoto cameras we’ve seen .
after it gets dark shots have low noise and lots of detail, heping oh is on the telephoto lens really helps if you want to zoom at night, though the phone will switch the wide-angle if it gets too dark .
the dual cameras allow you to create a live focus shot with a blurred background behind your subject, the effect is great but sometimes a piece of hair might get blurred out .
you can adjust the level of blur anytime in post and you can even switch between the telephoto and wide-angle after the picture is taken .
the eight megapixel front-cam also has autofocus, so it’s easy to get a nice selfie, selfies a sharp and really detailed, 4k videos are great with lots of detail and the same saturated colors as still shots we did notice some focus hunting when using the telephoto zoom though, 1080p videos are really good too, but with a little more noise than 4k . Read More : Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus
the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is an impressive piece of technology, bringing some of the best we’ve seen in a smartphone, and unlike Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is dual cameras give you bokeh shots and lossless zoom .
but the big size isn’t for everyone and a lot of what it can do is flush a competitor’s can do as well, the evening feature you’re getting here is s-pen, a streamlined way of interacting with your phone which you won’t find anywhere else .
this is something that would fit your lifestyle then despite the high price tag the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 could be the right choice for you .
Specification: Samsung Galaxy Note 8
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 13(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 25(1900), 26(850), 28(700)
HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (5CA) Cat16 1024/150 Mbps
2017, August
Available. Released 2017, September
Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5), aluminum frame
IP68 dust/water proof (up to 1.5m for 30 mins), Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified), Stylus
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
6.3 inches, 101.1 cm2 (~83.2% screen-to-body ratio)
1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~521 ppi density)
Other screen features
3D Touch (home button only), Always-on display, HDR10
Android 7.1.1 (Nougat), upgradable to Android 9.0 (Pie)
Exynos 8895 (10 nm) – EMEA, Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835 (10 nm) – USA & China
Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz Mongoose M2 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) – EMEA, Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo) – USA & China
Adreno 540 – USA & China, Mali-G71 MP20 – EMEA
microSD, up to 512 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual SIM model only
64/128/256 GB, 6 GB RAM
12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm (wide), 1/2.55", 1.4µm, dual pixel PDAF, OIS, 12 MP, f/2.4, 52mm (telephoto), 1/3.6", 1.0µm, AF, OIS, 2x optical zoom, Dual
LED flash, auto-HDR, panorama
2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps, HDR, dual-video rec.
Single, 8 MP, f/1.7, 25mm (wide), 1/3.6", 1.22µm, AF
Dual video call, Auto-HDR
32-bit/384kHz audio, Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX
Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO
ANT+, Bixby natural language commands and dictation, Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2, Samsung DeX (desktop experience support)
Fast battery charging 15W (Quick Charge 2.0), Non-removable Li-Ion 3300 mAh battery, Qi/PMA wireless charging (market dependent)
Up to 22 h (3G)
Midnight Black, Maple Gold, Orchid Gray, Deep Sea Blue, Star Pink (Taiwan only)
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Mary, Mother of the Church
The Monday after Pentecost is now the feast of the memorial of Mary, "Mater Ecclesiae." Some texts from Pope Francis and Cardinal Robert Sarah to help appreciate this liturgical feast.
From the Pope 06/10/2019
May 31 is the feast of our Lady's visitation to her cousin Elizabeth. Some reflections on the canticle Mary entoned to express her great joy: the Magnificat.
Getting to know our Lady 05/30/2019
A Marian Month
The Church's tradition in many places dedicates the month of May to our Lady. Some words from Saint John Paul II and Saint Josemaría on growing in love for Mary.
The Annunciation of the Lord
On March 25, the Church celebrates the feast of the Incarnation of the eternal Son of the Father in the Virgin Mary. A brief video from the Holy Land and some texts to help us go more deeply into this mystery.
Quotes to foster prayer 03/22/2019
"Mary's eyes reflect the beauty of God"
Homily of Pope Francis given on January 1 in Saint Peter's Basilica, for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
"Show us you are a mother!"
December 12 is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. An account of Saint Josemaria's pilgrimage to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, in May 1970, where he was accompanied by Msgr. Javier Echevarria and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo.
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Novena to the Immaculate Conception
On November 30, we begin 9 days of special preparation for the great feast of our Lady's Immaculate Conception. Some resources for growing in love for Mary Immaculate.
"To you I entrust the future of the Church"
October 22 is the feast day of Saint John Paul II. Here is his moving homily at a Mass in the Shrine of Our Lady of Calvary in Poland, during his final apostolic trip to his homeland.
October, Month of the Rosary
The entire month of October is dedicated to the Mother of God under the advocation of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated by the Church on the 7th.
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For the feast of the birth of our Lady on September 8, here is a poem by Robert Southwell, who died a martyr for the faith in 1595.
Life of Mary 09/06/2018
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Why OPEC’s Decision To Delay Makes Sense
By Nick Cunningham - Mar 19, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT
OPEC decided to maintain deeper cuts for the next few months, but it also decided to delay until June a decision on whether or not to extend the supply curbs.
When OPEC and its non-OPEC partners announced the new round of production cuts last December in Vienna, it also said that it would revisit the agreement in April. The meeting was intended to assess the progress of the cuts, take stock of the oil market, and decide whether or not to continue the agreement.
Now, OPEC feels it needs to kick the can down the road. Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said that because the oil market will probably remain oversupplied through the first half of the year, it would be premature to try to make a decision in April.
Some analysts aren’t quite as pessimistic as the Saudi oil minister, but delaying a decision makes sense, and not just because Riyadh thinks the market is dealing with too much oil. The biggest reason to delay any action is that the waivers on Iran sanctions are set to expire in May and the Trump administration has to decide whether it wants to extend them, extend some of them, or go for broke by letting them expire.
The Trump administration has sent contradicting signals on this issue in the last few weeks. The Trump team’s lead envoy on Iran sanctions, Brian Hook, said in Houston earlier this month that the degree to which the U.S. government tightens the screws may hinge on Venezuela. Hook’s comments, made at the IHS CERAWeek Conference, sounded somewhat conciliatory, and he admitted that America’s ambitions will be calibrated with an eye on oil prices. Trump “has made it very clear that we need to have a campaign of maximum economic pressure ... but he also doesn't want to shock oil markets, he wants to ensure a well-supplied and stable oil market,” Hook said. “When you have a better-supplied oil market it enables us to accelerate our path to zero, but we also know that there are a lot of variables that go into a well-supplied and stable oil market.” Related: “Perfect Storm” Drives Oil Prices Higher
However, several unnamed officials recently told Bloomberg that the oil market could survive just fine without any Iranian oil exports this year. The comments suggest that the Trump administration is at least considering the harshest strategy of “going to zero.”
More likely would be a strategy of trying to get Iran’s exports below 1 million barrels per day (mb/d), down from around 1.2 mb/d, as other sources told Reuters recently.
Precisely because the signals are confusing and somewhat contradictory, it makes sense for OPEC to delay any decision on the supply cuts.
At the same time, the crisis in Venezuela does not appear to be close to a conclusion. Venezuela’s oil production fell by 140,000 bpd in February and could fall by even more this month. The country was crippled by a widespread blackout for a period of time, which decimated oil exports. Nobody knows how this is going to play out and with the situation so fast-moving, events on the ground can change quickly. It would be foolish for Saudi Arabia and its partners to rush to a decision on production levels.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress is working on the NOPEC legislation, which could lead to antitrust scrutiny on OPEC should it become law, at least in theory. Many analysts believe that the odds of passage could increase if oil prices rise higher, which would make OPEC an easy scapegoat. However, predicting moves in Washington is a dangerous game to play. Related: Oil Slips As Alberta Relaxes Oil Production Cuts
Against this backdrop of uncertainty, it’s better to wait until the June OPEC meeting before the cartel takes major action.
To top it off, the OPEC+ coalition itself has some work to do. Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said that he does not expect the group to leave the market “unguided in the second half” of the year, but it is widely thought that Russia is less keen to extend the cuts. “The Russian corporates hate shutting in production. They benefit from volume. The state takes the upside of higher prices, so for them, they don’t like the agreement,” Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets told CNBC. “But for Saudi Arabia and for the rest of the OPEC producers, current prices still remain below their fiscal breakevens, so they would like to see prices a bit higher from here.” Russia has yet to fully comply with its promised cuts, although Russia’s energy minister said it would reach those levels soon.
For now, the OPEC+ cuts seem to be doing the trick, so it’s logical to let them run their course for a while longer. “Supported by OPEC’s evident willingness to “do whatever it takes” to maintain the balance on the oil market, Brent and WTI are today trading close to their multi-month highs at over $67 and $58 per barrel respectively,” Commerzbank said in a note.
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4 mins Oil Rises After Iran Says It Seized Foreign Tanker In Gulf
The U.S. shale patch is…
While U.S. shale production is…
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U.S. Shale Set For 109,000 BPD Increase Next Month
By Julianne Geiger - Mar 13, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT
OPEC just can’t seem to catch a break; shale drillers in the U.S. are now expected to increase April oil output by 109,000 barrels per day, according to new information published Monday by the Energy Information Administration.
The EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report is now forecasting a 109,000-barrel-per-day increase in oil production from the seven most prolific oil-producing basins in the United States, to reach an average of 4.962 million barrels per day in April 2017, up from 4.853 million barrels per day last month.
The April increase—98 percent of which is expected to come from the Permian and Eagle Ford basins—come at a stressful time for OPEC, which has been hoping for some respite from the supply glut along with more attractive barrel pricing, what with OPEC’s agreement to cut 1.2 million barrels per day from its combined oil production.
While barrels prices have lifted, so too has U.S. shale production, not to mention the rise in U.S. crude oil inventories—a situation that may not only derail OPEC’s plans to ease the glut, but may also keep OPEC from extending the deal come May, with heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia reticent about how it will proceed when faced with losing even more market share without the reward of increased prices.
From December 2016 to April 2017, the Permian is expected to increase oil production from new and legacy wells by 222,000 barrels per day, from 2.063 million bpd to 2.286 million bpd. Niobrara is the second biggest gainer in that five-month span, and is expected to increase daily production from 404,707 bpd to 443,840 bpd.
Related: U.S. Shale Faces A Workforce Shortage
Overall, using EIA forecasted data, production from the seven most prolific basins is expected to increase 277,538 barrels per day in April from December levels, offsetting more than 15 percent of what OPEC and the 11 non-OPEC nations are trying to cut.
Source: Energy Information Administration
For April, the Bakken is expected to decrease production by 10,000 barrels per day, while Haynesville and Utica basin—also the worst performers in terms of growth since December—are expected to remain flat.
By Julianne Geiger for Oilprice.com
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Haladay family breaks ground on event center in Lake Oswego
Sam Stites
Four-story building planned for the corner of Third Street and B Avenue will also feature retail and office space
Imagine a 10,000-square-foot rooftop event center with floor-to-ceiling windows and breathtaking views of Mount Hood. Inside, there's room for 250 seated guests; outside, two separate rooftop terraces add additional options.
And it's all in downtown Lake Oswego.
That's the vision the Haladay family has for the top floor of Beacon Lake Oswego, their mixed-use commercial building that broke ground last week at the corner of Third Street and B Avenue.
City officials joined the developers in flipping the first official chunks of dirt with a set of golden shovels and listened to 10 Branch LLC Managing Partner Miles Haladay describe his ideas for the project.
"I'm really excited about downtown Lake Oswego. My wife (Carey) and I talk a lot about building the city we want to live in rather than just hoping that happens," Haladay said. "I've had a hard time describing the downtown. Are we an urban core? Are we a suburban core? We're not really either, so I've been throwing out the term 'boutique urban city center,' which is the best way I can describe it. It's the benefits of an urban environment in a walkable, clean and friendly environment. That's our vision."
Miles Haladay and his father Jay are spearheading the development, in conjunction with other family members. (The name 10 Branch refers to Jay Haladay and his wife, their four adult children and the children's spouses, many of whom live in Lake Oswego.)
The four-story structure will include retail areas on the first level, two floors of co-working office space and a panoramic rooftop event center, which has been named "Ironlight."
The event center will feature 10,000 square feet of space, floor-to-ceiling windows and breathtaking views of the surrounding hills. Guests will transition between indoor and outdoor spaces through sliding glass doors that open onto two separate rooftop terraces.
An enclosed glass lobby will welcome guests on the west side of the building to a space with a Pacific Northwest aesthetic featuring lots of wood. Ironlight will accommodate up to 250 seated guests indoors, with the ability to create custom intimate gathering areas throughout the space.
A private, onsite, farm-focused culinary and bar staff will provide personal and unique hospitality for all events, the Haladays say.
The event center is the brainchild of three members of the Haladay family: Taryn Hatchel, Carey Haladay and Sonal Haladay. They all have very different career backgrounds — including renewable energy, law and public relations — but as they've worked together, they say they've found that each brings to the table a special set of skills and a unique lens through which to envision Ironlight.
"We're a family that loves to celebrate things. And as we were celebrating things as a family and hosting parties, we realized there was a real dearth in this community to host things locally," Carey Haladay said.
That's especially true in the city's downtown core, where the lack of a large meeting space has been a problem for Lake Oswego neighborhood associations, parent-teacher organizations and even the City itself when it seeks venues for events such as the annual City Council open house.
