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Pore Size Distribution from SAXS and Gas Sorption Analysis: A Compariscon
New paper published in Carbon: From real space pore structures, derived from small-angle X-ray scattering, a pore size distribution of activated carbon materials was calculated and compared to results obtained from gas sorption analysis. Additionally, it was shown that the often used slit pore assumption narrows the actual pore size distribution.
Ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride is an ideal substrate for the fabrication of high quality organic crystalline thin films and devices with maximized performance.
The use of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as ultra-smooth, weakly interacting van der Waals substrate for organic thin film growth and self-organization is an active area of research. hBN effectively decouples the adsorbed species from the support making intrinsic material’s properties visible which would otherwise be masked by the strong surface-adsorbate interaction. Thus, new insights in fundamental aspects of intermolecular interaction, self-assembly, electronic structure or chemical reactions are possible.
Visualization of different domains in bulk heterojunction solar cells by atomic force microscopy
In cooperation with scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine and Slovakia we have demonstrated that differently doped atomic force microscopy probes can be used a submicrometer electrodes to probe and discriminate different semiconductor domains in CdS/Kesterite bulk heterojunction solar cells.
Copper surfaces influence the growth of copper oxide nanowires
Scientists of the Material Center Leoben, the Department of Material Physics of the Montanuniversitaet Leoben, and Gerhard Popovski of the Institute of Physics have shown that different copper surfaces will influence the growth of copper oxide nanowires. Small copper grains and high surface roughness promote the growth of these important structures, which are used for example in solar cells or sensors.
The Shape of Nanocrystals Influences their Optical Performance: Revealed in an open access article in Frontiers of Chemistry
Scientists from the Institute of Physics together with colleagues of the ETH Zürich as well as the ESRF in Grenoble showed recently that the crystal structure of core/shell CdSe/CdS nanocrystals (3.5 -14 nm) influences the particle shape. The particle shape again directly influences the photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield: The “larger”, strongly faceted nanocrystals with dimensions of up to 14 nm and aspect ratios of around 1.7 show the lowest PL output. These results were only possible with combined scattering (anomalous SAXS) and diffraction (WAXS) experiments at the synchrotron ESRF.
New paper published in Nature Communications on parameters determining charge storage mechanisms in nanoporous supercapacitors
To improve the performance of supercapacitors, a mechanistic understanding of ion electrosorption is required. In this work we identify parameters like salt concentration, charging velocity or cell design, controlling mechanisms of ion charge storage. Moreover, we show that charging initially leads to a non-equilibrium ion configuration even at extremely low cycling speed, followed by an increase of the total ion concentration, i.e. a charge-neutral equilibration.
New paper published in Nanoscale reveals peculiar nano-mechanics of the van der Waals interface between organic nanostructures and 2D materials
Self-assembled and self-alligned organic nanostructures are very interesting building blocks for the future nanoelectromechanics, especially considering an increasing demand to improve, miniaturize, and integrate various sensors into low-power wearable (flexible) applications. Unique nanomechanics that exists on these scales might appear as counter-intuitive in a macroscopic world, and therefore understanding of the underlying mechanisms is a key step in advancement of these technologies.
Inside Front Cover in Advanced Materials !
The impact of the paper on "3D colloidal supercrystals" is further illustrated by the fact that is was selected as Inside Front Cover in Volume 30, Issue 32, August 9, 2018 of Advanced Materials
New paper on “3D colloidal supercrystals” is published online in Advanced Materials
In this study three Austrian Universities the TU Graz, the Univ. Wien led by the MU Leoben worked together to reveal the supercrystal structure of free standing 3D colloidal supercrystals by combining in-situ synchrotron SAXS experiments at ELETTRA with simulations.
Paper on "domain orientation" published in Scientific Reports
In a recently published article in Scientific Reports a method to reconstruct the piezoelectric domain orientation distribution function of device-ready polycrystalline lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is presented.
Fonda-Fasella 2017 award to Christian Prehal
For his important contribution to the understanding of ion behavior in supercapacitors, Dr. Christian Prehal was awarded with the Fonda-Fasella prize.
Online lecture on "Characterisation of Nanocrystals for Optics and Energy Storage"
Watch the online lecture about the use of X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) on Nanostructures
Revealing Stress Gradients in Semiconductor Heterostructures
A research Team from the MU Leoben (Schmidt Institute of Material Physics and Institute of Physics) and Infineon Technologies Austria AG published a paper on "Stress Gradients in Semiconductor Heterostructures" in Applied Physics Letters (APL)
Mapping the Atomistic Structure of Colloidal Nanocrystals
Two research teams from the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics (ETH Zurich) and the Institute of Physics (MU Leoben) revealed the atomistic structure and shape of graded core/shell nanocrystals.
Paper on “materials farming” published in Science
Scientists from Germany, Israel and Austria have demonstrated for the first time the growth of cotton fibers with integrated fluorescence or magnetism. Physicists from the Institute of Physics at MU Leoben confirmed with X-ray scattering that these functionalities are directly incorporated into the cellulose fibers.
Probing charge transfer between molecular semiconductors and graphene
Recently published article in Scientific Reports reveals that the integer charge transfer is the main mechanism behind the band alignment at the interface between graphene and organic semiconductors.
Nanoporous Activated Carbon Cloth: a versatile material for energy storage
Scientists from 6 different countries (including scientists form the Chair of Functional Materials and Materials Systems and the Institute of Physics; MU Leoben) investigated the use of nanoporous activated carbon cloth as a material for hydrogen adsorption, selective gas separation and electrochemical energy storage was investigated.
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Robin Kear
Liaison librarian in the ULS Research and Educational Support Department, Oakland Campus
Liaison Librarian
207G Hillman Library
Skype Contact: robin.kear
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Subjects:English (Comp Literature & Writing), Film and Media Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies
Chatham College
BA, Global Policy Studies
University Service
Vice President of the University Senate, University of Pittsburgh, 2016-19
Appointed, Faculty Representative to the Student Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 2015-19
Vice-President/President-Elect of the ULS Faculty Assembly 2018-20
Member of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Choice reviewer for international affairs reference publications.
Member of the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter of ACRL.
Current IFLA, ALA, & ACRL Work:
Chair, ALA International Relations Committee, 2018-19
Member, IFLA Social Science Libraries Section, 2017-21
Member, IFLA International Leadership Programme, 2016-18
Member, ALA Presidential Advisory Committee, 2016-20
Member of the ALA Excellence in Library Programming Award Jury, 2018-19
Member, ALA Center for the Future of Libraries Advisory Board, 2017-19
I am a liaison librarian specializing in English Literature, Composition, and Writing; Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies; and Film & Media Studies.
Robin Kear - Full CV
Book: Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community
Co-edited book with Kate Joranson released in March 2018. Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships brings forward ideas and reflections that stay fresh beyond the changing technological landscape. The book encapsulates a cultural shift for libraries and librarians and presents a collection of authors who reflect on the collaborations they have formed around digital humanities work. Authors examine a range of issues, including labor equity, digital infrastructure, digital pedagogy, and community partnerships.
Altmetrics and Library Publishing
Collister, L. B., Kirschner, J., Bradbury, M., Deliyannides, T. S. & Kear, R. (2017). Altmetrics and Library Publishing. Peer-reviewed paper presented at World Library and Information Congress: 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 19–25 August 2017, Wrocław, Poland.
Reinvigorating strategic planning An inclusive, collaborative process
Brenner, A., Kear, R. & Wider, E. (2017). Reinvigorating strategic planning: An inclusive, collaborative process. College & Research Libraries News, 78(1), 28-31.
Column Co-editor, International Information & Library Review
Kear, R. & Solis, J. (2015-present). Column Co-editor, “Global Postcards: Research, Projects, and Experiences from the Field” for the International Information & Library Review, quarterly basis.
New Librarians Worldwide: Mapping Out the Future
Garcia-Febo, L., & Kear, R. (2012). New Librarians Worldwide: Mapping Out the Future. Peer-reviewed paper accepted for presentation at the World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
Worldwide Perceptions of New Librarians
Garcia-Febo, L., & Kear, R. (2012). Worldwide Perceptions of New Librarians. In: Wolf-Fritz Riekert and Ingeborg Simon: “Information in e-motion”. Proceedings BOBCATSSS 2012 – 20th International Conference on Information Science. Amsterdam, 23-25 January 2012. Bock+Herchen Verlag, Bad Honnef, Germany, 121-24.
Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Resources for Ranking and Tracking
Colbert-Lewis, D., & Kear, R. (2011). Citation Searching and Bibliometric Measures: Resources for Ranking and Tracking. College & Research Libraries News, 72(8), 470-474.
Cultural Lessons: Academic Outreach Across Borders
Adams, P.; Hadebe, T.; & Kear, R. (2009). [Book Chapter] Cultural Lessons: Academic Outreach Across Borders in Academic Library Outreach: Beyond the Campus Walls edited by Nancy Courtney and published by Libraries Unlimited, 31-42.
Contributor to ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science
Colbert-Lewis, D., Hampton, M., & Kear, R. (2011). Contributors for Instruction/Information Literacy Terms for the Public Services Section. In: M. Levine-Clark & T. M. Carter (Eds.), The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science. Chicago: American Library Association. Forthcoming fall 2012, publishing delayed.
Selected Presentations
Sustainable Development Goals in Libraries Today: The Role of Libraries in Strengthening Our Communities
Kear, R. (2019, May). Sustainable Development Goals in Libraries Today: The Role of Libraries in Strengthening Our Communities. United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library Insight Series / American Library Association. Invited expert. 60 minute conversation with 4 panelists.
Building a network of library copyright experts: the example from the Caribbean
Kear, R. (2018, August). Building a network of library copyright experts: the example from the Caribbean. World Library and Information Congress: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24-30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Session 186 - Challenges to copyright in the 21st century - CLM Advisory Committee. Ten-minute presentation.
Analysis of Kenneth Crews' study on exceptions and limitations to copyright for libraries and archives worldwide
Kear, R. & Ramírez-Ordóñez, D. (2018, August). Analysis of Kenneth Crews' study on exceptions and limitations to copyright for libraries and archives worldwide. World Library and Information Congress: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24-30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Session 186 - Challenges to copyright in the 21st century - CLM Advisory Committee. Ten-minute presentation.
#checkyourfacts: Raising Awareness of Bias in Information
Kear, R. (2018, August). #checkyourfacts: Raising Awareness of Bias in Information. World Library and Information Congress: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24-30 August 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Session 235 Lightning Talks. Five-minute presentation.
Deeper Collaboration and the Undergraduate Research Landscape.
Brenner, A., Kear, R., & Twyning, A. M. (2018, April). Deeper Collaboration and the Undergraduate Research Landscape. 49th Annual Convention of NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), 12-15 April, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Chairs and Presenters.
Examining Digital Humanities Projects and Libraries: Labor, Community, and Networks
Joranson, K. & Kear, R. (2017, October). Examining Digital Humanities Projects and Libraries: Labor, Community, and Networks. DLF Forum. Fifteen-minute presentation. http://sched.co/Bzs4
Information Literacy, Libraries and Internet Universality
Kear, R. (2017, October). Information Literacy, Libraries and Internet Universality. UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week 2017, the International MIL and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference: Kingston, Jamaica. Fifteen-minute presentation.
World Library and Information Congress: 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Collister, L. B., Kirschner, J., Bradbury, M., Deliyannides, T. S. & Kear, R. (2017, August). Altmetrics and Library Publishing. Peer-reviewed paper presented at World Library and Information Congress: 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 19–25 August 2017, Wrocław, Poland. Session 80 - Serials and Other Continuing Resources. Twenty-minute presentation.
Re-Placing Research in the Literature Classroom
Brenner, A., Kear, R., & Twyning, A. M. (2017, March). Re-Placing Research in the Literature Classroom. Pedagogy/Professional Workshop at the 48th Annual Convention of NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), 23-26 March 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Two-hour workshop.
Computers in Libraries 2016: Using Research for Strategic Priorities & Innovation
Connaway, L. S., & Kear, R. (2016, March). Using Research for Strategic Priorities & Innovation. Computers in Libraries 2016. Forty-five minute presentation. Invited speakers.
Library 2.015: Catalyst for Connections: A Collaborative Strategic Planning Process
Brenner, A., & Kear, R. (2015, October). A Catalyst for Connections: A Collaborative Strategic Planning Process. Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference. Forty-five minute presentation. Accepted Proposal.
TLA 2015: Conversations with Faculty about Academic Library Instruction
Kear, R. (2015, April). Conversations with Faculty about Academic Library Instruction. Texas Library Association Annual Conference 2015. Fifty minute presentation. Invited speaker.
American Library Association Annual Conference 2013
Kear, R. (2013, July). International Opportunities for Librarians. ALA International Relations Office Program. Fifteen minute presentation. Invited speaker.
IFLA/ALA Worldwide Webinar Series, New Librarians Global Connection
Kear, R. (2013, January). Strategizing Your International Librarianship Career: Redux 2013. IFLA/ALA Worldwide Webinar Series, New Librarians Global Connection: best practices, models and recommendations. Fifteen-minute presentation.
World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Garcia-Febo, L., & Kear, R. (2012, August). New Librarians Worldwide: Mapping Out the Future. Peer-reviewed paper accepted for presentation at the World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland. Session 95 - Strategies for library associations: include new professionals now! Sponsored by Management of Library Associations Section and the New Professionals Special Interest Group. Twenty-minute presentation.
BOBCATSSS 2012 – 20th International Conference on Information Science: “Information in e-motion”
Garcia-Febo, L., & Kear, R. (2012, January). Worldwide Perceptions of New Librarians. BOBCATSSS 2012 – 20th International Conference on Information Science: “Information in e-motion”, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Thirty-minute presentation.
NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Webinar: Assessment Metrics
Kear, R. (2011, December). Journal Assessment Metrics. NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Webinar: Assessment Metrics. Twenty-five minute presentation. Invited speaker by NISO Education Committee.
World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Council. Satellite Conference, ‘The Global Librarian’
Kear, R. (2010, August). Pathways to Internationalize Your Library Career. World Library and Information Congress: 76th IFLA General Conference and Council. Satellite Conference, ‘The Global Librarian’, Boras, Sweden. Twenty-minute presentation.
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The Impact of Agricultural Sector on Economic Growth & Development in Nigeria ₦4,900
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The study will determine some factors associated with poor performance in Economics in Secondary Schools. This will help the proprietors of both public and private schools to learn from each other.
The study is also beneficial to a number of stakeholders (such as principals and teachers) in the teaching of Economics. The study will help the Economics teachers in FCT to pay more attention to the teaching of Economics in secondary schools.
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The research is a comparative study of Students’ Performance in Economics in private and public schools in Gwagwalada Area Council. It served the purpose of finding out, the level of performance of students in Private Secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council, the level of performance of students in Public Secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council, the difference in the level of performance between Private and Public Secondary schools, and proffering solutions to students’ poor performance in Gwagwalada Area Council. The survey research design was adopted in which 10 schools selected for study consisting of 5 private and 5 public schools using the simple random sampling technique. All the 20 Economics teachers in the ten selected schools served as subjects for this study. The questionnaire designed by the researcher was used as instrument for data collection. The collected data were analysed using tables of frequency distribution, percentages, mean scores, and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Findings of the study revealed that 70.0% of the respondents are of the view that the level of performance of students in Private Secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council is low; 60.0% of the respondents are of the view that the level of performance of students in Public Secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council is very low; A significant number of the respondents with 3.5 and 3.2 mean scores indicated that poor attitude of students in public secondary schools contribute to their failure than those in the private secondary schools, and that teachers’ attitude contributes to poor performance in the public secondary schools than those in the private secondary schools respectively; finally, 65.0% of the respondents are of the view that Seminars and workshops should be organized for teachers to enhance their professional competence. The study recommended that the Federal Ministry of Education should put machineries in place that will provide the necessary facilities needed in our schools to improve the poor performance.
Study of Students’ Performance in Economics in Public and Private Schools
Ojelabi, (2009), discovered that students’ achievements in the secondary school certificate economics have remained poor. He observed that secondary schools have derailed in the provision of qualitative education expected of them. In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Abuja, the researcher discovered that the situation is not far from what obtains elsewhere in the country. Economics which use to be the best subject of majority of the students has now been relegated to the background. Most people blamed the situation on the un-seriousness of students; some others blame it on teacher’s lack of commitment and greed for money; while others blame it on government’s high-handedness in the handling of education-related issues in the country.
Yet, most people are of the opinion that government owned schools have teachers who are not motivated to work hard, and as such the students are not well taught which reflects in poor academic performance. Yet, other people are of the opinion that private schools are only set up for profit motive and do not care about the subject matter that is supposed to be taught in the classroom, but are only concerned about how they can cheat during exams to provide good results for their students.
It is therefore in a bid to contribute to knowledge in this area that this study will compare students’ performance in Economics in private and public schools in Gwagwalada Area Council.
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by atlas1222 | October 22, 2018 · 2:46 pm
Assignment 2: Information Ethics by Atlas1222
McCook, Alison, Stat News, Prominent health policy researcher plagiarized colleagues’ work, Dartmouth investigation finds. August 20,2018
https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/20/dartmouth-health-policy-researcher-plagiarized/
This article talks about Dr. H. Gilbert Welch a well-known health care policy scholar, who has plagiarized material from a paper that was published in a top medical journal. An investigation team was put on the case and they found out this wasn’t the first time he was “engaged in a research misconduct, plagiarism, by knowingly, and intentionally using the ideas or results without giving them the appropriate credit that they deserve. This article teaches you that you need to be careful about using other people’s work and if you do use their work you need to make sure to give them credit for their work by using the correct citations. If you don’t use the correct citation or steal someone’s work, you could lose your career over it.
This is a good source because in this article they have more than one source to back it up. They have many people/ Universities that state Welch has plagiarized their work and they have proof to back it up. The more sources and witnesses you have in the article the more valuable the article can be.
by Atlantis8219 | October 21, 2018 · 7:01 pm
Assignmet 2: Information Ethics, Atlantis8219
jonschiffrin, Gucci vs. Guess, Schiffrin and Longo, P.C. Law Office, Oct. 21, 2018, https://www.schiffrinlaw.com/gucci-vs-guess/
This case is a good example of copyright infringement, which is the use of a copyrighted work without permission from the owner. In this case Guess used trademarked symbols of a red and green stripe and the GG symbol. Though they tried to use these in a different and creative way they were still copyrighted and owned by Gucci. Due to this Gucci was able to sue Guess for using their symbols.
Filed under Information Ethics
by missblossom123 | October 20, 2018 · 11:11 am
Assignment 2: Information Ethics by missblossom123
Wemple, Erik. The Washington Post, CNN fires news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian for plagiarism. October 20, 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/05/16/cnn-fires-news-editor-marie-louise-gumuchian-for-plagiarism/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2c5de29b173a
The concept of the word plagiarism comes to life from the well known news network CNN. This article explains how one of the editors had been caught plagiarizing in many different articles during their career. The plagiarism was found during a routine editing check. It is very important to make sure the proper citations are being used while citing another person. If those mistakes end up happening, like in this story, it could cost someone their job.
by 2018baroquemusic | October 20, 2018 · 6:49 am
Assignment 2 Information Ethics (Plagiarism) by 2018baroquemusic
Hoyt,Clark.New York Times. The Writers Make News. Unfortunately.October 20,2018.https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/opinion/24pubed.html
This article from the New York Times shows a great example of plagiarism because it displays what happened to people guilty of it from a professional level. It talked about three situations that had recently happened during the time of the article’s publication. In one of the examples especially, One writer copied writing from a different source and had only changed one word. In result, there were consequences for him and people were wanting to charge him with plagiarism.
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by kaiserwilhelm44 | October 18, 2018 · 12:11 pm
Assignment 1: Research Questions
What is your general topic?
Medical advancements in WW2.
What is your core question?
What medical advances did the axis powers make during WW2?
Explain (in 2-3 sentences) why you chose to research this aspect of the topic
WW2 was one of the most infamous and compact times in history. So many things happened during WW2, so many horrible things came out of this war. I want to research what good came out of the atrocities in WW2.
Write your research question.
What knowledge or medical advances did the axis powers discover through their inhumane ways of research?
List all of the keywords and key phrases in your research question.
Medicine in WW2, Axis medical advancements, inhumane experiments in WW2
List at least 2 alternative keywords/phrases you could use.
Medical experiments in WW2, medical discoveries found through inhumane experiments
by profpayne | October 17, 2018 · 4:18 am
Giving Credit (citations)
You need to be able to work with citations for two reasons:
to give credit for the sources you use
to be able to recognize citation patterns in order to determine source type.
This reading will discuss the general patterns that citations follow. Learning these patterns will help you figure out what kind of source you’re dealing with when you find a reference and will make it easier to do citations for sources you use in your research.
NOTE: Formatting specific types of sources will be covered in the readings for that type of source.
You must give credit, or cite, all sources that you use in your paper or research project. To do this, you use notes and citations (also called references.) Notes & citations perform two functions:
They give credit to authors and other creators
They give information about a source so that anyone can find it
Since you are usually the person who needs to find the source again, it’s in your best interests to be complete.
When you use a note or citation to give credit to a source, you are citing or documenting or referencing that source.
Different groups have developed specific styles, or formats, for creating notes & citations.
Style guides and manuals provide information about and examples of, specific styles.
The three most frequently used styles are:
Chicago/Turabian (University of Chicago Press)
MLA (Modern Language Association)
APA (American Psychological Association)
Style guides & manuals provide examples of how to format notes and citations for different types of sources. They also include the rationale behind the formatting. Knowing the rationale can help you decide how to do a citation when there isn’t an exact example to follow.
Some fields, especially the sciences, refer users to important academic journals in the field for examples.
Be aware that each style capitalizes titles differently, treats authors’ names differently, puts the year of publication in different places, and uses different punctuation.
NOTE: You are responsible for making sure that things are spelled correctly, capitalized correctly, etc. Word and other citation programs, such as eTurabian & Zotero, will NOT do that for you.
In addition to examples of citations, style guides also give information on how to do a title page, format captions for images, and how to do notes, bibliographies and works cited lists, etc.
The OWL at Purdue University is a really good online guide to the most common styles. OWL stands for Online Writing Lab.
Chicago/Turabian / OWL at Purdue
MLA / OWL at Purdue
APA / OWL at Purdue
In this class you will be required to use Chicago 16th/Turabian 8th edition, MLA 8th edition or APA 6th edition. It’s very easy for me to tell when you don’t use the right version, so make sure you use the correct one. The examples at the OWL@Purdue show the correct versions. Word does not have the correct version of Chicago/Turabian and may not have the correct MLA & APA, depending on the version of Word you have. This will be explained in detail in future assignments.
A WORD ABOUT CHICAGO/TURABIAN: Turabian style and Chicago style are almost the same thing. Turabian is Chicago style that has been adapted for use by students who are writing research papers, theses, and dissertations. Chicago style is more for use by people writing books. For this class, you may use them interchangeably.
Chicago/Turabian gives you the option of using an author/date system or a footnotes/bibliography system. Because the History Department mostly uses the footnotes/bibliography style, this course will cover just that version. It may also be called Chicago/Turabian (or just Chicago or just Turabian) humanities style. NOTE: if you’re given a choice, use the author/date system – it’s much, much easier. A few professors may require you to use an older style where all citation information appears in a footnote.
Notes give credit for a specific quotation, interpretation, or other piece of information used in the body of a paper, presentation, etc. Notes are also called footnotes, endnotes, and parenthetical references.
Each type of note is, of course, formatted differently. There are specialized styles where the citation and the note are combined into a footnote or endnote. Chicago/Turabian used to require this combo note/bibliography style, but no longer does so. It’s still used by some historians and in some scientific fields.
Word, just to make things difficult, calls notes citations.
Citations give credit to a source as a whole – a whole book, a whole article, a whole web page, etc. Citations are also called bibliographic citations or references. Every note should have a matching citation in the bibliography (or reference list or works cited list.) Also list sources you consulted, even if you didn’t need to use a note. (Exception: you can leave out sources that you used only for general background, such as encyclopedias.)
Not sure whether to include a citation? Better safe than sorry: include it.
Word, continuing to be difficult, calls citations sources in a bibliography or sources in a works cited list.
Remember that Word usage is:
Citation = what most people call a note (includes endnotes and footnotes)
Source in a bibliography, reference list or works cited list = what most people call a citation, bibliographic citation or reference.
A bibliography is a list of sources consulted when writing a paper, preparing a presentation, research project etc. A Bibliography is also called a reference list or a works cited list.
CITATION PATTERNS
It often seems like citations are incomprehensible masses of information with an insane use of punctuation. This is only partially true. All citation styles use the same basic pattern, they just mix it up a bit.
Why do you need to learn citation patterns? Once you know citation patterns, you will:
Be able to understand citations even in styles you don’t know.
Be able to put the right information into the right box when using Word’s reference feature or a program like Zotero, eTurabian, or EasyBib.
Be able to determine if the citation is for a book or a journal article or a web page.
ANOTHER WORD about Chicago/Turabian: Chicago/Turabian consists of two styles. The first is the notes/bibliography/style, often referred to as Chicago/Turabian Humanities. This style uses footnotes or endnotes plus a bibliography at the end.
The second style is the author/date style, sometimes referred to as the parenthetical reference style. Notes take the form of short references in parentheses in the body of the paper, plus a reference list.
In this class, we will use the notes/bibliography style as it’s the one used by most history faculty.
FOR THIS CLASS, you will need to understand how citations are formatted for a bibliography or reference list. You will not be asked to do footnotes, endnotes or parenthetical references.
Italics, capitalization, punctuation, etc. in the examples below are identical to what you would expect to find in an actual citation.
APA citations are easily spotted because the date follows the author’s name. If there is no author, APA citations start with the title followed by the date.
NOTE: Chicago/Turabian parenthetical style also has the date after the author’s name.
Chicago/Turabian author/date is very similar to APA. Remember, for this class, you will only need to learn Chicago/Turabian Humanities. Chicago/Turabian Humanities is similar to MLA.
NOTE: MLA no longer requires a medium of publication (for example: print or web).
Chicago 16th/Turabian 8th (Humanities)
Author. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
MLA 8th
Author. Title of Book. Publisher location: Publisher name, year of publication.
APA 6th
Author. (Date of publication). Title of book.Publisher location: Publisher name.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Author. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal. volume number, issue number (year): page numbers accessed Month day, year, URL (if DOI* is available, use the DOI in place of the URL)
Author. “Title of Article.”Title of Journal volume, issue, (date): page numbers. Database publisher or URL if no database. Day Mon. year.
Author. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number(issue number), page numbers. doi:0000/00000 (or URL for journal’s home page if no DOI*.)
WHAT’S A DOI? DOI stands for digital object identifier. It’s like a social security number for articles and other similar pieces of information. You can use the DOI to search for an article, but the system is still developing. Right now, it’s still better to search for an author and title.
BASIC WEB PAGE
(Cite a single web page. Don’t cite the whole website unless you’re using it as an example.)
Author. “Title of Web Page.”Title of Website. Publication date if known. Accessed Month day, year, URL
Author. “Title of Article.”Title of the Website.Publisher Name, Day Mon. Year. Day Mon. Year retrieved.
Author. (Year, Month day). Title of article. Title of the Website. Retrieved from URL of specific article
Example: Assignment 2: Information Ethics athenaegis
Remember, you may need to hunt around to find the information for the citation.
Various Authors. A 2001 Update in the Janet Dailey/Nora Roberts Plagiarism Case. All about Romance: the Back Fence for Lovers of Romance Novels. May 1, 2001. http://www.likesbooks.com/daileyupdate.html. (This whole thing is a citation.)
Do you have to write as much as I do below? No. You do have to write enough to provide all the necessary information. In my experience, that means a minimum of 4-5 sentences.
This source is a series of messages that originally came from the All about Romance Potpourri Message Board and that were collected on the 2001 Update in the Janet Dailey/Nora Roberts Plagiarism Case web page cited above. The original message board is no longer available. (This is one of the problems with using non-academic web sources – they can disappear. Academic websites can vanish, but it’s much less common.) The case referred to was a copyright infringement case in which best-selling romance author Janet Dailey admitted to plagiarizing from the even better selling romance author Nora Roberts. Dailey settled the case, with Roberts donating the settlement money to literacy and writers’ organizations.
I would probably not use this source for a paper since the original message board is no longer in existence – the page I cite is a copy. I”m using it here for three reasons: 1.) the current site (likesbooks.com) owned the original message board. 2. personal sources confirmed the copy was good & 3. it’s a good example (see below).
Reading the different messages, it is clear that the posters hold a variety of opinions as to whether Dailey’s plagiarism is really a bad thing.. One poster considered Dailey’s plagiarism/copyright infringement bad, but saw nothing wrong with copying music from less famous bands on the original Napster, even though that was copyright infringement too.
I think that what makes this source really valuable is that Nora Roberts, the writer who was plagiarized, posted. Ms. Roberts points out that the plagiarism was not a single incident, but lasted more than seven years and involved 13 books. She says that it was not a “victimless crime,” and writes that she “would not wish this experience on anyone.” Roberts states that there are moral issues in addition to the legal/criminal issue of copyright infringement. (Roberts 30 April 2001) I used only the last name and date in this note because the context of the paragraph makes it clear I’m referring to the web page cited above. If I were doing a “real-life” parenthetical reference, I’d need to add information about the web page as well since her name doesn’t appear in the citation.
Note that I linked to Nora Robert’s post (above). For many web uses, this is considered adequate – you are acknowledging that it’s not your work and referring back to the source. For academic use (and best practice web use) you need to use a note (explanation in the text, footnote, endnote or parenthetical reference) to give specific credit for the quoted passages.
I’m using a parenthetical reference in this case. Footnotes are at the bottom of a page, endnotes at the end of a paper (or book, etc.). Since the note is to give credit for the quotes from Ms. Roberts’ posts, I used the date of her post and not the date of the web page.
I think this is a good example of plagiarism because it explains what it is, shows how people have differing views of the seriousness of plagiarism and tells how being plagiarized affected the victim – in this case, Nora Roberts.
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by Salemwitchtrial | October 10, 2018 · 10:18 am
Assignment 1: Research Questions , SalemWitchTrial
ASSIGNMENT 1: RESEARCH QUESTIONS (15 pts)
Question 1. What is your general topic? (1 pts)
The Salem Witch Trials
Question 2. (5 pts.)
a. What is your core question? (4 pts)
How did religion and the Salem Witch Trials influence each other?
b. Explain (in 2-3 sentences) why you chose to research this aspect of the
topic (1 pts)
I am interested in how religion influenced peoples thinking of witches and
how they viewed magic. I also think it is interesting what part of their
religion made them fear these things, and why.
Question 3. (9 pts)
a. Write your research question. (4 pts)
How did religion influence the persecution of Salem “witches?”
b. b. List all of the keywords and key phrases in your research question. (3
pts)
Salem witch trials, Salem Witch, Religion and witches
c. List at least 2 alternative keywords/phrases you could use. (2 pts)
Christianity & Witches
by maximuspontifex | October 9, 2018 · 9:56 pm
Who was Gaius Julius Caesar?
Why is Gaius Julius Caesar a celebrated historical figure?
I’ve always been interested in Roman history. Gaius Julius Caesar is one of the most famous Roman rulers and I would like to know how he changed Rome.
How did Gaius Julius Caesar come to power?
“Rome before Caesar” and “Rome after Caesar” are very broad. “Rome under Caesar’s rule” and “the reign of Julius Caesar” are more specific. “Julius Caesar’s rivals” is even more specific. “Life of Gaius Julius Caesar” is even more specific.
“Early Roman Empire” is broader than “Julius Caesar”
“Victories of Julius Caesar” More Specific than “Roman victories”
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by kinghenrythefifth | October 9, 2018 · 12:18 am
Assignment 1: Research Questions-kinghenrythefifth
Topic: I’m interested in researching prostitution in Victorian Britain.
The topic of sex in Victorian Britain has always been fascinating to me because of the ironic manner. Victorian Britain is known to be extremely strict and conservative; however, the sexual practices and the wide existence of prostitution prove otherwise. Thus, I wanted to learn what kind of role and effect prostitution had in Victorian London.
Core Question: What does prostitution tell us about the economic state of Britain in the 19th century?
I knew that a lot of the prostitution existed due to a lot of economic hardships in Victorian Britain and prostitution was the main source of income for many women. Thus, I wanted to dig deeper and learn more about what the existence of prostitution meant and what kind of an effect it had on the economy. I wanted to know if prostitution was fueling the economy in a positive way, or if it was creating a bigger problem in the economic growth of the time.
Research Question: What kind of effect did prostitution have on the economic growth of 19th century Britain?
Keywords and Keyphrases: “prostitution,” “Victorian Britain,” “economy,” “19th-century Britain,” “Victorian era,” “economic growth”
Alternative Keywords and Keyphrases: “Sex trade,” “industrial London,” “19th-century England,” “society,” “progressive era”
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Assignment 2: Information Ethics lemlichc
Finding, citing & evaluating general web sources: finding
Finding, citing & evaluating general web sources: citing
Finding, citing & evaluating general websites: evaluating
Assignment 4: Finding, Citing, & Evaluating (Silk Road Edition)
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Epistolary Irreverence in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 26
by Drew Baumgartner
This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk!
The provenance of epistolary texts are always weird. Actually, it’s probably less weird than traditional narratives, where we might somehow be privy to the private thoughts of the protagonist or even the perspective of an omniscient narrator, but epistolary texts necessarily draw our attention to the weirdness in a way that more traditional narratives don’t. Because we’re reading documents composed within the diegesis of the epistolary narrative, the ostensible writer of those documents are a character, even as the actual writer attempts to become invisible. That tension, between our hyperawareness of the fictional author, and purported obliviousness of the actual author, puts epistolary narratives in this weird netherworld of headspace, embracing the self-awareness of postmodernism in an attempt to produce an entirely un-self-aware story. It’s a concept that already folds in on itself, but writer Ryan North adds a few more wrinkles, confusing the notion of self-awareness enough that the confusion starts to be to point.
A few of the chapters in this issue play fairly strictly with the narrative conceit — that this is a zine put together by Doreen to raise funds to rebuild a library — feeling very much like pages made by amateurs. But, of course, even here, North can’t help but pull the veil back a bit. Spider-Man’s submitted comic (actually drawn by Rahzzah), for example, isn’t in the format of a poorly-xeroxed zine, but of a loose page on a desk.
The page seems to be intended for the zine, we just aren’t seeing it in the correct format, as though we’re seeing Doreen’s perspective as she’s putting the book together.
Things only get weirder from there, including a framing story that is ostensibly drawn by Doreen (actually drawn by Madeline McGrane), but includes scenes that apparently take place after the zine is already completed, suggesting that the artifact we’re holding somehow exists within itself. That’s enough to make my head spin, but then Brain Drain (actually drawn by Tom Fowler) claims that his otherwise un-self-aware comic was written and drawn “live,” which is such a delightfully nonsensical notion, I have no idea what it means.
And all of those oddities exist right alongside some much more straightforward comics. Doreen’s intro indicates that these comics were written and drawn by the characters within them, but without that framing device, we might not recognize them as in any way unusual. At least, not in that kind of meta-narrative way — a Galactus comic drawn by Garfield creator Jim Davis is definitely unusual. The result is a book that runs the gamut from straightforward comic to meta-as-meta-gets. It’s a weird mix, but it’s all in service of the irreverent tone that makes this series so endearing
The conversation doesn’t stop there. What do you wanna talk about from this issue?
By Drew Posted in Marvel, Taylor Anderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Tagged Anders Lilsen, Brain Drain, Carla Speed McNeil, Chip Zdarsky, Doreen Green, Erica Henderson, Galactus, Howard the Duck, Iris Holdren, Jim Davis, Kraven the Hunter, Loki, Madeline McGrane, Michael Cho, Nancy Whitehead, Rahzzah, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe, Tom Fowler, Travis Lahnham, Wolverine
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#WaterForFlint: Celebs Give Back To The City In Crisis In Amazing Ways
Keyaira Kelly
#WaterForFlint: Celebs Give Back To The City In Crisis In Amazing Ways was originally published on hellobeautiful.com
1. Aretha Franklin
The Queen of Soul will provide hotel rooms and meals for 25 to 50 Flint residents. Those interested in the opportunity can apply at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit where Aretha’s father used to pastor from 1946-1979. “Detroiters usually come to the aid of Detroiters — and Flint is certainly regarded as Detroit,” said Aretha on a local radio station, “Hang in there” she added.
2. The Game
With the water crisis going on in Flint, Michigan, celebrities are donating water and money to secure healthy drinking water for the community. Flip through to see other philanthropists….
The Game: I am donating $1,000,000 in water bottles…. $500,000 coming out of my own pocket (which is everything I’ve made on tour up to this point) & the other 1/2 being met by @AvitaWater
3. Kem
Kem partnered up with the Salvation Army Eastern Michigan Division for a “text to donate” campaign to benefit Flint, Michigan residents.
4. Big Sean
Big Sean started a CrowdRise fundraising effort and donated $10,000 through his non-profit, the Sean Anderson Foundation.
5. Meek Mill
Meek Mill reportedly made a donation to the Flint Child Health and Development Fund. He also sent 60,000 bottles of water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
6. Cher
Cher sent over 180,000 bottles of water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan.
7. Jimmy Fallon
The talk show hosted donated $10,000 to http://www.CFGF.org
8. Pearl Jam
The band donated $300,000 to the water crisis
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10. Wiz Khalifa
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Magnetic characteristics of permanent magnet guideways at low temperature and its effect on the levitation force of bulk YBaCuO superconductors
Botian Zheng, Southwest Jiaotong University
Jun Zheng, University of Wollongong
Dabo He, Southwest Jiaotong University
Yu Ren, Southwest Jiaotong University
Zigang Deng, Southwest Jiaotong University
Zheng, B., Zheng, J., He, D., Ren, Y. & Deng, Z. (2016). Magnetic characteristics of permanent magnet guideways at low temperature and its effect on the levitation force of bulk YBaCuO superconductors. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 656 77-81.
It is important to understand the influence of environmental temperature variation on high temperature superconducting (HTS) maglev performance in practice. As the on-board bulk high temperature superconductors (HTSCs) are kept in liquid nitrogen cryostats at all times, the actual temperature effects relevant to maglev performance are on the permanent magnet guideway (PMG), and these have been examined by exploring the PMG magnetic characteristics and the related interaction force with the on-board bulk HTSCs above it in this paper. The experimental temperature range was set from room temperature to 77 K. The experimental results show that the typical room temperature (RT) vertical magnetic flux density (defined as BPMG), 565 mT, of the PMG segment first increases as the temperature decreases to 138 K, before it reaches a peak of 634 mT within the temperature range from 138 K to 120 K, with a rapid growth rate to 12.2% over the RT value. And then BPMG decreases quickly to a stable value of 576 mT at 77 K. A final 1.9% enhancement ratio was obtained compared with the initial BPMG at room temperature. Furthermore, the levitation force exhibits a similar trend to the BPMG whatever the field cooling process and the zero field cooling process was conducted when the PMG temperature is reduced. Growth of 21.8% and 13.4% for the levitation force occurs for the field-cooling process and the zero-field-cooling process, respectively. The results provide basic data for environmental temperature effects on HTS maglev systems, which implies that the low temperature environment can have benefits towards enhancement of their levitation performance.
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Contact Author - CJ Daly
CJ Daly hails from the scrabbly plains of Eastern New Mexico, where the sky is as big and bright as her dreams.
While CJ was supposed to be helping her six siblings with chores on the family ranch, she was really sneaking behind dust haybales to read library books. And dreaming about dashing young men to seek adventure with.
After graduation, CJ moved from "a town that barely makes a dot on the map" to Big D (Dallas), where she quickly put herself through college while trying to rid herself of her country drawl. She had more success with college, graduating cum laude with a degree in English literature. After a five-year stint in teaching, and pausing to have back-to-back boys, CJ stayed up nights to bang out the story rattling around in her head. After a few years of blood, sweat, and tears, "The Academy Saga" was finally born.
Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
With unusual subtlety and skill, CJ Daly introduces the characters and the themes in The Academy. Seventeen-year-old Kate Connelly is tired of everything. After losing her mother, she has to take care of her brothers and fill in the gap left by her mother. Their father has just signed off on them. Kate wants a break, a distraction, something to relieve the painful monotony. When she meets two mysterious strangers at the diner where she works, they catch her attention. She never expected to meet them again, but they turn up and then disappear into an alley. When one of the mysterious guys shows up in school, Kate knows she can’t ignore Cadet Davenport. Can she put him aside and live her life on her own terms?
CJ Daly crafts a novel with interesting, sophisticated characters. Beginning with the tragic loss that Kate suffers, the narrative moves from this premise to explore the emotions of a young female protagonist and a tale of love deftly developed. The effect that Cadet Davenport has on Kate is intriguing and the reader becomes very keen to see what she makes of it. While there is no steamy romance, the author ensures that readers stay engaged with the characters, thanks to the skillful use of suspense and the expert exploration of characters. The prose is exciting, the narrative is filled with originality, and the characters are true to life. The Academy will have a strong appeal for both young and adult readers and anyone looking for an exciting, contemporary YA romance.
K.C. Finn
The Academy is a work of romantic fiction aimed at young adults, penned by author C J Daly. We begin the tale following our hero Kate Connelly, a seventeen-year-old who has had to grow up a little before her time due to family tragedy. As her father sinks into grief over her mother’s death, Kate is left to raise and protect her family in New Mexico, and contend with school along the way. She has a very talented little brother, and once he is spotted by the mysterious military academy nearby, Kate’s danger senses tingle. The only problem is, the cadet who’s recruiting her brother might just be recruiting Kate’s heart in the process.
Filled with intriguing conspiracy theories, sweeping romantic moments and just a hint of the supernatural, The Academy has everything that young adult romance fans could wish for within its pages. Kate is a unique heroine but not too far removed from the norm to make her relatable. I enjoyed her hardships and adult aspects very much, but they were also well balanced with the same teenage emotional immaturity, embarrassments and failures that we’ve all experienced at her age. Cadet Davenport makes for a suspiciously delicious male lead, and the plot surrounding Kate as she figures him out makes for a real page turner. Overall, author C J Daly has done excellent work in setting up this superb world and the romantic players within it. I would recommend The Academy to all YA romance readers today.
Ruffina Oserio
The Academy by CJ Daly is a well-crafted young adult romance that is intelligently plotted with characters that are real and compelling. Kate has lost her mother and, since then, her father has become absent, leaving her alone to take care of her brothers. It is too much for a seventeen-year-old girl who wants more from life. And yes, a little distraction won’t hurt. It starts the moment she discovers the two strangers at the diner where she works, and then seeing them along the alleyway. Her little brother has been pursued by one of the Military Academy. When Cadet Davenport shows up at school, Kate knows she can’t trust her thinking. There is not just a strangeness about him that unnerves her, but an attraction that is quickly becoming irresistible. Can she hold herself together or follow her reckless heart? It is interesting to find out what happens.
CJ Daly writes beautifully; an author with a unique way with words, an economy that creates focus and enhances the reading experience for readers. The narrative has a powerful premise — a young girl who feels as though life has no meaning after the death of her mother and who is forced to take charge of her siblings without the support of a father. Now, imagine what happens when she falls in love. I enjoyed the suspense the author created around the strangers at the diner and the mystery surrounding them. The protagonist is created with sufficient background story to be real and to excite the reader. She is strong and yet so vulnerable in a human way and readers will enjoy her streams of consciousness and the emotional battle she has to fight from day to day. The Academy is an exciting read, evenly paced and intense when it comes to the emotional aspects of the conflict.
Ana Sadeh
This is a must read! The characters are deeply developed and I can’t wait to see what unfolds in the next book! This is the kind of story you can curl into and disappear!
Savannah Keck
Absolutely phenomenal. Suspense, wit, romance, mystery... CJ Daly nailed it. Would HIGHlY recommend.
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Burnley set to make fresh…
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Burnley set to make fresh approach for Jay Rodriguez
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Burnley are set to make a fresh approach for long-term target Jay Rodriguez in the coming weeks.
A story on Sky Sports, relayed on Football League World, states that the Lancashire club will turn their attention back to the striker after failing with a £16 million bid last summer.
The 29-year-old has been strongly linked with a move back to the top flight since the Baggies were relegated a year ago, with those links intensifying after he hit 22 goals in the Championship last season.
What’s more, the former Southampton man could leave for as little as £5 million due to a clause in his contract, although that fee would later rise to £10 million due to add ons.
The possibility of signing Rodriguez in a cut-price deal looks to have tempted Burnley into having a second go at signing their former player.
Boss Sean Dyche is looking for an alternative to Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes, with the futures of Matej Vydra and Nahki Wells uncertain.
It seems as though Rodriguez, who has scored 33 goals in the Premier League, has been identified as a good fit by those at Turf Moor.
The Clarets aren’t the only side looking at Rodriguez, with Bournemouth, Leicester, Norwich and Sheffield United also said to be considering offers.
Four more possible West Brom summer departures
Burnley are also interested in centre back Craig Dawson if James Tarkowski leaves Turf Moor. The Baggies are said to be open to the 29-year-old leaving in order to generate funds.
Veteran midfielder Barry is out of contract at the end of this month and looks to be on his way out. It is thought Slaven Bilic will consider offering him an extension if he believes Barry can add something to the squad.
Morrison’s long West Brom career could come to an end this summer with his contract about to expire. Blackburn Rovers, Bristol City and Reading are possible destinations for the midfielder.
Several teams are rumoured to be in for Rondon, who impressed on loan at Newcastle last season. The Baggies will receive £16.5 million for the Venezuelan, which can go towards new additions to the squad.
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Guest Post: Batter Up
October 7, 2011 by Ryan's Rally LLC
By Carla Liberty
Life. A process. Ever-changing. Like a baseball game, it throws us curve balls and change-ups, sliders, and yes, sometimes heat. Like the 95 mph fastball kind of heat. When we’re at bat, we have to make split decisions as to whether to swing (tackle our problems head-on) or whether to take the pitch (give the moment more thought and hope we’re on the right course). When the pitcher releases that ball, we have to be quick on our feet and adapt to what is thrown our way. (Life’s many challenges). Should I swing at that fastball? Is it in my strike (comfort) zone? Or is it outside the batter’s box (out of my control)?
Ryan's last at-bat ever, in his homerun trot. Hits a 3-run homerun at the State Championship.
The Divineys’ baseball game has gone into extra innings. In fact, they’ve been in extra innings since that horrible November night nearly two years ago. They faced a huge curveball when Ryan was attacked. Life as they knew it became life, we’re plugging through it. Faced with umpteen change-ups hurled by a steady stream of starters and relievers, they wait with anticipation for the day of Ryan’s game-winning home run (complete/total healing of body/mind). But until that day, they see the innings change (seasons), giving way to a new set of pitches (issues/challenges/and yes…progress).
We know that since the attack, Ken Diviney has stayed home with his son to provide 24/7 care. He is constantly at home plate anticipating what pitch will be thrown next. Will it be a Stephen Strasburg-style fastball that flies across the plate (smooth sailing, status quo) or will it be another curveball (infections/complications) or slider (setback)?
If there is anything good that has come from this nightmare, it is Ryan’s team – Team Diviney. The infielders (doctors/family/friends/community) and the outfielders (out of town support, media, etc.) are all on board to help this family win the game. We’ll be here when you need relief pitchers, we’ll be here when there are rain delays, and yes, we’ll be here when Ryan hits that game-winning home run.
Until such time, we must take note of the unsurpassed level of commitment the Team Manager (Ken Diviney) has to keeping his son physically healthy for that day when his mind is in sync with his body. Ken has said before that choices are easy to make when there is no choice. He is doing right by his son, providing him with a level of care most people cannot begin to fathom. He is in it to win it. And he will stand by his son because he, like Ryan, his lovely wife Sue, and precious daughter Kari – is made of “the right stuff.”
Ironically, as I was writing this piece, I heard the song “Love Without End, Amen” by Randy Travis. The words strike a chord and I liken the chorus to Ken’s undying devotion to his only son:
“Let me tell you a secret about a father’s love.
A secret that my daddy said was just between us.
You see Daddy’s don’t just love their children every now and then.
It’s a love without end, Amen.”
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Carla, this is amazing, it is perfect. I’m too moved to even cry — I have to just sit here and think about everything you said — especially about Ken, and how much I (all of us) admire him — and also, how much we respect and love the whole Diviney family. I hope no one comes over/calls me for the next half an hour (at least). I need some time to breathe and get my head straight.
Ken, we’ll never leave you and your family.
Love, hugs, prayers, always, Paula
Carla, that was a beautiful piece. You hit a home run.
Peggie says
Beautiful piece, Carla. You too are a gifted writer. What a wonderful expression of love to the Diviney family….
Excellent analogy, Carla. Reminds me of Forrest Gump when he said, “My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” I like the prayer that says, “God, nothing’s going to happen today that you and me can’t handle.” Think it–pray it–live it!
Thank you everyone for the lovely comments. I think our girl Rita has coined a new one….FTW! (For the win!).
Love/blessings to the Diviney family.
Carla, That was beautiful ..I can’t say any more .Your writing is amazing . Many gifted people down that way And all of what you wrote is so true for Ryan and family love ya Gail
Dianne says
You never cease to amaze me, Carla! I’m honored to be your friend!!
sally ellis says
Great job and I agree with Anna. The words on this post will inspire and be comforting to other individuals who find themselves in this unfortunate situation. Still here.
Sue Haviland says
Beautifully written
Wow… perfectly said Carla. Thank you.
Even amid the obvious heartache, there’s ALWAYS a very touching and beautiful energy moving within and around Ryan and his family. This is just one more example of that. It’s purely magical- I’m so grateful to be part of such.
May the feelings we hold deep within our hearts reach Ryan and his family, helping to propel them forward to a place of complete healing.
Yours is beautifully written as well, Keri:)
Great post Carla! This post would make a great intro to the book Ken will write.
Family friend says
Yes indeed Anna, yet another gifted writer!
More later, Ken and Carla, but just so you know, this outfielder caught a fly ball, and I’m working my way toward home base. Batter up!
Beautifully put, Carla. Team Diviney FTW!
I’m in the stands cheering on for the ultimate Home Run. Nice post Carla.
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Helen M. Causin says
Well said!!
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TeamSTEPPS: Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety.
Washington, DC: Department of Defense. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2016.
Effective teamwork plays an essential role in providing safe patient care. The Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) program was developed in collaboration by the United States Department of Defense and AHRQ in order to support effective communication and teamwork in health care. This updated version of the widely implemented program provides new tools to measure its impact, supports increased emphasis on the role of effective communication in team training, and includes a new course management guide. Teamwork training programs have been shown to improve knowledge and attitudes, but have received mixed reviews on their effectiveness in changing behaviors. An AHRQ WebM&M commentary discussed how improved teamwork and shared decision-making might have prevented the unnecessary placement of a peripherally inserted central catheter that led to significant complications.
Simulation Training for Rapid Assessment & Improved Teamwork (STRAIT) Project.
Center for Perioperative Research in Quality, Vanderbilt University.
This AHRQ-funded project supports interprofessional communications training for post-anesthesia care unit teams and targets nurse handoff improvements.
Grant > Government Resource
Improving Patient Safety Through Simulation Research.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; June 2008.
This announcement describes the 19 projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2006 that studies the potential of simulation to improve patient safety.
Grant > Grant Recipient
Patient Safety Tools: Improving Safety at the Point of Care.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded more than $8 million to 15 Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS) projects. These projects will implement patient safety interventions and develop toolkits that will be freely available to other health care providers.
Impact of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for Perinatal Care. Get Citation
Kahwati LC, Sorensen AV, Teixeira-Poit S, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019;45:231–240.
Labor and delivery is an inherently high-risk care setting. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality adapted its Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, a best practice toolkit incorporating teamwork, human factors engineering principles, and simulation training, for labor and delivery. In this pre–post evaluation study, staff reported improved safety culture and teamwork. Obstetric trauma and primary cesarean delivery rates declined after the intervention, but neonatal birth trauma rates increased. The authors note that incomplete implementation and lack of sustained program participation observed in the study should be addressed in order to improve obstetric and neonatal care safety. A recent Annual Perspective emphasizes the rising rate of severe maternal morbidity and summarizes national initiatives to improve safety in maternity care.
Tools/Toolkit > Government Resource
CUSP Toolkit.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2018.
The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP), originally developed at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Peter Pronovost and colleagues, has been instrumental in driving patient safety improvement in several landmark patient safety initiatives. The CUSP approach emphasizes improving safety culture by through a continuous process of reporting and learning from errors, improving teamwork, and engaging staff at all levels in safety efforts. Most recently, an AHRQ-funded project using the CUSP model achieved a 40% reduction of central line–associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units nationwide. This toolkit includes modules on how to build the CUSP team, identify recurring safety concerns, and improve teamwork and communication.
Toolkit To Improve Safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Rockville, MD.
Ambulatory surgery centers provide care to growing numbers of patients. This toolkit draws from AHRQ's Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program to help ambulatory surgical center teams develop communication and teamwork skills to reduce infections and other iatrogenic harms.
Improving Patient Safety Systems for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Guide For Hospitals.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2012. AHRQ Publication No. 12-0041.
This guide and corresponding TeamStepps module address how to improve care for patients with limited English proficiency.
Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units. Get Citation
Mayer CM, Cluff L, Lin WT, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:365-374.
Teamwork training programs have resulted in some notable successes, but many other attempts have failed to yield improved patient outcomes, in part because of a lack of evidence showing that teamwork training results in durable provider behavior change. In this AHRQ-funded study, the TeamSTEPPS training program was introduced in two intensive care units (one pediatric and one adult surgical), after meticulous preparatory planning that emphasized the utility of the training for frontline care providers, engaged higher-level support for the effort, and established clear metrics for effectiveness. The program resulted in improvement in directly observed team behaviors and measures of safety culture, and also improved 2 of 3 targeted patient-level outcomes. A related editorial discusses the role of targeted teamwork training interventions in the context of efforts to develop high reliability organizations.
Understanding Clinical Information Needs and Health Care Decision Making Processes in the Context of Health Information Technology (R01).
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Program Announcement No. PA-11-198.
This AHRQ funding program will support research in team decision making processes in health care.
Medical Error Reporting.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Health Care Innovations Exchange. June 23, 2010.
This issue features successful patient safety innovations pertaining to disclosure, multidisciplinary patient safety conferences, and proactive reporting.
Advancing Patient Safety: A Decade of Evidence, Design, and Implementation.
Rockville, MD; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; November 2009. AHRQ Publication No. 09(10)-0084.
This publication highlights AHRQ's patient safety research efforts in the 10 years since the Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human, was published.
Contributions by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Grantees.
Health Serv Res. 2009;44:623-776.
This special series of articles highlights the progress and current state of patient safety since the landmark IOM report. The series was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as a method to critically evaluate their efforts, and those of their grantees, in funding more than 230 patient safety projects. The compilation showcases AHRQ's efforts to catalyze innovation and advance knowledge in patient safety, reflected in part by the articles in this series. An introductory editorial highlights themes that should drive the next 10 years of patient safety progress, which include changing safety culture, increasing transparency in providing care and examining risk, embracing the power of multidisciplinary teams, realizing the benefits of information technology, and approaching every issue through the patient's eyes.
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The Science of Simulation in Healthcare: Defining and Developing Clinical Expertise.
Kaji AH, Cone DC, eds. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15:971-1222.
This special issue highlights an AHRQ-funded symposium on the role of simulation in medical education and covers topics such as teamwork training and skill improvement.
The importance of simulation: preventing hand-off mistakes. Get Citation
Clancy CM. AORN J. 2008;88:625-627.
This article discusses an AHRQ-funded communication survey initiative that utilized simulation to build effective teamwork techniques.
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AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; August 2008.
This Web site provides access to presentation materials from AHRQ's first annual conference, held in September 2007.
Risk-adjusted morbidity in teaching hospitals correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures of teamwork climate, safety climate, or working conditions. Get Citation
Davenport DL, Henderson WG, Mosca CL, Khuri SF, Mentzer RM Jr. J Am Coll Surg. 2007;205:778-784.
Hospitals are urged to measure their safety culture through the use of one of several validated surveys that assess teamwork and organizational attitudes toward safety. Although several such surveys exist, evidence linking survey responses to improved patient outcomes is lacking. This AHRQ-funded study assessed the relationship between safety culture (as measured by the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire) and clinical outcomes in surgical patients, and found no clear relationship between perceived safety culture and risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality. However, reduced morbidity correlated with higher ratings of communication within surgical teams. This finding supports prior research that implicated communication failures as a cause of safety problems in surgery.
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative: Focus on Implementation and Dissemination Evaluation Report III.
Farley DO, Damberg CL, Ridgely MS, et al. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2007. ISBN: 9780833042170
This annual report discusses AHRQ's involvement in patient safety activities between 2004-2005 and provides suggestions for future actions. This document is the third of four yearly reports funded by AHRQ to assess their work.
Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council.
Leonhardt K, Bonin K, Pagel P. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2008. AHRQ Publication Nos. 080048.
This AHRQ-funded toolkit outlines how one Midwestern hospital system successfully implemented a patient advisory council. A companion toolkit illustrates how the council worked with the hospital to develop and implement a medication list initiative.
Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study. Get Citation
Sinopoli DJ, Needham DM, Thompson DA, et al. J Crit Care. 2007;22:177-183.
This AHRQ-funded multicenter prospective study used data from a previously described voluntary reporting system, the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System (ICUSRS), to compare the types and severity of safety problems for medical and surgical ICU patients. Despite differences in the types of patients, the types of errors reported were generally similar between the two groups, with most errors being attributable to training and team system factors (such as communication). Prior studies using data from the ICUSRS have analyzed factors contributing to medication order entry errors and procedural errors.
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Search results for "Role of the Media"
Patient Safety: Exploring Quality of Care in the US.
ProPublica, Inc. New York, NY.
This website provides resources exploring patient safety challenges from various perspectives, including feature length articles and measurement tools like the Surgeon Scorecard to support a community focused on driving safety improvement.
Many well-known hospitals fail to score high in Medicare rankings.
Rau J. National Public Radio. July 27, 2016.
Although quality rating systems have yet to receive approval across the health care industry, they still serve as a way for consumers to select hospitals and providers. The developers of rating services continue to refine metrics to hone their effectiveness. This news article reports on the latest set of ratings from the Hospital Compare program and concerns associated with the results.
Using the web or an app instead of seeing a doctor? Caution is advised.
Frakt A. New York Times. July 11, 2016.
Patients are increasingly using online symptom checkers for medical information and health care recommendations. This newspaper article reports on various health information applications that provide triage advice to patients and points out that physicians have significantly lower rates of diagnostic errors.
Paralyzed by errors, this Xbox designer is taking on hospital safety.
Aleccia J. Seattle Times. June 18, 2016.
Patients who experience harm while receiving medical care can serve as powerful advocates for patient safety. This news article reports on a patient who became engaged in working to redesign processes to improve patient safety after he became paralyzed from the chest down due to a cascade of communication errors.
Perceptions of medical errors in cancer care: an analysis of how the news media describe sentinel events. Get Citation
Li JW, Morway L, Velasquez A, Weingart SN, Stuver SO. J Patient Saf. 2015;11:42–51.
Print news media describes errors in cancer care from patient or legal perspectives more frequently than from clinician or safety expert perspectives. A significant proportion of articles ascribe blame to clinicians and hospital systems and do not discuss systems approaches.
Diagnosis: doubled over in pain.
Sanders L. New York Times Magazine. March 18, 2012.
This interactive magazine feature takes readers through the decision-making process in a case involving diagnostic error.
High-profile investigations into hospital safety problems in England did not prompt patients to switch providers. Get Citation
Laverty AA, Smith PC, Pape UJ, Mears A, Wachter RM, Millett C. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012;31:593-601.
While medical errors continue to affect patients on a daily basis, most organizations fear high-profile cases that land on front pages of newspapers or lead to extensive regulatory intervention. This study evaluated the role of England's Care Quality Commission in their own regulatory investigation of major issues occurring in three hospitals. The investigations led to considerable media attention, but whether this influenced patient behavior was unknown. The authors found that the investigations had zero impact on utilization at two of the hospitals. The third experienced a decrease in inpatient admissions and new patient visits, but the effect dissipated 6 months following the public report. In an era of greater transparency and increased attention on patient safety, these findings suggest that patients' decision-making is perhaps less influenced than expected by such events. Two past AHRQ WebM&M perspectives discussed organizational change in the face of highly public errors at Duke and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Dirty surgical tools put patients at risk.
Snyderman N. NBC News. February 22, 2012.
This news video reports how inadequate sterilization of surgical instruments can affect patient safety.
Minor mistakes, deadly results.
Vaida B. The Washingtonian. January 27, 2012.
This magazine article discusses patient safety improvement efforts as well as challenges hindering more widespread error reduction.
Analysis of Australian newspaper coverage of medication errors. Get Citation
Hinchcliff R, Westbrook J, Greenfield D, Baysari M, Moldovan M, Braithwaite J. Int J Qual Health Care. 2012;24:1-8.
This study analyzed media coverage of medication errors in Australian newspapers and found that most articles simply reported on errors with little discussion of potential solutions or steps patients could take to minimize error risk.
Guidelines for Informing the Media After an Adverse Event.
Communication Advisory Committee. Edmonton, AB, Canada: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; 2010. ISBN: 9781926541266
This guideline provides an organizational strategy, flow charts, and a task list to improve internal and external communication following a medical error.
In Conversation with... Charles Ornstein
The Role of the Media in Patient Safety, October 2009
Charles Ornstein is a senior reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization in New York. Formerly with the Los Angeles Times, he co-wrote a series of articles about medical errors at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which closed in 2007; the series earned the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He is also the president of the Association of Health Care Journalists. We asked him to speak with us about the role of the media in patient safety. This interview was conducted while he was still at the Times.
The Media: An Essential, If Sometimes Arbitrary, Promoter of Patient Safety
with commentary by Robert M. Wachter, MD, The Role of the Media in Patient Safety, October 2009
December 1 marks the tenth anniversary of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human, the blockbuster that launched the modern patient safety movement.(1) The anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on the forces that have promoted safety efforts over the past decade. They include a more robust accreditation environment, increased reporting of adverse events to state and other regulatory bodies, growing implementation of information technology, skill-building support by organizations such as Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a maturing research field supported by AHRQ and others.
Pediatric medication safety and the media: what does the public see? Get Citation
Stebbing C, Kaushal R, Bates DW. Pediatrics. 2006;117:1907-1914.
This study analyzed newspaper coverage of pediatric medication errors and adverse drug events in five countries to demonstrate increased interest in the topic over the past decade. Investigators examined the number of articles and the types of events covered and assessed the overall themes presented and framed by the media. The majority of articles published covered patient incidents followed by policy and then research in decreasing order of frequency. Despite the occasional occurrence of sensational reporting on errors, more than 70% of articles that were deemed to be negatively associated with patient safety were covered in a neutral manner.
Pushing the profession: how the news media turned patient safety into a priority. Get Citation
Millenson ML. Qual Saf Health Care. 2002;11:57-63.
This article highlights the role of the news media in catalyzing the patient safety movement. The author maintains that the medical profession adopted an “ostrich-like attitude” toward medical errors prior to the intensified media coverage of high-profile mistakes. In the postwar era, trust in physicians was high, and the media profiled mainly scientific progress. In the past two decades, media coverage of medical mishaps has increased and changed the attitude toward patient safety. The author cites specific cases profiled in the media and the changes these cases prompted in the medical system, including a number of large-scale patient safety committees, projects, and landmark legislation.
Heart Failure: The Decline of a Historic Transplant Program.
Hixenbaugh M, Ornstein C. Houston Chronicle and Propublica.
This news investigation chronicles a series of incidents in a transplant program that resulted in patient harm. The systemic nature of the problems such as insufficient whistleblower protection, accountability, and follow-up on patient concerns culminated in a change of hospital leadership. A previous PSNet interview with Charles Ornstein discussed the role of media in raising awareness of patient safety issues.
5 cataract surgeries, 5 people blinded: what went wrong?
Kowalczyk L. Boston Globe. August 14, 2016.
Certain elements of the ambulatory surgery environment can increase risk of adverse events. Reporting on a series of patient injuries linked to a contracted anesthesiologist at a cataract surgery center, this news article describes how factors such as production pressure and insufficient assessment of contract anesthesiologists' qualifications can contribute to adverse events in outpatient surgery.
The next wave of hospital innovation to make patients safer.
Ghaferi AA, Myers C, Sutcliffe KM, Pronovost PJ. Harv Bus Rev. July/August 2016;94.
Achieving high reliability is a recognized goal for health care organizations. Reviewing current technical and standardization enhancements to augment quality and safety in surgery, this article explores how implementing high reliability concepts could further improve safety in surgical care over time.
Pathologists, patients and diagnostic errors—part 1 and part 2.
Miller N. The Pathologist. June 2016(20):18-29; July 2016(21):18-33.
In light of the growing focus on diagnostic errors, this magazine series reports on unique challenges that pathologists face when they discover potential errors. The first article in the series discusses how pathologists may experience barriers to disclosure including feeling shame in disclosing their own error, discomfort with raising concerns about a colleague who has misdiagnosed a patient, and lack of direct relationships with patients. The second article expands the discussion to focus on how industry support of open transparency can enable pathologists to participate in reporting and disclosure activities.
Mean girls of the ER: the alarming nurse culture of bullying and hazing.
Robbins A. Good Housekeeping. May 20, 2016.
Disruptive behaviors are receiving increased attention as a cultural factor that contributes to medical error. Although much of the focus has been on physicians, the presence of bullying among nurses is also a concern. This magazine article explores nurse behaviors such as withholding information, intimidation, and name calling that negatively affect patient safety and nurse retention.
Rating hospitals by the stars: the feds' latest plan to measure quality is the most controversial.
Rau J. Washington Post. May 17, 2016.
Collecting data to meet quality measurement requirements adds to resource burden for many health care organizations, and there is controversy around the benefits of such rating systems for both patients and clinicians. This news article discusses problems with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rating mechanism, Hospital Compare.
