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Siege of Petersburg Resources > Units > Confederate > Confederate Cavalry > Virginia Cavalry > 3rd Virginia Cavalry
3rd Virginia Cavalry
in Virginia Cavalry
Muster In: Organized with 11 companies as the 2nd Virginia Cavalry in May and June 1861. Designated as the 3rd Virginia Cavalry ca. October 31, 1861.1
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Colonel Thomas H. Owen
Lieutenant Colonel William M. Feild
First Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3
Second Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army4
(until June 26, 1864)
Colonel Thomas H. Owen (June 26, 1864 and on)5,6
Third Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army7
Colonel Thomas H. Owen (in hospital at least July 20, 1864)8
? (while Owen was in the hospital)9
Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army10
? (August 1-4, 1864)11
Colonel Thomas H. Owen (in hospital August 1-4, 1864, and reassumed command)12
Note: Fitz Lee’s Cavalry Division was ordered to join Early in the Shenandoah Valley on August 8, 1864 and actually reached his army on August 18, 1864.13
Not at the Siege of Petersburg.14
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Cavalry Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army17,18,19
Commander: Colonel Thomas H. Owen (February 1865)20
Note: Returned to the Siege of Petersburg in late January-early February 1865. Wickham’s Cavalry Brigade had arrived in the Richmond area by February 27, 1865.21,22
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Wickham’s Cavalry Brigade | Fitzhugh Lee’s Division | Cavalry Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army23,24
Colonel Thomas H. Owen (in the hospital at least March 15)(March 1865)25
Lieutenant Colonel William M. Feild (wounded March 31)(March 1865)26
? (after Lt. Col. Feild was wounded)(March & April 1-2, 1865)27,28
Note: Wickham’s Cavalry Brigade had arrived in the Richmond area by February 27, 1865.29
Trevilian Station (June 11-12, 1864)
Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
Reams’ Station (June 29, 1864)
Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Confederate Casualties During the Wilson-Kautz Raid: June 22-July 2, 1864
NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: 2nd VA Cavalry at Trevilian Station and Nance’s Shop
NP: July 7, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Fitz Lee’s Cavalry, June 29
Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 105-107 ↩
“Fitz. Lee’s Cavalry.” Richmond Examiner. July 7, 1864, p. 1 col. 3 ↩
The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 123 ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1175: “Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General R. E. Lee, January 31, 1865”; This list contains many commanders who were not there. They were the “official” commanders but may have been gone on leave. I have used none of the leaders from this list as a result. ↩
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1274: “Organization of the Infantry and Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, General R. E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding, February 28, 1865”; This order of battle was based off of inspection reports from February 28, 1865. However, leaders listed are from January. I’ve chosen to ignore the leaders and just use this source for the organization of the order of battle. ↩
Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 105-107: More research is needed as to the exact date. ↩
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Nowhere in America is there a more beautiful, more varied, or more endangered shoreline than in Louisiana. Because of its setting at the mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana differs from other coastal states. In addition... Learn More
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Why is ‘Bandersnatch’ Annoyingly Great?
Pallav Gogoi December 28, 2018 Bandersnatch, Charlie Brooker, choose your own adventure, Interactive Movie, Netflix
Bandersnatch is a creative masterpiece that will make you lose your sanity with its mind-bending plot twists and interactive technology.
The art of storytelling is changing and Bandersnatch is all about creating a unique never-seen-before ‘event’ (not a movie) that gives its viewer the control to change the plot, subplots, passwords, music, food and of course the endings. Movie viewing will never be the same after Netflix released its recent hyper-experimental interactive or ‘choose your own adventure’ movie.
Black Mirror, known for highlighting the horrors of technology is a big hit among contemporary science fiction fans. Unlike its previous seasons, which were mainly episodes, Netflix launched a movie instead, to satiate its ever-expanding quirky fan base.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch introduces a new way to experience a movie. It has multiple endings and the film just feel like a maze of plots and subplots leading us to various scenes with many alternate versions. Bandersnatch gives you the chance to interact with its characters and in return, the protagonist reciprocates diligently. After watching Bandersnatch, you are destined to question your own sanity.
#Bandersnatch never ends. Netflix’s first interactive movie is so insane that you will lose your sanity for few hours after watching this crazy experimental ‘event’ that gives you full control to change the plot, subplot, music, food, and passwords and of course endings. #Future pic.twitter.com/Q7MKclzhMl
— Pallav Gogoi (@pallav_) December 28, 2018
Bandersnatch is a creative masterpiece of our times and undoubtedly one of the most talked about experiments in modern cinema viewing. Unlike a usual movie that tells a linear story, directed with a fixed plot and fixed ending, Bandersnatch delves deeper and gives you the power to select scenes, go back to another timeline, move into some parallel universe and do all sorts of things that you would desire. You are totally in charge of this movie, made to shock its audience with some baffling moments.
Bandersnatch never ends; it will take you for a ride of your lifetime. Sometimes it feels magical to watch stuff controlled by you. From the power of choosing the breakfast for its protagonist to choosing your favorite album, Bandersnatch will make you fully immersed into its universe.
What if ‘The Bandersnatch Experience’ becomes a reality in movie theatres? What if your mind can control the scenes in the movie and everyone gets to watch whatever their mind desires? What if customized movie viewing becomes a reality? Netflix’s latest attempt to get into such space which previously only existed in video games and children books is a big leap, which will consequently open up many other dimensions in the filmmaking space.
Bandersnatch being the first (especially in the feature film) genre, it will surely go down in the history books as one of the bravest attempts to change movie viewing altogether. Bandersnatch is currently streaming on Netflix and creating major room for discussions worldwide. It’s generating huge buzz among the netizens and presently ruling the world of memes.
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Kittysafe 10:58 PM
I love Black Mirror and this sounds amazing. Next level.
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Volleyball: TRU's on the board
posted by James Mirtle on 01:05 5 comments
Sure, you could call this post self-serving, but it's not every day that one of my alma maters gets on the board at the CIS championships.
In fact, until Sunday, it'd never happened:
Mark the date down: March 2,2008. A historical day for Thompson Rivers University. One of Canada's youngest universities came of age on this date. Its the day they captured their first ever CIS medal. The WolfPack Mens Volleyball team captured a bronze at the CIS Nationals at the University of Laval.
Anyone else have goosebumps?
I'm kidding. But this is a pretty big deal for TRU, which hasn't been on the CIS scene very long at all and has managed to become competitive quickly in the ultra-competitive men's volleyball circuit in Canada West.
With the bronze, TRU now has more men's volleyball medals than schools like Guelph, McMaster, Memorial, Queen's and Western, all of whom have been around for ages.
Between TRU and Ryerson, I just may have graduated from two of the least-decorated CIS schools in the country, but the WolfPack have beaten the Rams on the board.
Probably by a few decades.
James Mirtle
sager 3/03/2008 2:42 am
Good for the Wolfpack, that's quite something for a school that's been in the CIS less than 10 years.
Andrew Bucholtz 3/03/2008 10:27 am
TRU's rise is even more impressive in the context of their difficult conference. Canada West has won 36 of the 42 volleyball championships now, including the last 14 in a row. Canada West teams also finished with all the medals again this year, so they'll likely get at least four spots in the championships again next year in Edmonton, which means the Wolfpack will have a good chance to make it back next year.
Oh, and Ryerson's program isn't all that bad either: their coach, Mirek Porosa, was the 2006 CIS coach of the year for the turnaround he brought to what hadn't been a very successful program. They've got a ways to go still, but they'll be in the hunt for the Ontario berth in future years: it might be a tough task to get a medal away from the West though.
Another nice thing for TRU: they had no All-Canadians on either the first or the second teams, so it looks like it was a solid group effort rather than a star performance or two that got them to their medals. Gord Perrin made the all-rookie team, though, which also speaks well for the future.
P.S. Very cool to see a volleyball post here!
sager 3/03/2008 11:38 am
Wait.... another sport where the in-crowd schools hog the all-Canadians? Couldn't be.
Robin 3/04/2008 2:14 am
In-crowd schools? All-Canadian awards are decided based on results /before/ nationals. If you look at the awards, they were spread around a lot of schools—probably spread too much, actually.
Thompson Rivers did, in fact, have a tournament all-star: Gord Perrin.
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The Headmaster’s Wager
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A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man’s loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever-changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gambling haunts and the women who frequent them. He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, but when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away.
In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage whom he is able to confide in. But Percival’s new-found happiness is precarious, and as the complexities of war encroach further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see.
Graced with intriguingly flawed but wonderfully human characters moving through a richly drawn historical landscape, The Headmaster’s Wager is an unforgettable story of love, betrayal and sacrifice.
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Vincent Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He is an emergency physician in Toronto. His first book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Lam is also the author of a biography of Tommy Douglas, published as part of the Extraordinary Canadians series. He and his family live in Toronto.
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Codex task force convenes to forge ahead on antimicrobial resistance
The Ad hoc Codex Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (TFAMR) started its sixth week-long meeting today in Busan, Republic of Korea. With more than 250 Codex Members and Observers in attendance, the meeting will make progress on revising the Codex Code of Practice to Minimize and Contain Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance as well as developing the Guidelines on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance. "The problem seems simple”, said Dr Yong Ho Park, the TFAMR Chair, underscoring the rapid increase of microorganisms [...]
Codex work presented at conference on antimicrobial resistance
Today the work of the Codex Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (TFAMR) was presented at the Second OIE Global Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance and Prudent Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Animals, which is taking place in Marrakesh, Morocco on 29-31 October 2018. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is focusing on ‘putting standards into practice’ at this year’s meeting. Speaking in the session on Surveillance and Monitoring towards Effective Management of Antimicrobial Resistance, Sarah Cahill, Senior Food Standards Officer with [...]
Codex featured at the World Dairy Summit
Tom Heilandt, Codex Secretary, and Professor Yong Ho Park, Chairperson of the Codex Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, highlighted Codex food standards as panellists in two different sessions of the 2018 International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit in Daejeon, Korea, this week. “Food is more than just eating, but comfort,” Heilandt said in the keynote speech of the session on food safety. “We tend to take its safety for granted. Food is fragile. That’s why we need to work together to [...]
AMR Task Force meeting: opening statement Tom Heilandt
Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, Check with delivered It is an honor for me to be here on Jeju Island and assist in the 5th Session of the Codex Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance. First, let me thank our hosts from the Republic of Korea for their kind offer to continue their contribution to the task force and especially our chairperson Prof Park. Codex could not work without its host governments and the Codex chairs – they are the backbone of [...]
Codex Task Force on AMR begins in Jeju
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society. What is AMR? Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics, antivirals and antimalarials) from working against it. As a result, standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to others. (WHO) Codex Task Force The Codex Alimentarius Commission agreed in July [...]
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Work on AMR a collaborative effort
In 2016 the Codex Alimentarius Commission established a Task Force on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which will hold its first meeting in Jeju, 27 November – 1 December 2017. Professor Yong Ho Park will chair the task force on behalf of the Republic of Korea. Professor Park holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine and a masters in science from Seoul National University, Korea and a PhD in veterinary microbiology from Washington State University. He has worked in the field of veterinary science [...]
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The International Dairy Federation (IDF) is the global voice of dairy towards stakeholders and intergovernmental organizations and an NGO observer in Codex. Nico van Belzen is Director General and spoke to Codex about AMR. Codex: Antimicrobial Resistance is not constrained by geographic borders therefore limiting the development of AMR requires the implementation of global strategies. Why is it important today to raise the awareness of all stakeholders involved? van Belzen: The spread of AMR threatens our ability to treat common infectious diseases, resulting in [...]
Steve Wearne talks AMR for Codex
Steve Wearne is Director of Policy and Science Group at the UK Food Standards Agency and In July 2017 he was elected as Vice Chair of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. He also chaired the 2016 Codex physical Working Group on antimicrobial resistance in London. For Antimicrobial Awareness Week we spoke to Steve about the importance of antimicrobial resistance as an issue, about the agricultural use of antimicrobials, and about national and international action on the issue, of which the work of [...]
Report of Codex AMR meeting published
The Codex Secretariat has published the report of the working group on AMR hosted by the UK and co-chaired by the USA and Australia that met in London from 29 November to 2 December 2016. The report is available online as a working document of the 40th Codex Alimentarius Commission which will take place in Geneva in July. Broad consensus The London meeting completed the tasks set by the 2016 Commission and carried out the initial ground work for the Codex Task Force [...]
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FAQs About Laser-Optimized Fiber
Fiber optical networks have dominated for long-haul communications for years, increasingly used in short distance applications, such as local area networks (LANs). And the Ethernet data-rate needed for these high-performance fiber optic networks increases from 1Gbps to 10Gbps, to 40Gbps, to 100Gbps, or even higher. Together with this speed increase, a term, laser-optimized fiber, has crept into the telecommunication market. What is laser-optimized fiber? How much do you know about it? Knowing answers to these frequently asked questions (FAQs) about laser-optimized fiber will help you prepare for the latest wave in optical communication networks.
FAQ 1: What Is Laser-Optimized Fiber?
Laser-optimized multi-mode fiber (LOMMF: OM3 & OM4) differs from standard MMF (OM1 & OM2), because the former has graded refractive index profile fiber optic cable in each assembly. This means that the refractive index of the core glass decreases toward the outer cladding, so the paths of light towards the outer edge of the fiber travel quicker than the other paths. This increase in speed equalizes the travel time for both short and long light paths, ensuring accurate information transmission and receipt over much greater distances up to 300 meters (OM3) and 400 meters (OM4) at 10Gbps, while OM1 and OM2 can only realize 26 meters and 33 meters link length respectively at the same data rate. And when 1000BASE-SX SFP transceivers transmit and receive signals over LOMMF and standard MMF at 1Gbps, the possible link lengths achieved are also different, with OM1 275-meter reach, OM2, OM3, and OM4 up to 550-meter reach. Take MGBSX1 for example, this compatible Cisco 1000BASE-SX SFP listed in Fiberstore supports up to 550-meter link length over OM2.
FAQ 2: Why Have MMF Been “Optimized” for Use with Lasers?
As the demand for bandwidth and higher throughput increased, especially in building and campus backbones, LEDs, short for Light Emitting Diodes, that are used as light sources in fiber optic systems could not keep pace. With a maximum modulation rate of 622Mb/s, LEDs would not support the 1 Gb/s and greater transmission rates required. The use of traditional lasers (Fabry-Perot, Distributed Feedback) typically used over single-mode fiber (SMF) could accommodate this problem. However, it’s very expensive due to the higher performance characteristics required for long-distance transmission on SMF. As such, a high-speed laser light source, a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) was developed. These VCSELs are inexpensive, suited for low-cost 850nm multi-mode transmission systems, allowing for data rates up to 100Gbps in the enterprise. With the emergence of these VCSELs, MMFs have been “optimized” for operation with lasers.
FAQ 3: Why Are LOMMFs the Best Choice for Use with VCSELs?
After VCSELs appears, to fully capitalize on the benefits that VCSELs offer, LOMMFs have been specifically designed, fabricated, and tested for efficient and reliable use with VCSELs.
LOMMFs have a well-designed and carefully controlled refractive index profile to ensure optimum light transmission with a VCSEL. Precise control of the refractive index profile minimizes the modal dispersion, also known as Differential Mode Delay (DMD). This ensures that all modes, or light paths in the fiber arrive at the receiver at about the same time, minimizing pulse spreading and, therefore, maximizing bandwidth.
LOMMF is completely compatible with LEDs and other fiber optic applications. LOMMFs can be installed at slower data rates or higher data rate. When there occurs the data rate migration from 10Gbps to 40Gbps, there is no need to pull new cable. You only need to upgrade the optics modules to VCSEL-based transceivers, avoiding infrastructure redesign.
LOMMFs are the suitable medium for short-wave 10G optical transmission. Their great bandwidth- and information-carrying capacity make them more popular among consumers than standard MMFs especially in 10GbE systems. Fiberstore supplies countless OM3 and OM4, as well as OM1 and OM2 for your network projects. Besides, other kinds of fiber optic cables, like MTP cable and SMF, are also available in Fiberstore. For more information about fiber optic cables, please visit Fiberstore.
Author AdminPosted on March 9, 2016 March 6, 2017 Categories Fiber Optic CablesTags LOMMF, MGBSX1, MTP cable, OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, SMF
Next-Generation OM3 Multimode Fiber
We know that conventional datacom links use single-mode fiber (SMF) for long-distance, high-speed links and multimode fiber (MMF) for shorter links. Early datacom applications, including ESCON, Token Ring, FDDI, Ethernet, and ATM, operated at relatively slow data rates (4-155 Mbit/s), using low-cost infrared light-emitting diode transmitters (LEDs). And this article will focus on OM3 multimode fiber.
The Development of MMF
The earliest fibers, called Optical Multimode 1 (OM1), featured a large core than is used today and a bigger numercial aperture. As the technology matured, smaller core MMF was typically rated for a minimum bandwidth-distance product around 160 MHz*km for 62.5/125 micron fiber at 850 nm wavelength; 500 MHz*km for 50/125 micron fiber at this wavelength; and 500 MHz*km for both fiber types at 1300 nm wavelength. This fiber was compatible with various industry standards, including CCTIT recommendation G.652, and was defined by the ISO standards as “optical multimode 2” (OM2) fiber; it is also commonly known as “FDDI grade” fiber, The fiber bandwidth was measured using an overfilled launch (OFL) test procedure, which replicated the large spot size and uniform power profile of a LED. Since a LED consistently fills the entire fiber core, the fiber bandwidth is determined by the aggregate performance of all the excited modes. However, LED sources typically have a maximum modulation rate of a few hundred Mbit/s; with the growing demand for higher data rates, laser sources operating over SMF were required.
Issues Related to VCSELs
Single-mode links using Fabry-Perot or distributed feedback lasers operating at long wavelength (1300nm) tend to be higher cost due to their tighter alignment tolerances and higher performance characteristics. There is lower cost alternative; the recent deployment of short-wave (780-850 nm) vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) has made it possible to use MMF at higher data rates over longer distance. Compared with LEDs, VCSELs offer higher optical power, narrower width, smaller spot size, less uniform power profiles, and higher modulation data rates. This means that a VCSELs will not excite all of the modes in a MMF; the fiber bandwidth is determined by a restricted set of modes, typically concentrated near the center of the core. Older MMFs experienced significant, often unpredictable variations in bandwidth when used with VCSEL sources due to defects or refractive index variations in the fiber core and variations in the number and power of excited modes due to fluctuations in the VCSEL output or between different VCSEL transmitters.
In response to these problem, the datacom industry developed a new type of laser-optimized or laser-enhanced MMF specifically designed to achieve improved, more reliable performance with VCESLs. Precise control of the refractive index profile minimizes modal dispersion and differential mode delay (DMD) with laser sources, while remaining backward compatible with LED sources (the dimensions, attenuation, and termination methods for laser-optimized and conventional fiber are the same). The first laser-optimized fibers, introduced in the mid-1990s, were available in both 50-microns and 62.5-micron varieties and designed for 1-Gbit/s operation up to a few hundred meters. These fibers were not always capable of scaling to higher data rates; with the increased attention on 10-Gbit/s links, never types of reaching about 35 meters at 10-Gbit/s, it became apparent that the smaller core diameter and reduced number of modes in 50 micron fiber made it the preferred choice for these data rates. Today, laser-optimized fiber is commonly available only in 50-micron versions, with an effective bandwidth-distance product around 2000 MHz*km for 850 nm laser sources. The bandwidth must be measured using a restricted mode launch (RML) test, instead of the conventional OFL method. This fiber was defined in the TLA-568 standard as “laser-optimized multimode fiber, ” and in the ISO 11801 (2nd edition) by its more common name, “optical multimode3” (OM3) fiber. Click to buy OM3 fiber patch cables.
Colors of Fiber Cables
An early example of laser-optimized fiber is the Systimax Lazer SPEED fiber introduced by Lucent, which uses a green jacket to distinguish it from existing multimode (orange) , single-mode (yellow) , and dispersion-managed (purple) fiber cables. Attenuation is about 3.5 dB/km at 850 nm and 1.5 dB/km at 1300 nm; bandwidth is 2200 MHz*km at 850 nm (500 MHz*km overfilled) and 500 MHz*km at 1300 nm (no change when overfilled) . Another example is the Corning Infini-Core fiber, which typically uses an aqua-colored cable; the CL 1000 line consists of 62.5-micron fiber made with an outside vapor deposition process that achieves 500-m distances at 850 nm and 1 km at 1300 nm. Similarly, the CL 2000 line of 50-micron fiber supports 600-m distances at 850 nm and 2 km at 1300 nm. Here is a figure of OM3 multimode fiber for you.
Applications of OM3
Most recent installations of Ethernet, Fibre Channel, InifiniBand, and other systems use the preferred OM3 multimode fiber (for example, the OM3 SC to LC), and many legacy systems including ESCON are compatible with this fiber. In order to avoid the associated with installing new fiber, most standards attempt to accommodate various types of MMF. While the idea of backward compatibility works reasonably well up to 1 Gbit/s (distances of a few hundred meters can be achieved) , it begins to break down at higher data rates when the achievable distance is reduced even further. Designing a future-proof cable infrastructure under these conditions becomes increasingly difficult; at some point, new fiber needs to replace the legacy MMF. Although SMF should be a good long-term investment, the short-term cost premium for SMF installation and ports on many switches, servers, and storage devices remains a concern. Since the cost of short-wave transceivers is presently lower than long-wave transceivers, there is still some question as to the preferred fiber to install and the best mixture of 62.5-micron and 50-micron MMF. In general, 50-micron fiber has been widely deployed in Europe and Japen, while North America has primarily used 62.5-micron MMF until recently. The IEEE has recommended using 62.5-micron MMF in building backbones for distances up to 100m, and 50-micron fiber for distances between 100 and 300 m.
Mixing OM2 and OM3 fibers in the same link results in an aggregate bandwidth proportional to the weighted average of the two cable types. Care must be taken not to mix 50-and 62.5-micron fibers in the same cable plant, as the resulting mismatch in core size and numerical aperture creates high losses. This can make it difficult to administer a mixed cable plant, as there is no industry standard connector keying to prevent misplugging different types of MMF into the wrong location.
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Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 204 - Big Hero 6
This week the DFPP team runs into a fire-breathing monster and friends while seeking the secrets of immortality only to learn that it all comes back to knowing the nature of your pain in the 2014 animated adventure Big Hero 6.
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Turner Classic Movies, Walt Disney World Resort and The Walt Disney Studios Team Up to Share Stories Centered on Classic Film
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Features Include New TCM Integration in Theme Park Attraction and On-Air Showcase of Disney Treasures
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced new strategic relationships with Walt Disney World Resort and The Walt Disney Studios to broaden its reach in family entertainment with joint efforts centered on classic film.
At Disney's Hollywood Studios, the "The Great Movie Ride" Attraction highlights some of the most famous film moments in silver screen history and is set to receive a TCM-curated refresh of the pre-show and the finale. TCM branding will be integrated into the attraction's marquee as well as banners, posters and display windows outside the attraction. In the queue line, families will enjoy new digital movie posters and will watch a new pre-ride video with TCM host Robert Osborne providing illuminating insights from the movies some of which guests will experience during the ride. The finale will feature an all-new montage of classic movie moments. After guests exit the attraction, they will have a photo opportunity with a classic movie theme. The TCM-curated refresh is set to launch by spring.
As part of the relationship with The Walt Disney Studios, TCM will launch Treasures from the Disney Vault, a recurring on-air showcase that will include such live-action Disney features as Treasure Island (1950), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and Pollyanna (1960); animated films like The Three Caballeros (1944) and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949); classic nature documentaries, including The Living Desert (1953) and The African Lion (1955); made-for-television classics, such as the Davy Crockett series; special episodes from Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color; documentaries about the studio, including Walt & El Grupo (2009) and Waking Sleeping Beauty(2010); and animated shorts, such as 1932's Oscar®-winning "Flowers and Trees."
Treasures from the Disney Vault is scheduled to premiere on TCM Sunday, Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. The opening night will include the holiday and winter animated shorts "Santa's Workshop," "On Ice" and "Chip An' Dale," followed by The Disneyland Story. The night will also include The Reluctant Dragon, Disney's 1941 film that combined a live-action tour of the Walt Disney Studios facility with animated shorts; Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955), a compilation of the first three episodes of the iconic series starring Fess Parker; the Oscar®-winning documentary The Vanishing Prairie (1954), part of Disney's True Life Adventure series; the rarely seen Third Man on the Mountain (1959), an Alpine tale starring Michael Rennie and James MacArthur; and Perilous Assignment (1959), a documentary about the making of Third Man on the Mountain.
"At TCM, it's our mission to share and celebrate the greatest films of all time," said Jennifer Dorian, general manager of TCM. "Disney provides the perfect relationship through which we can share the magic of the movies with every generation, not only through an amazing new showcase on TCM, but also through newly refreshed components of 'The Great Movie Ride' Attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios."
"We are looking forward to this collaboration, which complements Disney's commitment to telling great stories and immersing our guests in family entertainment," said Tiffany Rende, senior vice president of Disney Corporate Alliances and Operating Participants. "Through this alliance, we are able to share more classic Disney stories with TCM audiences, while further enhancing the guest experience by showcasing TCM content and talent."
This marks an expansion of TCM's already robust relationship with the family entertainment and media enterprise. TCM set sail on its fourth TCM Classic Cruise in October 2014, the second aboard the Disney Cruise Line's Disney Magic. In addition, TCM has collaborated with Buena Vista Home Entertainment on various initiatives, including the 2008 documentary The Age of Believing: The Disney Live-Action Classics, which premiered in conjunction with a 25-movie showcase of family classics. The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood featured a multi-film collection of Disney classics presented in collaboration with D23, The Official Disney Fan Club. And the 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival featured the 50th Anniversary screening of one of Walt Disney's most successful films Mary Poppins (1964) at Disney's El Capitan Theatre.
ABOUT WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT
Walt Disney World Resort is a world-class entertainment and recreation destination, encompassing nearly 40 contiguous square miles and featuring four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom); two water adventure parks (Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon); 35 resort hotels (25 owned and operated by Walt Disney World Resort, including seven Disney Vacation Club resort properties); 63 holes of golf on three courses; two full-service spas; Disney's Wedding Pavilion; ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex; and Downtown Disney, an entertainment-shopping-dining complex. Walt Disney World Resort also is included in Disney Cruise Line vacation packages. Located in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., 20 miles southwest of Orlando, Walt Disney World Resort opened Oct. 1, 1971, and operates daily year-round.
ABOUT WALT DISNEY STUDIOS
For over 90 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under the following banners: Disney, including Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios; Disneynature; Marvel Studios; Lucasfilm; and Touchstone Pictures, the banner under which live-action films from DreamWorks Studios are distributed. The Disney Music Group encompasses the Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records labels, as well as Disney Music Publishing. The Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live events, including Disney on Broadway, Disney On Ice and Disney Live!
ABOUT TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES (TCM)
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning network that presents great films, uncut and commercial-free, from the largest film libraries in the world. TCM, which is available in more than 85 million homes, features the insights of hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz, plus interviews with a wide range of special guests. Currently in its 20th year as a leading authority in classic film, TCM offers critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials; film series like The Essentials, hosted by Robert Osborne and Drew Barrymore, and Friday Night Spotlight; and annual programming events like 31 Days of Oscar® in February, Summer Under the Stars in August and TCM Essentials Jr. during the summer. TCM also connects with movie fans through such events as the annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood and the TCM Classic Cruise, as well as through the TCM Classic Film Tour in New York City. In addition, TCM produces a wide range of media about classic film, including books and DVDs, and hosts a wealth of material online at tcm.com and through the Watch TCM mobile app.
TCM is part of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company. Turner Broadcasting creates and programs branded news; entertainment; animation and young adult; and sports media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
CONNECT WITH TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
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Labels: The Great Movie Ride, The Walt Disney Studios, Theme Park Attraction, Treasures from the Disney Vault, Turner Classic Movies, Walt Disney World Resort
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 203 - So Dear to My Heart
This week the DFPP team heads to the farm, but ends up getting some bad directions from a wise old owl and find themselves getting mowed down by a fast moving black sheep in the 1948 family drama So Dear to My Heart.
Soundtrack (sheet music)
Sterling North
Midnight and Jeremiah (original story)
Book (rewrite to novel)
Golden Story Book (Bill Peet)
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Walt Disney Family Museum
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Walt Disney Presents The Story Of So Dear To My Heart (DQ-1255)
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Labels: Disney Film Project Podcast, So Dear To My Heart
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 202 - Remember the Titans
This week the DFPP team takes in some college football when they find themselves in the middle of an epic battle of indomitable wills that help bridge a gap one thought insurmountable in the 2000 drama Remember the Titans.
Herman Boone
Gerry Bertier
Julius Campbell
T. C. Williams High School
Perry High School Bands
Bertier Death Article
Movie vs. Reality: Site 1, Site 2, Site 3
Official 1971 Original Titans Website
Gerry Bertier #42 Foundation
Labels: Disney Film Project Podcast, Remember the Titans
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 201 - Bridge to Terabithia
This week the DFPP team finds themselves in the middle of a springtide struggle between the realities of life and honest truths of imagination and love where there are no real winners in the 2007 family drama Bridge to Terabithia.
Klasky Csupo
Gábor Csupó
Keep Your Mind Wide Open (Video)
Labels: Bridge to Terabithia, Disney Film Project Podcast
Places: Fire & Rescue Blu-ray Review
Released in the summer of 2014, Planes: Fire & Rescue is an animated Disney feature that is a sequel to the 2013 animated feature Planes. It is one of the strongest animated sequels that Disney has ever put out, which is likely tied to the fact that the movies were developed at the same time as separate adventures in the life of the star of both movies Dusty Crophopper, voiced by Dane Cook. Today, November 4, you can bring the movie home as a new Blu-ray release for your whole family to enjoy. If you’d like to learn more about Planes or Planes: Fire and Rescue you can listen to episodes 137 and 189 of our podcast.
When you pop in the Blu-ray and get to main menu you’ll be presented with scenes from the movie presented as moving pictures interspersed with postcards, posters, and other paraphernalia from Piston Peak National Park. It’s clever and reminds me of one of my favorite OS X screensavers. There are a few bonus features on the Blu-ray, many of which have been previously released as part of the movie’s promotion prior to it’s release in theaters.
However, Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular, is a completely new and enjoyable short with characters from the original planes movie and taking place in Propwash Junction. In it we see Dusty open an airshow for his old employer Leadbottom. Chug and Dusty excited to be seeing “Air Devil Jones” and “Vandemonium” perform a dangerous stunt at the show, but Skipper is concerned about it. The daredevils get detained and don’t show. This leads to Leadbottom dressing up Dusty and Chug as the the missing daredevils and forcing them to perform. Mayhem ensues and things end with with a crowd pleasing bang.
There are two deleted Scenes introduced by Ferrell Barron and Bobs Gannaway:
Honkers - is a mostly unfinished and longer version of the bar scene shown in the movie. The basic difference is we see the outside of the bar, and learn that it was named Honkers.
Dusty’s Dream No More - this is a storyboard animated scene where Dusty is feeling sorry for himself and goes back to his hanger to check out all his old trophies before getting inspired to test the limits of his broken gearbox.
Air Attack: Firefighters From The Sky is a short about how the crew of the movie visited the Hemet-Ryan Air Attack Base in Hemet California, the home of CalFire. This is where much of the research for the movie occurred and has a focus on the smokejumpers and their training. We learn that all the new fire fighting characters introduced in the movie were taken directly from inspirations gained while visiting the base.
The remaining Blu-ray features are:
Welcome To Piston Peak! teaches the viewer about the various landmarks and places to visit in Piston Peak National Park.
“CHoPs” TV Promo is the TV show introduction as shown in the movie.
A music video of the movie’s theme song “Still I Fly” starring Spencer Lee.
“Dipper” - in this Dipper introduces herself to the audience. She talks about who she is, and what she does for her job. She posts it as her profile on a PlanesDate.com website.
“Smoke Jumpers” - in this we learn about the 5 smoke jumpers from the movie. They build a campsite to roast marshmallows, and then get called off to put out a fire.
That there is not a huge amount of bonus material as can be attributed to the young age of the movie. Those looking for a good movie for their “Family Movie Night” can count on this film to deliver whether they’ve seen it already or not. Fans of the characters and/or the movie itself will enjoy that the Blu-ray also includes a DVD and a Digital copy. Overall, this is a fairly standard Blu-ray release for a new movie.
Labels: Blu Ray Review, Blu-ray Release, Planes, Planes: Fire & Rescue
Disney Film Project Podcast - Episode 200 - Marvel Phase Three Spotlight
Greetings true believers! This week the DFPP team breaks out their crystal ball to catch a glimpse of the future Marvel Cinematic Universe slate from 2016 through 2019 in what they’re calling a Marvel Phase Three Spotlight.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (May 1, 2015 - Phase Two)
Ant-Man (July 17, 2015 - Phase Two)
Captain America: Civil War (May 6, 2016)
Doctor Strange (November 4, 2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (May 5, 2017)
Thor: Ragnarok (July 28, 2017)
Black Panther (November 3, 2017)
Avengers: Infinity War Part I (May 4, 2018)
Captain Marvel (July 6, 2018)
Inhumans (November 2, 2018)
Avengers: Infinity War Part II (May 3, 2019)
Labels: Disney Film Project Podcast, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Phase Three
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NEW FEATURE FILM BASHIRA HOLDING OPEN CASTING CALL FOR DAY-PLAYER ROLES; SEEKING EXTRAS
(June 19th, 2018) The next feature shooting in Buffalo this July is Bashira, directed by Nickson Fong. About an electronic musician and an aspiring singer that is haunted by nightmares and visions that begin to intrude on their waking lives, prompting them to embark on parallel journeys in search of answers.
The film will be hosting a open casting call to audition for the film this Sunday, June 24th, 2018 at the Park School Auditorium, 4625 Harlem Rd, Buffalo, NY 14226 from 12pm to 5pm. Free parking available. The auditions are open to both SAG-AFTRA members and non-union actors. Please bring your head-shot, resume, and your audition sides (link below).
The casting department is also seeking background extras for the film, people of all ages and all ethnicities, with a special focus on Asian ethnicities. For interest in being an extra please email: Bashiraextrascasting@gmail.com
The casting notice for the Day-player roles are as listed below:
[DANI] 28 to 35 years old, Caucasian, female. Very attractive and fashionable, she’s an entitled gold digger who thinks the world revolves around her. She’s straight out of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She married her current husband John for his money and is always battling his daughter Lela for supremacy of the household. She takes every chance she can get to put Lela in her place and let her know who is boss. She wants John all to herself so she can assert control.
[KARTER HUGHES] 18 to 23 years old, Caucasian, male. Handsome and physical, he’s your typical jock and frat boy bully. An athlete in high school, he thinks his muscular physique gives him the right to push around anyone smaller than him. He’s intimidating, and when he smells fear, it’s like a drug that makes him feel superior. He’s not afraid to use it to get what he wants.
[BILLY “DUTCH” GRANT] 18 to 23 years old, Caucasian, male, Handsome and physical, he’s cut from the same cloth as his best friend Karter. Typical pretty boy bully and all around jerk who uses physical intimidation to push people around.
[BRYNLEE VALLON] 18 to 23 years old, all ethnicities female. Attractive, entitled and stuck up, she’s one of the popular kids and she knows it. She zeroes in on people she considers weak and relishes in humiliating them. She flaunts what she’s got to either get what she wants or to show those who are beneath her what they’ll never have. The truth is, she’s insecure and only lashes out at people she doesn’t understand. She’s also just a straight up bitch, hanging out with like-minded “friends” who enable her worst habits and instincts.
[MICHIHISA] 13 to 17 years old, Asian, Male. Preferably of Japanese decent. (BENEFICIAL IF BILINGUAL, BUT NOT NECESSARY) Son of Kazuo, the head priest of Shimomura, he’s a follower, not a leader. Although he respects, and even fears the village customs, peer pressure is a stronger force of motivation. He follows the defiant Kenji to a taboo place in the forest and suffers a fate similar to his misguided friend.
[KENJI] 13 to 17 years old, Asian, Male. Preferably of Japanese decent. (BENEFICIAL IF BILINGUAL, BUT NOT NECESSARY) He’s a rebellious alpha who doesn’t have patience or reverence for the customs of his home village of Shimomura. He scoffs at their archaic beliefs and openly challenges the number one taboo in order to impress one of his lackeys and a girl he’s harassing (but secretly has a crush on). Unfortunately, he pays for his ignorance.
[MR. COATES] 65 to 75 years old, all ethnicities male. Crusty old building manager with an incontinence problem, he considers his tenants family. He’s stern with the rules, but if he likes you, he’s willing to bend them just a little. However, don’t think you can take advantage of him because he’ll eat you for breakfast.
[SHIN NGUYEN] 30 to 35 years old, Asian, Male. Club promoter and manager, not opposed to shady methods to keep his business going. He admires the passion Andy has for his music and craft, having watched him go from busboy to DJ opener. It’s because of the potential he sees in Andy that he’s willing to stick out his neck and try to help the kid succeed. He doesn’t do that for just anyone.
[EDWIN SOLOMON] 40 to 50 years old, all ethnicities male. Geeky by nature, his passion is taking old, discarded things and uncovering the treasures that they really are. He got it from his father, who opened up an antique shop when he was a little boy. Now the shop is his, and he finds no greater joy than helping someone find that rare item which makes their lives complete.
[SHARON MONROVIA] 45 to 55 years old, Caucasian female. Andy’s Mother is frail and sickly, no longer able to fully take care of herself. Very caring, but a fraction of what she once was, her memory is fading fast.
[YOUNG YOKO] 12 to 15 years old, Asian, Female. Preferably of Japanese decent. (BENEFICIAL IF BILINGUAL, BUT NOT NECESSARY) Chased by bullies.
[DRIVER] 45 to 65 years old, Asian, Male. Preferably of Japanese decent. (BENEFICIAL IF BILINGUAL, BUT NOT NECESSARY) A Loyal and caring chauffeur who witness’ the death of a friend.
[TEDDY GUNNER] 30 to 35 years old, all ethnicities male. Trendy hipster and EDM record producer, he has his finger on the pulse of underground nightlife. Instead of catering to pop stars, he prefers to find undiscovered raw talent and develop them from the bottom up. He thinks he can mold Andy into something with his guidance.
[PROFESSOR REI] 40 to 60 years old, Asian, Female. An expert in Eastern Culture, very eccentric, short and shout.
[LITTLE LELA] Preferably of Japanese decent. No dialogue. An innocent soul whom just witnessed the death of her mother.
[VILLAGE PRIEST], 40 to 70, male, Asian, Preferably of Japanese decent. MUST SPEAK JAPANESE / ALL DIALOGUE SUNG IN JAPANESE. (BENEFICIAL IF BILINGUAL) sings a Japanese prayer.
For access to the sides please visit the link below:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cjssl8m0bh3v6tm/AACcWaD6SPOZCNXaOnXbv5Jga?dl=0
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Chelsea midfielder Oscar hoping for fresh start under Antonio Conte
Oscar was not able to showcase his true skills last season.
There is always plenty of anticipation prior to the first preseason game, but especially when it represents the start of a new regime.
The lack of sharpness and the quest for fitness, however, means that it is always an underwhelming affair and Saturday's 2-0 defeat to Rapid Vienna was no different, despite the first welcome sight of new coach Antonio Conte frantically gesturing on the sidelines.
The management might have changed, but there were still some things reminiscent of last season. Diego Costa managed to get into an argument over nothing, Victor Moses starred yet again in a friendly match and an error from Branislav Ivanovic resulted in a goal. There was also more glimpses from Oscar that he can evolve into the creative spark that he has threatened to be throughout his career in England.
The Brazilian has become the great enigma of latter day Chelsea. A player clearly blessed with exceptional footballing talent, it is a source of immense frustration that he has been unable to translate that into consistent performances. It always seems that he is about to take the next step in his development without ever quite reaching it and that he is still trading on his potential, despite now being 24 and having spent four years at Stamford Bridge.
Oscar's future at Chelsea must be the focus of debate within the new management setup, especially as he still retains sizeable transfer value and has often been courted by Juventus over the past few years. The next few weeks could therefore prove pivotal to the next stage in his career.
From one perspective, it is not hard to see him becoming part of Conte's plans. At his best, Oscar is an energetic and diligent player that covers a lot of ground and isn't afraid to put his foot in. Add that to his silky touch and deft passing and you have an individual that can positively affect the play both with and without the ball.
Conte himself will be well aware of the midfielder's talents having witnessed his full Chelsea debut firsthand as Juventus manager when he scored a magnificent brace in the 2-2 draw between the two sides in London during the Champions League group stage in September 2012.
Unfortunately, Oscar combines those attributes too infrequently, struggling to maintain a high level over long sequences of matches. Although he is capable of delivering a quality display in any given match, he failed to repay Jose Mourinho's faith after the Portuguese sold Juan Mata to Manchester United to accommodate Oscar in the No. 10 role. Patches of excellence were too often followed by periods of mediocrity and his annual dip in performance after Christmas has been a feature of his time at the club. That he hasn't been able to put a whole season of largely high-level displays together while at Stamford Bridge is certainly a mark against him.
There was a prevailing theory that his constant involvement in summer international tournaments with Brazil was the root of this problem, but that doesn't explain his disappointing last campaign despite having been ruled out of the 2015 Copa America with a minor injury.
It is always foolish to read too much into preseason games, especially the first one after the summer break, though it was noticeable that Conte named a strong looking starting XI in Vienna that did not contain Oscar.
Instead, Ruben Loftus-Cheek was selected in an advanced position that saw him play more like a second striker in tandem with Diego Costa than as a creator. That the young Englishman -- a player whose destiny surely lies as a conventional central midfielder -- was chosen to play in this unfamiliar role ahead of the Brazilian was a slight surprise and might just be an indication of the initial pecking order under Conte. Though to Oscar's credit, he produced a busy and effective display with plenty of clever touches after he replaced Loftus-Cheek at half-time.
With the possibility that the team is to regularly feature two central midfielders (one of whom will surely be new signing N'Golo Kante) and two authentic strikers, it seems likely that any involvement for Oscar would have to be in midfield.
Having rarely shone when deployed in wide positions and with more natural options available to support Diego Costa -- such as Michy Batshuayi, Pedro Rodriguez, Bertrand Traore and Eden Hazard -- the only area where he could add real value is in the middle of the pitch. Given his all-round qualities, it is a role in which he has the potential to flourish and one that has been advocated by many supporters over the last few years.
But there still remains a question mark hanging over him as well as that weighty, burdensome word, "potential." The arrival of Conte has heralded the start of a new era at Chelsea, Oscar will be banking on it signifying a fresh start for his career in west London.
Phil is one of ESPN's Chelsea bloggers. You can follow him on Twitter @PhilLythell.
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EUFAR Handbook on Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research: Methods & Instruments
By DIARRA Lilian
EUFAR handbook is the first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters. It describes the common techniques to characterise aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also explaining radiation quantities and pertinent hyperspectral and active remote sensing measurement techniques along the way. As a result, the major principles of operation are introduced and exemplified using specific instruments, treating both classic and emerging measurement techniques. The two editors head an international community of eminent scientists, all of them accepted and experienced specialists in their field, who help readers to understand specific problems related to airborne research, such as immanent uncertainties and limitations. They also provide guidance on the suitability of instruments to measure certain parameters and to select the correct type of device.
While primarily intended for climate, geophysical and atmospheric researchers, its relevance to solar system objects makes this work equally appealing to astronomers studying atmospheres of solar system bodies with telescopes and space probes.
The book consists of nine chapters:
Introduction to Airborne Measurements of the Earth Atmosphere and Surface;
Measurement of Aircraft State and Thermodynamic and Dynamic Parameters;
In Situ Trace Gas Measurements
In Situ Measurements of Aerosol Particles
In Situ Measurements of Cloud and Precipitation Particles
Aerosol and Cloud Particle Sampling
Atmospheric Radiation Measurements
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
Lidar and Radar Observations. Furthermore, some Supplementary Online Material was prepared and finished.
The handbook was co-edited by Manfred Wendisch (University of Leipzig) and Jean-Louis Brenguier (Météo-France), and consists of contributions from 91 experts originating from 13 countries. Both EUFAR’s Expert Working Group members and international experts have been involved in the development of the book through a series of dedicated expert workshops since the creation of EUFAR in 2000. In this way, the handbook condenses extensive knowledge and expertise in the field of airborne measurements. Published in March/ April 2013, the handbook aims to serve as the reference handbook for students and researchers in the field of airborne research for the environment.
To purchase a copy of the EUFAR handbook on the Wiley online library, click here.
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Miss Universe winner breaks crown while dancing during homecoming
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Miss Universe 2018 winner Catriona Gray (Image Courtesy: Twitter)
Miss Universe 2018 winner, Catriona Gray of the Philippines, revealed in a Twitter video that her dancing caused her $250,000 (AED900,000 approximately) Mikimoto crown to break.
Gray confessed that she was so excited during her homecoming parade at the Araneta Center in Manila that she could not resist dancing.
The video captioned: 'The moment you've all been waiting for: The Story Behind The Broken Crown' was posted on the Miss Universe official Twitter account.
In the video Gray says: "So one of the things I love about the parade is that they have this moving band and they have the drums that makes me want to dance, so I end up dancing although I am not a very good dancer."
The moment you've all been waiting for: The Story Behind The Broken Crown. 🧐 pic.twitter.com/DvBviRKyqf
— Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) March 19, 2019
According to the Philippine Star, part of the crown broke when Gray decided to dance during her homecoming.
"But I have a confession. The Mikimoto has seen better days as a result of my dancing. I'm so sorry," said the 25-year-old Filipino-Australian as she held a broken piece of the crown.
The Mikimoto crown is made up of 500 diamonds weighing almost 30 carats and 120 South Sea and Ayoka pearls.
The Miss Universe Organization assured in another tweet that the crown will be fixed soon.
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Saddle Up: 35th annual Bill Pickett Rodeo gallops into Los Angeles
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Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce dies at 20; suffered seizure, family says
HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 13: Cameron Boyce attends A Legacy Of Changing Lives presented by the Fulfillment Fund at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 13, 2018.. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
By Brie Stimson | Fox News
FOX NEWS - Disney actor Cameron Boyce, 20, has died, according to a report.
The young performer, a native of Los Angeles, was known for his roles in the Disney franchise “Descendants” and the Disney Channel show “Jessie.”
Boyce died in his sleep “due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition," his family told ABC News on Saturday.
"It is with a profoundly heavy heart that we report that this morning we lost Cameron," a Boyce family spokesperson said.
"The world is now undoubtedly without one of its brightest lights, but his spirit will live on through the kindness and compassion of all who knew and loved him." The family said they are “utterly heartbroken” by his passing and asked for privacy while they grieve.
Boyce had been acting since he was 9 years old and was deeply involved in charity work. In March, he introduced former Vice President Joe Biden at the Biden Courage Awards.
Get more updates on this story from FoxNews.com.
A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike.
In remarks at the White House, Trump blamed Iran for a "provocative and hostile" action and said the U.S. responded in self-defense.
He said the Navy's USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, took defensive action after the Iranian aircraft closed to within 1,000 yards of the ship and ignored multiple calls to stand down.
By Kelli Johnson, FOX 11
The 35th annual Bill Pickett Rodeo will gallop into town this weekend.
Actor Obba Babatundé who has appeared in films such as "The Temptations," and soap operas "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" along with Reginald Dorsey topped by FOX 11 studios to talk about the historically African-American rodeo.
The event will take place at the Industry Hills Expo Center July 20 and 21.
Five guys get into a fight at a Florida 'Five Guys' restaurant
Five guys were arrested after getting into a fight at a Florida 'Five Guys Burgers and Fries' restaurant.
According to the Stuart Police Department, five guys were involved at a fight inside of Five Guys Burgers and Fries on Wednesday.
All five of the people, three juvenile males and two adult males, were charged and processed at the Martin County Jail.
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Funding boost to charity helping more than 1,000 unpaid carers every year welcomed
Gil in the Scottish Parliament chamber.
A FUNDING boost to help young unpaid carers in East Dunbartonshire has been welcomed by Milngavie’s MSP.
Carers Link East Dunbartonshire secured nearly £50,000 from the Big Lottery’s Young Start Fund on January 24.
Mr Paterson has praised the work of the charity, which assists more than 1,000 unpaid carers every year in the area.
The Clydebank and Milngavie MSP has also lodged a motion to the Scottish Parliament commending the work of Carers Link.
He said: “Supporting more than 1,000 unpaid carers every year is an absolutely phenomenal amount of work – so I am glad this funding has come through for Carers Link East Dunbartonshire.
“It’s great to see the funding go to the young carers, who can much of the time find themselves in highly stressful situations they were absolutely not prepared for – I applaud anything that supports them.
“It is right to recognise the work Carers Link does so I have lodged a parliamentary motion to share the great work done to fellow MSPs and the government.”
Jennifer Roe, the chief executive of Carers Link East Dunbartonshire, said: “Carers Link is delighted that to receive ongoing support from The Big Lottery Young Start Fund, enabling us to continue our successful work with young adult carers.
“The life of a young adult is full of important decisions about the future, as well as educational and social pressures. For those in a caring role, these challenges are more difficult and they can often feel socially excluded and isolated.
“In the last year alone, we helped 22 young adult carers into college and university places, work placements and jobs, and this funding will allow us to support more young people to achieve their goals.
“We are grateful to Gil for his recognition of our work, and for the increased publicity that the parliamentary motion will give it. The more people that know about our service, the more people that we can help.”
The motion states:
That the Parliament congratulates Carers Link East Dunbartonshire, which is based in Milngavie, on a successful application to Young Start programme, which is run by the Big Lottery Fund, for a £49,920 grant; notes that the project that the charity applied for will involve a holistic approach to supporting young people with caring responsibilities in the development of person-centred action plans for young adult carers to help them access information and advocacy for their caring roles, as well as identify and pursue educational, training and employment opportunities; understands that 70 unpaid, young adult carers will be involved in the project over two years; recognises the instrumental work done by Carers Link East Dunbartonshire to assist more than 1,000 unpaid carers in the area each year, and welcomes the funding boost provided by the Big Lottery Fund across Scotland.
Supported by (26/1/17): Joan McAlpine, Ruth Maguire, Clare Haughey, Tom Arthur, Jeremy Balfour, Sandra White, Ross Greer, David Torrance, Fulton MacGregor, Colin Beattie, Graeme Dey, Rona Mackay, Stuart McMillan, Gillian Martin, Bob Doris
Press releases prepared by Lynda Williamson for Gil Paterson MSP Lynda.williamson@parliament.scot
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The Indian Health Service is badly underfunded. Reservation patients are paying the price.
Originally published in the University of Montana School of Journalism Perceptions
By the time doctors told Leola Kennedy she had only a few months to live, her neck was so swollen from cancer she couldn’t turn her head.
In the eight agonizing months leading up to her diagnosis, the 46-year-old woman made repeated visits to the urgent care ward at Blackfeet Community Hospital in Browning, where she first complained of headaches and insomnia, then back pain and then a total loss of appetite.
In the last two months before her diagnosis, Kennedy says she spent every day in the emergency room. Her teenage daughter, Maranda, had to skip weeks of classes in order to drive her mom to and from the hospital.
Kennedy says she sometimes waited for seven hours in the emergency room before seeing a physician or practitioner, and then only to be misdiagnosed with a host of illnesses she didn’t have — pneumonia, bronchitis and emphysema.
Before getting the diagnosis and treatment she needed at special care facilities off northern Montana’s 1.5 million-acre Blackfeet Reservation, doctors mistakenly told Kennedy her salivary gland was blocked, causing her neck to bulge and ache, and prescribed pills that never seemed to help.
“They gave me painkillers and muscle relaxers,” Kennedy says. “They told me to take lemon drops but they never gave a biopsy.”
Doctors at Blackfeet Community Hospital couldn’t explain what made Kennedy’s visits to the hospital so frequent, and nothing they prescribed stopped her cancer from spreading.
First it attacked the parotid gland near her neck before spreading to her heart and eventually her brain, where the cancer metastasized.
All the while, Kennedy’s options for treatment were limited.
Like more than half the Indians enrolled on the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana, Kennedy cannot afford private health care and isn’t eligible for Medicaid or Medicare.
Instead, she relies on the federally funded Indian Health Service to pay for her medical needs.
But IHS provides health care services only to the extent that appropriated funding from Congress allows.
And even though the cost of health care has risen 25 percent in the last six years and inflation rates have increased, IHS has had no luck securing additional appropriations from the federal government.
IHS is so underfunded that to be transferred off the reservation for specialized treatment a patient must be in danger of losing life or limb.
So day after day Kennedy had to wait her turn in the crowded emergency room, which ranks number one in Montana for cases of trauma and quickly soaks up IHS resources. The hospital also lacks fundamental diagnostic tools like a CAT scan and MRI machine, so cancer often goes undetected.
IHS, the primary health care provider for more than 1.6 million members of federally recognized tribes nationwide, has gotten almost no additional money from Congress in six years. The Billings-area office alone oversees the health care provisions of nearly 60,000 Native Americans on seven Montana reservations and one in Wyoming.
In order to keep up with rising health care costs, inflation rates and the increasing number of emergency room visits, Blackfeet Community Hospital needs millions of dollars more, health officials say.
“It’s frustrating as heck because it doesn’t allow us to practice standard-of-care medicine,” says Dr. Mary DesRosier, one of two Indian doctors at the Browning hospital. “If somebody comes in with lower back pain and numbness down their leg, standard of care would get them a CAT scan to determine what the problem is. But without that diagnosis, it’s hard to tell if something is life- threatening or not.”
Until last year, DesRosier never missed an opportunity to show her support for more federal funding.
But now, rankled that federal funding is so low and galled that American Indians seem to be the first cut in the federal budget and the last funded, DesRosier has given up attending Contract Health Service committee meetings, where other hospital and IHS staff convene to discuss how they can reduce the number of patients who go untreated for too long — patients just like Kennedy.
The branch of IHS responsible for funding patients’ treatment off the reservation, CHS can’t even afford to pay for many patients whose conditions already mandate a referral to another hospital.
One patient complained to DesRosier that a clinic in Great Falls was billing him for treatment he received after doctors in Browning referred him there, treatment that CHS was obligated to finance.
But CHS is just as broke as many of its patients, and the man’s bill was turned over for collection.
“I just saw a list four pages long,” DesRosier says. “At least 100 people they referred off the reservation and now CHS can’t pay for because they’re broke. They are so underfunded.”
The poor state of health care on reservations nationwide is a testament to U.S. failure to live up to its treaty obligations to Indian people, says Carol Murray, a professor in Blackfeet studies at Blackfeet Community College in Browning.
“We’ve been without it for so long most people don’t even know what it’s like to have it,” Murray says.
A 2004 report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights titled “Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System,” states tribes exchanged about 400 million acres of ancestral lands in return for promises and payments, including for health care, an agreement that still exists.
The report concludes the United States’ “lengthy history of failing to keep its promises to Native Americans includes the failure of Congress to provide the resources necessary to create and maintain an effective health care system for Native Americans.”
In July, when doctors eventually referred Kennedy to a hospital in Great Falls, a biopsy showed her cancer was so advanced it had spread. By the time of the diagnosis she already had three brain metastases, as well as 2.5 pints of cancer-ridden fluid around her heart.
Doctors told her she might have fewer than a few months to live.
That day, Kennedy began her first of 12 radiation sessions. Two weeks later she started chemotherapy, which would last for another eight excruciating months.
Kennedy’s family moved to a housing center in Great Falls, where out-of-town patients who require daily treatment can live for free.
In March, an MRI showed her cancer was in remission.
Scratching her stubbly head, the beginnings of brown hair just barely sprouting from what radiation made barren, Kennedy remembers how doctors told her she might die.
“The doctors say I’ve done better than they expected when they first saw me,” she says.
Kennedy thinks the last 15 months would have been less traumatic had she been referred off the reservation when her symptoms first bothered her.
“If they don’t refer you off, you have to go yourself,” she says. “How can I afford that?”
The “Broken Promises” report decries the need for IHS facilities to ration care and insists that more federal money is necessary.
Denial of CHS payments has increased more than 75 percent since 1998, the report says.
Dr. Craig Vanderwagen, acting chief medical officer for IHS, acknowledged that rationing health care is not the optimal method of treating patients.
“We don’t feel good about the number of patients who need care who are rejected because their problem is not life-threatening…,” he said. “We hold them off until they’re sick enough to meet our criteria. That’s not a good way to practice medicine. It’s not the way providers like to practice. And if I were an Indian tribal leader, I’d be frustrated. ”
Rationing of health care, the report says, means denial or delay of treatment, and forces patients to accept cheaper and less effective treatment or go without care. Study authors said they couldn’t assess whether the underfunding led to higher death rates, as IHS asserts, but said rationing clearly results in inadequate health care for American Indians.
For more than two years, Busy Hall worried as her sister suffered from persistent pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. It took repeated complaints about unrelenting back pain before IHS paid for a trip to Great Falls.
A biopsy proved what Hall feared. Phyllis Hall had cancer in her lungs, liver and brain.
“I told her, you’re having pneumonia too much,” Hall says. “They should have sent her out to get her tested as soon as she complained of back pain.”
Doctors operated, but less than a week after surgery she was in a coma, her breathing sustained with a respirator.
The cancer soon ended the 65-year-old woman’s life.
“It must have been like a wildfire in there,” Hall says. “If they would have looked at her sooner I could still have my sister.”
But getting help sooner is a problem many Blackfeet face, and doctors are limited in what they can do to help.
Physicians must follow stringent guidelines before referring a patient to another hospital or clinic.
Using a 12-point numeric rating system, they determine the urgency of the patient’s condition.
But even a 12 on the scale — meaning the most acute — still doesn’t mean an automatic referral.
Unless a patient is in danger of losing his life or limb, or is in a “sense-threatening emergency” — like an eye injury that risks vision — doctors can’t sign a referral.
But many patients need a CAT scan or MRI to determine the severity of their condition, a test doctors in Browning cannot offer.
Some doctors in Browning have learned to bend the rules if they suspect a patient has cancer or another life-threatening disease that can’t be diagnosed definitively without a scan. DesRosier says if a patient shows major symptoms of cancer and she knows the patient needs a CAT scan or abdominal scope, she writes a referral saying the condition could be life-threatening.
“I’ve learned to kind of fudge,” DesRosier says. “It’s not entirely honest, but it gets people the care they need.”
Part of Blackfeet Community Hospital is being remodeled so it can accommodate a CAT scan machine, an instrument the Billings Area IHS has finally acquired.
Having a CAT scan machine in Browning will save hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well as save the lives of patients, DesRosier says.
Busy Hall’s daughter, Ida Racine, wears an amulet around her neck, a protection pouch she believes helped her survive lupus, a condition in which the body attacks its own cells and tissues, causing inflammation, pain, and possible organ damage.
For more than a decade Racine was in and out of the hospital as doctors tried to determine what was causing the pain in her joints and abdomen.
During that time different physicians prescribed dozens of medications that interacted negatively, she says, causing discomfort Racine contends trumped anything caused by the illness.
“They did more harm than good,” she says.
The “Broken Promises” report cites the turnover rate in health care providers on reservations as one of the biggest problems leading to misdiagnoses.
“One of the major problems created by the high turnover rate of providers is that patients do not receive consistent care,” it says.
Now Racine is a healthy 34-year-old mother and takes only one daily medication.
But she believes her health was restored because of sweat lodge ceremonies, prayer and tinctures — cultural practices she says doctors sometimes discourage.
Because IHS cannot afford to pay for doctors to attend cultural sensitivity classes, they often don’t accept traditional healing practices and medicines, the report states.
Racine says an arthritis specialist from Chicago, a doctor who volunteers at Blackfeet Community Hospital for one week each July, admonished her not to rely on her beliefs for help.
“I was wearing a tank top and he saw my pouch,” she recalls. “He told me not to believe in witchcraft. I wanted to ask him, ‘If you look down at us like dirty Indian people then why are you here?’”
She complained about the doctor. DesRosier says the incident is not unusual. “I see cultural insensitivity all the time,” she acknowledges.
“There was a complaint against one doctor seeing a woman in the ER who had smudged,” DesRosier says, referring to the practice of burning sage for spiritual cleansing. “The doctor accused her of using marijuana. It was incredibly insulting.”
Jim Kennedy palms a buffalo stone in one hand and, with the other, he points to a line that snakes across the hospital waiting room to a service-window of the pharmacy.
The director of the Blackfeet Community Hospital, Kennedy says he has a bond with buffalo stones, or ammonites – fossilized shells that resemble sleeping bison and which the Blackfeet call insikim and use in spiritual ceremonies.
Kennedy is known for his flair for seeking out the stones when he goes walking through Montana’s prairies and mountains.
“They call out to me,” he says.
Kennedy wishes the Blackfeet community would adopt a healthier lifestyle and strive for fitness and spirituality. He praises DesRosier for emphasizing the importance of fitness, prayer and belief.
Already, the pharmacy is 19,000 prescriptions ahead of last year’s count, he says, and has filled as many as 1,000 prescriptions in one day.
“That’s kind of unheard of for a pharmacy this size,” he explains.
He says DesRosier prescribes fewer drugs than any other physician at the hospital.
The hospital’s limited resources are strained as Indians living off the reservation sometimes travel 200 to 300 miles in a day for IHS-funded medical attention, Kennedy says.
In his office, Kennedy clicks two other buffalo stones together.
“These are my twins,” he says.
The stones’ rolling contours fit together perfectly, and Kennedy says he found them within 10 feet of each other while hiking.
According to Blackfeet belief, Kennedy’s knack for finding the stones makes him fortunate and gives him strength.
For now, Kennedy says he’ll use his dynamism to help sustain the health of Montana’s Blackfeet Nation.
After all, it’s in his nature.
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Why The Florida Panthers Need Aaron Ekblad
Alex Lopez April 16, 2014
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There’s big, and there’s bad.
First, let’s talk big-in a sport as physically imposing as hockey, it comes as little surprise the amount of discussion that centers around physical size. Draft stock rises and falls based on this untradable commodity; genetic makeup serves as a tiebreaker between two equally skilled players, with general managers league-wide seeking big frames to control possession in the offensive third and bring the hammer down in their own zone. Sometimes, it overrides logic-yeah, John Scott couldn’t score on a yawning barn door, but by golly, he’s 6’8″!
Then, there’s bad. Bad teams, bad players, it’s a yin-yang kind of thing (you know, this doohickey). Two polar opposites have to exist, and though innately different, each half has a fragment of the other in its fiber. No squad can roll four lines fielding players considered to be top-three caliber-even if Stan Bowman worked his voodoo magic and assembled the professional ice hockey version of the Monstars, personal pride and the salary cap (DAMN YOU BETTMAN) prevent that from ever rearing its head. It’d be the Beverly Hills of roster builds.
Moving over to the other side of the tracks, you’ve got Compton-and if you squint just hard enough, tilt your head just far enough and hold your breath for just long enough, the pretty stars and flying carpets scramble and carve the letters, swooping and diving until it looks like Pablo Picasso splashed paint on a canvas and said it spelled “Sunrise“. In a way, they share certain characteristics; in looking at them through two distinct filters, both started as nice enough places, suburbs to a big city. Both had promise. And then, things went South for the winter; Compton gained national recognition as a hellbox of crime and the cradle of gangsta rap, and we kind of just suck at hockey. Note the fluidity of the word; there’s a distinction between bad-as in, you know, terrible-and BAAAAAAAD-as in if I look at somebody wrong I’ll end up on the wrong side of a baseball bat to the kneecaps (I swear, I still haven’t forgotten about Dre!)
But what do we make of a fusion of the two? What happens when black and white merge to form gray? You could always be left with the former *coughJohnScottcough* (please don’t tell him I said that I’m 6’2″ and lanky as hell). But there are times, few and far between, when the latter-a result of a crazed science experiment gone horribly right-manifests itself in a high-flying, sharp-shooting, heavy-hitting manchild possessive of an imposing presence that demands respect, then douses it in gasoline and sets it ablaze.
That manchild is Aaron Ekblad. And he may soon be calling Sunrise, Florida his home.
Give em Blue Steel, Zoolander!
(Photo by Terry Wilson/OHL Images)
Already the proud owner of a thicker beard than most grown-ass men I know, the 18-year old captain of the Ontario Hockey League‘s Barrie Colts checks in at six-foot-three, 213 pounds per NHL Central Scouting’s official measurements, although International Scouting Services gives him roughly an extra inch and three more pounds. The Canadian-born rearguard has also been a fixture in the hockey media for some time; having applied for early declaration into the 2011 OHL Priority Selection, his petition was unanimously approved by Hockey Canada, with the governing body granting the then 15-year old Ekblad “exceptional player” status, which is a fancy way of saying that the kid was a beast on skates. He became the first defenseman in the history of Canadian junior hockey to be granted such a distinction, and only the second player ever-behind some guy named John Tavares.