"All the events that take place in town always sell out. People love going to events. They're excited to get out and do things, but there aren't that many opportunities in Lake Oswego," Taryn Hatchel said. "We hope to be a venue to provide that."
Over the course of the next year, the three women say they plan to continue researching and finalizing the details of what they plan to offer in terms of food, wine and event services. They recently took a big step forward by offering their head chef position to Isaiah Watson, who lives in Lake Oswego.
"Combining (our research) with attending events, hosting events and speaking with event and wedding planners and caterers, there's a few things we know we'd like to offer and one of those is the chef," Sonal Haladay said. "We want to be able to offer really good, Pacific Northwest-inspired food with refined international appeal as well, so we can offer all different types of cuisine.
"We also want to offer a full-service event center," she added, "so whether you're an event or wedding planner coming in with your clients to plan an event or just (an individual) looking to plan a retirement dinner or 60th birthday party, we'll have something for everyone."
Miles Haladay said 10 Branch is in early discussions with food and other retail tenants to lease spaces on the first floor of Beacon Lake Oswego. The second and third floors will house 30,000 square feet of co-working offices and collaborative shared spaces that will be operated by a co-working management company — a partnership that will be announced in the coming months, he said.
The principal investors for the project are Jay and Renee Haladay. The architecture firm Mackenzie designed and led the review process; Bremik Construction will serve as the general contractor, with the hope of opening Beacon Lake Oswego in early 2020.
"Our family history started in Lake Oswego in 1991, and we're committed to helping a community like this continue its evolution," Jay Haladay said. "It has changed a lot in the 27 years we've been here, and I think the Beacon project will help it evolve in a way that is consistent with what the community is looking for."
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Crystals in the Public Domain
Boston College Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009
53 Pages Posted: 19 Aug 2006 Last revised: 24 Mar 2009
See all articles by Dave Fagundes
Dave Fagundes
University of Houston Law Center
The law increasingly treats copyright as if it were any other form of property, and numerous writers decry this trend. In particular, scholars who express solicitude for the public domain fear that the propertization of copyright means an inevitable accretion of private rights in information at the expense of the public domain. This Article critiques this conventional view, arguing that the propertization of copyright has unappreciated advantages for users of public information goods. The conventional view relies on an overly narrow view of what propertization means. The treatment of copyright as a form of property generally entails not only reduction of entitlements to private ownership, but also the bounding of those entitlements with clearly demarcated, or crystalline, borders. Although many writers prefer muddy entitlements that create fluidity regarding the extent of the public domain, this Article argues instead that it is this very fluidity that is at fault for excessive accretion of private rights in information. Uncertainty about the extent of public entitlements in information allows well-capitalized private actors lay claim to resources whose public/private status is at all ambiguous, and then deter the public's claims through threats of litigation. By contrast, a public domain characterized by crystalline rule structures would benefit users, not only owners, by allowing them to better comprehend the extent of their entitlements and thus exploit common resources without fear of suit. By way of illustration, this Article provides three examples of how copyright law could be reformed to create user-friendly crystalline entitlement structures. It then concludes by situating the propertization of copyright law, and this critique of the dominant narrative about that trend, in the context of current debates in property law more generally.
Keywords: Intellectual property, property, copyright
Fagundes, Dave, Crystals in the Public Domain. Boston College Law Review, Vol. 50, 2009. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=925130
Dave Fagundes (Contact Author)
University of Houston Law Center ( email )
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Title: Wakfu
For a night which saw a relatively clean win for a party that's pushed for punishing the poor and slashing the NHS, there's a degree of comfort to be found nonetheless, beyond the welcome resignations of Clegg, Miliband, and Farage (oh, so nearly - but, whom would the press have been left to adore?). The LibDems have paid the price for propping up that regime, Caroline Lucas held onto her Green seat in Brighton with her margin increased by 10%, the SNP's done spectacularly well, Farage lost his bid, and Labour might finally have to re-examine where its heart lies - in being eternally afraid of offending Murdoch or the Daily Flail, or actually becoming a party of opposition to the hateful policies of austerity. (Though I fully expect them to continue their drift to the right) And there's even some surprisingly good news from the Conservatives, per Lord Ashcroft: "...and furthermore let's set up a Royal Commission or similar to review the voting system. First Past the Post has had its day..." Toward that end, if you're a UK voter, consider adding your name to the Electoral Reform Society's campaign for a fairer, more proportional system.
Not just a cool track, but a really nifty cat mask too! Galantis "Runaway (U & I)". Or, if humans are more your bag, how about this skateboarding-themed vid for The Moth & the Flame "Young & Unafraid" - it's maybe not quite as you might expect.
Or maybe a touch of the old ultraviolence? How about this SNES-themed Norwegian number? The Fjords "All In" is.. memorable. ^_^;
VICE Canada recently took a look at Fur-Eh, a new Edmonton furcon. They had fun. ^_^ Of course, fursuiting features prominently, but they're quick to note it's really only a large, highly visible minority. Sex is mentioned, and accepted; and, unsurprisingly, that CSI episode is raised and appropriately discredited. Overall, it's a pretty positive look at what is, after all, a huge pile of fun.
A Kickstarter of note: LightSail, a solar sailer packed into a CubeSat. It's a project from the Planetary Society, headed by Bill Nye, originally proposed by Carl Sagan. It's already reached its minimal funding goal, but there's a lot more that they could make happen with more money.
Apparently, this is the first released image from Nick Park/Aardman's latest production, "Early Man". =:D
Here's rather an intriguing photographic startup: Light. They're aiming at the gigantic cellphone market, aiming to offer quality to rival DSLRs, by aggregating the output of many conventional sized cellphone sensors, but each one operating at a different focal length, with the longer lenses folded down flat against the body, rather than protruding from the device. The proof, of course, will be in the pudding - even if it doesn't equal DSLR or MFT cameras, there's surely some potential in taking a photo with many focal lengths simultaneously. Whether it'll prove alluring to phone buyers, though, remains to be seen - anything more than the current optical setups is going to add to the width of a phone, and as the article notes, the bulk of the market tends to want either cheap, or thin and light. As a rival to more serious cameras, it could prove quite interesting.
Admittedly, I'm not used to the accent, so I can barely understand the guy, but you've got to love this Tube staffer's sheer style. =:D Aha! [A transcription has been provided! ^_^]"Super dooper good afternoon to wonderful people at Victoria. All the way to the top for the North Pole, so get on board and relax and don't dare delay santa's sleigh. We're just at a red light, nahmean, soon be a green light, should leave very soon. So don't worry people, we'll soon be jingling all the way to the North, you know? Easy driver, Rudolph and Prancer All these wonderful people, stand clear. Rudolph the red nosed train is ready to get out of here, whoops - e - daisy don't you dare delay Santa's Sleigh. Yes, driver!"
Melancomedy, who previously produced The Box, have released their latest short, the superbly bleak Between Two Ghosts (briefly NSFW). (h/t eliki, whose brother is amongst those involved)
Could be good to see made - Kickstarter for a series of sci-fi shorts, Transhuman. Of course, one would hope their definition of transhuman might also extend to reshaping one's body, not merely improving upon it - although the two can be closely linked. =:)
So, here's a flick I'll be looking out for: Anne Hathaway, starring in "Colossal", described as 'Godzilla' Meets 'Lost In Translation'. =:D Intriguingly, it'll be written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, the same guy responsible for the time travel mind-twister "Timecrimes".
The good Doctor Who news: UNIT scientist Osgood, killed off summarily by Missy, is returning. ^_^ The less good? That two-parter's being written by the same individual responsible for the - ah - memorable episode, Kill the Moon. =:/ But - how about these lift doors from the new Durham police HQ?
Of minor geek interest: Ofcom's introducing new rules on switching providers for broadband and landline services (but not cellular, yet), so rather than the current process of having to contact your existing provider to initiate the process, you'll be able to let your new provider take care of the whole switchover.
I'm going to have to take a look at this, as I'm rather interested in OpenCL: a Linux rootkit that runs on the GPU, making for a novel attack vector. (h/t thewayne)
Artwork of the week: this piece by Owlette. (Entirely safe)
Wow, that's a stupid Yosemite bug! A week or so ago, I changed the disk password on my Airport/Time Capsule, to make it easier to re-enter on the BD player downstairs (it's the usual "navigate an alphanumeric grid using the up/down/left/right buttons" UI, so anything more than a few letters gets quite tedious). What I didn't realise was that Time Machine apparently wasn't aware of that, and could no longer see the backup drive, so it was quietly not backing up to that, only on the internal drive. Reselecting the drive within the Time Machine control panel prompted me for said password, whereupon it could finally see it and begin preparing the next backup.
In gaming news, Squeenix has announced, more or less, that they're abandoning consoles, in favor of mobile gaming. Naturally, it's to be hoped the nature of their titles won't change radically - whilst "bite size" gaming is absolutely a major part of mobile gaming, titles like The Journey Down and Grim Fandango illustrate there's also a need for longer, more involved titles. Eep! And now, Konami says the same thing.
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Those Tardis doors are awesome! So naturally someone had to complain about the petty expense.
Oh, it was guaranteed - just look at comments on online news stories. There's always that contingent that's happy to pronounce something to be easy (when they've had no insight into, say, civil engineering), or blaming immigrants/unfavored foreigners for social ills/taking their jobs, and so on.
And besides, those doors do indeed look quite spiffy. =:D
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Guess Who’s Got To Be As Scared As Hell Right Now?
Joseph "Murfster35" Murphy
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OK, I’ll deal with this right at the top, because I know how y’all absolutely dote on every golden drop that falls from my fingers to the keyboard. Judge Ellis is a wealthy, privileged, arrogant, half senile dick. Which gives him something in common with Paul Manafort. From pre-trial motions on forward, Ellis showed a clear bias against the prosecution. He did this, in my opinion, not from any special affinity for Paul Manafort, but rather from a definite aversion to Robert Mueller and his prosecutors. Mainly because they were daring to prosecute a slightly seedier and sleazier version of himself. He used his power and authority to flip double barreled birds at all of us who don’t have ostrich skin jackets in our closets.
But when an arrogant, unethical prick like Ellis is part of a greater group of similar professionals, it tends to create a problem. They all feel pressure to overcompensate for his bad behavior. Many months ago, when it became clear that Brett “Come on baby, you know you want it, so hold still!” Kavanaugh was certain to be confirmed to the SCOTUS, people were bemoaning the fact that he was to become the pivotal swing vote that would tilt the court for a generation. I strongly disagreed, writing that instead of becoming the crucial swing vote, Kavanaugh had shifted that power to another justice. Kavanaugh is such an abomination to the reputation of the court, now permanently residing with Sean Hannity deep inside of Donald Trump’s colon, that left to his own devices, he would wreck the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. This has come to pass, Roberts has crossed over on a couple of issues to tilt the decision to the liberal side, as well as avoiding a few cases that the court normally have heard, to prevent having to do so again to offset Roberts.
As it stands now, Judge Amy Berman Jackson is now on deck, swinging a leaded bat in preparation of knocking Manafort over the left field fence next Wednesday. And regardless of what happens there, I content myself that if justice isn’t considered properly served, New York State and Virginia are waiting in the wings. If Manafort lied on his federal tax returns, then he also lied on his New York and Virginia state forms as well for continuity. And if he committed bank fraud, then New York is almost certainly going to claim jurisdiction as well. And let’s not forget about Illinois, he also defrauded a small bank in Chicago, while promising to make the bank CEO the Secretary of the Army. The only way Manafoert dies a free man is if he commits suicide after Trump’s pardon, while he’s out on bail awaiting his state trials.
But throw Paul Manafort into the shitcan for a moment, where he belongs. There’s another Robert Mueller miscreant who is still awaiting sentencing shortly, which means another defendant who is going to be facing another federal judge who may feel the need to do a little scale balancing routine of his own to restore honor and dignity to the federal bench.
That lowlife miscreant is, of course, Michael Flynn. If I’m Michael Flynn, I’m shitting pyramid size bricks right about now. It wasn’t very long ago that Flynn was sitting around with visions of sugarplums dancing in his head, envisioning a jail free probation and community service sentence in return for rat fucking every person he ever knew. And then, down the chimney came a bad tempered Santa, with a body bag full of coal for Mike Flynn’s sentencing stocking.
Judge Emmet Sullivan did not take to Michael Flynn like a fish to water. In fact, exactly the opposite. On what should have been Michael Flynn’s “get out of jail free party” day, his sentencing, Judge Sullivan showed up with a wheelbarrow full of shit, and a scoop shovel. He spoke witheringly about his complete disgust and disdain for Flynn, his arrogant, craven disgrace to the uniform he had worn, and even asked the prosecutor if his office had ever considered actually filing treason charges against Flynn. He made it abundantly clear that if he sentenced Flynn that day, he would not be walking out the front doors of the courthouse, by repeatedly asking him if he was really, really, really sure that he wanted Sullivan to sentence him that day, until Flynn’s dim bulb lawyer finally got the memo, and stuttered, “Well, uh, maybe we better hold off on that for a bit longer judge.”