Clues to better health care from old malpractice lawsuits.
Landro L. Wall Street Journal. May 9, 2016.
Closed claims have been considered a source for adverse event data for years, and recently such data has been utilized to inform safety improvement work. This newspaper article reviews several organizational efforts that use claims data to determine factors that contribute to failure and strategies to address them, including process redesign and enhanced patient education.
Hospital discharge: it's one of the most dangerous periods for patients.
Rau J. Washington Post. April 29, 2016.
Transitions in care between inpatient and outpatient settings are an increasing concern for patient safety. Reporting on a fatal medication error that was missed by a patient's pharmacist and home health nurses, this newspaper article discusses various risks associated with hospital-to-home transitions such as insufficient case management and communication.
Can social media be used as a hospital quality improvement tool? Get Citation
Lagu T, Goff SL, Craft B, et al. J Hosp Med. 2016;11:52-55.
Researchers in this study reviewed patient feedback posted on a hospital's Facebook page to determine whether social media may be a helpful mechanism for identifying patient safety and quality improvement issues. In this small sample of 37 respondents over a 3-week period, insights from social media comments did not seem to add much to the feedback already collected by more traditional methods, such as patient satisfaction surveys.
Systematic review on the prevalence, frequency and comparative value of adverse events data in social media. Get Citation
Golder S, Norman G, Loke YK. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2015;80:878-888.
Medication errors are common in the outpatient setting and frequently lead to emergency department visits and hospital admissions. The growth in social media use potentially provides a way to identify safety hazards quickly. This systematic review sought to examine whether social media could provide unique insights into safety issues compared to standard methods of detecting safety hazards. The included studies searched a variety of social media sites (e.g., Twitter, YouTube, and discussion forums) and found that a large number of adverse events are discussed in real time. Most of these events tended to be mild, such as symptoms or asymptomatic lab test abnormalities. Serious adverse events, those requiring urgent treatment or hospitalization, were relatively underrepresented. Although searching social media may help identify unique safety hazards, the investigators concluded that current evidence is insufficient to determine whether routine analysis of social media is of added benefit to traditional surveillance methods.
Inside Canada's secret world of medical error: 'There is a lot of lying, there's a lot of cover-up.'
Blackwell T. National Post. January 16, 2015.
Reporting on the lack of transparency around medical errors in Canada, this news article relates how errors are being repeated across the country due to the systemic failure to have open discussions about adverse events.
The US has a drug shortage—and people are dying.
Koba M. Fortune. January 6, 2015.
National drug shortages are a persisting and serious patient safety issue in the United States. Reporting on the drug shortage problem, this magazine article explores underlying causes, economic factors involved, and how shortages threaten the safety and timeliness of patients receiving treatment.
Old and overmedicated: the real drug problem in nursing homes.
Jaffe I, Renincasa R. Morning Edition. National Public Radio. December 8–9, 2014.
Overprescribing of medications is a common problem in nursing homes. This two-part radio segment reports on the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications as a chemical restraint for patients with dementia. The first part introduces the issue and includes insights from families that have experienced harm due to the practice. The second segment discusses programs that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has put in place to address the problem through a more patient-centered approach to care and suggests strengthening penalties against organizations that overuse antipsychotics.
ER doctor discusses role in Ebola patient's initial misdiagnosis.
Dunklin R, Thompson S. Dallas Morning News. December 6, 2014.
This news article reports on the widely publicized delayed diagnosis of Ebola at a Dallas hospital and reveals previously undisclosed details from the emergency room physician who misdiagnosed the patient when he first presented, including information and communication gaps that may have contributed to the failure.
Conflict of interest, Dr Charles Denham and the Journal of Patient Safety. Get Citation
Wu AW, Kavanagh KT, Pronovost PJ, Bates DW. J Patient Saf. 2014;10:181-185.
In light of an unreported conflict of interest that might have affected recommendations for chlorhexidine use to reduce risk of central line–associated infections, this review examines articles written or coauthored by Dr. Charles Denham to determine whether undeclared conflicts of interest could have influenced conclusions, selections, and recommendations in published research. The authors emphasize the need to identify and address conflicts of interest and outline strategies to reduce risk of undisclosed conflicts which may in turn affect validity of published evidence.
California hospitals make hundreds of errors every year, public is unaware.
Stock S, Putnam J, Carroll J, Pham S. NBC Bay Area. November 19, 2014.
Hospital reporting of errors in the United States has been suboptimal. This news video investigates the effectiveness of a state reporting initiative in California. Although hospitals have reported 6282 adverse events to the state in 4 years, patient safety experts suggest that those results do not reliably represent all the incidents that should have been submitted.
Hamilton father misdiagnosed with lung cancer demands answers.
Carville O. The Star. November 14, 2014.
This news article reports on a case involving a patient who was misdiagnosed with terminal cancer and touches on the psychological impact of diagnostic error on the patient and his family. The potential causes of the mistake include laboratory sample confusion and misinterpretation of biopsy results.
Is a tired doctor a safe doctor?
Goldman B. "White Coat, Black Art." CBC Radio. October 31, 2014.
This radio segment explores whether sleep deprivation affects the safety of care delivery. Panelists discuss sleep deprivation in health care, the influence of hierarchy and peer behaviors in normalizing fatigue, and the impacts of duty hour limits on patient safety. This contributes to the continuing debate about the benefits of work hour reductions and its potential to detract from residents' competency.
Living with cancer: not talking about medical mistakes.
Gubar S. New York Times. October 30, 2014.
This newspaper article describes how surgical complications, health care–associated infections, and ineffective patient–provider communication contributed to a patient's experience with harm and suggests that transparency around the incident and preoperative patient briefings could have improved the situation.
Is surgery safer at a teaching hospital?
Webster H. US News & World Report. October 27, 2014.
This magazine article explores whether receiving care at a teaching hospital affects patient safety and highlights how the demands of the educational process can actually augment safety, as attendings at these institutions typically remain up-to-date on new evidence to respond to students' questions and supervision is required for students performing procedures.
To reduce patient falls, hospitals try alarms, more nurses.
Ryan J. All Things Considered. National Public Radio. October 16, 2013.
This radio news segment reports on patient falls, including risk factors and prevention strategies.
Ebola case raises concern about everyday hospital safety.
Rodricks D. Baltimore Sun. October 14, 2014.
Although significant progress has been made in improving patient safety over the past decade, many medical errors continue to occur. In light of the recent incident involving transmission of the Ebola virus from a patient to a nurse at a Dallas hospital, this newspaper article reports on how lapses in following standard procedures in care environments, such as insufficient handwashing, can result in preventable harm.
Dallas Ebola case shows even sound plans can fail spectacularly.
Loftis RL. Dallas Morning News. October 5, 2014.
Guidelines and rules are developed to help augment safety, but they cannot guarantee it. This news article explores the potential causes for a missed diagnosis of Ebola despite screening procedures for the virus, including weaknesses in an electronic health record system, complacency, and poor communication.
Some cancer experts see 'overdiagnosis,' question emphasis on early detection.
Beck M. Wall Street Journal. September 14, 2014.
Overdiagnosis has emerged as a patient safety issue. Reporting on how the push for early identification of cancer has led to screening, detection, and treatment of tumors that may never cause harm, this newspaper article discusses the impact of unnecessary tests and treatment on patients and health systems. Researchers are working to design better tests to distinguish between benign abnormalities and cancers.
At surgery clinic, rush to save Joan Rivers's life.
Hartocollis A, Goodman JD. New York Times. September 9, 2014.
Office-based anesthesia is becoming more common despite concerns regarding its safety. This newspaper article reports on factors to enhance safety of surgical care in ambulatory settings, such as adequate screening of patient risks, availability of staff trained to perform intubations when needed, and ensuring access to lifesaving equipment as strategies.
Feds reverse course, will release hospital mistake data.
O'Donnell J. USA Today. September 7, 2014.
This newspaper article reports on the decision to reinstate distribution of publicly-reported information on hospital-acquired conditions that, in an attempt to simplify content for consumers, had been removed from the Hospital Compare Web site.
Surgical error at Tufts prompts widespread changes.
Reporting on an incident involving administration of an inappropriate dye which led to a patient's death, this newspaper article reveals how cognitive biases may have played a role and steps the hospital took to prevent similar errors. Six Massachusetts hospitals have launched a pilot program for early apology and resolution in an effort to enhance patient satisfaction and safety.
Surgical 'black box' could reduce errors.
Sathya C. CNN. August 22, 2014
This news article reports on the development a surgical black box, which includes using cameras and microphones to record procedures, as a way to track weaknesses in techniques and processes while providing real-time feedback to surgeons and enabling timely intervention to reduce complications in surgery.
Nursing homes cited 1,000 times for medication errors.
Pierrotti A. USA Today. August 18, 2014.
This video news segment highlights the persistent risks of adverse drug events in nursing homes, particularly overprescribing of antipsychotic drugs, and reveals how one state developed a program to reduce medication errors for older patients in residential facilities.
Rethinking hospital restraints.
Parikh R. The Atlantic. August 18, 2014.
The inappropriate use of physical restraints on patients is considered a sentinel event. Although restraints may be used to protect patients from harm, this magazine article highlights risks related to their use—such as increased rates of pressure ulcers and delirium—and advocates for a more patient-sensitive approach to ensure the safety of both patients and caregivers.
Veterans Affairs: Faces of Delay.
Flatten M. Washington Examiner. August 18–22, 2014.
This series offers five magazine articles exploring how diagnostic error, delayed treatment, and insufficient attention to patient concerns and medical history within the Veterans Affairs health system contributed to preventable harm and death.
Hospitals make progress on the path to safety.
Hobson K. US News World Report. August 13, 2014.
This magazine article highlights advances in patient safety efforts along with documented challenges to progress. Surgical checklists, forcing functions in electronic health records, and daily huddles for leaders to talk about concerns are discussed as strategies implemented to reduce adverse events in hospitals.
Looking to the future of patient safety.
Carr S. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. July/August 2014;11:30-35.
This magazine article summarizes experts' projections for the patient safety movement in the next 5 years. Areas discussed include expanding the focus of safety to investigate public health concerns, enhancing patient engagement, improving interoperability of electronic health records, and driving culture change.
CA sitting on millions in hospital fines.
Clark C. HealthLeaders Media. August 7, 2014.
Although California has collected an estimated $15 million in penalties from hospitals for adverse events, this news piece describes how much of the money has yet to be allocated or spent on safety improvement projects. Moreover, some state agencies have been reluctant to provide specific data to projects that have already been funded.
Feds stop public disclosure of many serious hospital errors.
O'Donnell J. USA Today. August 6, 2014.
This newspaper article reports on changes to publicly reported data on the Hospital Compare Web site. Several avoidable hospital-acquired conditions, such as air embolism or retained foreign objects, are no longer included. Working with the National Quality Forum, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to modify the list to make it easier for consumers to use and understand.
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Tag Archives: Watch_Dogs
Watch_Dogs E3 2013 Trailer
June 10, 2013 by masterbedgood in Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Videogames, Xbox and tagged E3, game, human trafficking, PC, PS3, PS4, Ubisoft, Watch Dogs, Watchdogs, Watch_Dogs, WiiU, XBOX, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Leave a comment
The more I see of this game, the more excited I get for it… and I’m really damn excited. This trailer shows off the seedy human trafficking side of the fictional Chicago. Crazy stuff ensues. Just watch.
Watch_Dogs Coming to PC and Consoles in November
April 29, 2013 by masterbedgood in Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, Videogames, Xbox and tagged Gaming, next gen consoles, Next Xbox, Nextbox, PS3, PS4, Ubisoft, Watch Dogs, Watchdogs, Watch_Dogs, Wii U, WiiU, Xbox 360, Xbox 720 | Leave a comment
Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch_Dogs has a new trailer and a concrete release date. Announced at last year’s E3, Watch_Dog places gamers in the shoes of the technically-inclined vigilante Aiden Pearce who can hack electronic devices to gain information, wire funds, or trigger traps in an open-world game environment. Watch_Dogs will be available on current and next-gen consoles as well as PC on November 19, 2013.
Sony’s PlayStation 4 Revealed
February 21, 2013 by masterbedgood in News Snippets, PlayStation, Technology, Videogames and tagged Activision, Bilzzard, Bungie, CD Projekt, CD Projekt RED, Destiny, Diablo III, Dual Shock 4, inFamous, inFamous: Second Son, Killzone, Killzone: Shadow Fall, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS, PS3, PS4, Second Son, Sony, The Witcher, The Witcher 3, Ubisoft, Watch_Dogs | Leave a comment
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Sony finally revealed their next videogame console: the PlayStation 4. While there had been a lot of speculation leading up to the event, it’s nice to finally have some details confirmed and, after seven years, we can look forward to a new console gaming generation this fall.
Here’s a brief rundown of the system: The PS4’s new controller will feature a touch pad, a light bar which can indicate character health as well as act as work in tandem with PlayStation Eye (similar to PS Motion), has redesigned analogue sticks with concave grips, and a new “social” button which opens up a social menu. The PlayStation Eye has also been vastly improved and now features two cameras with 1200 x 800 resolution–the two cameras allow depth recognition.
The system itself is equipped with a “powerful custom chip that contains eight x86-64 cores and a state of the art graphics processor.” The PS4 also has 8 gigs of GDDR5 memory allowing 176GB per second bandwidth and higher graphic fidelity.
Games announced for the PlayStation 4 include a new title in the inFamous series titled Second Son, Killzone: Shadow Fall, Bungie’s Destiny with exclusive content, The Witcher 3, Ubisoft’s Watch_Dogs (which was announced at E3 2012), Diablo III (which will also make an appearance on the PS3 for the eager, console-bound dungeon adventurers), among others. The upcoming content seems to be a strong lineup, but there’s little new content to entice potential buyers at this early stage–E3 is likely to bring more exciting news on the next PlayStation.
It’s also worth noting that the PS4 will play used games, contradicting past rumors that the system would block the use of pre-owned titles. The PS4 will not, however, be backwards compatible and past PSN purchases on previous platforms will not be accessible on the new system. While Sony plans to circumvent the backwards compatibility issue with a streaming service, the lack of any native support for older titles is discouraging.
Nevertheless, the PlayStation 4 looks to be a powerful gaming machine and it’s certainly exciting to move on to a new generation of console gaming hardware this holiday season.
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Minor Miracles
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CHARLIE CAPER & MALIN NILSSON:
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She is the glorious enfant terrible of magic. He is a gentleman hobo, a conjuror extraordinaire. All the way from Sweden, Caper and Nilsson bring their unique combination of magic, comedy and surrealism. A laughout-loud, one-of-a-kind magic show packed with world class sleight-of-hand magic and topped with a pinch of confetti.
“There”s something mesmerizing about sleight of hand done well and Caper and Nilsson are masters of the art! (The Advertiser, 2017)
Malin Nilsson is a magician with passion for creating unique magic and live shows. She is known for her variety inspired style and unpretentious way of performing magic. Malin grew up at a small theatre in the south of Sweden where she returns every year with a new show. She appears frequently at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, the world most prestigious stage for magic and has performed more than 200 shows at the Krystallpalast in Leipzig.
Charlie Caper became one with the Swedish nation when he won Sweden”s Got Talent 2009. He has also starred in his own prime time TV show Helt Magiskt. Charlie is a street magician by heart and been traveling around the world performing in 40 different countries, perfecting his sleight of hand during more than 4500 shows.
Nilsson and Caper have been thinking, writing and creating magic side by side since 15 years. Minor
Miracles is their first show as a duo, and it comes straight from their hearts to the stage in Adelaide.
“…50 minutes of top quality entertainment.” (Weekend Notes, 2017)
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Malin Nilsson has won the Swedish Championships of Magic, as the first woman in history, and the Scandinavian Championships (that too, as the first female ever). Malin has also been awarded with the third price at the World Championships of Street Magic in Germany 2010.
Charlie Caper won Sweden”s Got Talent 2009 as the first magician in the world to win the â€Got Talent†format. He won a silver medal at the World Championship of Magic (Beijing) and won first place at the European Championships of Street Magic. In 2011 he was awarded the Mandrake”s d”Or – magic”s equivalent to an Oscar.
“Outstanding, amazing, superb… should be on TV” (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2015)
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(krăs'Әs), ancient Roman family, of the plebeian Licinian gens. It produced men who achieved great note in the 2d cent. and 1st cent. B.C.
One of the well-known members was Lucius Licinius Crassus, d. 91 B.C., a noted orator and lawyer (much admired by Cicero). He was a strict follower of constitutional forms, and he and Scaevola as consuls in 95 B.C. proposed a law—called the Licinian Law, the Lex Licinia, or the Lex Licinia Mucia—to banish from Rome Latins who had gained Roman citizenship by illegal means (or what the law set as illegal means). This greatly aggravated anti-Roman sentiment among the allies and helped bring on the Social War.
d. 87 B.C., was consul in 97. He was the financial backer of the Roman colony of Narbo (modern Narbonne) in Gaul and achieved fame by his victories in Spain after his consulship. He was a partisan of Sulla and, after being proscribed by the followers of Marius, committed suicide.
His son, Marcus Licinius Crassus, d. 53 B.C., was the best-known member of the family. He was a man of considerable charm and almost unbounded avarice and ambition. He was a partisan of Sulla and commanded some of Sulla's forces. He was also a highly successful dealer in real estate, and bought property that was confiscated or deserted in the period of the bloody Sullan proscriptions. He became the principal landowner in Rome by organizing his private fire brigade, buying burning houses cheap, and then putting out the fire.
Crassus gained immense prestige—along with Pompey—for suppressing the uprising of Spartacus. They were both consuls together in 70 B.C., and Crassus' rivalry and jealousy of Pompey grew. He was involved in plotting against Catiline, apparently secretly encouraging the conspiracy but not directly participating in it. He and Julius Caesar drew closer together, Crassus hoping to use Caesar's ability, Caesar (deep in debt) hoping to use Crassus' money.
Caesar, seeing that he needed stronger support than Crassus, created (60 B.C.) the First Triumvirate—Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar. With Crassus' envy of Pompey and Pompey's scorn of Crassus, the arrangement worked only because of Caesar's consummate ability in handling men. Crassus seems to have backed the political maneuvers of the notorious Clodius, and trouble was stirred up between Crassus and Pompey. Caesar called both of them to Lucca, where in 56 B.C. a conference reaffirmed the alliance.
Crassus and Pompey were again consuls together in 55. Crassus managed to get Syria assigned for his proconsular service in 54. Avid for military glory, he left even before his term as consul was up to undertake a campaign against the Parthians. His ambition outran his ability. After early successes, his army was completely routed at Carrhae (modern Haran) by Parthian archers in 53 B.C. Crassus in this disgrace was treacherously murdered, and Caius Cassius Longinus (see Cassius) had difficulty in saving even the remnants of the army.
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(born c. 115—died 53 bc) Roman financier and politician. He sided with Lucius Cornelius Sulla against Gaius Marius in the civil war of 83–82 bc and
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Quain Court Folkestone Kent CT20 2HH.
Posted on June 2, 2017 by shepwayvox in Shepwayvox // 3 Comments
Michael Gubbay, (pictured) a former employee of the Reuben Brothers, is a man who resides in Israel and was and probably still remains the owner of Quain Court, Folkestone Kent CT20 2HH, whose freehold is held offshore in the British Virgin Islands.
On 29 January 2013 Tuscola (104) Limited paid £51,350 for the freehold of Quain Court Title Deed according to the land registry. Tuscola (104) address is, Patton, Moreno & Asvat (BVI) Limited, Palm Chambers, 197 Main Street, P.O. Box 3174, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The address, not the company turns up in the Panama Papers several times
Tuscola (104) Ltd is “part of a group of companies which invest in ground rent portfolios. This involves acquiring freehold sites in the UK which are usually subject to long residential leasehold interests. The income from the sites derives principally from ground rents payable under the long leases. Tuscola’s sole director is Michael Gubbay, who resides in Israel.” (below, Quain Court on left of picture looking up Sandgate Road Folkestone)
In a recent court case – [2016] EWHC 1124 (CH) according to Mr Justice Arnold, who is on the record as saying Mr Gubbay’s statements in his court were untrue. Justice Arnold was driven to the conclusion that some of Mr Gubbay’s answers were not truthful, [Para 8] and repeats this on seven occasions in his judgement.
Mr Gubbay is a former employee of the Reuben Brothers and was a director of Motcomb Estates Limited between Aug 1993 – Sept 2011. The Reuben Brothers via their trusted lieutenant Alexander Bushaev has companies registered with Patton, Moreno & Asvat BVI Ltd on the 2nd Floor O’Neal Marketing Associates Building, PO Box 3174 Wickham’s Cay II, Road Town Tortola, VG 1110 British Virgin Islands.
During Mr Gubbay’s time as a director of Motcomb Estates Ltd, the company gave a donation to the Central Conservative Party of £10,390 on 14/03/2006.
In Oct 2007 Motcomb Estates gave another £36,000; which as a director Mr Gubbay would have been aware of.
And in June 2009 Motcomb Estates made another donation of £9500 to the Conservative Party.
It would also appear that Patton, Moreno & Asvat (BVI) Limited have more than one office in Road Town (BVI’s)
On the 29.01.2016 Quain Court was sold to TUSCOLA (FC101) LIMITED (incorporated in British Virgin Islands) for the sum of £51,350 according to the Land Registry and it is more likely than not that Mr Gubbay remains the owner of Quain Court. What is odd, is that Tuscola (104) bought it for the same money and 3 years on, the freehold had not increased in value.
So, Mr Gubbay, a man who according to Justice Arnold tells untruths, was and probably remains the owner of Quain Court, and is perhaps not the sort of freeholder one would want, in our humble opinion. Plus, a large sum of that money the leaseholders pay, well now we know it goes to the BVI’s, “a sunny place for shady people” – to use Somerset Maugham’s phrase.
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2nd Floor O'Neal Marketing Associates Building
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Michael Gubbay
Motcomb Estates Ltd
Mr Justice Arnold
Palm Chambers
PO Box 3174 Wickham's Cay II
Quain Court Folkestone Kent
Reuben Brothers
Road Town Tortola
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sunny place for shady people
Tuscola (104) Ltd
Tuscola (FC101) Ltd
Untruths
VG 1110 British Virgin Islands.
[2016] EWHC 1124 (CH)
3 Comments on Quain Court Folkestone Kent CT20 2HH.
IKF // June 2, 2017 at 22:09 // Reply
It takes ages to the management agency to get things done in Quain Court. I talk from experience.
Meldrew // June 5, 2017 at 17:43 // Reply
I wonder if this is useful :-
http://www.lease-advice.org/advice-guide/right-to-manage/#
MG // May 12, 2018 at 20:16 // Reply
The residents control the management of the building with no involvement from the Freeholder.
REGARDS – PROUD OWNER OF QUAIN COURT
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Pistachio Musings?
Writing a compiler for a DSL in Haskell using Parsec
May 18, 2016 • 2 mins
This winter, I took Compiler Design with Prof Laurie Hendren.
Ever since I began programming, I’ve been interested in programming languages. Languages (both the natural kind, like English (the rules of which you’re using to parse this sentence inside your head (unless you’re a bot, in which case 01101000 01101001 00100001)) as well as the programming kind like Java or C) are tools which people use to make Stuff. Once you understand how to use the symbols of a language, you can compose them in arbitrarily complex patterns to write arbitrarily complex things like a novel or a search engine. Programming languages, in particular, are reminiscent of wizardry (to use a somewhat tired cliche). Invoking a language is spell-casting.
Now, knowing how to use a language (or a spell!) makes you powerful. But True Power comes from knowing the meta-language, and True Wielders of Awesome Power are language-writers like Richard Stallman, James Gosling and Grace Hopper; people who invent programming languages, who give our imagination hammers and chisels, who define the way we create things, who give us the abstractions we need to build the things we do.
Yay italics.
I wanted to be a True Wielder of Power. I wanted to learn how programming languages work, and how they’re created, and what a compiler does. Also Steve Yegge says that students who don’t take Compilers “run the risk of forever being on the programmer B-list” (this is also good reading if you’re debating whether or not to take Compilers; it’s what convinced me!), and by golly, that was not going to happen to me. I’m a Good Programmer Software Engineer! I’m not just a JavaScript junkie who strings together APIs (jk <3 js); I want to know how things work From The Inside! I wanted to be free from the tyranny of ignorance of what the JVM is or does or what it means to transpile or cross-compile etc!
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We ended up doing a good job, I think. We implemented our compiler in Haskell (using Parsec, a monadic parser combinator library), and compiled down to JavaScript. We made some interesting modifications to the traditional compiler pipeline. You can check out the source code for the compiler at the GitHub repo and read about the design decisions we took here.
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Enter Jonathan Simmons. Now what you have to remember about this guy is that he once paid $150 to try out for the Austin Toros (D-League NBA Team) and before giving basketball a second shot was a barber. While he has received high praise for his abilities on the court, he is no Kawhi Leonard and the Warriors figured out how to abuse the weak link in the Spurs game plan from there on out. The real story in this game in my opinion is the fact that Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant carried the Warriors to a win in the end. Curry had 40 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 3 steals. Durant posted up 34 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, a steal and a block while the rest of the team didn’t even come close to matching those stats (except in rebounding of course).
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The Springfield Lasers won the King Trophy yesterday at the World TeamTennis championship for the first time in the team’s 23-year history.
The Lasers, who entered the championship final with a second-place 8-6 record, beat the top-seeded Philadelphia Freedoms by a score of 19-18. The Freedoms, who had a 12-2 season record, lost the championship in their home city, according to a news release.
“We’ve waited a long time,” said John-Laffnie “JL” de Jager, who has coached the Lasers for the last 12 seasons, in the release. “We won a lot of close matches. We never lost faith in our ability that we could win this, and tonight was very special.”
Miomir Kecmanovic, 18, was named MVP of the WTT finals after winning his men’s singles bout in the final set to secure the victory for the Lasers.
This year’s championships represented the sixth time the Lasers had a shot at the King Trophy. The team also advanced to the final in 2014, 2013, 2009, 2001 and 1999, according to the release.
“This is a banner day for the Lasers, the Springfield-Greene County Park Board and the city of Springfield,” Springfield Mayor Ken McClure said in a separate release. “Congratulations, coach de Jager and the whole team. You have made us proud.”
A replica King Trophy — named after WTT co-founder and Freedoms owner Billie Jean King — will be created to display in Springfield.
Established in 1996 by the late Harry Cooper, the Lasers are managed by the Park Board and play home matches at the Cooper Tennis Complex, according to the release.
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Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXX (Harness + Dickson + Haldeman + Brunner)
November 20, 2014 Joachim Boaz 35 Comments
An intriguing range of SF novels… A few thrift store pickups and a few sent by my father. Excited about the John Haldeman fix-up novel All My Sins Remembered (1977). Won’t read the Brunner for a long long time—but I’m a Brunner completists so I buy his books on sight if I don’t have a copy.
Still haven’t read anything by Charles L. Harness…. Not sure about this 80s rewrite of his late 40s serialized novel. We shall see.
1. All My Sins Remembered, John Haldeman (1977)
(Paul Stinson’s cover for the 1977 edition)
From the back cover of the later 1978 Orbit collection: ” An audacious and suspenseful vision of the future by Joe Haldeman, on the grand scale of MINDBRIDGE and THE FOREVER WAR. In a universe of strange, threatening and mutated creatures, Otto McGavin acts as undercover agent for the Confederación. A mild, unassuming man, two years of intensive hypnotic training have turned him into a Prime Operator with TB II. His technology enables him to take on the appearance and personality of any enemy. And to protect the legal rights of humans and non-humans he is prepared to lie, cheat, steal and kill his way across the galaxy.”
2. Naked to the Stars, Gordon R. Dickson (1961)
(Peter Elson’s cover for the 1978 edition)
From the back cover: ” THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER…. Lieutenant Cal Truant had never questioned the methods of the Assault Wing, 91st Combat Engineers, of which he was a fighting part. As his unit swept across the galaxy, conquering new worlds, he accepted the official dictate that the only good alien was an enslaved or dead one. But during a bloody battle on a war-torn planet, something happened to Cal Truant. Somehow, sixteen hours of his life were wiped from his memory. Cal became obsessed with solving the mystery buried in his mind. And what he eventually found forced him to rethink, in a spectacular way, the whole purpose of his life…”
3. The Paradox Men, Charles L. Harness (1949 magazine publication)
(Michael Booth’s cover for the 1984 edition)
From the inside flap: “Who is Alar the Thief? What has happened to his memory, and what is the origin of his strange powers? Is he the same man who stepped out of a mysterious space ship that crashed on Earth five years before and identical ship was scheduled to leave? And what of Keiris, the mysterious dark-eyed woman who hides Alar from his enemies? Who is behind the Meganet mind—a servant or destroyer of the dictatorship? What role are these people to play in upsetting the totalitarian Imperium that now strives to rule Earth in this grim year of A. D. 2177.
Charles L. Harness’s novel mixes elements of the swashbuckling space adventure with the most esoteric ideas of time travel and culminates in a grandiose attempt to change the destiny of mankind. Its hero confronts a decadent world about to destroy itself, and he must undergo death and transfiguration at the edge of the Sun to rescue human history from its endless cycle of growth and decay and from the waste of tyranny.
A shorter version of Harness’s story was first published in a 1949 issue of Startling Stories under the title Flight into Yesterday. An expanded version first appeared in 1953. In 1955 editor Donald A. Wollheim retitled the story The Paradox Men for a new Ace paperback. It has been unavailable to American readers for nearly three decades. Extensively revised by the author, this is now the definitive edition of a genuine science fiction classic.”
4. Manshape, John Brunner (1982)
(David B. Mattingly’s cover fir the 1982 edition)
From the back cover: “The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity. Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity’s multifold worlds… and had affirmed once more that all men were brothers and sisters under the skin. But the far away world of Azreal was the exception, the one dissident world that had refused the Bridge. It became the task of two agents, a man and a woman, to bring back Azreal into manshape unity, to ferret out the hidden reasons for the stubborn refusal. The problem, with its perils and high risks, was to involve more than just secrets, for MANSHAPE is a John Brunner novel that deals with the very fabric of civilization…”
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35 thoughts on “Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions No. CXX (Harness + Dickson + Haldeman + Brunner)”
simonjkh says:
I’ve got that Haldeman book in my to read pile, so I’ll be interested to see what you think of it. Super cool cover on the Brunner book!
Unfortunately Brunner’s 80s novels are complete crud — his best work is from the late 60s/early 70s. So, the cover might be the best part!
As for Haldeman, I enjoy The Forever War IF it is read as satire — not if it is a non-satirical novel. I enjoy if it IF it is a response to Heinlein, not (as he has said recently) if is is not a response to Heinlein. Otherwise, I think it is also a profoundly flawed work—as with Starship Troopers.
“The Forever War” is the only Hadelman novel I’ve read,and a “profoundly flawed work” describes it perfectly.”Starship Troopers” isn’t perfect,but far more readable and enticing with more accessible characters as I remember,although I haven’t read it since the 1970s.
I think if The Forever War is read as a response to Starship Troopers there is some serious merit in his critique of Heinlein… And, I remember enjoying the sequel Forever Peace (when I read 90s SF — hehe)
I think if TFW is in response to criticism of Heinlein,then he’s out of his depth.Harry Harrison’s “Bill,the Galactic Hero”,comes much closer the mark in doing this.
How is he out of his depth?
I thought we both agreed…..it’s rather a poor novel.I know Heinlein was criticized for apparently glorifying heroism in war within the novel,and Hadelman was trying to make a point against this,based on his Vietnam experiences of course,but if he is,it certainly didn’t come over very well,and wrote a rather dull novel,lacking powerful commentary and was unconvincing I think.It was an unimaginative piece.
I read it 10 years ago and remember enjoying the novel — but, as satire. Military SF is generally my least favorite subgenre.
admiral.ironbombs says:
The Paradox Men is supposed to be good—a few reviews in some of my SF encyclopedias and reference works convinced me to snag an old Ace Double copy. (Which used to sell for a decent sum, didn’t know there were newer rewrites.) Have not read it yet, but I expect it’s “good” as in “good pulp space opera,” so YMMV.
Manshape—that’s familiar, I almost picked it up for the cover a few years back. Then I saw a scathing review that I thought either you or Mike wrote in your quests to review every Brunner book ever written. I guess not, but, well, at least you have that cover?
Yeah, don’t expect much from Manshape… I haven’t read it yet but I doubt it’s any good — his work form the 80s is generally awful.
I was torn on picking up the Harness as it is his 80s rewrite rather than original 50s novelized version of the late 40s serial….
Go for broke, read the original 40s serial 😛
John Armstrong says:
The Haldeman book is not great, but a good enough read. It does have a profoundly grim ending that it’s impossible not to attribute to his experiences soldiering.
I enjoyed the Forever novels greatly, but most of his other novels are middling SF, to my taste anyway. I may be forgetting something in the list that’s better than that but it doesn’t come to mind
Yeah, I’ve only read the Forever novels… And a few rather average short stories — I do have a collection somewhere.
MishaBurnett says:
I absolutely loved “All My Sins Remembered”–it’s several novellas about the same character with a framing story. I think my favorite was “The Only War We’ve Got”, but they were all good.
Yeah, the ending is kind of downer, but I don’t see any other way it could have ended.
I look forward to it! My dad picked it up for me and said it was a solid read.
I hope you like the Harness, one of my favorite sf novels.
Haldeman has said repeatedly that The Forever War was not a response to Starship Troopers. (Bill the Galactic Hero is pretty funny.)
He has repeatedly said recently that it was not a response — his early discussion seems to indicate that it was (I read this a while back so i could be wrong).
As for the Harness, which version of the novel did you read? The original serialized version? The expanded Ace 50s edition? Or this rewritten 1980s edition?
I’ve read it twice. Once in the version you bought and once out of the Harness’ omnibus Rings — which uses the same corrected 1984 text.
I think I’d like to read the first expansion of the novel — so the 50s Ace version… Authors “modifying” texts late in their career seems a little strange.
George Zebrowski, in the intro to Rings, describes it as the “author-restored and corrected” version of the text.
Which means what exactly? Some version the publishers wanted cut or something?
In my copy it states (as reproduced in the inside flap blurb): “Extensively revised by the author” which implies, at least to me, that it was somewhat rewritten. I guess someone who has read all three versions should comment on what was changed! 🙂
Zebrowski says the “restored” version is about 4,000 words longer than the original.
MPorcius says:
I think Forever War is great, whether or not it’s a response to Heinlein, a great adventure with great SF concepts: the time dilation effect, the changes in society while the protagonist is away, the energy field that forces the soldiers to fight with bows and arrows, etc.
I also liked Mindbridge, for similar reasons, a decent adventure with cool SF ideas.
I know I read All My Sins Remembered in my early teens, but I remember nothing about it.
inthebrake says:
It’s been twenty years since I read it but as I remember All My Sins Remembered was sort of a mediocre fix-up. I’ll be interested to hear what you think of it.
From what I’ve read, All My Sins Remembered is supposed to be Haldeman’s greatest work. But it gets short shrift in comparison to Forever War. We’ll have to wait and see what you think.
Regarding Forever War, I loved the manner in which Haldeman used time dilation to mimic the distorted sense of reality and place soldiers returning from Vietnam experienced. It’s very powerful symbolism. Likewise, I thought the simple style (i.e. his imitation Hemingway) suited a soldier’s voice well. But yes, there were some issues structurally. Overall, if I had to choose, it would be Heinlein’s Starship Troopers as a pure specimen of writing, but Forever War for its social commentary and usage of sf tropes to strong symbolic effect.
I’ve read two Harness novellas (“The Alchemist” and “Summer Solstice”) and thought it they were well-written – well-written enough to make me interested in more of his works, but not enough to rush-rush to buy. I thought I remember seeing you review “The Rose”, but maybe you only purchased it…
I think you’re probably right what you say about TFW,but there seems too many flaws,as you say too,for it to have any powerful effect.I found it not very readable and forgettable.Yes,as I’ve said,Heinlein’s novel is better,and has a light,airy prose and attitude,which the other book lacks.Also,Harrison’s,”Bill,the Galactic Hero”,has the advantage of satire,which is another case in point against TFW.
I recently read Margaret Attwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”,which could also be said to make social commentary,but unfortunately,it’s presentation,awful prose and bad plot structure,rendered it unconvincing.The same faults can be aimed at TFW,although it was rather a more readable and better book.
“The Rose”,I thought,was quick nicely composed,but it’s ideas I think were too self consciously done.I assume you haven’t read it.
Carl V. Anderson says:
I like both the Elson and Mattingly covers. I’m so used to seeing Mattingly covers on Baen books, interesting to see one done farther back.
I don’t know if I’m more hoping that “naked guy wrestles a giant snake” happens in the Haldeman book, or that this is just drawn because it was an era when you could put that on your science fiction novels and prog-rock album covers and nobody would question what the heck it was doing there.
“Naked guy wrestles giant snake” has awesome classical and Victorian antecedents:
Laocoon:
https://www.google.com/search?q=laocoon&rlz=1C1FLDA_enUS592US592&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MLR2VKPgI87ZsATlrIHQAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=799
Frederic Leighton’s Athlete Wrestling a Python:
https://www.google.com/search?q=laocoon&rlz=1C1FLDA_enUS592US592&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MLR2VKPgI87ZsATlrIHQAg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=799#tbm=isch&q=leighton+python&spell=1
John Stephen Walsh says:
I enjoyed FOREVER WAR and believe it is less about a response to TROOPERS than it is a veteran of war saying, “Well, that’s fine, but…” It isn’t a screaming satire that announces itself, but a war novel INFORMED by true experience. One thing that hit me was that it seemed to try to grapple with something veterans I know discussed, about the long periods of nothing much going on (I think JARHEAD deals with this, too). But I thought Haldeman didn’t get on a soapbox, either. If it is satirical, and it probably is, it isn’t obvious “Look what I’m doing here with this scene!” satire.
After reading FOREVER WAR I moved on to ALL MY SINS… and thought it was very 70’s. (This is a good thing.) It seemed to be doing to DOUBLE STAR what FW did to TROOPERS.
It seems nearly everybody has it in for Heinlein.I don’t think Hadelman was any better writer than Heinlein,in fact far less so.I’m not saying Heinlein’s perfect,but was obviously influenced by him,and so took much from him,but lacked a lot of what he possessed.
Mark Stackpole says:
Despite the 1981 publication date, John Brunner’s MANSHAPE is a revision of one of his early (1964) Ace novels ENDLESS SHADOW (which was first published in Amazing in an abridged version as “The Bridge to Azrael”).
I have the feeling that I’ve read “The Bridge to Azrael”… hmm…
Was the 1981 novel version any good?
jswriter65 says:
I have to admit to being utterly perplexed to read that Haldeman says FOREVER WAR isn’t a response to Heinlein since that’s what I’ve been hearing about it for years. However, even if it wasn’t, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a response to the “whee, war is fun!” school of science fiction. I just can’t see how it can be interpreted as anything but a scifi Vietnam. ALL MY SINS was the book I read just after FOREVER, and all I can really recall is that it moves, and it’s kinda downbeat (never a problem for me).
Yeah, I prefer the downbeat as well. And the Vietnam elements are very pronounced in Forever War so I tend to agree that he’s engaging with some currents in the genre (and literature) at the time.
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Ryan Johansen Scores Walk Off OT Winner
Ryan Johansen ended the Nashville Predators preseason in style when he scored possibly the first ever walk off OT winner in NHL history. On the play, Forsberg dishes the puck over to Johansen as he moves through the slot and fires a shot past the Hurricanes keeper. Johansen then promptly coasts over to the visitors exit at the corner of the ice surface, pops open the doors and waltzes on out of the arena. Hilarious. And I love how Forsberg just swoops in behind Johansen and follows him off the ice likes it's the most normal thing to ever happen. A perfect way to end the preseason for the Predators who hope to improve on last seasons success and hope to bring the Stanley Cup back to Nashville for the first time ever this season. It won't be easy for the Predators as they are in the best division in hockey alongside the likes of the Winnipeg Jets, who should also be cup contenders this season. The Nashville Predators kick off their regular season this Thursday when they head to New York to take on the Rangers.
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Post by CrashJr » Sat Nov 17, 2018 6:16 am
Okay so I figured after being on this site for a while I thought to look further around other then Casual and Intermediate sections and came along to this. I figured why not post my own personal writings and/or thoughts, kind of like a public journal thing. Plus I figured that this will help me in two ways, one, being that I'm a socially awkward person and terrified of others seeing my actual writings and, two, I really want to reach Silver before the end of the year on here.
Also Admins I promise to keep this well within the guidelines of the forums, although I may kind of go out of bounds a little with some of my works of fiction because a lot of what I will post is from dark points in my life so I will apologize ahead of time if it does go out of the boundaries at some points.
So kick back everyone that happens to read anything on here and enjoy the show.
Re: Crashing Insanity
"Normalcy"- The condition of being normal; the state of being usual, typical, and expected.
That's what I was also taught to be in my life. Grow up, get married, have kids, raise your kids.
That's what I was always told to do, family, friends, society.
They always told me to do as I was told and follow the order, but the path unseen, the path least taken drew me.
I stepped from the road I was told to stay and followed the path down.
Along this path was darkness and light, greed and charity, good and bad.
Joy was had and tears were shed down this path.
Love was made and Love was lost.
But yet I didn't turn back, I didn't return to the road because the path was morphing me, shaping me.
Years passed and out from the path stepped a man, no longer the boy that was told to follow along, told to be normal.
No the man that was forever changed by this path, whom came to understand that normalcy and the road wasn't what he was meant for.
The man today was one that had fought both angels and demons, this man today had seen the effects of hurt and had lived them just the same.
That man today stood at the edge of the path then stepped from even that to follow the unknown, terrified yet hopeful, he face it head on.
Now that man today stood at the end of this path, looking back at the road, then, took a step.
Stepping back onto that road he was not alone as now he held onto another, a friend, a lover, a wife.
Both forever, and will always forever be changed by the path as they walk the road.
Wonder- A feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, inexplicable.
The Journal of Rizor Slowillow
Entry 27
Days ago, I received a letter by a tall human, possibly an elf. He told me that my assistance was needed in a far off land called Barovia. I was going to reject the offer and continue on my path of exile, however, the man spoke that he would aide in my quest to make it up to my people for the death of my father. I am unaware of how nor why it is that he knows this of me, but I have agreed.
It seemed however I was not the only one that was called forth by this man. I have met with a tall and greedy looking wizard, an odd sounding bearded cleric, a drunken monk, and an odd looking Sorcerer. However to them I seemed to be the strangest out of the odd party were have been forced. I Rizor, the proud son of Elrin Slowillow of the Ghostwise Halfling tribe of the south was looked at with laughter as I told them of my Barbarian ways. I would have gladly freed their skulls from their torso's if not for our caravan arriving.
Now I sit on the back most wagon of the caravan of gypsy folk. Their joyfully loud, yet still peaceful music is able to sooth away the dread that is casting over our party as we near the walls of Barovia.
Post by CrashJr » Sun Nov 18, 2018 3:52 am
I fill ill. On arriving in the Land of Barovia we were greeted by no man, woman, or child. The streets barren. As our party walked the eerily silent streets the sound of squeaking wheels told us that there were living here. An elderly hag approached us, selling meat pies. Like a Ogre attempting a spell I stupidly bought one and devoured it quickly.
The gray began to fade as colors filled my vision, colors I've never seen before. It was beautiful. However, it was not to last it seemed as I fell into the putrid smell of manure snapping me back to the reality at hand. After picking myself up and cleaning myself off we were told by our Cleric that two children have asked for our help in clearing their home of the dark force that had taken it over. It seems that the dread this home was placed in had caused the dreaded filling in this village.
We now sit in the entrance hall of this home, food and dirty blankets lay on the floor, the children say they have slept here since the force took over. The party has decided that we will rest here for the night and begin in the morning on clearing this home, we have no other choice now as a thick fog has formed outside blocking all of our views to the town around the home.
Post by CrashJr » Sat Dec 01, 2018 9:41 am
Okay so this was when I was attempting to do Youtube a few years back, and thinking I might pick it up again due to the rise in popularity of Dragon Ball again with the likes of Dragon Ball Super and movies. This isn't a story itself, but a bullet point thought what if about something that didn't happen in the series, but could have happened if Toriyama had just decided it and that is What If The Raditz and the Saiyans never came to Earth?
- Five Years have passed since Goku had bested the evil Piccolo Jr. and the world has been at peace. Now Goku takes his son, Gohan, to meet with his old friends and maybe spar a little with the old gang for old time shake. Not surprisingly the Z Fighters, Krillin, Roshi, Tien, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, and Bulma are surprised that Goku even fathered a son, but soon the gang calm from the matter and the fighters of the group begin a sparring session.
- Unbeknownst to them, however, the evil Piccolo Jr. watches from high above. The green demon spawn too has been training hard within the last five years and has grown stronger, but as he watches the sparring and sensing the power of Goku he learns that Goku is still just slightly stronger then him. It angers the demon spawn, but something below does catch him by surprise and makes him begin to form a plan that would ultimately be Goku's downfall.
- Below Goku, having bested Yamcha, Krillin, and Tien separately ask for them to team up on him to give him a better challenge. The three agree and huddle together to make a game plan, Tien mentally communicates with Chiaotzu to do to Goku what he had done a years prior, it would all be in good fun after all and with Yamcha and Krillin agreeing they turn to face Goku.
- As the fight begins, Yamcha rushes forward to Goku attacking him with his Wolf Fang Fist while Tien and Krillin follow up behind him, Krillin with a Solar Flare and Tien with simple strikes. Goku taken a bit by surprise is just able to close his eyes to the Flare and manages to block the others attacks. This was when Chiaotzu would chime in from the sidelines and catch Goku in the same telekinesis web that he had years priors. This was when the three other warriors hit Goku with wave two of strikes.
- Off to the sidelines Gohan sits with Bulma and plays, but stops as his father and his friends begin the three on one. Due to Gohan not really knowing the others like Goku and never having trained or sparred he mutters for them to stop hurting his dad and when Chiaotzu forces Goku to stop moving and to be hit by everything the others have, he begins to yell and cry for everyone to stop. However, it's not his yelling or crying that stops them, it's the massive wave of power that explodes from the angered boy, so much so that Bulma is blown back several feet.
- The group stop with Goku looking surprised and pretty excited at his son, that power was much stronger then he was currently. He turned to Roshi who watched the boy knowingly as the power explosion began to sink back down, with Gohan looking rather tired now with such an energy burst. As Gohan falls asleep he ask Roshi if he would be able to train Gohan like he had with him, which Roshi agrees to do only after telling Goku to tell Chi-Chi. Excitedly Goku nods and scoops up Gohan before leaving the group on his nimbus to talk to Chi-Chi.
- However, unknown to Goku at that moment, Piccolo Jr. is following behind the man waiting for his time to strike with his new attack and then take the boy for himself.
Well there is part 1 of many. I feel this would be the full first episode of DBZ if this what if were to happen. The next time I post this it'll be several episodes worth of things that'll happen. If anyone where to read this and would like to give me feedback you are more then welcomed to.
Post by CrashJr » Sat Jan 12, 2019 8:40 am
So as a wrestling fan I've always had ideas on how different wrestling federations should/should've booked different storylines from WWE, WCW, ECW, and so on. Well this idea I've had rolling around in my mind and it'd be a play on the Higher Power storyline back in the day where, and as most fans would agree, the reveal was so stupid that everyone and their mother have said anything would have been better, but I digress. So this storyline is with the repacking of Bray Wyatt and how I believe he should return, be it yes he would return to a version of the cult like leader character, but with this he's more of a Herald of sorts.
So he is my idea on how WWE should book Bray Wyatt's Return.
We open up on the beginning of the Royal Rumble PPV where the crowd is going crazy and counting down to from 10 and so on. The opening match we see The Smackdown Tag Team title match: The Bar vs Shane and Miz. The match starts out as a great opener and gets the crowd to pop with Shane doing his coast to coast on Cesaro, but as the match drags on with neither team looking to give up the lights go out just as Miz goes to cover Sheamus. When the lights come back up Shane, Miz, and Cesaro are all laid out outside of the ring and standing over Sheamus (who's currently getting up) is Harper and Rowen. The two proceed to beat the snot out of Sheamus and finishing him with a big boot discus clothesline combo.
The two then exit the ring as the match is called out and the crowd boos.
The night continues on in confusion with the two men, along with a hooded figure interrupting in several matches including Asuka vs Becky Lynch. Surprisingly, however, they interfere in favor of Becky and help her win.
They come down and help Daniel Bryan retain against AJ, with Daniel smiling and nodding to the three.
The run on Brock vs Strowman match, and cost Strowman the win.
The heat builds and builds until the Men's Royal Rumble match which begins normally with Mustafa Ali at #1 and Finn Balor at #2. The two men last quite a while in the match (both being the work horses for the rumble). But at the #25 spot Rowen comes out and soon followed by Harper at #26. The two clear house until they are the only ones left. Then #27 comes out, Drew McIntyre. He hits the ring hard and seems to be getting the upper hand, but with the arrival of #28 the odds are against him. The #28 spot happens to be Bray Wyatt, although his look and walk is different, as if in a trace. He makes his way to the ring and the three savagely attack Drew and throw him out as #29, Eric Young comes out, however, followed by his partners of Sanity the three walk to the ring and stand facing the Wyatt Family.
(I personally would love to see the face off with the two groups and I believe their would be some support for it as well, so I'd keep this spot).
The six stare one another down, but don't attack one another until the final entrant, R-Truth hits the ring. He motions for Sanity to work with him and throw out the Wyatt's, however, as they go to surround the Wyatt's Killian Dane eliminates Truth to a course of boos. The two factions smile at one another before all three Sanity members along with Harper and Rowen exit the ring leaving Bray Wyatt the winner of the Men's Royal Rumble. He smiles as he stares into the hard camera as the screen fades to black.
The following night on Raw Strowman is in a rage and demands a match with Bray and the rest of the family, but is denied the chance. However, The Monster Among Man simple states he'll go to Smackdown anyway.
Smackdown opens with Bray Wyatt standing along side Harper, Rowen, Sanity, and Becky Lynch. He grabs the mic and begins to speak about the journey he has had. After being left Woken by Matt Hardy and finally ridding himself of the curse of Sister Abigail, he searched the worlds for a meaning, a purpose. That after his long search he had found it, the truth of the Cosmos, the meaning of it all. The He gave him the power to see the reality that was life. Bray goes on to tell the crowd that He sent Bray back to gather an army of those that are lost and prepare for His arrival.
The promo is interrupted by Strowman's music, however, he is not along as The Bar, R-Truth, Drew McIntyre, and other's that they attacked at the PPV arrive and a brawl begins. The faces look to be gaining the upper hand, however, the arrival of a large cloaked figure comes in and turns the tide of the Flock (Bray called the followers of Him that during the promo). The large figure removes his hood to reveal Lars Sullivan as Bray and the other Flock members laugh.
Smackdown continues on with members of The Flock attacking members of the roster and interrupting in matches. The show ends with the Corey Graves stating that whatever was to come, that WWE was going to have to get ready for war.
So that is the first part of Bray's return. Not sure when I'll do the second part as this alone took some time to think up, but it'll come out at some point soon, hopefully. Well if anyone enjoyed then great glad you liked it, if not then PM me with feedback on things that could be changed.
Post by CrashJr » Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:25 am
Last Time On What If The Saiyans never came to Earth.
Five Years since the defeat of Piccolo Jr. Goku, having had a son, Gohan. Had lived a peaceful life, however, he would one day go and meet with his old friends at Kami House bringing with him his son. The Z Warriors were surprised by Gohan, but soon would congratulate Goku on the fact. The Warriors would then begin a sparring match with Goku besting each member in a solo match, but he would ask the group to team up on him; to which they agree. During the four on one match, Gohan, never having trained prior would become angry with the gang and explode with anger, but instead of fearing the power Goku excitedly asked Master Roshi to train Gohan has he had with a young Goku.
Roshi agreed, but he would have to have Chi-Chi to agree. Goku, taking a now sleeping Gohan, zooms back home to speak with Chi-Chi, but unbeknownst to Goku he was being followed by the evil Piccolo Jr who, having watched the explosion of power from the young Gohan followed the two with a new plan in mind.
- Goku excitedly pushed Nimbus to it's limits to get home to speak with Chi-Chi about Gohan's training that he didn't notice the power of Piccolo Jr. following behind. However, after the two left, Krillin noticed and gave warning to the other's and fearing for the safety of Goku and Gohan they all pile into a plane thanks to Bulma. The group begin to follow, but are well behind the three.
- Piccolo, while following Goku, began to form the plan in his mind. With that child's power being that high he would kidnap him and train him so that he could use the child's power for his own gains. However, in order to do that he would have to kill Goku. He knew it was possible because of his Special Beam Cannon attack, but with the charge time for it he needed another way. That was when it hit him. He recalled a memory from him own father, a special power that he could use to attack and kill Goku, but it would tire him out rapidly. Shaking his head he knew he would have to use it even with the drawbacks.
- Soon Goku would spot his home and jumping from the Nimbus he landed on the ground with ease and ran inside with a sleeping Gohan in his arms. He excitedly retold the story to Chi-Chi, whom looked rather annoyed with him. A small argument begins with Chi-Chi yelling that she wouldn't allow Gohan to train and that he was going to study and go to school. Goku stands firm on the matter, to the surprise of Chi-Chi and he explains to her that the threat of Piccolo Jr. was still out there and it would help make sure that the Earth would be safe as long as Goku was there. However, he continued that one day Piccolo could get the better of him and with Gohan showing that much power at his age, he could easily step up and defeat Piccolo.
- Chi-Chi having listened to Goku's explanation gives a sigh and agree's that he is right, however, she still had her worries about it. She agree's on the condition that he would also have Bulma tutor Gohan, since she would visit Roshi often. Goku nods happy that he now would have Gohan begin to train, but the sudden collapsing of the roof followed by a giant green hand grabbing Goku tightly caught the man by surprise. Before he knew it he was slammed to the ground and hit with a massive ki blast. Coughing up a bit of blood Goku looked up finding a massive Piccolo standing over him. His power was incredible and before he could move Piccolo stomped on the weakened Goku, then again. This seemingly broken a good number of bones in Goku and he felt that he couldn't move.
- Piccolo laughed as he began to shrink again. The sudden attack of the Son family in his giant form was more then enough and he still had plenty of energy left over. He smirked as he looked down at the bloodied and broken Goku explaining that he finally beat Goku and now he was going to kill him and take his son. Goku groaned and cursed Piccolo fro not fighting fairly as well as telling him to leave Gohan out of it, but Piccolo merely chuckled and brought two fingers to his head. He charges his attack for a full minute and laughs as he calls out the attack and watches as the purple and yellow beam fire from his finger tips and hitting Goku in the chest.
- Goku watches helplessly as Piccolo charged a new attack feeling the overwhelming power radiating from the demon spawn. As a last attempt he attempts to raise an arm to fire a Kamehameha, but unable to move he watched as Piccolo fired the beam attack. Then the burning pain filled him as the beam connected with him, then ripped through him. He felt all of his energy draining and his eyes becoming heavy. Soon he head fell back and his eyes were lifeless. Piccolo had done it, he had killed the being that had killed his father. Panting slightly he felt a little weakened, but gave a wicked smile as he turned and walked to the rubble of the Son family home.
- Clearing away the rubble he soon found the child Gohan laying under the passed out form of Chi-Chi. Seemed she throw herself onto of him when the house collapsed. The two seemed fine, save for several bruises and gashes on Chi-Chi. Grabbing the woman by the hair and throwing her to the side he grabs Gohan and began to hover above the remains of the home. Although feeling several powers flying to the home he spots the plane and scuffs before firing a ki blast at it then flying off.
- The plane was hit by something and Bulma began to scream as the plane was falling, but Yamcha grabbed her and he along with Tien, Krillin, Chiaotzu, and Roshi all jump from the plan and land on the ground. Confused the group quickly make their way through the woods only to find the collapsed remains of the Son home, Chi-Chi passed out, and Goku dead. Gohan was no where to be found.
Well there is Part 2. I don't know when I'll do a third part, been feeling meh lately. Well either way hope those that read this have enjoyed.
Post by CrashJr » Sun Mar 10, 2019 5:04 am
Ever since I could remember I was always a fan of wrestling. I guess it really came from my grandpa's love of the sport really. He was around back in the days when wrestling was a regional thing and not Sports Entertainment, something broadcast all around the world. Back then there were many, and I mean many federations such as the one my grandpa would go to. GCW or to those that are not really aware Georgia Championship Wrestling, although later it would be renamed WCW or World Championship Wrestling. Future Legends came and went and my grandpa would tell me stories of seeing guys like Ric Flair or Dusty Rhodes wrestle live, back in the day where the lines of face and heel was still real to the public.
Now I know what you're thinking, "but wrestling is fake". To that I say yes in the way it's scripted just like any movie or tv show, but the action in the ring and the injuries that they get are real. Not to make this into a grim thing, but a lot of wrestlers have died before 50 due to injury or drug/alcohol abuse. A recent famous case of this was one of the greats, though he'll never see the light of The Hall of Fame nor will his name ever be there, Chris Benoit. You hear this case and the injuries that he had gained over years of wrestling and know that the men and women of the sport will and have put their bodies on the line for something they love to do.
Now, you may be wondering why it is I'm talking about this or even caring to write this. Well it's simple, this was and still is a dream of mine. I always wanted to be a wrestler and over the years I've come up with gimmicks and ideas, but due to issues that would always come up I never really got the chance. So I figured I'd let this happen on the paper, let the W.O.D, Warrior of Darkness, Southern Delight, Billy Dudley, Crash Curtis, Curtis McLaughlin, and all my other gimmicks free in a story were I did make it. I know it's a cope out to say this outright here and now in the prologue, but hey think of it as any other writing.
Those that are fans or wanted to wrestle, but for some reason or another they couldn't. I do this for not only myself but for you men and women out there. I want those to know you aren't alone, there were others that had to sit back and watch knowing that they couldn't, because of an injury, sickness, disability, work, or just life in general, you are not alone. So grab your tights and ring boots and welcome to the world were you did make it. Anything can happen if your cards are played right and know the right people. Welcome to the world of Professional Wrestling.
The city streets, packed with tourist and local New Yorkers alike hurry about their businesses. Some loitering on the sideways and street performers banging on buckets or taking pictures in odd costumes. Police walking about keeping the peace the best they can. The temperature of the area was grueling at a steady 89. All, for the most part, was normal as usual. Well that was until the impact.
Something, no, someone smashed hard into the street sending screams throughout the crowds and the world seemed to stop as several brave people attempt to look into the crater that had formed, but another massive cracking sound came just as a large gray animal like beast came falling from the sky and landing on it's feet several meters from the crater. It let out an ear piercing roar causing the people around to grab at their ears and back way or run screaming.
Movement from the crater forced the beast to stop and seemingly grin as the figure pulled itself from the crater. Curse words left the mouth of the man as he stood from the crater. Now in full view he was clad in a black and silver skin tight suit, he wore a tattered black tench coat. A black mask covered must of his head save for his mouth and jaw, his eyes covered by a pair of goggles. "Alright, fuck nut, nice hit, but that's the last you get" the man called out cracking his neck.
~ Pause ~
"Waitwaitwaitwait...Wait...are you kidding me?"
"That's not how it happened and you know it"
"What do you mean of course that's...okay but you gotta think of the people and the action. Dude we're competing with Marvel and DC here we need to outdo them somehow"
"Okay yes you are right, well maybe not for DC...I mean they fucked themselves over. I mean did you see Justice League?"
"Oh I know. Okay fine you're right, but I mean who's gonna wanna read or watch a superhero movie about a hero that lost his first big battle. I mean you kind of get your ass handed to you"
"Hey, that wasn't my fault and you know it. Besides shouldn't we start from the beginning or something?"
"No I think we start from here and fib your first battle so you seem cooler"
"Well I want an origin story"
"...."
"Okay you want an origin I'll do that"
~ Unpause ~
~ Rewind ~
~ Play ~
"Fucking hell, Jesus, Kathy...oh fuck" Mark called out as he and Kathy were in the throws of passion. Kathy merely panted back wrapping her legs around her lover and digging her nails into his back. This only caused Mark to go fast, harder as he began to feel that feeling in his ba....
"DUDE WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?"
"Well you wanted your origin story and what better way to start then when you were conceived?"
"You knew what the fuck I meant...oh god I think I'm gonna puke."
"Hey you asked for that...now can we get back to the story proper?"
"No. Okay how about this...we just put up the title screen and let the people start from after my first fight. That's original right?"
"Technically yes, not fun in the slightest, but yea"
"Fine let's do that then...god I'm gonna go puke now"
"Alright, have fun, buddy, now where were those buttons...oh here we go. Light's. Music...Title Screen
Phantom : Rise of a Hero.
"Look good?"
*vomit sounds* "Ya" *more vomit sounds*
Post by CrashJr » Sun Jun 30, 2019 6:19 am
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth.
George A. Romero, Dawn of The Dead.
George oddly was right I guess. I mean not sure about the whole hell being full thing, but the dead and have for nearly 5 months now. Let's start from the beginning and who I am. Name's Carl, Carl Lee Monroe, but most everyone calls me Crash and until about 5 months ago I worked nights as a security guard at a factory. You could say I was the typical kind of security too, short hair, mustache, more on the overweight side, but I held myself well. My nights at work would normally consist of me walking around the factory, checking if doors were locked, no one was on the property, then I'd come right back to my guard shack at the front of the street the factory sat on and scammed through Netflix, Youtube, and Hulu just to past time. When I was off I'd go home and see my wife, her brother that was staying with us and our dog. Yeah my life wasn't the best it could have been, but it was my life and I loved it.
That was until 5 months ago. It started normal, save for the news talking about some viral outbreak in downtown Atlanta, which was about 50 miles away from us. Well the wife and some of her family had made plans to go down to PCB in Florida which unfortunately I couldn't take off for so I was going to stay home and take care of the house and dog while they had fun. Looking back I should have just told my boss to fuck off and gone, but hindsight is a bitch. Well I see them off and go about my daily routine, wash clothes, feed the dog, walk her, make up my dinner, then head off to work. It was about 5 in the morning when I got the call. They'd made it through Atlanta, but were caught in traffic.
My wife sounded normal as she spoke, "yeah, not sure what's going on but...." the loud sounds of helicopters flying over head, "hey I'm going to let you go, there were military helicopter's that just flew by heading to Atlanta...love you" she hung up quickly after that. It was the last time I spoke to her since. I think about that call every day and even though I'm not a religious man I pray that I could just hear her again, speak to her one more time.
After the phone call I received a panicked call from my superior, he was telling me that he couldn't come in and that he was on his way to the hospital, apparently his girlfriend had been attacked by some homeless guy and he bite her. I just shrugged and muttered an okay before hanging up.
Thinking about those warning sighs I should have just left work right there and then. I should have rushed home and gotten my dog and headed to around Atlanta to meet with my wife and her family, or to head and be with my family, but I didn't. Now that was five months ago and I'm held up here in the guard shack with my dog, I did go home the following day to get her, and it's quite outside. I've boarded the windows and single door. I've looted the places around the area and have a good supply of food and water for the two of us. I've turned the connected bathroom where we sleep, with the single mattress on the floor.
I guess in a way I was lucky to work at this place because a year prior they'd had a generator built to give the factory it's power in case the main grid went out, at the time I thought of it as a super hassle having to check in the workers, truckers contractor, and then the construction workers. Well now I see the point. The main power grid around here went out only a few weeks after the dead overran Atlanta. I merely just had to go into the factory and warehouse I worked and cut off anything and everything that used that power. Now the guard shack is the only thing that gets power.
It's become a nice little home for me and Minnie, my dog. I take her out only at night and if she has to go during the day I have her use a litter box. I myself have to use a trash can with a bag in it since the water stopped, and not idle, but it's worked. I found a tv and dvd/bluray player, and have raided a few stores for movies and shows, it helps to keep the insanity down. Minnie whines some nights though, those are the nights that the dead move through and she knows she can't go out. She'd learned to not bark after the first time dealing with the dead, I nearly lost her too.
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Charting Your Course 2015: Richard Hunt of Turnkey Consulting Breaks Down GRC Trends
by Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt, founder and managing director of Turnkey Consulting, chats with SAPinsider's Ken Murphy about governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) issues and trends important to SAP customers at the close of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Topics include:
Cybersecurity issues in the spotlight following "The Interview" controversy
SAP Audit Management
SAP Access Control 10.1 adoption
SAP Process Control
Beginning a GRC roadmap with risk management
Listen to the podcast, and read the full transcript of the conversation here:
Ken Murphy, SAPinsider: Hi this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider, and I am pleased to be joined today by Richard Hunt, the founder and Managing Director of Turnkey Consulting and an expert on the topic of data security. Richard is here today to chat with us about data security and some trends and issues that are important to SAP customers and governance, risk, and compliance and security…sort of a year-end GRC wrap-up if you will. Richard, thanks for joining us.
Richard Hunt, Turnkey Consulting: Hi Ken, thanks for inviting me.
Ken: Curious to start off, first, if you see a lot of customers making the transition to Access Control 10.1, and how are customers transitioning to that new version?
Richard: We’ve seen a lot of customers transitioning into the later versions of GRC over the last couple of years. So 10.0 came out a couple years back now, and we’ve seen a lot of customers moving on to those ABAP versions of the tool. What I would say is I’ve seen a lot of those customers transitioning as a technical migration initially from the previous Java versions just to get themselves onto the later version. And then starting to think about how they could use the tools in the wider context with the process controls and risk management capabilities that are in the same landscape now with 10.1 and 10.0. And I think next year I could definitely see even more customers looking at that transition very carefully because the 5.3 versions of GRC, which is the last Java version that was available, is going out of support at the end of next year, so there’s quite a lot of customers thinking about that. I think the only other thing I would say on that question is that we are seeing a slight trend in newer customers looking at the GRC tools in a slightly more holistic way and thinking about if they haven’t deployed GRC at all in any capacity just thinking about whether they should be looking at all three components at the same time, whether it might make more sense to start with Risk Management, actually, and work down to Access Control as opposed to the more traditional way of deploying the tools with access controls first to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, etc.