Looking at his stat-sheet, there’s no need to dig deep for any sort of validation-the kid could play. Immediately inserted into the Colts’ lineup, the rookie blueliner skated in 63 of 68 games for the Ontario-based club, posting 29 points off of ten goals from the rear. Finishing eight in team scoring-behind the likes of Los Angeles Kings‘ 2012 first round choice Tanner Pearson and seventh-overall choice Mark Scheifele of the Winnipeg Jets-the young defenseman finished with a respectable minus-five rating in his first campaign. The rearguard also netted five points off of two goals in postseason contention, aiding former league celldwellers Barrie to a two-round playoff run. The skater would go on to be elected OHL Rookie of the Year.
Building off of his award-winning novice campaign, Ekblad has been nothing short of sensational; through two subsequent OHL seasons, he has recorded 87 points off of 30 goal with an amassed +31 rating through 112 career contests. Furthermore, he has exhibited a sandpaper grit; evidenced by his 189 career PIMS, the surface numbers paint the picture of a highly skilled, two-way blueliner-a stalwart in his own end and a threat in the opponent’s-with an abrasive, physical edge.
The story doesn’t stop there; sticking to a numerical argument, early indications show Ekblad’s ability to elevate his game when needed most. Through 44 major junior postseason contests, the rearguard created 28 points on the strength of 11 goals. Scoring at a clip of .63 points per playoff game is a feat at any level, especially when discussing defensive production. Factor in his age and performance against competition on an elevated level from that of his peers, and the figures pop out all the more dramatically. Shifting to intangibles, he possesses an innate capacity for leadership; named captain of the Barrie Colts for the 2013-2014 campaign as the youngest defenseman on the roster, he lead his squad to the second round of the playoffs before bowing out in six to the North Bay Battalion. Ekblad has also captained his country at two international tournaments to date, leading Canada’s gold-medal winning entry at the past U18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament, as well as Canada-Ontario at the 2013 U17 World Hockey Challenge. On the international stage, he has posted ten points from four goals through ten games, showing no need for an adjustment period as he progresses from level to level.
Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a comprehensive knowledge of Aaron Ekblad’s life story. But who cares about stats and intangibles and a total domination of the opposition at every level he’s competed at? Why should Dale Tallon select the blue-chip prospect and herald him as the future of the Panther blue-line, given the opportunity?
Because, just like Olive Garden leftovers abandoned in a van for four hours before being finished, the Florida Panther defensive corps went bad. Fast. In spite of the freezing temperature “refrigerating” that damn chicken scampi that ended up giving me food poisoning the night before a big regatta. Led by elder statesman Ed Jovanovski, a motley crew of young talent and well-traveled vets got lit up over the course of 82 games, surrendering goals at the alarming rate of 3.20 per game, on average. The only team worse? Edmonton. Nine of this year’s sixteen postseason bound squads occupy the top ten in GAA; the lowest team on this list, the eight-seed Dallas Stars, dropped to seventeenth, but were spurred on by Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn and the tenth best offense in the league. And while I understand that Corsi, Fenwick and Goals For values take hit in the absence of a true offensive focal point, you’d figure part of the credit for icing an offense capable of producing a paltry 2.29 Goals per Game (29th in the league) goes to a defense facing struggles in cleanly breaking out of it’s own zone.
And he’s a Movember Master, donating money to charity. COME ON NOW.
This is where Aaron Ekblad slots in. Drafted by a struggling team, possessing an ideal combination of big and bad, the rookie defenseman figures to see plenty of ice-time in his first year at the BB&T Center. Based on size alone, he appears to have been cast specifically to General Manager Tallon’s liking; joining a core of tall, youthful blueliners, Ekblad’s NHL-ready size ought to persuade the man at the helm of the draft. Furthermore, his skill-set as a smooth-skating, two-way player fills a dire need for the Cats, regardless of position. The Panthers boast a wealth of highly skilled depth at center; the option exists to slide a pivot to the wing if necessary. Though Hockey’s Future lists uncertain depth on the right-wing a weakness of the Panther’s prospect pool, the chance to add a draft-defining talent to a struggling back-end supersedes a need that can be addressed in the later rounds of the selection process.
And although a sizeable percentage of the roster desperately needs to accept greater defensive responsibility, adding a player who is equally dominant along the boards and in closing down open ice as he is in joining the rush ought to relieve at least one of coach Peter Horachek’s migraines. Furthermore, of the six healthy defensemen left on the season finale team roster, only a singular player-Erik Gudbranson-carried a right-handed shot. Allowing Ekblad to line-up on the power play alongside special teams quarterback Brian Campbell could allow for a rebirth of the power play, evoking shades of Jason Garrison’s one-timer from the point with both d-men able to launch a cannonade off of the other’s feed. And damn, I miss Garrison. I bought his jersey the year he left. Bastard.
All things considered, it just makes sense; assuming the ping-pong balls fall our way, Buffalo doesn’t pull a Cavs-type move and Edmonton doesn’t get the first overall pick for the fourth time in five years (ILLUMINATI), Aaron Ekblad ought to remain on the board after the Sabres’ top selection. And I’ll be damned if we pass him up.
JUST LOOK AT THE BEARD.
Alex Lopez
Ridiculously injury-prone Business Administration major who tries to row, enjoys writing, digs rap, appreciates Chance The Rapper a tad bit too much, and loves the Florida Panthers. Spirit animal-Left Shark. Once set a food challenge record at some diner in High Springs, Florida. "Nice beard, dude"-Chadwick Stokes, Dispatch. Also enjoys long walks on the beach, guacamole and doing everything "for the bois".
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Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
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Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7 ... more
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Rat monoclonal antibody. The Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using CD86 as the antigen and it reacts with Mouse. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Flow Cytometry, Immunohistochemistry, Block/Neutralize/Inhibit, Immunoprecipitation. Background: Function: Receptor involved in the costimulatory signal essential for T-lymphocyte proliferation and interleukin-2 production, by binding CD28 or CTLA-4. May play a critical role in the early events of T-cell activation and costimulation of naive T-cells, such as deciding between immunity and anergy that is made by T-cells within 24 hours after activation. Isoform 2 interferes with the formation of CD86 clusters, and thus acts as a negative regulator of T-cell activation.Subunit: Interacts with MARCH8. Interacts with human herpesvirus 8 MIR2 protein (Probable).Subcellular Location: Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.Tissue Specificity: Expressed by activated B-lymphocytes and monocytes.Ptm: Polyubiquitinated; which is promoted by MARCH8 and results in endocytosis and lysosomal degradation.Similarity: Contains 1 Ig-like C2-type (immunoglobulin-like) domain.Similarity: Contains 1 Ig-like V-type (immunoglobulin-like) domain.Product ID: 275517GI Number: 49456643Accession Number: CAG46642.1SP Accession Number: P42081NCBI Name: CD86; T-lymphocyte activation antigen CD86Sequence Length: 323Molecular Weight: 37696OMIM: 601020Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0.Isotype: Rat (Louvain) IgG2a kappaClone: GL1Immunogen: LPS-activated mouse B cells 1Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested by flow cytometry to conform to characteristics of a standard reference. Representative flow data are included in this product insert.Specificity: Mouse CD86, the B7-2 co-stimulatory molecule and a ligand for CD28 and CD152/CTLA-4CD86, also known as B7-2, is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein and a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell surface receptors. It is expressed at high levels on resting peripheral monocytes and dendritic cells and at very low density on resting B and T lymphocytes.1-5 CD86 expression is rapidly upregulated by B-cell specific stimuli with peak expression at 18-42 hours after stimulation.1, 5 CD86, along with CD80/B7-1, is an important accessory molecule in T cell costimulation via its interaction with CD28 and CD152/CTLA-4. Since CD86 has rapid kinetics of induction, it is believed to be the major CD28 ligand expressed early in the immune response.1-9 The monoclonal antibody GL1 blocks mixed lymphocyte reactions and stimulation of T cells by antigen-presenting cells.1, 3, 5Warning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IHC, IP, Assays
Reactivity: Mouse
Host: Rat
Rat Anti-Mouse Pmp22 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse Pmp22 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™ ... more
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse Pmp22 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Rat monoclonal antibody. The Rat Anti-Mouse Pmp22 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using PMP-22 (Peripheral Myelin Protein) as the antigen and it reacts with Mouse. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Flow Cytometry, Immunoprecipitation, Block/Neutralize/Inhibit. Background: Function: Might be involved in growth regulation, and in myelinization in the peripheral nervous system.Subcellular Location: Membrane; Multi-pass membrane protein.Tissue Specificity: Found exclusively in the peripheral nervous system. Present in both myelinating and nonmyelinating Schwann cells. Found in the tumors of Schwann cell lineage where axons are present (neurofibromas) but not where axons are absent (schwannomas).Developmental Stage: Levels increase between embryonic day 21 (E21) and postnatal day 0 (PND0) and then gradually increase up to PND15. There is a slight increase between PND15 and adulthood.Induction: Strongly down-regulated in the initial phase after sciatic nerve injury.Similarity: Belongs to the PMP-22/EMP/MP20 family.Products ID: 275354GI Number: 55904Accession Number: CAA44297.1SP Accession Number: P25094NCBI Name: CD25 [Rattus norvegicus]; Peripheral myelin protein 22Sequence Length: 160Molecular Weight: 17946Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2- 8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0Isotype: Rat IgG2b kappaClone: 3C7Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent using immunofluorescence staining and analysis using a Becton Dickinson FACScan™ flow cytometer.Specificity: Low affinity chain IL-2 receptor, Mr 55 kDa (IL-2R) The IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) exists in three alternative forms made up from the individual components of CD25, CD122, and CD132. CD25 represents the low affinity chain of the IL-2R, a type I transmembrane glycoprotein containing two CCP domains. It is rich in O-linked carbohydrates and has a short cytoplasmic tail.14 CD25 is expressed on activated T cells, B cells, NK cells and monocytes of all mouse strains tested.2, 3, 15 Expression of CD25 on activated T lymphocytes is transitory and endogenously regulated.4 CD25 is expressed on precursor B cells in bone marrow. Its expression is initiated by functional rearrangement and expression of IgM heavy chain genes and is down-regulated when immature B cells mature and express IgD.5 It is expressed at a higher level on CD4+CD8+ thymocytes.5, 6 It is also expressed on cultured epidermal Langerhans cells.7 The biochemical features of murine CD25 have been characterized in detail.8-10 The 3C7 monoclonal antibody reacts with an epitope of CD25 which is distinct from that recognized by clone 7D4.2, 11, 12 3C7, used in combination with 7D4 in culture, results in higher levels of inhibition of proliferation driven by IL-2 and generation of alloreactive CTL than either of these monoclonal antibodies alone .2, 13 Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.3 ug/106 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IP, Inhibition, Assays
Rat Anti-Mouse L-selectin Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: The Rat Anti-Mouse L-selectin Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated ... more
Description: The Rat Anti-Mouse L-selectin Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech, Inc. is a Rat Monoclonal antibody to CD62L. This antibody recognizes Mouse antigen. Rat Anti-Mouse L-selectin Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated has been validated for the following applications: Block/Neutralize/Inhibit, Immunohistochemistry, Immunoprecipitation, Flow Cytometry. Background: Similarity: Contains 1 EGF-like domain.Products ID: 275481GI Number: 5852072Accession Number: CAB55488.1SP Accession Number: Q9UJ43NCBI Name: L-selectinSequence Length: 385Molecular Weight: 43618Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0.Isotype: Rat (Fisher) IgG2akClone: MEL-14Immunogen: C3H/eb cloned mouse B lymphoma 38C-13 1Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested by flow cytometry to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent. Representative data are included in this product insert.Specificity: CD62L/L-selectin, Mr 90 kDaCD62L, also known as L-selectin, is a type I transmembrane glycoprotein with lectin-like and Epidermal Growth Factor like domains.1, 2 It binds to sialylated oligosaccharide determinants on high endothelial venules (HEV) in peripheral lymph nodes.1, 2 In the mouse, CD62L is expressed on most thymocytes and on peripheral leukocytes, including B and T lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes and eosinophils.3-7 This member of the selectin family of cell adhesion molecules appears to be required for lymphocyte homing to peripheral lymph nodes and for leukocyte extravasation at sites of inflammation.1, 2, 7-9 Expression of CD62L on lymphocytes and neutrophils is rapidly down-regulated upon cell activation and the level of CD62L expression, along with other markers, distinguishes naive T cells from effector/memory T cells.10-13 The monoclonal antibody MEL-14 blocks in vitro binding of lymphocytes to peripheral lymph node HEV and inhibits in vivo lymphocyte extravasation into peripheral lymph nodes and the late stages of leukocyte rolling.1, 2, 7-9Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.1 µg/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Rat Anti-Mouse PECAM1 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse PECAM1 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY ... more
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse PECAM1 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Rat monoclonal antibody. The Rat Anti-Mouse PECAM1 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using CD31 as the antigen and it reacts with Mouse. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Immunohistochemistry, Block/Neutralize/Inhibit, Flow Cytometry, Immunoprecipitation. Background: Function: This protein is a cell adhesion molecule expressed on platelets and at endothelial cell intercellular junctions.Subcellular Location: Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.Tissue Specificity: Long isoform predominates all tissues examined, isoform Delta12 was detected only in trachea and isoform Delta14-15 only in lung, isoform Delta14 was detected in all tissues examined with the strongest expression in heart.Ptm: Phosphorylated on Ser and Tyr residues after cellular activation.Similarity: Contains 6 Ig-like C2-type (immunoglobulin-like) domains.Products ID: 275384GI Number: 435846Accession Number: AAB28645.1SP Accession Number: P16284NCBI Name: PECAM-1; CD31/EndoCAM; Platelet endothelial cell adhesion moleculeOMIM: 173445Sequence Length: 78Molecular Weight: 82536Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0.Isotype: Rat (Lewis) IgG2akClone: 390Immunogen: Mouse leukocyte cell line 32D 1Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested by flow cytometry to conform with characteristics of a standard reference reagent. Representative data are included in this product insert.Specificity: Mouse CD31/PECAM-1, Mr 130-140 kDa CD31, also known as platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1), is a type I integral membrane glycoprotein and a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell surface receptors. It is constitutively expressed on the surface of endothelial cells, and concentrated at the junction between them. It is also weakly expressed on many peripheral lymphoid cells and paltelets.1-3 CD31 interacts homotypically in cell adhesion assays. MAb 390 inhibits the aggregation of L cells transfected with a variant form of CD31.1, 3 Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.2 ug/106 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IP, IHC, Assays
Mouse Anti-Human PTPRC Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: The Mouse Anti-Human PTPRC Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated fro ... more
Description: The Mouse Anti-Human PTPRC Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech, Inc. is a Mouse Monoclonal antibody to CD45. This antibody recognizes Human antigen. Mouse Anti-Human PTPRC Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated has been validated for the following applications: Flow Cytometry, Western Blot, Immunohistochemistry, Immunoprecipitation. Products ID: 276165GI Number: 44241583Accession Number: AAS46922.1SP Accession Number: Q6QIQ5NCBI Name: CD45Sequence Length: 46Molecular Weight: 4550Cross-Reactivity: HumanStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.1 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 10Isotype: Mouse IgG2aClone: F10-89-4Characterization: To insure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of product is tested by flow cytometry to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent.Specificity: Human CD45CD45, also known as the leukocyte common antigen (LCA), exists as four different isoforms (180, 190, 205, 220 kDa) that are generated by alternative splicing of three exons. LCA is found on all cells of hematopoietic origin, except erythrocytes and platelets. CD45 expression is required for T cell and B cell antigen receptor-mediated activation.^1-4Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 10 uL/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide which is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IHC, IP, WB
Mouse Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: The Mouse Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from ... more
Description: The Mouse Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech, Inc. is a Mouse Monoclonal antibody to CD4. This antibody recognizes Human antigen. Mouse Anti-Human CD4 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated has been validated for the following applications: Immunoprecipitation, Flow Cytometry, Immunohistochemistry. Product ID: 276100GI Number: 3947700Accession Number: CAA60883.1SP Accession Number: Q13969NCBI Name: CD4; CD4 proteinSequence Length: 71Molecular Weight: 7844Cross-Reactivity: HumanStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.1 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) and Cyanine 5 (CY™5) conjugIsotype: Mouse IgG1Clone: RFT-4gCharacterization: To insure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of product is tested by flow cytometry to conform to the characteristics of a standard reference reagent.Specificity: Human CD4CD4 is a 59 kDa type I transmembrane glycoprotein and a member of the Ig-SF of cell surface receptors. It is expressed predominantly on the “helper/inducer” subpopulation of mature T lymphocytes, and on monocytes and macrophages. Domains 1 and 2 bind to MHC Class II antigens, while domains 3 and 4 may be involved in cis interactions with the CD3/TCR complex. CD4 functions as an accessary molecule in the recognition of foreign antigens in association with MHC Class II antigens by T cells.^1-6Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 10 uL/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide which is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IHC, IP
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Rat Anti-Mouse CD19 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Rat monoclonal antibody. The Rat Anti-Mouse CD19 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using CD19 as the antigen and it reacts with Mouse. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Flow Cytometry, Immunoprecipitation, Functional Assay. Product ID: 275303GI Number: 4105281Accession Number: AAD02340.1Sp Accession Number: Q71UW0Sequence Length: 92Molecular Weight: 10185NCBI Name: CD19Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2- 8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0Isotype: Rat (Lewis) IgG2a kappaClone: 6D5Immunogen: Mouse CD19-expressing K562 human erythroleukemia cells 1Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested by flow cytometry to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent. Representative data are included in this product insert.Specificity: CD19 B-cell differentiation antigen, Mr 95 kDaCD19 is a monomeric transmembrane glycoprotein expressed at relatively constant levels throughout B cell development from early pro-B/pre-B cells (i.e. B220+/CD43+/HSA+) through fully differentiated B cell stages.1-7 Terminally differentiated plasma cells do not express CD19.1 In humans, the CD19 molecule on the surface of mature B cells associates with CD21 (CR-2) and CD81 (TAPA-1), and this multimolecular complex synergizes with surface immunoglobulin to provide signal transduction and promote cellular activation.3, 4 All splenic and peritoneal IgM+ cells of both B-1 and B-2 lineages are CD19+, with B-1 cells expressing higher levels of CD19 than B-2 cells in these sites.1, 7 Recent studies with CD19-deficient mice have suggested that this molecule may not be required for normal generation and maturation of B cells in the bone marrow.7 Monoclonal antibody 6D5 recognizes the same epitope as the published clone, 1D3.1, 8.Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.2 ug/106 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Applications: FC, IP, Assays
Hamster Anti-Mouse CD69 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Hamster Anti-Mouse CD69 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE- ... more
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Hamster Anti-Mouse CD69 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Hamster monoclonal antibody. The Hamster Anti-Mouse CD69 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using CD69 as the antigen and it reacts with Mouse. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Flow Cytometry, Immunohistochemistry, Immunoprecipitation. Background: Function: Involved in lymphocyte proliferation and functions as a signal transmitting receptor in lymphocytes, natural killer (NK) cells, and platelets.Subunit: Homodimer; disulfide-linked.Subcellular Location: Membrane; Single-pass type II membrane protein.Tissue Specificity: Expressed on the surface of activated T-cells, B-cells, natural killer cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, epidermal Langerhans cells and platelets.Developmental Stage: Earliest inducible cell surface glycoprotein acquired during lymphoid activation.Induction: By antigens, mitogens or activators of PKC on the surface of T and B-lymphocytes. By interaction of IL-2 with the p75 IL-2R on the surface of NK cells.Ptm: Constitutive Ser/Thr phosphorylation in both mature thymocytes and activated T-lymphocytes.Similarity: Contains 1 C-type lectin domain.Product ID: 275491GI Number: 397939Accession Number: CAA80298.1SP Accession Number: Q07108NCBI Name: CD69; Early activation antigen CD69Sequence Length: 199Molecular Weight: 22559OMIM: 107273Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0.Isotype: Armenian Hamster IgG lambdaClone: H1.2F3Immunogen: Y245 mouse dendritic epidermal T cell line 1Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested to conform with characteristics of a standard reference reagent using immunofluorescence staining and analysis by on a Becton Dickinson FACScan™ flow cytometer. Representative data are included in this data sheet.Specificity: Mouse CD69/Very Early Activation Antigen (VEA), Mr 85 kDa (unreduced)CD69, also known as very early activation (VEA) antigen, is a disulfide-linked transmembrane homodimer whose differentially glycosylated subunits range from 35-39 kDa.1, 2 It is a C-type lectin, most closely related to the NKR-P1 and Ly-49 NK cell-activation molecules.3 CD69 is widely expressed on hematopoietic cells, including lymphocytes, neutrophils and eosinophils.1-4 Although not detectable on resting lymphocytes, its expression is rapidly (within 2 hours) upregulated upon activation of T, B and NK cells, and neutrophils.4 Constitutive expression of CD69 on subsets of thymocytes suggests that it may be involved in regulation of developmental events in addition to its role in activation of a variety of hematopoietic cells.4, 5 MAb H1.2F3 augments PMA-induced T-cell proliferation, 1, 6 and induces redirected lysis of Fc receptor-bearing target cells by NK cells.7Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.2 ug/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Host: Hamster
Description: The Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from G ... more
Description: The Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech, Inc. is a Rat Monoclonal antibody to CD86. This antibody recognizes Mouse antigen. Rat Anti-Mouse CD86 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated has been validated for the following applications: Flow Cytometry, Block/Neutralize/Inhibit, Immunoprecipitation. Background: Function: Receptor involved in the costimulatory signal essential for T-lymphocyte proliferation and interleukin-2 production, by binding CD28 or CTLA-4. May play a critical role in the early events of T-cell activation and costimulation of naive T-cells, such as deciding between immunity and anergy that is made by T-cells within 24 hours after activation. Isoform 2 interferes with the formation of CD86 clusters, and thus acts as a negative regulator of T-cell activation.Subunit: Interacts with MARCH8. Interacts with human herpesvirus 8 MIR2 protein (Probable).Subcellular Location: Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.Tissue Specificity: Expressed by activated B-lymphocytes and monocytes.Ptm: Polyubiquitinated; which is promoted by MARCH8 and results in endocytosis and lysosomal degradation.Similarity: Contains 1 Ig-like C2-type (immunoglobulin-like) domain.Similarity: Contains 1 Ig-like V-type (immunoglobulin-like) domain.Product ID: 275765GI Number: 49456643Accession Number: CAG46642.1SP Accession Number: P42081NCBI Name: CD86; T-lymphocyte activation antigen CD86Sequence Length: 323Molecular Weight: 37696OMIM: 601020Cross-Reactivity: MouseStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.5 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 0.Isotype: Rat IgG2b kappaClone: 2D10Characterization: To ensure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of monoclonal antibody is tested to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent using immunofluorescence staining and analysis on a Becton Dickinson FACScan™ flow cytometer. Representative data are included in this data sheet.Specificity: Mouse CD86, the B7-2 costimulatory molecule and a ligand for CD28 and CD152CD86/B7-2 is an 80 kDa type I integral membrane protein and a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily of cell surface receptors. Along with CD80/B7-1, CD86 participates in T cell costimulation via interaction with CD28 and CD152/CTLA-4. It is expressed at very low density in normal tissues but is rapidly upregulated on stimulated B cells, monocytes and dendritic cells. Since CD86/B7-2 has rapid kinetics of induction, it is believed to be the major CD28 ligand expressed early in the immune response.1-9Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 0.2 ug/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide. Sodium azide is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
Mouse Anti-Human Cd44 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated from GenWay Biotech Inc.
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Mouse Anti-Human Cd44 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY ... more
Description: GenWay Biotech, Inc.'s Mouse Anti-Human Cd44 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated is a Mouse monoclonal antibody. The Mouse Anti-Human Cd44 Monoclonal Antibody, R-phycoerythrin-Cyanine 7 (R-PE-CY™7) Conjugated was generated using CD44 as the antigen and it reacts with Human. This antibody has been shown to work in applications such as: Immunoprecipitation, Immunohistochemistry, Flow Cytometry. Background: Function: Main cell surface receptor for hyaluronate. Adhesion to mucosal high endothelial venule and to types I and VI collagen. Probably involved in matrix adhesion, lymphocyte activation and lymph node homing.Subcellular Location: Membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.Ptm: N-glycosylated (By similarity).Ptm: O-glycosylated; contains chondroitin sulfate glycans which can be more or less sulfated (By similarity).Ptm: Phosphorylated; activation of PKC results in the dephosphorylation of Ser-742 (constitutive phosphorylation site), and the phosphorylation of Ser-708 (By similarity).Polymorphism: Two allelic forms of this glycoprotein, PGP-1.1 and PGP-1.2, have been reported. The expressed product is PGP-1.1 (Ly-24.1).Similarity: Contains 1 Link domain.Product ID: 276063GI Number: 287802Accession Number: CAA49380.1SP Accession Number: P15379NCBI Name: CD44 [Mus musculus]; Sequence Length: 414Molecular Weight: 85617Cross-Reactivity: HumanStorage: The purified (UNLB) antibody is supplied as 0.1 mg of purified immunoglobulin in 1.0 mL of 100 mM borate buffered saline, pH 8.0. No preservatives or amine-containing buffer salts added. Store at 2-8C.The fluorescein (FITC) conjugate is supplied as 10Isotype: Mouse IgG2aClone: F10-44-2Characterization: To insure lot-to-lot consistency, each batch of product is tested by flow cytometry to conform to characteristics of a standard reference reagent.Specificity: Human CD44CD44, also known as phagocytic glycoprotein-1 (Pgp-1) and the receptor for hyaluronate, exists as a large number of different isoforms resulting from alternative RNA splicing. The major isoform expressed on lymphocytes, myeloid cells and erythrocytes is a glycosylated type I transmembrane protein. Other variable isoforms containing glycosaminoglycans have molecular weights ranging from 110 to 250 kDa and are widely expressed on hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells. CD44 contributes to the adhesion of leukocytes to endothelial cells, stromal cells and the extracellular matrix. It also plays a functional role in cell migration, lymphocyte homing and adhesion during hematopoiesis and lymphocyte activation.^1-6Working Dilution: Flow Cytometry: 10 uL/10^6 cellsWarning: Reagents contain sodium azide which is very toxic if ingested or inhaled. Avoid contact with skin, eyes, or clothing. Wear eye or face protection when handling. If skin or eye contact occurs, wash with copious amounts of water. If ingested or inhaled, contact a physician immediately. Sodium azide yields toxic hydrazoic acid under acidic conditions. Dilute azide-containing compounds in running water before discarding to avoid accumulation of potentially explosive deposits in lead or copper plumbing. collapse
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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityYaalon Slams Ministers for Shalit Deal
Yaalon Slams Ministers for Shalit Deal
Deputy PM and Minister of Strategic Affairs says the Shalit deal could result in tens or hundreds of Israeli deaths.
Gavriel Qeenann, 13/10/11 23:47
Minister Moshe Yaalon
Israel News photo: Archive
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon slammed the cabinet's decision to release 1,027 terrorists in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.
"I am stunned because we are dealing with cases involving murder," Yaalon told Channel 10 on Thursday. "My heart says yes, but my head says no. In this discussion we are not only dealing with the Shalit family and their great hurt, but also with and families of terror victims."
"Should we confirm this decision we release of over 1,000 terrorists. Our experience has made clear to us the terrorists we are releasing today will murder tens and perhaps hundreds of Israelis tomorrow, "Ya'alon added.
Yaalon said, "the deal is a great victory for Hamas, and a a defeat for us in that we are capitulating to terror. The deal will bring significant damage to our deterrence. We are committed to the life of Gilad Shalit, and returning home, but we must also remember our commitment protecting the lives of Israeli citizens."
Yaalon was among three ministers who opposed the deal along with Avigdor Lieberman and Uzi Landau.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Thursday there was no way to ensure released terrorists would not haunt Israel by striking at the Jewish state in future.
"There are countries that don't negotiate with kidnappers and you can talk about it with regard to the future, but this situation was inherited from the previous government and we had no choice."
Critics say, however, the simple fact that Netanyahu is leading a new government is alone sufficient to justify a change in policy and note he is in no way legally or morally bound by the decisions of his predecessor.
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BJP gears up for polls, holds State office bearers meet
JAMMU: Gearing up for the coming Parliament elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu & Kashmir held marathon meeting of its State office bearers, MLAs, MLCs, Morcha State presidents, district presidents and other senior leaders to discuss preparations regarding general elections, at party Headquarter, Trikuta Nagar.
BJP State president, Ravinder Raina who chaired the meeting took a jibe on the opposition parties, saying that they are even struggling to find the candidates for fighting the elections as they are scared of BJP and popularity of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Asking party leaders to work like whole timers for the day till Parliament elections are over, he said the party men have to redouble their efforts to ensure that there is cent percent participation of people in elections. He also prompted them to work as close knit family for ensuring success in the Parliament elections. "This time we have to be in war mood" and give a big jolt to Opposition. He also sought the specific and focused working by various Morchas during the general elections. He claimed that the J&K will gift more seats to Narendra Modi in this election than that of 2014.
The meeting among others was addressed by Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh, MP (Lok Sabha) Jugal Kishore Sharma, former Dy. CM Kavinder Gupta, State general secretary (Org.), Ashok Kaul, MLC, Ashok Khajuria and former Minister, Sat Sharma (CA).
Raina, while highlighting the achievements of BJP Government at Centre led by Narendra Modi said it is the high time that party activists reach to the common masses with all achievements of the Modi Government. He said Modi Government have made impossible things possible and taken up such projects in this State which were abandoned by previous rulers on the basis of vote bank politics.
Union Minister, Dr. Jitendra Singh, in his address, said that all the leaders working in the field will get full assistance from the Central office specifically made for the Parliamentary election. He stressed that every election has got its importance, and we have to give our best every time to get the desired results.
Jugal Kishore Sharma, in his address, said that the J&K BJP contributed in the development of the Jammu with full dedication under the guidance of PM Modi and party men have to take this message to the public that the State will witness unprecedented growth and development under the present dispensation.
Ashok Kaul, apprised all the senior BJP leaders about the ongoing party programmes. He also apprised them that all the senior leaders will tour the maximum areas to lead the rallies and chair the meetings to boost the ground level workers.
Prior to the meeting a large number of prominent social and political activists from Bhaderwah and surrounding areas under the leadership of former MLA, Bhaderwah, Dalip Singh Parihar joined BJP in the presence of Ravinder Raina, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Ashok Kaul and other senior leaders at party Headquarters.
Ravinder Raina, speaking on the occasion, said that BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister has set up an example of how much can truly be done for uplifting the masses. This is the true "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas", which has been achieved under the BJP Government. He, while welcoming the new entrants said that these persons have understood that real service to the nation can only be done in BJP.
Dr. Jitendra Singh, said that PM Modi led the development of the J&K State from the front. He said that today, every person is appreciating the services done by BJP under the guidance of Modi.
Dalip Singh Parihar also spoke on the occasion. Those who joined the party included Yudhvir Singh (ex. zonal president PDP, Bhaderwah Zone), Lekh Raj Aryan (general secretary, Bhaderwah), Kewal Krishan Kotwal (block president, Bhaderwah), Yog Raj Manhas (convenor block Athkhar), Rattan Chand Bhagat (president SC Cell), Tek Chand Kotwal (senior leader PDP, Ravinder Katoch and others along with their supporters.
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JASON IDRISS SPARKES
Islam, Coloniality and Tradition - Summer course in Morocco 2019
I am honoured to be teaching this summer course in Morocco with my mentor and friend, Professor Ali Zaidi.
It is a full-credit course for Laurier University undergraduates , offered jointly by the Global Studies Department and the Department of Religion and Culture.
Spring 2019, May 20-24 at Laurier
June 1-18 in Morocco
Stay in the capital, Rabat
Take excursions to Casablanca, Tangiers, Fez, Meknes, and UNESCO sites
Experience Ramadan and Eid during 5-day homestay
Witness the effects of coloniality, capitalism and the refugee-crisis
Pacification and surrender to the divine
Looking for the moon as a sign
And following the sun as it crosses the sky
It's not about making time for some worship
It's about synchronizing my time to the divine
Following the holy flow
The drumbeats and chanting of the cosmos
Paralyzing the limiting mind
Performing acts that first seem senseless to the selfish senses
Preparing to break free
By the grace of Allah
Chapter published in a new book
I am happy to announce that the book Sufism and Social Integration is now published. With 23 chapters including mine on decolonial Sufism as well as a preface by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. http://www.amazon.com/Sufism-Social-Integration-Connecting-Boundaries/dp/1567444326/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428370251&sr=8-1&keywords=sufism+and+social+integration
MIDDLE EASTERN POETRY WEBSITE
I prefer the term 'North Africa and Southwest Asia' (NASWA) to 'the Middle East' (the region is only the Middle East from a Western European perspective but not, say, from a Chinese one). Nevertheless, despite its problematic title, this website is a very good source of poetry from the region, updated regularly with new entries. Any effort to celebrate the beauty and diversity of the cultures found in this region is to be encouraged at a time when they are under existential threat from violent extremists of all sorts, from inside the region and from abroad.
Here are the links:
http://middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/middleeasternpoetry
The mausoleum of Moulay Ibrahim can be reached by car after a 90-minute drive south of Marrakesh, in the majestic High Atlas Mountains, whose snowy peaks are visible from the red city. Here is a quick biography of the saint followed by a gallery of photos I took during my trip there last Sunday.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulay_Brahim
Moulay Brahim or Moulay Brahim ben Ahmed Mghari (died 1661), also called Tayr Lejbel (Berber for 'bird of the mountain'), was a well-known Moroccan sufi saint. He was the grandson of Abdallah ben Houssein al-Hassani, who was the founder of the zawiya of Tameslouht, one of the greatest Zawiyyas in the region of Marrakech (founded ca. 1525). The zawiyya of moulay Ben Brahim was founded in 1628 during the reign of sultan Zidan Abu Maali in the village 'Kik', since called 'Moulay Brahim'. It lies a few kilometers to the west of Tameslouht.
Mouna Hachim, "Maroc: Au-delà des Moussems, la vie des saints" retrieved on 04--22-2008
Mouna Hachim; "Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Maroc" histoires et légendes, Casablancha, 2007, 500 p
Deverdun G., "Tamesluht (Tameslouht)", the history of a religious center, Encyclopédie Berbère, 1986, no 38
THE ROAD TO MOULAY IBRAHIM (photo gallery)
And here is the mausoleum of Moulay Ibrahim:
This is his daughter Lalla Mahla's tomb, in an adjacent room:
The seven patron saints of marrakesh
Last weekend, I visited the mausoleums of the seven patron saints (sab'at ul-rijal) of Marrakesh in the traditionally prescribed order. Here are some pictures as well as a basic bio for each saint quoted from the Made in Marrakech website. The poor quality of English seems to indicate that the author must be more comfortable in French. However, these bios should do the job for now since they provide the basic information concerning each saint.
1. The visit begins outside the walls of the old city at the mausoleum of Sayyidi Yusuf Ibn 'Ali. The mausoleum was closed when I arrived, so I could only take pictures from outside.
Here is the basic bio provided by our virtual tour guide:
Also known as: Abou Yaakoub Youssef ben Ali.
Origins: Yéménite, in Marrakech.
Education: He was a brilliant student of Cheikh Abou Asfour.
Distinguishing features: Leprosy stricken, he remained immensely faithful to God until his death.
Death: 1196 (593 in Hegira).
Buried: Bab Ghmat.Also known as: Abou Yaakoub Youssef ben Ali.
2. The next five mausoleums are within the city walls. Next stop: Al-Qadi 'Ayyad.
Basic bio:
Also known as: Abou Al Fadl Ayyad ben Amer Ben Moussa Ben Ayyad Ben Mohamed Ben Abdellah Ben Moussa Ben Ayyad Al Yahsob or “Cadi de Grenade”.Origins: Yéménite, originally from Sebta.
Education: Student of Abou Abdellah ben Issa, from Imam Abou Abdellah ben Hamdine, Abou Al Hassan ben Siradj and Imam Abou Al walid Ibn Rochd.
Distinguishing features: He’s best known for learning Maleksime in the Muslim West. His love for the Prophet is evident in his work Al-Chifaa and his orthodox rigor earned him his saint title.
Death: 1149 (544 in Hegira )
Buried: Near Bab Aïlen.
3. We now move on to Sayyidi Abu al-'Abbas al-Sabti.
Also known as: Abou el Abbas Ahmed ben Jaafar el Khazraji.Origins: Originally from Sebta.
Education: Disciple of Cadi Ayyad, Sidi Bel Abbas also struck up a close friendship with Averroes, with whom he shared his ideas.
Distinguishing features: He lived for 40 years in a grotta under a hill in Gueliz, without ever entering the city. He spent his life caring for and protecting the weak and the blind. His Zaouïa is part of the Regraga pilgrammage.
Died: 1205 (601 in Hegira)
Buried: Buried at Sidi Marouk cemetary, near Bab Taghzout.
4. Sayyidi Ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli is the fourth stop.
Also known as: Sidi Mohammed ben Slimane ben Said al Jazouli.
Origins: Originally from Souss.
Education : Il fut inscrit à la Médersa Essaffarine de Fès où il excellait dans les hadiths. <left in French on the website I am quoting. Translates as ''He went to the Essafarine Madrassa in Fes, where he excellend in hadiths.''>
Distinguishing features: He’s the founder of Moroccan Sufism and moved againsts an Iberian invasion. He’s the author of the famous collection of prayers Dala’il al-Khayrat . He died while praying.
Buried: At the zaouïa Jazoulia in the north end of the medina, near Dar-el-Glaoui.
5. Sayyidi 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Tabba'.
Also known as: Abou Fares Abdelaziz.
Origins: Silk merchant originally from Fes.
Education: Key disciple of Sidi Ben Slimane.
Distinguishing features: He spread spread Sufi morals through the artisan guilds.
Death: 1508 (914 in Hegira)
Buried: Buried near Ben Youssef Mosque.
6. Now, deep within the old city, close to the busy souks and the famous Jama' al-Fanaa Square (Jemaa El-Fna) , we discover the mausoleum of Sayyidi 'Abd Allah al-Ghazwani.
Also known as: Moul El Ksour
Origins: Originally from the Gazoune tribe.
Education: After having completed his studies in Fes, he went on to study in Grenada, before relocating to Marrakech to complete his training under Sidi Abdelaziz Tabaa.
Distinguishing features: Sultan Sidi Mohamed Cheikh, incarcinated him in Marrakech, jealous of his positive reputation with the people. He was freed several years later. <I am quite sure the author meant 'incarcerated' here.>
Buried: He’s buried near Mouassine Mosque.
7. Back outside the city walls, in a cemetery near the royal palace is our last stop in the tour of the seven saints, the mausoleum of Al-Imam al-Suhayli.
Also known as: Abou el kassim, Abou zaid Abderrahmane ibn al Khatib AbouAmer ben Abi al Hassan Asbagh ben Houssine ben Saadoun ben Redouane ben Fattouh Souhaili.
Origins: Originally from Souhail, near Malaga.
Education: Yacoub El Mansour brought him from Spain.
Distinguishing features: He’s known for his Sufi poetry and his openness during a time of strong religious censureship. Students often gather around his grave. He’s written two masterpieces: one about the names of the Prophets cited in the Koran and the other a biography of Sidna Mohammed.
Died: 1186 (582 de l’Hégire)
Buried: He’s buried near Bab Robb.
By the way, when I put more photos for certain saints, it in no way indicates any sort of preference. Sometimes, fewer photos turned out well.
Now, while we are at it, here is a shot of the famous Koutoubia (Kutubia) mosque in Marrakesh:
And here is a gallery with a few more random pics from this beautiful city:
Evening with Sufis in Marrakesh
I spent the evening in Marrakesh at a spiritual gathering with a group of disciples from the Habibiyya Sufi order. It was wonderful: a bit of qur'an recitation; some litanies and supplications; dhikr (invocation) of Allah and blessings on his final prophet, his family and companions; chanting; a short lesson; brownies, lemon pie and sweet mint tea... just wonderful! There were quite a few North American Muslims present, which gave the evening a nice cosmopolitan atmosphere as well.
You know, this is my fourth time in Marrakesh and, every time I visit, I marvel at what a great little town it is. Especially at this time of year when it isn't too hot yet, it's just got so many things to like: beautiful architecture, fantastic landscapes, great weather, rich history, intense spirituality, excellent
restaurants, exciting souks, haute couture, traditional crafts, street arts, and a whole range of activities for tourists, be they Muslim or not. OK, it's a bit commercial and decadent here and there, but in the end you get what you come looking for.
Spanish Sufis
Click here for an interesting article on Spanish Sufis. However, I would say there are many more Sufis than the 1,200 mentioned in the article, including many who are not Naqshabandis. For instance, all the Moroccans and Senegalese immigrants must include a number of Shadhulis, Qadiris, Tijanis and others.
Also, check out the related photo gallery.
I said, "For breakfast tomorrow, let's have eggs, slices of chicken, toast, oranges, milky coffee..." Sighing softly in the far corner of the room, she whispered, "If we are still alive in the morning." She has never been to school and can't read or write, but she is the scholar and I the careless novice. After all, I could very well be eating dirt and worms for breakfast. Praise be to Allah that there are still people like her around in this age of materialism and desires.
Al Jazeera World - Ahalil: Music of the Red Oasis
Beautiful documentary on a tradition of spiritual music from the Algerian Sahara.
http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/al-jazeera-world---ahalil%3A-music-of-the-red-oasis/4079383123001
Transdisciplinary scholar of Islam and Sufism.
Applied linguist (teacher, translator, consultant, manager).
Poet.
Decolonialism
Qur'an and Hadiths
Traditional Islam
Academic Approaches
M.A. Thesis
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Extreme Scale Transaction Processing
Bare Metal Is For Massively Scalable Distributed Transaction Processing
InfiniSQL™ is a massively scalable relational database management system (RDBMS). It excels at performing distributed transactions--and is arguably the best at this kind of workload. This was demonstrated recently through repeatable benchmark testing performed on Internap's Bare Metal Cloud infrastructure. This testing proved the assumptions guiding InfiniSQL's design--and bare metal proved to be a requirement for the level of performance achieved. This article will describe InfiniSQL with emphasis on elements that benefit the most from bare metal computing.
InfiniSQL was conceived by me through the course of working in fast-growing, mission critical enterprise transaction processing environments. For several years I was the capacity planner and systems performance engineer for the Internet's biggest card payments gateway. Traditional enterprise databases have architectural flaws that make them poorly fit modern environments that need to be up 24x7, grow continuously, and rapidly respond to new business needs. InfiniSQL's design overcomes these flaws and enables the types of transactional workloads that RDBMSs have always carried out. InfiniSQL is being written from scratch. We're still in early stages, so not all planned production capabilities are available yet. But the scalable transaction processing core of InfiniSQL is functional and ready for early adopters. It is free software that is hosted on GitHub, and new developers are invited to contribute.
Transaction Scaling Challenge
Scaling transaction processing systems beyond a single server is a problem that few projects have solved. There are many examples of key-value and document databases that are able to scale across multiple nodes And a handful of relational databases which can also do so. But in most cases, these systems' performance drops off drastically for transactions that contain records on multiple nodes, if they are even able to do that kind of work. Unless a transaction type is carefully crafted (or unless the designer is lucky), workloads running on single RDBMS systems become distributed transaction workloads when moved to a horizontally scalable RDBMS such as InfiniSQL. As anybody who has had to scale a transaction processing environment knows, there is often a large amount of energy spent in application re-architecture, implementing workarounds, and incorporating various point solutions. InfiniSQL was designed to support the kind of work that users currently in their environment while minimizing this kind of re-architecture.
It is difficult for distributed transactions to perform well primarily because of the chatter between nodes. Traditional databases were designed with data and cache tightly coupled with the transaction processing logic on the same server host. When distributed, much of the communication which was local to a single node gets spread across the network between nodes. Even with fast LAN connections, the latency for this traffic is often a thousand-fold worse. Intra-node memory accesses are measured in nanoseconds while inter-node communication is measured in microseconds at best. There is no way based on current technology for networked hosts to communicate with one another as fast as they can communicate internally. Therefore, InfiniSQL was designed to minimize the effects of latency on transaction processing throughput. And a part of this design is a dependency on fast underlying networking infrastructure such as is provided by bare metal servers.
The rest of this article focuses primarily on the aspects of InfiniSQL that enable it to minimize the impacts of network latency on transaction processing, which is is the most critical design feature enabling massive scalability. More comprehensive documentation for InfiniSQL is available online, and further articles and discussions about InfiniSQL are linked from the main web site.
Actor Model
InfiniSQL implements a variation on the actor model of concurrent programming. C++ is the main language used to create InfiniSQL, and the actor model isn't natively supported in that language. Much of the work of implementing InfiniSQL has involved getting actors to work in C++. The actor model allows InfiniSQL to tolerate network latency while sustaining very high throughput and near-linear scalability as nodes increase. This is a radical departure from legacy RDBMS architectures.
Here's an example that attempts to graphically illustrate the difference between the traditional shared memory model of database design and InfiniSQL's actor model:
With actors, there's no locking. As more processing is necessary, more actors are added, with each actor roughly optimally corresponding to a single CPU thread or core. As cores are added, actor-based architectures keep up very well. However, the traditional locked shared memory model suffers the more that cores are added--because lock contention only increases. Large monolithic databases have very complex lock management methods to minimize this problem.
The actor model allows scalability and mitigates the latency problem because processing logic is handled by one set of actors, and data storage is handled by another set. Their functions are loosely coupled in InfiniSQL. Messaging happens between actors regardless of the node that they reside upon: the actor which governs a particular transaction doesn't know or care whether the data resides locally or remotely. And the actor that manages a particular data partition responds to messages regardless of origin. In theory, the actor model allows InfiniSQL to scale without limit. Each record is assigned to a specific data region based on hash value of its first field, and each index record is assigned to a region based on a hashing of the index value. All data is accessible through inter-node messaging from all available nodes, no matter how many servers are in use.
To get a sense of how InfiniSQL tolerates latency better than traditional designs, consider the following:
Throughput = Concurrency ÷ Latency
That very simple formula is at the heart of managing transaction processing environments. For example, 1000 concurrent transactions with an average of 0.2 second latency per transaction equals 5000 transactions per second of throughput. As latency increases, throughput will only remain steady if concurrency also increases. If high concurrency is not tolerated, then neither is increased latency. In the above example, if average latency were doubled to 0.4 second average, and concurrency stayed at 1000, then throughput would reduce to 2500/s.
Nothing can eliminate latency between nodes for distributed transactions. However, InfiniSQL's implementation of the actor model allows it to tolerate latency better than traditional designs. This is because legacy RDBMS architecture has a single worker process or thread handling each transaction at a time. It is relatively expensive from a system resource standpoint to create threads. Very high concurrency with this model causes resource starvation. Therefore, throughput is quite sensitive to latency. Each InfiniSQL actor thread, on the other hand, can handle a very large number of concurrent transactions. Each concurrent InfiniSQL transaction requires only a little bit of memory. Transaction processing actors are always waiting for replies from data actors--but this is not a problem because they are able to work on other transactions while they wait. No distributed transaction model can eliminate network latency. But transaction latency has a small impact on InfiniSQL throughput because it can handle very high concurrency. This is what makes InfiniSQL the superior distributed transaction processing platform.
Inter-Node Communication
The benchmark workload used for InfiniSQL testing entailed an average of 3 updates on random distinct server nodes per transaction. This caused a very large amount of processing time to be spent sending and receiving messages over the network between cluster nodes. My own test environment contains two servers, each with 12 cores, 72GB of RAM, and connected via Infiniband. Since InfiniSQL uses regular TCP/IP for inter-node communication, I found that the best performance in this environment came from configuring the Infiniband adapters as 10GB Ethernet interfaces. This two-node environment showed promising performance results, but two servers is not enough to tell a compelling scalability story. I needed more servers to benchmark. Since InfiniSQL is a self-funded open source project, buying many servers outright was out of the question. Instead, I turned to the cloud. My first two attempts at benchmarking InfiniSQL in the cloud came from different virtualization providers. I was unaware at the time of hourly bare metal pricing such as is offered by Internap. I thought that the only way to get bare metal was to purchase by the month, or to buy servers outright. Both of those options were beyond my budget. So, instead, I sought out cloud providers with virtualized environments that seemed to provide high speed networking. One provider environment was based on the KVM Hypervisor, and the other on Xen's. I knew, of course, that hypervisors entail at least some overhead. This is tolerable in many circumstances. I was hopeful that InfiniSQL would still perform well in these environments. What I found, however, was that InfiniSQL performed very poorly for the benchmark workload. Single node performance was very poor in each environment, bottlenecking at only a few processor cores. And multiple node performance scalability was even more disappointing--adding server nodes barely moved the needle. There was no way to tell a compelling story about InfiniSQL as a distributed transaction processing system.
The bottleneck in each environment was the network drivers for Linux under these types of hypervisors. Latency wasn't much of a problem, as described above. However, the sheer volume of messages being passed between nodes caused inordinate CPU overhead. CPU overhead from network processing was so severe that two nodes combined had less throughput than a single node! I tried various tuning mechanisms with little improvement. I made InfiniSQL's inter-node communication more efficient by re-writing serialization/deserialization, increasing size of message batches, and compressing the payloads. These improvements were valuable but ultimately did not bring about satisfactory results.
I knew that I needed to test on bare metal. I knew that, as far as hypervisor technologies had improved, that they were still not up to par with bare metal, especially for I/O intensive applications such as InfiniSQL. After a brief false start with a bare metal provider who could not deliver what they promised, I happened upon Internap. Internap was able to provide an hourly bare metal environment perfect for InfiniSQL benchmarking. As hoped, CPU overhead from network traffic decreased such that InfiniSQL scaled "up and to the right" very gracefully as nodes were added:
Median sustained (blue line) and max (red line) throughput by node quantity.
More details about the benchmark are on the blog, but the message about scalability is quite clear. Due to budget constraints, I did not push the environment any further. However, based on the direction of the line graph, it is very likely that InfiniSQL can scale gracefully to a much large quantity of nodes. I look forward to further tests (on bare metal, of course) to really stress the limits of InfiniSQL. What isn't conveyed by the picture but that is true nonetheless, is that bare metal is a requirement for infinitely scalable distributed transaction processing.
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Literature Philosophy History Opinion Law & Justice All Topics
Ontology Metaphysics Plotinus Philosophy The Ennead
Plotinus' Ontology and the Problem of Matter
By Rocco A. Astore
2016, Vol. 8 No. 03 | pg. 1/1
Keywords:Ontology Metaphysics Plotinus Philosophy The Ennead
Within The Enneads, Plotinus claims all existence derives from an entirely immaterial and benevolent source which he calls the One.1 At the same time, he also states matter corrupts that which is immaterial, and one should not understand it as being good.2 Therefore, how can one state that Plotinus is being consistent when he claims that all things derive from an all-good One, yet bodies are defective in nature? With this piece, I will first describe Plotinus’ understanding of the One. Next, I will state his notions concerning the nature of souls and bodies. I will then state his views concerning the body's, or matter's effects on one's spirit. Finally, I will argue that Plotinus’ claims concerning the One’s goodness can still be justifiable even in light of his belief that the body corrodes the soul.
How can all bodies be defective by nature
if their root is in a benevolent One?
According to Plotinus, the One is immaterial, orderly, unified, and the cause of all existence.3 Furthermore, as the reason for all that exists, the immaterial One can be understood as the origin of all immaterial souls too.4 Also, he claims the One is all-good and that souls are pure too since they derive from the One’s benevolence.5 Likewise, the existence of souls indicates the goodness of the One because their existence is a sign of a greater order, or beauty, and not chaos, or ugliness.6 Hence, one may infer that to him what is good is orderly and what is orderly is beautiful and since spirits possess beauty they too are good and orderly. Finally, order and goodness are also possessed by the One since these qualities are attributes of existence and the One, which is the origin of all that exists has them in their entirety.7
Plotinus also maintains that the One transcends the natural order of things, and its emanating essence gives rise to all existence.8 Furthermore, by being outside of nature’s order, the One is not within all things directly, rather it causes a chain of being that ultimately results in the existence of immaterial souls.9 Finally, spirits do not directly derive from the One; rather they more directly derive from the One’s illumination of the Intellect, or that which gives manifestation to intellectual forms.10
The Intellect, or Plotinus’s concept of that which emanates its essence to enliven intellectual forms, is immaterial.11 Furthermore, its ethereal quality enables the Intellect to cause the existence of souls, which he believes are individual reflections of it.12 Though it is correct to infer that spirits are individual copies of the Intellect, they are not to be understood as being at the same degree of reality like it or the One. Finally, the Intellect like the One emanates and because of this, it too illuminates another aspect needed for existence; the World-Soul.13
To Plotinus, the Intellect illuminates what he calls the World-Soul, or the archetype that once enlivened unfolds to become the universe.14 Furthermore, the World-Soul allows other archetypes, such as individual souls to come into intelligible existence.15 To do so, the World-Soul emanates its essence, and one can claim that it operates as a blueprint for all other souls to come to be. Finally, souls by being of the same immaterial nature as the One, the Intellect, and the World-Soul are understood to be particular aspects of them, and thus, they can emanate in certain ways too.16
According to Plotinus, the soul is an emanating force which desires to create order.17 The soul does this because it desires what is good and since goodness derives from the One which is an eternal and unified order, one may claim that the soul understands its order to be good.18 Furthermore, the soul expresses its desire for goodness by organizing that which is chaotic, or material.19 By organizing matter, the soul comes to view itself as how it would be if it were in a lower state.20 Hence, to Plotinus the soul does not arbitrarily enter into the body, rather it shapes the body into its image because it sees the body as if it were itself as a material being. Finally, by seeing the body as being of a lesser degree of reality than it, the soul merges with the body to raise it to a higher level of reality yet loses its purity as something totally immaterial in the process.21
Though losing its purity, the soul still retains certain aspects of perfection such as its ability to reason.22 To Plotinus, rational souls are a hallmark of people who he believes are the most rational of all animals.23 Furthermore, people, by possessing a greater share of reason than other animals can use their minds to realize their souls’ pureness.24 Plotinus claims, this is possible through introspection, and one may correctly infer that to him the soul becomes genuinely aware of itself through contemplation.25 Also, the soul’s awareness of itself enables it to realize its piece of the One within and because of that it can work towards reunification with the One.26 Hence, one may correctly infer that in Plotinus’ view the soul, which derives from the One, can reunify with the One if it applies reason. Finally, reunification with the One is extremely challenging since the existence of matter, or the body impedes the soul's progress towards it.27
According to Plotinus, one may understand matter to be that which is untamed, chaotic, and corruptive.28 He makes this claim because he believes matter cannot be of the nature of the One, which is good and ordered, and thus, it should be viewed as being at the lowest level of reality.29 Furthermore, that which is material did not derive from the One as all other forms of existence did. Plotinus believes that matter is separate from the One, yet it is dependent on the One’s emanating essence for its existence since it is less perfect than it.30 To him, one may continue to understand matter as the residual effects of the One, which comes into existence as a result of it being at the edges of One’s emanating power.31 Also, matter, by being on the outskirts of the One’s emanating essence is not yet fully illuminated by it, and thus, it is not entirely enlivened.32 Finally, matter by being at the limits of existence, is not of the same nature as that which is immaterial, and hence, it is somewhat incompatible with the soul.33
In Plotinus’ view, matter cannot completely understand the nature of the soul nor can the soul totally understand the nature of matter.34 He makes this claim because of the body's materiality and the soul's immateriality, which are of different essences.35 To him, this contrast between body and soul is further complicated by the soul’s ability to comprehend itself and the body’s lack of self-awareness due to it possessing no intellectual capabilities.36 Plotinus concludes, that since the body does not possess reason it cannot be conducive to the soul’s rational ascent to the One, and thus, it should be regarded as an obstacle in the way of the soul’s journey towards a higher level of existence.37
Matter, or the impediment to the soul’s reunification with the One, affects the soul in various ways. First, Plotinus claims that matter corrupts the immateriality and purity of the soul.38 He makes this claim because by fusing with matter, the soul loses a great amount of reason in its new state as a soul-body composite.39 Furthermore, the body which is not conscious of either itself or the soul stops one's spirit from immediately recovering the purity it loses once it is mixed with matter.40
Also, the soul’s desire to reunite with the One expresses itself through the body, yet is corrupted by it.41 Plotinus claims that because the body is chaotic in nature, it follows that once it mixes with the soul, the soul becomes perplexed by bodily desires.42 Furthermore, in this state of confusion the soul’s intellectual capabilities are clouded, and to Plotinus, this is why one does not initially recollect their original state of being as a spirit.43 Hence, one may infer that to him the soul is connected to the One, yet by being attached to that which is other than the One, or matter, it must apply effort to realize itself as purely immaterial.
So far, I have hoped to describe Plotinus’ understanding of being as well as his views concerning the nature and effects of the soul and body. I will now argue that one may regard Plotinus as being consistent in his arguments concerning the essence of the One as well as the precarious position of matter.
The One, or the immaterial source of life that Plotinus’ ontology rests upon, is not really the cause of the existence of matter, rather it should be understood as being that which enlivens matter.44 I make this claim because Plotinus, who states that the One is immaterial, does not believe that the One can cause something unlike its essence, or that which is material to come into being. Furthermore, he claims that the One enlivens matter because it is at the edges of the One’s radiating essence, and because of this one may correctly understand matter as being independent of the One’s essence, but not of its existence.45
In other words, the existence of matter is not entirely independent of the One, yet its essence may be independent of it since it exists alongside the One, and thus, is not a result of the chain of being that the One causes. Hence, the One, which is not made up of the same elements as that which is material, cannot be understood as crafting matter, rather it should be understood as facilitating the conditions needed for matter to come to be.46 Finally, matter, by being chaotic and ugly is also not of the nature of the One which Plotinus maintains is ordered and beautiful.47
Also, the order and beauty of the One can be used to explain how matter, which is not of the One’s benevolence, can exist without tainting the pure goodness of the One. According to Plotinus, the One is ordered and beautiful since it causes that which features the same kinds of qualities as it.48 To him, reason, the mind, and the soul all operate within a framework, and this indicates that they derive from something that possesses a totality of reason, order, and goodness.49 He makes this claim because the One, which causes copies of itself to arise, must be more powerful, unified, and similar to that which it causes for their existence.50 Furthermore, matter, by lacking beauty and order should not be understood as being caused by the One’s nature. Rather, since matter does not bear a resemblance to the One, or that which is beautiful, it can be understood as being foreign to it because its appearance is distinct from the orderly essence of that which results from the One, such as immaterial souls.51
One may also infer that to Plotinus; immaterial souls are not the cause of matter either, and thus that which is immaterial in his ontological scheme remains good in nature. Like the One, souls cannot produce bodies, because souls are immaterial, beautiful, and orderly.52 Also, because souls, who are particular unities which understand themselves entirely, come to lose the ability to know themselves once they fuse with bodies, because bodies corrupt the essence of the souls.53 Thus, one may correctly infer that to Plotinus souls are of a higher nature than bodies because they possess reason. Furthermore, because souls are small unities, and bodies are made up of various parts it follows that matter can be understood as an element which limits or restricts the scope of the soul’s ability to reason and know its true nature.54 Finally, because matter is regarded by Plotinus as a limit, it follows that it is unlike the ever expanding nature of souls, which desire to continue to emanate and spread order.55
Unlike the One and souls, matter by not being aware of itself does not possess reason, and thus, it cannot emanate its essence, or do that which the One or souls can do.56 Furthermore, because matter cannot emanate, one may infer that it is at the lowest degree of being.57 One may make this claim because not only does that which is material lacks the ability to organize that which is lower in existence than it, Plotinus also explicitly claims that because matter cannot emanate it is at the lowest level of being.58 Finally, because matter is material, chaotic, irrational, and restrictive it is not of the One’s nature, and hence, one may claim that Plotinus can be justified in his claims that the One is all-good while matter is naturally defective.59
With this paper, I have described Plotinus’ ontology, discussing his ontological claims, and revealing how matter is not of the One’s nature. In so doing, I believe I have argued that matter, by being distinct from the One’s essence, does not taint the nature of the One or the pureness of all things immaterial unless a soul comes to organize a body. Finally, the One, by being benevolent in nature, cannot be linked to matter because matter corrupts that which results from the One, or immaterial souls, whereas the One maintains and gives life to that which is immaterial.
1.) Plotinus. Stephen McKenna trans., The Enneads as found in Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle. (New York: The Free Press., 1994), VI.9.1.1-3. & V.1.1.1-3.
2.) Ibid., I.6.9.12-15.
3.) Ibid., VI.9.1.10-25.
4.) Ibid.
6.) Ibid., VI.1.1.9-13.
10.) Ibid., VI.1.6.30-36.
12.) Ibid.
13.) Ibid., V.1.8.12-13.
15.) Ibid., V.1.8.1-4.
16.) Ibid., IV.8.1.1-10.
18.) Ibid., IV.8.1.40-50.
22.) Ibid., IV.8.3.2-7.
26.) Ibid., I.6.8.21-22.
53.) Ibid., IV.8.6.20-20-33.
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Rocco A. Astore is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Philosophy at New School For Social Research in New York, NY.
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Posted on June 9th, 2019
In its long history the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has come under massive attacks by other religionists on three critical occasions. The first attack was the most horrendous. Sankilli, the illegitimate son of King Pararajasegaram and one of the most cruel rulers of Jaffna, marched down to Mannar on the Christmas eve of 1544 and massacred 600 Tamil Catholics, which included pregnant women, children, old and the young , all because they did not recognize him as the sole representative of the Tamils”. The Tamil Catholics of Mannar had sworn allegiance to the King of Portugal. This didn’t sit well with Sankilli. Intoxicated by the successes of his killing machine he led his forces to massacre 600 Catholics. Velupillai Prabhakaran was the reincarnation of Sankilli. However, he spared the Catholic Church because the Northern Branch became the national and international tool of his Pol Potist politics. Fr. S. J. Emmanuel, for instance, devoted his time to manufacture the myth that Prabhakaran was the Saviour of the Tamils – almost as good as Jesus Christ!
The second attack on Catholics was when the Sinhala-Buddhist wending their way in a perahera in 1883 were attacked by a mob of Sinhala Catholics. They were determined to stop the procession going past their Kotahena Church – the leading citadel of Catholics at the time. The Catholic felt that the Buddhists were encroaching into their territory. The subsequent riots in which the Sinhala-Buddhist attacked the Catholics are known as the Kotahena Riots. A British Commission which inquired into it blamed the Catholics for their provocative conduct and aggression.
The third was on last Easter Sunday ( 4/21) when the Muslims blasted the Catholic Church of Kochchikade – a sacred site for not only Catholics but for other religionists as well. It was a politically motivated attack that shocked the world. Of the 250-odd who died in the bomb blasts most of them were Catholics. It also killed co-religionists in the East and the North. More than anyone else the Catholic community was paralysed. They were drifting in a catatonic state not knowing what had hit them. It was a senseless attack. It didn’t achieve anything. His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith was the shepherd looking after his flock. What was he to do? Did he have to right to speak on behalf of his grieving community? Wasn’t he bound by a moral and a sacred duty to speak and act on behalf of the victims of brutal terrorism? The world leaders from all corners spoke in sympathy with the victims of Muslim terrorists. So why is it wrong for His Eminence to speak on behalf of his people?
Shyamon Jayasinghe, one of the hurrah boys of Ranil Wickremesinghe, has come out against the actions and speeches of His Eminence. (Colomobo Telegraph – 6/6/2019). He is noted for writing advertisements for himself frequently and also for his discredited hero, Ranil. I shall deal with some his his accusations later. But up front it must be stated categorically that there is no valid rationale for anyone to criticize His Eminence for speaking out on one of the most tragic moments in the history of Catholics in Sri Lanka. Which shepherd will not cry when his flock has been slaughtered?
In recent times his voice has been ringing, loud and clear, as the most inspiring, persuasive, unambiguous moral force in what his critic, Shyamon Jayasinghe, called the shit world of Sri Lankan politicians”. (Please note I am quoting verbatim from his text.) This, of course, is a blanket phrase that covers all Sri Lankan political leaders, including his hero Ranil Wickremesinghe. Jayasinghe also knows that Ranil’s abysmal failure to live up to the promises he gave the people in the run up to the January 8, 2015 election makes him, by general consent, the king of the shit world of Sri Lankan politicians”.
The image of His Eminence, on the contrary, shines as the only moral force rising above the hired pundits in foreign-funded NGOs, and pothay guras boot-licking the most corrupt and depraved government in the post-Independent era, In our dismal times His Eminence is the brightest light that gives hope to the future. In the past the Catholic Church has been accused of being silent partners of political criminals. Pope Pius XII, aka Hitler’s Pope”, was accused of not raising his voice in defence of the Jews.