You haven’t heard a word about Michael Flynn in the media since that day. Not a peep about him being spotted going in or out of Mueller’s offices. I find it highly likely that if Mueller released Flynn for sentencing, then he likely squeezed every last drop out of him, there is nothing more for him to say or give. Mueller’s crew did their job, they already argued for downward sentencing for Michael Flynn.
So, now it’s all up to Judge Emmet Sullivan to decide Flynn’s fate. I cannot imagine anything more that Flynn could have said to, or done for Robert Mueller that is going to cool Sullivan’s outrage. Nor can I imagine that the passage of this additional time is going to give Sullivan a more kindly view of Flynn and his treachery. But the delay in Flynn’s sentencing did accomplish one thing. It allowed Paul Manafort to be given a slap on the wrist with a velvet glove by Judge Ellis, and it gave Judge Sullivan a hook to hang his hat on for throwing the book not only at Flynn, but right through his chest. If I’m Michael Flynn right now, I’m spending a whole lot of time looking at blank walls, just to get acclimated to the view.
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5 Comments on "Guess Who’s Got To Be As Scared As Hell Right Now?"
LoHa
I hope you’re right about Flynn, but at the very least he’s probably not been enjoying the last few months. When is he due to be sentenced again?
Likely not until July
Why wait???? He is a Russian agent
Whatever it takes, keep him locked up for the remainder of his life…such an embarrassment to his poor kids
Al Alpert
I hope that Mitch McConnell is also looking over his violating his oath of office (which he has done since 02-20-2019)
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US5352449A - Vaccine comprising recombinant feline leukemia antigen and saponin adjuvant - Google Patents
Vaccine comprising recombinant feline leukemia antigen and saponin adjuvant Download PDF
gp70r
Gerald A. Beltz
Dante J. Marciani
Chung-Ho Hung
Charlotte A. Kensil
Antigenics Inc
Cambridge Biotech Corp
1986-05-30 Priority to US86858586A priority Critical
1987-05-29 Priority to US5529887A priority
1990-06-15 Priority to US53867890A priority
1992-04-14 Application filed by Cambridge Biotech Corp filed Critical Cambridge Biotech Corp
1996-12-12 Assigned to AQUILA BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. reassignment AQUILA BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: CAMBRIDGE BIOTECH CORPORATION
2003-09-03 Assigned to ANTIGENICS INC. reassignment ANTIGENICS INC. MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Assignors: AQUILA BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
C07K14/005—Peptides having more than 20 amino acids; Gastrins; Somatostatins; Melanotropins; Derivatives thereof from viruses
A61K39/00—Medicinal preparations containing antigens or antibodies
C12N2740/00—Reverse Transcribing RNA Viruses
C12N2740/00011—Reverse Transcribing RNA Viruses
C12N2740/10011—Retroviridae
C12N2740/13011—Gammaretrovirus, e.g. murine leukeamia virus
C12N2740/13022—New viral proteins or individual genes, new structural or functional aspects of known viral proteins or genes
Y10S424/00—Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Y10S424/819—Viral vaccine for feline species, e.g. cats
The invention relates to antigenic preparations useful for inducing the production of antibodies in a cat which will bind to epitopes on feline leukemia virus. Also disclosed are immunogenic compositions and methods for immunizing a cat to enable the production of antibodies to feline leukemia virus.
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/538,678, filed Jun. 15, 1990, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/055,2398 filed May 29, 1987, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 06/868,585 filed May 30, 1986, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to the use of feline leukemia virus (FeLV) antigens for inducing, in a cat, antibodies to FeLV.
2. Brief Description of the Background Art
Feline leukemia viruses (FeLV) are replication-competent type C retroviruses, which are epidemiologically associated with the horizontal transmission of leukemia, aplastic anemia, and acute immunosuppression (feline AIDS) in cats. The genome of FeLV consists of a 60-70S single-stranded RNA which consists of a gag gene encoding for viral core proteins, a pol gene coding for reverse transcriptase, and an env gene which encodes for the gp70 and p15E vital envelope proteins.
Isolates of FeLV may be divided into subgroups A, B, and C based upon their interference patterns (Sarma et al., Virology 44:352-358 (1971)). FeLV-A is found in all isolates, whereas FeLV-B occurs in about 40% of all isolates. FeLV-C is fairly rare and like FeLV-B is always found in combination with FeLV-A (Jarrett et al., International Journal of Cancer 21:334-337 (1978)). FeLV-C is found in only about 1% of all viremic cats and only in cats with anemia (Onions et al., Nature (London) 296:156-158 (1982)).
Numerous attempts to produce a vaccine against feline leukemia have been unsuccessful. These attempts include those containing virus killed by irradiation, hydroxylamine, or paraformaldehyde, and vaccines utilizing mitomycin D inactivated virus (U.S. Pat. Nos. Nos. 3,966,907, 4,034,081, and 4,086,134) or based on the use of whole live infected cells and inactivated infected cells.
More recently, interest has focused on the use of purified FeLV molecules (Osterhaus et al., Journal of immunology 135(1):591-596 (1985)) and on the use of a FOCMA (Feline Oncornavirus Associated Cell Membrane Antigen) preparation (U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,331,793 and 4,434,157). A vaccine utilizing a FOCMA preparation is commercially available (Norden Laboratories, Lincoln, Nebr.). However, a recent study of the efficacy of this vaccine casts serious doubt as to its ability to protect cats from FeLV disease (Pedersen et al., Feline Practice 15:7-20 (1985)). Thus, a considerable need exists for antigen preparations that can stimulate the cat immune system and induce antibodies to FeLV.
The present invention relates to antigenic preparations and methods of immunizing a cat to induce antibodies which react with epitopic determinants found on feline leukemia virus.
In the primary embodiment of the invention, an antigen preparation is produced which contains the polypeptide portion of the FeLV glycoprotein 70 (gp70) using recombinant DNA techniques. In another embodiment of the invention, an antigen preparation which contains the polypeptide portion of FeLV gp70 together with the 40 amino-terminal amino acids (termed "rgp70 delta") or with the entire amino acid sequence (termed "rgp90") of the p15e envelope protein of FeLV subgroup A is produced using recombinant DNA techniques. These recombinant polypeptides, gp70R, gp70R-delta, and gp90R, and analogs thereof, are hereinafter referred to collectively as gp70-containing protein(s). The term gp70-containing protein is intended to include polypeptides having the same amino acid sequence of the naturally occurring gp70 envelope protein, the gp70-delta protein, the gp90 protein and analogs thereof. The term "analogs" is intended to include proteins or polypeptides which differ from gp70, gp70-delta, or gp90 by addition, deletion or substitution of one or more amino acids providing that said polypeptide demonstrate substantially the biological activity of gp70 protein. These antigenic preparations can be used to immunize a cat such that antibodies are produced thereto.
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antigen preparation of the invention and immune response-enhancing components, together with pharmacologically appropriate carriers, are also included in this invention.
Thus, the invention comprises a substantially purified polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of the gp70-containing protein of feline leukemia virus, expression vehicles comprising a DNA sequence coding for said gp70-containing protein, prokaryotes transformed with said expression vehicle, methods of producing the gp70-containing protein in prokaryotes, and methods of inducing the production of antibodies in a cat to FeLV comprising immunizing said cat with a pharmaceutical composition comprising the recombinant gp70-containing protein from FeLV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
FIG. 1 outlines the construction of the pFU3 probe used to detect the presence of FeLV DNA sequences. Restriction endonuclease sites are located on the DNA as shown. R:Eco RI; P:Pst I; K:Kpn I; T:Taq I.
FIG. 2 shows the restriction map for clone 32-50. Restriction endonuclease sites are located on the DNA as shown. R:Eco RI; Bg:Bgl II; S:Sac I; H:Hind III; K:Kpn I; B:Bam HI.
FIG. 3 shows the limited restriction map for the FeLV envelope gene subcloned into PUC-9.
FIGS. 4A-F show the vital DNA sequence and the corresponding amino acid sequence of gp70 and p15E.
FIG. 5 shows the subcloning of the gp70-p15E fragment to obtain expression of the gp70 viral genes in producing gp70R.
FIGS. 6A-E show the DNA sequence present in, and corresponding amino acid sequence of, gp70R-delta as produced by, the expression vector pJLBOT.
FIGS. 7A-D show the DNA sequence present in, and corresponding amino acid sequence of gp70R as produced by, the expression vector pJLBOT.
FIGS. 8A-F show the DNA sequence present in, and corresponding amino acid sequence of gp90R as produced by, the expression vector pJLBOT.
FIGS. 9A-B show the purification of silica fractions of Quillaja saponins by reverse phase HPLC.
FIGS. 10A-C show the results of immunization with gp70R-delta.
FIGS. 11A-B show the results of immunization with alkylated gp70R-delta.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
At its most fundamental levels, the invention comprises antigen preparations derived from feline leukemia virus and methods of utilizing these antigen preparations to stimulate the immune system of a cat and induce the production of antibodies to FeLV and immunologically related viruses.
The inventors have devised a method of producing the polypeptide portion of the gp70 glycoprotein of FeLV using recombinant DNA techniques. This was done by cloning the viral gene for gp70 into a plasmid vector which was then used to transform E. coli. When the vital gp70 genes are expressed in E. coli, the polypeptide which is produced is not glycosylated; hence, the molecular weight is approximately 45 Kd rather than 70 Kd. Thus, the viral protein produced in prokaryotes from the viral genes coding for gp70 is termed "gp70R" or "rec-gp70." In addition, when a gene coding for the FeLV viral gp70 envelope protein also encodes amino acids 1-40 of the p15e envelope protein of FeLV, the molecular weight of the polypeptide expressed in E. coli is 55 Kd. The viral protein produced in prokaryotes from the viral genes coding for gp70 and the 40 amino terminal amino acid residues of p15e polypeptide is termed "gp70R-delta" or "rec-gp70-delta." Additionally, the gene coding for the FeLV gp70 envelope and the complete p15e envelope protein encodes for a polypeptide which has a molecular weight of 65-70 Kd and is termed "rgp90," "gp90R," or "rec-gp90." These recombinant proteins are collectively termed "gp70 containing recombinant protein."
The term "immunologically related viruses" is meant to denote those viruses with significant genomic homology to FeLV such that the products expressed by these genes show significant levels of immunologic cross-reactivity. An example of such an immunologically related virus is feline sarcoma virus (FeSV).
FeSV is a retrovirus highly related to FeLV. In fact, FeSV can be isolated from tumors derived from FeLV-infected cats. In practice, FeSV is a defective virus which can only be propagated in the co-presence of FeLV as a helper virus. It is believed that, initially, the FeLV genome integrates into the feline DNA. However, during lytic transformation, when the retrovital DNA is removed from the feline DNA, it takes with it certain feline genes known as oncogenes. The resulting retrovirus, FeSV, is very similar to FeLV and is identical in terms of the envelope glycoproteins present on FeLV. In fact, preparations of FeSV isolated from infected cats also contain FeLV.
The term "host" as used in the present invention is meant to include not only prokaryotes but also such eukaryotes as yeasts and filamentous fungi as well as plant and animal cells.
The term "prokaryote" is meant to include all bacteria which can be transformed with the viral gene for the expression of the gp70 envelope protein of FeLV.
The viral genes for the gp70-containing protein can be derived from any subgroup of FeLV. All that is required is that the genetic sequence for the glycoprotein be expressed in the prokaryotic organism. Preferred is the viral gene for gp70-containing protein from FeLV subgroup A. Especially preferred is the viral gene for gp70 of FeLV subgroup A produced by cell line 3281. This cell line is available from the American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md., and has Accession No. CRL 9116.
A recombinant DNA molecule coding for the viral gp70-containing protein can be used to transform a host using any of the techniques commonly known to those of ordinary skill in the art. Especially preferred is the use of a plasmid containing the viral gp70 coding sequence for purposes of prokaryotic transformation.
The gp70-containing recombinant protein of the invention could have more or less amino acids at its flanking ends as compared to the amino acid sequence of native gp70. For example, the flanking amino acid sequence could include all or part of the p15E peptide as do the gp70R-delta and gp90R polypeptides. Alternatively, the recombinant protein of the invention could, for example, have two less arginine residues at the C-terminus, as shown in FIG. 7.
The term "substantially pure form" when applied to the polypeptide of the invention means that the polypeptide is essentially free of other vital proteins with which the polypeptide of the invention is normally associated in nature.
The term "substantially pure" when applied to saponins means substantially free from compounds normally associated with the saponin in its natural state and exhibiting constant and reproducible chromatographic response, elution profiles, and biologic activity. The term "substantially pure" is not meant to exclude artificial or synthetic mixtures of the saponin with other compounds.
Methods for preparing fused, operably linked genes and expressing them in bacteria are known and are shown, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,366,246. The genetic constructs and methods described therein can be utilized for expression of gp70 from FeLV in prokaryotic hosts.
Prokaryotic hosts may include Gram negative as well as Gram positive bacteria, such as E. coli, S. tymphimurium, Serratia marcescens, and Bacillus subtilis.
In general, expression vectors containing promoter sequences which facilitate the efficient transcription of the inserted viral gene fragment are used in connection with the host. The expression vector typically contains an origin of replication, promoter(s), terminator(s), as well as specific genes which are capable of providing phenotypic selection in transformed cells. The transformed hosts can be fermented and cultured according to means known in the art to achieve optimal cell growth.
