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Home / Candlesticks & Candelabra / Fantastic Pair Sterling Silver Gilt, Cast & Chased Candelabra
EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF CAST & CHASED VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA. CHARLES STUART HARRIS, LONDON, 1897. Each on shaped circular spreading base formed of a mingled mass of scroll work, shells, flowers & foliage. The shaft like a striated tree trunk, decorated near the bottom with a knop of owls' heads, above which are two dolphins, seperated by shells, their bodies twisted and their tails standing erect and free from the shaft. Above is a vase shaped candle socket with a circular dish shaped wax pan ornamented on the underside with bulrushes and on the upper side with foliated scrolls, foliage etc. The detachable three branches formed as double scrolls with vase shaped candle sockets and circular drip pans ornamented on the underside with eagles and on the upper side with foliage etc. The complex design of these candelabra incorporating revived baroque and rococo elements was first introduced during the Regency era by silversmiths such as Paul Storr. The most elaborate version of this design, a set of three- seven- and eight-light candelabra dating to 1813, is illustrated in M. Penzer, Paul Storr, 1954, page 164. Exceptional quality and style. Solid silver, not weighted or filled. Weighing over 15 kilo the pair
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Exceptional Quality, Georgian Antique English, Sterling Silver Warwick Wine Cooler. Date 1825
A Very Good Example, Antique English Sterling Silver Georgian Warwick Vase Wine Cooler Complete With The Original Insert & Collar, All Pieces Clearly & Correctly Hallmarked. Made By Waterhouse, Hodson & Co, Date 1825. Measures 10″ High x 12.5″ Wide Over Handles. Weight 3830 Grams = 123 .15 Troy Oz = 135.15 Regular Ounces = Almost 8 1/2 Lbs
Antique Tiffany French Sterling Silver Large Tray. Deco Style
Large, Sterling Silver 2 Handled Deco Style Tray. Retailed By Tiffany Paris. Tray Measures 27″ x 17.80″ Tray Has The French “Mercure” Hallmark With The Number “1” Under The Mercure. It Also Has A Silversmiths Mark Of “SF” Which I Think Is Erroneously Listed As Being Smets & Fournier On The Website Silvercollection.it (A Great Website To Research Hallmarks). I Think The Maker Is Actually Henri Smets & Eugene Fontenay Of Paris. Tray Is Also Engraved “Tiffany & Co France Sterling”. Often Retailers Had Certain Items Made For Them By Different Silversmiths, And Fontenay Was Known To Have Made Jewelry That Was Retailed By Tiffany. Great Quality & Style Tray Centered With A Hand Engraved Monogram EMC. There Are A Couple Of Minor Dings On The Tray, But Barely Noticeable. Tray Weighs 4397 Grams = 141.35 Troy Oz = 155 Regular Ounces = 9.70 Lbs. Most if not all items are antique or used items, and as such nothing is ‘perfect’, but we always will describe any damage, repair, inscriptions, monograms etc to the best of our ability. Please ask any questions BEFORE purchasing All weights & measurements are approximate, but as accurate as possible. Please view all the pictures as they form part of the description. All items are available to inspect, and pick up, at our Manhattan gallery. We do not ship to PO Boxes. We use Fedex Ground shipping, and a signature is required for delivery. Don’t forget we offer free ground shipping anywhere on mainland USA. We ship worldwide. Please contact us for a shipping quote.
14K Gold, Tiffany 12″ Round Tray
Tiffany, 14 Carat Gold Round Tray. 12″ Diameter. Very Good Used Condition. This Is A Solid Gold 14 Carat Tray Weighing 28.18 Troy Oz = 876.50 Grams = 563.60 DWT
Antique English 12pr Fish Knives & Forks. Sterling Silver Handles & Blades. 1904
English, Sterling Silver Hallmarked, Fish Knives & Fish Forks For 12 People. The Handles & Blades On The Knives & The Forks Are All Hallmarked. Knife Is 8.5″ Long. Fork Is 7.5″ Long. 12 Knives & 12 Forks. The firm of Carrington was named after its founder John Bodman Carrington who established his manufacturing business at 130 Regent Street, and was listed as a silversmith, goldsmith and jeweller working from the London premises of the Birmingham silversmiths G.R.Collis & Co. The business was re-styled Carrington & Co in 1880 and the firm specialised in extra strong silver plate for use in restaurants, hotels and ships. By the early 1890s Carrington were advertising themselves as jewellers, diamond merchants, dealers in precious stones and manufacturing silversmiths. At this time the partners were John Carrington, William Carrington Smith and George Bruford. They were awarded the Royal Warrant by Queen Victoria and would go on to gain the warrants of Prince Albert, Edward VII and George V, as well as Nicholas I and II and Queen Alexandra of Russia. In 1893 they created the beautiful Dorset bow brooch for Queen Mary and in 1911 they set the famous Cullinan diamonds numbers III and IV into a brooch/ pendant for her, a jewel now owned by the Queen who affectionately refers to them as ‘Granny’s chips’. John Carrington became Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1903 and retired from his business in 1906 leaving W.C. Smith to continue as sole remaining partner. Carrington co-authored a book ‘The Plate of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths’ which was published shortly before his death in 1926. The firm was eventually bought out by the firm Collingwood. Most if not all items are antique or used items, and as such nothing is ‘perfect’, but we always will describe any damage, repair, inscriptions, monograms etc to the best of our ability. Please ask any questions BEFORE purchasing any item. All weights & measurements are approximate, but as accurate as possible. All items are available to inspect, and pick up, at our Manhattan gallery. We do not ship to PO Boxes. We use Fedex Ground shipping, and a signature is required for delivery. Don’t forget we offer free ground shipping on mainland USA.
Sterling Silver Fish Knives & Forks. Rokoko Pattern. Koch & Bergfeld
Complete Sterling Silver Fish Set For 12 People In The Rokoko Pattern By Koch & Bergfeld Pattern Designed In 1893. 12 Fish Knives Approximately 8.4″ Long . 12 Fish Forks 7″ Long Weight Of 24 Pieces = 39 Troy Oz = 1214 Grams = 42.85 Regular Ounces Fischbesteck für 12 Personen. Material: 925 Sterlingsilber. Form: Rokoko
Rare, Gothic Revival Antique Sterling Silver Tea Set, Victorian, 1852. Joseph Angell
A rare and unusual gothic revival or cathedral style tea and coffee set, made by Joseph Angell, London 1852. The set is in almost pristine, as new, condition. It has an octagonal shaped body, with crisp, hand engraved decoration on body and covers. One panel on each piece has a hand engraved crest, as shown in the pictures. Each piece is hallmarked on the underside, by Joseph Angell, and all have the R date letter for 1852. The tallest piece is the coffee pot, which stands at almost 11.5″ high. The base on the coffee pot is approximately 6.25″ x 6.25″. An absolutely stunning set, in excellent condition, by an excellent silversmith.
CJ Vander English Sterling Silver Fish Knives & Forks For 12 People. Old English
A Set Of English, Sterling Silver, 12 Fish Knives & 12 Fish Forks, With Sterling Silver Handles & Blades. No Filling Or Weighting In The Handles, Means that The One Piece Sterling Handles & Blades Cannot Separate. Made By CJ Vander, The Last Of The British Premier Silversmiths. The Plain, Old English Pattern, Makes It An Easy Match To Most Of The Simpler Patterns. Knife Is 8.5″ Long. Fork Is 7.5″ Long. Both Are Hallmarked On The Rear. 18 Years Old, Dated 2001. Most if not all items are antique or used items, and as such nothing is ‘perfect’, but we always will describe any damage, repair, inscriptions, monograms etc to the best of our ability. Please ask any questions BEFORE purchasing or bidding on any item. All weights & measurements are approximate, but as accurate as possible. Please view all the pictures as they form part of the description. All items are available to inspect, and pick up, at our Manhattan gallery. We do not ship to PO Boxes. We use Fedex Ground shipping, and a signature is required for delivery. Don’t forget we offer free ground shipping anywhere on mainland USA. We ship worldwide. Please contact us for a shipping quote. HISTORY OF CJ VANDER: When in 1886, Cornelius Joshua Vanderpump registered his mark at the London Assay Office, he stepped into the pages of history. Having apprenticed with Martin Goldstein of Macrae and Goldstein, the young apprentice soon showed his skill and in 1886 Joshua acquired the business. He anglicized his name to Vander and the business flourished, numbering many of London’s leading retailers among its customer By 1904, when Joshua died, two of his sons – Henry and Alfred – had joined the business and registered their marks at Goldsmiths Hall. The firm expanded and moved and continued to prosper until the outbreak of World War I. In the post war years, sales again increased and the 1920’s and 30’s saw the business grow not only at home, but also in the USA where C.J. Vander built an impressive export business. Succeeding generations of the Vander family, too, continued to be involved in the company. In 1926, Alfred’s eldest son Norman joined from school and took charge of production. He was soon joined by his cousin Arthur. The gathering storm clouds of war once more appeared on the horizon and there were no silver linings. The company’s premises in Betterton Street were compulsorily purchased in 1938. Alfred died in 1939, and in 1941, enemy action led to the destruction of the greater part of C.J. Vander’s new premises in Fetter Lane. The few employees who had not been called up into the armed forces, were moved to a factory where their skills were used for producing aircraft parts. In the post-war years, rebuilding its business was made all the more difficult by the Government’s imposition of a punitive purchase tax which rose to a peak of 125 percent, decimating the U.K.’s traditional silver industry. Thanks to its existing export business, and the fact that it had become an established dealer in second-hand and antique silver, C.J. Vander was in a stronger position than many of its competitors. The Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company (Garrards) asked C.J. Vander to produce hand-forged flatware from the dies of a unique range of patterns which had belonged to the defunct company, Francis Higgins. C.J. Vander took on some of Higgins’ former craftsmen, who passed on their skills, enabling the firm to keep alive one of the traditional crafts. Richard, Henry’s son, the brother of Arthur, joined in 1949. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 gave fresh impetus to the silver market, and C.J. Vander enjoyed considerable success. In the late 50’s, the firm moved to its present premises in St. Cross Street. Meanwhile, members of the Vander family continued to join and run the business. In 1965, John Vander, Norman’s elder son joined the company. Three years later, Norman’s second son, Robert, followed in his brother’s footsteps and Anthony, Richard’s son, joined in 1981. Today, all the knowledge, skills, dies, patterns, and traditions which C.J. Vander has acquired over the many decades of its existence, culminate in the superbly crafted silverware, sought by discerning customers all over the world. In 1996, C.J. Vander was acquired by Syratech Corporation, owners of the leading silver brands in the USA. Richard and Anthony Vander continue to work in the business. Syratech Sold CJ Vander in 2003 to a management buyout group, and finally, after 120 years, CJ Vander closed their doors forever in 2007.
Sterling Silver Tzedakah Box – Charity Box With Colored Stones. Made By Bier
Sterling Silver Tzedakah Box / Charity Box, Hand Made In Israel By Bier Silversmiths. Six Sided Body With Applied Hebrew Lettering On Front Panel. The Rear Panel Is Blank, And The Other 4 Panels With Colored Stones. The Base Is Round, As Is The Detachable Domed Lid. Very Good, Barely Used Condition. No Inscriptions Or Initials. Base Is 4.5″ Diameter. Height Is 5.5″. ABOUT BIER SILVERSMITHS: The workshop was founded in Jerusalem by the father of the family Yitzchak Bier over 50 years ago. Yitzchak Bier graduated the Bezalel Academy of Art and in establishing the workshop was also establishing a new concept in Judaica Art. There were almost no Jewish silversmiths after the holocaust and there was a need to fill the demand for silver religious items at that time. Yitzchak Bier won a special prize for an extraordinary Chanukah Menorah which he designed. Thus was launched Bier Enterprises. Most Bier designs are original designs of Yitzchak Bier and always taken into account are beauty of form and comfort of use. While over the years many new lines and designs have come to be part of Bier’s repertoire many of the older classic designs remain bestsellers to this day. His sons Mordechai and Meir followed in their father’s footsteps and together ensure excellence and craftsmanship. Everything at Bier Judaica is handmade using different silversmithing techniques: metal cutting, bending, metal spinning, lost wax casting, hammering. The silversmith can create almost every design that is imaginable using these techniques, materials and his knowledge and skills. Bier classic designs make use of bible verses, original decorative lettering and ornaments related to Jewish customs and folklore. Most if not all items are antique or used items, and as such nothing is ‘perfect’, but we always will describe any damage, repair, inscriptions, monograms etc to the best of our ability. Please ask any questions BEFORE purchasing any item. All weights & measurements are approximate, but as accurate as possible. Please view all the pictures as they form part of the description. All items are available to inspect, and pick up, at our Manhattan gallery. We do not ship to PO Boxes. We use Fedex Ground shipping, and a signature is required for delivery. Don’t forget we offer free ground shipping anywhere on mainland USA. We ship worldwide. Please contact us for a shipping quote.
Sterling Silver Tea & Coffee Set With Tray. Exceptional Quality, Georgian Reproduction
An exceptional quality, Georgian reproduction, sterling silver tea & coffee set with tray. The set of typical George III style on pedestal foot with gadroon rims, the tray matching also with an applied gadroon border & readed handles. Set consists of tea pot, coffee pot, covered sugar bowl, waste bowl, creamer, tilting hot water kettle on stand with burner & a large oval 2 handled tray. All sterling silver. The coffee pot, tea pot & tilting kettle with black hardwood handles, true to the Georgian style. Tray is approximately 28.5″ long.
Neoclassical Style Four-Section Mirrored Top Table Plateau / Surtout De Table. 66″ Long.
A highly decorative, neoclassical style, four-section surtout de table / silver plated table top plateau. Total of 66″ in length x 17″ wide. By removing one section the plateau can be shortened to approximately 50″ Originally used in the center of large tables to add importance to the room, can be used under an epergne suite, candelabra suite, or even for food, fruit or flowers. The mirrored top will reflect light back into the room. In the center of a dining table or on a large sideboard, this plateau will really make a statement and complement any style of room.
Royal Husk (Kings Husk) Antique Sterling Silver Set For 18 People. By Chawner Circa 1840
Royal Husk / Kings Husk, Antique English, Sterling Silver, Flatware Set For 18 People, Complete With The Original Antique Silver Handled Knives. The Set Made By The Chawner Family Of Silversmiths London 1840. The Spoons & Forks By Mary Chawner And The Knives Were Made By Thomas Chawner. The Royal Husk Pattern, Is Also Referred To As Kings Husk or Husk Pattern.The Set Is In Very Good Used Condition. 90 Pieces Total, Consisting Of: 18 Table Forks 8.25″ 18 Table Knives 10.6″ (Stainless Blades) 18 Table Spoons 8.75″ 18 Dessert / Salad Forks 6.75″ 18 Dessert Spoons 7″ The knives, originally with steel blades have been replaced at some time with the more practical stainless blades. The Spoons & Forks Weigh A Total Of 5510 Grams = 177 Troy oz = 194.25 Regular Ounces. All items are antique or used items, and as such nothing is ‘perfect’, but we always will describe any damage, repair, inscriptions, monograms etc to the best of our ability. Returns only accepted if not as described. Please ask any questions BEFORE purchasing any item. All items are available to inspect, and pick up, at our Manhattan gallery. The Pattern Was Originally Designed By Paul Storr During The Reign Of George IV, And Dates From About 1820’s. The Outline Shape Is Based On The Kings Pattern, Decorated With A Husk Shell. We Will Be Listing More Of This Pattern, So Check Our Other Ebay Listings CHAWNER & CO.Flatware-making is one of the sub specialties of silversmithing. In the 18th and 19th century the vast majority of spoons and forks were made by specialist “spoon makers” (knives were made by an entirely different tradesman called a cutler). The Chawner family was one of England’s dominant producers of silver flatware in the 19th century. William Chawner II began a seven year spoon-making apprenticeship with the prolific flatware makers William Eley and William Fearn in 1797. He became the third partner of this company in 1808. Seven years later, he set up Chawner & Co. which would become one of the largest producers of silver flatware through the 19th century. When Chawner died in 1834, his widow Mary Chawner registered her own marks and took over with her son-in-law George Adams. Chawner & Co were supplier to the retail houses of Hunt & Roskell, R.& S. Garrard & Co, Elkington & Co. Chawner & Co is renowned not only for quality but the breadth of patterns they offered. Their pattern book from the mid 19th century included 47 patterns, far more than was typical at the time. The company was eventually sold in 1883 to Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater. We Have A Huge Selection Of English Flatware Pieces To Complete Your Antique Set. We Sell Single Pieces Or Entire Sets & Well As Knives. Check Our Ebay Page www.EstateSilver.biz For A Small Selection, Or Feel Free To Visit Our Manhattan Gallery To See Our Entire Inventory.
Four-Section Mirrored Top Table Plateau / Surtout De Table. 66″ Long
A highly decorative four-section surtout de table / silver plated table top plateau. Total of 66″ in length x 17″ wide. By removing one section the plateau can be shortened to approximately 50″ Originally used in the center of large tables to add importance to the room, can be used under an epergne suite, candelabra suite, or even for food, fruit or flowers. The mirrored top will reflect light back into the room. In the center of a dining table or on a large sideboard, this plateau will really make a statement and complement any style of room.
Fantastic Pair Sterling Silver Gilt, Cast & Chased Candelabra: https://estatesilver.com/product/fantastic-pair-sterling-silver-gilt-cast-chased-candelabra/
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Ionizing radiation is any form of electromagnetic radiation that can detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionizing them. Radiation is made up of energetic subatomic particles, atoms moving at high speeds, and electromagnetic waves on the higher spectrum of energy. Due to its nature, radiation cannot be detected by human sense, requiring special instrumentation, and is used in a variety of applications both civilian and military. However, exposure to ionizing radiation results in damage to living tissue or hazardous mutations.
For the real-world effects and nature of ionizing radiation, see Wikipedia. The series relies on retro-50s science, and as such, radiation can trigger stunning mutations, rather than killing outright.
1.1 Nuclear fallout
1.2 Detection
2 Effects on living organisms
2.1 Radiation-induced mutations
4 Behind the scenes
Overview[edit | edit source]
A key product of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, radiation has been one of the primary hazards in the pre-War world, due to the proliferation of nuclear energy as a compact, cheap source of energy. Ionizing radiation of various types was also used in a variety of medical, scientific, and military applications, and its widespread use led to the development of a variety of countermeasures to protect humans from harm, such as Rad-X or RadAway brand anti-radiation medicine. Another problem was loosening of corporate regulations as the Resource Wars grew in intensity, which led to an increase in illegal dumping in various sites across the United States as a way for corporations such as Mass Fusion to increase their bottom line at the expense of the environment and the society.[1][2][3]
Nuclear fallout[edit | edit source]
The global thermonuclear war at the terminal end of the Sino-American War transformed ionizing radiation into a very commonplace risk in the wasteland. Radioactive contamination is the chief delayed effect of nuclear weapons, as it results in the creation of radioactive material with half-lives that range from days to millenia. This is due to the nature of nuclear fission used in the bulk of nuclear weapons during the Great War: When atoms fission they can split in some 40 different ways, producing a mix of about 80 different isotopes. These isotopes vary widely in stability; some are completely stable while others undergo radioactive decay with half-lifes of fractions of a second. The decaying isotopes may themselves form stable or unstable daughter isotopes. The mixture thus quickly becomes even more complex, some 300 different isotopes of 36 elements have been identified in fission products. Furthermore, a significant secondary source is neutron capture by non-radioactive isotopes both within the bomb and in the outside environment.[4]
Fission products initially have a very high level of radiation that declines quickly, as short-lived isotopes decay rapidly, emitting intense radiation, with only a fraction of the isotopes continuing to emit radiation over a longer period of time. However as the intensity of radiation drops, so does the rate of decline. A useful rule-of-thumb is the "rule of sevens". This rule states that for every seven-fold increase in time following a fission detonation (starting at or after 1 hour), the radiation intensity decreases by a factor of 10. Thus after 7 hours, the residual fission radioactivity declines 90%, to one-tenth its level of 1 hour. After 7*7 hours (49 hours, approx. 2 days), the level drops again by 90%. After 7*2 days (2 weeks) it drops a further 90%; and so on for 14 weeks. The rule is accurate to 25% for the first two weeks, and is accurate to a factor of two for the first six months. After 6 months, the rate of decline becomes much more rapid. The rule of sevens corresponds to an approximate t^-1.2 scaling relationship.[4]
The prevalence of radiation in the post-War world is due to fallout, deposited by nuclear explosions. Fission products and irradiated particulate are lifted into the atmosphere by the rising fireball, and whether they are deposited locally or globally depends on the strength of the explosion and its location. At yields of less than 100 kilotons (kT), the fireball does not reach above the troposphere and remains within precipitation regions. As such, nuclear fallout is usually deposited completely within months at the most. Explosions in the megaton range, however, cause the fireball to reach the stratosphere, and thus elevated fallout is carried globally and will continue to be deposited for months or even years. Although most of the short-lived isotopes will decay by then, such long-lived fallout would remain dangerous for a long time. Furthermore, the closer an explosion happens to the ground, the greater the amount of fallout generated. Nuclear weapons that explode close to the ground (groundbursts) will typically elevate a large amount of dirt and other debris into the atmosphere. As soil is not vaporized, but aerosolized by the explosion, this heavy particulate matter tends to deposit within minutes or days, with downwind contamination spreading it across hundreds or even thousands of kilometers depending on weather patterns. Furthermore, neutron radiation absorbed by the soil contributes a secondary source of radiation.[4]
Although the megaton class weapons have been largely retired by 2077, they were replaced with much smaller yield warheads. The yield of a modern strategic warhead was, with few exceptions, typically in the range of 200-750 kT. This reduction in yield results in a much larger proportion of the fallout being deposited in the lower atmosphere, and a much faster and more intense deposition of fallout than had been assumed previously. As such, the reduction in aggregate strategic arsenal yield that occurred when high yield weapons were retired in favor of more numerous lower yield weapons has actually increased the fallout risk.[4]
After the Great War, most of the radiation has decayed to a level that makes the wastelands habitable for the most part. Notable exceptions include heavily irradiated regions like The Glow and the Glowing Sea, where a combination of nuclear strikes, damage to nuclear facilities, and environmental factors caused the natural radioactive decay rate to be greatly reduced. Such secondary cascade radiation has proven to be especially dangerous at the former West Tek research facility, which was known to overwhelm and kill anyone without the proper precautions.[5] The entire region surrounding the Glow was contaminated, as discovered by a Hub trader who tried to explore the region in 2158, only to perish.[6]
Detection[edit | edit source]
A wide variety of tools have been created to monitor the presence and intensity of radiation fields. The Wattz Electronics C-Radz Geiger counter is one of the oldest and most reliable methods,[7] with Geiger counters included by default in later models of Pip-Boy personal information processors issued to Vault dwellers.[8] This functionality was intended for use outside Vaults, as the shielded facility effectively protected against radiation exposure beyond standard background levels.[9]
The standard unit of measurement is a rad, short for Radiation Absorbed Dose, equal to 0.01 Joules per kilogram.[10]
Effects on living organisms[edit | edit source]
A RadAway intravenous bag.