In Sri Lanka, the Tamil branch of the Church hierarchy in the North was openly aiding and abetting the Tamil Pol Pot who was suppressing, persecuting and killing his Tamil people. The Tamil Catholics used the international Church network to whitewash the crimes committed by Prabhakaran against his own people, let alone the other communities. In one instance, when the Tamil parents handed over their teenagers into the care of the Catholic Church in Valayar Maddam, near the Mullativu coast, to prevent them from being forcibly dragged into the Tamil Pol Pot’s futile war, the Tamil churchmen rang the nearest LTTE Pol Potist camp and tipped them of the presence of Tamil under-aged children in the Church precincts. After the call, it didn’t take long for the LTTE killers of Tamils to rush in and whisk away the under-18 children to fill the depleted forces of Prabhakaran limping to their defeat in Nandikadal.
The presence of His Eminence in the depraved politics of Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims has been a blessing welcomed by all religionists seeking peace and unity. His presence is felt like a breath of fresh air that transcends the shit politics of Sri Lankan leaders”, including Ranil. His Eminence stands out as a healing figure shining with the purity of his rational and objective morality. His overarching humane philosophy is the equivalent of aggiornamento of the Second Vatican Council, opening its doors and arms out to embrace non-Catholics in other religionis. He can be revered as a committed disciple of Pope John who reinvigorated the stagnant Catholic theology to suit the needs of 20th century.
From time to time the Sri Lankan Catholic Church has produced patriotic and enlightened pioneers who made lasting contributions to the renewal and the growth of the nation and its culture. One of them was Fr. Marcelline Jayakody. His enduring contribution to the national culture with his creative works lives in the memory of all Sri Lankans. Fr. Peter Pillai was an iconic Tamil intellectual respected by all communities. Fr. Perniola, in addition to being an outstanding Sinhala scholar, was an introspective and insightful historian of the Church in Sri Lanka. Fr. S. G. Perera was a pioneering researcher whose texts introduced history to generations. His Eminence is the latest. His spiritual and moral philosophy has come at a time when the derelict nation is in dire need of his humane touch. When the heart and the soul of the nation sank to the lowest depths last Easter Sunday his voice was comforting and his rod and his staff was a guiding force that lifted the spirits of a depressed nation.
He grieved with his fellow-Catholics for their Church and also for all the other victims. Whatever he said and did was for the nation as a whole. He did not lead a Crusade against the Muslims. He did not summon the Catholic Ministers and MPs and manipulated a mass resignation to demonstrate the power of Catholic Church. He refrained from dividing the nation on religious lines. He urged the Christians to be compassionate towards the Muslim community. Knowing the sensitive nature of the current inter-ethnic relations he refrained compassionately from dragging his community into the shit politics of Sri Lankan politicians” which includes Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The immediate impact of the Easter Sunday explosion was to kill innocent worshippers in the Churches and Western holiday-makers in five-star hotels. But the long-term impact was to expose the bankruptcy of Ranil’s excremental politics. Ranil can now kiss goodbye to his ambitions of becoming the next president. Or even the leadership of the UNP. He needs the vital votes of the Catholic belt for him to win. But he has openly thrown his lot with the Muslims who have ganged up behind Rishard Bathurdeen. Can this help the nephew of Thambi Mudiyansalagay Jayewardene to get over the 50% vote in case he decides to nominate himself as the next UNP Presidential candidate?
Besides, the younger generation in the UNP led by Navin Dissanayake, Ajith P. Perera and others are openly campaigning for a new leadership. The late night (10 p.m.) broadcast of Ada Derana, (6/6/2019), quoted the rebelling Young Turks in the UNP publicly demanding a new leadership on the eve of the Presidential election. They are saying enough is enough. Navin declared brazenly that even his father, Gamini Dissanayake, has failed to deliver the nation. They have come out fighting against the old guard. They are seeking a regime change within the Party. Ajith P, Perera openly declared that their new leader is Sajith Premadasa. They are defiantly rejecting Ranil as one of those who hoas passed his used-by date. This broadcast was as explosive as the bombs that went off at Kochchikade.
On 8/6 at a Srawasthipura political event Sajith finally declared his hand. Ada Dera TV broadcast finally revealed his future political role. He said quite candidly that certain individuals are today behaving as if they had inherited the ownership of the country through a freehold title deed. That is not democratic politics That is not people-oriented governance.” Responding to a voice from the audience which urged him to contest the leadership he replied. Don’t worry I’m coming. I will come at the right time.” It was received with resounding applause by the UNPers at the meeting.
Though Ranil is manouevring to keep the Muslim votes with him – particularly the Muslim votes in Parliament that props him up –he hasn’t yet recognized that the Muslim terrorists had thrown a time bomb that is ticking under his chair. They have blasted to smithereens the pro-West, NGO-driven, Ranil-led political agenda. The nation obviously is starting rethink its future in the light of the failure of the shit politics of the Sri Lankan politicians”, which includes Ranil.
New forces are emerging out of the Muslim bombs. The fast of Athuraliye Rathana Thero which electrified the sleeping nation, the visit of Cardinal Ranjith to the fasting monk, and the open revolt of Navin, Ajith and Sajith have come together at this critical juncture to herald the winds of change. Ranil is now batting on the back foot. Having lost the credibility and the marketability he gained from higher morality touted in the Yahapalanaya manifesto (with the blessings of the late Ven. Sobitha) he is now crying in the wilderness accusing those who are exposing him as communalists.
The plot of the Muslims to gang up against the rest came out of Temple Trees. The Muslim terrorists sent suicide bombers. The Muslim Parliamentarians are holding a gun to the head of the nation, with Ranil providing the ammunition. The Muslim politicos are what Prabhakaran did. He too held a gun to the head of the nation making outrageous demands. Muslims are now dictating terms saying give into us or else… That has been their standard brand of politics. They bargain with Sinhala leaders demanding 2 governorships, 5 ambassadorial posts, three ministerial posts, several state ministerial posts etc., in exchange for their electoral and parliamentary votes.
Ranil’s ploy was to make use of the Muslim MPs as a counter to the fast of Rathana Thero’s fast. It is not only deceitful but also unworthy of a proponent of reconciliation. This is typical of Ranil: he promotes reconciliation in public and kuth-thu-fies division behind closed doors at Temple Trees. As Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thero told a meeting of Sangha at the Bandaranaike Memorial Hall Ranil blames Rathana Thero for causing division and nary a word about his Minister Samaraweera attacking Sinhala-Buddhists.
At a time when the nation is convulsed with Muslim extremism he thinks he can get away by posing as the great defender of reconciliation by blaming the Buddhists. But no one seems to be buying his cheap tricks, not even the UNP rank-and-file. He is hoping to gain by the Muslims displaying their communal identity and solidarity. He has obviously not calculated the blowback. When he swings to one side there are many other who will be provoked to swing to the other side and jointly consolidate their forces against him. The dialectics in politics will militate against his usual cheap and tawdry tactics.
Ranil is now forced to fight with his back to the wall. This is what riles Shyamon Jayasinghe. He is desperately trying to make both Mangala Samaraweera and Ranil Wickremesinghe look like lily-white angels. But as the self-proclaimed expert on shit politicians” he should be quite familiar with the excremental tactics of Ranil. His favourite pastime is to wallow in Ranil’s political toilets. And when he comes out of toilets vacated by Ranil he is ecstatic as if he has been invigorated by inhaling the lingering toxic and insufferable fumes. He wants the world to believe that Ranil drops into his toilet bowls only the fragrance of roses and sandalwood. As the expert on shit politics” it is obvious that he will accept any turd, big or small, as long as it comes from Ranil’s toilet bowls.
As for Ranil, he is hoping against hope that the Muslim bombs will save him. He is maneuvering to distance himself from blame by targeting the President through the Parliamentary Select Committee. But it’s too late. They fought the elections together. They formed the Yahapalanaya government together. They ran the government together. They ran it to the ground together. They both knew the plot to bomb Easter Sunday. Their Ministers knew it. Their handpicked apparatchiks tasked to run the Security Machinery knew what was coming. Their Security men knew it. And for Wickremesinghe to parade now as Santha Pilathu”, as they in Sinhalese, is a joke.
Clearly, the Muslim bombs have thrown him off balance. He is seen dithering now fighting with his back to the wall. The signs are that the UNP has ditched Ranil again as the next presidential candidate. Even Lakshman Kiriella is throwing in his hat from Kandy. Where will all this leave his boot-lickers?
Over to you, Shyamon (shit”) Jayasinghe!
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What would you expect from a man like Jayasinghe living off Indian Parasites and Indian Colonial Parasites.
DR M D P DISSANAYAKE Says:
“CARDINAL BLUNDERS SHOULD WORRY THE CATHOLICS” written by out-of-date Shayamon Jayasinghe living in Melbourne is not only a whistle blower, but a disgusting pathetic Sri Lanka who is attempting to destroy the name of Sri Lanka. He is locally extremely unpopular, he is not welcomed in any Sri Lankan events. If you mention his name, people simply “close their noses”.
Given below was his concluding para in the above article:
Such a supposition tied up with the inappropriate visit to the fasting monk may constitute a whistleblower which the Archdiocese should seriously take a look at.”
Earlier in this year, SJ wrote “Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s Mouth Shuts When It Should Open & Opens When It Should Shut”.
nimal_r Says:
June 9th, 2019 at 11:34 pm
As DR M D P DISSANAYAKE Says, Shyamon J is a rot living in Melbourne who has never done any good service to either Sri Lanka or Australia. He has been living on benefits since his arrival in Australia and has been cheating the welfare system. He is half Catholic and half Buddhist by birth but not practising any religion except worshipping Ranil Wickramasighe who is another wolf like Shyamon.
Ananda-USA Says:
Mahinda Rajapakse is EXACTLY CORRECT!
The Muslim terrorism of Easter Sunday was an INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of the Arabization and Wahabization of the Sri Lankan Muslim Community. The terrorism was a SYMPTOM of the much larger problem of the growing ISOLATION and SEPARATENESS of the Muslim community.
But Muslims are NOT SOLELY AT FAULT; the greater society is also CULPABLE because it PANDERED to the Muslim Community allowing increasing demands for rights unavailable to other citizens: Sharia Law, multiple wives, underage marriage, Sharia lending, rape of the Wilpattu forest, illegal import and clandestine settling of foreign Muslim migrants into Sri Lanka, Muslimization of entire towns and villages, unlimited building of mosques which often become public nuisances with their loud broadcasts, unsupervised madrassas brainwashing Muslim children, kowtowing to Muslim Ministers to assure Parliamentary Majorities and to keep the Petro-dollars flowing into Sri Lanka, head-to-toe covering in black garb alien to Sri Lanka, imposition of Halal food standards specific to Muslims on the entire society, to name but a few of the Muslim community’s long-term transgressions against the society at large.
Let Sri Lanka REVERSE ITS DISASTROUS COURSE, and IMPOSE ONE NATIONAL SYSTEM OF LAW on ALL citizens, WITHOUT EXCEPTION!
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Justin Cousson
A comedy human of ambiguous ethnicity and unkempt hair.
Living in Hollywood and attempting to make ends meet as a creative can be difficult. Fortunately, my love of the the city and its position as an entertainment industry center presented a unique opportunity for myself and I made ends meet for several years as a reputable autograph hound, seeking out rare and desirable signatures from some of Tinseltown's biggest stars.
Here, I present some of the gems of my collection.
Some people say to avoid meeting your heroes, but several celebrities have been as charismatic and likable in person as they are in their films. For example, my fondest celebrity crush Anne Hathaway was extremely gracious when signing for my good friend eBay.
Likewise, worldwide heartthrob Idris Elba truly made my day with this inscription to Lucky Bidder.
A personal favorite of mine, 60s teen idol Davy Jones of the Monkees, is a great example musicians should strive for, as he was generous and sweet to his fans until the very end.
This sort of decorum isn't the norm for all, unfortunately. Some notable jerks include Mark Wahlberg.
Sometimes, it's not obtaining the signature that ends in disappointment, but the signature itself. I've found that even a dismal autograph can be enhanced with the proper personalization request.
For example, former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield's signature is a rushed wave of indifference, but it becomes far more personal when you learn he hates Mondays and loves lasagna.
That being said, I have no idea why Sean Connery also felt the need to stress this point.
True to his no-nonsense reputation, Clint Eastwood hates both Mondays *and* lasagna.
Despite his handicap, Stevie Wonder has both excellent handwriting and a great sense of humor.
And despite *his* handicap, Ray Charles *hated* Stevie Wonder.
I've collected autographs since I was a child - a habit ingrained in me by my father, who helped me acquire one of my first pieces - the definitive Superman, Christopher Reeve - who was in the DC area around my 6th birthday, days before the tragic horseriding accident which paralyzed him.
Pieces signed afterwards are significantly less desirable.
Watch this space in the future for more celebrity autograph successes, including the story of the holy grail of my collection, the great Bombino himself, Bob Ruth!
Well, hey.
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The Startup dairies
Gagan Jain and Neeti Jain, authors cum entrepreneurs, launched their first book, “The Start up Diaries”, a collection of real stories on ordinary entrepreneurs with extraordinary journey, at Oxford Bookstore in Bangalore.
The book was unveiled by Phanindra Sama, CEO, and Redbus.in, one of the entrepreneurs featured in ‘The Start up Diaries’. The other entrepreneurs present at the event were Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder, One97; Abhinav Sinha, Founder, EKO and Ajit Andhare, Founder Colosceum Media, who are featured in the book as well. The book also features Yo! China and The Loot Store.
The Start up Diaries’ is a collection of the real life experiences of six of the most successful entrepreneurs operating in India. The journeys of these entrepreneurs have been realistically laid down in the book, where the author-couple believes ’The Start up Diaries’ will influence the thoughts of budding entrepreneurs and aspirants. Each chapter is dedicated to one entrepreneur, capturing every incident of his journey to success, including his motivating, hilarious and thought provoking moments.
Unveiling the book, Phanindra Sama, CEO, Redbus.in said, “’Start up Diaries’ is the story of aspiring entrepreneurs who believed in their dreams and pursued them against all odds to give birth to innovative ventures. The realistic picture it has drawn on the journeys of each entrepreneur can educate and inspire readers. I appreciate the effort put by the Jains for the approach they have taken in conveying the message across in an effort to motivate young talent to believe ‘Entrepreneurship’ can be a great career option.”
It is evident that countries that do not support entrepreneurship have slower growth rates. India, if it needs to grow at a faster pace should give rise to more entrepreneurs. A changed-mindset to that of risk-taking should be adopted along with the acquisition of required skill sets in their areas of expertise.
Gagan Jain, commented “Entrepreneurship is celebrated in India today and the country is slowly emerging as a ‘hub’ for entrepreneurs. People dream of owning a company and establishing themselves, but many are unaware of the struggle and challenges they could possibly encounter on the journey. ‘The Start up Diaries’ aims to educate readers, revealing the true experiences of six successful start-ups highlighting the hurdles faced and how they overcame them to achieve their dreams.”
Neeti Jain, Co-author, adds, “It was truly an eye-opener for us, when we started to interview the entrepreneurs and listened to their struggles, which otherwise would have been unknown. We are grateful to them as they took time off their busy schedules to narrate their success stories, challenging times and the solutions they implemented. We hope ‘Start-up Diaries’ will become a motivation and a ready reference guide for young aspirants.”
The book is available on facebook store, e-commerce sites and at all the leading book stores priced at Rs. 249/-.
Can't wait to grab my copy and start reading.
Author Vinay Kashyap On September 30, 2013
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Home >> Formation >> Marriage and Family Life >> Family Life
This is a time of a new awakening for the Church in England and Wales to explore the Family Group Movement. There is a network of experienced and really committed parish leaders across the country who are ready to help parishes to get going, with a tool kit containing lots of practical guidance that is written in a friendly and practical manner. Family Groups brings warmth and enrichment to the life of the Parish and provides a wonderful opening for people who are new or wish to engage afresh with the parish. True to its Motto, it is truly a ‘family for all.’
For further information please contact Maureen O'Brien 0151 522 1044 or email m.obrien@rcaol.co.uk.
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The St Teresa’s Focus Team were visited by Maureen O’Brien, the Coordinator for Marriage and Family Life from LACE, in January 2016, who introduced the idea of Family Groups and left us to consider whether Family Groups was something that would be part of our parish vision for the future.
We decided that the idea of people getting together, socially, to get to know each other better was certainly something the parish would be interested in. The idea also fitted with our vision of looking outwards from the church, the thought that it is much easier to invite someone along to a BBQ or an afternoon walk than to a Sunday Mass - “clever evangelism” we christened it.
The next stage was to have more information and a plan of action of how to get Family Groups off the ground at St Teresa’s. Chris and Vince Joyce, who are the Co-Chairs of the Steering Group for Family Groups in England & Wales and who live locally, gave up their valuable time to come and spend an evening with the Focus Team in May 2016. This evening gave us a real insight into what Family Groups were all about and how successful they had been in the UK, since the seeds were first sown by Fr Peter McGrath, the Australian founder of the Passionist Family Group Movement, in 2007. The introductory video shown on the night was very inspiring, lighting a spark that is still burning bright.
A parish co-ordinator was appointed to work closely with Chris and Vince, who again gave up their time to plan and provide information and literature for our big parish launch in September. Prior to this launch, a cheese and wine was organised in June, with personal invitations given to those whom the Focus Team thought would make good leaders. This was a very successful evening, with three leaders and three deputies recruited.
The weekend of the parish launch in September had Chris and Vince speaking at both the Saturday evening and Sunday morning Masses, which again included the inspiring video. Interested parishioners were asked to complete their contact details, before leaving church, as the plan was to get individual Family Groups organised and off the ground as quickly as possible. The Sunday, straight after Mass, was dedicated to forming three Family Groups with 20 people in each, aiming to get a good mix of ages and circumstances for all the groups. The groups were formed quickly and we all met to formalise the Family Groups and to introduce the leaders on the Sunday afternoon, with tea and cakes of course (wouldn’t be Family Groups otherwise!). The members all got to chat with one another (some for the first time) and choose a name for their group. We left after a couple of hours, with three happy groups named The Amigos, Shalom and Genesis.
As the Family Group website says, “The concept of Family Groups is simple. Groups meet every four to six weeks for a variety of activities decided by their members. These include quizzes, film nights, games, parties and anniversary celebrations, walks, music, themed events, fundraising, house Masses and lots of shared meals. The groups can become a valuable source of parish outreach as well as offering invaluable support and fellowship to their own members. The groups need the commitment and encouragement of their parish priest to thrive but are run by volunteer group leaders and parish coordinators.” This all happened for us and Family Groups at St Teresa’s have gone from strength to strength.
Our Family Group list of events so far includes walks, quizzes, house parties, table tennis, games nights, film nights, theatre nights, Christmas craft afternoon, Mass, restaurant visits, beetle drive, a casino night and a talent night. The Family Groups meet about once a month, with big inter-group meetings in the summer and in the winter for some sort of challenge - rivalry and bragging rights run very high! These have included a rounders match, a quiz, and an indoor “It’s a Knockout” evening. My personal favourites are the quiz night with Fr Phillip our parish priest acting as the Chaser (and getting roundly beaten), and the rounders match in July, with Fr Michael Moss turning out as umpire in what was to be one of his last communal outings before he passed away.
I hope this summary of the Family Group experience at St Teresa’s, Upholland, Lancashire will inspire other parishes to consider Family Groups as a way of bringing love, friendship and outreach. I have met and chatted to people I have seen for years at church, but never really engaged with. I have got to know the other (good) side of people that I never knew - you never truly know someone till you see their reaction to having a water-filled balloon explode on them! I have got to know our priests on a much deeper and meaningful level as all our priests being committed members of individual Family Groups and keen supporters right from the start and this is such an important aspect of our success. I have taken great joy from seeing people of different ages laughing, eating and playing together, something that just wouldn’t happen without Family Groups. All this against the backdrop of a shared faith and a shared understanding of the journey we are all on. As stated earlier, Family Groups are a great way of “clever evangelism”. There are a number of people who have found their way back to regular Mass attendance via a Family Group event. We have members who are from the local Anglican church, members who are non-religious, and some who would never have anything to do with the Catholic church but for Family Groups. My hope is that all parishes can have the satisfaction of hearing the words, “I don’t know what it is that you lot have, but I know I want some of it”.
Family Groups at St Teresa’s have been a great success. I don’t know for sure, but I imagine there are lonely people that enjoy meeting up once a month, more than we can ever know. I imagine that the meeting of young and old Catholics and non-Catholics, who are not family, to share an activity and food (there is always food, cakes and tea at the very least) is good for all, better perhaps than we can ever know. As the Family Groups’ patron Bishop Peter Doyle has said “The Family Group Movement seeks to create a true sense of community in fulfilment of Jesus Christ’s command for love, friendship, and companionship in the lives of his disciples, and as experienced by the early Christian communities.”
Bernard Keyworth
If you would like to start Family Groups in your parish or you want further information please contact Maureen O’Brien 0151 522 1044 or email: m.obrien@rcaol.co.uk
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INDIAN MANGO BAN
Posted on 18/04/2014 by Jenny Linford
Indian mangoes
The arrival of succulent Alphonso mangoes from India to the UK in April and May has become one of the seasonal treats I look forward to each year. At this time of year, Asian food shops from Tooting to Wembley are piled high with boxes of Alphonso mangoes, catering for the high demand for this most luscious of fruits. The news, therefore, that the EU is banning imports of mangoes from India from May 2014 (a decision which will apparently be reviewed by the end of 2015), came both as a surprise and a shock. The ban has been imposed for agricultural reasons, with the discovery of high level of fruit flies in Indian mangoes triggering it. The implications of the ban go far beyond whether or not I get to enjoy my favourite fruit; there will be major economic repercussions in both India and the UK.
Mr Ashok Chowdry, who in 1992 founded Fruity Fresh, importers, wholesalers and distributors of exotic fruit and vegetables, has seen the rise of Indian mango imports to the UK grow substantially. He first began importing Indian mangoes to the UK in 1978 and has witnessed a huge change in awareness of the fruit. “If you think about it when I was importing in 1978, people were not aware of a fruit called mango. They were called ‘queer gear’ not so long ago. But mangoes have come a long way; trade in them has grown to such a volume. They are now a major Indian and Pakistani fruit export.”
Because of its historic links and large Asian community, the UK is a major hub for India and Pakistan’s mango exporting trade. Indeed it has been estimated that in 2012-2013 the export value to India of fresh mango exports to the EU was USD6.8 million, with the UK accounting for over 91% of mango exports to the EU from India. Indian mangoes are enjoyed not just by the Asian community, he points out; “The amount of local people buying mangoes, enjoying them, relishing them is huge.”
The implications of the ban, declares Mr Chowdry, “are serious.” As he talks, I can hear the frustration in his voice. “It’s going to put a lot of people out of business. Airlines will go out of business. I myself import something like 20-30 tonnes of mangoes every week. when they fly from Bombay all the airlines are full of mangoes and there are plenty of flights. Growers in India will be ruined. The money they make is by exporting the mangoes, not by growing them for the local market. People prepare all year for this two and a half month business. All the import businesses like ourselves and the small shops we supply will be hit very hard.”
What Mr Chowdry is looking for rather than the abruptly imposed blanket ban is a constructive solution which addresses the fruit fly issue but allows the export mango trade to continue. He cites the example of Indian mango imports to the US, where, in response to American concerns over the fruit fly issue, the mangoes have to be treated with irradiation. “We already take steps for other countries like America and Australia. You know how strict Australian food laws are. What we want are extra procedures to be put in place, so that they become a requirement.” Other countries require vapour heat treatment of Indian mangoes before allowing them to be imported. The timing of the ban, with India’s politicians and civil servants caught up in the throes of a general election, is particularly unfortunate. Without the political will to work out a practical settlement, the ban looks likely to have serious economic consequences for businesses in both India and the UK. “This ban is going to ruin a lot of people,” says Mr Chowdry simply.
In response to the ban, Fruity Fresh have launched a petition to the British government to highlight the issue and its implications.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/63939
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TANK 666
Membership: Four unidentified crew
Purpose: To dispense vengeance against those who harm the innocent
Affiliations: Ghost Riders/Spirits of Vengeance
Enemies: Nazis, demons, Kid Blackheart, Zadkiel
Base of Operations: Occupied Europe, formerly North Africa, circa World War II
First Appearance: Ghost Rider VI#33 (May, 2009)
History: (Ghost Rider VI#33 (fb) - BTS) - Tank 666 was an M3 tank manned entirely by American Ghost Riders during World War II. It fought in North Africa and the Rhineland, spreading terror amongst the Nazis as it tore through concertina wire and rolled over German trenches and past burning Panzers, leaving terror and burning treadmarks in its wake.
(Ghost Rider VI#33 (fb)) - During one battle as the German infantry fled in horror at the sight of the hellish Tank 666 rolling towards them, Tank 666's commander noticed a German Panzer division heading their way and calmly told his crew to load another Hellfire shell.
(Ghost Rider: Heaven's on Fire#6) - Like all past Ghost Riders, Tank 666's crew was revived to take part in defending Heaven from both the rogue angel Zadkiel and then Kid Blackheart's demon army.
Comments: Created by Jason Aaron and Tony Moore.
Like all the other Ghost Riders depicted in the flashbacks in Ghost Rider VI#33, there is limited information given about this character. The script confirms the make of tank and its name (which is also visible on the side of the tank), and this was in turn given in the Ghost Rider Index. The script also reveals that the two crewmen loading the shell are G.I.s.
It is uncertain whether each crewman had his own Spirit of Vengeance, or whether the tank itself housed a single Spirit who empowered all four men. If the Spirit(s) were in the crew, then presumably they could have utilized other vehicles, though possibly any tank they took command of would become Tank 666.
Profile by Loki.
Tank 666 and her crew are definitely connected to, but should not be confused with
all the other Spirit of Vengeance-empowered Ghost Riders
but has no known connections to
the Haunted Tank - another World War II M3 tank with ghostly crew, @ DC Comics' G.I. Combat#87
Phantom Riders - luminous lawmen of the Old West also known as Ghost Riders @ Ghost Rider I#1 - though some of them were apparently Spirit of Vengeance-empowered too, if Heaven's on Fire#6 is to be believed
Ghost Wind Rider - Comanche Indian and former lover of Red Wolf @ Blaze of Glory#2
Any other ghostly characters or characters who ride things
Tank 666's crew
Tank 666's crew consisted of a commander, a driver, and two G.I.s who loaded the Hellfire shells. It is uncertain whether each crewman had his own Spirit of Vengeance, or whether the tank itself housed a single Spirit who empowered all four men. Like most of the Ghost Riders, the crew presumably possessed superhuman strength and durability.
--Ghost Rider VI#33, (Ghost Rider: Heaven's on Fire#6 - BTS
Ghost Rider VI#33, p7, pan3 (main image)
Ghost Rider VI#33, p7, pan4 (the crew)
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Home News Samsung to axe nearly 10,000 staff at Korea HQ
Samsung to axe nearly 10,000 staff at Korea HQ
By Paul Withers -
Report says manufacturer is set to cut 10 per cent of its 99,000 workers as part of cost cutting exercise
Samsung is preparing to axe nearly 10,000 employees at its headquarters in Suwon, South Korea as part of moves to cut costs in 2016.
This is according to a report from local newspaper Korea Economic Daily, cited by Bloomberg. which said the cuts are being targeted at employees in human resources, public relations and finance departments.
It said Samsung had a total of 98,999 employees at its headquarters as of June 30, according to a regulatory filing.
A Samsung spokesperson said: “We are unable to comment on market rumours or speculation.”
The move comes after the manufacturer revealed in July that Q2 profits had slumped 37.6 per cent year-on-year to 2.76 trillion won (£1.5 billion), while sales had fallen to 26.06 trillion won (£14.2 billion) from 28.45 trillion won (£15.5 billion a year ago.
Global figures released last month from IDC said Samsung’s market share in Q2 was 21.4 per cent – down from 24.8 per cent from the same three month period in 2014.
Samsung announced its flagship Galaxy S6 and S6 edge (pictured) smartphones at Mobile world Congress in February, and followed this with the larger Galaxy S6 edge+ last month.
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Ride Report: Castle Combe
June 17, 2012 Rafe Leave a comment
By Kristian Price
12 riders met at the Upper Castle Combe public car park on Sunday 17th June 2012 to ride a similar route to that which we last rode in September 2011. Except this time it was in the opposite direction.
This route was a slightly modified version of one I’d found in the ‘Off-Road Cycling in Wiltshire’ guide, a series of 10 rides across the county and which could be bought in the local Tourist Office for a few pounds. It might now also be available on the internet.
Our ride coincided with an event on at the circuit, The Anglo-Japanese Sportscar Weekend, and we could hear the action on the track as we passed below Quarry Corner, The Esses, Hammerdown and Tower Corner. Unlike some of the crashes I’ve seen on the circuit, our ride here passed without incident and Nik Wadge did not fall off again.
From Long Dean we rode across the valley to the Ford/Castle Combe road and then down to the White Hart pub at Ford. Unfortunately it was not open at 11am, but this is a good pub to stop at if cycling in the area. From here it was a steep road climb up the old stage coach road to North Wraxall, through the village and towards Truckle Hill Barn for the first of our single track descents through the woodland. The rain in the previous week had made this bridleway slightly muddy in places but it’s a still a fast descent.
A few people who’d ridden this area before knew what was coming up, in the form of the famous ‘Chris Dewhurst’ river crossing near Nettleton. This was reached down a steep bridleway strewn with the rocks from the old dry stone walls and so caution was necessary in places. The water was much deeper than the last time we rode here, and whilst most people opted to take the stone bridge, both Tom Scott and Tom Stickland rode through the river. It must be a Tom thing!!
We were more than half way around at this stage, with Burton, Littleton Drew and The Gibb to ride through. From Littleton Drew the bridleway was slightly overgrown and muddy, but this changed to a surfaced track as we approached the Fosse Way. On leaving the Fosse Way rather than stop at the Salutation Inn in The Gibb for a drink, we opted to finish the ride at the car park and walked into Castle Combe for a pint and roast dinner at The White Hart. This was a great idea!!
In recent years Castle Combe village has been the setting for scenes in films such as Stardust, Wolfman and most recently War Horse directed by Steven Spielberg. As such it’s a very popular tourist destination but a worthwhile visit.
Thank you to everyone for turning up and getting on with it!! I’ll have another novice friendly ride ready for late-August.
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Barbour, Gordon back in leadership posts
Published January 13, 2017 | By admin
Meeting a day late because of the winter storm, the Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors gathered on Tuesday afternoon for its first meeting of 2017.
Turning the organizational meeting over to county attorney Russell Slayton, longtime Chairman Glenn Barbour was nominated to return to the post by Supervisor Jim Jennings and also longtime Vice Chair Gregg Gordon was nominated to return to his post. On unanimous votes, Barbour and Gordon were returned to lead the board.
The group also voted to accept the meeting schedule as presented and adopted Robert’s Rules of Order.
Turning to other business, the supervisors addressed an emergency motion on changes to the county “false alarm” ordinance. No one spoke on Tuesday afternoon at the public hearing of the emergency motion for the county to tighten up rules regarding malfunctioning alarm systems and resulting “false” alarms which “increase the county’s public safety costs, divert public safety resources from other critical areas of work and burden the Mecklenburg Emergency Communications Center.”
Under the terms of the measure, those who use such alarm systems will be required to maintain the systems in good working order and promptly repair any defects which may cause the systems to trigger false alarms.
For the purpose of the measure, the term “false alarm” means an alarm that causes a law enforcement, fire or rescue response when there is no actual or threatened criminal activity, fire or other emergency requiring and immediate law enforcement, fire or rescue response.
The measure imposes no service fee for the first, second or third false alarm but imposes a $100 fee for the fourth instance, a $250 fee for the fifth false alarm and a fee of $500 for the sixth and subsequent false alarms.
Fees for offenses shall be paid within 30 days along with interest on unpaid balance.
Deliberately turning in a false alarm shall be a class 1 misdemeanor.
The change had the full support of the supervisors.
The town of South Hill recently enacted a similar ordinance.
Also by unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution approving condemnation proceedings in order to secure property rights in order to proceed with the Ridge Road Project.
Slayton explained that the county had made good faith efforts to contact the property owners involved, but it proved impossible to contact all of the owners. Based on county appraisals, the board has authorized fair compensation for the property rights.
The motion will allow the county to proceed with the project in a timely fashion.
Also on Tuesday, the board signed off on a resolution asking the Virginia General Assembly to provide a Cost of Competing Adjustment for Mecklenburg County Public Schools for salaries and operations similar the to adjustments in place for 18 school divisions in Northern Virginia.
The move comes after MCPS Superintendent Paul Nichols appeared before the supervisors last month, explaining that recent changes in funding put small, rural school systems at a severe funding disadvantage to urban systems, although the rural systems have more difficulty in funding due to a smaller tax base.
By unanimous vote, the supervisors voted to adopt the resolution.
The Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors will sign on to a moral obligation resolution clearing the way for the Lake County Airport Commission to move forward with a $150,000 letter of credit to cover engineering for re-asphalting of the runway and, hopefully, receive the needed monies in the next round of funding.
County Administrator Wayne Carter told the group that the moral obligation resolution is not uncommon in regional projects and that the county has entered into them for other regional efforts including the water authority, the regional landfill and the jail project.
On a motion from Gordon, the group unanimously voted to approve the resolution.
Members also discussed the new “convenience center” in the South Hill area. The new trash facility opened shortly after the last meeting.
Carter admitted that when the facility first moved, he heard complaints. Residents, he said, have warmed to the new arrangement. Most of the complaints, he said, had come from residents of neighboring counties.
The change, said Carter, has resulted in a cut in trash of about two-thirds, much of it illegal trash being dumped. He added that the sites are now much neater and cleaner.
“Business owners who were opposed the plan have called to say they were wrong,” said Carter.
The group will now look at a similar site in the Clarksville area.
The supervisors also on Tuesday passed a resolution honoring Henrick Motor Sports owner and Palmer Springs native Rick Hendrick as a “local boy who made good” as well as recognizing the assistance he has given projects around the area over the years.
The motion was made by Gordon and passed unanimously.
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KSA: China’s Silk Road Fund acquires 49% Stake In Saudi’s ACWA Power unit
Saudi-based ACWA Power announced that China’s Silk Road Fund has acquired a 49 per cent stake in its renewable energy platform, ACWA Power RenewCo. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Read more. ...
Oman: Homes To Get Solar Panels For Electricity Bill Cuts Via Sahim
Kickstarted by Oman’s Electricity Regulatory Authority, Sahim reportedly aims to provide renewable energy at a low cost in Oman through “the installation of 3-5 KW [solar] power systems in residential buildings” across the country. Read more. ...
Jordan: 12,000 Families To Benefit From Solar Project This Year
The families are part of the 7,000 households the ministry plans to include in the project by 2020. Those accepted for the programme will have solar cells installed on their homes to help bring down their electricity bills, Zawati said, adding that the programme aims to expand the Fils Al Reef’s base of beneficiaries. Read more. ...
Egypt: Ib Vogt Finishes 166.5 MW Solar System At Benban
The German PV company had reached commercial operation of the first batch of its project at the huge Egyptian solar park in February 2018. Participants in the 1.8 GW solar park receive tariffs set in the nation’s second FIT tender round. Read more. ...
Egypt: Scatec Solar Reaches Commercial Operation For Its Third 65 MW Power Plant
Scatec Solar and partners have grid connected and reached commercial operation for another 65 MW of the 400 MW Benban project in Egypt. Scatec Solar now has 195 MW in operation in Egypt and expects to have completed the project during second half of 2019. Read more. ...
UAE: Floating Solar Power Plants In UAE Waters? Read This
DEWA has issued a request for proposal, RFP, for appointing consultants to study, develop and construct floating solar photovoltaic plants in the Arabian Gulf. This is a new and innovative initiative by DEWA to use solar power that supports the objectives of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, DCES 2050, to diversify the energy mix in Dubai to provide 75 per cent of Dubai’s total power out...
UAE: Dentons Is Shading Light On The Launch Of Phase 2 Of The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
Dentons Partner, Mhairi Main Garcia, was interviewed on Dubai Eye’s Business Breakfast radio show on 9th June, discussing clean energy in the Middle and shedding light on the launch of Phase 2 of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, and Dubai investments in solar energy. Listen here. ...
UAE: Dewa Launches Tender For 5th Phase Of Giant Dubai Solar Park
Dewa) has issued a tender for the 5th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park for 900 megawatts (MW) of electricity using photovoltaic solar panels, based on the Independent Power Project (IPP) model. Read more. Also read: ‘An overview of the world’s largest solar power plants’ ...
KSA: 60 Companies have been Shortlisted
REPO, The Renewable Energy Project Development Office of Saudi Arabia has selected 60 companies shortlisted who secured pre-qualification to bid in round 2 Saudi Arabia Renewable Energy Program for a combined capacity of c.1.5GW. Discover the full list here. ...
Masdar, EDF To Build 800Mw Solar Power Plant
On Tuesday 26th February, the inauguration ceremony was held for the commissioning of the 246 kWp solar installation on the roof of Kamal Osman Jamjoom Co. L.L.C., situated in Dubai Investment Park (DIP). The entire rooftop installation was managed by Sara Oda, a project manager for Enerwhere, the leading DEWA certified solar PV contractor based in Dubai. Read more. ...
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About The Sleepless Moon
'No novelist writes better, none can evoke with such perfect art the smells, sights and sounds of the countryside, or depict the essential pleasures with so sure a touch' The Sunday Times
The Sleepless Moon opens with the marriage of Constance and Melford Turner, with Constance's dreamlike walk across the square of Orlingford: when the warm summer wind ripples her white silk dress against her skin, she feels 'astonishingly free and exalted'.
Although she is shy and quiet, Constance is also sensual and sexual, but we discover on her wedding night that she is doomed to a passionless marriage, and the arrival of a young pianist, Frankie Johnson, drives Constance and her husband even further apart.
The Sleepless Moon is about the bleak and unforgiving nature of insomnia, of restlessness, repressed passion and dislocation. Orlingford is a town where it is hard to differentiate between pleasure and pain: the wonder of a moment is ignored, misconstrued or overridden by the fear of it passing. Pleasure is never more than fleeting and the characters are speechless in their supplication for help and understanding; repressed emotions manifest themselves in peculiar character traits and habit, and dreams are more vivid and warm than life.
H. E. Bates
H. E. Bates was born in 1905 at Rushden in Northamptonshire and was educated at Kettering Grammar School. He worked as a journalist and clerk on a local newspaper before publishing his first book after which he quickly acquired a reputation for his stories about English country life.
During the World War II, he was a squadron leader in the RAF and was commissioned to write stories about service life, which he published under the pseudonym of 'Flying Officer X'.
In 1958 the Larkin family appeared for the first time in The Darling Buds of May, the first of the enduringly popular Larkin family novels.
H. E. Bates was awarded the CBE in 1973 and died in 1974.
'No novelist writes better, none can evoke with such perfect art the smells, sights and sounds of the countryside, or depict the essential pleasures with so sure a touch'
‘H. E. Bates can achieve a quality of lyrical intensity that few contemporary novelists can match’
Times Literary Supplement
‘One of his best novels… No novelist writes better, none can evoke with such perfect art the smells, sights and sounds of the countryside, or depict the essential pleasures with so sure a touch’
‘Few writers have a more exact feel for texture – of a flower, a face, a silence...’
Also by Bates, H. E.
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Title: Energy and Nano: Emerging Molecular Science & Technology
Date: May 30-31, 2008
Many distinguished lecturers, including Nobel Prize winner Sir Aaron Klug, participated in this symposium.
As usual, the Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize was awarded to five girls and five boys, for asking good questions.
Progress of Chinese Science and Technology
Chunli Bai, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Novel Chemistry with Nanomaterials
C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Single-site Nanoporous Solids: The Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis
Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Engineered Zinc Finger Proteins for Targeted Intervention in Gene Regulation in Biotechnology and Therapeutics
Sir Aaron Klug, 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, United Kingdom
Nanoporous Capsules: Aesthetics and Multifunctionality in Harmony
Achim Müller, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Nanocrystalline Solar Cells for the 21st Century
Michael Graetzel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Switzerland
Phonons and Heat Flow in Nanowires, with Applications to Energy Harvesting and Conversion
Jim Heath, California Institute of Technology, United States
Tug-of-War Collisional Dynamics
Richard Zare, Stanford University, United States
DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Nadrian Seeman, New York University, United States
Nanotechnology: Slouching toward Function
George Whitesides, Harvard University, United States
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Commissioners inspect new trucks
LYNDON—The Osage County Commission received an update from Glen Tyson, road and bridge supervisor, on the delivery of the first of two trucks ordered by the county last year.
“This is the first one,” Tyson said. “The second one is in Topeka, getting inspected. We’re close to getting that, possibly this afternoon.”
The commissioners inspected the new truck during Tuesday’s regular meeting. The meeting was delayed due to the observance of New Year’s Day Jan. 2.
“Now you just need some snow,” said Gaylord Anderson, commissioner.
“We’re supposed to get a little bit, we’ll see,” Tyson said. “As long as it’s not a whole lot.”
Tyson said he had also received a pickup truck purchased by the department.
“We picked it up last Tuesday or Wednesday.,” he said. “It’s in our possession.”
Tyson also brought in paperwork for a guardrail project.
“We need a motion to accept Criqui’s bid,” said Ken Kuykendall, commissioner.
Commissioners motioned and approved to accept the low bid from Criqui Construction Inc., of Melvern, for $178,630 for 1,025 linear feet of guardrail and 167 yards of additional basin.
“That’ a lot of money for guardrail,” said Anderson.
Other road and bridge business involved a 10-minute executive session to discuss non-elected personnel and the purchase of plastic culverts for smaller projects.
“Kansas Department of Transportation has approved and are using this new polypropylene material,” Tyson said. “We’re going to try a few.”
Treasurer hires
The commissioners also discussed a request from Shari Weber, county treasurer.
“I feel as though we need some staff in the treasurers office,” Weber said. “There are three people in the motor vehicle part, but when they’re sick or need a day off, there’s only two of them. It’d be nice if we trained two part-time people.”
Weber suggested the part-time employees start at $10 per hour, since they wouldn’t be receiving benefits. She also requested a full-time employee to assist with taxes.
“We have a number of personal property delinquencies that are four, five six years old,” Weber said. “This year, we put an exception that they cannot purchase motor vehicles tags because they haven’t satisfied their delinquencies.”
“How are you gong to pay for these,” asked Kuykendall.
“I believe I have money in the budget,” Weber said.
Kuykendall asked why money from the special auto fund hadn’t been transferred to the general fund to pay for salaries.
“There’s always been an agreement between the treasurers and commissioners, for history, that so much of special auto fund will go back to pay some of the workers in there,” he said.
Weber noted a statute stating she had until February to make that transfer. Commissioners continued discussion after Weber left the meeting.
“I’m not arguing the need for extra help,” Kuykendall said. “They do fall behind occasionally. They are now, especially on the tax side.”
Kuykendall suggested working with Scot Loyd, of Swindale, Janzen, Hawk and Loyd, LLC, auditors for the county, to see if there was room in the budget for the additional employees.
“I would suggest before we do anything, we have Rhonda (Beets, county clerk) talk to Scot, and have him email us before next meeting,” Kutykendall said.
“I would think that would work,” Anderson said.
“Do you want to wait while I do that?” Beets said.
“Next Monday is fine,” Kuykendall said, and motioned to adjourn the meeting.
In other business, commissioners:
• conducted a 20-mintue executive session to discuss attorney-client mattes with Pat Walsh, county counselor.
• approved purchase of a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox for the appraisers department for $17,000.
• approved payment of bills.
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The Loser's Lounge
Lincoln Center Dance Parties
Joe McGinty
Lincoln Center Dance Parties/
Joe McGinty/
Private Events/
“From Abba to The Zombies…The Losers Lounge is in the business of redemption; honoring cartoon pop stars like the Bee Gees or cult artists like Randy Newman validates the zeal of music fans. The series gets it’s frission form giving permission to love pop, that throwaway stuff, with every ounce of your heart.” ~ The New York Times
Above photo by Todd Kancar
Disco Party!
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
at Damrosch Park
165 W 65th St, New York, New York 10023
Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing series
Dance floor opens at 6:00 pm, Dance lesson at 6:30 pm, Live music at 7:30 pm, Silent Disco at 10:00 pm. Get your tickets HERE
In advance: $18
Day-of: $22
City Winery 10th Anniversary:
Remembering Prince
Featuring The Loser's Lounge
with Very Special Guests To Be Announced!
2nd show added due to popular demand!
ONE NIGHT ONLY! July 22nd, 2019
TICKETS now available for added show at 9pm!
TWO ABBA SHOWS ADDED!
Monday, June 17th at City Winery, NYC. Doors at 6pm, show at 8pm! Get your TICKETS HERE!
Thursday, June 20th at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, Long Island! Doors at 6pm, Show at 8pm. Get your TICKETS HERE!!
The Loser's Lounge Tribute to ABBA, 2019
June 6th, 7th and 8th at Joe's Pub!
ONE WEEKEND ONLY!
THURSDAY, June 6TH, **TWO SHOWS**, 7PM & 9:30PM
FRIDAY, June 7TH, **TWO SHOWS**, 7PM & 9:30PM
SATURDAY, June 8TH, **TWO SHOWS**, 7PM & 9:30PM
at Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003
The Loser's Lounge Tribute to QUEEN, 2019
April 4th, 5th and 6th at Joe's Pub!
Thursday, April 4th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, April 5th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, April 6th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY, ENCORE PERFORMANCE AT CITY WINERY, MARCH 14th, 2019!
The Loser's Lounge Tribute to
The Queen of Soul
ARETHA FRANKLIN!
Encore performance at City Winery
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
CITY WINERY
155 Varick Street
Coming in Feb. 2019
The Losers Lounge Tribute to Aretha Franklin!
6 SHOWS!
Thursday, February 21st, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, February 22nd, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, February 23rd, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Coming in December, 2018:
Join The Losers Lounge as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary with a tribute to the great Paul Williams!
Thursday, December 6th, **TWO SHOWS**,7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, December 7th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, December 8th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
The Loser’s Lounge presents the music of
Barry Manilow and Bette Midler:
A Battle of the Bands
TICKETS on sale NOW for October, 2018
Thursday, October 11th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, October 12th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, October 13th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
ALSO!! Just added: The Losers Lounge Long Island Debut! We are bringing the sounds of Bette and Barry to Long Island! One Night Only. October 19th at MY FATHERS PLACE SUPPER CLUB in Roslyn, NY.
The Losers Lounge Tribute to Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Due to popular demand, we added another show at City Winery, Monday, June 18th, 2018!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!!
The Losers Lounge
The Sound of Philadelphia: A Disco Party
Get Your TICKETS!
There are no guilty pleasures as keyboardist and bandleader Joe McGinty and his killer band, deemed a part of “essential New York” by Time Out, celebrate the solid gold hits of the 1970s Philadelphia disco scene. Break out the platforms, polyester, and lilac eye shadow and bring your own New York hustle to this not-to-be-missed party.
After hours: Silent Disco powered by Quiet Events
At 10:00 pm, when the sound system turns off, the dance party keeps going—DJs Bill Coleman, Rimarkable, and Rogue broadcast directly to your headphones until 11:30 pm. A wireless headset is free with your ticket; $5 at the door for Silent Disco only.
The evening will also feature:
A DJ set from DJ Bill Coleman at 6 pm
A Hustle dance instruction from Alessandra Marconi at 6:30pm
Live music starts at 7:30pm
As this is a dance event, there is no seating.
The Losers Lounge Tribute to
June 14th, 15th and 16th, 2018
Thursday, June 14th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, June 15th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, June 16th, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
The Losers Lounge Tribute to The Band’s – The Last Waltz – 40th Anniversary , April 2018
April 12th - 7pm and 9:30pm
April 13th -7pm and 9:30pm
At Joe's Pub. Get your Tickets HERE
Due to popular demand, we added another show at City Winery, Monday, April 23rd!
The Band’s The Last Waltz
40th Anniversary Get your tickets HERE
Joe McGinty & The Losers Lounge, perform the music of one of the greatest rock & roll movies of all times – The Last Waltz! Directed by Martin Scorsese, and released in April of 1978, The Last Waltz features performances by Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, The Staple Singers, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Bobby Charles, Ronnie Hawkins, and of course The Band: Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. The eclectic cast of singers and performers from The Losers Lounge will recreate The Last Waltz with their own unique blend of talent, humor, and celebration.
The Losers Lounge performing live in association with Montclair Film
‘70s MIXTAPE: A 1970s DANCE PARTY
featuring live music from
Joe McGinty and The Loser’s Lounge
Saturday, February 24, 2018, at 8:00 PM
The Wellmont Theater in Montclair, NJ.
With special performances from
Stephen Colbert, Patrick Wilson, Warren Zanes, Jon Batiste, and other special guests! Performances will range from disco to pop, funk to new wave, celebrating styles that ruled the dance floors of the 1970s. The event will be designed around the colors of black, white, and gold, to capture the spirit of the era. Proceeds from this special evening will support Montclair Film’s ongoing, year-round film and education programs.
Joe McGinty &
The Loser’s Lounge present:
Dress up like you’re going back in time to your favorite New York City night club, then dance your way to the future with New York City's most entertaining house band. Tonight, Joe McGinty and The Loser’s Lounge turn their gaze to the ultimate disco diva, Donna Summer. Platforms and polyester optional, but highly recommended if you want to win the evening’s Best Dressed Contest.
FREE EVENT. Seating is first come, first serve
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
The David Rubenstein Atrium
Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets
Coming up in February, 2018!
The Losers Lounge will be back in 2018, with a Tribute to Barbra Streisand!
Now with an added show on Thursday!
Thursday, February 1st, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Friday, February 2nd, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, February 3rd, **TWO SHOWS**, 7pm and 9:30pm
Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NY, NY, get your TICKETS HERE!!
Coming up in December, 2017:
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF
Thursday, December 7th, 7pm
Friday, December 8th, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, December 9th, *three shows*, 1pm matinee, 7pm and 9:30pm
Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NY, NY
Friday, September, 15
Group Dance Lesson: 6-6:45pm
Live Music & Open Dancing: 7-8:30pm
Dance Instructor: Rob Glover teaches the Hustle
Hustle down to Dewey Square Park for a ‘70s Disco Party with The Loser’s Lounge, a collective of New York City’s finest performers founded in 1993 by former Psychedelic Furs keyboardist Joe McGinty. You bring the moves, they’ll bring all the greatest hits of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. Dust off your best disco suits and dresses and bring the sparkle down to the Greenway!
Coming up in October, 2017:
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO THE BEE GEES
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND
ONE MORE SHOW ADDED!!
Sunday, October 22nd, 1pm Matinee
Thursday, October 19th, 7pm
Friday, October 20th, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, October 21st, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
Sunday, October 22nd, one show, 1pm
Calling all Gypsies!
The Losers Lounge Tribue to Fleetwood Mac!
Thursday, June 1st, 7pm,
Friday, June 2nd, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, June 3rd, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
At Joe's Pub. get your tickets HERE!!
The Losers Lounge Tribute to Philadelphia Soul: The Music of Gamble, Huff and Bell featuring the Songs of The O’Jays, The Delfonics, The Spinners, The Stylistics and more…
at Joe's Pub. Get your tickets HERE!
Thursday, February 9th, 7pm
Friday, February 10th, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, February 11th, *two shows*, 7pm and 9:30pm
In the mid-1970s record producers Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell created a new world of pop-music hailing from The City of Brotherly Love, called “Philadelphia Soul.” Joe McGinty – The Losers Lounge Band Leader – says, “The ‘Philadelphia Soul’ sound combined sophisticated arrangements a la Burt Bacharach with soulful grooves a la Motown to create an incredible string of hits by groups like the O’Jays, The Spinners, The Delfonics, and The Stylistics. Having grown up in South Jersey, the Philadelphia Soul sound has always been a huge influence to me.” Sexy, funky, danceable and lush, the arrangements of The Philadelphia Soul sound are credited with being the precursor to Disco as well as an influence on pop music at large to this day. Some hit songs that you may know from the Philadelphia Soul sound include:
The O’Jays: Love Train, Back Stabbers, For The Love of Money, Now That We Found Love - The Delfonics: Didn’t I Blow Your Mind, La La Means I Love You - The Spinners: Could It Be I’m Falling In Love?, Then Came You (With Dionne Warwick), Mighty Love, I’ll Be Around, Rubber Band Man, One Kind of Love Affair, Games People Play - The Stylistics: You Make Me Feel Brand New, You Are Everything, Break up To Make Up, I’m Stone In Love With You - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Billy Paul: Meand Mrs. Jones – The Soul Survivors: Expressway To Your Heart – Jerry Butler: Only The Strong Survive – The Three Degrees: When Will I See You Again. As well as songs by The Jacksons, Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls, and more!
One weekend only. Get your tickets before they sell out. We look forward to seeing you at The Losers Lounge Tribute to Philadelphia Soul!
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO SIR ELTON JOHN
ONE WEEKEND ONLY! 6 SHOWS!!
Thursday December 15th, 2016- ONE SHOW ONLY, 7pm
Friday, December 16th,2016 - TWO SHOWS,7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, December 17th, 2016 - THREE SHOWS, 1pm, 7pm and 9:30pm
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, NY
Join all your favorite Losers as they pay tribute to Sir Elton John
Ticket Price: $25.00, get your tickets HERE
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO PRINCE
Thursday October 20th - ONE SHOW ONLY, 7pm
Friday, October 21st, TWO SHOWS,7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, October 22nd, Three Shows, 1pm, 7pm and 9:30pm
Join all your favorite Losers as they pay tribute to The Great Purple One
Thursday Night Fever featuring Joe McGinty and The Loser’s Lounge
Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 6:30 PM at Damrosch Park
Dance floor opens at 6:00
Dance lesson at 6:30
Live music at 7:30 Tickets and more info HERE
Indulge your shiniest, sexiest disco fantasies with perennial favorites The Loser’s Lounge in a weeknight tribute to the iconic movie classic that catapulted John Travolta and the Bee Gees to superstardom. Keyboardist and cover song king Joe McGinty leads his band, deemed a part of “essential New York” by Time Out, in everything from “Night Fever” to “Disco Inferno.
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO BRIAN WILSON and
THE BEACH BOYS "PET SOUNDS" 50th ANNIVERSARY
Thursday, June 2nd, One Show, 7pm
Friday, June 3rd, Two Shows, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, June 4th, Two Shows, 7pm and 9:30pm
Lionel Richie and the Music of The Commodores
One weekend only, 6 shows
Thursday, April 14th - one show, 7pm
Friday April 15th, two shows, 7pm and 9:30pm
Saturday, April 16th, three shows, 1pm, 7pm and 9:30pm
At Joes Pub at The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
In light of current events, we are postponing The Losers Lounge Tribute to Lionel Richie & The Commodores which was scheduled for February 18th, 19th and 20th. Instead Joe McGinty and The Losers Lounge will present a tribute to the life and work of David Bowie on Feb. 18th, 19th and 20th. Tickets are available HERE. We will present a tribute to Lionel Richie & The Commodores on April 14th, 15th and 16th at Joe's Pub. Tickets to this show are now available HERE. If you already have tickets for the February dates you can either use them to attend the David Bowie shows, or contact Joe's Pub to receive a refund.
THE LOSERS LOUNGE TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF THE BRILL BUILDING
please note the times for this run...
Thursday December 3rd, 9:30pm - ONE SHOW ONLY
Friday, December 4th, 7pm and 9:30pm - TWO SHOWS
Saturday, December 5th, 1pm matinee, 7pm & 9:30pm - THREE SHOWS
The Losers Lounge Tribute to James Bond and the music of John Barry
Joe's Pub
Thursday, October 22nd through Saturday October 24th
6 shows, including a Saturday Matinee!
Thursday, 10/22 - Doors at 6PM, Show at 7PM (Oct 22)
Friday, 10/23 Doors at 6PM & 9PM, Shows at 7PM & 9:30PM Saturday, 10/24 2pm matinee, then two more shows in the evening, doors at 6PM & 8:30PM, Shows at 6:30PM & 9PM
Studio 63: The Losers Lounge Disco Dance Party!
We are back at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center to bring the disco!
Thursday, September 17th at 7:30
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage
61 West 62nd St (And Broadway), Lincoln Center, New York, NY
FREE!!
Hey Boston!!
We will be at the The Celebrity Series of Boston on September 19th bringing you the sweet sounds of disco, with a special tribute to Dorchester's own Donna Summer!
Don't miss this FREE show!!
The Loser’s Lounge Friday, September 18, 2015
Group Dance Lesson: 6-6:45pm Live Music & Open Dancing: 7-8:30pm
The Losers Lounge Disco Party
Thank God Its Thursday!
Thursday, July 2nd
Damrosch Park heats up for a tribute you’ll love to love as this lively collective, The Losers Lounge, summons the mothership of Casablanca Records. The era-defining label—home to everyone from diva Donna Summer to funkifiers Parliament to glam rockers Kiss—gets a serious shout-out, and dancers get a chance to get down with the ever-popular late-night Silent Disco.
A DJ set from DJ Bill Coleman at 6pm
A hustle dance instruction from Robert Vance at 6:30pm!
As this is a dance event, there is no seating
The Losers’ Lounge Present a very special
Devo vs. The B52s
At Joe’s Pub
June 11th, 12th and 13th
Thursday, June 11th -**One Show Only** Doors at 6PM, Show at 7PM
Friday, June 12th - **Two Shows** Doors at 6PM & 9PM, Show at 7PM & 9:30PM
Saturday, June 13th - **Three Shows** Doors at 6PM & 8:30PM, Show at 6:30PM & 9PM
and a special matinee performance added: Doors at 1:30PM, Show at 2PM
THE LOSERS LOUNGE Present a Tribute to JONI MITCHELL
425 Layfayette Street, NY, NY
Thursday April 23rd, 7pm - **ONE SHOW ONLY**
Friday, April 24th, 7pm, 9:30pm – **TWO SHOWS**
Saturday, April 25th, 6:30PM, 9PM – **TWO SHOWS**
THE LOSERS LOUNGE Present Blondie vs. The Pretenders
Wednesday March 4th 9:30pm - ONE SHOW ONLY
Thursday March 5th, 9:30pm - ONE SHOW ONLY
Friday, March 6th, 9:30pm - ONE SHOW ONLY
Saturday, March 7th, TWO SHOWS - 2pm matinee and 9:30pm
Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NY
GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!
Come dance with us at The Lincoln Center Atrium
Warm up your hearts, and your feet for this SUPER FUN dance party! A great way to kick off the valentines day weekend with people you love, and yes, we love you too.
Studio 63: The Loser’s Lounge Pre-Valentine’s Dance Party
NOTE SPECIAL DATE: Friday, February 13 at 7:30
61 West 62nd St (And Broadway), Lincoln Center, New York, New York
ONE WEEKEND ONLY!!
The Loser's Lounge Holiday Tribute to Elvis Presley
Thursday December 11th - **ONE SHOW ONLY** - 9:30pm
Friday, December 12th – **TWO SHOWS** - 7pm, 9:30pm
Saturday, December 13th – **TWO SHOWS** - 6:30PM, 9pm
Joes Pub
425 Lafayette Street,
GET TICKETS HERE!!
The Loser's Lounge Tribute to Roxy Music and the Music of Brian Eno
Thursday October 16th - **ONE SHOW ONLY** - 7pm
Friday, October 17th – **TWO SHOWS** - 7pm, 9:30pm
Saturday, October 18th – **TWO SHOWS** - 6:30PM, 9pm
Studio 63: The Loser’s Lounge Dance Party
Special Date: Friday, September 12 at 7:30
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Admission is FREE, but entrance is first come, first serve, so get there early!!
Dress up like you’re going to your favorite night club from the past and dance your way to the future with The Loser’s Lounge!
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The South Asia Centre hosted the first ever ‘LSE India Summit 2016’ at the Cidade de Goa on 28-30 January 2016. The Summit was sponsored in full by Difficult Dialogues LLP.
Panel Discussion on 'India and West Asia' at Goa, India Summit 2016.
More than 300 people attended it over 3 days – including people from the media (local, national and international), academics, thinkers, intellectuals, students, members of the business community, diplomats, and LSE alumni. It comprised 2 special lectures, an exhibition of rare documents from the archives of the Reserve Bank of India, short, byte-sized conversations with (or between) participants on topics of relevance or interest, and of course -- 4 panel discussions showcasing LSE’s strengths. Speaking at the inauguration, Professor Craig Calhoun, President & Director of LSE described the South Asia Centre as being ‘at the centre of LSE’s effort to advance knowledge and dialogue about the region’.
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No regrets: As more family time beckons, Schutt reflects on Lucas Oil Speedway runner-up finish in Street Stocks
Brian Schutt finished second behind cousin David Hendrix in the Lucas Oil Speedway Street Stock division in 2018. (Kenny Shaw photo)
WHEATLAND, Missouri (December 5, 2018) - Brian Schutt surprised almost everyone at Lucas Oil Speedway's postseason banquet, announcing his plan to step away from racing to spend more time with his family. A few weeks have passed and Schutt is holding firm.
"That's still the plan. I'm gonna step away from it, at least for a while," Schutt said, noting that he looks forward to spending more time with wife Rachel, 10-year-old son Dax and 2-year-old daughter Landree.
If this was Schutt's final season after more than 20 years behind the wheel, it was another memorable one for the Lebanon resident. Despite winning only one feature at Lucas Oil Speedway, he finished a close second to cousin David Hendrix in the Street Stock division.
"I spent too much time chasing. I don't think I had the same set-up two weeks in a row the whole season," Schutt said. "I was trying to find something extra to catch David. We won the first night out and I think I jinxed myself. I said in the tech barn 'this is probably the only one we'll win.' Then it was."
Brian Schutt with his dad Ed Schutt in victory lane early in the 2018 season at Lucas Oil Speedway. (Kenny Shaw photo)
Meanwhile, Hendrix reeled off six feature wins in a row and never relinquished the points lead. Schutt said he often was stronger early in the feature, but Hendrix usually had the better car near the end when it mattered most.
"He's an excellent racer and hats off to those guys. They deserved to win the championship," Schutt said.
Both drivers were powered by motors prepared by Ed Schutt, Brian's dad. The cousins have been close since they were kids and sometimes raced in the same division as their racing careers overlapped, but never as much as in 2018.
Brian Schutt began his racing career on the asphalt at Lebanon I-44 Speedway, but switched over to dirt after that track switched to dirt for a time in the early 2000s. He said he's raced most every kind of car, ranging form Modified to Late Model to Street Stock over the years.
"We both were in Street Stocks at the same time in 2011, '12 and '13, but it seemed like we never were at the same place at the same time too often," Schutt said. "Finally, this year we hooked up a bunch and raced the whole season together. It was a lot of fun."
Hendrix concurred and said he's sorry to see Schutt hanging up the helmet.
"We've raced go-karts and bicycles and tricycles and everything else together since we were old enough to walk," Hendrix said. "I've enjoyed racing with him. I love him to death, but at the same time we're fierce competitors when we get the helmets on.
"I hope he comes back and races with us. I've tried to quit before, too. When Saturday comes around you're a mess and don't know what to do with self."
Schutt said that's a possibility, once in a while. He said he's been asked by a couple of racing friends to drive their cars, occasionally, next season and that could happen.
"I'll miss it for sure, but as far as every week stuff, that's going on the back burner for a while," Schutt said. "I'm not saying forever, for at least for a while though."
The Lucas Oil Speedway season begins March 30 with an open Test and Tune with the Weekly Racing Series opener set for April 6.
Season passes for the 2019 season are available now and those who had them in 2018 can renew at a $25 discount through the end of the year. Contact Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at (417) 282-5984 or email her at Nichole@lucasoilspeedway.com to purchase a pass or get more information.
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2017 Staples Make More Happen Goal of the Year Announced
The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is proud to announce that Virginia Beach City FC forward Prince Idornigie’s July 9th goal against FC Frederick has been selected as the 2017 Staples Make More Happen Goal of the Year. The goal was selected by fans and supporters in an online voting process.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/2CJnK1QdCJY
“I would like to thank God for his mercy and grace over me for giving me this opportunity,” Idornigie commented. “I also want to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to the NPSL for recognizing me with the Staples Make More Happen Goal of the Year Award. I am truly humbled and honored to receive it. I would especially like to commend my coaching staff, family, friends, teammates, and the supporters of Virginia Beach City FC and WVU Tech Athletics, who have so generously supported my efforts with their time by voting for me. I am deeply grateful for this honor. I ask that the community continue to support Virginia Beach City FC in advancing the quality of life for our youth.”
Indornigie appeared in 60 matches over four seasons for WVU Tech, finishing with an impressive 13 goals and 13 assists.
“It is an honor to be recognized by the NPSL, especially with Virginia Beach City FC being a growing club on the rise,” Virginia Beach City FC Social Media/Marketing Manager Dante’ Dio added. “I want to thank the city of Virginia Beach and our fans for a tremendous season because without you all, none of our success would be possible. I would also like to thank Prince for coming in every day and putting in the work needed to be one of the best. It was a treat to see you grow throughout the season and get better with every game. This award represents the hard work you put in all season. Enjoy it, young man.”