Ken: That’s interesting. So, I’m curious then if customers are maybe taking that next step in their GRC journey with the adoption of Process Control. And if you can address if there’s any misconceptions over the value that Process Control can bring.
Richard: I think we’ve seen a lot more Process Control projects in 2014. We’ve delivered several this year, and that’s been steadily on the increase over the last couple of years. I think one of the reasons for that is the maturity of the product. I think one of the main reasons is that Process Control as I said is on the same landscape now with 10.0 and 10.1 as the access controls tool, so as customers are moving out of that upgrade of their access controls tool onto version 10 or 10.1 they’re considering the Process Control tool at the same time. And I think we’ve seen an increased level of maturity in our Process Control customers, as well — you’ve described it as a journey. I think we’re seeing our existing process controls customers’ maturity increasing. Perhaps starting off their Process Control journey using the tool as a controls repository, maybe with a limited set of automated controls. And then perhaps moving beyond that to start to think about how they can optimize their controls and automate as many controls as possible and really sort of stretching the tools to their capabilities. And that’s been an interesting journey for us getting to really understand the art of the possible with process controls and really start to stretch our knowledge of those tools and the full capabilities of the tools. I think in terms of your question around misconceptions of Process Control and the value it can bring I do think there’s a little bit of that out there. I think the challenge there is that process controls tools actually are very flexible tools. There’s quite a lot of ways you can use it and therefore there isn’t necessarily one specific use case for it. It’s really the value it can bring to your organization is dependent on how you’re intending to use it and what your specific gaps are. I also think that one of the key strengths of the tool is actually around testing controls and as repository for control testing information, and not every customer quite gets that being its real core strength. A lot of them are more focused around trying to use it to operate controls, which can be done very well in Process Control but I think the real killer use of it is in the testing of controls.
Ken: Switching gears a little bit, Richard, I’m curious if there’s any significant regulatory changes or compliance issues in 2014 or coming up on the horizon that customers need to account for.
Richard: I’m based in the UK, and specifically in the UK something that I can think is quite relevant for next year would be the new guidance on risk management from the Financial Reporting Council though that came out in September this year, and I think that there’s a lot more very strong guidance in there around how internal controls and risk management practices should be applied at the governance level, and I think that’s that going to raise the broad awareness of this area and potentially drive the need for technology solutions in this space. I’m very aware this is not purely around technology. This is around improving risk management. It’s around improving internal controls, and you can do those without technology, but I think the GRC tools will be tools that customers are looking for to give them an edge in improving their alignment with those new regulations—they’re not regulations; it’s what we call a “Comply or explain.” It’s the rule that UK companies have to apply to that. It basically means that if they don’t comply with the new guidance from the FCA then they really need to explain why.
Ken: That’s important to know. Also, what general trends are you seeing in the overall GRC and security space, and how they’re important, or how they affect SAP customers?
Richard: Well actually today’s quite a topical day to think about that. I think external threats and cybersecurity threats to SAP are on the increase. I don’t know if you saw Newt Gingrich’s comment about the Sony announcement today that they were pulling their film “The Interview”. His comment was pretty strong on this. He sent a Tweet, I’ll quote, is “No one should kid themselves with Sony’s collapse. America’s lost its first cyber war. This is a very, very dangerous precedent.” While this wasn’t SAP-specific by any means, I think with the increase of external entry points to the SAP environment, with the interconnectivity of SAP systems, etc. and with the fact that SAP is a core application for most of the customers that are running it, it is potentially a target from a cybersecurity perspective. So I think the cybersecurity risk to SAP and the risk of external threats and the focus of securing SAP away from securing it toward, shall we say, securing SAP for external threats more robustly, as well as the internal controls that we’ve always been focused on around segregation of duties, sensitive access, etc. For me that means taking a slightly different approach to how we secure SAP. It means thinking — we call it end-to-end security for SAP — it means thinking about things that you wouldn’t necessarily have focused on in the past. Things like the SAP message server and all the various different Web entry points to SAP, the database security underlying the SAP environment. There’s quite a lot more things you need to think about if you really want to secure an SAP system from external threats. Also I think going forward securing the HANA environments that customers are putting up is quite a key area, as well, ensuring that you’ve applied the same level of rigor to your HANA systems as you have to the rest of your SAP environment. As with any new technology, security quite often doesn’t come first in these things. I think now that a lot of the technical guides have got all of that, most of the bugs out of the way in terms of getting SAP HANA systems up and running and working functionally, we need to start getting the opportunity from a security perspective to step in and apply the same level of rigor we would do in a normal SAP environment to those HANA systems now.
Ken: Lastly, Richard, I’m curious if you had any parting advice for customers as we head into 2015. Anything in particular that SAP customers should be on the lookout for?
Richard: Well I think I’d say two things on this. I think, you know, I’ve mentioned the external threat side of things. Two other things, though, I think would be relevant here would be the newer SAP GRC products being more mature as products: the Fraud Management and Audit Management modules. I think further integration of those products into the SAP solution, going to the SAP GRC suite, and also deployment of SAP GRC on HANA. And then I think finally there is a bit of a call to action in the SAP GRC space for me this year, which is the fact that the 5.3 solution is going out of support at the end of the year. So I think that should be driving a lot of conversations in the SAP GRC space this year, particularly for customers who’ve been using SAP GRC for a while, maybe haven’t really driven value out of that. And I think rather than just purely thinking about upgrading or migrating that to the latest version, just step back and look at what those products are now, because they’re very different from what you would’ve deployed when you deployed the Java version a few years back.
Ken: Again this is Ken Murphy with SAPinsider, and we’ve been chatting with Richard Hunt, the founder and Managing Director of Turnkey Consulting. Richard, we appreciate your insights. Have a great holiday season, and we look forward to connecting with you again next year.
Richard: Thanks, Ken. Have a fantastic Christmas and New Year, and I look forward to seeing you in Vegas if not before. Cheers.
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My name is Daniel Roth, I am 19 years old, am currently in my second year at the University of Michigan where I study political science. I am originally from Pacific Palisades California and I grew up at Camp JCA Shalom Malibu and within Pacific Western Region BBYO. When I'm not pulling all nighters in the various Michigan libraries, you can find me outside in nature or binge-watching political television shows or nonstop streaming CNN from my laptop. At Michigan, I am currently involved in the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and am a student supervisor at Michigan Telefund where I have raised over $100,000 for student support! If you know me then you know I love the Michigan Wolverines, the New York Giants, Spotify, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I love being Jewish and working for SMARTalks because it gives me an outlet to express my love for the Jewish culture I was raised on.
Where did you grow up? Pacific Palisades, CA
Did you go to Jewish summer camp? If yes, where? Yes, Camp JCA Shalom Malibu
Where do you live? Ann Arbor, MI
What school do you go to? University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
What inspires you about SMARTalks? The way in which it makes Jewish events matter to young people in an interesting and engaging format.
Why is being Jewish important to you? The Jewish people have such a rich history and culture that I feel it would be a crime to not carry on the legacy of our people.
What are your favorite hobbies or fun things to do? Rock climbing, hiking, finding new music to listen to, eating Californian food.
Shake Up Your Summer Internship
August 18, 2016 by Daniel Roth Leave a Comment
Imagine a world where you can get an amazing, resume-building internship while still being able to have the time of your life and go bowling in the White House or camping outside the Supreme Court? These were just some of the meaningful experiences for Josie Roth, a rising sophomore studying economics and public policy at Vanderbilt University. Josie interned at the Interfaith Alliance this summer through an internship program called Machon Kaplan.
In a competitive world, college students are skipping the lax summers of sunbathing and vacationing for preparing for life after graduation. Internships are the go-to way to easily gain the experience that is critical for career success after college. This program, however, is finding meaning in a world of redundant internships. Machon Kaplan is a DC-based program sponsored through the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism that is changing the game on internships. They describe themselves on their website as:
An internship program for undergraduate students interested in Judaism and social justice. Based in Washington, D.C., it provides students with a meaningful social justice internship, the opportunity to engage in academic study related to their internships, and a community of like-minded students with whom to share their experience. Students learn, through study and action, the interrelationship of Judaism and American ideals, as well as the interaction of the organized American Jewish community and the U.S. government.
The program not only gives teens a meaningful Jewish internship, it allows them to explore the city of DC. When interviewing Josie, she told me about her adventures visiting the White House, meeting Jewish Liaison Chanan Weissman, and camping outside the Supreme Court before their final rulings of the year.
Programs such as this are changing the game on how college students get ahead during the summer time. Josie, who grew up on Jewish youth organizations and Jewish summer camp, stresses the importance of being able to find meaning in an internship, whether professional or spiritual (or both). Josie talked about how she personally loved being in DC during such a historic time, “The night before the Supreme Court announced their final rulings for the year, I camped outside the building with some people on the program. In the morning, because we were some of the first in line, we were able to go inside the chamber to hear the Justices read their decisions and dissents! Justice Breyer read the majority opinion for Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt about fifty feet away from me, which is a moment I’ll probably tell my grandchildren about.” She also loved talking about her tour of the White House which included meeting the White House Jewish Liaison and bowling in the Truman Bowling Alley (for which she got amazing Instagram pictures.
So if you’re beginning to think of plans for next summer and want an internship that not only gives you practical life skills but can also help you connect with your Judaic identity, check out this awesome program!
#MachonKaplan #DCSummer #InternshipSeason #MakeaDifference
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Join the crew of the Alpha Omega Company in a journey through science fiction and fantasy, as secrets lie beyond the reality you've always known. Prevent a war, abolish pollution and rewrite history in the very fabric of the world's past!
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Title: Beyond Reality
Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Developer: EternalShadow Studios
Publisher: Aldorlea Games
Release Date: Jan 8, 2016
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Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom of Jastamune was thrust into a war, the only survivor being a magician known as Reverent Sulada. In a last-ditch effort to save the Kingdom, she encases herself in magic and sleeps for two thousand years, eventually being unearthed by the Alpha Omega Company, dedicated to researching the implications of their pollution-filled world.
As she is freed from her magical spell, nobody knows what to make of her, and the leader of the company - La'lele - refuses to help at first. However, she, as well as many of her other employees, are magically transported to the past by Sulada, much to her chagrin. Despite her dismay, the world of the past is pollution-free - a perfect opportunity for study, to the delight of the company's research leader, Faryl.
As research begins, La'lele and her companions try to complete their mission as quickly as possible, but quickly realise their situation is much more dire than it thought to be, when they discover who they are fighting against...
Explore the land of Jastamune through the eyes of the leader of the Alpha Omega Company - and put a stop to the war that changed the world two thousand years ago!
- Battle over 50 different enemies, including hidden and powerful bosses.
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- Take part in side-quests as well as the main quest, aiming to heighten your team's strength and powers.
- On-map encounters: don't let yourselves be caught out by ambushes!
- Between six and eight hours of gameplay, an in-depth story and a tactical, turn-based battle system.
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Processor: 1.6 GHz
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The Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents Gilbert & Sullivan Trial By Jury. Featuring the internationally renowned Stratford Light Opera Company, Trial By Jury comes to life under the gifted direction of Norman Campbell. Trial By Jury is a delicious spoof of a breach of promise trial that takes a gentle jab at the British legal system of the time. The plot of this little gem revolves around a man who is being sued for withdrawing a proposal of marriage. The Defendant (Andrew Downie) is a roguish playboy, the lovely Plaintiff (Marion Studholme) flirts shamelessly with the all-male jury, and the Learned Judge (Eric House) settles the case by marrying the Plaintiff himself!The success of Trial by Jury, composed in 1875 in less than three weeks, was so great that it is now considered the catalyst which encouraged Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte to continue their creative relationship for the next eighteen years, producing some twelve full-length comic operas, most of which are still thriving to this day.
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New Haven Mayor Toni Harp at festival kick-off.
What’s new: Line-up announced for New Haven’s 21st annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas from June 3 to 24.
Top Act on the Green: The Wailers, the Festival's first reggae headliner on June 24.
Of note: Transition season. Longtime exec director Mary Lou Aleskie exits as search for successor continues. Chad Herzog is interim co-executive director
Not helping: New lineup reflects financial hit the festival had in terms of state budget cut. But never-the-less an impressive and creative line-up.
Ticketed theater events include: "(BE)LONGING,” featuring locally cast singers, beatboxers, and hip-hop artists, in a work by Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis presented in association with Long Wharf Theatre June 17 and 18, 2 p.m. at
Long Wharf Theatre ($20/$35/$55).
What else?: World Premiere of “The End of TV,” by the cutting-edge/retro-tech company Manual Cinema June 19 to 22, at8 p.m. at
University Theatre. ($35/$55)
Any music theater?: Yale Institute for Music Theatre presented in association with Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre -has three shows to workshop on June 23 & 24 at 1, 3, 5 and 7 p.m. at Off Broadway Theater ($25)
For the community-minded: “We Are Citizens” by New York’s Theatre of the Oppressed on June 21, 5:30 and 8 p.m. at Bregamos Theater, 491 Blatchley Avenue ($25) It’s the culmination of a three-day intensive New Haven residency with the theater company whose mission is to partner with communities facing discrimination.
And of course the cirque show: LEO’s “The Anti-Gravity Show” on June 23, 8 p.m. andJune 24, noon and3 p.m. at University Theatre ($35/$55)
Info: www.artidea.org
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Game of Thrones, or – WHAT IS HYPE MAY NEVER DIE!
As of March 15th – the day this piece runs – there are 43 days left until the start of season 6 of the mighty epic fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. I’m sure it needs no introduction to the wonderful readers of Some Nerd Girl, as chances are you’ve either come across the HBO show or you’ve devoured the A Song of Ice and Fire books that gave us the phenomenon that’s taken the world by storm.
I am a huge fan of both mediums. The rich, gorgeous world that is weaved within the pages is brought so vividly to life on screen by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, with the author George R. R. Martin also at the helm to make sure his vision is similar to what he has created over the years. The first five seasons were taken from the pages and reworked for television, but season 6 is going to be something different – as it will actually be ahead of the books. GRRM has been taking his time writing the last book of ASOIAF, but he kept his schedule and age in mind and told the showrunners exactly how the story ends.
What does this mean? Every Game of Thrones fan, readers and viewers alike, will be going into the sixth season with no idea of what’s to come. It’s going to be an exciting time – the hype is real. And I’m here to pull the hype train into hype station, as I sit in hype first class with a glass of hype champagne, to throw some glorious hype your way and not be alone in my excitable madness.
WARNING: BELOW THIS, THERE BE SPOILERS. DON’T READ IF YOU’RE NOT UP TO DATE WITH SEASON 5!
I refuse to accept that Jon Snow is dead and gone. He’s most certainly dead, having been shanked to death by his so-called brothers in the Night’s Watch for his loyalty to the Wildlings, but as we’ve already seen in previous seasons death doesn’t necessarily mean the end. And I’m not just talking about the dreaded White Walkers. The Red Priest Thoros, who rocks around with the Brotherhood Without Banners was seen reviving Beric – and as he tells the Red Priestess Melisandre, it’s the sixth time he’s brought the man back from the dead.
Oh yes. Melisandre. Her intentions have always been questionable, with her loyalty to the late Stannis ‘The Mannis’ Baratheon driving him to burn his only daughter alive in the last season – as well as getting him to knock her up with a weird shadow assassin baby – only to seemingly figure that her belief in him was possibly misplaced as his army is defeated by Ramsay Bolton’s men.
Before this, she tries to seduce Jon Snow. Melisandre has always had a thing for those who have ‘King’s blood’ in their veins – and if you believe the R + L = J theory, this might give us some grounding as to what her plans for him might have been. And if she shares the ability to raise the dead like Thoros… maybe we can finally see more to her than just a pair of boobs who sometimes does magic things.
(I really hope that Jon Snow is brought back from the dead, because if he’s not my six months pregnant cousin/best friend will go postal – and there’s not enough Greggs steak bakes in the world to placate that kind of rage…)
Arya is now blind after disobeying the rules given to her in the House of Black and White by going rogue and slaying the disgusting Meryn Trant. Yet, it seems she will continue to train under the Faceless Men to become an assassin. Will she become the badass that finally gets revenge for the brutal murders of her family members? I hope so. I also want to see where her direwolf has got to.
Sansa ‘Stark’ Bolton has escaped her captivity in Winterfell thanks to the help of Theon ‘Reek’ Greyjoy after killing her husband Ramsay’s lover/partner-in-sadism Miranda. Pictures from the latest season show that they both survived their huge jump from the keep’s walls, but there seems to be another theory that’s sending everyone into a frenzy. It looks like Sansa has a very small bump, and considering how many times Ramsay defiled her… could she be carrying his child? What ramifications will that have for her? Will Reek become Theon again?
What else is going on? Well, Daenerys Targaryen has been surrounded by a horde of Dothraki, which may not work out well for her. Tyrion Lannister seems to have been left in charge of Meereen in her absence with Varys by his side. Jaime Lannister was supposed to be returning to King’s Landing with his niece/daughter Myrcella Baratheon. She revealed she knew about him being her father and was even happy about it! Well, until she died. It seems as if she was poisoned by Oberyn Martell’s concubine Ellaria Sand as a form of revenge for the death of her lover. I’m sure Cersei Lannister will be devastated at the tragic loss of another child, leaving King Tommen Baratheon as her only surviving child – she’s bound to become even more protective of the boy than she was before.
Margaery Tyrell is still locked up. Religious nuts are still ruling the capital. There’s the case of that big bloke who used to be the Mountain but is now some sort of beefy zombie. Still no sign of Lady Stoneheart much to most fan’s dismay. Bran and Hodor were missing from last season, but they’re both due to return. Where’s Petyr Baelish? He might be a creep but he’s a sexy Irish creep. And worst still, BENJEN STARK IS STILL MISSING BEYOND THE WALL.
(Oh and then there’s the whole White Walker hoard making it’s way south, which I’m sure is more important than any of the characters realise at this point… I’m sure Tormund Giantsbane can take care of it by himself though.)
I’m sure there’s loads of stuff I’ve missed. But the hype is real. Are you as excited/illegible as I am about season 6 of Game of Thrones? Have you got any theories you want to share? Please share them with me in the comments!
JON SNOW, ALWAYS AND FOREVER.
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Claire is a foul-mouthed British twenty-something who spends most of her time pretending to be an adult. Her nerd status started from an early age with her dad’s love of sci-fi and developed through a love of gaming, reading and horror. As well as volunteering for a charity, Claire writes about her life with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and mental health over at her blog, as well as tweeting nonsense over as @MouthAndSpoons. The dream is to either make it as a successful writer, or go into mental health research. She lives at home with her equally nerdy husband, their dog Lady, cat Pip and a lot of fish.
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Those memes (and your commentary) were outstanding. Only 43 days to go! So long…
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Thank you very much! Those memes are spectacular, I strongly recommend visiting the creator’s blog and watching your day slip by as you’re reading them. Worth it.
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Morgan Library open for late-night studying, ‘brain breaks’
Jessica Mendoza May 03, 2018
Beginning May 5, the Event Hall becomes a study hall for the run-up to finals, too.
Money Smart Week returns to Morgan Library April 2-5
Jessica Mendoza March 18, 2018
Faculty and financial professionals will share practical information and advice about how to get rid of some of that money stress by making smart choices with savings, budgets, credit, loans, investments, retirement and more.
Author Kate Moore to discuss Radium Girls March 7
Jessica Mendoza February 17, 2018
The book tells the story of the women who fought for workers’ rights after contracting radiation poisoning painting watch dials.
Extended hours at Morgan Library begin Nov. 26
Jessica Mendoza November 17, 2017
Morgan Library will be extending its hours to help students prepare for finals and the end of the semester.
Celebrate GIS Day Nov. 16 with GeoTech & Tapas
The event, 1– 5 p.m. in the Event Hall at Morgan Library, will be an afternoon focused on exploring the wide-ranging applications of geospatial technologies in “small bytes.”
John Fielder, Colorado’s photographer, talks about his work Nov. 16
This event, held in the Lory Student Center Theatre, is free and open to the public, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. All of Fielder’s most popular books and calendars will be for sale and signing before and after the presentation.
ISTeC Distinguished Lectures continue in October
Jessica Mendoza September 27, 2017
Free talks will examine tracing the arc of smartphone application security and large scale machine learning and AI.
Jim Butcher on campus Sept. 28 for Evening with an Author
This free event starts at 7 p.m. in the LSC Ballroom; doors open at 6:30 p.m. for first-come, first-served seating.
Jim Davidson shares climbing adventures in Evening with an Author
Jessica Mendoza August 28, 2017
CSU alum and co-author Kevin Vaughan will appear in the Lory Student Center Theater on Sept. 12.
Disney Institute shares lessons about business excellence Aug. 3
Jessica Mendoza July 27, 2017
All-day session designed to help organizations reach their goals and find success in the work-space.
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Delhi: 22-29 November, ‘Extremely Queerious’ week at Fursat-Se Cultural Cafe, Shahpur Jat. Exhibition, poetry, film etc. in celebration of LGBTIQA persons in India.
What I’ve been reading:
‘Ladies Who Lunch’, by Urvashi Butalia, in IQ: The Indian Quarterly.
‘In a complicated relationship with a book’, by Paromita Vohra in Mid.Day. I have one of those reclining reading ladies 🙂
‘The 2013 SAARC Festival of Literature’, in La.Lit. The SAARC summit is currently being held in Kathmandu, and this article–along with so many other non-literary stuff I’ve been reading–points out what a white elephant the organisation is.
‘Book Review: Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess is Undercut with Anger”, by Aishwarya Subramanian, in The Hindustan Times.
‘Funny Moments From India’s Litfest Carnival Circuit’, by Arunava Sinha, on Scroll.in.
The Caravan, Delhi, seeks Editorial Management Intern. In a previous life I would have loved to apply for this.
Himal Southasian, Kathmandu, seeks Assistant Editors. Take this from someone who has done this, it’s a great experience and a lot of fun. Salary, however, is below subsistence level, important to know from the outset.
Posted on November 26, 2014 November 25, 2014 Categories Events, Feminism, Himal Southasian, India, Jaipur Literature Festival, Literary festivals, Nepal, Queer literature, SexualityTags Extremely Queerious, Fursat-Se Cultural Cafe, La.Lit, Meena Kandasamy, Paromita Vohra, SAARC literature festival 2013, The Caravan, The Gypsy Goddess, The Indian Quarterly, Urvashi ButaliaLeave a comment on Weekly news
Recently published:
Meena Kandasamy’s book of poetry Ms. Militancy has been published in German, as Fraulein Militanz.
New issue:
Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal’s Fall 2014 issue is out now.
Manil Suri’s two keynote addresses at the Kriti Festival of South Asian Literature (held in Chicago at the end of September, and at which I was present) are available to watch on YouTube, here and here. Manil was a great speaker, and a superb writer. Recommended watching.
Singapore, 13th-14th November: Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, 9th International Conference on the States of South Asia. More info available here. Wish I could be at this one!
Kathmandu, 13th November, 4.30pm: Talk: Where Art Meets Science: New ways to explore change in the Himalayas, with climber, photographer and filmmaker David Breashears. At QFX Kumari cinema, hall 1. Free entry. Hosted by Photo Circle.
Delhi, 15th Novemeber 11am: Launch of Zubaan book ‘Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean’, sci-fi and fantasy short stories for young adults, from Indian and Australian authors. Oxford Bookstore, Connaught Place. Info on Zubaan’s website.
‘What Books are People Buying in India? Ten Things That Will Astonish You’ by Arunava Sinha on Scroll.In.
‘The Book of Gold Leaves Review- Mirza Waheed Speaks Up For Kashmir’ by Chitra Ramaswamy in The Guardian.
‘The Old Man of the Mountain’ by Rahul Singh, in IQ: The Indian Quarterly. On Khushwant Singh, by his son.
‘Why Post-Colonial Lords Have a Colonial Hangover’, in Tehelka, by Rakesh Krishnan Simha. Simha writes very provocatively about William Dalrymple. I’m not an apologist for Dalrymple (who I think is a great travel writer and a good historian, but a rather crowd-pleasing po-co lord, as in the article’s title) but Simha stoops very low: “The likes of Dalrymple should, therefore, go back and reform their own country. They have no business being in India”. Nope, I’m not buying that. Tehelka is going in a very funny direction by publishing this kind of writing.
‘Feminism is not Short-Hand for Male Bashing’, interview with Meena Kandasamy in the Hindustan Times. I don’t think the interviewer does a great job here (in fact, most of her questions would suggest she knows little about her subject) but Meena Kandasamy is a fascinating author.
‘Kiss of Love: Public Kissing Western? Public Pissing Indian?’ by one of my favourites, Urvashi Butalia, on the DailyO. Flippant, but fun.
Extract:
‘Winged Horses’ by Janice Pariat, extract from her forthcoming novel Seahorses in IQ: Indian Quarterly.
‘The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer’ by Laxmi Hariharan. Excerpt on Kitaab.
Call for submissions:
Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal is calling for submissions.
Posted on November 12, 2014 November 12, 2014 Categories Feminism, Film, Singapore, UncategorizedTags Arunava Sinha, David Breashears, ISAS 9th Annual Conference, Jaggery, Janice Pariat, Khushwant Singh, Laxmi Hariharan, Manil Suri, Meena Kandasamy, Mirza Waheed, National University of Singapore, Urvashi Butalia, William Dalrymple, ZubaanLeave a comment on Weekly news
Year of Reading Women
(Bookmarks by Joanna Walsh)
2014 has been designated the Year of Reading Women on a couple of fronts: Critical Flame journal has designated 2014 a year in which they will only read and publish in women writers and writers of colour; Joanna Walsh has started the #readwomen2014 campaign.
I am probably in an opposite situation to many readers out there: for the four years that my PhD lasted, I read books almost exclusively by Indian women (apart from a few scholarly books), so when I’d done with the PhD I promised myself that I would read a bit more broadly, including plenty of men!
But I’m aware that the literary and publishing establishment the world over still favours men, white men at that. Not always deliberately or consciously, but nevertheless (statistically speaking, anyway) books by women authors receive less attention than books by male authors.
Unlike the Critical Flame journal who got the ball rolling, and some other readers and bloggers out there, I’m not going to pledge to read more female authors of colour this year, because I really do think I read plenty–ie, the majority of what I read. But I read a good piece on the Arabic Literature (in English) blog recommending a book by an Arab woman author for every month of the year, as a way in for those readers who perhaps don’t know where to start.
So here are my recommendations for South Asian women’s books to read this year:
January: Manjushree Thapa’s The Tutor of History. I’m not of the opinion that women should always write exclusively about women, as even feminists of some persuasion do. Thapa writes cleverly and humorously about the political and social turmoil of contemporary Nepal, showing that women writers can have enormous breadth of experience and imagination.
February: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man/Cracking India. This Pakistani author’s fictionalised account of her experiences during the Partition of India in 1947 is published under two different titles. It is a brutal account of the horrors of communalism.
March: Anjum Hasan, Lunatic in My Head. This young author from India’s Northeastearn Meghalaya state wittily brings together small town and metropolitan India.
April: Mahasweta Devi, Breast Stories. You can’t go wrong with anything by Mahasweta Devi, but this powerful collection from the fierce Bengali author is a good place to start.
May: Yasmine Gooneratne, A Change of Skies. This Sri Lankan-Australian author wrote about the immigrant experience before Jhumpa Lahiri et al made it fashionable (one could even say passe…)
June: Sorayya Khan, Noor. Khan was one of, if not the first Pakistani English-language novelist to address (West) Pakistan’s crimes in East Pakistan/Bangladesh in 1971.
July: Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day or Baumgartner’s Bombay. This prolific Indian author has many short novels to her credit, and has been nominated for the Booker Prize several times, though she has never won. Her daughter, Kiran Desai, won the Booker in 2006 though, with The Inheritance of Loss. Many consider the mother the better writer, and these two suggestions, amongst her best loved, are good places to start.
August: Githa Hariharan, When Dreams Travel. Hariharan is also a prolific author, with many good novels. This recommendation is a retelling of the classic Thousand and One Nights.
September: Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. The only work of non-fiction to make this list, Butalia’s work of oral history is a stunning and groundbreaking work of feminist oral history.
October: Qurratulain Hyder, My Temples, Too. This Urdu-language Indian author translated her novels into English herself, which many critics say altered them enormously in the process. Several of her novels are sprawling histories, but the English translation of her first novel, My Temples, Too, about India’s Independence, is quite accessible.
November: Meena Kandasamy, Ms Militancy. The only collection of poetry to make this list (I don’t read much poetry), Kandasamy’s fierce anti-caste and anti-patriarchy poems live up to the collection’s name.
December: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things. If there’s one novel by a South Asian woman that the wider world is likely to have read, it is this Booker Prize winner. If you haven’t already, you can still fit it in in December!
Posted on January 24, 2014 February 11, 2014 Categories Bangladesh, Commentary, Feminism, History, India, Man Booker Prize, Nepal, Northeast India, Novels, Pakistan, Poetry, Prize-winning books, South Asian writing in English, Sri Lanka, Translations, Translations from Bangla, Translations from Urdu, Women's writingTags Anita Desai, Anjum Hasan, Arundhati Roy, Bangladesh, Bapsi Sidhwa, Commentary, Critical Flame, Feminism, Githa Hariharan, History, India, Mahasweta Devi, Man Booker Prize, Manjushree Thapa, Meena Kandasamy, Nepal, Northeast India, novels, Pakistan, Partition of India, Poetry, Prize-winning books, Qurratulain Hyder, Sorayya Khan, South Asian writing in English, Sri Lanka, Translations, Translations from Bangla, Translations from Urdu, Urvashi Butalia, women writers, Women's writing, Yasmine Gooneratne, Year of Women Writers and Writers of Color13 Comments on Year of Reading Women
Jaipur Literature Festival 2014, Day 3
I kicked off day three of the JLF, my second, with a well-attended but not oppressively crowded session called ‘Beauty and Fidelity: Texts in Translation’, featuring a Chinese-English translator (Carlos Rojas), a Hindi author (Geetanjali Shree), her English translator (Rahul Soni–also Asymptote literary journal’s India editor-at-large), a Marathi author (Sachin Kundalkar) and his English translator (Jerry Pinto). The pairing of the authors with their translators made for fruitful discussion, as did the addition of somewhat of a wildcard, Carlos Rojas.
The panel immediately discarded the topic, which summarised that old adage of translation (“that translations are like women: either beautiful, or faithful”) and, as Jerry Pinto stated, is both offensive to translators and to women. Having not heard of Marathi-language author Sachin Kundalkar, I was enticed into buying the English translation of his novel Cobalt Blue by the wit that both he and his translator, Pinto, displayed. A favourite anecdote of mine was when Kundalkar told how the Marathi and English versions of the novel have reached different audiences. The young weren’t drawn to the Marathi version, but he now gets messages from youngsters saying how much they enjoyed his book and look forward to the Marathi translation!
The second session of day 3, ‘Dispensable Nation: Afghanistan after the US Withdrawal’ (with a panel of scholars, writers and journalists specialising in Afghanistan, and moderated by William Dalrymple) was so crowded that I was sat on the ground a metre from the stage. Despite the fact that I could only see Dalrymple’s face and could barely make out any voices because of my awkward proximity to the side of the speakers, I would have endured the full session had there not been a freezing cold, foggy wind. So I went book shopping instead. Several others I spoke to after the session were disappointed that William Dalrymple tended to dominate the discussion with his war-horse stories of Afghanistan.
Being a huge fan of Urvashi Butalia, I attended her session ‘Savage Harvest’ with Navtej Sarna, the son of an eminent Punjabi author who wrote about Partition. Translation was once again pointed to as a necessary way of disseminating forgotten or ignored experiences, and the fact that Partition literature can still be discussed in such terms six and a half decades after the event shows how much more needs to be done.
In the afternoon I attended the parallel event that was being hosted this year: Bookmark, held at the nearby Narain Niwas, an effort to get publishing professionals together to talk about challenges and opportunities that the industry faces. By all appearances it was a small event this year, and attended mainly by small publishers, but the event is something that the JLF organisers will be trying to develop in future years. The discussions–from Indian and international publishers, editors, book-sellers, and so on–were more specialised and industry-focused than many of those held at the Diggi Palace, but for people with any interest in the industry it was a welcome opportunity to interact with other professionals. And the calm of the Narain Niwas grounds was more than welcome.
Posted on January 23, 2014 February 11, 2014 Categories Afghanistan, Jaipur Literature Festival, Literary festivals, Novels, Reportage, Translations, Translations from Hindi, Women's writingTags Afghanistan, Asymptote, Bookmark, Carlos Rojas, English translator, Geetanjali Shree, Jaipur Literature Festival, Jerry Pinto, Literary Festivals, novels, Partition, Rahul Soni, Reportage, Sachin Kundalkar, Translations, Translations from Hindi, Translations from Marathi, Urvashi Butalia, William Dalrymple, Women's writing1 Comment on Jaipur Literature Festival 2014, Day 3
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Like Sonam Kapoor-Anand Ahuja, young couples go for paperless wedding invites
Loknath Das | May 5, 2018 | Wedding | No Comments
Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor is marrying Delhi-based designer-businessman Anand Ahuja on May 8. (Photo: instagram.com/anandahuja)
Actor Sonam Kapoor and fashion entrepreneur Anand Ahuja have ditched paper invites for their May 8 wedding and have sent out a customised e-invite that guests would flash on their phones at the venue entrance. This is an approach taken reportedly for the sake of sustainability. And this idea has struck several digitally-inclined, regular young couples, too.
Wedding planners say that eco-friendly invites are popular with young couples nowadays. “We recently did a wedding where there were no paper invites and no mithai ka dabba. E-invites were sent by mail and WhatsApp — people are going completely paperless. These e-invites are innovative and the younger generation is looking at things that are easier and simpler,” says Vandana Mohan, wedding planner.
E-invites are cheaper to create; can be easily updated in case timings or venues change; save postage or courier hassles; and they can also make tracking RSVPs easier. E-links for everything that your guests require, including maps and menu options, are useful additions to the e-invite.
Wedding invites in the form of videos are a part of this trend. “These invites are cheaper than the huge boxes of invitations, leading to less wastage. Video invites often include images from a pre-wedding shoot, compiled to make an invite. Many couples want to share their love stories through customised animation [clips], followed by the invite,” says Saloni Doshi of Happy Invites, a company that makes video invites.
Amanpreet Sassan, a 27-year-old designer who got married in February, says that her friends and family loved her video invite. “We got a video made, along with an e-link. The purpose was to go paperless and decrease the workload of sending out the wedding cards. We hadn’t expected people to be so receptive, but everyone loved the video,” she says .
However, the traditional printed invites aren’t left in the dust yet — far from it. “Yes, the [digital wedding invite] trend is evolving and couples are opting for e-invites, but there are some families who, after the first round of conversations about e-invites, come back to us and say that a ‘real’ invite is important — woh toh bhejna padega (that has to be sent),” says Punit Jasuja, wedding planner. The paper invite is important for the parents of the bride and bridegroom, and wedding planners sometimes make two types of invites — virtual and real — for two generations. “Sending the card along with sweets is an age-old tradition that many are reluctant to let go of,” adds Jasuja.
Bridegroom-to-be Anshum Valecha, a 29-year-old businessman, agrees that the older generation’s opinion must be respected. He says, “We’ve got e-invites along with the traditional invites, as sending sweets is a tradition and a wedding card is something relatives look forward to.”
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US named world’s top trash maker, risks being buried in its own garbage — RT World News
While the US makes up 4% of the world’s population it produces 12% of its trash, more than both China and India. To make matters worse, it is also terrible at managing its garbage output, recycling a small percentage of waste.
As trash continues to saturate the world’s oceans and mount in developing countries where waste from the first world is offshored, the US could be headed for crisis as more and more countries begin to refuse to take America’s mountains of garbage. Unlike Germany, where 68% of waste is reused, the US recycles 35%, making it particularly dependent on shipping the problem elsewhere, according to a new report.
Indonesia to send back ‘toxic’ trash to US, Australia & Germany – local media
“The US is the only developed nation whose waste generation outstrips its ability to recycle, underscoring a shortage of political will and investment in infrastructure,” the report said.
The disturbing statistics come from research by the UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm Maplecroft, who measured the waste generation and recycling performance of 194 countries to produce a profile of the world’s worst polluters.
While China unsurprisingly produced the most trash by volume, it was among the few major countries that actually produced less than its share of waste by percentage of world population. Despite having been one of the world’s worst polluters for many years, China has recently made major environmental investments, greening its economy, whereas the US has been comparatively slow to adapt.
US military is world’s ‘single largest producer’ of greenhouse gases – report
And the US environmental issues extend beyond its quickly amassing mountains of trash; in terms of climate change, President Donald Trump has been notoriously skeptical about the issue, even calling the idea a “Chinese plot” against American manufacturing. Last month, another report revealed that the US military is the “single largest producer” of greenhouse gases in the world.
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Rep. Patrick McHenry: ‘There’s no capacity to kill Bitcoin’
Rep. Patrick McHenry: ‘There’s no capacity to kill Bitcoin’7 Hours AgoRep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the tech hearing on Capitol Hill.
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Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the tech hearing on Capitol Hill.
Author cnbcPosted on July 16, 2019 Categories companies, news, UncategorizedTags andrew harrer, bitcoin, bloomberg, capacity, cnbc, getty images, kill, mchenry, member, patrick, ranking, rep, rnc, services, squawk, tech, theresLeave a comment on Rep. Patrick McHenry: ‘There’s no capacity to kill Bitcoin’
Sen. Sherrod Brown grills Facebook’s David Marcus in Libra hearing
Sen. Sherrod Brown grills Facebook’s David Marcus in Libra hearing3 Hours AgoSen. Sherrod Brown questions Facebook in a hearing on the new cryptocurrency, Libra, that the social media site is backing.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown questions Facebook in a hearing on the new cryptocurrency, Libra, that the social media site is backing.
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Facebook’s David Marcus: US should take the lead in regulating Libra
Facebook’s David Marcus: US should take the lead in regulating Libra4 Hours AgoFacebook’s David Marcus testifies before Congress on the regulatory process of the new cryptocurrency, Libra.
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Facebook’s David Marcus testifies before Congress on the regulatory process of the new cryptocurrency, Libra.
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Watch CNBC’s full interview with UK Chancellor Philip Hammond
Watch CNBC’s full interview with UK Chancellor Philip Hammond4 Hours AgoPhilip Hammond, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the biggest issues facing the economy, including the Fed’s monetary policy, Brexit and other geopolitical issues.
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Philip Hammond, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the biggest issues facing the economy, including the Fed’s monetary policy, Brexit and other geopolitical issues.
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Amazon workers are reportedly planning a Prime Day protest
Amazon employees in Minnesota are reportedly planning a strike on Prime Day this year, as the company is promoting its faster delivery options but not giving its workers enough credit, they say. Last year’s Prime Day was met with a massive strike by European employees that included workers in Spain, Poland, Germany, Italy and France. In the Minnesota facility, Bloomberg said workers, who are primarily East African Muslims, had been growing increasingly frustrated with Amazon not acknowledging th
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Amazon employees in Minnesota are reportedly planning a strike on Prime Day this year, as the company is promoting its faster delivery options but not giving its workers enough credit, they say.
Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, have plotted to stop working for six hours on July 15, when the 48-hour Prime Day extravaganza kicks off, Bloomberg reported Monday after speaking with one of the people organizing the strike.
Amazon didn’t immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on this story.
Some engineers are planning to fly into Minnesota to join the strike, the report said. Activists there are going to be pushing Amazon to take action against things like climate change and giving more temporary workers the option to become full-time, it said.
In the past, Amazon has dealt with more worker retaliation in Europe, where labor unions have greater power. Last year’s Prime Day was met with a massive strike by European employees that included workers in Spain, Poland, Germany, Italy and France.
In the Minnesota facility, Bloomberg said workers, who are primarily East African Muslims, had been growing increasingly frustrated with Amazon not acknowledging their religious practices. Bloomberg reported organizers there ultimately were able to push Amazon to give workers lighter quotas during Ramadan and space for prayer. But they still think the labor conditions are too intense overall, it said.
The disruption on July 15, though it’s just planned for one area of the country, could empower other Amazon facilities to take a stand and do the same.
Though Amazon has raised its minimum wage for all U.S. employees to $15 per hour, the company has still been a target for its reportedly poor working conditions.
Read the full story from Bloomberg.
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Trump considers bypassing Congress to cut capital gains tax on wealthy, report says
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is considering bypassing Congress to cut capital gains taxes by changing the way they are calculated, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Trump’s chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow is a longtime proponent of lowering the capital gains tax, claiming it would raise revenue. Bush’s Treasury Department considered cutting the capital gains tax without Congress in 19
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump is considering bypassing Congress to cut capital gains taxes by changing the way they are calculated, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Under the plan, profits on investments would be indexed to inflation, Bloomberg reported. This would slash taxes primarily for wealthy investors selling assets like stock or real estate by not taxing income based on appreciation from inflation.
The change, which Bloomberg said would be enacted through an executive order or rule change, would likely face legal challenges. Administration officials are split over whether to pursue it, the report said.
The White House has not yet consulted the Justice Department on the legality of such a move, Bloomberg said.
The White House, Treasury, IRS, and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to CNBC’s requests for comment.
Trump’s chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow is a longtime proponent of lowering the capital gains tax, claiming it would raise revenue. Kudlow has reportedly floated the idea of cutting the tax through an executive order, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the Journal last year that the administration does not have a position on indexing capital gains, but he indicated openness to it.
“There’s obviously a benefit to taxpayers because it lowers the tax,” he said. “There’s obviously a revenue impact associated with that.”
Advocates of the plan within the administration are pushing to move forward prior to the 2020 presidential election, according to Bloomberg.
President George H.W. Bush’s Treasury Department considered cutting the capital gains tax without Congress in 1992, but the department’s lawyers said the government did not have the authority to do so, according to the Journal.
Several 2020 Democratic candidates, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Corey Booker, support raising the capital gains tax.
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Watch CNBC’s full interview with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
Watch CNBC’s full interview with LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner11:55 AM ET Wed, 19 June 2019LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner sat down with CNBC’s Jon Fortt at the NYSE. They discussed the company’s growth, future and changes they’ve seen since the company was sold to Microsoft in 2016.
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner sat down with CNBC’s Jon Fortt at the NYSE. They discussed the company’s growth, future and changes they’ve seen since the company was sold to Microsoft in 2016.
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These 15 cities boast the best 20-year returns on home values
Depending where you live, staying put in your home for the last two decades could be paying off well. As in really well. While the median nationwide home value is about 90% higher now than it was in 1999 — $226,800 compared with about $119,000 — some spots boast values that have jumped far more than that. In some places, the gain is more than 300% or even 400%. However, that doesn’t take into consideration other housing costs that can eat into profits: property taxes, maintenance or improvements
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Depending where you live, staying put in your home for the last two decades could be paying off well. As in really well.
While the median nationwide home value is about 90% higher now than it was in 1999 — $226,800 compared with about $119,000 — some spots boast values that have jumped far more than that.
In some places, the gain is more than 300% or even 400%. However, that doesn’t take into consideration other housing costs that can eat into profits: property taxes, maintenance or improvements.
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Bill Gates: A key to Warren Buffett’s success is ‘something anyone could do’
Warren Buffett is anything but average: The legendary investor has an approximate net worth of $82 billion, making him the third richest person in the world. A key to Buffett’s extraordinary success, though, is a refreshingly simple habit and “something anyone can do,” his longtime friend Bill Gates pointed out in a recent blog post: He reads every day. Buffett, who spends between five and six hours a day paging through books and newspapers, finds it “enjoyable to think about business and invest
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Warren Buffett is anything but average: The legendary investor has an approximate net worth of $82 billion, making him the third richest person in the world. At 88, he still runs Berkshire Hathaway, his holding company that owns businesses like Geico, Dairy Queen and See’s Candies.
A key to Buffett’s extraordinary success, though, is a refreshingly simple habit and “something anyone can do,” his longtime friend Bill Gates pointed out in a recent blog post: He reads every day.
Buffett, who spends between five and six hours a day paging through books and newspapers, finds it “enjoyable to think about business and investment problems,” he says in HBO’s documentary “Becoming Warren Buffett.”
Plus, staying up to date on business news and current events is a relatively simple way to gain a competitive advantage. “Everybody can read what I read. It is a level playing field,” Buffett used to tell his late wife, Susan Buffett, according to the HBO documentary.
“And he loves that because he is competitive,” Susan said of Buffett. “He’s sitting there all by himself in his office, reading these things that everybody else can read, but he loves the idea that he is going to win.”
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Meet the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
In the seventh annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies — from biotech and machine learning to transportation, retail and agriculture — whose innovations are changing the world and fueling a race between superpowers like the U.S. and China. These forward-thinking start-ups have not only identified unexploited niches in the market that have the potential to become billion-dollar businesses, a majority of them already are billion-dollar businesses. But we ranked those venture capi
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In the seventh annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies — from biotech and machine learning to transportation, retail and agriculture — whose innovations are changing the world and fueling a race between superpowers like the U.S. and China. These forward-thinking start-ups have not only identified unexploited niches in the market that have the potential to become billion-dollar businesses, a majority of them already are billion-dollar businesses. A startling 36 disruptors this year are unicorns that have already reached or passed the billion-dollar mark.
Unseating corporate giants is no easy feat. But we ranked those venture capital–backed companies doing the best job. In aggregate, these 50 companies have raised over $46 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of more than $266 billion, according to PitchBook data. Many already are part of our daily lives, whether or not we know it. Read more about the trends that stand out in the 2019 list ranking — from the future of farming and residential real estate to the battles for control in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence and genetics industries — and the methodology used to select this year’s Disruptor companies.
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110 In The Shade
"110 In The Shade" Overture
Gonna Be Another Hot Day
Train Whistle / Lizzie's Comin' Home
Love, Don't Turn Away
Poker Polka
The Hungry Men
Rain Song
You're Not Foolin' Me
Old Maid
Everything Beautiful Happens At Night
Melisande
Simple Little Things
Little Red Hat
Is It Really Me?
Wonderful Music
Finale Act Two
N. Richard Nash, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones explore depression-era love and hope in this musical adaptation of Nash’s stage play, The Rainmaker. In the tiny town of Three Point, in the hot and drought-stricken American southwest, traveling con man Bill Starbuck promises the local farmers he can conjure some much-needed rain. Spinster Lizzie Curry, whose advances are rebuffed by Sheriff File, blossoms as she pursues a romantic relationship with the charismatic stranger. Numbers include “Love, Don’t Turn Away,” “Little Red Hat,” “Simple Little Things,” “Everything Beautiful Happens At Night” and “Wonderful Music.”
Music samples courtesy of Jay Records and Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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It’s the Fourth of July, 1936, and the small southwestern town of Three Point is experiencing a blistering heat wave (“Another Hot Day”). Lizzy Curry, a cheerful, fiercely intelligent thirty-ish spinster, regretfully accepts that no man outside her family has ever loved her or found her beautiful. But her rancher father, HC, and brothers urge her to pursue a romance with Sheriff File by dressing up and bringing a tasty lunch to the town picnic. Lizzy reluctantly agrees (“Love, Don’t Turn Away”).
Sheriff File is resistant to the Curry brothers’ plan (“Poker Polka”), and refuses to join “The Hungry Men” at the picnic. Lizzie, stung by File’s rejection, is heartbroken. Suddenly, a stranger named Bill Starbuck arrives in town, claiming he can bring an end to the town’s drought for a payment of $100 (“The Rain Song”). HC, intrigued by Starbuck’s charm, gives him the money. Lizzie, however, is scornful, and she and Starbuck butt heads (“You’re Not Foolin’ Me”). Lizzie playfully imagines herself living a different sort of life (“Raunchy”). File does show up at the picnic, and he shares some painful truths with Lizzie (“A Man and A Woman”). Her attempts at flirtation drive him away, though, and she’s left alone to contemplate her future as an “Old Maid.”
Evening sets upon the picnic (“Everything Beautiful Happens At Night”) and Lizzie is inexplicably drawn to the quiet of Starbuck’s camp. Alone with Lizzie, Starbuck urges her to dream beyond her small town (“Melisande”), but she defends her desire for “Simple Little Things.” Starbuck encourages Lizzie to see her own beauty, and the lights fade as they embrace.
Back at the picnic, Lizzie’s brother Jimmy boasts of his own romantic exploits (“Little Red Hat”). File enters, seeking a fugitive con man, whom he strongly suspects is Starbuck. HC, understanding that Lizzie needs to make a connection with a man, refuses to reveal their whereabouts. Meanwhile, Starbuck confesses to Lizzie that he’s never actually conjured any rain, and she privately wonders whether it’s best to live somewhere in between dreams and real life (“Is It Really Me?”)
Lizzie and Starbuck return to the picnic, and File makes a plea for Lizzie’s affections (“Wonderful Music”). Lizzie must make a choice, and with newfound self-assurance, she chooses a quiet life with Sheriff File. Starbuck drives off into the distance, and suddenly the heavens open, bathing the townspeople in glorious, nourishing rain (“Finale: The Rain Song”).
By N. Richard Nash
Music by Harvey Schmidt Lyrics by Tom Jones
Based on a Play by N. Richard Nash
Original Direction by Joseph Anthony
Dances and musical numbers originally staged by Agnes de Mille
Produced for the Broadway stage by David Merrick
Full Orchestration:
2 Violin
1 Viola
1 Flute & Piccolo
1 Oboe & English Horn
1 Reed I: Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet & Soprano Saxophone
1 Reed II: Flute (or Clarinet) & Clarinet
1 Reed III: Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
1 Reed IV: Clarinet, Bassoon & Baritone Saxophone
2 Trumpet I & II (Tpt. I in Bb & D; Tpt. II in Bb)
1 Trumpet III
2 Percussion I & II:
Timpani (2 drums)
Large Suspended Cymbal
Hi-Hat Cymbals
Small Sleigh Bells
1 Guitar & Banjo
Piano (Piano-Conductor’s Score sent with rehearsal material.)
2 Piano/Conductor Scores
20 Libretto/Vocal Books
The Curry Family
Lizzie Curry – At first glance, she seems a woman who can cope with all the aspects of life. She has the world of materiality under control; she is a good housekeeper; pots and pans, needles and thread – when she touches them, they serve. She knows well where she fits in the family – she is daughter, sister, mother, child – and she enjoys the manifold elements of her position. She has a sure ownership of her own morality, for the tenets of right and wrong are friendly to her – and she is comfortably forthright in living by them. A strong and integral woman in every life function – except one. Here she is, thirty-ish, and no man outside the family has loved her or found her beautiful. And yet, ironically, it is this one unfulfilled part of Lizzie that is the most potentially beautiful facet of the woman – this yearning for romance – this courageous searching for it in the desert of her existence… And if some day a man should find her, he will find a ready woman, willing to give herself with the totality of her rich being.
H. C. Curry, Lizzie’s father – He is in his late fifties, powerfully set, capable, a good man to take store in. But he’s not all prosaic efficiency – there’s a dream in him.
Noah Curry, Lizzie’s older brother – He is somewhat like his father, without H.C.’s imagination. As a matter of fact, he has little imagination at all and would appear to be self-righteous and rigidly opinionated, were it not for his basic decency and his warm yearning to be kind.
Jimmy Curry, Lizzie’s younger brother – In his early twenties but big and broad-shouldered, he looks older than his years until he opens his mouth; then he’s a child. He’s not sure that he’s very bright and this is his great cross. He is filled with inchoate longing.
Bill Starbuck – A big man, lithe, agile – a loud braggart, a gentle dreamer. He carries a short hickory stick – it is his weapon, his pointer, his magic wand, his pride of manhood.
File, The sheriff – He is a lean man, reticent, intelligent, in his late thirties. He smiles wryly at the world and at himself. Perhaps he is a little bitter; if so, his bitterness is leavened by a mischievous humor.
Snookie Updegraff – She is perhaps seventeen, and pretty and pretty, and pretty, and pretty, and pretty. Which is to say she is pretty.
Townspeople of Threepoint
Toby, the middle aged stationmaster
Mrs. Jessen, fat, middle-aged and good-natured
Phil Mackey, about nineteen
Tommy, a boy of eight
Belinda, a spectacled girl of nine
Geshy Toops, a man in his thirties
Gil Demby, a boy in his teens
Olive Barrow, a pretty girl
Wally Skacks, a boy in his late teens
Maurine Toops, a girl in her twenties
Bo Dollivon, a boy in his twenties
Mr. Curtis, a minister
Wally Skacks, an old man
Other townspeople to dance and sing – of all ages and descriptions, not necessarily – please! – not necessarily all good looking. Real people.
110 IN THE SHADE played for 330 performances on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre starring Robert Horton, Inga Swenson and Stephen Douglass. In London’s West End, it played for 101 performances at the Palace Theatre starring Ivor Emmanuel and Joel Warfield. It was revived in 1992 by the New York City Opera, and most recently on Broadway in 2007 at Studio 54, starring Audra McDonald, John Cullum and Steve Kazee.
AWARDS (2006-07)
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress.
Overture – Orchestra
1. Opening: “Another Hot Day” – File, Toby, & Chorus
2. Train Whistle – Orchestra
3. “Lizzie’s Comin’ Home” – H.C., Noah, & Jim
4. “Love Don’t Turn Away” – Lizzie
4a. Opening Scene 2 – Men
5, “The Poker Polka” – Jim, Noah, H.C., & File
6. “The Hungry Men” – Lizzie & Chorus
6a. Starbuck’s Entrance – Orchestra
7. “The Rain Song” – Starbuck & Chorus
8. “You’re Not Foolin’ Me” – Lizzie & Starbuck
9. “Cinderella” – Lizzie & Children
10. “Raunchy” – Lizzie & H.C.
11. “A Man And A Woman” – Lizzie & File
12. Finale Act One: “Old Maid” – Lizzie
13. Entr’acte – Orchestra
14. “Everything Beautiful Happens At Night” – Chorus
15. Everything Beautiful Happens At Night (Dance) – Chorus
15a. End of Scene Playoff – Orchestra
16. “Melisande” – Starbuck
17. “Simple Little Things” – Lizzie & Starbuck
17a. Incidental (Kiss Music) – Orchestra
17b. Incidental #2 (Change of Scene) – Orchestra
18. “Little Red Hat” – Snookie & Jim
19. Change of Scene – Orchestra
20. “Is It Really Me?” – Lizzie & Starbuck
20a. End Scene 4 – Orchestra
21. “Wonderful Music” – Lizzie, File, & Starbuck
22. Finale Act Two (Reprise: “Rain Song”) – Principals & Chorus
23. Curtain Music – Orchestra
24. Exit Music – Orchestra
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What does Palo Alto Networks do?
On: Wednesday November 16th, 2016
Tagged: Next Generation Firewall, palo alto networks, What Does Palo Alto Networks do
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American network security company based in Santa Clara, California. The company’s core products are advanced firewalls designed to provide network security, visibility and granular control of network activity based on application, user, and content identification. Palo Alto Networks competes in the UTM and network security industry against Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, Juniper Networks and Cyberoam among others.
Palo Alto Networks platforms aim to bring together all key network security functions, including advanced threat protection, firewall, IDS/IPS, and URL filtering. Because these functions are natively built into the platform and share important information across the respective disciplines, we ensure better security than legacy firewalls, UTMs, or point threat detection products.
Palo Alto Networks makes its money from: firewall mostly.
Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s revenue jumped in the latest quarter, but the growth was its slowest pace as a public company and the cybersecurity company projected the deceleration would continue this quarter. At the same time, a sharp increase in stock-based compensation and other expenses continued to weigh on results, widening the company’s quarterly loss.
Palo Alto Networks customers are take longer to make purchasing decisions around security, specially the larger companies that Palo Alto Networks targets. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company makes its money from a mix of products, such as firewalls, along with add-on services, including subscriptions and support and maintenance.
Other vendors, including Fortinet, have cited seeing similar longer sales cycles in security impacting their sales.
Palo Alto Networks products
Palo Alto Networks enterprise security platforms are available in both hardware and virtualized form factors, featuring the same next-generation firewall features set for consistency and ease of management. In addition, Panorama, their centralized management platform is also available in both virtualized and hardware form factors.
Palo Alto Networks CFO said Palo Alto Networks continues to see growth in its subscription services business, which accounted for 59 percent of the company’s sales in the quarter and also highlighted growth in Palo Alto Networks’ endpoint security offering, Traps, which he said added 600 new, paying customers in the 3rd quarter of 2016. Traps also saw a major updating during the quarter, as well as earned certification as an antivirus replacement.
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Advanced Endpoint Protection: Traps
Joe Cloud
Just a regular computer user. I write for regular users like me. When we grow up we are taught basic security tips like how to cross the street. But we are not taught how to take care of ourselves online.
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Several fidget spinners were tested for lead content by a CPSC-accredited laboratory. The fidget spinners were analyzed in accordance with CPSC-CH-E1001-8.3 using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS). The toys that tested for high levels of lead were then re-tested a second time to confirm the results. The results of the second test are included in this report.
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Credit Freezes: How to Prevent New Account Identity Theft
Defense against any kind of identity theft starts with vigilance about protecting your personal information by taking steps such as creating secure passwords, keeping your social security number private, and shredding personal documents.
However, if and when someone does steal your information, there are a variety of ways it can be used, depending on what was taken. One of those uses is known as new account identity theft, where someone opens a new account in your name and then proceeds to rack up a ton of debt. New account identity theft is the most preventable kind of identity theft and can be prevented by getting security freezes, also known as credit freezes.
» Keep Readingabout Credit Freezes: How to Prevent New Account Identity Theft
Resource | Financial Reform
Letter to CFPB & FTC on Experian/T-Mobile Data Breach
Following a breach of a subsidiary of the nationwide credit bureau Experian affecting 15 million customers and applicants of T-Mobile, a number of state PIRGs have joined other leading privacy and consumer groups in a request for investigations by the CFPB and FTC.
» Keep Readingabout Letter to CFPB & FTC on Experian/T-Mobile Data Breach
Resource | Consumer Protection, Make VW Pay
Leading Groups Send Criteria for Evaluating VW Settlement
The letter highlights six main criteria by which a proposal should be evaluated to compensate consumers and the environment and deter future criminal acts. Four leading consumer, environmental, and public health organizations wrote an open letter in advance of the April 21st deadline set by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer for a proposal that deals with Volkswagen’s emission scandal.
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Letter: Protecting the FTC from Special Interest Attacks
While much of our work has been in defense of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), we also support the efforts of the over-100 year old Federal Trade Commission. Recently, powerful special interests convinced the Energy and Commerce Committee to draft (and expect it to vote out soon, likely next week) legislation to severely weaken the FTC's ability to protect the public from identity theft and privacy invasions (including sloppy data security that leads to identity theft), deceptive health marketing claims by sellers of various dangerous or ineffective (or both) products and numerous other last-dollar and other frauds and schemes. We've joined over 30 leading groups in a letter opposing the so-called FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016 (HR 5510-Burgess (TX)).
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Selected Articles: David Nagel
David Nagel is editorial director, education for 1105 Media's Public Sector Media Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal. The articles listed below represent a sampling of his recent work. To find the 1,000 most recent articles by David, please use our online search tool.
Mac and Windows PCs Climb in U.S. as Worldwide Shipments Tank
Even as shipments of traditional computers tumble around the world, shipments of OS X- and Windows-based computers managed to climb slightly in the United States in the third quarter.
Microsoft Makes Surface Pro Tablet Faster and More Capable
Microsoft is updating its Windows tablet lineup with the launch of the Surface Pro 4, a faster version of the Surface Pro with a larger display and upgraded stylus.
Microsoft Rolling Out Updated Lumia Mobile Devices
Microsoft has introduced a new range of Windows 10-based Lumia smart phones, including a 5.7-inch quad-HD model to rival the latest Android-based phablets.
Google Reveals Nexus 6P, 5X with Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Google Tuesday formally revealed the long-rumored successors in its Nexus line of smart phones — the 5.7-inch, quad-HD Nexus 6P and the 5.2-inch Nexus 5X.
Senate Privacy Bill Puts Constraints on Student Data Use
New legislation introduced today in the United States Senate aimed at curtailing the use of student data for commercial purposes and requiring vendors to secure data and provide access to parents.
Ohio Renounces PARCC
Ohio has become the latest state to bail out of PARCC, one of the two major state consortia focused on developing Common Core assessments. That leaves just 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, as participants.
Some Educational Apps Go Missing as Apple Purges Images of Confederate Flags from the App Store
Apple today began pulling apps out of its iOS and Mac app stores that display a Confederate flag. Educational apps, it seems, aren't immune from the broad ban — at least some of them.
Education Groups Demand Vote on Federal Education Overhaul Bill
Ten major education organizations have banded together to demand a vote on legislation reauthorizing and modifying the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
Google Classroom Adds Mobile Editing, Grading
Google has released an update to its Google Classroom software, bringing several new features to the mobile app.
LAUSD 'Extremely Dissatisfied' with Pearson and Apple, Demands Refund
The story of Los Angeles Unified School District's beleaguered $1.3 billion 1-to-1 iPad program has taken a new twist: The district is now demanding a refund from Apple and has told the company it will not spend any more money on the Pearson software installed on the devices.
Tackling the Digital Learning Time Crunch
When Rialto Unified School District undertook a 1-to-1 program for its 26,000 students, the California school system knew an infrastructure update was in order. And the more those devices were being used for learning — not just during school, but after school, for Saturday school and deep into the summer — the smaller the windows became in which the IT organization could handle maintenance tasks. The district decided to try a new approach for refreshing the network. As Network Services Manager, Raul Maciel, explains, hyperconvergence not only delivered the flexibility IT sought, but boosted performance, added redundancy and kept the familiar management interface staff members already knew well. Read more...
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Ballas replaces Keillor as owner of bookstore, renames ‘Next Chapter’
Imprints creates space for open discussion of survivor experiences
Registrar Jayne Niemi reflects on retirement after 40 years at Mac
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Ultimate Frisbee seeks to make a more equitable environment
TWIS 4/26/19
A Novel Idea: Mac’s book club reviews “Skyward”
With Fashion at a Crossroads, Sustainability is a Guiding Light
Way Back at Mac: Top Secret! A Look into Macalester and the FBI
Confronting a culture of classism at Macalester
Farewell, Macalester
The Mac Weekly needs a crossword
Graduating WMCN managers reflect on their legacy
“Metamorphoses” and Mac alum make a splash at the Guthrie
Students explore definitions of “home” in mainstage production
Chic coffee in Minneapolis
Ellie’s last supper
Wings and slices wow at Tommie’s Pizza
Groveland: The Fight Against Affirmative Action
Meet the Spring 2019 Staff!
Groveland: Title IX, Part 2: A Survivor’s Perspective
Home » After 61 years, St. Clair Broiler burns out
After 61 years, St. Clair Broiler burns out
After 61 years of serving burgers, malts, fries, and more to the Macalester community and Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, the St. Clair Broiler will be closing its doors on Saturday, Sept. 30.
The St. Clair Broiler – known as “The Broiler” – became one of the first in the Twin Cities to serve charbroiled hamburgers in 1956, when it was founded on the corner of St. Clair and Snelling by brothers John and George Boosalis.
The restaurant’s proximity to campus has made it a favorite among students and an icon in the Mac-Groveland neighborhood. Tim Hennings, the St. Clair Broiler’s general manager and partial owner, identifies the loyalty of the restaurant’s customers as integral to its character.
“I have alumni from Mac who’ve been in the building in the last two weeks, since [the closing] was announced, saying they met their wife here, or their first date, or they even got engaged here…There’ve been three generations in the process coming into this building,” said Hennings.
“My mom went to Mac, and she would also talk about the Broiler,” said Mariel Adams ’18. “It is really a neighborhood institution.”
The Broiler has had several brushes with fame, including a visit from then-presidential candidate Al Gore – who liked the Broiler’s hot fudge milkshake so much, he ordered two to take back to his staff.
But while Gore made just one visit to the Broiler, crime writer William Kent Krueger was a regular – writing at the same booth in the restaurant each morning from 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. for the last 28 years.
But with extensive building renovations needed, and the restaurant’s lease requiring it to foot the bill, the Broiler’s run has come to an end.
“We’ve had a really loyal customer base in the neighborhood,” says Hennings, “but the sad thing about neighborhoods is neighborhoods change…we’ve had really loyal customers, and we’ll miss that.”
Mac students seem to share his sentiment. Said Adams, “The Broiler will be missed.”
Morgan Doherty
Web and Design Editor, Training Coordinator
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Rebecca Edwards
Rebecca Edwards (she/her/hers) '21 is a news editor for The Mac Weekly. She didn't come here to make friends. She came here because, in a panic, she applied early decision.
closing food Macalester restaurant the broiler
Way Back at Mac: reminiscing on logo lingo
Lasso of Truth: Why Wonder Woman Isn’t the Feminist Film You’ve Been Waiting For
“Shifting Borders” addresses family separation, the need for activism
Wholesale reforms to Macalester pass/fail system still needed
Minnesota State Fair: hotdish-on-a-stick and other 2018 favorites
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The Outer Worlds Announced by Obsidian Entertainment
Posted By: Taylor Coleon: December 06, 2018 In: Tags: TGA, thegameawards1 Comment
Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind the critically acclaimed Fallout: New Vegas, has unveiled their latest game during The Game Awards 2018. Titled The Outer Worlds, Obsidian Entertainment dives into the sci-fi single-player RPG genre once more. You can see the full trailer for the game down below:
The Outer Worlds has the charm you would expect from Obsidian Entertainment. As a first-person shooter RPG, the game will take you (seemingly) across many worlds where you will meet some…interesting characters that can aid you on your journey. It all looks very promising, to say the least, and it looks like a strange combination between Fallout: New Vegas and Borderlands (which is not something I wanted until now).
The Outer Worlds will release in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
What were your thoughts on The Outer Worlds trailer? Are you enjoying The Game Awards so far? Let us know in the comments below!