Main article: Mutations and their causes
Radiation is generally deleterious to living organisms. In humans, exposure to radiation almost invariably causes health complications, with their severity depending on the level of exposure. Symptoms include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, violent hemorrhages, loss of hair, teeth,[6] and skin, gastrointestinal bleeding, bloat, diarrhea, and ultimately, death.[11] Even if treated, radiation exposure can also lead to persistent mutations at a genetic level.[12][13][14] Of course, it can also lead to sterility.[15][16] The threat of radiation exposure is particularly severe among the less well-off members of society, especially in segregated societies like Vault City.[17]
For this reason, anti-radiation medicine has advanced greatly before the Great War, leading to the creation of drugs that can briefly increase a body's resistance to ionizing radiation (Rad-X) and remove it from the body by bonding with irradiated particles (RadAway).[18] Diagnostic equipment such as radscanners was also very common, to the point that even frontier towns like Junktown can count on the local doctor having one.[19] In more advanced societies, humans can count on automated medical treatment with AutoDocs and preventative inoculations that bolster their bodies' innate resistance to radiation.[20]
Some have actually weaponized radiation, to create traps and even handheld weapons. Children of the Atom are notorious for their use of radiation weapons, ranging from improvised pistols to automatic rifles and even grenades.[21]
Radiation-induced mutations[edit | edit source]
A rare effect of human exposure to radiation: A ghoul.
The amount of radiation released during the Great War has led to major changes in the biosphere, on top of the devastating climate changes that followed in the wake of civilization's march to nuclear devastation. Its presence has induced widespread mutations in flora and fauna, leading to the emergence of giant versions of regular species. Radiation-induced mutation is behind many of the staples of post-War United States, such as radscorpions, geckos, spore plants, and brahmin.[22][23]
Some humans may also become mutated by radioactive exposure. Although most will die after exposure, a combination of factors can cause them to become ghouls, humans who resemble walking corpses, but cannot die - and in fact enjoy immunity to the deleterious effects of radiation. A majority of ghouls would be little more than shambling corpses, with a minority retaining their faculties. Even they, however, have a chance to become glowing one or growing feral due to the accumulation of radioactive poisoning.[24] Most mutated lifeforms are similarly immune to radiation, but may become "glowing" by accumulating exposure, with a distinct green glow accompanying them, together with a radioactive "cloak" that poisons their surroundings.[25]
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Radiation has a varying effect in the games, ranging from being a marginal issue in Fallout and Fallout 2, due to the general lack of high radiation locations (with a number of exceptions) to a much more robust, involved feature in succeeding games. See below for details:
Radiation (Fallout)
Radiation (Fallout 2)
Radiation (Fallout: New Vegas)
Radiation (Fallout 76)
Radiation (Fallout Tactics)
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
Compared to the real world, radiation is greatly gamified. Nausea and vomiting would appear at around 1000 mSv or 1 Gy (100 Rads). 4000 mSv or 4 Gy (400 Rads) would have a 50% mortality rate within four to six weeks. 6000 mSv or 6 Gy (600 Rads) has a 95% mortality rate within two to four weeks, and 10000 mSv or 10 Gy (1000 Rads) would lead to certain death within two weeks. Naturally, the game abstracts this and kills the player instantly instead.
A full body dose that would instantly fatal would have to amount to several tens of thousands of rads, as even a 30 000 rad exposure could take 48 hours to kill the victim. Consult Wikipedia for details.
↑ Mass Fusion containment shed
↑ Mass Fusion disposal site
↑ Toxic waste dump
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Fallout manual
↑ Tycho: "{154}{}{Watch out for radioactive hot spots. This place obviously sustained a direct nuclear strike, and secondary cascade radiation may be bad. I'd recommend avoiding this place completely if we can.}"
↑ 6.0 6.1 Loxley: "About three years ago, one of the merchants went way down south looking for other towns. He came back all hair and teeth falling out, babbling about some huge span of radiation. Who knows, maybe something special down there before the war."
↑ PRO ITEM.MSG (Fallout): "{5201}{}{A Wattz Electronics C-Radz model Geiger Counter. Detects the presence and strength of radiation fields."
↑ Pip-Boys in Fallout 3, New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 all include a Geiger counter by default.
↑ public announcement system: "Current radiation level - 0 rads, as always."
↑ Jacob: "What do you need a Gieger counter for!? [Laughs] Though it's been 80 years or so since the bombs fell, there's still radiation around, you goof. You can't see it, never could, but it's there. Heck I'm willin' to bet you got some counts on you now. Everyone that lives in the wastes has a few RAD counts."
↑ Radiation poisoning messages in Fallout and Fallout 2: "{1000}{}{You feel very nauseous.}
{1001}{}{You feel very nauseous, and after some mild vomiting, slightly fatigued.}
{1002}{}{You are very fatigued, the vomiting does not stop, and your recovery time is impaired.}
{1003}{}{You are hemorrhaging violently. You are very sick, and your hair is falling out.}
{1004}{}{You are hemorrhaging violently and continuously. The vomitus is stained red from your blood. Your skin is falling off of your bones.}
{1005}{}{There is bleeding from your intestines and you have severe diarrhea. You feel bloated and are in intense agony.}
{1006}{}{You have died from radiation sickness.}"
↑ Charles Curling: "{153}{}{Shouldn't I be? Our research on the villagers clearly shows changes to their DNA. It's a natural result of all the background radiation."
↑ Fallout 2 endings: "Over the next few years, the background radiation from Gecko's power plant began to cause mutations in the Vault City population, forcing the Citizens to relocate to NCR."
↑ Fallout 76 mutations
↑ Chosen One to Phyllis: "{252}{}{You know, background radiation might be resulting in sterility or even worse, chromosomal damage. Might be worth checking out.} "
↑ Myron: "{411}{}{I need some Rad-away before the radiation eats my Gnads-away.}"
↑ Puking Charlie
↑ See respective articles for references.
↑ Morbid: " I have never seen such readings on my radscanner. I think you are about to die. I give you two to three weeks."
↑ Vault City Inoculations
↑ Brahmin description: "{101}{}{The brahmin's extra head is probably the result of a regular cow being exposed too soon to radiation.}"
↑ Vault Dweller: "{145}{}{What do you know about Radscorpions?}"
Razlo: "{153}{}{Not too much. They seem to be extremely large versions of the north American Emperor scorpion. Contrary to my medical knowledge, their poison has grown more potent, not diluted, as I would expect. Seth has been hunting them, which helps some of my tests.}
{154}{}{And how such a large creature can even be possible by natural evolution, or even radiation induced mutation is beyond me."
↑ See the article for sources.
↑ Glowing creatures in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.
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A New Wave of Clinics Are Making Lasers and Injectables More Accessible — and Instagrammable
Is this normal or are we all starting to approach these medical treatments way too casually?
Dhani Mau
Models backstage at Tory Burch Fall 2018. Photo: Imaxtree (Note: This photo is not intended to depict someone who has undergone any of the treatments mentioned in this story.)
"I'll treat you to a little mani-pedi-Botox," is one of many "Sex and the City" quotes that will randomly pop into my head from time to time. (Watching the HBO series non-stop in high school and college apparently did something irreversible to my brain.) But I literally couldn't stop thinking about it in June when I met with Nicci Levy, the founder of Alchemy 43, which aims to become the "Drybar of Botox" by making it easier and more affordable than ever to get a quick hit of injectables at one of her four (with more to come) locations in Los Angeles.
Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) delivers the above line to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) during a season-5 episode, at which point the ever-practical Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) jumps in: "You say that like everybody's doing it." Jones's confidently prophetic response? "Everybody will."
Sixteen years after that episode first aired, Jones's dream of an America in which such medical beauty treatments are as normal as a visit to the nail salon has become reality. Services like Botox, fillers, lip injections and laser treatments that used to be done behind the closed doors of dermatology and plastic surgery offices, and rarely spoken of, are now being done in brightly lit, beautifully decorated storefronts on lunch breaks, and then shared on social media. Sales of Botox alone have risen 800 percent since then.
Photo: @katesomervilleskincare/Instagram
One pioneer of this movement, which seems to be gaining the most steam in Los Angeles right now, was Kate Somerville. The skin-care guru and businesswoman's Melrose Place clinic offers medical aesthetic treatments involving injectables and lasers in conjunction with custom facials in an environment that deliberately feels more like a Hollywood star's glamorous home (there are chandeliers in about every room) than a doctor's office, right next to Alfred Coffee and The Row.
"I helped pioneer paramedical esthetics when I opened the clinic and I always felt that having services like injectables would create more success for us," explains Somerville, who began her career working with doctors and plastic surgeons. "At first, it was difficult because I was paving the way for the first clinic of this kind, but the support and interest in its success has always been extremely positive."
At Kate Somerville, however, the full range of services offered are expensive and marketed as a luxury experience, whereas a new wave of clinics/spas/salons/whatever you want to call them focus on just one category of services and aim to make them accessible to all with a scalable business model.
Nicci Levy in the waiting area in Alchemy 43. Photo: Courtesy
With Alchemy 43, which launched in 2016 but is currently in expansion mode, clients can easily book a last-minute appointment online or even walk in and choose from a menu of quick "microtreatments" that make sticking needles in your face sound like the least medical thing you could do. There's "Hello Bright Eyes," with the description "Say hello to enticing eyes with this simple treatment that kicks tired eyes to the curb," and "Perfect Pout," explained thusly: "Get the lips you've always wanted with this easy, artful treatment." The actual space has all the trappings of millennial Instagram bait: pink walls, neon signs, marble countertops and velvet seating with gold accents.
A treatment room at Alchemy 43. Photo: Courtesy
Levy says she was inspired by Drybar, and how founder Ali Webb took a service that was one part of another experience — getting a haircut at a salon — and created a whole scalable business around it. Levy plans to add 50 locations over the next six years. "Our goal its to be the place consumers think of when they think of getting these things done," she says.
"It's certainly luxurious but very in-and-out; you don't have to have your entire day disrupted," is how she describes the experience. "Not an indulgence, but a ritual — something you do on a routine basis." To encourage those routines, and to make them more accessible, Alchemy 43 offers a $99/month membership program. According to a 2017 report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the average fee for Botox is $385. The membership fee goes towards treatments, which come at a discounted price for members who also get a variety of other perks, like a $100 gift card after three months. So while Alchemy 43's prices aren't inherently cheaper than what you'd find in a doctor's office, the program allows members to effectively pay more gradually, in addition to getting discounts.
Skin Laundry, which you might call the Drybar of facial laser treatments, offers bundle deals to keep prices low and encourage repeat business, and operates out of 20 clean, comfortable, convenient salon-like storefronts throughout the country and even internationally. Soon, it will begin popping up in select department stores like Nordstrom.
It offers a limited menu of just three services: a 15-minute "laser and light" facial for $75, a 30-minute "carbon peel" for $150 and a newly added "ultra fractional" facial with more powerful lasers that promises similar benefits to Fraxel without the downtime for $250. Per the ASPS report, Fraxel costs, on average, $1,114. "I wanted to make medical grade laser solutions that have been tried and tested in doctors' offices for more than 10 years directly accessible to the consumer," explains founder Yen Reis of her inspiration for launching the business. "I didn't understand why such beauty solutions had to be so expensive and so inaccessible to the market."
Inside Skin Laundry. Photo: Courtesy
Skin Laundry's limited menu and the brevity of its services are not only meant to simplify things for clients, but they're also integral to its business model — uniform treatments are easier to scale and keep consistent across many locations — and ability to keep usually-pricy laser services relatively affordable.
In addition to affordability and convenience, this new wave of clinics do something else that most doctors do not: PR and social media marketing. Skin Laundry and Alchemy 43 both offer complimentary services to influencers in the hopes of getting shout-outs; the former has amassed over 40K followers on Instagram while the latter employs a growing group of nine ambassadors who act as evangelists of the business. Given the subject matter, Levy didn't feel that typical pay-for-play influencer partnerships would make sense, and instead looked for "ambassadors who are interested in educating the world about these treatments in their own voice."
Le Jolie Medi Spa, which has two popular Los Angeles locations, more than 30K followers, and just held a pop-up in New York to prep editors and influencers for Fashion Week, was literally designed with Instagram in mind. "The first thing I told my designers when creating Le Jolie was that I wanted my space to be completely Instagramable from every corner," says Co-Founder Brian Nourian. "No matter where a patient takes a photo, from our waiting area with our signature neon pink 'Pick-Me-Ups' sign to our outdoor patio area, the background and ambiance is aesthetically pleasing in every shot."
Outside Le Jolie Medi Spa. Photo: Courtesy
Nourian thinks it's a combination of social media, celebrities like Kylie Jenner (who supposedly stopped using lip fillers recently) and places like those mentioned in this story that are contributing to an overall normalization of medical beauty treatments — and not just among those concerned with reversing signs of aging. "We're able to leverage such platforms like Instagram to broaden our reach and scope, while demystifying the medi spa industry by highlighting our technology, techniques, and expert staff, which helps reduce the intimidation and fear factor often associated with medi spa services," he says. "Absolutely the stigma is gone. We have patients of all ages either coming in for preventative measures or to gain a boost of confidence."
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Each business owner I spoke with said millennials make up a substantial — and growing — portion of their customer base. "We definitely have seen younger clients come in for injectables over the past few years," says Somerville. "It is so much trendier because of social media and people are much more open with what they are getting done."
More than half of Alchemy 43's client base is under 35, and nearly 40 percent were first-time injectable users when they came in. Such is the power in making these services more accessible. "I've enjoyed the on-boarding that we've had with our millennial clients," says Levy. "They're a fun group of users; they have no stigma or shame around these treatments," hence their willingness to talk about them as just another aspect of their self-care routines.
Inside Le Jolie Medi Spa. Photo: Courtesy
The preventative benefits of Botox on the faint forehead lines I've recently developed were emphasized to me during my visit to Alchemy 43, the idea being that it's easier to prevent than reverse wrinkles. While I did not ultimately partake, I did undergo a lengthy consultation, during which I was shown a simulation of what I'd look like with strategic Botox and fillers on a giant 3-D image of my face. After the initial horror of seeing my face that close up in such high resolution subsided, the experience was incredibly convincing. Without pressuring me to do anything or making me feel bad about myself, the friendly, relatable women made their services seem like total no-brainers, and I believed their dedication to achieving natural-looking results. Suddenly, it was easy to see why Botox, cheek fillers and lip injections have become so popular, even among people my age (almost 30) and younger.
But even though an actual doctor was talking to me, and completely willing to answer my questions about side effects, the environment and casualness of our discussion also made it easy to forget that these were medical treatments during which a number of things can go very wrong when done improperly — something that could likely become easier to forget with every subsequent maintenance visit. One of the reasons I opted not to get Botox was essentially the same reason I don't dye my hair — because I could see myself returning again and again (repeat business is integral to all of these clinics' success) each time it wore off, and I'm not sure I'm ready for the commitment.
Levy does seem to be taking the medical aspect of these services seriously, and wants Alchemy 43 to be reliable not just for convenience, but also for safety. She lamented the lack of a nationally recognized certification for injectable practitioners; even those with licenses could have learned the process from a friend or mentor or, in some cases, simply taught themselves. So, she's working on developing the Alchemy Academy, a nationally recognized training and certification program for injectables that includes ongoing training to ensure trainees are kept abreast of advancements in technology and technique.
In most cases, with the types of clinics covered above, the staff is overseen and instructed by a medical doctor, while the person administering the treatment likely is not one. One downside to not having an MD onsite is that there may be no one equipped to treat a client on the off chance something goes wrong.
"When performed properly, these procedures are generally safe; however, how you deal with potential side effects can be the difference between permanent scarring of the skin and proper healing," warns Dr. Joshua Zeichner, director of cosmetic and clinical research at Mount Sinai in New York City. "Injectables like Botox and Dysport must be properly placed to ensure optimal outcomes. Using too much or putting it in the wrong place can mean droopy eyelids or flat eyebrows." Worst-case scenario, if fillers are accidentally injected to a blood vessel, it can block blood flow to your face, which is obviously very bad and would require immediate medical attention.
Another concern is whether the quality of these services suffers in exchange for convenience, affordability, scalability and the profits of the entrepreneurs and investors behind these businesses. The more uniform their services are (see: limited menus), the easier it is to expand and train new employees. For business models like Alchemy 43's and Skin Laundry's to work, they need to treat a lot of people and get them in and out relatively quickly. Thus, you may not get as individualized a treatment as you might in a doctor's office. At Skin Laundry, they administer the same lasers at the same frequency in the same patterns on every client (though clients can request extra "passes" of the lasers). "Lasers and injectables are a very personalized treatment," said Zeichner, diplomatically. "I say that every face is different and should be evaluated by a board-certified dermatologist or plastic surgeon to ensure the optimal outcome."
Ultimately, it's up to us as consumers to be well-informed and not believe everything we see on Instagram. Without calling out any specific businesses, Zeichner admitted he is wary of the way some are shifting attitudes around medical beauty treatments. "These procedures are plastered all over social media and have become household names. I feel that many people approach these medical procedures much too casually," he says. "Cosmetic treatments are much more accessible than they used to be. If it sounds too good to be true, then it likely is."
His advice? Make sure the injector is experienced and board-certified; ask to see before and after photos and don't feel pressured to have the procedure that day. And lastly, "Remember that social media is about creating a narrative and what you see on your telephone may not accurately reflect the experience that the doctor truly has."
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JONES: Sturmay siblings sure causing a stir on provincial curling scene
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Skip Karsten Sturmay shoots during a practice for the 2018 Boston Pizza Cup at Grant Fuhr Agrena in Spruce Grove, Alberta on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Ian Kucerak / Postmedia
They’re big brother and little sister from Leduc who live together just a stone’s throw from the University of Alberta campus.
A curling stone’s throw away. And can Karsten, 22, and Selena Sturmay, 20, ever throw curling stones.
These two college kids, there’s every reason to believe, are on the verge of becoming curling sensations sweeping the nation.
Last year in Spruce Grove, at 21, Karsten became the youngest skip ever to curl in Alberta’s Boston Pizza Cup.
After coming close to upsetting Brendan Bottcher in a 7-6 cliffhanger the night before in the 1-2 game, the three-time Alberta Junior champion won the semifinal and made it to the final.
That’s where Bottcher said enough already, and ended a pretty good story before starting to write his own, making it to the final of the Brier where he lost to reigning world champion Brad Gushue.
Wednesday, Sturmay is considered the only longshot with a chance to make it to Sunday’s final, and possibly pull off an upset over Bottcher and returning three-time Brier winner, two-time world titlist and Olympian Kevin Koe.
Sister Selena just won her first Canadian Junior crown, becoming only the seventh to run the table, winning every game, since 1970, curling with Abby Marks, Kate Goodhelpsen and Paige Papley.
The last skip to do it was Rachel Homan in 2010.