The Durham, NC native was named a Third Team NAIA All-American in 2016 after earning NAIA National Championship All-Tournament team and River States Conference (RSC) First Team honors. He also earned Man of the Match honors at VBCFC on July 9th after helping his team to another win and a first-place finish in the Mid-Atlantic Conference.
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Best Betting Sites in Canada
The Canada has been the origin of some of the largest bookmakers in the world. In almost every street, you will have a chance to experience a wide pipeline of bookmakers which have managed to transform the Canada into a worldwide betting marketplace.
Most of the Canada betting agencies have been in existence for decades. This fact has highly enabled them deliver credible betting services to their customers since they have a longtime experience of how to understand the punter’s mind.
This article will therefore review some of the best, secure and trusted bookmakers in the Canada but here you can find more reviews.
This Canada bookmaker has been in existence since 1934. With many years of experience, William Hill has developed a spectrum of skills in online wagering which keeps all customers satisfied.
There is a huge array of betting options such as exotic betting (Quinella and Trifectas), props betting and Moneyline which bettors can choose from.
Punters can also select their desired sports in the available options such as Cricket, Rugby, Soccer, Badminton, Tennis, Horse Racing and Boxing among others.
Betway Sportsbook
Despite being a new bookie in the betting industry, Betway is among the fast growing sportbooks offering outstanding betting services to all its customers.
The bookie has spent a lot of money to maintain its brand and upgrade its website. They have played a major role in the Cheltenham Festival through sponsoring races and on top of that, they have been announced as the official sponsors of West Ham United FC.
Betway offers competitive Odds in major sports and their website can be accessed in different languages such as English, French, Spanish and Italian among others. They offer competitive promotions and free bets and their betting app is now available in the mobile platform for iOS and Android devices.
named after its co-founder, BetVictor is a popular bookmaker which began its operations around 1945. BetVictor, which is now operated by Victor Chandler, offers both local and overseas betting services with a pipeline of options laid up for punters to choose.
The bookmaker offers both sports and horse racing betting services but has laid much focus on sports especially the English Premier League.
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AT LEAST FIVE INJURED DURING FIJI SHOOT-OUT
Submitted by piradmin on Tue, 07/04/2000 - 00:00
By Erin Phelan PINA Nius Online
SUVA, Fiji Islands (July 4, 2000 - PINA Nius Online)---Rapid gunfire broke out between George Speight supporters and the Fiji Military Forces in Suva today, resulting in at least five injuries. The majority of the wounded seem to be young men who support the rebel leader, local radio stations reported.
A reporter in the area at the time -- roughly 500 meters (550 yards) from the parliamentary complex held by Speight and his supporters -- reported that the shooting was continuous, and sounded as though it included more than rifle fire. The reporter said that the shooting spread from the time it began, and continued for at least 20 minutes.
The incident came five hours after Fiji’s new interim civilian cabinet was sworn in at a ceremony at Fiji Military Forces headquarters, Queen Elizabeth Barracks, in another part of Suva.
FM96 says that security in the parliamentary complex area has been beefed up by the military. FM96 journalist Malakai Veisamasama, reporting from inside the complex, said that approximately 300 civilian Speight supporters emerged from the complex, claiming that some soldiers had positioned themselves near its fence.
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini later explained that three soldiers at an observation post withdrew when the Speight supporters approached them. He said the soldiers fired warning shots in the air, but they were cut off by the Speight supporters. He said a rebel soldier with the Speight supporters was shot in the arm when he went to fire on the surrounded soldiers.
Tarakinikini alleged grenade launchers and rifles were fired from areas near the parliamentary complex held by Speight supporters.
He said 14 young men had been detained by the military. He said the Fiji Military Forces soldiers had acted with great professionalism and apart from the rebel soldier all those shot by the army had been shot in the legs.
FM96's Veisamasama said that four civilians and one rebel Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) unit soldier supporting Speight had been wounded and taken from Parliament to the hospital. He said that three other Speight supporters were reported to be missing from the complex.
Veisamasama -- in a later report from the complex where Speight still holds hostage Fiji’s first ethnic Indian prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 26 other members of his government -- described the situation as: "Tense. Tense. Tense. Very tense."
Local media also reported that a Fiji Sun photographer was bashed by supporters of Speight. The photographer was said to have been brought by a group of rebel soldiers and questioned over photographs that had appeared in the daily newspaper. He said the group had complained that his photographs were being used by police to identify Speight supporters.
After he was released by this group, the reporter was said to have been met by a different group of Speight supporters, who took him and attacked him. He has been brought to the Colonial War Memorial hospital, along with the five other injured.
Ambulances have arrived at the Colonial War Memorial hospital, and an FM 96 reporter said the injured appeared to have been shot in the leg. One nurse told FM 96 that one individual was 'seriously injured.' Additional police and army have been provided at the hospital, where crowds have gathered.
Tarakinikini said that the situation is now under control. Speight's group was said to have contacted military headquarters requesting a ceasefire, which was later confirmed by Speight's group.
Earlier today, the Fiji Military Forces camp in the northern town of Labasa was been taken over by soldiers Speight supporters, Radio Fiji reported.
Radio Fiji said the commanding officer at the camp had been replaced by local soldiers who support Speight. But a later Radio Fiji report said the soldiers at the Sukanaivalu Barracks in Labasa are split, with only some supporting Speight.
In Suva, Tarakinikini said they could not comment until they get more information, but that they were sending a military team to check out the situation.
Labasa is the main center on Fiji's second largest island, Vanua Levu, and is an important sugar mill town.
An FM 96 reporter in Labasa said that at roughly 3:00 p.m. residents in Labasa began to evacuate the town when they realized what was happening.
In Suva, families living around the parliamentary complex area are also reported to be leaving following today’s shootout.
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First Look of the Beloved Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Big Hero 6” World
September 18, 2018 / Justin D Williams
By Justin D Williams
Just ahead of the Tokyo Game Show event, KINGDOM HEARTS III fans were transported to the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, where the heroic cast of Big Hero 6 joins Sora and his friends in an epic battle against the darkness. Big Hero 6’s story of friendship continues on in KINGDOM HEARTS III, as the super crew of Hiro Hamada, Honey Lemon, Go Go Tomago, Wasabi No-Ginger, Fred and their robot companion Baymax embark on a new adventure together with Sora, Donald and Goofy.
The world of Big Hero 6 is just one of the expansive worlds in the massive KINGDOM HEARTS universe. The trailer also shows off new footage from the Disney and Pixar worlds of Frozen, Monsters, Inc.,Tangled and Pirates of the Caribbean, while shedding new light on the KINGDOM HEARTS storyline as well as a first glimpse of a fan-favorite character.
Additionally, the trailer introduces a new way Sora will use his Gummiphone, which has the ability to take selfies with his new friends along his journey. The Tokyo Game Show trailer is subtitled in English. Check out the trailer below.
The official box art, featuring artwork drawn by series director, Tetsuya Nomura, was also revealed at the show. The artwork showcases a variety of characters from the KINGDOM HEARTS series against the endless sunset, including some familiar Disney favorites, King Mickey, Donald and Goofy.
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The Golden Years – The Dalek Masterplan
When Doctor Who does epic it is invariably tarred by its failures rather than its successes. In the three attempts at uber-adventures – The Dalek Masterplan, The War Games and The Trial of a Time Lord – one invariably remembers the bad bits rather than the good bits.
So War Games and Trial aside, is Masterplan, in its twelve episodes, minus its prologue, a good epic?
Well, it tries. It goes darker than many episodes have before, killing off one companion dreadfully and another potential companion with equal evilness, and the Daleks themselves are as convoluted and nasty as ever. But for every wonderful performance from the likes of Hartnell and Purves there is some terrible padding. It very much rises and falls on its length, and as such is probably to be considered a mistake. It shouldn’t be, because the good probably outweighs the bad.
You’re probably reading this thinking, “old Ed’s on the fence here”, and you’re probably right. I don’t have any massive feelings towards Masterplan any further than “it’s a bit long”. Purves is superb in it, though, but then he always is, the companions’(n?) death is/are well handled and completely brutal, but there’s probably too many things going on, too many characters – too many shifts in characterisation (Sara Kingdom for instance) and Chen’s motives make no sense. Add into that The Monk and a weird Keystone Christmas Fourth Wall breaker and, well, perhaps it’s best it doesn’t all exist. One thing is for sure, the Daleks are far better here than they are in The Chase and director Dougie Camfield is as always superb at keeping things rattling along with some lovely touches. Perhaps it would have been better with one writer (writing is shared between Spooner and Nation) or perhaps a more subtle arc might have made the whole experience less exhausting and less rigid (it’s thirteen eps, including Mission to the Unknown, remember, that’s the length of an RTD season!) so maybe a vague Bad Wolf-ish arc would have been better, but, for what we’ve got, it’s an investment, and one I doubt the modern audience would make.
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WRESTLETHREAD
TheBatman
Post subject: WRESTLETHREAD
Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 10:57 pm
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Location: Gotham City
I'm bored and angry about wrasslin' so here's a thread
The new people's champ is out for who knows how long, another looks-promising-then-nosedives-into-gimmicky-bullshit Cena feud is booked worse every week and while the Shield can make anything look good, all we're getting at the next PPV are either rematches or rematches of rematches or shit nobody cares about except for god king of comedy heels Bad News Barrett who wasn't even on TV Monday
WrestleMania is looking more and more like the desperate fluke it was and everything is looking terrible for the time being, at least until Lesnar comes back and does something awesome
There are at least two other dumb marks here besides myself so here is discussionplace for wrestletalk
Post subject: Re: WRESTLETHREAD
Daniel Bryan was in a weird situation when he came back. They wanted to go the Evolution vs. Shield route and that meant keeping Batista and Orton away from their rematch (probably, trying to save that for Summerslam...or for Lesnar to take it from them at Summerslam). Yet, the Authority can't just leave him alone. He has the fight them the entire time. Kane is a great choice. Kane is probably the most valuable guy in the WWE and the majority of people will never realize that until he is gone and we no longer have him around.
Kane is the only guy who can be given any story, no matter how dumb, and the fans still respect him AND believe he can instantly be a main event player. They do this with Big Show, but even the announcers mention his crying or diaper wearing here and there. JBL or Cole never say "Remember when Triple H said Kane was a necrophiliac?" Kane will make a joke about it during his ha-ha good guy times and everyone is cool with it. The guy, constantly, stays around and is respected by fans even during the dumbest storylines in the company (which he seems to get once a year). Hell, they even just went with "whenever he puts on his mask he becomes the unstoppable "Demon"...and also gets a bit rape-y about women." And we all aren't really too pissed about it. Even if you think "it's dumb" your next thought it usually "eh, it's Kane". He, also, delivers really solid matches and always has no problem making people look good. He's a company guy who doesn't care about anything other than doing what the company asks. Thus, whenever they need to establish someone, Kane is usually a go-to feud. Perfect place for the Daniel Bryan reign to get a few quality wins before moving into serious territory.
That being said, I totally understand why Brie is with Daniel all the time. They're married, and when he returned after Wrestlemania, she needed to be by him before the beatdown. It was, probably, one of the very few ways he could make it through the segment without breaking down into tears. Once that was done, you've put them together on television and it creates a minor consistency issue to not have her, more or less, turn into a manager for him.
Kane, being a demon, would also likely want to ruin everything for Bryan, including pulling his wife down to hell (which is located under WWE rings) and (.....raping?) her. (Note: I only assume rape because Kane has a history of sexual assault against women)
the worst part is Daniel Bryan just had the biggest high of his life followed by tons of lows that are tragic:
Wins main event at Wrestlemania XXX
Gets Married the next week
biggest fan (and someone he became close with) 7-year old Connor dies 5 days later
father dies 2 hours before Raw (He still goes out on Raw and performs...the part where Kane "destroys" him)
Comes back and has a good match with Kane at Extreme Rules
Fractured Neck (requiring surgery)
That is a hell of a 5 week span for anyone.
The biggest plus side to this is, if he recovers properly and returns, he could come back as #30 in the Royal Rumble. It would be a huge reaction. If they know it is happening, they should even book the Royal Rumble in Seattle.
I don't think the creative team in the WWE know how to treat Bray Wyatt. Normally, I think they have him figured out. The problem is: balance. They have to make Bray Wyatt look very, very strong. He even may win in the end (seriously, there is no reason he shouldn't win at Payback). But John Cena can't come off as weak. This is purely WWE's problem they've caused over the last 6 years by not developing a huge upper-midcard so that Cena wouldn't have to be Superman. Their fault. This is the situations they've brought with that problem.
I think it is a totally fine story to say that Cena is, more or less, unstoppable unless you can break away his spirit. It really does make sense. Cena has fought tougher men. Cena has fought in hostile, hostile territory. Even at the worst moments, Cena still had people who believed in him: The kids (Sing with me children!).
It is here where the WWE creative staff failed. The kids in black robes, around the ring, singing should've been the end of it. Cena should've been so shaken that the end of Extreme Rules wasn't as corny or bad. He should have been battling himself, not Bray Wyatt, in that cage. Knock the guy down, begin to climb, stop, look at Bray (Who is maybe just on his knees watching Cena letting him have a free shot), and then Cena comes back into the ring to continue beating Bray up. Bray should've broken his spirit. Cena becomes monsterous. Then, afterward, Cena has to confront what he did in the cage. So he goes after Bray to try to destroy his message with violence (or something).
They went a different way, and it was a bit corny. They don't know how to handle Cena "looking weak". It is a creative problem.
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Shield vs. Evolution makes pure sense. No matter who won the other wouldn't let it die. The idea that Evolution will make sure Roman Reigns won't wrestle again is interesting. They've laid out their entire plan on Monday, and the match at Payback, should be interesting. There is more talk of War Games more than ever. I hope we see it.
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Wrestlemania was the show that said "Hey, look at this next generation!" It was capped off with them crowning the new "guy" who might just take John Cena's place. Unfortunately, he is out for a bit with a neck injury. Wrestlemania showed these guys off....I think their plan has been to use the next few pay-per-views to solidify every single one of them. Win the overall fight with Kane, Evolution, and John Cena. Show that these guys are officially on that level. There have just been some hiccups in the way.
On the plus side: More random people are getting television time, character development (Alicia Fox, say what?), the NXT influx is coming (Sami Zayn is right down the road), and it really feels their understanding that they can do 3 shows a week where every person on the roster has a character and a bit of a storyline.
Creatively: the WWE has some of the potholes it has had for awhile.
in-ring wise: The Triple H era of running the company looks pretty damn great. Everybody has a character, there are some of the best in ring guys all working against each other at great levels, the women are being treated equally (note: Sara Del Ray training the majority of them has improved their ring work tenfold)
there is a ton of good here. The creative issues do need to be looked at, though. Great in-ring product.
Sorry, I wrote a novel over everything.
Opinion on what they should do with the championship:
Have Batista vs. Orton (so their rematch clauses are taken care of). Lesnar comes back (Summerslam?) and defeats one of them. Then he holds the belt until Bryan returns (Royal Rumble) to set up Lesnar/Bryan Wrestlemania XXXI.
Napalm Man
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Location: The Jungles of Mega Man 5
I don't watch Wrestling, at all.
I just came to say you guys are writing more about Wrestling than the average student writes about Shakespeare
For Great Justice Mirror
Napalm Man wrote:
It is the 21st century equivalent. Hell, South Park did an entire episode giving it credit for that exact thought process.
I agree that at this point Lesnar needs to take the belt because other than Cena there is nobody kayfabe credible enough to have it right now. The only top heels left are pretty much jobbers at this point; that Kane bullshit was fun but a hard pill to swallow because he spent most of the overlong Bryan push losing every match he was in
My fantasy booking is that Lesnar takes the straps from whoever at a PPV, then throws those pieces of shit on the ground the following RAW and like spits on 'em or something for even more ridiculous heat going into WrestleMania, then that frees up the titles so they can kinda reboot things with a tournament or something
They were doing a great job making Bray look strong until that cage match when suddenly he and his buddies were terrible and Cena no-sold his loss
NXT stuff is great, but of course Paige has been sidelined for that fucking stupid Total Divas bullshit
God, SmackDown was so bad. Bunch of squash matches that make no sense, Damien Sandow's career is in shambles for literally no reason, Dolph Ziggler is getting thrown around, nothing in the midcard makes sense, everything is terrible etc etc
You're right about the wrestling tho, has been almost consistently solid except for when Batista is wrestling and they book idiot squash matches
there is a big problem with all of this new talent that has come in (and will be coming in due to NXT) for some people.
Some people have to be lost in the shuffle. There are just too many people. I think Dolph is amazing. He truly is great. He has been there for 8 years and had tons of concussions, one more could end it for him. With all the new blood and everything, sadly, I think his chances at being on the top are done.
Im just curious about the Batista hate in general. I mean, he is by no means a favorite of mine to watch, however in the comparison between him and Lesner I find it interesting.
They both came back around the same time. Batista has fought in the ring almost every week since. Lesner never once had a match on RAW if i remember correctly. He might come out and toss Mark Henry around, but thats it. Then he gets in wrestlemania and beats Taker. Not saying Taker shouldnt have lost the streak, but not to that guy. Then Lesner all but vanished. Batista however is still working. Just weird if you ask me. I don't like Lesner, especially since he seems to just show up and fight once then leave for a while.
I am getting caught up on Raw this morning.
I still love the Wyatts. I dont really GET the Cena stuff because i didnt watch when he was big. I was never a fan of Cena, so while i dont mind all the boos, but i just wonder why. He seems like a typical "fan favorite".
Triple H is still good at being a bad guy. I've always loved him as a villain. Kane putting the mask on is kinda neat. I did kinda like him with the suit and looking goofy, but the demon being back is fun too.
LOVE watching Cesaro, and I think i really dig Heyman being his manager.
I don't care much for JBL as a commentator, but sometimes I feel like he is channeling Vince when he was a commentator, just not in a good way i guess.
Also, I love Shield, especially Roman Reigns.
Not sold on the big russian dude yet though. I mean, sure he looks tough and stuff, but he is a little boring to watch.
Lesnar is a part-timer, a lot like Taker. His contract is rly good, gets mad money and only shows up for a few PPVs and WrestleMania
Lesnar was p much the best person to beat the streak when you put everything together. Taker was a big part-time babyface, Lesnar is the big part-time heel. Lesnar has always been presented as a monster in the ring and rarely loses. He has legit UFC cred, and also had some shoot heat with Taker at one point. He's young enough to stick around for a while, and if they don't fuck it up, can probably become a sort of evil Undertaker replacement as far as being the guy everyone wants to beat at Mania
Batista shows up, sure, but he gets gassed almost as bad as The Rock
Triple H has been doing a great job using his reputation against the audience in his heel work, but he's still an asshole that has to be a part of every big angle so fuck him; tho I'm glad to see him lose all the time to better wrestlers
Cesaro is amazing and I'm pretty bad they fucked with his momentum by giving him a match against Sheamus on MAIN EVENT, tho it ended dusty so at least he didn't lose
In super fun news, I was lucky enough to get some front row tickets for Chikara in Chicago when they return (before they sold out in 15 minutes). Ah, that is going to be a fun Saturday afternoon.
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edit: Roman Reigns has had a rough 2 days
That "Bo Lieve" guy or whatever is one of the funnier concepts I've seen in a while, a heel who thinks he's a face but is inadvertently incredibly unlikable.
oh geez i hate that guy, ha ha. theres something wrong with his face.
Seth Rollins flip was unexpected.
Things are moving in an all around positive direction for WWE.
They've cemented Cena as the greatest champion of all time (fully deserving. Really, they should let him pass Flair to show he is the GOAT)
Turns out, breaking up The Shield has proven that you don't have 1 or 2 main eventers....you have 3 main eventers. Hell, you can have a huge argument of who came out on top and all three have massive pros on every side. They all have "IT".
Sad news about BNB being out for a bit and Daniel Bryan being out for another 6 months. Although, Daniel coming back at the Royal Rumble as #30 (fixing last year's problem) would be a huge ovation.
Luke Harper vs. Chris Jericho is something I can't wait to see. Chris Jericho vs. Bray Wyatt just as much.
Oh, and WWE has these 3 guys coming in the next few months.....
and of course the inventor of the GTS, the perfecter of the Knee+, and about 5 other WWE mainstay maneuvers....
That, again, adds to the fact that WWE has Adrian Neville, Sami Zayn, Solomon Crowe, and Kalisto in the NXT program.
Storyline bumps and things here and there aside....I really, really love Triple H as the man in charge of the company. The guy is bringing talent out in spades. It is completely going to destroy the indie scene soon. He'll be snatching up everyone worth anything.
Cena sucks and is boring both as a character and as a wrestler. His character is "always good and with just enough attitude kids will like him but not so much that anyone will find him threatening". His wrestling style is "lose for a while and then basically break kayfabe by suddenly not pretending to be hurt anymore and ignoring hits until you win." His purpose in the storyline is "guy who always wins, and isn't it a big surprise when he wins for the nine hundredth time in a row?!"
I don't get how anyone likes him.
Cena is the worst and the only reason I'm not super mad about MitB is that they're totally feeding that fucker to Lesnar at Summerslam
Would've been a waste to give one of the newer guys the titles at this point
Whenever he is needed to he does what it takes to put on very high quality matches. He even got an amazing match out of The Great Khali.
The guy doesn't write the show or anything, but it is obvious on camera, and from words backstage, that he sticks up for the people who work there. He, also, tries to give everyone a shot. Usually, he is the vocal guy about up-and-comers and those the crowd is responding well to.
WWE's style is that of "5 moves of doom" and a very paced out thing. He is, very much, the ultimate version of this, but the guy pulls out the new stuff when he wants/needs to. Almost everyone in that locker room would admit that there isn't a problem with what he is doing. His style, and everything, has probably added a few years to his career just because it isn't as brutal as others (see: Bryan, Daniel). Granted, that can come off as formulaic.
He obviously has no ego about his situation and is willing to lose whenever asked to do it. The only problem is on WWE's end. They spent years using him as the top guy without building anyone else up at all (except Orton?). Thus, whenever he fought someone, there was no reason at all for him to lose. It has only been within the last year or two that others have come and they've elevated them to a level where Cena losing doesn't seem like the end of the world. For the writers, it does seem they get stuck in their "Cena wins" pattern just a bit much. I get how showing kids that Superman is normal more often than not can be a problem. It then ruins Superman, but on the other side...when Cena loses you do take a slightly bigger look at the man that defeated him.
It did add something to Daniel Bryan's title win to be the first guy to beat John Cena 100% clean since 2011.
Do I think the character is stale? Yeah. Is he the reason I watch WWE? No. Do I dislike him? No. There is this level of respect Cena has built over the years that makes it hard to hate a guy that didn't up and leave like Rock and who has been around constantly for as long as he has. The guy loves the job. He is really good at it.
And yeah....Lesnar is coming back. It is going to be interesting....
is Lesner going to actually wrestle or just show up and do nothing until the PPV like he did for Wrestlemania... I have not even seen him since.
Cena to me feels like he REALLY REALLY wants to be The Rock, but has no idea how. I have never really liked Cena.
very high quality matches
so were you just not paying attention during TLC/Royal Rumble or what
Also RAW was a bumbly mess of bizarre booking and boring matches but man was Bray Wyatt attacking Chris Jericho 100% perfect
Also fuck you for screwing Paige over Vince, you cocaine-addled old bastard
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Oh, he was fucked during those two events. It takes the crowd too. Just like a stand up comedian or a rock band. They get their energy from the crowd and give that much back. Cena tried. The guy tried hard both nights. He even gets them to worry about the match during the Rumble in a few spots. It is quite a feat with how much those people don't give a fuck at all. I don't think any single person could have a good match with a crowd that hostile to the idea of them even being in the ring. That wasn't "heat". Those people just didn't want to see anything in the realm of that reality at all. And to their credit, they made people listen. So far, it has been a damn good situation that they listened too. But I think it is pretty weird that everything started to move this way once Triple H became the man in charge.
His style and thoughts about Pro Wrestling seem to mesh well with the overall idea. Hopefully KENTA doesn't flop. I think he is the last chance for a giant name international wrestler for the WWE for quite a while.
he can't even do the STF right
Kevin Steen picked his final 3 ROH opponents. Tamaso Ciampa, Silas Young, and Steve Corino. While I got to see his final Chicago stop for ROH ever, I'd love to be in the crowd for Steen/Corino. A worthy send-off for a man that kept ROH interesting and engaging while it staggered elsewhere.
Also, props to the guy that had one of the most interesting stories in pro wrestling the last decade. He sits right next to Jimmy Jacobs as a super-special case of a story going right. On the plus side, in some far off dream world, we could get a very, very special WWE feud between two of their newest people...
Still one of my favorite hype videos for a match ever.
I've really been digging RAW lately and I kinda wanna watch Summer Slam.
Dean Ambrose has become my favorite current superstar. The thing with the briefcase sold that for me. I've always dug him because of his weird crazy antics, but man that was a hoot.
Jericho is fun to watch.
Super pumped about the Stephanie v Bria match too actually. I also actually care about the Jack Swagger Rusev thing too.
So while I am actually enjoying the current product a lot right now the one thing i really really miss from the old days is the Hardcore title with the 24 hours defense thing. That was so fun back in the day and i am a sucker for those aluminum foil trash cans.
the Paige and AJ stuff has been pretty fun to watch too.
In general I'm really impressed how far the diva matches have come. In terms of pure athleticism, they might be the best matches these days. Paige is a monster.
When it comes to the ladies there are a few things that help
1) Paige is a world traveler and a person from the indy scene that has done a lot (and Triple H seems to like grabbing the best of the best from there)
2) Sara Del Ray is the trainer down in NXT for the women. Older, but still a world traveled, and well respected indy performer. Her matches with Antonio Cesaro and the like were always something to see (also personal fun stuff: Cesaro's gf/fiance)
3) Triple H really does enjoy pro wrestling as an all around product. He is much more focused on giving the in-ring action a spotlight. Which, in turn, helps every single person.
Summerslam is looking good. It'll be a nice end to Gencon.
Also, guess who got 3rd row seats for ROH's Death Before Dishonor 12.....main event is a badass 8-man tag.
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Summerslam (skip now if you didn't watch or whatever):
Holy shit. Front-to-back that was a solid, solid show. Brie and Stephanie gave a damn good match, too. And then, after all that....there was the complete and utter dismantling of John Cena. The thing people have wanted to see for a long, long time. Holy shit. You could've told me twenty different ways that match would go, but I would call bullshit if you said "It'll be about 15 minutes long. Cena will hit an Attitude Adjustment and lock in the STFU...other than that he'll get the shit beaten out of him. He won't win. He'll just get beaten to hell and hit two moves. Oh, those two moves, will do no damage at all."
Who can beat Lesnar? He looked like a God.
Daniel Bryan (the man who beat Cena clean AND beat all of Evolution in a single night) is the only one I could think they could get to have the crowd behind at Wrestlemania 31
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GSMA Announces Nominees for 2019 GLOMO Awards
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LONDON--(Business Wire / Korea Newswire) January 24, 2019 -- The GSMA today announced the nominees for the Global Mobile Awards 2019 (GLOMO Awards). Winners of the awards will be presented throughout MWC19 Barcelona, which takes place 25 - 28 February. The full list of nominees can be found at www.mwcbarcelona.com/conference-programmes/global-mobile-awards/global-mobile-awards-2019-nominee-shortlist/.
“The GLOMOs provide a world stage on which to celebrate the most inspirational and innovative developments across our industry, recognising the companies and individuals leading the way in everything from 5G, to emerging markets, to intelligent connectivity,” said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. “The awards attract a significant level of high-quality entries, so being nominated today is a great achievement. We wish everyone the very best of luck and we look forward to some exciting announcements at MWC19 Barcelona.”
The GLOMO Awards feature an afternoon ceremony at 16:30 CET on Tuesday, 26 February in Auditorium 5, Hall 4, and will include the presentation of winners within the new “5G” category as well as the “Social Good”, “Outstanding Achievement”, “Device” and “Mobile Tech” categories, and the announcement of the “Government Leadership Award”. Winners of other awards such as “Outstanding Contribution to the Mobile Industry” and the “Women4Tech Industry Leadership” awards will be announced in separate ceremonies during the course of MWC19 Barcelona. In addition, nominees for the “4YFN Startup of the Year Award 2019” will be invited to pitch their business idea to a live audience and expert judging panel at 15:00 - 16:00 CET, Wednesday 27 February, Banc Sabadell Stage, Hall 8, Fira Montjuïc.
The 2019 GLOMO Awards ceremony will be hosted by TV presenters Remel London and Larry Madowo. Remel London is an award-winning TV and radio presenter and online video blogger. Remel currently hosts a weekend show on CAPITAL XTRA and is a lead presenter on SKY 1’s What’s Up TV. Larry Madowo is the BBC Africa Business Editor and Global Contributing Columnist for the Washington Post. Larry brings a wealth of experience to the team, having reported from more than 40 countries and interviewed some of the world’s most prominent business, political and cultural leaders. Larry will also present selected awards throughout the week.
Presentation of awards in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Consumer”, “Content and Media” and “Device” categories will take place at the GSMA Innovation City and will also be broadcast live to a global audience on Mobile World Live TV at www.mobileworldlive.com.
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Queen Victoria’s Coronation Journal
Posted on July 3, 2016 July 3, 2016 by Kim Seabrook
The eighteen year old Princess Alexandrina Victoria became Queen on 20 June 1837, on the death of her uncle King William IV. Her Coronation however did not occur until just over a year later on 28 June 1838, when travelling from her home at the recently built Buckingham Palace in a gold coach through the streets of London to Westminster Abbey she attended a ceremony that lasted just over five hours.
The young Queen was to write at length about the prelude to, the Coronation itself, and its immediate aftermath in her journal.
“At 4.15 pm I went with Lady Lansdowne, Lady Barham and Lady Conyngham and Colonel Wemyss to Westminster Abbey where the Duchess of Sutherland met me to see all the preparations for tomorrow. The streets were full of people and there were preparations of all kinds. I was received at the Abbey by Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Norfolk, Sir William Woods and Sir Benjamin Stevenson. All the arrangements are splendidly and very conveniently carried out. Lord Melbourne made me try the two Thrones, which was very fortunate as they were both too low.
I came home at 5 pm to great crowds in the streets, and all so friendly.
The preparations, fairs and balloons for the Coronation in the Parks quite changed the aspect of the place and the Camps of the Artillery with all their white tents had a very pretty effect. I am very glad I went to the Abbey as I shall now know exactly where I am to go and what I have to do at the Coronation.
“We, Lord Melbourne and I, spoke for a long time about the Coronation and all I had to do. I said I felt very agitated and as if something awful were going to happen to me tomorrow, at which he smiled spoke of the Bishops, and the Bishop of Durham being so remarkably awkward. Lord Melbourne. said “He is very maladroit in all those things”, adding, in speaking of the Coronation, “Oh! You will like it, when you are there. I observed I was glad to think he would be near me, as then I always felt so much safer.
“I was awoke at 4 o’clock by the guns in the Park and could not get much sleep afterwards, on account of the noise of the people, bands, and crowds; got up at 7 feeling strong and well.
The Park presented a curious spectacle, — crowds of people up Constitution Hill — soldiers, bands, and cheering.
It was a fine day, and the crowds of people exceeded what I have ever seen, being even much greater than when I went to the City. There were millions of my loyal subjects, assembled in every spot, to witness the Procession. Their good humour and excessive loyalty was everything. I really cannot say how proud I felt to be the Queen of such a nation. I was alarmed at times for fear the people would be crushed, in consequence of the tremendous rush and pressure.
I reached the Abbey a little after 11.30 amidst deafening cheers. First went into a robing room quite close to the entrance, where I met my 8 Train Bearers: Lady Caroline Lennox, Lady Adelaide Paget, Lady Mary Talbot, Lady Fanny Cowpe, Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, Lady Anne Fitzwilliam, Lady Mary Grimston and Lady Louisa Jenkinson, all dressed alike and beautifully in white satin and silver tissue, with wreaths of silver wheatears on the front of their hair and small ones of pink roses around the plait behind. There were also trimmings of pink roses on the dresser.
Then followed all the various ceremonies, ending by the Crown being placed on my head, which I must own was the most beautiful impressive moment. All the Peers and Peeresses put on their coronets, at the same instant. My excellent Lord Melbourne, who stood very close to me throughout the whole ceremony was quite overcome at this moment, and gave me such a kind, and I may say, fatherly look. The shouts, which were very great, the drums, the trumpets, the firing of the guns, — all at the same moment, rendered the spectacle most imposing.
The Archbishop had most awkwardly put the ring on the wrong finger, the consequence being that I had the greatest difficulty in taking it off again, which I at last succeeded in doing, but not without great pain.
All my Train Bearers looked quite beautiful. At about 4.30 I re-entered the State Coach, the Crown on my head and Sceptre and Orb in my hands, and we proceeded the same way as we came, the crowds, if possible, having become still greater.
The demonstrations of enthusiasm affection, and loyalty were really touching and I shall ever remember this day as the proudest in my life.
I came home at a little after 6, really not feeling too tired. — At 8 we dined, besides we thirteen, my uncle, sister, and brother Spëth and the German Gentlemen, — my excellent Lord Melbourne and Lord Surrey dining.”
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Study Shows Improper EHR Medical Coding Cause Inaccurate Medical Bills and Lost Revenue; EHR Shortcuts to Blame
Medical coding errors can cause considerable damage to both patients and providers in the form of inaccurate medical bills and lost revenue for the medical office. PMI explains the best practice is to employ well-trained and qualified staff to ensure that correct claims are submitted for reimbursement the first time.
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) June 26, 2017
If the devil is in the details, then physicians, their coding staff, and consumers are seeing lots of red these days. According to recent estimates, 75 – 80% of the medical bills healthcare consumers receive contain inaccurate charges that result from medical coding errors(1). Some studies point to Electronic Health Records (EHR) with automated features designed to ease coding complexity and help offices process claims faster. These shortcuts can lead to big problems for physicians, according to medical coding industry leader Practice Management Institute (PMI).
A recent study found that as many as 42% of claims submitted to Medicare were incorrectly coded(2). Not only can this be costly for consumers, these errors also negatively affect provider reimbursements and federally and state-funded healthcare programs.
“Employing well-trained staff responsible for the coding process is a must and can save big problems from cropping up down the line,” said David Womack, President and CEO of PMI. “It’s vitally important to ensure proper training for all medical staff involved in the medical coding process.”
Medical coding is a detailed, highly specific language with thousands of possible code combinations created to document an encounter. Coders need comprehensive training to perform at the level needed.
In many cases, physicians and coders use efficiency tools in electronic health record systems (EHR) to save time and increase productivity(3, 6). However, these coding tools from which they can copy and paste into EHR systems can lead to inaccurate documentation and charges for the patient(4, 6). By using shortcuts, untrained staff members may miss revenue opportunities for the practice and create a backlog of carrier denials(3).
The efficiency tools may may also create a dangerous precedent when submitting inaccurate claims to Medicare. If an auditor finds problems with claims to Medicare, this profoundly increases a physician’s liability and could lead to fraud and abuse allegations (3, 5).
David Womack, President and CEO of PMI, says, “Improper medical coding can have serious consequences for everyone involved in healthcare, from the patient to the provider. A big part of the problem is that so many healthcare offices employ untrained, non-certified staff, left to figure out the coding system on their own. If medical offices want to avoid losing money and keep patients as safe as possible, they must invest in medical coding certification training for all their coding staff.”
It is vital that medical offices understand the importance of retaining staff that possess an outpatient coding certification to help avoid coding mistakes. Because codes are updated yearly, employing certified medical coders helps protect both patients and providers against incorrect reimbursement and the potential for serious financial and punitive consequences if an auditor determines that reimbursements were incorrect and must be paid back.
About Practice Management Institute (PMI):
For more than 30 years, Practice Management Institute, also known as PMI, has helped physicians, hospital systems, medical societies, and educational institutions provide comprehensive education and training to medical office staff nationwide. By offering a variety of educational programs and professional certifications, PMI helps to build competency, compliancy, and effectiveness that assures the continued success of their clients.
Since PMI’s formation in 1983, more than 20,000 individuals have earned certification in one more areas of expertise. PMI is recognized by both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Labor for training in: medical coding, third-party billing, office management, and compliance. PMI training helps ease the burden of running a successful medical practice through thorough education and up-to-date training for non-clinical staff, allowing physicians to focus on patient care to improve the experience of the patient. For more information, visit http://www.pmiMD.com.
About David Womack:
David Womack, President and CEO, has been instrumental in PMI’s continued success since 1991. He has helped PMI transition into a cutting-edge leader in medical office staff education and training while developing key relationships with healthcare organizations, hospitals, colleges, and medical societies across the country. His commitment to excellence has helped PMI become an industry leader recognized by both governmental organizations and healthcare systems across the country.
1. It’s Time to Get a Second Opinion Before Paying That Medical Bill. NBC News. http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/it-s-time-get-second-opinion-paying-medical-bill-n545626
2. Significant Medicare coding errors signal need for physician education, OIG says. Medical Economics. http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/content/tags/coding/significant-medicare-coding-errors-signal-need-physician-educa?page=full
3. Chapman S. Beware of Poor Coding Habits. For The Record. 2014;26:20. http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/0114p20.shtml
4. Electronic Health Records: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review. http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/electronic-health-records-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html
5. How EHR Documentation Can Become a Liability. Physicians Practice. http://www.physicianspractice.com/blog/how-ehr-documentation-can-become-liability
6. It’s time to get doctors out of EHR data entry. Medical Economics. http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/medical-economics/news/its-time-get-doctors-out-ehr-data-entry?page=0,0
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Piece Title : Dolores
Composer / Arranger : Lefever, Maxine
Publisher :Kendor Music, Inc.
Publishers Website :www.kendormusic.com
When the need for student-level stage band publications was realized, the brainchild of three instrumental music teachers immediately started a publishing company in December 1953 giving birth to the now known Kendor Music. The company name came from the combination of names of Western New York communities of Kenmore, Delevan, and East Aurora where the founders Les Chappell, Art Dedrick and Bob Hudson taught, respectively. Kendor Music started its first year as an evening-and-weekend project comprising of only 6 staffs of which includes the three founders and their respective wives. Collation of music was done manually at the basement of Bob Hudson`s house. The first four Prom Series arrangements namely, Moonlight Waltz, Prom Jump, Liebestraum, and Finale medley were publicized early in 1954. All the sales and marketing activities for the first Kendor publications were done manually using single-page brochures mailed to all the schools listed in the directory of the New York State School Music Association at the time.
During those days, Kendor Music monopolized the student-level stage band publication industry. Though there are a lot of stock charts available, school bands usually find them too difficult. Armed with his experience as a public school teacher and as a trombone player and arranger for the famous Vaughn Monroe band way back 1940`s, Art Dedrick incorporated all the appealing elements of professional charts in the first Prom Series arrangements making them easier for young school jazz musicians.
Kendor has successfully released thousands of works and has been behind the launching to the worldwide jazz education community of the music of great writers including Thad Jones, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sammy Nestico, Jeff Jarvis, Bob Mintzer, John Fedchock, Frank Mantooth, Maria Schneider, among others. Besides jazz, the Kendor catalog that offers quality editions for various concert bands, string and full orchestras, instrumental soloists and chamber ensembles has also gained international popularity. Kendor also carries a number of critically-acclaimed books that tackles jazz improvisation, composing and arranging, and performance.
Kendor launched educational music to the market in 1992 by offering teachers a means to save money. The company sold extra score and part components from their solo and ensemble editions, rather than selling an entire publication. This is such a great deal especially when the customer only needs a particular piano score for adjudication or something to replace one that might be lost or damaged. This venture has gained a lot of positive reviews from teachers and retailers, especially. Due to the innovative ideas fearlessly brought to the market, Kendor became the recipient of the prestigious `Publisher of the Year` award from an international association, that is, the Retail Print Music Dealers Association.
Currently, continues to maintain its reputation of excellence in the publishing industry. It also continues to expand through acquisition of exclusive distributorship of other publishing outlets such as the Doug Beach Music, another outstanding label that caters to jazz education. With the supervision of its seasoned key officers, Craig Cornwall (President) and Jeff Jarvis (CEO), Kendor`s future in the publishing industry is undeniably promising.
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Review - Rules of Attraction / Simone Elkeles
When Carlos Fuentes returns to America after living in Mexico for a year, he doesn’t want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him at a high school in Colorado . Carlos likes living his life on the edge and wants to carve his own path—just like Alex did. Then he meets Kiara Westford. She doesn’t talk much and is completely intimidated by Carlos’ wild ways. As they get to know one another, Carlos assumes Kiara thinks she’s too good for him, and refuses to admit that she might be getting to him. But he soon realizes that being himself is exactly what Kiara needs right now. Goodreads
Review - Rules of Attraction starts off badly when the list (of which the title originates from) is ill fittingly named and nonsensical in the context of what is being discussed. It further burrows a hole for itself when it chooses to tell another Fuentes family member's story about having their lives turned around by an affluent white girl. Again, really? Why she have to be white and rich? What is Elkeles really trying to say?
Turns out Elkeles is trying to say a lot about a whole host of things and as such her focus is scattered. Whether it is the restorative elements of programs like REACH, caring for the elderly, the volatility of gang life or GLBT tolerance -none is sketched particularly well as they are included ,but not enveloped, into the story. They do nothing to expand the characters, they are just steps on the reader's journey to a happy and unrealistic ending.
Trust is a central theme - earning one's trust, losing it but in the end I felt Elkeles had lost mine. Perfect Chemistry was a fun book, by no means perfect, but a great read. Here, the author's recycled elements of her previous release, stripped back others and phoned the rest in. All characters are flat with the exception to Carlos who is only saved from that fate via salty language, impure thoughts and and conflicted feelings. When I say he's rounded think of a partially inflated beach ball after a summer of use and you are on the right track. Brittany and Alex come up better but that is all due to the audiences previous knowledge of them, not the present bland version that sleep walk through this title. Tuck is a character that gravely bothered me. His entire function is to be annoying and gay. He isn't fully realised, instead his homosexuality is provided as an excuse for Elkeles to toss out some sassy cliched quips and disguise Kiara's single status. It was only a matter of time before Tuck's sexuality was used to show what a decent and understanding fellow Carlos is and low and behold that's what happened. Tuck's character is used as a prop, never as a person that is more than a walking talking label - he deserves more than what he was assigned to play. Kiara's psychologist father was poorly handled in portraying what could have been a complex character. Instead it felt lazy and plot contrived that he should happen to have a Marine background and convenient law enforcement connections.
As for the romance, it was fun when the snarky interplay was at the forefront. It was quick, representative of the characters and was fun for the audience. It allows their attraction to play out combatively...then it turned into a love fest, Kiara shed her clothes at the drop of a hat and Carlos was in a gang. Mind blown. I nearly got whiplash from the narrative jump as there was little logic at play, very little show and a heck of a lot of tell. It was character assassination at its finest - Kiara lost any dimension she did possess to become a love spouting, hormone crazed idiot who had failed to show this her character in the first half of the story. While I love that they are different people and the fiery interplay - their relationship needed to be built on something more to be real.
As for Carlos' heritage - if some Spanish vocabulary, a recipe or two and the integration of a gang into a narrative gives legitimacy, then I'm the Pope. Everything that felt superficial about the depiction of Mexican-American families in Perfect Chemistry was exacerbated in this title. I am all for diversity in YA, heck it is even a movement, but it needs a fairer, deeper portrayal than brothers righting their lives through the generosity of rich white people. It never felt more than skin deep.
Then there's the epilogue....head hits desk. I thought that the Perfect Chemistry epilogue was a major fail on the part of the author and she's chosen to revisit the ridiculousness here as well. Why, why, why?
Rules of Attraction is superficial romance trying to present itself as a social commentary without doing the hard yards. Dishearteningly shallow.
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Source: gift
Shy said...
I believe that this is the most honest, thorough review on this book that I've ever read thus far and I truly appreciate it. I've read tonnes of reviews that mention of how good it is that makes me wonder if the book actually has any negative side. So, thank you so much for pointing these out.
Midnight Bloom said...
Ouch. I had a feeling that the second book would be just like how you described it so I never bought the book, intending to wait for the cheaper paperback. It's good to see my suspicions were right...
Thank you so much for your review!! :)
Thank you for being honest with this. I have Perfect Chemistry in my TBR, and I look forward to reading it...but, as of now, I don't think I'll buy the follow up in hardcover. Maybe paperback. Maybe.
Either way, I HATE it when an author uses the 'gay character' as a foil for problems and to try and just give the other protagonist a personality. We have our own complex stories, too, authors! Please respect that.
Literature for Lunch said...
Brilliant! Your review is absolutely brilliant. I believe my favorite line was, "As for Carlos' heritage - if some Spanish vocabulary, a recipe or two and the integration of a gang into a narrative gives legitimacy, then I'm the Pope."
This review was spot on. Thanks for your honesty.
Great review. I haven't read this and probably won't. I liked Perfect Chemistry but a lot of it really bugged me. I was especially annoyed that Brittany and Alex's relationship really clicked when they had sex. I don't like the idea that sex is the most important thing in a relationship or that it has such a big effect. I don't care that they had sex - it just doesn't feel realistic to me.
Alison Can Read
fantastic review. i couldnt persevere with this title. but obviously a lot of people dont mind such melodramatic and cliched stuff - but for me it's, ewwww :(
Wings said...
Awesome review and I love the honesty.
I personally loved perfect chemistry because I also love west side story.
after pc i didn't see how she could follow up with something that could be better which is probably why i still havent gotten around to buying.
i will eventually i think, but it has moved down a little in regards to urgency
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Home > News > High School Teacher Suspended For Saying He Supports Teachers Being Armed
High School Teacher Suspended For Saying He Supports Teachers Being Armed
History teacher Timothy Lock said he supported teachers being armed. For that, he was suspended.
From Daily Caller: A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended from his job for expressing support for arming teachers after the Parkland school shooting. Cherry Hill High School history teacher Timothy Lock, 59, said he was placed on administrative leave last week because he spoke out in one of his classes about arming teachers and ramping up school security to try and prevent a school shooting.
Most of the students reportedly didn’t have a problem with Lock’s comments, but one decided to report him to the administration. His bag was searched and he was required to undergo a physical and psychological exam.
More from Philly: “All I have ever done for that school is for my students and for their parents,” Locke said. Locke said he has mentioned in the past that Cherry Hill East has been compared to Columbine, based on demographics, something the New York Times pointed out in 2000. He also voiced concerns about the lack of armed police officers in the school.
Cherry Hill Police Chief William Monaghan said the two officers stationed at the school work for the school district, not his department. Locke and several students said the two officers, listed as “campus police” on the school’s website, are not armed. What is happening in this nation? Wasn’t all this liberal nonsense supposed to end on November 8, 2016?
Source: @dailycaller.com
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Reuters exclusively reports McIlroy fires long-time caddie Fitzgerald
Reuters exclusively reported that Rory McIlroy has sacked his long-time caddie J.P. Fitzgerald, ending a partnership that took the Northern Irishman to four major titles and the top of the world rankings. Fitzgerald’s sacking comes barely a week after he publicly thanked his bagman for jolting him into gear when he made a poor start to the British Open. The Reuters report was covered by numerous media outlets including the Associated Press, New York Post, USA Today, Sky Sports, PGA.com, SB Nation, Golf.com, Golf Digest, Golf week and TSN.
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Personal outlook
Throughout the twentieth century the modernist project in the visual arts has been an attempt to clarify how we might locate in non-narrative, non-illustrative forms an art released from the ties of the given visible world. It has been a project as much as a practice. This modernist tradition has been the foundation stone of all that I have made as a carver, and my work speaks of my ongoing deliberations on the possibilities of twentieth century visual form using traditional media.
In the past my inclinations have been towards a kind of cool abstraction that avoids the distractions of representational objects. My artistic sources are in Constructivism, the linearities of early 20th century geometrical abstraction as it developed up to and including Minimalism, and in the focus on material and form in Brutalist architecture. I am, however, also working on various figurative pieces at present, and on cubist inspired marble musical instruments.
I see art as a means to selfhood, to a better perception of all that resides on the edge of the sayable and beyond categorisation. Hence I am also interested in the psychopathology of art and the means by which art evades the codifications of more scholarly forms of understanding.
The Italian experience
Working in Italy continues to inspire me as a sculptor, in particular because of the freedom to experiment offered by studios there. When I’m in Carrara I’m surrounded by artists with astonishing technical skills and lives dedicated to stone. Their freedom from what I would call the ‘Western Tradition’ is utterly frightening and an inspiration.
A Late Summer Visit to Carrara (revised) by Sam Bell
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Jah Cure Says He Created History In Africa, Local Media Reports Different Story
July 10, 2019 Richard Banton News 0
Jah Cure says he created history over the weekend in Africa.
The Grammy-nominated Reggae singer performed at the Umoja Splash Festival in Uhuru Gardens, Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday and he claims it was the biggest event ever in the country.
However according to local media reports, Jah Cure left fans disappointed. “A poor stage performance by the main act, a malfunctioning sound address system and shortage of alcohol for the revelers is what summed up an overly underwhelming show,” Nairobi News Nation reports.
Jah Cure reportedly made a dramatic entrance at exactly 2:15am in a full traditional Maasai attire, a rungu and mic on either hand and an escort of six Maasai Morans, however he did not live up to his high billing.
“Right from the start, Jah Cure got off on the wrong footing. Soon after coming on stage, Jah Cure was met with a sound glitch with his mic malfunctioning. The most annoying thing was that for almost 10 minutes he seemed not to notice until the crowd got agitated,” the report continued.
“Once the mic had been fixed, Jah Cure sent the wild with his first words on the mic. The night looked promising. A few minutes later, he left the stage to go back stage for a change of clothes. But then he took long to get back, something that didn’t seem to please the fans.”
Despite the negative reviews, Jah Cure continues to celebrate the show as a success on social media. “HISTORY WAS MADE IN AFRICA. BIGGEST SOLD OUT EVENTS IN KENYA OVER 20 YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY OF REGGAE MUSIC!! I’M SO PROUD TO BE A VESSEL.. THANK YOU JAH. THANK YOU MY FANS. THANKS FOR THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE..,” he wrote.
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The Grand Duel (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
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The Green Inferno – Movie Review:
Co-written and directed by Eli Roth in 2013, it took a while for The Green Inferno to get released but it did eventually play theaters, if in a limited release, in 2015 and shortly after Universal brought it to Blu-ray. Now, Shout! Factory gives the film a proper special edition release.
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Directed and co-written by Pim de la Parra and released in 1975, My Nights With Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie introduces us, first, to Susan (Willeke Van Ammelrooy of Frank & Eva), a model now more interested in living a quiet life in the country. She lives out in the sticks in a picturesque ...
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A weird mix of the nineties technophobic thriller genre and a good old fashioned killer animal movie, John Lafia’s 1994 picture Man’s Best Friend introduces us to the EMAX Research Center. ...
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Directed by William A. Graham, who had quite a career creating content for the small screen, and penned by Bill Stratton (who wrote a boatload of episodes of Hawaii Five-O), The Last ...
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The Man Who Haunted Himself – Movie Review:
Based on the novel The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham written by E.L. James, 1970’s The Man Who Haunted Himself, which was written and directed by Basil Dearden (who, sadly, passed away in a car accident a year ...
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Lucky - Movie Review:
Being Canadian and all, I likely don't have the privilege to comment on, "The Last of the Great Americans" or some similar nonsense that ties in with manly men and Americana and all of that, but if I were going to put an actor's ...
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The third and final film in the Happy Hooker series was produced by none other than Menaham Golan and Yoram Globus, better known to children of the eighties as the two men who run Cannon Films! Normally that’d be a stamp of approval right? Right! But this film… well, actually ...
Just Before Dawn (Code Red) Blu-ray Review
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Warren (Gregg Henry) and his girlfriend Connie (Deborah Benson) get together with Jonathan (Chris Lemmon) and his girlfriend Megan (Jamie Rose) as well as Johnathan’s brother Daniel (Ralph Seymour) to hop into the RV and head into the mountains of western Oregon for a hiking getaway. Before they make it to their destination, a park ranger named Roy (George Kennedy) warns them to stay out of the area, but this being a slasher movie and all, they pay him no mind and proceed blissfully unaware ...
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1. Once Upon a Time...Storybook Love (03:58)
2. I Will Never Love Again (03:01)
3. Florin Dance (01:30)
4. Morning Ride (01:34)
5. The Friend's Song (03:02)
6. The Cliffs of Insanity (03:16)
7. The Swordfight (02:42)
8. Guide My Sword (05:09)
9. The Fireswamp And The Rodents Of Unusual Size (04:44)
10. Revenge (03:48)
11. A Happy Ending (01:51)
12. Storybook Love (04:24)
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Tracks 01-05 from the film "CAL"
2. Irish Love (02:28)
3. Father And Son (03:27)
4. Potato Picking (02:08)
5. The Long Road (07:22)
6. A Love Idea (03:06)
Tracks 06-08 from the film "LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN"
7. Victims (03:33)
8. Finale (06:24)
9. Once Upon A Time Storybook Love (04:00)
Tracks 09-13 from the film "THE PRINCESS BRIDE"
10. Morning Ride (01:36)
11. The Friends' Song (03:04)
12. Guide My Sword (05:11)
14. Wild Theme (03:39)
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15. Boomtown (Variation Louis' Favourite) (04:08)
16. The Mist Covered Mountains (04:58)
17. Smooching (05:03)
18. Going Home (Theme Of The Local Hero) (04:59)
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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
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Out Of Rosenheim
Fabuleux Destin d'Am�lie Poulain, Le
Thousand Pieces Of Gold
Cinema: A Windham Hill Collection
1. The Soundo of Silence (03:02)
2. Mrs. Robinson (01:08)
3. The Sound of Silence (03:05)
Tracks 1-3 from "The Graduate" by Dave Grusin (1967)
4. Cinema Paradiso (02:56)
5. Cinema on Fire (02:43)
6. Love Theme (02:41)
7. From American Sex-Appeal to First Fellini (03:24)
8. For Elena (01:52)
Tracks 4-8 from "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso" by Ennio Morricone (1989)
9. Theme from The Black Staillon (02:33)
10. Cobra Death (01:50)
11. The Legend (01:15)
12. Chase Trought Town (02:21)
13. Henry (01:45)
Tracks 9-13 from "The Black Staillon" by Carmine Coppola (1979)
14. If I Had Words (02:53)
15. Pork is a Nice Sweet Meat/Away in a Manager (03:02)
Tracks 14-15 from "Babe" by Nigel Westlake
16. Calliope (00:58)
Track 16 from "Out of Rosenheim" by Bob Telson (1988)
17. Prologue (02:12)
18. Diagon Alley and the Gringotts Vault (03:59)
19. Fluffy's Harp (02:38)
20. The Chess Game (03:46)
Tracks 17-20 from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by John Williams (2001)
21. Florin Dance (01:30)
23. The Swordfight (02:42)
24. Happy Ending (01:51)
Tracks 21-24 from "The Princess Bride" by Mark Knopfler (1987)
25. La Valse D'Amelie (02:15)
26. A Quai (03:25)
Tracks 25-26 from "Le Fabuleux Destine D'Amelie Poulain" by Yann Tiersen (2001)
27. Lonely Two (02:00)
28. The Dancer (02:10)
Tracks 27-28 from "Summer Of '42" by Michel Legrand (1971)
29. Main Title (01:49)
30. The Immigrants (02:17)
Tracks 29-30 from "Casablanca" by Max Steiner (1942)
31. Chinatown (02:05)
32. The First Night (02:34)
33. The Exodus (03:42)
Tracks 31-33 from "Thousand Pieces of Gold" by Gary R. Malkin (1990)
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What's Left?
Like many, I have been watching Corbynmania take hold in the UK with some interest and puzzlement. Part of me is thrilled and part of me nervous. I wonder where it will all end. Is this a rebirth of the Left in British Politics, or is it a false dawn? Is this the beginning of a movement that can bring a fundamental change in UK society or another starry eyed false dawn? You decide. This interview with Corbyn by Owen Jones is certainly worth a watch if you have the time.
One thing is sure, from the grassroots of British society there is a rebellion underway against what radicals call the neo-Liberal consensus. It first appeared in the rise of Scottish nationalism, which I have always believed drew its real strength not from nationalism, but rather its critique of 'Westminster' and the sense of establishment that Westminster politics seems to reek of. The rise of UKIP in the May 2015 General Election was more evidence if needed, of a UK wide desire to give Westminster a hard kick. Anyone who looks different, or sounds different to the usual suspects of establishment politics finds support at the moment. Correspondingly those who try to bring reform from within are portrayed as weak, not making enough of a difference, and colluding with the corrupt system. You can see why my own party, the Liberal Democrats, took such a hammering at the General Election after years of picking up the anti-establishment vote. If you fly with the crows, you get stoned with the crows.
The bare truth for those of us on the centre left is that Corbymania is partly due to our failure to make enough of a change to the socio-economic landscape over the lat ten years. Despite many things to be proud of both from New Labour and the Lib Dem coalition, inequality has risen, and people's feeling that they are less politically empowered in the face of vested interests and globalisation has risen with it. Were those of us in the centre left too timid? Did we buy in to the zeitgeist too much? Is the Corbynism a refreshing game changer for politics and the rights and potential of ordinary people, or will the elites and corporations hold onto their grip on power and decision making? Time will tell.
Tagged: Left, Labour, Politics, Liberal Democrats, Centre Left, Westminster, neo-Liberal, General Election, globalisation, Jeremy Corbyn, Corbynism
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Home > News from Elsewhere > Media Releases > Screen Australia hands back the rights
Screen Australia hands back the rights
Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Antarctica, Muriel’s Wedding, Round the Twist and Strictly Ballroom are just a few iconic Australian projects that make up a list of over 1200 titles whose rights will revert back to the producer as of today. At an event today marking the occasion with some of these producers, Screen Australia announced the scheduled reversion date of 1 January 2016 will advance six months to 1 July 2015.
In January 2009 Screen Australia first signalled the reversion of rights seven years after commercial release for all production investments. This policy affected all new feature, miniseries, documentaries, TV Series and/or telemovies approved from 1 January 2009. It also included all titles funded prior to 31 December 2008 by Screen Australia and predecessor agencies Film Finance Corporation and Australian Film Commission. At the time the decision was taken, Screen Australia’s intention was to share up to 50% of its income with the producer on those titles. The agency will now forego all rights and revenue from reverted titles in favour of the producer except for a 1% copyright interest. Screen Australia will retain credit rights for its investment and the right to require that the film continue to be publicly accessible.
Screen Australia Head of Business and Audience, Richard Harris said, “We decided to bring the date forward quite simply because it seemed like the right thing to do. Screen Australia is constantly asking how it can empower the industry, and we felt that there was little reason for the agency to be holding on to rights on projects that were not maximising their potential for exploitation. This decision will not only remove the constraints on producers wanting to breathe life into their intellectual property, and there are some much loved and revered titles in the list, but also sends an important message about how the agency wants to do business.”
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Who is the Secret Victorianist?
Neo-Victorian Voices: Longbourn, Jo Baker (2013)
There are two reasons we love retellings of our favourite novels, and they often act in opposition. First, we delight in discovering a new perspective on a familiar story. Second, we wish to recapture the feeling a beloved book gave us on our first reading.
Jo Baker’s 2013 Longbourn, a reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) from the Bennets’ servants’ viewpoints, falls firmly in the former camp. The usual cast of characters is there—Jane, Lizzie, et al., Darcy and Bingley, the tedious Mr Collins—but they aren’t in the foreground. Instead we follow the inner lives of Sarah, a housemaid, and her fellow servants. For these characters too there is romance, reversal and villainy, but with a hefty dose of realistic drudgery.
Reading Longbourn can make you feel guilty about the questions you didn’t consider before. What will the effects of the house’s entail be on the servants who live and work there? Who must get the mud out of Lizzie’s petticoats? Or the blood out of the sisters’ menstrual rags? There are also darker questions about the source of the Bingleys’ wealth (slave-worked sugar plantations) or Lydia’s relative privilege compared to ‘ruined’ girls without Darcy-level financial backing.
Baker writes great prose. She moves between her point-of-view characters masterfully, giving us access to their emotions with equal doses of empathy and irony. I particularly enjoyed her descriptions of Hertfordshire and the beauty she finds in the mundane, e.g. laundry and dishwashing. Throughout, she’s respectful of her source material, keeping consistent with the events and characterisations in Pride and Prejudice, even where she adds extra colour.
But if you’re looking to feel as you do when reading Pride and Prejudice, this novel might not satisfy. Longbourn hits some of the notes of the marriage plot on a structural level but, overall, the melody and mood is sadder. Baker’s book isn’t about Austenian wit and charm. It’s an answer to the sanitised escapism of some contemporary historical fiction and much of the Jane Austen fandom. Her ‘hero’, for example, is a former soldier, but not one of the swashbuckling redcoats we know from Meryton. In a section dedicated to him we confront the harsh realities of military combat, a world away from gowns and bonnets and shoe roses.
Longbourn is the best Austen-inspired novel I’ve reviewed in my Neo-Victorian Voices series (see, for instance, my review of Katherine J. Chen’s Mary B). Read it if you’re ready for something new. But if you’re just looking to indulge in nostalgia, reread Pride and Prejudice itself, or curl up in front of the BBC box set.
Which novel would you like the Secret Victorianist to review next as part of my Neo-Victorian Voices series? Let me know—here, on Facebook or by tweeting @SVictorianist.
Posted by Secret Victorianist at 21:42
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List of Unreviewed Genesis/Mega Drive/CD games (as of 03/09/2012)
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StarMist
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Originally Posted by Phantar
@StarMist: Oh, if you want to do Strategy Games you're very welcome, I don't claim them as my own. I've practically done reviews in almost every genre imaginable, and after doing several strategy games in a row I need a break anyway.
I wasn't being coy, the only strategy games I'd dream of playing are Bahamut Senki and Vixen 357 (which is much closer to Shining Force). Perhaps Hybrid Front once I learn what the hell it is.
I'll jot down that "Hurricanes" has been claimed. Just one request though: If you want to announce a review, please do so in the Upcoming Reviews and Features- thread. I want to keep things nice and tidy in this thread, spreading claims over two topics just makes things harder to assess!
I already had, where it'd been overlooked. So did my addition to VGC's list, Barbie Vacation Adventure. Not that I'd want to play it but if you're going to pretend a game doesn't exist Rocky and Bullwinkle would be the one.
Amendments to your list:
Vixen 357 is an SRPG.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho Gaiden is an RPG.
Smurfs 2 has been called by makinagenesis if he's still a participating member.
--NHK Taiga ~ ~ = are you sure this is on MD? I've only ever heard of it on PCE.
Sega's "tokoshan" games should be 'toshokan'.
goldenband
So if the review standard for protos is that it's completed but simply unreleased, are any of these not eligible?
Originally Posted by goldenband
Beastball, Davis Cup World Tour Tennis 2, Dragon's Lair, Fido Dido, It Came from the Desert (which can be finished IIRC), Itchy & Scratchy, Jelly Boy, ResQ, Stone Protectors...those are the ones I can come up with, and all but DCWTT2 have been reproed FWIW.
I'm pretty sure all of those were completed, though I'm not sure about Itchy & Scratchy.
I have to admit that the standards for pirate vs. unlicensed original are still a little bit fuzzy, but I guess we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis. Obviously we don't want to include mere title screen/graphics hacks like Ice Age, and I can understand categorizing original games like Tiny Toon Adventures 3 as pirates, since they broadcast their infringement. OTOH, I can't take a look at a game like, say, 777 Casino and be metaphysically certain that it hasn't stolen a single sprite or melody. Heck, even Wukong has a stolen tune, so...
Phantar
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Originally Posted by StarMist
I appreciate your effort, but Barbie Vacation Adventure was never officially released for the Genesis - it lacks an entry in Mobygames, and Guardiana lists it as "unreleased". I had it included under "unreleased", and bumped it down to "proto/beta" for the time being until it's cleared up if the game deserves review status or not. So no, it hasn't been overlooked.
Vixen is corrected, Yu Yu Hakusho Gaiden is listed as adventure (or "Inquiry game") elsewhere, so I kept that description. Regarding Smurfs 2, I looked it up and makingagenesis said "if i was confident enough of writing a presentable review i'd like to review it" - which doesn't sound like a definite claim for writing a review to me. If you still want to claim it, go ahead! I like your reviews, and I'd like seeing Smurfs 2 added to our library. NHK Taiga is listed at Guardiana. The "Toshokan"-typo was my bad... thanks for clearing that up.
@goldenband: I think I'll have to leave this one up for Melf to decide. Until he gives the word, I'll leave those down at "proto/beta"-status - no review, but a feature is okay. As soon as he gives the okay, I'll bump them (and Barbie Vacation Adventure) up to "unreleased".