Examples of promoters which can be used in the invention are: rec A, trp, lac, tac, and bacteriophage lambda PR or PL. Examples of plasmids which can be used in the invention are listed in Maniatis et al., Molecular Cloning, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, 1982.
The invention extends to any host modified according to the methods described, or modified by any other methods, commonly known to those of ordinary skill in the art, such as, for example, by transfer of genetic material using a lysogenic phage, and which yield a prokaryote expressing the FeLV gene for gp70-containing protein.
Hosts, preferably prokaryotes, transformed with the FeLV viral genome for gp70-containing protein are particularly useful for the production of gp70R, gp70R-delta and gp90R polypeptide which can be used for the immunization of a cat. As stated previously, when the vital genome for gp70-containing protein is expressed in bacteria, glycosylation does not occur. Hence the recombinant gp70 has a molecular weight of 45 Kd rather than 70 Kd as when the genome is expressed by the virus.
The gp70R-delta comprises the entire amino acid sequence of the FeLV viral gp70 envelope protein and the 40 amino-terminal amino acid residues of the p15e envelope protein of FeLV subgroup A from cell line 3281. The p15e-derived sequence is located at the carboxyl terminus of the recombinant polypeptide. The molecular weight of the gp70R-delta polypeptide expressed in E. coli is 55 Kd. The vital protein produced in prokaryotes from the viral genes coding for gp70 and the p15e polypeptide (gp70R-delta) is more hydrophobic than gp70R due to the hydrophobic nature of the p15e-derived sequence. However, in both the naturally occurring (gp70) and recombinant (gp70R, gp70R-delta, and gp90R) forms, the amino acid sequence for the gp70 portion of the molecule is essentially the same. A cat immunized with gp70 recombinant protein will produce antibodies which will bind to epitopes present on the gp70R, gp70R-delta, gp90R and gp70 polypeptides. Thus, the commercial production of FeLV gp70-containing recombinant proteins can be carried out.
The term "immunogenically effective amount," as used in the invention, is meant to denote that amount of FeLV antigen which is necessary to induce the production in a cat of antibodies which will bind to FeLV epitopes.
The gp70-containing recombinant proteins of the invention is particularly useful in sensitizing the immune system of a cat such that, as one result thereof, antibodies reactive with epitopes present on FeLV are produced. Preferred are gp70R and gp70R-delta proteins derived from cell lines producing FeLV subgroup A. Especially preferred is the FeLV subgroup A-producing cell line 3281.
The gp70-containing recombinant proteins can be administered parenterally by injection, rapid infusion, nasopharyngeal absorption, dermal absorption, and orally. Preparations for parenteral administration include sterile or aqueous or non-aqueous solutions, suspensions, and emulsions. Examples of non-aqueous solvents are propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, vegetable oils such as olive oil, and injectable organic esters such as ethyl oleate. Carriers for occlusive dressings can be used to increase skin permeability and enhance antigen absorption. Liquid dosage forms for oral administration may generally comprise a liposome solution containing the liquid dosage form. Suitable forms for suspending the liposomes include emulsions, suspensions, solutions, syrups, and elixirs containing inert diluents commonly used in the art, such as purified water. Besides the inert diluents, such compositions can also include adjuvants, wetting agents, emulsifying and suspending agents, and sweetening, flavoring, and perfuming agents.
It is also possible for the antigenic preparations containing the gp70-containing recombinant proteins of the invention to include an adjuvant. Adjuvants are substances that can be used to nonspecifically augment a specific immune response. Normally, the adjuvant and the antigen are mixed prior to presentation to the immune system, or presented separately, but into the same site of the animal being immunized. Adjuvants can be loosely divided into several groups based on their composition. These groups include oil adjuvants (for example, Freund's Complete and Incomplete), mineral salts (for example, AlK(SO4)2, AlNa(SO4)2, AlNH4 (SO4), silica, alum, Al(OH)3, Ca3 (PO4)2, kaolin, and carbon), polynucleotides (for example, poly IC and poly AU acids), and certain natural substances (for example, wax D from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as substances found in Corynebacterium parvum, Bordetella pertussis, and members of the genus Brucella). Among those substances particularly useful as adjuvants are crude mixtures of saponins such as, for example, Quil A (Superlos A/S, Denmark) or highly purified fractions thereof.
The term "saponin" as used herein includes glycosidic triterpenoid compounds which produce foam in aqueous solution, have hemolytic activity, and posses immune adjuvant activity. The invention encompasses the saponin per se, as well as natural and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives. The term "saponin" also encompasses biologically active fragments thereof.
Saponins are a mixture of triterpene glycosides extracted from the bark of the tree Quillaja saponaria. Saponins have been extensively employed as adjuvants in vaccines against foot and mouth disease, and in amplifying the protective immunity conferred by experimental vaccines against protozoal parasites such as Trypanosoma cruzi plasmodium and also the humeral response to sheep red blood cells (SRBC). (Bomford, Int. Arch. Allerg. appl. immun., 67:127 (1982)). Recently, saponin adjuvants from Quil-A, a crude mixture of saponins, have been purified by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The purified fraction were prepared as described in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/573,268 filed Aug. 27, 1990, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,057,540 issued Oct. 15, 1991, which is a continuation of 07/200,754 filed May 31, 1988, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 07/055,229, now abandoned, filed concurrently herewith, by Kensil et al. and entitled "Saponin Adjuvants," incorporated herein by reference. These purified fractions (substantially pure saponins), and mixtures thereof, are particularly useful in the present invention.
The physical form of the gp70-containing recombinant antigen which is used to immunize a cat can be either aggregated or non-aggregated. Studies thus far suggest that immunization with the aggregated form of gp70R in bacterial inclusions is most effective in ameliorating the deleterious effect of later exposure to vital infection. However, this finding does not preclude the production of aggregated gp70R from the non-aggregated form of gp70R by such common techniques as, for example, treatment with glutaraldehyde or other cross-linking agents. The aggregated gp70R thus derived could then be used for purposes of producing a vital infection-ameliorating composition effective in inducing an active immune reaction to protect against later exposure to FeLV or immunologically related viruses.
However, regardless of whether an animal is immunized with aggregated or non-aggregated gp70R, both of these forms of gp70R will cause the production of antibodies thereto. Thus, it is possible to use these anti-gp70R antibodies diagnostically as, for example, in a kit to detect the presence of gp70 in a specimen.
The FeLV antigen preparations of the invention can be used in a cat to induce the production of antibodies which will bind to epitopic determinants of FeLV. A particularly useful method in enhancing the production of cat antibodies to FeLV is to first immunize a cat with the FeLV antigenic preparation of the invention followed by a later immunization.
Although the age of the cat at the time of initial immunization is not critical, it is most preferable that the animal be at least eight weeks of age, since typically cats are weaned at approximately four weeks, and by waiting until eight weeks of age, interference due to circulating maternal antibody will have decreased.
One way of determining when a cat can most advantageously be immunized is by determining the cat's immune status with respect to gp70. This evaluation can be done by using the gp70-containing recombinant proteins of the invention in an immunoassay such as, for example, an ELISA assay to detect cat antibodies to gp70R. In so doing, it is possible to determine when the cat's antibody titer to gp70R is sufficiently low to enhance immunization and protect against infection by FeLV and immunologically related viruses.
Many different techniques exist for the timing of the immunizations when a multiple immunization regimen is utilized. It is possible to use the antigenic preparation of the invention more than once to increase the levels and diversity of expression of the immunoglobulin repertoire expressed by the immunized cat. Typically, if multiple immunizations are given, they will be spaced one to two months apart.
Generally, the dosage of gp70-containing recombinant protein administered to a cat will vary depending on such factors as age, condition, sex, and extent of disease, if any, and other variables which can be adjusted by one of ordinary skill in the art.
The antigenic preparations of the invention can be administered as either single or multiple dosages and can vary from 10-1,000 ug/ml for the FeLV gp70R or gp70R-delta antigen per dose, more preferably 100-700 ug/ml gp70R or gp70R-delta antigen per dose, most preferably 100-300 ug/ml gp70R or gp70R-delta antigen per dose. Similar dosage levels for gp70-containing recombinant protein are contemplated.
Having now generally described the invention, a more complete understanding can be obtained by reference to the following specific examples. These examples are provided for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to be limiting unless otherwise specified.
EXAMPLE 1 Isolation of a Subgroup a Genomic Clone
High molecular weight genomic DNA was prepared from 3281 cells, restricted to completion with endonuclease Eco RI, and 8-20 kilobase (kb) fragments isolated on a sucrose gradient. A lambda phage library was prepared from these fragments using Charon 4A Eco RI arms. This library was screened with a probe containing the U3 region of the Gardner-Arnstein FeLV subgroup B genomic clone as described by Mullins et al., Journal of Virology 38:688-703, 1981. DNA hybridizations using this region of the FeLV long terminal repeat (LTR) have been shown to be specific for horizontally transmitted FeLV DNA sequences (Casey et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 78:7778 (1981)). This exogenous U3 probe does not cross-hybridize with endogenous FeLV sequences found in DNA from uninfected cat cells. Construction of the U3 probe is outlined in FIG. 1.
Briefly, plasmid pFGB was constructed by subcloning a 9.1 kb Eco RI fragment from the FeLV DNA containing genomic clone lambda-HF60 (Mullins et al., supra.) into pBR322. This plasmid contains 4 Kpn I sites, two in the internal regions in the viral genome and one in the region of each long terminal repeat (LTR). Digestion of pFGB with Kpn I followed by religation results in a clone (pFLTR) containing flanking cellular genetic sequences and one LTR, but no other viral sequences. Next, pFLTR was digested with endonuclease Taq I and a 550 bp fragment was isolated. This fragment was then subcloned into the Cla I restriction site of pBR322. This clone, pFU3, was nick-translated directly and used as the hybridization probe.
Selection of recombinant phage was done based upon DNA hybridization to the radioactive nick-translated pFU3 probe. In this manner, 42 recombinant phage were selected and isolated and their DNA prepared. These genomic clones were restriction digested and analyzed by Southern hybridization using the pFU3 probe, an FeLV envelope probe (pFGB-env) from the Gardner-Arnstein molecular clone, and an additional probe (pFGB) containing the entire FeLV Garnder-Arnstein genome. Based upon this analysis, 28 distinct clones were identified. Of these 28 clones, 24 were found to be defective due to a major deletion in the gag/pol gene regions. The remaining four clones did not have this deletion and appeared to be full length.
One full-length clone (32-50), the restriction map for which is shown in FIG. 2, was chosen for further analysis. A 2.0 kb Pst I fragment containing the FeLV envelope gene was subcloned into PUC-9 and a limited restriction map determined (FIG. 3). Various fragments were further subcloned into M13 and the DNA sequences determined (also shown in FIG. 4).
EXAMPLE 2 Expression in E. Coli of FeLV gp70 and gp70-Delta
There are two Bal I restriction sites in the envelope gene of the FeLV subgroup A genomic clone 32-50. One of these sites is located at nucleotide 161 (FIG. 4), which is very close to the junction between the leader sequence and the sequence encoding the amino end of the native gp70. The other restriction site is approximately 120 nucleotides beyond the gp70/p15E junction. The Bal I fragment was isolated, Bam HI linkers were added, and the modified fragment cloned into the Bam HI site of PUC-9 (penv-1) as shown in FIG. 5. This Bam HI fragment was also subcloned into the PL' -based expression vector, pJLBOT, the resulting subclone of which is called R16-38, and protein expression induced. This 55 Kd protein is termed "gp70R-delta" and is also known as "rec-gp70-delta" or "rgp70-delta." The complete DNA sequence and the corresponding amino acid sequence is shown in FIG. 6.
E. coli strain R16-38, containing the vital genomic sequence for gp70-delta in plasmid pJLBOT, was deposited on May 22, 1987, at the American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md., and given Accession No. ATCC 67411.
The construction of expression plasmid pJLBOT originated by modifying plasmid PJLA16. The construction of the plasmid pJLA16 is described in Lautenberger et al., Gene Anal. Tech. 1:63-66 (1984). The pJLA16 plasmid contains the bacteriophage lambda PL promoter (PL), and the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and leader sequence from the bacteriophage lambda CII gene. Initially, the expression plasmid pJLBO was prepared by digestion of pJLA16 with the restriction endonuclease Nru I. After digestion, a Bam HI linker was ligated to the cut plasmid. This process places a Bam HI restriction site at the end of the CII bacterial leader in the translation reading frame appropriate for expression of gp70R. Next, a synthetic oligonucleotide, containing translation terminators in all three reading frames, was cloned into plasmid pBR322 which was then shuttled into pJLBO behind the Bam HI cloning site. The resulting plasmid was designated pJLBOT.
Western blot analysis of the total protein extracts from induced cultures using a high titer rabbit antisera to gp70 indicated that an FeLV protein of approximately 55 Kd was present. This protein contains nearly all of the gp70 and 40 amino acids of p15E.