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Unveiled at The Game Awards
Mortal Kombat 11 Announced at The Game Awards
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Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is Adding Kefla and Super Baby Vegeta
Speedrun Fast: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Razzies Nominees Announced – Transformers Leads The Pack
The Last of Us Part II Release Window Possibly Revealed
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The spread of #METOO movement is finally creating some salutary momentum in academia. But then you hear of cases like Terry Speed where it has been suggested no punishment was mete out. In another case, Christian Ott was suspended from Caltech. He eventually resigned, found new employment in Finland, which was roundly criticized, then he was fired again. NSF has announced a requirement for all institutions to report findings of abuse, which seems like a good idea, but does this mean a life time black list for some? As we uncover the guilty (hopefully in a proper manner) with #METOO,
What is the right punishment for the abusers in academia?
Foucault’s classic analytical treatise “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison“, starts with a gruesome four-page description of the 1757 public torture of Robert-Francois Damiens, the regicide, as an example of the old system of punishment. This is punishment as a spectacle, where the act is a play of the power of the King upon its subjects and a display of the truth of the crime. Every crime involves not only the perpetrator and the injured but also the transgression to the sovereign that necessitates the grisly excess. Foucault next narrates a detailed daily schedule of rule for prisoners in Paris, consisting of meals, work, study, and exercise, much in the manner of modern prisons. Mere eighty years separate the spectacle of punishment reformed into a private and institutionalized discipline imposed on the guilty.
The Age of Enlightenment provided moral and philosophical background for reform. But, Foucault asserts economic developments generated complex webs of contradictory interests, eventually creating the idea of the abstract public against the criminal rather than the king: People vs John Doe. Now, punishment must consider its effects: that on the guilty, on the public, and on the punisher, leading to an effort to bound the excess and match the punishment to the character of the crime and the guilty. One end of the reform was the Philadelphia model, with roots in Quakerism, based on the principle of penitence and the transformation of the individual. Punishment was private, behind the walls of the coercive institution, with the public only given assurance of its inevitability. Thus, from the public spectacle to the private penitentiary, the political technology of punishment reflected the economy, ethics, and morality of the polity wielding the rod.
What then, is the moral, ethical character of academia?
One of the greatest ironies is the idea that academia is full of liberals–so much so that we have “Professor Watch Lists” and many similar flails against ivory-tower liberals. Some surveys suggest registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by up to 12:1 in some fields. So what is the irony? It is this. Academics might be politically liberal in the greater world, but within our own domain, our views, preferences, and actions are as radically conservative as one might find in the halls of the Heritage Foundation.
Let’s start with something simple. How many professors are known to favor hiring more administrative mini-deans? You know, those people who are the “governments” of academia? That is, how many academics are for more government in their own daily lives? How many show joy at the regulations handed down from those same governors? Say, for example, imposing diversity sensitivity training for hiring committees. I have sat in august discussions amongst august faculty within august institutions, asking “whether such training is truly effective” and “whether the matter should be seriously studied before we implement the rules”. Pointing out the parallels to those who think global climate change is an unsettled problem did not change the solemnity of the proceedings nor induce sudden pangs of self-awareness.
Here’s more. Academics strongly believe they got to where they are because of their extraordinary merit. Those who fail? Lack of mojo and poor work ethic. Who else believes the poor should buckle up and work harder? I could go on and on and find continued examples, such as the commonly accepted practice of free-for-all competition on par with the worst of Wall Street. If I cheat a little by taking somebody’s ideas, slave drive a trainee, or collude with my friend who is an editor at a Nature-lite journal, that is all par for the course. Fine liberal ideas there.
The truth is, we are not conservative or even neo-conservative. We are positively alt-right fascists. “The two cultures” barely touches on the degree of nationalism/tribalism found in academia. It isn’t just sciences vs humanities but molecular biologists vs ecology and evolutionary biologists; evolutionary biologists vs ecologists; field ecologists vs theoretical ecologists, and so on. We all look down on the other and blame the immigrants. (I don’t even want to go into actual racism such as when a senior scientist told me “give me a hard working Asian boy any day”, as a complement.) We practice privileged illegalities (i.e., actions forbidden to others but allowed to the privileged class) finely graded by membership levels in the circles of power. And, we create circles of power with the center crusted by a cult of personality (“Heroes of CRISPR” anyone?), celebrity talk circuits, and argumentum ad verecundiam from the editors who tell us “top experts were consulted and their hands are tied”.
Returning to punishment in academia, what if Terry Speed were actually given the Philadelphia model and that is why we hear of nothing? I presume nobody believes this. We don’t believe Terry Speed was given a quiet secret punishment because we know in our hearts that our academic society is far more primitive than that which allows the Philadelphia model. There are no inexorable punishment in academia; quite the opposite – there are lots of privileged illegalities swept under ivy rugs. Christian Ott actually lost his job and had to move home and country. When we think of our own lives and what impact that would have on us and our families, such a punishment is no small thing. Yet, we feel justice has not been served. We talk of “pass-the-harasser” problem and want more done to him. Why? Because, we know we live under the illiberal sovereign of academia requiring no less than the spectacle of pilloried guilty to feel justice served.
How to punish the guilty is actually the least of our problems. In normal society, if a random rich person were to proposition you, you could just tell them to bugger off. In academic society, if the top star of your field propositions you—well, now you are weighing your career versus your dignity. How is it that academia is a society where kings and princes flaunt their power to ruin a career, jeopardize tenure, or dangle access into the chamber of favored children of Nature and Science as leverage for morally despicable behavior? Academia, below its veneer of rationality and analytical rigor, runs on the fuel of privilege, access, and shiny Nobel crowns, all of which is twisted into the economy of power and abuse.
If we are to come to true grips with righting the wrongs raised by #METOO, academics must live up to the liberal and enlightened ideals we profess to hold before we demand amende honorable of the guilty. And, unless academic culture changes, movements like #METOO will be mere bandages over the latest wound of the sick body.
This entry was posted in Business of Science and tagged Academia, METOO, Sexual Abuse on June 10, 2018 by Junhyong Kim.
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Tag Archives: Louis Hayward
June 22, 2014 How to Make a Monte Cristo
My favorite sandwich as a teenager was named after an Alexander Dumas hero. I still order it at the Greek diner down the street, preferably with curly fries. You take your basic grilled ham and cheese, throw in a couple turkey slices, dunk it in egg batter, and fry, and be sure to have some jam sauce for dipping.
Restaurant reviewer Thadius Van Landingham declares it “a sandwich engulfed in controversy” and “clouded origins.” Some say it’s just a disguised croque monsieur (literally “Mr. Crunch”) served in Paris cafes since 1910. Faux New Orleans restaurants in Disneyland have featured it since 1966 (the year I was born), but the recipe had been wandering American cookbooks since the 30s—though under different aliases. San Francisco and San Diego both claim the monte cristo unmasked in their restaurants first, but L.A. offers a more likely origin story, either at the Brown Derby or Gordon’s, since both catered to the Hollywood crowd. The Son of Monte Cristo, sequel to The Count of Monte Cristo, premiered in 1940, and the rechristened Mr. Crunch debuted on the Gordon’s menu in 1941—I’m guessing as an advertising gimmick.
The monte cristo does not appear in Alexander Dumas’ Great Dictionary of Cuisine, his posthumous masterwork. “Novelist or cook,” wrote an early admirer, “Dumas is a master, and the two vocations appear to go hand in hand, or, rather, to be joined in one.” His bacon roties (“toasties”) may be a relative of the monte cristo (“Dice a pound of bacon and a slice of ham. Dry out and drain. Mix with parsley, scallions, 4 egg yolks, coarse pepper. Spread on slices of bread. fry.”), but a distant one.
Cookbooks annoy me because there’s usually only one author on the cover, while the work must require whole kitchen staffs of ghostwriters—plus all the uncredited friends and relatives and untold predecessors who knowingly or unknowingly contribute the first drafts of recipes. But Dumas’ culinary dictionary may be the only of his 200-300 books he wrote himself. Even his most famous novels were collaborations. A kitchen of hired assistants cooked up plots and pages for him to spice up and finalize to his tastes. Superman co-creator Joe Shuster employed a studio of artists to similar effect. Auguste Maquet, Dumas’ most prominent sous-chef de aventure, worked for him through the 1840s, unofficially co-authoring both The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Bob Kane claimed similarly sole authorship of Batman because writer Bill Finger received his paychecks from him not DC. Maquet sued, but the French courts preferred Dumas’s lone wolf tale. Finger (a prolific plagiarist himself) stayed in the kitchen. Neither Dumas nor Kane served up anything of much flavor without their collaborators.
But The Count of Monte Cristo continues to be served across genres. If Maquet was the plotter, then he mixed both the first convicted-of-a-crime-he-didn’t-commit and revenge-is-best-served-cold recipes. They’re massive chapters in any contemporary dictionnaire de aventure, spanning in comics from Batman to V for Vendetta to Oldboy manga. The framed fugitive Edmond Dantès is also literature’s first secret identity hero and chameleon-like master-of-disguise. Like “Alexander Dumas” on the cover, the Count is only the first ingredient in a tossed salad of Dantès’ aliases, ranging from priest to bank clerk to Sinbad the Sailor. Also, like a comic book, the novel wasn’t a novel—it was a serial, published in eighteen monthly installments beginning in 1844. It was already an international hit when the Count jumped the channel into English two years later.
Dumas was a bit of mixed salad himself. His father was Haitian. In the U.S., even abolitionists had trouble believing such a “mulatto” could produce Literature, thinking Frederick Douglass’ editors ghosted his 1845 Narrative of the Life. The last U.S. Presidential election had turned on Polk’s determination to annex Texas as a slave state. France vacillated on slavery, abolishing it for the first time in 1794 (“all men, irrespective of colour, living in the colonies are French citizens and will enjoy all the rights provided by the Constitution”—essentially the opposite of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision), and again while The Count of Monte Cristo was sailing to American book stores—where it would sellout despite its clouded origins.
I imagine it was Dumas, not Maquet, who decided the Count would marry Haydée, the Turkish princess he bought from a slave trader. Louis Hayward, star of The Son of Monte Cristo, doesn’t look particularly mixed, but that’s a U.S. film (and, according to the synopsis, he’s not actually their son anyway). I dipped into some French comics in preparation for my visit and was pleasantly startled by some racial differences. Tarou, Robert Dansler’s 1949 Tarzan knock-off, is, unlike Burrough’s eugenically thoroughbred aristocrat Lord Greystoke, half African, and better still, Mozam is an “African Jungle Lord” drawn non-racistly African (though I fear “mozam” may literally be “nonsense”).
The Count, who’s taken for French, Arab, Roman and Greek, claims no nation and no race. “I am,” he declares, “a cosmopolite.” His shapeshifting ability to “adopt all customs, speak all languages” is a product of his mixed nature, elevating him to the superhuman level of angels, those “invisible beings” whom God sometimes allows “to assume a material form.” The only significant obstacle to his goals is his mortality, “for all the rest I have reduced to mathematical terms. What men call the chances of fate—namely, ruin, change, circumstances—I have fully anticipated, and if any of these should overtake me, yet it will not overwhelm me. Unless I die, I shall always be what I am.”
The monte cristo, declares Van Landingham, “is a jumble of contradictions,” both sweet and savory, a sugary breakfast yet a meaty lunch. It’s a fitting tribute to the contradictory Mr. Dumas and his hero. So far I have seen no monte cristos on French menus, but Mr. Crunch is common. However, I see now that it is his wife, croque Madame, that includes an egg and so is the direct parent of the American superhero sandwich.
Tags: Alexander Dumas, Auguste Maquet, Great Dictionary of Cuisine, Louis Hayward, Thadius Van Landingham, The Count of Monte Cristo
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My third book, Superhero Thought Experiments, co-authored with Nathaniel Goldberg, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in fall 2019. My second book, Superhero Comics, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. My first book, On the Origin of Superheroes, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2015. And my fourth book, Creating Comics, co-authored with artist Leigh Ann Beavers, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2020.
I’ve also published a series of individual essays about comics, superheroes, and genre fiction:
“Clarifying Closure.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 2019.
“Refining the Comics Form.” European Comic Art. 11.2. 2018.
Co-written with Dan Johnson. “The Genre Effect: A Science Fiction (vs. Realism) Manipulation Decreases Inference Effort, Reading Comprehension, and Perceptions of Literary Merit.” Scientific Study of Literature. 7.1. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “Dr. Doom’s Philosophy of Time.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 8.4. 2017.
Co-written with Maria Chavez and Nathaniel Goldberg. “Loving Lassos: Wonder Woman, Kink, and Care.” Wonder Woman and Philosophy. Wiley. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “Marvels of Skepticism.” Foundation: the international review of science fiction. 46.1. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “’I Want to Believe’ vs. ‘The Will to Believe’: Fox Mulder Meets William James.” The X-Files and Philosophy. Open Court. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “Alan, Moore, Donald Davidson, and the Mind of Swamp Things.” The Journal of Pop Culture. 50.2. 2017.
“The Art of Literary Violence.” Ford City Workshop Anthology. Urban Farmhouse Press. 2016.
“‘Something Like This Just Couldn’t Happen!’: Resolving Naturalistic Tensions in Superhero Comics Art.” Studies in Comics. 7.1. 2016.
“The Meanings of Comics.” International Journal of Comics Art. 18.1. 2016.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “Economy of the Comic Bool Author’s Soul.” International Journal of Comics Art. 18.1. 2016.
“The Anti-Superhero in Literary Fiction.” Image [&] Narrative. 17.3. 2016.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. “Time to Choose.” Superman, Batman, and Philosophy. Open Court. 2016.
“The Rise and Fall of Fascist Superpowers.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 7.1. 2016.
“The Pulp Fiction of Jennifer Egan.” The Writer’s Chronicle. 48.4. 2016.
“Genre Apocalypse.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 26, 2015.
“Zombies vs. Superheroes: The Walking Dead Resurrection of The Fantastic Four Gender Formulas.” ImageTexT. 7.4. 2015. Reprinted in Literary Criticism on Stan Lee (Layman Poupard Publishing).
“The Well-born Superhero.” The Journal of American Culture. 37.2. 2014.
“Is and Isn’t: Literary Upheavals in the Post-Real Landscape.” The Writer’s Chronicle. April 2014. Reprinted in Phantom Drift. 4. 2014.
“The Imperial Superhero.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 47.1. 2014.
“How to Teach Zombies.” The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 29, 2013.
“The Ku Klux Klan and the birth of the superhero.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 4.2. 2013.
And if you’re into superhero-themed stories, you might also enjoy:
“Paragon Comics.” Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. 2014.
“Script Outline: ‘The One and Only!’ Draft 1.” The Pinch. 31.2. 2011.
In addition to this blog, “The Patron Saint of Superheroes” is the working title of my novel-in-progress.
Meanwhile, please stop by Mondays for new posts.
Patron Saint Stats
Three Things That Don’t Define Conservatism
Tumultuous
Event Closure (Visualizing Plot, Part 5)
In French, the masculine takes precedence.
Whiteness Isn’t Blankness
A New Dynamic Duo
Why Don’t I Like Donald Trump?
Don’t Read This Comic (Look at it Instead)
Why I Shouldn’t Be Fired for Teaching Comics
Comics at the new Shenandoah
My Process on a Work-in-Progress
Stories of O
Strolling in a Meta-Garden of Not-Quite Abstraction
Portraits of the Comics Scholar as a Middle-aged Man
Paintings of a Painter’s Paintings
Space Scribbles
What Does “Plotte” Mean?
Defining Comics Definitions
Is God Bipolar?
Technique, Style, Image, Story
But Is It a Memoir?
But Is It Art?
The king died and then the queen died of grief
Woman World on My Woman Shelf
A Wilder West
My Favorite Translated Graphic Novel of 2018
Clarifying Closure
Intro to Graphic Novels
That Other Gay Dynamic Duo
Tillie Walden in the new Shenandoah
Secret Superhero Syllabus
Meet Mita Mahato at the new Shenandoah
Bidwell’s Ghosts: A Silent Comic
Combining Words and Images
Breaking New Ground in Nonfiction Graphic Novels
The Scifi Joy of Low-tech Comics Art
Nude Descending an Escalator
What If This Were the Cover of a Book Called What If?
Fiona Smyth’s Sweet Spot
An Un-Manga Manga Classic
My Kavanaugh Comic Strip
The Metaphysics of Emanata
Foucault Comics
Magritte: This is not a Biography
My Colonnade
Word Containers
The Art of Words
How to Create a Comic Book Character
Words Are Images
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5 Great Post-Apoc Games (That Aren’t Fallout)
I’ve been pretty hard on Fallout lately. Calling the series’ main antagonist stupid. Calling the merchandising insulting. Then someone asked, “if not Fallout, what post-apocalyptic games would you recommend? What other game has that same level of freedom and worldbuilding?”
Well you know what? Let’s stop tearing things down and start building up! Continue reading →
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What is MUTATION: The Wasteland Survival Guide?
MUTATION: The Wasteland Survival guide is a six episode long series exploring the quirky and unusual world of MUTATION, as seen in The Journal of Joe Junkman. The show itself documents the writing of the Mo-Javi Wasteland’s very first survival guide. Charged with writing this book is wasteland legend James Gray and local shyster Joe Junkman. Throughout their journey, our heroes will struggle with radioactive dust storms, water scarcity, and each other.
I want to break character for a moment to say how excited I am to be moving forward with this project. The world of MUTATION has gone through a lot of change since its conception. What originally began as a pen and paper RPG has transformed into serial fiction, a website, and a show. I can’t wait to see where it goes next.
To make a long story short, Ben and I got together in the summer of 2015 and began brainstorming ideas for this short series. Although we have all the footage, brainstorming was about as far as it got. It seems embarrassing now, but we didn’t have a script or anything. Essentially, we had a concept for each episode and a location. For better or worse, almost every scene is improvisational.
When I first established this website, I had no idea what the response would be. These past few months, I’ve been consistently amazed at the hospitality and support I’ve received from the online post-apocalyptic tribe. Thank you for giving us a chance and following our stories week after week.
I’d also like to announce at this time that Ben and I are planning to attend Wasteland Weekend this year! I’ll be in character as James Gray and I believe Ben will appear as Joe Junkman.
We hope to see some of you there! The Rad-Lands wouldn’t be here without you.
-Ron Welch
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The Underground Man: Smoke and Mirrors
I’ve played a lot of AAA games and I’ve played a lot of indie games, but I’ve never played a game quite like The Underground Man. The game is tagged as a “story rich RPG.” Although the character creation screen is reminiscent of old pen and paper sheets, this is most certainly not an RPG. The Underground Man relies on an old school vibe, similar to Kung Fury or Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Don’t be fooled, this game is a far cry from those it tries to imitate.
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Radiation as a Gameplay Mechanic
You can’t have a post-nuclear setting without radiation. Many films overlook this crucial aspect or at most offer a token Geiger counter scene (She Wolves of the Wasteland). This is largely because radiation cannot be seen, felt, or heard. Generally, special equipment is required to detect the presence of radiation. While this element of world building is often overlooked in film, radiation serves as an important gameplay mechanic in the majority of post-nuclear video games. However, with gamification comes new challenges. Radiation typically does not kill outright. Even several lethal doses will not result in immediate death. Therefore, because radiation attacks the body slowly, game developers have approached this mechanic in a variety of ways.
To further explore this mechanic, we’ll be analyzing three game series that make extensive use of radiation.
The Geiger counter in Metro 2033 is primarily used for immersive world building. Small set pieces such as bioluminescent mushrooms or pools of bubbling green slime will cause the Geiger counter to tick. These pockets of radiation are mostly harmless, though Artyom can die if he stands in a hotspot for a few minutes. Although subtle, this gameplay mechanic immerses the player into the setting. Without radiation, the world of Metro 2033 could be mistaken for a sci-fi setting similar to Gears of War, especially since Moscow’s surface is considered poisonous rather than radioactive. This is why so many post-apocalyptic movies have an obligatory Geiger counter scene: it puts the audience in a survivalist mindset. The Metro games take this a step further, subtly reminding the player that the world above the tunnels is not like the world in the postcards.
Though technically not post-nuclear, fans of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise are constantly aware of their radiation exposure. Contrary to a handful of contaminated puddles and mushrooms in post-nuclear Moscow, the Zone is positively covered with fields of radiation. Players who wander into these hot spots will find their vision distorted by grey TV static.
Radiation damage is pretty simple: the more radiation you’ve absorbed, the faster your health decreases. Radiation can be removed either with a radiation absorbing artifact or a dose of anti-rad. Because artifacts drain radiation slowly and anti-rad is somewhat rare, players are forced to respond quickly after absorbing deadly amounts of radiation.
Although the Zone’s radioactive hotspots (and anomalies) seem like a nuisance, they actually encourage exploration. Artifact hunting aside, anomalies and pockets of radiation act as landmines, encouraging the player to take the long way (usually ending up at a lootable location), rather than risk wasting resources or instant death.
Moreover, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. encourages a high risk/ high reward style of gameplay when dealing with artifacts. Although artifacts grant stalkers special abilities, they also emit deadly amounts of radiation. Before obtaining high tier anti-radiation artifacts, players will occasionally be forced to balance their health, elemental resistance, carry weight, and radiation levels. Having artifacts emit radiation was a brilliant idea and one that makes the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series all the more satisfying and rewarding.
Finally, there’s the Fallout franchise. Radiation sickness has been a gameplay mechanic since the first Fallout, but it originally didn’t effect much. In the first game, there were only two ways to get irradiated: Get smacked by a glowing one or wander into The Glow.
The original Fallout has the most complex take on radiation sickness, requiring a chart to fully understand what it does. Every part of the character is effected: HP, healing, and SPECIAL (with skills as a result). If either HP or any S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attribute drops to zero because of radiation sickness, the character will die. However, as I said previously, I don’t think radiation was used to its full potential in the original Fallout. Two doses of Rad-X makes the player completely immune to radiation, giving them 24 hours to explore The Glow without worrying about any side effects. Even if the player took a few points of radiation damage on arrival, they can use a single Rad-Away to instantly cure themselves. Allowing the player to reach 100% radiation resistance detracted from the danger of The Glow as the lore (and environment) shows that even Brotherhood Paladins have died due to the intense radiation exposure.
Fallout 3 streamlined the mechanic of radiation sickness. Instead of effecting several variables, radiation sickness only lowers endurance (at minor sickness), agility (at advanced sickness), strength (at critical sickness) and finally caused death at 1000 rads. Additionally, radiation was far more present in Fallout 3 than previous games in the franchise. The Lone Wanderer could not eat or drink without absorbing at least a few rads. Additionally, radiation resistance was capped at 85%, making it challenging to approach areas like Vault 87.
As a side note, rads are a real (if outdated) unit of measuring radiation. 1000 rads delivered in a short period of time will usually cause death.
With Fallout 3 and New Vegas came special perks associated with radiation sickness. These perks are often overlooked as the majority of players want to keep their rads as low as possible. However, the brave few who uses these bonuses will find their gameplay dramatically shifts toward min-maxing.
Rad Regeneration: Offers the player free healing of crippled limbs in exchange for advanced radiation sickness (-2 EN, -1 AG). This perk comes free with the “Wasteland Survival Guide” quest, but is lackluster compared to admantium skeleton, which decreases limb damage by 50%. Perhaps this perk was ahead of its time. It would have been great for survival mode in New Vegas (as rare doctors bags are required to heal limbs), but in a game where a single stimpack instantly heals crippled limbs, this is a useless perk.
Rad Child: This perk is where high risk/high reward shines through. Each level of radiation sickness increases health regeneration. In exchange for minor radiation sickness (-1 EN), player are treated to +2 health per second. At advanced sickness, players receive +4 health per second. Again, this is often overlooked simply because it relies on radiation, which brings S.P.E.C.I.A.L. penalties. However, by utilizing Wasteland outfits (which provide +1 EN, +1 AG) the effects of advanced sickness are practically nullified, while the Courier still benefits from extreme HP regeneration. While this perk should bring a lot of risk, it actually provides far more protection than power armor or a higher damage threshold while still allowing players to travel at maximum speed.
ATOMIC: This perk grants players a faster run speed, +2 strength, and +2 damage threshold while being irradiated. Additionally, action points regenerate much faster based on level of radiation sickness. This synergizes amazingly well with Rad Child. The challenge is that the best parts of the perk are only available while being irradiated. Luckily, New Vegas has coyote steaks, which irradiate the player over time and whose effects stack. If the Courier should buy coyote steaks at every opportunity, they will become more powerful than any wastelander could possibly imagine.
Although overlooked, New Vegas’ radiation perks are definitely worth the penalties they bring, especially when combined with wasteland outfits and the Travel Light perk.
Most recently, there is Fallout 4 and Fallout: Shelter where the mechanic of radiation sickness was streamlined once again. Radiation sickness now merely reduces maximum health by 1% per 10 rads (making 1000 rads still lethal). This eliminates the complexities of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system as a whole and reduces roleplaying opportunities.
At a first glance Fallout 4 seems like it moved away from the aspect of radioactivity. Although the game moved away from player interaction with radiation, it expanded on NPC interaction in the form of weapons that utilize radiation damage. These weapons reduce the max health of an enemy, making it more difficult (if not impossible) for them to heal. What’s interesting in this new gameplay element is that some enemies are immune to radiation while others are highly resistant. This is a big shift from Fallout 3, where all NPCs were immune to radiation and could approach the door of Vault 87 without any trouble.
Overall, each game (even within the same franchise) deals with radiation differently. It’s a difficult feature to include in a game and it’s even harder to get right. There’s no right or wrong answer to the inclusion of radiation sickness in a video game or movie. Metro 2033 uses radiation merely to set the tone, while S.T.A.L.K.E.R. uses radiation to make players think about resource management and navigation, and the gameplay mechanics of the Fallout franchise continue to mutate in entirely new directions. Radiation is a necessary part of the post-nuclear atmosphere and I hope game developers continue to experiment with this genre specific gameplay mechanic.
How would you like to see radioactivity and radiation sickness used in video games? Tell us in the comments!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 14): “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank”
By David Biespiel
For Thomas Jefferson, to say nothing of his political ancestor Edmund Burke, the order of mankind is rural and agricultural. Agrarianism, the argument goes, is what keeps citizens in harmony with one another and with the land. It inhibits the disaffection and dissipation that comes from urban life. It prevents the moral-free existence of cities where nothing is sacred. You could say urbanism connotes modernism, and you can’t have that on the farm, can you? Where would we be then?
In a week of apocalyptic news from Washington—witnessing along with everyone else the president’s horrible failure of leadership in withdrawing from the Paris Accord—I have been looking elsewhere for quiet stewardship. I’ve been seeking a poem that shapes an American experience of the land, and of preservation and conservation, such as Larry Levis’s “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank.” The poem reflects on Levis’s father working on the family’s grape farm in California. I submit it to you not as a pollyanna-ian take on agrarianism, but on my faith in the ways nature persists.
I don’t know what happens to grass.
But it doesn’t die, exactly.
It turns white, in winter, but stays there,
A few yards from the ditch,
Then comes back in March,
Turning a green that has nothing
To do with us.
Mostly, it’s just yellow, or tan.
It blends in,
Swayed by the wind, maybe, but not by any emotion,
Or partisan stripe.
You can misread it, at times:
I have seen it almost appear
To fight long & well
For its right to be, & be grass, when
I tried pulling it out.
I thought I could almost sense it digging in,
Not with reproach, exactly,
But with a kind of rare tact that I miss,
Sometimes, in others.
And besides, if you really wanted it out,
You’d have to disc it under,
Standing on a shuddering Case tractor,
And staring into the distance like
Somebody with a vision
In the wrong place for visions.
With time, you’d feel silly.
And, always, it comes back:
At the end of some winter when
The sky has neither sun, nor snow,
Nor anything personal,
You’d be wary of any impulse
That seemed mostly cosmetic.
It’s all a matter of taste,
And how taste changes.
Besides, in March, the fields are wet;
The trucks & machinery won’t start,
And the blades of the disc won’t turn,
Usually, because of the rust.
That’s when you notice the grass coming back,
In some other spot, & with a different look
This time, as if it had an idea
For a peninsula, maybe, or its shape
Reclining on a map you almost
Begin to remember.
In March, my father spent hours
Just piecing together some puzzle
That might start up a tractor,
Or set the tines of a cultivator
Or spring tooth right,
And do it without paying money.
Those rows of gray earth that looked “combed,”
Between each row of vines,
And run off to the horizon
As you drive past?
You could almost say
It was almost pretty.
But this place isn’t France.
For years, they’ve made only raisins,
And a cheap, sweet wine.
And someone had to work late,
As bored as you are, probably,
But with the added headache of
Owning some piece of land
That never gave up much
Without a mute argument.
The lucky sold out to subdividers,
But this is for one who stayed,
And how, after a few years,
He even felt sympathy for grass—
Then felt that turn into a resentment
Which grew, finally, into
A variety of puzzled envy:
Turning a little grass under
With each acre,
And turning it under for miles,
While half his life, spent
On top of a tractor,
Went by, unnoticed, without feast days
Or celebrations—opening his mailbox
At the roadside which was incapable
Of looking any different—
More picturesque, or less common—
The rank but still blossoming weeds
Stirring a little, maybe,
As you drove past,
But then growing still again.
What is at stake in the Republican Party’s and President Trump’s war on the environment as much as on the future of the planet with his promises to keep America’s dirty power plants open and to reopen our coal mines? For one thing, he’s robbing the future of existence. What the Paris Accord sought to accomplish was to prevent the rise of the planet’s temperature to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in the hope that the worldwide effort would stall ice melt, the rise of the oceans, and the loss of coral reefs. In the meantime, the accord was meant to encourage the rapid growth in renewable energy, again worldwide, to close the gap, as Bill McKibben writes—
…between what physics demands and what our political systems have so far allowed in terms of action… The effects [of Trump’s decision] will be felt not immediately but over decades and centuries and millenniums. More ice will melt, and that will cut the planet’s reflectivity, amplifying the warming; more permafrost will thaw, and that will push more methane into the atmosphere, trapping yet more heat. The species that go extinct as a result of the warming won’t mostly die in the next four years, but they will die. The nations that will be submerged won’t sink beneath the waves on his watch, but they will sink. No president will be able to claw back this time — crucial time, since we’re right now breaking the back of the climate system.
A poem like Larry Levis’s “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank” reminds you that being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time. It’s as if the figure in the poem is day by day participating in a preemptive act to safeguard the nation’s ancient language of working the land without abandonment even as the modern world—the modernist, human, urban world—conspires against it. There’s a kind of joy to be found in the bleakness, in the arduousness of farming in a hostile environment against the insatiable terrain. The scale seems true, at least.
The huge stage of international politics with its shimmering curtains and klieg lights seems far removed from the “rows of gray earth” tended to in this poem. And yet we must celebrate this closeness to the edge of the soil as, before long, we find ourselves threatened by our own ease and comfort and predictability.
This is part fourteen of a twenty-one part series. Here are links to parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. These pieces will appear every two weeks. We value your feedback and your suggestions for other pieces to be included in this list of poems which shaped, and continue to shape, America.
David Biespiel is a poet, literary critic, memoirist, and contributing writer at American Poetry Review, New Republic, New York Times, Poetry, Politico, The Rumpus, and Slate, among other publications. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Education of a Young Poet, which was selected a Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers, A Long High Whistle, which received the 2016 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction, and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen for Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the 2011 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. More from this author →
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Home AHL 2018 Calder Cup Playoffs Central Division Finals Preview: #3 Manitoba Moose vs #4 Rockford IceHogs
2018 Calder Cup Playoffs
Central Division Finals Preview: #3 Manitoba Moose vs #4 Rockford IceHogs
Samantha Hoffmann
ROCKFORD, ILL – The two lower-seeded teams in the Central Division face off in the Central Division Finals after both upsetting the higher-seed team. The Rockford IceHogs upset the Central Division Champion Chicago Wolves, sweeping them in three games, while the Manitoba Moose downed the defending Calder Cup Champion Grand Rapids Griffins in five games. Now, the Central’s three and four seed will duke it out in a best-of-seven series to decide which will face the winner of the Tucson Roadrunners and Texas Stars in the Western Conference Finals.
While the Manitoba Moose began the 2018 season with a commanding lead over their Central Division compatriots, they slid to the third spot in the division after going 3-7-0-0 in their final ten games to end the season. It took them five games to down the Griffins in the opening round, just outscoring them 15-14 over the five games. Four of the five games saw the victor win by three or more goals, with just the opening game being a one-goal margin.
The Rockford IceHogs, on the other hand, made a late season push to force out the Iowa Wild and Milwaukee Admirals for the final playoff spot, finishing the season 7-3-0-0 themselves to match up against their instate rivals for the first round. What surprised many folks is the decision to go with rookie Collin Delia in net against a team known for its ability to fire shot after shot on goal on the opposing team. Delia stood tall, however, letting in six goals total over the three games (four, really, considering game three required three overtime periods), and backstopped his team to the upset. Game three of this series was also the eighth-longest game in American Hockey League history.
The Manitoba Moose’s Sami Niku won the 2017-18 Eddie Shore Award winner as the AHL’s outstanding defenceman, and is only the second rookie ever to win this award. Mason Appleton was also named as the winner of the Dudley (Red) Garrett Award as the AHL’s Outstanding Rookie, and Moose head coach Pascal Vincent was the winner of the Louis A.R. Pieri Award as the AHL’s outstanding coach for the 2017-18 season.
Final Regular Season Records:
Rockford IceHogs: 40-28-4-4, 88 points (4th in Central Division, 7th in Western Conference)
Manitoba Moose: 42-264-4, 92 points (3rd in Central Division, 4th in Western Conference)
Division Semifinals Results:
Rockford IceHogs: Defeated one-seed Chicago Wolves 3-0.
G1 IceHogs 2 @ Wolves 1
G2 Wolves 2 @ IceHogs 5
G3 IceHogs 4 @ Wolves 3 (3OT)
Manitoba Moose: Defeated two-seed Grand Rapids Griffins 3-2.
G1 Griffins 2 @ Moose 3
G3 Moose 6 @ Griffins 3
Series Schedule:
Game 1 – Friday, May 4 – Manitoba at ROCKFORD 7 p.m. CT
Game 2 – Saturday, May 5 – Manitoba at ROCKFORD 4 p.m. CT
Game 3 – Wednesday, May 9 – Rockford at MANITOBA 7 p.m. CT
Game 4 – Friday, May 11 – Rockford at MANITOBA 7 p.m. CT
*Game 5 – Saturday, May 12 – Rockford at MANITOBA 6 p.m. CT
*Game 6 – Tuesday, May 15 – Manitoba at ROCKFORD 7 p.m. CT
*Game 7 – Wednesday, May 16 – Manitoba at ROCKFORD 7 p.m. CT
*=> If Necessary
Season Series Recap:
These two teams did battle just four times in the 2017-18 season, splitting the games, and with each team losing their two homme games. Manitoba won two of the games, one in overtime, while Rockford’s two wins all came in regulation. Only one game took place in the first half of the season while the Moose were rolling over every team they faced, and it saw the Moose handily down the IceHogs 8-1 in Rockford on November 28, 2017.
The IceHogs were led offensively by Adam Clendening, who has six points (1G, 5A) in three games against the Moose, while Chris DiDomenico has six points as well against them in three games, two of which he was wearing an IceHogs in (1G, 3A). Rockford’s leading goal scorer against Manitoba has been Tyler Sikura who posted three goals in his four games versus this opponent. Delia saw the Moose twice, going 1-0-1 with a 2.95 goals against average and 0.929 save percentage.
The Moose, on the other hand, have just one player with six points (Brendan Lemieux 2G, 4A), but have six players with two or more goals against the Moose. Rockford does catch a break, however, as Niku (5A, 4 GP) and Jack Roslovic (2A, 1GP) are both with the Winnipeg Jets for their Stanley Cup run. Eric Comrie, the Moose starting netminder in the playoffs, won the one game he saw the IceHogs in, posting a 2.91 GAA and 0.925 SV%.
How Manitoba Wins:
First and foremost, they need to stop the red hot IceHogs power play. After being one of the worst in the league in the regular season, it clicked along at an impressive 38.9% against the Chicago Wolves, scoring seven times on 18 chances. Manitoba’s penalty kill was four for 19 in the first round, and the Moose spread out those 19 penalties over five games while the IceHogs conned the Wolves into taking 18 in just three. Therefore, the Moose also need to stop themselves from being goaded into taking as many penalties as the IceHogs were able to get the Wolves to do.
They also need to continuously find the back of the net. Goals against Delia were very spare for the Wolves, while two of Manitoba’s three victories against the Griffins in the first round were games in which they won by three and then by four. In games in which they were unable to score more than one goal, they lost both of them.
Manitoba also needs Comrie in his best form. In his five games played, the netminder was pulled once. He allowed 13 goals in 277:04 minutes, posting a 2.82 GAA and 0.922 SV%. To beat Delia, who has been absolutely stellar in the playoffs, they will need Comrie in his best shape to do battle and potentially steal a game or two against Delia.
The Moose also need Lemieux and Michael Spacek to stay out of the box. Lemieux had two goals and two assists in the opening round, while Spacek had one goal and two assists, but the two were also in the box for 18 and 20 minutes, respectively. In order for the Moose stand a chance of beating Delia early and open, they need their biggest weapons to be on the ice as much as possible.
How Rockford Wins:
Collin Delia and the power play. Really, for Rockford it is that simple. Their power play clicked along at an impressive 38.9% over three games, capitalizing on seven out of 18 chances. Not only was Rockford able to successfully take advantage time and time again on the power play, it also was able to force the Wolves into continuously taking penalties at inopportune times. If this IceHogs team is able to replicate this moving forward in the Calder Cup Playoffs, then it could potentially be the team to beat.
In three games played, Delia posted an impressive 1.52 GAA and 0.949 SV% against a Wolves team which outshot his own in the first two games. With Delia and Comrie in net, the difference maker in the series could very well be its goaltending, and Rockford will need Delia almost perfect to stand a chance against the Moose top line.
However, the Rockford counter of DiDomenico and Clendening is a force to be reckoned with, as each posted five points (2G, 3A and 1G, 4 A, respectively) in the opening round. They will need to continue to have big games, and need Sikura to step up, to counter the high-flying, high-scoring Moose offensive. Unlike Chicago, Manitoba does have the muscle to pair against Rockford, so the IceHogs will need to fight for every inch of space on the ice to move past the second round.
Be sure to follow @SinBinWolves on Twitter for coverage of this second round series as it unfolds, and @SinBinNews for all postseason minor league hockey coverage.
Adam Clendening
Brendan Lemieux
Chris DiDomenico
Collin Delia
Eric Comrie
Jack Roslovic
Mason Appleton
Michael Spacek
Sami Niku
Tyler Sikura
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TransCore’s Canadian Freight Index Rebounds in May
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TransCore Link Logistics’ Canadian Freight Index volume rebounds by 10 percent in May from the previous month following weak results in April. May load volumes were 16 percent below results a year ago.
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The equipment postings for May were virtually unchanged from April. Month-over-month levels increased slightly by two percent, and postings came in at three percent above last year’s level for the same period. The equipment-to-load ratio increased for May to 2.18 from 2.35 in the previous month.
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Undiscovered Experiences
Angry passengers fed up with airline's choice of take-off song
By Samantha Stewart| 12 months ago
Airlines are used to receiving complaints and customer feedback, but one carrier has come under fire for their choice of music.
Scores of negative online reviews targeting British airline Jet2 have been posted by passengers who say they can no longer handle listening to Jess Glynne's 'Take My Hand' during take-off, featured in the video above.
A post shared by Jess Glynne (@jessglynne) on Jun 22, 2018 at 12:06pm PDT
Angry customers complained on the airline's social media pages that the song is played during take-off, landing, before every announcement and even when they ring the customer care phone line.
One fed up passenger even went as far as saying that they refuse to fly Jet2 ever again on the airline's Facebook page, "I refuse to fly with Jet2 again, not because of the delays, but I just can’t listen to anymore Jess Glynne."
READ: Inside the luxurious plane dubbed "the flying bum"
Another frustrated passenger wrote: "Hearing the highly irritating Jess Glynne song every 5 minutes REALLY grated on us."
But the hate didn’t stop there. Travellers even made sure to vent on TripAdvisor, in a review titled, "A good experience but enough of the Jess Glynne."
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The airline has since responded to several complaints, apologising and stating that the song is very popular and loved by most passengers.
Apparently, that's not the case.
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PMG Chapter 896: Qiong Qi, Flame Emperor Yan Di?
Edited: OddManOut
The old man’s movements were very slow but necessary for Lin Feng to study them properly. After a long time, he stopped and looked at Lin Feng.
“Lin Feng, study properly.”
“Kacha!” The portal dispersed and disappeared. The seven snow eagles recalled their godly awareness and sat down cross-legged. They needed to recover after that.
Lin Feng closed his eyes and studied what the old man transmitted him. He had to perfectly understand the concepts.
Lin Feng seemed to disappear as he entered a deep meditative state. That’s what he had always done and that’s why he has made so much progress. He didn’t study particularly fast but he was very focused so he learn faster.
After a long time, Lin Feng opened his eyes. The seven snow eagles were, as before, sitting cross-legged and recovering. Opening the communication portal must have been exhausting.
Lin Feng thought back about the portal. He didn’t need to say much, his teacher hadn’t hesitated and immediately called the leader of Tian Chi, Mister Tian Ji, to help him.
Besides, Mister Tian Ji didn’t hesitate either. The old man helped him without second guessing Lin Feng’s intentions.
Lin Feng was always impressed with Tian Chi. Even though Tian Shu wasn’t his favorite, every group has some outliers.
Lin Feng stayed seated for a long time and waited for the seven snow eagles to recover before leaving.
In the imperial palace, Lin Hai and Yue Meng He were sitting in a pavilion, calmly talking about something.
The fact that Lin Feng was so strong and powerful made his parents delighted. It seemed that if his enemies weren’t at least Zun cultivators, nobody could defeat him. However, they hoped that Lin Feng wouldn’t always have to fight that way. After all, the demon sword was extremely dangerous. Even Lin Hai, who was a cultivator of the Tian Qi layer, was oppressed by the power of the demon sword. So there was no need to talk about Lin Feng who was using it.
Lin Feng and his father had broken through to the same Tian Qi layer, the first one. Lin Hai knew that he still wasn’t strong enough. He didn’t want Lin Feng to use the demon sword all the time.
Far away from them, Qiong Qi was on the ground with his eyes were closed. It seemed like it was resting.
Ever since its last battle, it was calm. It lied down for days and nights, motionless. It was abnormal. Sometimes, they went to see him, however, Qiong Qi always remained silent and motionless.
They didn’t know how to react concerning Qiong Qi’s state.
“Mom, dad.” at that moment, Lin Feng appeared.
Lin Hai and Yue Meng He smiled at their son.
“Lin Feng, what are you doing here?”
“We have to do something.” said Lin Feng while smiling. “Mom, dad, come with me.”
Lin Hai and Yue Meng He glanced at each other. Lin Feng was so mysterious. Did he have a secret mission for them?
They were a curious so they followed Lin Feng to a secret room. Lin Feng said, “Mom, dad, do you still remember the hole in the Lovesickness Forest? The one which leads to another world?”
“Of course we remember, I used to send people to train there.” replied Yue Meng He.
“The fire monster that came out a few days ago came out from that parallel world. The fire wolf king and its group of monsters came from there.” said Lin Feng. Yue Meng He and Lin Hai were surprised.
“The hole in the Lovesickness Forest is just one portal. There is another one and they used that one to get out.” said Lin Feng. Lin Feng took out a picture scroll out that was sealed by a demon seal stone.
“That world is the world of the picture scroll. It’s a parallel world.” said Lin Feng while pointing at the picture scroll. Yue Meng He and Lin Hai were surprised again. That picture scroll was a parallel world?
“That’s just a picture scroll, how could it be connected to the Lovesickness Forest?” asked Yue Meng He.
“I don’t understand everything clearly either. Just trust me. Keep that picture scroll hidden carefully and seal the other exit. If the situation ever worsens for the palace, then you can open the seal and bring Xin Ye and the others into the picture scroll.”
Lin Feng didn’t explain the situation very clearly. The evil spirit had explained to Lin Feng that the world was a battlefield for two very powerful monarchs. After the emperor killed the Flame Emperor Yan Di, that parallel world had turned into a picture scroll. In the past, perhaps the Lovesickness Forest belonged to that world but Lin Feng didn’t know for sure at that moment. He could only guess some of the mysteries of this world.
“Alright, but if we go in, what about you?” asked Yue Meng He.
“Don’t worry. It’s not that easy to defeat me. Besides, I am just being careful. I also hope that we won’t need to use the picture scroll.” said Lin Feng while smiling, “Dad, you’re the stronger one, keep the picture scroll carefully.”
Lin Hai nodded and put the picture scroll and a piece of demon seal stone in his ring. Lin Feng now felt reassured.
“Mom, dad, don’t tell anyone about that picture scroll, unless it turns out to be necessary because of a dangerous situation.” said Lin Feng. If other people knew about the picture scroll, it would attract all sorts of people.
They left the secret room. Lin Feng glanced around and saw Qiong Qi.
Lin Feng went to him but it was almost as if Qiong Qi didn’t know that Lin Feng was there. Its eyes were closed and it was lying down.
“Get up.” said Lin Feng coldly.
Qiong Qi heard Lin Feng and opened its eyes, but it looked uninterested.
“Come with me.” said Lin Feng coldly and started leaving.
However, Qiong Qi didn’t move.
Lin Feng stopped and turned around. He looked angry, “I told you to come with me, didn’t you hear me?”
Qiong Qi’s gigantic eyes twinkled and it slowly stood up.
Lin Feng brought Qiong Qi to a wonderful and resplendent palace.
They arrived in a beautiful room with marvelous decorations. Lin Feng looked at Qiong Qi, he looked cold and surprised.
“Do you know why I brought you here?” asked Lin Feng coldly. Qiong Qi looked at Lin Feng and shook its head.
“In the past, Qiong Qi was always with me. Its soul and mine could fuse together, I controlled it entirely.” said Lin Feng slowly. This for some reason surprised Qiong Qi.
Lin Feng ignored its reaction and continued talking, “However, not long ago, we stopped being so close. What I am saying is that Qiong Qi’s soul was damaged.”
Qiong Qi was staring at Lin Feng, its eyes almost looked human.
Lin Feng said coldly, “Yan Di surprisingly took a human form to fool me!”
YoungConfucius February 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm - Reply
Thank you all! Happy Valentines!
yolo February 14, 2018 at 8:22 pm - Reply
why does it say yan di took the form of a human to fool him when its actually a beast
agila0212 February 15, 2018 at 1:53 am - Reply
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“This is a nightmare.”
“How did things come to this?”
Eva shared a glance with Juliana. Beads of sweat dripped down her forehead despite the cold October air.
“If only you’d have done this earlier,” Shalise said at their backs.
The two sighed at the same time and each turned back to their current enemy.
“I don’t even think that one has a chest,” Juliana said with a look of disgust. “This is supposed to be a school. For kids. How can they let something like this happen.”
“No. It just got knocked off. Look,” Eva pointed, “it is lying on the floor over there.”
“That barely covers anything.”
“Yeah. Let’s go check the men’s section.”
Juliana and Shalise trudged along behind Eva.
“I can’t believe you don’t know any good monsters. I mean, you know Rach.”
“First,” Eva said, “Rach isn’t a monster.” Although Arachne was making Eva nervous. She hadn’t seen the demon all day. Eva had planned on spending most of the day hanging out with her and not dressing up for the party. Arachne apparently had plans and left Eva to go shopping with Juliana.
The fact that she had something planned for Halloween made Eva a bit sad. It was supposed to be their day after all.
“She’s very nice,” Eva continued. “Second, I know of plenty of ‘monsters’ but I wouldn’t know where to start making costumes of them. That’s assuming we had longer than a few hours as well.”
“I don’t know why you two waited. I’ve had my costume for a week,” Shalise grinned at the two. “There was a much better selection when I was here too. Now you’re stuck with all the things everyone else didn’t want.”
“You sneaked off on your own,” Juliana said as she started picking through the men’s racks. “You didn’t even invite us.”
Eva shuffled through the racks. She didn’t want to wear a costume. She barely wanted to party. The situation with the grimoire had gone nowhere. Zoe Baxter hadn’t managed to destroy even a single page.
The day before, Zoe Baxter vanished the book in front of Eva. She claimed it was ‘between’ and would be safe until the Day of the Dead festival ended on November third. Then she wanted Eva to try, but only while she was watching.
Even after assuring Eva that Zoe would do nothing no matter the kind of magic she used, Eva had her reservations about that. Under no circumstances did she want to stand around summoning a demon in front of Zoe Baxter.
There was nothing to be done about it now, however. Her master hadn’t even returned yet.
That led to her current situation of picking out a costume. If she’d known there was absolutely no selection, she would have made her own. Arachne could have helped her make an amazing outfit. She’d done so in the past. Eva still had the dress Arachne had made when she was nine.
It was a crime that it remained hidden away in a closet in Florida.
Eva shoved more costumes aside. Nothing would match that dress. Nothing would come even close. She’d have to settle for something else.
Something else caught her eye.
Juliana seemed to notice the pause in Eva’s shuffling of costumes. “Find something?” she asked.
“Maybe. It will need touching up, that’s for sure.”
“Good luck with that. I’m going back to the girl’s section.”
Eva held her future costume up and looked it over. She could feel Shalise leaning over her shoulder.
“That’s it?” she asked.
“It is a start. Needs a bit of flair though.”
“Better hurry, there’s only a few hours until the party starts.”
“Who shows up to parties on time anyway,” Eva said. She actually wasn’t sure. Shalise admitted in front of everyone that she had never been to a party before. Eva hadn’t admitted it.
When your friends consisted only of demons and people several decades older than yourself, you didn’t get invited to parties very often. At least not the kind that didn’t involve danger, blood, and possible death.
“Well, I’m not showing up late to my first party. Need help?”
“Just need a black necktie and a white button up shirt. I think I can get everything else at our dorm.”
“Those shouldn’t be hard to find. I’ll go help Juliana then.”
Eva nodded as the chipper woman left. She dug through a prop bin, trying to find a syringe. Not a real one. A prop comical one. She could get real ones if she took the time to run to the prison. Eva didn’t think she wanted to put that much effort into a costume.
Still, this one seemed decent.
“You’ve been giggling the whole way here. My costume is fine.”
That only made Shalise giggle harder.
Eva carefully kept her own smile polite and controlled as they walked down the street.
Juliana wore a large one piece suit covered in fur. She had a dog nose covering her nose and long floppy ears coming off of a head band.
“It was the only costume that showed less skin than Eva when she walks around wearing nothing but Rach.”
“Eva’s covered up now and without wearing a dog costume.”
Eva glanced down at her own costume. A knee-length lab coat hung loose over slacks and a button up shirt. She had slicked back her hair into a loose ponytail and added a pair of fake glasses. The look was topped off with a fake syringe full of glowing green liquid and several real potions shoved into her pockets.
The real potions were just in case, as were the vials of blood and her dagger hidden against her back.
Overall, Eva thought she looked like a perfect stereotypical mad scientist.
“You’re the one who pointed this out to me. I’ll have no more laughter from you.”
“And I was right. It is very cute on you.”
Juliana crossed her arms and sulked. “Yours looks nice. You should have found me something like that.”
Shalise twisted slightly, letting her black coat flair out. It wasn’t a real coat, almost more like a knee-length dress that was missing its front. She wore a red minidress underneath. Fake fangs on her teeth poked out of her mouth.
“Like I said, you got the costumes everyone else didn’t want.”
Eva just smiled at their byplay as they arrived at The Vertex. They were quickly let into the building by bouncers? Maybe ushers. The Vertex didn’t seem like the kind of club that would need bouncers.
“Wow,” Shalise said, “it is almost like a real party in here.”
Eva had to agree. Almost being the key word.
The club had a large dance floor with a stage just in front of it. A DJ stood behind a large table with headphones on, nodding his head with the pounding beat. Neon lights and lasers strobed through a cool mist on the dance floor. A second floor curled around, offering a high altitude view of the dance floor.
The only thing missing were the people.
There were a couple of groups here and there. A cat girl and a rather poor skeleton chatted off to one side. A group of three hung out in a corner, they had a girl with impressive voodoo inspired makeup and several fake bones hung around her neck, a much more impressive skeleton, and a man who seemed to be into bondage with knives taped to his fingers.
No one danced on the dance floor and none of the groups appeared very animated.
There was a bar to the side of the entryway with a Frankenstein’s monster handing out a plate of nachos to the only patron. The portly man turned around to reveal a solid green suit and dyed red hair. Golden clover pins were attached all over his suit.
“Hello Max,” Shalise said warmly.
“You guys made it. I’m glad.” He grabbed both plates of nachos and seemed to struggle with his soda until Shalise took pity and grabbed it. “Thanks. Everyone else is upstairs, come on.”
They followed him up to the neon lit second floor. Another three groups of people hung about up here. Two of the groups consisted of a pair of superheroes with red and blue outfits, a pirate, a spooky bedsheet ghost, and a princess.
The third group was seated around one of the large tables that occupied much of the second floor. A winged fairy stood and started waving them over with a clear bottle. She was also entirely green except for the brown hair and red lipstick.
“Irene, nice makeup,” Juliana said.
Irene grinned. “Thanks. It took Shelby all afternoon to paint me green.”
“And don’t ask for it again,” a black and white woman said. She had painted her face completely white save for black lipstick. Her dress matched the white paint on her face and arms with black floral patterns. Even her green eyes had been covered by silver contacts.
“Oh, like your makeup took any less time.”
“Your wearing a lot less actual clothes than I am. You didn’t have to paint my stomach or my back or most of my legs. Most of it I did on my own.”
“Now now, you all look great. Don’t bicker.”
Eva almost missed the dark figure sitting next to Shelby. Where she looked like something out of an old black and white film, Jordan could have been her shadow. He had a full black body stocking on, even over his face. Something magical had been done to it; Eva’s eyes didn’t want to focus on it.
“You’re going to have to teach me that one,” Eva said. It seemed very useful for more than just party tricks.
Jordan chuckled. It sounded a bit forced, though that may be because if he had merely smiled, Eva wouldn’t be able to notice.
“He can’t,” Irene said. She had a large frown on her face and a glare leveled at Jordan. “The enchantment came with the suit.”
“Ah, that’s a shame.” Eva might have to spend some time tracking down the makers of the suit and learning the technique. Or at least buy one for herself.
“So,” Shalise said after a minute, “what do we do now?”
Maximilian spoke up, thankfully without his mouth full. “Grab some food unless you already ate. Then we just hang out, I suppose.” He looked around to the others as if for confirmation.
“That sounds good,” Juliana said. “I skipped lunch for costume hunting.”
She and Shalise turned and headed back to the stairs. Shalise paused. “You’re not coming Eva?”
“I’m not hungry at the moment. I might grab something later.” Eva doubted she would. In truth, Eva only ate about one meal a day. A side effect from the experiments, most likely; she’d never seen Arachne eat anything.
Her treatments were a point of worry. Because the ritual circle was still complete in her prison, she might be able to rope Juliana into performing the ritual in an emergency. It was not a thing she was very eager to show the blond.
Devon considered her his life’s work, so she doubted he would just up and abandon her. Unless he had gone off and died. Then again, she had to send Ivonis after her master over the summer.
She really wasn’t looking forward to cleaning fifty animal carcases out of a cell block again.
Shalise and Juliana headed back downstairs while Eva took a seat next to Irene.
“So a scientist, huh?”
“A mad scientist, if you please.” Eva whipped out the fake syringe and quirked an eyebrow. After striking her pose, she dropped the syringe back into her pocket. “It was either this or what Juliana is wearing.” Eva leaned over and stage whispered in Irene’s ear, “I’d rather come naked if that was my only option.”
“Oh it isn’t that bad,” Shelby said with only a small chuckle.
They descended into an awkward sort of silence. Eva imagined it would have been a comfortable silence, or not silence at all, if she hadn’t been there. Despite spending nearly every lunch together and interacting in class on a regular basis, Eva just didn’t click with them.
She didn’t think she really clicked with Shalise either, even if she got along with her. The only reason she and Juliana got along well was because of their little adventure. No part of that was going to be spoken of under any circumstances, no matter how much it might help avoid awkward silences.
So Eva just waited with a polite smile on her face. Hoping Juliana and Shalise returned quickly.
Luckily they did not dilly-dally. They brought back a plate of nachos each. Eva wondered if that was the only thing the club served. Juliana did not look overly pleased with it, at the very least.
Shalise was the one who managed to get a conversation going. She was much better at these things than Eva or Juliana. Talking about school was even a safe topic for Eva. Something she was very glad about when Jordan turned his masked face to her.
“Figure out your element yet? You were having problems with it if I remember right.”
“I can’t do a tiny bit of water magic which would normally mean my affinity is fire, right?” At Jordan nodding his head, Eva continued, “I don’t think I’m especially good at fire magic or air and earth. Chaos magic feels the best to use, honestly. That could be because it is the only real magic I knew before school.”
“You knew chaos magic before attending school?” Eva couldn’t see his face, but his voice sounded intrigued.
“Only a little. A darkness spell and a blink that apparently isn’t a proper blink.” She demonstrated by stepping past Juliana and onto the open floor then back to her seat.
It had taken her months to perfect stepping into a sitting position. Most tries ended up with her either standing on the chair or standing in front of it.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t even see if Jordan was impressed. Max spoke up in his place.
“I want to learn that. No. I need to learn that.” He batted his eyes and looked at Eva. “Teach me please?”
Shelby spoke before Eva could. “You can barely manage simple water spells and that is supposed to be your element. If you try that, you’ll wind up cutting yourself to pieces.”
The large boy deflated a bit at that. He puffed back up and drew his fist in front of himself with confidence. “I’ll start taking my studies seriously if it means I can teleport around.”
Eva quirked her eyebrow at that and shook her head. It was magic. He wasn’t taking it seriously? He might as well have just stayed in a regular school.
“That was impressive,” Jordan said. “Don’t worry too much though. Fire is supposedly the hardest of the four. As an earth mage, I’m finding it extra difficult.”
“Same,” Irene said.
Shelby frowned at Irene. “I don’t think I’ve found fire to be too hard and I’m air. At least not the warming spell and light spell we learned in class.”
“Hey,” Irene dropped her voice to a whisper, “is it just me or has that Phantom been staring at us for a while?”
Eva glanced up along with everyone else.
Arachne stood at the top of the stairs wearing a phantom mask. It covered four eyes on her forehead, but both her gleaming red eyes as well as a smaller eye beneath her left were visible. Not to mention the black carapace and sharp teeth that filled her grin.
The black tendrils that made up her hair had been swept back and lay in perfectly straight lines.
The rest of her was covered in a black suit with a red vest and black tie on a black shirt. She didn’t have shoes on and she didn’t have anything hiding her long fingers either.
Eva almost jumped to her feet. She might have if she hadn’t been so shocked at Arachne actually wearing clothes.
Juliana, on the other hand, did jump up.
Irene turned to them with a raised eyebrow. “Someone you know?”
“Ah, maybe. I’ll go speak with her,” Eva said.
She stepped straight from her seat to Arachne before anyone could say anything.
“What are you doing?” Eva half hissed.
“It is fine,” Arachne said with a wave of her hand, “we went trick-or-treating that one time and nobody cared.”
“That was different. Everyone over there has seen your spider form. They’ll notice similarities if not draw the correct conclusions outright.”
A long needly finger pointed at the phantom mask. “That’s why I’m disguised. You didn’t think I’d wear clothes for fun, did you?”
“So what, where have you even been all day?”
“It took longer than expected to steal these clothes without being noticed.”
“You could have asked me.”
“I wanted it to be a surprise. Are you surprised?”
“Very,” Eva deadpanned.
The smile that grew on Arachne’s face was so genuine that Eva had a hard time maintaining her anger. She almost felt bad that Arachne couldn’t walk over and join their table.
“So,” Eva said, “what do you want?”
“A dance.”
“I…” Eva glanced over the railing. “No one is even dancing.”
“More people to watch us.”
“I’ve never danced a day in my life.”
“I know,” Arachne’s gentle smile never wavered. “We’ll run to the bathroom and have a crash course. Enough to keep you on your feet, at least. And even after, I won’t mind if you step on mine.”
Eva bit her lip. What a cruel demon. How could she show up looking so earnest. “Alright. Meet me in the bathroom. I’m going to explain at least a little to the others.”
Arachne nodded and turned to the second floor bathrooms.
Eva stepped straight back to the table.
“Someone you know?” Irene asked again.
“Yeah, friend of mine from Florida. She decided to visit unexpectedly today.”
Maximilian let out a long whistle. “That’s a crazy costume. How did she do the hair?”
“Foam, I think.” Eva’s smile felt very plastered on. “She wanted to dance with me, and teach me to dance first.”
“Teach you to dance before dancing? Have you ever danced before?” Jordan asked.
“Never once.”
“We should get some popcorn.”
Eva allowed her fake smile to slip into a frown. “You do that. I’ll be back later, I think.”
“Good luck,” Juliana called even as Eva stepped straight to the bathroom door.
She opened the door and waked into the bathroom.
Like everything else in The Vertex, the bathroom was lit by several neon lights. Also like the rest of the place, it wasn’t very clean.
Arachne waited in the narrow area between the stalls and the sinks. A smile spread across her face as Eva wandered in.
“Come on, we have a full half hour before its time.”
“Time for what,” Eva asked.
“I had a word,” her grin turned a bit feral, “with the musician downstairs. He agreed the music was unsuitable for proper dancing.”
Arachne stepped forwards and grabbed each of Eva’s hands with her own. She placed one on her own shoulder and kept the other in her claw.
“Now,” Arachne said, “step with me.”
Arachne jerked her forward. “No saying you can’t. To the side now.”
Eva stepped to the side before Arachne had a chance to pull her. She almost got her own foot stepped on for her efforts. Eva took a quick step back to avoid Arachne’s clawed feet.
“Too quick,” Arachne chided. “You have to allow me to finish before you move on.”
Forget stepping on Arachne’s feet. If she steps on mine then there will be a bloody mess all over the floor.
They continued dancing and fell into a rhythm. It was actually kind of fun, though Eva doubted she would be winning any awards anytime soon. Dancing around in a small box didn’t look very impressive.
“Now,” Arachne’s sudden voice nearly caused Eva’s foot to slip under the claw, “we rotate with each step.”
Taking care to avoid being trod upon, Eva followed Arachne’s lead. They continued for another ten minutes until Arachne added another element.
“Spins are probably too much for our short lesson. If I lean to one side, just follow that lean.”
Eva nodded and tried to follow. Some steps Arachne would pause and lean while others were mid-step. Still, those wound up with patterns as well. She wondered if it wouldn’t be easier with proper music than the thudding bass that reverberated throughout the bathroom.
“That will have to do,” Arachne finally concluded. “Perhaps I’ll teach you how to properly dance in the future. I thought about teaching you before tonight but worried that it would ruin the surprise.”
Eva almost wished she had taught her earlier, surprise or no. She wasn’t the type to get embarrassed easily. That require caring about what other people thought. Not something she’d ever had a problem with in the past.
Now she might care, at least a little, what the group she’d come here with thought. What her friends thought.
None of that even compared to the disaster that might happen if Arachne stepped on her feet. She probably had enough control over her body to not injure Eva. Looking at the deep claw marks on the floor of the bathroom made Eva not want to take that chance.
Still, Eva didn’t want to take away the smile on Arachne’s face. Arachne never smiled. It was always a grin. This was nice. A side of Arachne that rarely showed.
So she allowed the woman to lead her out of the bathroom.
None of her friends were at the table. A quick peek over the railing showed Juliana talking to someone out of sight. Probably the others.
Arachne brought her down the stairs by her hand.
The moment her clawed foot touched the dance floor, the heavy sounds of an organ crashed over the room. Eva glanced up at the DJ who was looking very nervously at Arachne. He was completely ignored in return.
Arachne separated from Eva at the center of the dance floor. She turned and gave a deep bow.
Eva gripped the edges of her lab coat and curtsied.
Arachne offered her hand and Eva took it. They pulled together and began their waltz.
Just like the practice, they began stepping in a small square. As the organ raged on, Arachne started rotating and eventually added the leaning.
Eva was sure it didn’t look very impressive. They had done nothing especially fancy. Eva kept her eyes on her feet more than half the time and, more than once, broke the rhythm in her haste to escape being crushed by Arachne’s feet.
But it was fun. Arachne’s smile never left her face, even when Eva half kicked her foot.
They danced around. Eva had no idea how long the song was, but it eventually ended. It couldn’t have lasted more than five minutes.
Arachne drew back to arm’s length, holding Eva’s hands until they slipped out from the distance. She gave another bow which Eva returned. She stepped forwards once more and pulled Eva into a tight embrace.
Slowly, Eva brought her arms up and returned the hug. Eva normally did not return Arachne’s frequent hugs, but sometimes things were special. This is one of those times, she thought as she idly played with the tips of Arachne’s hair tendrils.
A scream from behind her brought the moment to a crash.
Arachne immediately moved to the other side of Eva in a full protective stance.
Eva uncorked two blood vials as she turned to look.
The rest of the room had descended into a panic. Two shambling men dressed as zombies staggered up to the bar where a third had his arms around Shalise. His teeth sunk deep into her arm as she tried to fight him off.
Jordan and Max both had their wands out and were casting spells. Shadows erupted out of Jordan’s wand–some kind of chaos spell, perhaps–and enveloped the two approaching zombies.
Max flicked his wand. When nothing happened, he scrambled backwards away from the group.
“Arachne.”
It was all Eva had to say. The demon jumped across the dance floor. The black needles of her fingers plunged straight through the zombie’s head as she landed next to Shalise.
Eva ran over as Arachne tore into the two zombies under Jordan’s darkness. She slid across the hard wood floor where some of the zombie had landed, but recovered her balance and knelt beside Shalise.