The funny thing about an oxymoron is, even if you remove the ox, there'll always be a moron. The Question Remains: Y?
vintagegamecrazy
I've been meaning to post this before but I think we should just make a new section of the reviews underneath the 32X section simply titled prototype or unreleased. That way we could cover those games and not have to worry about those being confused with the rest of them. I'd love to learn more about them and play them more too. I know we have a section in the features but I think they just get lost there and don't get the coverage they deserve since there are some great games that were never released or finished. We don't even have to score games that arent finished but just write a real nice review of what's there and whether it's worth checking out or not. It would also probably increase the review flow for the site too.
Melf what do you think? Anyone else care to comment?
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Sounds like a fine idea to me! And I agree that individual games get lost if they're only in the "Features" section; yes, you can Google site:sega-16.com + [game name], but it's not the same.
Good call, I was sure I'd seen the game in Genesis lots--turns out the actually released Barbie game looks about the same. They probably all do on every console. One caveat though: Mobygames lacks entries for a great many titles, a relevant example being Shura no Mon (PS) which I looked up earlier to research the connexion between it and the MD version--same source material but the PS game's a platformer--and Moby doesn't have. I'm quite certain it exists, you could buy one off Ebay. So in the future I'll try to doublecheck things against Guardiana.
Regarding Smurfs 2, I looked it up and makingagenesis said "if i was confident enough of writing a presentable review i'd like to review it" - which doesn't sound like a definite claim for writing a review to me.
Ahh, he told me he was girt to do it; I overlooked whether he'd confirmed it in the thread. I've messaged him, we'll see whether he returns.
If you still want to claim it, go ahead! I like your reviews, and I'd like seeing Smurfs 2 added to our library.
...Thus Phantar lost all credibility on Sega-16 and was sent in exile to the Gamefaqs forums for all eternity.
NHK Taiga is listed at Guardiana.
Damn, I've seen that cover. 2 strikes against me in 1 post.
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Originally Posted by Melf
Only legitimate releases are eligible for review. Any hacks, pirates, protos, etc. are not eligible, since they weren't retail or Sega Channel releases. Unlicensed games, such as those by Wisdom Tree and Chinese releases, are acceptable. All the others go in features.
Where do the Good Deal Games Sega CD games fit in, specifically stuff like Battle Frenzy (got a EU release followed by GDG's release in 2004, yet it's listed as a prototype/homebrew) or The Smurfs (a recent GDG addition, but it has the same circumstances as Battle Frenzy)? I can understand the unfinished stuff GDG released not being eligible for review, though there is apparently a complete (i.e. not GDG's) version of Time Cop floating around on the internet, but Battle Frenzy was in fact finished and released in EU only until GDG's unlicensed release. The Smurfs, on the other hand, I guess can now be considered a NA-released unlicensed game.
Finally, Johnny Mnemonic (which GDG has also recently released) should be a finished game, since it's simply a port of the PC version & was apparently published by Sony ImageSoft, so it likely suffered the same fate as Star Strike & Bug Blasters, i.e. finished but not released. But, to be honest, this is just a guess but I do have a copy of GDG's version coming to me so I can check to see if it is a complete game... Though it's apparently insanely hard to play, to the point where even GDG admits that the game is more of a collector's piece than an enjoyable game.
Good Deal games' stuff should be counted as they're techincally released now and should be moved to the Sega CD section.
Originally Posted by vintagegamecrazy
Not a bad idea. In any case I think the unreleased games should probably not be treated the same as the released ones. The circumstances of the game surfacing (Mr. Nutz 2 had to be compiled from source code, while Lobo was a community effort) are vastly different, and it somehow wouldn't feel right to treat them the same way as properly released titles. Penn & Teller was a bit of a fluke, but I think it's forgivable as it was the first instance (also, well, it's as complete as it gets, so if you want to play another round of Desert Bus, here's your chance). As it's very hard to tell whether an unreleased game is actually really absolutely 100% complete or not, shifting them into their own category doesn't sound like a bad idea, especially as occasionally the odd new prototype or even nearly complete game pops up (even if it may take several years for the next one to appear).
Originally Posted by LordGeo
Where do the Good Deal Games Sega CD games fit in, specifically stuff like Battle Frenzy (got a EU release followed by GDG's release in 2004, yet it's listed as a prototype/homebrew) or The Smurfs (a recent GDG addition, but it has the same circumstances as Battle Frenzy)?
Battle Frenzy should already be up there with the European releases, so that was an oversight. The Smurfs is already included in the list.[/quote]
If Johnny Mnemonic is anything like the PC version then it is indeed a near unplayable mess... it was hard enough to play it on a keyboard, but on a controller...? Still, it has been released now, and if it's at least barely playable it should be included in the releases list. (btw LordGeo, if you don't mind I'd like to hear your opinion on the game once it arrives, just an impression about how hard to play it really is...)
In the Appendix version of "Home Video Games Vol 3" The games Battle Frenzy, Frog Feast and Mighty Mighty Missile are listed as game releases. Though the latter is just a downgrade/retroport of "Chu Chu Rocket", and if I'm not mistaken it doesn't have all the levels of the latter. I'll bump up Frog Feast in any case, though. Since Time Cop and Grey Death Legion are only distributed as Demos, they stay where they are.
By the way, apparently there also once was a Genesis Cart release of Frog Feast back in 2005 (According to Mobygames also for the Snes, the Jaguar and the CD-I). Can anyone confirm this?
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Not a bad idea. In any case I think the unreleased games should probably not be treated the same as the released ones. The circumstances of the game surfacing (Mr. Nutz 2 had to be compiled from source code, while Lobo was a community effort) are vastly different, and it somehow wouldn't feel right to treat them the same way as properly released titles.
I think if we make too many categories, it will cause confusion. I'm trying to categorize releases by the simplest and most useful categories possible: finished game or not. If we go with separating the unreleased games from the released ones, we'll be forced to distinguish the unlicensed from the licensed ones, then someone will want after-market releases to be separate, etc. By simply separating them by whether or not they are complete, we give readers the basic information they want: can I play the game through to completion or not? All other details, like if it's licensed or not, can be discussed in the review itself.
I don't think we should give hacks and protos a separate category for several reasons. First, there aren't all that many, so it won't really pad our review queue. Second, you can't really score something that's not finished, so it wouldn't even fit the requirements of the Review Manifest (no score = not a review). Third, I don't want to really give pirates any legitimacy beyond simply acknowledging that they're out there. I don't want to make it sound like we're encouraging piracy or something.
Games I Need
To my knowledge, these games can be finished and considered to be "Complete":
ResQ (shoot'em'up)
It Came From The Desert (action-Adventure)
Fido Dido (platform)
Jelly Boy (platform)
Lobo (fighting)
Mr. Nutz 2 (platform)
Tecmo Cup (simulation)
Barbie Vacation Adventure (misc) (hard to tell really, but it controls about as bad as the officially released SNES game, and from what I've seen it seems complete)
Ninja Gaiden can be played until the end, but the controls are so obviously broken and unfinished that it can't be considered a "complete" game.
Pretty much unfinished (to my knowledge):
- Jim Power
- Might & Magic III
- Super Shinobi 2
- Iron Hammer
- Ninja Gaiden
- Prince Of Persia 2: The Shadow Of Flame (platform-adventure)
Need more information on:
Beastball (sports)
Beyond Zero Tolerance (beta) (FPS)
Davis Cup World Tour Tennis 2 (sport)
Dragon's Lair (platform) (The Dragon's Lair version leaked in June/July 2011 is ""almost bug-free and more or less complete" - some animation is missing)
Itchy & Scratchy (action) (oddly enough, the Genesis version appears on several release lists as "released", and I own an old issue (Sega Magazin 7/94) where the game was reviewed. Still not sure in what state the existing ROM is in, though).
Stone Protectors (Beat'em'up)
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Master of Shinobi
I was given the task of doing Magic Girl and Mega SWIV a while ago.
If I'm still in the game I'll try to get my ass off the couch and do them soon.
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Hero of Algol
Dragon's Lair (platform)
Itchy & Scratchy (action)
Beastball (Brutal Football) is pretty much complete AFAIK. Maybe need some polishing in the source code (it runs slow) but it plays very well (collision detection, etc...).
Beyond Zero Tolerance is totally incomplete, barely developed.
Stone Protectors is totally complete AFAIK. The scrolling is a bit iffy since you need to "push" the screen unlike in the SNES version but rather than that it's pretty much complete and plays very well. There's some stuff like parallax in the snow effect that is not present in the SNES version...
@Barone: Thanks for the info. I only saw a video on the Genesis version of Stone Protectors. Thought I noticed a few minor graphical glitches here and there, but that could have been just the video.
@Kollision: Hadn't seen that before. Just do them then
I just looked at SegaRetro (mind you, like any wiki, that's not a definite know-all source, but a very good starting point for basic research): Here's a list of unreleased known Mega Drive Games. However, the data is incomplete, as in most cases it is not known whether the game was completed or whether the existing rom can be considered complete or not.
The following games are definitely NOT complete and therefore not eligible for review:
Davis Cup Tennis 2
DynoBlaze
Elite (space-sim)
Slam: Shaq vs. The Legends (sport)
Swamp Thing (action)
Waterworld (Action)
Wacky Races ("All the stages and modes appear to be in working order, but the prototype informs the user that it was "meant for demonstration purposes only" which suggests more work was intended before home release.")
The following roms exist but aren't confirmed whether or not they are complete (confirmation needed: Are they buggy/prone to glitches/crashing/incomplete):
Baby's Day Out
The Chaos Engine 2
Fun Car Rally
Wild Snake
If anyone can shine a little light on the status of these games, that would be much appreciated.
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CMA 08: The return of Shania! See Photos and Read Comments
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I've heard ABC is airing a commercial about the show which says there'll be a special guest everyone'll talk about.
Could it be possibly HER?????
I think it all depends on her mood.
I'm sure everyone would be more interested to know how's she's dealing with the split from Mutt than her next music projects, and that's sad. And I don't know if she's already ready to go through it.
But I also think that sooner or later she will be forced to talk about it, when she'll release her new album.
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It would be nice if she could go.
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Yes it would be nice, I'll be very surprised if she does show up. Her PR people may request reporters not to ask Shania any questions about her personal life and to only discuss any new music if she so chooses to bring it up.
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Yes, it's what I thought too....she would definitely know how to avoid stupid and out-of-place questions...but everyone know journalists....
So let's cross our fingers!!
The CMA Awards will be held at the Sommet Center in downtown Nashville on Nov. 12 during a live broadcast on ABC. It was the third-highest rated awards show last year, behind the Academy Awards and the Grammys. This year's show will be shot in high definition and broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound. In addition, the Horizon Award -- which has been given out since 1981 -- has been renamed the best new artist award.
http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brie...2-on-abc.jhtml
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If it's true she is attending, it doesn't mean to say she has new material to promote, perhaps she just wants to catch up with all her fave country artists. In 2005 she presented with Billy Joel, which she really enjoyed.
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It would be nice if she did attend and to just see her!!
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Absolutely, but some say it's too soon for her to come back and that she might not be ready.
I don't think she has new material to promote yet. Maybe next year if it's true she's working really really hard on writing songs.
I think it takes time to find a new producer and to go in the studio to record, especially for a perfectionist like Shania.
I'm sure she has lot of things goin' on in her mind right now and maybe be in the spotlights it's not one of them
Jake Owen to Host CMA Special
Jake Owen is slated to co-host the daily abc.com special, The Countdown to Country Musics Biggest Night, Nov. 513 at cmawards.com.
Jake, who hosted abc.coms Nashville Nights special for this years CMA Music Festival, will take on the hosting role again with labelmate Chuck Wicks and former Miss Tennessee, Ashley Eicher. During the daily five-minute shows, Jake and his co-hosts will take fans behind the scenes of the events leading up to the CMA Awards, which will take place in Nashville, Nov.12.
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I sure hope she'll be there
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The Nashville Narc blog says it will try to find out who the special guest is.
http://www.nashvillenarc.com/2008/1...ce-at-cmas.html
CMA Awards Lineup Grows
Rodney Atkins and Kellie Pickler are among the latest to join the lineup for next month's 42nd annual Country Music Association Awards. The singers have been tapped to perform during the show. They're also both nominees, each vying for the CMA New Artist of the Year honors. In addition, Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon is on board for the ceremony. The actress, who earned an Oscar for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in 2005's "Walk The Line," is the first confirmed presenter. It'll be Witherspoon's second time taking part in the CMA Awards. She also appeared at the annual event three years ago, in conjunction with the Cash biopic's release. The awards show took place just a few days before the film hit theaters. Previously announced performers include co-hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, along with Trace Adkins, Brooks & Dunn, the Eagles, Kid Rock, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, George Strait, Sugarland, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, and Kenny Chesney who will be performing with the Wailers. The 42nd Annual CMA Awards will air on ABC from the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee on November 12th.
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MasterChef US Season 6 Episode 14 Recap and Review: August 12 2015
August 15, 2015 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
“Getting Ahead in the Competition”
Screencapture from the August 12 2015 episode of MasterChef “Getting A-Head in the Competition”. Episodes available for viewing via Amazon Instant Video.
Last week we finally said goodbye to Shelly and the top nine became eight: Tommy, Derrick, Claudia, Hetal, Stephen, Olivia, Nick and Katrina. And with an even number of competitors again that means this week will be another team competition.
As they walk into the MasterChef kitchen, they find four large crates: two marked “Meat” and two marked “Vegetables”. They’re going to have to use the ingredients inside those crates to prepare their next dishes. But they don’t have to make just one dish…they’re going to have to make “around…50”, according to Christina. A dish for every one coming for dinner in the MasterChef restaurant that nights. The guests are VIPs shaping the future of restaurants around the world, Gordon says. Both teams will have to make one elegant, composed entree for each of the 50 guests, and those guests will be the judges as well.
Hetal and Tommy are team captains and it’s Tommy’s first time getting that honor – and responsibility. Tommy had the winning dish so he gets first pick for his team. He picks the “world famous” urban gardener: Stephen. Stephen isn’t exactly happy to be picked for Tommy’s team. What did he do so wrong in his life, he wonders? Hetal picks someone she’s worked with before: Derrick, who isn’t too pleased to get first pick for her team, either. He doesn’t think Hetal has the voice of a leader so he’s worried about the protein box. Tommy then goes for Katrina, and Hetal picks Olivia. Tommy gets last pick and goes with Nick. That puts Claudia on Hetal’s Blue Team. Tommy feels pretty good about his Red Team picks.
So, what do they have in their crates to cook with? They open the vegetable creates to find a variety of beautiful fresh produce: peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, artichokes, cabbage, carrots, radishes. Stephen says it looks like his backyard. If he dies of irritation working with Tommy, they could bury him in this box!
So, what is in the meat box? Here comes the “good stuff”…or so some of them are thinking. Nick hopes it’s pig. But when they open up their boxes, they are empty. Hetal is happy because that means it has to be a vegetarian challenge, and that’s exactly the kind of challenge she should be captain of. Nick loves meat so this is not his kind of challenge at all.
Gordon explains that tonight, the diners they are going to be cooking for are the who’s who of the vegetarian world: restauranteurs, food critics and others who are all vegetarian. They will have 60 minutes to prep their composed vegetarian entries before 30 minutes of restaurant service.
Time gets started and both teams hurry into the pantry to discuss their plan. Hetal has a strong vision of what she wants to do: a potato, chickpea and English pea curry with tomato sauce, coconut rice. Claudia is worried that Hetal is the only one who knows these Indian spices and flavors, but she assures her team she can walk them through it.
On the Red Team, Tommy is trying to come up with a plan, but it seems that everyone wants to be team captain and talk over him. Katrina and Stephen seem to have an idea to do a Fall-themed dish of lentils and butternut squash, also with mushrooms and goat cheese. These are the people he picked, but now he has to deal with them.
15 minutes gone and everyone seems to just be getting started on their cooking. They all need to be moving faster. The judges discuss how this is a true test of a chef to be able to put together a balanced fine dining vegetarian entree.
Gordon checks in with Hetal and he wonders if she’s too much inside her head with her plan and not communicating enough with her team. Derrick isn’t really comfortable with what he’s working on. The Blue Team seems to be all over the place, she needs to delegate more. With 29 minutes to go the vegetables are all raw. Claudia says nothing is done, and everyone is running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s a mess, according to her teammates. Hetal needs to take a few minutes to get everyone on track.
Meanwhile, time to check in with the Red Team, with 25 minutes to go. Tommy is doing a butternut squash cradle with lentils on top a portobello mushroom, with a goat cheese medallion. But goat cheese isn’t cooking well in the pan and Gordon challenges that he can’t serve them to these VIP guests. So they’re going to 86 the goat cheese. Will they get the butternut squash rings cooked in time? Nobody is listening to Tommy.
Back on the Blue Team, Hetal’s rice is no good, it’s too wet. Christina checks in with them and they ask her for any way to save it. She wonders if they could make it into a rice porridge or do something else if it’s an essential part of the dish. They have to be clever and creative to make it work.
Graham checks in with Stephen on the Red Team and seems impressed with his mushroom sauce. Is Tommy okay with them nixing the goat cheese? He didn’t really have a choice, and right now he’s not really comfortable owning this dish. But he’s got to step up and be more assertive, be the boss.
In the dining room the guests are seated and start explaining what they are looking for in the dishes tonight. It’s time to start getting their plates together and ready for service. Tommy is trying to get one demo plate composed but meanwhile Katrina, Nick and Stephen are yelling at him to hurry up and work faster.
It’s like three wild dogs in the yard barking and barking at him, he says, and what does he have to say to that? “Shut. Up!”
Service begins and the Red Team is finally coming together now that Katrina has shut up and Tommy has finished his demo plate. Hetal thinks her dish looks beautiful and that the VIPs will appreciate where she is coming from. One guest tells Graham that she prefers the Blue Team’s plate because it was delightfully fresh. But another person thought the spiciness of the Blue Team dish was overwhelming all the other flavors.
Tommy’s squash cradle with lentils, mushroom gravy and pickled radish is garnering some praise and criticism as well. One diner really loved it, especially the mushroom gravy. Another thought the lentils were a little overdone and that the dish was something he’d seen before.
All diners get their plates and now it’s time for them to cast their votes. All the team members can do is wait in anticipation of the results. When the voting is completed, the chefs enter the dining room. Tommy doesn’t just have butterflies in his stomach, he has bats with teeth inside of him! Hetal feels it’s important for her to win because these are “her people”. But with a margin of 13 votes, Tommy and the Red Team win the competition. He is bursting with pride. And now, the Blue Team will have to face the “dreaded pressure test”.
Hetal feels extremely guilty that her team members are now up for elimination. Derrick thinks that he, Olivia and Claudia don’t deserve to be there because they just followed Hetal’s orders and gave her exactly what she wanted. Did she want a pressure test?
Well, now at least one of them will be cooking their last meal in the MasterChef kitchen now. Graham asks them to turn around and they see a black box resting on each of the stations behind them. Each box is different in size and with different contents, but they all share one common theme. The four cooks must randomly choose a station.
Olivia says it’s silent as the competition is fierce. She can’t imagine what is coming. As team captain Hetal is asked to lift her box first. What does she find there? A lamb’s head! She definitely does not look happy about it, it fact it’s probably every vegetarian’s worst nightmare. She’s never cooked one before but she did dissect a lamb in biology class so she’ll attack it the same way.
Derrick lifts his box to find a fish head. It’s a halibut head in fact. He hasn’t cooked with it before. Claudia lifts her box to find a pig’s head. She’s not so unhappy, in fact she is in “hog heaven” now. Every major party in her family involves a whole roasted pig. The final box in front of Olivia is the biggest one there. Hetal is not looking so good right now and Gordon advises her not to look. What did Olivia end up with? It’s a giant cow’s head.
And so they each have to make a dish featuring at least one part of the animal head they received, in 60 minutes. They’ll have a limited pantry to work with as well. Time begins and the judges debate who will do well and who seems likely to struggle. Hetal doesn’t look right and this is really out of her comfort zone. Derrick arguably has the easiest protein but he could overthink it and overcook the fish. Olivia is so dainty, how can she make a 100-pound cow’s head look gorgeous. Claudia seems to be in her comfort zone and seems to want to send a message to the others with her dish.
Gordon checks in with Hetal. She is doing shredding tongue and cheek on jasmine rice. She needs to “wakey wakey” and concentrate, he tells her. Olivia is doing barbecued beef cheek with cheddar polenta. Who does she think is going home? Graham wants to know. She thinks Graham is making her nervous and she’d rather not talk right now. I don’t blame her!
Christina checks in with Derrick, who is doing Tandoori-spiced halibut, coconut cauliflower puree, smoked mango balls, grapefruit gastrique. He says he loves the pressure of being in the black apron. Claudia feels great because pork is so significant to Mexican cuisine. She’s doing a stacked tostada with pork cheek and pigs’ ears.
Graham is worried about Olivia because she hasn’t added a lot of herbs or garlic to her meat and it will be too late to get those flavors in once it’s cooked Christina is worried about Derrick and sees that the Red Team members want him out. He’s all over the place and practically setting himself on fire with his torch. He’s definitely feeling the pressure and Stephen is trying to get in his head.
Everyone rushes to finish plating until time is called. They start with team captain Hetal. She has lamb tongue and cheek braised in curry spices with turmeric jasmine rice and cilantro mint oil. She’s going on smell since she couldn’t taste the meat. Which is the tongue and which is the cheek? Gordon wants to know. She cooked them together. It’s confusing because there’s way too much rice, it’s slightly undercooked, and he’s frustrated even though the meat is good.
Next up is Derrick’s Tandoori-spiced halibut cheek with coconut orange cauliflower puree, braised cabbage, smoked mango balls and grapefruit gastrique. Visually it’s the prettiest plate he’s ever put up, Graham says, but the flavors seem a little disjointed. It’s not just fusion but confusion. Tasting, the fish is cooked perfectly. He would have done the grapefruit or mango, not both. It’s overcomplicated. He’s got to pull it in sometimes.
Christina is up to taste Claudia’s dish: it’s pig ear and cheek tostada with mango salsa and chipotle cream. It has a rustic charm, Christina says, and after tasting she whispers, “I love it.” It’s so bright, the cabbage brings acidity, and the pig cheeks are the star.
Last up is Olivia with her BBQ beef cheek with braised kale, sauteed vegetables and cheddar polenta. It’s got a rustic charm, Gordon says, like it just came out of a neighborhood bistro. Gordon tastes it and says that the plating is smart but the bizarre thing is it’s hard to identify the beef cheek because the sauce is so strong. It could be anything. He wanted to taste the beef, and she forgot the hero.
Time for the judges to make their decision. One dish was absolutely remarkable, and that was Claudia’s. She’s safe. She’s happy because she didn’t deserve to be in the pressure test to begin with. Hetal and Derrick are called forward next. It’s really hard, but, they are both safe tonight. That means Olivia is the one going home.
She’s sad to go but before she leaves she says the person who will be the next MasterChef is Katrina.
Overall this was a pretty intense episode that certainly went to extremes: first all vegetarian, and then gruesome head meat. Now, I happen to be a fan of offal meats so I was certainly interested in seeing what they’d come up with in this pressure test. And I gotta say Claudia’s tostada looked delicious and I absolutely want that recipe. That’s the first time I’ve really been that super-impressed with her cooking. They could really be setting her up for the cookbook win now.
I was disappointed not just with Hetal’s leadership but also her teammates on the Blue Team, seemingly so clueless about Indian food and spices and seeming so confused about how to approach the dish. It really wasn’t that complicated, and Indian spices/techniques are not that different from what you would find in Southeast Asian cuisines. I am not an expert but I do enjoy cooking Indian at home at times and I’m a little surprised to see these so-called home cooking experts so thrown off-kilter by having to do something with an Indian theme. That said, I do wish Hetal would show a little more variety in the dishes she prepares and chooses to make. She is definitely falling fast and I think could be soon for elimination.
Next week promises to be a major disaster, as usual with the annual tag team challenge. I tend to think we’ll see either Nick or Hetal eliminated next, what about you? Personally I’d kind of be glad to see Stephen get the cut next; he’s becoming far too annoying with his attitude toward Derrick and also Tommy.
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I totally agree with your conclusions. I wasn’t surprised to see Olivia go home based on the editing of her lately, but I do think that Hetal ought to have been the one to walk, both for her poor job as team captain and the feedback from her lamb dish. Still I’m hopeful that she might go this week. Olivia was spot on with her remark about Hetal making yet another Indian dish. I wonder when she’s going to get called out on that. Claudia also cooks mostly Mexican dishes – I’d like to see both of them try something else. This is the top 8, you can’t coast along in your comfort zone challenge after challenge.
I was rather surprised to see Derrick cooking his fish Indian style in the pressure test after hearing him criticise Hetal for selecting Indian food for the team challenge when the rest of the team was not familiar with the flavour profile or cooking techniques. As you pointed out, it’s not that hard to grasp and anyway some techniques are the same as other cuisines – I laughed when they couldn’t even get rice cooked properly. Masterchefs? Best home cooks in America? Yeah, right.
Stephen was appalling in this epoisode. I know they like drama in the US version of Masterchef and Stephen is providing it, but really he was beyond obnoxious. I get that he does not like Derrick (and I think the feeling is mutual) but that constant, cringe-worthy heckling from the peanut gallery with him and Tommy in cahoots was a step too far for me. I’d like to see him gone from the show, but I suspect they’ll keep him for the fireworks a bit longer. Please don’t let him win!
It makes me wonder if Hetal’s team weren’t being deliberately obtuse to an extent, it seemed so over-the-top in how much they were trying to make it hard to figure out a few fairly standard Indian-style recipes. Did they want to go to the pressure test, expecting Hetal to go? It seemed awfully strange to me. But again, she doesn’t seem to be a good team leader – she both was too much “in her head” as Gordon said and wanting to control everything too much.
The more I’ve seen of Hetal the less impressed I’ve been, because it seems really like all she’s truly great at is baking (maybe why she was able to excel on the Beef Wellington?), not so much really innovative and delicious vegetarian cooking (Bri in season 4 was better at that.)
Derrick’s Tandoori-spiced fish might have even been a little “FU” to Hetal, I don’t know.
This was actually the first time I really wanted the recipe for one of Claudia’s dishes. I do a lot of Mexican cooking at home, and so far this was the only dish that was something I don’t already have recipes for and would like to learn how to make. Especially as we’ve raised pigs in my family and I have a freezer full of ears, cheeks, and other offal cuts that are hard to learn how to cook properly!
I can’t see Stephen winning but I agree, he has gone beyond quirky to downright mean and hard to take.
You are right that the team’s attitude to the Indian food was almost deliberately “dense”. I can see that they might be more comfortable with Hetal’s experience at blending the spices they needed, but other basic techniques like cooking rice, peeling and chopping vegetables, frying up tomatoes, opening and rinsing some tins of chickpeas etc ought to be a walk in the park for these guys. I think that perhaps they simply didn’t like the idea of Indian food and sort of subconsciously sabotaged it. Hetal already took a bit of a risk as curry can really polarise people. What might taste mild to her palate, can be far too spicy for someone not used to it (and someone did comment on that). I have a friend here who breaks out in a sweat if you just say the word “curry” – ha, ha!
I can also be a bit “in my head” when I cook and generally don’t like people helping me in the kitchen for that reason, no matter how well meaning they might be. I wonder if Hetal has made this dish a hundred times and has paced out the steps and got mentally thrown by people around her doing some of the work and messing with her usual rhythm. It’s hard when you have to explain things that you take for granted or forget to say something that you think is obvious. I had a friend help me once and I said she could thinly slice the leeks for the dish I was making. I’d already rinsed them and while I was slicing the meat and onions, she thinly sliced the leeks – lengthwise! Who on earth thinks leeks are sliced thinly lengthwise into spaghetti strips? I hadn’t said to cut them in rounds, merely assuming that she’d just “know” what I wanted her to do. Now I’m much more specific in my instructions and Hetal needed to make sure everyone knew how big to cut the potatoes and cauliflower etc to avoid the panic at the end. At the same time, I can understand that she just didn’t realise that they couldn’t read her mind. 🙂
I agree that Hetal has not really shone in the way Bri did and I admit I was looking forward to seeing some innovative vegetarian food, especially in the mystery box challenges but that hasn’t happened. There’s been far too much baking on the program this season as well. I’m thinking that’s because of Christina, but really do we have to have a dessert challenge all of the time? It’s supposed to be Masterchef not Masterbaker!
I was thinking after I posted my previous comment that Olivia may also have fell foul of the judges by not playing the drama game. When Graham tried to bait her about who she thought would be going home, she fobbed him off and refused to name anyone. Good on her! The judges on this version of Masterchef are always asking these negative things – who is going home, who is the weakest cook, what do you think of Person A’s chances etc which I think is awful. I never see that on the Australian or British version. It’s great to have confidence in your own skills, but there’s no need to insult or belittle your fellow contestants. It makes that person look a little less in my eyes.
The other thing I find off putting is the way they choose teams – set up to be diversive and to foster resentments. The team selections are much more random on the other versions. Left side blue, right side red or front row blue, back row red etc. And another beef is when the judges spit out food or dump plates in the bin. That’s really childish and not something I think a professional should stoop to, especially as their role is to mentor these aspiring chefs. Again, this doesn’t happen in other versions of the series – there are far more instructive ways to get across the message that the dish was substandard without the need for badly scripted melodrama.
Mexican food is not something you see much here in Sweden. Tex-Mex is everywhere, but not genuine Mexican cuisine. Are there no recipes for dishes on the US Masterchef website? The Aussie version has a recipe section and I’ve made a couple of dishes from them every season. failing that, does Claudia have a social media presence or blog? Maybe you could ask her to share the recipe. I can’t say that I share your love for offal and actually I rarely eat meat, but each to their own. I thought Claudia’s dish was beautiful to look at and really very clever – a well deserved win.
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by: William Shakespeare
Prologue and Act I, scene i
Act II, Prologue and scenes i–ii
Act II, scenes iii–iv
Act III, Prologue and scenes i–ii
Act III, scenes iii–v
Act III, scenes vi–vii
Act IV, Prologue and scenes i–ii
Act IV, scenes iii–v
Act IV, scenes vi–viii
Act V, Prologue, scenes i–ii, and Epilogue
King Henry V
Fluellen
Prologue and Act 1, scene i
Act 2, Prologue and scenes i–ii
Act 2, scenes iii–iv
Act 3, scenes iii–v
Act 3, scenes vi–vii
Act 4, scenes vi–viii
Act 5, Prologue, scenes i–ii, and Epilogue
How To Cite No Fear Henry V
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Table of Contents Characters Act 1, Prologue Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 2, Prologue Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2 Act 2, Scene 3 Act 3, Prologue Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 3 Act 3, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 3, Scene 6 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 2 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 3 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 4 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 5 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 6 Act 3, Scene 6, Page 7 Act 3, Scene 7 Act 4, Prologue Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 4, Scene 3 Act 4, Scene 4 Act 4, Scene 5 Act 4, Scene 6 Act 4, Scene 7 Act 4, Scene 8 Act 5, Prologue Act 5, Scene 1 Act 5, Scene 2 How to Cite
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trick up with new-tuned oaths; and what a beard of the general’s cut and a horrid suit of the camp will do among foaming bottles and ale-washed wits is wonderful to be thought on. But you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or else you may be marvelously mistook.
shot, who was disgraced, what terms the enemy insisted on. And they study how to express these things in proper military jargon, which they embellish with fashionable oaths. And what a beard trimmed like the general’s or a rough uniform will do among foaming mugs and brains washed with ale, you wouldn’t believe. But you must learn to recognize such liars, or you will be greatly taken advantage of.
I tell you what, Captain Gower. I do perceive he is not the man that he would gladly make show to the world he is. If I find a hole in his coat, I will tell him my mind.
I tell you what, Captain Gower; I perceive that he is not the man that he would have the world think he is. If I find an opportunity, I will give him a piece of my mind.
Drum and colors Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers
KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers enter, with a drum roll and military flags.
Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with him from the pridge.—God pless your Majesty.
Listen. The king is coming, and I must speak with him about what went on at the bridge.—God bless your Majesty!
How now, Fluellen, cam’st thou from the bridge?
Tell me, Fluellen: did you just come from the bridge?
80Ay, so please your Majesty. The duke of Exeter has very gallantly maintained the pridge. The French is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most prave passages. Marry, th' athversary was have possession of the pridge, but he is enforced to retire, and the duke of Exeter is master of the pridge. I can tell your Majesty, the duke is a prave man.
Yes, your Majesty. The duke of Exeter has held the bridge very gallantly. The French have retreated, see, and there were great acts of courage. Indeed, the enemy nearly took the bridge, but he was forced to retreat, and the duke of Exeter holds the bridge. I can tell your Majesty, the duke is a brave man.
What men have you lost, Fluellen?
The perdition of th' athversary hath been very great, reasonable great. Marry, for my part, I think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one Bardolph, if your Majesty know the man. His face is all bubukles and whelks and knobs and flames o' fire; and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red, but his nose is executed, and his fire’s out.
The enemy’s losses have been very great, pretty substantial. To tell the truth, though, I think the duke hasn’t lost a single man, except for one who will probably be executed for robbing a church, one Bardolph—I don’t know if your Majesty knows the man. His face is all pustules and pockmarks, and pimples and inflammation, and his lips blow up toward his nose, which is like a red-hot coal, sometimes blue, sometimes red. But his nose is dead, and the fire’s put out.
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King Henry V: Character Analysis
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Tag: Hayley Tantau
5 good reasons to see The First Annual (Doris to insert) Festival
1. It’s a festival within a festival, so you get twice the festival for once the ticket price.
2. Whether you love Grant Denyer, hate Grant Denyer or are merely indifferent to Grant Denyer, we’ve some jokes for you!
3. There’s a raffle every night! You could win a fabulous prize of some sort!
4. It’s our first show together as a sketch group, so if it turns out we’re good at this thing, you’ll be able to be a comedy snob in five years’ time and be all, “I saw Bess County back when they did their first show and there were just two people watching.”
5. We’ve made a show that’s bursting with big characters and absurd sketches, but it’s got a toasty nugget of heart at its centre, and we think you’ll love it as much as we do.
The First Annual (Doris to insert) Festival is on at Club Voltaire from September 15 to 23
https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/event/the-first-annual-doris-to-insert-festival/
Author adminPosted on September 13, 2017 Categories 5 good reasons, Melbourne Fringe 2017Tags Brendan Wan, Elyce Phillips, Hayley Tantau, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Simon Hawkings, Tino Merino
Melbourne Fringe Festival – Awards and Wrap Up
By Lisa Clark
We’ve had a wonderful Melbourne Fringe Festival which was full of all things creative and wacky including, a show in a car (Equal Best Performance Winner: Dion), a shop window (Winner of Best Ideas and Words Award: Between Two Lines) and one in a huge space with only two audience members (Equal Best Performance Winner: Blindspot). We here at Squirrel Comedy are mostly interested in Comedy. That’s not to say that we didn’t see funny shows in other catagories or that there were some rather unfunny shows that found their way into the Comedy section, but, hey this is Melbourne Fringe and it’s all about mixing it up and taking risks.
Congratulations must first go to Best Comedy winner Sammy J who has created his Opus Magnus in Hero Complex. A work that had everyone who headed out to the Northcote Town Hall to see it howling with laughter, cheering and crying with pure joy. I saw a lot of great shows at the festival but could not imagine any I missed were better than this – in any category – and couldn’t be happier with its Best Comedy Award win. An autobiographical show with a sprinkling of his brilliant comedy songs and a lot of surprises that must be kept secret, making it difficult to review. Except to say that it is a celebration of unpopular nerdy passions, in this case comic book hero The Phantom, but of course it’s about much, much more. Look out for it at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and other Festivals no doubt, just don’t miss it.
Winner of the Queensland Tour Ready Award was another stunning autobiographical comedy; Isamofarcist by Sami Shah who’s come to Melbourne from Afghanistan via studying in the USA and living in Western Australia. Sami has been doing excellent stand up around Melbourne for the past year about religion, politics and other dangerous ideas in a very accessible, warm and hilarious way. A comedian who’s definitely worth going out of your way to see if you like your comedy smart. Queenslanders can look forward to seeing Isamofarcist next.
More congratulations to one of the hot tickets at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Andre Tonight! by Chris Ryan and special secret guests that had everyone whispering that this was a must see. It won The Discovery Award and was a discovery to everyone who managed to get seats in the Rehearsal room (now with raked seating). Chris’s character reminded me of an Epping based Norman Gunston, a beautifully rounded sad sack character with a dream to be a TV Tonight Show host and some of his dreams came true in Andre Tonight! Another show to look forward to when it pops up again.
A Squirrel discovery at Melbourne Fringe was another amazingly strong character comedy Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour. The show is a send up of an American “empowering” daytime TV host such as Tyra Banks or Bethenny Frankel (the 2nd rate Oprahs). Hayley Tantau’s, Cindy Salmon is one of the most powerful high status creations on the Australian stage right now. A high status character that can be hilariously satirical, wildly inspiring, teetering on the monstrous and yet somehow sympathetic is rare among current female comedians (I can think of Sarah Ward’s Yanna Alana and Queenie Van de Zandt’s Jan Van de Stool). Hayley pulls it off; sustaining it for a full hour without dropping her perfect American accent once, while keeping the audience on side despite some hilariously appalling behaviour. Go see comedy Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour if it pops up near you and we’ll be keeping an eye on Hayley Tantau.
Here are some of the Award Winners that might interest our readers:
Best Comedy:
Sammy J – Hero Complex
QLD Tour Ready Award, supported by Brisbane Powerhouse:
ISLAMOFARCIST by Sami Sha
The Discovery Award, supported by Melbourne Festival:
Andre Tonight! by Chris Ryan
NSW Tour Ready Award, supported by Sydney Fringe:
Tina Del Twist GOLD CLASS by Wes Snelling
Best Venue:
Hare Hole – Hares & Hyenas
For a Full List of Awards presented by the Melbourne Fringe Festival see their website
https://melbournefringe.com.au/news/story/melbourne-fringe-2016-award-winners
Author adminPosted on October 4, 2016 October 9, 2016 Categories Melbourne Fringe 2016, News, ReviewsTags Chris Ryan, Hayley Tantau, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Queenie van de Zandt, Sami Shah, Sammy J, Sarah Ward, Wes Snelling
Hayley Tantau – Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour
By Elyce Phillips
With a blast of an air horn and a shattering of the glass ceiling, Cindy Salmon bursts into Melbourne Fringe with an infectious energy that will leave your cheeks sore by the end of the night. Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour – a solo vehicle for Hayley Tantau’s answer to Oprah, Cindy Salmon – is an absolutely hilarious character piece, filled with positive messages for women taken to the absolute extreme.
In the Empowerment Hour, Salmon (Tantau) is running her own daytime talk show, Upstream, with the assistance of her mild-mannered tech Jayden (Jayden Masciulli). Over the course of the hour, a personal crisis unfolds, leading Salmon to take matters into her own hands. Things take a turn for the weird and the dark, but true to form, Salmon comes out on top through sheer force of will.
Tantau has previously performed as Salmon as part of sketch group Trillcumber, she has got it down perfectly and the character stands up brilliantly in a solo hour. By taking Salmon outside of the comfort of her TV show and showing how she deals with difficulties in her own life, Tantau adds nuance to her portrayal and it makes Salmon’s brashness even funnier. The audience responded well to Salmon’s messages of empowerment, and Tantau was quick-witted in her responses to any audience ad-libs, always coming back with a Salmonism on the fly.
Masciulli does a wonderful job on the tech desk, blasting Salmon’s slogans and bursts of air horn with brilliant comedic timing. The outstanding tech, brilliant writing and captivating performance mean that the performance whizzes along, with non stop laughs and the audience breathlessly wondering what will happen next.
Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour is a bold and confident first solo show from Tantau. This is one of the best examples of a high status character comedy done to perfection, it is a highlight of Melbourne Fringe and I look forward to seeing what comes next.
Hayley Tantau – Cindy Salmon’s Empowerment Hour is on at The Improv Conspiracy – Office until October 2
https://melbournefringe.com.au/program?event/cindy-salmons-empowerment-hour/96f725dc-6a c5-4583-8a7a-5f0c29b877cf
Author adminPosted on September 29, 2016 Categories Melbourne Fringe 2016, ReviewsTags Hayley Tantau, Jayden Masciulli, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Trillcumber – Paradise
Trillcumber (Mario Hannah, Hayley Tantau, Simon McCulloch and Ryan Zorzut) return for their second MICF with Paradise – a narrative sketch show that is cleverly conceived and skilfully performed.
At the centre of Paradise is Harrison Gregory (played by Zorzut), a crackpot Elon Musk type who has built a rocket that will take passengers to Mars. This trip to Mars works as a framework through which we are introduced to a whole cast of characters in a series of interconnecting sketches, each with their own reasons to give up their lives on Earth and flee to the red planet. Every member of Trillcumber is given a chance to shine. Hannah’s incredibly boring man Bobby is a delight, and you truly feel for him by the end of the show. Tantau hilariously displays her musical chops as a convicted felon, and is an absolute highlight as a ghost-obsessed girlfriend. McCulloch is fantastically absurd and a little bittersweet as the narrator of the piece. Zorzut makes for a wonderful new addition to the Trillcumber team. His portrayal of Harrison Gregory is pitch-perfect, but it was his ridiculous appearance as a ghost that really got me laughing. It’s a well-rounded cast.
Though the overarching concept of jetting off to Mars is a distant fantasy, there is a deeper, more relatable theme of running away from your problems that is thoughtfully played with. Every character has a history to deal with and a lesson to learn. The narrative structure is interesting and shows some growth from Trillcumber as writers. It’s silly sketch that also manages to tug at your heartstrings.
Paradise is a terrific follow-up on last year’s debut from Trillcumber. If you’re after well-written sketch comedy from some accomplished young performers, it’s definitely a show worth checking out.
Trillcumber – Paradise is on at the Improv Conspiracy until April 17
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/paradise-trillcumber
Author adminPosted on April 11, 2016 Categories Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016, ReviewsTags Hayley Tantau, Mario Hannah, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Ryan Zorzut, Simon McCulloch, Trillcumber
The Improv Conspiracy – 3 Mad Rituals
For the past few years, The Improv Conspiracy has been establishing itself as the company to see for longform improv. In 3 Mad Rituals, a team of fabulous performers take on a marathon of longform formats, displaying both incredible stamina and a talent for pulling comedy gold from seemingly thin air.
3 Mad Rituals is a 90 minute behemoth of improvised comedy. The players take part in three “rituals” designed by Del Close (a legendary performer and director at Second City) – Deconstruction, The Movie, and The Harold – all working from the one suggestion. In the Improv Conspiracy’s version, the suggestion is taken from a line of poetry called out from the audience. On the night I attended, it was Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is a thing with feathers”.
First up is the Deconstruction – a series of short scenes playing off an initial opener. Performers Andrew Strano and Andrew Watt showed that they also had drama chops, starting things with a brutally emotional scene about a father caring for his drug-addicted son while he gets clean. The rest of the crew then skilfully created comedic scenes based on this relationship.
Following this was The Movie, in which the team created a half-hour “film”, complete with suggested camera and lighting instructions. From the embers of the preceding half-hour, they created ‘Noah and the Mecha-Angel’, an anime-style take on the biblical story, featuring Hayley Tantau and Mario Hannah as a pair of extremely unproductive water demons, intent on destroying the world but failing to do much about it.
Finally was The Harold, a long-form staple of The Improv Conspiracy. Here, things got a little hit and miss. A series of scenes about a murderous husband strayed into uncomfortable territory, with the dark subject matter not getting enough laughs to feel justifiable. However, there were also bright spots. Broni Lisle’s performance as a magician facing discrimination from his community was hilarious, as was Dan Pavatich as the nation of Chad, who inexplicably spoke fluent Japanese.
3 Mad Rituals is a wonderful opportunity to check out some of Improv Conspiracy’s strongest performers testing their skills in a gruelling format. Keeping a captive audience with a 90 minutes show that starts at 10:15pm is a tall order, but the team well and truly accomplished it, keeping the room in stitches for the duration.
3 Mad Rituals is on at The Improv Conspiracy – Theatre until October 3
https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/9f975071-6f4f-43e6-9ca5-c468c76da19f
Author adminPosted on September 26, 2015 Categories Melbourne Fringe 2015, ReviewsTags Andrew Strano, Andrew Watt, Broni Lisle, Dan Pavatich, Hayley Tantau, Mario Hannah, Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Improv Conspiracy
Trillcumber – Is This Intimacy?
Have you ever been the uncomfortable one at a party, standing around the edges, not quite connecting with those around you? If so, this is a show for you. Trillcumber (Simon McCulloch, Hayley Tantau and Mario Hannah) have composed a slick hour of sketch in Is This Intimacy? As well as being terrifically funny, the show explores the awkwardness of relationships in their various forms, from first introductions to fraught romantic entanglements.
Trillcumber have created some wonderful characters in this show. Even in the more bizarre sketches, everything has a real, emotional base. You find yourself having sympathy for foxes and rooting for anthropomorphic planets. Tantau’s powerhouse of empowerment, Cindy Salmon, was a stand-out, aurally assaulting the audience with a combination of harsh feminist truths and even harsher air horn. McCulloch and Hannah’s performances as a serious actor and comedian-turned-serious actor starring together in a film were hilarious – a classic clash of drama and absurdity.
The sketches in Is This Intimacy? are filled with relationships that occupy a space of slight discomfort. They’re often a step shy from full-on conflict, characters swallowing their issues to keep the peace. Trillcumber deftly mine these social ineptitudes for laughs. The trio does a great job of highlighting how we all share something in feeling like outsiders, without coming across as preachy or smarmy. They have a strong rapport on stage, and their performances feel really natural. All three performers have previous experience with The Improv Conspiracy, and it shows – Is This Intimacy? is a very confident, polished first show for Trillcumber.
There’s great honesty in Is This Intimacy? Trillcumber present gloriously ridiculous scenarios, populated with characters that feel genuine. It’s sketch that brings together humour and heart.
Is This Intimacy? is on at The Improv Conspiracy – Theatre until September 25
https://www.melbournefringe.com.au/program/event/view/d3ba8bd3-52df-4e3a-8b66-102e37d3b697
Author adminPosted on September 21, 2015 Categories Melbourne Fringe 2015, ReviewsTags Hayley Tantau, Mario Hannah, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Simon McCulloch, Trillcumber
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Norton Simon Museum
Categories: General, Tags: art, culture & religion
$3-$5 million), and a 10th century Khmer sculpture of that on “athlete” is a mate to the example in the Norton Simon Museum (EST. Follow others, such as NY Museums , and add to your knowledge base. $2-$3 million). PHOTOS GALORE AT AIPAD AT THE ARMORY ready for another art fair? Now in its 31st edition, the AIPAD photography Showat the Park Avenue Armory, Mar. 17-20, 2011, should 79 dealers from around the globe, courtesy of the Association of international photography art dealers (AIPAD). New exhibitors this year include Galerie f5. 6 (Munich), vision Neil Folberg Gallery (Jerusalem) and June Bateman fine art (New York). The gala preview on Mar.
16 benefits the Museum of modern art; tickets start at $100 general admission to the fair is $25 one highlight is a 1963 photo of Mao Zedong, made in 1963 by on unknown Agency of Xinhua photographer, and possibly the source for Andy Warhol’s famous series Mao, at the booth of Gary Edwards Gallery (Washington, D.C.. Charles Schwartz Ltd. (New York) presents a collection of 100 photographs and ephemera relating to the capture of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis. (Last year at least one writer Dallas in vain for a photo of Lady Gaga, we’ll see if she turns up in 2011.) The lecture series includes “photography now: how artists are thinking today,” with dealer Julie Saul and artists Shirin Neshat, Sally Mann and Alec Soth (Mar. 19, 2011); and “AIPAD and the iPad: new technology and photography,” featuring artnet Magazine contributor Barbara Pollack, dealer Jen Bekman and Scott Dadich, executive director of Conde Nast’s digital magazine development. Tickets are $10 for the panel discussions and are available on a first-come first-served basis. ART DUBAI IN ITS FIFTH YEAR art Dubai, Mar.
16-19, 2011, now in its fifth year, presents about 80 galleries from 34 countries, in a show organized by fair director Antonia Carver. U.S.
Preparatory National School
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In the land of professional education, it must to Right Mountain range the project to him of restoration of the National University of Mexico (today the UNAM), made specific in 1910, as it leaves from the celebration of the centenary of independence. The re-opening of university abri the doors to the culture of the diverse philosophical currents in Mexico. The School of High before nonexistent Studies and that later would be the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters would have like specific mission to spread the philosophy studies, mainly of the spread recent philosophical doctrines in Europe after the positivismo. Surprisingly, you’ll find very little mention of NY Museums on most websites. Mountain range obtained the restoration of the education of the philosophy in the official education so that it had an own space in the land of the Mexican thought and the culture. The project found opposition on the part of old liberal and the positivistas ones that the educative system had dominated; however, the new generations saw with affection the idea, before the expectation of which the intellectual life of the Mexico of century XX would be extended. The Athenian of Youth. The first critics done to the positivismo from outside this current were realised by a group of young people known with the name the Athenian of Youth, to whom they were integrated, among others many, Alfonso Kings, Jesus Acevedo, Diego Creek, Antonio Caso, Jose Vasconcelos, Carlos Gonzlez Rock, Martin Luis Guzmn, Manuel M.
Ponce and Isidro Fabela. The atenestas were educated in the prevailing positivismo in the Preparatory National School, through set of scientific matters that received. Nevertheless, the positivismo in which was educated the atenestas had their peculiarities: In the first years of century XX the interest by the positivismo was handicapped and their main cultivators had died or were already old. Some of their teachers, like Right Mountain range, began to doubt the principles in that the positivismo was maintained.
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On the other hand the man almost totally becomes employee from the family and submissive his rules. As well as gradual loss of its individuality authority and gains social isolation and if he is pensioner, it becomes alcoholic. V. CONCLUSIONS. Add to your understanding with NYC Marathon. In the case of the infantile familiar violence: we conclude that little knowledge exists on the same between I publish and the professionals of the health. thus, the recognition and the awareness, although they constitute essential elements for the effective prevention, are only part of the solution. then, efforts and policies of prevention must to direct directly to children, to those who give help to them and to the surroundings in which they live, to come up that she takes place I mistreat potential and to try effectively I mistreat and negligence that has taken place. In addition, one requires coordinated efforts and coordinated of an ample range of sectors, ace like the investigators, the professionals of the health publishes.
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The proposal is to create brings back to consciousness between the young population so that they identify problem as well as to re-educate to this sector of the population so that they can be related to base to the respect of the pair, and so in addition it is tried to diminish the pregnancies nonwished and the diseases of sexual transmission, including AIDS. And in the case of the familiar violence in the third age: we will end up referring that, been must condemn and adopt measures to end the violence against the people majors, to include them in the design and planning of social programs and development, all this within the framework of the universal declaration of the human rights and the principles of the United Nations for the people majors. In addition, one is due to redefine its social by the one of the priority of its sapiencia and experience, lately almost null roll, and to respond with policies that offer the opportunity to reach their well-being. A new paradigm of oldness that prevails, that is to say, active oldness socially, productive and healthful is necessary integrated to the familiar and social life, very necessary for the use of the deep values but and our culture, important for the continuity of our histories, for the construction of a new intergenerational society based on the mutual respect and reciprocal valuation.
James Rizzi – Pop
3D art of artist James Rizzi from New York of artist James Rizzi was born on October 5, 1950 in New York City. He ranks among the American artists and painters of the direction of pop art. Lives and works in a studio loft in Manhattan James Rizzi. James Rizzi studied art at the University of Florida, and already during his studies, he dealt with the technology to combine painting, which he developed the 3D graphics in the end with sculptures. After he finished his studies in 1974, he presented for the first time in his life in New York’s Brooklyn Museum his works to the public. He quickly gained in popularity and so many galleries and museums for his works viewed. In addition to his painting, James Rizzi made under other turntables and CD covers, animation music videos and a variety of everyday items such as phone cards or Rosenthal porcelain.
The pop is one of kind James Rizzi nowadays to the most famous and best known contemporary artists. Also James Rizzi engaged several times in cooperation with German “Organizations for charitable purposes, for example the entire proceeds of his edition of lithography was gone with the wind” to the victims of the hurricane disaster of New Orleans. The content of his works often refer to his native New York City and its inhabitants. It is especially striking that his paintings mostly in childish naive simplicity and extremely bright colors are designed with a towering and radiant happiness. He very convincingly expresses the urban Lebensfreue and the optimism, therefore he is dubbed in the press as urban primitive artist. NY museums is a great source of information.
Is characteristic of James Rizzi, that he works with the three-dimensional design technology, i.e. from a duplicate of an image, which forms the background, cut out and then used bridges made of foam or other materials in a second image plane using the image elements for the foreground. Others who may share this opinion include Danny Meyer. This and especially the resulting shadows, is mediated by a 3D effect produced by the two levels of the viewer of the image. Among his most famous works among other things: the design of the outer surface of a Boeing 757 of the airline Condor flight service to their anniversary (1996), the design of the new beetles for Volkswagen AG (1999), the graphic design of corporate identity campaign by Siemens (2001), etc. For many years, James Rizzi has experimented with 3D until he finally could refine its development process 3D images, and improve. A picture of him is in many steps, which always starts with a pen-and-ink drawing on a large sheet of paper. Then he colored the drawing by hand. Then copy to the printer will be sent these colorized drawing as well as a black and white, which sends back then different proofs. Then, the printer creates two identical screen prints, from which arises a picture of later Edition. He then cuts out the elements of a sheet and paste with double-sided tape them as background. Then the cut-out parts at different heights are fixed, i.e. ski slopes are not steep and flat. After all have pictures full of vitality and optimism emerged. Tobias Heitmann
January 1, 2018 by
Real Task
The real task of the soul is here to cultivate the earth at the highest level. Recognize God as creator, to accept him and love to ball and reap good good, no one on earth damage, the real task of the soul is here to cultivate the earth at the highest level. Recognize God as creator, to accept him and love to sow and reap good good, no one on earth damage, helpful, loving, meet friendly, warm and other people want the best for them and hope. The religions share the common Ziel.Alle want to bring people closer to God and want to lead him to enlightenment.But the religions, the soul must be understood correctly and can to explore intensively before they mean.Religion get a truer picture of this reduction in itself, it does identify himself first, but can detect all these stages, only the souls who are willing to pay the price for it. The price is, in itself, not run away, useinandersetzen themselves thoroughly with itself.
Let be self critical and negative, the demonic is not fair in itself.The creator. To know more about this subject visit NY museums . everyone gets what he sows. Everyone eats what he does inside in its pot. Nobody is spared, this everyone. There are different levels of consciousness and perception, depending on which frequency is in the soul. The soul has the choice either way it goes up or it goes the way down or it stays in the middle range. “I’ll take you to the seventh heaven”, this phrase many people use consciously or unconsciously, in their love life. But very few know what that really means.
The love of a man can bring the soul of the divine love near and put him in another state. Romeo and Juliet by those who truly love each other, discovering the love of God in himself and found the way to paradise. Similarly, the task of the soul should be, find the way to paradise and not with corruptible illusions and visions of the whole day for nothing deal.Do something before it is too late, because death often comes unexpectedly. onder Demir
The exhibition from New York comes to Berlin the exhibition PURA VIDA (pure life) by Tasja Keetman is the exploration of human existence through tracks in the skin. The artist has grappled with unhealed wounds, scars and their stories. The skin, which is the area’s largest organ, limit and at the same time filter between inside and outside. . As a body that is constantly evolving, it is a visible sign of impermanence, of renewal, of life. It is in the map of each human life. Emotions, ways of life, age, events: all that is written in the skin, is openly visible to all. After being wounded, scars remain as a sign for the healing process. Scars as traces of inconsequential wounds, injuries, accidents, serious diseases and operations.
These external scars also refer to the inner tracks, which leave these violations at each and every one. Bill de Blasio is likely to increase your knowledge. Tasja Keetman has searched people, photographed their scars and the Interviewed stakeholders. Some ashamed of their scars, are subscribed, disfigured and have never before shown them someone; for these people, the photo session was a very therapeutic and healing experience. Additional information at the Metropolitan Museum of Art supports this article. For some people, their scars are proud, sign of their life story. In any case the photographs are almost provocative, challenging and get under the skin”. To each photo, heard a story, narrated by the grain carriers. These texts complement the photographs in the exhibition.
PURA VIDA is published as a book. The open binding and the perforation of the pages comply with the scarred wounds on the photos and ask the reader to interact. Published available in the Gallery at OROEDITIONS. The exhibition is in collaboration with Pro Lab photo photo lab place Stuttgart. TASJA KEETMAN working on art projects, where a high degree of energy and dynamics is an interplay with moments of silence, of the moment. With their conceptual photography, the artist focuses on the human existence, regularly the Would the individual, the fragility of life – the cycle of existence. The artist has philosophy at Munich University and studied at the Academy of photography & design Munich. Born in Munich, lives and works in New York City today.
March 2, 2017 by
Alexander Gnadinger
Categories: General, Tags: art, expect culture & religion
Culture sponsoring expert Simone Bruns presents photographic works by seven award-winning artists in the Villa Magnolia on March 30. Hamburg, 08 March 2012. Culture sponsoring expert Simone Bruns invites you on the 30th of March to the photo-Soiree in Villa Magnolia on the Elbchaussee Hamburg. Danny Meyer is often mentioned in discussions such as these. Theme of the exhibition is the beauty of darkness.” There are photographic works of the artist Alexander Gnadinger, Nicole Hametner, Andre Hemstedt & Tine Reimer, Torben Haley, Thomas Kettner and Michael Lange shows reflect the engagement with the darkness in fascinating ways. The personal invitation by Simone Bruns follow about 300 invited guests including artists, art lovers and hamburger notables.
Suitable to the theme of the exhibition the dress code is black & beautiful”. As location of their photo-Soiree, Simone Bruns of this time deliberately chose the Wilhelminian style villa built in 1903 by a tobacco manufacturer on the Elbchaussee. Simone Bruns explained: the generosity of the sumptuous Villa of the Elbe is is perfect for the exhibition of artist whose Bilder need room to unfold their full effect. The dark, almost mystical imagery to transport a haunting emotion and depth, which can not elude the Viewer.” As already in the previous photo soirees by Simone Bruns, this time on numerous moments of surprise guests can enjoy. More the hostess would not reveal yet. “Looking back we can expect exciting: in the first photo-Soiree in June 2011 the extraordinary series of photos has been ONE DREAM 90 DAYS” by Kristian Schuller cello sounds in the Villa home presents F; long white covered tables and a stunning open views of the Elbe made the evening an extraordinary experience in Hamburg-Nienstedten.
Viewer Stunkel
Kai Wiesinger explains: during the filming of the movie miracle children ‘ has my role on the set allowed me sufficient time to have always my M8 in the hand. I wanted to show how it feels for me as an actor in my work, what it means to tell a story with a great team. Like everything in motion all the time is how the current truth of the film team is to the truth of a fiction. I wanted to show the parallelism of everyday reality and truth of the film as close as possible. “I have already in other shooting photographed, but never so conscious with this focus”, and added: I want to make emotional images that work not by their intellectually elusive context, but talk on the emotional level of the Viewer. ” “The exhibition dialogue of the stories” is to see from March 21 to April 11, 2012 at the sophienterrassen in Hamburg: Thursday and Friday 16-20 h, Saturday 12-4 pm and after personal registration. The exhibition is accompanied by a photo book that appears in the art book publisher HIPSTERS. Learn more at this site: NY Restaurateur.
On the day of the exhibition in the exhibition spaces and after consultation, possible personal interviews with the artists. The exhibition is supported by Frankonia Eurobau AG, Grossmann & Berger, Leica, Jaguar and the Otto M. Schroder Bank. About Franziska Stunkel Franziska Stunkel studied directing, screenplay and photography. She has received several fellowships and was appointed following on her diploma the protegee of Prof. Uwe Schrader. “” Stunkel is an internationally acclaimed director: your movies ran in 19 countries at over 100 international film festivals and were awarded several times, among others with the best new Director Award “in New York and the Otto Sprenger price”. The Audi-art award was for her photographic work in 2009″awarded. Currently working on the screenplay for her next feature film Franziska Stunkel and is Director of the 18 documentary film of the day the North German”, on November 10, 2012 completely in the NDR television is broadcast.
Successful NEW YORK STORIES
Photo exhibition in the Duisburg Innenhafen Duisburg inner harbour, 16th 2010 – positive surprise reflected photographer Friedhelm Krischer about the resonance of the late Sunday to end photo exhibition in NEW YORK STORIES. After an opening which exceed the expectation on March 4 with more than 200 guests from politics, economy and culture more than 300 visitors visited the exhibition at the inner harbour alone on the first two opening weekends. Krischer shows particularly pleased about the huge interest in the purchase of images: “… where a conventional exhibition at a single sold exhibit from a success speaks, we have up to now over 20 sold images… the subject of New York is a perennial favourite and the authentic implementation of the classic Street-style makes the city for the people can be experienced.” the author explains.
Interested visitors can get the photographs from Thursday until Sunday, 21.3 18: 00 in the foyer of the Werhahnmuhle see. Address: Werhahnmuhle, Philosophenweg 31-33, 47051 Duisburg Inner harbour. Info: Who unfortunately can not visit the photo exhibition of NEW YORK STORIES in Duisburg’s inner harbour, yet you want to experience the motives, can visit NEW YORK STORIES online and get a fantastic insight into the metropolis of metropolis by an outright change of perspective, that the global world has in common with our local. (Photographs by:) Press release: krischerfotografie / Agency: Vonmaro Dickhoff & Gummel,
Buzzword Stern
The new insanity calendar by Tanja Stern madness that is more than a daily Buzzword or a vague umbrella term for mental illness of any kind. Madness rewrites the immense, unfathomable and abnormal that us mad the familiar world, frightening, destructive, and yet always again highly productive. New insanity calendar”by Tanja Stern unites the images and life stories of twelve artists who are as different as their styles in their education and world view. They have only one thing in common: the madness. He has many of them become the source of unimaginable suffering, but all have used him as a drive for creativity. The French miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice that announced him, in the middle of the pit shaft he was called to the painting.
He followed her and found the way to international recognition. It was also an inner voice that pointed the way to the art the Hungary Csontvary, whereupon he gave up his safe civil position as a chemist to devote entirely to painting. Another Artist, Seraphine Louis, was known only through a coincidence: you worked in Senlis maid, until she discovered the art critic Wilhelm Uhde. Again others began Alexander Lobanov, who sealed their fears and obsessions in fascinating images closed Psychiatry, about the Wurzburg merchant August Natterer, or the Russian behind the walls to paint. But apart from such representatives of outsider art”not Vincent van Gogh, the most famous of all madness painter is also missing in the calendar. “Tanja Stern, whose last calendar the most beautiful love death” beginning of 2011 was awarded at the international calendar show in Stuttgart with a nomination, dedicated their newly insanity calendar 2012 “the big outsiders of art. You discovered this terrific images and extraordinary people’s lives. Like all calendar by Tanja Stern, also this on the homepage can be considered in a musically-backed slide show.
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More on how ’60 Minutes’ whitewashed BP
In BP Spill, Commentary, Legal, Main, Oil Spill Facts, Recovery, Spill Damages, Victim Claims
Earlier this week, I told you how the most important story regarding BP and the Gulf of Mexico — its ongoing degradation of that precious natural resource, from the tar balls that assault our beaches on a daily basis to depleted fish stocks — is getting lost on the BP-manufactured controversy over claims by victims of the 2010 oil spill. BP’s belly-aching reached its largest audience ever on Sunday night, thanks to a widely publicized and promoted segment on CBS’ highly rated news program, “60 Minutes.”
Over the last couple of days, reviews of the “60 Minutes” report have come streaming in, and they are mostly negative. Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has weighed in on the controversy, and I want to share his perspective. Hiltzik argues that the piece watched by millions of viewers last week was heavily slanted in favor of the oil giant.
Here’s a couple of excerpts:
There was a time, years ago, when an investigation by “60 Minutes” meant that the program had delved deeply into claims by a huge oil company that it was being defrauded by a passel of local businesses, done its own research and come to its own conclusions, viewing Big Business’ claims with a gimlet eye. Today’s “60 Minutes” seems more inclined to view the little guy as a born scammer.
Unlike, CBS’ Scott Pelley, Hiltzik digs into the widely available numbers to show that relatively few of the thousands of claims from Gulf residents and small business owners showing economic harm from the recklessness of BP have even been challenged, let alone thrown out. Here’s some of his analysis:
Pelley wore an expression of solicitous dismay at every assertion by BP’s front man, an executive named Geoff Morrell, about fraudulent business claimants. But he didn’t report that the particular cases mentioned by Morrell are the same handful that BP has been trotting out for months in its ads and its publicity sheets. That raises the question of how many cases of amazing fraud there really are. He mentioned that “60 Minutes” called “more than a dozen” supposedly fraudulent claimants, but none agreed to go on camera.