To generate clones that produce gp70 sequences without those derived from p15E, penv-1 was first linearized with Eco RI. Approximately 100 bp were removed from each end with Bal 31 exonucleoase, Bgl II linkers were added, and the DNA fragments recircularized with DNA ligase. Recombinant clones were selected and the extent of nuclease digestion and position of the Bgl II linkers within the FeLV 32-50 envelope gene was determined by DNA sequencing using the M-13/Sanger dideoxy method and a commercially available kit (Amersham). Clone pUC-R16-12 was found to have FeLV sequences that terminate within five nucleotides of the 3'-end of the gp70 coding region. The location of this 3'-end is shown in FIG. 4.
The Bam HI/Bgl II fragment from pUC-R6-12 was isolated and subcloned into the pL expression vector pJLBOT. Upon induction, a protein of approximately 45 Kd was produced that reacted with antisera to gp70. The complete amino acid sequence of this protein is shown in FIG. 7. The resulting clone was named R16-12.
E. coli strain R16-12, containing the vital genomic sequence for gp70 in plasmid pJLBOT, was deposited on May 22, 1986, at the American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md., and given Accession No. 67119.
EXAMPLE 3 Expression of FELV GP90 in E. coli
A recombinant DNA clone expressing FeLV gp90 was constructed beginning with plasmid FEA-3281. FEA-3281 was constructed by subcloning the 2 kb PstI fragment from genomic clone 32-50 into PUC-9 and contains the coding sequences for the FeLV envelope gene. A restriction map for FEA-3281 is presented in FIG. 3, and the sequence of the Felv derived portion of the plasmid is presented in FIG. 4. FEA-3281 was also used as the starting material for the generation of plasmids expressing gp70R and gp70R-delta.
FEA-3281 was restricted with HindIII to generate two DNA fragments of 3.3 and 5.5 kb. The 3.3 kb fragment was isolated and recircularized using T4 DNA ligase. The resulting plasmid was named FEA-env-5'.
FEA-env-5' was restricted with Bali. BamHI linkers were added and the plasmid recircularized. This plasmid was named FEA-env-5'-BH.
FEA-env-5'-BH was restricted with HindIII, and the 1.5 kb HindIII fragment generated from FEA-3281 was subcloned into this site in the original orientation. This plasmid was named ENV-L-.
ENV-L- was restricted with PstI and digested briefly with Bal 31 exonuclease. BgIII linkers were added and the plasmid recircularized. The resulting plasmid was named PUC-gp90. The location of the BglII site in the FeLV envelope gene was determined by DNA sequencing.
The 2.0 kb BamHI/BglII fragment from PUC-gp90 was isolated and subcloned into the BamHI site of pLCBC00. pLCBC00 is identical to pJLBOT with the exception that pLCBC00 contains a PvuII restriction site between the DNA sequences originating from bacteriophage lambda pL and bacteriophage cII. This plasmid was named pCBC00gp90. Expression was induced in an identical fashion to that for gp70R and gp70R-delta. A 65-70 kd protein reactive with rabbit anti-gp70 antisera was produced upon induction. This protein was named gp90R. The complete DNA sequence encoding gp90R and corresponding amino acid sequence is presented in FIG. 8.
E. coli strain R16-12, containing the vital genomic sequence for gp90 in plasmid pLCBC00, was deposited on May 28, 1987, at the American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, Md., and given Accession No. 67412.
EXAMPLE 4 Purification of FeLV Recombinant gp70
Recombinant E. coli clone R16-12 was grown in LB medium supplemented with 1% glucose and 0.1% casamino acids at 32° C. to an optical density (560 nm) of 0.4-0.6. The culture was then shifted to 42° C. and incubated for an additional 2 hours. At the end of this time the cells were collected by centrifugation at 4,000 g for 30 minutes, washed with 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, containing 50 mM EDTA and 50 mM NaCl, and lysed by enzymatic digestion with lysozyme (5 Mg/g of cells) in 25 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, containing 0.5% Triton X-100. The cell lysate, was then fractionated by sedimentation for 30 minutes at 30,000 g. The cell pellet was resuspended in 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, containing 50 mM MgCl2 and DNase I (0.1 Mg/g cells). After incubation at room temperature for 30 minutes with occasional stirring, the suspension was centrifuged at 6,000 g for 30 minutes and the pellet washed twice with 25 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, containing 0.5 M NaCl, 0.5% Triton X100, 25 mM EDTA, and 1% beta-mercaptoethanol. This treatment was followed by two washes with 4M urea in 25 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, containing 0.5M NaCl and 25 mM EDTA. The pellet resulting from this procedure contained more than 90% of the recombinant protein expressed in E. coli R16-12. Analysis by gel electrophoresis showed that the gp70R protein partially purified and present in bacterial inclusion bodies in aggregated form. This material is composed of 60-80% gp70R protein with the remainder of the material present as bacterial proteins. This material was designated Preparation I.
A second preparation of gp70R (Preparation II) was developed starting with Preparation I. The recombinant protein pellet of Preparation I was solubilized by resuspending the washed pellet in 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 9.0, in the presence of 6M urea and 1% beta-mercaptoethanol. The suspension was clarified by centrifugation at 105 g for 30 Minutes.
To purify gp70R Preparation II, the supernatant following centrifugation was applied onto a Sepharose CL-4B column equilibrated with 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 9.0, containing 6M Urea and 1 mM beta-mercaptoethanol. The column was eluted with the same buffer at room temperature. Fractions were collected and examined by SDS-gel electrophoresis for the presence of gp70R. The fractions containing antigen were pooled and dialyzed against a series of buffers at 4° C.: first, 10 volumes of 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.7, containing 4M urea; second, 10 volumes of buffer containing 2M urea; third, 10 volumes of buffer containing 1M urea; and fourth, 100 volumes of buffer without urea. At the completion of dialysis, about 50% of the gp70R remained soluble in 50 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5. Unlike the gp70R in Preparation I, the gp70R of Preparation II was found not to exist in aggregated form.
The aggregated form of gp70R present in Preparation I as well as the soluble, non-aggregated gp70R of Preparation II were used in cats to produce antibody to FeLV.
EXAMPLE 5 Purification of FeLV Recombinant GP70R-Delta Inclusion Body Preparation
Recombinant E. coli clone R16-38 was grown in LB medium supplemented with 1% glucose and 0.1% casamino acids at 32° C. to an optical density (560 nm) of 0.4-0.6. The culture was then shifted to 42° C. and incubated for an additional 2 hours. At the end of this time the cells were collected by centrifugation at 4,000 g for 30 minutes, washed with 50 mM Tris HC1, pH 7.5, and finally resuspended in 200 ml 50 mM Tris HCl to which is added 1 ml 0.1M phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride in isopropanol (final concentration=0.5 mM) and 0.4 ml of 5 Mg/ml aprotinin (final concentration=10.0 ug/ml). The cells were lysed by enzymatic digestion with lysozyme (final concentration=0.5 Mg/ml) in the presence of 0.2% Triton X-100. After stirring for 30 minutes, 2 ml MgCl2 (0.5M), 5 ml DNaseI (1 mg/ml) and 1 ml 0.1M phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride were added. After stirring for 30 additional minutes, 40 ml EDTA (0.25M, pH 7.5) and 4 ml Triton X-100 (10% w/v) were added. The preparation was centrifuged at 10,000×g for 30 minutes at 4° C., and the pellet was resuspended in 50 ml 50 mM Tris HCl pH 7.5. The pellet was homogenized at low speed for 15 seconds. Lysozyme was added to a concentration of 0.5 mg/ml and 0.6 ml of 10% Triton X-100 were added. After stirring for 15 minutes, 10 ml of MgCl2 (0.5M) and 1 ml DNase I (1 mg/ml) were added and stirring was continued for an additional 15 minutes. After adjusting the volume to 300 ml with 50 mM Tris, pH 9.0, 40 ml of 10% Triton X-100 and 51.2 ml of EDTA (0.25M, pH 7.5) were added and the final volume adjusted to 400 ml with 50 mM Tris, pH 9.0. After stirring for 30 minutes, the suspension was centrifuged at 10,000×g for 30 minutes at 4° C., and the pellet was resuspended in 400 ml 50 mM Tris HCl pH 7.5, containing 4M urea, 50 mM EDTA, and 1% Triton X-100. After stirring for 15 minutes, the suspension was centrifuged at 10,000×g for 30 minutes at 4° C., and the pellet was resuspended in 400 ml 50 mM Tris HCl pH 7.5, containing 1.0M NaCl. After stirring for 15 minutes, the suspension was centrifuged at 10,000×g for 30 minutes at 4° C., and the pellet was resuspended in 400 ml 50 mM Tris HCl pH 7.5, containing 6M urea, and 5 mM EDTA. After stirring for 15 minutes, the suspension was centrifuged at 10,000×g for 30 minutes at 4° C. At this point the pellet of inclusion bodies was either frozen for future use or solubilized in 50 mM Tris HCl pH 9.5, containing 6M quanidine HCl, 50 mM EDTA, and 0.5% beta-mercaptoethanol. The gp70R-delta polypeptide was then purified by either of the methods of Example 6, below.
EXAMPLE 6 Purification of FeLV Recombinant Gp70R-Delta Procedure I
The solubilized protein of Example 5 was dialyzed against 6M urea, 50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0, 5 mM EDTA, and 1 mM dithiothreitol (DTT). Approximately 120 mg of the protein was applied to a CM-TSK column (EM Science, 1.5 cm ID×4 cm) equilibrated with the same buffer. The protein was eluted with a linear gradient of NaCl (0-1.0M in 150 ml) in the same buffer. The fractions were collected and analyzed by electrophoresis on 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gels. Coomassie blue-staining of the gel was used to identify the gp70R-delta protein. Fractions 25-31, eluting at approximately 0.1M NaCl, were pooled and used for immunization.
Procedure II
In order to decrease the hydrophobicity of gp70R-delta, the sulfhydryl groups were alkylated with iodoacetamide and the lysine residues were N-acylated with citraconic anhydride. The protein prepared as in Example 5 was solubilized in 6M quanidine-HCl in 50 mM borate, pH 9.0, 0.5% beta-mercaptoethanol (v/v). Iodoacetamide is added at a molar ratio of 1:1 (iodoacetamide:total sulfhydryl groups). The alkylation was carried out in the dark for 1 hour at room temperature. The alkylation of all sulfhydryl groups (in the protein and beta-mercaptoethanol) was monitored with DTNB (Ellman's reagent) to ensure complete alkylation. The protein concentration was adjusted to 2 mg/ml.
The protein was citraconylated in the dark by the addition of citraconic anhydride (0.0022 ml per mg protein; approximately 50 Molar excess over free lysines). The preparation was dialyzed several times in the dark against 50 mM borate, pH 9.0. The completion of the acylation of the protein lysine groups was determined by reaction with trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS) which measures residual free lysine groups. TNBS (200 ul of 10 mM) was added to 200 ug alkylated, citraconylated, dialyzed gp70R-delta in 1 ml 50 mM sodium borate, pH 9.0. The mixture was incubated for 2 hours in the dark at 40° C., the reaction quenched with 0.5 ml of 1 N HCl and 0.5 ml of 1% SDS, and the absorbance was read at 340 nm. The molar extinction coefficient at 340 nm for TNP-lysine is 10,400.
The purification of the alkylated, citraconylated gp70R-delta was performed at pH 9.0 to prevent deblocking of lysine groups. Urea at a final concentration of 4M was added to the modified protein. The protein was concentrated to 3 mg/ml by ultrafiltration and applied to a Sepharose 6B-Cl column (1.5×86 cm). The gp70R-delta protein was eluted at a flow rate of 6.6 ml/hr with 4M urea, 50 mM sodium borate, pH 9.0. Fractions (5.3 ml/fraction) were collected and the gp70R-delta was determined by protein assay and SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis to be in fractions 13-15.
The citraconylation of gp70R-delta was reversed by dialyzing 5 ml of alkylated, citraconylated gp70R-delta (1.0 mg/ml) against 6M urea in 50 mM sodium citrate, pH 5.5 for 48 hours at room temperature. The gp70R-delta was dialyzed against 6M urea in 100 mM sodium bicarbonate, pH 8.0 and the protein concentration adjusted to 0.8 mg/ml prior to absorption to aluminum hydroxide.
Procedure III
A modification of the above purification of alkylated, citraconylated gp70R-delta was developed. Briefly, alkylated, citraconylated gp70R-delta is modified and dialyzed against 50 mM sodium borate, pH 9.0 as described above. Urea was added to a final concentration of 8.0M. The protein was concentrated by ultrafiltration with a PM-30Membrane to yield 2.5 mg protein/ml. The protein solution was applied to a Sephacryl S-400 column (1.5×90 cm) in a 50 mM sodium borate buffer, pH 9.0 containing 8M urea and eluted with the same buffer. Fractions (2.9 ml/fraction) were collected and fractions 34-37 containing gp70R-delta were pooled. Twenty one mg of the protein from these fractions were diluted to a final concentration of 4M urea with 50 mM sodium borate, pH 9.0 and applied to a DEAE-TSK column (1.5×11 cm). The protein was eluted with a linear gradient of NaCl (0-0.5M) in 50 mM sodium borate, pH 9.0 containing 4M urea. Three ml fractions were collected. Fractions 89-95 containing gp70R-delta were pooled and 15 mg of gp70R-delta was recovered.