Shalise’s arm wasn’t looking good. She could already see the infection settling in. Eva thought about removing the arm the way her master had, but the gash in the side of the brunette’s face made her stop. She wouldn’t be able to remove her head to stop the infection.
“Don’t touch her,” Jordan said, “you’ll infect yourself without gloves.”
Eva shook her head. She could help, but not around so many people. “Don’t worry,” she pulled a black vial from her pockets, “anti-zombie potion.” A lie of course.
“I think I can help, but I need–” Eva cut herself off as she looked around.
Arachne was making her way back to Eva’s side, her fancy suit marred by blood and rotting flesh. Juliana looked petrified, she hadn’t moved since Eva first saw the zombies. Max slowly made his way back to Jordan’s side.
“Where’s Irene and Shelby?”
“Irene said she felt sick shortly after you entered the bathroom. Shelby took her back to the dorm.” Eva couldn’t tell his expression through his costume, but he stood straighter and squared his shoulders. “I’m going after them.”
“Don’t try to stop me.”
“I’m not,” Eva said with vehemence. “But if she was feeling sick…” Eva gave a pointed glance at the zombie, “just be careful if you find her.”
He gave a solemn nod and dashed out the door.
Maximilian glanced between his friend and Eva.
“Go,” she said, “even if your magic is worthless, you can at least keep things from sneaking up behind him. Watch his back.”
He took a step but hesitated. Eva did not miss the tremble in his arm.
“Unless you wanted to leave him alone, of course.” That seemed to set him off. Eva called after him, “tell him that the girl’s rooms in the dorms might be safer than the guys.”
“Arachne,” Eva said as the portly man ran off into the night. The demon knelt and Eva spoke in a whisper, “I need you to take Shalise to the bathroom. Start stripping her, be careful to get any bits of clothing out of her wounds. Keep her awake and talking and try to hurt her as little as possible.”
The demon swooped down and lifted Shalise off the ground without complaint. Shalise started fighting and struggling, to no effect, as Arachne headed to the bathroom.
“Juliana.”
The blond didn’t respond.
“Juliana!”
Tear filled blue eyes flicked to Eva. Her eyes then swept over the corpses and blood on the floor.
Her knees cracked against the ground as she knelt over and retched.
Eva wanted to walk over and slap some sense into her, but she was covered in blood. It would only make the problem worse. Instead she waited until Juliana emptied her nachos all over the floor.
“Juliana,” Eva said softly as the blond staggered back to her feet. “We can save Shalise, but I need you to do something. Can you do something for me?”
Juliana wiped the edges of her mouth and nodded firmly, if a bit weakly.
“I need thirteen stones. Sharp ones, like arrowheads. Can you make thirteen arrowheads?”
She looked around her and tapped the floor with her foot. “It is wood, I’ll have to go o-outside.”
“The bartender,” Eva glared at the man who had just been watching the entire scene, “will watch your back or he will die.” Eva returned a soft gaze to Juliana. “When you’re done with the stones, block off the entrance with a wall of rocks, just like you did at the cave. If you see any zombies or skeletons, or anything at all, come get Arachne and myself.”
Juliana nodded and took a few shaky steps towards the door.
Eva glared at the bartender again. “Go.”
“What right do–”
“If you don’t, I’ll wipe some of this blood all over you.” Eva held up her bloodied hands. “By morning, you’ll look like one of them,” she waved a hand at the corpses.
He returned her glare but stepped around the counter and followed Juliana out the door.
As he passed by, Eva said, “if you let anything happen to her, I’ll kill you.”
Eva turned to the remaining gawkers huddling around the dance floor. “Any of you know any good fire magic?” she asked. No one responded. “Then do not go near those bodies unless you wish to die a very painful death followed by attempting to kill your friends.”
“What about you?” a half hysterical cat girl asked.
“Anti-zombie potion,” Eva said holding up the black vial. She really wished she had worn a mask. If any of the students knew who she was, she’d be facing a lot of questions in the morning.
If anyone who cared to question her lived, that is.
“There is no cure for a zombie infection,” a pirate said.
“Oh? Who told you that?” He gave no response. “That’s right. Shut up and don’t touch the corpses and maybe you’ll live until tomorrow.”
Eva ignored any further questions and marched off to the bathroom.
A naked Shalise sat on the floor. Arachne was picking through the large chunk on her arm, pulling bits of cloth from the wound. She had a weary look on her face.
Could be worse, could be a dazed look, Eva thought with a mental shrug.
“Shalise, can you hear me?”
“I’m a–” a hiccup, “a-a zombie.”
“Not yet and not ever if I have anything to say about it. I’ll let you in on a little secret I haven’t even told Juliana. I’m a blood mage.
“Being a blood mage, I can clear this whole mess up with a little cleansing ritual.”
A brown-haired girl flicked eyes in Eva’s direction. Her eyes had the slightest glimmer of hope.
“It is a very thorough cleansing, however. Have you ever had any surgeries that implanted anything? Metal plates in your hip or pacemakers?”
Shalise shook her head.
“Good. We’ll need to get all those nasty nachos out of your stomach though.”
“She already vomited, thrice,” Arachne said. “Wasn’t anything left by the third time.”
“Excellent. Next step then. Shalise, I need you to close your eyes. This ritual requires a calm mind to work.”
Eva moved to the sinks. She tore off her lab coat–shame about it being ruined–her shirt, and her pants. All were too contaminated to trust. Naked, Eva began scrubbing her arms and face of all traces of blood, double checking in the mirror. She used her innate sense of blood to check that she was completely clean of any foreign contaminants.
“I need you to close your eyes. Think of a clean white cloth, gently blowing in the wind.”
Eva turned around and ensured the girl’s eyes were closed. She pulled her dagger off her back and jammed it deep into her own arm. Eva spread her arms wide, pulling a long trail of blood out with the dagger.
The blood was much darker than it had been the last time she saw it. Not quite Arachne black, but the ritual didn’t need blood purity. Without a stick of chalk, blood was the next best thing. Better, actually, as she had fine control in manipulating it.
“The white cloth just blew onto a crystal clear lake. It sent a handful of ripples across the otherwise smooth surface.”
Eva started manipulating the blood into a circle on the floor. She added lines to direct the magic and characters to control it.
The bathroom door opened and Juliana walked in, thirteen arrowheads floating behind her.
Eva met the blond’s eyes and pressed a finger to her lips.
“The ripples stopped. There’s just a white cloth floating on the water beneath a beautiful sky.”
Eva finished drawing out the ritual circle. She looked up and nodded at Arachne.
“Keep your eyes closed. Arachne is going to pick you up and move you to the ritual circle. Don’t be scared, nothing will hurt you. Just think of a gentle breeze bringing the fresh fragrance of flowers blowing over your lake. Don’t move after you’re set down.” The bathroom was cramped enough, there was barely enough space for the inner circle without her smearing the blood.
Arachne did as instructed and backed up.
Eva stepped straight across to Arachne and whispered in her ear, “Stand outside. I don’t want anyone seeing what is about to happen.” Eva turned to Juliana as Arachne stepped outside. “Place the stones down around the outer edge of the circle pointing inwards. Keep quiet, Shalise needs to concentrate.”
As Eva moved back in front of Shalise, she said aloud, “there is a small creek making a nice flowing noise in the background. Listen to the water run.”
Once Juliana finished with the stones, Eva pulled her dagger back out. “Now, raise your uninjured hand straight in front of you, palm down.” Shalise brought her hand out, shaking a good deal. Eva held her knife just beneath her open palm. “When I say go, I need you to bring your hand to the ground hard, like you’re trying to squash an ant that is invading your beautiful lake.”
Eva waited just a moment before steadying the knife in her hand. “Ready. Go.”
Shalise’s screams pierced the air as the magical ritual dagger pierced her hand like a knife through butter. Six of the thirteen stone arrowheads immediately splattered red and green with blood and gore. Eva sheathed her dagger and did a quick check of Shalise’s arm.
All the rot had been torn away, leaving an even larger wound than before. Still, it was clean.
Eva pulled the girl into a tight hug. “It’s alright, it’s okay,” Eva said as tears ran down her chest. “It hurts, but you are fine. No zombie Shalise tonight.”
Her words didn’t seem to comfort the crying girl. Shalise cried harder and squeezed back.
Juliana took half a step forward. Eva shook her head, pointing at the bloodied stones and shaking her head.
“You are safe. Safe from zombies, but we need to do something about your wounds.” Her arm and face were still bleeding and now her hand had blood pouring out of it. Eva couldn’t see it, but she could both feel and sense the blood running down her back where Shalise had her gripped. “I’m going to let you go, I have to grab some potions. I’ll be right back and we’ll get you feeling better, okay?”
Eva tried to stand, but the girl was reluctant to let her go. Eva pried herself out of Shalise’s grip and moved to her bloodied lab coat. Using her knife, Eva punctured her arm again. Drawing the ritual took a good amount of blood out of her, but she needed to make sure there was no contaminated blood getting back into Shalise’s bloodstream.
With a snap of her fingers, all traces of blood on the lab coat had been obliterated using drops of her own blood. She grabbed six vials of Arachne’s blood and sent orbs to obliterate the six arrowheads. She grabbed all of her potions, making sure they were clean, and went back to Shalise’s side.
Eva handed over two light blue vials and a yellow vial. The general remedies would help boost her blood production as well as general pain relief and the yellow vial would help stop the bleeding, though her arm and hand were going to need some serious healing before they went back to normal. If they ever got back to normal.
“Juliana,” Eva said, “see if you can round-up some clothes from the other party goers. It doesn’t need to be a lot, I don’t care if you can’t get clothes for me. Just something for Shalise to wear.”
The blond nodded. She still seemed to be in some sort of shock, but at least she was responding.
“Oh,” Eva said before she left, “don’t touch Arachne. She’s still covered in zombie blood.”
A soft whimper brought Eva’s attention back to Shalise. She knelt down and resumed her hug.
Those necromancers are going to wish they were never born.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 at 11:55 pm and tagged with Arachne, Eva, Irene, Jordan, Juliana, Shelby and posted in Book 001. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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elyandarin
your had -> hand
but for the ritual didn’t need blood purity.
(This whole sentence seemed a bit off.)
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Not quite Arachne black, but the ritual didn’t need blood purity. Without a stick of chalk, blood was the next best thing. Better, actually, as she had fine control in manipulating it.
Eva planned on spending most of the day hanging out
Eva had planned (I assume she no longer plans)
She placed on on her own shoulder
Arachne’s sudden voice nearly cause
caused
arms length
recovered he balance
scrubbing her arms down and face of all traces of blood
“down and face” seems wrong – either remove “down”, or move it cover the face part too
Don’t move after your set down.
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though her arm and hand was
“Keep your eyes closed. Arachne is going to pick you up” she didn’t know the name is Arachne,just rach
Nikht
Typo:
Eva handed two light blue vials and a yellow vial.
Incomplete sentence. I don’t know if it should be he ‘handled’, or if it is just a broken sentence.
This is so good. This is so, so good. You deserve more comments and discussion than you’re getting!
LookingForKeys
This. So much this. Great storytelling.
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Male characters, Mutant turtles, 2012 TV series characters,
Mutants (2012 TV series)
Hamato Clan
Mutant Monday
Mole people
Former pets
Animal-born mutants
Cryptids
Former vampires
Raphael (2012 TV series)
New York City, Turtle Lair
Commander Zoraph
Nightwatcher (proposed only)
Frog (by Vic)
Turtle Boy
Dadda Raph (by Casey)
Big baby (by Donatello)
September 29, 1997 (mutation day)
Mastery of Ninjutsu
Semi-aquatic Adaptations
Master Sai Fighter
Caretaking
Smoke Bombs
Tegaki
Laser Axe
Laser Gun
Team Awesome (by Michelangelo)
A team (by Leonardo and Raphael himself)
Mutant turtle
Bandana color
2012 TV series
Rise of the Turtles, Part 1
Teacher(s)
Hamato Yoshi
Student(s)
Spike (ninjutsu, inadvertently)
80s Turtles
"Raphael's got the most attitude on the team."
— His introductory line in the theme song
Raphael or Raph is one of the main protagonists in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series. He is the adoptive son of Master Splinter (Hamato Yoshi) and the younger adoptive brother of Karai (Hamato Miwa), as well as the younger birth brother of Leonardo, older birth brother of Donatello and Michelangelo, and pet owner of Slash.
Just like his other incarnations, Raphael's weapon of choice is his Sai. He wears a red mask and fights with two sai. Known for his rage, he commonly takes it out on Mikey, and on occasions, to Leo and Donnie, due to their occasional feud (Raph's sibling rivalry, jealousy and power hunger that Leo is the team leader while Donnie is the team' scientist, mechanist and inventor). Raphael sports a chip in the bottom of his shell as a result of Splinter's earlier encounters with the Kraang that were after him. He is voiced by Sean Astin in this series
Just like other incarnations, Raphael is the muscular hothead of the ninja turtle quartet. However in this incarnation, Raph can be erratic emotionally. He is brave, daring, free spirited, and while Michelangelo is the comedian of the turtle quartet, Raphael is the most sardonic and sarcastic. He is very athletically adept. He is very close with his allies, friends and pets. However he can be very wilful, stubborn, incredibly rude, aggressive, and can get explosive. He is also the most relentless of the turtles, his relentless ferocity makes him a deadly fighter.
Raph loves to fight, wrestle and trash the place. If there’s a brawl, Raphael would love to join in the fight whenever you like it or not. Because of his passion for fighting, he would fight first and reflect and ask questions later.
He doesn’t tolerate offensive teasing from anyone. When people and or even his brothers mocks him, he would put up a fight. When Mikey is in his mischievious ways and annoys Raph, Raph would either yell at him or beat him up.
Hypocritically, he mocks and taunts his family, allies, and his enemies, often coming up with rude remarks. Raph is not afraid to make light of very dark situations. He would make jokes about dejected and morose people who are miserable. On rare occasions, one of his brothers may slap him in retaliation.
Like his big sister, Miwa, he’s also very cocky. When he wins games and duels against his brothers, he will rub it in his brothers’ faces, much to their dismay.
However Raph can be unpredictable, and his ferocious temper can sometimes frighten enemies even his brothers. He can be very aggressive to solve problems, even with his family and allies. Sometimes at training Raph can get hostile and he would do anything he can to beat his brothers in sparring matches. When he feels misunderstood or irritated, he would erupt at any given moment. At times he gets so infuriated he would ”quit” the team (more like walk out the team). This type of situation happened 27 times. When he‘s calm, he goes back to rejoin the team.
In addition to this incarnation Raph and Leo’s relationship is a half love, half hate relationship. Raph hates the fact that Leo is chosen to be leader. Sometimes Raph is willing to follow suit and cooperate with Leo and other times he’ll instigate. When Raph does instigate, he would either talk back, get physical with him, or even try to take over as leader. In two episodes during this incarnation Raph has successfully took over Leo’s lead after Leo gives in which is New Girl in Town and Follow The Leader.
Raph’s rebellious behavior gets in the way of thinking before going into the situation. Sometimes Raph would go down and think before going into situations and other times he will rebel, because of his mood swings, his behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes when he actually think things through and tells brothers that they need a plan, it can surprise his brothers.
Despite all this, Raph does have a soft side with his 2 pets Spike (which turned into Slash), and then in Season 4 Chompy, whom he adores both so much. His pets always calm him down. Sometimes he shows his soft side to his family and friends. He would do anything to protect them, but he would never admit it in order to stay "hardcore" and to protect his pride. On rare occasions he even has a soft side towards Mikey, as seen in "New Friend, Old Enemy" and "New Girl in Town." And also in "The Wrath of Tiger Claw." he even hugs Mikey, considering he is the youngest, and therefore his little brother.
Skills, Powers and Abilities
Anger: As seen multiple times through the series, Raphael's greatest weakness has been his anger. However, when properly focused, his temper can be used as his greatest strength, increasing his fighting abilities and his raw strength.
Okinawan Kobudō (Sai) : Raphael was trained by Splinter in the use of sais. Although Raph can use his sais for their intentional purpose of trapping his enemies weapons within their prongs, he also uses them in a manner akin to daggers, stabbing and piercing his opponents. He can also twirl sais in a similar manner to Donnie's bo-staff twirling abilities, allowing him to deflect shuriken and lasers. When holding them in a reverse grip between his fingers, Raph can use the pommel of his sais to increase the effect of his punches.
Shurikenjutsu: Raphael can throw shuriken with remarkable accuracy.
Teaching: Raphael is an excellent teacher. In Wanted: Bebop & Rocksteady, Raphael shown his 1987 counterpart and other 1987 ninja turtles the accurate way of fighting in unarmed and armed combat during their basic training.
Tegaki Proficiency: In "Vision Quest", Raphael forged his own custom-made Tegaki, which resembled a pair of Tekkō-kagi but with only two blades. He wielded them as though they were gauntlets.
Master Weaponry: In The Pulverizer Returns!, Raphael learned to adapt his surroundings and shown to use other non-weapons, such as a stick board to fight the Foot Clan.
Enhanced Strength: Raphael is the physically strongest of the turtles, even stronger than Leonardo. Because of this, he is the first to face off against large and more powerful opponents such as Slash, Triceriton soldiers, and even Super Shredder. He can also carry his three younger brothers (especially Leo) at will. In Rise of the Turtles, Raphael shown to easily rip off the arm of a Kraang humanoid robot with his bare hands. In The Pulverizer Returns!, Raphael overpowered the Foot Clan humans with no difficulty.
Enhanced Speed and Reflexes: Raphael is able to move at great speed, able to free run on rooftops without losing momentum. He also possesses great reaction speed, allowing him to dodge projectiles such as lasers the Kraang's blasters, and enemy attacks. He can also spin his sais at incredible speed. In Rise of the Turtles, Raphael was able to dodge the laser fire from Snake's weapon designed by Kraang at very close range.
Enhanced Stamina and Endurance: Raphael is highly remarkable of continue to fight for more than several hours if necessary. He has an extreme levels of tolerance to pain and can survive from extensive amount of punishment throughout his career; for instance, in Metalhead (episode), Raphael was able to withstand the impact after falling from several stories of a building without showing any sign of injury and discomfort. In The Gauntlet (episode), he withstood powerful attacks from the Shredder and later shown to have some injuries instead of large injuries like Michelangelo.
Enhanced Healing: Like his brothers, Raphael can heal injuries much faster than normal humans.
Stealth: Being taught by Splinter, Leonardo, as well as his brothers, are able to be one with darkness and hide and move within the shadows without being noticed.
Pressure Point Intuition: As shown in "Slash and Destroy", Raphael is able to use the famous Pressure Point technique which he uses to defeat Slash.
Retractable limbs into shell: Though rarely (if ever) depicted, he has the normal ability of a turtle to retract his limbs into the safety of his shell.
Artistry: "Return to New York" showed that Raphael has some skill as a painter, from when he painted a "Venus de Milo" artwork on the side of the Party Wagon. One of the walls of his bedroom is also covered with splotches of different colors of paint, but without any clear illustration.
During most of the series, Raphael wields a pair of dual twin Sai as his signature weapon (as per tradition), with which, like his brothers and their chosen weapons, he is highly skilled. In fact, 2012 Raphael is the first to use it as intended, as a grappling/disarming weapon, rather then as a stabbing dagger.
In "The Pulverizer Returns!", Master Splinter says that the boys are relying too heavily on their own weapons and makes them swap. After this process, Raphael is left with Michelangelo's nunchucks. His Sai are given to Donatello. Despite their best efforts, none of them are particularly successful (mostly Donatello, who manages to prick himself with the Sai) however, Raphael only hits himself twice with the nunchucks, meaning he is at least somewhat competent with them (most likely because they are of a similar design, ie: two, small handheld weapons).
However, during a more difficult fight, the turtles are still uncooperative with their new weapons and swap back. When Splinter finds out, he confiscates all weapons, stating that anything can be useful. When he and his brothers are trying to save Timothy, Raphael uses two planks of wood, holding and fighting with them in a style similar to his Sai. In "The Gauntlet", he used a Yumi bow and like his other brothers wielded Shuriken (throwing stars). In "Showdown, Part 1", Raphael armed himself with Kama scythes, Shuriken, Kunai, Tonfa and Brass Knuckles.
During Season 2, when the Turtles try to relax by playing a live action fantasy role-playing gane, he begrudgingly complies to join in on the fun. He primarily used an axe as his fighting weapon, along with his "Drawf Barbarian" costune (which he found to be "stupid"). He once again retains this costume during Season 3's "Tale of the Yokai".
During his time in outer space throughout the first half of Season 4, Raphael used laser sais and a laser blaster created by Fugitoid as his main weapons. He reverts back to his regular sais for the remainder of Season 4, and throughout the fifth and final season.
While down in the sewers, Raphael beat Donatello and then he fought Leonardo, (who beat Michelangelo in a fight before) and then won the training tournament by throwing Leonardo with his Sai. However, when Splinter congratulated them, Raphael bragged about his win, which caused Splinter to hit a pressure point on his neck and forced him to compliment his brothers. The Turtles are later seen eating a dish Michelangelo prepared called "Algae and Worms." After the meal, Splinter relays the story of how they were transformed (which is fairly different from the other origin stories told in the other series).
Fifteen years before Rise of the Turtles, Part 1, Raphael and his brothers were once ordinary turtles; when they were infants the benevolent Hamato Yoshi purchased the four as pets. When their soon-to-be father walked passed a strange man, he felt something odd about him and followed. Unfortunately Yoshi gave away his position when he accidentally stepped on a brown rat's tail. The Kraang found him and attempted to kill him, but Yoshi fought back hard.. During the scuffle, the aliens dropped a container of mutagen, Yoshi, having to have stepped on that rat, thus mutated into a humanoid brown rat by the name of "Splinter", While Raph and his brothers, after having been in contact with Yoshi and the clerk of the pet store where they were bought, mutated into humanoid turtles. Yoshi raised the turtles as his own children and to train them in Ninjutsu.
Splinter knew they would never be accepted in society and with the Kraang hot on his trail, the five of them lived in an abandoned water tower and a warehouse avoiding detection. During all of these trials, Splinter and the Turtles bonded and after he noticed the baby turtles trying to copy his Ninjitsu training, Splinter decided that there was an opportunity to turn this new life he was thrust into to his advantage, Taking one of his favorite books about the Renaissance art named them after the Artists he admired the most.
After last fight against the Kraang in the sewers in Splinter overheard the Kraang talking about how it became impossible for them to track Splinter and the Turtles there, Splinter decided to remain there. Thus making it that Splinter had found the safe environment where he could raise his adopted sons. . Knowing the world would be dangerous and there would be a time where they want to explore the outside world, Splinter started to train the boys in the art of Ninjitsu.
Splinter agrees after some begging to let the Turtles go to the surface. It is here that Raphael scares a Pizza delivery guy who speeds away on his motorcycle. The four of them, curious, open the box, and, after Michelangelo tries it, eat (and very much enjoy) the pizza.
Raphael's character design was updated, giving him green eyes as well as a small, lightning shaped chip cut out of his plastron across his left shoulder. His shell shows distinct battle damage, and the tails of his mask are tattered and worn. On the new ninjaturtles.com, Raphael says that he usually uses his Sai as a pair of pizza forks.
Donatello - Raphael's second-youngest brother. Raph fights with Donnie the least, in physical terms, but in verbal terms, he makes fun of Donnie's intelligence and his huge crush on April a great deal. As far as Raph's treatment of his brothers goes, his behavior to Donnie is the closest he comes to full on bullying. However, like all his brothers, Raph cares for Donnie deeply and is incredibly protective of him. In "A Foot Too Big", he tried to console Donnie about his feelings for April, telling Donnie to give up because he was a mutant and she was human and that he should get used to it sooner so the pain would be less.
Casey Jones - Raphael initially fought Casey the first time they met, and then became close friends and rivals, having a lot in common. They are both shown patrolling together frequently. Since season 3, they have become more like family, and Splinter and Mikey specifically consider April and Casey part of their family.
Leonardo - Raphael's only older brother. His relationship with Leonardo was generally tense, Leonardo's more patient approach contrasting with Raphael's aggression, but he developed a greater appreciation for Leonardo's skills when Raphael's own attempt to serve as the leader showed him that he couldn't cope with the pressure of taking responsibility for his brothers' safety, preferring to risk himself rather than them. He and Leo tend to fight about who would be a better leader of the Turtles, but Leo always comes first, making Raph envious. They seem to fight the most out of all their brothers, but they still care about each other. The two are shown to trust each other more in the family as they are often discussing things privately away from the others such as Leo's relationship with Karai. Raph often expresses annoyance at Leo's constant attempts at 'hero speak', especially in season 1 when Leo is most influenced by Space Heroes. However, Raphael does gain some sort of respect for Leo after being the leader himself for a while, and finding it very difficult. After the Kraang Invasion of New York, Leo was severely injured to the point he was in a temporary coma. Raph was the one who watched over Leo day and night until he got better. While Leo was still healing from his wounds, Raph appeared to have become the de facto leader as he was the one to lead the training sessions with his brothers and the one giving orders when Leo could not. When Leo becomes the group's sensei, Raphael gains greater respect for him.
Michelangelo - Raphael's youngest brother. He insults him but he cares. This is shown when in "New Friend, Old Enemy" he comforts Mikey when he is feeling down, by telling him that he is an awesome guy. Mikey teases and messes with Raph the most of the four brothers, much to Raph's ire, and Raph gets easily angered by this. He often retaliates physically by yelling, berating, intimidating and beating up Mikey. Raphael is seen to guiding his baby brother to somewhat the dark side when it comes to villains like in Never Say Xever where he told Mikey not to apologize for dropping Bradford, and Mikey obeyed. He seems to have little respect for Mikey (and Donnie) as a fighter. This is seen in "Mouser Attack!" when Raphael (and Leonardo) kept labeling Donnie and Mikey 'the B-Team' or when he declined Leo's idea to contact Mikey and Donnie for help when the mousers attacked them. It wasn't until the near end and dubbed him and Mikey the A Minus-team (which they were fine with, as it was as good as they were going to get from Raph), as he playfully gave Mikey a nuggie. Despite all that, he cares a lot about Mikey and gets furious, like the other two, everytime Mikey gets hurt by an enemy (as seen in "I think his name is Baxter Stockman"). He was also the first to show major concern when he realized Mikey was in danger in New Friend Old Enemy. He was extremely concerned when Mikey got hurt during the battle with Snakeweed, even giving him a hug. In Coackroach Terminator when Mikey was kidnapped by Spy-Roach (when playing bait), Raph decided to put his fears aside to go save Mikey. Raph, along with Donnie and Leo, even threatened Leatherhead to stay away from him in It Came From The Depths. Raph seems to be very close with Mikey, and is as protective of him as much as he is with the others as seen in Invasion of the Squirrelanoids when he rescues Mikey from drowning with the Squirrelanoids. In The Invasion, Raph and Mikey really show off their love and feelings for each other. When the other was sad or scared he would give him a hug or tell him something comforting. Furthermore, when other people start beating up Mikey, Raph stands up for his little brother. Raph seems to be the most protective of Mikey. Though he doesn't show it very often, Raph deeply cares about him. Raph is very close with Mikey, sometimes joking with him. For example, in "Panic in the Sewers", Donnie starts rattling on about frost, and Mikey asks Raph if "He [Donnie] maybe has an off switch somewhere]" Raph slaps Donnie on the back of the head, causing Donnie to yell "OW!" and shut up. Raph then turns back to Mikey and says "Found it!" and the two share a laugh.
April O'Neil - Raphael's first human friend. He and April don't interact that much. He got a little defensive when the Purple Dragons tried to mug her, but he also laughed at her when they thought Pigeon Pete attacked her. He was also impressed that she escaped from Karai. He and April are good friends. Since season 3, they have become more like family, and Splinter and Mikey specifically consider April and Casey part of their family.
Raphael and Spike.
Raphael and Slash.
Spike / Slash - Raph's relationship with Slash is complicated, to say the least, as a pet love that turned into a conflicted ambiguous love between two fully-grown sentient mutant turtles. Slash was originally Raph's pet turtle Spike, and one of the only individuals Raph showed love and affection to, Raph usually speaking to him as if to another person rather than to a pet; indeed, Spike's first scene in "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2" showed Raph sharing solemn tender words of love to another unseen male character, only for the scene to reveal the recipient to be his non-verbal pet turtle Spike. In the same scene, Raph was deeply embarrassed that Michelangelo witnessed this exchange, implying that Raph prefers not to show tenderness to Spike when others are watching. This kind of tenderness occasionally carried over to Raph and Slash as mutants, as shown in a scene in "Clash of the Mutanimals" when Raph worriedly rushed to see if Slash was okay. When Spike became the mutant Slash in "Slash and Destroy", he demonstrated that he really had been listening to Raph all those years, finally requiting the love Raph had shown him. The two planned to become their own ninja team, but Slash proved unstable, possessive, and violent when he tried to kill Raph's brothers to have Raph all to himself. Raph rejected what Slash had become, and Slash escaped feeling betrayed by the only person he'd ever loved. Raph was so aggrieved by Slash's loss that Splinter had to teach him how to cope with the loss of loved ones. Slash and Raph did not interact much when they met again in "Metalhead Rewired", but Slash protected Raph from harm, demonstrating he still cared about him. Raph and Slash finally fully reconciled in "Newtralized!", when Slash's stabilizing conscience steadily alienated him from his then-ally, the Newtralizer, and Slash eventually turned against the Newtralizer to defend Raph, his brothers and Casey Jones. Raph invited Slash to come back home, but Slash declined, choosing to remain alone for the time. In "The Invasion, Part 2", when the turtles were permanently evacuating the Turtle Lair, Raph revealed his most cherished personal possession to be his photograph of Spike, expressing how much he still worried about Slash. After an exile in North Hampton, Raph and Slash met again in "Battle for New York, Part 1", immediately re-establishing their ties. Raph trusted Slash even while his brothers (particularly Leonardo) still doubted him. From this point on, their relationship is more casual, with Raph and Slash appearing as loyal friends but sharing far less affection, except for one scene in Clash of the Mutanimals. Slash is one of the few close friends or family who consistently addresses Raph by his three-syllable name, "Raphael," except for two utterances of "Raph" in "Slash and Destroy".
Hamato Miwa / Karai - Raphael's adoptive sister, by virtue of her being Splinter's biological daughter. Raphael intensely hated and distrusted Karai from the moment he saw her. He did try to warn Leo at least not to fall for her, but also acknowledged how Leo thought Karai looked hot "in an evil kind of way". Raph and his big sister are very similar to their personalities: they're both rebellious, cocky, and argumentative. In fact, Raph was by far the most hostile and distrustful of Karai throughout the first two seasons, despite the fact that Karai is his adoptive sister as well as being highly cynical of Leo's enamorment with her, and brawling with Karai, both physically and verbally. But since Karai mutated in season 2, Raph became more sympathetic to her like the rest of his siblings. In Serpent Hunt, he saved her from peril. What makes Raphael's hatred towards Karai (and Leo's attachment to her) ironic is the fact that he falls for Lieutenant Y'Gythgba, who is not only an initial antagonistic villainess with an initial complex love-hate relationship with him (similar to that of both Leonardo and Karai), but also a non-human anthropomorphic newt. Because of this, Karai, Leonardo, Donnie and Mikey are annoyed and dismayed of Raph's love for Mona Lisa.
Hamato Yoshi / Splinter - Raphael's adoptive father. Splinter is the person that Raphael listens the most despite Raphael’s stubborness. He is almost certainly the most rebellious of Splinter's sons which often causes him to get humorously punished in any way.
Chompy - A baby alien turtle and child of Tokka whom Raphael adopts as a pet and in some ways fills the role Spike had as Raphael's pet and confidante.
Leatherhead - Raphael never directly interacted with Leatherhead, but he did disagree with Michelangelo about befriending him.
Timothy / The Pulverizer / Mutagen Man - Raphael finds him plain annoying and didn't really care about his safety, but he did try to help save him in "The Pulverizer Returns!".
Y’Gythgba (Mona Lisa) - Raphael first met her after crash landing on an icy moon in "The Moons of Thalos 3". When she demonstrated how tough and skilled she is, Raph falls in love with her, whom he later renamed her "Mona Lisa". She bonds with Raph after saving her and G'Throkka (a.k.a. Sal Commando) from a few ice dragons. Then they shared their feelings for each other as she kissed him. As of "The War for Dimension X", Mona and Raphael are an official couple. Despite his romantic feelings for her, after her brief betrayal in "The Evil of Dregg". Raphael is shown later in "The Insecta Trifecta" to have deep-suited issues involving her. But at the same time it shows that he really misses her. And when she chose to remain on earth to be closer to Raph and protect the earth, he’s very happy and overjoyed and enrolled her to the Mutanimals.
Oroku Saki / The Shredder - Due to Shredder being Splinter's arch nemesis, Raphael hates the Shredder as well.
The Kraang - Raphael dislikes the Kraang, and will do anything he can to stop their invasion plots. The Kraang also hate the Turtles due to them being the only force powerful enough to stop them. This rivalry is far more personal to the Turtles than their rivalry with the Foot Clan.
Victor / Spider Bytez - Raphael and Spider Bytez really hated each other from the moment they first met. Raphael despises him because he insulted him, while Spider Bytez, as Vic, took pleasure in tormenting and insulting Raphael. When he caught the Turtles on tape, Raphael wanted to really break his face. Vic hates them, because he and his brothers broke his phone and satellite dish. Vic also blames Raphael and his brothers for turning him into a mutant spider, and attempted to kill Raphael's brothers, but Raphael managed to control his temper and defeat him. For some reason, Spider Bytez calls them "kung-fu frogs". Spider Bytez is one of the three villains that Raphael hates the most; The others are Chong and Fishface.
Baxter Stockman - Raphael dislikes him, and takes pleasure in throwing him in the trash.
Xever Montes / Fishface - One of Raphael's archenemies. He fights him every chance he gets, and the two seem evenly matched, as they were the most powerful fighters in their groups (besides their masters). However, unlike Spider Bytez and Chong, Raphael and Fishface share a mutual respect for each other, and share many similarities. In "Baxter's Gambit", they work together really well, and seem to be alike due to their aggression and willingness to fight until the end. Fishface even tells Raphael about his past. Raphael and Fishface also saved each other once during this episode and later Raphael was able to detect an attack on Leonardo from Fishface before it caused any damage. Despite them being alike in many ways, Raphael and Fishface are fierce enemies.
Chris Bradford / Dogpound / Rahzar - One of Raphael's enemies. He dislikes him, but their rivalry is far less aggressive than that of Raphael and Fishface.
Spy-roach - Due to his fear of cockroaches, Raphael both hates and fears Chong. Chong also hates Raph because Raph tried to kill him when he was a normal cockroach. During the whole episode "Cockroach Terminator", Chong stopped at nothing to kill Raph using Raph's fear of him to his advantage, along with his mutation. Raph spent the whole episode trying to get away from him, but was forced to confront his fear when Chong kidnapped Mikey. Raph managed to save Mikey with the Stealth Bike and faced his fear, fighting the mutant roach, and flattened his face with the Stealth Bike wheel. Chong came back for round two, but Raph beat him in hand to hand combat and destroyed him with the Kraang's drill, though he doesn't know about the eggs Chong had laid with the mutant cockroaches, shortly after Chong was defeated.
Snake / Snakeweed - He made his debut in the first episode of the series "Rise of the Turtles, Part 1", before he mutates into a mutated weed, he was a henchman for the Kraang. His name was previously Snake, so Michelangelo renamed him Snakeweed after his mutation.
Victor Falco / The Rat King - Raphael really hates the Rat King, but his rivalry with him isn't as big compared to most of his other enemies.
The Newtralizer - Another of Raphael's enemies.
Ivan Steranko / Rocksteady - Raphael's enemy
Raphael's pair of twin Sai
Raphael is named for the famous Renaissance master, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino.
Raphael's name is Hebrew, meaning "God has Healed". Raphael is also the only brother to have a Hebrew name, whilst all three of his brothers' names are Italian. He is the only turtle to not have an o sound at the end of his name. These things are because the Turtles were named after the common English names for the four Renaissance artists, and unlike the others, the artist Raphael is not usually called by his Italian name Raffaello.
In Katakana, Raphael's name is spelled: ラファエル (Rafaeru).
Given the fact that he was adopted by Hamato Yoshi/Splinter, Raphael's full name would be "Hamato Raphael", or "Raphael Hamato" in Western naming order.
His mastery of Ninjutsu includes: Taijustu, Qigong, Shurikenjustu, Kobudō, Kayajustu, Shinobi-iri, Boyaku, Sui-ren, Archery, and Intonjustu.
Raphael is the second oldest of his brothers; Leonardo being the oldest while he's older than Donatello & Michelangelo.
Througth never explicity stated, it is implied that Raphael is a fan of art, as he gave Y’Gythgba the nickname "Mona Lisa" after the work-of-art of the same name, while he gave to his new pet the name Chompy Picasso, with "Picasso" being the surname of the famous artist Pablo Picasso.
Raphael has a bolt-shaped chip missing at the upper left side of his plastron. His shell and body in general are by far the most scarred of his brothers'.
His mask has the longest tails, and by far the most tattered.
Raphael is often called ”big baby” by Donatello.
It was revealed in "Cockroach Terminator" that Raphael has katsaridaphobia (irrational fear of cockroaches), and is terrified of Donatello's pet SpyRoach (or called "Chong"). The origins of his katsaridaphobia has yet to be explored, but apparently Raphael was able to keep it quiet, as his brothers never knew of his phobia until that episode.
He eventually conquers his bug fear in "The Insecta Trifecta".
It is revealed in "Parasitica" that Raphael gets nausea after seeing body parts from bugs.
Raphael had a pet turtle named Spike, who later turned into Slash.
Raphael is shown to care a lot about his youngest brother Michelangelo, as he didn't know what to do anymore when Michelangelo got hurt.
Raphael also cares about his other brothers as he said: "I don't mind risking my own life, but my brothers'..."
It is seen in "New Girl in Town", when Raphael gets under so much pressure being the leader for a short time, he freezes up with anxiety.
Though he is the second oldest, Raphael is the shortest of the turtles.
In the first season of the show he has three big rivals Fishface, Spider Bytez and the Spy-roach.
Raphael is the second Turtle to hide completely in his shell as seen in "The Good, The Bad and Casey Jones".
Raphael's personality has traits of a Tsundere, in Japan a tsundere is a person that acts hostile and cold towards others but has a much more softer side to them that they reveal over time.
It is revealed in "Lone Rat and Cubs" that Raph got the scar on his plastron when he was run over by a shopping cart as a child.
It is revealed in "Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady" that he hates sour cream.
He is right-handed.
He is first seen without his mask in "The Creeping Doom".
It is a blink-and-miss, a maskless Raph, and then Leo, are seen chasing Donnie, who has their masks, around the Lair.
Raph is also the fourth turtle seen maskless.
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Dr. Charles Shaver: Provinces need to obey Canada Health Act to protect Canadian travellers
Charles Shaver
Should B.C. follow the lead of Ontario and threaten to cancel government health coverage outside of Canada? Or should B.C. increase its coverage for health claims outside of Canada? The answer is far from simple.
Most provinces pay up to the rate that their physicians receive when people require foreign medical care. For hospital care, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec pay up to $100 per day. Ontario pays $400, Nova Scotia $525, Manitoba $570 but B.C. only pays $75. All those provincial governments urge persons to obtain private insurance when travelling abroad.
However, some persons cannot qualify for or afford private travel insurance. They may have severe pre-existing illnesses or have changed the dose of their medications recently.
Most claims involve care in the United States. Provincial governments now cover only a small percentage of these potentially catastrophic hospital bills. Yet not all of the Canadians who leave on business or vacation travel to the U.S. or Europe have coverage.
Many residents of the Lower Mainland, Toronto and Montreal come from developing countries or China. Thus many of these new Canadians may travel to visit relatives and friends in south and east Asia, Mexico, Lebanon or other countries in which daily hospital charges are surprisingly low. As an example, the existing Ontario provincial health coverage would have been sufficient to cover most or all of these bills. This would permit many to travel with government coverage not dependent on previous good health.
If this loss of coverage dissuades new Canadians from visiting relatives back home, some may ask their parents and grandparents to come for prolonged stays in Canada. Many of these elderly patients have pre-existing conditions and may not have adequate medical insurance coverage. If they needed health care, it would put an added burden on our healthcare system.
As a result, some provinces — especially B.C. — should significantly increase their out-of-country health coverage. What would be fair? You decide. Consider that the B.C. government pays Ontario hospitals according to an interprovincial schedule set by each province. The rate for a standard room is $1,010 a day at a community hospital and $1,958 at the main teaching hospital.
Cancellation of out-of-country coverage, as proposed by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, would violate the Canada Health Act. This could put the federal health minister and the prime minister in a difficult situation.
Justin Trudeau might intervene. After all, on Feb. 7, he said, “We have acted in the past when provinces have not aligned themselves with the Canada Health Act.”
However, to be consistent, he should also address Quebec’s longstanding violation of a different part of Section 11 of the act. That province pays only its own rate when its residents receive medical care in another province, although the act clearly indicates that the host-province rate must apply.
This affects persons in West Quebec who seek specialized services in Ottawa and Quebecers who are treated for unexpected accidents or illnesses while on vacation or on business trips elsewhere in Canada. It also impacts Quebecers during the first three months after a permanent move to another province or territory. All usually pay directly and are later partly reimbursed.
Trudeau should not criticize Ford if he is unwilling to penalize Quebec Premier Francois Legault for his own violation of the Canada Health Act. Persons deserve to be treated equally under federal law in every province and territory.
Dr. Charles Shaver is an Ottawa internal medicine specialist and past-chairman of the section on general internal medicine of the Ontario Medical Association.
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Fox TV Stations Will Offer Programmatic Buys
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The TV-station unit of 21st Century Fox said it would allow advertisers to buy advertising inventory from its stations with programmatic technology, giving new momentum to a method of ad buying with which many marketers have experimented.
Fox Television Stations said it would use WideOrbit, an ad-tech firm, to help clients buy inventory controlled by the stations and automate transactions with specific buying partners, among other things. Fox’s Television Stations Group operates 28 stations in 17 markets and covers 37% of U.S. homes.
“Based on our tests over the last year, we are convinced that programmatic advertising will be a complementary additional sales channel for our stations,’ said Jim Burke, president of sales for Fox Television Stations, in a statement. ” Opening a programmatic sales channel is a clear win for everyone involved in the media buying process and we’re proud to be the first network owned-and-operated group to offer it to our buying partners.”
Programmatic buying helps marketers place ads according to a predefined set of data — and get it at what is believed to be a more efficient price. The technique is gaining more traction as Madison Avenue attempts to place advertising on TV in much the same way it does in digital arenas, with precision and in a way that can reach an audience more narrowly defined around a set of behaviors or characteristics.
The move “makes it simpler and more appealing for our clients to buy local media,” said Jennifer Hungerbuhler, executive vice president of video and audio buying for local media at Dentsu Aegis, in an interview. “Buying based on behavioral and attitudinal information allows us to do more advance targeting and get beyond age and gender media buys.”
Fox said WideOrbit has access to inventory from more than 750 stations that reach more than 93% of U.S. households and 270 million people. “Fox’s embrace of programmatic advertising shows that it is committed to setting up its stations to capitalize on new revenue opportunities and offering its customers robust solutions for making better audience targeting decisions and automating processes,” said Eric R. Mathewson, founder and CEO of WideOrbit, in a statement.
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A Spice Girls Exhibition Is Coming to London
Spice up your life—and next vacation!
Text: Jake Viswanath
There was perhaps no larger worldwide phenomenon in the '90s than Spice Mania, the craze surrounding the Spice Girls that persists today (if the fervent rumors about an impending reunion are anything to go by). It's difficult to think of another musical act that spawned as much passion, empowerment, and specially branded merchandise as the Spice Girls. So what better way to commemorate their ongoing legacy than with an exhibition in the city where it all started?
#SpiceUpLondon, the Spice Girls Exhibition, will open at London's Business Design Centre on July 28 and celebrate everything that made the propelled Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Emma Bunton, Mel C, and Victoria Beckham to become the biggest girl group of all time. It promises to be the "biggest exhibition of its kind in history," displaying some of their most known stage costumes (some of which haven't been showcased since the '90s) and thousands of memorabilia items that we pined for as children. And in a very sentimental touch, the original Spice Bus seen in the iconic film Spice World is being refurbished by fans and the original owners to be displayed outside of the exhibition. No word on whether Ginger, Scary, Sporty, Baby, or Posh Spice are on board, but how could they miss the opportunity to carry out their legacy that doesn't involve touring?
The exhibition will be the central hub of an array of events that #SpiceUpLondon is planning, including dance classes and double-decker London bus tours that are sure to literally Spice up London—but more importantly, your life. Tickets to the exhibition and bus tours are on sale now, and you can make a donation to help restore the Spice Bus, and get your name on a plaque inside it, here.
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Miley Cyrus shares brilliant throwback photo with Hailey Baldwin and fans are loving it
Time flies, doesn't it?
Miley Cyrus is only 26 years old, but it feels like she's been around forever. From Hannah Montana all the way through to her adorable-looking marriage to long-time beau Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus has grown up right in front of our eyes - with a couple of... interesting left turns along the way.
No one, you suspect, is as surprised at Miley Cyrus' development into a fully-fledged adult as Cyrus herself, and her latest throwback photos were a pleasant blast from the past. Heading to Instagram, Miley posted a ton of photos on her story to commemorate International Women's Day.
Naturally, Miley was happy to share some snaps of some strong, independent women she knows and loves, but one particular photo had us feeling all of the feels. Posing with Hailey Baldwin - who's now married to Justin Bieber (wow, I feel old), Miley's taking us on a wild trip down Memory Lane.
With Hailey taking on the tongue-out pose that Miley would make her own over the years, Mrs Bieber shared the pic on her own social media page, writing "Oh God" and "hahaha", along with a bunch of emojis.
Credit: Instagram
Miley and Hailey got to know each other through Hailey's sister Alaia Baldwin, but Miley revealed to James Corden, Hailey and Kendall Jenner on an episode of Carpool Karaoke that herself and Alaia used to be "evil" to poor old Hailey.
"She would try to play with us, like me and Alaia...we would lock her out of the room...and be evil," Miley explained, and Hailey Baldwin corroborated that, adding: "My older sister and her used to gang up on me."
"Miley was the biggest troll to me...she prepared me for this industry." and Miley reassured Hailey that it was all out of love: "I had to. It made you who you are. It made you stronger. Now you can always take the trolls and s**t because I was such a troll."
Turns out, Miley Cyrus was pretty busy this International Women's Day, and while she was dipping into her past on Instagram Stories, she was dipping into the absurd on Twitter.
Posting this pretty odd GIF on the microblogging site, Miley gave us two options for celebrating International Women's Day: "Top like Taylor or Twerk like Miley?" Fortunately, there are other ways to celebrate International Women's Day, but people were kind of wondering what Miley was on about.
"Now I've seen everything," wrote @MyBlackKiss, who looked upon a GIF of Miley twerking and Taylor Swift taking the Robin Thicke role (2013 was a weird year), and said the only thing that could be said. "Ok who hacked her," said @SHADESOFVIRGO, more in hope than anything, but there's no doubt that Miley tweeted this out, and more importantly, she wanted us to answer her tweet.
Well there you have it, folks: you'd be hard pressed anybody who enjoyed International Women's Day more than Miley Cyrus, if her social media's anything to go by.
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Category Archives: Invasives
Asian hornet 2017
Last month I wrote about the discovery and predicted spread of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) once (if) it gets established in the UK.
New Asian hornet isolation in North Devon
The National Bee Unit (NBU) and DEFRA have today (26th September 2017) reported the identification of an Asian hornet in the Woolacombe area of North Devon. This is about 100 miles from the Tetbury site (near Stroud) where the Asian hornet was isolated in September last year. There was an additional isolation in North Somerset in autumn 2016, though the precise location was not publicised.
Asian hornet …
Genetic analysis by the NBU will determine whether the new isolate is related to previous isolates. This would imply, though not prove, that the hornet may be established and breeding on mainland UK.
I’m speaking at the Devon Beekeepers Convention in Totnes next month and expect to hear more about efforts to track down and destroy the (or nests) at the meeting.
The Asian hornet appears to now be established on Jersey in the Channel Islands.
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Invasives on September 26, 2017 by David.
Extrapolating Asian Hornets
Extrapolation in mathematical terms means “the extension of a graph, curve, or range of values by inferring unknown values from trends in the known data”. There’s a rather poor scientific joke which involves ‘extrapolating the line’ from a single data point.
Here’s the same joke from the incomparable xkcd.com …
Extrapolating (with thanks to xkcd.com)
… which brings us neatly to the Asian hornet† (Vespa velutina). This invasive species predates honey bees and other pollinators and is a threat to beekeeping for two reasons:
by killing honey bees (which comprise > 50% of the diet) it can destroy colonies
by hunting at hive entrances it prevents bees from foraging, so reducing honey yields
Vespa velutina …
As many will be aware, at those who members of a beekeeping association or internet-savvy, an Asian hornet nest was discovered in Tetbury, near Bristol, in September 2016. Although the nest was destroyed (and other nests were not found) there remains the concern that the Asian hornet may be established here. If that’s the case, or if when it arrives again, how far and how fast will it spread in the UK?
A recent publication by Matt Keeling and colleagues has attempted to to address this. You’ll appreciate the relevance of the cartoon above … August 2016, no hornet nests, September 2016, one hornet nest. How many can we expect in the future?
A long way from home
Asian hornet distribution …
Unsurprisingly (the clue is in the name) the Asian hornet comes from Asia. The native distribution includes tropical South East Asia where it exists in a number of different colour morphs or sub-species. However, it spreads – naturally on its own and with the inadvertent help of man – and is now established in Korea, Japan and North West Europe.
The Asian Hornet appeared in South West France in 2004. It was thought that overwintering queens were imported with a shipment of pottery from China (it is the V. velutina nigrithorax subspecies – see map for native distribution). Since 2004 the Asian hornet has spread widely across France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Italy. You can view a dynamic Google map showing location and time of detection here.
It’s a short hop across the Channel from Northern France for an insect that flies strongly and disperses widely, so there was every expectation that the Asian hornet would appear in the UK in due course. Remember that bluetongue virus of sheep was introduced to the UK in 2006 by tiny Culicoides midges wafted across the Channel on the prevailing South Easterly winds.
Brexit or not, the Asian hornet can easily get to Southern England.
Asian hornets were first found in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, in September 2016 and subsequently in North Somerset. A nest was found in Tetbury and destroyed. Haplotype analysis demonstrated that, unsurprisingly, the hornets were related to those in Northern France. Worryingly, this analysis also demonstrated that the hornets were related, but no closer than at the grandparent level.
This suggests one of two scenarios. Either there were two separate incursions from France by hornets that were closely related or the Asian hornet was established in the UK before 2016 and the Somerset and Gloucestershire finds represent progeny (two generations later) of this initial invasion.
There have been no further reported Asian hornet finds on the mainland (as of early August 2017 and remembering that absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence) though additional nests have been found on Jersey and it’s possible that the hornet is established in the Channel Islands.
How far, how fast?
Whether or not the Tetbury hornet incursion has been contained there remains the question about how far and fast will the Asian hornet spread in the UK.
This is the sort of thing that can be modelled by epidemiologists. Taking account of a variety of factors such as the numbers of queens produced per nest, the environmental suitability for the hornet, the dispersal distances and – importantly for a species originating in tropical regions – the latitude (and hence temperature).
Much of the real numbers for these various factors come from studies of the spread of the Asian hornet in France. For example, the mean dispersal distance of new queens is about 18 miles i.e. Tetbury to central London in about 5 generations.
Predicted spread of the Asian hornet in UK …
In the figure above A-D are the early years (<5), E and F are the predictions for 10 and 20 years hence. Remember, this is an inexact science as the predictions are being made from a very small founder population. G shows the confidence limits which, at 90% (the palest shading) are very broad.
Is Scotland safe?
As a beekeeper in Scotland the potential to spread North is a concern … those of you living further South can simply jump ahead to the conclusions.
A key feature of the prediction Keeling and colleagues made was that increasing latitudes (and possibly altitude going by the pale shading of North Wales and the Pennines, though this could also be lack of suitable nesting environments – the Asian hornet prefers oak trees apparently) will restrict breeding success and hence spread due to reduced temperatures.
They modelled this by assuming reproductive success/spread (actually queens/nest) was 100% in Andernos-les-Bains, France (where much of the data used for the modelling was derived) and 0% in the North of England. This mirrors the situation for the European hornet which is much less common in Northern England. Assuming a linear decrease in queens per nest over this distance they reproductive success in Tetbury is only 38% that in Andernos-les-Bains.
With these assumptions, Scotland is safe. I should add that I’m talking about natural distribution and spread. A single Asian hornet was discovered at a “retail warehouse in the central belt of Scotland” in March 2017. Although there’s no further official news about this discovery it seems likely it was imported ‘on the back of a lorry’ (and the SASA/NBU people will be able to tell where from after genetic analysis) to one of the giant distribution warehouses in Motherwell or Livingston. If the assumptions made about reproductive success at increasing latitudes are correct, this type of introduction is unlikely to result in the Asian hornet getting established in Scotland.
All of the modelling discussed so far assumes no intervention by FERA or by protective and vigilant beekeepers. The impact of nest destruction will be discussed in the future … but don’t get your hopes up 😉
Asian hornet nest …
With only one (or two?) incursions and no further reports in 2017 it’s possible that the Asian hornet is yet to become established in mainland UK. Once here – and I think it’s pretty certain it will get here and become established – the speed with which it spreads may look like the model proposed here. If the underlying assumptions on reproductive success, dispersal distance etc. are representative of the situation in the UK then – without effective intervention – we can expect it to be widespread within a couple of decades.
However, a feature of all epidemiological modelling is that they are subject to revision and reinterpretation … inevitably leading to further publications.
STOP PRESS and related …
Asian hornet isolation confirmed in Woolacombe, North Devon, late September 2017
Full analysis of 2016 isolates published in PLoS One. Budge GE, Hodgetts J, Jones EP, Ostojá-Starzewski JC, Hall J, Tomkies V, et al. (2017) The invasion, provenance and diversity of Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Great Britain. PLoS ONE 12: e0185172. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185172
† Don’t mistake the Asian or Yellow-legged hornet (Vespa velutina) with the Asian giant hornet (Vespa bloodyenormousandterrifying). The latter has a wingspan of 7.5cm and its proper scientific name is Vespa mandarinia. A number of newspaper articles in autumn 2016 made this mistake. Many also chose to use images of the European hornet (Vespa crabro) or other large stingy-looking insects … none of which are likely to help the public correctly identify the invasive Asian hornet.
Vespa mandarinia …
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Invasives and tagged asian hornet, Budge, extrapolation, invasive species, Keeling, Scotland, Tetbury, Vespa velutina, xkcd.com on August 18, 2017 by David.
Asian hornet in the UK
The National Bee Unit has confirmed the discovery and identification of an Asian hornet in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The press release has further details.
These hornets are smaller and darker than the European hornet. Note in particular how dark the abdomen is, with only the fourth segment predominantly yellow (in contrast with our European hornet where at least half of the abdomen is yellow). The National Bee Unit has a very useful guide to identifying the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) and distinguishing it from the European hornet (Vespa crabro).
Inevitably there’s going to be a lot of statements about “the end of beekeeping as we know it” and speculation of the impact it will really have on our colonies. Time will tell whether it’s been identified early enough to eradicate, how it arrived in deepest Gloucestershire and where it came from.
The Asian hornet has been established and spread widely in France since inadvertent importation in 2004 from China. It was discovered in the Channel Islands earlier this summer. It’s arrival on the mainland was expected, but is nevertheless disappointing.
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Invasives and tagged asian hornet, Feck, invasive species, National Bee Unit, NBU, SHB, small hive beetle on September 20, 2016 by David.
Small Hive Beetle update
Disappointingly, but not altogether surprisingly, small hive beetle (SHB) has reappeared in Southern Italy again.
Just when you thought it was safe to import bees again
The beetle was first detected in mid-September 2014 in the Calabria region. The following couple of months saw a further 60 reported infested apiaries in Calabria and neighbouring regions, with a single apiary in Sicily – containing migratory hives – in which the beetle was also detected. The Italian authorities surveyed over 1200 apiaries during the last four months of 2014 with over 3200 hives in infested apiaries being destroyed. Beekeepers were compensated, but this must have been devastating for those involved.
Then everything went quiet … Spring testing (March to May), which involved both a national surveillance programme and specific activity – including sentinel nucs – in Calabria and Sicily, didn’t detect any infested apiaries.
SHB 2015 Calabria
In mid-September this year (English link in the top right corner of page) an apiary was discovered with hives containing both larvae and adult beetles. At the time of writing (23/8/15) a further 16 infested apiaries have subsequently been discovered, all within the western part of Calabria (PDF map of the current situation) in the ‘toe’ of Italy. This is a disappointing development as it suggests strongly that the beetle remains well established in Italy and that eradication was not achieved.
An alternative suggestion – promoted by the Federazione Apicoltori Italiani (FAI) – is that this new detection represents a re-introduction of the beetle to Italy. This seems a bit far fetched … the infested apiaries are some distance from the coastal ports or large cargo airports but are instead slap-bang in the middle of the area with the largest number of infested apiaries in 2014. If it walks like a duck etc.
Unlike Varroa the beetle isn’t restricted to honeybee colonies. It can fly long distances (kilometres) and, although the larvae feed on pollen, brood and honey in the hive, they pupate outside the hive buried 10-20cm deep in soil and have been known to crawl 200m in search of suitable soil in which to pupate. Presumably the reappearance of the beetle in Italy is either due to low level infestations being missed or to beetles emerging after pupation and re-infesting colonies. Or both.
Is eradication possible?
Probably not. I commented in a posting last November that:
“Once here it is unlikely that we will be able to eradicate SHB. The USA failed, Hawaii failed, Australia failed, Canada failed and it looks almost certain that Italy has failed.”
Indeed, the only time I’m aware that ‘eradication’ was achieved was when the beetle was introduced in an illegal shipment from queens to a single apiary in the UK. In addition to destroying the colonies, the ground was ploughed up, soil removed and the area drenched in insecticide1. I’m not aware in this case whether the beetles had even become established after introduction. In contrast, by the end of 2014 the beetle was widely distributed and well established and it is therefore not surprising, despite the concerted efforts of the Italian authorities, that they have failed to eradicate the beetle.
The National Bee Unit also consider that eradication is almost certainly impossible. In their excellent guide to the beetle (PDF), under the heading “Could we eradicate the Small Hive beetle from the UK?” they state:
“Probably not. Unless the Small hive beetle is detected very soon after its arrival, it will rapidly spread into the surrounding honey bee population, making eradication very difficult. A major limiting factor to eradication would be the unknown distribution of managed bee hives and the potential for populations of the beetle to survive in wild hosts (eg. feral bees and bumble bees).”
In time-honoured EU tradition an export ban on the affected region had been imposed, but it’s seemingly difficult – if not impossible – to impose an import ban to protect our bees and beekeeping. My concern is that nucs or packages imported to the UK from a region not currently under an EU-imposed movement ban might introduce the beetle into this country. The original movement ban on Calabria and Sicily (actually, not on the entire areas, but instead lying within a 20km radius from the known infested apiaries) was due to end in November 2015. Had the beetle not been detected it would have been at least theoretically possible to import bees from these regions, either directly or indirectly, for the start of the 2016 season. Presumably the movement ban will be extended in light of the failure to eradicate.
It’s also worth noting that only about 10% of imports are checked as they come into the UK and that the volume of illegal imports is not known.
There’s already discussion on the various beekeeping web forums about “when, not if, the beetle arrives” and that UK beekeepers will “cope with it”, just as they’ve coped with Varroa*. There’s a sort of resigned acceptance that, sooner or later, SHB will arrive. If it does, I expect we’ll attempt eradication by destroying colonies in infested apiaries. Again, devastating for the beekeepers involved …
* This is a pretty weak statement in my view … although we do cope with Varroa I’m sure the vast majority of beekeepers would much prefer to not have to deal with the mite.
In the meantime, there are steps that can be taken to reduce the chances of the beetle arriving in the UK, or make us better prepared should it arrive. These include:
Registering your apiaries on Beebase. The National Bee Unit will then both keep you informed of developments and know where colonies are should there be an outbreak and the regional inspector needs to check them.
Plan to become self-sufficient as a beekeeper … perhaps forego a little honey by preparing an additional nuc to overwinter for security, learn how to raise queens or – if you do already – raise a couple of additional queens.
Buy local bees or queens if you need to buy any. Sell your own surplus locally.
Encourage your association to become self-sufficient for bees and queens – establish a queen rearing group, or guarantee all those attending a beekeeping winter training course will be provided with a locally raised nuc for the following season.
Don’t buy imported queens or bees and discourage others from doing the same, for example by not allowing imported stocks in association apiaries.
Locally raised queen
Obviously points 2-4 are all aimed at avoiding the need to import bees or queens. This is because the most likely route by which SHB will get to the UK is in imported nucs, packages, queens or other beekeeping materials (e.g. wax). Don’t believe some of the nonsense about ‘pupae in contaminated soil’ as the most likely route … the NBU have conducted a thorough risk assessment (PDF) and by far and away the most probable route the beetle will gain access to the UK is with bees or beekeeping (hive) products. Where known, this is how it got into all other countries that currently have the beetle.
Is there any good news?
Not about small hive beetle I’m afraid. Other than it’s not here … yet.
However, taking some of the steps listed above will both improve your beekeeping skills and provide lots of enjoyment. Queen rearing can be incredibly simple … you can modify a straightforward vertical split to generate a number of queen cells and divide these with some frames of bees and stores into nucs. No grafting, no handling anything smaller than a brood frame and no need to find the queen more than once. Simple, satisfying and self-sufficient …
Michael Palmer started a discussion on the Beesource forum with the prophetic words “The UK will soon have Small Hive Beetles in their area” helpfully requesting comparisons in climate between US locations that find the beetle a nuisance and those that do not. It’s worth watching. Clearly climate is only part of the equation … soil type – and temperature (as pointed out by knowledgeable contributors to the BKF thread on this) also has a significant influence, with the beetle preferring light and/or sandy soils to pupate in.
But all this would be irrelevant if we manage to keep the beetle out of the UK …
1.Murilhas, A (2005) Aethina tumida arrives in Portugal. Will it be eradicated? EurBee Newsletter: 7‑9.
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Invasives and tagged health, imports, Italy, Nucs, queen rearing, SHB on October 24, 2015 by David.
Time to ban bee imports?
Small Hive Beetle
The West Sussex Beekeepers Association have proposed the following motion to the BBKA Annual Delegates Meeting (ADM) in January “Following the discovery of Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida, (SHB) in Italy in September 2014 this ADM instructs BBKA to urgently seek a ban on the importation of bees and unprocessed bee products into the U.K”. Further details can be found in their newsletter (under the heading Jim’s Jottings, from the illogically named Jim Norfolk, Chairman of the West Sussex BKA). The full proposition from West Sussex BKA, the supporting notes and the response from the BBKA Executive Committee can be found here on the Beekeeping Forum. The Executive Committee of the BBKA does not support the proposition – as summarised in the sentence “At this point in time the Executive does not consider it appropriate to seek or it be possible to achieve a ban on the importation of honey bees and unprocessed honey bee products and does not support the proposition“.
There is little justification explaining why the BBKA Executive Committee do not consider it appropriate to seek a ban on imports. As explained in a recent post, the National Bee Unit have conducted a risk assessment (in 2009) which concluded that “The pathway likely to present the greatest risk of introduction [of SHB] was the movement and importation of honey bees”.
Time is short … discuss this with your association
Please discuss the potential introduction of SHB and how it might be prevented with your own local association. If you feel strongly about it persuade your delegate at the January BBKA ADM to support the motion proposed by the West Sussex BKA. Remember that the UK imports thousands of queens and bees from Europe every year, many are from Italy, but others are from countries like France that also import thousands of queens and bees from Italy. Do you know where the nuc you or enthusiastic beginners purchased in April/May originated from?
The precautionary principle is that there “is a social responsibility to protect the [public or environment] from exposure to harm, when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk. These protections can be relaxed only if further scientific findings emerge that provide sound evidence that no harm will result“. There is a plausible risk of SHB entering the UK during the importation of bees. Until evidence is provided to the contrary – presumably by the BBKA and others who do not support a ban on bee imports – the precautionary principle should be applied.
The Native Irish Honey Bee Society has “calling for an immediate ban on imports of honey bees on animal health protection grounds“. Malta has already banned imports from Southern Italy. The Local Association Secretaries of the SBA have discussed the threat of SHB where there was considerable support for the following proposition “The SBA urges that all possible measures are taken to prevent the introduction of small hive beetle into the UK. These should include a cessation of trade in live bees from the rest of Europe for 2015 until the true spread of the pest is better known“. The Welsh BKA are discussing the issue shortly.
Eradication after arrival …
With the exception of the introduction of SHB to Portugal in 2004, no country has managed to eradicate the beetle after it has been introduced. In Portugal the beetle was introduced as larvae with a single shipment of queens (illegally) imported from Texas to a single apiary. All colonies in the apiary were destroyed and the ground was ploughed up and soaked in insecticide. Rather than rely on the contingency plans and sentinel apiaries in the UK to detect the beetle after arrival we should use the age-old doctrine of prevention being better than cure … we should do our best to stop the beetle getting here in the first place.
Other benefits of a ban on imports
Decreased reliance on imported bees and queens is likely to significantly benefit UK beekeeping in the long run. We may have to alter the way we train beginners, we might have to do a lot more autumn requeening, we might have to improve our integrated pest management, we will have to increase local queen rearing activities … however, none of these are insurmountable problems and all are likely to improve the quality of UK beekeeping. Bees and queens might become more expensive, but only until local association queen and nuc rearing activities have geared up to cope with the additional demand. I would think that any increase would be insignificant if compared to the cost of lost colonies should SHB arrive and become established in the UK. I accept that there might be issues for commercial beekeepers, but am unconvinced that a business model that relies upon cheap imports is sustainable in the long-term.