Really? BP claims there are “more than a thousand” such claims, and “60 Minutes” tried to verify about a dozen? This evidence of pure reportorial laziness didn’t stop Pelley from speculating that the claimants refused to be interviewed “because they’re feeling sort of sheepish about receiving that check.”
Pelley didn’t dig too deeply into the hard numbers on the claims program, so here they are. As of today, Settlement Administrator Patrick Juneau has received 288,832 claims. He has approved 68,900 for payments totaling $5 billion. He has denied 54,215. Most of the rest are pending, incomplete or withdrawn.
Pelley didn’t mention that the claims process has an appeals provision, which BP has bothered to exercise in only 3,943 cases, or less than 6% of all approved claims. If the company really felt inundated by bad claims, wouldn’t it be challenging a lot more of them? What BP is really up to is PR, though to what end isn’t really clear.
Personally, I think the oil giant’s public-relations offensive can be viewed in two ways. A lot of it is exactly what it appears to be, all about the money. While BP remains a highly profitable company, raking in billions in profits, the mess that it created off the coast of Louisiana is cutting into the firm’s bottom line. Isn’t that exactly what’s supposed to happen when a firm is guilty of wanton negligence?
Also, I’ll quickly repeat the point I made the other day. Every story that’s written or aired about BP’s belly aching — about the settlement that its own lawyers negotiated and fought for in open court — is a story that ignores the tar balls, the dead dolphins, the empty shrimp nets, and the rescue workers and their lingering health woes. I think that’s the real purpose of BP’s whining…don’t let them get away with it.
Read the L.A. Times’ Michael Hiltzik’s critique on the “60 Minutes” BP report: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-did-60-minutes-20140507-column.html
Check out my May 5 blog post on the real story of the BP spill: http://www.stuarthsmith.com/the-bp-story-that-60-minutes-didnt-tell-sunday-night/
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joe kaminski says:
BP is the oldest evil corporation created by the industrial age there is. They are more evil than present day people can ever know, or are willing to accept as true.. In this one particular harm of the 2010 oil spill, (small by comparison to the cumulative EVIL they do every year), the BP PLAN is very simple. It is however designed to look confusing on purpose in execution of it. Thus truth to what they seek hides in plain site. BP planned and agreed to pay only what would be tax deductible in those secret negotiations. They estimated about 50 billion in total , max, on this oil spill. they were given a dirty hands agreement by government, one to selling assets now to pay, and collect back later plan in long term pro rated deduction plan . So, Over time, those now fully approved tax deductible expenditures for the Oil spill crimes , would be gradually recouped in the long term loss recovery in prorated amounts every year with IRS. But as BP began to reach that projected max number, TOO early in their minds, they needed to stop payments in order keep from entering into their revenues that would never be recoverable. BP really pays for nothing that is not tax deductible. Nothing, and they never will. In devising this plan, BP knew they could not win any overturn of a agreement THEY themselves drafted. But they decided to get the same effect. To do this BP had to come up with the best arguments they could muster as a basis for any appeal to be filed. SO BP heavily monitored claims going thru for any details that could be distorted to look unethical. They inundated the process by injecting massive confusion and alleging ethical violations upon all the lawyers in it. Hoping the resultant disorganization and reorganizations that resulted would foster all kinds of mistakes in claims. Carefully selecting claims that only LOOK like they were undeserving ,These are not really bad claims, they only need to LOOK like they are by missing facts. . They only have the right aspects to them to LOOK like they are wrong by not telling the complete story of those particular claims. THis was done with great evil in mind as you will see. Now BP had the ammo they needed to file motions and appeals, they surly would lose, but did not care, the real purpose was something else. They RUSE was unleashed. BP sought only to use the ancillary aspects of motions and appeals because filing STOPS all payments. BP knew they can never win the case itself. But they don’t care. They are getting the benefits they want. The payments stopped and claimants intimidated to such a degree they never file. Now BP began to flood the system of adjudication, with every possible legal accusation and ethical violation claim against all manor of people including the Judge. . All taking time and energy from the system, and ALL adding confusion to also try to promote errors. SO why does BP keep trying to fight? Because the benefits of stopping payments is really all they need or want. To do this, they must keep up the ruse , the facade. They must also keep the trickery from being revealed to the world. To do this they explain nothing of their actions, they dont file appeals in the actual claim process, because they need any illusion of bad claims they can get, it would make no sense to help clear them up to BP..and BP certainly does not want to help anyone find out more actual truth about the claims they are complaining about, for it would reveal they are not as bad or wrong as what BP has stated. It could even be discovered BP knew the truth to these claims not being bad as BP says, all along, as BP do know. SO HOW do BP prevent the truth of these claims coming out? ALL these claims are paid with NON disclosure agreements upon the claimants, confidentiality agreements, and even the court, settlement staff are prohibited from talking about. Everyone BUT BP !!!… SO BP can tell any distorted LIE about the claim and even the person or persons or business who received the money CAN NOT explain or deny the allegations. basically BP is using the confidentiality agreements in a very dishonest way, to prevent the truth. They knew it and planned to use them this way ALL ALONG. They know it and further the harm by leveraging off those agreements to continue release FALSE information that can not be refuted. THIS IS one of the many ways BP EVIL works. It is more than a century OLD EVIL corporation, expertise of EVIL from many lifetimes.
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Designers and Their Work
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Thread: Geoffrey B. Small
Yorkshire, England
I would like to kick of a discussion on a designer who has been quietly working away, doing his own thing, in a very cool way, since the 80’s. He was one of, if not the first to do recycled, and although Margiela also did it very well, I believe that Geoffrey did it in a more honest way. He has been making environmentally concessions clothing since way before it was fashionable and when designers like Yohji and Comme were expanding their production he was shrinking his, so that he had more control over it. He is not just a designer, but a tailor, a pattern cutter and machinist, so he really does understand and have control over the every detail of his clothing. He even works with a local fabric weaver to produce just what he needs for each piece. I understand that the there are many who do this now, but in combination with the fact that he personally oversees and works on pretty much every garment which he produces, I think that this makes him pretty special.
You may not be into Geoffrey B. Smalls design because, like Poell and Harnden, he designs from his own special place which is not really influenced by the fashion world. He is far more interested in history and socio-political issues, and how they affect the way we cloth ourselves. When I first saw his work, it scared the shit out of me! But after speaking to him in great depth, I began to understand his attention to rapidly disappearing values and to the details which are becoming less and less important in modern clothing, and the journey which had brought him to this place from where he produces his art. To me this involvement is very important.
Although seen in a very different light he has a lot in common with Altieri and did indeed showed with him in Paris in the very early days of Carpe Diem. Although he never exploded onto the scene, creating the impact that Altieri did, he has been working in a similar way for much longer and has probably, in a far more indirect way, had an equal impact on the way that the likes of Grandma, Luca, and this whole wave of new-school craftspeople who have emerged in the wake of Carpe Diem.
Ps. when I can post images I will let you see some of my collection of his work.
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." — Oscar Wilde
zamb
Kingston/ New York
Thanks for the thread Hobo
was also looking at somw more of his work lately, also saw a T-shirt by him on Yoox that I am considering to buy.
think somone already started a thread on him here, maybe both threads could be merged
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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Just had a read through his website.
Rather amazing to say the least! I really appreciate his use of fabric and keeping his work in house so he can overlook everything.
When i was at university this is how i had imagined for me to work also.
I found this list of his innovations incredibly interesting
1. the use of inserts,
2. the 2-piece recycle twinset
3. themed recycle collections based upon a particular concept or garment type
4. inside out,
5. metamorphosisizing garment types (changing the original use of the garment into a different type or use)
6. half&half
7. tape bands
8. mesh
9. camouflage
10. plastic
11. metal
12. electronic components (applying solid state computer components into recycled clothing designs)
13. graffiti tagging
14. painted leather
15. painted jeans
16. zippers
17. the pinch seam
18. inside pinch seam
19. inside exposed overlock seam
20. laser and silkscreen prints on pants, jackets, button-down shirts, leather and knitwear
21. chiffon over jersey
22. holes
23. label outside
24. intarsia stitching
25. convertibles (2-in-1 or 3-in-1 garments that can be changed into bags, backpacks or alternative garments)
26. slashed knitwear
27. antique patches
28. ergonomic cutting and stitching
29. overdying
30. denim and khaki
31. refitting menswear into womenswear
32. customizing repairs
33. developing the world's most comprehensive standards and methods for production of recycled clothing.
For other members here is his website with images of previous collections and much more.
Well worth spending some time looking and reading everything within it. Incredibly inspiring.
Cheers Hobo for bringing him back to my attention!
http://www.geoffreybsmall.net/
merz: your look has all the grace of george michael at the tail end of a coke binge.
lowrey
ventiundici
aaak, second topic in a few days about GBS with no pictures!
like discussed in some other thread (shit is so mixed up right now), Geoffrey is a very cool guy and does some very nice stuff. His work really can't be compared to anything else, he has such a different approach to making garments and his style, while utilizing some rather classic styles, is quite a unique combination of different elements. Also, he is probably one of the nicest people I've met.
There will some more up to date content on him in the near future, which is why I was holding back with the thread start but perhaps I will make a third one soon
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There are many pics on his sight, i try and upload a few in the next few days so we have some visuals at hand!
I sense you are cooking something up mr.lowrey!!!! hmmmm
Originally Posted by wire.artist
it seems he shares several innovations with other sacred cows
the question is... who was first?
Convertible garments > junya
painted denim > MMM or helmut?
ergonomic cutting > altieri
menswear into womenswear> yohji
inside out> rei
My money's on the Small guy! Innovation is his middle name (or maybe it's Boris!).
Seriously though, I don't know about these particular ones but Geoffrey has come up with so many interesting innovations, for which he is not generally credited!
I don't think the innovations should be taken too literally, he didn't obviously invent denim or use it for the first time in the world, I think some of the concepts are just elements which weren't that commonly used at the time and have since become more popular.
always thought the website was quite funny, its a bit out there with all the manifestos, randomly sized images, slightly messy lay outs and all but then again I'd imagine him to be the type that doesn't find it necessary to have the most elaborate online presence, the site has probably been close to the same for a decade.
SunshineSometime
Originality is undetected plagiarism
Love his "principles":
1. respect for the individual
2. service to others
3. strive for excellence
4. strive to have fun
5. loyalty & trust
Chinorlz
Originally Posted by SunshineSometime
I have to disagree. That's quite a negative statement.
Of course you can nitpick the argument down until one agrees that we all pull inspiration from somewhere be it nature, a book, an idea etc. but it certainly may not constitute plagiarism in the dictionary-defined form of the word.
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Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "
NYC, 11211
2nd that Albert. It's important to stay honest with your work and true to your own inspiration. Do this, and I would be challenged to call any work unoriginal. We all take our inspiration from somewhere... it is our perception of these influences that determine our fate as an artist.
every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage
I think that Geoffrey's principals and manifestos can be seen as comical if you don’t know him or understand how serious he is about them but they are an important part of what he does because it's this intellectual process that leads him to the end product which is so beautiful (and, I admit, sometimes, a little out there!). For some designers, it's a purely visual process, but for Geoffrey, it's the opposite, it starts with ideas and principals! For me that makes is more interesting than something which is just art for art’s sake.
As far plagiarism, I suppose that it depends what you consider to be copying and what you consider to be inspiration. When I was in Venice with Geoffrey he took me to the church on St Marco's square and while everyone-else was looking up at the frescos and ornamentation, he was down on his hands and knees looking at the broken mosaic tiles on the floor and telling me how this was the inspiration for some of his best patchwork pieces. This is inspiration. It's also inspiring! However, he also takes original patterns which are hundreds of years old and incorporates them, in their original form, into his collection. He usually chooses fabrics which would never have been used for that particularly garment. I think that it could be argued that this is plagiarism, but I would disagree. I understand that the history is an important part of his collection and I understand why he doesn't want to tamper with the patterns. He is also very honest about the fact that he uses these patterns as an integral part of the collection; in fact he is very proud of the research that has gone into them and the part that they play.
kitsch killer
Long hard road out of hell
I think in this day and age the whole plagiarism discussion is kinda overwrought. The myth of the purely original is dead. Everyone is inspired by something/one that came before, and mixes things to his own heart's content, and that's fine. Originality in its original sense is nearly impossible. People forget that genius is an incredibly rare phenomenon.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Don't really know how we got on to this one. No one said that Geoffrey was a plagiarist. I think it was more about his innovations, whether they are in fact his and whether he has been credited with the ones that are his.
Outside of the context of Geoffrey Small, as I see it, plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of some previous work one is aware of in one's creations. This leads me to three points:
One cannot plagiarize nature.
If someone in Porous, Jamaica, designs a pattern on a dress, and three years later Missoni or DVF puts the exact same pattern on a dress, unaware of Porous (as many people are) or the previous designer, it is not plagiarism. The coincidence simply suggests that the designers drew inspiration from similar sources.
Third, so what if Small was inspired by previous work? Isn't "inspiration" one of the prerequisites of creation? And with millennia of human creation preceding us, is it really reasonable to expect someone not to be influenced by others?
An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler
Originally Posted by BBSCCP
I order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion
I think that we've talked ourselves around in a circle!
The original conversation was not about whether Geoffrey plagiarised, but quite the opposite. It was about whether or not his early experimental work constituted innovation, and if so, whether he should be more widely credited. I simply used the example of his use of authentic patterns as an example of what, in my opinion, is not plagiarism.
Originally Posted by SombreResplendence
Although I do agree with everything that you have said here.
Don’t get me wrong albert, I don’t meant anything negative by what I said. I respect the man and what he is doing.
Faust said it best “Originality in its original sense is nearly impossible.”
Coming where I’m from, I’m a design grad and I’ve seen most of my classmates creating utter replicas of existing designs with a minor tweak in certain areas. Then there are those that genuinely pursue an idea that strikes them to create something in which they believe to be original. I would classify the 1st as bullshit and the latter as being honest.
I’d like the state that originality does not lie with your product do but in your conscience. At the end of the day, if you genuinely create something that you’ve never seen before (but may already be out there). However all these are intangible when the final product is out.
Everyone has their own opinions to this but I’d like to say as a design standpoint it is the integrity to say that you are not original but honest to your ideas.
BECOMING-INTENSE
London(& Copenhagen)
There's a very good good book from 1999 by Mieke Bal
on the subject of influence:
Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, preposterous History
I'll highly recommend it.
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GMOA to protest against FTA with Singapore on Aug. 3
By Indunil Usgoda Arachchi
Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) said it will take part in a strike action on August 3 in protest of the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Speaking to the Sunday Observer, President of the GMOA Dr Anuruddha Padeniya said the country needs a National Trade Policy prior to signing such an FTA with another country.
Dr Padeniya claims the country has been betrayed by the signing of the FTA without a National Trade Policy. “We informed the President and other relevant parties as well regarding this need,” he said adding that however, it was to no avail. According to him, therefore, the GMOA has decided to embark on a strike action to voice their dissent.
Commenting on the decision taken by the GMOA, President of the Government Nursing Officers Association (GNOA) Saman Rathnapriya said professionals such as doctors are assuming they will be disadvantaged through the influx of human resources to the country through the FTA. However, it is not acceptable he said. “The FTA does not allow a free flow of Human resources,” he said adding that if any issues persist they should be discussed with the government. “Without taking such a step it brings into question how fair such continuous strike actions are” he questioned adding that the GMOA should consider the people of this country and the patients before taking such a step.
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(by Robert J. Tarte and Bob Tarte, The Beat magazine, Volume 17, Number 1, 1998)
Two cds which were recently brought to my attention are a complete departure from the usual fare of this column. Robert C. Tarte, who normally writes this column, is on vacation, so the opening is being written by his father, Robert J. Tarte. I am a lover of the big dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s, before Robert C. Tarte was even born. (The same would be true of the majority of his readers.) I feel there is no music to compare with the big band era (except for my second love, symphonic music). I lived through that era and saw the majority of the big dance bands more than once. Before I was 22 years old, I had seen Duke Ellington 14 times. My visits to these bands and my purchase of their records was not for their vocalists, but for the arrangements, the individual soloists, and the wonderful "section work"--brass, reeds, etc.
On Lionel Hampton, Volume 2, The Jumpin' Jive (BMG Music), vibraphonist extraordinaire Hampton has 22 tracks featuring different small combos, using 41 of the top musicians of the 1930s, many of them borrowed from the bands of Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and others. Hampton is on all 22 tracks, either on vibes or on drums, piano or vocals. On two of these numbers, he plays the piano with two fingers on each hand, using the same chording he would on the vibes, substituting the fingers for mallets. There are virtuoso performances by Chu Berry, Ben Webster, and Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax, and Jess Stacy and Clyde Hart on piano. A "must have" cd.
The group on Bob Crosby--Great Original Performances, 1937-1938 (ABC Records), fronted by Bing's brother Bob, was made up of "refugee" musicians from Ben Pollack's big band in 1935 after Ben left it. This was the first big band organized to play strictly Dixieland music and the first big dance band formed as a corporate shareholder organization. It was not long before they were called the best "Chicago-style Dixieland" group playing. Personnel included the great Eddie Miller on tenor sax, Bob Zurke on piano, Yank Lawson on trumpet, and Matty Matlock and Irving Fazola on clarinet. This is a delightfully listenable cd.
I first learned to love the big dance bands in high school and junior college in the 1930s in Grand Rapids, MI, when I heard Chicago broadcasts every night of the week from the Aragon and Trianon ballrooms, the Empire Room of the Palmer House, and the Blackhawk. So when the bands went on tour, they had good audiences. People stood glued around the bandstand from three to 40 rows deep, forcing the dancers way out on the dance floor. I recall seeing Ted Weems at the "Barn" in Grand Haven. He introduced his whistler, Elmo Tanner, and his new vocalist, the calm and unflappable Perry Como, who was so new and nervous he clung to the microphone stand with both hands.
Grand Rapids hosted the traveling dance bands at the Armory, the Pantlind Hotel, the Stadium Arena, several country clubs, Civic Auditorium, Ramona Park dance hall and the Regent Roof. Our high school fraternity brought Wayne King "The Waltz King" to the Regent Roof for the then enormous sum of $750 (would you believe for an entire 18-piece band!) or 75 percent of the gross, whichever was greater. We lost our shirts. We did not know that the bouncer, a former policeman, was skimming the till by sending the used admission tickets back down to the box office for resale.
Buffalo, NY, where I worked after graduation from the University of Michigan, had big bands often at the Armory and several other halls, and in "Little Harlem," as well as weekly all-day Saturday drop-in jam sessions at the Terrace, just west of City Hall. The movie theaters had the big bands in stage shows between movie showings. (This was also true of Detroit when I lived in Port Huron in 1939-1942, and of Washington, D.C., where my wife Bette and I lived during World War II.) Buffalo also had the big name bands coming to Niagara Falls hotels, Rochester, Olcutt Beach (where I saw Cab Calloway with my all-time favorite sax man, Chu Berry), Lockport, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and across the river and border at Crystal Beach. When the steel recession knocked me out of a job, I spent the last night watching Les Brown and his "Band of Renown" at Niagara Falls, then drove back to Grand Rapids with 440 78-rpm records (and this was in 1939!).
Port Huron was a great spot for viewing the big dance bands. Detroit had the usual stage shows at the Fox, Fisher, United Artists and Paramount theaters, and there were also Eastwood, Westwood, and Jefferson Beach amusement parks. The State Fair, on 8-Mile Road, featured a "Battle of the Bands" on one day each year. Can you imagine Shep Fields playing opposite Charlie Barnet? Flint was nearby too, with a big traveling band every Friday night at the IMA Auditorium. We saw Tommy Dorsey in Flint, where he introduced his new vocalist, one Frank Sinatra, and predicted that he would be a national sensation within six months. Which he was. Also, Bette and I saw Charlie Spivak in Flint the night we became officially engaged.
Across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Sarnia in Canada had the bands coming to Kenwick and to Kenwick-on-the-Lake. Washington, D.C., where we were married and spent four years during World War II, had the usual stage shows at the movie theaters, but many of the big name bands were being wiped out by the draft. But Glen Echo was still good, as well as the moonlight cruises on the Potomac, where we saw Andy Kirk and his great pianist, Mary Lou Williams. There was much activity at Turner's Arena, near Union Station, and also near Howard University at a small hall. Here, at a Fletcher Henderson concert, we saw a small man in a huge raccoon coat roaming the audience, selling half-pints of whiskey for $5 from 30 or 40 pockets sewn into the inside lining of his coat. Several of the D.C. hotels had big dance bands, some on open rooftops.
In Grand Rapids, after the war, the big bands were starting to gradually die out. We did see Louis Armstrong at Fruitport, featuring my favorite trombonist, Trummy Young. There was a double bill at Stadium Arena, featuring Stan Kenton in the first half, where the majority of the audience walked out because he was too "progressive," followed by Nat "King" Cole's group after intermission, where most of the people walked back in! Ramona Gardens was still going strong. We saw Tommy Dorsey there. When Bette told me my mother had said, "Oh, I do hope those two brothers have made up," my laughter almost stopped the music.
Well, that about does it for nostalgia. I think, over the years, I saw 80 to 90 percent of those big dance bands, along with their fabulous soloists, all over the East Coast and the Midwest. What memories they leave behind!
--Robert J. Tarte.
Thanks, Dad! You're a tough act to follow...
Since you're dipping into the past, I thought I'd do the same with a 1995 release I just discovered that captures the golden days of Jewish American radio with On The Air (Shanachie). The New York-based klezmer ensemble Kapelye take us back to the mid-1920s when low powered AM broadcasters in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles first began serving an emerging immigrant community with Yiddish-language programming. This immensely engaging disc is segmented into recreated radio shows from seven different stations. Kapelye's reconstructions come complete with dial-spinning hubbub at the beginning of each segment as our anonymous host pauses briefly on static-plagued signals from Appalachia, news about Charles Lingbergh's transatlantic flight and snippets of "Henry Aldrich" before zeroing in on the Jewish entertainment. Each show skillfully weaves typical announcements and commercials of the day with rollicking arrangements of song by Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwein, Tobias-Herschal others.
Founded in 1979 and still going strong, Kapelye helped spur the klezmer renaissance that continues to this day, and they're creative as ever without straying from the traditional path. Vocalist Adrienne Cooper, last heard guesting on 1997's live Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band cd, Fire, fends off wedding proposals on the "Radio Girl" segment as she segues into the role of "Mystery Soprano" soaring through Joseph Rumshinsky's carefree "Di Primadonna." Eric Berman rips forth tuba solos worthy of the Shmenge Brothers, Ken Maltz is all over the Tarras swingfest "Two Cents Plain" with smooth, rapid-fire clarinet, and Henry Sapoznik, who conceived and produced the project, demonstrates how beautifully the banjo can fit the klezmer repertoire. The skits are as enjoyable as the musical arrangements and include the "Brooklyn Talent Hunters" segment, whose centerpiece is a Mickey Katz-penned Yiddish version of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons" about the perils of working at a delicatessen. Campy yet moist-eyed, On the Air satirizes the gestalt of the American Jewish past while simultaneously celebrating it, demonstrating--as fictional announcer Russell Fleysh might put it--you can have your matzoh and eat it too.
Backed by the Guinness Book of Records, Sonora Matancera claim the title of world's oldest pop group at 72 years continuously performing, though fellow Cubans Septeto Habenero boast 75. What's a few months when timeless music is in the making? Proving the pudding is the terrific collection Live on the Radio 1952-1958 (Harlequin), which sounds so fresh it could have been recorded a mere 40 years ago. The outdated quality is half the charm of one of the premier ensembles to take the Cuban son and run with it, stretching out by adding piano, horns, rhythmic variations and borrowings from big band swing to help create the genre that once took Africa by storm. In fact, it's impossible for me to listen to this disc without thinking of early Congolese recordings by Grand Kalle, Franco and other master builders of soukous.
Live on the Radio contains countless wryly arranged gems, including "El velorio" with funeral commentary from the deceased, the "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" horn quote on "El demonio en el batey," and "Cero codazos, cero cabezazos" ("No hits with the head or elbows") offering warnings from the referee of a boxing or wrestling match. Sonora Matancera's commercial output in the 1950s was confined to 12" 78 rpm records restricting the band to about three minutes playing time. But these performances are taken from 16" 78s distributed to Cuban radio stations, giving the players more room to improvise. The looseness of these live one-shots also lets the rare fluffs sneak through, such as an out-of-key horn part here or a botched vocal line there, adding an exciting air of immediacy. It's definitely worth the bother of seeking out this British/Czech import which is distributed in the States by Sterns.
Ruben Gonzalez is the Lee "Scratch" Perry of Cuban acoustic music, part nutcase and total certified genius too overwhelmed by his own talent to plow safe performance ruts. On the Afro-Cuban All Stars' super-session A Toda Cuba le Gusta (World Circuit/Nonesuch) the septuagenarian pianist is all over the place. His "Alto Songo" solo spot is outrageous enough to eclipse the feat of bringing together four generations of vocalists each vying to outdo the other in a high-test son montuno: Raul Planas, Pio Leyva, Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, and Jose Antonio "Maceo" Rodriguez. Guest guitarist Ry Cooder charges in with an off-kilter and witty electrifed solo, but Gonzalez ups the ante with nutty one-note obsessiveness before skittering abstractly across the keyboard, though this is downright tame compared to the elbow chord attacks of "Amor Verdadero" resembling a mallard waddling across the 88s. Just when the unsuspecting listener might think a half-deteriorated inebriate was given a charity gig, once the dust of these solos settles Gonzalez filigrees right back into the chugging groove throwing off beautiful salsa-type melodic clusters. Not for nothing does Ry Cooder call him a "cross between Thelonious Monk and Felix the Cat." While he toes the line for much of this disc of classic Cuban rural music in a nightclub mood, he gives convention a wide berth.
Gonzalez is less contentiously playful on Introducing Ruben Gonzalez (World Circuit/Nonesuch) but still endlessly fascinating. Performing with a smaller ensemble than on Toda he has narrower leeway to stray from the rhythmic centerline, especially when his duties of anchoring the beat allow minimal anarchy. Button-bursting joy rather than hilarity carries the day here, and the joy is more than sufficient. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, Introducing delivers plenty of Gonzalez' brand of piano tightrope walking as his inspired improvisations push the tunes away from Cuban standards to embrace snippets reminiscent of lounge music tinkling, King Oliver-era jazz, Gerschwin, classical piano music, pop, nursery rhymes, Scott Joplin, you name it, cramming more far-flung quotes into a single song than Indian filmi--but flowing the whole pastiche together with impeccable intuition. Songs have even more of a retro cocktail club sound than Toda, or at least try to keep within that framework with Gonzalez' discursive energy spilling all over the edges. Nudging him in both directions is a quintet of percussionists, bassist Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, an occasional vocal chorus, plus Richard Egues supplying flute on the lovely "Tres Lindas Cubanas." My favorite cut, the guaracho/son "Mandinga," uses most of the preceding to highlight Gonzalez' best waterfall-style improvisations nailed by the perfect easy-going yet intensely gripping Afro-Cuban beat.
Fatal Mambo's eponymous new disc (Tinder Records) lacks the shock-of-the-new of 1996's Rumbagitation, but that only means the French band transmutes their frenzy into straight ahead momentum. Except for the accordion fueled "La Tete a Gaston," the galsa (Gallic salsa) retires to the back of the tour bus, and the novelty-song tendency is replaced by silly voices cropping up in a seriously overcharged Latin groove owing much to the restless ghost of Perez Prado. Not conversant in French, I miss the punning, jokey lyrics, though the grabbag of foreign influences from flamenco to rai to retro rock is as obvious as a front row seat on a whoopie cushion. Did I mention these jokers can really play?
One of the best compliments I can pay to Jamshied Sharifi on A Prayer for the Soul of Layla (Alula) is that his synthesizer seldom sounds electronic. More often than not you'd think you were hearing exotic ethnic acoustic instruments. He clones a wood trumpet on "Tariqat," which also features soulful chants by Moroccan musical alchemist Hassan Hakmoun plus furious drumbeats by Simone Haggiag and Benjamin Wittman. On "One Who Plants a Tree" Sharifi's synth first impersonates a vernacular oboe, then an accordion--on "Salt Road" a shepherd's horn crossed with an Armenian duduk--and on "The Art of Remembering" it subtly shifts between wind and bowed instrument timbres.
Boosting Sharifi is a roster of performers on authentic acoustic instruments, mostly middle eastern and West African in keeping with the tone of this wide ranging but still carefully focused disc. Guests include Hakmoun (sintir), Haig Manoukian (oud), Ole Mathisen (Bedouin harp), and nicely layered percussion by Wittman and others. Sharifi knows how to keep lots of variety in his music and is generous in his pick of vocal stylists, from Paula Cole's soulful vocables on "Ammeh Kimmia" to Mamak Khadem's Bulgarian-flavored warbles on "Ma'na", and the processed choir of Miyuki Sakamoto and Micki Richards that fleshes out "Remembering." A few cuts have an ambient feel, but even these avoid movie soundtrack-itis thanks to vibrant arrangements which offset the dreaminess quotient.
A dab of ambient music flutters around the bottom of another disc of Mideast-inflected music. Assarouf (Triloka) is more straightforward than Layla in offering songs in the purely traditional style of North Africa's Tuareg culture. Algeria's Baly Othmani, backed by the Baly Vocal Ensemble (who else?), contributes strong compositions reflecting the yearning and restlessness of nomadic life with evocative singing and oud mastery so strong the first cut makes good on the cliche "he could have phoned it in" as Othmani deposits a solo on Steve Shehan's answering machine. Virginia-born guitarist Shehan leaves the structure of Othmani's beautiful pieces intact, augmenting them with percussion plucked from his globetrotting through Africa and Asia. Anomalous touches of Malaysian gongs on "Azouiegh illougan" or balafon on "Tannamert n'yalla" fit in as well as the Arizonan crickets on "Taddeghal tara" or Gede Uloh's ghostly Indonesian rebab on "Maiga dagh toughdahin." And fear not the keyboards nor the fender bass. Shehan carefully adds just enough punch and atmosphere to enhance the emotive force of Othmani's performance.
I confess to having let Spirit, the first American release by Vasen, slide past me a few months ago. As just another exemplary traditional-based music cd by just another exemplary Scandinavian ensemble, it failed to hit me in the face. The new stripped-down four-member version of the Swedish band on Whirled (NorthSide) dealt me a body blow, however. Whirled is dervish music from the frigid zone, and it's not just a matter of intensity since Vasen has always played as if trying to use sonic energy to stave off an ancient curse. If anything, the band occasionally flaunts an acoustic quartet's potential for understatement on "Nitti Pomfritti" (90 French Fries), which uses tick-tock percussion and open space to play up the idea of time dribbling away. As an added bonus, I can actually pick out which member is playing which instrument, more or less, instead of simply assuming the devil is making the ruckus. Nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle), viola, guitar and percussion are the sinister forces at work. But I'm also taken with the good humor of "Kapten Kapsyl," a tune dedicated to the final moments of a bottled beverage, and love the stand-out ferocity of "Shapons Vindaloo" which toys with classical Indian music. The topper is "Tartulingen" which I'm certain has to be about yours truly. "He comes and goes, leaving chaos in this tracks... and now he's back," read the liner notes. I don't know about the chaos part, but there is a distressing inevitability to Technobeat. [http://www.noside.com/]
Wimme's joiks, chants, recitations, groans and trance-state babblings conjure an image of a peyote-zonked shaman navigating the lower astral plane with cast members of Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast. I expected Wimme to be a grizzled reindeer herder clad in freshly chewed animal hides, but when I opened the cardboard sleeve of the Finnish import cd Gierran (Rockadillo Records) I instead beheld a photo of Dilbert's identical twin in big glasses, crewcut and Vulcan ceremonial garb. Wimme's eponymous first cd just issued here on the NorthSide label lightly kindled my interest during its original 1995 Rockadillo incarnation, but the vocals and electronics were too similar from cut-to-cut to move it past my icebox.
But Gierran is a gas from start to finish. If opening track "Iras" with goofy sax and synthesizer power riffs doesn't rearrange your neural net, "Samil" (The Importance of Moss) will scare the genomes from your gonads when Wimme's voice re-emerges after the presumed end of the track and 6:20 of total dead-ass silence. The title cut (Enchantment) has medicine man vocals, frame drum percussion, sax, bass, keyboards and a cool atmosphere, and "Rievssat" (Snow Goose) plus "Vuojan" (Draft Reindeer) are fine traditional joik chants. But who cares, when there's outrageous material like poetic piece "Arvedavgi" that will drive you up Mt. Monotony if your Sami language skills aren't up to snuff, "Oinnahus" (Vision) which pauses to recharge oxygen tanks on the way to Planet Gong, and my favorite of the batch, "Boska" (Angelica archangelica), sporting enough warped phonemes and vocal shenanigans to bring a smile to a Romulan. [This and other Finnish cds via Digelius Music, http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/dighoe/]
The void left by the passing of qawwali great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan left me thinking about his back-up musicians who were usually lost in the glare of his extraordinary talent. The Supreme Collection, Volume One (Caroline), a two-cd set of early performances, offers an opportunity to appreciate the strength of the musical Party. Worth mentioning first are the vocalists, who not only keep up with Nusrat but shadow him so closely they seem like multi-tracked versions of himself. Many times when I'm positive Nusrat has launched into an ecstatic sigh, his voice suddenly emerges elsewhere. "Mazaa Aa Gaya" reveals the harmonium players' art as well as anything on this set. (Sorry I can't refer to the musicians by name, but personnel credits for these performances are missing.) A lovely short solo launches the track, and not unlike Tex-Mex conjunto, the keyboardists constantly switch between ornamenting the piece with patches of melody and helping project the rhythmic charge. But it's the nimbleness that amazes me, for as soon as Nusrat launches into one of his Urdu scat singing feats of daring, the harmonium echoes, anticipates and otherwise supports the vocal acrobatics as if by telepathy.
While the Party percussionists lay down a beat of plain cloth without much flash, their predictability provides a needed comfort factor. Especially in the extended duration of these 17-minute-plus songs, the aggressive vocals and keyboards are cumulatively exhausting. So it's nice to dip down to the backbone of the pieces and let the tabla and handclaps temporarily refresh me before another jump into the onslaught of unearthly joy. Farewell, Nusrat. Thanks for the amazing body of work, and may your deserving ensemble locate another gig. [www.caroline.com]
For the Sufi savant in another context, investigate Star Rise (RealWorld/Caroline), a collection of remixes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's work with Michael Brook. Reinterpreting pieces from Mustt Mustt and Night Song is a posse of young Asian musicians who might have served the cause better by beginning with Nusrat's traditional tracks rather than Brook's meticulously engineered productions. Might as well throw artifical sweetener on top of sugar. It's an enduring testament to Nusrat's genius that his mighty voice rises above the drum machine confinement. [www.caroline.com]
Just released in the Southern Journey series of Alan Lomax's American field recordings is Volume 8, Velvet Voices, Eastern Shores Choirs, Quartets, and Colonial Era Music. Collected here are the fruits of Lomax's travels in April and May of 1960 to Virginia's Eastern Shore, the Georgia Sea Islands and Arkansas tracing the remnants of early African-American folk music idioms.
The centerpiece of this exciting disc of mainly gospel groups and choirs is a selection of a cappella songs by the Bright Light Quartet from the Northern Neck, Virginia fishing village of Weems. These songs, based on sea chanteys, are melodically direct but complicated by syncopated interlocking vocal parts that unearth the roots of classic pop groups like the Ink Spots, Coasters, Mills Brothers and the street corner doo-wop performers of the '50s. Pushing the clock back further, Lomax also reconstructs as accurately as possible the African-American music of the Colonial era, relying heavily on Ed Young of Mississippi, virtuoso of the cane fife, an instrument thought extinct until Lomax encountered Young--plus Bahamian drummer Nat Rahmings and four-string banjo player Hobart Smith. The banjo and fife duets oddly juxtapose the familiar Revolutionary War fife sound with a slow and static banjo style. Though the performances on Velvet Voices were collected nearly four decades ago, the presence and definition of the recordings are extraordinary, a tribute first to the considerable technical sensitivity of Lomax and second to Steve Rosenthal's sound restoration. Listening through headphones is to step into the middle of a gospel group nestled in an arc of handclaps.
For storytelling songs check out Volume Seven of the Southern Journey series in the Alan Lomax Collection, Ozark Frontier, Ballads and Old-Timey Music from Arkansas (Rounder). Though they lack the captivating dynamics of Volume Seven, these songs potently combine British ballads, 19th century minstrel compositions, mountain banjo and fiddle music and pre-phonograph pop music circulated by songsheets. Recorded by Lomax in 1959, the material is finely honed by such sensitive performers as Almeda Riddle, with her Iris DeMent-style lilt, Neil Morris (father of balladeer Jimmy Driftwood), and Ollie Gilbert, whose shy rendition of the old Child ballad "It Rained A Mist," rooted in Chaucer's "The Prioress' Tale," unexpectedly spins a chilling story of child mortality blamed on ritual murder by non-Christian "outsiders" of the day.
The first Caribbean Voyage entry in Rounder Records' ever-expanding Alan Lomax Collection is an odd one. Brown Girl in the Ring presents 62 short game and play songs from Trinidad, Tobago, Dominica, St. Lucia, Anguilla, Nevis and Carriacou. In small doses, the songs have charm, though none will ever be confused with anything more complex than a nursery-rhyme type of ditty despite the convoluted origins of many as revealed by the 40-page accompanying booklet. For the full story, including social commentary hiding behind the lines of deceptively empty lyrics, look for the companion 224-page hardcover book. Published by Pantheon and compiled and authored by Lomax, J.D. Elder and Bess Lomax Hawes, Brown Girl in the Ring contains lyrics, music, play instructions, notes on origin and cultural significance, a spate of essays and several detailed maps. Handsome and fun to read, it's also the only scholarly book I own that includes the sheet music to "Pop Goes the Weasel."
Anthologies of ritual music have always puzzled me. What to do with them? Using circumcision rites as a backdrop for reading crime novels or blaring honey gathering songs from my car cassette deck while cruising for fast food is just plain wrong, plus the rather grating nature of these pieces consigns them quickly to the esoteric recesses of my disc collection once I've fulfilled the educational requirement. But the ellipsis arts label gives me ritual music I can use with Shaman, Jhankri & Nele--Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures. Beautifully recorded with therapeutic you-are-there production that posits the listener right under the healer's cowry-shell rattle, Shaman bulges with fixes tailor made for my home apothecary.
Selections include Babaji's northern Indian song to combat depression and fatigue (bet it also works with anxiety), a Kuma Indian song from the San Blas Islands for healing mental illness, Amazon medicine man Dakikiking Don Alejandro's ritual for healing digestive problems, and the more general application song for petitioning the gods for healing from Mexican peyote shaman Mara'akame. I'm cautious about trying Tuvan shaman Alexander Tavakay's song for calling animal helpers for fear of our pet geese breaking into the house. Ellipsis arts is onto something here. I foresee whole cds of indigenous healing music designed to treat individual ailments. A headache anthology could go right through the roof. Sadly, the collection sits a box big enough to hold a National Geographic-size accompanying softcover book, making Shaman too bulky to fit cd shelf or medicine chest.
I've often thought the timbres of the gamelan were chosen to resonate sympathetic notes of physical, mental and spiritual well-being in the listener. Maryland's Robert Macht takes full advantage of this principle on Suite for Javanese Gamelan and Synthesizer (Macht). "Ripples" uses gamelan, assorted percussion and keyboards to create uncluttered layered complexity that projects waves of joy and discovery. Just when you think you've hit your happiness peak, Macht shifts the patterns or introduces new combinations of textures to keep the experience flowing. Blissfully, his synthesizer largely avoids fat washes of sound in favor of gentle eddies or mallet instrument emulations that integrate well with traditional themes. Macht, who studied the court gamelan repertoire in Central Java, arranges, plays and records his compositions with clear understanding of the ensemble process, avoiding the effect of a one-man band adrift in an empty studio. The exception to his do-everything philosphy is a lovely extended piece "Wind Brings Rain," backed by Global Percussion members Barry Dove, Donna DiStefano and Jon Seligman. Suite is a wonderful disc whose pleasures are immediately accessible while harboring deep structural secrets that take repeated listenings to unravel. [6140 Barroll Rd., Baltimore, MD 21209 or machtone@erols.com]
Nature lovers should cherish Utom: Summoning the Spirit (Rykodisc), a nicely varied anthology of music of the Tboli people of Southwestern Mindanao in the Philippines. The utom repertoire is tied closely to sounds and spirits of the Tboli's environment. Some songs strive for a sonic imitation of the area fauna, such as lute-player Bendaly's "Call of the Cicada" and "Flying Woodpecker." The former gets loads of local play--a version for bamboo zither is performed by Lendungan Simfal and Ihan Sibanay, but Sol Ayaw does my favorite rendition. After seeking shelter from an afternoon downpour in a cave, he engages a songbird just outside the entrance in a spirited duet with his violin on this piece and "Cackling mnaul bird." Other songs evoke the atmosphere of the Tboli's natural setting, such as the gong and drum pieces reminiscent of the Muslim Filipinos' kulitan ensembles which ostensibly convey the sound of lapping waves but also project a lovely feeling of intimacy and well-being. Rounding out the collection is "Prized Banana," a bawdy vocal performance by Ye Gas that extols the charms and failing of various gentlemen she has known. And it's not even rap.
If Hapa ain't Hawaii's Beatles, then they're certainly the island's Oasis, and if not Oasis, they're still the raspberries. To almost the same degree that I loathed the sickly sweet slack key of Keli'li Kanneali'i and Barry Flanagan's first local mega-seller, Hapa, I admire the slick pop smarts of the bombshell follow up In the Name of Love (Coconut Grove). From the front cover of a buffed Kaneali'i in indigenous cloth wrap and Flanagan in tartan kilt, both armed with serious armament from the Keola Beamer custom guitar craft studio, to the power chords that kick off disc opener "E Hele Ana E," it's evident no kitchen sink will be spared in this assault on the charts. Hapa hot-wires traditional themes and tunes, inventing a kind of speed slack key as "Pahinui Aloha" zips from ki-hoalu to bluegrass fingerpicking with nary a sliver of Polynesian daylight in between. But the lads' favorite gambit is warm and fuzzy psychedelia. Not content dunking "Leluhuna" beneath an ocean of flanged vocal effects, they knock the cobwebs off a stuttering electric sitar solo reminiscent of Strawberrry Alarm Clock's finest hour. But with all the aural hooks and loop-the-loops by Kanneali'i, Flanagan and their exceptional session musicians, it's the harmonies that keep me from running away screaming as sappy ditties like "Manoa, In the Rain" make you wish they stuck to Hawaiian-language lyrics. But gorgeous vocals elevate phonemes over morphemes, keeping me in pineapple fields forever.
Few percussionists have the ability or inclination to hold the spotlight on a solo recording, but with his arsenal of tuned tabla drums and prodigious chops, Badal Roy could keep me riveted all by his lonesome. The Bangladesh-born drummer has supported such luminaries as Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, John McLaughlin and Bengali folk musician Purna Das Baul, so he's used to meshing gears with top-notch talents. On One in the Pocket (Nomad/Music of the World), Roy explores the many different timbres of the tabla, from the well-water thump of "Geeta's Shuffle," to the pitched tabla tarang of "Bombay Boogie," the gentle percolation of Mike Richmond's bass-charged "Island Song," and the familiar "dang-dut" of "Roda Gigante" anchoring the sequencer-precise Brazilian guitar duo Duofel. But it's the diversity of Roy's collaborators that puts this in the pocket, as Steve Gorn adds dreamy bansuri flute to the title cut and Eastern-flavored soprano sax to "Dadaism," and Amit Chatterlee lends cosmic electric guitar to four songs. Roy balances the forward presence of his drums with the contrasting textures of his bandmates as carefully as he blends genres in this slap-happy, hook-filled disc. [worldmusic.com]
For too many years Texas' Brave Combo has stood alone hoisting the twin banners of virtuosity and a perverse taste in international music. Now The Reptile Palace Orchestra draws a yellow line in the snow outside their Madison, Wisconsin headquarters daring madmen only to take the entrance ramp to Hwy X (Omnium). Dipping into a mostly Mediterannean and Mideastern repertoire laced with a few pop oddities, RPO plays with the druggy determination of a band that doesn't find its legs until 3:00 am after the third handful of demerol. Reinforcing the late-night attitude is a woozy choice of covers that blurs sincerity and irony with deadpan instrumental prowess until you couldn't care less about the distinction--Michael Hurley's "The Revenant" as prom night make-out music, or Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wings" cast as SoCal folk rock ballad. Sonics are of a piece as well, as comfy space around the instruments opens up via signal processing to suggest a reverb-plagued performance in a metal and concrete hockey rink. Most bands crystalize into hardened professionals before they attain Reptile Pace Orchestra's level of stoned ennui, so pick up this ambitious yet half-bored disc of international intrigue while it's still wriggling. [PO. Box 7367, Minneapolis, MN 55407 or www.omnium.com]
Each Christmas I grit my teeth as my wife trots out her cds of holiday standards from the Nutcracker to der Bingle's rendition of "Silent Night." In self-defense I try foisting alternatives on her, such as my favorite seasonal disc, Marta Sebestyen's Apocrypha, which isn't recognizably Christian, or Bruce Cockburn's bouncy Christmas cd. Next year's addition will be Nomad Christmas, A World Music Celebration (Nomad/Music of the World) which should satisfy Linda with recognizable tunes and keep me relatively sane with its expostulations on same. My favorite cuts are by oudist Simon Shaheen, who transports "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" and "We Three Kings" to appropriate Middle Eastern territory with an added jazzy swing, and Duofel, who demonstrate both tact and inventiveness with "Jingle Bells Brazil" (I can barely type these titles). Bulgarian a cappella group Folk Scat is less palatable with its doodly-doo version of "Silent Night," though homeland Christmas tune "Koledarska Pesen" fares slightly better. Also featured are percussionist Glen Velez, bassist Mike Richmond, percussionist and label founder Bob Haddad, pianist Richard Sussman and others. Nomad Christmas isn't as good as avoiding seasonal music entirely, but it is kind to the stomach. [worldmusic.com]
[Copyright 1998 Bob Tarte]
My wonderful dad, Robert J. Tarte, died on January 16, 1999, from a sudden heart attack while shoveling snow. He was always proud of having written his tribute to the big bands, and my gratitude goes out to The Beat editor CC Smith for letting him indulge his prodigious memories.
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HTC has reportedly hired the former head of marketing at Samsung, Paul Golden. Bloomberg cites people familiar with the matter to report that Golden has been hired on a three-month contract and his long-term engagement with the company hasn’t been finalized. He is said to be reporting directly to Chairman Cher Wang.
Golden’s LinkedIn page says that he worked for Samsung between 2008 and 2012, where he “created and launched the highly successful Galaxy brand.” His current employer is listed as Brand Slam, a marketing consultancy.
HTC has suffered three straight quarters of operating losses and declines in sales and market share. To overcome this, the company is looking over its marketing strategy and has hired actor Gary Oldman and Robert Downey Jr. as a part of this initiative. Now it is trying to turn its fortune, by taking advise from the man who was responsible in a way to drive it into losses, sound interesting!
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Your office uses Windows Vista. This morning, a patch was applied automatically. Suddenly, the users who have scanners attached to their computers complain that they cannot access the scanners. When you check their Device Manager, you notice there is no exclamation point next to the scanner. What should you do now?
Reinstall Vista.
Find a Vista compatible scanner.
Manually uninstall and reinstall the device driver.
Roll back the patch.
Sometimes a patch may cause problems for an existing device driver.Usually, you simply uninstall and then reinstall the driver. This way the driver is installed after the patch.
Answer option D is incorrect. Patches often have key security updates. Simply leaving the machine unpatched is never a good idea.
Answer option Ais incorrect. This drastic step will return you to the pre-patch state, but then you will still need to apply that patch, and still have to deal with this problem.
Answer option B is incorrect. The scanner worked with Vista before the patch. This indicates that it is Vista compatible.
Reference. http.//support.microsoft.com/kb/948187/en-us
Which ofthe following refers to a location away from the computer center where document copies and backup media are kept?
Off-site storage
Answer: A Explanation:
Off-site storage refers to alocation away from the computer center where documents copies and backup media are kept. This storage method is more secure but less convenient and more costly.
Answer option D is incorrect. Onsite storage refers to the same location where the work placeis. It is considered more convenient but less secure in case of disaster.
Answer option C is incorrect. A storage area network (SAN) is an architecture to attach remote computer storage devices (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) to servers in such a way that the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system.
Answer option B is incorrect. Network attached storage (NAS), in contrast to SAN, uses file-based protocols such as NFS or SMB/CIFS where it is clear that the storage is remote, and computers request a portion of an abstract file rather than a disk block.
Which of the following is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products?
Standby mode
Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC)
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
Energy Star rating is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products.
The Energy Star rating is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products. Devices carrying the Energy Star logo are products, such as computerdevices, peripherals, kitchen appliances, etc. These products generally use 20% to 30% lesser energy than required by the federal standards. The Energy Star program was created by the #39;United
States Environmental Protection
Agency#39; (US EPA) as an attempt to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission by power plants. The program has helped in spreading the use of LED traffic lights, efficient fluorescent lighting, and power management systems for office equipments. Answer option C is incorrect. Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), frequently referred to as the Orange Book, is the centerpiece of the DoD Rainbow Series publications. It is a
United States Government Department of Defense (DoD) standard that sets basic requirements forassessing the effectiveness of computer security controls built into a computer system. TCSEC was used to evaluate, classify and select computer systems being considered for the processing, storage and retrieval of sensitive or classified information. It was replaced with the development of the
Common Criteria international standard originally published in 2005.
Answer option B is incorrect. The standby mode is a power saving feature for computers. In this mode, a computer does not shut down completely. Thecomputer goes to low power state and, as a result, it consumes less power. When the computer resumes from the standby mode, full power is restored to its devices. During the standby mode, if the power supply is disconnected or interrupted, data might be lost. The standby mode is available automatically on ACPI-enabled or APM-enabled computers. Users do not need to enable this mode manually.
This mode is not available in non-ACPI and non-APM based computers.
Answer option D is incorrect. The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a powermanagement specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. It enables an operating system to control the amount of power supplied to each device attached to a computer by turning off peripheral deviceswhen they are not in use. Itdefines power management on a wide range of mobile, desktop, and server computers and peripherals. It also enables manuurers to produce computers that automatically power up as soon as a user touches the keyboard. Reference. quot;http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Starquot;
Your customers Windows XP machine has become unusable due to some unknown cause. You want to put the computer into a working state again. What is the best way to do this?
Simply put the Windows Recovery CD in and the recovery process will start.
Reinstall Windows.
Use the Windows Recovery Console with the Windows Recovery CD to put the system back in a working state.
Simply uninstall any new software.
When your system becomes unusable and you cannot trace the cause, it may become necessary to do a Windows Recovery. This will require the Windows Recovery CD and the Windows Recovery Console.
Recovery Console is a command-line console thatenables administrators to repair a computer. From
Recovery Console, administrators can start and stop services, read and write data on a local drive, repair the master boot record (MBR), format drives, and perform other administrative tasks. The
RecoveryConsole can be run using the following two ways: In case the computer does not start, Recovery Console
can be run using the Windows setup CD-ROM. Otherwise, the Recovery Console can be run from the option in the boot menu.
Answer option A is incorrect. TheCD will not work by itself; you need to use the Windows Recovery
Console also. Answer option D is incorrect. You do not know if the software is causing the problem or if an uninstall will correct it. Answer option B is incorrect. Recovery is a better option and is quicker and less disruptive than a full installation.
Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654
Which of the following storage device uses SRAM or DRAM?
Solid-state drive (SSD)
CD drive
Answer: B Explanation:
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing itin most applications. It is also known as solid-state hard disk drive. SSDs have no moving parts; hence, they are less fragile and silent than hard disks. As there are no mechanical delays, SSDs usually enjoy low access time and latency. An SSD using SRAMor DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive, which should not be confused with a RAM disk. Answer option C is incorrect. Blu-ray Disc, also known as Blu-ray or BD, is an optical disc
storage medium. It is designed to supersede the standard DVD format for storing high- definition video,
PlayStation 3 games, and other data, with up to 25 GB per single layered, and 50 GB per dual layered disc. Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion pictures. The disc has the same physical dimensions as standard DVDs and CDs. It is called Blu-ray Disc because of the blue-violet laser which is used to read the disc. Blu-ray uses ashorter wavelength, a 405 nm blue-violet laser, and allows for almost six times more data storage than on a DVD.
Answer option D is incorrect. CD drive is used for read/write operations on CDs. The CD drives that are capable of performing write operations on CDs are also known as CD burners. However, most of the CD drives on computers have read only capability. CD drives with read-only capability are also known as CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read-Only Memory) drives. A CD drive is installed inside the computer case and can be connected to IDE,SCSI, SATA, or firewire interface.
Answer option A is incorrect. A USB flash drive consists of flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1 or
2.0 interface. Reference. quot;http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drivequot;
Which of the following display standards provides four times more pixels than an 800x 600 display?
SXGA
UXGA
UXGA stands for Ultra eXtended Graphics Array. It is a display standard that refers to video adapters.
This display standard is capable of displaying the resolution of 1600 x 1200pixels. A UXGA display provides four times more pixels than an 800 x 600 display.
Answer option A is incorrect. SXGA stands for Super eXtended Graphics Array. It is a display standard that refers to video adapters. This standard is an enhancement of the standard XGA resolution developed by IBM. It is capable of displaying the resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels.
Answer option B is incorrect. SXGA stands for Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus and
is a computer display standard. An SXGA display is commonly used on 14-inch or 15-inch laptop LCD screens with a resolution of 1400 1050 pixels. SXGA is also the maximum resolution native to many high-end video projectors. An SXGA display is used on a few 12 inch laptop screens such as theThinkPad X60 amp; X61.
Answeroption C is incorrect. SVGA standard normally refers to a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels.
Reference. quot;http.//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UXGAquot;
Which of the following aims to restrict certain dangerous substances commonly used in electronics and electronic equipment?
IETF standards
W3C standards
The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive aims to restrict certain dangerous substances commonly used in electronics and electronic equipment.
Answer option D is incorrect. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international industry consortium that develops common standards for the World Wide Web to promote its evolution and interoperability. It was founded in October 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the
Web, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/LCS] in collaboration with CERN, where the Web had originated , with support from DARPA and the European Commission.
Answer option C is incorrect. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and coordination of the operation and management of the Internet. It works towards introducing procedures for new technologies on the Internet. IETF specifications are released in Requests for
Comments (RFCs).
Answer option B is incorrect. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE) is a society of technical professionals. It promotes the development and application of electro- technology and allied sciences. IEEE develops communications and network standards, among other activities. The organization publishes number of journals, has many local chapters, and societies in specialized areas.
Reference. quot;http.//www.rohs.gov.uk/Default.aspxquot;
Your customer is very concerned about security for Wi-Fi at his home. He wants to make sure that only computers, he has authorized, can get on his Wi-Fi. What is the most appropriate security measure you can recommend?
A Firewall
WPA encryption
Mac Filtering
WEP encryption
Mac filtering only allows computers, which have their MAC address listed with the router, to connect.
What is MAC address filtering?
MAC address filtering is a security method that enables a device to allow only certain MAC addresses to access a network. It can be configured on a Wireless Access Point (WAP) to allow only certainsystem MAC addresses to communicate with the rest of the network.
MAC address filtering can be performed using either of the two policies. exclude all by default, then allow only listed clients; or include all by default, then exclude listed clients. MACfiltering can also be used on a wireless network to prevent certain network devices from accessing the wireless network. MAC addresses are allocated only to hardware devices, not to persons.
Answer options D and B are incorrect. Any encryption will be based on password authentication, not on filtering specific computers. Only MAC filtering will do that. Answer option A is incorrect. A firewall will not prevent people or computers from connecting to your Wi-Fi. It will block certain, unwanted connections.
Reference. http.//compnetworking.about.com/cs/wirelessproducts/qt/macaddress.htm
Which of the following statements is true about modem?
It amplifies the digital signals.
It converts digital signals into analog signals andvice versa.
It reduces the noise in analog signal.
It converts AC current to DC current and vice versa.
Modem converts digital signals into analog signals and vice versa. Modem is a device used by computers to communicate overlong distances through Public Service Telephone Lines (PSTN).
Modem stands for Modulator and Demodulator. When a computer sends data, it uses digital signals.
Modem converts these digital signals into analog signals and transmits the data over PSTN. At thereceiving end, modem converts the analog signals back to digital signals and delivers to the receiving computer.
Which of the following are dual core processors?
Each correct Answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2
Intel(r) Pentium(r) processor Extreme Edition
AMDAthlon(tm)
Answer: A,C Explanation:
The Intel(r) Pentium(r) processor Extreme Edition and AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 are dual core technology processors manuured by Intel and AMD, respectively.
What is dual core processor?
A dual core processor is a CPU with twoseparate cores in the same chip. Each core has its own cache. A dual core processor is an equivalent of two microprocessors in a computer. In a dual core processor, both cores handle incoming data strings simultaneously, resulting in improved efficiency.
Hence a dual core system is faster than a single-core or traditional processor system. A dual core processor does not require a new motherboard, but can be used in existing boards having the correct socket. Intel and AMD are the companies that are making dual core processors.
Answer options D and B are incorrect. AMD Athlon(tm) and Intel Pentium 4 are not dual core processors.
Reference: quot;http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/dual-core/quot;
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Fears for safety of Morpeth schoolchildren as pupils cross busy road unaided
By Brian Daniel
Morpeth Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, which share a site next to a B road, have had no crossing patrol in place since October
Chantry Middle School and Newminster Middle School have no crossing patrol in place
Fears have been voiced for the safety of around 1,000 schoolchildren who are having to cross a busy road unaided.
Morpeth Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, which share a site next to a B road, have had no crossing patrol in place since October.
With no appointment in the offing, grave concerns have been expressed that a child could be knocked down and injured or even killed while crossing the road without a patrol.
A school head, a parent and the local education authority last night issued a plea for anyone interested in filling the role to come forward.
The schools, which have around 500 nine to 13 year-old pupils each, are based on the B6343 Mitford Road, used by many motorists to travel to and from the town and close to where Morpeth’s new flood defences are being built.
However, the crossing patrol officer who served the schools was moved to a school in his home town of Ashington in October, after Northumberland County Council ceased paying travel expenses.
A replacement was lined up by the authority but on the day he was due to start in December, told officers he had landed another job.
No-one else has been identified to fill the role.
Steven Johnson, head of school at Chantry, last night told how the school had tried to find a replacement through newsletters and text messages to parents.
Staff at the schools are allowed to be present at the road side but can not escort children across the road without training.
Mr Johnson said no staff had expressed interest in receiving it.
“We are just really struggling and we have to try and move this agenda forward because the road outside the school is a busy B road and we feel there should be a school crossing patrol there really.
“We just need someone out there in the community to come and do that.”
Mr Johnson voiced concerns over the lack of safety measures in place outside the school, such as a zebra crossing.
He said there had been no accidents yet but added: “I think that we have to be aware that that may happen and we do not want that to happen, I do think that could be a possibility.”
Alison Byard, a 47-year-old Morpeth Town councillor from Crookham Grove in Stobhill Manor whose 11-year-old daughter Katie is a year seven pupil at Chantry, said: “It is a danger.
“It has been going on a long time but a child could be killed if there is no crossing attendant.”
A council spokeswoman said: “The council is actively recruiting for school crossing patrol officers.
“We would ask anyone who is interested in undertaking such a valuable and rewarding role to apply via the county council jobs site. We regularly advertise via social media as well as the local press and school newsletters in order to fill vacancies as they arise.
“However, we do advise parents that the council does not have a statutory responsibility to provide school crossing patrol officers. Until a replacement can be found, it is ultimately parents’ responsibility to ensure that their child gets to school safely.
“We appreciate that this is a busy road, and until a replacement officer can be found parents are asked to help ensure that children cross the road safely.”
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Council sends damning letters to North East teachers in bid to up standards
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Follow-up: Proposed Intercity Bus Permit Plan Announced
Residents on the Lower East Side have been waiting a long time for something to be done about the ever-growing number of so-called “Chinatown buses” clogging the neighborhood’s streets. In December of 2009, Department of Transportation official Luis Sanchez told Community Board 3 his agency wanted a permit system for intercity buses. Finally today, more than a year later, proposed legislation is being introduced in Albany.
The bill would authorize the New York City Council to pass a local law setting up a permit process. If it has the desired effect, the proposed law would give DOT officials and the NYPD the tools they need to deal with bus congestion and pollution. Specifically, the legislation would:
Prohibit intercity buses from picking up and dropping off passengers on city streets except at approved pick-up and drop off locations
Assign a city agency to implement and enforce the permitting system
Establish a community board review process for issuing permits and designating locations/relocations for bus pick-up and drop-off
Require consultation with the MTA in designating locations/relocations for bus pick-up and drop-off and issuance of permits
Provide public notice of all permit applications within five days of submission
Require applicants to obtain five thousand dollar surety bonds
Mandate agency review, and approval or denial, within ninety days of submission of application
Require the display of permits in buses
Exempt school buses, sight-seeing buses, transportation authority buses, municipal buses and others
Authorize a maximum $275 annual fee to be credited to the city as well as civil penalties for violations
Prohibit the adoption of any system until there has been a public hearing
The Chinatown bus issue has been on Community Board 3’s radar for several years. Residents have come before CB3’s transportation committee to complain that the buses were parking for extended periods of time on city streets, that their passengers were clogging the neighborhood’s sidewalks and that fumes from the buses were causing health dangers.
The DOT said new legislation was needed to reign in the buses, which are largely unregulated. But crafting the bill was tricky because lawmakers wanted to make sure there were no conflicts with federal interstate commerce laws. Community Board 3 has been cajoling elected officials for many months on the issue.
Today’s surprise announcement was orchestrated by the Lower East Side’s elected officials for maximum political benefit. News of the proposed legislation first surfaced in this morning’s New York Times. A hastily arranged news conference took place a few hours later on the corner of Canal and Allen streets, one of the neighborhood’s most notorious bus-burdened intersections. Among the speakers: State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, State Senator Daniel Squadron and City Coucilmember Margaret Chin.
Arrayed behind them, on a bone-chilling morning, were many Chinatown business and community leaders, as well as bus company operators. Pei Lin Liang of the Fung Wah bus company, was supportive of the proposed legislation. In recent years, the bus companies have become popular not only in Chinatown but across the city. Like local residents, bus operators have been frustrated by the lack of clear rules.
The legislation will need to be approved in Albany before it can be taken up by the City Council. Chin said she’s optimistic about its chances in the Council, especially since Speaker Christine Quinn has already thrown her support behind the plan. City transportation officials were not present at today’s media event.
CB3’s transportation committee will discuss the proposal next Wednesday, at 630pm, at the offices of Asian Americans for Equality, 111 Division Street.
By Ed Litvak in Politics, Transportation on February 4, 2011 1:34 pm
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Izyaslav III, Grand Prince of Kiev1
M, #220801, d. after 1161
Izyaslav III, Grand Prince of Kiev was the son of unknown (?).1 He died after 1161.1
He succeeded as the Grand Prince Izyaslav III of Kiev in 1154.1 He was deposed as Grand Prince of Kiev in 1155.1 He succeeded as the Grand Prince Izyaslav III of Kiev in 1157.1 He was deposed as Grand Prince of Kiev in 1158.1 He succeeded as the Grand Prince Izyaslav III of Kiev in 1161.1
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 167. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
Mstislav II, Grand Prince of Kiev1
M, #220802, d. 1170
Mstislav II, Grand Prince of Kiev was the son of Izyaslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev.1 He died in 1170.1
He succeeded as the Grand Prince Mstislav II of Kiev in 1158.1 He was deposed as Grand Prince of Kiev in 1159.1 He succeeded as the Grand Prince Mstislav II of Kiev in 1167.1 He was deposed as Grand Prince of Kiev in 1169.1
Vasilii Rurik, Grand Duke of Vladimir1
Vasilii Rurik, Grand Duke of Vladimir was the son of Yaroslav II, Grand Duke of Vladimir and Theodosia of Novgorod.1 He died in 1277.1
He succeeded as the Grand Duke Vasilii of Vladimir in 1272.1
Hylda Snow Paget1
Hylda Snow Paget was born in 1874 at London, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Bt. and Caroline Isabel Surtees.1 She married Archibald Edward Balfour on 2 December 1909.2
From 2 December 1909, her married name became Balfour.2
Child of Hylda Snow Paget and Archibald Edward Balfour
Unknown Child Balfour2
[S264] David Gardiner, online unknown url, David Gardiner (unknown location), downloaded 5 March 2007.