“That felt pretty surreal,” she said.
Edmonton Hall-of-Famer Cathy King was the only other Albertan to do it back in 1978.
Last weekend, the two both won their U-Sports Canada West titles to advance to the national championships with their Golden Bears and Pandas teams.
Over the next couple months, they might as well be living back home with mom and dad, LaVerne and Ross, in Leduc than just off campus.
They’d be closer to the airport.
“I leave on Feb. 14 to go to the World Juniors in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and then fly home on Feb. 24. Then I turn back around and climb on a plane with Karsten on Feb. 27 for a trip to Russia where we’ll both represent Canada at the World Universiade Games.
“Last year was my first year in curling in university, I was able to win nationals and that qualified me for Universiade,” she said. “When we get back from Russia, as a result of both winning our U-Sports West event this past weekend, we’ll both be flying to Fredericton for this year’s University nationals.”
Have broom. Will travel.
Then, of course, there’s the Brier in Brandon … OK, maybe not.
Karsten is just hoping to get to Sunday like last year when he played in both Sportsnet nationally televised Alberta semifinal and final. He’s just hoping he gets a chance to play both Koe and Bottcher at some stage during the week.
“We’ve had the good fortune to play them both at events this year and, although we lost them, we had really good close games.
“As long as we really focus on putting our best performance forward no matter who we are playing, I think the results will speak for themselves. I’m confident my team has the capability to hang in there with the big boys, so I’m really looking forward to this year’s provincials,” he said of Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter and Glen Venance.
Big brother and little sister have both come a long way, practising together and even winning the Alberta championship in mixed-doubles and going to the national championship.
“We both started curling when we were really young. I was six. Selena was five,” said Karsten. “Selena was actually fortunate enough to make it to junior provincials when she was only 12 years old. She played second for our older sister Athena”
“We started out in the Little Rocks program in Leduc,” added Selena, who said she could get a big rock down to the house, “but not by much.”
She won her first Alberta Junior in 2016 and finished fifth at nationals.
“Karsten won in 2015 so we both got to go together to Stratford, Ont., in 2016. It was really cool to be at my first Canadian Junior there with him.
“I think watching him win his three titles really helped me as a player. I learned a lot through his experience,” she said of her brother, who also became the 2018 U-Sports Canadian champion and represented Canada in Universiade 2018.
Together, they both think they can see the future of putting the name Sturmay up in lights in a big way.
“I know I definitely have some pretty high goals and I know Selena does as well,” Karsten said. “I’m her biggest fan and she’s my biggest fan and it would be super cool to both get to the elite level of curling.”
Sturmay and Sturmay are both, obviously, well on their way.
E-mail: tjones@postmedia.com
On Twitter: @ByTerryJones
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When and how to start your preparation for Chinese study in 2017 ?
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For a foreign student wanting to enter a university in China ,it’s very important to make a schedule listing all the things to do and the deadline of them.Normally,schools in China adopt a two-semester system,including an autumn semester and a spring semester.So if you are to apply for a Chinese university,please check out the related information at least half a year earlier.
For either local or international students,the first semester of a year always starts in autumn,usually on the first days of September.In this case,students can start applying for the courses they are interested in as early as late February.About one month later,most of the programs will be open for apply,thus all students could seize the chance to make their decision.Remember, for those most attractive courses or programs,there are not always enough opportunities for everyone.The earlier you submit the application,the better chance you get.
All application can be submitted by the end of July,which is the official deadline for most universities.Students who have already received admission letter need to prepare for a valid passport and Chinese visa for the departure.
Further request for a course can be made after the beginning of a semester,however,it depends on whether there are still vacancies in a university and its regulation.
Spring semester normally begins in late February or early March,which asks the international students to apply for the ideal school in the year before.
Application can be started in late October,and in the following November,most programs are available for students to apply for.Like applying for the autumn semester,vacancies are limited too,so please make sure there are enough positions in the program you plan to take.
When you have received the admission letter(mostly in January),you can start preparing the passport and visa.It’s still possible for one to enter a program after the starting date,as long as there are vacancies in the universities.
Next,we are sharing some basic information about learning Chinese for a beginner,so that you can start the new life in China with more ease.
First step--learn how to greet
Not just for international students,greetings are useful for a tourist too.It’s no doubt that saying ‘ni hao’,a word equivalent to ‘hello’,to some local people can narrow the distance between you at once.For the same reason,you may also need to know how to say ‘thank you’,’bye bye’ and some other greetings in Mandarin Chinese as well.Oh,you must learn how to say the sentence ’chi le ma’(means have you eaten yet).Though weird and may be not understandable to a foreigner,it’s the most authentic way to greet someone in some parts of China!
Apart from the benefit of a better relationship with other locals,handling some greetings can also be regarded as a efficient way to expand your vocabulary.For example, ‘ni hao’ is consist of ‘ni’ and ‘hao’ , which means ‘you’ and ‘good’ respectively. By this way, i’m sure you can master at least dozens of new Chinese characters.
Secondly--value the importance of Pinyin
When it comes to the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese,the first thing comes to one’s mind is always the unfamiliar four tones.Although it’s true,we can not neglect how easy it’s for one to say some Chinese words (despite the accurate use of tones)with the help of Pinyin system.
Pinyin,a great system bridge the gap between foreigners and Chinese language ,makes it possible for anyone to know the pronunciation of Mandarin in the form of Latin alphabet.However , you may still need to spend some time getting used to the correct articulation of the consonants—like ‘Zh,’ ‘Ch’ and ‘J.’
Next,learn some characters
Being able to read a newspaper may require you to acquire a vocabulary of 3000 Chinese characters,so if you want to be a experienced Chinese speaker,this is a difficulty you have to tackle.But just as people say, ‘ a thousand mile journey begins with the first step’, don’t be frightened when face the problem,just work on it step by step.
As a matter of fact,many Chinese characters can be used as a component in another character,which makes acquiring new characters more easily.Additionally,conjugations can not be found in Mandarin Chinese---another encouraging aspect for the Chinese students!
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Which language should I learn,Chinese or French?
Sip a cup of coffee with the beautiful French chanson,enjoying the peaceful view of the Champs Elysees.For some,this is what they imagine the life in France to be.Indeed,speaking fluent French is not regarded a symbol of elegance just these days.Because of the great achievement of Louis XIV,French was once the most welcomed language in the area of diplomacy in Europe.During the same period,China was in Qing dynasty,ruled by KangXi,with whose achievement China topped the list of GDP in those years and provide the world with countless amazing works of art.Besides,as world changes,China has been developing into a country that no one can ignore.It’s quite sure that mastering Chinese may open a door for one who hope for a better tomorrow.Considering the pros and cons,which language should we study?
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List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes
This is a list of all 45 episodes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus:
Originally aired
First in the series
Last in the series
1 13 5 October 1969 11 January 1970
2 13 15 September 1970 22 December 1970
3 13 19 October 1972 18 January 1973
4 6 31 October 1974 5 December 1974
The original air dates do not all apply to BBC Scotland, which took a different approach to airing the series.
Series 1 was broadcast at the same time, except for the last two episodes, which were shown on 2 and 16 January 1970.
Series 2 was broadcast on Sundays from 17 September to 16 January 1971 (not 10 or 17 October 1970).
Series 3 was broadcast on Thursday evenings on BBC1 at 10:15.
Series 4 was broadcast at the same time as the rest, on BBC2.
Series 1Edit
“ It's... ”
1. Whither Canada?Edit
(episode 1; aired 5 October 1969;[1] recorded 7 September 1969)
It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Famous deaths
Italian lesson
Whizzo Butter
A parody of the commercials for Stork SB Margarine.
The word "Whizzo" would be used throughout the series as the title of various companies and products, such as Whizzo's Finest Chocolates produced by the Whizzo Chocolate Company, for the Crunchy Frog sketch of episode six.
"It's the Arts"
Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[2]
Picasso/Cycling Race
The Funniest Joke in the World
2. Sex and ViolenceEdit
(episode 2; aired 12 October 1969; recorded 30 August 1969)
Flying Sheep – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[3]
French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft
A Man with Three Buttocks
A Man with Two Noses
Musical Mice
Marriage Guidance Counsellor – Written by Eric Idle
The Wacky Queen
Working-class playwright
The Wrestling Epilogue – Written by Eric Idle[4]
Real professional wrestlers portrayed a monsignor and a college professor who debate the existence of God by wrestling.
The Mouse Problem – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[5][6][7][8]
3. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way AwayEdit
(episode 3; aired 19 October 1969; recorded 14 September 1969)
This episode had the longest title.
The Larch
Court Scene with Cardinal Richelieu – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[2]
The Larch – Part 2
Bicycle Repair Man – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[2][8]
In a town full of people dressed as Superman a man has the secret identity of "Bicycle Repair Man" with the impressive superpower of being able to repair a bicycle with his own hands. (The sketch ends with the narrator (John Cleese) going on a tirade against communism, which is said to be the precursor to Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.[citation needed])
Children's Stories - Eric Idle starts telling children's stories that become increasingly sexual.
Restaurant Sketch
Seduced Milkmen
The woman is often said to be Carol Cleveland, but it is actually Donna Reading[9], who is uncredited. Cleveland does appear in a version of this sketch in the film And Now for Something Completely Different.
Stolen newsreader
The Horse Chestnut
Children's Interview
Nudge Nudge – Written by Eric Idle[8]
4. Owl Stretching TimeEdit
Owl Stretching Time was a proposed name for the series itself.
Song: "Jerusalem (And did those feet)"
It's a Dog's Life in the Modern Army
Undressing in Public – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[2]
Self Defence Against Fresh Fruit – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[10]
First appearance of the 16-Ton Weight. The 16-Ton Weight would appear in several more episodes including "The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest", "Intermission", and "Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror".
Secret Service Dentists
Many sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel"), who protests rip offs of the British Army's slogan, "It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army"
5. Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th CenturyEdit
BBC-1 began colour broadcasting officially on 15 November 1969. Since September 1969, however, they had been broadcasting colour programmes "unofficially", so while the whole of the first series was broadcast in colour, this episode was the first to be advertised as being in colour (source: Notes taken from BBC videotape operators and transmission managers made at the time). This was also the first episode where John Cleese says the title in a silly voice rather than calmly in his normal voice.
(episode 5; aired 16 November 1969; recorded 3 October 1969)
Confuse-a-Cat – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[8][2]
The Smuggler
A Duck, a Cat and a Lizard (discussion)
Vox Pops on Smuggling
Police Raid
Letters and Vox Pops
Newsreader Arrested
Erotic film
Silly Job Interview – first appeared in How to Irritate People.
Careers Advisory Board
Burglar/Encyclopedia Salesman
6. It's the Arts (or: The BBC Entry to the Zinc Stoat of Budapest)Edit
(episode 6; aired 23 November 1969; recorded 5 November 1969)
Johann Gambolputty [de]
Non-Illegal Robbery
Vox Pops on Burglary
Crunchy Frog (Whizzo Chocolate Company) – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[2]
The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker – Written by Graham Chapman & Eric Idle[6][8][11]
Red Indian in Theatre
Policemen Make Wonderful Friends
A Scotsman on a Horse
Twentieth-Century Vole – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman:[8] A parody of the Hollywood movie industry.
7. You're No Fun AnymoreEdit
(episode 7; aired 30 November 1969; recorded 10 October 1969)
Camel Spotting
You're No Fun Any More
The Audit
Science Fiction Sketch
Man Turns Into Scotsman
Blancmanges Playing Tennis
8. Full Frontal NudityEdit
(episode 8; aired 7 December 1969; recorded 25 November 1969)
Army Protection Racket – Written by John Cleese & Michael Palin[2]
Vox Pops on Full Frontal Nudity
Art Critic – The Place of the Nude
Buying a Bed
Dead Parrot sketch – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[3][8]
The Flasher
Hell's Grannies
The theme song from the James Bond film Thunderball is heard.
This episode repeats a running gag from episode 4: a female cast member delivers a terrible joke, and upon protest from fellow cast members wails "But it's my only line!"
Most sketches in this episode are ended prematurely by Graham Chapman's army character ("The Colonel") from the first sketch, who protests that they are "too silly."
9. The Ant, an IntroductionEdit
(episode 9; aired 14 December 1969; recorded 7 December 1969)
A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Nose
Kilimanjaro Expedition (Double Vision) – Written by John Cleese & Eric Idle[12]
A Man with a Tape Recorder Up His Brother's Nose
Homicidal Barber – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[13][2]
The Lumberjack Song – Written by Michael Palin, Terry Jones & Fred Tomlinson[8]
Letter and Britain's Joke for the Rubber Mac of Zurich Award
Gumby Crooner
The Refreshment Room at Bletchley
Ken Buddha and His Inflatable Knees
Brian Islam and Brucie (animation)
The music is "Banjoreno" by the Dixieland Jug Blowers.
Hunting Film – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[3]
The music to this is "Waltzing trumpets" by Harry Mortimer.
Concludes with "Ding Dong Merrily on High" (possibly due to being broadcast on the 45th anniversary of its publication as a Christmas carol)
10. UntitledEdit
(episode 10; aired 21 December 1969; recorded 30 November 1969)
Walk-on Part in Sketch
Bank Robber in a Lingerie Shop
It's A Tree
Vocational Guidance Counsellor
The larch from episode 3 reappears.
Ron Obvious
The First Man to Jump the Channel
Eating Chichester Cathedral
Tunnelling from Godalming to Java
Splitting a railway carriage with his nose
Running to Mercury
Most time being Underground
Pet Conversions – Written by Graham Chapman[2]
Gorilla Librarian
Letters to Daily Mirror
Biggles and Algy appear on the show for the first time.
This is the first episode not to show an episode title at the beginning of the closing credits.
11. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the BathroomEdit
(episode 11; aired 28 December 1969; recorded 14 December 1969)
Lavatorial Humour
The RPO performs the opening of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the bathroom.
Interruptions
Agatha Christie (Inspector Tiger)
Literary Football Discussion
Features a version of "Men of Harlech" by the Rachel Toovey Bicycle Choir
Undertakers Film
Eighteenth-Century Social Legislation
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomen's Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour – Written by Eric Idle[11]
12. The Naked AntEdit
(episode 12; aired 4 January 1970; recorded 21 December 1969)
Falling From Building
Spectrum – Talking About Things
Visitors From Coventry
Mr. Hilter and the Minehead by-election – Written by John Cleese & Michael Palin[8][14][2]
Silly Voices at the Police station
Upper Class Twit of the Year – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[6][8][2]
Ken Shabby - sketch includes Connie Booth.
How Far Can a Minister Fall?
Nobody Has Anything Else to Say
13. Intermission (or: It's The Arts)Edit
(episode 13; aired 11 January 1970; recorded 4 January 1970)
Short intermission (music: Theme from A Summer Place)
Restaurant Abuse/Cannibalism
Come Back to My Place – Written by Graham Chapman[11]
Me Doctor
Historical Impersonations
Featuring Cardinal Richelieu as Petula Clark; Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring; Florence Nightingale as Brian London; Ivan the Terrible as a sales assistant at Freeman, Hardy and Willis; W. G. Grace as a music box; Napoleon as the R101 disaster; and John the Baptist as Graham Hill
Quiz Programme: "Wishes"
Probe-Around on Crime
Stonehenge and Mr. Attila the Hun
Psychiatry – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[10]
Features "Going to the Zoo" by Tom Paxton, with vocals by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Operating theatre
“ And now for something completely different. ”
1. Face the Press (or: Dinsdale)Edit
(episode 14; aired 15 September 1970; recorded 9 July 1970)
Face the Press
New Cooker Sketch
Tobacconist's (Prostitute Advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[6][8]
La March Futile
Ethel the Frog/Piranha Brothers – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[15]
Introductory music of Ethel the Frog/Piranha Brothers: from Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius
2. The Spanish InquisitionEdit
Man-Powered Flight
The opening sequence appears here.
The Spanish Inquisition – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[8]
Jokes and Novelties Salesman
Tax on Thingy
Vox Pops on Taxation (including a rare piece of meaningful dialogue from the It's Man)
Photos of Uncle Ted
The Spanish Inquisition (continued)
The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights
Julius Caesar on an Aldis lamp
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Morse Code
Smoke signal version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Court Charades
Race Against the Credits (music: Devil's Galop by Charles Williams)
The Spanish Inquisitors (Palin, Jones, and Gilliam) appear 7 times throughout this episode.
3. Déjà Vu (or: Show 5)Edit
(episode 16; aired 29 September 1970; recorded 16 July 1970)
A Bishop Rehearsing
Flying Lessons – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[16]
Hijacked Plane
The Poet Ewan McTeagle
Hand Trees (Animation)
Psychiatrist Milkman
Graham Chapman's character's name changes from Mrs. Ratbag to Mrs. Pim.
This episode introduces a running gag that is used for the next two episodes: A character says, "Walk this way." The character told this responds, "If I could walk that way…" only to be stopped when the first character warns them about finishing the punchline by raising a finger.
4. The Buzz Aldrin Show (or: An Apology)Edit
(episode 17; aired 20 October 1970; recorded 18 September 1970)
Gumby announcement
Architects Sketch – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[17]
How to Recognize a Mason
An apology/Another Gumby announcement
Motor Insurance Sketch
The Peter Gunn Theme by Henry Mancini is prominent.
Living Room on Pavement
A Choice of Viewing
An Interview with a Nude Man
The Bishop…Again?!
Gumby Frog Curse/Another Another Gumby Announcement
Chemist Sketch
An Apology/Words Not to be Used Again
The words shown on the slides are (in the following order): "B*M", "B*TTY", "P*X", "KN*CKERS (twice consecutively)", "W**-W**", and "SEMPRINI".
A Less Naughty Chemist's
A Not At All Naughty Chemist's
Vox Pops on After-shave
Police Constable Pan-Am
Another Apology
Last Gumby announcement (The end)
Cardinal Ximénez makes a cameo appearance in this episode. Additionally, one character says "I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition", but, being played by Michael Palin (as is Cardinal Ximénez), is told to shut up.
The "Walk this way" gag is used again, but this time the punchline is said completely, resulting in the character saying it being taken away by a police constable.
5. Live from the Grill-O-MatEdit
Live From the Grill-o-Mat
The First Item…
Blackmail – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam replaces Terry Jones as the Nude Organist.
Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things
Escape from Film
The Next Item (or dish)…
Continued from the Escape from Film
The Next Item (…Prawn Salad…?)…
Accidents Sketch (Prawn Salad Ltd.)
The Butcher Who is Alternately Rude and Polite
The Last Item (coffee)…
Ken Clean-Air System
On the Bus (end credits)
The "Walk this way" gag is used for the last time, except the words "I" and "walk" are replaced with "we" (since it's a group of people) and "run", respectively.
6. It's a Living (or: School Prizes)Edit
(episode 19; aired 3 November 1970; recorded 10 September 1970)
"It's a Living"
The Time on BBC 1
The opening credits appear here.
School Prize-Giving
"if...." – a film by Mr Dibley
"Rear Window" – a film by Mr Dibley
"Finian's Rainbow" (starring the man from the off-licence)
The Foreign Secretary and Other News
Free Dung from the "Book of the Month" Club
Dead Indian
Timmy Williams interview (a parody of David Frost)
Raymond Luxury Yacht (Throat Wobbler Mangrove interview)
Marriage Registry office
Election Night Special
7. The Attila the Hun ShowEdit
(episode 20; aired 10 November 1970; recorded 2 October 1970)
"The Attila the Hun Show"
Parody of The Debbie Reynolds Show (1969), recreating the opening credits shot for shot and using a knockoff of the theme "With A Little Love" by Mike LeRoy.
The opening sequence appears after this sketch.
Attila the Nun
Secretary of State Striptease
Vox Pops on Political Groupies
Killer Sheep
The News for Parrots
The News for Gibbons
Today in Parliament
The News for Wombats
Attila the Bun
The Idiot in the Rural Society
Test Match Against Iceland
The Epsom Furniture Race
"Spot The Braincell"
A parody of the game show Take Your Pick!, which had been cancelled roughly two years earlier.
8. Archaeology TodayEdit
The opening credits appear here. The foot at the end of the credits stays on screen for an unusually long time and then crumbles into the ground, leading into the next animation.
"Archaeology Today"
Silly Vicar and Leapy Lee
Registrar (wife swap)
Silly doctor sketch (immediately abandoned)
Mr. and Mrs. Git
Roy and Hank Spim – Mosquito hunters
Poofy Judges
Mrs. Thing and Mrs. Entity
Beethoven's Mynah Bird
Colin "Chopper" Mozart (ratcatcher)
Judges (end credits)
9. How to Recognise Different Parts of the BodyEdit
(episode 22; aired 24 November 1970; recorded 25 September 1970)
"How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body"
Bruces sketch – Written by John Cleese & Eric Idle[12][17]
Naughty Bits
The Man who Contradicts People
Camp Square-Bashing
Killer Cars (Animation)
Cut-Price Airline
Batley Townswomen's Guild Presents the First Heart Transplant (Written by Eric Idle)
The First Underwater Production of Measure for Measure
The Death of Mary Queen of Scots
Exploding Penguin on the TV Set – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[11][18]
There's Been a Murder
Sgt. Duckie's Song – Police entry for Eurovision Song Contest
"Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong" (song) – contest winner from Monaco – Written by Graham Chapman & Fred Tomlinson[11][19]
10. Scott of the AntarcticEdit
(episode 23; aired 1 December 1970; recorded 2 July 1970)
French Subtitled Film
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
The opening sequence appears after this sketch, seventeen and a half minutes into the show (out of about thirty).