Further details on the biology of Small Hive Beetle can be found in this recent Current Zoology paper (PDF download) written by NBU scientists.
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Imports, Invasives and tagged health, imports, queen rearing, SHB, small hive beetle on November 29, 2014 by David.
Small Hive Beetle (SHB) and the UK
Small hive beetle (SHB; Aethina tumida) is a small, invasive beetle originally from Africa that infests colonies, eating brood, pollen and honey, destroying comb and causing honey to ferment. Without control, infestation leads to destruction of the colony. SHB is now present globally and, since the 1990’s, has been distributed with bees and bee products (e.g. beeswax) resulting in infestations in the USA and Hawaii, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Cuba. SHB was introduced to Portugal in 2004 (in a consignment of queens from Texas) but very rapidly detected and eradicated. This was the first time SHB was present on mainland Europe … it’s now back.
SHB has been detected in Southern Italy and appears to be well established. The UK imports large numbers of bee packages and queens from Italy. There is a very real threat to UK beekeeping … the summary of an article by the National Bee Unit concluded that “Its arrival in the United Kingdom would pose a significant threat to the long-term sustainability and economic prosperity of beekeeping and, as a consequence, to agriculture and the environment through disruption to pollination services”. My opinion is that the export of bees and queens from Italy should be banned until the extent of infestation is known. In addition, the import of bees and queens to the UK (from all countries, not just Italy) should be banned to reduce the chance of inadvertently acquiring the beetle from a third country.
The impact of SHB and its presence in Italy
In the USA, SHB was first detected in Florida in 1998. Within two years it had resulted in the destruction of 20,000 colonies in the USA. Like Varroa, once established, SHB will probably be impossible to eradicate. The National Bee Unit has produced an excellent (and recently updated) guide to SHB (PDF download) which should be compulsory reading for all beekeepers. It describes the identification of the beetle, the consequences of infestation, the likely impact on UK beekeepers and beekeeping, methods of detection (to be covered in another post) and control.
It appears as though the early infestation in the Calabria region of Southern Italy was overlooked, resulting in the beetle becoming quite widely distributed. The beetle was first detected on the 11th of September 2014, a protection zone (20km) and eradication zone (100km) were established with compulsory colony destruction of infested colonies in the former. Over 1500 colonies have been destroyed, but the protection zone has recently been extended to include much of eastern Sicily. SHB is clearly widespread in Southern Italy and COLOSS – the honeybee research organisation – have recently announced that SHB is in Europe to stay.
Southern Italy has a lot of migratory beekeeping meaning that the beetle is quite possibly even more widespread. Particularly worrying for UK beekeepers is that many bees and queens are imported from Italy, either directly or via a third country. In 2014 over 1200 packages of bees and 1750 batches of queens were imported from Italy, in 27 separate consignments. Only 8 of these consignments were inspected. The total imports from EU countries to the UK in 2014 was much larger, with 1400 packages of bees, 580 nucs and nearly 10,000 queens. Many thousands of queens are exported from Italy to France each year, with some perhaps being used to head the increasing number of French-sourced nucs being imported to the UK each year.
I do not think that UK beekeepers need to import bees or queens from abroad. I suspect that many of the imported queens are used to head early-season nucs being sold to enthusiastic new beekeepers at the beginning of the season, or to beekeepers making up for winter losses. I think the currently popularity of beekeeping, the “pile ’em high, sell ’em cheap” nature of some training courses and, possibly, poor standards of colony preparation for winter and patchy integrated pest management procedures, are the underlying causes for the high demand for early season nucs and queens. I will write separately about this during the winter.
The BBKA have released a statement to the effect that beekeepers should be vigilant, but that the most likely route by which the beetle will be imported is with fruit, vegetables and plant material from the affected area (25th September statement; PDF). There was no suggestion that import of bees from Italy to the UK should be banned. There may be several reasons for this, not least that current EU legislation may not allow such a ban to be imposed. I’m disappointed by failure of the BBKA to take a more aggressive stance to protect UK beekeepers and beekeeping. Although SHB can be transmitted by at least 8 different routes (including flying up to 10km) a published analysis by DEFRA (“Development of an evidence based risk assessment for small hive beetle“) on the threat from SHB to the UK includes the quote “The pathway likely to present the greatest risk of introduction was the movement and importation of honey bees”. This report was published in 2009.
This situation is developing, but there are only a few months until the new season starts. There are active threads discussing it on the Beekeeping Forum and the – often better informed – SBAi forum. The SBAi forum contains links to a number of maps showing distribution of the beetle in Italy and translations of the pages from reports on Italian beekeeping websites.
What can UK beekeepers and associations do?
Beekeeping associations should discuss their assessment of the risk of SHB to UK beekeeping (as should individuals). Don’t leave this until next season … it may be too late by then. If SHB was to be introduced to the UK I would expect colony destruction to be used as a means of controlling spread, at least initially. Does your association want to risk this? Bee Diseases Insurance (BDI) will cover colony destruction necessitated by the presence of SHB, but the cover is limited to only £50,000 (this is nationally, not per beekeeper). What else could an association do to help prevent SHB changing UK beekeeping?
Encourage association member not to import bees or queens. Ideally, don’t import bees or queens at all (do you know where your French-sourced nuc actually originated?) but at the very least don’t import from Italy.
Do not allow imported bees to be housed on association apiaries. These often have higher hive densities and so provide ample opportunity for spread. This may also encourage beekeepers to source local bees, rather than having to move from a shared association apiary.
Encourage active queen rearers in the association to make queens available to association members who would otherwise purchase imported queens. Allow free adverts in your newsletter? Provide lists of queen and nuc suppliers.
Start a queen rearing group so association members become more self-sufficient. Locally bred queens are likely to be better suited to the local conditions, so this makes sense anyway.
Encourage beginners on winter beekeeping courses to source local bees from association members rather than purchasing them from an unknown source at the earliest opportunity. They might have to wait a few extra weeks (and I appreciate the urge to get started as soon as possible) but they can get some experience with their mentor during this time and will be much better prepared when the nuc is ready.
Overwinter 5 frame nucs for use or sale in the spring. This is too late for this year but requires only a little preparation during the mid/late summer season. This could be done both at the individual and association level … “guaranteeing” local bees for attendees on winter beginners courses.
Watch the excellent talk that Michael Palmer gave at the National Honey Show in 2013 on The Sustainable Apiary.
Encourage your national beekeeping association (BBKA, SBA, WBKA) to take a pro-active stance to limit the chances of the beetle being imported.
Monitor colonies using Correx SHB traps on a regular basis – more on this in a later post.
Contingency planning for the Small Hive Beetle – Bee-Craft article from 2012 describing sentinel apiaries, monitoring imports etc.
Beebase (DEFRA) pages on Small Hive Beetle and further notes on contingency planning.
This entry was posted in Beekeeping, Invasives and tagged health, Nucs, queen rearing, SHB on November 16, 2014 by David.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 · 11:21 PM
Fringe Finale: “There’s More Than One of Everything” Recap
We start the episode with Nina Sharp being rushed into a hospital after being shot at her apartment. At the Fringe division office, Agent Dunham and other agents are watching the surveilence video of Nina Sharp’s shooting. After running voice recognition on the audio of the recording, they identify the killer as David Robert Jones. In the video, his face is covered in bandages, making them believe that he has undergone severe plastic surgery to become less recognizable.
Peter returns to the lab looking for Walter, but only finds Astrid, who is also in search of Walter. Olivia apologizes for chastising Walter over the experiments he and William Bell did on her as a child, and they embark on a search to find him. Walter is then shown walking through a graveyard, with The Observer “observing” as he does best.
Phillip Broyles is then shown talking to Nina Sharp, who is still in the hospital from her gun shot wound. Nina tells Broyles she must speak with Agent Dunham immediately. Nina tells Agent Dunham that William Bell is not the head of a terrorist organization. She said Jones did work for Massive Dynamic 15 years ago, but he was fired due to misconduct. Nina reveals that after he broke out of jail, he began making questionable phone calls to her. She also reveals that William Bell has gone into hiding and only communicates with her electronically. She warns that if Jones gets to Bell first, all the secrets they are looking for will be lost. She also tells her that Jones stole a very powerful energy source from her bionic arm when he shot her.
Jones is then shown in the street with some sort of machine. Using the stolen energy source, he tries to make some sort of warp-hole. It won’t stabilize, but he does eventually get it stable enough to send the back end of an 18 wheeler through the warp porthole. The camera zooms in on Jones, revealing his severely mangled face.
The Observer and Walter are standing on a beach when The Observer directs Walter’s attention to a house that he is supposed to be familiar with. The Observer says he is to go inside and try to remember what he is looking for, and that he hasn’t much time. Walter begins his walk towards the home.
Back at the lab, Broyles introduces Astrid to Nina. They begin to question her about Walter’s recent behavior. They tell them that Walter has disappeared, and Nina activates a search for Walter. They find a picture of Walter exiting a train station, which Peter recognizes as the one near a beach house they used to enjoy visiting. Peter volunteers to drive to the beach house and personally retrieve Walter.
At the scene of the warp porthole, as I will now call it, Agents Dunham and Francis learn that the truck that was cut in half by the portal was never made. The VIN number and the serial parts numbers return no results, and the driver’s prints didn’t exist. So where was the truck from? Olivia tells Nina that the truck came from “nowhere”. Olivia threatens to turn the world upside down looking for William Bell, and Nina laughs saying,”That’s just the problem Agent Dunham. William Bell is not in this world.”
Jones is shown exiting a car at a soccer field while children are playing.
Olivia and Nina begin to explain the Bell situation to Agent Francis. Nina then says that Jones stole the energy source in an attempt to open up the porthole to the “alternate reality” that Bell is currently hiding in.
Back at the beach house, Watler is in a mad dash to find the missing important object. Peter begins to talk about memories they had at the beach house. When he starts talking about the pancakes Walter used to make, Walter remembers where he hid the important object.
Back at the soccer field Bell was previously seen at, an eyewitness reports similar events that occurred on the street the day before. A body that is cut in half is lying on the ground, leaving them to believe that the porthole was reactivated at the park site.
At the beach house, Walter is rummaging through old boxes when he finds the case he is looking for. The case just happens to be locked. Greeaaat.
Olivia, Nina, and Broyles are plotting out the locations where “pattern” related incidents occurred. Nina believes she may understand the patter behind “the pattern”. They pinpoint a location where they believe Jones will strike next with the porthole creator.
Peter and Walter open the box and find a device that Walter created to be able to quickly close the porthole in the event that a crisis emerged. Peter and Walter make their way to the same location as Olivia, Nina, and crew by the direction of The Observer.
The people of the Fringe division arrive to find Jones has opened up the porthole and is going to cross over to find and kill William Bell. Olivia shoots down all of his crew, but when she goes to shoot Jones, the bullet passes through him because he teleported out of jail, making him comparable to a hologram. Peter uses the porthole closer as Jones is entering, cutting his body in half just like the person from the park.
At the lab, Peter and Astrid find a note from Walter saying that he has gone out for a walk. We then see Walter in the same graveyard as before, beginning to cry over one of the tombstones. We then see the tombstone, which says “Peter Bishop”. Apparently, the Peter we see today was taken from the alternate reality when the current reality Peter died.
Olivia receives a call from Nina Sharp, who tells her she will hold up her end of the deal. She instructs her to a hotel in Manhattan. In the hotel, Olivia learns that Nina Sharp has exited the country. Upset, Olivia makes her way to the elevator. While on the elevator, the lights flash and the surroundings blink. The elevator opens and she exits in a different office building. She follows the receptionist into an office. An unidentified man then enters the room, and he then reveals he is William Bell. Olivia looks out the window to find that she is in Manhattan in one of the towers of The World Trade Center.
What did you think of tonight’s finale? Are you as excited as I am for next season? Leave your comments below or send an e-mail to theconservativejournal@gmail.com. Don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS Feed and the daily e-mail newsletter.
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Friday, May 29, 2009 · 1:27 PM
This Day in History, May 29th: Ronald Reagan, The Hoover Dam, and Melissa Etheridge
1790- Rhode Island finally gets around to ratifying the Constituition, and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848- Wisconsin becomes the 30th U.S. state.
1886- Coke (the drink) is advertised for the first time in the Atlanta Journal.
1935- The Hoover Dam is completed.
1988- Ronald Reagan makes his first trip to Soviet Union.
1999- Space Shuttle Discovery completes its first docking with the International Space Station.
2004- The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
Birthday Shoutouts
The Conservative Journal wishes a happy birthday to..
American rock singer Melissa Etheridge, 48.
Blair from The Facts of Life, Lisa Whelchel, 46.
Former American Idol contestant and plus-sized model Joanne Borgella, 27.
Happy International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers everyone!
To those of you that worship uner the Bahá’í Faith (Rainn Wilson/Dwight Schrute), happy Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh!
To those in Nepal, happy Republic Day!
Nigerians, happy Democracy Day!
And finally, Rhode Islanders and Wisonsinonians, happy Statehood Day!
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 · 5:22 PM
This Day in History: Octomom, Mars, and “The View”
1774- The first Continental Congress convenes.
1830- President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1859- Big Ben is delivered to the Palace of Westminster on a 16-horse carriage.
1930- The Chrylser Building, one the tallest building in the world, opens in New York.
1934- The first set of quintuplets that survive through infancy are born. Somewhere, Octomom is smirking. Look for more on the original quintuplets in today’s “Pointless Post of the Day”.
1937- The Golden Gate Bridge officially opens to vehicle traffic.
1952- Women in Greece are given the right to vote.
1964- The PLO is formed.
1996- Bill Clinton’s are convicted of fraud in the Whitewater land deal.
2002- The Mars Odyssey finds evidence of space ice.
The two surviving “original quintuplets” Cecile and Annette Dionne, 75.
“The Empress of Soul” Gladys Knight, 65.
My favorite mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, 65.
The only non-vomit-inducing member of “The View” Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Did you know her maiden name is “Filarski”? How awesome is that!), 32.
American pop singer Colbie Caillat, 24.
Happy Flag Day to those in the Philippines!
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 · 10:53 AM
This Day in History: Canada, Ford, and Baseball
1813- In Canada, American forces capture Fort George as a part of the War of 1812.
1883- Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1896- The F4-strength St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damages.
1907- A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1927- The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T.
1967- The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1995- Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1997- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998- Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the Oklahoma City bombing.
Australian politician Pauline Hanson because she made her own political party, 55.
ABC News anchor Cynthia McFadden, 53.
Former Houston Astros player Jeff Bagwell, 41.
Baseball champ and current free-agent Frank Thomas, 41.
Bolivian mothers: Happy Mother’s Day!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 · 1:18 PM
This Day in History: Witches, Feral Kids, and Lenny Kravitz
1293- An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1647- Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1805- Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano, the gothic cathedral in Milan.
1828- Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830- The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1964- Montana becomes a U.S. Territory.
1868- President Andrew Johnson is found not guilty in his impeachment trial by 1 vote.
1896- Charles Dow introduces the first publication of the Dow Industrial Average.
1966- British Guiana gains its independence, becoming Guyana.
1998- The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island is mostly in New Jersey rather than New York.
2006- The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
Stevie Nicks, because I don’t want to anger anyone that might be a Wiccan*, 61.
Hank Williams Jr., his song is called “The Red, White, and Pink Slip Blues”, need I say more? 60.
Bobcat Goldthwait, clearly because of the name, 47.
American singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, 45.
*The Conservative Journal DOES NOT believe that Stevie Nicks is or has ever been a member of the Wicca Cult.
To all you Polish mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!
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This Day in History: Canes, Volcanoes, and Mexico
1807- A grand jury indicts former V.P. Arron Burr on a count of treason.
1843- Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
1848- Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1856- Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas.
1906- The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine“.
1915- Lassen Peak in California erupts, joining Mt. Saint Helens as the only eruptions in the continental U.S. during the 20th century.
1942- Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.\
1947- U.S. President Harry Truman enacts the Truman Doctrine, giving $400 million of aid to fight communism in Turkey and Greece.
1960- The largest earthquake ever recorded hits southern Chile. It registered a 9.5.
1962- Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1992- After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
2008- The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between 22 May and 31 May 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
American businessman T. Boone Pickens, 81.
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski, 52.
former left handed MLB pitcher Tommy John, 66.
Also, don’t forget to go buy a banjo because today is “Buy a Musical Instrument Day”!
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This Day in History: Airplanes, Abortion, and Yemen
1851- Slavery is abolished in Columbia, South America.
1881- The American Red Cross is established.
1927- Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
1932- Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
1994- The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
1998- In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
Slow day.
The manager of my ex-favorite baseball team Bobby Cox, 68.
Al Franken even though I can’t stand him, 58.
Mr. T because he owns the mohawk, 57.
Judge Reinhold because he is in the “Santa Clause” series, the “Beethoven” series, AND Beverly Hills Cop 3, 52.
Baseball player Kent Hrbek because his name has the letters “h”, “r”, and “b” consecutively, 48.
Co-star of one of my favorite shows (House) Lisa Edelstein, 43.
Oh, and I wanted to wish everyone a happy World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, because that’s today. Don’t forget to go and buy the people that matter most a WDfCDfDaD gift!
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 · 3:40 PM
This Day in History: Earthquakes, Cuba, and Cher
May 2oth
526- A huge earthquake kills around 300,000 in Syria and Antiochia.
1609- Shakespeare’s sonnets are originally published.
1896- The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls and crushes a human.
1902- Cuba gains independence from the U.S.
1980- Quebec fails to gain independence from Canada.
1990- Romania holds it’s first election after the fall of communism in the nation.
1995- Quebec fails to gain independence from Canada. Again.
English singer Joe Coker, 65.
My personal favorite ultra-liberal and Hollywood communist Cher, 63.
Wife of the maverick Cindy McCain, 55.
Son of da bomb dot com Prez Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Jr., 51.
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This Day in History: Mexico, JFK, and Paper Mario
1780- Thick smoke and heavy cloud cover cause complete darkness to befall New England and Canada. It was big Colonial-style blackout.
1848- Mexico officiates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gives us California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day states. This ends the Mexican-American War, and all for less than $15 million out of our vault.
1921- Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act, which for the first time sets a limit on the volume of national immigration.
1962- Marilyn Monroe performs her infamous rendition of “Happy Birthday” for then President John F. Kennedy.
1991- Croatia becomes an independent nation.
The Conservative Journal wishes a happy birthday to…
former NFL football star Archie Manning, 60.
AC/DC drumer Phil Rudd, 55.
the voice of “Goombella” from the game Paper Mario Kelly Sheridan, 32.
Only the very rich and famous get a shout out from us.
In Memory of..
author Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1864.
former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1994.
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Monday, May 18, 2009 · 6:09 PM
This Day in History: Vampires, Comets, and Congress
1498- Vasco de Gama reaches Calicut, India.
1652- Rhode Island passes the first laws in North America making slavery illegal.
1804- Napolean Bonaparte declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
1863- The Siege of Vicksburg begins as part of the Civil War.
1897- Dracula is first published. Twilight fans, thank Irish Author Bram Stoker for the vampire.
1910- Haley’s Comet passes through the night sky.
1969- Apollo 10 is launched.
1980- Mt. St. Helens in Alaska erupts, killing 57 and causing several billion in damages.
1992- The 27th amendment is finally ratified 202 years after initial submission. This amendment prohibits salaries of members of Congress from being raised during the term.
My favorite Luxembourgian politician and former Prime Minister, Jacques Santer, 72.
Country music singer George Strait, 57.
The brilliantly hilarious Tina Fey, 39.
Victim of the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption Harry Randall Truman, 1980.
The first female member of Congress Jeannette Rankin, 1973.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 · 8:13 PM
This Day in History: Stocks, Horses, and Gays
As part of our “Summer Streamlining” The Conservative Journal is please to introduce the latest new feature: “This Day in History”! The “This Day in History” posts will consist of the most important events that happened on that date of years in the past, as well as some less-than-important information to lighten the mood. Here’s the first “This Day in History” post, enjoy:
1792- The New York Stock Exchange formed. I wonder how much a share of Ye Olde Trading Post cost?
1849- St. Louis was nearly burnt to a crisp by a massive fire.
1875- The First Kentucky Derby is held.
1954- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously passes Brown v. Board of Education, ending segregation in public schools.
1973- Televised Senate hearings begin regarding the Watergate Scandal.
1992- The World Health Organization finally takes Homosexuality off of its list of illnesses.
2004- Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. Somewhere, Barney Frank is smiling.
2007- For the first time since 1953, trains cross the 38th parallel between North and South Korea.
Famous boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, 53.
Irish folk singer Enya, 48.
Everyone’s favorite Belasurian pop singer Angelica Agurbash, 39.
San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker, 27.
James Buchanon’s vice president John C. Breckinridge, 1875.
Lawrence Welk, without him there would be no Judice on SNL, 1992.
Former Stan Lee Comics comic book artist Dave Berg, 2002.
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Clinton Campaign Cancels Mon/Tue Events in California – Flashback: Video From Dr. Drew Pinsky Questioning Hillary Health in August…
#BREAKING Clinton cancels Monday-Tuesday travel after health scare: campaign
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 12, 2016
Back in August Dr. Drew Pinsky gave an interview where he discussed some concerns with Secretary Hillary Clinton’s medical care. Within the video Dr. Pinsky discusses how some of the medications just don’t seem to align with the current treatment protocols:
August – The controversy surrounding Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s health continues to swirl. KABC’s Dr. Drew Pinsky says the former Secretary of State may be receiving inadequate health care that is not optimal for her condition.
Hillary Clinton and Dr. Lisa Bardack
(Health News) In 2015, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign released a health statement confirming hypothyroidism as well as allergies.
Dr. Lisa Bardack, her physician, said she regularly takes the thyroid hormone Armour Thyroid and the anticoagulant drug Coumadin to prevent blood clots, as well as an antihistamine for seasonal pollen allergies and vitamin B12, and that she doesn’t smoke and only drinks alcohol occasionally.
Armor Thyroid is often given to patients with an underactive thyroid, thyroid enlargement, or to manage thyroid cancer.
After taking a fall in her home in December 2012, she was given blood thinners for a blood clot in her head, and is still taking them as a precautionary measure.
While her doctor says she’s in excellent health and fit to serve as president, her health constantly comes under question as the coughing worsens. (link)
Dr. Lisa Bardack doing an on scene evaluation
Decision reached to leave venue. Trailing aide carrying Clinton purse. Dr. Lisa Bardack holding Hillary’s arm.
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 11: Democratic presidental nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on September 11, 2016 in New York City. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump attended the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton collapses as she is being escorted into vehicle. Dr. Lisa Bardack is directly behind Secretary Clinton as Hillary passes out, and looses her shoe as her feet drag on sidewalk.
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524 Responses to Clinton Campaign Cancels Mon/Tue Events in California – Flashback: Video From Dr. Drew Pinsky Questioning Hillary Health in August…
TwoLaine says:
TRUMP took a full physical last week and will be releasing it as soon as it is available.
BAMAFan says:
Do you have a source for this?
Faux & Friends this AM. TRUMP’s words LIVE.
Thanks TwoLaine. I’m boycotting Fox, so I wouldn’t have seen it. I did see where Trump will be on Dr. Oz show Thursday to discuss his fitness regimine.
Yes, that part was just announced. He is said to be announcing it then.
Kintbury says:
He is going to be on Dr. Oz later this week with the results.
LesTadO says:
TheRealStrategy.com is the source.
Nvm after reviewing the article it seems we got a false tip. That’s not from TheRealStrategy.com I apologize for the misunderstanding.
Top 20 Pneumonia Facts.
https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/top-pneumonia-facts.pdf
tim glave says:
If it was the arm of her glasses they got fixed. Interesting. When mine fall off they are either broken or the screw is gone. And that little screw is hard to find. Juust saying.
Sherlock says:
I wonder if it was one of these Parkinson’s injection pens that hit the ground.
https://www.apo-go.com/patient/about_apogo.php
Dottie Derewicz says:
Trust me, having cared for a husband for 20 years with MS..she has a neurological disease..if it be Parkinsons or whatever..She is aspirating and this only gets worse and needs constant treatment with albuterol and a nebulizer. COPD is usually a condition that goes along with these neurological diseases.. This is progressing. No matter how great her medical team may be, there are only so many treatments and remedies for neurological disease. There is no cure. Stress is a huge factor. We simply can not have a person with a serious neurological disease running this nation.
I wish no one..no matter how evil they seem.. the torment of what a serious neurological disease will bring. I do care for my country though and know that, not only is Hillary Clinton not fit to serve as far as her policies, but she is unfit physically and mentally to serve…
There is a doctor that has appeared on Infowars with 30 years of experience and other excellent qualifications that says with all that he has seen that Hillary fits the Parkinsons diagnosis. He,of course, is not making a diagnosis without seeing her, but he has connected the dots..it all adds up.
She doesn’t seem evil, she is evil and although I do not hate her or wish her physical torment, if she’s suffering I have no sympathy for her. I reserve my sympathy for those she’s influenced, killed by ignoring and made to suffer because of her ideology.
geoffrey limes says:
Just an empirical observation but isn’t her physician somewhat overweight for her stature? Isn’t having a doctor that’s not physically fit themselves a poor choice especially since Clinton is wealthy & can afford the best? It seems odd to have a doctor just as overweight as the patient.
i myself have a problem with overweight doctors. i still remember a chubby vet telling me my dog needed to lose 5 pounds…really? i never went back.
TheseTruths says:
I’m glad you brought that up because I thought the same thing. There are many factors in obesity, and when a doctor is overweight, it makes me question whether they are up to speed on the most current health information regarding metabolism. It’s not just calories in vs. calories burned.
oldgrunt68 says:
It would not surprise me at all if Hillary is in intensive care unit right now. You can make light of pneumonia all you want msm……it is a killer. Ask Glen Fry. And some friends of mine. It is attached to other diseases as the end………..
Hillary appeared an hour after she collapsed on the street laughing and waiving as though nothing had happened. If she was that sick from pneumonia (I have had it twice) there is no way she would recover that quickly. She clearly got a shot of some great bug juice to get her going again so it is something else. They are saying pneumonia because it is easily treatable. The video clearly shows her being held up by the post to begin with and then being dragged to the van and tossed in. She was out cold.
Redware says:
I had a bad bout with bronchitis way back when I was in my 40’s that went into pneumonia. I was flat on my back for 3 weeks. There is no way I would have been able to do her little dog and pony show coming out of Chelsea’s apartment building.She does not have pneumonia.It is indeed easily treated,but there is no way somebody is diagnosed on Friday,collapses on Sunday morning,and is out hugging a kid and commenting on how wonderful the weather is on Sunday afternoon.
saveedra says:
HRC received some sort of injection to stimulate her, hence her energy leaving Chelsea’s. Whether she truly has pneumonia is iffy. Her symptoms point to Parkinson’s Disease.
180daysofkindergarten says:
I really think that was a body double. I don’t believe for one minute the old crow collapsed like a house of cards and then later was out queen waving in the street. There is just no way. I’m not a conspiracy type of person but there is everything invested in that sick old bag, a body double is not far fetched.
This is all smoke and mirrors.
Carolina Kat says:
I agree. That woman on the street’s profile does not match HC, and where did HC’s hips go? Even the hair is different. That’s why they needed a child for her to stand behind for the photos.
Buck Turgidson says:
I agree. They have a well known body double, and she is about 40 lbs lighter than cankles. The extent these people go to in order to deceive and lie to the American public is breathtaking, despicable, and creepy.
yy4u says:
Kintbury — my thoughts exactly. My husband had viral pneumonia when he was 50, in good shape and practiced medicine 60+ hours/week. He did not recover in an hour, I can tell you that. It took three or four days of rest before he was able to go back to work. Anti-biotics do not work in an hour. Whoever “cured” Hillary of pneumonia in an hour needs to share his/her treatment of this disease with the world and collect a Nobel Prize for medicine for it. Pneumonia is a killer especially in infants and seniors. Whatever it was (and I honestly felt sorry for her because she was obviously in acute distress), it was NOT pneumonia.I agree with the poster above. She may be coughing from pneumonia but she also is coughing because she’s not protecting her airway.
All that said, fellow Trumpsters, be careful what you ask for, you might get it. If the Dems decide Hillary is a liability, rules or laws or not, they’ll substitute Biden or Warren in for her.
I don’t think she has pneumonia, at least not in the sense we’re all thinking of. Maybe she has symptoms that COULD be said to be pneumonia, but I think the pneumonia diagnosis is just to cover something much worse that they’ve been hiding all along.
It would take a doctor to say whether this is feasible: She collapses from either her underlying disease or from medication she takes for it. She is taken to Chelsea’s because they know exactly what’s wrong with her and have dealt with it before. At Chelsea’s, they give her whatever medication it takes to get her going again, and she appears healthy enough to walk and speak for a few minutes. That medication won’t last for very long and will have side effects of its own, so they have to get her out of the public eye.
“Pneumonia” is a convenient diagnosis to explain weakness and coughing and the need for rest. It also garners public sympathy.
If her doctor has been lying all this time, I would think it would cause her some professional problems, but she is in so deep now she can’t stop. She is hightly invested in keeping the charade going.
The pneumonia diagnosis is doing its job of making people attribute the weakness and collapese to it. I do not believe it was the casue of Sunday’s problems, given her previous odd episodes and her miraculous recovery on Sunday.
corimari2013 says:
Could it be that the woman who came out of Chelsea’s apartment building just an hour later–moving freely, smiley, no aides close by (!)–was a body double?
The media was kept so far away…but yet one little stranger girl was allowed to make contact with Hillary for a photo.
How can a woman who had a collapse just a little over an hour earlier, a woman who (we are being told) has pneumonia, bounce back so quickly?
A person who collapsed like she did should have been taken to the hospital. Yet she was taken to her daughter’s apartment, where (we have been told) she played with her two grandchildren.
It doesn’t make sense.
I don’t think that was a doublt. The voice was Hillary’s. I think we’re making this too complicated and that Hillary has a serious neurological illness. They gave her meds to enable her to function for a short while. Pneumonia is a distraction diagnosis.
NvMtnOldman says:
Apparently there are no photos of her being taken from the van into Chelsea’s apt. All this secrecy and lies and then we are supposed to be conspirators. The back of her hair looked stringy as she was leaving 911. How did it look outside Chelseas apt???
Steele81 says:
Lots of people have noticed nobody gave her liquids, and it has been noted that she does not drink from water bottles. This is possibly because she must use a thickener in her food and drink. My mom aspirated when she was very old, but she refused to use the thickening agent. Said it was gross.
steph_gray says:
Well that might explain why Hilliary threw a glass of the agent at her staff – she’s undoubtedly not enjoying the experience of having to drink it.
silentmajority4life says:
Here we go. We question & criticize her health…. that makes us sexist. All while hillary doesn’t have to own 9/11 foreign policy mistakes. Let’s see how awake the country is.
Turns out that logo of hers really is a hospital sign after all.
It sure seems Freudian now, doesn’t it?
pageoturner says:
In the middle photo Hillary is being given a neurological test where she grips the doctors two fingers as tightly as she can. A healthy person’s grip would be so tight the doctor would not be able to slide her fingers out.
Below the doctor is holding one of Hillary’s arms while the other hand is positioned on Hillary’s chest. This is to hide the Parkinson’s tremors caused by levadopa – the only drug useful in treating Parkinson’s but that has side effects of unwanted body movements – hand tremors, arm waiving, head bobbing, etc.
Finally, the blue sunglasses are also used by Parkinson’s patients to help control the unwanted movement (dyskinesia).
If she has pneumonia it is aspirational – a common complication with Parkinson’s patients whose motor control is diminished – including the swallowing. Pneumonia is a frequent cause of PD death. But if that’s what it is, her doctor (if that is her doctor) knew that at the 9/11 ceremony so why say Hillary was overheated?
If she has bacterial pneumonia, however, why was she allowed to potentially infect so many – at the Streisand hosted fundraiser on Friday night, with her young grandchildren at the apartment and by hugging that young child on the street? Her coughing puts everyone near her at risk.
I don’t think it’s pneumonia. It’s a progression of Parkinson’s. There are good days and bad days, good hours and bad hours. It is very difficult to treat and progressive. Strain worsens the condition and you see these symptoms the most when her poll numbers deteriorate.
I agree w/your assessment 100%. The sheeples supporting HRC need to stop lying & enabling this woman. Fat chance, I know.
James O'Malley says:
Funny how liberals on Twitter are now linking the health scare with the #Deplorables hashtag. Nice to know your own fellow Americans despise your existence. But hey, if we win in November it’ll all be worth it.
NJF says:
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Too many body blows for this campaign to survive. First the fake polls and the low turnout at rallies. No real bump from fake convention with paid attendees. Fallout from DNC staff firings causing disorganization and confusion. Ongoing and obvious health issues increasing in frequency and gravity. Poor performance at the military forum. Unlikable Hillary disparages a huge swath of the citizenry with the ‘basket of deplorables’ slur. And all along are the lies lies and more lies she has told, the email scandal that won’t go away, and the Sword of Damocles hanging over her head as Wikileaks is poised to release more emails.
They know what is in those emails – and they can’t figure a way for the media to spin what treason might be there. The stress of awaiting this fiasco must be really wearing.
Will she quit? No. She’s toast but zombies don’t need a pulse. She’ll keep going, ugly is all she knows.
And not only that, you got a lot of idiots making fun of the Trump rallies, while ignoring Hillary’s pathetic rally attendance rates.
cjzak says:
So true. We know this but how many of the mainstream voters know all of it? What numbers of people never get the online news and true facts from reputable sites like this? I am hoping plenty more are in the ‘basket’ with us now! Then the Hillary campaign would truly be toast.
The lady to Clinton’s left is strong. Positioned to Weekend at Bernies her without even flinching.
Dr Drew is clueless when it comes to the thyroid medication, Armour. There are tons of people in chronic illness groups and thyroid groups who prefer it over the synthetic forms of thyroid medications, synthroid (T4) and cytomel (T3) . Armour is a regulated Rx that has both T3 and T4 which come from a natural source (porcine thyroids). There is nothing weird or wrong with it at all and any side effects a person might get from it, they would also get from any thyroid medication if the dose is not being checked regularly. Side effects of thyroid medication are directly related to one still being hypothyroid or having too high a dose and causing hyperthyroid. What Dr Drew says about this is total garbage and it makes me question his intentions in all of this.
Hillary has serious health problems, yes. But I don’t see that her care as being bad or old fashioned. The reality is that most health conditions are NOT treatable with much success and have NO cures. It doesn’t matter how much money or prestige you have, when you have an incurable illness, nobody but God is able to heal you.
He said it to call her out on lying to the american public.
I don’t think that he really worries about her.
He was fired for calling her out not for trying to be helpfull to her.
soozword says:
Right on, Dana, on thyroid management. Dr. Drew is outdated. In order to keep my T3 and T4 levels in the ideal range I have to take two different strengths of Armour (T3 and T4) and a dose of levothyroxine (T4). Tried Cytomel (synthetic T3) and it was too short-acting compared to Armour to be practical. Since I’m one of those who doesn’t convert T4 to the active form of T3 well, I must take exogenous T3, otherwise my brain just shuts down.
“What Dr Drew says about this is total garbage and it makes me question his intentions in all of this.”
He’s just a conventional doctor. They can be very stubborn about things like this. It is the patients who suffer because they aren’t getting optimal treatment.
truthandjustice says:
“..writer David Seaman was fired for questioning Hillary Clinton’s health concerns.
.. and deleted ALL of David’s previous posts…
On Sunday he wrote “It turns out Dr. Drew and I lost our media perches for simply sharing incontrovertible truth, which I knew at the time: Hillary Clinton’s health is not just bad. It’s not just allergies. Hillary Clinton’s health is horrific… The New York Times is tweeting out polls that show Hillary Clinton has an 81% chance of winning the election. I’m sorry folks, that is gaslighting. It is psychological torture. When you go outside it’s clear that Hillary Clinton has not real organic support.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/vindicated-former-huffington-post-writer-gaslighted-hillarys-health-horrific-video/
churchill says:
A week or so ago, I wrote a comment which attempted to illustrate how utterly unloved Hillary Clinton was by her family and her colleagues in the Democrat Party. Yesterday’s ‘medical event’ gives confirmation of that.
Clinton is very ill – it cannot be denied any longer, even by her supportive MSM. We are now asked to believe that pneumonia was diagnosed last Friday by her doctor. My wife has had pneumonia twice (the second time, very severely – in fact, she almost died) so I know a little bit about it. Nevertheless, she was allowed/encouraged/instructed to continue with the campaigning on that day and over the weekend. It beggars belief.
If the pneumonia story is true then her family are exposed as heartless (we’ll all buy that one) and Hillary Clinton is merely a beast of burden being flogged to death for financial and political ends.
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
A day of reckoning must also be imminent for MSM. They’ve been totally complicit in this burlesque and will be asked some delicate questions. Their replies will be interesting.
From the replies to my comment, it seems that many of you thought I was being sympathetic to Clinton’s plight and I plead, in a loud voice, NOT GUILTY. May she rot in hell. I’m sorry to say it was something less charitable than a humane impulse. I am merely an observer of the human condition and like to bore everyone into a coma with my convoluted premise of “Shakespearian tragedy”. Not everyone is as fascinated by it as I am. My apologies.
The rationale for Clinton’s exit from the race is now compelling. If her medical condition isn’t sufficient then the optics of ‘humanitarian concern’ will direct the Dems to bin her to avoid the odious charge of col-blooded expediency. Someone (Obama?) will have to step in and call it a draw, and let her escape to retirement.
Who will replace her? Well, regulars here won’t be surprised to learn I’ve got a horse in that race. I’ve had a decent bet on Biden at ridiculous odds. I couldn’t resist it – it’s the human condition.
I hope the MSM and mainstream journalism don’t survive this election. They’ve become propagandists, not legitimate journalists, and their entire system of lies needs to come crumbling down.
As far as a replacement for Hillary, I sorta wonder if the Dems will ultimately vote to keep her on, namely to avoid looking, as you said, cold blooded.
margo says:
We think exactly the same way, so are you also asking “Where is the international outrage? NO body, especially her supposed FAMILY, has questioned the way she was handled? Not questioned why she was thrown into that van, seemingly on it’s FLOOR? NOT driven immediately to a hospital? Asking if the handlers care at all? They all jumped immediately into assigned positions around the doors to block any visability, watching for cameras not caring for that sack of potatoes they’d just dumped? Nothing we watched was in any way believable!! AND THEN…. IF it did happen…..how was she minutes later, able to be taken into Chelsey’s building unseen by anyone? Was she trolleyed in?? Does that building have an underground parking lot? Did she go up on a guerney or walk on her own? I don’t believe the woman who sprinted out the doors a few hours later looking so pulled together and about 40 pounds thinner was really the real Hillary. Think about how distantly she was filmed, no one around her except that one odd child (another ruse) no one seeing her really up close. AND Where are Bill and Chelsey in all this strangeness? She was just “dragged” and thrown onto the floor of a van and refused correct hospital care, and they don’t have any questions or explanations? This is all theater as usual.
IMO, hillary is driving this bus. She is probably the one in control and refusing to quit. I expect she is hard headed and so focused on her goal, no family member nor anyone else could stop her so they have given in to her wishes and greatest desire to be the first woman president….dead or alive.
margo,
Yes, all those things are on my mind.
Earlier in this thread, a poster gave me a clue to something else that don’t make sense. If she’s got pneumonia, coming out of Chelsea’s house 90 minutes later looking chipper simply doesn’t fit the narrative. But if,as was suggested, the handlers were unaware that video existed of the fall, because it didn’t come out until after the later appearance of Clinton, they would have believed they could spin the story away by showing how healthy she looked.
The videos put the kibosh on that story because it showed how serious it was. Now it had to be explained, hence the pneumonia.
There’s more to come with this. Each lie compounds the offence “One woe doth tread upon another’s heel”. Compulsive viewing.
That person on the sidewalk in NYC sure does not have hillary’s huge hips and girth. WRT the voice, a little bit of training for a person who has some impersonation talent could yield a hillary voice. The cameras were kept at a distance for a reason. totally staged of course just like hillary’s entire life. She was out cold just a few hours earlier. Of course everyone smells a rat. Death to the mainstream media, they are evil personified
Ej says:
Per Wikileaks there is a an email from Huma to Hillary regarding her “Sinus Thrombosis”, which is a blood clot in the dural venous sinuses that drain blood from the brain. Symptoms include headache, abnormal vision, and stroke like symptoms (weakness of face, half of the body etc.). This is a very serious condition.
It is very possible she does have pneumonia in addition to her actual condition. Politics and personality aside, we cannot elect a person who is so ill.
Cernovich has done a timeline of Hillary’s health problems.
http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/09/12/mike-cernovich-hillarys-health-timeline/
theduchessofkitty says:
The best thing everyone here can do as of right now is to download the video of her collapsing before that van. You can do it from YouTube. I just did.
There are a lot of media download apps and programs available, many for free. Better to do it now before it is censored all over the place.
This app works for downloading YouTube videos:
http://www.clipconverter.cc/
PNW4Life says:
This Trump Deplorable ad is great!
WOW! Talk about food for thought! I won’t link to Lame Cherry but he/she makes a lot of sense about the Secret Service and how they failed Hillary Clinton by leaving her propped against a metal pole on a public street. .
And if that’s the case, I bet they are catching hell from the old hag in her lucid moments.
Mr. Morris says:
Think “chain of custody”. Many politicians, families of survivors, and ordinary Americans attend the 9/11 ceremonies at Ground Zero in New York. The weather in N.Y. Is 79 degrees, cloudy and breezy. Mrs. Clinton is accompanied by her aides and trusty Doctor Lisa Bardack. At 9:30 Hillary Clinton, her aides and Dr. Bardack holding her walk towards her big black vehicle. Mrs. Clinton’s back is supported by the large concrete stanchion keeping her upright. From there as she attempts to enter the van with help, Clinton’s leg buckles and she lunges forward into her big black vehicle.
Mrs. Clinton’s press fan club, the traveling press are not notified of the situation, but notice she is leaving Ground Zero, and are specifically told by Clinton campaign operatives to stay in place and not follow the big black van.
Where did the van with Hillary Clinton, Dr. Lisa Bardack and her handlers go? Rick Levanthal, an excellent reporter from Fox , who was present and reporting during the 9/11/01 attacks, reports that a NYPD office told him Hillary had a medical emergency, and there is video provided by a bystander.
Remember the pool press was incommunicado with the Clinton Campaign for about 90 minutes so there is no documentation that Hillary actually went to her daughter’s apartment. Do you actually believe what the campaign is saying?
entagor says:
Infowars reports “DNC to Hold Emergency Meeting”
No confirmation on that
Under DNC rules Hillary can be replaced by special vote of the DNC:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-30/candidate-death-could-delay-or-eliminate-presidential-election
Since Hillary had been allowed to build a criminal trail with her emails I assumed there was a plan to dump her later
But maybe there wasn’t a plan. Maybe the DNC is as clueless as the NeverTrumpers. Maybe Hillary was nominated because she had the best thugs.
Or maybe the economy can no longer be propped and they are going to let it free fall under a GOP President
Ballotopedia:has a good summary of ballot deadlines:
Replacing a candidate’s name in late September could prove challenging. The parties would likely have to look to the courts. As Politico noted on August 4, 2016, the courts have shown a willingness to work with the parties on the issue of deadlines: “Courts have tended to discard ballot deadlines in favor of having two parties represented on the ballot.”
https://ballotpedia.org/Important_dates_in_the_2016_presidential_race
If the DEM party crosses the last deadline, and then Hillary conks, our country will be in turmoil, and should Trump be elected under that cloud, the DEM party will use the broken election to undercut a Trump presidency, the same way they used the Florida election to undercut the Bush Presidency
gandijia says:
In a presidential race, though, voters vote for a slate of electors pledged to a candidate; not for the candidate his/herself. So, even if the candidate is no longer available, the slate of electors is.
You could still vote for Hillary’s electors, if you wanted them to choose the next president.
No new candidate is needed. And, in some places, putting a new name on a ballot after a certain date may be illegal.
The campaign isn’t going well and questions about Libya, Syria, Russia, ObamaCare, immigration, BLM–radical social issues are all moving against the candidate. So. Get rid of all those issues by staging a “health crisis” and bringing the entire focus on something which in the last two or three weeks can be made to look ridiculous by the same candidate being widely filmed doing things most women her age probably could NOT do. Running, jumping, playing touch football with her Kennedyesque staff…dispelling all concerns about the first Woman to seek the office. Currently all the other questions don’t matter–it’s now all about her health.
Are we being masterfully Played? I’m just asking.
“Are we being masterfully played?”
I don’t think so. Hillary is genuinely ill and wanted to keep it quiet because illness would disqualify her from the presidency. I suspected an episode would happen that she couldn’t deny anymore, but I thought it would be coughing during a debate. Instead, this is much, much worse. They are now ramping up into the next level of lies.
MoniQueMoniCat says:
WHY HILLARY HAD BLUE GLASSES ON: Parkinsons & Blue glasses demonstration as shown by this Parkinson’s patient. Note the head movements are similar to those shown by Hillary during the DNC convention looking at the balloons and her head movements when she was caught offguard by all the reports asking her questions close up and all at once. This patient shows himself without the blue glasses and then WITH BLUE GLASSES and it is amazing how his Dyskinesias stops with the blue glasses and starts without them on.
Dyskinesias are uncontrollable involuntary movements particularly affecting some people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Uploaded on Aug 4, 2006
This video Doctor explains the blue glasses and PARKINSONS and cites the above effect on Parkinsons and discusses how Parkinsons more accurately explains Hillary’s medical and health events, specifically discusses the recent 911 collapse getting into the van.
BREAKING: DR. TED NOEL REACTS TO ‘PNEUMONIA’ CLAIMS FROM CRIPPLED HILLARY’S DOCTOR (Length 26:54 min) Published on Sep 11, 2016
“The day of reckoning finally arrived for Hillary Clinton on Sunday. The Clinton Campaign had no choice but to respond to the horrific public display of her critical health condition. Her doctor claims she’s suffering from pneumonia. But is she? Or does this diagnosis only add weight to the evidence Dr. Noel has presented that she has Parkinson’s Disease? Dr. Noel returns to Next News to give you his shocking analysis.” –The Next News Network
Hillbilly4 says:
Thanks! Good video, and explains exactly what is wrong. PD is not something to play around with. There is no reason to accept a candidate for POTUS with PD. The question is how long has the DNC been hiding this from America? The DNC is complicit with a cover-up and deceiving the voters….ALL voters, even the DEMS. Perhaps there should be a Congressional hearing into the Democrat machine…what else aren’t they telling us? Is their plan? To front Hillary until she drops dead? THEN who will run the country? My guess: the Saudis.
With the latest videos, we are seeing for ourselves, the demise of Hillary, much like we witnessed the demise of Ali.
skyborn78 says:
Why did you discontinue the video, and where can I view it?
What an image for the world to see: A presidential candidate who cannot walk 5 feet to a waiting van without collapsing. Yes sir, that is the picture of health and strength the world needs to see. She simply cannot hold up. Look how the current POTUS has aged. The position of POTUS cannot be given to someone who lacks the strength to carry on. Imagine, if you will, that at the very moment she is tossed into a van and disappears for 90 minutes North Korea launches rockets (at anyone)….the USA would have an weakling President who just disappears! The USA would be sitting ducks. This cannot, and will not, be.
The person who did this was a prophet
JayneDoe says:
I wasn’t able to read all the comments, but what I am confused by is the actual appearance of Clinton’s doctor at the 9/11 event. Even with a diagnosis of pneumonia, would a doctor really need to escort his/her patient? And wouldn’t the doctor have noticed “dehydration” symptoms earlier and given Clinton some water (you don’t have to have an IV to re-hydrate).
I’m not buying the pneumonia excuse. She may very well have it, but yesterday’s incident was far more than that.
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Reuters accused of threatening security in Egypt after sourcing fake Twitter account
on February 25, 2014 • In The News, Thomson Reuters
A lawyer has filed a petition against the Reuters news agency for allegedly threatening national security when it reported a false terror threat linked to a fake Twitter account last week.
Petition filed with #Egypt‘s General Prosecutor accusing @Reuters news agency of threatening national security & tourism with its reporting
— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) February 24, 2014
Diaa El Din El Garhy, a lawyer representing the Egypt-based Adalah Center, filed the petition on Monday over a report in which the news organization claimed the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis terror network had published a tweet warning tourists to leave the country by February 20.
The message was posted on a Twitter account that Reuters identified as belonging to the group. However, the group has said in past statements that it does not use social media to communicate its intentions.
“Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis issued no statement warning tourists to leave Egypt,” David Barnett, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs told the BBC on Friday. “This specific account [cited by Reuters] has been around for a number of months. It doesn’t always promote Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis statements.”
In later updates of the story, Reuters acknowledged that the account may not have been legitimate, that the terror group “does not post statements on social media sites,” but that “statements that appeared on the Twitter account in the past have afterwards surfaced on jihadist websites which the group says it does use.”
Barnett said the fake account cited by Reuters, and others like it, are run by “people who may support the group, people who may just simply want to cause chaos.”
A Reuters spokesperson acknowledged the news organization cited a Twitter report that may not have been authentic, but otherwise stood by the story.
“In all of the published versions [of the story], questions about whether to trust the Twitter account were addressed in multiple places,” spokesperson Heather Carpenter told The Desk by email.
When asked about the petition against Reuters, Carpenter said the company was looking into the issue, but otherwise declined to comment.
A prosecutor has not yet decided whether to take up the petition filed against Reuters in Egypt, but some have speculated that the company may be investigated over the incident given the prosecutor’s past handling of such matters.
At one time, Reuters had three New York-based social media editors who, among other things, were tasked with identifying legitimate news information on social media platforms. The company fired one employee last year over a non-work related issue (the dismissal is being contested). A second employee quit one month later.
In January, Reuters’ final social media employee left to work for a public radio program, leaving the company without a social media specialist in its newsroom.
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9,000 people want President Trump to kick George Soros out of the United States
Vladimir Putin knows that terrorist armies receive “covert and direct support from certain states”
Not only should President Trump take action against George Soros, but kicking out of the country is a punishment unfitting for the crimes this billionaire agitator has committed.
Soros is starting to feel the consequences for his actions as more and more sovereign nations line up to ban the dangerous globalist from setting foot in their country.
It is time the United States follow the examples set by Russia and Hungary, and either kick Soros out or lock him up for good.
A new online petition may help get the ball rolling.
Sign the petition here. Infowars reports…
Over 9,000 people signed an online petition asking US President Donald Trump to expel US-Hungarian billionaire George Soros from the United States as well as ban him and members of his family from founding and influencing US politicians.
George Soros is a billionaire as well as the founder of the Open Society Foundations philanthropic organization, which “supports democracy and human rights in more than 100 countries.” Opponents of Soros accuse him of interfering in internal relations of foreign countries and supporting revolutions there.
Moreover, Soros is reportedly funding anti-Trump protests across the US.
“President Trump, We the people are asking you to ban George Soros from our country. We ask you to ban both George Soros and all his family members from doing any and all business in our country from contributing to politicians or their foundations in order to influence and manipulate our corrupt politicians,” the petition said.
Authors of the petition also asked Trump to make it a crime to do business with Soros and his family members as well as to accept money from him.
“We are asking you to issue a warrant for his arrest for hiring people for willful intent to riot and protest injuring our people and damaging our properties…As George Soros has made it clear that he is working to destroy our country, restrictions must be put in place immediately against all the Soros family in America to keep them from further treason against our country,” the petition said.
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Let me start by putting it out there–I’m confused?!?! Said confusion was incited by the many posts I came across in reference to Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series. Readers/fans of this series are complaining about the fact that it’s been extended from 3 books to 5. WHY?!?! If you love a series, the writing, the characters–why are you flat-out angry that some of your most beloved heroes and heroines are having their lives extended by the author??? In many cases, like Raine Miller’s Blackstone series, Sylvain Reynard’s Gabriel’s Inferno series, and Belle Aurora’s, Raw Family–the true fans were clamoring for more books; Reynard stated that was the whole reason he wrote the last book in the series–for the fans.
What about the Rizzoli & Isles books from Tess Gerritsen? James Patterson’s Alex Cross series? What if those were one and done? These writers have more story to tell so they do–because it’s what they do and what their readers want. Good plot-lines extending the sagas of the characters they love.
Yes, some series may have a natural end to them–it’s why my one of my most beloved tv shows, Sons of Anarchy, had its series finale last month (still haven’t recovered from that one…). But in the case of Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series, we’re talking 5 books–FIVE.
I have seen so many write ups about this series, in particular, being extended just for money, and/or in spite of it originally being slated to end after 3 books.
Day is a professional writer (i.e. she writes to make money), books are the way she does that.
Seriously, if you’re going to complain about an author doing the best she can to provide readers with a good book to read, maybe reading isn’t really your thing.
Lastly, you don’t have to read the book! (Something tells me Day’s books aren’t on many ‘required reading’ lists. Solely due to subject/content matter, not because they aren’t awesome–which they are!)
There you have it. My first rant of 2015. I will now step off my soap-box. For authors out there, especially the independent ones–good luck to you all!
tara’s tips: My actual review of Captivated by You is forthcoming.
larryvisgar said:
Personally I feel that the want for creativity has left the building, it seems no one wants to jump into new worlds anymore but get into the same. New authors aren’t given chances, if someone has a new view their cast out. I like to think out of the box and id think any fan would be grateful for their fav series to go even further as long as it doesn’t lose it’s flavor and structure.
T.L. Finney said:
Thanks for weighing in. I agree. Extending a series beyond its natural flow is wrong. And a good author knows when enough is enough and readers can tell when something is being milked. But so many characters are created with many books in mind. I’d rather see 4-5+ books than the standard ‘trilogy’ formula where you essentially know exactly what’s coming by book 3. I think it’s gotten so hard to get a mainstream book published that many talented authors are doing the indy thing – and I applaud them!
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Building? Demolitions? Explore neighborhood data
Laura Simmons | Mar 28, 2018
10,390 new housing units got permits for construction in Mecklenburg County between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. That’s up 35 percent from the year before.
77 percent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students attended their neighborhood (assigned) school in the 2015-16 school year. In many neighborhoods, nearly all children attend their neighborhood school, but for several neighborhoods, the share was less than half.
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In the last six years, Mecklenburg County has seen an increase of nearly 4,000 acres of impervious surface. An impervious surface is any hard surface that water can’t penetrate, such as a rooftop, driveway, sidewalk, patio or parking lot. One inch of rain on a single acre of impervious surface creates 27,000 gallons of storm water runoff.
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Demarco Completes His First Four Continent World Tour
by Urban Islandz Staff March 4, 2013
After spending several grueling months touring across the world, internationally acclaimed Jamaican entertainer Demarco is now back on local soil and ready for 2013.
The campaign which kicked off last year saw the ‘Love My Life’ singer making his inaugural visit to the African states of Ghana and Uganda as part of a four continent tour.
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While in the motherland he visited numerous radio and television stations; participated in a tree planting exercise and collaborated with multi-award winning international Ghanaian singer Samini on a track due for release later this year. The trip culminated with two shows in Dome, Ghana and Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala, Uganda with both concerts pulling a combined audience in excess of 50,000 patrons.
From there he departed for an eight city U.S. tour with his first five shows in California, followed by Texas and Florida. Caribbean fans were also treated to scintillating sets at the annual St. Lucia Mayfest and the St. Kitts Music Festival.
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After wrapping up three quick shows in Haiti, the multifarious Demarco also found time to collaborate with Haitian rap star Team Lobey on a track titled ‘Map Brase’. Then it was then off to the South American continent as headliner for a one night concert. Despite the language barrier the hour-long performance was well received by his Spanish fans in Bogota, Colombia.
Meanwhile, amidst threats of exhaustion and warning from his medical team to slow down, Demarco toiled onwards making a quick cameo in Jamaica before jetting off to Europe. With sub-zero temperatures sweeping that continent, the Reggae virtuoso once again showed he was a true musical ambassador as fans poured out in their numbers to get a glimpse of the Jamaican superstar. During the European leg of the tour Demarco visited Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Holland, Belgium and France, disseminating his own brand of music along the way.
According to Demarco, “the tour was really exhausting and tough but as an ambassador for our music I have to put in the work and keep the Jamaican flag flying high across the world. It is always a blessing when you get that opportunity to travel the world and see how fans react to your music. They are the ones who continue to inspire me and I love them for that.”
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US Air Force Plans to Build Huge Network of Underground Tunnels
By USAHM-News on March 16, 2013 /
The US Air Force is planning to build a huge network of underground subway tunnels in order to shuttle around nuclear missiles as part of an effort to move away from stationary silos that are easier to attack.
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Launch portals would be stationed at regular intervals along the subway, allowing the unmanned transporters to be raised up and the missile to be fired in a “doomsday scenario”. Each tunnel would be dedicated to one single missile and launch system.
The mobile silo system would have to be capable of withstanding “ground shock levels” and to “permit adequate ‘rattle space’ in the event of an enemy attack.”
A recent feature article published in the Strategic Studies Quarterly journal of the U.S. Air Force Air University by authors Keir A. Leiber, associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Daryl G. Press, an associate professor of government at Dartmouth University, warned that the risk of nuclear weapons being used in future conflicts has heightened.
“In the coming decades, deterring the use of nuclear weapons during conventional wars will be much harder than most analysts believe,” state the authors, adding, “Very accurate delivery systems, new reconnaissance technologies, and the downsizing of arsenals from Cold War levels have made both conventional and nuclear counterforce strikes against nuclear arsenals much more feasible than ever before.”
America’s efforts to make its nuclear arsenal less vulnerable to attack dovetails with the ongoing development of the US missile defense system which many analysts have warned has little to do with defense and a lot to do with targeting Russia. Operational missile defense systems are set to be deployed in Romania and Russia within the next 5 years.
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TravelSafety app alerting the driver seconds away before the light turns green / Source: WWBT
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It can even tell if you are about to strike a pedestrian and vice versa - it enables cyclists, pedestrians and motorists to know when a vehicle is approaching.
TravelSafely can be downloaded for free on iPhone and Android. For more information, click here.
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We won't hold it against you if you've never heard of okonomiyaki before. It's the lesser known of Japan's deletable dishes, but it's certainly having a moment. A cross between an omelet and a... Read More
We won't hold it against you if you've never heard of okonomiyaki before. It's the lesser known of Japan's deletable dishes, but it's certainly having a moment. A cross between an omelet and a pancake, with tissue-thin bits of wiggling seaweed acting as briney accoutrement, the dish is one of a kind, and it's what Okan does best. If you've been avoiding Brixton Village since it became overrun with out-of-towners and vegan cupcake shops, this Japanese gem is the perfect reason to return. A lunch in their cozy space could include king prawn okonomiyaki (at £7.50) with onasu (fried aubergine cooked with soy, honey and ginger with miso dressing) and Miyabi plum wine. We can't imagine a better okonomiyaki-newbie day out.
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2017-18 State Budget Announcements – NSW
By Accru Felsers / June 27, 2017
On 19 June, NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced his budget for 2017-18. While NSW has a big budget and a $4.5billion surplus raised through privatisations of schools, hospitals and the justice system, there were some losers as well as winners. Here we cover the main changes to duties and taxes.
First Home Buyers Assistance
From 1 July 2017 the ‘First Home New Home’ scheme will be replaced by the First Home Buyers Assistance scheme. First home buyers will not have to pay duty for both new and existing homes for properties up to $650,000. The duty will be reduced for amounts between $650,000 and $800,000. There is no change to the cap for vacant land.
Shared Equity Scheme
From 1 July 2017, the shared equity scheme applies where a home buyer purchases a property with an approved equity partner, being NSW Land and Housing Corporation, a registered community housing provider or approved persons. This scheme helps people who may not otherwise be able to afford their home on their own to become a home owner by purchasing with an equity partner.
The shared equity scheme is a scheme where:
The home buyer must acquire not less than a 20 per cent share in the ownership of the property
The equity partner has the right to a share in any capital gains on sale or refinancing but has no right of occupation
The home buyer can purchase more equity in the property from the equity partner at a price determined under the arrangement between the home buyer and the equity partner.
Any subsequent transfers of equity from the equity partner to the home buyer will be exempt from further duty. If the dutiable value of the property meets the requirements of the First Home Buyers Assistance, the home buyer will be entitled to the exemption or concession.
A home owner may be entitled to the first home owner grant if the total purchase price falls under the cap and all other conditions of the scheme are met.
New Home Grant Scheme
The New Home Grant scheme, providing a $5,000 New Home Grant will close on 30 June 2017.
First Home Owner Grant (New Homes)
From 1 July 2017, first home owners can access a $10,000 grant for:
Building a new home under a home building contract where the contract price, when added with the land value, does not exceed $750,000
A new home being built by an owner builder where the value of the land and building does not exceed $750,000 or
Purchasing a new home worth up to $600,000.
Purchases ‘off the plan’ by investors
From 1 July 2017, all residential purchases by investors will be excluded from the 12 month off the plan transfer duty liability deferral.
Purchasers who wish to obtain the deferral will need to declare an intention to occupy the property as their principal place of residence (PPR).
If a purchaser claims an entitlement to the deferral, but the land is not occupied as the purchaser’s PPR for a continuous period of 6 months, commencing no later than 12 months after completion of the sale or transfer, interest and penalty tax may apply from the liability date.
Principal place of residence
The principal place of residence exemption will be extended to land used and occupied by an owner under a shared equity scheme as defined above. The exemption will apply from the 2018 tax year.
SURCHARGE PURCHASER DUTY
Rate of duty
From 1 July 2017, the surcharge purchaser duty (payable by foreign persons) rate will increase from 4 per cent to 8 per cent.
Permanent residents (including New Zealand citizens)
From 20 June 2017, permanent residents, including New Zealand citizens holding a Special Category visa (subclass 444), will be exempt from surcharge purchaser duty on their principal place of residence, if they occupy the home for a continuous period of 200 days within 12 months of purchase. The exemption will be granted if the person declares that they will complete the 200 day residence requirement.
Australian-based developers
An Australian-based developer that is a foreign person may be entitled to a refund of surcharge purchaser duty based on dwellings sold (other than to an associated person) if they are an Australian corporation. This applies to an eligible developer who acquired land on or after 21 June 2016. The corporation or a related body corporate of the corporation must have constructed a new home on the residential land to which the residential-related property relates after completion of the transfer of the property to the corporation.
A refund will be payable in respect of the sale of a new home. A dwelling that has been rented or occupied at any time while owned by the developer is not eligible for a refund.
Commercial residential property
Commercial residential property will be exempt from surcharge purchaser duty. The Chief Commissioner will make a determination identifying classes of commercial residential property.
SURCHARGE LAND TAX
Rate of tax
From the 2018 tax year, the surcharge land tax rate (payable by foreign persons) will increase from 0.75 per cent to 2 per cent.
From the 2018 tax year, permanent residents, including New Zealand citizens holding a Special Category visa (subclass 444), will be exempt from surcharge land tax on their principal place of residence, if they occupy the home for a continuous period of 200 days in the land tax year.
The exemption will be granted if the person declares that they will complete the 200 day residency requirement.
Australian-based developer
An Australian-based developer that is a foreign person may be entitled to a refund of surcharge land tax if they are an Australian corporation. The corporation or a related body corporate of the corporation must have constructed a new home on the residential land and after the taxing date, the corporation must have sold the new home to a person other than an associated person of the corporation.
The proportion of surcharge land tax refunded will be based on the proportion of dwellings sold (other than to an associated person) within 5 years of the completion of the purchase of the land by the developer. Where separate dwellings are sold progressively over the 5 year period, a developer may be granted partial refunds.
The exemption is retrospective to an eligible company.
In cases where the land was acquired before 21 June 2016, the 5 years commences from 21 June 2016
If land was acquired after 21 June 2016, the 5 years commences from time the land was acquired.
From 2018 tax year, commercial residential property will be exempt from surcharge land tax. The Chief Commissioner will make a determination identifying classes of commercial residential property.
INSURANCE DUTY
Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI)
From 1 July 2017, an LMI policy will be exempt insurance in NSW meaning an insurer who issues a LMI policy will no longer need to pay duty on this premium where the policy is over property in NSW. LMI means insurance taken out by lenders to cover loss arising from default by the mortgagor.
Crop and Livestock Insurance
From 1 January 2018 crop and livestock insurance will not be liable to duty.
Small business exemption
From 1 January 2018 small businesses are not liable to duty on certain types of insurance including commercial vehicle insurance, occupational indemnity insurance and product and public liability insurance.
2017-18 BUDGETS FOR OTHER AUSTRALIAN STATES
Changes were announced in the following duties and taxes for each of these states:
Victorian Budget
Land transfer duty for first home owners
Motor vehicle duty
First Home Owner Grant
‘Off the Plan Duty
Vacant land tax
Queensland Budget
Land Tax Surcharge
Payroll Tax Rebate
South Australian Budget
‘Off-the-plan’ stamp duty concession
‘Off-the-plan’ purchaser grant
Stamp Duty Surcharge
Land tax exemption
Tasmanian Budget
First Home Owners Grant
Duty on House and Land packages
Read more here about budget announcements for Vic, Qld, SA & Tas here.
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Whatever floats your boat – the unstoppable growth of themed cruises
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Image captionKiss typically perform two shows per cruise
Not content with filling stadiums around the world, and selling more than 100 million records, the face-painted, fire-breathing US hard rockers also have their own navy.Show-stopping rock band Kiss were always going to go the extra – nautical – mile.
Every autumn Kiss hire a huge cruise liner to sail around the Caribbean for a week with 2,300 of their diehard fans. This year will be their sixth voyage, or Kiss Kruise VI.
The band perform two shows on the ship, and fans get to meet and hang out with the four band members.
There are 13 bars on board, plus 12 restaurants, a swimming pool, a gym, a spa, a casino, an indoor theatre and a tattoo parlour for getting a new Kiss ink work.
Image copyrightSixthman
Image captionEach Kiss Kruise sets sail from Miami
Members of the so-called Kiss Navy fly into Miami from around the world to attend, and Kiss vocalist and bass guitarist Gene Simmons says the cruise is one of the highlights of his annual calendar.