George Dixon1
Last Edited=9 Nov 2007
Child of George Dixon
Elizabeth Ann Dixon+1 d. 24 Mar 1871
Augusta Jane Chichester1
F, #220806, b. 15 April 1862, d. 12 May 1914
Augusta Jane Chichester was born on 15 April 1862.1 She was the daughter of Hon. Francis Algernon James Chichester and Elizabeth Ann Dixon.1 She died on 12 May 1914 at age 52, unmarried.1
John Moore Paget1
M, #220807, b. 17 June 1791, d. 4 June 1866
John Moore Paget was born on 17 June 1791 at Kilmersdon, Somerset, EnglandG.2,3 He was the son of John Paget and Jane Snow.4 He married Elizabeth Jane Doveton, daughter of Reverend John Frederick Doveton and Elizabeth Crossman, on 4 October 1827 at Mells, Somerset, EnglandG.1,2 He died on 4 June 1866 at age 74 at East Cranmore, Somerset, EnglandG.5,2
He held the office of Justice of Peace (J.P.)2 He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.)2 He held the office of High Sheriff of Rutland in 1851.2 He lived at Old Fallows Hall, Staffordshire, EnglandG.4 He lived at Cranmore Hall, Staffordshire, EnglandG.4 He lived at Newberry House, Staffordshire, EnglandG.4 He sold Clipsham in 1865.2 He purchased the Manor of Doulting, Somerset.2
Children of John Moore Paget and Elizabeth Jane Doveton
Margaret Doveton Paget+2 d. 16 Mar 1931
Jane Blanch Somerville Paget+2 b. c 1829, d. 10 Apr 1896
Arthur John Snow Paget4 b. 16 Dec 1830, d. 16 Apr 1863
Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Horner Paget, 1st Bt.+1 b. 14 Mar 1832, d. 3 Feb 1908
Helen M. Paget1 b. c 1840
[S2822] Cynthi Lydiard Cannings, "re: Wadegrave Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 28 May 2008, says 17 Jun 1792. Hereinafter cited as "re: Waldegrave Family."
[S2822] Cynthi Lydiard Cannings, "re: Waldegrave Family," e-mail to Darryl Roger Lundy, 28 May 2008.
[S2822] Cynthi Lydiard Cannings, "re: Waldegrave Family," e-mail to Darryl Roger Lundy, 28 May 2008, says 4 June 1865.
Elizabeth Jane Doveton1
F, #220808, b. 1 June 1804, d. 22 December 1881
Elizabeth Jane Doveton was born on 1 June 1804 at West Monkton, Somerset, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of Reverend John Frederick Doveton and Elizabeth Crossman.1 She married John Moore Paget, son of John Paget and Jane Snow, on 4 October 1827 at Mells, Somerset, EnglandG.1,3 She died on 22 December 1881 at age 77.3
From 4 October 1827, her married name became Paget.1,3
Children of Elizabeth Jane Doveton and John Moore Paget
[S2822] Cynthi Lydiard Cannings, "re: Wadegrave Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 28 May 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Waldegrave Family."
unknown (?)1
Last Edited=15 Apr 2012
unknown (?) is the son of Alexander, Grand Duke of Tver.1
Child of unknown (?)
unknown (?)+1
Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel1
F, #220810, b. circa 1863, d. 1927
Hon. Rose Ellen Rendel was born circa 1863 at St. James, Paddington, London, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands and Ellen Sophy Hubbard.1 She married, firstly, H. C. Goodhart in 1886.1 She married, secondly, W. C. Cooper in 1902.1 She died in 1927.1
From 1886, her married name became Goodhart.1 From 1902, her married name became Cooper.1 She was appointed Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)1
[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 229. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
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Joan Ursula Pelham1
F, #94411, b. 24 February 1907, d. 1989
Last Edited=25 Feb 2007
Joan Ursula Pelham was born on 24 February 1907.1 She was the daughter of Hon. Henry George Godolphin Pelham and Agnes Lee Ollerhead.1,2 She married John Edward Sealy, son of George Elliot Sealy, on 9 April 1929.1 She died in 1989.1
From 9 April 1929, her married name became Sealy. She held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Surrey in 1951.1
Children of Joan Ursula Pelham and John Edward Sealy
Agnes Coral Pelham Sealy+2 b. 1932
Ann Pelham Sealy+2 b. 1934, d. 2000
Nicholas John Elliot Sealy+2 b. 3 May 1938
John Edward Sealy1
M, #94412, d. 30 March 1968
John Edward Sealy was the son of George Elliot Sealy.2 He married Joan Ursula Pelham, daughter of Hon. Henry George Godolphin Pelham and Agnes Lee Ollerhead, on 9 April 1929.1 He died on 30 March 1968.1
He graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1
Children of John Edward Sealy and Joan Ursula Pelham
George Elliot Sealy1
George Elliot Sealy lived at Ringmer Park, Ringmer, Lewes, Sussex, EnglandG.1
Child of George Elliot Sealy
John Edward Sealy+2 d. 30 Mar 1968
Beryl Northup Pelham1
F, #94414, b. 5 November 1908, d. 1992
Beryl Northup Pelham was born on 5 November 1908.1 She was the daughter of Hon. Henry George Godolphin Pelham and Agnes Lee Ollerhead.2 She married Lawrence Swan, son of Lt.-Col. Norman Edward Swan, on 14 December 1940.1 She died in 1992.1
Her married name became Swan.
Lawrence Swan1
M, #94415, d. 1994
Lawrence Swan was the son of Lt.-Col. Norman Edward Swan.2 He married Beryl Northup Pelham, daughter of Hon. Henry George Godolphin Pelham and Agnes Lee Ollerhead, on 14 December 1940.1 He died in 1994.1
He gained the rank of Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.1
Lt.-Col. Norman Edward Swan1
M, #94416, d. before 1963
Lt.-Col. Norman Edward Swan died before 1963.
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Green Howards.1 He lived at Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG.1
Child of Lt.-Col. Norman Edward Swan
Lawrence Swan2 d. 1994
Muriel Spear Lindeman1
F, #94417, d. 5 July 1927
Muriel Spear Lindeman was the daughter of Captain George Spear Lindeman.2 She married Hon. Anthony Ashley Ivo Pelham, son of Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester and Hon. Alice Carr Glyn, on 5 August 1908.1 She died on 5 July 1927.1
Her married name became Pelham.
Captain George Spear Lindeman1
Captain George Spear Lindeman lived at Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG.1 He gained the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy.1
Child of Captain George Spear Lindeman
Muriel Spear Lindeman2 d. 5 Jul 1927
Barbara Clare Taunton1
Barbara Clare Taunton was the daughter of Colonel James Edward Doidge Taunton.2 She married Hon. Anthony Ashley Ivo Pelham, son of Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester and Hon. Alice Carr Glyn, on 11 September 1928.1 She died in 1992.1
Colonel James Edward Doidge Taunton1
Colonel James Edward Doidge Taunton died before 1963.
He was Deputy Quarter Master General.1 He gained the rank of Colonel in the Australian Military Forces.1
Child of Colonel James Edward Doidge Taunton
Barbara Clare Taunton2 d. 1992
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By Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole
In 2015 nearly all Tamils had hoped for a new era.
The government co-sponsoring UNHRC Resolution 30/1 increased our hope that we Tamils would be included in Sri Lanka and that those who murdered us and raped our women (including our murdered women) would be punished.
Soon however our hopes were dashed. “No foreign judges” we were told in reversal. We were reminded of the torture trial where the local judge gave a 7-year prison sentence and immediately suspended the sentence; and of the Supreme Court upon appeal by the Attorney General saying that such suspension in a part of judicial discretion. It all seemed a parody of justice.
After the myth about soldiers liberating us with the gun in one hand and the human rights charter in the other put out by then President Mahinda Rajapaksa, we are treated to some characteristically propagandist good news every time the UNHRC is to meet. This is such a time.
After foot dragging on the Truth Commission, there is some move towards establishing it. Or so they say! Chandrika Kumaratunaga on the eve of the current sessions of UNHRC openly admitted to war crimes by our troops. As we were lulled into the hope for justice, Rajapaksa as if to challenge Chandrika’s efforts at reconciliation, repeated that there were no war crimes by troops. As if in tandem, Champika Ranawaka introduced a cabinet paper offering amnesty to all who committed war crimes.
Why amnesty if no crime was committed? Welcome to Sri Lanka’s UNHRC season theatrics where all kinds of false promises of peace and justice are trotted out. The drama will soon subside once a reprieve for non-implementation of Resolution 30/1 is won again. We will then go back to doing nothing about the resolution and Tamil-bashing until the next UNHRC sessions.
For my part I no longer believe in any promise to us Tamils by the government – every law, every promise, is good but it all seems a farce in reality. Every promise to Tamils seems just one more lie to avoid action by world bodies on trials for murderers and rapists and our necrophilia-afflicted troops.
In proof of the government’s forked tongue on reconciliation, I raise a particular racist government circular. In that circular dated late February pictured here, the Ministry of Internal and Home Affairs (an important ministry) has an innocuous title about data gathering. Then it ominously asks its officials in the text of its body to report every village with even one Buddhist family or one Buddhist temple for the purpose of declaring it a Buddhist village. By this definition, every village in Sri Lanka is Buddhist.
Can any reconciliation come through a government that stoops so low? If the UNHRC thinks so, I must sadly conclude that it also is an organization focused on form rather than substance. It is time to take concrete action against a brazenly untruthful government that sponsors a resolution and now wants to withdraw from it. At stake are not only the twin goals of justice and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, but also the firm faith of people worldwide in the UNHRC as an organization that dispenses human rights.
As I write (Friday night) Jaffna is abuzz with the rumour that Northern Province Governor Suren Rāghavan has been recalled for discussions. He is travelling to Colombo. Many Tamils wondered skeptically upon receiving news of his appointment why the government was appointing a Tamil for the first time. It seemed so uncharacteristic. In the event Dr. Rāghavan proved himself at ease with the people. He launched into returning lands taken over by the army, helping University of Jaffna recover its academic standards and war widows put their lives back together, and tackling the massive problem of sexual harassment of schoolgirls and every blight that afflicts us.
Recall that Dr. Devanesan Nesiah was put on the Disappearances Commission by Mahinda Rajapaksa, and when the mild-mannered Nesiah was seen to be taking his job seriously, his house in Colpetty was turned inside out fishing for anything incriminating, and finally even after finding nothing (naturally!), he was asked to quit. Did Dr. Raghavan also make the same mistake of taking his job very seriously, doing good things for the people rather than for the SLFP? Are Tamils welcome in the service of government only if they are willing to stooge? I hope the President will tread carefully with wisdom rather than communal partisanship when Dr. Rāghavan reaches Colombo.
If Sri Lanka is to progress and her people are to have a future, Tamils must receive justice and fair play, and be welcome for who we are rather than only after we are forced to re-label ourselves and our villages as Sinhalese.
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Beijing Energy Network
The Oxford Consensus
"to the bottom of seeeeeeeeeeeeea...It was sad when the great ship went down."
When I was a boy of seven, my twin sister and I were packed off to summer camp, where I would wet the bed and be a source of ridicule for my uncool clothes ("your mother dresses you funny")...but I still loved it, the hiking and canoeing, the camping and skinny dipping, the singing and orienteering, blueberry picking and washing with Dr. Bronners in Loon Lake.
We were allowed to jump off bridges into rivers (the nasty Saco), because it was the permissive post-1970s, and my favorite time, especially as I grew older, was singing at The Playhouse almost every night. Men who loom epic in my mind would strum Grateful Dead and all manner of Peter, Paul and Mary and Kingston Trio songs for an hour or so before we were paraded out to do taps and herded to cabins from which, as we grew older (and full of hormones), we would sneak out at night.
In that playhouse, we also learned a song, at age seven, "Got drunk last night, got drunk the night before, gunna get drunk tonight like I ne'er got drunk before..." Today, sadly, there would be editorials in the newspaper and social workers would be sent in to shut down the camp if such a song were taught and children were allowed to jump from bridges. We turned out all right--not perfect, but no more pot-smoking or hard-drinking or unhinged than the next guy or gal, I suspect.
There was another song, though, about the Titanic, which we sang that I must say was terrible. It was about the sinking of the great ship. "The Titanic" was made popular by Paul Newman and Brandon de Wilde acting in the 1963 film Hud. Our version ended with, "The moral of the story, as you can plainly see,/Is to wear a life-preserver when you go out to sea." (Before we called them PFDs, which would have fit better in the song.) It was to the tune of "Nearer Thy God to Thee" and was really a class warfare song in keeping with much of the rest of the American folk tradition that is the staple of my music chest still more than thirty years on.
This is all by way of introduction to the main topic of this post: Ships that sink. Deborah and I watched Bob Ballard, the undersea explorer who discovered the remains of the Titanic, in a gripping National Geographic special, called The Alien Deep. Last night, the episode called Ocean's Fury was full of tales of lost ships. Here is the official synopsis of the program:
Dr. Ballard thinks that rogue waves and all waves are getting larger and more frequent on the seas. In Ocean's Fury, Ballard travels the world in search of the forces behind the motion of the ocean, meeting with scientists and practitioners along the way. He talks to oceanographers, climatologists, river boat pilots, surfers, fishers, and more all to prove a single point: the ocean is growing more dangerous by the day.
The most stunning theory proposed for how sea water moves in its 1,000 year cycle around the planet was that fish and other sea creatures, like squirt-propelled jellyfish, create ripples that eventually compound into "rogue waves." It was unbelievable until I woke up and saw my friend Valerie's Facebook post of this fish:
Oct. 13, 2013: The crew of sailing school vessel Tole Mour and Catalina Island Marine Institute instructors hold an 18-foot-long oarfish that was found in the waters of Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island, Calif. (AP/CATALINA ISLAND MARINE INSTITUTE)
Ballard reported that, on average, one very large container ship sinks every month in addition to hundreds of smaller ones. We got a helicopter tour of the "Graveyard of the Pacific" where the Columbia rolls on to the deep. "The Columbia River Bar is a stretch of water in the US's Pacific Northwest where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. The Bar is also known as the Graveyard of the Pacific having taken roughly 2000 ships and 700 lives in recorded history." It was a tremendous amount of factual information, mixed with forceful editorializing about the importance of curbing anthropogenic sources of climate change.
This morning, the China Daily news clippings included a frightful picture of a Panama-registered, but Chinese ship sinking off the coast of South Korea. The title of the article: 1 Chinese dead, 18 missing as ship sinks off ROK.
The cargo ship CHENGLU15 is seen amid a storm in Yingri Harbor of Pohang in South Korea on Tuesday. [Photo/Xinhua]
It is time for us to get real about climate change.
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Micropia Amsterdam Tickets, Tours
The Ultimate Guide to Micropia: The Museum of Microbes, Amsterdam
Visitors to Amsterdam want to see all the big sights. The Rijksmuseum, the Royal Palace and Dam Square, these stunning sights draw tourists in and get their camera shutters clicking.
But what about the small sights?
What about the sights that are so tiny you can't see them with the naked eye?
We're talking, of course, about Micropia - the world's only museum of microbes.
Micropia is located on the grounds of Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam's royal zoo. Within the Zoo's enclosures, cages, and tanks, the usual menagerie goes about their business. Lions roar, giraffes munch leaves, and birds squawk. Across the way in Micropia, trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms flinch, wriggle and multiply, invisibly shaping our world, and ourselves.
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Before a draper named Antoni van Leeuwenhoek first peered through a home-made microscope, nobody knew a thing about microorganisms. No one had even thought to look. With no scientific training, Antoni experimented with animal and plant matter. But it wasn't until he looked at water and saw movement that he realized there is invisible life all around us. Antoni called what he saw animalcules. Today we know them as bacteria.
ARTIS was established in 1838. Since it's inception this institution has worked to improve the public's understanding of the natural world. Micropia is the next step in that mission. We all know that microorganisms are to blame for some nasty diseases but microbiology is a positive force. One that, Micropia shows, can offer solutions to many of the world's problems including climate change and food shortages. More than a museum, Micropia is a platform that links ordinary science with the spectacular world of microbiology. No lab coats here, the learning at Micropia is hands on. Visitors to Micropia get to see themselves, see inside themselves, in a way they never have before.
Micropia covers two floors of "Lendenlokalen", the Zoo's historical building on the Artisplein in Amsterdam's Plantage neighborhood.
There are more than 30 exhibits in Micropia. Around half of these exhibits contain live organisms from the Micropia collection. Not quite a museum and not quite a zoo, Micropia takes an innovative approach to breach the gap between scientific research, industry and the public.
Micropia's in-house laboratory is an attraction in itself. Here, laboratory staff work each day to maintain the live exhibits, keeping their microorganisms alive, but only manageably so. Every visitor leaves with a favorite attraction. Which will yours be?
On arrival in Micropia, you will first go back in time. The Leeuwenhoak display starts with a replica of the curious draper's first microscope. Surrounding this humble object are samples of all the ordinary bits and pieces - weeds, pepper, a dental plaque - that Leeuwenhoak first examined.
Taking the lift up to the first floor, you a large, dark space that looks like a futuristic scientific lab put together by Willie Wonka. Almost everything's interactive.
A kiss-o-meter that records a couple having a kiss then calculates the number of bacteria transferred.
A full body scanner that displays a microbial avatar. Through this avatar, you can learn all about the microbes resident in different parts of your body, outside and in!
A working laboratory where Artis Micropia staff work hard to maintain current exhibits and breed new ones.
An exhibit of stool samples collected from the zoo opposite Micropia, double-sealed in transparent jars.
An exhibit of mold and bacteria colonies including the household objects that house them. Keys, phones, toothbrushes, everything's covered.
A two-story wall of HD definition displays showing animations on the microbiology.
A stunning floor-to-ceiling tree of life, showing microbial evolution.
A decomposing giraffe calf, behind glass, of course.
A living leaf-cutter ant colony.
Micropia is open to the public every day. Opening hours change during holidays.
Micropia Hours
24th December: 9am-6pm
31st December: 9am-4pm
1st January: 10am-5pm
ARTIS-cafe restaurant de Plantage
Monday to Friday: 9am - 1am
Saturday and Sunday: 10am -1am
Artisplein
Every day: 7am to 11.30pm
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If you or anyone in your party is disabled, you may be concerned about access. Micropia is wheelchair accessible but the website recommends checking in at the visitor's desk should you have any additional needs. Micropia has a wheelchair accessible elevator to the first floor of the building and an accessible toilet on the ground floor. There are a few dedicated disabled access parking spaces in the ARTIS Royal Zoo parking area but parking fees do apply.
There is no manned coatroom at Micropia. If you want to risk it you can leave your coat at an unmanned coat-check at your own risk. If you have personal items you'd like to lock away, like a handbag or your laptop, there are small coin-operated lockers.
Micropia is a laboratory and museum and as such there is no food allowed. We recommend eating before you visit Micropia or organizing to have lunch or dinner after your visit.
For parents, there are no baby-changing facilities within Micropia. There are baby-changing facilities and a nursing mother's room at ARTIS Royal Zoo. If you only have a ticket for Micropia and wish to use these facilities go to the ticket booth at ARTIS and they'll stamp you in.
Micropia Amsterdam Tickets Prices
There are a number of places you can buy your Micropia tickets.
Micropia In-Person
You can buy tickets for Micropia in-person at the Micropia ticket desk.
These are the prices for both single tickets and package tickets. Micropia and ARTIS tickets include entry into the Zoo.
Micropia
Ages (>10) 2018 €15.00 €29.50
Ages (3-9) 2018 €13.00 €25.50
Ages (0-2) 2018 free free
Student €7.50
Micropia & ARTIS Combination Tickets
Ages (>10) 2018 €29.50
Ages (3-9) 2018 €25.50
Micropia Website
Buy your Micropia tickets online via the Micropia website and save €1 on each ticket. The online ticketing system accepts iDeal, Mastercard or Visa.
Other Online Sellers
There are many other places you can buy your Micropia tickets online with a discount.
Getyourguide.com sells cheap Micropia tickets with skip-the-line benefits.
Tiqets.com.com sells cheap combination Micropia and ARTIS Royal Zoo tickets and single tickets for each attraction.
Always double-check the small print when buying tickets online. Bear in mind that fees may be added at check out that can change the price.
Amsterdam City Passes
Like other large cities that receive many visitors each year, Amsterdam has its own wealth of city passes. These passes offer entry into a range of Amsterdam's top attractions, museums, and galleries and usually include all public transport.
The main city passes in Amsterdam are:
I Amsterdam Card
Amsterdam Holland Pass
Tripindicator.com breaks down exactly what each city pass offers so you can decide which one works best for you(I Amsterdam Card vs City Pass vs Holland Pass). From what we can see, only the I Amsterdam Card includes free entry and skip-the-line privileges for ARTIS Royal zoo and Micropia.
Micropia's address is as follows: Artisplein Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, 1018 CZ Amsterdam
Located in the Plantage neighborhood of Amsterdam, Micropia is accessible from the center of Amsterdam on foot. From Amsterdam center, walk towards Waterlooplein and continue east along the Plantage Middenlaan.
To take public transport, first get to Amsterdam Central Station. From there, take the number 14 tram to Plantage Kerklaan stop. You can also take the number 7 and 19 although they stop a short walk from Micropia. The nearest metro station to Micropia is Waterlooplein, from which Micropia is about a 10-minute walk.
To get accurate directions from another location use the Netherlands public transport mapper, 9292.nl.
ARTIS Royal Zoo has its own parking. It's pricey but you can park all day from 8.30am to midnight. Until January 2019, the cost is €9 per day, after that it's €10. Parking is located 150 meters from the entrance and there are disabled access spaces available.
If you prefer a more structured approach, you may consider an Amsterdam City Tour or Hop-on-Hop-off bus ticket.
There are three main hop-on, hop-off bus tour operators in Amsterdam:
Amsterdam Hop-On Hop-Off Canal Cruise
Amsterdam City Sightseeing Bus Tours
Amsterdam Bus tour + Canal boat tour
Tripindicator.com lists exactly what's included in the hop-on-hop-off price. It's worth noting that none of these bus tours include tickets or even ticket discounts so you'll be paying full price on the door unless you buy online ahead of time.
For this reason, a sightseeing tour can be more convenient and save you money. Again, Tripindicator.com does a great job of breaking down what each city sightseeing tour offers, including customer reviews.
If you're going to Micropia, you might as well make a day of it! Here are a few places worth checking out in the area. Some places require an entry fee but if you're hoping to keep your day's expenses low there are always free things to in Amsterdam.
Artisplein is a peaceful public square opened by ARTIS in 2014. To create a welcoming outdoor space for the public, ARTIS rearranged its buildings, installed seating areas and art installations and made the whole area free entry. From the Artisplein you can see the beautiful old zoo buildings, access the Plantage restaurant and cafe and listen to the soothing sounds of the animals.
ARTIS Royal Zoo
If you're going to Micropia, you should really check out the zoo. One of the oldest zoos in Europe, ARTIS has an aquarium, a planetarium and a diverse population of all the most beloved creatures of the animal kingdom. Most of ARTIS' animal enclosures are historic monuments making a visit to the zoo like stepping back in time.
And still, the natural world has even more to give! A hop, skip and a jump from Micropia, you will find the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam's botanical gardens. Established in 1638, Hortus Botanicus is one of the oldest gardens of its kind in the world. Originally planted to provide doctors with medicinal herbs, today the gardens are a calming oasis in the heart of the city.
Time for some art created by human hands. Around a 10-minute walk southwest from Micropia is the Tropenmuseum, an epic ethnographic museum founded in 1864. With eight permanent exhibitions and a packed schedule of temporary exhibitions, including photography and visual arts, the Tropenmuseum is well worth a stop.
Also around a 10-minute walk from Micropia, heading east, is the Hermitage. A branch of the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, Amsterdam's Hermitage is one of the most important art museums in the Netherlands. Located in a stunning classical-style building from 1681, the Hermitage shows work from St Petersburg's vast collection. With no collection of its own, the Hermitage Amsterdam always has something new to see but favors Dutch masters.
Dappermarkt
All this science, nature and culture is exhausting. Time to spend some money. Dappermarkt is widely considered to be Amsterdam's best outdoor market. With around 250 stalls stretched along Dapperstraat, Dappermarkt is the real Amsterdam and largely sells food and low-cost clothes and shoes. Dapperstraat itself is lined with ethnic food stores, cafes, and bakeries. Definitely worth a meander.
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News sources are reporting with surprise and seeming alarm on the Center for Disease Control’s newly released statistics showing that deaths by suicide in the entire US are on the rise. Why the surprise? It has been common knowledge since the rise of mass media, and even before, that advertising works.
True Dignity has neither the expertise nor the time to analyze the CDC report’s statistics in detail. A few quotes will suffice to paint the picture of our current situation.
“The suicide rate in the United States increased by 24% from 1999 through 2014…among all groups. The increase in suicide rate has been steady since 1999, before which there was a consistent decline since 1986…” (USA Today, April 22, 2016, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/22/suicide-rate-rise-us/83284568/).
The USA Today article speculates (which is all anybody can do) that the rise is linked to a poor economy. We at True Dignity cannot fail to note that the rise began just as the economic boom of the 1990s was beginning to wind down, and continued through the fairly affluent 2000s, admittedly rising at a higher rate beginning in 2006, on the brink of the Great Recession (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db241.htm).
Though the economy may well have contributed to this rise, True Dignity calls everyone’s attention to a fact that is being ignored. 1998 was the year in which Oregon became the first state in the nation to put legalized assisted suicide into practice. This happened after a furious and widely publicized public argument between pro-assisted suicide forces and those opposing it, an argument waged in the courts and eventually decided by the US Supreme Court, which allowed it in Oregon but declined to make it a right nationally. 1999 was the first year for which the state of Oregon issued its annual report on its assisted suicide deaths. Ironically, this supposedly neutral government report called assisted suicide by the attractive name given to the law that made it legal: Death with Dignity.
The World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/resource_media.pdf) has warned the media that 1) “Language that misinforms the public about suicide or normalizes it should be avoided”, and that the media should 2)“Avoid prominent placement and undue repetition of stories about suicide.” Yet, beginning in the period leading up to the implementation of the Oregon law and reaching a climax with Brittany Maynard’s picture on the cover of People, there has been relentless media promotion of suicide, relentless misinformation about laws that allow medical professionals to facilitate deaths of people who could have lived years and that contain virtually no protections against euthanasia or even murder of a person who, believing him or herself to be terminally ill, has obtained a lethal prescription. We have detailed the ways in which the laws allow this to happen so many times that we won’t repeat ourselves here, only urge you to search our topic list.
Bottom line: Compassion and Choices has engaged in an ad campaign, both paid and freely given by the media, and it has been effective. The only thing that should surprise us about the rise in suicide deaths is that it has not been even bigger. We hope that the efforts of many individuals and groups, including ours, have, by calling suicide exactly what the World Health organization has urged the media to call it, “a public health problem”, contributed to that fact, the only silver lining to a terrible cloud hanging over our nation and the world.
Will we be able to hold the line? California has been the only US state to legalize assisted suicide since the Maynard campaign, but legalization is a threat in multiple states. Canada’s highest court has ruled that assisted suicide is a right, and has ordered Parliament to write laws to regulate it.
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ocal kindergarten had used to ask children whether they we
re involved in gangs went viral on the internet. The local educational bureau said that the rese
arch was meant to stop bullies in kindergartens instead of finding gangster members.
Over 90 percent of Hong Kong college students responding to a survey said they were optimistic about the country’s fut
ure, and more than 80 percent said they would like to work on the mainland according to a report released Wednesday.
The HKUYA Student Exchange Network published the report based on a survey they carrie
d out between February and March on Hong Kong college students’ employment intentions for the mainland.
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on for them to work on the mainland is a plethora of job opportunities.
Xi calls for bolstering reform and developmentforts to p
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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, called
on Wednesday for further efforts to prevent and eliminate major problems in the nation’s reform and
development against the backdrop that uncertainties and instabilities are on the rise.
Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while presiding over a key meeting
of the Central Committee for Deepening Overall Reform. He is the director of the committee.
Saying China is facing profound changes in its reform and development against the backdro
p of increasing external uncertain and unstable factors, Xi said the country must maintain a strategic focus.
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Addressing the plenary session of the Fourth Eastern Eco
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n Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, in September, Xi called for regional memb
ers to actively align their development strategies and work together for an open regional economy.
Wu Hongwei, a researcher of China-Russia relations at the Chin
ese Academy of Social Sciences, said bilateral cooperation plays a prominent role in guar
anteeing world peace and security at a time when the global situation is clouded by tensions and turmoil.
The two countries share the same position in promoting a mo
re stable and multipolar world, Wu said, adding that they
have sent such signals through supporting and coordinating with each other on international occasions.
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In May, the offshore RMB exchange rate against the US do
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dollar dropped more than 3 percent under market pressure as global investors worried about the escalation of trade friction.
Guo Shuqing, Party secretary of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, said on Monda
y that higher US tariffs on China’s imports triggered financial market volatility, and this also affected the offshore RMB.
The currency’s depreciation was purely caused by market forces, a
d China has never taken any measures to deliberately devalue the currency to make its exports more
attractive, said Guo, who is also head of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
According to Guo, the short-term fluctuation of the RMB exchange
rate was normal, and the depreciation will not last long given the stable economic growth base.
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Issoufou congratulated Xi on the 70th anniversary of the f
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founding of the People’s Republic of China and the great achievements that Chinese people have made under
the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Noting that China’s development has made important contributions to m
ankind, Issoufou said that China’s inclusive economic growth has lifted a huge number of people out of poverty.
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actively participate in the Belt and Road. While meeting with Issoufou on Tuesday, Premier Li Keqiang said that Chi
na would like to offer a hand to Niger for the country’s economic development and the improvement of people’s lives.
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alwai highly commended China’s achievements in its ref
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form and opening-up drive, and said the country’s success has not only brought changes to itself, but als
o has profound and positive influence on the world. Vanuatu firmly honors the one-China policy
and supports the Chinese government in its efforts to realize peaceful national reunification, he added.
oreign investors may get access to more onshore commodity contracts
China will give foreign investors more access to its commodity futures market as part of it
s continuing efforts to strengthen the real economy, the top securities regulator said on Tuesday.
The move will benefit both overseas and domestic market participants, and
the opening-up of the stock index futures market will also speed up, experts said.
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The debate seems to be generating wide interest in Chi
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China, with related hashtags getting more than 150 million views on Weibo.
Eunice Yoon, Beijing bureau chief and Inside China host at CNBC Interna
tional, tweeted to Regan that 120 million people viewed a Chinese hashtag that she tran
slated to: “Fox News female anchor challenges debate after being accused by CCTV for being emotional”.
Yoon, incidentally, was a former classmate of Regan’s at Phillips Exeter Academy, a prep school in New Hampshire.
“Seeing the kind of reaction online, I want to say, it’s important for us to have a meaningfu
l discussion to try to understand each other better. I appreciate the opportunity,” Liu wrote on May 24.
Liu has been working at CCTV since 1997, after graduating from Nanjing University’s English studies program.
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China is the world’s largest producer of rare earths, acco
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counting for about 80 percent of global supply. However, the country’s rare-earth industry is faced with such pro
blems as rapidly decreasing inventory, inefficient production and environmental pollution.
Analysts also said that the low prices of China’s exports have failed to reflect the real value of the precious resource.
The division of labor of the global rare-earth industry should be coo
rdinated in accordance with the principle of opening-up and sharing, the NDRC said.
While the country prioritizes the domestic use of rare-earth meta
ls, it is willing to see its exports help drive the development of global industries, it said.
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During the team’s 40-day intensive training in Nepal, the
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heir Sherpa guides had taught them how to maintain healthy blood circulation and remain safe in crowded conditions, she said.
This spring, 144 foreign and 12 Chinese climbers have also attempted to con
quer Qomolangma from Tibet, according to the Tibet Mountaineering Association. “D
espite having a smaller number of climbers, traffic jams also happened on the Tibetan side,” Ma said.
“Crowds are usual on some mountains. It’s not a new phenomenon. Climbers often lose their live
s when they don’t follow the instructions of Sherpa guides and make decisions on their own,” Kami Ri
ta, an experienced Sherpa who has reached Qomolangma’s summit 24 times, told Xinhua News Agency.
Sherpas are aware of every twist and turn and which paths to follow up mountains, so he urged the Nepali government to dis
courage mountaineers from climbing mountains without guides in order to prevent casualties.
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Spain’s SEAT set to make China comeback by 2021
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Spain’s largest carmaker SEAT is set to make a comeback in China around 2021, a move that will help its parent
company Volkswagen AG secure a larger share in the world’s largest new energy vehicle market.
“The Spanish brand aims to enter the Chinese market in the coming two to three years,” said Volkswagen in a stat
ement on Tuesday, citing an agreement it signed with SEAT and Chinese carmaker JAC Motors.
SEAT pulled out of China in 2014 after two years of poor sales of its gasoline vehicles.
This time, it will enter the Chinese market through JAC Volks
wagen, a 50-50 joint venture established in Hefei, Anhui pr
ovince, in 2017 to develop, produce and sell pure battery vehicles.
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‘Game of Thrones’ creator reveals fan favorite’s off-screen death
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Character deaths are a dime a dozen on “Game of Thrones” — the show literally has a slogan of “all men must die.” Even so, showrunner David Benioff has just revealed an offscreen death that’s truly shocking.
Ser Pounce.
That’s right, Tommen’s adorable cat is dead. The royal feline was last seen in Season 6, when Margarey (Natalie Dormer) visited Tommen (Dean Charles Chapman) in his bedroom for some late night flirting. Rather grimly, that means every character in that scene has kicked the bucket, since Tommen threw himself out of a window and Margaery perished via Wildfire, both in the Season 6 finale.
Although he only appeared in one scene, the adorably named cat quickly became a fan favorite character, spawning lots of online chatter and even joking posts about how he’ll be the one to take the Iron Throne, in the end.
But apparently not. Cause of death for Ser Pounce? Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).
“Cersei hated the name ‘Ser Pounce’ so much she could not allow him to survive,” showrunner David Benioff told EW. “So she came up with her most diabolical [execution]. Ser Pounce’s death was so horrible we couldn’t even put it on the air.”
The eighth and final season premieres April 14 on HBO.
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U.S. Division Preview
Thread: U.S. Division Preview
With the 2016-17 Western Hockey League season fast approaching, we take a look around the league to preview what could await fans once the puck finally drops on Friday, Sept. 23.
The WHL saw unprecedented turnover of its club management and coaches this offseason, with seven teams employing new general managers and head coaches coming into 2016-17. That alone should make for some interesting storylines as rookie bench bosses look to establish themselves in the place of departed veterans.
In our second divisional preview, we break down the U.S. Division, in order of standing from 2015-16.
In the U.S. Division, two clubs roll out new names in 2016-17… well, sort of. Mike Johnston isn’t exactly a new name, but he returns for a second stint with the Portland Winterhawks after a tour with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. Meanwhile, Scott Carter is the new man in charge as general manager of the Spokane Chiefs.
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General Manager: Russ Farwell (22nd season)
Head Coach: Steve Konowalchuk (sixth season)
Pre-season record: 5-2-0
2015-16 record: 45-23-4-0, 94 points (228 GF/186 GA)
2016 Playoffs: Lost in WHL Championship to Brandon (five games)
Top Scorers: C Mathew Barzal (27-61-88); LW Ryan Gropp (34-36-70); D Ethan Bear (19-46-65)
20-year-olds: C Scott Eansor (12-30-42): C Cavin Leth (12-11-23): G Rylan Toth (26-15-0-1, 2.67, .912, 5 SO)
Imports: C Alexander True (Denmark); RW Sami Moilanen (Finland)
Forwards: Mystery shrouds Barzal’s status – will the NHL’s New York Islanders keep him or will they send him back to the Emerald City? If Barzal returns to Seattle, the Thunderbirds should be able to repeat as U.S. Division champions. If he remains in the NHL, the Thunderbirds still hold a fighting chance, but might be pushed a little more… Gropp is expected to stay pro, so his offense will need replacing… RW Keegan Kolesar (30-31-61) will be back and can help fill the offensive void left by Gropp… RW Layne Bensmiller (11-19-30) is the newest soldier up front…
Defence: Bear is a key returner, but gone are captain Jerret Smith (9-42-41) and Jared Hauf (2-13-15)… LD Bryan Allbee (8-10-18) is back for his first full campaign in Seattle after coming over from Kootenay prior to the trade deadline… LD Turner Ottenbreit (5-11-16) returns along with LD Brandon Schuldhaus (2-4-6)… Recently-acquired LD Anthony Bishop (0-2-2) comes into the fold from Saskatoon…
Goal: Toth stands in as the undisputed No. 1 netminder after being acquired from Red Deer… With Logan Flodell having been dealt to Saskatoon in exchange for Bishop, the backup job remains up for grabs with 18-year-old Ryan Gilchrist (1-0-0, 3.51, .875, pre-season) and 16-year-old Carl Stankowski (4-0-0, 1.54, .945, pre-season) still on the roster…
Player to Watch: Outside of Barzal watch, Kolesar will be tasked with kicking it up a notch as Gropp goes pro. A 2015 third round pick (69th) of the NHL’s Columbus Blue Jackets, the 6-foot-2, 223-pound Kolesar has all the tools to run roughshod in the U.S. Division this coming season.
Prognosis: If Barzal returns, the Thunderbirds likely runaway with the U.S. Division. If he does not return, then it’s up for grabs. One way or another, Seattle should once again make noise in the Western Conference.
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Silvertips G Carter Hart
General Manager: Garry Davidson (fifth season)
Head Coach: Kevin Constantine (fourth season)
2016 Playoffs: Eliminated in second round by Seattle (five games)
Top Scorers: C Remi Laurencelle (28-30-58); RW Carson Stadnyk (21-28-49); LW Matt Fonteyne (16-32-48)
20-year-olds: RW Graham Millar (15-16-31); LD Lucas Skrumeda (1-13-14)
Imports: RW Mario Mucka (Slovakia); RW Eetu Tuulola (Finland)
Forwards: The Silvertips were the lowest-scoring team in the U.S. Division last season and the loss of Laurencelle and Stadnyk won’t make offense any easier to come by… Tuulola, a sixth round pick (156th) of the NHL’s Calgary Flames, stands 6-foot-3 and weighs in at 225 pounds. He could have a sizeable impact as a newcomer… C Connor Dewar (11-7-18) registered four goals in five pre-season games and should grow into a bigger role as a 17-year-old… Captain Dawson Leedahl was shipped off to Regina…
Defence: LD Cole MacDonald (9-27-36) is gone but RD Noah Juulsen (7-21-28), a first round pick of the Montreal Canadiens should be back to anchor the blueline along with Skrumeda… RD Kevin Davis (3-13-16), LD Jake Christiansen (4-4-8) and LD Dwyer Mackenzie (1-3-4) also return…
Goal: Reigning CHL Goaltender of the Year Carter Hart (35-23-1-3, 2.14, .918, 6 SO) returns and serves as the backbone for the stingy Silvertips… Meanwhile, Mario Petit (3-3-4, 2.80, .883) and Lasse Petersen (12-7-1-0, 2.99, .891, 3 SO), acquired from Spokane in the offseason, duke it out for backup responsibilities…
Player to Watch: Can Carter Hart follow up on his outstanding 2015-16 season with an even better performance in 2016-17? The Silvertips will need just the same if not better from the Philadelphia Flyers second round pick if they’re to challenge the Thunderbirds for the division crown.
Prognosis: Kevin Constantine clubs almost always tend to be super stingy and defensively sound, so to expect any less in 2016-17 would be foolish. Losing Laurencelle, Stadnyk and Leedahl up front will hurt, but with names like Juulsen and Hart holding down the fort, Everett will once again put forth a formidable defense. Tuulola could be the difference-maker that helps this team challenge the Thunderbirds.
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Mike Johnston (centre) is back in Portland
General Manager: Mike Johnston (first season)
Head Coach: Mike Johnston (first season)
2016 Playoffs: Eliminated in first round by Everett (four games)
Top Scorers: C Dominic Turgeon (36-34-70); LW Rihards Bukarts (31-31-62); RW Alex Schoenborn (27-30-57);
20-year-olds: RW Keegan Iverson (11-18-29); C Rodrigo Abols (20-29-49);
Imports: Abols (Latvia); LW Joachim Blichfeld (Denmark); RD Henri Jokiharju (Finland)
Forwards: Turgeon, Schoenborn and Bukarts have moved along to the next chapter… With three imports on the roster, there’s a very good chance the 20-year-old Abols remains within the Vancouver Canucks organization… There’s plenty of expectation for 17-year-old C Cody Glass (10-17-27), a former first round pick, as he enters his second campaign… RW Colton Veloso (11-7-18) had himself seven points in five pre-season contests… C Alex Overhardt (9-14-23) also had a productive pre-season, as did RW Evan Weinger (10-15-25)…
Defence: LD Caleb Jones (10-45-55) will provide a quality, two-way presence and the 6-foot, 170-pound Jokiharju is already being projected as a potential first round candidate for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft… LD Keoni Texeira (8-15-23), LD Carter Czaikowski (0-4-4) and LD Conor MacEachern (2-0-2) also return…
Goal: Cole Kehler, who spent 2015-16 with the BCHL’s Merritt Centennials, and returner Michael Bullion (2-4-1, 4.08, .867) continue to compete to be heir apparent to Adin Hill (32-27-5-1, 2.96, .917, 3 SO). Kehler has posted solid numbers in pre-season play, going 3-0-0 with a 1.32 GAA and .956 SP…
Player to Watch: Jokiharju is already being touted as a potential first round pick at the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. With this being his first season in North America after the Winterhawks took him with the 25th overall pick at the 2016 CHL Import Draft, it will be interesting to see how he acclimatizes to the Western League game. A native of Oulu, Finland, Jokiharju registered 29 points in 47 games with Tappara U20 of SM-liiga Junior A in 2015-16. He also collected a gold medal as a member of the Finnish national team at the 2016 IIHF U18 World Championships in Grand Forks, N.D.
Prognosis: Mike Johnston is back. After spending parts of two seasons as the head coach for the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, Johnston parted midway through the 2015-16 season. Once May 2016 rolled around, the Winterhawks were quick to snap him up as the replacement for Jamie Kompon. This is Johnston’s first year in his second stint with the Winterhawks, though he previously spent six seasons with the club (2008-09 to 2013-14), winning a WHL title in 2012-13. Portland might be moving ahead without a few key stars from last year’s edition, but guaranteed Johnston will find a way to make this a difficult group to play against as they chase down an eighth consecutive post-season appearance.
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General Manager: Scott Carter (first season)
Head Coach: Don Nachbaur (seventh season)
2016 Playoffs: Eliminated in first round by Victoria Royals (six games)
Top Scorers: RW Kailer Yamamoto (19-52-71); LW Dominic Zwerger (27-28-55); RW Keanu Yamamoto (22-32-54)
20-year-olds: Ke. Yamamoto; C Markson Bechtold (17-31-48); Zwerger; G Jayden Sittler (19-14-0-1, 2.94, .905, 1 SO)
Imports: C Pavel Kousal (Czech Republic); Zwerger (Austria); LW Ondrej Najman (Czech Republic)
Forwards: While Nolan Patrick is the talk of the east, the dynamic Kailer Yamamoto is almost certainly the talk of the west. The speedy winger was awe-inspiring as a 17-year-old last season and should only be more dangerous as he enters his NHL Draft year. There’s a reason scouts are already talking about him being high-end first round talent… The older Yamamoto brother Keanu provides a quality veteran presence along with Hudson Elynuik (19-25-44) and Bechtold (17-31-48)… Zwerger will likely be the odd-man out in both the 20-year-old and import circles… Jaret Anderson-Dolan (14-12-26) is emerging as a quality talent in his own right… 16-year-old Koby Morrisseau, the ninth overall selection in 2015, should make the jump and has plenty of promise…
Defence: Captain Jason Fram (12-34-46) leaves a massive void in terms of his leadership ability, but in comes the next in line as 2015 first overall pick LD Ty Smith joins the ranks. There’s no reason to believe the 5-foot-10, 170-pound rookie won’t be able to step in and have an immediate impact… Veterans RD Jeff Faith (0-1-1), LD Tyson Helgesen (3-23-26), RD Evan Fiala (6-12-18), LD Jordan Henderson (0-4-4) and RD Jake Toporowski (0-7-7) all return, helping to provide stability…
Goal: Sittler comes in after a strong campaign north of the border with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, while 18-year-old Matt Berlin (1-1-2, 4.38, .851) looks at his first year of full-time duty after Tyson Verhelst retired during the offseason…
Player to Watch: When talking about 16-year-old rookies around the league, Smith is certainly the most intriguing after going first overall in 2015. He tallied two assists in a two-game taste-tester last season and managed five assists in six pre-season games this fall. There will likely be growing pains at times, as there will be with any young player adapting to the junior game, but Smith is as close to a sure thing as the Chiefs have seen in years.
Prognosis: Don Nachbaur is one of the winningest coaches in major junior hockey for a reason and with some of his young stars carrying one more year of experience, there’s a very real chance the Chiefs could be the darkhorse in the U.S. Division. A lot of that will rest on how Smith can impact the game as well as on how the tandem of Sittler and Berlin can backstop things in the blue paint. Away from the ice, but in the player personnel department, Scott Carter is one of the aforementioned new faces around the league and takes over from the legendary Tim Speltz.
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General Manager: Bob Tory (16th season)
Head Coach: Mike Williamson (third season)
2016 Playoffs: Did not qualify
Top Scorers: C Parker Bowles (39-57-96); LW Jordan Topping (33-34-67); LD Parker Wotherspoon (11-45-56)
20-year-olds: RW Tyler Sandhu (19-29-48); RD Dalton Yorke (2-11-13); LD Jeff Rayman (3-2-5)
Imports: RW Vladislav Lukin (Russia); LD Juuso Valimaki (Finland)
Forwards: Leading scorer Bowles is out of the picture but Topping returns… The big man C Michael Rasmussen (18-25-43) seemingly grew more since last season and should be a beast in 2016-17… C Carson Focht, the team’s top pick (seventh overall in 2015), seems ready to make the jump after logging four points in seven pre-season games… Another 2000-born forward, Keltie Jeri-Leon has emerged in pre-season and could push for a roster spot after Tory dealt C Jordan Roy (2-1-3) to Red Deer, citing the emergence of young talent as part of the thought process…
Defence: Valimaki (7-25-32) was the team’s big prize from the 2015 CHL Import Draft, selected 14th overall and returns for a second season. The 1998-born Finn is already entering conversations for early consideration at the 2017 NHL Entry Draft… Wotherspoon could return from the NHL’s New York Islanders and will provide a solid and experienced two-way anchor… The big loss comes in the form of Brandon Carlo (4-23-27) who is expected to graduate to the pro ranks within the Boston Bruins system… RD Dakota Krebs (0-0-0), RD Kurtis Rutledge (1-6-7), RD Brendan O’Reilly (1-5-6) and RD Dylan Coghlan (4-20-24) all return with an extra year of experience under their belts… The curious case could come in the form of 16-year-old RD Seth Bafaro, a 2015 third round pick, who got into a trio of games last season…
Goal: Evan Sarthou (26-28-2-0, 3.46, .888, 2 SO) was a workhorse in 2015-16 and should carry the load once again while 17-year-old Beck Warm (1-1-1, 2.76, .921, pre-season) and 18-year-old Nicholas Sanders (9-6-0-1, 2.99, .901) remain in the fold as well…
Player to Watch: It’s tough not to have your eyes on the 6-foot-5 towering presence of Rasmussen. Like the younger Yamamoto, he provides yet another blossoming talent for U.S. Division fans to enjoy and will, in all likelihood, find himself selected in the early stages of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Prognosis: The Americans just narrowly missed the mark in 2015-16. With a more experienced Rasmussen leading a forward group featuring a blend of veteran presence and youthful exuberance, plus a more experienced Valimaki combining with Wotherspoon to lead a well-rounded blue line, the Americans will be right in the mix once again in 2016-17. There’s no question the U.S. Division is going to be a dogfight from start to finish.
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Q. Do ad hoc public members receive any compensation for their service on the Siting Board?
Q. What are the qualifications to be an ad hoc public member?
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Q. How is the list of ad hoc public member candidates established?
Q. How is the list of candidates established in the City of New York?
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Q. What types of electric generating facilities are likely to be proposed pursuant to the Article 10 process?
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A. No. There are three power authorities in New York State: the Power Authority of the State of New York (NYPA); the Green Island Power Authority; and the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). The statute expressly provides that all three authorities are subject to the provisions of the Article 10 siting process for major electric generating facilities which they build or cause to be built.
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A. The purposes of a Public Involvement Plan include: (a) providing for an open exchange of information and ideas between the public and the applicant; (b) providing complete information on the application to the public; (c) providing timely notice to the public of important events; (d) providing meaningful public input to key decisions; (e) fostering the active, early and continuing involvement of interested or affected persons; (f) the solicitation of public comments, ideas, and local expertise; and (g) the identification of circumstances and impacts which may not have been known or anticipated by the applicant or government agencies.
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Q. What happens if the Department of Public Service (DPS) finds the Public Involvement Program plan to be inadequate?
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A. Applicants are required at several stages in the Article 10 process to provide funds to be used to defray certain expenses incurred by municipal and local parties when participating in an Article 10 proceeding. These funds are known as "intervenor" funds collected by assessing an "intervenor" fee on the applicant.
Q: How does an applicant set up the fund?
A. Applicants supplying the requisite fee to set up the intervenor funding account for the preliminary scoping phase of the case must provide a check, made out to the NYS Department of Public Service, simultaneously with the filing of their Preliminary Scoping Statement. The case number must be printed on the face of the check. The check must be delivered to the Director of the DPS Office of Finance and Budget, under cover of a letter stating the amount of the check and the Article 10 case name and number. The letter must be copied to the Secretary of the Siting Board for filing in the Article 10 case.
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Q. When are pre-application intervenor funds awarded?
A. The presiding examiner will provide for an expedited pre-application funding disbursement schedule to assure early and meaningful public involvement. Following receipt of initial requests for pre-application funds, the presiding examiner shall expeditiously make an initial award of pre-application funds. Subject to the availability of funds, the presiding examiner may fix additional dates for submission of fund requests. Thereafter the presiding examiner may make additional awards of pre-application funds, in relation to the potential for such awards to make an effective contribution to review of the preliminary scoping statement.
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Q. How does an applicant set up the fund?
A. Applicants supplying the requisite fee to set up the intervenor funding account for the application phase of the case must provide a check, made out to the NYS Department of Public Service, simultaneously with the filing of their Application.
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Eric Church Teams With Bruce Springsteen for Acoustic ‘Working on the Highway’ Jam [Watch]
Eric Church got to live out a musical dream in New York City on Monday night (Nov. 5). The country superstar joined one of his own musical heroes, Bruce Springsteen, onstage to duet on one of the Boss' songs, "Working on the Highway."
Click play on the fan-shot video above to watch Church and Springsteen trade vocals on the song, which Springsteen wrote and released as part of his landmark Born in the U.S.A. album in 1984. Their acoustic rendition is very different from the rock arrangement Springsteen brought to that recording. They trade verses in the video, then join together with Springsteen singing high harmonies as they hit the chorus.
The performance was part of a four-song set Springsteen turned in at the Hulu Theater inside Madison Square Garden as part of the lineup for the 2018 Stand Up for Heroes benefit, which raises money and awareness for the Bob Woodruff Foundation. The foundation's website says it "partners with community and national programs, organizations and the military community, and advocates like you, to create healthy, positive futures for our service members, veterans and their families."
According to the Asbury Park Press, Springsteen's performance also included a duet with his wife, Patti Scialfa, on "If I Should Fall Behind," as well as solo acoustic renditions of "This Hard Land" and "Dancing in the Dark."
Rolling Stone reports that Church also played a separate acoustic set that included "Desperate Man" and "Hippie Radio" from his new Desperate Man album, as well as an unreleased song called "Standing Their Ground" that is a tribute to veterans.
The lineup for this year's event — which is part of the New York Comedy Festival — also included Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jim Gaffigan and Jimmy Carr.
Church has been very open about his admiration for the music of Bruce Springsteen, and one of his biggest hits, "Springsteen," looks back wistfully on a concert experience that was part of a young romance. Though the concert is a real memory, Church admits he took liberties with the title. The show was actually by another artist, but he wrote the song about Springsteen because of his admiration for his music and career.
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Avid releases iPad version of FCPX competitor ‘Avid Studio’
Jordan Kahn
- Feb. 2nd 2012 6:29 am PT
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iPad Apps App Store Final Cut Pro editing
Avid, the makers of the music industry’s leading DAW called “Pro Tools”, just dropped an iPad version of its pro-sumer Final Cut Pro competitor known as “Avid Studio.” Although the latest Final Cut Pro X update brought multicam editing, broadcast monitoring, and many of the features pro users demanded be re-implemented, the Avid Studio iPad app shows why Apple should and most likely will release FCPX for iPad.
The app is available from the App Store now for $4.99, significantly less than the desktop version that retails for $169.99, but the app will increase to $8 after an initial 30-day introductory period. The Avid Studio app is the company’s first video editing suite for iPad and aims to provide most of the features offered through the desktop version.
Users will get the familiar timeline and storyboard, but new gestures will allow them to pinch and squeeze to scale images and videos, and arrange edits on the timeline for picture-in-picture effects. Users of the desktop software will also appreciate the Precision Trimmer, Razor Blade tool for on the fly cuts, and the ability to export projects easily to Avid Studio on the desktop. Projects can be uploaded to iCloud, and finished projects can be shared to YouTube, Facebook, and by email from within the app. Unlike the desktop version, there is no Flash export option.
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Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody Breaks Silence on Sobriety, Alcohol-Related Seizures + More
KEVIN RC WILSON, Loudwire
Five Finger Death Punch vocalist Ivan Moody has broken his silence about his rehabilitation from alcohol issues. In an interview with WZOR 94.7, Moody speaks about suffering alcohol-related seizures, being 90 days sober, his onstage breakdown where he quit FFDP and more.
This interview shows Moody at his most honest and open. Sharing the intimate details of his recovery, Ivan spoke about a seizure he suffered, waking up alongside EMTs while his daughter held him and cried. Moody claims he has not relapsed since, but continues to seek help in treatment facilities. Moody also says he has a sponsor in a 65-year-old metal icon.
“When I was drunk, I knew how my life was gonna end. I planned on it. I was not gonna wake up one day or go into seizure and die,” says Moody. “It’s just I was comfortable because I knew what was gonna happen. And now being sober, I don’t know how I’m gonna go and that’s a scary fucking thing. And I’ve met a lot of addicts that feel the same way.”
He continues, “I knew I was done during my detox. It took me seven and a half days just to detox. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t go to the bathroom by myself, I couldn’t smoke a cigarette. I had a staff member actually sleep in the room with me for the first 38 hours just to make sure I didn’t go under. I blew a .36 when I went in, which anyone who knows anything knows means that was basically death. And I didn’t want to come out of it. I woke up the next day and I pissed that I was still alive.”
“I just don’t want my legacy to be [dying from substance abuse],” Moody implores. “Chester [Bennington] and Chris [Cornell] and Scott [Weiland] and Layne [Staley], Lynn [Strait]—Lynn was like my older brother from Snot. All these guys are forgotten. You hear ’em on the radio… I listen to a Linkin Park song now and I can hear him crying for help.”
Moody also claims he was sober, though hung over, when he infamously quit FFDP onstage in the Netherlands last year. “So I threw the mic down, I walked offstage, promoter came out and told us if we didn’t finish part of the set that we were gonna get sued. That’s the way this shit works,” the singer recalls. “The next day I woke up to Jason, Zoltan, Jeremy, my bodyguard at the time who is now gone and a couple other people, crew wise. They all got up there and surrounded me, woke me up and told me I was going home … The guys looked at me and said, ‘Dude if you don’t do something about this, you’re gonna die. There’s no ifs, ands or buts anymore, you’re waking up, you’re not taking this seriously. You have such power out there and you’re wasting it.’”
The FFDP singer also addressed hearing the news that Bad Wolves’ Tommy Vext was filling in on vocals for the remainder of Five Finger Death Punch’s tour. “I was insulted dude, I fucking broke down a hundred times. Tears. Dude I took golf clubs to my fucking walls, I was a mess. I went to a bar just to get into a fistfight with a dude twice my size. Just to do it. I fucking whooped his ass. Straight up … If the guys would’ve just canceled the tour and not gone on with Tommy, we would’ve been sued for millions of dollars. The promoters would’ve never played us again. The radio stations, the media, in general, would have fucked us in the ass. It would have all been my fault. So I am really proud of Tommy for taking on those shoes. He did a good job, he did alright.”
After heading back on what Ivan calls a “probationary tour” with FFDP, the band was in good spirits after they completed the run without issue. “I started getting phone calls like, ‘You did great, let’s try this again, the new album is finally finished, let’s get out there and show them that there’s a different side of you.’ And I was so overwhelmed with the love I got from my boys, from my bandmates.” [via The PRP]
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Concept #1: The Doppler Effect
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Hey guys, in this video we're going to talk about the Doppler Effect which is an interesting thing that happens to waves when the source and the listener to the source or the detector are moving relative to one another. Alright, let's get to it. The measurement of the frequency of a sound will always be the same whenever you measure it at rest. If the source is at rest and you are at rest no matter where you are in relation to the source the frequency of the sound emitted will always be the same. The frequency will not be the same if there is a relative motion between you and the source when you measure it. The Doppler Effect is the change in the frequencies of sound when in motion relative to a source.
The frequency increases when moving towards the source, when you're coming together, which is sometimes called approaching and the frequency decreases when moving away from the source sometimes when you two are moving away sometimes called receding. I want to show two figures here, I'm going to get out of the way for this, at the left we have a source at rest. This isn't physical space each of these circles is a wavefront, it's a peak of a sound wave and they are emitted with the distance being the wavelength and they are emitted at different times. A pulse, a pulse, a beat, a beat, a beat. But they are emitted at particular intervals of time and no matter where you happen to be you are going to hear the same frequency of sound because no matter where you are the wavelength between these sounds is the same. You guys see that? That wavelength is the same no matter where you measure it but what if it's in motion? This outermost ring is measured, is produced at the initial position of the source then the source moves to the right and the second ring is emitted at the second position of the source then it moves to the right and this third ring is emitted at the third position of the source then it moves to the right again and this littlest ring is emitted where it is right now. So this is with the source moving to the right. Look at what this does to the frequency, if an observer's over here it sees a huge wavelength. These waves are very very very far apart. Over here these wavelengths stack up, it's too small for even for me to even draw, so if you see when they stack up it hears wavefront, wavefront, wavefront, wavefront very very very fast. That means that the frequency is up on this side because of how rapidly those wavefronts are coming and the frequency is down on this side because of how slowly it takes the wavelengths to reach them because of how far apart those wavelengths are. So the frequency increases when moving towards the source or when the source is moving to you when you guys are approaching one another and the frequency decreases when moving away from the source or when the source is moving away from you, when you are receding. Now the equation for the Doppler effect gives us the frequency detected due to the Doppler effect, due to the relative motion between the source and the detector and it's given by V plus VD which is the speed of the detector divided by V Plus VS which is the speed of the source times the frequency of the source in minutes sometimes called the natural frequency. Alright, and now in order to use this equation with these particular signs you need to use a very particular coordinate system where your detector is at the origin and the positive axis is drawn from the detector to the source.
Let's do a quick example. A speaker emits a sound at 20 Hertz while at rest. If the speaker were moving away from you at 45 meters per second, what frequency of sound would you hear? Consider the speed of sound to be 343 meters per second. So first what's the natural frequency of the speaker? 20 Hertz. It says that's what it emits while at rest, that's its natural frequency. Next what's the speed of the source? It's 45 meters per second but what sign should I give it? Notice that it's moving away from you, you are at the detector, so the source is moving away from you so the source is moving in a positive direction so this is positive 45 meters per second. What about your speed? It doesn't mention anything about you moving so don't assume you are, assume it's zero and the speed of sound is 343 meters per second. So all we have to do is plug and chug with the Doppler Effect equation. So the frequency detected is V plus VD over V plus the VS times FS which is 343 plus, sorry not 20 20 is the frequency, this is 45 divided by the detector is zero divided by 343 plus the source is moving at 45 and the source frequency is 20 Hertz and this whole thing becomes 17.7 Hertz and it should be lower, it should have decreased because the source is moving away from you so the frequency detected should definitely be lower than the natural frequency. Alright guys, that wraps up our discussion on the Doppler effect. Thanks for watching.
Practice: A police siren emits a sound somewhere around 700 Hz. If you are waiting at a red light, and a police car approaches you from behind and passes you, moving at a constant 30 m/s, what is the frequency you hear from the siren as it approaches you from behind? What about once it’s passed you? Assume the air temperature to be 20°C.
Example #1: Two Submarines Approaching One Another
Hey guys, let's do an example. 2 submarines approach 1 another underwater. Sub 1 emits a sonar pulse at 1 times 10 to the 3 Hertz which travels from sub 1 towards sub 2 is then reflected off of sub 2 travelling back to sub 1. If the speed of sound in water is 1500 meters per second, sub 1 is approaching sub 2 at a speed of 18 meters per second and sub 2 is approaching sub 1 at a speed of 15 meters per second, what frequency to sub 2 detect the sonar pulse at? What frequency does sub 1 detect the reflected sonar pulse at? So I'll break these up into questions A and questions B. Question A is what frequency does sub 2 detect the pulse emitted by sub 1 at? So here's 1 sub, here's the seconds sub my crappy subs, sub 1 is moving towards sub 2 at 18 meters per second. Sub 2 is moving towards sub 1 at 15 meters per second and sub 1 is emitting sound towards sub 2. So we have the source, we have the detector. The source is sub 1, the detector is sub 2. So the detected frequency is going to be V plus VD over V plus VS FS. Now the speed of sound is just going to be 1500 just like the problem says 1500 meters per second, the question is what are the signs going to be and it's emitted at 100 Hertz. What are the signs and values going to be for our velocities for the detector and source? The source is sub 1 so clearly the source should be 18 but is it plus or minus? The detector is sub 2 so clearly this should be 15 for the detective speed but is it plus or minus? Don't forget the coordinate system. The detector's at the origin and you draw a line from the detector to the source and that's the positive direction. So the detector is moving towards the source so that's positive, the source is moving towards the detector so that is negative and all of this equals a detected frequency of 1022 Hertz. So this is the frequency that sub 2 detects the sonar pulse from sub 1 at.
Now part B, same problem but now sub 2 sub 1, this one's moving at 18 still this one's moving at 15 still, but now sub 2 is acting like the source because those sonar waves are bouncing off of sub 2 and heading back towards sub 1. Remember that sound that any wave was reflected off of any surface at the same frequency so this is exactly like this sub emitting a sound at 1022 Hertz that's exactly the set up to the problem. So the detected sound is V plus VD, V plus VS FS but our detector and our source have flipped. Now sub 2 is the source and sub 1 is the detector. So this is still going to be 1500 plus some speed, some velocity. This is still going to be 1500 plus some velocity but now the source frequency is 1022 Hertz. And our coordinate system has sub 2 on the right, sub 1 on the left and remember that the coordinate system's from the detector to the source is positive so the detector's velocity is positive this is plus 15, oh sorry, this is the source I got these backwards. I had also gotten this one backwards but it still worked because the mirror image looks the same. In this case, the detector is truly on the right and the source is on the left if I were to flip this around you would see sub 2 is the detector, sub 1 is the source. This is positive they're moving towards each other the detector speed is still positive, the source speed is still negative so it worked out the exact same way the detector is moving towards the source, source is moving towards the detector so you get that same thing but now the detector sub 1 so this is plus 18. The source is sub 2 so this is minus 15 and plugging this all in we get 1045 Hertz. This is how sonar works. Sub 1 emitted a pulse at 1000 Hertz and received the pulse back at 1045 Hertz because that sub knows its own speed it can use this exact equation to find the speed of the other sub based on how large that Doppler shift is. So this is how sonar for submarines work. Alright guys, that wraps up this problem. Thanks for watching.
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An object emitting a sound at a constant frequency is thrown into the air. As the source travels up and back down again, the frequency you hear is going to change via the Doppler effect. Assuming the source is always above your ear, which of the following statements if true: (a) The frequency heard will start at a maximum and decrease through the entire trip (b) The frequency heard will start at some value, decrease to a minimum value as it rises, and then increase back to its starting value as it falls (c) The frequency heard will start at some value, increase to some maximum value as it rises, and then decrease back to its starting value as it falls (d) The frequency heard will start at a minimum and increase through the entire trip
Two speakers, A and B, are moving towards each other with a closing speed of 30 m/s, meaning the distance separating the two speakers is decreasing by 30 m every second. At rest, speaker A emits a frequency of 150 Hz and speaker B emits a frequency of 200 Hz. For all questions, assume the speed of sound is 340 m/s. (a) From speaker A's perspective, what is the frequency of speaker B? (b) From speaker B's perspective, what is the frequency of speaker A? (c) If an observer were standing in between the two speakers, and speaker A were moving towards him with a speed of 10 m/s, what beat frequency would the observer hear?