Conrad Poohs and His Dancing Teeth (Animation)
Fish Licence & The ten feet tall Mayor
Derby Council v. All Blacks Rugby Match (including the tall Mayor)
Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynaecologists
11. How Not to Be SeenEdit
(episode 24; aired 8 December 1970; recorded 23 July 1970)
Conquistador Coffee Campaign
Repeating Groove
Opening sequence appears here.
Ramsay MacDonald Striptease
International Chinese Communist Conspiracy
Crelm Toothpaste / Shrill Petrol
Agatha Christie Sketch (railway timetables)
Mr Neville Shunte-Railroad Playwright
Gavin Millarrrrrrrrr Writes
Film Director/Dentist Martin Curry (teeth)
City Gents Vox Pops
Crackpot Religions Ltd
This sketch contains a religious parody of the game show Sale of the Century, which had just been pitched to British television.
A scene at the end, with crosses that are actually telegraph poles, was cut out but can be seen at the end of the episode when the whole show is repeated.
How Not to Be Seen
Crossing the Atlantic on a Tricycle
Interview in Filing Cabinet
"Yummy Yummy Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy"/Music Time
The end credits appear here.
Monty Python's Flying Circus Again in Thirty Seconds
A recap of the episode.
John Cleese's "And now for something completely different" and the opening sequence have a repeating groove.
This episode featured many famous characters from different episodes including Arthur Name (Nudge Nudge), and Ken Shabby. Terry Gilliam also reprised his role as the nude organist (Blackmail), a character usually played by Terry Jones.
12. SpamEdit
(Episode 25; aired 15 December 1970; recorded 25 June 1970)
"The Black Eagle"
Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook – Written by John Cleese[14]
Court (phrasebook)
Includes another reference to Take Your Pick!, where the prosecutor gongs Alexander Yalt (Michael Palin) for answering "yes" during a series of questions.
World Forum – Communist Quiz
"Ypres 1914" (abandoned) – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[20]
Art Gallery Strikes
"Ypres 1914" – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[20]
Hospital for Over-Actors
Includes a Richard III Ward, due in part to many exaggerations on the character over the years.
Gumby Flower Arranging
Spam – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[21]
13. Royal Episode 13 (or: The Queen Will Be Watching)Edit
(episode 26; aired 22 December 1970; recorded 16 October 1970)
The Queen Will Be Watching
In honour of Her Majesty the Queen, a shortened opening sequence plays "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" in place of "The Liberty Bell".
Coal Mine in Llanddarog Carmarthen
The Man Who Says Things in a Very Roundabout Way
How to Feed a Goldfish
The Man Who Collects Birdwatcher's Eggs
Insurance Sketch
Hospital Run by RSM
Exploding Version of "The Blue Danube"
Girls Boarding School
A Man with a Stoat Through His Head
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Undertakers sketch – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[8][22]
This episode includes a reference to Episode 14: Spiny Norman appears from behind Trafalgar Square and says, "Dinsdale!"
“ And now, ”
In this season (only), the opening sequence begins with a nude organist, John Cleese saying "and now," and the "It's" Man.
1. Whicker's World (or: Njorl's Saga)Edit
(episode 27; aired 19 October 1972; recorded 14 January 1972)
Njorl's Saga/Opening Credits
Multiple Murderer Court Scene
Investigating the body
Njorl's Saga – part II
Njorl's Saga – part II: North Malden?
Njorl's Saga – part II: Invest in Malden?
Phone conversation about the word "Malden" in the saga
Eric Njorl Court Scene (Njorl's Saga – part III)
Stock Exchange Report
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at the Launderette – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[23]
Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion at North Malden – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[23]
Back to the saga...
Njorl's Saga – part IV: Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion visit Sartre in Paris – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[23]
Whicker's World
2. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford PopularEdit
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
The opening sequence follows this sketch.
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
A parody of Blue Peter (which was about to celebrate its 15th anniversary at the time this episode was transmitted).
Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes
Vicar/Salesman
Farming Club
"Life of Tschaikowsky"
Trim-Jeans Theatre
The Fish-Slapping Dance – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[24]
World War II (Animation)
Titanic Sinking
The BBC is Short of Money
SS Mother Goose
It's Man Show
Shown after the closing credits. Lulu and Ringo Starr appear as themselves. This is one of the few times you can hear the man say something besides "It's".
3. The Money ProgrammeEdit
(episode 29; aired 2 November 1972; recorded 4 December 1971)
The Money Programme
Money Song – Written by Eric Idle & John Gould[8]
Erizabeth L
Fraud Film Director Squad[25]
Hands Up (Animation)
Dead Bishop, AKA Church Police or Salvation Fuzz
Jungle Restaurant
Apology for Violence and Nudity
Ken Russell's "Gardening Club"
The Lost World of Roiurama
Six More Minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Argument Skit – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[26]
Hitting on the Head Lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One More Minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus
4. Blood, Devastation, Death, War and HorrorEdit
(episode 30; aired 9 November 1972; recorded 11 December 1971)
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams – Written by Eric Idle[13]
Anagram Quiz
Merchant Banker – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[8][27]
Pantomime Horses
Life and Death Struggles
Househunters
Mary Recruitment Office
Bus Conductor Sketch
The Man Who Makes People Laugh Uncontrollably
Army Captain as Clown
Gestures to Indicate Pauses in a Televised Talk
Neurotic Announcers
The News with Richard Baker (vision only)
The Pantomime Horse is a Secret Agent
Anagrams appear throughout this episode: "Tony M. Nyphot's Flying Risccu" for Monty Python's Flying Circus; "Chamran Knebt" for Merchant Bank, "Mary Recruitment Office" for Army Recruitment Office. The end credits are all in anagrams.
Richard Baker has also done gestures to indicate pauses in the news.
5. The All-England Summarize Proust CompetitionEdit
(episode 31; aired 16 November 1972; recorded 24 April 1972)
Summarize Proust Competition – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[2]
Hairdressers Climb Up Mount Everest
A Magnificent Festering
Our Eamonn
"Party Hints" with Veronica Smalls
Language Laboratory
Travel Agent – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman, Eric Idle[8][2]
Watney's Red Barrel
Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[28]
A running gag throughout this episode is whenever anyone answers the phone, they take off their shoe as if the person on the other end asked their shoe size.
6. The War Against PornographyEdit
(episode 32; aired 23 November 1972; recorded 21 January 1972)
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby Brain Specialist
The catchphrase, "My brain hurts!" is born.
Molluscs – "Live" TV Documentary
Report on the Minister reports
Tuesday Documentary
Children's Story
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The Silliest Interview We've Ever Had
The Silliest Sketch We've Ever Done
7. Salad DaysEdit
(episode 33; aired 30 November 1972; recorded 7 January 1972)
Biggles Dictates a Letter
In some video editions, a technical glitch cuts some of the dialogue; but the complete original does exist.
Climbing the North Face of the Uxbridge Road
Old lady snoopers
TV is Bad For Your Eyes
The Show so Far
Cheese Shop sketch – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[6][8]
Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns
Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
The News with Richard Baker
Seashore Interlude Film
8. The Cycling TourEdit
(episode 34; aired 7 December 1972; recorded 4 May 1972)
Mr. Pither
Mr. Gulliver (who thinks he is Clodagh Rodgers)
Bingo-Crazed Chinese
Not Secret Police
Trotsky / Eartha Kitt
Firing Squad
Eartha Kitt / Edward Heath
Narrow Escape/Credits
Monsters dance to "Jack in the Box"
This episode is the first episode of Flying Circus to feature a full-length story.
This is the first episode that doesn't have a formal opening sequence; instead, a simple caption "The Cycling Tour" appears at the beginning of the episode.
John Tomiczek, Graham Chapman's adopted son, makes a brief non-speaking appearance as an autograph seeker.
The episode was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones with the exception of the last third which was re-written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman.[11] Michael Palin and Terry Jones play only one character each throughout the whole show (although Jones, suffering from amnesia, imagines himself as Clodagh Rogers, Leon Trotsky, Eartha Kitt and Edward Heath).
The music to which Mr. Pither cycles is the Waltz from Act II of Faust by Charles Gounod.
9. The Nude Organist (or: The Nude Man)Edit
(episode 35; aired 14 December 1972; recorded 11 May 1972)
Bomb on Plane
A Naked Man
Ten Seconds of Sex
Housing Project Built by Characters from Nineteenth-century English Literature
M1 Interchange Built by Characters from 'Paradise Lost'
Mystico and Janet – Flats Built by Hypnosis
Mortuary Hour
The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final
The Cheap-Laughs
Bull-fighting
The British Well-Basically Club
Prices on the Planet Algon – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones[2]
Mr. Badger Reads the Credits
10. E. Henry Thripshaw's DiseaseEdit
Tudor Jobs Agency
Pornographic Bookshop
Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers
Silly Disturbances
The Free Repetition of Doubtful Words Sketch
'Is There?'... Life after Death?
The Man Who Says Words in the Wrong Order
Thripshaw's Disease
The footage representing the movie version of Thripshaw's Disease was taken from a 1960 Polish movie Knights of the Teutonic Order.
Silly Noises
Sherry-drinking Vicar
The BBC censored this episode probably more than any other, cutting three sketches (Big Nosed Sculptor, Revolting Cocktails, Wee-Wee Wine Cellar) as well as much of Gilliam's animation.
11. Dennis MooreEdit
(episode 37; aired 4 January 1973; recorded 17 April 1972)
"Boxing Tonight" – Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Dennis Moore – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman,[6] obsessed with stealing lupins for the rural poor
What the Stars Foretell – Written by Michael Palin & Terry Jones (as a parody of the Cleese/Chapman writing style)[6][8]
TV4 or Not TV4 Discussion
Lupins – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[6]
Ideal Loon Exhibition
Dennis Moore Rides Again – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[6]
Redistribution of Wealth – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[6]
12. A Book at BedtimeEdit
(episode 38; aired 11 January 1973; recorded 18 December 1971)
Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)
A Book at Bedtime – "Redgauntlet"
Kamikaze Scotsmen
No Time to Lose
Frontiers of Medicine – Penguins
BBC programme planners
Unexploded Scotsmen
Spot the Looney
Rival Documentaries
Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories
"Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" and "Dad's Doctors, Dad's Pooves and Other Interesting Stories" have been cut out in many versions of this episode.[29] A clip of "Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" has surfaced on YouTube, stated to have been found in Canada by David Morgan. It originates from WNED in Buffalo, New York; an identification card is seen at the beginning of the clip, and a "Support Channel 17" phone number shows up at the bottom of the screen.[30] There is also a clip of the last sketch originating from German network WDR with German subtitles.[31] "Dad's Doctors" has been restored to the iTunes version of the show as well as added to the Netflix streaming video version of the series.
13. Grandstand (or: The British Showbiz Awards)Edit
(episode 39; aired 18 January 1973; recorded 18 May 1972)
This is the second episode without a formal opening sequence.
Thames TV Introduction, with (the real) David Hamilton
"Light Entertainment Awards" with Dickie Attenborough
Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde Sketch
Charwoman
David Niven's Fridge
Pasolini's Film "The Third Test Match"
New Brain from Currys
International Wife-Swapping
Credits of the Year
The moment when the two men are discovered in bed together is John Cleese's last appearance in the series.
The Dirty Vicar Sketch
During the Light Entertainment Awards, Richard Baker briefly appears, saying "Lemon Curry?"
John Cleese was not interested in doing more of the series, so the rest of the troupe decided to do one last, shortened season under the simple banner, Monty Python (although the old full title, Monty Python's Flying Circus, is displayed at the beginning of the opening sequence). Cleese did receive writing credits on some episodes that featured material he'd written for the first draft of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (particularly in the Michael Ellis episode).
1. The Golden Age of BallooningEdit
(episode 40; aired 31 October 1974; recorded 12 October 1974)
This is the third episode without a formal opening sequence.
The Montgolfier Brothers
Montgolfier Brothers in Love (Not with each other, obviously)
The Court of George III
Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Norwegian Party (subtitled)
The Golden Age of Colonic Irrigation
Almost the entire episode was written by Michael Palin himself.
2. Michael EllisEdit
(episode 41; aired 7 November 1974; recorded 19 October 1974)
This is the second episode to feature a full-length story (the others being 'Them/Blancmange' from S1 and 'Cycling Tour' S3). It was mainly written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman with some help from Michael Palin and a little bit from Neil Innes.[11]
The end credits appear immediately after the opening sequence.
Buying an Ant – Written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman[2]
At Home with the Ant and Other Pets
Documentary on Ants
Ant Complaints
Ant Poetry Reading
Toupee Department
Different Endings
3. The Light Entertainment WarEdit
(episode 42; aired 14 November 1974; recorded 26 October 1974)
The Nude Organist and the It's Man appear for the last time, in footage taken from the Dennis Moore episode. Most of the sketches of the episode have a shared theme (World War II) yet no apparent narrative.
Up Your Pavement (the title and announcer call it "Up Your Sidewalk")
Theme music is a variant of "When Does A Dream Begin?" and based very much on the theme tune to Steptoe and Son, a popular BBC sitcom of the time. A little later in this sequence, the Blue Peter theme tune can be heard very briefly. Douglas Adams, who previously wrote for the show, made a brief appearance as a doctor treating a man suffering from lumbago during a small portion of this skit.
RAF Banter
Sketch opens with Terry Jones climbing out of a Hawker Hurricane Mk. I, L1592, now on display at the Science Museum, London.
Trivializing the War
Basingstoke in Westphalia
"Anything Goes" (song)
Film Trailer
Opening titles appear here.
The Public Are Idiots
Programme Titles Conference
The Last Five Miles (8 km) of the M4
Woody and Tinny Words
Show-Jumping
Features Olympic silver medal-winning showjumper Marion Mould (see also Stroller).
"When Does a Dream Begin?" (song)
Written and performed by Neil Innes, singing to Maggie Weston, the Python make-up girl, and future wife of Terry Gilliam.
4. HamletEdit
(episode 43; aired 21 November 1974; recorded 2 November 1974)
Bogus Psychiatrists
Police helmets
Hamlet and Ophelia
Boxing Match Aftermath
Boxing Commentary
Piston Engine (a Bargain)
A Room in Polonius's House
Live from Epsom – Jockey Interviews
Queen Victoria Handicap
5. Mr. NeutronEdit
This is the fourth episode to feature a full-length story ("Them/Blancmange", "Cycling Tour" and "Michael Ellis" being the earlier three).
Opening titles / Post-Box Ceremony
Mr. Neutron
F.E.A.R. / Mr. Neutron Is Missing!
Teddy Salad
Secretary of State and Prime Minister
Mrs. Scum
Teddy Salad Explodes
Mr. Neutron Escapes
End credits appear here.
Conjuring Today
With the exception of "Post-box Ceremony," nearly the entire episode was co-written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones.
6. Party Political BroadcastEdit
(episode 45; aired 5 December 1974; recorded 16 November 1974)
Most Awful Family in Britain – Written by Graham Chapman and Neil Innes[2]
Icelandic Honey Week
Patient Abuse – Written by Graham Chapman and Douglas Adams[32]
Brigadier and Bishop
Appeal on Behalf of Extremely Rich People – Written by Graham Chapman and Neil Innes[2]
The Man Who Finishes Other People's Sentences
The Walking Trees of Dahomey
Batsmen of the Kalahari
Cricket Match (assegais)
BBC News (handovers)
As the episode opens and closes, there are announcements related to the "Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party."
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^ "John Cleese's Personal Best". youtube.com. [Cleese before the sketch:]"There was a sketch young Eric Rutle [Idle] wrote I liked, about theology."
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^ "Donna Reading". IMDb. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^ a b Larsen, Darl (2008). Monty Python's Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, Thoroughly Unillustrated, Absolutely Unauthorized Guide to Possibly All the References : from Arthur "Two-Sheds" Jackson to Zambesi. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 57, 185. ISBN 9780810861312.
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^ "John Cleese Picks the Most Gut-Busting Monty Python Sketches". www.esquire.com.
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Data Science Institute welcomes first cohort of undergraduate summer research fellows
The Data Science Institute Summer Research Program aims to engage students who are interested in data science-related research with Vanderbilt faculty. (Vanderbilt University)
The Vanderbilt Data Science Institute welcomed its first cohort of undergraduate summer research fellows in early June. The Data Science Institute Summer Research Program aims to engage students who are interested in data science-related research with Vanderbilt faculty.
A committee of 15 DSI-affiliated faculty, led by Tom Palmeri, professor of psychology and of ophthalmology and visual sciences, evaluated student research proposals that covered topics in either foundational data science research
; the development, evolution or implementation of data science methods; the application of data science to one or more academic disciplines; or the impact of data on society and its institutions.
Out of more than 30 submitted applications, eight undergraduate students representing diverse academic backgrounds and research interests were awarded fellowships. Four of the students are engineering majors.
The students will engage in 10 weeks of research with their faculty mentors, participate in data science skills workshops and demonstrations, and present their final research at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Fair to be held later this year.
The 2019 Data Science Institute Summer Research Program fellows are:
Joseph DeRose, a rising senior majoring in computer science and mathematics, who will work with Dr. Matt Berger. Their research project will use deep learning to ease the burden of peer review through the development of automated, and semi-automated, machine reading techniques to classify how a cited document is used in a given research article.
Rachel Fan, currently an undeclared sophomore, who will work with Dr. Lauren Gaydosh on a project investigating whether consistent social support can be used to predict risk for metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions that raise the chance of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Machine learning techniques will be applied to data from an ongoing national longitudinal study.
Lingyan Hao, a rising senior majoring in mathematics, who will work with Dr. Ilwoo Lyu on a research project focused around specific characterization of Alzheimer’s disease using biomarkers of the human brain. By applying machine learning methods, they hope to select and generate the most descriptive biomarkers, reproduce outcomes from existing studies, and investigate potential associations with clinical outcomes.
Catherine (Nayeon) Kim, a senior majoring in applied mathematics and English creative writing with minors in philosophy and computer science, who will research the intersection of politics, consumerism and networks. Under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Larson, she will look at the ethical connections between corporate marketing and political campaign propaganda, individual social networks and voting decisions, and the design and modification of tech company algorithms to boost financial gains.
Evan Rothchild, a biomedical engineering senior on the pre-med track, who will work with faculty mentor Dr. Mikail Rubinov. Their research project seeks to develop an intermediate approach to sampling brain networks with complicated constraints and apply the approach to the analysis of existing data. The method will be based on the use of variational autoencoders, a tool for unsupervised learning of complicated data distributions.
Nilai Vemula, a second-year physics major, who will investigate how data science can be used to create models of gene expression networks. He will work with faculty mentor Dr. Mark Magnuson and extend his capabilities to analyze different RNASeq datasets to formulate a gene correlation network. Vemula plans to utilize R scripts and other tools to group genes with similar expression patterns into modules.
Ulysses Yu will examine the perception in machine learning and how it can be utilized effectively and safely in autonomous systems. Under the direction of Dr. Xenofon Koutsoukos, he will investigate performance and robustness of convolutional neural networks used in perception in autonomous systems. Ultimately, the senior computer science major’s project will emphasize robust learning algorithms for investigating how such preceptors perform for previously unseen data.
Xinmeng Zhang, a rising sophomore in computer science, will aim to help health care organizations design management strategies to improve efficiencies of electronic health record (EHR) systems. With faculty mentor Dr. You Chen, the research will leverage audit logs to model a provider’s EHR system utilization behavior and measure relationships of the behavior with the provider’s workload or a patient’s outcome. While EHRs provide high-volume data, the examination of audit log data has seldom been investigated.
Learn more about the Data Science Institute Summer Research Program.
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Old Trafford air space to remain shut during India-NZ clash: ECB tells BCCI
The decision has been taken after consultation with the local authorities here, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has informed the BCCI.
Published by Saima Siddiqui July 9, 2019 | 1:35 pm
Manchester: The Old Trafford stadium has been made a “No Fly Zone” for India’s semifinal clash against New Zealand here Tuesday, an action prompted by a private plane displaying anti-India banners during the team’s league encounter against Sri Lanka in Headingley.
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“We had clearly stated about the breach of security and also raised concerns about the security of our players. Accordingly, ECB has sent a confirmation to CEO Rahul Johri that Old Trafford air space has been turned into a ‘No Fly Zone’ for the day,” a BCCI official, privy to the development, told media on condition of anonymity.