“It’s rock and roll all night and party every day,” he says. “Anyone who has ever been on one of our cruises comes back raving to their friends.
“Imagine 2,300 crazy friends, swimming, shopping, gaming and visiting exotic ports of call with us.”
Image copyrightGetty Images
Image captionKiss perform both with and without their famous face paint on the cruise
While Kiss might not be to everyone’s taste, the rock group has helped to transform the once staid world of cruise lines.
Whereas cruises were traditionally the preserve of elderly holidaymakers, over the past decade – and especially in the past five years – there has been an exponential growth in the number of “themed cruises” – cruises aimed at people with a specific interest.
This has opened up the world of cruising to a much younger demographic, and given the cruise industry hundreds of millions of dollars in additional earnings.
Image copyrightFrederick M. Brown
Image captionGene Simmons will even officiate at fans’ weddings on the sailings
Image captionSome Kiss fans get a new tattoo on the cruise
From music cruises – at which Kiss are leading the way – to cruises for people with specific political views, or cruises for poker players, or fans of Italian food, there is a ship sailing for pretty much everyone.
For example, if you are passionate about your constitutional right to bear arms, you might be tempted to join the Freedom Alliance and National Rifle Association’s cruise down the River Danube in June. Guest speakers include US Republican politician – and former speaker of the US House of Representatives – Newt Gingrich.
Or if you are transgender, Transgender Vacations organises cruises around the Caribbean.
Disney holds regular sailings for fans of the Star Wars movies, where you can dress up as a stormtrooper or ewok and meet some of the actors.
‘Intimate environment’
Howard Moses, founder and president of the Cruise & Vacation Authority, says that more than 700 themed cruises now set sail around the world each year, compared with less than 30 a decade ago.
“Themed cruises are absolutely by far the biggest growth area in the industry,” says Mr Moses, whose organisation is based in the US state of Georgia.
Image captionMusic cruises are not just about listening to your favourite band
“It has enabled the cruise industry to reach beyond people who are our traditional customers, to people who are passionate about a certain subject.
“For music cruises, there can be a very young crowd.
“And for the political cruises we joke that the attendees are often people who said they would never go on a cruise, yet they have the time of their lives, and are the first to lead the conga line.”
Image captionRock band Paramore is another group which sells cruises
At Atlanta-based Sixthman, the world’s largest organiser of music cruises, its communications manager Alaidriale Derway says the business has just wrapped up its busiest ever spring sailing season, with 10 back-to-back cruises.
Sixthman now has more than 500 acts on its books, including Kiss. Other acts for whom it organises cruises include Weezer, Paramore, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock.
The company charters the ships and helps to organise support acts.
Image captionKiss fans also get to meet their idols
Ms Derway says: “More and more artists want to get involved.
“Cruises are a great way for artists to interact with their fans in a much more intimate environment, and collaborate with each other.
“In terms of the cost for a fan, they pay a set fee, and then pretty much everything is free except for alcohol and soda. All the food is included unless someone wants to pay for more speciality dining.”
She adds: “Lots of people really hesitate to do the whole cruise thing, there is still a bit of a stigma attached, but you can really connect with people who are passionate about the same things as you are.”
Image captionGame of Thrones fans can now visit its British Isles sites via cruise ship (and a connecting bus)
While the music cruise industry is very much based in the US, themed cruises are also a growing phenomenon on the other side of the Atlantic.
Mike Bugsgang, chief executive of the UK-based Association of Group Travel Organisers, says there has been a big rise in the number of cruises that include visits to locations that have featured in well-known movies.
One such cruise organised by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines is called “UK Scenes from the Silver Screen”. Sailing around the UK and Ireland, the itinerary includes trips to settings from TV series Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter movies.
Image captionSixthman uses vast ships for its music cruises
Back in the US, Kiss’ Gene Simmons doesn’t just have to prepare for performing live on the Kiss Kruise, he also has to brush up on his wedding officiating. An on-board extra for Kiss’ hard-partying fans is the chance to splice more than just the mainbrace. They can tie the marital knot, with Mr Simmons or a fellow band member performing the service.
But one thing a Kiss Kruise is not is restful.
As Mr Simmons admits: “It’s tough to get to sleep on the cruises… it is fair to say, both the band and the fans are completely exhausted once we leave the cruise.”
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9 May, 2018 by wetravel2u
Carnival Horizon a ‘Vista Sista’ but with notable differences
The outdoor serving station at Guy’s Pig & Anchor Smokehouse/Brewhouse. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst ONBOARD THE CARNIVAL HORIZON — Before this ship got its official name, Carnival Cruise Line president Christine Duffy liked to joke that it would be called the Vista Sista.
The two ships are truly as similar as siblings, with just a few wrinkles separating the 2016-delivered Carnival Vista from 2018’s Horizon.
One of the most noticeable differences can be discerned as soon as guests board the 133,500-gross-ton Horizon, however. The Horizon is the first Carnival ship to be equipped with “destination-based” elevators.
The Funship Towel Animal mascot strolling the decks. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst
The system, which was initially intended for the Vista, puts all the elevator floor commands on a touchscreen in the waiting area, rather than having them clustered on a panel inside the elevator itself.
Passengers punch in their destination, and a software program assigns them the next elevator that is headed to their destination floor. The idea is to cut down on wait times.
For anyone who hasn’t encountered the system on land previously, it takes a day or two to get comfortable with not having the traditional buttons to push inside the car. The walls next to the elevator doors look oddly empty, and one is left to trust that the system really will deliver you to the desired destination.
Many of the features introduced on the Vista have been faithfully reproduced on the Horizon without any variation, including the Imax theatre, the Family Harbor Lounge and the amazing Dreamscape columns that anchor the main atrium and the casino bar.
Up top, the nifty SkyRide recumbent bikes suspended from their dual tracks circle the funnel just like on the Vista.
At first glance, the Havana Cabana section seems like another duplicate, but the warren of tropically themed suites has been enlarged, giving it 79 cabins, 18 more than on the Vista.
On the top deck, the WaterWorks children’s water park has been festively rebranded with Dr. Seuss themes, with Seuss characters prowling the premises. Kids can choose between the red-and-white Cat in the Hat slide or the blue Fun Things slide. There’s also a 300-gallon Cat in the Hat tipping bucket.
Stairs to the water slides at the Dr. Seuss WaterWorks. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst
In the atrium, Carnival has added new retail names such as Michael Kors, Hublot and Kate Spade. But the biggest addition for the Horizon is Victoria’s Secret store, the lingerie chain’s first full store at sea.
Perhaps the greatest area of innovation on the Horizon has been in the food offerings, starting with Guy’s Pig & Anchor Smokehouse/Brewhouse, a name that requires some unpacking to understand.
The Guy is Guy Fieri, the TV chef who has created a burger concept for Carnival and also some complimentary BBQ pit stops on a few Carnival vessels. The Horizon is the first ship to have a proper barbecue restaurant, which accounts for the Smokehouse part of the name. It is open for free lunch on embarkation and sea days and at dinner with a la carte pricing each evening of the cruise.
The Brewhouse is a relocation of the brewery on the Vista from the RedFrog Pub into the BBQ restaurant. Carnival’s brewmaster has created four craft beers intended to complement the smoky food.
Another area where Carnival has combined venues is Fahrenheit 555, the steakhouse speciality restaurant that now has piano music at dinner. That was accomplished by relocating Piano Bar 88 from an area down the hall on the Vista to a space immediately adjacent to the steakhouse, where a private dining room sits on the Vista.
Bonsai Teppanyaki is Carnival’s foray into a Japanese griddle restaurant. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst
A wall divider between the piano bar and the restaurant is opened during early evening when dinner begins.
“You have live piano music while you’re in the steakhouse,” Duffy said. “And then we close that off and go back to the piano bar after dinner.”
Another change in the steakhouse is dessert presentation, which is done with flair and brio at the table.
The Bonsai Sushi area has been expanded to incorporate Carnival’s first attempt at teppanyaki, the Japanese griddle restaurant with performing chefs who plate food with a circus-like theatricality
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Carnival Horizon, Carnival Vista, Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, Funship Towel Animal, Guy's Pig & Anchor, Havana Cabana, RedFrog Pub, SkyRide, Vista Sista, Vista-class ship | Leave a comment
Carnival Accepts Delivery of Horizon
PHOTO: Rendering of Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Horizon. (photo courtesy of Carnival Cruise Line)
Carnival Cruise Line’s new flagship, Carnival Horizon, was presented today at the Fincantieri’s shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. Carnival Corporation Chairman Micky Arison, as well as Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy, attended the ceremony.
A sister ship to the Carnival Vista, the 3,954-passenger Carnival Horizon features an IMAX Theatre, craft brewery and smokehouse, teppanyaki restaurant, ropes course and Dr. Seuss-themed water park.
And that’s not to mention the Havana staterooms and suites, which include exclusive daytime access to a Cuban-themed bar and pool.
Grammy award-winner and actress Queen Latifah will christen the ship in New York City on May 23. Thereafter, Carnival Horizon will operate Mediterranean sailings out of Barcelona. She’ll move to New York for a series of Bermuda and Caribbean cruises before beginning six-night Caribbean sailings from Miami in the fall.
Another Vista-class vessel, Carnival Panorama, debuts in 2019. She’ll operate year-round from Southern California.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Carnival Cruise Line, Carnival Horizon, Carnival Panorama, Carnival Paradise, Carnival Vista, Cat in the Hat, craft brewery, Dr. Seuss, IMAX Theatre, Micky Arison, Queen Latifah, Vista Class | Leave a comment
11 October, 2017 by wetravel2u
Carnival Cruise Line Partners with Dr. Suess
PHOTO: Dr. Seuss characters onboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship. (photo courtesy of Carnival Cruise Line)
One of Dr. Suess’ most beloved and popular stories, Horton Hears a Who! is a tale based on themes of love and acceptance.
The story’s main character—the endearing Horton the Elephant—is a loyal creature determined to protect the tiny community of Whoville, despite objections from friends.
The book and its themes are the inspiration for a unique new partnership between Carnival Cruise Line and Dr. Suess Enterprises.
The cruise line announced today that it has developed a variety of educational, shipboard activities for children designed to promote kindness, compassion, and generosity—all of which have been patterned after the book’s universal messages covering the same themes.
Part of an annual national campaign by Dr. Seuss, the new “Be Kind/Dare to Care” activities will be rolled out this month across the Carnival fleet.
The new programming will include such activities as “pledge to be kind,” which will involve kids and their families writing down kindness pledges to be posted on a special banner on the ship. Prizes will be awarded for the most creative and heartfelt submissions.
Young cruises can also make friendship bracelets and other keepsakes as part of Horton Hears a Who!-themed arts and crafts.
And for those who may not have seen the movie, there will be on board screenings throughout October.
“Horton Hears a Who! is one of Dr. Seuss’ most heartfelt and thought-provoking books, and we’re delighted to partner with Dr. Seuss Enterprises on this exciting new venture that teaches children the value of kindness and compassion in a fun, positive way,” Caroline Lombardi, director of youth experience for Carnival Cruise Line, said in a statement.
All of these activities will complement Carnival’s existing Seuss at Sea programming, which is part of the line’s exclusive partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises.
Among the existing Dr. Suess activities is a Suess-a-Palooza Parade, during which children and their families can march down the ships’ promenade. The parade is followed by an interactive reading of a Dr. Suess book that includes people of all ages portraying various characters from the story.
As part of the new partnership, Horton Hears a Who! will take center stage for both of these events.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Be Kind/Dare to Care, Carnival Cruise Line, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss characters, Horton Hears a Who!, Horton the Elephant, Partners, Suess-a-Palooza Parade, Whoville | Leave a comment
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Under what circumstances should sections be split into new articles ? (I could not find any articles mentioning it exploring [[ArchWiki:Contributing]]. For exemple current [[OpenSSH#Tips_and_tricks]], or [[pacman#Troubleshooting]].
-- [[User:Apollo22|Apollo22]] ([[User talk:Apollo22|talk]]) 22:01, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
:Hi, it would probably be too hard to find generic criteria to decide when it's ok to split sections, it's always been discussed case by case. If you have solid arguments in favor of splitting those examples, you can flag them with [[Template:Move]] and start a discussion in their talk pages (not here).
:Otherwise you can try to propose some generic guidelines, for the moment we have a [[Help:Procedures#Split section to a new subpage|procedure]] to implement a split after an agreement has been reached.
:-- [[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 09:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
::Maybe not generic criterias, but specific ones. For example sections like {{ic|Tips and tricks}} or {{ic|Troubleshooting}} can expand quickly. A generic rule like: {{ic|if more than 10 subsections are listed, you can move the section in a subarticle without asking first}} -- [[User:Apollo22|Apollo22]] ([[User talk:Apollo22|talk]]) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
::Another example is applications lists. Splitting them in a subarticle would allow direct inclusion in both the specific article and the applications list. -- [[User:Apollo22|Apollo22]] ([[User talk:Apollo22|talk]]) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
:::That's not enough, because e.g. [[Chromium/Tips and tricks]] is flagged to be merged with the main page again. In any case, splitting sections into separate pages has to be discussed first, because it is a radical restructuring of an article and we have [[ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules]]. -- [[User:Lahwaacz|Lahwaacz]] ([[User talk:Lahwaacz|talk]]) 11:59, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Also, the {{ic|related articles}} sidebar can appear to be a little bloated on some articles (for exemple [[pacman]]). Should there be a dedicated side bar for subarticles (not sure about the name) like [[pacman/Tips_and_tricks]] in [[pacman]] ?
:I don't find [[pacman]]'s related articles box bloated; I'm instead afraid that I would find a separate dedicated side bar for subarticles to be an unnecessary complication. -- [[User:Kynikos|Kynikos]] ([[User talk:Kynikos|talk]]) 09:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
::I understand. On a related note, how about adding an explicit rule/procedure to put subarticles first or last ? Also, if this is accepted, shoud/could there be a separator between subarticles and related articles ? Current exemple in [[ArchWiki:Sandbox]] -- [[User:Apollo22|Apollo22]] ([[User talk:Apollo22|talk]]) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
1 New pages patrolling
2 Reorganization
3 Quick report
4 Regular Wiki Cleanup Days
5 Automatic sorting
6 Admin guidance
7 Cite extension
8 How to archive templates
8.1 Deprecated templates
9 Is moving pages to user space a good idea?
10 Policy on abuse/blocking users
11 Scribunto
12 Patch Vector skin to display categories at the top of the page
13 Namespace for developers' pages
14 Removing unnecessary redirects / pages
15 Stale discussions
16 Delete page
17 Convention for splitting sections to new page
New pages patrolling
I have the feeling that Special:NewPages is somewhat overlooked in regard to patrolling. It should be definitely mentioned on this page, here are a few common mistakes that should be looked for:
wrong title
wrong localized title
missing interlanguage links
missing category
More detailed investigation is probably also in order...
-- Lahwaacz (talk) 19:49, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, of course we can mention it, however Special:RecentChanges does show newly created pages too, so patrolling Special:NewPages could be presented as a less demanding task for those who would like to patrol but don't have enough time to cover all the recent changes. We should probably restructure the article a bit, or add a new section? Do you have any ideas? -- Kynikos (talk) 14:21, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
I read just Special:NewPages along with Special:DoubleRedirects and Special:BrokenRedirects. I don't have time for more.
I don't think we need to mention them explicitly. -- Karol (talk) 14:57, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, a link to Special:NewPages is now easily accessible from the sidebar, see MediaWiki talk:Sidebar#Link to NewPages?. -- Kynikos (talk) 10:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
The Maintenance Team was officially launched 3years-2weeks ago, and has since become an indispensable resource for the wiki, vastly improving the effectiveness of wiki maintenance, and also proving to be a fantastic ground for training new future administrators.
However, even things that work well can be further improved, and through time I've collected several ideas that I'd like to outline here:
I'd like to rename the "Maintainers" group as a more commonly recognized "Moderators".
✓ This page would stay with this title, and the "Maintenance Team" would represent the team made by admininstrators and moderators, serving as the central page where to organize the collaboration workflow.
✓ We should use this very talk page as the best place to point users to for generic questions, complaints etc., instead of ArchWiki talk:Administrators (e.g. update the link in ArchWiki:Contributing#Complaining).
✓ I'd like to deprecate ArchWiki:Reports, and just invite to report issues directly in the affected articles' talk pages, possibly also adding proper status templates where useful. I don't know if we should keep the Reports page as an additional page where to also report urgent problems, what I've seen is that almost each of us has his own methods for keeping track of discussions, and the "Recent talks" page in the left column is quite efficient at signalling new issues for those who don't follow the full recent changes.
Historically, ArchWiki:Reports was created because there wasn't anybody doing a systematic patrolling of the changes, even if only limited to talk pages, but in modern days this seems to have improved, so this can be another argument in favor of its deprecation.
Maintainers who add entries to the table manually wouldn't be too much affected, since it takes the same effort to add an entry to a table or add a quick report to a generic talk page. Those who instead are using Wiki Monkey to add quick reports to the table, will of course see a difference, but I will commit myself to modifying the plugin so that it can insert reports in the article's talk page, probably with an explicit message stating that the report has been created automatically.
Note mostly to myself, Wiki Monkey has some feature requests that are related to this restructuring: #175, #176, #197 and #198.
✓ The ArchWiki:Maintenance_Team#Current_patrols list can be deprecated, since it hasn't helped improving the number of full-range patrols, also apparently ending up including inactive members.
✓ ArchWiki:Maintenance_Team#Statistics was useful to track the evolution of the initial 146 reports, but now I think it's useless and can be deprecated together with ArchWiki:Reports.
Opinions needed. — Kynikos (talk) 09:11, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Point 1) Sounds good to me.
Point 2) Agreed.
Point 3) I think that's a good idea. In so doing, that would ensure that the admin talk page is freed up for purely administrative discussions.
Point 4) Personally, I agree with the removal of the reports page. The people who are most likely to be able to fix issues for a particular article are probably the people who keep track of that article's talk page. I don't think that trying to centralize issue reporting achieves much.
Points 6 & 7) Agreed
-- Chazza (talk) 10:11, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
1,2,3. Also agree, this matches the BBS title "Forum Moderator". We could perhaps ask Jason to update the profiles of maintainers with a BBS account
4,7. I'm neutral on this... I think having ArchWiki:Reports as a central place for edits offers a better overview than WhatLinksHere, Recent Talks, and whatnot, also considering the table format. But perhaps I'm just lazy. :)
6. Yep, and not including active members as well. -- Alad (talk) 19:10, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Also agreed. W.r.t 4 & 7, we might also try to generate some lists/tables based on the status templates and make a nice, sorted, filtered and ranked report e.g. once per month. Extracting the original flag date would be probably difficult, but perhaps not impossible.
Is it also the time to consider ArchWiki_talk:Administrators#Meaning_of_Administrator at this point?
-- Lahwaacz (talk) 19:27, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
About 1, I'm adding that it has to be done in 3 steps: create the moderators group, then move each maintainer to moderator, and finally delete the maintainers group.
Of course point 4 is the most controversial, replacing it with some kind of fully automated log/report would be ideal, but IMO it can be implemented later on. @Alad: I understand your concerns, but the benefits of always reporting directly in the articles' talk pages are quite clear now that talk pages seem to be much more watched than they were in the past (also thanks to the fact that IIRC finally MediaWiki is adding modified/created pages to watchlists by default for new users), and if we start doing that, keeping ArchWiki:Reports would mean having to do at least two edits for each report (or three if a status template is added), so that's why I proposed deprecating it; as I said, I will try to update Wiki Monkey to automate the new reporting procedure as much as possible, and I guess I could still have it append entries to ArchWiki:Reports too, but the problem would be keeping the table in sync with the linked reports in the talk pages... I'll think about it.
ArchWiki_talk:Administrators#Meaning_of_Administrator could surely be implemented in this article, it's very related indeed.
— Kynikos (talk) 14:21, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm ok with everything, but +1 to keep (4) the reports. There is no question that you are right, items should be handled in the respective article's talk pages - the sooner, the better. Yet, I believe this is done anyway by all and the current reports are only a residual. I find it valuable to keep this as an opportunity (also for the visible quicklink), at least for some time. Reason: Imagine someone patrols a problematic in recent changes but the article is outside the own interest/ expertise and/or time to open a proper talk item (which would often be more elaborate than the report comment) is sparse. It would be a pity, if it is foregone or tracked in the backhead todo list only.
How about doing it like you propose, but changing procedure for the reports that may still be opened: They could be moved directly by anyone (incl. the creator on return) to the respective talk pages. If we then see the list stays tiny, it can be fully deprecated. --Indigo (talk) 19:07, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
My idea (which I hadn't eleaborated yet here) was to allow the creation of quick reports (also automated with Wiki Monkey) in articles' talk pages similar to the current entries in ArchWiki:Reports' table, probably also using a template to stress the fact that the comment has been added quickly and the reporter may only be confused about the edit and in need for confirmation. I'll use an existing report from ArchWiki:Reports as an example of how it could look instead in the affected article's talk page:
[This is an automatic report about https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=PhpPgAdmin&curid=11293&diff=346886&oldid=345943, please help reviewing it]
Comment: I'm not qualified to check the content, but style is poor regardless. -- User, Timestamp
The whole thing could be manually added simply with:
{{Report|https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=PhpPgAdmin&curid=11293&diff=346886&oldid=345943|I'm not qualified to check the content, but style is poor regardless.}} -- ~~~~
The link to ArchWiki:Reports (the "report" anchor text) could be useful to list all the open reports with a search like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=ArchWiki%3AReports&namespace=1 since it's unlikely that Talk pages link there for other reasons.
If using Wiki Monkey, more details could be added automatically, e.g. the timestamp and author(s) of the edit(s), Special:Diff could be used instead of the full link, and it could create the report in full text (i.e. like using the template with subst).
— Kynikos (talk) 10:54, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Now in this case I'd like to nominate "(4) to deprecate Archwiki:Reports" for the Archwiki Understatement of the Year(TM) category. No, really - ace idea. That would be an ingenious enhancement imo. --Indigo (talk) 21:48, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Yeah sorry, my original idea was still very vague, replying to your post has given me the chance to develop it into something that could actually work, although it would still need some refinement. I'm glad you like it, hoping that you weren't sarcastic of course :P Maybe we can see what the others think of it too, since I'm sure you're not the only one who didn't imagine that (4) was about something like that... — Kynikos (talk) 15:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
For the moment I've done points 6 and 7. — Kynikos (talk) 03:43, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
I think you got it, but of course it was not sarcasm, just trying to make a funny remark. Your idea with the quick report is great lateral thinking. One small reservation I have is about using a Template for it. We all know the hazzle of template breaking characters and I wonder if it might be cumbersome to use a template, but that can be seen. In any case it should be useful to get forward with a decision on where to go with the reports. Anyone else want to share an opinion on (4)? --Indigo (talk) 20:14, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
Eheh I got it I got it, thanks for confirming your support. I think the quick report would only be for short messages, like those in ArchWiki:Reports' table, which are probably even worse when it comes to breakability, so unsupported characters wouldn't be an added problem. I suppose that if somebody wants to reply to a new-style quick report, they can do it below (i.e. outside of) the template, like in a normal discussion.
I don't think we'll find many more people interested in replying, anyway I'm waiting to find some time to update Wiki Monkey's plugin, that's probably my main reason for delaying (4).
To complete the status update, (5) will come with (4), while (2) and (3) practically depend on (1), which in turn is on the shoulders of who is currently maintaining the back-end, even though it's a micro patch.
— Kynikos (talk) 20:54, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
Even if the WikiMonkey additions aren't completed yet, I'd now suggest to deprecate ArchWiki:Reports rather sooner than later. Over the course of the year, it has hardly seen any usage, and old reports which are long fixed amassed on the page. -- Alad (talk) 12:49, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
I'm still on with this plan. About Wiki Monkey (and my other software projects) I should be able to resume allocating some time within a couple of weeks, without promising anything, but yes, I don't want it to be a blocker for this idea. — Kynikos (talk) 10:51, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
I've flagged the page for archiving for now [1]; it should be straightforward to translate the few remaining reports to article templates. We can do the actual redirect once WikiMonkey is updated -- take your time. :) -- Alad (talk) 11:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
Regular Wiki Cleanup Days
I think it would be really useful to have regular wiki cleanups where people gather together to work on the wiki. This could help with organizing categories, cleaning out mentions of rc.conf, or doing major edits/reorganizations. They could be held every 3 months (4x a year) with lots of advertisement and be a great way to get more people involved in Arch Linux. Meskarune (talk) 19:45, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Automatic sorting
Starting from Sunday 4 May, the list of maintainers will be sorted every Sunday automatically by User:Kynikos.bot in descending order by the number of edits made in the previous 30 days (current values are in Special:ActiveUsers) plus the number of edits made with any associated bot accounts in the same period.
The users at the top of the list are more likely to be contacted for generic questions, and the most active maintainers are more likely to be up to date with the current wiki status, procedures and conventions, so their answers can in general be more accurate.
In accordance with the concept of meritocracy this will give more credit to the users that spend more time and effort than the others to maintain the wiki, in particular listing the inactive ones at the bottom.
-- Kynikos (talk) 10:33, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Admin guidance
Show we add some guidence that an admin should follow, the responsibilty they should take?
Encourage contribution from Arch users.
Guide new contributor to follow Arch Wiki Style.
--Fengchao (talk) 13:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Well, if somebody becomes an admin, (s)he's probably been judged to be already fully aware of all his/her responsibilities, since becoming an admin requires quite a bit of experience as an editor (most likely as a maintainer first). Yes, some users are given administration rights because of other roles in the community, e.g. Devs, TUs, forum admins etc., but they usually don't act as "real" wiki administrators. Nonetheless, some guidelines may help users understand what is the role of an admin, and the same goes for maintainers, and we could create a proper page for that, as was conceived in #Meaning of Administrator. -- Kynikos (talk) 06:06, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Cite extension
[Moved from User talk:Kynikos#Cite extension. — Kynikos (talk) 10:04, 15 January 2015 (UTC)]
I'm feeling bad about not having a way to cite my sources properly in my article. As I do for the LibreOffice Newsletter I'm in charge of I'll do as it for my Arch Linux articles:
Some text<ref name=myRefName />
== References ==
<ref name=myRefName>[http://someURL The link]</ref>
I don't know if this system suits you. Let me know. -- wget (talk) 01:07, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately you cannot use the ref tag in this wiki, since it requires the Cite extension, which we don't have installed. Generally we don't require to support every statement with citations, unlike for example on Wikipedia, but it will be very useful if you will add references to external sources simply using links on keywords, like this, or this[2] (see the source text for the implementation; we don't have style rules about this for the moment). If you want to mention the generic sources that you use for writing the article, you should just add them to Dynamic Kernel Module Support#See also. -- Kynikos (talk) 05:49, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
I don't like this idea very much. The See also section sounds like we invite the user to read these documents to provide more detailed information to the reader, implying the Arch Linux documentation is not complete enough. This isn't actually what we want to do in this case: we just adapted an existing article to build a section of the Arch Linux documentation page. And yes, I would really like to have citations like in Wikipedia, but without the need to cite every assumptions we make obviously. Would you mind installing the Cite extension? -- wget (talk) 12:00, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately installing extensions requires write access to the repository, which is restricted to Developers, and a feature request should be opened in the bug tracker. I don't see other alternatives to the methods I proposed above.
That said, ArchWiki articles are not intended to be "complete" as in "it shouldn't be necessary to read anything else in order to understand every detail of the topic"; if the topic has good upstream/official documentation, there's no point in duplicating it, see also Help:Style#Hypertext metaphor.
-- Kynikos (talk) 14:12, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kynikos. Happy New Year! Any news about the citation extension? Yet again today, I wanted to write on the wiki that yaourt does support bash and zsh completion, and to link these assumptions to the source code. The cite extension is indeed very useful, especially in the case (like this one) when upstream has not good documentation. If you haven't already reported the feature request on the bug tracker, are you willing to support the one I'm gonna write? Otherwise, I don't see the interest in writing that request: devs will unlikely accept it without your support. Thanks in advance. -- wget (talk) 23:50, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
Happy New Year mate :) Honestly I don't see the need for the cite extension here: can't you just use simple inline links as I proposed above? (And as it's done in every article?) Sorry, but unless you prove that you really have no way to add that link without the extension, I can't support your request... Just try to amend the article with inline links and let's see how it looks, ok? I'll try to help you fix the style, if needed ;) -- Kynikos (talk) 05:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Yesterday again, I was cleaning/updating the Browser plugins and wanted to put a link to the official where I took that information from. That link concerned two locations in that article: Disable the "Press ESC to exit full screen mode" message and Multiple monitor full-screen fix, the solution using inline links was to duplicate that URL which I didn't. Regarding the your message, the problem seems to be a lack of workforce then. A possible solution would be merging wikis and forums of the native languages communities into Arch Linux infrastructure, bringing along all these admins/maintainers to the Arch infra. But for that a bunch of work needs to be done first: easy multilanguage support (especially regarding links) on the Wiki (maybe native language staff can help for that). -- wget (talk) 14:59, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
I see, actually if you want to use the same link in two different sections, there's nothing against it; even if there was the Cite extension installed, you'd have to duplicate the <ref> tag, right? There are already many articles with multiple instances of the same internal or external links, I don't see any harm with that, as long as the duplicated links are found in indipendent parts of an article.
-- Kynikos (talk) 15:18, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes, just the <ref> tag will need to be duplicated, but the URL, authors, description, etc. will not. That ref will just act as a very short reference to the long <ref> tag written at the end of the article. See this example, this is the way we are working at TheDocumentFoundation. -- wget (talk) 21:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
In general, also expanding on what I wrote in my arch-general post that you linked, my position is that it's too late to install the Cite extension now, because that would only introduce a new style standard for external links that would make all the existing articles style-obsolete, in practice starting a very long — if not infinite — transition period over which articles would have both inline and referenced links, which I wouldn't see as an improvement at all.
Don't underestimate my patience or my scripting abilities ;-), I'm the kind of guy a bit maniac, with obsessive need to get everything neat. So transition period isn't really a problem ;-) -- wget (talk) 21:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Eheh I understand, I guess I'm a bit like that myself :P Well, considering that we've got this far, I'm going to move this branch of the discussion to ArchWiki talk:Administrators and see what are the opinions of the rest of the team. — Kynikos (talk) 09:51, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I dislike the Wikipedia citation style simply because it needs 3 clicks instead of one: one to see the link, a second to open it, and a third to return to the article. That said I'm a proponent of requiring citations for statements made on this wiki: Help_talk:Style#Citations and reasoning (one of these days I'll get to making a draft). -- Alad (talk) 18:31, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
What I was saying is that if Wikipedia-style citations had been used from the beginning of this wiki, I think we'd probably be used to them by now; it's true that they require more effort to follow a link if you don't use the mouseover tooltip (e.g. when using pentadactyl, vimfx etc.; tooltips can also be set to appear on click though); on the other hand, though, they encourage the maintenance of a comprehensive list of external reference links at the bottom of each article. Anyway, as I've repeated multiple times, now I'm against introducing Wikipedia-style citations.
Regarding requiring citations, I'll wait for your draft, but I think making them a requirement could be too much: what do we do with unreferenced statements? Delete them? Or fill articles with "Citation needed" templates? Wikipedia needs citations more than us because it deals with topics that can be easily discussed from biased standpoints; also, it doesn't allow original research, see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Verifiability. In this wiki, I'd talk more of a recommendation, and well specify what kind of statements should better be referenced.
— Kynikos (talk) 15:27, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
Please see it like this: using inline or referenced links are just two different style conventions: the ArchWiki happens to use the first one, let's just stick to it and concentrate on the rest, ok? :)
There is indeed a lack of workforce on the back-end, although I have to acknowledge the fact that Pierre has recently finally pushed MediaWiki 1.24 in the repo, which means it will reach the server very soon; anyway, his policy regarding internationalization has always been the opposite of your proposal, i.e. encourage localized versions to host their own wiki, so your idea would find some opposition there; but even if it didn't, I think you're greatly overrating the state of the external Arch wikis: of them, only the German and French wikis are actually alive, and the German wiki is already maintained by Pierre himself :)
Didn't know much about the wiki infrastructure and native language frequentations, but what I've seen on the #archlinux-fr freenode IRC channel, there are some people involved with the French wiki who could be returned to the official wiki, recovering a bit more workforce. Its a great subject for discussion between officials (Pierre) and third parties IMHO. Yes, I'm in complete favour of federating around a same well defined goal: "Unity makes strength", "United we stand, divided we fall" is my country motto. -- wget (talk) 21:20, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Well, my personal opinion, which is not an official position because we've never discussed this among the admins, is that I'd be in favour of returning all the translations in the same wiki, but only after implementing Help talk:I18n#Language namespace(s) in place of suffixes? and proving that it works efficiently with the languages that are already hosted here; we should also prove that we can merge the databases of the external wikis safely and effectively. Only after that we could discuss the return of the external languages, stressing the fact that the admins coming from the other wikis should be willing to adapt to the English wiki customs, which I wouldn't take for granted.
For the first step I'll need to complete some adaptations to my bot, but that's not on high priority at the moment: I have a todo list that I follow more or less strictly, and I promise I'll get there :)
— Kynikos (talk) 09:51, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Another advantage of being able to use <ref> is that one could also add meta information to the URL that's being linked to in order to prevent link rot. Not all URLs are descriptive enough to figure out where they might have gone when they're not reachabe anymore and the Wayback Machine wasn't able to crawl the site. -- Ckujau (talk) 17:07, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
How to archive templates
Now I'm not sure what archived templates should look like. If they redirect to ArchWiki:Archive like normal pages, its transclusions will be completely wrong. Somebody could use it in the future by mistake, and I think it would also affect browsing the history of pages that transcluded it in the past. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 16:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Interesting question. Now that history is freshly filled with the resolved deletion transclusions, how about one dares to ArchWiki:Archive the Template:Deletion as a test case to have a look at revision examples? -- Indigo (talk) 18:15, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Hmm I agree that archived templates shouldn't be usable anymore => they should be removed from the Template namespace => they must be renamed to something else: I was thinking about adding some sort of symbol after "Template", maybe change them from "Template:Something" to "Template~:Something", so their titles still appear where one would look for templates.
An alternative, which I like less, would be to leave them as they are, but instead make ArchWiki:Archive transclude safely with some mw:Transclusion#Transclusion markup magic.
The old revisions of articles have always looked "broken" because of the various template modifications, that's not something that archiving has introduced :)
A similar problem exists for Categories, of course, maybe they should be renamed as well.
— Kynikos (talk) 13:29, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
To be frank, this sounds a bit overcomplicated. Is there really much use in keeping these old templates available? They're not article content to be possibly restored later, and are typically only deprecated after careful discussion. -- Alad (talk) 16:36, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
To me any mw:Transclusion#Transclusion markup magic sounds like too much effort and broken transclusions not to worry about too. I like the idea of simply renaming when moving them. Deprecation is usually discussed in the template's talk page, why not handle them as everything else. Further, a simple renaming rule for such could be applied in other cases as well, e.g. DeveloperWiki, if wanted. Perhaps prepending something is a simpler rule, e.g. "_Template:Something", "_DeveloperWiki:something". -- Indigo (talk) 18:22, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
edit: forget about the prepending, I missed the namespace colon ":" needs replacing anyway.Kynikos' rule now seems simplest to me, perhaps using an underscore instead of hyphen. --Indigo (talk) 18:35, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
The colon does not need to be replaced, but underscores are treated the same as spaces and page title cannot start with a space, see mw:Manual:Page title.
They could also be moved as subpages of some central page (e.g. ArchWiki:Archive) or even into separate Archive: namespace (as was one of the original suggestions). Or we could just leave them in place and replace the content with something like {{Archived template}} flag (see how mediawiki.org does this for extensions: mw:Extension:ABC), which would also do the <onlyinclude> magic. And then why do this only with special pages and not with all of them? (Seems like we're at the beginning again, sorry about that...)
-- Lahwaacz (talk) 18:54, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
Discarding the transclusion markup idea, that I mentioned only for completeness' sake, but didn't like in the first place, I've given an example of how I think Templates can be archived with the now-called Template;Wikipedia (thanks Lahwaacz for fixing its remaining transclusions). I think changing the colon to a semicolon is the most natural thing we can do: I've updated the procedure accordingly.
Archiving a Template (or a Category) is not something we are going to do every day, probably not even every month, so I don't think that the procedure os "overcomplicated", i.e. not worth it: I think saving months, when not years of contributions that had been part of the wiki's life until then, is enough to justify the little more time needed to move the page when archiving it.
I don't like the idea of using a completely new Archive namespace (I suppose Lahwaacz meant to use it in every case, not only for Templates/Categories): we can easily do without, and if we implemented it, we'd have to always rename a page when archiving it. I don't like the {{Archived template}} flag idea either because then the archived pages would still appear e.g. in Special:SpecialPages lists.
— Kynikos (talk) 08:38, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Ok, I can see what you mean on the extra mile. I'm still not convinced on using a semi-colon (or generally renaming templates) - IMO, it's difficult to spot the difference with regular, semi-colon templates at first glance.
Revisiting Lahwaacz's suggestion: a "deprecated archive" template doesn't involve renaming, keeps the history of the template, and explicitely directs users that a template is deprecated: w:Template:Deprecated_template. Consequently old revisions look cleaner, rather than just have a red link to a (now moved) template.
It would also offer better seperation between archived content (articles) and formatting (templates).
Arguably, new revisions may still end up using the template (only showing a warning text). However, considering how few templates in recent use the problematic applies to - particularly when we redirect, rather than archive, Template:Deletion - this shouldn't be a problem. We also clean up backlinks before deprecating templates, as a general rule.
-- Alad (talk) 12:39, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
edit: I don't have a suggestion on Special:SpecialPages. However in this case I believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks; the arguments above are from a user's perspective, and the Special: namespace is mostly our turf ... -- Alad (talk) 13:06, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
I don't want to insist obstinately of course, so if you guys prefer archiving by tagging rather than by redirecting, I'll be fine with it, no worries.
Probably the most affected special pages will be Special:UnusedTemplates and Special:UnusedCategories, as their archived members will grow in number in the long run. There's a quite smart solution we can use for this, though, i.e. self-transcluding the archived templates, and self-categorizing the archived categories: this will keep them off the Unused* special pages.
But now I'm thinking, if we use a "Deprecated" template for such pages, why not just be consistent and use it for any page, and maybe just call it generically Template:Archived?
Finally, with a "Deprecated" or "Archived" template, ArchWiki:Archive should be merged into Category:Archive.
Self-transclusion is smart indeed. Regarding Template:Archived, to me that's two birds with one stone, i.e. it would also solve the issue with (double) redirects. For some inspiration, a wiki that uses this approach (together with page protection for Archived pages, cf #Restoring revisions and redirection) is [3] (translation). -- Alad (talk) 09:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
True, I think the most affected special pages would then be Special:DeadendPages (no, self-linking doesn't do the trick in this case), Special:LonelyPages and Special:ShortPages; also, it will be more difficult to find unused templates in Special:MostTranscludedPages (those that self-transclude them as an example), and Special:Categories will show everything too, but these shouldn't be real problems. At ubuntuusers.de they also move the pages as subpages of the main Archive page by the way (plus leaving the content visible including all the links). There are advantages and disadvantages on both sides, can Lahwaacz confirm that, after the latest considerations, he's still in favor of the Template:Archived solution? If so, I won't object at trying it, as now I'm getting undecided myself... — Kynikos (talk) 08:57, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
Lahwaacz is undecided yet. As Alad mentioned first, is there really much value in keeping deprecated templates around? Would having a multi-choice vote among administrators help to advance this discussion forward? -- Svito (talk) 13:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Deprecated templates
See deprecated templates here, see Article status templates, Should these be translated and How to archive templates. -- Svito (talk) 01:08, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
Is moving pages to user space a good idea?
Some pages in my watch list are deleted. Dig into the history, found some are moved to user namespace without leaving a redirection.
Make Arch wiki main namespace clean.
The page is complete gone, some user may re-create it without knowing it exist before.
Information in user namespace is hard to find and reuse.
Some pages should merged to List of applications but it is harder to track them now.
New contributors will have very bad feeling and may stop here.
I think we should restrict such edits and use page flag template instead.Thoughts?
-- Fengchao (talk) 06:59, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
[Copied from User talk:Larivact. -- Fengchao (talk) 10:07, 2 July 2018 (UTC)]
Hi, scrolling recent changes here, I'm not sure about a couple of moves today. For example, User:Thestinger/Nessus. It has a dozen contributors over years, software is uptodate & article covers some specific info, a Nessus_(Русский) translation exists too. Why does it not have enough flesh to stay in Main? --Indigo (talk) 19:14, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi, the installation note is superfluous, if you are interested in how a PKGBUILD file works, read it; when a PKGBUILD does a silent HTTP request this should be fixed. The post-installation setup section is unnecessary as the localhost page tells you to do that anyway. The service name and the localhost URL are echoed in post_install. The removal note should be echoed in post_remove. So the few info that's there can just be echoed during installation / removal and doesn't require an article. I now commented my suggestions at the AUR package.[4] --Larivact (talk) 05:25, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, all good reasons, and good move to suggest the improvements to the AUR package. Yet, consider the following: (1) How did you come up with the improvements for the PKGBUILD? Without installing the package or scrolling years of comments, the info in the article helped you. You sure are right it is better served in the PKGBUILD, but it is not there yet - and if you did not explain here, the move reasons would not be transparent. (2) What may happen in six months, if another user sees there is no article on Nessus yet? S/he may create one from scratch, rather than improving an existing (fixing style and removing then superfluous info), or reconsider after finding the previous one via a Template:Archive). (3) Since User pages are not indexed in our search, there is no direct way to find the current one. Moving it like this also leaves translator teams in a flux figuring why the original is gone.
I'm appreciating your effort to clean-up too, please don't think otherwise. I'd like to make another suggestion: We have Template:Stub and want to archive it. The problem is that it is still used in many articles, Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Stub. Among these will be clearer cut candidates for archiving/Template:Merge for otherwise useful info/move to user space (the latter should be primarily for articles a single contributor started but never got round to bringing it to a full article). Cheers. --Indigo (talk) 08:28, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the confusion I caused. I moved the articles to the User namespace since I didn't get archiving - I thought it was a dedicated feature. I'll undo my recent moves. --Larivact (talk) 18:27, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
So do we have a uniform strategy on when to Archive something and when to move something back to the original author's user page? E.g. [5], [6], [7] would fall under the above "single contributor" criterion...
Also I'll take advantage of this to remind ourselves of the behemoth discussion ArchWiki_talk:Administrators#Should_we_remove_or_archive_obsolete_articles.3F which is not yet completed. -- Alad (talk) 18:55, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
I'd say if it has only one contributor (excluding translators adding language links, bot edits etc.) and it is not very old (e.g. up to 1 or 2 years), then move it to the user namespace, otherwise archive it. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 19:36, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Sounds good to me. While it can get arbitrary, I'd also exclude simple fixes done by staff to help a new article to par style-wise.
@Larivact: thanks again. --Indigo (talk) 17:10, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
I agree too with Lahwaacz's proposed guidelines, we can make them official in Help:Procedures#Remove an entire page. Sorry I don't have time to resume ArchWiki_talk:Administrators#Should_we_remove_or_archive_obsolete_articles.3F at the moment. -- Kynikos (talk) 09:39, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
I'd make it depend on the current amount/quality of information. When something is only a short stub / a style mess it's not really worth archiving. On the other hand when we deal with all such pages and monitor new pages the two year rule should work.--Larivact (talk) 15:13, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
Also note that when a page has dozens of contributors and it's still "a short stub / a style mess", it's not really worth moving to the subpage of the first editor. If something's not worth archiving, we might as well delete it. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 16:43, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
I've started deleting pages that are either irrelevant to Arch (e.g. ArchAudio which was some random third-party project, now dead) or are "stubs" without meaningful contribution (e.g. Bankid). @Larivact: great work on the categorizing/cleanup you're doing btw. -- Alad (talk) 10:29, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
N.B. If there's a related page (such as a modern replacement), it's likely better to redirect pages there rather than delete or archive them. All this does show there's gaps in Help:Procedures#Remove an entire page and I agree to expand it. -- Alad (talk) 10:36, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
I absolutely don't want to duplicate ArchWiki talk:Administrators#Should we remove or archive obsolete articles? here, but my position is that for the moment the issue is regulated by Help:Procedures#Remove an entire page which only considers deletion in case of "spam or other clearly malicious content". I think that all contributions that made it to stay published for long periods (ArchAudio even since 2009) are part of the history of the wiki and should not be deleted. I don't see the advantages of deleting except when in need to censor the content; the data is not actually removed from the database, so it's not even a relief for the server, as small as it would even be, and I still regret having the habit of deleting pages and especially discussions before the only (and I hope last) occasion in which the deleted articles were actually purged from the database without any warning. -- Kynikos (talk) 17:40, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
In the case of ArchAudio I would say it never belonged on the wiki in the first place, or classifies as spam. See [8] which raised the original concern but was closed arbitrarily by two users. In the other cases I agree they might as well have been moved back to the user namespace. -- Alad (talk) 12:54, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
Topic is closed but I do think some pages should redirect/merged to List of applications. I am now reviewing pages moved to user namespace and do the work if approprite. -- Fengchao (talk) 06:13, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Policy on abuse/blocking users
Hi all, do we have a policy on blocking users?
The reason I ask is Special:Contributions/LennartD who has been vandalizing systemd. I've given him a warning after the first edit and banned him for a week after the second.
Lonaowna (talk) 18:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
It happens quite rarely so I don't think a dedicated policy is needed. Usually a warning is issued when a user goes against the code of conduct, and should he disregard it, he is banned indefinitely. In this particular case it applies even more, as that same user was already banned on BBS for exactly the same behavior, and he's very likely to repeat it after his return.
Side-note: you may also want to set the "block email" and "prevent user from editing talk page" flags when issuing bans. -- Alad (talk) 22:17, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Got it, thanks! -- Lonaowna (talk) 23:52, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
Scribunto
I would like the mw:Scribunto extension to be installed to the ArchWiki, so that we can improve existing templates and create new useful templates, which currently cannot be implemented. For example we currently cannot implement Template:Info. Furthermore mw:Lua scripting would make template code more readable and facilitate maintenance by allowing for translated templates without duplicating the template logic.
--Larivact (talk) 20:07, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
Frankly, I don't know how to feel about this. Obviously it would help to fix a lot of problems, but I wouldn't overestimate its usefulness. Lua modules still have to deal with arguments in the MediaWiki markup and the output is integrated back into the MediaWiki markup, so some problems will inherently persist. And since the core markup language sucks, combining it with a perfect scripting language would still be a sucking experience...
Another thing is that WMF moved to Lua primarily due to performance reasons and I don't think that our wiki has any performance problems with the current templates.
The last thing is a question whether we really need to invent more and more complicated templates or whether we can keep them simple like they are now. For example, we can say that Template:hc cannot be used inside lists, which covers at least 99% of the use cases, and for the remaining 1% I'm sure it is possible to adjust the surrounding content of the page to look good even if the template is not inside a list. Having a limited language for writing templates really helps to control the complexity of the resulting templates.
More opinions needed (especially from the administrators and maintainers).
-- Lahwaacz (talk) 11:40, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Patch Vector skin to display categories at the top of the page
Categories on the ArchWiki are currently displayed at the bottom of the page. While this is the MediaWiki default, it does make the categories of an article less accessible, especially if the article is long. Because categories provide such a great way to find related articles, I think they deserve to be prominently placed at the top, right below the page heading. This is also more consistent with our convention to keep categories at the top of the source text. I initially tried to implement the change using CSS but had to figure out that the two ways to move catlinks to the top with CSS, absolute and flex positioning, cannot be implemented cleanly as both don't work with margin collapsing. Kynikos asked WikiMedia if they would accept a Vector skin patch to implement the feature as an option, to which they didn't respond. I managed to patch the Vector skin to implement the desired change. Although we would need to maintain the patch ourselves, I think it is doable (the patch only changes 10 lines) and warranted as it would improve ArchWiki for every reader (that uses the default skin).
I submitted my patch as a pull request to the ArchWiki GitHub repository.
Now that my patch was declined the only way left appears to be upstream. --Larivact (talk) 15:39, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Namespace for developers' pages
There are many pages grouped with the DeveloperWiki: but which are technically not in a separate namespace. We should create a true MediaWiki namespace, but we should probably use a different prefix for technical reasons - any ideas?
As for the technical reasons: although there is a maintenance script to deal with existing pages after creating a namespace), it handles only existing pages and not the archive table. There is most likely more, I guess it's not really a tested solution.
-- Lahwaacz (talk) 21:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
I can't think of much better names, maybe just "Developer" or "Development". However I was thinking that renaming all those pages may break many external links, since that prefix has been used forever, so as an alternative we can sort of follow mw:Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Move_conflicting_pages, coordinating the creation of the namespace like this:
Prepare a bot to move all the pages; I can easily make a plugin for Wiki Monkey, or it should be easy also with wiki-scripts;
Submit the LocalSettings PR but don't merge it yet; agree instead on an exact date/time when the patch will be merged;
A few hours before the patch is applied, move all the pages to a temporary prefix with the bot;
Wait until the patch is merged;
Move the pages back with the bot.
-- Kynikos (talk) 17:46, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Removing unnecessary redirects / pages
Packages, there's Package
Partitions, there's Partition
Removed, there's Remove
Repos, ambiguous
Repositories, ambiguous
User repo, there's User repository
Printing, there's print
Redirects flagged with Template:Remove:
Advisory Examples
Battle.net Client
Introduction to the ABS
Streaming Media via uShare
UEFI/Hardware
UEFI hardware
Linux console/Настройка клавиатуры
Accidentally created translations:
Template;Text art (Português)
Template:Comment (Español)
--Larivact (talk) 06:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Groups & Users used to have content before they become redirects, the pages should be archived instead of removed. -- nl6720 (talk) 07:31, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
In that case they should stay redirects. --Larivact (talk) 07:36, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
As I mentioned in [9], I don't think we should start systematically removing various grammar forms redirects just because someone finds them unnecessary. The discussions in Talk:Edit#Deprecation and Category_talk:Disambiguation_pages#Introduction should be resolved long before we decide on this. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 22:54, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. Coincidently, after deleting installing yesterday, I stopped at packages because of a related thought (it being a noun that may be a frequent search term). --Indigo (talk) 16:50, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
As mentioned by Lahwaacz, there are already some related discussions, but I'm even wondering why we have to spend time to discuss whether a redirect is necessary or not; if it was created I say just leave it there, it's not doing any harm, it's not even that we kind of "free" space in the database or something if we delete it, in fact the more we mess with it the more records we create (revisions, logs etc.) ^^ If we want to turn a redirect into a disambiguation page we just fix the backlinks and that's it, same if we want to change its target article#section. -- Kynikos (talk) 17:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Stale discussions
I would appreciate responses to the following discussions:
ArchWiki talk:About#Refining scope
Talk:Network configuration#Moving Ethernet-specific sections to Wired subpage
--Larivact (talk) 20:11, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
You've got a reply on August 28... -- Lahwaacz (talk) 21:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
I am aware, though Alad has not responded yet to the demo. --Larivact (talk) 21:18, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Again no reply for two months. --Larivact (talk) 15:51, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Believe it or not, I actually have other things to do than look over ArchWiki. And in this case it's a very complex topic with vastly differing opinions. -- Alad (talk) 06:25, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Of course you have other things to do, it's just that you are blocking the proposal because it cannot proceed as long as an administrator disagrees. --Larivact (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello admins. Some time ago I created the Viber article. Now that I look at it I think it's not worth having this article, since it's just one obtainable software from the AUR (already mentioned in List of applications) and there's nothing else whatsoever to add to it Arch-specific. I'm requesting it to be deleted altogether. PF71 (talk) 21:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
You can just redirect the page to List of applications#Other IM clients as a useful shortcut. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 05:59, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Oh yeah, how did I not think of that... PF71 (talk) 13:55, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Convention for splitting sections to new page
Under what circumstances should sections be split into new articles ? (I could not find any articles mentioning it exploring ArchWiki:Contributing. For exemple current OpenSSH#Tips_and_tricks, or pacman#Troubleshooting.
-- Apollo22 (talk) 22:01, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, it would probably be too hard to find generic criteria to decide when it's ok to split sections, it's always been discussed case by case. If you have solid arguments in favor of splitting those examples, you can flag them with Template:Move and start a discussion in their talk pages (not here).
Otherwise you can try to propose some generic guidelines, for the moment we have a procedure to implement a split after an agreement has been reached.
-- Kynikos (talk) 09:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Maybe not generic criterias, but specific ones. For example sections like Tips and tricks or Troubleshooting can expand quickly. A generic rule like: if more than 10 subsections are listed, you can move the section in a subarticle without asking first -- Apollo22 (talk) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Another example is applications lists. Splitting them in a subarticle would allow direct inclusion in both the specific article and the applications list. -- Apollo22 (talk) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
That's not enough, because e.g. Chromium/Tips and tricks is flagged to be merged with the main page again. In any case, splitting sections into separate pages has to be discussed first, because it is a radical restructuring of an article and we have ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 11:59, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Also, the related articles sidebar can appear to be a little bloated on some articles (for exemple pacman). Should there be a dedicated side bar for subarticles (not sure about the name) like pacman/Tips_and_tricks in pacman ?
I don't find pacman's related articles box bloated; I'm instead afraid that I would find a separate dedicated side bar for subarticles to be an unnecessary complication. -- Kynikos (talk) 09:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
I understand. On a related note, how about adding an explicit rule/procedure to put subarticles first or last ? Also, if this is accepted, shoud/could there be a separator between subarticles and related articles ? Current exemple in ArchWiki:Sandbox -- Apollo22 (talk) 10:58, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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The following radio stations broadcast on FM frequency 97.7 MHz:
1 Australia
2 Canada (Channel 249)
3 Mexico
4 United States (Channel 249)
3SER in Melbourne, Victoria
ABC Classic FM in Perth, Western Australia
ABC Classic FM in Roma, Queensland
ABC Shepparton in Shepparton, Victoria
Rhema FM in Darwin, Northern Territory
SBS Radio in Sydney, New South Wales
Snow FM in Cooma, New South Wales
The Breeze in Gloucester, New South Wales
Triple J in Gold Coast, Queensland
TOTE Sport Radio in Burnie, Tasmania
Canada (Channel 249)
CBF-4 in Matagami, Quebec (new coming soon)
CBKF-FM in Regina, Saskatchewan
CBTN-FM in Fernie, British Columbia
CBUF-FM in Vancouver, British Columbia
CFAZ-FM in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrabor
CFBI-FM in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
CFCV-FM in St. Andrew's, Newfoundland and Labrador
CFGP-FM in Grande Prairie, Alberta
CFTH-FM-1 in Harrington Harbour, Quebec
CHDH-FM in Siksika, Alberta
CHGB-FM in Wasaga Beach, Ontario
CHMS-FM in Bancroft, Ontario
CHOM-FM in Montreal, Quebec
CHTZ-FM in St. Catharines, Ontario
CHUP-FM in Calgary, Alberta
CIDD-FM in Carlyle Lake Resort, Saskatchewan
CIDO-FM in Creston, British Columbia
CILE-FM-1 in Lac Allard, Quebec
CILE-FM-2 in Riviere-au-Tonnerre, Quebec
CKEN-FM in Kentville, Nova Scotia
CKTK-FM in Kitimat, British Columbia
VF2367 in Dillon, Saskatchewan
VF2433 in Iqaluit, Nunavut
XEEW-FM in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
XERC-FM in Mexico City
XHAAL-FM in Saltillo, Coahuila
XHAL-FM in Manzanillo, Colima
XHARE-FM in Meoqui, Chihuahua
XHCHM-FM in Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán
XHESCC-FM in Sabinas, Coahuila
XHESH-FM in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León
XHGL-FM in Mérida, Yucatán
XHGRC-FM in Acapulco, Guerrero
XHHO-FM in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora
XHLOS-FM in Montemorelos, Nuevo León
XHNF-FM in Tepic, Nayarit
XHOT-FM in Xalapa, Veracruz
XHRPO-FM in Santa Cruz Amilpas, Oaxaca
XHRW-FM in Tampico, Tamaulipas
XHSEA-FM in Cananea, Sonora
XHSNP-FM in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
XHWO-FM in Chetumal, Quintana Roo
XHWT-FM in Culiacán, Sinaloa
XHZU-FM in Zacapu, Michoacán
United States (Channel 249)
KACI-FM in The Dalles, Oregon
KAGZ in Burke, Texas
KALK in Winfield, Texas
KAPB-FM in Marksville, Louisiana
KATX in Eastland, Texas
KAVV in Benson, Arizona
KBBX-FM in Nebraska City, Nebraska
KCCH-LP in Helena, Montana
KCRR in Grundy Center, Iowa
KCYA in Rolling Hills, Wyoming
KCYI-LP in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KCYP-LP in Mission, Texas
KCYQ in Elsinore, Utah
KDEE-LP in Sacramento, California
KDLC in Dulac, Louisiana
KEQB in Coburg, Oregon
KFGB-LP in Topeka, Kansas
KGLM-FM in Anaconda, Montana
KHBT in Humboldt, Iowa
KHHZ in Gridley, California
KHIA-LP in Brundage, Texas
KHIM in Mangum, Oklahoma
KHRK in Hennessey, Oklahoma
KHZR in Potosi, Missouri
KICM in Healdton, Oklahoma
KJMR-LP in Chattaroy, Washington
KJLV (FM) in Los Altos, California
KJSM-FM in Augusta, Arkansas
KKDS-LP in Eureka, California
KLGR-FM in Redwood Falls, Minnesota
KLVO (FM) in Belen, New Mexico
KMTY in Gibbon, Nebraska
KNBB in Dubach, Louisiana
KNBZ in Redfield, South Dakota
KNIU-LP in Kansas City, Kansas
KNOZ in Orchard Mesa, Colorado
KNZR-FM in Shafter, California
KOGI-LP in Big Pine, California
KOMO-FM in Oakville, Washington
KORJ in Butte Falls, Oregon
KOTM-FM in Ottumwa, Iowa
KPFF-LP in Pahrump, Nevada
KPOW-FM in La Monte, Missouri
KPSA-FM in Lordsburg, New Mexico
KQLW-LP in Lewistown, Montana
KQMO in Shell Knob, Missouri
KQQO-LP in Ogallala, Nebraska
KQVO in Calexico, California
KQWA-LP in Walnut Creek, California
KRCK-FM in Mecca, California
KRGU-LP in Midwest City, Oklahoma
KRIO-FM in Roma, Texas
KRWL-LP in Coquille, Oregon
KSJL (FM) in Strasburg, Colorado
KSNP (FM) in Burlington, Kansas
KTAQ-LP in Sandpoint, Idaho
KTPI-FM in Mojave, California
KVRV in Monte Rio, California
KWAP-LP in Florissant, Missouri
KWIN in Lodi, California
KWNF in O'Donnell, Texas
KWNK-LP in Reno, Nevada
KXJN in Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
KXMQ in McNary, Arizona
KYRT in Mason, Texas
KYSN in East Wenatchee, Washington
KZAR in McQueeney, Texas
KZBG in Lapwai, Idaho
KZYR in Avon, Colorado
WAFL (FM) in Milford, Delaware
WAQE-FM in Barron, Wisconsin
WAVK in Marathon, Florida
WAZK in Nantucket, Massachusetts
WBCR-LP in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
WCJO in Jackson, Ohio
WCLS in Spencer, Indiana
WCTY in Norwich, Connecticut
WCXU in Caribou, Maine
WCZX in Hyde Park, New York
WENY-FM in Big Flats, New York
WEXT in Amsterdam, New York
WFBO-LP in Flagler Beach, Florida
WFDL-FM in Lomira, Wisconsin
WGGN-FM in Castalia, Ohio
WGLR-FM in Lancaster, Wisconsin
WGMT in Lyndon, Vermont
WGPB in Rome, Georgia
WGTI in Winfall, North Carolina
WHET in West Frankfort, Illinois
WHZK-LP in Greenwood, South Carolina
WILE-FM in Byesville, Ohio
WJEV-LP in Dale City, Virginia
WKAF in Brockton, Massachusetts
WKCA in Salt Lick, Kentucky
WKKR in Auburn, Alabama
WKSH-LP in Shreveport, Louisiana
WKXM-FM in Winfield, Alabama
WLER-FM in Butler, Pennsylvania
WLKH in Somerset, Pennsylvania
WLQI in Rensselaer, Indiana
WMCW-LP in Astor, Florida
WMDM in Lexington Park, Maryland
WMGZ in Eatonton, Georgia
WMLQ in Manistee, Michigan
WMOI in Monmouth, Illinois
WMRX-FM in Beaverton, Michigan
WNLB-LP in Holland, Ohio
WNSX in Winter Harbor, Maine
WNVM in Cidra, Puerto Rico
WOLV in Houghton, Michigan
WOXY (FM) in Oxford, Ohio
WQDC in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
WQLZ in Petersburg, Illinois
WRBJ-FM in Brandon, Mississippi
WREF in Sebree, Kentucky
WRIC-FM in Richlands, Virginia
WRNC-LP in Ashland, Wisconsin
WRYD in Jemison, Alabama
WSNI in Swanzey, New Hampshire
WSTQ (FM) in Streator, Illinois
WTCQ in Vidalia, Georgia
WTGN in Lima, Ohio
WTGO-LP in Lafayette, Indiana
WTGV-FM in Sandusky, Michigan
WTLQ-FM in Punta Rassa, Florida
WTTY in Ty Ty, Georgia
WTYJ in Fayette, Mississippi
WTYL-FM in Tylertown, Mississippi
WVBB in Elliston-Lafayette, Virginia
WVCU-LP in Athens, West Virginia
WVRT in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
WWOC-LP in Bowling Green, Ohio
WWPP-LP in Homestead, Florida
WWSH-LP in Vero Beach, Florida
WWUF in Waycross, Georgia
WWXM in Garden City, South Carolina
WYAJ in Sudbury, Massachusetts
WYJJ in Trenton, Tennessee
WYXX in Goshen, Indiana
WYYX in Bonifay, Florida
WZKT in Walnut Creek, North Carolina
WZZN in Union Grove, Alabama
Lists of radio stations by frequency
Stations that broadcast for public reception
CW/Morse
in kHz
LF (LW)
Radio clocks
By AM
Regions 1 and 3,
9 kHz spacing
MF (MW)
Region 2,
10 kHz spacing
HF (SW)2
Freqs.
in MHz
By FM
VHF (Band I/
OIRT FM)
30 kHz spacing3
(Band II/
CCIR FM)
Australia - NAS
50/100 kHz spacing3
200 kHz spacing
Japan FM
Weather radio
1 Non-standard frequency
2 Shortwave uses a combination of AM, VSB, USB and LSB, with some NBFM and CW/morse code (in the case of time signal stations) as well as numerous frequencies, depending on the time of day/night, season, and solar activity level. A reasonably full list from 16 kHz to 27MHz can be found at [1]
3 Regions 1 and 3 also use Region 2's frequencies as well, with 50 to 100 kHz spacing.
4 See also: Template:Audio broadcasting, Apex (radio band) and OIRT
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One of the best views of Florence can be savored from the Piazzale Michelangelo, a short walk across the Arno River from downtown Florence. For a fun afternoon head to the square and enjoy an enchanting panorama of the city, followed by a relaxing...
Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Food in Italy is still largely about seasonality, and never more so than in late fall when the new olive oil (‘olio nuovo’) begins to arrive in the shops. Take a drive into the Tuscan countryside anytime between late October and December and you...
Piazza Santa Croce
Piazza di Santa Croce, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy
Standing in the Piazza Santa Croce, a statue of Dante looms over the square from the corner. Florence, where Durante degli Alighieri's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise was to begin but not end. In 1829 a tomb was built for him in the...
Via S. Zanobi, 33, 50129 Firenze FI, Italy
There are many excellent restaurants in Florence, but this one was recommended to me by a local, and I'm so glad it was. Alessandro, the chef, recently returned after working in New York City for eight years. Located on a small street near the...
Il cacio di Ernello
Via Enzo Mangiavacchi, 37, 53026 Pienza SI, Italy
One of the most delicious towns in Tuscany - and most beautiful - is the charming Pienza. Situated between Montepulciano and Montalcino in the scenic Val d'Orcia, centuries-old Pienza is best known for its rich pecorino cheeses. Many feel that the...
Basilica di San Miniato al Monte
Via delle Porte Sante, 34, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy
Most people who visit Florence know that walking to Piazzale Michelangelo is a must. However, fewer people know that walking a little higher to the old church of San Miniato al Monte is an even better experience. Amble down the Arno River to Viale...
Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy
Just off the main square, Piazza della Signoria, in Florence, this open air museum was beautiful in the morning as light spilled down and over the statues and general gorgeousness that is Florence. Walking through Florence was so different to...
Gorges de la Nesque
Gorges de la Nesque, 84390 Monieux, France
Bienvenue to favorite bicycle ride in all of France. One that I did so often while living in Provence that my friends called it my 'church.' Aptly named. Depending on which direction you're coming from, you'll probably come through the small town...
Bât A4, Parc Valad, Impasse Paradou, 13009 Marseille, France
While Marseille is now home to several spectacular museums and a burgeoning dining scene, the bulk of your visit should be spent by the sea. As of last year, Les Calanques- limestone sea cliffs and Fjord-like inlets - are considered a national...
LA VISITE DES CALANQUES
Quai ST Pierre (billetterie, repère sur carte), 5 Rue Jules Simon (siège social), 13260 Cassis, France
Seriously, get on a boat!! We're on a road trip of the southern coast of France, and our next stop is in Cassis. We went to the super cute port town and booked a tour on the spot to take us through the Calanques. It's probably not the first thing...
Parc naturel régional de Camargue
Mas du pont de Rousty, RD 570, 13200 Arles, France
France's Camargue is not like the typical Texas cattle country, but it is somewhat flat land with an open horizon filled with farmers, livestock and arenas for bullfights. France's 'outback' is a regional park and nature reserve that is filled...