A police car is traveling at a speed vc to the right and a truck is traveling at a speed vt to the right. The frequency of the siren on the police car is fc. What is the frequency ft heard by an observer in the moving truck? Let vt be the speed of the observer in the truck, and vc be the speed of the source, the police car. The speed of sound in air is va.
An ambulance is traveling North at 54.3 m/s, approaching a car that is also traveling North at 33.6 m/s. The ambulance driver hears his siren at a frequency of 678 cycles/s. The velocity of sound is 343 m/s. At what frequency does the driver of the car hear the ambulance's siren?
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"Arabs outnumber Jews in Israel, occupied territories: official". Those quibbling about the numbers are in a position to do the count, but don't seem to want to. "Israel faces the demographic bomb" (Atzmon).
"Pulse Nightclub Killer's Father Was Decade-Long FBI Informant, Planned Terrorist Attacks Against Pakistan" (Durden):
"U.S. District Judge Paul Byron said he would deal with the motion later. "I'm not going to address it right now,” he said. “It's gonna take too much time.""
It's funny how this pattern is a constant with the FBI (see, just as one example, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ('fedspeak'), not to mention his friend, Ibragim Todashev, literally executed by the FBI in one of the most spectacularly obvious cover-ups in their entire sordid history). Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before (just a sampling as the shenanigans - CIs who are terrorists, cover-ups, murders - are endless): "Lawsuit seeks disclosure of FBI 9/11 investigation files" and "FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta" and "Press Conference of Rep Curt Weldon: 9/11 Commission and Operation “Able Danger”" and "Deadly tale of incompetence" and "FBI 'Harassing And Intimidating' 911 Witnesses" and "FBI Flubs Terrorist Timeline" and "Exclusive: Oklahoma City Bombing Breakthrough, Part 1 of 2" (Part 2) and "In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing" (the FBI prison murder of Trentadue, described as a 'suicide').
"US DOJ’s Absurd Sanctions On Iranian $3.4 Billion Hacking Scheme". They liberated some of the scientific research that Elsevier has stolen and appropriated for its own profit, a theft that should not be allowed.
"Turkish Planes Bomb Ancient Christian Heritage Sites in Northern Syria". This destruction of archaeological evidence is identical to what the Khazars do in Israel, and for the same reasons. Recent Turkish political discussion revolves around how quickly they can 'recover' the Greek islands!: "World War 3: Turkish politician promises to INVADE GREECE if victorious in the election".
Innovative thinker Daniel Pipes, at work for the last 50 years (!), comes up with a completely new 'fresh thinking' proposal to solve the problems of the Middle East, yes, the problems will be solved by the Khazars, for the first time ever, acting like psychopathic assholes in following the One True Path to land theft as laid out by Vladimir Jabotinsky (the obvious problem, as always, being that the Khazars are just too kind-hearted): "Why Palestinians Need an Israel Victory".
The Palestinian who owns all the bread in Israel: "Israel's trick to bypass 'chametz' ban for Passover". I'm always struck how much Judaism consists of weird rules which are then surmounted by tricking G_d.
"Schama: "How to be a Jew in the Age of Trump?"" (Sailer). Some suggestions: "Trump appointed Bolton because Republicans desperately need Adelson’s money" (Weiss) and "White House Conducting Internal Investigation Into $500 Million Kushner Loans" (Durden) and ""Dumb F--ks": Julian Assange Reminds Us What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Of Facebook Users" (Durden)
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Azerbaijan: Anonymous says Big Brother might be watching you
Posted 19 March 2011 8:57 GMT
Since activists in Azerbaijan started using Facebook to coordinate and widen their campaign to free two imprisoned video blogging youth activists before their release late last year, many have long been aware that the authorities in the oil-rich former Soviet republic are starting to keep a closer eye on social networking sites.
In June 2010, for example, the Azadliq newspaper reported that in order to counter online activists, pro-government youth were being encouraged to join Facebook, and most recently there has been what many consider to be a campaign to discredit Facebook in the media. This has also extended to ‘exposing’ those with online links to contacts in ‘enemy’ nations.
Coming prior to protests, encouraged by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, staged on 11th March this year, several activists were also detained, allegedly for their online activities. Now, new allegations have also emerged from Anonymous, the international hacking community, as Forbes reported earlier this week.
Anonymous adviser Barrett Brown claimed on the group’s Radio Payback show earlier today that the software had led to pro-democracy dissidents in Azerbaijan, where Booz Allen has offices, getting arrested. The software creates “armies of fake people” through social media sites like Facebook, he said, which results in identifying dissidents with anonymous profiles, a method also known as astroturfing.
While online culture in the South Caucasus still amounts to pretty much adding anyone who sends a friend request on Facebook whether users know them or not, claims that software developed in the U.S. could automate the process and be used by governments to track and monitor networks is particularly cause for alarm.
Dubbed ‘MetalGear’ by Anonymous, the idea of ‘personal management software,’ does however take the task of monitoring citizens to a new and more sophisticated level if details provided by The Tech Herald are correct.
The MetalGear story starts with a proposal [archive copy] from the Office of Air Mobility Command, within the U.S. Air Force, in June of 2010.
The proposal asked for 50 user licenses for software that would allow 10 personas per user. In all, this is a virtual army of 500 personas, who can be centrally controlled by a small group of people.
According to the bid put out, personas must be “…replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally, and geographically consistent.”
In an interview with RFE/RL in January, Evgeny Morozov said that he believed internal security agencies might actually welcome activists joining sites such as Facebook because it makes the task of monitoring their networks easier. Reports of dissidents being arrested, as well as software such as “MetalGear” being developed, seems to confirm that.
For now, however, Forbes says that the evidence for a link between Booz Allen and Azerbaijan is ‘pretty wobbly,’ but nonetheless notes that the company has offices in Baku, the country's capital. A spokesman for Booz Allen also declined to respond to the allegations, saying only that ‘he could not comment on “rumor or speculation” or on contracts […]‘
Nevertheless, whether the allegations are true or not, they do raise more questions about U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's declared intent to fight Internet repression abroad. Critics already argue that Net Freedom should also extend to the development, sale and export of online surveillance and monitoring tools by U.S. companies.
Guardian columnist George Monbiot wrote that, “Software like this has the potential to destroy the internet as a forum for constructive debate.”
Global Voices is currently looking into the allegations made by Anonymous and will update readers when more details are known.
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[…] US/Azeri “weaponisation” of social media: reports emerge from hacked emails The Guardian reports that United States Central Command, a branch of the US military, has commissioned software to help its agents manage multiple “online personas” designed to intervene in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto-language online conversations. According to The Tech Herald, the existence of the persona management software contracts first emerged from hacked emails belonging to US security firm HBGary and released on the web by associates of Anonymous. Links with ongoing security service operations in Azerbaijan against opposition activists who use social media are currently being investigated by Global Voices. Guardian | The Tech Herald | Global Voices […]
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Bloggers and others need to be aware that everything we do is being recorded and at times data-mined and filtered. There are many posts about how that is done in the privacy and data mining category on my blog.
I linked this comment to a recent report that information sent in a personal email from a Yahoo email account ended up in a YouTube profile within 48 hours. That shows that Google and Yahoo DO share data.
Any site controlled by a major multi-national corporation and especially Google Yahoo Facebook Twitter Microsoft Bing MySpace YouTube – these should all be considered one entity – what I refer to as The Borg.
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Never thought I’d type that as an article title. Last night I felt like I was living a scene out of a reality TV show.
I’ll provide some background, 7 years ago to the exact day I started working at a restaurant in Vancouver that’s been open for 50 plus years. My first night at work I met a guy who I’ll call Joe. He started openly hitting on me as he does with basically all women that he meets. I remember specifically saying, “We should never been in a room alone together”. I thought he was attractive but I also felt like he seemed like a huge asshole. The prototypical bad boy. It took a few months for me to cave and start hooking up with him. I was so lonely at the time. It’d been a year and a half since I’d hooked up with anyone.
Joe was a player that was even more fucked-up than I imagined. After we hooked up for the first time he invited me over to his place in the morning. Once I arrived, this girl who I thought was his ex was there on his bed (clothed thankfully) and his male friend. They were all high on coke. Joe started rolling around on the bed with his male friend and trying to touch the girl. He then tried to come sit on the couch (aka which was really a backseat from a van) where I was and touch me. I wasn’t feeling it. Since it was early in the morning and they’d been up on coke all night, they passed out shortly after I got there. I made my quiet exit. Clearly that would have been more than enough to make a confident person walk away, but I wasn’t confident at the time. I was pulled in even more. I would make this guy like me.
The hook-ups with Joe continued. I became increasingly obsessed with him while he flaunted having sex with other girls and critiquing every part of my appearance in a negative manner. At work, he would yell at me and treat me like shit. And yet, I kept coming back for me. I wasn’t an innocent in all this. I was emotionally abusive myself. After he’d ditch me to go hang out with another girl I’d text him endless insults and harass him. We were both behaving in psychotic ways.
After months of conflict and continuing to hook-up, we got in an epic fight. Joe threw me down on his bed and put all his weight on top of me, without realizing my left wrist was being bent back. My wrist was sprained. I had never been in a physically abusive relationship before. Yet, this restaurant I was working at represented the first community I felt like I was a part of in Vancouver. I didn’t want to leave this community behind in order to stop being around Joe. Eventually, after a trip to the hospital for a night after a mental breakdown, I stopped all communication with Joe outside of work. Months after I had stopped seeing or texting him he yelled at me in front of the packed restaurant. That was the last shift I worked there. I quit and Joe stayed on.
My current boyfriend, Ian, also works at the same restaurant. I never hooked up with him until I quit working at the restaurant, but part of what helped me quit is that I felt like something could start with Ian and that made me excited and hopeful. I’ve been with Ian for 6 years now. I definitely don’t regret quitting the restaurant. I have a job I love that challenges me and is not in the restaurant industry.
Well, last night my boyfriend went to work and then he started texting me that the manager (who he was also in a band with and who he’s been friends with for over 20 years) told him that Joe smashed the Buddha statue at work and broke its finger off and lost it and quit the restaurant. Joe’s worked there for 17 years. Most people there have worked there for at least 10 years. People tend to stick around because there is a sense of community there that can be hard to find in Vancouver. But communities often have costs that come with being a part of the group.
By the time I picked my boyfriend up after work last night, he said that Joe had called him and was texting him. They’re not friends, but they have known each other for a long time. Joe was looking for some support.
We almost never hang out with Joe, but we invited him over since he lives a couple blocks away. Joe basically he said he reached his limit with another co-worker who likes to stir-up shit and he had to draw a line in the sand. He said he’s been working graves for this restaurant for 17 years and enough is enough, he can’t take it anymore.
This all led to Joe eventually apologizing for the circumstances surrounding how I quit the restaurant. He said sorry, which I’d never heard him say before. I also got an answer to a question I had always wondered about. The day I quit the restaurant 6 years ago, I went out to a bar that Ian and another co-worker (who Ian was fucking) were hanging out at. I had a crush on Ian but since he was hooking up with our co-worker, I didn’t know if anything would come of my crush and I didn’t think it was reciprocated.
I was sitting in the bar when Ian came down and sat beside me and said that the manager had called Ian to ask about me quitting. This made no sense since Ian wasn’t involved in the conflict between Joe and I. Apparently Joe told the manager to call Ian to find out why I quit. I was angry that Joe did this but also surprised. All of my feelings for Joe hadn’t been shared with anyone else. Joe had hit on me, but he was hitting on lots of people at that time–as he had just been brutally dumped by his girlfriend of 7 years. I was looking for someone that wanted to seriously date me. I didn’t want another Joe-like situation so I didn’t give in at that point to Ian’s advances.
Therefore, I was like, why the hell is Joe telling the manager to call Ian? What does Ian have to do with my quitting? Yes, in my mind part of what helped me quit was the hope something could happen with Ian (and I didn’t want to hook-up with a co-worker again), but how would Joe know that? I held on to that question for 6 years.
Finally, last night I asked Joe if he remembered telling the manager to call Ian after I quit 6 years ago. I explained I’d never hooked up with Ian at that point so what made Joe tell the manager to call Ian. Joe said that his dick is 4 inches but Ian’s is 5. Ian’s is bigger than 5. Ian is well-endowed but I’m not sure how Joe knows that. Anyways, to me this was Joe’s way of saying that he psychically or perceptively knew I was into Ian more than him when I quit. That’s kind of what I thought all along.
Last night was cathartic, because I apologized for being emotionally abusive. Joe apologized for doing things like taking a call from another fuck-buddy while in bed with me. That situation did really hurt me. I had to convince and beg him not to leave me and go pick up this other girl (who was supposedly walking the street in a short skirt drunk at dawn). My self-esteem was so low back then. I’m still not nearly as confident as I want to be, but observing Joe last night with his red-wine stained lips, greasy hair and bad B.O. reminded me of how far I’ve come. I didn’t feel attracted to Joe. I felt bad for him and like he hasn’t changed one bit. His rage issues are still running his life. It sounded more like he’s been fired from the restaurant than his initial claim that he quit. The apology helped though. It really did. Also, it made me love Ian more for helping Joe out in a time of need by letting him have us to talk to and for helping me let go of some past shit.
Too bad it wasn’t filmed, because it would have been quite entertaining I think!
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Ha! Sonja said this about Ramona this week that when Ramona and Mario (her ex-husband) used to be married, he was banging her every night (or I guess every night when he wasn’t banging someone else, since she acknowledged he was a cheater—totally had that vibe, too). Sonja is in a hot tub in Mexico on this weeks episode of Real Housewives of New York City as she says about Ramona that she’s sad because she’s not getting enough sex.
Sonja displays her clever wit and no shame in the jokes game when she says about Ramona, “’cause when that woman’s getting banged, she’s happy!” Man, Sonja is funny!
Andy Cohen knows that with lines like that Sonja is going to be some dollars sent her way next season too.
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Trump has decided that transgender people will no longer be accepted into the US military (CNN discusses this) and those transgender people who are already serving (thanks to the progress the Obama administration made) will somehow be phased out, as if they’re a trend not humans.
The public reasoning behind Trump’s decision is supposedly to lower health care expenditures and prevent disruption, yet an analysis I read suggests that any money spend on transgender people’s specific health care costs pale in comparison to the overall money spent by the defense fund each year on soldiers’ health care (something like $49 billion compared to 8 million, but I’m not double checking sources here so please do that before believing my memory of a statistic). Shockingly, or not, it seems as if Trump is misrepresenting the reasoning behind his decision. Not like this is out of the ordinary though, as I have a feeling this is going to be his M.O. till the day he dies.
I guess Trump doesn’t give a fuck about whether or not his decision increases the divisiveness between soldiers and civilians. I think it will. And I think it is a false assumption that having trans and cis people working together in the army is disruptive, when in reality the leader of the country saying trans people aren’t accepted in the army is what is likely going to create more disruption than continuing to progress and allow people to identify as they choose to.
Now I think soldiers who are cis who’d be open to socializing and supporting trans military personnel may no longer feel safe doing so in case the cis people also have their jobs get threatened because of some stupid idea that “birds of a feather flock together” and the military brass might start to become paranoid and think a cis person can’t be friends with a trans person. Maybe all of my fears about what Trump’s decision is going to cause within the US military and the US as a whole are exaggerated and totally off base. Maybe they’re not.
Hopefully, there will be enough push back to have this decision reversed. Maybe Trump will be exposed to more ideas that might trigger his brain to stop for a second and consider the possibility that trans people don’t pose any threat to other people. How one wants their body to look, their name to be, their voice to sound, and the decision to claim the identity that one feels is right does not mean there is something devious, sinister, or bad about a person. Lying, stealing, cheating, abusing, murdering, and doing other forms of harm to others and oneself are the types of things (dramatic cough ahem ahem) that should be banned from the army and that should be feared, not being trans. Yes, I am passive-aggressively taking jabs at Trump, because at a bare minimum based on his own words I know that he is okay with using his power to sexually assault women. So yes, I hate Trump plain and simple for this reason alone, because I think he does the things he should fear, not trans people (which is not to say all trans people are perfect, every human is a combination of both good and bad and it’s an ongoing struggle for everybody to be a better person..I am just focusing on Trump’s bad parts because they affect too many people to go uncriticized).
It is so sad and VERY SCARY (I feel scared and I’m not even the one being targeted specifically, but aren’t we all being targeted when society tries to restrict things about your identity that shouldn’t be other people’s business or choice?) that Trump has decided to target trans people not just in the army but everywhere. I am thinking of people who are trans or identify under the LGBTQ umbrella and who live in a small town, who don’t have the money to move to a big, more evolved city space (not that all city spaces are evolved, but some pockets tend to be–again most often for those with $$$), who don’t have the confidence or positive reinforcement yet (for some people sadly this day never comes) to see that being treated poorly for one’s gender identity or sexuality is unacceptable, and who get targeted with threats of violence, experience violence. There are trans people being murdered in the US each year (for example this former soldier was just sentence in the US last week for murdering a transgender woman after the soldier had a sexual encounter with her) for stepping outside of the lines of these rigid, life-threatening gender binaries that people like Trump appear to cling to at any and all costs.
I don’t know how this is going to end. I am so lucky in that my gender identity conforms to gender ideals and I’ve never been targeted in the way trans people continue to be. Just because I’m not targeted doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter to me though. It is not okay for people to be scared to be themselves (unless your true self is, say, a child molester or murderer). Being trans doesn’t hurt other people. Hating trans people does hurt and kill people. Can Trump learn to love and use his power to unite? I don’t know, but let’s not stop trying to get this man and others like him to see the light and realize trans people being who they want to be does not take away from their lives at all. I identify as a cis-gender person and therefore maybe I shouldn’t speak about trans people at all. I hope I didn’t speak for trans people, but in support of those who identify as trans.
#TRANSRIGHTSAREHUMANRIGHTS
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I love that Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts supported their youngest son, Kai, 8 (left in pic, Sasha, 9, is on the right), dressing up as a female character of Harley Quinn from the Suicide Squad, because it shouldn’t matter if a boy dresses up as a girl or vice versa. I’d prefer to look at it as a human or a person dressing up as another person. I’m in support of they pronouns taking over and the undoing of gendered ideologies, and yet I’m not sure how to incorporate this into my daily life and actually be a part of the solution to sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
Ideally, we’d be able to remove these overarching gender binaries that dictate so much of people’s identities and social interactions in our culture. The fact that Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are using their fame to hopefully help teach people that how a child or adult wants to dress, talk, alter their body, change names, identities, etc. does not reflect on who someone is as a person.
Wouldn’t it be great if how people treat each other and behave was more important than whether or not one conforms to a specific gender role? There is still a lot of work to be done before people, myself included-since I regularly catch myself thinking in gendered terms and re-confirming problematic ideas around gender, so I’m constantly trying to challenge myself to let go of these ideas-are able to look at someone as a person rather than as a man or a woman. I’m straight but I still have a lot of trust issues with men, and I love that I work at a place that is only staffed by women. Nevertheless, I would like to reach a point where I can take each person as an individual, rather than immediately feeling different towards someone because I perceive them to be male and therefore intimidating, not able to understand my perspective, and a potential predator.
I appreciate that Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are showing that there ain’t nothin’ wrong with letting kids choose how they want to dress up and have fun in the process.
Kai absolutely owned the Harley Quinn look! Go Kai!!
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged celeb gossip, celebrities, just jared, lainey gossip, liev schreiber, liev schreiber comic con, liev schreiber harley quinn kai, liev schreiber naomi watts, naomi watts, naomi watts kids, tmz, vancity, vancity buzz, vancouver, vancouver is awesome, x17online on July 23, 2017 by aintperfect. Leave a comment
After serving 9 years of a possible 33 year sentence for armed robbery, Orenthal James Simpson has been granted parole.
This is interesting and frightening, because while there is always the possibility of human error and fallibility, based on all of the evidence that I have consumed in regards to OJ, I do believe that he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman 20 plus years ago.
Even though OJ will not openly admit this, there was undeniable proof that he physically abused Nicole multiple times during their relationship.
And yet, during the parole board hearing, OJ illustrates that he is still highly delusional by saying, “I always thought I’ve been pretty good with people, and have basically spent a conflict-free life”. Basically, except for a couple of brutal murders, spousal abuse, and the crime he’s just spent 9 years in jail for.
But as we all know, OJ was never criminally convicted for the murders he was tried for, so it is not legally possible to deny him for parole because a judge thinks he killed Brown and Goldman. Nevertheless, it is hard to believe that OJ Simpson is going to be able to survive in society without re-offending, and I think this because he has yet to take accountability for his actions. He could have admitted that while he has had lots of conflicts in his past, he has changed and developed a better way of being. Instead OJ dances around the topic and tries to paint himself as “basically conflict-free” which should have been a red flag: DENIAL.
Maybe OJ has changed. It is in the realm of possibility. Has society’s view of OJ changed? Not really. But if you’ve seen the outstanding documentary series “OJ: Made in America” (I’ve seen all the episodes twice and some portions of them three times) then you’ll know that OJ still has fans out there. Fame is enticing enough for some people to celebrate OJ regardless of his past. Plus there are still underlying (or more likely overt) racial tensions that have always strongly influenced how OJ has been treated by the American public and by the judicial system. What’s going to happen next?
While I don’t respect or admire OJ, there is still something about him that I choose to pay attention to. He is an anomaly to me and I want to know how this story ends, because I think it says a lot more about American culture than it does about the individual OJ. How American culture operates is something worth paying attention to in my opinion.
PS. OJ is now 70.
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So since I’m Canadian and we had Canada Day on Saturday, July 1st and the subsequent day off for Monday-Friday peeps Monday, then July 4th in the US on Tuesday, I’m feeling a little down and depressed about how FUCKED UP this world is.
I also watched an HBO documentary, Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014, that was fascinating, because it told individual, specific stories rather than simply focusing on overarching statistics (which is a storytelling style I find boring and lacking impact) related to gun violence. Seeing specific stories told over and over again throughout the film against the occasional backdrop of a running tally of how many thousands of people died due to gun violence in the US during the months of March to June 2014 is sickening and I think it hints at how frightening America is. Here’s a link (click here to go to IMDB page for doc) to the IMDB description of the documentary that I strongly recommend. It will take something out of you though (or at least it did that to me), so be ready for it, since it’s not a casual night of after-work viewing. Not relaxing I shall say. I was intrigued, but left with a greater sense of hopelessness.
I needed a pick-me-up this morning. So looking at these very persistent reality TV people, who I’ve been watching since Princes of Malibu (Spencer…still can’t find this show to download and I really wish I could) and The Hills (or maybe even Heidi popped up on Laguna Beach, I feel bad for not knowing, though I shouldn’t) makes me have hope that I can’t always predict the future. I never thought Heidi and Spencer would make it in the long run (at least 10 years now) and not long enough to create a child together.
They’re a bit wacky, but aren’t we all. I guarantee they have many beliefs I find offensive, but yet beneath at all, from watching these people for so long, I can’t help but wish for their happiness and a bright future free from an obsession with very large crystals.
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We hear Catherine’s voice doing the recap of the episode from last week. I wanna know why is boring Catherine the narrator? Dumb decision.
First off Hannah is packing for the trip to her dad’s place for a tailgate party.
Louis says, “Planning a party with your dad is so easy,” and that you just send people for more alcohol. Hannah gets all uppity about this not surprisingly.
Hannah then tells the camera that, “this is a perfect opportunity for him to show me that he is carrying the weight around here”. Yes, I do have an inkling suspicion that Hannah is subconsciously punishing Louis for her father’s wrongs.
Then it’s on to Nelson picking up Ashley at her place. I’m pretty sure Nelson can be heard screaming, “Go dawgs sick em,” to cheer on the sports team they’re going to the tailgate party for. Nelson would be so much fun to go to a sports game with. That means a lot since I think sports are one of the most boring things to watch, but Nelson is a hoot! Nelson spinoff anybody? I bet it’s gonna happen with Ashley and Nelson taking on the big city (NYC) or celeb central (LA).
(Nelson and Ashley earlier in the season)
I noticed during Ashley and Nelson’s drive that Nelson is wearing nice sunglasses. This is an improvement from the rest of his fashion (except for his glorious bow ties).
During the car trip, Ashley is bitching to Nelson about how Hannah should have been more considerate about going to a different designer/clothing maker in Charleston, when this is already Ashley’s livelihood. After Ashley says, ‘This is what pays for this car” Nelson’s agreement is given in the form of a very long and hilarious “Hmmmmm”. Nelson’s got some attitude in him and it’s quite entertaining. Yeah, he has been caught lying, but being fun goes a long way as well.
“Obviously I hate the tension with Hannah…If it turns sour, I know I have somewhere to go,” is what Ashley says about the Hannah feud (Ashley has access to her family or friend’s place to stay), since Ashley rightly fears that the power dynamic between her and Hannah could be unequal due to the party being on Hannah’s territory.
Hannah is so annoying! “I’m going to get the breakdown from my dad too about how much you actually did?” Why are you conspiring to get your boyfriend into trouble with your dad, Hannah? Stop caring so much what your damn dad thinks. He’s insensitive clearly.
Hannah says she gets anxiety driving up to beach house and we also find out that this is a 70-person party Louis ordered catering for. “My mom and dad built the house when I was in high school. We’ve had a lot of really fun family memories here, but it’s my dad and Sara’s house now. It’s just different,” Hannah says as she admits she hasn’t quite let go of the past yet.
Hannah says, “My stepmom and I are close in age, but not close”. Ouch! I wish I could know what Sara’s experience of the whole situation is. Hannah seems like a pretty stuck-up bitch at times, so I bet Hannah is hard to deal with. It seemed like Hannah left her stepmom out during one scene by focusing only on the people to her right, including Louis and her dad, rather than open it up for Sara to be a part of it. Sara kind of grabs at Hannah’s beer, and it was a tad awkward.
Then there’s Catherine reading some article about Ashley online. Ashley apparently got into an argument with a neighbour and busted the neighbour’s window. I want to hear more about this situation.
(Lyle and Catherine looking virginal and boring as per usual)
Lyle is such that bitch who will never be able to attract an Ashley, so he pretends to crap on her, though he couldn’t handle her if he had the chance to. My analysis is why Lyle says, “She’s (Ashley’s) also an aggressive knocker along with aggressive bullshitter”. Harsh.
Then the ultimate NAGFEST tailgate party of 2017 (maybe 2016 depending on when it was filmed) by bugging Louis about everything in the most irritating way possible: “And it’s off to a rocky start…” is Hannah’s contribution to things early on. If Hannah only knew the reason this episode is so rocky is because her dad got too drunk and spilled the beans in a shocking way. Louis is an angel comparatively speaking.
When Hannah and her dad are talking, Hannah’s dad says, “Maybe i better have a talk with him”. What did Louis do that’s wrong? Their lifestyles must be too different from mine to get how not obsessing over running a party that is supposed to be fun is a bad thing.
Miss Control Freak Hannah says, “Every time i go to take a deep breath and a take a seat back…the ball has been dropped”. This is a party not a life or death surgery woman.
Hannah and her dad start doing it all themselves. 15 minutes later louis shows up on a golf cart
“You left,” Hannah says to Louis. She takes him around the side of the house for privacy in front of the cameras (haha, sure) to ream him out: “You’re hosting a party so stay ut until everything is finished and our guests arrive”. Hannah she is good at talking in a condescending manner. I wouldn’t want her to be my boss, cause I’d want to tell her to go get that fungal parasite removed from her asshole (jokes…don’t think Hannah would ever lower her guard long enough to pick up a fungal parasite, if there is such a thing), cause it’s really affecting her ability to focus on what matters.
“This is such bullshit,” is how Louis responds and I personally think he is right.
Hannah attempts to further degrade her boyfriend by calling him a vagina (not that it’s bad to be a vagina, if you can be a vagina, because vaginas are actually amazing): “You got to get that little tale feather out from underneath that vagina down there”. Nice girlfriend.
Hannah then pulls out another snot move by saying about tin foil top, “It’s just really TPT looking…trailer park trash”. Oh Hannah, aren’t you hilarious for making fun of those who aren’t as swanky as you?
(Basic bitches Catherine, Happy, and Hannah)
Then it’s Happy’s turn once again to come in and make Hannah’s voice sound like smooth butter in comparison to Happy’s nasally whine. Happy is talking about Ashley when she says, “I want to pull her aside and have a conversation with her…Every time I turn around she’s like screaming at you”. This girl Happy seriously irritates the fuck out of me. Catherine then repeats the rumour about Ashley punching out a window to the other girls. I can see where the conflict in this episode is heading: all signs point to Ashley. Bravo, Ashley (pun intended): $$$.
Happy says, “I struggle with feeling sad and then I hear things like this and I think this isn’t sad this is madness”. Okay there. Happy may be willing to be the black sheep of her family in terms of marrying a muslim person (since her mom at least isn’t supportive of her marriage), but she sure is judgmental and stuck-up about other things, so that judgmental trait must run in her family (it runs in my family too…can’t you tell?).
ASHLEY AND NELSON INCOMING: Ashley and Nelson show up to finally spice up the party. “Go dawgs!” Nelson say as he cheers on the team. Nelson is RIDIC. I want to hang out with Nelson so bad.
Ashley has a bandaid on her hand (window smasher!) and Catherine asks what happened. Ashley says, ‘Long story”. Perfect answer as she neither confirms nor denies, which is a great way to drag out the drama.
Happy asks Ashley, “How’s it going?” as the intro to their chat. Happy is constipated sounding. You need that rock solid piece of shit out of your ass, Happy or else you’re going to be stuck sounding like that forever. That was too harsh I know, but she really is the series villain for me.
Happy further chastises Ashley by saying, “It’s really really difficult to do that (support Ashley) when i feel like you’re acting in ways that I don’t understand that seem irrational”. I can see where Happy is coming from somewhat, it’s her delivery that sucks.
Ashley gives it right back, “Like what?”. Followed by, “You guys can’t just let me have a fun event”. Tell it like it is, girl!
Happy makes another annoying yet valid point when she asks Ashley, “Do you not feel like you’re attacking, Hannah?”.
“No one cares if i’m upset. It sucks,” Ashley shares while letting down her guard. It is correct that she’s kind of alone (except for Nelson) in this series.
Then the conversation turns to relationships and how Ashley knows Dennis is sweet, but he’ll never stand up for her and have her back in public.
Happy snaps back at her, “You’ve chosen your situation. if you don’t like it then get out of it”.
“I think that’s a very naive thing for her to say to me,” is how Ashley responds and I think she is correct. I’m unmarried and not a parent, so while I can see Ashley and Dennis’ relationship is unhealthy for Izzy (as Ashley can see too), it doesn’t mean breaking up a family is easy or something someone does rashly.
Ashley further sucks me in to loving her when she admits, “I’ve never made a decision based solely on what I wanted…”. I think there are many women who feel the same way about their lives, even if they won’t admit it on national television.
Ashley continues, “A lot of it is hard for me to deal with…That’s why I get defensive…I can’t survive on a daily basis if I focus on the struggles that I have…”. Amen! That is my life too. Just got to keep on moving, right? I think everyone is there, though levels of struggles are very different for all people.
Happy turns a bitchy-corner and seems like someone I could grow to like when she tell Ashley, “Right now, I feel like I understand where your’e coming from”. Ashley cries and hugs are given all around. Heartwarming stuff, but will it last? We shall see.
Grayson, Louis’ friend, pulls Nelson into the pool with him. Ashley jumps in and everyone else joins the pool part of the party. Grayson seems like he should be on the show too!
Now it’s BOYS ONLY (are we 10? I would not be cool with this if it was my boyfriend unless it was a pre planned boys night out…if I’m a female and I wanna come, I will) are going to the bar. We see shots of party time in da club. Daniel drops it loooowwww.
Then there’s Nelson droppin’ it with his hands. One more reason why I want to go out dancing with Nelson so bad! If you’re ever in Vancouver, Nelson, hit me up and I’ll take you to a fun hip hop club.
“You don’t have to be everything for everybody,” Hannah says to a haaaammmmed Ashley. Hannah is such a lecturer and so bitchy. Ahhh! Ashley starts barfing all over herself.
Now for the most shocking part of the episode with Louis and Hannah’s much talked-about Dad speaks for himself when he should have kept his mouth shut. Alcohol is dangerous people! That’s why I can’t touch it. Truth serum is something you’ve got to watch out for, because alcohol can make a negative spin one’s entire reality. I’m hoping that Hannah’s dad, David, was just in a particularly negative mood that night.
Louis tells Hannah’s dad she is brilliant and basically professes his love for his (Hannah’s dad’s) daughter (Hannah). Hannah’s dad then says, “I can’t tell them (Hannah and her sisters) I was never in love with her (their mom and his ex-wife)” along with “never force anything”. Okay that is a lot to digest for me, and I’m just a viewer. Hannah’s mom doesn’t deserve to be talked about this way. It’s weird, it’s like why’d you stay with a woman you were never in love with? How was she supposed to know that? Did she know that?
(I bet Hannah started crying when she watched this episode for the first time…I would)
Louis admits, “I’m totally confused. I don’t know why he is saying that to be”. Hannah’s dad is messed up…”I was never in love with her (Hannah’s mom)” is repeated multiple times to Louis while they’re at the bar.
Louis isn’t the same as Hannah’s dad, as Louis maintains, “I love Hannah. She’s my best friend. I don’t take that for granted”. I like Louis.
Nelson and Ashley are driving together. She brings up how Happy and the girls genuinely tried to understand her, and she’s thankful since, “It’s hard to be vulnerable with people when you feel like they don’t really care” Yes, that is so true. I can’t let down my guard if I feel like someone has already judged me.
The next day, Hannah’s dad, David, is on his deck. It’s funny how her dad got the drunkest, not the wild young partygoers.
Her dad looks guilty on the porch. Hannah is teary eyed while talking about Louis’ supposed faults again to her dad, ‘I really need him (Louis) to just like step it up…I feel like we’re jusr kind of floating out here in this weird space. It’s kind of funny, but sometimes i’m just like come on man”. Again, Hannah is misdirecting her anger. Focus on your fucking douche dad. He is the one who disgraces you and your family by speaking like that.
This episode was nuts…and I’m getting deeper and deeper into these people’s lives as the season goes on. Since I watch reality TV to escape, that is a good thing. This show is shaping up to contend with the original Southern Charm.
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During the intro recap from the previous weeks episodes, the racial or religious slur Nelson uses (my impression is that it’s against Jewish people) is highlighted, so I’m guessing Nelson apologizing is going to be one of the focuses this week.
(Movie poster for Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters)
Hannah and Her Sisters! Ha…I’m 33 and I’ve seen the Woody Allen film. It’s a good one. For all of you out there who are too young to know what I’m talking about, sorry as this reference has likely been lost on you through no fault of your own. Anyways, Hannah’s sisters show up. I see they’re the aggressive hugger type girls. Like if I was in a cafe or restaurant and I see a bubble of females like this I’ll actively avoid them, oftentimes just to decrease the chances of having to listen to a high pitched squeal while avoiding being hit in the head by one of many failing arms that are about to go into a hug. So Hannah’s three sisters are Hillary is the oldest, Hattie is the third sister, and Hyatt is the youngest.
(Louis)
Louis’ (Hannah’s boyfriend-for those of you who don’t already know) is having his 29th bday this episode. Hannah is both realistic and that irritating desperate to grow up girl when she says Louis wants to be 17. She calls herself a cradle robber. I’m not sure of their age difference, but I think Hannah is saying this more metaphorically, because Louis is too juvenile. He seems like a pretty decent boyfriend to me. Boring, but decent.
(Throwback pic of Hannah and her sisters)
Hannah and her sisters are shown sitting around bitching about their parents divorce and their dad’s “awful girlfriends when they (Hannah’s parents) first split up”. They make some fun of a girlfriend who OH DEAR GOD! dared to wear a leopard print dress. I am a fan of leopard print. Yes, it is tacky, but tacky can be fun. And Hannah and her sisters seem like Yuppie tightwads to me for the most part.
Hannah then shares with the camera/audience that 2 years after her parents divorce (Hannah’s Dad cheated and it crushed her), Hannah found out Dad getting engaged to someone she hadn’t even met. She was told by someone who was eating at a restaurant she was working at, and she can’t remember actually being told because she thinks she blocked it out. Oh, what trauma you’ve been through poor Hannah!
(This is Hannah as a kid. Can this version please come out to play again? Diva.)
It would be hard to accept that your parent isn’t who you think they are, but Hannah should consider the signs she missed rather than focusing on her Mom’s story that they were dancing on the back deck a week or so before he left (a story I remember Hannah telling earlier this season) and blaming everything on her dad. Is Hannah’s mom perfect? Based on how uppity she acts towards Louis (that being said I would be pissed about Ashley stripping down to see-through lingerie in front of my boyfriend too), Hannah might be recreating the scenario her parents experienced by trying to keep Louis on too-tight of a leash.
Nelson’s mom, Linda, is a gem. There were multiple times when she is talking to Nelson that appears to be a very patient and kind person, and she seems to understand that people’s criticism of Nelson is not coming out of nowhere. “Oooh chile, this boys been work!” is what I think his mama wants the audience (and people of Savannah) to know.
(Nelson and his mom Linda)
Nelson and his mother go to a restaurant called Ms. Wilke to eat some Southern food with others. Nelson doesn’t fit in, and so I love him, is what I’m reminded of every time I see him try to be relaxed, or blend in with the other “norms” of Savannah. Nelson is too big for that city! He is waiting to break out. He needs to get any proclivities towards lying out of his system, and learn which words are offensive in 2017 not 1917, but he also is special. I am weird and awkward too, and so Nelson’s need to overanalyze and generally be a hilarious freak make me a fan of his.
After Nelson shares with his mom how the rest of the cast is mad at him, specifically Daniel, for the slur he used, even though Nelson claims he had no idea it was offensive , she tells Nelson that, “We do need to be responsible for what comes out of our mouths”. Educational moment happening right there. These moments may be far and few between on reality TV, but they are there for us to learn from those who do know more than us. Nelson’s mom also tells him of his error, “You have to own that” and that after he apologizes to Daniel, he should say, “Let’s shake hands please”. This is a wonderful way to apologize. And Linda couldn’t help but include that it’s “not the first time his (Nelson’s) mouth has gotten him in trouble. His Mom’s face when drinking the iced tea gave me some insight into what it would be like to raise a Nelson. Hilarious!
Catherine tells her friend she worked it out with Ashley and that while this is good for the time being, but she’ll see if either mess up. The outlook is kind of bleak on that one.
Louis says, “When I first met Hannah, she was like, I have three sisters…”. This was initially a big deal, but now he’s got all her sisters on his team and it’s great.
Daniel has a crush on Hattie (the only blond of the four sisters). Daniel thinks she has a great ass. They didn’t hook up this episode, but it seems like it is on the horizon.
Louis makes fun of Hannah and calls her a mom to her sisters and they all laugh. So at least myself and Hannah’s boyfriend and sisters are all on the same page.
Catherine and what-his-face, oh yeah, Lyle, go on a date. Mini golf. Wow the non-existent passion is so not intense. Catherine recoils at Lyle’s touch. She is never going to be IN LOVE with Lyle (yes, this is just my OPINION).
(Catherine and T-Rav: Southern Charmers)
He says it takes a lot of self confidence to be with Catherine. She has always been flirty according to Lyle. About Catherine’s flirting, Lyle says, “It is the most innocent. I know who she loves. I know where she’s coming at night”. I don’t know about that, but if Lyle is confidence in his position they will probably be happy for a long time. Usually, when I’ve seen and known super flirty it rarely stops at flirting alone, especially when alcohol is a part of the picture.
Hannah and her sisters set up for Louis’s birthday party. An oyster roast is happening because it’s Louis’ favourite thing. FYI: Catherine, who goes out boating with Daniel before the party, has more chemistry with Daniel than with Lyle.
Ashley shows up to Louis’ 29th with her tits out (yes!!!) and a hot purple dress on. Sadly, Dennis, Ashley’s husband and their son Isaac aren’t in this episode–tragic). Nelson shows up too.
(Happy…right?)
Ewww…Flashback to Happy at Catherine’s dinner party, “How long does it take to get there?”. I agree with the point Happy is making, but EWW her voice is so stuck-up and annoying. She’s annoyed me since the first second I heard her speak in the first episode. But, considering the family and belief systems she’s been raised with, I do respect her decision to go against her family’s racist views and marry a Muslim person.
Bad oysters. Yuck. Finally Catherine and Daniel arrive to the party. I love Catherine’s move to pull off her rain pants and reveal a dress. That is totally something I’d do. Catherine is blah to me for the most part, but she entertained me, for a second, there.
These people’s version of a wild party is shotgunning beer. Hmm. Pretty tame, I’d say.
“I’ll think about it in, like, a couple drinks…” Happy is a bitch through and through.
Ashley goes to put on her bathing suit. I wanna see! Her body is banging. Sidenote: how does Ashley maintain her body? It probably requires work or very little food to look that good.
Nelson is feeling ostracized and his mouth tastes like some weird chemical name “paint”. Nelson is so funny with the out-of-left-field things he says. Spinoff idea: Ashley and Nelson Do Europe. Nelson’s style is not always as advanced as I imagine it to be. The washed out jeans with a belt and light blue polo shirt are outdated. Nelson goes and grabs Daniel to start the apology train.
(Nelson and OG Southern Charmer Kathryn…fun peeps)
Nelson: “Thank-you for telling me that-the word that you told me about- was actually an offensive word because I did not know that when I said that. Please forgive me”. Good so far. Daniel then says, “I appreciate your apology now that you know the definition of the word”. Nelson is 32. I like that I’m only a year older than him. I wish we could be friends. I’d be we’d share some laughs.
Nelson is either a really good liar or very sincere (I feel like someone on the show said almost the same thing about Nelson this episode or last, too), because I totally bought his apology.
Catherine is very privileged and states, “I have learned to appreciate the old Savannah traditions”. She also says, “You never want to be excluded from something because you didn’t know how”.
Yeah, but most people don’t know how not because they’re unwilling to try but because they can’t afford what it costs to test out new activities and sports. Catherine, you might like to grab the bull by the horns, but those horns are so readily available to grab because of the history of slavery you are ok with your family and yourself continuing to profit from. Therefore, it annoys me that Catherine is talking like this to hype herself up as adventurous and willing to learn new things when her privilege is so wrapped-up in how she expresses these aspects of her personality.
Big Cat and Catherine arrive at this dressy event (all female bridge tournament) with lots of white women. Scenes like this make me scared and panicky when I imagine being put in this scenario. Thankfully, I don’t have to take part in scenarios like these really since my life ain’t about that, so I can just enjoy it from the outside in.
Ashley, the “harlot” in terms of her character type on the show and her portrayal, shows up to play bridge with the other women.
Ashley starts winning the game. Ashley asks Hannah to come out in the courtyard with her. What Ashley brings up came out of nowhere for me. If you don’t already know, last week Hannah met with a dressmaker to start working on her own line.
(l to r: Ashley, Happy, Catherine, and Hannah during brighter times)
Ashley says, “The number one rule in business is you don’t step on people’s toes. She mentions to me about your dress line, I’m like, are you kidding me? I feed my child by doing fashion design and for you to go to someone else and not to me. It’s just one more thing to make me feel like I have the plague.” That is taking things way too personally Ashley. Hannah brought up how she felt to Ashley. Ashley played 100% victim card, and didn’t appear to listen to where Hannah was coming from.
Hannah looked bad during the one scene, but now Ashley looks like the fool here who is pushing way too hard to have a reason to hate-on Hannah.
To Ashley’s questioning of why Hannah didn’t go to fashionista Ashley, Hannah replies, “First of all, why do I need to tell you?”.
Ashley says, “It’s just common courtesy to mention it. Like that’s a big deal”.
As Happy eavesdrops on Hannah and Ashley’s convo, Happy says, “like my blood is boiling”. Yeah, because you’re a cunty bitch Happy.
Ashley adds this hilarious line when speaking about working for Delta airlines for 5 hours twice a week, “Sometimes I’ve even cleaned the toilet, but that has nothing to do with my styling career”. Touche!
Hannah kinds of shuts Ashley down by pointing out Hannah works for a trucking company and doesn’t think she is superior to Ashley.
“You’re about to have a rude awakening you know,” Ashley threatens Hannah.
“You sound super supportive right now. Thank-you,” is Hannah’s comeback to Ashley.
“You’re not going to talk over me, Ashley…I’m not afraid of you.” Hannah is about to start a Royal Rumble.
“I’m out. I’m going inside.” Ashley leaves…but then come back. They are going to work this out once and for all tonight (suuuuurreee they are). Both women agree to stop bitching about the other to other people. We’ll see if this happens.
(Ashley is a very beautiful woman)
Hannah goes in and bitches to Catherine. Ashley smokes outside kind of being painted in a Cruella Devil-ian light.
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We see Thomas speaking to his bestie, the happily (it really does seem that way…I hope he’s not a cheater though) married father-of-four, JD about potential ladies T-Rav wants to wed. When the option of Landon comes up, JD says, “Of all the people in the universe, I don’t know if Kathryn would be real happy about that one.” JD really seems to get a kick out of all the unbelievable conundrums (to put it mildly) that Thomas gets himself into. I think JD loves Thomas and wants the best for him. But it also seems like JD is always entertained by these predicaments and JD wonders how Thomas can be surprised at the drama that surrounds him.
(Landon, Thomas, and Jennifer…just friends? Step-mom Landon hmmm…)
Then we switch over to single, ripe-for-the-taking (if you can give Landon as many horses as she wants) Landon. She tells the camera that, “My Dad is a real estate developer. Everything he made is tangible, you can see it.” This is used to explain why he isn’t on board with Roam (new name please), and it’s lack of tangibility. The fact that the site can’t even claim its name definitely indicates that it’s likely to evaporate into thin air very quickly.
(Landon and her ex husband)
Landon’s sweet dad tells her, “As a matter of fact, I’ve got a proposal for you”. Daddy offers Landon a 5 days a week job overseeing one of his development sites in Charleston, since he can’t be there to oversee it himself.
Instead of gratitude, Landon says, “This is a lot. I didn’t think that you were going to hit me with all this”. While a positive spin would be to say that Landon’s dad believes in her and is trying to give her a break with this job because he knows she can do it, Landon’s own mind (and maybe weak work ethic) makes her interpret his offer in a hurtful, condescending way.
Landon is sad her dad won’t acknowledge her site as a legitimate thing. Um, duh Landon, maybe that’s because even the most minor amount of research to see if your site name was available clearly wasn’t done effectively, if at all. About Roam Landon says, “It’s the first thing that I’ve ever done on my own as an adult that is just mine.” Landon says, “I want to do it on my own”.
I am not a fan of Landon in general, but her desire to be an independent woman and not take the easy way out did impress me this episode. I’ve never seen her clearly express that she knows it would be kind of pathetic to just fall into whatever fate offers her easy money to maintain her lifestyle.
(One thing working for Landon is that she always looks good)
Landon knows it’d be easy to marry, but she says, “It’s kind of like giving up on myself. I’m betting on me”. I’m on TEAM LANDON then too in this instance!
Shep talks to Cameran about wanting to get married and the topic of Chelsea is brought up. “I think you’re scared of being vulnerable,” Cameran says to Shep and I agree wholeheartedly. Shep hasn’t worked enough and he feels like an unfulfilled loser because of it. I hate that work is necessary to feel good, but I’ve got to do something to feel ok about myself.
(Shep seems to be full of shit)
Cameran says that if Shep tells Chelsea he wants to get to know her a little better, she would stop dating Austen. This whole episode made me start to wonder if Chelsea might be a real good actress, she has had me fooled or she is a really sweet person who also seems down to earth, because maybe she is using Austen as a tool to see if Shep really will go for her. I’m not saying I don’t think Chelsea doesn’t like Austen at all, I think there is a playful attraction there, but maybe in her gut Chelsea was hoping she’d be the one to change 37 year-old perma-child Shep Rose. I’ve done it myself and paid for it with my heart and sanity.
I think that men don’t change for you. Men can change, but it has to always start from somewhere inside I think, even if a change coincides with the meeting of a new potential dating partner. I don’t know if Shep’ll ever really be there, because to his detriment, money makes it so easy to not do anything.
“Is there any hope for Shepster?” Chelsea about Shep. The forecast is bleak on that one.
Austen and Chelsea. Asks her to meet his parents. Chelsea agrees. Either Chelsea is heartless, or Shep isn’t someone she’s secretly holding out for. It is NOT COOL to meet someone’s parents if you’re not in love with them. That’s just mean and misleading.
Austen and Chelsea are shown talking in a vehicle together. Chelsea says to Austen, “Shep did something really weird. And I’ve been torn if I should tell you or not. I feel like if roles were reversed I’d want you to tell me…he came to the back of the bar, he like grabbed my arm, and he was like I wanna talk to you…he immediately turns around and goes in to kiss me. He tried two or three times.”
“It is a cheap sly move,” is how Austen describes what Shep is said to have done.
(Jennifer, Landon, Austen, Cameran and Chelsea)
Chelsea adds to how bad what Shep supposedly did by saying, “And you being inside the bar”.
“I just feel like that took some nerves,” is Chelsea’s final point (for now) on the topic. Chelsea also says Shep said everyone knows they have something special, and that Austen has a better connection with Landon. Landon is a flirt, and, no, I don’t think her and Austen have a connection.
Then there is a boys bar night. Before the Whitney and Shep arrive, Austen starts telling Craig about what Chelsea says happened.
Shep arrives at the drinking spot and Austen says, “I can’t believe he’s (Shep’s) able to act like nothing happened.”
(Shep and Austen going at it)
Craig calls Shep out directly for his jealousy and of course Shep, the juvenile, denies the obvious. Austen brings up Chelsea’s story. Asks Shep if there is anything he wants to reveal. “Do you not think you were wrong in that?” Austen asks Shep. Shep claims he was doing it to protect Austen and to make sure Chelsea is genuinely into Austen. It was an act of kindness supposedly. Ridiculous.
“Craig, I am no lothario my friend,” Shep says in defense of these accusations.
Shep gets angry. “I gave you the chance to admit you’re doing somebody 500 times”. Oh, so Shep is still mad that Austen won’t open up about him and Chelsea. On this one area I’ll acknowledge Shep does have a point, because Austen hid his shit so Shep can kind of do that now too, but only to a degree, not to behave in a sexually aggressive manner like Chelsea described.
Shep points out Cameran keeps encouraging him to go after Chelsea. “Sometimes my maleness gets the better of me.” This is messed-up. Shep is kind of insinuating that his masculinity is so powerful that he couldn’t help but push way too far and grab Chelsea. That is the kind of thought process that has led people to justify sexual assaults, and therefore it repulses me. Shep then says, “Do you really think that I’d make someone go out with me? Maybe she likes me.”
(Craig enjoys his chablis)
“Austen is really forcing this mirror in Shep’s face tonight,” is Craig accurately notes, and adds about Shep, “It’s really hard to look into that mirror and see someone you don’t like”. I think Craig loves Shep, but Shep was too critical of Craig, and I’d feel like Craig too, and a bit happy to see my friend judged after treating me poorly in the past. Immature? Yes. But I ain’t perfect.
Shep further acts a fool when we see a flashback where he says to Austen about Austen’s hook-up with Chelsea, “She went slumming with you. She wanted to see what a little blue collar was like”. Seriously Shep needs to stop drinking, because comments like that will always come out if you’re hammed.
Whitney keeps standing up for Shep, but this isn’t a shocker, as I think Whitney would stand-up for whomever he is closest to rather than even think about how is right or wrong in the situation. Blind loyalty is a little much for me.
The other friend at the bar (who isn’t a cast member) tells Shep what Austen said about him. Shep denies it. Austen says to Shep, “You have alluded to it a couple times. You said you don’t have enough money for her bro. Words out of your mouth”. Scott Disick from Keeping up with the Kardashians and Shep are kind of similar alcoholics in my opinion.
“You’re on very thin ice with me,” Shep says to Austen and he ends with the classic line,”You do you. I’ll do me. I don’t care I’ve got a million friends”.
You hear that, everybody? Shep is the most popular boy in school, I mean in life. Finally, “Let it go, man,” is what Whitney says to Austen. Shut up, Whitney, you’re an annoying bitch sometimes.
(Thomas and Kathryn once upon a time…)
Thomas brings Kensie to the mommy-and-me modelling shoot with Kathryn. You can tell the parents are really trying, but they’re also tentative. Kensie looks really happy and they look like they have a future in modelling. At the end of the scene, Kensie doesn’t want to leave and keeps trying to get into her mother’s vehicle. It is sad as Kensie is crying a lot and eventually Thomas takes her and buckles her into her car seat. I definitely felt like I was contributing to traumatizing a child by watching that scene. Watching this unfold is too much and Kathryn goes inside and starts crying. Chelsea and the modelling agency woman comfort her. I want to see fun, snarky Kathryn and I hope her wit comes out as the season progresses. Right now, Kathryn’s scenes are too depressing.
(l to r: Saint, Kathryn, and Kensie)
Chelsea and Cameran hang out. Chelsea tells Cameran Shep was trying to say it wasn’t his fault (his way too pushiness with Chelsea at the bar) because Cameran is always in his ear. Cameran admits that, “Maybe it is selfish of me because I love you both, and I want y’all to be together”.
“You see his lifestyle. As a friend, you shouldn’t want me to be…” Chelsea trails off. I’ll end the sentence myself “…with him”. Yep.
“He (Shep) gets away with it. I know so many guys like that…at some point, that can’t happen anymore” Chelsea about guys like Shep. Dead on! School him, please. This scene made me believe Chelsea isn’t orchestrating, or playing a role in, the drama around her, and that she really sees Shep for the entitled playboy he chooses to be at the present time. Cameran decides she is going to go chew him out.
(Craig and Naomie during happier times…big ups to them for doing relationship work with a counsellor…my partner and I have too and it helps I think)
The therapy session between Craig and Naomie reminded me of fights between my boyfriend and I! He works in our apartment making music a lot, if he didn’t spend so much time on music I don’t think I’d find him an attractive partner (he has music is on reality TV show that airs on MTV2, so he gets legit jobs composing), but the current record he is working on will not pay out until his friend and him complete it and send it in to Music BC.
He also works in a restaurant, but I’ve been doing 8 hour shifts away from home 3-4 days of the week, and when I wake up and he sleeps in with the blinds drawn while I’m up and outside, I can harp on him for it. Seeing how Naomie talks to Craig though it reminds me that even if my frustration is justified, putting your partner down will only further de-motivate them and it won’t help life them up. So what I took away from this episode is that I need to stop dumping on my boyfriend.
Shep and Cameran meet up. Cameran says, “Well I think we’re going to have to save the love doll for somebody else”. That doll is cool though. I want one!
“I saw a bright, shiny object like a fish,” is how Shep describes Chelsea and the temptation to go after her.
(Shep and Cameran weren’t laughing during their final convo this week)
“Do you not think that there is any part of you that is jealous of him?” Cameran asks.
“Just admit that you care. Oh my god. I call bullshit,” Cameran calls Shep out and it is satisfying as a viewer to see the TRUTH spelled out for Shep loud and clear. Grow up, please.
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AleSmith Brewing Company is located in San Diego, California, and was founded by Peter Zien in 1995. AleSmith has deep roots in the homebrewing community; Mr. Zien was a home homebrewer himself who dreamed of wanting to own a brewery. Well, that dream came true; Zien is also San Diego County’s only BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) “Grand Master” beer judge. BJCP sanctions homebrewing competitions.
To continue the homebrew theme, the other major half of AleSmith, Tod Fitzsimmons, was a former president of the homebrew club QUAFF. He joined the company as a brewer in 1996.
Very recently, AleSmith earned the #1 slot on the website RateBeer’s ‘Top Brewer in the World’ list. (Of note: I’ve only ever reviewed one other AleSmith beer because they are not distributed here in North Carolina; it was Speedway Stout, and I awarded it a perfect 100 points!)
Old Numbskull is a west-coast style Barleywine that is produced year-round. The name gives a nod to English tradition as Barleywines typically started with “Old” in the beer name. Coming in at 11% ABV (alcohol by volume), this is a fresh bottle produced in November 2013.
The pour delivered a very nice looking beer, capped by a large, off-white, creamy head that lingered. The beer was a dull amber-brown out of light; held in light, it became red with lighter orange highlights toward the bottom of the glass. The body was hazy yet still remained translucent, and there were no particles or sediment. Lacing was perfect, leaving behind thick sheets of solid foam as I sipped. Picture perfect for the style.
On the nose, this is much more Imperial IPA than Barleywine — until it begins to warm. Pungent and fresh hops immediately greet you, with impressive waves of resinous pine, grapefruit, orange, mild tropical fruits, and lime. The malt backing is meek at first, only giving off hints of caramel and toffee, but as it warms, it opens to expose deeper, bready notes with delicate layers of chocolate and a hint of dark fruit.
The taste is very much the same, with untamed notes of sticky, fresh hops; big orange peel, grapefruit, sweet tropical fruits and a wallop of dank pine. This couples with a stiff note of 11% alcohol to be unpleasant and medicinal at first; when allowed to warm, more of the malt backing starts to account for itself. There’s a thin layer of caramel and growing dark fruits, with bread crust, and it helps soak up some of the alcohol. By the middle of the glass, Old Numbskull turns into an enjoyable drink that showcases the other, hoppy, west-coast side of Barleywine. This beer is full-bodied, with a medium, foamy mouthfeel. The finish edges up the dark fruits a bit, but it needs more time to be greater defined.
If you’ve got a fresh bottle of this beer and you want to open it (which I think you should), allow it to warm for about 25 minutes after you pour it — I think you’ll avoid the stiff alcohol astringency. Don’t get me wrong — the 11% never disappears, and you surely do feel it, but this becomes a much better brew as it warms. Now, as for aging…I think if you check in around 6-8 months, you will be greatly rewarded with a classic beer.
AleSmith Old Numbskull Barleywine, 93 points. Price: $10.99 US for one 750 ml. bottle.
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NeuroML: A Language for Describing Data Driven Models of Neurons and Networks with a High Degree of Biological Detail
PLOS Computational Biology
Padraig Gleeson, Sharon Crook, Robert C. Cannon, Michael L. Hines, et al
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000815
http://www.mendeley.com/research/neuroml-language-describing-data-driven-models-neurons-networks-high-degree-biological-detail
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/844521"], "description"=>"<p>The main element for expressing a branching neuronal structure in NeuroML is <i>cell</i> which is used for all Levels in NeuroML. The core of the cell description is a set of <i>segment</i> elements which describe the 3D shape of the cell. These can be grouped into <i>cables</i> which represent unbranched neurites of the cell. Metadata present in the cell description can contain details of the creators of the cell model, or the data on which it was based (e.g. a neuronal reconstruction from NeuroMorpho.org). Addition of the <i>biophysics</i> element allows a Level 2 conductance based spiking cell model to be described, and the <i>connectivity</i> element can be used for the allowed synaptic connectivity of a Level 3 cell (e.g. to be used when connecting the cell in a network). A detailed description of each of these elements can be found in Supporting <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815.s001\" target=\"_blank\">Text S1</a>. Only the elements in Level 1 which are normally used in compartmental cell modeling are shown in the figure. Other elements such as <i>freePoints</i>, <i>features</i> etc. could be present in a Level 1 file from a camera lucida reconstruction <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815-Crook1\" target=\"_blank\">[38]</a>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["cells", "neuroml", "levels"], "article_id"=>514955, "categories"=>["Neuroscience", "Medicine"], "users"=>["Padraig Gleeson", "Sharon Crook", "Robert C. Cannon", "Michael L. Hines", "Guy O. Billings", "Matteo Farinella", "Thomas M. Morse", "Andrew P. Davison", "Subhasis Ray", "Upinder S. Bhalla", "Simon R. Barnes", "Yoana D. Dimitrova", "R. Angus Silver"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>14, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Elements_for_representing_cells_in_NeuroML_Levels_1_3_/514955", "title"=>"Elements for representing cells in NeuroML Levels 1-3.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2010-06-17 01:22:35"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/843922"], "description"=>"<p>Level 1 incorporates MorphML, which allows descriptions of cell structure ranging from single compartment cells to detailed cells based on morphological reconstructions. Metadata describing the provenance of the data (authors, citations, etc.) can be used at this and subsequent Levels. Level 2 builds on Level 1 to specify the passive properties and the location and densities of active conductances on the cell, and includes ChannelML, for description of the membrane processes that generate the electrophysiological behavior of cells. Level 3 contains NetworkML, allowing networks of these neuronal models and their synaptic connections to be described. MorphML, ChannelML and NetworkML can be used in isolation to describe model components, while a Level X file can include any elements from that and any lower Level.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["levels", "neuroml", "channelml"], "article_id"=>514361, "categories"=>["Neuroscience", "Medicine"], "users"=>["Padraig Gleeson", "Sharon Crook", "Robert C. Cannon", "Michael L. Hines", "Guy O. Billings", "Matteo Farinella", "Thomas M. Morse", "Andrew P. Davison", "Subhasis Ray", "Upinder S. Bhalla", "Simon R. Barnes", "Yoana D. Dimitrova", "R. Angus Silver"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>3, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Relationship_between_the_three_Levels_of_NeuroML_and_MorphML_ChannelML_and_NetworkML_/514361", "title"=>"Relationship between the three Levels of NeuroML and MorphML, ChannelML and NetworkML.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2010-06-17 01:12:41"}
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/844268"], "description"=>"<p>(A) A ChannelML file containing a Hodgkin-Huxley type K<sup>+</sup> conductance model, with four instances of a gating mechanism with open and closed states, and the rates of transitions between them. Supporting <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815.s001\" target=\"_blank\">Text S1</a> contains a description of each of the elements contained in this file, and section 10.2 of that document outlines in more detail the equations behind a channel model expressed in ChannelML. (B) A section of a HTML page automatically generated from the ChannelML using an XML Stylesheet (XSL) file. (C) Top: plots of the forward (alpha, black) and reverse (beta, red) transition rates. Bottom: the time constant (tau) of the transition (black) and steady state of the gating variable (inf, red). These views of the contents of the ChannelML file can be generated automatically (e.g. by neuroConstruct) for any valid file.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["channelml", "mappings"], "article_id"=>514699, "categories"=>["Neuroscience", "Medicine"], "users"=>["Padraig Gleeson", "Sharon Crook", "Robert C. Cannon", "Michael L. Hines", "Guy O. Billings", "Matteo Farinella", "Thomas M. Morse", "Andrew P. Davison", "Subhasis Ray", "Upinder S. Bhalla", "Simon R. Barnes", "Yoana D. Dimitrova", "R. Angus Silver"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>2, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_XML_structure_of_a_ChannelML_file_and_mappings_to_text_and_graphs_/514699", "title"=>"XML structure of a ChannelML file and mappings to text and graphs.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2010-06-17 01:18:19"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/845626"], "description"=>"<p>The network is based on the larger network described in Cunningham et al. <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815-Cunningham1\" target=\"_blank\">[16]</a>, and uses five of the cortical cell models converted to NeuroML from Traub et al. <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815-Traub1\" target=\"_blank\">[15]</a>. (A) 20 regular spiking pyramidal cells (RS, blue), 6 fast rhythmic bursting pyramidal cells (FRB, black), 10 low threshold spiking interneurons (LTS, red), 10 axo-axonic interneurons (yellow) and 10 basket cells (brown) placed at random in a cylindrical region. The network contained electrical connections between the cells within each population, along with 4300 excitatory connections of 10 types within and between populations and 3800 inhibitory connections of 12 types (Supporting <a href=\"http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815#pcbi.1000815.s010\" target=\"_blank\">Table S4</a>), but these are not shown. (B) Somatic membrane potential traces from 2 each of RS, FRB and LTS cells (with colors as in (A)) for simulations run on NEURON (top), GENESIS (middle) and MOOSE (bottom). Simulation time step was 0.001 ms.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["neuroml-based", "types", "connected", "synaptic", "connections", "genesis", "moose"], "article_id"=>516054, "categories"=>["Neuroscience", "Medicine"], "users"=>["Padraig Gleeson", "Sharon Crook", "Robert C. Cannon", "Michael L. Hines", "Guy O. Billings", "Matteo Farinella", "Thomas M. Morse", "Andrew P. Davison", "Subhasis Ray", "Upinder S. Bhalla", "Simon R. Barnes", "Yoana D. Dimitrova", "R. Angus Silver"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000815.g010", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>18, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Comparison_of_the_behavior_of_a_NeuroML_based_Layer_2_3_network_model_with_5_cell_types_connected_with_both_electrical_and_chemical_synaptic_connections_run_on_NEURON_GENESIS_and_MOOSE_simulators_/516054", "title"=>"Comparison of the behavior of a NeuroML-based Layer 2/3 network model with 5 cell types connected with both electrical and chemical synaptic connections run on NEURON, GENESIS and MOOSE simulators.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2010-06-17 01:40:54"}
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