On Saturday, an unnamed private aircraft flew from Bradford zone with banners like “India stop Mob Lynching” and “Justice for Kashmir” over the Headingley air space on a number of occasions during the India-Sri Lanka match.
This left ICC embarrassed as it was the second such breach of security after another aircraft flew with the banner “Justice For Balochistan” during the game between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A number of fans were evicted after a brawl inside the stadium premises, which is believed to have been triggered by the banner’s display.
Despite assurances from West Yorkshire Police that such political slogans will not be allowed as they violate ICC’s code, there was no significant action which forced the global body to express disappointment.
It is learnt that there is no restriction on private aircrafts being hired for publicity purpose. Bradford is a Pakistani-dominated region.
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TV Industry
How TV Animation Works
by Sean Russell
Evolution of TV Image Gallery The extended "cast" of "King of the Hill," a strikingly realistic animated sitcom. Learn more with TV evolution pictures.
Photo courtesy Fox Broadcasting Company
Sitcom star Hank Hill has a lot in common with other TV personalities. His face and voice are well known, he has a loyal fan following, and he occasionally shows up on magazine covers. But unlike other sitcom stars, Hank doesn't require a luxury dressing room, imported bottled water or even air to breathe. Like Fred Flintstone and Homer Simpson before him, Hank is entirely two-dimensional -- an animated cartoon character.
Hank's show "King of the Hill" is part of a general artistic revolution that has shaken up TV animation over the past 15 years. The sophisticated humor and themes on shows like "King of the Hill," "The Simpsons," and "Family Guy" have demonstrated that animation isn't just for kids, or just for Saturday mornings.
As we'll see, these shows are fairly sophisticated from a production standpoint as well. It takes a lot of hard work getting each episode from idea to broadcast. In this article, we'll check in with some of the talented people behind "King of the Hill" to find out how animated TV shows get made.
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Google to invest $390m in data center in Belgium
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Internet search giant Google says it is investing 300 million euros ($390 million) to expand its continental European data center.
Google Inc. said Wednesday it will upgrade the facility in Belgium to meet growing demand for its online services.
The information underpinning Google's services — Internet search requests, Gmail or YouTube — is processed in industrial-scale data centers such as the Belgian plant in St. Ghislain southwest of Brussels.
Google says the center currently has some 120 employees and is one of the most energy-efficient facilities of its kind.
The company, based in Mountain View, California operates other data centers catering for the European market in Ireland and Finland.
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xenofeminism: a politics for alienation – laboria cuboniks (2015)
Laboria Cuboniks (b. 2014) is a xenofeminist collective, spread across five countries and three continents. She seeks to dismantle gender, destroy ‘the family,’ and do away with nature as a guarantor for inegalitarian political positions. Her name is an anagram of ‘Nicolas Bourbaki’, a pseudonym under which a group of largely French mathematicians worked towards an affirmation of abstraction, generality and rigour in mathematics in the early twentieth century. Read an interview HERE.
0x00 Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity. XF constructs a feminism adapted to these realities: a feminism of unprecedented cunning, scale, and vision; a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position. No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique. Our future requires depetrification. XF is not a bid for revolution, but a wager on the long game of history, demanding imagination, dexterity and persistence.
0x01 XF seizes alienation as an impetus to generate new worlds. We are all alienated — but have we ever been otherwise? It is through, and not despite, our alienated condition that we can free ourselves from the muck of
immediacy. Freedom is not a given — and it’s certainly not given by anything ‘natural’. The construction of freedom involves not less but more alienation; alienation is the labour of freedom’s construction. Nothing should be accepted as fixed, permanent, or ‘given’ — neither material conditions nor social forms. XF mutates, navigates and probes every horizon.
Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature’ has nothing to offer us — the queer and trans among us, the differently-abled, as well as those who have suffered discrimination due to pregnancy or duties connected to child-rearing. XF is vehemently anti-naturalist. Essentialist naturalism reeks of theology — the sooner it is exorcised, the better.
0x02 Why is there so little explicit, organized effort to repurpose technologies for progressive gender political ends? XF seeks to strategically deploy existing technologies to re-engineer the world. Serious risks are built into these tools; they are prone to imbalance, abuse, and exploitation of the weak. Rather than pretending to risk nothing, XF advocates the necessary assembly of techno-political interfaces responsive to these risks. Technology isn’t inherently progressive. Its uses are fused with culture in a positive feedback loop that makes linear sequencing, prediction, and absolute caution impossible. Technoscientific innovation must be linked to a collective theoretical and political thinking in which women, queers, and the gender non-conforming play an unparalleled role.
0x03 The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealized. Fed by the market, its rapid growth is offset by bloat, and elegant innovation is surrendered to the buyer, whose stagnant world it decorates. Beyond the noisy clutter of commodified cruft, the ultimate task lies in engineering technologies to combat unequal access to reproductive and pharmacological tools, environmental cataclysm, economic instability, as well as dangerous forms of unpaid/underpaid labour. Gender inequality still characterizes the fields in which our technologies are conceived, built, and legislated for,
while female workers in electronics (to name just one industry) perform some of the worst paid, monotonous and debilitating labour. Such injustice demands structural, machinic and ideological correction.
0x04 Xenofeminism is a rationalism. To claim that reason or rationality is ‘by nature’ a patriarchal enterprise is to concede defeat. It is true that the canonical ‘history of thought’ is dominated by men, and it is male hands we see throttling existing institutions of science and technology. But this is precisely why feminism must be a rationalism — because of this miserable
imbalance, and not despite it. There is no ‘feminine’ rationality, nor is there a ‘masculine’ one. Science is not an expression but a suspension of gender. If today it is dominated by masculine egos, then it is at odds with itself — and this contradiction can be leveraged. Reason, like information, wants to be free, and patriarchy cannot give it freedom. Rationalism must
itself be a feminism. XF marks the point where these claims intersect in a two-way dependency. It names reason as an engine of feminist emancipation, and declares the right of everyone to speak as no one in particular.
0x05 The excess of modesty in feminist agendas of recent decades is not proportionate to the monstrous complexity of our reality, a reality crosshatched with fibre-optic cables, radio and microwaves, oil and gas pipelines, aerial and shipping routes, and the unrelenting, simultaneous execution of millions of communication protocols with every passing millisecond. Systematic thinking and structural analysis have largely fallen by the wayside in favour of admirable, but insufficient struggles, bound to fixed localities and fragmented insurrections. Whilst capitalism is understood as a complex and ever-expanding totality, many would-be emancipatory anti-capitalist projects remain profoundly fearful of transitioning to the universal, resisting big-picture speculative politics by condemning them as necessarily oppressive vectors. Such a false guarantee treats universals as absolute, generating a debilitating disjuncture between the thing we seek to depose and the strategies we advance to depose it.
0x06 Global complexity opens us to urgent cognitive and ethical demands. These are Promethean responsibilities that cannot pass unaddressed. Much of twenty-first century feminism — from the remnants of postmodern identity politics to large swathes of contemporary ecofeminism — struggles to adequately address these challenges in a manner capable of producing substantial and enduring change. Xenofeminism endeavours to face up to these obligations as collective agents capable of transitioning between multiple levels of political, material and conceptual organization.
0x07 We are adamantly synthetic, unsatisfied by analysis alone. XF urges constructive oscillation between description and prescription to mobilize the recursive potential of contemporary technologies upon gender, sexuality and disparities of power. Given that there are a range of gendered challenges specifically relating to life in a digital age — from sexual
harassment via social media, to doxxing, privacy, and the protection of online images — the situation requires a feminism at ease with computation. Today, it is imperative that we develop an ideological infrastructure that both supports and facilitates feminist interventions within connective, networked elements of the contemporary world. Xenofeminism is about more than digital self-defence and freedom from patriarchal networks. We want to cultivate the exercise of positive freedom — freedom-to rather than simply freedom-from — and urge feminists to equip themselves with the skills to
redeploy existing technologies and invent novel cognitive and material tools in the service of common ends.
0x08 The radical opportunities afforded by developing (and alienating) forms of technological mediation should no longer be put to use in the exclusive interests of capital, which, by design, only benefits the few. There are incessantly proliferating tools to be annexed, and although no one can claim their comprehensive accessibility, digital tools have never been more widely available or more sensitive to appropriation than they are today. This is not an elision of the fact that a large amount of the world’s poor is adversely affected by the expanding technological industry (from factory workers labouring under abominable conditions to the Ghanaian villages that have become a repository for the e-waste of the global powers) but an explicit acknowledgement of these conditions as a target for elimination. Just as the invention of the stock market was also the invention of the crash, Xenofeminism knows that technological innovation must equally
anticipate its systemic condition responsively.
0x09 XF rejects illusion and melancholy as political inhibitors. Illusion, as the blind presumption that the weak can prevail over the strong with no strategic coordination, leads to unfulfilled promises and unmarshalled drives. This is a politics that, in wanting so much, ends up building so little. Without the labour of large-scale, collective social organisation, declaring one’s desire for global change is nothing more than wishful thinking. On the other hand, melancholy — so endemic to the left — teaches us that emancipation is an extinct species to be wept over and that blips of negation are the best we can hope for. At its worst, such an attitude generates nothing but political lassitude, and at its best, installs an atmosphere of pervasive despair which too often degenerates into factionalism and petty moralizing. The malady of melancholia only compounds political inertia, and — under the guise of being realistic — relinquishes all hope of calibrating the world otherwise. It is against such maladies that XF innoculates.
0x0A We take politics that exclusively valorize the local in the guise of subverting currents of global abstraction, to be insufficient. To secede from or disavow capitalist machinery will not make it disappear. Likewise, suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded velocities, the call to slow down and scale back, is a possibility available only to the few — a violent particularity of exclusivity — ultimately entailing catastrophe for the many. Refusing to think beyond the microcommunity, to foster connections between fractured insurgencies, to consider how emancipatory tactics can be scaled up for universal implementation, is to remain satisfied with temporary and defensive gestures. XF is an affirmative
creature on the offensive, fiercely insisting on the possibility of large-scale social change for all of our alien kin.
0x0B A sense of the world’s volatility and artificiality seems to have faded from contemporary queer and feminist politics, in favour of a plural but static constellation of gender identities, in whose bleak light equations of the good and the natural are stubbornly restored. While having (perhaps) admirably expanded thresholds of ‘tolerance’, too often we are told to seek
solace in unfreedom, staking claims on being ‘born’ this way, as if offering an excuse with nature’s blessing. All the while, the heteronormative centre chugs on. XF challenges this centrifugal referent, knowing full well that sex and gender are exemplary of the fulcrum between norm and fact, between freedom and compulsion. To tilt the fulcrum in the direction of nature is a defensive concession at best, and a retreat from what makes trans and queer politics more than just a lobby: that it is an arduous assertion of freedom against an order that seemed immutable. Like every myth of the given, a
stable foundation is fabulated for a real world of chaos, violence, and doubt. The ‘given’ is sequestered into the private realm as a certainty, whilst retreating on fronts of public consequences. When the possibility of transition became real and known, the tomb under Nature’s shrine cracked, and new histories — bristling with futures — escaped the old order of ‘sex’.
The disciplinary grid of gender is in no small part an attempt to mend that shattered foundation, and tame the lives that escaped it. The time has now come to tear down this shrine entirely, and not bow down before it in a piteous apology for what little autonomy has been won.
0x0C If ‘cyberspace’ once offered the promise of escaping the strictures of essentialist identity categories, the climate of contemporary social media has swung forcefully in the other direction, and has become a theatre where these prostrations to identity are performed. With these curatorial practices come puritanical rituals of moral maintenance, and these stages are too often overrun with the disavowed pleasures of accusation, shaming, and denunciation. Valuable platforms for connection, organization, and skill-sharing become clogged with obstacles to productive debate positioned as if they are debate. These puritanical politics of shame — which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies — leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption.
0x0D What this shows is that the task of engineering platforms for social emancipation and organization cannot ignore the cultural and semiotic mutations these platforms afford. What requires reengineering are the memetic parasites arousing and coordinating behaviours in ways occluded by their hosts’ self-image; failing this, memes like ‘anonymity’, ‘ethics’,
‘social justice’ and ‘privilege-checking’ host social dynamisms at odds with the often-commendable intentions with which they’re taken up. The task of collective self-mastery requires a hyperstitional manipulation of desire’s puppet-strings, and deployment of semiotic operators over a terrain of highly networked cultural systems. The will will always be corrupted by the memes in which it traffics, but nothing prevents us from instrumentalizing this fact, and calibrating it in view of the ends it desires.
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Section 538 Motions
Drew Carey Documentary
Al Roker Interview
John Stossel Interview
Montel Williams
Days of Federal Prosecution
Civil War Against CCL Began March 31, 2007. That was
ago and still counting
Etrade Closing Lynch IRA
ETrade closing Lynch's IRA because he was "arrested for selling marijuana"
Lynch Loses Appeal in 9th Circuit
Lynch loses in 9th Circuit Court of Appeals but wins a McIntosh hearing September 13, 2018
Supreme Court Denies Justice in Lynch vs USA
Supreme Court Denies hearing Lynch vs USA letting false conviction stand
Lynch Files Section 538 Motion
Charles Lynch files Section 538 motion to end case based on new 2015 Spending Bill
Rorahbacher-Farr Letter to Inspector General
Congressmen Sam Farr and Dana Rorabacher write letter to Inspector General
Lynch Section 538 Motions
USA vs LYNCH
March 3, 2017 Free Federal Public Defenders file Notice and Request for a McIntosh Remand or Relief to end ongoing 10 year Federal Medical Marijuana Prosecution of Charles Lynch.
Appropriations Action Section 538 of 2015 was renumbered to Appropriations Act Section 542 in 2016. The Section expires in April 2017 if not renewed.
February 24, 2015 Charles Lynch filed Appropriations Act, 2015 Section 538 Motion to end his prosecution for operating a medical marijuana dispensary in 2006. The series of Government and Lynch motions follows with most recent first.
SEC. 538. None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
Government files REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR...
UPDATE April 3, 2015
Government files REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S SECTION 538 MOTION WITH FOURTH BRIEF ON CROSS-APPEAL
Last night (April 2, 2015) Federal Prosecutor David Kowal stayed up late into the night and filed the Government's response to Lynch's Sec 538 Motion at 11:07 pm.
Basically Government wants a merits panel to review Lynch's Sec 538 request.
"As set forth above, however, because the truncated, incomplete procedure requested by defendant for resolving the Section 538 issue is inappropriate, imprudent and unfair, defendant’s motion should be referred to the merits panel assigned to resolve these consolidated cross-appeals and the government should be permitted to file its response along with its fourth and final brief."
Prosecutor also reminds us the US Solicitor General has authorized his work:
This is particularly so where, as is the case with the government’s cross-appeal here, the appeal is a government affirmative appeal authorized by the United States Solicitor General.
Government also reminds us that Lynch has stalled the case for years and is now demanding Urgent Motions:
"Moreover, as reflected in the government’s second brief on cross-appeal, the government continually sought prompt resolution of sentencing and other post-trial issues in district court, only to be thwarted by the successful attempts of defendant and the district court to repeatedly continue and delay matters..."
The Government starts tearing the new Sec 538 law apart by stating the following
"Section 538 says nothing about “local laws,” but rather “State laws.”
And finally the Government Prosecutor is feeling confident about his work:
"The government is confident that when this Court reviews the entire briefing and full district court record in this matter that it will reject defendant’s Section 538 claim"
Lynch noted that he 'was tired of being a pawn in this stupid game of legal jeopardy' and that he has not had gainful employment for over two years mostly due to the pending dark cloud case hanging over him for eight years. He said he would continue the fight regardless because our Government is not treating people fairly and the time is NOW for change. Lynch threw out one of his favorite quotes "Just Say NOW! to legalization.
Lynch Files Urgent Motion for Judgement
UPDATE MARCH 23, 2015
UPDATE: March 23, 2015 Lynch's Federal Public Defenders filed an Urgent Motion to the 9th Circuit Court of appeals along with a response to the latest governments last response to Lynch's Sec 538 Motion. Seems that the Section 538 law will expire on September 30 2015. Feds want to delay the case and Lynch wants justice now. Click the buttons below to view the documents.
Government Files Motion for Leave to File Response...
Government Files GOVERNMENT’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S SECTION 538 MOTION WITH FOURTH BRIEF ON CROSS-APPEAL
On March 10, 2015 the Federal Government filed their response to Lynch's Section 538 Motion. The Government wants Lynch's 538 Motion to be reviewed by a 'merits panel'.
"To the government’s knowledge, defendant’s motion is the first appellate filing in the country to invoke Section 538 against the government. To the extent that this Court elects to publish its decision resolving defendant’s motion, that decision will be binding precedent in each of the 12 federal judicial districts in the eight states mentioned in Section 538. This Court has a long tradition of referring such potentially precedent-setting motions to merits panels."
The Government is also seeking to have Judge Wu remanded from the Lynch case:
"...because the government—with the approval of the United States Solicitor General—has sought reassignment to a different district judge for any further proceedings on remand."
The Government wants Lynch's Appeal and Section 538 Motions considered together and says:
"It will also give the government the opportunity for full consideration and briefing of what is essentially a new ground for dismissing its conviction, presented for the first time on appeal by means of a motion."
Finally what the Government is requesting in the Response:
"...For all these reasons, this Court should refer defendant’s motion to the merits panel assigned to hear these consolidated cross-appeals..."
Lynch Files Section 538 Motions
February 24, 2015 Federal Medical Marijuana Defendant Charles Lynch, who's prosecution for operating a city sanctioned medical marijuana facility in California goes into the eighth year, has filed a motion in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals based on the new Federal spending bill which cuts Federal funding for medical marijuana prosecutions in Medical Marijuana states such as California. Lynch's motion asserts that Federal Prosecutors are now in violation of section 538 of the 2015 spending bill by continuing the Federal Prosecution pertaining to Lynch's medical marijuana dispensary. Lynch's motion was filed by his Federal Public Defenders on February 24, 2015.
The motion's page count exceeds the 9th circuit's maximum page length, so a request to file an oversized brief has also been filed. This is interesting because the Federal Public Defenders did not alert the Prosecutors of the motion being filed stating that since they should not be spending any more funds on the case they should not be notified of the motions.
Also In the past few months Lynch's Federal Public Defenders have been trying to work out a deal with the Federal Prosecutors based on the new 2015 laws. Lynch's attorneys offered a now commonly used procedure for non-violent Federal Drug Crimes where the defendant performs some sort of probation and at the end of the probation the defendant's felony record is cleared. The Federal Prosecutors office never officially responded to Lynch's proposal only saying it's highly unlikely a deal would be reached. Based on that Lynch's attorneys decided it was time to file the Section 538 Motion.
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File a complaint against the following Federal Prosecutors in the USA vs Charles Lynch case. Federal Prosecutors may be in violation of Appropriations Act, 2015 Section 538 wasting your Tax Dollars and defendant's lives by continuing the Federal Prosecution Medical Marijuana Defendants such as Charles Lynch. Here are the names of the people who may be in violation of Appropirations Act, 2015 Section 538:
STEPHANIE YONEKURA Acting United States Attorney
ROBERT E. DUGDALE Assistant United States Attorney Chief, Criminal Division
/s/ Jean-Claude André JEAN-CLAUDE ANDRÉ Assistant United States Attorney Chief, Criminal Appeals Section
DAVE KOWAL Assistant United States Attorney Lead attorney in USA vs Charles Lynch
Please file a complaint against them here: http://www.justice.gov/oig/hotline/contact-doj.htm
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Postcards from the field: All you need is a hammock
Monitoring of carbon-rich wetlands a focus at U.N. climate talks
Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+
Kate Evans
Tuesday, 5 Nov 2013
Kaline Rossi spent a month visiting families and interviewing them on the progress of REDD+ initiatives in Brazil.
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Brazil - Late on an Acre afternoon we arrive at a small farmhouse along the newly-paved BR-364 Highway in the Brazilian state’s northwest.
Our planned accommodation has fallen through, so we drop by one of the families the team interviewed three years earlier to ask if we can string up our hammocks on their veranda.
Amy Duchelle:
Researchers returning results on REDD+
The welcome is warm, generous, genuine. “Of course – with pleasure!” says Creusa Braga do Nascimento as she hustles us inside.
“It’s one of the great things about field work,” says Kaline Rossi, a young Brazilian forester who worked with Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS-REDD) baseline study conducted here in Acre in 2010.
“They receive you like family, and they make you feel at home. They don’t have much to eat, but what they have they share – they’re so generous,” she says.
“They have taught me a lot about life.”
Kaline, too, is from Amazonia – but she’s not a country girl. She grew up in Acre’s capital, Rio Branco, several hundred kilometres from here.
“In the city people don’t have much time to care about others, they have their activities, and they don’t really care much about connecting with others.”
“But in the field it’s so different, they really care about you.”
“They always want to talk – about the weather, about politics, about climate change – not in the scientific sense but the environmental changes they have observed – so it’s a great experience to get to know people that we wouldn’t otherwise have any contact with during day-to-day life in the city.”