EXAMPLE 7 Preparation of Purified Saponins
Briefly, aqueous extracts of the Quillaja saponaria molina bark were dialyzed against water. The dialyzed extract was extracted with methanol and the methanol-soluble extract was further fractionated on silica gel chromotography and by reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). The individual saponins were separated by reverse phase HPLC. At least 22 peaks detectable by refractive index (denominated QA-1 to QA-22) were separable. Each peak corresponded to a carbohydrate peak and exhibited only a single band on reverse phase thin layer chromatography. The individual components were identified by retention time on a Vydac C4 HPLC column as follows:
______________________________________Peak Retention Time (minutes)______________________________________QA-1 solvent frontQA-2 4.6QA-3 5.6QA-4 6.4QA-5 7.2QA-6 9.2QA-7 9.6QA-8 10.6QA-9 13.0QA-10 17.2QA-11 19.0QA-12 21.2QA-13 22.6QA-14 24.0QA-15 25.6QA-16 28.6QA-17 35.2QA-18 38.2QA-19 43.6QA-20 47.6QA-21 51.6QA-22 61.0______________________________________
Fractions containing hemolytic activity, indicative of saponin activity, were rechromatographed by RP-HPLC. immune adjuvant activity was tested by measuring the ability of the purified saponins to enhance the immune response in mice to exogenously administered antigens. The purified saponins demonstrated adjuvant effects at lower doses than the crude extracts. Particularly, the predominant saponins in bark extract (QA-7, QA-17, and QA-18) demonstrated adjuvant activity at doses of 4.5 ug carbohydrate or less (assayed by anthrone). The purified saponins were further characterized by carbohydrate content, reverse phase and normal phase TLC, UV, and infra read spectra.
Milligram quantities of QA-7, QA-17, and QA-18 were purified from Superfos Quil-A by the procedure described below. One g "Quil-A" was suspended in 75 ml methanol and heated at 60° C. for 15 minutes and filtered. The undissolved material was extracted a second time with 50 ml methanol at 60° C. and filtered. The liltrates were evaporated to dryness on the rotaevaporator. A LiChroprep Silica Si 60 column (E.M. Science, 25 mM ID×310 mM L, 40-63 um particle size) was pre-equilibrated in 40 mM acetic acid in chloroform/methanol/water (62/32/6, v/v/v) .
The dried "Quil-A" was dissolved in 5 ml of column solvent and eluted through the silica isocratically in this solvent system at a flow rate of 1 ml/min. Carbohydrate analysis, thin-layer chromatography, and HPLC were used to monitor the fractions for QA-7, QA-17, and QA-18. Fractions 60-90 were greatly enriched in QA-8 and QA-18 whereas 150-190 were enriched in QA-7 and QA-17. These fractions were pooled and flash evaporated prior to further purification by RP-HPLC on Vydac C4 (FIG. 9) using a methanol gradient to elute the pure adjuvants.
EXAMPLE 8 Immunization of Kittens with GP70R
Ten kittens, six to eight weeks of age, were used in the immunization experiments. Prior to immunization, all animals were tested and found to be negative for FeLV antibodies.
The animals were divided into two groups and immunized with either gp70R Preparation I or gp70R Preparation II produced as described in Example 3. Both groups of animals were immunized with 100 ug of the appropriate gp70R preparation emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant. The animals were immunized parenterally three times at 21-day intervals. Twenty-one days after the last immunization, both groups of animals were challenged with 400 feline sarcoma virus (FeSV) particles per animal.
After each immunization, each animal was measured for antibody levels to FeLV and for levels of neutralizing antibody to FeLV. Fourteen to twenty-one days after challenge with FeSV, in addition to antibody testing, the animals were examined for the presence of virus in serum and formation of tumors. The presence of virus in serum was measured by virus titration (DeNoronha et al., Journal of the National Cancer Institute 58:129-130 (1977)), and ELISA using antibody specific for the group antigen (p27) of FeLV which is also common to FeSV. The results of this experiment are shown in Table 1.
Although all nine animals in both groups, who were alive throughout the study, produced antibody to gp70R, only those animals in Group I which were immunized with Preparation I showed any apparent degree of resistance to viral challenge with FeSV. The ability of an animal to produce antibodies capable of neutralizing FeLV correlated directly with the ability of an animal to show resistance to the development of tumors and viremia.
TABLE I______________________________________Feline Response to Immunization with gp70R Pre-Chal- Viral lenge Viral Neutrali-Vac- Antibody Tumor Presence zation.sup.bcine Cat Titer Presence Titer.sup.a Elisa 1:2.sup.c 1:4______________________________________PREP 11 400 + 0 1+ 0 0I 22 400 0 0 0 50 5 24 200 0 0 0 100 99 25 800 0 0 0 99 98 32 800 + 330 3+ 0 0PREP 12 1600 + 300 3+ 0 0II 13 -- DEAD -- -- -- -- 21 800 + 9 3+ 0 0 23 400 + 200 3+ 0 0 31 800 + 100 3+ 0 0______________________________________ .sup.a Foci forming units .sup.b in percent .sup.c serum dilution
EXAMPLE 9 Immunization with Aluminum Hydroxide-Absorbed GP70R-Delta
Aluminum hydroxide which has been found to have an adjuvant effect for many proteins and is commonly used in vaccines was used as a carrier for gp70R-delta. gp70R-delta prepared by procedure I of Example 6 above absorbs tightly to 10% aluminum hydroxide in the presence of 50 mM Tris-Cl, pH 8.0 containing 6M urea. Approximately 3 ug gp70R-delta were absorbed per 100 ug aluminum hydroxide. The gp70R-delta absorbed to the aluminum hydroxide was washed with phosphate buffered saline (PBS), resuspended in PBS and used for immunization of animals.
CD-1Mice (8-10 weeks old) were immunized intradermally with gp70R-delta absorbed to Al(OH)3 in a total volume of 200 ul PBS in the presence or absence of HPLC-purified saponins QA-17 or QA-18 or a mixture of QA-17 and QA-18. Twenty to Twenty-five ug of gp70R-delta were injected per dose. HPLC-purified saponins QA-17 or QA-18 or a mixture of QA-17 and QA-18 were used at a dry weight dose of 10 ug. Two mice were injected for each formulation. Mice were given a booster injection of gp70R-delta/aluminum hydroxide six weeks after the initial injection. Mouse sera was analyzed for reactivity to FEA, a FeLV subgroup A, at 2, 4, and 8 weeks post-immunization by an ELISA immunoassay. Four weeks following immunization, an anti-FeLV response elicited by the gp70R-delta was observed. HPLC-purified saponin adjuvants QA-17 and QA-18 boosted this response. The response was two orders of magnitude greater at four weeks post-immunization in the presence of QA-17 compared to immunization in the absence of saponin adjuvants. The results of this experiment are shown on FIG. 10.
Anti-FEA IgG was assayed by an ELISA assay. FEA virus (10 ug/ml in PBS) was absorbed to Immulon II plates overnight at 4° C. (100 ul/well). The plates were washed with PBS and nonspecific IgG binding was blocked by incubation for 1 hour with 10% normal goat serum in PBS (100 ul/well) at room temperature. Plates were then washed with 0.05% Tween-20 in distilled water. Sera was diluted in 10% normal goat serum in PBS and incubated for 1 hour at room temperature on the plate at serum dilutions of 10, 102, 103 and 104 (100 ul/well). After washing the plates with 0.05% Tween-20 in distilled water, they were incubated for 30 minutes at room temperature with 100 ul/well of peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG diluted 1/5000 in PBS (Boehringer-Mannheim). After washing the plates with 0.05% Tween-20 in distilled water, the amount of IgG was determined by peroxidase reaction with 3,3', 5,5' -tetramethylbenzidine from the absorbance at 450 nm determined on a Dynatech microtiter plate reader.
EXAMPLE 10 Immunization with Aluminum Hydroxide-Absorbed Gp70R-Delta
CD-1 Mice (8-10 weeks old) were immunized intradermally with 15 ug/dose of alkylated gp70R-delta purified by procedure II of Example 6 (absorbed to aluminum hydroxide as described in Example 6) in 200 ul PBS. HPLC-purified adjuvants QA-7, QA-17, QA-18 and mixtures of the three adjuvants were used at a dry weight dose of 10 ug. Three mice were injected for each formulation. Mouse sera was analyzed by ELISA at 2 and 4 weeks post-immunization for reactivity to FEA as described in Example 9. As with immunization with unmodified gp70R-delta shown in Example 9, immunization with alkylated gp70R-delta elicits an anti-FeLV vital response by four weeks post-immunization. HPLC-purified adjuvants QA-7, QA-17, QA-18 all increase the immune response as compared to immunization in the absence of the saponin adjuvants. QA-17 and mixtures of QA-17 and QA18 -induced the highest response, inducing endpoint titers almost two orders of magnitude greater that immunization in the absence of saponin adjuvants. The results of these experiments are summarized on FIG. 11.
The invention now being fully described, it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that many changes and modifications can be made thereto without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as set forth below.
What is claimed as new and is desired to be covered under Letters Patent is:
1. A vaccine capable of protecting a cat against feline leukemia vira (FeLV) comprising an immunogenically effective amount of FeLV subgroup A recombinant gp70 together with a substantially pure saponin adjuvant selected from the group consisting of QA-7, QA-17, QA-18, and QA-21.
2. A vaccine capable of protecting a cat against feline leukemia vira (FeLV) comprising an immunogenically effective amount of FeLV subgroup A recombinant gp70-delta together with a substantially pure saponin adjuvant selected from the group consisting of QA-7, QA-17, QA-18, and QA-21.
4. The vaccine of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the saponin adjuvant is QA-7.
5. The vaccine of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the saponin adjuvant is QA-17.
8. The vaccine of any one of claims 1-3, further comprising aluminum hydroxide.
9. A vaccine capable of protecting a cat against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) comprising an immunogenically effective amount of FeLV subgroup A recombinant gp70-delta together with saponin adjuvant QA-21 and aluminum hydroxide.
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PCHR Condemns Targeting 2 Seaports by Israeli Warplanes in Central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis, Arresting Fisherman and Detaining Fishing Boat
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the ongoing Israeli attacks against Palestinian fishermen and their property in the Gaza Strip. PCHR believes that the escalating of Israeli attacks on fishermen constitute a direct targeting to their right to life and work, which are guaranteed under international human rights law.
According to PCHR’s investigations, on Sunday, 10 March 2019, Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at two buildings belonging to the General Union of Fishing Workers in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis, causing damage to the fishing equipment.
Nizar ‘Ayash, Head of the General Union of Fishing Workers in the Gaza Strip, said to PCHR’s fieldworker that the warplanes directly targeted the building of the General Union of Fishing Workers, west of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. As a result, the building sustained grave damage, in addition to destroying a fishing boat and damaging 2 others. ‘Ayash added that the targeting of the Seaport in Khan Yunis caused great damage to the Union’s building and nearby buildings belonging to the Union in Khan Yunis. ‘Ayash pointed out that the daily Israeli attacks against fishermen and their property along the Gaza Strip shore obstruct the fishermen from fishing freely and cause them heavy losses, especially that they are denied access to the areas where fish breed.
In a separate attack, at approximately 08:45 on Sunday, 10 March 2019, Israeli gunboats stationed off al-Waha shore, northeast of Beit Lahia, opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats. They then surrounded a fishing boat sailing within 1.5 nautical mile and manned by the fisherman Hussam Khader Khalil Barakat (22), from al-Shati’ Camp in Gaza City. The Israeli naval soldiers ordered Hussam to take off his clothes and jump into the water. Hussam was then arrested and the fishing boat was kept in custody.
PCHR reiterates its condemnations of the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea, which violate the right to life and work guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and all laws and international legislations. Thus, PCHR:
Calls upon the International community to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to stop their attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip, especially that they do not pose threat to the Israel naval forces deployed in the Gaza Sea and along the costal border fence.
Calls upon the Israeli authorities to compensate the fishing sector for its losses due to the ongoing Israeli attacks against the fishermen and their property in the Gaza Strip.
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Transportation dominated the performance of QUAERO’s infrastructure strategy over the past four weeks. The largest sectoral exposures are to the diversified infrastructure companies (17.3%), toll roads and tunnels (16%) and rail & bus (12.8%). The best performing sectors in April were satellite (up 9.2%), airports (up 5.8%), and toll roads / tunnels (up 5.3%). The only two infrastructure sectors which lost ground in April were agriculture (down 1.3%) and electricity transmission and distribution (down 1%). The positive performance was broadly based with 83% of holdings gaining during the month.
With a 22% growth in transponders forecast over the next two years, the major satellite operators are suffering from overcapacity. One beneficiary of this is Speedcast International, which was up 9.1% for the month. It has recently made a major, transformative acquisition which has added market share to its most buoyant industry, cruise ships. It is also heavily exposed to offshore energy exploration and production, but with this sector potentially bottoming out, the next few years could be good for Speedcast.
Airports are also performing well; the strategy’s allocation was up 5.8%. The major contributor was Spanish operator Aena. First quarter results exceeded expectations with EBITDA up 6.5%, mostly due to progress in the aviation division. Spanish volume growth was 7.1% and London Luton was up 18.2%. Operating cash flow should rise 16% this year, unlike most of its competition which continue to experience heavy capital expenditure.