Cap-d'Ail
06320 Cap-d'Ail, France
I took a bus from my hostel in Nice to this little town called Cap D'ail. Across from the bus station I saw a sign for what seemed like a trail. I crossed the road and down the stairs, through a tunnel and voila, discovered a path that hugs the...
Rent A Classic Car
Prom. des Anglais, 06000 Nice, France
On a warm winter morning, the soft light of the French Riviera is streaming into the Cours Saleya Flower Market in the old section of Nice. Just a block back from the Mediterranean Sea, long rows of vendors are selling African daisies, violet...
Aix-en-Provence, France
It would be hard to do better in Provence than in a city that is named after the region, right? Totally right. Aix-en-Provence is the region's most delightful, easily accessible and interesting mid-sized city, and its markets are not to be missed....
13260 Cassis, France
The fastest way to get to Cassis from Avignon is to take the A7 straight down to A8-A52 before getting onto D559 (Route Pierre Imbert) that will lead you into Cassis. During our visit to Provence we happened to stay in a place run by local folks...
Grand Hotel Beauvau Marseille Vieux Port
4 Rue Beauvau, 13001 Marseille, France
Despite a recent overhaul, this 19th century hotel and former artist hangout in Marseille has retained not only its classic charms – antique furnishings and Provençal fabrics in each of the beautifully-appointed 73 rooms – but its inimitable views...
84220 Roussillon, France
There is a small, rural village in Provence called Roussillon known for its large ochre deposits found in the clay surrounding the village. You can even visit the ochre quarry nearby, now unused. The village itself is situated on an ochre ridge...
Westminster, London SW1A 1AA, UK
The residence and office of Her Majesty The Queen, Buckingham Palace is one of the few working palaces of the world. It is used by the Queen to entertain guests of State. However, a portion of the Palace is open to the public. This includes rooms...
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8 Southwark St, London SE1 1TL, UK
Over the past two centuries, the covered market at Borough, not far from London Bridge, has become one of the country’s most famous foodie spots. From Wednesday to Saturday each week hundreds of traders gather to sell homemade breads,...
Amesbury, Salisbury SP4 7DE, UK
We visited Stonehenge a couple of days ago, on the way back from Wales. It was a grey, rainy, cold and windy day and we still wanted to be there. We were only able to be at the site for about 2 minutes. The wind was extremely strong and the rain...
St Katharine's & Wapping, London EC3N 4AB, UK
Visitors to this turreted riverside castle enter a thousand years of history filled with cultural significance (but go early to avoid lines to see the crown jewels). Tudor fans can view the spot where Anne Boleyn was beheaded and the kinds of...
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Catherine St, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5JF, UK
The West End in London is famous for its theatre. If you're ever in town, you simply must catch a show. But why not enjoy a play or musical and experience a piece of history at the same time. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane started life way back in...
This incredible lobster roll is served at Choate Pub in Ipswich for $14.95. Delicious! Bloody Marys and fries also fabulous.
Leeds Castle
Maidstone ME17 1PL, UK
Going to Leeds Castle last Spring was a real treat as daffodils and tulips were in bloom everywhere and ducks, swans and peacocks were roaming the castle grounds, a big hit for our kids. Inside is as spectacular as the outside. The rooms are...
Rather than post individual highlights, I choose instead to share the photo site I created for my 2012 travels abroad, from London to Istanbul. A few destinations are missing, as my camera broke and then my smart phone (then my only camera) was...
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HomeTravelCan Africa Fill The Glass?
Can Africa Fill The Glass?
“Africa has what the world wants but requires a 30-year instead of a 5-year view”
Africa, often regarded as the last frontier in the global economy, can either be viewed as the glass half-full or half-empty. However, at a recent panel discussion hosted by the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), the expressed views were that it can also be viewed as “a third of glass full” and on the way up. The panel further stated that while Africa offers a vast amount of opportunities, it does come with extra risk and a challenging environment to do business in.
The discussion was moderated by Dr.Nthabiseng Moleko, faculty member at the USB, and the panel included Mpane Maneli, Portfolio Manager at Argon Asset Management, Casper de Villiers, co-founder of Clickatell, Ivette du Toit, Group Tax Director at Clickatell, Brendan Langeveldt, CEO of Kallos Exporters, and Thapelo Lippe, CEO of The RightSource.
Maneli opened the discussion by explaining how Africa’s diversity makes it more difficult to do business, and that “Africa has what the world wants but requires a 30-year instead of a 5-year view” of the continent. De Villiers concurred and added that there are plenty of opportunities for business “but not for all” (types of business). The panel further agreed that the African challenge required specific types of skills and du Toit encapsulated this argument with “if you can make it in Africa you can make it anywhere”.
The panel members were unanimous in arguing that education offered the best solution for Africa’s problems however, there were conflicting views on the role business should play to support it. Maneli suggested that governments force companies to invest in educational endeavours whereas Langeveld argued that companies making fixed investments already contribute to education through the training and intellectual property that accompany such investments.
De Villiers proposed using crowdsourcing and enabling technologies to develop videos aimed at educating the masses. Langeveldt concluded with “do not wait for government to start doing something, do it yourself” and thereby start making a difference faster than any government would.
An interesting debate was the panel’s views on the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on the continent. Moleko opened the discussion by asking whether the fourth industrial revolution presented a doubled edged sword to which Lippe responded with “tech is great, but it is not the solution to Africa’s problems”.
Lippe further argued that the “dark side of tech”, for example the ability to influence elections, presented a real problem and was also concerned about the threat of job losses. This argument was opposed by the other panellists, with de Villiers stating that “technology is the best enabler in the world” and can open new opportunities in other sectors which result in even more jobs than was lost, and Langeveld indicating how it dramatically reduces the risk of doing business.
The discussion concluded with members of the panel emphasising the opportunities Africa presented but cautioned on the risks and challenges. The final words from Langeveldt encapsulated the discussion with “look for something good, you will find it, but know what you are doing”.
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Holtby Family History
Holtby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Holtby, a place near York, probably named with the Old Norse personal name Holti + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Similar surnames: Hornby, Colby, Hobby, Holton, Maltby, Goldsby, Godby, Ostby, Milby
Holtby Family Origin
Where is the Holtby family from?
You can see how Holtby families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Holtby family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Holtby families were found in the UK in 1891. In 1911 there were 53 Holtby families living in Ontario. This was about 62% of all the recorded Holtby's in Canada. Ontario had the highest population of Holtby families in 1911.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Holtby surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
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Holtby Family Occupations
What did your Holtby ancestors do for a living?
In 1881, a less common occupation for the Holtby family was Clerk. The most common Holtby occupation in Canada was Farmer. 44% of Holtby's were Farmers. Farmer, Message Boy and Carpenter were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Holtby.
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What is the average Holtby lifespan?
Between 1964 and 2004, in the United States, Holtby life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1982, and highest in 1999. The average life expectancy for Holtby in 1964 was 76, and 82 in 2004.
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Home NEWS Meizu M6S is now official with Samsung Exynos processor
Meizu M6S is now official with Samsung Exynos processor
Meizu just officially introduced its first smartphone of 2018, it is called Meizu M6S. This is an equipment with mid-range features with the Android operating system. It has a good look, a careful construction, the metal as the main building material and some decent features for the US price. Now, let’s get to know this smartphone that uses an Exynos processor made by South Korean Samsung.
It is a new bet for the Android market, a modest bet but with several trumps. From a good capacity for your battery (it remains to know how the autonomy will be) to the screen with the format 18: 9. It looks modest but meets the requirements of the mobile market in 2018.
At first glance, we are soon confronted with the 18: 9 screen of this Meizu M6S and its solid metal construction. The Meizu M6S also has well-disguised antenna lines on its rear panel. Something we’ve seen in high-end mid-range and high-end Android smartphones. Here have some similarities with the old iPhone 6 and 6s.
Meizu M6S uses a Samsung Exynos processor
The new Android smartphone was introduced officially this morning and, unlike some leaks or previous information leaks, has the brand logo on its back panel. This after having been suggested to be removed, presenting a rear without the brand name.
In itself, the design of this Meizu M6S, device equipped with a Samsung Exynos 7872 processor, is quite simple. Sleek even. The vast majority of its front panel is occupied by its 18: 9 screen, a screen with 5.7 inches and a resolution HD + or 1440 x 720 pixels. It uses an IPS LCD display and we can expect quite natural colors. It should also take precedence over good viewing angles, although today almost all displays meet these minimum requirements.
The brand also took the opportunity to present several official protection covers for its new Meizu M6S. Already at the color level, this Meizu M6S with “heart” from Samsung, will be available in Gold, Gray, Black and also in Blue. You can find this Android device on online sales platforms.
Meizy M6s is a mid-range Android smartphone
The new device of the Chinese brand is available in various colors.
The new device bets on color to reach even the younger audience. This of course, its new 18: 9 screen with a total of 5.7 inches diagonal. It also features a 1000: 1 contrast ratio and a total brightness of 450 nits. The screen is indeed the highlight of this Android smartphone even though its resolution is not the most dazzling.
Something particularly interesting is the fact that this Meizu M6s use a Samsung Exynos processor. More specifically the Samsung Exynos 7872 model. This Samsung Exynos SoC uses a 14nm building process with 4 Cortex A73 cores dedicated to performance and 4 cores Cortex A53 for energy saving. Note that this processor has support for virtually all major network bands/frequencies.
Samsung Exynos 7872 is the Meizu M6s processor
In short, RAM will be limited to 3GB but you can choose 32 or 64GB of internal storage. The battery has a capacity of 3000mh with the fast charging of 18W. Meizu promises a loading of up to 52% in only 30 minutes of loading.The Android device will be available in two variants for the public. We will have here a total of 3GB of RAM and 32 or 64GB of internal storage.
In the photographic department, the Meizu M6S again uses a Samsung component. More precisely, the 16MP Samsung CMOS sensor with af / 2.0 focal aperture, PDAF, face detection, a 112?m pixel area, 5-element lens, and an HDR mode specially developed by ArcSoft . Without forgetting, of course, the beauty mode that will make the front camera (8MP) still more attractive.
Meizu M6s main camera is made by Samsung
The device has a fingerprint reader on its right side
Something quite peculiar is the placement of your fingerprint reader or biometric sensor. This is located on the right side of the Meizu M6s and promises to be extremely fast to unlock the device. The brand claims that in just 0.2 seconds your Meizu M6s.
Already at the software level, the Meizu M6s will hit the market with the Android operating system. On top will bring the brand’s own interface, the Flyme 6.2 with its own OneMind AI artificial intelligence engine. You’ll even have a gaming mode so you do not have to interrupt during your gaming sections.
Meizu M6s is a new and economical Android
Something similar to the swipes we have on the new iPhone X. It will all be based on a single virtual central button on the screen of this Android device.Finally, this Meizu M6s has new functions to facilitate navigation by the smartphone. We have several new controls here for navigation.
The smartphone will cost about 155 dollars for its base version of 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. Already its top version, with 3GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage will cost $ 186. Note that these are the values for the Chinese market.
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Harun Khalid Adeiza January 18, 2018 at 7:13 am
It’s damn value for money.. With a nice specs.. I like the Chinese market.. Meizu is great device and I like this Newly released model. It’s superb.
Thanks for always keeping us updated.
Musty January 18, 2018 at 9:01 pm
Wow! Meizu has launched a new great device again! The specs are really nice ✌️!
Thanks for the info boss.
Ismail Hassan January 19, 2018 at 8:22 am
Wow, this Meizu is so wow.. They just built it well, some of it features look like IPhone X! That is nice. Thanks for the info boss.
6ixGunz January 19, 2018 at 8:34 pm
Wow… Device looks good coupled with the fact that it uses a Samsung soc.
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What type of biological molecule is an exonuclease?
Exonuclease is an enzyme that immediately starts removing individual nucleotides from the 3' end of a nucleic acid.
What type of molecule is a catalase?
biological molecule
What type of molecule acts as a catalyst in any biological function?
An enzyme molecule acts as a catalyst in a biological reaction.
What type of biological molecule is catalase?
it's a protein
Which type of biological molecule is the enzyme?
Enzymes are proteins.
What type of biological molecule is DNA?
DNA is a nucleic acid.
What type of biological molecule is an enzyme?
An enzyme is a protein with catalytic abilities.
What type of biological molecule is triacylglycerol?
Triacylglycerol, or more commonly known as triglyceride, is a type of lipid.
What type of biological molecule is in an enzyme?
Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in our body, or in other words a biological catalyst
What type of basic biological molecule does the body absorb?
First of all what is a biological molecule? Its a group of substances that make up and helps with proper functioning of a living organism. There are several different types of biological molecules: - Carbohydrates - Proteins - Salts - Lipids -etc.
A peptide bond is found in which type of biological molecule?
in proteins are found peptide bonds
What type of biological molecule provides the main source of human food energy?
What type of molecule is in a leaf?
Leaves are made up of many, many types of biological molecules.
Which type of biological molecule is Peptide bond is found in?
Peptide bonding is the fundamental bonding in all types of Proteins.
What type of biological molecule is DNA helicase?
Proteins that uses the energy of NTP hydrolysis to separate the DNA strands.
What is the simple definition of mononucleotide?
mononucleotide...mono means one and nucleotide means biological molecule so simply one biological molecule.
What is the difference between Restriction endonucleases and exonucleases?
Exonuclease enzymes cleave nucleotides from the ends of DNA molecules. Endonuclease enzymes cleave a phosphodiester bond somewhere within the DNA molecule (not at the ends).
What biological molecule is an enzyme?
I think its a protein :)
Why are biological molecule important?
because they arent : )
Which organic molecule helps speed up biological chemical reactions?
This molecule is called enzyme.
What is a biological molecule containing phosphorus?
Many biological molecules contain phosphorus. Too many to list.
What is the biological significance of a DNA molecule?
The biological significance of a DNA molecule is that it: 1) Controls the synthesis of proteins (as well as enzymes because they are also proteins). 2) Is responsible for carrying hereditary characteristics.
What is the difference between an endonuclease and an exonuclease?
an exonuclease cleaves nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide chain whereas an endonuclease cleaves nucleotides from within a polynucleotide chain
What class of biological molecules contains fatty acids?
The class of biological molecule that contains fatty acids is lipids.
What chemical is the energy molecule in biological organisms?
Atp - adp
Is lead a biological molecule?
No. Lead is toxic, especially to the brain.
What class of biological molecule are the prostoglandins?
Prostoglandins are lipidic substances.
What is biological reduction?
biological reduction is the addition of electrons(hydrogen atoms) to a molecule.it also increase the potential energy of the molecule
An example of a biological molecule containing a phosphate group is?
A biological molecule that contains a phosphate group are nucleotides. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) consist of a five carbon sugar, an organic base, and a phosphate group.
What is the largest biological level among these cell organ tissue or molecule?
The largest biological level among the given options is organ
Which biological molecule would NOT offer much information about the history of life?
Anything that's not highly conserved which is 99% of biological molecules.
Which biological process is associated with the cohesiveness of water molecule?
Hydrogen bomds
What feature of large biological molecules explains their great diversity?
The many ways that monomers of each class of biological molecule can be combined into polymers
Whats the difference between an amino acid molecule and a protein molecule?
Amino acid molecule is a biologically important organic compounds. Protein molecule are large biological molecules that has a long chain of amino acids.
What is the largest biological molecule?
My guess would be a complex carbohydrate. isn't it DNA?
What holds atoms together in a biological molecule?
van der waals interaction
What is the most difficult biological molecule to get through the pyloric sphincter?
The pyloric sphincter will allow any molecule, not just biological ones, to go through because molecules are so much smaller than the opening created by the sphincter when it opens up.
What type of biological molecule is a monosaccharide?
Monosaccharides are the most basic form of sugar and can not be broken down into a smaller form. They are usually colorless, water-soluble, and crystalline solids. Examples of monosaccharides include glucose and fructose.
What type of organic molecule is lactose?
what type of organic molecule is lactose
Biological molecule that provides chemical energy?
As far as I remember, the answer is Adenosine Triphosphate. (ATP)
Actin and myosin are what of biological molecule?
Actin and myosin are essential proteins in muscle contraction.
What kind of a biological molecule is an enzyme?
There is hundreds of enzymes, but mostly composed of polypeptide molecules.
Which of these classes of biological molecules consits of both small molecule and macromolecular polymers?
What happens When a large biological molecule is digested by the addition of water?
it will cause a chemical reaction
Why is phosphorus an important biological molecule?
Because it forms vital molecules such as DNA and RNA.
What type of substance would a molecule be?
The Type of substance of a molecule would be an element.
What kind of molecule is an enzyme-?
The type of molecule that is an enzyme is a protein molecule.
What type of organic molecule are enzymes?
the type of organic molecule an enzyme is would be a protien
What is composed on only one type of molecule?
What is composed of only one type of molecule
What enzyme that separate DNA into smaller pieces?
restriction endonuclease and exonuclease
What are enzymes and their functions?
Enzymes are biological molecules that enable biological reactions to occur. An enzyme will attach to one molecule and this encourages another molecule to attach to the pair. The enzyme will then dettach itself from the new pair of molecules and be used to form the next pair. Without the enzyme, the reaction wouldn't have been able to happen at all. Not all biological reactions need enzymes, but many do.
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Who sang live your life?
Are you talking about TI feat. Rihanna? I think that's what you are talking about.
Who sang the song 'Live My Life'?
The people who sang the song 'Live My Life' was the asian group "Far East Movement". There song is on YouTube and you can find their lyrics on the internet.
What is the song Rihanna and TI sang at the VMAs?
It's Called "Live Your Life"
Who is TI?
T.I is a rapper and a singer.HE LOOKS LIKE THIS. he sang a song called live your life with rihanna.......................
What teen popstar sang this is the life?
Answer to what teen popstar sang this .. Hannah Montana sang this is the life i love her!
Why were the blues sang?
they were sang by slaves. they sang about love or life troubles
What are some special things Taylor swift done in her life?
Taylor swift sang a speak now world tour live
Who sang This Is The Life in Total Drama?
It is sang by 'Litesound'.
Who sang the suite like on deck?
Steve Hampton and John Adair sang "Livin the Suite Life on Deck." Steve Rushton sang the "Livin the Suite Life" version.
Who sang don't want to live my life living in a rock and roll fantasy?
I believe The Kinks is the correct answer. Source: http://www.mp3lyrics.org/k/kinks/a-rock/
What animal sang the circle of life?
An animal didn't sing it, Lebo M sang it.
Who sang is there a life out there?
Reba Macintire
Who sang the rhythm of life?
The Temptations.
What was the first song that joe mcelderry sang in the live shows?
he sang I'm to sexy for my body .. :D
Who originally sang staying a live?
The BeeGees.
Who sang a song King Tutankhamun in a music video and what show was it on?
Steve Martin sang it on "Saturday Night Live".
Who sang story of your life?
Who sang fabrics of our life?
Who sang its a wonderful life?
The song 'It's a Wonderful Life' is by the band Sparklehorse.
Who sang the song In your life on the last Boston Legal episode?
It is unknown who sang In Your Life in the Boston Legal series final episode. Boston Legal was on the air for five seasons.
Who sang DJ saved my life?
Indeep sang the song "Last night a DJ saved my life". Mariah Carey also performed a remix of the original song recently.
Who sang over the rainbow on the tv program life on mars?
Dorothy the in the wizard of oz sang over the rainbow
What was the name of the hymns mahalia Jackson sang in the moive the imitation of life?
troubles of the world.... i sang it at a funeral as well
What was the song that the black eyed peas sang at the AMA?
The Black Eyed Peas sang Time of My Life at the AMA.
What is the sexual orientation of Park Jae-sang?
No Park Jae-sang, who is known as PSY, is happily married with 2 kids. What he does as his stage persona is not who he is in real life.
Who is the song appreciate by Nick Jonas about?
Its a song he sang for anyone dealing with a death in a family You never get over a death, you just learn to live with it. And tells you to have faith, and try and appreciate, and get the most out of your life
Who sang the song at the end of HBO girls season 2 episode 9?
It's "Life In Vain" by Daniel Johnston. I think the version they've used is the live one with The Swell Season.
Did Selena ever sing dreaming of you live?
Sadly no she never sang dreaming of you LIVE.
Who is the singer that sang On the street where you live?
david whitfield
Who sang the song with the words live live live?
many song have that it is but the one i know is... yo gabba babba
Is it true Tina Turner and Mick Jagger sang together in Live AID in 1985?
Yes! These two greats, Tina Turner & Mick Jagger, sang together in Live AID 1985.
Who sang 'you are the sunshine of my life'?
Who sang the song Wonderful Life?
Who sang how to save a life?
Isaac Slade, The Fray
Who sang you light up my life?
Debbie Boone
Who sang life in a northern town?
Dream Academy
Who sang got to get you into my life?
The Fab Four, the Beatles.
Did Britney Spears Sing Live On Tour 2009?
it sound like she sang Everytime live.
Who sang circle of life?
In the movie, Carmen Twillie was the lead singer who sang "Circle of Life" along with Lebo M and his South African choir who sang the background African chants heard in the song. All of their names are seen on the end credits at the end of The Lion King.
How did Amy winehouse get into music?
Her father sang to her and she sang and played instruments as a child. She loved and listened to the "big bands" all her life.
Who sang Leah?
The Jonas brothers suck! they live on a moraine!
Who did Michael Jackson sing you are my life for?
He sang you are my life for his children, Prince Michael, Blanket and Paris
Who sang the 80s song its your life?
If your thinking of the song I am thinking of, Its called its MY life. It is by Bon Jovi
Who sang the theme song to the James Bond film You Only Live Twice?
Nancy Sinatra sang the song "You Only Live Twice". It was released in 1967 and was a hit for her. It was written by John Barry and Leslie Bricusse.
Who sang live or let die?
The song Live and Let Die was sung by Paul McCartney and the Wings.
Do you live life or life live?
You live life.
How many years has Willow Smith sang?
Her whole life
Who sang the song My Life Would Suck With Out You?
Who sang the song Best Days Of your life?
Who sang I Got Life in the movie Hair?
Samples of sentences with personification in it?
The radio came to life and sang to me.
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Why does jimmy fallon have a all black band is he ashamed of the white people I don't like his sho?
Jimmy Fallon is a big fan of "old school" rap and r &b, which was made by mostly Black people. As a matter of, fact, if you watch his show, he is a big fan of the White r & b duo, Hall & Oates.
Do more people like Jimmy kimmel or Jimmy Fallon?
What movie and television projects has Mike DiCenzo been in?
Mike DiCenzo has: Played Gus Dilello in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Performed in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Black Cat in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Himself - Eating His First Salad in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Himself - Staff Writer in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played How do you like me now guy in "Late Night with Jimmy… Read More
Who is Jimmy Fallon married to?
Jimmy Fallon is married to Nancy Juvonen.
Does jimmy fallon have a daughter?
No Jimmy Fallon doesn't have any kids.
Is Jimmy Fallon Scottish?
No. Jimmy Fallon is American but of Irish descent.
When was Jimmy Fallon born?
Jimmy Fallon was born on September 19, 1974.
Who would win in a fight Jimmy Fallon or Conan O'Brien?
I say Jimmy Fallon(:
How long was Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Live?
Jimmy Fallon was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2004, when he left to host Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Is jiMmy Fallon a democrat or republican?
Jimmy fallon is a democrat he donated to Obama's campaign in 2008.
What movie and television projects has Bashir Salahuddin been in?
Bashir Salahuddin has: Played Tower Supervisor in "Threat Matrix" in 2003. Played Group Leader in "Miss Match" in 2003. Played Bouncer in "Oliver Beene" in 2003. Played Prisoner in "Arrested Development" in 2003. Played himself in "Media City" in 2004. Played Counselor in "Bones" in 2005. Played Willis in "Nailed" in 2006. Played Cop in "Help Me Help You" in 2006. Played Robert in "Finish Our Movie" in 2007. Played Dave in "Finish Our Movie"… Read More
How long did Jimmy Fallon host Late Night?
Jimmy Fallon hosted Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014. He began hosting The Tonight Show in February 17, 2014.
How old is Jimmy Fallon?
Jimmy Fallon is 40 years old (birthdate: September 19, 1974).
Is jimmy fallon married?
Yes Jimmy Fallon married Nancy Juvonen on December 22, 2007.
Did Jimmy Fallon do cocaine?
There is nothing on the web to suggest that Jimmy Fallon has ever had a substance abuse problem.
What is the birth name of Jimmy Fallon?
Jimmy Fallon's birth name is James Thomas Fallon Jr..
What is the duration of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
The duration of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is 3600.0 seconds.
How is Jimmy Fallon still employed?
Yes. Jimmy Fallon currently has his own late night talk show called Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and he appears in Capital One commercials as well.
What did Obama and Jimmy Fallon slow jam about on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
President Obama and Jimmy Fallon slow jammed about Obama's proposal to lower the rates on student loans for college students.
What are the release dates for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 2009 The Best of Jimmy Fallon - Comedy Pieces 5-269?
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 2009 The Best of Jimmy Fallon - Comedy Pieces 5-269 was released on: USA: 5 February 2014
Is Tina fey dating Jimmy Fallon?
No, they're both married to other people.
Does jimmy fallon actually accept screengrabs?
Yes, Jimmy Fallon does accept screen grabs at the Tonight Show.
When was Late Night with Jimmy Fallon created?
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was created on 2009-03-02.
What is Jimmy Fallon most famous for?
Jimmy Fallon is most famous for being a late night talk show host. He is also good friends with Justin Timberlake. He is also named as one of the most beautiful people in 2002.
What ethnicity is Jimmy Fallon?
Jimmy Fallon is American, but is of fullblood Irish decent. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1974.
What skit did Jimmy Fallon and Barbra Streisand perform on the Jimmy Fallon show to make fun of Donald Trump?
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
How much does Jimmy Fallon get paid?
He's earning $55,000 per episode of his late night show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Is jimmy fallon left handed?
No, Jimmy Fallon is right-handed. You can see him write with his right hand during his thank-you notes sketches on Late Night. (One link is here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcnj4w_late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-thank_news)
When did icarly ilove jimmy fallon air?
The episode is actually called iShock America, but it features Jimmy Fallon and it airs on October 6, 2012.
What are the ratings and certificates for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 2009?
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - 2009 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:M
Does Jimmy Fallon smoke?
Sometimes jimmy smokes but only on television
For which company did Jimmy Fallon star in a credit card commercial?
Jimmy Fallon starred in multiple credit card commercials for Capitol One. In one of these commercials Fallon sings, and in another a baby is throwing stuff at him.
What are the release dates for Silent Library - 2009 Jimmy Fallon?
Silent Library - 2009 Jimmy Fallon was released on: USA: 25 March 2011
What is Jimmy Fallon's birthday?
Did Tina Fey date Jimmy Fallon?
No, Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon have been co-stars but have never dated. Tina has been with her husband since 1994.
What movie and television projects has Chris Tartaro been in?
Chris Tartaro has: Played Barbershop Quartet Member in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played himself in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Chicken Band Member in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Chicken Band in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Himself - Winner: Outstanding Short-Form Picture Editing in "The 2010 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards" in 2010. Played Barbershop Quartet Member in "The Tonight Show Starring… Read More
What are the release dates for Larry King Live - 1985 Jimmy Fallon?
Larry King Live - 1985 Jimmy Fallon was released on: USA: 26 August 2010
What are the ratings and certificates for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - 2014?
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - 2014 is rated/received certificates of: USA:TV-14
How much does Jimmy Fallon make?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, per episode Jimmy Fallon makes a whopping 100,000 dollars per episode, and has a net worth of 16 million dollars. Link here--http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest-comedians/jimmy-fallon-net-worth/
What movie and television projects has Dion Flynn been in?
Dion Flynn has: Played Bobby Zane in "Under Heat" in 1994. Played Himself (2003) in "Super Secret TV Formulas" in 2003. Played himself in "Best Week Ever" in 2004. Played himself in "100 Cheesetastic Video Tricks Exposed" in 2004. Played Various in "The Big Gay Sketch Show" in 2006. Played Barack Obama in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Performed in "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2009. Played Randy William in "Late Night… Read More
What are the release dates for On the Verge - 2011 Jimmy Fallon 1-3?
On the Verge - 2011 Jimmy Fallon 1-3 was released on: USA: 13 February 2012
Does jimmy fallon wear a wig?
Unless Jimmy Fallon is doing a skit for his television show, he does not wear a wig to pass off as his actual hair. Jimmy Fallon has worn plenty of wigs while a member of Saturday Night Live but his hair currently seen in his television show and TV appearances is his own genuine hair.
Who plays Ben in Fever Pitch?
Who will replace Conan O'Brien in 2009?
Does Jimmy Fallon have nieces?
yes she goes to my school
Can you drink alcohol on tv?
Yes. Jimmy Fallon does.
Who is spokesman for Capital One ad?
Who hosted the Grammy Awards in 2011?
Who are the three founding fathers of Oregon?
What are the release dates for Larry King Live - 1985 Jimmy Fallon Tonight?
Larry King Live - 1985 Jimmy Fallon Tonight was released on: USA: 13 March 2009
How is Jimmy Fallon married to?
Jimmy Fallon is married to Nancy Juvonen. They married on December 22, 2007. Nancy is a writer and producer. She and partner Drew Barrymore co-own Flower Films.
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In Paleontology
What kind of fish lived in the Devonian period?
Pander's Fish (Panderichthys) Eusthenopteron Obruchevichthys Elpistostege Ceratodus Dunkleosteus
In Science , Fossils
There are not fossils of transitional forms or missing links is true or false?
False, there are many transitional forms in the fossil record. Osteolepis Eusthenopteron Panderichthys Tiktaalik Elginerpeton Obruchevichthys Ventastega Acanthostega Ichthyostega Hynerpeton Tulerpeton Pederpes Eryops Pedopenna Anchiornis Archaeopteryx Confuciusornis Ardipithecus ramidus Australopithecus afarensis Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus anamensis Australopithecus garhi Australopithecus aethiopicus Australopithecus… Full Answer
When was Live Live Live created?
Live Live Live was created in 1985.
In Academic Writing , Writing and Composition , Example Sentences
How do you use live in live on live at in a sentence?
I live in Saginaw County. I live in Ohio. I live in an apartment. I live at this address. I live at the end of the road. I live on the shores of Lake Erie. I live on Elm Street… Full Answer
Why do people live in Rome?
Because they can... Well why do you live where you live? Why do people live in New York? Why do people live in Sydney? Why do people live in Miami? Why do people live in Paris? Why do people live… Full Answer
In Prepositions Conjunctions and Interjections , Sentence and Word Structure
Usage of live on live in live at?
We live ON an island, we live IN a house, we live At the end of the road.
When was Live Live Live Extra created?
Live Live Live Extra was created on 1995-12-31.
In Armadillos
Do armadillos live in dens?
They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows or dens. They live in burrows… Full Answer
In History of the United States , Colonial America
What is the political structure of the southern colonies?
I don't want to live in China,I don't want to live in China, I don't want to live in China,I don't want to live in China, I don't want to live in China,I don't want to live in China, I… Full Answer
In Dr. Seuss
Where did Dr. Seuss currently live?
He did not live in a box, He did not live with a fox, He did not live on a train, He did not live in Ukraine, He did not live here nor there, He did not live anywhere!
In Ecuador , Orangutans
Does Ecuador have orangutans?
No. They live in Borneo and Sumatra. No. They live in Borneo and Sumatra. No. They live in Borneo and Sumatra. No. They live in Borneo and Sumatra. No. They live in Borneo and Sumatra. No. They live in Borneo… Full Answer
In Lions , Brown Bears , The Difference Between
What is the difference between live in live on and live at?
You live in a home. You live on a street. You live at an address. They all essentially describe where you live, but the "in, on,at" is used to specify which location you are conveying.
In Example Sentences
When do you use live in and live at?
I live in a house. I live in the city of _____. I live at the Winchester Arms Apartments.
In Prepositions Conjunctions and Interjections
When did Live A Live happen?
Live A Live happened in 1994.
In Not enough information to answer
Live in live on live at?
In Homographs Homonyms and Homophones
What is the homograph for live?
live hive-h+l=live examples: live concert, live studio,
Why do you live like you live?
i live the way i live because i want to live like a little princess
In Population
Were do you live at?
I live in KIRWOOD. Do you? no i live in DetroitMi nope i live in Mexico
In Prepositions Conjunctions and Interjections , Example Sentences
How do you use live in live on and live at?
"Live in" is used for cities, countries, etc. "Live on" is used for streets, floors of a building, islands, etc. "Live at" is used for a specific address For example, I live in California. I used to live in Ireland… Full Answer
In Pronouns
What type of noun is live?
Live is not a noun at all. If it is live as in "to live" (short vowel), then it is a verb. If it is live as in "live animals" (long vowel), then it is an adjective.
In The Difference Between
What is the difference between the words live and live?
Live is where you stay at an address, to live is to survive as I want to live not to die.
When to use Live on live in live at?
Where caulerpa live?
In Continents
What continent do you live on if you live in THE US?
If you live in the USA, you live on North America.
When was Live A Live created?
Live A Live was created on 1994-09-02.
In Synonyms and Antonyms
What is the opposite of live?
It depends on the meaning of live. You can have live and die, or live and recorded.
In Health , Endangered, Vulnerable, and Threatened Species , Wolves
Do wolves live alone?
No they live in packs. i live in a pack with wolves. actally they live in herds. they live with cows and birds.
In English to Latin
How do you say to life in latin?
To live : vivere I live : vivo You (singular) live : vivis He/she/it lives : vivit We live : vivimus You (plural) live : vivitis They live : vivunt
In James Bond
How do you sing live and let die?
When you were young And your heart was an open book You used to say live and let live (You know you did, you know you did, you know you did) But if this ever changin' world In which we… Full Answer
In Monkeys
Were do woolly monkeys live?
live live
How can reply to where do you live?
where do you live? I live in Colombo
In Bears
Where do bears live and why do they live there?
live in mountain
What species live there?
They live in a place that they live
In England , London , Population
How many people live in England and London?
About 53 million people live in England and about 8 million live in London. About 53 million people live in England and about 8 million live in London. About 53 million people live in England and about 8 million live… Full Answer
In Australia , North America
If you live in the US which continent do you live on?
If you live in the US, you live on the continent of North America.
In English to Portuguese
What is 'live' in Portuguese?
Live = ao vivo To live = Viver or Morar
In Books and Literature
Who is author of book to live or not live?
To Live or Not Live! was written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri.
When was Live Stiffs Live created?
Live Stiffs Live was created in 1977-11.
In English to Scottish Gaelic and Irish (Gaelic)
What is the Irish Gaelic for 'live'?
If you mean the adjective 'live', it is 'beo' ***************************************************************** If the verb 'to live' is intended, the Irish would be mairím, 'I live'.
In Xbox Live
What do you do with your Xbox Live Silver Card to get Xbox Live?
Xbox live Silver is for XBOX Live MarketPlace not for playing LIVE with you're friends that's what is the XBOX LIVE GOLD is.
How do you say i live - in latin?
Several options: vivo ..... I live dego .... I live spiro .....I live, or I breathe vitam ago .... I exercise life, I live habito ...... I live or reside at
In Beavers
Where do beavers live and why?
Beavers live in water in dams and they live there because they can't live on ground forever they need to live in water DUUUUUUUHHHH !!
In Swimming Pools , Manatees
Do manatees live in salt water?
Manatees do live in salt water if they live in Florida they live in salt water and they live in springs if it is warm
In Genetics
Where do cells live?
The cells live in the live bodies of both the plants and animals. The cells can only live in the bodies of the live animals and plants.
Why do people live in Haiti?
People live in Haiti the same way you live where you live. It's like me asking you why people live in USA?
In Snakes , Qatar
Do snakes live in Qatar?
Snakes do live in Qatar but most of them live in the desert. I don't think snakes live in areas that people live.
In Farm Animals
Name the homes of domestic animals?
cows live in byres, also known as barns. horses live in stables, barns, or pastures. dogs live in kennels.birds live in cages. ferrets live in cages. ducks live in nests and pens.buffalos live in barns, pastures, stables, and byres. gerbils… Full Answer
In Verbs
Is live a verb?
you live she lives we live they live yes, its a verb because living is an action.
In Mammals , Hamster Behavior , Hamster Breeds , Hamster Care
Where does a hamster live?
Hamsters live in cages.Also they might live in the wid sometimes.Mostly live in cages.
Does archaebacteria live where no other organism can live?
archaebacteria can live where no other organism could live
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Highlights from the Asymptote Winter Issue
January 23, 2017 | in News, Reviews | by Aditi Machado, Ellen Jones, Eva Heisler, Joshua Craze, and Theophilus Kwek
Our editors recommend their favorite pieces from the latest issue.
First off, we want to thank the five readers who heeded our appeal from our editor-in-chief and signed up to be sustaining members this past week. Welcome to the family, Justin Briggs, Gina Caputo, Monika Cassel, Michaela Jones, and Phillip Kim! For those who are still hesitating, take it from Lloyd Schwartz, who says, “Asymptote is one of the rare cultural enterprises that’s really worth supporting. It’s both a literary and a moral treasure.” If you’ve enjoyed our Winter 2017 issue, why not stand behind our mission by becoming a sustaining member today?
One week after the launch of our massive Winter 2017 edition, we invited some section editors to talk up their favorite pieces:
Criticism Editor Ellen Jones on her favorite article:
My highlight from the Criticism section this January is Ottilie Mulzet’s review of Evelyn Dueck’s L’étranger intime, the work that gave us the title of this issue: ‘Intimate Strangers’. Mulzet translates from Hungarian and Mongolian, but (being prolifically multilingual) is also able to offer us a detailed, thoughtful, and well-informed review of a hefty work of French translation scholarship. Dueck’s book is a study of French translations of Paul Celan’s poetry from the 1970s to the present day (focussing on André du Bouchet, Michel Deguy, Marthine Broda, and Jean-Pierre Lefebvre) and is, in Mulzet’s estimation, ‘an indispensable map for the practice of the translator’s art’. One of this review’s many strengths is the way it positions Dueck’s book in relationship to its counterparts in Anglophone translation scholarship; another is its close reading of passages from individual poems in order to illustrate differences in approach among the translators; a third is the way Mulzet uses Dueck’s work as a springboard to do her own thinking about translational paratexts, and to offer potential areas for further research. The reviewer describes L’étranger intime as ‘stellar in every way’—the same might be said of the review, too.
Chief Executive Assistant Theophilus Kwek, who stepped in to edit our Writers on Writers section for the current issue, had this to say:
When asked to pick a highlight from this issue’s Writers on Writers feature, I was torn between Victoria Livingstone’s intimate exploration of Xánath Caraza’s fascinating oeuvre and Philip Holden’s searching essay on Singapore’s multilingual—even multivocal—literary history, but the latter finally won out for its sheer depth and detail. Moving from day-to-day encounters with language to literary landmarks of the page and stage, Holden surveys the city’s shifting tonalities with cinematic ease, achieving what he himself claims is impossible: representing a ‘polylingual lived reality’ to the unfamiliar reader. And as a Singaporean abroad myself, Holden’s conclusion sums it up perfectly: the piece is ‘a return to that language of the body, of the heart’.
Visual Editor Eva Heisler’s recommendation:
Indian artist Shilpa Gupta addresses issues of nationhood, cultural identity, diaspora, and globalization in complex inquiry-based and site-specific installations. The experience of Gupta’s work is explored by Poorna Swami in her essay ‘Possessing Skies’, the title of which alludes to a work in which large LED light structures, installed across Bombay beaches, announce, in both English and Hindi, ‘I live under your sky too.’ Gupta’s work, Swami writes, ‘positions her spectator in an irresolvable conversation between the abstracted artwork and a tangible sense of the so-called real world, with all its ideologies, idiosyncrasies, and fragilities’.
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Income Tax: deductibility of executor's expenses in administering estate
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If you reasonably apply this decision in good faith to your own circumstances (which are not materially different from those described in the decision), and the decision is later found to be incorrect you will not be liable to pay any penalty or interest. However, you will be required to pay any underpaid tax (or repay any over-claimed credit, grant or benefit), provided the time limits under the law allow it. If you do intend to apply this decision to your own circumstances, you will need to ensure that the relevant provisions referred to in the decision have not been amended or repealed. You may wish to obtain further advice from the Tax Office or from a professional adviser.
Is the taxpayer, an executor administering a deceased estate, entitled to a deduction, under section 8-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997), for expenses incurred in administering the estate, where the taxpayer receives a commission for providing the executor services?
Yes. The taxpayer is entitled to a deduction, under section 8-1 of the ITAA 1997, for expenses incurred in administering the estate, where the taxpayer receives a commission for providing the executor services.
The taxpayer was appointed as executor of a deceased estate. In administering the estate the executor incurred telephone, postage, facsimile, photograph and travel expenses. The executor was paid a commission for their work in administering the estate.
Reasons for Decision
Section 8-1 of the ITAA 1997 allows a deduction for all losses and outgoings to the extent to which they are incurred in gaining or producing assessable income except where the outgoings are of a capital, private or domestic nature.
The meaning of 'incurred in gaining and producing assessable income' was considered in Ronpibon Tin NL Tong Kah Compound NL v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1949) 78 CLR 47; (1949) 8 ATD 431; (1949) 4 AITR 236. In this case the Court stated:
For expenditure to form an allowable deduction as an outgoing incurred in gaining and producing the assessable income it must be incidental and relevant to that end. The words "incurred in gaining or producing the assessable income" mean in the course of gaining or producing such income.
The taxpayer incurred the expenses in carrying out their duties of administering the estate. In return for the performance of these duties, the taxpayer received a commission. The commission paid to the taxpayer is assessable income of the taxpayer. Therefore, the expenses were incurred in the course of gaining or producing the taxpayer's assessable income.
As the expenses must be expenses of administering the estate, claims can only be made for expenses incurred from the date that the taxpayer was appointed as executor.
The expenses will not be deductible if they are capital, domestic or private in nature. To determine the character of an expense the nature of the expenditure must be considered (Hallstroms Pty Ltd v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1946) 72 CLR 634; (1946) 8 ATD 190; (1946) 3 AITR 436)). The expense will then take the same nature as the advantage sought to be gained by incurring the expense.
As the expenses were incurred to enable the taxpayer to earn commission (income) then the expenses will also be revenue in nature.
Further, it is considered that the expenses are not private or domestic in nature.
Therefore, the taxpayer is entitled to a deduction under section 8-1 of the ITAA 1997, for expenses incurred in administering the estate, where the taxpayer receives a commission for providing the executor services.
Date of decision: 20 June 2003
Year of income: Year ended 30 June 2003
Legislative References:
section 8-1
Case References:
Ronpibon Tin NL & Tong Kah Compound NL v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation
(1949) 78 CLR 47
(1949) 8 ATD 431
Hallstroms Pty Ltd v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation
(1946) 72 CLR 634
Related ATO Interpretative Decisions
ATO ID 2002/60
ATO ID 2002/185
Commission income
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Date of publication: 8 August 2003
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Author: Brad Thor
Series: The Scot Harvath Series #12
Format: Digital Audiobook
Genre: Fiction - Thrillers - Political
A stunning thriller that predicted the National Security Agency scandal. "Brad Thor is as current as tomorrow’s headlines." —Dan Brown#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead. Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name. Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way. Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived? An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor "is arguably the best thriller writer of our time" (Suspense Magazine) and "America’s favorite author" (KTTX).
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5 Australian Consumer Goods on China’s Top Demand List
Posted on August 13, 2018 August 18, 2018 by Stan
The lure of the billion-strong Chinese market is enough to send any business owner into raptures, but there are some specific products that are in hotter demand than others, says one of China’s most well-connected businesswomen.
Livia Wang is the director of CN Access, a consultancy firm that connects Australian businesses with the staggeringly large Daigou – the grey market that sees Chinese-speaking shoppers bring millions of Australian products back to the mainland in suitcases and cardboard boxes.
“It seems like China can’t get enough of Australian ugg boots,” joked Ms Wang this week, while speaking on a panel at The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney.
“But one of the hottest products in China, apart from organic skincare and infant formula, is definitely food. If you want to send something to China that they really want, it is good-quality food products. If I were you, I would start running!”
Australian-grown and made consumables are highly coveted in China, where the population fear their food or medicine could be fake or poisonous. The likes of Swisse, Bellamy’s and Blackmoreshave experienced astonishing growth levels in recent years thanks to off-the shelf purchases by Daigou shoppers who transport the goods back to mainland China.
According to Ms Wang, Chinese consumers can’t get enough of organic skincare products, mother and baby goods and quality food. These, as well as unique materials found in Australia, like wool and health industry supplements and weightloss products are in the hottest demand.
“These five categories definitely have the biggest potential in the growing Chinese market,” said Ms Wang.
‘Grey market’
There are around 1200 stores in Australia who send 100 to 200 parcels a day back to China and around 40,000 shoppers who scour supermarkets and other outlets for hotly demanded products.
While the Australia-China stream is growing and particularly lucrative, it is dwarfed by the Chinese Daigou industry, which turns over about 500 billion renminbi a year ($96.4 billion).
However, as more businesses plug into this “grey market” the notion of a parcel tax has been floated in various jurisdictions.
“I do see a parcel tax potentially coming,” said Ms Wang.
“This is part of the process for the Daigou to evolve their businesses into a better format to comply with laws in different countries.
“But overall it won’t change the demand from Chinese to get better quality products from foreign countries.”
Earlier in the year, Ms Wang held a conference in Sydney to bring together Australian businesses and Chinese Daigou shoppers. Describing the need to block of streets in Sydney’s CBD to accommodate the swell of people, Ms Wang points out the need to legitimise what is clearly an in-demand market.
“You don’t see any of the products that have had huge success in China [that were not popular] in the Daigou market first,” Ms Wang said. “You just can’t do China without the Daigou market.”
While China’s 1.3 billion strong population certainly piques the interest of Australian exporters, interested parties must be aware of the cultural differences before jumping headlong into the world’s second largest economy.
“The Asian business mentality is very high context and western is very low context,” says Monika Tu, founder of Black Diamondz Property Concierge, a real estate business for extremely high net worth Chinese buyers.
“That means if Western people give you facts and figures they expect an immediate result. But with the Chinese, they go around and around. It doesn’t mean it’s dishonest, it’s just how they communicate with people.
“It is very important for people to know this before they begin transacting with the Chinese.”
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This article contributes to the development and application of two latest-generation methods of seismic risk analysis in urban areas. The first method, namely vulnerability index method (VIM), considers five non-null damage states, defines the action in terms of macroseismic intensity and the seismic quality of the building by means of a vulnerability index. The estimated damage degree is measured by semi-empirical functions. The second method, namely capacity spectrum based method (CSBM), considers four no damage states, defines the seismic action in terms of response spectra and the building vulnerability by means of its capacity spectrum. In order to apply both methods to Barcelona (Spain) and compare the results, a deterministic and a probabilistic hazard scenario with soil effects are used. The deterministic one corresponds to a historic earthquake, while the probabilistic seismic ground motion has a probability of exceedence of 10% in 50 years. Detailed information on the building design has been obtained along years by collecting, arranging, improving, and completing the database of the dwellings of the city. A Geographic Information System (GIS) has been customized allowing storing, analysing, and displaying this large amount of spatial and tabular data of dwellings. The obtained results are highly consistent with the historical and modern evolution of the populated area and show the validity and strength of both methods. Although Barcelona has a low to moderate seismic hazard, its expected seismic risk is significant because of the high vulnerability of its buildings. Cities such as Barcelona, located in a low to moderate seismic hazard region, are usually not aware of the seismic risk. The detailed risk maps obtained offer a great opportunity to guide the decision making in the field of seismic risk prevention and mitigation in Barcelona, and for emergency planning in the city.
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The situation after earthquake disasters is for a large part of the deployed field units very exceptional. Expert and information systems offer the possibility to support the decisions of the field personnel in such complex and unfamiliar situations. They can be used for training purposes and to support the operations in real cases. Two different expert and information systems were created. The first system supports the onsite search and rescue (SAR) personnel at building collapses and the second supports inspectors evaluating the buildings' states after earthquakes. In both cases, after the input of information related to a certain situation, the expert system poses context-sensitive subsequent questions and gives assistance for the site inspection. The expert and information system for rescue operations then generates advice concerning suitable SAR procedures and equipment for the given situation. Additionally, basic information, checklists and calculation components are offered as support. The expert and information system for the buildings’ state evaluation will assist the inspectors to decide reliably and in short time whether the buildings are safe to be further used or not after an earthquake. Interactive checklists depending on the building type as well as further auxiliary material will support the inspectors in classifying the buildings. Both systems are part of the also developed Disaster Management Tool (DMT). The presentation will include an overview of the knowledge collection and evaluation process, the development stage of both expert and information systems, their integration into the DMT and their use when coping with an earthquake disaster.
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Horizon:Volume 3C Chapter 89
Chapter 89: Underclassman at the Destination[edit]
What am I supposed to do about this?
What am I supposed to hope for?
Point Allocation (Achievement)
The flames of war blazed in an exchange of light and sound.
The provider of those flames was a fleet of three hundred ships. The receiver was a large circular ship with eight attached ships. But the Hiragumo-style Shigisan did more than receive the attacks. It rearranged and redirected its eight attached ships to destroy the enemy formation by concentrating its fire and defenses.
Matsunaga instructed each ship from the roof while protected by a defense barrier.
He fought back, but far more attacks were sent his way. The Shigisan was damaged, beginning with the outer spider legs, and five of those attached ships were already trailing smoke.
Still, he did not fall back.
“Don’t fall back, men!”
“Shaja!”
There was strength in that reply. He had personally selected every one of them.
They all loved new things and excitement almost too much. He had also selected extra carefully for this particular occasion.
And he had made it clear this would happen.
The ones who had wished to come with him had smiled and said the following:
“We’ve pretty much died a few times already working under you.”
I put them through a lot, he belatedly realized.
And so he did not fall back.
He believed there was something like a path behind them.
…I will create that path.
The way he saw it, he was here to change the current age and create a new one. He was the reformer of this age.
That was why he had travelled down that path, so falling back was unthinkable.
On his command, the Shigisan fired and destroyed, but Kuki’s formation was flexible. If they tore into it, it would fill back in. If they sliced it apart, it would sew itself back together. So…
“Devour it from the edges!”
If they crushed the edges of the formation, it could not be filled in or sewn together. A normal ship would be relentlessly hammered if it tried that, but the Shigisan had its attached ships. The central ship solidified its central defenses and the others formed pairs, one attacking and one defending, to wear down the fan-shaped enemy formation from four different sides.
They crushed and struck but were destroyed and pounded in exchange.
How many did they bring down? Matsunaga lost count after twenty, but…
As the Shigisan’s first attached ship fired on the enemy’s upper left side, fire spewed from it.
Matsunaga looked up as the first ship burst into flames.
The captain of the blazing ship sent him an insha kotob. An old man with a white Far East boy’s uniform coat worn over a P.A. Oda uniform stood on the already burning bridge.
“Do you need a shield, Lord Matsunaga?”
“That you, Oka? Don’t worry about it. I’m already holed up in my castle. Go make a name for yourself.”
“Sha-…”
The man trailed off and used a different word with a smile.
“Judge. So I’m being kicked out of this losing battle? Finally.”
The burning ship separated, the captain and crew saluted, and the insha kotob vanished.
The blazing ship moved forward. It cut into and crushed the enemy formation, but was also crushed itself.
“We’ll be going on ahead.”
Others continued forward.
“We’ll stay here by your side.”
Others stayed in place as a shield even as the flames tore them apart.
But they still had cannons and defenses left, so…
As they continued to attack, Matsunaga viewed the enemy.
Their wearing down of the enemy formation and the attacks by the attached ships had left the fan shape much smaller. That meant the enemy was packed closer together and they were moving in toward the Shigisan.
After confirming the enemy’s approach, Matsunaga inhaled.
The enemy was drawing close. Their shells were landing quite near him and tearing into his central ship.
He suddenly realized all of the attached ships had grown silent.
Matsunaga thought on the meaning of him being the last one left.
…Even if none of them understood me, they didn’t misunderstand me either.
So he slowly opened a certain insha kotob.
It was used to approve the Shigisan’s self-destruct.
This would fulfill the history recreation and his hand moved toward the signature made of light.
But another insha kotob appeared next to it.
The sender field contained the name of the individual he had recognized as his superior.
“Present the Hiragumo tea kettle to me and I will forgive you of this rebellion.”
He laughed at those words. He laughed out loud.
He slowly lowered his hand.
He made his decision.
Matsunaga thought amid the shaking and light of the Shigisan exploding below his feet.
…What’s going to happen!?
There are some real idiots out there. On one side, there are the idiots who outdo even me. On the other side, there are the idiots who have my approval.
That first group was always forgiving me.
But that second group was a little different. In Magdeburg, one of them asked if I’d like to go to Musashi after I retired.
That wasn’t a decision based on forgiveness, blame, killing, or being killed.
She just told me to go there and do as I liked.
…That’s the idea of ‘not losing anything’ that the naked idiot kid and his princess were talking about.
But I’m the one that destroys. Whenever something happens, I’m the one that brings destruction. That’s why I’m known as a destroyer.
I create a new age by destroying whatever it is that lies up ahead. That’s what I do.
And that’s why I approved of those idiots back then.
I decided that, led by that nudist and his princess, those idiots could do what we can’t.
They’re sure to create something. Even if they have nothing to begin with, they’ll approve of everything, accept it in, and create something.
We’re different. We approve of things, accept them in, and yet destroy them for what comes next.
We destroy to gain more. So…
What will happen when the ultimate destroyer clashes with the ultimate creator?
We’re the ones that destroy this chaotic age, so what will happen when we clash with those who are creating a new age?
…This is what you call history, isn’t it!?
On the one hand, you have the victors who will accept history and create more. On the other, you have the losers who accept history and then destroy it. What will happen when they collide, no holds barred?
What if the destroyer wins?
What if the creator wins?
I don’t know what will happen then, but…
Both sides have my approval, so I’ll win no matter what.
“It’s time to destroy yet another age.”
With those words, the destruction of the Shigisan was completed.
“That kid left it all unfinished!”
On the nighttime plain, Yoshitsune’s eyebrows rose as she viewed the sign frame map made by the Satou Brothers.
She revved Shizuka’s accelerator full blast. The engine roared into the night and all of the mechanical horses around her produced similar roaring whinnies from their engines.
After waiting for the noise to come to a natural stop, Yoshitsune spoke quietly.
“Farewell, Matsunaga. Keep on destroying things in hell. I’m sure that’s what you’ll do.”
Just as she adjusted her position in Shizuka’s seat, the Satou Brothers held out a new sign frame. This one displayed a map of the Mikawa region, but something was crossing over the Musashi’s route forward.
One of the Satou Brothers explained.
“Three aerial warships are leaving P.A. Oda territory and circling west toward the Musashi along the Sagarmatha to Tian Shan corridor. They will most likely make contact within three minutes.”
“Which ships?”
“Testament,” said one of the Satou Brothers.
“Based on the acoustic signature,” said the other one, “the Kiyosu, the Sunomata, and the Nagahama. The Kiyosu is from the main force directly under Nobunaga’s command, the Sunomata is a high-speed ship, and the Nagahama is a transport ship modified into a light striking ship. And…about one hundred high-speed ships are following them.”
“What, are they trying to do the Lepanto again? Anyway, who’s the commander?”
“Most likely Maeda Toshiie as he is on the front lines closest to the Musashi.”
“I see,” muttered Yoshitsune as she straightened up.
She could hear the shellfire of the distant battle and she raised her right hand toward the rumbling.
“Prepare to fire. We need to give the Musashi a nice welcome.”
The Musashi was being pursued from the north.
They were currently flying through the sky halfway across the Kii Peninsula.
Mikawa’s bay was coming into view in the distance and they could see red ether light occasionally rising from the bay.
Nothing had changed since the loss of Mikawa three months prior. The abandoned land was being left to naturally recover from the ether disturbance.
They raced through the night sky on a straight shot back to their starting point.
Masazumi explained to the others what course they would take from there.
Vice President: “Our course will continue east to the land port where we fought the Pope-Chancellor. From there, we’ll cut east across the bay that was Mikawa for the shortest path to the opposite bank! The route we’ve chosen was used to pass above the old city of Mikawa and New Nagoya Castle to deliver supplies. …Once we reach the opposite bank, it’s only thirty kilometers east to Mikatagahara. We’ll join Qing-Takeda there and ensure our safety by beginning the history recreation of the Battle of Mikatagahara!!”
Silver Wolf: “Is Mikawa’s neutrality still in effect? Mikawa was annexed by Musashi, after all.”
Marube-ya: “Abandoning its neutrality would have introduced a risk of P.A. Oda taking over, so the Testament Union preserved it ‘to monitor a possible spread of the disaster and to help Mikawa recover’.”
Vice President: “Honestly. To think we’d be thanking the Pope-Chancellor now.”
But as the Musashi hurried across the Kii Peninsula to Mikawa, a pursuer approached on a sharp trajectory from the north.
The high-speed ship was a galley-style Kraken-class. It had removed a few of its side cannons and replaced them with accelerators to catch up to the Musashi.
“I have determined that is the Sunomata, a Hashiba high-speed ship. Over!”
As Suzu detected its form from Musashino’s bridge, she stroked the model with her fingers and had a thought.
…It’s…light?
She thought it was a simply designed ship.
It was mostly made of wood and seemed to have residential areas, but it felt handmade. Neshinbara explained over the divine chat and her sign frame spoke it aloud for her.
Novice: “When Hashiba was still a newcomer, Sunomata Castle was the ‘One Night Castle’ he built as a foothold in the impregnable territory of his enemy. They called it a castle, but it was really just a large-scale formation. Hashiba simplified it all down to the point that it was a castle in name only but still had the bare minimum of functionality. He used it to outwit his enemy who was trapped by tradition and format and that led Nobunaga to recognize his skill.”
Wise Sister: “Heh heh heh. Enough commentary on history, nerd. Can you tell us anything about the cheap galley that’s actually approaching us?”
Novice: “It was simply made, so it was used as a training ship after the battle. But that also means it would have been easy to modify. That’s why they added on the accelerators and…some cannons I’m guessing. But…”
Neshinbara continued his explanation.
Novice: “Even with the extra accelerators, it’s going to have difficulty catching up to the Musashi. If it wants to sink the Musashi on its first pass, it would probably have to ram us, but its current trajectory isn’t right for that, is it?”
Musashino: “Based on our predictions, it will likely join with the ghost ship and fly alongside us. Over.”
As Suzu listened to their discussion, she sensed a certain movement.
It was Toshiie.
His ghost ship swung below the Musashi like a pendulum and flew toward the port side. It was flying over to the rapidly approaching Sunomata. The Sunomata’s path was straight to fly parallel to the Musashi, but…
…They’re…going to hit?
As if to answer her question, Toshiie’s ghost ship flew toward the Sunomata’s stern. The ghost ship attached to the Sunomata where the oar-shaped accelerators were installed pointing backwards.
A moment later, the Sunomata sped up.
It had accelerated using the ghost ship’s ability to borrow its opponent ship’s speed.
“They’re…coming!”
Suzu knew the enemy was approaching.
Her hand moved the model of the Sunomata so it tilted and rushed toward the Musashi.
It was using the ghost ship as an accelerator, so the Sunomata’s speed equaled the Musashi’s. That allowed the Kraken-class galley to race around the Musashi and begin firing.
In an instant, fragments of gravity barriers scattered from various points on the Musashi.
But the Musashi could see the Kii Peninsula’s exit. Its course took it a bit to the northeast where something had come into view.
“Mikawa’s…land port!”
That was where they had fought a battle and rescued Horizon.
Me: “Hey, look! That’s where I managed to touch Horizon’s boob and save her life!”
Righteousness: “How can you people stand to have him lead you?”
Almost Everyone: “Well…”
They passed over it as they spoke, but…
Silver Wolf: “Most of the land port has collapsed as well. Natural erosion has caused the land to collapse over a wide area around the bay.”
Suzu’s senses perceived the same thing. From the surface to deep down in the earth, the land port had slid in toward the bay. The area around the bay had collapsed into a mortar-like depression.
Asama: “Once the ley lines have calmed down, I think the environmental gods will increase the protection of this land to help it recover. I’m recording data and sending it to IZUMO. They’ll probably send it up to Kyou.”
Suzu could only nod.
But just as they started across the bay, her senses picked up something.
The ocean below had been destroyed by the out-of-control ley line reactors three months before. Almost the entirety of the former city of Mikawa had been gouged out to make room for this water, but…
…This is where…New Nagoya Castle was.
At the very moment Musashi passed over the center of the blast zone, she felt a shaking below her feet.
There was only seawater below and further measurement showed there was a mud ocean floor beneath it.
But the ley lines here were badly disturbed and anyone with sight would be seeing occasional ether light rising toward the sky a bit to the north.
Suzu was currently receiving sensory information from the Musashi’s sense devices.
At the bottom of her senses, she perceived something suddenly welling up from the center of the blast.
Suzu felt shaking, but she did not know why.
…H-huh!?
Something was wrong with Musashino’s bridge. No…
…What…is this!?
She felt what seemed like several objects, figures, voices, or bodies of heat. Someone was there.
She was falling over. Her body had reacted to something moving out of place, but…
…Nothing has…moved!?
It was me that moved, she realized without knowing what it meant. But when she reached a hand out into empty space seeking assistance, she definitely felt something there. Someone had taken her hand.
She woke up.
Her mind grew clear. The sounds of everything around her grew more distinct as if she had surfaced from some deep water.
…Wh-what!?
She realized she was standing on the bridge. She was sweating, she breathed a sigh of relief, and she worked to perceive her surroundings.
“ ‘Musashi…no’-san…!?”
Everyone had collapsed or fallen to the floor. They had all fallen to port which was north and some had apparently been lightly thrown through the air.
“Musashino” gave a quiet groan and quickly fixed her lifted skirt and corrected her collar.
“It seems the motor for the base of my left leg has bent somewhat. Over.”
“O-okay. What…was that?”
“Judge. I detected a powerful ether disturbance, but I did not expect it to have such strong directionality. I can predict that the damage to the ley line was different than expected. And…”
She stood up and walked over while dragging her left leg a little. She spoke without waiting for the others to stand back up.
“The Musashi’s acceleration has been disturbed! Everyone, please recover from our lowered speed as quickly as possible. Suzu-sama, please locate the enemy ship. Over.”
Once “Musashino” finished speaking, a sudden tremor filled the Musashi.
While flying alongside them, the Sunomata had used their lowered speed to quickly fill the gap between them.
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Raptors beat the Bucks to advance to first NBA Finals
By Dan Woike
| Reporting from Toronto
Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard watches for the double-team trap by Bucks guards George Hill and Malcolm Brogdon during Game 6. (Gregory Shamus / Getty Images)
The noise was so loud you could feel it — the sound crawling under your skin and pulsating inside your chest.
Before Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Saturday night, the fans sang every word of their national anthem, true patriot love dripping off each lyric.
During the game, they watched with amazement as Kawhi Leonard undid a miserable start for his team and pulled the Raptors back late in the third quarter. They roared with excitement when Toronto finally pulled ahead and held their breath when the Milwaukee Bucks made one final push.
With seconds left, they grabbed their phones and held them up. And when it ended, with red confetti in the air and the trophy held high in Leonard’s hands, they erupted.
Canada had won. The Raptors, the only team in the NBA that plays for an entire country, will face the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals beginning Thursday night in Toronto.
“Wild [expletive],” a voice echoed outside the Raptors’ locker room. “I don’t think I would ever see this in my life.”
In the 100-94 series-clinching win, Leonard had 27 points, 17 rebounds, seven assists, two steals and two blocks. Pascal Siakam had 18 points, including the two biggest free throws of his career. Marc Gasol made only two field goals, but both were key three-pointers from the right corner. And Kyle Lowry, the player who can do the most while his numbers show the least, walked off the court with 17 points, eight assists and the game ball tucked under his arm — one final loose ball he corralled.
Getting here, 24 years into the life of this franchise, hasn’t been easy.
Vince Carter, who would eventually leave, missed a shot that would have sent Toronto to the conference finals in 2001. Tracy McGrady, who would eventually leave, couldn’t get the Raptors beyond the first round. And teams led by Lowry and DeMar DeRozan could never get past LeBron James, losing to him three straight years in the postseason.
It wasn’t working.
Raptors president Masai Ujiri made three of the biggest decisions in the team’s history in a span of 69 days. He fired Dwane Casey two days after Casey’s peers voted him the league’s top coach. A month later, he hired Nick Nurse, a man with more time spent coaching in the British Basketball League than he had in the NBA.
And a month after that, he traded DeRozan, maybe the most popular Raptor in the team’s history, to the San Antonio Spurs for what could end up as only one year of Leonard, who can become a free agent after the season.
“We did the same things over and over again. I think sometimes that might be the definition of insanity,” Ujiri told The Times in late September. “Unfortunately, these were the changes we had to make to change things up.”
The changes mattered. They mattered in how the team approached a 2-0 deficit to the Bucks to begin the series. They mattered when Nurse decided to change the on-court matchups and put Leonard on Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo — who was held to 21 points on seven-for-18 shooting Saturday. And they mattered as Leonard has done everything over the course of a six-game series to get his team to the Finals — a career high in minutes one night, a career best in assists another and a playoff high in rebounds the next.
“I worked so hard to get to this point with the season I had last year,” said Leonard, who was limited to nine games last season by a quadriceps injury and experienced tension with the Spurs regarding their handling of it. “I ended up coming here with a great group of guys, a lot of talent. And I just strived with them every day. ... Now we’re here and it’s exciting.”
The celebration inside Scotiabank Arena and in the Toronto streets continued long after the final buzzer Saturday night. Players put on commemorative hats and shirts and clutched the conference championship trophy.
But as the Raptors filed into their locker room as conference champions for the very first time in a country that’s had NBA basketball for less than a quarter of a century, strength and conditioning coach Jon Lee’s voice climbed above all the others.
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“Four more,” he repeated as each player walked into the room. “Four more wins.”
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