In 2010, as part of GCS-REDD, Kaline spent a month visiting families and interviewing them on the progress of REDD+ initiatives in Brazil, travelling by road and river to reach the communities. She is one of 71 young, Latin American researchers who have been involved in fieldwork in Brazil and Peru through GCS-REDD.
In addition to household surveys, the scientists also held community meetings where they asked questions about livelihoods, forests, and the local economy to the whole group.
The only thing that you need is a hammock and a towel to have a wash, and that’s enough
Kaline Ross
They also held a meeting just for the women.
“Normally in the whole-community meeting, only the men talk,” she says.
“If we can get just the women together, they tend to be more sincere and clear – and more free to talk about things.
“The women’s meeting was so much fun, women talking with women, telling jokes and stories, drinking juice and eating fruit together,” she says.
“They were really friendly and we had a great relationship with them, and I think that increased the quality of the research.”
One thing that really helped to strengthen the relationship with the communities, Kaline says, is that the scientists promised to come back and share the results of the study with the communities – and they kept their promise.
Reporting research results to REDD+ study area fosters relationships, validates findings
“They need to have answers, they need to see what’s going on, not just feel that they give information and nothing comes of it,” she says.
“At first, people were not so enthusiastic, because they have received many people in their houses – from the government, other researchers – who never returned.
“But once they realised that we were coming back, they trusted us more, and this will be better for researchers in the future.”
Now, Kaline is back in the field again with CIFOR scientist Amy Duchelle for a preliminary visit before the team returns to do the follow up research in September.
In the last of the light, the three of us wash off the day’s dirt in Senhora Braga do Nascimento’s fish pond, trying not to think about anacondas.
Kaline says that for her, working in the field helps her to question what is really important to her.
“In the field, your tablet is not important, or your cell phone, or computer. The only thing that you need is a hammock and a towel to have a wash, and that’s enough,” she says.
“It’s a contrast to the life we live in the city, where you depend on your car, your internet, your air-conditioning, and it’s good to look at yourself sometimes when you’re in the field – to see who you really are.”
Read also Global Comparative Study on REDD+
Topic(s) : Lessons from the Amazon
Keyword(s) : Amazon package
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To save forests, keep an eye on agriculture
World Wildlife Day Quiz
Food and a future: How restored forests help women in Burkina Faso
A new framework helps countries assess whether to cut emissions from forestry or agriculture.
Samuel McGlennon
Friday, 4 Mar 2016
The “land sparing” strategy suggests increasing agricultural yields on this farm could reduce pressure on nearby forests. Ollivier Girard / CIFOR.
Can you trust the numbers?
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Climate change fuelling war, nature shrinks, plus faith for forest restoration
It isn’t too late…but the clock is ticking
The most promising interventions to reduce emissions in tropical forest-rich countries like Indonesia, Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) may not lie in the forest at all.
Instead, those interventions might be right under our noses—in the food on our plates.
This is because, as scientist Sarah Carter puts it, you cannot separate forests and agriculture.
“To look after forests, you have to look hard at agriculture,” said Carter, the lead author of a study on reducing emissions from agriculture, from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
“And agriculture means the food we eat, and how and where it is produced,” she added.
Motivated by this well-evidenced conclusion, Carter and other CIFOR scientists embarked on a pantropical study to canvas and compare the potential emission reductions of interventions in the agricultural and forest sectors.
Scientist:
‘Climate smart’ agricultural practices may not always be climate smart
The study is premised on the concept of “land sparing”, whereby deforestation or other pressure on forest can be either averted—by maximizing agricultural yields to minimize the area of land required—or diverted toward non-forest lands.
“One approach is to intensify agriculture to produce more on existing land, which would mean there would be less need to expand agriculture land into forests,” Carter said.
“The other approach is to expand agriculture into areas other than forests, by rehabilitating degraded pasture lands, for example. This is already quite a focus in international discussions.”
Both of these approaches have long been recognized as not only possible but also necessary to conserve forests while feeding a growing global population.
FARMS OR FORESTS?
A novel aspect of the study is that it encompasses both agricultural and deforestation sources of emissions. The research accounts for the fact that in some countries, agricultural emissions are higher than deforestation emissions.
“You have to look at the balance of emissions from both agriculture and forestry to determine whether you should address agriculture emissions or deforestation emissions in a country,” Carter said.
In the study, Carter and her co-authors quantified potential emission reductions from agriculture-driven deforestation. They found that interventions in just the 20 most promising countries could mitigate almost one-third (1.3 Gt of 4.3 Gt) of these emissions.
It’s widely recognized that agriculture is the main driver of deforestation in tropical countries, but that somehow hasn’t filtered up into national-level project proposals under REDD+
The authors found that a further 1 Gt of direct emissions from agriculture could be mitigated by interventions that make that sector “climate smart”.
Carter and her co-authors wanted to make it as easy as possible to find spaces to reduce emissions in developing countries. In what is another novel contribution of the study, they developed a framework to guide each country in deciding whether the agriculture or forest sector might offer the biggest reductions.
The framework adds further nuance through a set of filters designed to help policymakers assess other important factors in the quest for emissions reductions.
Q&A in Doha:
Meeting food needs while protecting forests
One factor is the relative food security of the country where an intervention could be made.
“In countries with high food insecurity, such as the DRC, you would need to be careful if you were looking to make interventions that are going to affect the agricultural sector and potentially affect livelihoods,” Carter says.
“On the other hand, in countries with low food insecurity, like Argentina and Indonesia, it might be easier to go ahead with agricultural interventions.”
Another factor is whether the country has a supportive environment for interventions, using good governance as a proxy.
SEEING REDD+
Governance is particularly important given the study’s suggestion that agricultural interventions be given more national and international prominence under the REDD+ framework.
REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is an ongoing international effort to develop and fund projects for reducing emissions related to forests in developing countries.
The framework was agreed upon in mid-2015, after a decade of negotiations, just in time for the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) climate negotiations in Paris.
Under REDD+, countries propose projects and generate verifiable “credits” from avoided emissions, which are then purchased to offset emissions incurred elsewhere.
Surrounded by agriculture, mines and villages:
Today’s forests are part of the ‘landscape mosaic’
“It’s widely recognized that agriculture is the main driver of deforestation in tropical countries, but that somehow hasn’t filtered up into national-level project proposals under REDD+,” said Carter.
“The vast majority of proposed REDD+ projects are still focused on the forest sector, neglecting the agricultural sector. So there’s obviously a kind of mismatch right now.”
Carter is optimistic that this readjustment will eventually be made.
“Maybe it’s something that is going to grow in the future, and hopefully the findings from this study and other studies will really highlight the need to include agricultural interventions in REDD+,” she said.
To truly protect forests, the findings suggest, researchers and policymakers must all be willing to acknowledge and intervene in the broader landscape of which they are a part, a landscape that—perhaps most crucially—includes agriculture.
In other words, there’s a need to see not just the forest for the trees, but also the landscape for the forest.
Read also Mitigation of agriculture emissions in the tropics: comparing forest land-sparing options at the national level
This research forms part of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, which is supported by CGIAR Fund Donors.
Topic(s) : REDD+ Food security Food & diets
Keyword(s) : agriculture carbon emissions drivers of deforesation food security land sparing REDD+ Sarah Carter
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SAM COSTA
BBC Radio 1 England, 4 April 1968 9.00
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A Must-Read Watergate Book
“The system worked,” Carl Bernstein’s famous assessment of Watergate, turns out to be completely wrong. Powerful new evidence reveals that in the most consequential scandal in American history, virtually nothing worked as intended. The real Watergate scandal is how our Constitution and Bill of Rights were deliberately trashed in the successful effort to realign political power, drive President Nixon from office, and imprison his senior aides.
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Kruize Pinkins (Hebeisen White Wings) I’m Just Playing Basketball And Scoring Is Coming Along With The Flow Of The Game
Kruize Pinkins is a 23 year old 201cm forward from Marianna, Florida that is playing his second professional season with the Hebeisen White Wings. He started his basketball career at Chipola (JUCO). He then played at USF (NCAA) from 2013-2015 and as a senior played 32 games averaging 13.9ppg, 5.5rpg, 1.4apg, FGP: 52.1%, 3PT: 39.0%, FT: 65.0%. As a rookie last season with the Hebeisen White Wings he played : 29 games averaging 13.1ppg, Reb-3(9.1rpg), 1.1apg, FGP: 49.8%, 3PT: 20.8%, FT: 68.9%He spoke to German Hoops after the satisfying 74-68 win at home
Kruize congrats on the big 74-68 win at home. After the embarrassing 71-63 loss last weekend in Essen was the team especially focused to get back into the win column?
Yes we knew we let one slip away on the road and Essen. That was a learning point for us that we can’t take any game for granted. So we came in more focused from the start.
Gotha had the tight 38-37 advantage at halftime as no team was able to lead by more than three points. Was the first half a good old fashioned battle and why couldn´t any team break away?
Yes it was a battle throughout the whole game but we knew it would be a battle, because Gotha is a good team.
Gotha led 59-53 after three quarters and was able to break away a bit. What adjustments were they able to make to get away somewhat.
I wouldn’t say it was so much of adjustments. We had a few defensive stops in a row but we turned the ball over a few times and they were able to score off those turnovers
In the fourth quarter the Hebeisen White Wings clamped down on defense allowing only nine points and scoring 21 points. How big was it for the team getting to the line and what adjustments did you make on the defensive end to preserve the win?
We talk about defense every day in practice and everyone knows anybody can play defensive for the first 3 quarters but it’s the 4th quarter were it gets tough. We knew that whoever stepped it up on defensive side would have the better chance of pulling away. We were also more aggressive on getting to the basket and drawing fouls and that played in our favor also.
The Hebeisen White Wings are 3-3 now whereas last season they started 0-5. Why has the team started so much better this season than last season?
Last year it was tough because we had a lot of different guys come and go. This year we weve been together since August so that’s definitely an advantage from last years start.
This season the club also seems to have a new type of identity on the defensive end. What has been the secret to giving up only 71 points through five games?
Last year I feel like we were also good defensively throughout the season it’s just the way that coach wants us to play defensively. I do feel like we are getting better on defense each week
German Till Joschka Joenke has made a big step and secured the point guard position. He has always been talented, but what has been key in his rapid development in the early stage of the season?
He just plays hard and competes every night that he is on the court. He is not going to let anyone play harder than him and that’s why he has been successful and he is being more of a leader.
Eugene Harris is one of those guys that can always get going. Do you feel like his time is still going to happen this season?
He has been playing great for us. He can get hot at any moment. I’m not worried about him I know he is going to bring it every game!
Head coach Simon Cote had a tough first season with the club, but still finished strong. How has he matured from last season and how has his coaching helped the team best this season?
He just works so hard, he is always thinking about the team and what he can do better in order for us to be successful. We see how much he cares about us and that plays a big role in how a team plays. If your coach is a jerk your not going to go out and play your heart out . With Simon it’s the total opposite, he is a great guy and that makes us want to go all out every night.
After your four point performance last weekend against the ETB Wohnbau Baskets, how annoyed were you and did you go into the Gotha game with a chip on your shoulder?
No not at all, everyone has bad games that Essen game wasn’t even on my mind. I just went into the Gotha game thinking we needed to get a win.
You are more of a scoring beast this season despite the team having many scoring options. Do you have to score more this season or has the increased scoring come with the flow of the game?
I’m just playing basketball, the scoring is just coming along with the flow of the game.
You have stated in the last interview that you wanted to work more on your three last summer. So far this season you have only attempted five shots from downtown. Is your three a part of your game that will be used more in time as the season moves along?
Shots haven’t fallen but I’ll continue to take some. So yeah.
After your strong rookie season last year, do you feel ready to make the next step this season as a top Pro A player?
I’m not really concerned about being a top pro A player I know what I’m capable of. I’m more concerned on winning games to make the playoffs and compete for a championship the rest will take care of itself
Kevin Garnett has retired. Where do you see his legacy in comparison to the all-time best power forwards in the NBA?
KG is a top 5 all-time power forward. Just his passion for the game itself was amazing to watch I’m glad I got to watch him growing up. The game is really going to miss him.
What was then last movie that you saw?
Cheaper by the Dozen.
Thanks Kruize for the chat.
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Editing and Customization »
Classic N64 Soundtrack
Author Topic: Classic N64 Soundtrack (Read 5367 times)
CptLima
Using the readme from the soundtrack download, I figured out how to add all of the original N64 soundtrack .mp3s that I had. I went through each level, and customized the soundtrack, mixing the GE:Source music and the N64 original versions - the result is awesome!
If anyone wants a real "classic" experience, I highly recommend trying this out. I used a mix of GE:Source tracks and N64 for all of the new/reimagined maps, but for the "Classic" maps, I exclusively used appropriate N64 tracks for each level, including the old "Multiplayer 1, 2, 3" songs for Complex/Library, etc. - it's a great, nostalgic experience, and it's awesome how the team has allowed this level of customization.
RogerMooreSucks
Re: Classic N64 Soundtrack
Quote from: WFCxLima on October 28, 2016, 07:28:13 pm
Everyone has known this for years and secondly, the team didn't allow that type of customization, you can thank the source engine for that.
Troy, get back on that treadmill
Entropy-Soldier
It's been a long time since it was implemented, so I can see how you'd think it was a default engine feature. However, the music system itself is not a source engine feature so it's hard to think the ability to customize the tracks wasn't a deliberate choice on the part of the GE:S dev who set that system up.
Anyway, it's awesome that people like WFCxLima are taking advantage of it! Be sure to let us know of any other neat stuff you use our systems for, WFCxLima, because we love to hear stuff like this.
"By reading this, you’ve done more than you can imagine." - Adrian
I just think it's awesome that you get to do that, whether it's built in or not - taking the old songs and throwing them onto the redesigned / re-tweaked maps is great, and I don't think a lot of the people who are new to the game like myself realize that you can do that. I know I had to show a couple of friends how to do it and they likewise thought it was great, but never thought to do it since they started playing a couple months back.
ctrl_room57
I would not be mad at all if you shared those mp3s on a Dropbox ha!
#goldeneye4lyfe
LFGdating.com
All are available online, especially via YouTube.
There are recently made available "uncompressed" versions of some songs also out there, although for me nothing beats the nostalgia of playing this mod with the original songs.
I customized each and every level so 5-6 original songs that I felt "go with" it play, but I also mixed in the new/remixed stuff since a lot of it is incredibly well done (especially the various Silo themes). I even tossed in a couple of my favorite Perfect Dark songs on some levels to mix it up. The only exception is the "Classic" versions of levels (Temple, Complex, Library, Facility, Archives, Bunker); for each of those I only use the original N64 songs since I feel they match the old-school level design better.
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Forums > Life > Speaker's Corner >
Peterborough by-election June 6th
Discussion in 'Speaker's Corner' started by BowdonUK, Jun 2, 2019.
StriderX
Something odd like reading the daily mail and calling it journalism.
Tony Edwards
Police have to investigate it if it has been reported. Just like the Jo Brand nonsense.
Its hardly likely they are doing it off their own backs because of evidence if the only evidence is someone saying.
the sight of people photographing their completed ballot papers was something they had only ever seen in Kazakhstan ‘many years ago’.
I mean Christ. Farage seems perfectly fine with all the dodgy shenanigans from the brexit lot but cries like a baby after any hint of wrong doing based on flimsy accusations.
Although TBH if I was a brexiter I would be unhappy with only losing by 683, but then again most of them dont seem very happy with anything anyway.
Is this an appropriate time to say "You lost get over it"? Hopefully nothing will come from it as voting fraud is wrong in every way.
robgmun said: ↑
mmm..... something odd is going on down there. Something I'm definitely keeping an eye on
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-warn-Labours-election-win-Peterborough.html
So I'm curious if you read the actual report instead of the partisan spin put on it by a well known 'newspaper' (and i put newspaper in quotations as i don't really consider the DailyMail to be one).
Director of Democracy Volunteers said:
Today saw an excellently run polling day by staff and we want to congratulate them for this. However, we would like to draw attention to the concerning practice of voters taking photos of their ballot for dissemination, which is clearly a breach of the secret ballot.
‘One can only speculate as to why some voters feel the need to do this, although this can, in some cases, be by inducement.’
The Representation of the People’s Act states it is an offence to “directly or indirectly induce a voter to display his ballot paper after he has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for whom he has or has not voted”.
That hardly seems like "another rotten borough" as Farage characterised it and it doesn't even relate to the postal voting system that Farage railed against.
(now i need to go and wash my brain as it's been polluted by having to read a so called newspaper).
Tony Edwards said: ↑
Police have to investigate it if it has been reported.
Why do they? They've not investigated the suspected criminal involvement in the 2016 referendum and that was far more important and almost 3 years ago.
MatteH Oxford
The vote rigging story happens to be in the Times newspaper too, it goes into a lot more detail regarding Mahmood's shady past. The man should be nowhere near any election.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...AVGekPhOddtPvduislujX2C2ubcvBpIX0TR9-C97qELcI
robgmun
There was also a piece on LBC just now and I highly recommend listening to the catch-up if you missed it.
VincentHanna
MatteH Oxford said: ↑
The man should be nowhere near any election.
According to the Labour party, he wasn't.
BowdonUK
Theres always been vote rigging in certain areas. But its unPC to talk about it.
If anti-BP/Farage people are throwing milkshakes on people then its not hard to believe that a few votes should go missing here and there.
I think the more serious aspect of this is that the validity of the democratic process is coming in to question.
The validity of the democratic process came into question almost 3 years ago, where was the outrage when all that was going on?
BowdonUK said: ↑
I'm happy for a dictatorship if you are.
Murphy said: ↑
There as been questions going back before the EU referendum, and before the Scottish Independance referendum. It's just whoever loses gets drowned out by whoever wins.
Wasn't there a council in London that had to be directly controlled by the government because of the level of corruption and vote rigging going on? It might be Tower Hamlets that I'm thinking of.
StriderX said: ↑
I'm not the one vote rigging, so no. The dictatorship idea is a fraud. "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely".
DarkHorizon472
That’s the point, when Farage got the referendum result he campaigned for with numerous electoral irregularities it was the will of the people and cannot be ignored. When he lost in Peterborough it is a rotten borough and needs to be investigated to be rerun. This is simple flag waving, choosing a side and sticking to it whatever that side does to keep the faithful enraged. Once people stop to think rather than emotionally reacting any form of election irregularities are anti democratic, the side is irrelevant.
Indeed, the Brexit party is accepting illegal foreign donations so absolutely needs to be investigated
DarkHorizon472 said: ↑
He's the not one making the claims, he's reacting to the news.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9306339/nigel-farage-peterborough-by-election/
According to this he is and this.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/to...out-peterborough-by-election-result-1-6109042
And many other reports, it is not a position any rational person would defend, irregularities in the referendum mean nothing but irregularities in Peterborough mean it is a rotten borough leading to the election being run again.
So he's not accepting the will of the people, and instead is intent on betraying democracy?
Surely saboteurs like him need crushing like the enemies of the people they are?
It's all so confusing when your need to have your bigotry indulged weds you to supporting inconsistent shysters like Farage.
And when claims, even evidence came to light, of Russian interference and criminal activity in the EU referendum how did he react then?
D.P. said: ↑
I thought it was being investigated?
ron3003
Location: Skegness
Already has been, just were warned there was a risk of receiving dodgy donations via Paypal AFAIK
ron3003 said: ↑
A high and ongoing risk of breaking electoral law was the way the Electoral commission framed its concern.
Its structure leaves it open to receiving illegal contributions.
Given the serious investigation into Aron Banks and Farage's own past failure to declare significant contributions from Bank's; failure here is at best severe incompetence or at worst, given the history, it demonstrates a somewhat cavalier attitude to the law, unless of course its a political opponent where it's guilty before any charge and clearly a hanging offense.
Strangely the initial report from the group which was monitoring the election bares little relationship to Nigel Farage's statements.
The photographing of ballot papers was likely to be so the voter can prove the way they voted and receive payment. There have been several reports of people being approached on their doorstep and offered money to vote for Labour.
Tariq Mahmood, who has previously been jailed for election fraud over postal votes, was campaigning for the Labour candidate. There was an increase in the number of postal votes during this election.
There was evidence of considerable 'family voting' as stated by the observers.
The result in Peterborough is questionable at best.