Among toll roads and tunnels, Eurotunnel was a standout performer gaining 6.9%. The company has impressed with the resilience of their business model, which is well-placed under most Brexit scenarios. Vinci was up 5.1% and Eiffage was up 5.9%. In addition to their healthy concessions businesses, their infrastructure contracting operations are looking attractive. Backlogs are increasing and importantly, as older contracts close out, construction margins are growing.
The strategy’s infrastructure services and construction allocation was up 4%. Ferrovial was the major contributor, up 4.1%. Sterling weakness has been offset by better than expected earnings at Heathrow airport, the consolidation of its Broad-spectrum acquisition in Australia and excellent traffic growth at all of its key toll road concessions.
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Amongst communications stocks, Illiad is accelerating its network roll-out both in mobile and its fibre network, which should enhance the quality of its services, support increasing subscriber growth and better mix, and move the business to a fixed cost model.
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Rangatira Investments has increased its shareholding in Hellers Ltd from 50% to 62.5%, reflecting the success of the partnership to date and Rangatira Investments’ confidence in Hellers’ continued future growth prospects.
Hellers is New Zealand’s largest bacon, ham and small goods manufacturer. Since Rangatira Investments made its initial 50% investment in Hellers in 2003, Hellers has expanded its factory at Kaiapoi, Christchurch, set up a new factory in Wiri, Auckland and made a number of strategic acquisitions including the Kiwi Bacon, Huttons and Santa Rosa brands.
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Los Solitarios (3/5): Beckett & Proust, the Writers
Posted in Art & Writing, Book Reviews, tagged Anthony Cronin, Existentialism, John Keats, Jonah Lehrer, Kenneth Tynan, Marcel Proust, nihilism, Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Davenport-Hines, Robert Hass, Samuel Beckett, Stephen Mitchell, uncertainty, Virginia Woolf on 07/06/2018| Leave a Comment »
. . . . . For art to merely display the workings of man’s lower nature is not enough; if it is to be edifying, the portrayal needs to be placed within a spiritual context… For it is only against such a framework that darkness can be perceived as the lack of light, evil as the absence of good.
(Ludwig Tuman in Mirror of the Divine – page 88)
At the end of the last post there was a pointer to suggest that it would not be wise to adopt a simplistic approach to Beckett, the man. Cronin, his biographer, had met met Beckett and what he found surprised him (pages 478-79) because ‘the powerful impact of his work’ conveyed ‘an impression of rejection of the world’s affairs and even of its comforts, a sardonic asceticism if not quite a saintly resignation.’ In addition, ‘there was a growing legend of an enigma, a solitary who despised or was indifferent to the joys, such as they were, of ordinary human association.’ And what happened? Cronin states ‘I met instead an agreeable, courteous, indeed almost affable man.’
There does seem a consensus, though, that his later writings at least are unremittingly bleak.
The dark side of Beckett’s life was very much reflected in his work.
At the very beginning, when Beckett was transitioning from religion to writing, there was a soon to be eradicated tinge of transcendence (page 147):
[Of his book on Proust Cronin writes that] Although this opportunity to attribute a transcendental belief to Proust is passed up there is certainly a general impression of an attitude to art which partakes of a sort of religious fervour, or rather an attempt to make a sort of surrogate religion art. This attempt is not uncommon among hitherto religious young people who discover art at the same time as they are in the process of abandoning religion.
It didn’t take long before his inherent pessimism kicked this into touch (page 307):
In his vision at its starkest, nothing really changes. As one cause succeeds another, calling for meaningless loyalties and betrayals, we get deeper into the mire. ‘We belong to suffering,’ [says one of his characters].
This was made even more painful in what he saw (page 398) ‘as the artist’s special burden and torment, the categorical imperative to create when combined with the impossibility of creation.’ The effect of this take on creativity was not all bad though (page 374) in the sense that ‘in the work of no other author does hatred for the necessity of creating a fiction shine through so clearly or is the detestation of that necessity expressed with so mordant a wit.’
Kenneth Tynan expressed the opinion (page 448) that ‘for the author of Godot’ passing the time in the dark ‘is not only what drama is about but also what life is about.’
Perhaps the most important factor in shaping Beckett’s art was his insight, after his unpublished early work, that (page 359) ‘instead of writing about that exterior world he should have written about the inner world, with its darkness, its ignorance, its uncertainty.’
Others, such as Proust, Joyce and Woolf, made the same choice, without ending up in the same place as Beckett did. His decision carried other complicating factors that impacted upon the pattern of his writing:
From this point on there would be an entire abandonment of pretence of any kind, including the ordinary fictive pretences of plot, a total renunciation of all certainties, including philosophic certainties of any kind; and there would instead be a reiteration of ignorance, a restitution to their rightful place in his work of the uncertainties and confusion of which life was made up.
This almost inevitably meant that ‘the mode for such a reiteration and restitution would be the only possible one: first person monologue.’
The bleak legacy of his vision of life did not stop there (page 364): ‘something else would now be banished besides plot and description – something that might be called the hope of salvation.’ And this banishment was unqualified (page 365 – my emphasis) for ‘in the novels and plays Beckett was to write there would be neither the hope nor the fear of any outcome.… Nobody would be found wanting because all Beckett’s characters have already been found wanting. There is no hope for them.’
Cronin has no problem with where this takes us (pages 378-79:
. . . reduced as his characters are to the extreme simplicities of need and satisfaction, indeed by virtue of the fact that they are so reduced, Beckett does succeed in laying bare much of the reality of human situation as well as the grossness of its perhaps necessary illusions.
He seems to accept that life is as meaningless as Beckett felt it was. We’re in the realm of extreme existentialism here: life is meaningless even though we cannot help creating meanings to help us live.
He endorses Beckett’s vision as more authentic than most of the work that preceded him (page 383): ‘. . . one could argue that the Beckett man, in all his abysmal aspects, is ‘truer’ to humanity’s real lineaments than most of what has gone before.’ His conclusion is that (page 384):
For 3000 years the bias of literature had been tilted one way, towards the heroic and the lyrical-poetic. Now it has been tilted the other, a process which began with the appearance of the first modern anti-heroes and culminated in Beckett.
Even at this point, such a position runs into serious problems. For example, Cronin lauds Beckett for his honourable uncertainty. Such a degree of uncertainty would be incompatible with a belief that all is meaningless. We may not be able to reach a firm conclusion that there is a meaning and decide definitely what that meaning is, but we would similarly not be able to conclude there is no meaning at all. A secondary problem is that someone’s position of stoic nihilism dismisses the rest of us as deluded and contains more than a hint of arrogance. I am all in favour of Keats’ doctrine of ‘negative capability’ and the need to resist ‘irritably reaching after fact,’ but that is not the same thing as nihilism at all. I will be returning to an examination of this later in the sequence.
It is interesting that Rilke, one of my solitarios, confronted his inner emptiness and, according to Robert Hass in his introduction to the Stephen Mitchell translations of the poems (page xvi), sought ‘to find, in art, a way to transform the emptiness, the radical deficiency, of human longing into something else.’
Probably the simplest summing up comes towards the end of the book (page 451) When Cronin writes that, in a review, René Lalou lists those critics ‘who had been among the first to hail Waiting for Godot’and ‘proclaim the value of this tragedy of despair not even lit by a glimmer of consciousness.’ Lalou referred to Beckett’s ‘constant use of monologue as an artistic technique, his implacably pessimistic vision and his insistence on the degrading functions of the human body.’
A few additional points may again be worth making.
The first of these paves the way towards Proust (page 182)
. . . few things are more striking about Beckett than his willingness to abandon himself to the life of memory, both in young manhood and later on. Most of the events of life may have been ‘occasions of fiasco’ as they occurred; but the subsequent remembrance of them was nevertheless more tolerable than present existence could ever be.
The second simply amplifies on the dilemma residing in his persistent creativity in the face of his sceptical pessimism (page 375): ‘ The object of the fiction must be truth of some sort; but by definition it is necessarily a lie.’
The last idea points to where he is absolutely different from Proust (page 376):
He yearned for silence, the blank white page, the most perfect thing of all. . . [He felt] more intensely than others that the object of true, achieved and necessary utterance is silence…
The consequence of this being that (pages 376-77) ‘his works would after a certain point get shorter and shorter.’
Proust’s relationship with his writing was perceived by his contemporaries as damaging (page 284) in that Dr Maurice Bize felt that ‘Proust was killing himself by overwork,’ and he is reported to have said to his servant, Céleste, (page 303) ‘only when I have finished my work, will I start looking after myself.’ This attitude extended to the minor aspects of self-care as well. Jaloux (page 304) spoke of Proust’s ‘miserable little under-furnished room that testified to his indifference to comfort.’ François Mauriac expressed it rather dramatically in saying (page 305) ‘We must reflect on the extraordinary fate of a creator who was devoured by his own creation…’
His aim was to focus almost exclusively on his writing after his mother’s death (page 83) when he:
sought (during the seventeen years of life that remained to him) to confine himself in a Noah’s Ark of his own devising. . . His life in the Ark helped to preserve the immediacy of his vision of people, objects and sensations.
He (page 91) ‘believed it was the only way he could discover the meaning beneath appearances: that is, to create great art.’
His most celebrated contribution to the novel are his madeleine moments, when a sensation such as taste can trigger a flood of memories (page 98):
These sudden intuitions of a moment are presented with pictorial vividness, and were intended to be as beautiful and suggestive as Old Master paintings… [They] were tantamount to a series of religious revelations, as Middleton Murray wrote in a tribute after Proust’s death, ‘this modern of the moderns . . . had a mystical strain in his composition.
In that sense he is inspiring the work of Joyce, Beckett and Woolf, fellow explorers of the recesses of consciousness.
Jonah Lehrer, in his book Proust was a Neuroscientist, focuses his discussion of Proust particularly on this part of his legacy. He explains that Proust (page 77) believed that ‘only the artist was able to describe reality as it was actually experienced’ and that (page 78) ‘the nineteenth century novel, with its privileging of things over thoughts, had everything exactly backward.’ Proust had concluded that (page 81) ‘only by meticulously retracing the loom of our neural connections… can we understand ourselves, for we are our loom, adding that ‘Proust gleaned all of this wisdom from an afternoon tea.’
Proust was ahead of his time, Lehrer argues, in other ways as well. He believed that (page 82) ‘our recollections were phoney. Although they felt real, they were actually elaborate fabrications. Take the madeleine. Proust realised that the moment we finished eating the cookie,… we begin working the memory of the cookie to fit our own personal narrative.’ Lehrer contends that (page 85) ‘Proust presciently anticipated the discovery of memory reconsolidation. For him, memories were like sentences: they were things you never stopped changing.’ Lehrer quotes the incontrovertible evidence that our memories are subject to constant editing and reediting.
Richard Davenport-Hines essentially concurs (page 128), quoting Proust when he wrote ‘the march of thought in the solitary travail of artistic creation proceeds downwards, into the depths…’
There are other characteristics of Proust’s art that need adding into this mix. Davenport-Hines feels (page 103) that:
Temps Perdu is the work of an implacable and often anguished moralist who scorned the ways that people‘s conversation and behaviour were usually directed, regardless of their class, by neither the desire to be good nor to be truthful, but by the wish to affirm by their words the sort of people they wanted to be taken for.
He clinically dissects his contemporary world (page 104) ‘in scenes of social comedy and of moral tragedy.’ Proust exposed ‘the babbling, hypocritical, corrupt, decadent tendencies – the negative mass psychology – of his secularised age.’
Davenport-Hines sees Proust’s treatment of homosexuality as a trope (page 139) in that ‘Temps Perdu. . . placed homosexuality more centrally in human experience than any previous novel or treatise, and used it to demonstrate the degenerative squalor of human emotions,’ and used it as (page 183) ‘a secularised representation of humankind‘s fall from grace.’ It was a brave move to make at that point in history, and Proust was anxious about its impact on the acceptance of his novel and his own reputation after the publication of the fourth volume of his sequence. His choice would be viewed rather differently were he writing now.
His jaundiced view of humanity was not confined to sexuality though, it seems (page 216) given that, as Davenport-Hines argues ‘his interests focused on degenerative processes. His fiction is a prolonged study of class degeneration, of moral degeneration and of physical degeneration.’
This helicopter view of their lives and art leaves us with a number of serious questions. These will have to wait till next time. A key one will relate to whether their take on reality is somehow skewed or biased, in a way that makes it seriously incomplete.
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New way to guide a car: With your eyes, not hands
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Scientist David Latotzky of Freie Universitaet Berlin sits in a car turning the steering wheel with his eye movements in Berlin, Friday, April 23, 2010. The scientists developed the software "EyeDriver" to steer their car "Spirit of Berlin" just by the movement of the eyes. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
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Rojas and his team presented the technology-packed prototype under a clear blue sky at an airport in the German capital.
The Dodge Caravan crisscrossed the tarmac at the abandoned Tempelhof Airport, its driver using his line of sight to control the car. The car's steering wheel was turning as if guided by ghostly hands.
The technology called eyeDriver lets the car drive up to 31 mph (50 kph).