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To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 14 March 1803
From Thomas Munroe
Washington 14th. March 1803
I recd., on the 10th Instant, the Letter which you did me the honor to write from Colo Wrens on the 7th—We are proceeding with diligence in our operations on Pennsylvania Avenue according to your directions. It seems to be a very general opinion here that without the trees are boxed, or otherwise protected from the horses and cattle a great many, if not all of them will be bark’d and destroyed—several instances have been pointed out to me where they were planted last year, and all destroyed—A man near the Avenue says he had twenty or thirty destroyed by a neighbours horse in one night—I should not myself suppose that we should lose more in that way than we could easily replace—Do you, Sir, think that a coat of white-wash, which I am told they give to the young trees in the English Deer parks would have any good effect, or be adviseable as a protection against cattle? A person who thinks boxing absolutely necessary says each tree will cost One dollar, when compleated, that is, the tree itself, planting, boxing, painting the box, and doing every thing else relating to it.—
The Stakes to tie the trees to, which it is said will probably cost nearly as much as the trees, wou’d as is said, be unnecessary, if boxes were used, but the expense of boxing would I imagine be at least double.—
Dr Thornton, Mr King and myself have conversed on the manner of laying off the lines and planting the trees—The threekey modes illustrated by the enclosed sections were suggested—I mentioned the plan No. 3 as the one which I believed you had designed, and would, I thought, adopt, but as no inconvenience would arise from the delay of submitting the other two plans to you I got Mr King to make the sketch—The row on each side the footways nearest the Houses1 which we are proceeding in will at all events be right and conformable to either plan—I shall get the trees from Mount Vernon, and Genl Masons Island & I expect from the samples I have seen, they will be of a good size, price twelve & a half Cents each. Gen Mason is one of those who think they will not do without boxes.
I have just recd the enclosed letter from the Committee Appointed at a meeting of the Contributors to the Theatre contemplated to be built here, They are very anxious, on Acct. of the building season having arrived, to receive an answer so soon as the convenience of the President and the important subjects of his consideration will admit—The spot solicited is that coloured yellow in the space called “Bank square” in the sketch herewith sent.—Perhaps part of the public ground on the south side of the Avenue nearly opposite would suit as well, or better as a grant of the site asked for may be objectionable2 on the ground of its having been generally supposed to be designed3 for another purpose.—I have taken the liberty of forwarding herewith a plan of the City as it is possible you might not have one at Monticello.
I Have the Honor to be with perfect respect & Consideration Sir, Yr mo Ob Servt
Thomas Munroe
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 Mch. and so recorded in SJL. Dft (DNA: RG 42, LRDLS). Enclosures: (1) Nicholas King to Munroe, Surveyor’s Office, 12 Mch. 1803, enclosing four section drawings of Pennsylvania Avenue for the president, so that “his decision may be obtained on the distances to be observed in setting out the lines of trees between the Presidents House & Capitol”; section No. 1 shows the avenue in its current state, without trees, labeling the present gravel road, six-foot wide stone pavements, and ditches; section No. 2 shows the landscape plan considered “when Dr. Thornton was with us,” which divides the avenue into two 33-foot carriage ways bisected with a 30-foot gravel carriage and horse way down the center; two double rows of trees separate the center way from the carriage ways, while a single row of trees separates the carriage ways from 13-foot brick pavements on each side of the avenue; King’s objections to this plan include both the number of trees and the number of carriage ways, “none of them wide enough to permit a great intercourse—and allow a facility of turning”; section No. 3 includes a single, 80-foot carriage way with a 10-foot gravel foot way on either side flanked by double rows of trees 12 feet apart; in this plan, King believes that the width of the carriage way is more proportional to the avenue and that the two rows of trees on each side “will give a greater strength of coloring, and afford more shade”; the gravel foot way would be used by pedestrians passing a considerable distance along the avenue, although King adds that “the absolute necessity of such a walk may be doubted”; section No. 4 is similar to section No. 2, except that the two carriage ways have been widened to 47 feet and the central way narrowed into a 15-foot gravel horse way shaded by two single rows of trees planted 18 feet apart; King notes that this removes the great objection to section No. 2, namely the narrowness of the carriage ways, although planting trees at present “would injure the existing road, and make it too narrow for Carriages to turn in”; King has commenced running lines on each side of Pennsylvania Avenue, nearest the houses, so “that the work may be progressing until the Presidents determination on the most proper distances for the interior rows is known” (RC in DLC; addressed: “Thos. Munroe Esq. Superintendent of the City of Washington”; note by TJ in margin to the right of section No. 2: “adopted. but leaving out the 2 middle rows of trees”). (2) Daniel Carroll and others to Munroe, Washington, 14 Mch. 1803, stating that at a 12 Mch. meeting to raise a subscription for erecting a theater in Washington, a committee was formed to enquire if Munroe could allot them “a part of the Square, usually known by the appellation of a site for the Bank on Pennsylvania Avenue, or some other public Square as near the centre Market as possible”; the committee are informed that the desired square “is not a fixed appropriation” and that if a bank is ever established there, “the remainder, after granting our request, will be amply sufficient for the purpose”; in a postscript, the committee ask that their request be communicated to the president if Munroe does not think himself authorized to grant it (same; in an unidentified hand, signed by Carroll, John P. Van Ness, William Duane, W. M. Duncanson, and William Brent; addressed “Thomas Munroe Esq Superintendent of the City of Washington”; with note in Munroe’s hand on verso of address sheet: “Memo. What is intended to be meant by the site especially known by the appellation of the Bank Sq. is the public space directly east of Sq 491, being the nearest thereto”). Other enclosures not found.
colo wrens: on his most recent journey from Washington to Monticello, TJ lodged the night of 7 Mch. at the Fairfax County tavern of James Wren (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1094; Vol. 33:508n).
genl. masons island: located in the Potomac River across from Georgetown, Mason’s Island was owned by Georgetown merchant John Mason and was known for its elegant residence and the elaborate landscapes and gardens designed by gardener David Hepburn. Also called Analostan Island, it was renamed Theodore Roosevelt Island in the twentieth century (Mary E. Curry, “Theodore Roosevelt Island: A Broken Link to Early Washington, D.C. History,” RCHS description begins Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1895–1989 description ends , 71–72 [1971–72], 14–33).
Writing Munroe from Washington on 12 Apr. 1803, William M. Duncanson asked the superintendent to present the president his proposal to enclose the Mall “west of 7th. Street, turning along 15th. Street and terminating in the Potomack.” Duncanson wished to cultivate the land “to raise nurseries of trees suited for the Mall or the Streets of the City, or in clover, garden stuffs, or such like.” Inhabitants would retain “free egress & regress,” but only on foot since horses could destroy any trees and shrubs. Since Mall improvements remained under the president’s control, Duncanson assumes that he would be reimbursed for the value of the fence whenever the president chose to resume control of the property (RC in DLC).
1. Preceding three words interlined.
2. Munroe first wrote “or better in case a grant of the other site asked for should be rejected,” before altering the text to read as above.
3. Word interlined in place of “destined.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0047
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © Princeton University Press. All rights reserved.
Jefferson Papers
Munroe, Thomas
“To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 14 March 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0047. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 64–67.]
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From Jefferson to Munroe [7 March 1803]
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Category: Human Rights Issues
So it would seem as the story gains traction, when it first broke on the Jamaica Observer it was a vague little worded piece that left more questions and negative reactions than anything else but since the last twenty four hours with statements from and footage from the Minister of Youth Lisa Hanna seeking to outline some of the issues she is aware of more seems to be coming to light, her use of the term “predatory sexual activity” is a bit troubling to me though, it seems she is busy this year as the cooling down of the Permanent Secretary Sydney Bartley homo-paedophile matter is still in the Supreme Court even though the Minister is no longer named as a party in that matter the other named parties are still being pursued. 120 boys or so will have to find a place to live after June 2014 although the educational components of the work will continue said a spokesperson for the institution.
also see the Observer’s take on it: HERE
SITUATIONAL HOMOSEXUALITY This term refers sociologically to widespread same-sex behaviour in total institutions where no partner of the opposite sex is available. I bring this up as I am afraid the boys may be stigmatised out of all this for being freaks or homosexuals playing into the predatory nature perception held out there especially by the anti gay establishment. In some cases, as in prisons, jails and reformatories, places of safety, half way houses and transitional living facilities the residents/inmates are there involuntarily; in others, as ships at sea, monasteries and nunneries participation has been freely chosen although terms of engagement, strict rules and curtailed socializing activities limit sexual release. The situational homosexuality term is also applied to cultures where adolescents are gender-segregated the assumption behind the notion of psychological situational homosexuality is that the individual’s behaviour is dependent on the heterosexually deprived situation, and that those performing homosexual acts faute , de mieux under these circumstances will revert to heterosexual behavior once they regain access to the opposite sex, while the “true” homosexual prefers his own sex even when the other is freely accessible.
The situation of deprivation does not affect all people equally.
In the case of Alpha Boys like any other such facility experimentation too maybe a factor especially the homo-negative culture that exists here, there is a way in which persons become attracted to taboo practices out there in private circumstances. The Minister’s exact words regarding the same sex activities she said she was told by the Nuns at Alpha (Roman Catholic sisters of Mercy) in February was as follows:
“The sisters of mercy cited the grave anti social behaviour ….. the sexual predatory nature of the boys on one another on a daily basis ……… the incapability of human capital to respond to the many and changing faces of the issues manifested today, the challenge is further compounded by the high cost of care for each child.”
Are the sisters going by their own assessment of the situation from a church standpoint thus interpreting the matter as predatory (not saying it is all together true) there was some denial of the reasons for the discontinued residency component by one PR representative Joshua Chamberlain who said on radio “There is absolutely no truth from those suggesting the home is shutting down partly due to inappropriate behaviour among Alpha Boys, residential care if transitioning to day care……” I guess the goodly PR rep is trying to avoid a generalization that the boys are wholesale perverts as slightly suggested by the Youth Minister.
Even late nineteenth-century authors realized that some individuals never engage in homo- sexual activity no matter how long or how intense the deprivation from heterosexual contact they endure. Similarly, many homosexuals fail to take up heterosexual activity even though homosexuality may be so severely repressed as to be practically unavailable. Nevertheless, cross-cultural evidence abundantly documents higher incidences of homosexual activity in situations of heterosexual deprivation, and markedly so for males in their sexual prime.
SIWA OASIS A town in the Libyan desert of western Egypt, Siwa is the site of an ancient civilization which retained a form of institutionalized homosexuality into the modern era. The oasis was the location of an oracle consulted by Alexander the Great and modern observers have stressed how the Berber population conserved its own language, religious rites, and sexual customs despite the later overlay of Islam and Egyptian administration. Sexual relations among men fell into the ancient pattern of pairing between usually married adult men and adolescent bachelors. In the nineteenth century, families lived within the walls of a town constructed rather like a single large adobe “beehive” while all unmarried men lived together on the edges of town where they made up a warrior class (zaggalah) protecting the oasis from desert marauders. In the twentieth century, as the military function declined and the townspeople have moved out of the walled centre, the zaggalah have become agricultural labourers retaining their customs and clubhouses. The anthropologist Walter Cline, writing in 1936, found “All normal Siwan men and boys practice sodomy. . . .
I am in no way suggesting that sodomy is the only same sex activity found in this case of Alpha as partnered masturbation also is a key way to “gain release” which in such situational circumstances but again the Youth Minister’s wording makes it seems as anal rape when she uses “predatory behaviour” substitutional sex as the experts tell us lacks the more erotic or raunchy elements of sex between innate gay men for example and is not as engaging as two more romantically involved same sex partners. Among themselves the zaggalah natives are not ashamed of this; they talk about it as openly as they talk about love of women, and many if not most of their fights arise from homosexual competition.” Among the zaggalah, man-boy relationships were formally recognized when the man offered the boy’s father a gift (or bride price) as in heterosexual marriage. Abd Allah notes that “Siwan cus- toms allow a man but one boy [vs. four wives] to whom he is bound by a stringent code of obligations.” In the zaggalah club- house “labourers come together on any occasion for communal rejoicing and assemble on moonlight nights for drinking, singing, and dancing to the merry rhythm of flute and drum” (Cline).T his festive and erotic tradition culminates in a three-day bacchanal dedicated to the medieval sheik, Sidi Soliman, following the Islamic fast of Ramadan. The various accounts of Siwa agree on the openness and fluidity of sexuality, in that divorce is casual and serial polygamy common, men having as many as a dozen wives over time. Male and female prostitution was noted and Cline remarked that the role in homosexual relations was variable and voluntary.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Mahmud Mohamrnad 'Abd Allah, "Siwan Customs," Harvard African Studies, 1 (19171, 1-28; C. Dalrymple Belgrave, Siwa: The Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, London: Lane, 1923; Walter Cline, Notes on the People of Siwah and El Garah in the Libyan Desert, Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing, 1936; Robin Maugham, journey to Siwa, London: Chapman and Hall, 1950. Barry D. Adam
I think we need to examine this case some more far more carefully, JFLAG and the other advocates have not responded to this faux pas of sorts either which has me concerned sometimes as to their relevance as this issue can be made to play into the anti gay establishment as reason to oppose and block the trajectory to LGBT rights and recognition seeing the repeated conflation between abuse and same gender sex when in truth and in fact abuse is abuse no matter the sexual orientation or gender of the perpetrator. Seeing also that the boys are the same age grouping how else are we to deal with this?
The Youth Minister in a follow up discussion this morning on Nationwide radio suggested isolation of the identified abusers with psychological intervention what she did not say or was asked by the interviewers was was this in a view to also push reparative therapy supposedly thinking the boys are gay and need to be changed? Why I raised this is because many of the professionals in the system are trained in Christian run theological colleges often disregarding the diagnostic statistical manual, DSM with regards to homosexuality which is not a disorder yet some professional ignore this and their personal values clash with protocols. I am concerned for the boys as this situation reminds me of the easy way out mentality by administrations for such facilities, The Safe House Project 2009 that was under the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life was closed down by the board due to “bad behaviour” as the given reason then yet we have ended up with grief with displaced/homeless MSM/Trans persons numbers spiralling out of control with a JFLAG silent then and actually moving into the space that was the shelter turning it into their offices. They soon bore the backlash over time with the men attacking the offices of JASL as well intermittently with a notice to quit being the final edict and demolition of the building in 2013.
It seems there is an impatience to stick with problematic populations (outside of funding woes) in terms of transitional work and the psycho social components is still a problem as the quest for rights via victimhood abounds and takes precedence, this Alpha case has a touch shade of it too but let us see where it leads, the homeless msm/trans individuals in New Kingston for example are obviously being manipulated by powerful advocates and institutions as a recent news item showed where complaints about police abuse were highlighted, yes there is abuse but the same voices complaining are well established entities with robust funding to do something meaningful but instead the foot dragging continues while reclining in the HIV prevention imperative naming the cohort as vulnerable and susceptible to HIV, yes stigma/homo-negativity etc. exists but how it is presented sometimes short changes the very thrust. If the Alpha situation is met with proper responses via the government however to include psycho social/sexual interventions then it stands to reason that government can also address homelessness and displacement in the LGBT populations seeing that some advocates already expect state actors to take care of them while they recline in privilege.
Hypocrisy is a hell of a thing I tell you.
I am also concerned about the re-integration process as the minister spoke to some prior training of parents who with troubled children are exposed to twenty hours of training so as to engage the children when they return home, is LGBT child rearing included in this? I doubt it, such much more developmental issues arise here simply from this news of the closure of noble institution.
also see this previous post from 2011 of a boys’ home incident: SITUATIONAL HOMOSEXUALITY, SUBSTITUTIONAL SEX, EXPERIMENTATION OR WHAT? ……… SENSATIONAL STORY YET AGAIN
also hear this clip as an example of the homo-negative firestorm that has since erupted conflating abuse with some gay agenda and same gender consensual sex:
Walk good
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the venue of the gig where the attack took place
empty room of Dwayne/Gully Queen at the captured house where she once lived with her friends
Dwayne Jones (Gully Queen) in good times
As news spread of Gully Queen’s death it became apparent to me that another young transwoman had not been allowed the chance to fulfil her female cisgender imperative and was too inexperienced to realise that it was important to choose wisely who one shares certain information with.
Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbours push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.
By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman. His mistake: confiding to a friend that he was attending a “straight” party as a girl for the first time in his life.
“When I saw Dwayne’s body, I started shaking and crying,” said Khloe, one of three friends who shared a derelict house with the teenager in the hills above the north coast city of Montego Bay. Like many transgender and gay people in Jamaica, Khloe wouldn’t give a full name out of fear. Pity as well as homelessness which has been ignored for years in the LGBT advocacy structure featured most prominently in this case and to think after the furore and public cynicism the house where the guys remained was firebombed with very little proactive measures taken by JFLAG and the others handling the case file so more victims ended up being made instead of redress and closure. Thankfully no one was badly hurt after that ordeal but the aforementioned agencies failure over the years to properly provide programs and interventions for LGBT youth is telling and many incidents could have been avoided.
Even though some 300 people were at the dance party in the small riverside community of Irwin, police have yet to make a single arrest in Dwayne’s murder. Police say witnesses have said they couldn’t see the attackers’ faces.
Dwayne was the centre of attraction shortly after arriving in a taxi at 2 am with his two 23-year-old housemates, Khloe and Keke. Dwayne’s expert dance moves, long legs and high cheekbones quickly made him the one that the guys were trying to get next to.
Like many Jamaican homosexuals, Dwayne was careful about confiding in others about his sexual orientation. But when he saw a girl he had known from church, he told her he was attending the party in drag.
Minutes later, according to Khloe and Keke, the girl’s male friends gathered around Dwayne in the dimly-lit street asking: “Are you a woman or a man?” One man waved a lighter’s flame near Dwayne’s sneakers, asking whether a girl could have such big feet.
Then, his friends said, another man grabbed a lantern from an outdoor bar and walked over to Dwayne, shining the bright light over him from head to toe. “It’s a man,” he concluded, while the others hissed “batty boy” and other anti-gay epithets.
Khloe says she tried to steer him away from the crowd, whispering in Dwayne’s ear: “Walk with me, walk with me.” But Dwayne pulled away, loudly insisting to partygoers that he was a girl. When someone behind him snapped his bra strap, the teen panicked and raced down the street.
But he couldn’t run fast enough to escape the mob.
The teenager was viciously assaulted and apparently half-conscious for some two hours before another sustained attack finished him off, according to Khloe, who was also beaten and nearly raped. She hid in a nearby church and then the surrounding woods, unable to call for help because she didn’t have her mobile phone.
Dwayne’s father in the Montego Bay slum of North Gully didn’t want to talk about his son’s life or death. The teen’s family wouldn’t even claim the body, according to Dwayne’s friends.
They remembered him as a spirited boy with a contagious laugh who dreamt of becoming a performer like Lady Gaga. He was also a street-smart hustler who resorted to sleeping in the bushes or on beaches when he became homeless. He won a local dancing competition during his time on the streets and was affectionately nicknamed “Gully Queen.”
“He was the youngest of us but he was a diva,” Khloe said. “He was always very feisty and joking around.”
Inside their squatter house, Khloe and Keke said, they still talk to their dead friend.
“I’ll be cooking in the kitchen and I’ll say, ‘Dwayne, you hungry?’ or something like that,” said Keke while sitting on the old mattress in her bedroom, flinching as neighbourhood dogs barked outside. “We just miss him all the time. Sometimes I think I see him.”
But down the hall, Dwayne’s room is empty except for pink window curtains decorated with roses, his favourite flower
Dwayne Jones (Gully Queen) Last Appearance prior to his murder notice the reporter said he was gay hence the other issue with crisis reporting of LGBT matters and this has always affected the credibility of the lobby’s voice
also this month we lost Britney Boudashious the reigning Miss LGBT World who was murdered in November, she was to hand over the crown at this year’s gala event but she did not make it, no clear motive has been established for her demise.
Britney’s Crowning in 2012
her glorious moment after such hard work and practice to get there
rest in peace daaaaahlin’
see more here on Gay Jamaica Watch
Barbie making front page news on the now defunct XNEWS
also see: Disturbed by Xnews Story on Drag Queen and Gay Cop or HERE
also flashback to: International Day of Transgender Remembrance 2011
Good times at Diva Kerry’s Bday bash in 2011
fierceness
then the other shocker in August as the popular socialite Barbie Love passed after a brief illness, you may remember her public appearances that were not so positive but she brought visibility to the cross dressing and transwoman communities in 2009 as photo shows below when the XNews published a sensationalistic article and the on Television where she was arrested after a cruising hookup went bad then public, subsequently she sealed her fame by granting an exclusive interview on Ragashanti live
see: Ragga Shanti Interviews Jamaican Drag Queen Part 1 & 2 !
To all three ladies REST IN PEACE and we will miss you.
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The following is a post done earlier this year with Miss LGBT World 2009 and dancehall queen winner Tiana Miller who granted an interview. Also see other posts for the week:
Transgender Awareness Week 2013
Transgender Awareness Week 2013: Internalized Transphobia
Tiana Miller. (Photos courtesy of Tiana Miller)
Last week, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 16-year-old Dwayne Jones was shot and stabbed multiple times for turning up to a party in women’s clothing. Jones was reportedly transgender and the murder has once again highlighted the awful reality of life for Jamaica’s LGBT community. And it really is fucking awful.
In 2006, TIME magazine called Jamaica “the most homophobic place on Earth,” and the anti-gay sentiment prevalent in the country’s media and most popular musical genre, dancehall, has been well-documented. The Jamaica Gleaner, one of the country’s largest newspapers, regularly publishes stories about the gay community with a homophobic slant. Last month, it referred to a group of men who were evicted from an abandoned house as a “gay clan” and ran an op-ed (in the year 2013) that rubbished the idea of being born gay, saying people who are attracted to the same sex actively decide to do so, in much the same way that they decide to “eat snails (like the French)” or “like the taste of jackfruit.”