"The next step will be to get it to drive 60 miles per hour," Rojas said.
Ultimately, however, the Mexican-born researcher is aiming for even more: "The biggest challenge is of course to drive in a city with pedestrians and lots of obstacles."
For now, exercises remain relatively simple. The Dodge chases a pedestrian or another car across the tarmac and shows his agility and even drives backward - the driver only has to look into the rear mirror to guide the car.
However, it remains unclear when - or if - the technology will be commercialized as questions about safety and practicability abound: What about looking at a cute girl next to the road for a few seconds? Not to mention taking phone calls or typing a text while driving.
But the researchers have an answer to distracted drivers: "The Spirit of Berlin" is also an autonomous car equipped with GPS navigation, scores of cameras, lasers and scanners that enable it to drive by itself.
"The car can do everything. It can drive autonomously or it can be guided by a driver's eyes," Rojas said. The compromise is a mode that has the car driving on its own, basing its decisions on input from scanners and cameras, and only requires the driver to give guidance at crossroads.
"The car stops at intersections and asks the driver for guidance on which road to take," the researchers say. A few seconds of attention with the driver looking in his desired direction get the car flowing again.
To demonstrate the car's autonomy, Rojas at one point jumped in front of the car - which was at that moment driving at perhaps 10 miles per hour - and the Dodge was immediately stopped by the cameras that had detected the obstacle.
"I was lucky this time," Rojas said jokingly.
While Rojas escaped, driver David Latotzky sat calmly on the passenger seat, wearing a bicycle helmet that is key to the functioning of the EyeDriver: One camera mounted on top of it monitors the street, a second one constantly keeps track of the driver's eyes' movements.
"We chose a bicycle helmet because they're the most ergonomic ones," Rojas said. Selling that technology to customers, however, might be a tough call - it the driver look like he or she came straight out of a Star Wars movie.
But if using your eyes for steering seems to tricky anyway, the researchers already have an alternative: Use your iPhone instead. In fall last year they presented a technology that allows to use Apple's smart phone as remote control for the car.
"Autonomous driving systems may considerably change our mobility in the future," Rojas said.
And should the technology-packed vehicle have a major bug, there's still an old fashioned way of stopping it.
Two big external emergency buttons at the rear of the car allow people outside to shut down all systems.
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moj85
This makes more sense I think for people with disability. Imagine it might be better used for fully disabled to be able to use a power wheelchair.
danman5000
So how exactly does that help the people inside the car careening out of control at 50mph?
antialias
Umm..this seems like a recipe for disaster. People (hopefully) DO tend to check at intersections for cars coming from the sides but certainly don't want their car to go that way.
Or you check for cyclists coming from behind when making a turn.
Or you read a roadsign that is off to the side.
Or you get distracted by a sudden event in the scenery (not much can prevent that)
In all those cases you'd be driving in the wrong direction (at best) or, more likely, into a wall.
There's just so many instances where you DON'T look exactly where you are going (and with good reason!). I wonder how they would filter those out.
CarolinaScotsman
"Two big external emergency buttons at the rear of the car allow people outside to shut down all systems."
Perfect for car jackers and other nefarious types.
How about just incorporating some kind of mechanical input to determine which direction the driver wants the steering axle to turn. It could be some kind of wheel placed in front of the driver. That way they can keep an eye out for traffic and hazards.
Seriously though if your making the car drive itself anyways just link it to a gps navigation system to determine the turns it makes, then anyone from a drunk to a child to a mentally disabled person so long as they could get the address right could get there safely. This whole drive with your eyes thing sounds like a 50's sci-fi world of tomorrow failure. Too weird to be practical.
NotAsleep
This is obviously just a "hey, look what we can do!" thing. Hopefully they'll find another, more practical application for the technology
meeker
Does the car brake every time you blink?
Nik_2213
This is an accident waiting to happen ! Aren't drivers supposed to check wing-mirrors, the dash dials and rear-view mirror in order to anticipate problems ? You're not actually watching the road ahead for more than a fraction of the time...
One big hazard would be the vehicle following side-glance and swerving *into* eg 'jay-walking' pedestrian or crossing deer.
Candidate for an Ignoble ?? Or even a Darwin Award (Inappropriate application of technology) ??
As a wheel-chair controller, however, it could be liberating.
MorituriMax
hmmm, are they aiming for using the iPad to steer in version 2.0? This just sounds like a bad idea, instantly on reading the title even, without any further thought about it.
trekgeek1
News report:
" A big breasted pedestrian was run down this afternoon......."
I really think there is too much to compensate for with this system. There must be better ways. Some type of brain interface being developed by video game systems is probably less problematic when deciphering signals. Like they said, how do you determine "turn left" from "I'm just checking left"? This seems more of a novelty than a solution.
MikeLisanke
should title be "No way to drive a car: with your eyes"?
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June 5, 2017 feature
New magnetoresistance effect leads to four-state memory device
by Lisa Zyga , Phys.org
(Left) With a single ferromagnetic layer, the system has two resistance levels. (Right) Adding another ferromagnet to the system creates four levels of resistance, corresponding to the four different magnetic states indicated by the arrows. Credit: Avci et al. ©2017 American Institute of Physics
(Phys.org)—In 2015, scientists discovered a new magnetoresistance effect—that is, a new way in which magnetization affects a material's electric resistance—but hadn't yet found a promising application for the discovery, beyond the existing technologies. Now in a new paper, the same researchers have demonstrated that the effect can be used to design memories with four distinct stable magnetic states, allowing the memories to store four bits of information in a single magnetic structure.
The researchers, Can Onur Avci et al., at MIT and ETH Zürich, have published a paper on the new memory concept in a recent issue of Applied Physics Letters.
"With some device and structural optimization, the bit density of existing random access memory devices may be increased by several factors, with the possibility of all-electrical operation," Avci told Phys.org.
Magnetoresistance effects date back to around 1850, when Lord Kelvin demonstrated that applying a magnetic field to a metal object increases the object's electric resistance in one direction and decreases it in the perpendicular direction. Since then, several other types of magnetoresistance have been discovered. Most notably, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance, which is used to make magnetic field sensors that are found in many of the hard disk drives in today's computers.
In 2015, scientists discovered the newest magnetoresistance effect, called unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance. This effect differs from other kinds of magnetoresistance in that the change in resistance depends on the direction of either the magnetization or the electric current. As the scientists explain, this direction-dependent effect occurs because the spin-polarized electrons created by the spin Hall effect in a nonmagnetic layer are deflected in opposite directions by the magnetization of the adjacent magnetic layer.
Previously, this new effect was demonstrated in two-layer structures consisting of a nonmagnetic and a magnetic layer. But by adding another magnetic layer, the researchers achieved a great potential advantage for memories: the ability to distinguish between not just two, but four magnetic states. Other types of magnetoresistance effects are only sensitive to the relative orientation of the magnetizations (parallel or antiparallel), although it's possible to have four distinct magnetic states. Because the new effect is sensitive to the magnetization direction of individual layers, it can distinguish between all four states.
The researchers then demonstrated four distinct resistance levels corresponding to the four different magnetic states in their three-layer device. They showed that the four resistance levels can be read out by a simple electric measurement, paving the way for the development of an all-electrical multi-bit-per-cell memory device.
The researchers expect that it will be possible to scale up this memory device to higher bit densities by adding more layers, which could realistically enable eight different magnetization states, each with its own unique resistance level. In the future, the researchers also plan to look for materials that exhibit a larger unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance effect, which would further enhance the performance of these memory devices.
Smart multi-layered magnetic material acts as an electric switch
More information: Can Onur Avci et al. "A multi-state memory device based on the unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance." Applied Physics Letters. DOI: 10.1063/1.4983784
We report on a memory device concept based on the recently discovered unidirectional spin Hall magnetoresistance (USMR), which can store multiple bits of information in a single ferromagnetic heterostructure. We show that the USMR with possible contribution of Joule heating-driven magnetothermal effects in ferromagnet/normal metal/ferromagnet (FM/NM/FM) trilayers gives rise to four different 2nd harmonic resistance levels corresponding to four magnetization states (⇉⇉, ⇄⇄, ⇆⇆, ⇇⇇) in which the system can be found. Combined with the possibility of controlling the individual FMs by spin-orbit torques, we propose that it is possible to build an all-electrical lateral two-terminal multi-bit-per-cell memory device.
Journal information: Applied Physics Letters
© 2017 Phys.org
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four distinct stable magnetic states, allowing the memories to store four bits of information in a single magnetic structure.
Nope. Four states is two bits. 00, 01, 10, 11.
Doubling the number of distinct states or levels increases the number of bits by one.
checksinthemail
They have four states, so they can store two bits of information, not four, as stated in the article.
One bit = two states.
Two bits = four states
Three bits = eight states
Four bits = Sixteen states, etc.
Da Schneib
Yes, that's correct, four states is two bits. Every CS on the site, and lots of the EEs as well, are going to point this out immediately. It leapt off the page at me.
Do better, physorg.
Hyperfuzzy
Ok, we've always had this. How about non-linear material, i.e. switchable light, frequency, modulation ... every "object" can know be defined within the HW. Get it? Optically. This, meh
Porgie
Four states, yes, no, I don't know, and hey baby?
Dingbone
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idjyit
No voltage equals a zero does it not ?
Four resistances = four voltages so therefore 4 "on" bits ?.
or 0000 through to 1111 on one cell
Back in the day (early sixties) I remember russians were running terniary? tri-bit computers? I would assume,as opposed to binary digits (bits) they may have called them trits. So in our binary computers on/off represented bit 0 or bit 1 (bulb on or off) each bit could represent two states. Russian computers probably needed say off/red/green bulb to represent 'tri' state for each 'bit' or 'trit'. - three 'states' 0,1,2. Now for 4 states or 'qits' we may have off/red/green/blue - so each 'bit' now represents 4 states, as in agreement with the article. On a per bit readout we may see say 302103 instead of 011011 - the first number spans 4 power six, the second 2 power six. I don't want to think of building a '4 bit-state system' - probably just convert 'qits' to bits and leave it at that
eight states if you include 0 or no voltage, and it's still binary as well
EmceeSquared
Actually, while four states can be represented by two bits it's natively a quaternary number system, not binary. Two bits is two digits, which requires more complex circuitry. Real improvement will harness the native quaternary states as a quaternary symbol. Lower power, less complexity, smaller circuits, higher density.
And since memory cells are the basis for logic, it will be interesting to see what kind of quaternary logic circuits can be made. CPUs are even more in need of lower power, less complexity, smaller circuits and higher density per performance than memory is.
@Emcee, so you're thinking of making registers with these? Not a bad idea. The challenge might be the microcode.
Keep in mind as well that these aren't replacements for transistors. And transistors are pretty much two-state devices.
inorg_lsc
Something quite similar to another implementation with MO materials:
http://www.mdpi.c...8/4/1976
Whydening Gyre
magnetic field or no magnetic field, I think you might mean. And it's more if you can combine each of the different states with any other in a binaural fashion. Not even to mention the results if you combined THREE or FOUR states...
I'm of German/Russian/Scottish heritage - it was "tits" n "quits". Layered. Very quantum in nature...
The linked article specifically states individual switching of bits.
A binary cell representing 0 to 15.
Da Schneib:
@Emcee, so you're
Well, registers should probably be fast, and no performance data from this basic materials research. Except that they tried but couldn't rule out magnetothermal effects, which can set upper bounds on access frequencies.
The basic devices studied are not direct replacements for transistors, but engineers have created magnetoresistive FETs. Perhaps these new devices could produce quaternary transistors.
Integrating quaternary storage and logic with the conventional binary circuits that make up the rest of any useful device is a real challenge. Software that exploits quaternary states too. If quaternary MR components aren't cheap and simple to exploit compared to their performance benefits, they'll never be used. Except perhaps academically, which could eventually deliver useful devices and uses of them.
OK, 2, 4, or more bits per signal is a function of the signal and the processing. With a nonlinear medium, there may be multiple bits and multiple transactions that take place at the same time.
The materials are rare, so what is required are new optical materials. Note: with optics, this will be ... dunno
Well, registers should probably be fast, and no performance data from this basic materials research.
In general reading and writing magnetoresistive memory should be on very sub-nanosecond timescales; one of the big advantages is you don't need to move electrons; you only need to change their spins. This also helps with:
Except that they tried but couldn't rule out magnetothermal effects, which can set upper bounds on access frequencies.
As far as I know, this will still make two-state transistors. We can discuss the active region of transistors as opposed to the rails if you like. I'd want to see more detail on these magnetoresistive FETs before commenting further. I don't deny it but it seems unlikely.
[contd]
Integrating quaternary storage and logic with the conventional binary circuits that make up the rest of any useful device is a real challenge.
It's still easily convertible to binary; I don't see a problem making registers in a microprocessor be quaternary and having them interact with binary circuits. And there are optimizations in transistor circuits that will make them much faster; but there's spintronics for that too. I haven't started to probe the state of the art there yet.
Software that exploits quaternary states too. If quaternary MR components aren't cheap and simple to exploit compared to their performance benefits, they'll never be used. Except perhaps academically, which could eventually deliver useful devices and uses of them.
Meh, once you got the hardware you write the compiler for it. We been doin' this for decades.
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