In the wake of Jones’ death, I got in touch with Tiana Miller, a transgender Jamaican, who hopes that her openness about her gender and sexuality will inspire others to display similar levels of bravery.
VICE: Hi Tiana. So, back to the start—at what age did you first realize that you were transgender?
Tiana Miller: It was at around age five when I first started thinking like a female. Then I gradually came to the realization that I felt more comfortable in a female skin. It was difficult. Because of the social norms of my country, I really felt as if I was doing something wrong.
Were your family and friends supportive?
Yes, they were, especially my dad.
That’s good. What about Jamaican society as a whole? Do you agree with the description of the country as, “the most homophobic place on Earth”?
Yes, I do. The challenges that we face are difficulties in surviving, as they relate to jobs, education, and housing. High school was OK for me because I hadn’t transformed yet, but it’s hard now education-wise because I would love to get a college degree, but can’t because they won’t allow me in college.
That’s awful. I’d imagine gay people in Jamaica are quite economically disadvantaged if they are unable to get a decent education or find work.
Yes, they are forced to be poor. The lucky ones are those who find rich partners and dedicate their lives to them.
There have been a few high-profile cases of police brutality towards gay people in Jamaica. Do you feel that the police give transgender people the protection they deserve?
No, they definitely don’t. Homeless transgenders are on the street, and the police—who should be their protectors—have literally run them down and chased them because of their lifestyle.
Is homelessness a common problem for transgender people?
Yes, and they are homeless because they have difficulties in sourcing income to rent houses or locate safe houses to live in.
Have you been physically attacked due to your gender?
Yes, I have been attacked before. I ran, so I didn’t suffer much harm. But naturally this had a traumatising effect on me.
So I take it there are a lot of areas that are out of bounds for gay and transgender people.
Naturally there are. This applies to anywhere where there are slums.
Some of the homophobic attacks over there have been horrific. I remember hearing about a gay rights activist who was killed before people celebrated over his body. Doesn’t stuff like that make you fear for your safety?
Yes, it does. I put myself out there, but I’m still aware of how vicious these homophobic homosapiens are.
Are there many people who dare to be open about their sexuality?
The gay and transgender communities aren’t united, as people fear for their lives, so not many people actually identify themselves with the communities.
So do you consider yourself brave for being so open about your gender and sexuality?
Yes, I am brave. If I wish to see a change, I myself have to inspire it. I had to put myself out there and make myself seen so that people know that transgenders do exist and see that we are normal people trying to live our everyday lives like human beings. We need people like myself who are willing to challenge this country and its government.
The media often hold dancehall culture responsible for the homophobia in Jamaica—what’s your view on that?
I think the main contribution comes from the church and their social ethics concerning what is right and wrong. It puzzles me how cruel human beings can be and how biased they are because the church claims that we are demons and bashes us instead of trying to counsel us.
Yeah, it seems a little illogical.
I know, right? But, like, seriously—I care zero.
So I take it there isn’t much of an LGBT nightlife scene where you are?
Well, there was, but there’s nothing now—just regular venues that they rent to us.
Do you think Jamaica will ever get round to changing its anti-sodomy laws and modernizing its stance on homosexuality?
Well, it actually seems to be on the verge of doing this.
Because gay culture is growing or because of pressure from other countries?
Both. But time will tell, and I don’t wish to make predictions.
Where do you see yourself in that battle?
I see myself as being the first transgender to be an ambassador for the country. I want to advocate for human rights, be a feminist choreographer and also be a whole lot of other things.
Great. Thanks, Tiana.
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The exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons in the discussion and planning to address sexual violence, was brought into focus by United and Strong as the organization added its voice to a regional workshop staged in Saint Lucia by the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA).
The Caribbean Regional Gender Workshop on Sexual Violence in the Caribbean, Status and Needs Including in Humanitarian Situations, saw thirty-four government and NGO representatives from twelve countries attending. The three-day workshop reviewed a strategy, initiated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to reduce gender-based sexual violence and provide a framework for action and guidance in regional and in-country gender-related activities.
The three-day workshop heard country and NGO reports that detailed actions by national institutions and civil society organizations to address and prevent gender-based violence. Among the presentations however only Belize, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago included LGBT persons in national plans to combat sexual violence.
“I believe it is important to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons in programs dealing with gender-based and sexual violence” states Edma Pierre, who represented U&S along with Media Consultant Maria Fontenelle. She adds, “The fact that they are also victims is often ignored and they are treated with a lack of sensitivity within the system.”
United and Strong representatives took the opportunity to highlight the risks inherent in not considering LGBT when designing responses to sexual violence, particularly in disaster and humanitarian situations. They stressed that LGBT should be given consideration across the board from the design of training; selection of staff; services provided for at risk persons; how these services are advertised; the structure of facilities, including toilets; the policies that govern safe spaces for victims of abuse and the legal challenges that can affect all of these.
The legal barrier of the Buggery law was stated as one of the chief reasons that reports from Saint Lucia did not mention LGBT in plans to reduce gender-based sexual violence and in-country gender-related activities. The meeting included representatives from PROSAF, the Massade Boys Training Centre, Voluntary Women, Saint Lucia Planned Parenthood Association, Women’s Shelter, Saint Lucia Crisis Centre, Saint Lucia CARIMAN, Gender Relations, CAFRA Saint Lucia, Family Court and Human Services.
Representatives of PROSAF, the Women’s Shelter, Gender Relations, Family Court and Human Services took the opportunity to stress that their doors were open to every victim of sexual violence. However it was recognised that reluctance to openly identify as LGBT due to fears of stigma, and the reluctance on the part of men generally, and gay men in particular, to admit to being sexually violated was a deterrent in acquiring data that would support the need for inclusion of LGBT in national planning.
Funding was also touted as a constraint. “What is being done sometimes is limited by our resources both at the international level and at the national level”, notes UNFPA gender specialist Jewell Quallo Rosberg. She states however that there is determination to tackle the wide-ranging issue of gender-based violence, “by uniting and using all our resources, not just financial but community resources, and focussing on prevention rather than trying to address the problem after it happens.”
By the conclusion of the conference, at least one country rep, Elaine Henry-McQueen of Grenada, undertook to push for the consideration of the needs of LGBT in national policy planning. Saint Lucia based government and civil society representatives also committed to continue to work in partnership going forward. There was general-consensus among regional partners to advocate for greater collaboration between the community and government to address sexual and gender-based violence as highlighted during the workshop.
U&S’ Edma Pierre (seated – first left) and Maria Fontenelle (standing – far right), with participants at Caribbean Regional Gender Workshop on Sexual Violence in the Caribbean
Author GLBTQ Jamaica ModeratorPosted on November 12, 2013 Categories Advocacy Response, Caribbean Gay News, facing homophobia, Human Rights Issues, Intolerance, Legal Issues, Lesbian issues, MSM Issues, Press Release Examples, Pride News, Publications, United & Strong St LuciaLeave a comment on Putting LGBT on Caribbean Sexual Violence Agenda
by Howie Fiedhior and Gina (of OII Australia) edited for 2013
EU adopts historic intersex resolution October 2013
Being Accountable to the Invisible Community: A Challenge for Intersex Activists and Allies
Intersex people are people who have physical differences of sex anatomy other than brain sex alone. Their anatomical differences might include genetic, hormonal or genital differences or differences in our reproductive parts.
Happy Intersex Awareness Day to the small number of persons here in Jamaica, however here is a post I hope both intersex and non intersex persons will find informative as we do not forget to include the “I” in LGBTI agitation wordwide.
The first Intersex Awareness Day (IAD) came about when the American intersex group named Hermaphrodites with Attitude (HWA) teamed up with American Trans group Trans Menace to picket an American Association of Paediatrics (AAP) conference in Boston on 26th October 1996.
Those picketing this event were outraged that the doctors attending the conference were recommending and conducting infant genital surgery on intersex kids in order to make them more “normal”. Some of those protesting had been subjected to those kinds of surgery when they were infants.
The central message of Intersex Awareness Day (IAD) is the de-medicalisation of natural variations in a person’s sex anatomy. Intersex is not a disease, a disorder, a medical “condition”. The use of stigmatising language such as this has led to poor mental health, marginalisation even invisibilisation, and exclusion from social institutions for Intersex people.
On this day we hope to make as many people as possible aware of what intersex is and that intersex people everywhere lack those most fundamental human rights, the right to autonomy over our own bodies, the right to a life without discrimination, the right to a life without shame and secrecy.
In short it is a call for our right to an equal place in society.
Intersex is difference in the same way that eye colour or right- or left-handedness are differences or human biological variations. As with handedness or sexual orientation, societies have, in the past, looked upon human variations through the lens of prejudice and then sought ways to “cure” or eliminate that variation.
At a fundamental level homophobic bigotry, intolerance and ancient superstitions underpin contemporary mistreatment of intersex people.
Intersex people are subjected to forced gendering and surgical alterations to our bodies to “disappear” our differences in a society that regards difference in sex anatomy as deeply suspicious.
More on What is intersex?
Intersex refers to a series of medical conditions in which a child’s genetic sex (chromosomes) and phenotypic sex (genital appearance) do not match, or are somehow different from the “standard” male or female. About one in 2,000 babies are born visibly intersexed, while some others are detected later. The current medical protocol calls for the surgical “reconstruction” of these different but healthy bodies to make them “normal,” but this practice has become increasingly controversial as adults who went through the treatment report being physically, emotionally, and sexually harmed by such procedures.
Beside stopping cosmetic genital surgeries, what are intersex activists working toward?
Surgery is just part of a larger pattern of how intersex children are treated; it is also important to stop shame, secrecy and isolation that are socially and medically imposed on children born with intersex conditions under the theory that the child is better off it they didn’t hear anything about it. Therefore, it’s not enough to simply stop the surgery; we need to replace it with social and psychological support as well as open and honest communication.
What’s so significant about October 26?
On October 26, 1996, intersex activists from Intersex Society of North America (carrying the sign “Hermaphrodites With Attitude”) and our allies from Transexual Menace held the first public intersex demonstration in Boston, where American Academy of Pediatrics was holding its annual conference. The action generated a lot of press coverage, and made it difficult for the medical community to continue to neglect our growing movement. That said, events related to Intersex Awareness Day can take place throughout October and does not necessarily have to be on the 26th.
Important to Remember:
INTERSEX is not a part of transgender because intersex is not about gender. Intersex is about anatomical differences in sex.
Below are some of the differences in the experience of trans and intersex individuals
Self-identified gender does not match apparent sex at birth.
Some human rights protection. In NSW this is limited to “recognised transgender” or people thought to be “transgendered” – 36B Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 in Australia.
Can change cardinal documents, but usually requires irreversible surgeries usually involving sterilization and applicants must not be married.
The right to marry someone of the opposite legal gender.
A full and functional reproductive system.
Physical differences limited to brain anatomy.
Transsexual people have an effective medical protocol that produces a 98% effective outcome with long-term studies and follow-ups.
The right to choose the time of surgery with extensive peer support.
The ability to participate fully and in an informed manner in their surgical and hormonal options.
Transsexual people generally have a strongly defined sense of gender – man or woman.
Can compete in sport up to and including Olympic level through established protocols.
Many effective and extensive organizations worldwide, with some NGOs attracting government funding (e.g. NSW Gender
Centre).
More on Intersexuality
Jamaican Inter-phobia, lack of understanding Inter-sexuality
Author GLBTQ Jamaica ModeratorPosted on October 25, 2013 October 25, 2013 Categories Advocacy Response, Articles on Sexuality, Bloggers Writings, Human Rights Issues, Intersex Awareness Day, Intersex Information and definition, Intersexuality & related matters, IntoleranceLeave a comment on October 26/13 is the 17th Intersex Awareness Day
So Reverend Al Miller apart from using his weekend tele-evangelist airtime to suggest reparative therapy as if it works in his church Fellowship Tabernacle has finally come clean with respects to the awful murder of transgender teen Dwayne Jones in Montego Bay earlier this year. In an interview on Newstalk 93FM radio similar to other pastors who have been getting far more airtime than normal since the Queen Ifrica Freedom of Speech fiasco has and is still playing out Reverend Miller tried to bring some semblance of tolerance to the mix. Let us not forget this is the same man some time ago openly said persons must not buy into the tolerance call from the gay lobby as it was a guise to sneak in homosexuality on the nation. In September 2011 on this blog I posted Rev Al Miller says gay lobby is using the guise of tolerance to get the nation to accept the “gay lifestyle” where he said among other things
“Nothing is wrong with loving someone but disagreeing or disliking their lifestyle and the issue is the lifestyle we are not against, the Christians the word of god is not against the individual cause we are all sinners but we must recognize sin as sin, wrong is wrong and so although we may accept and embrace the person but we must say that the conduct is not right and what the gay agenda is about is wanting the society to accept the lifestyle as being right but they are using the guise of tolerance, of course we can be tolerant with the individual but we must have the right to be intolerant to a practice that is not right it is in the same vein as anyone who practices a lifestyle that is inconsistent with correct behaviour or good for a society, if it is stealing if it is murder or any other kind of crime that is not good for society.
We must embrace the individual but we must reject the lifestyle the behaviour and it is the same, it is the behaviour, when we talk about the protection of rights the protection of rights if gays already exists because all their natural rights are there but what they are crying for is not protection of rights against harm in as much as crying for the acceptance of the lifestyle so that we will legitimize a lifestyle which is contrary to moral law to natural law to social order and all that certainly is good and decent and wholesome and will ensure our fulfillment of the mandate that we were given by our creator.”
Yesterday however he called for everyone to respect the norms and values of society and that accepted norms must not be overlooked “There is no question that that whole incident is unfortunate and is not the kind of thing that should happen we need justice and acting justly and rightly is the way that we must operate and as a society with values must operate and be consistent in upholding of its values and the welfare and rights of individuals are critical in that process but it is equally true that in any society that standards of behaviour and accepted norms must also be respected by all, it can’t be good for some and not for others.”
He further stated that while members of the gay community are calling for the rights of such persons to be respected we must also respect the rights of the heterosexual community, “Unfortunately in recent times that an incident like the one that happened there that created the ire of the citizens who have reacted at wrongly but it is speaking however to citizen that is saying that is not the accepted norm that we want. Equally we must respect the rights of all it has to be both sides, I am hearing a lot in recent times that the gay rights lobby for instance is primarily promoting what they consider their rights must be protected but yet be ignoring the rights of others, you cannot do unjustly to do justly so if we are going to talk about justice and wisdom we must be equitable so that they also must respect the rights and beliefs and the norms of the rest of society.” Meanwhile a British Gay rights group stages a protest in the UK as headed by Peter Tatchell and a Justice for Dwayne Jones at the Jamaican Consulate yesterday in London. They called for the government to protect the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender communities against hate crimes. Pity that the realities still escape our friends overseas here as this was not a homophobic killing directly but has variables that either at the programmatic and intervention levels have yet to be properly discussed and understood.
More Rev Al Miller anti gay positions:
Rev Al Miller on the Abnormality of Homosexuality & the invented gay marriage rights ploy
also see Anti gay pastor and restorative therapy advocate in trouble with the law again from sister blog GLBTQJA on blogger
It seems the goodly Reverend’s view on respecting the rights of others is to stay quiet and be subject to condemnation biblically and otherwise but when one of our members is maimed or killed the half hearted conditional tolerance and pity comes forth, really!? The gentleman needs to remember his track record speaks to his true position from his active appearances in the Charter of Rights passage where he alongside Shirley Richards of the Lawywers’ Christian Fellowship made sure whatever coverage of discrimination due to sexual orientation was removed yet he comes with this position, who does he think he is fooling here?
Check out the video: Dwayne Jones (Gully Queen) Last Appearance prior to his murder
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Creativity exercise led by professor empowers women in manufacturing industry
Kathryn Jablokow, Great Valley engineering professor and associate chief academic officer, and Karen Norheim, campus advisory board member, are working to unify and empower women who work in the manufacturing industry. The two recently traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, where Jablokow led a workshop at the Women in Manufacturing annual summit.
Brandywine’s engineering program brings student’s dreams full circle
Joshua Beauchamp’s lifelong passion for robotics introduced him to Penn State Brandywine. Today, as a Brandywine student, he is introducing grade-school students to the world of robotics.
Jablokow named associate chief academic officer at Great Valley
Kathryn Jablokow, professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, was recently appointed associate chief academic officer at Penn State Great Valley.
Jablokow awarded NSF grant to study optimal design team performance
Kathryn Jablokow, associate professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering at Penn State Great Valley, has had a passion for design engineering her whole life. Now she is shifting her research focus to the corporate world, thanks to a recent grant from the National Science Foundation.
Philadelphia region engineering majors support high school robotics team
A women’s high school robotics team demonstrated their new creation for students enrolled in the Philadelphia regional undergraduate general engineering at Penn State Great Valley.
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Remembering Alejandro Melchor
June 3, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Blue Rose RPG News, Dragon Age RPG News, Fantasy AGE, Green Ronin News, Modern AGE RPG, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG, Titansgrave /by Malcolm Sheppard
This week was supposed to be set aside for me to talk about the Modern AGE Companion a little more, but I want to talk about Alejandro (aka Alex, or Al-X) Melchor instead. Alex passed away last week, due to the extended complications of a stroke he suffered in March.
Alex worked on every Modern AGE book currently at any stage of completion. In the core, he wrote rules, focuses, talents and part of the extensive Game Master advice in that book. He brought his talents to the World of Lazarus, the Modern AGE Companion, and the upcoming Threefold and Enemies & Allies, too. I’m currently looking for writers for a new book. It has an Alex-shaped hole in it now.
I first got to know him through a semiprivate community we shared, in 2001. I’d just been invited, as responses to my early professional work for White Wolf had been good. Alex did some work for them as well before taking an intensive gig with Mongoose Publishing in the early 2000s. I drifted away and he was busy, though I knew him through the Open Game License credits I bumped into while designing my own stuff. In the interim he developed an enormous list of credits, tending toward mechanically intensive work. I’d say one great thing about him is he could work on rules that reinforce stories and atmosphere, because getting game systems down was quick work for him.
Steve Kenson got to know Alex well, and took the lead in doing what we could to help when he fell ill. He reintroduced me to Alex, and Alex became a bedrock contributor for Modern AGE. He did so much more, in his own communities, on other games, and with other creative people, but I don’t want to presume to talk about any of that. We worked hard. We made some good ideas playable together. And he was unfailingly nice to everyone, a born collaborator, but didn’t hesitate to point out what he thought would be bad ideas.
According to family and friends, Alex liked proactive, resourceful, tough woman protagonists. Modern AGE uses a loose set of iconic characters created by the writers. Alex created Indra Winchester, the technically-inclined punk, who you can see on the cover of the Modern AGE Companion and inside the books of the line. In examples, he’s her player. I plan to keep it that way.
It seems so inane to go through his qualities as a creative guy, when of course there was more, but he was my comrade in making games. That’s what I’ve got to work with, even though it’s not enough to give the man his due. He was a visual artist, and beloved by various communities. And more, always more. In and out of this industry, I won’t be missing him alone, and won’t be the only one feeling new gaps in what might be possible, in work and life. I’m going to miss him.
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Ronin Roundtable: Expansive Future
May 22, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve Kenson
The Expanse Roleplaying Game, along with The Expanse Quickstart and GM’s Kit, are just the beginning of the game products for the popular sci-fi series. Green Ronin has more in the works, including two follow-up products that will round out and complete the stretch goals of the successful Kickstarter, and then some. Let’s peer into the future of The Expanse RPG with a look at those.
Abzu’s Bounty
One stretch goal of The Expanse RPG Kickstarter was a campaign series of adventures to supplement adventure material in the core book, GM’s Kit, and Quickstart. That series is Abzu’s Bounty, a complete Expanse campaign with a linked series of six adventures. It is designed as a “starter” game, although it contains advice on moving from one or more of the already published adventures into the series, and has links to the background of the “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream” adventure from the core book. The player characters in Abzu’s Bounty go from relative nobodies to potentially deciding the future of the System by the end of the campaign.
No spoilers as to the plot, but Abzu’s Bounty ventures across the System, from the Outer to the Inner Planets and back, and includes a means of supplying the crew with a ship of their own. There is also plenty of Expanse-style skullduggery and intrigue along the way. By the end of the series, characters should be in the mid-level range, starting at 2nd and ending up 7th or 8th level, leaving plenty of room to grow as The Expanse RPG does.
Abzu’s Bounty is written and developed, and in the editing and art phase of production.
Ships of the Expanse
The other major stretch goal of the Kickstarter was deck plans for a number of ship classes from The Expanse setting. Those will feature as part of the forthcoming Ships of the Expanse sourcebook; backers will get downloads of all of the stretch goal deck plans, but the sourcebook will include those and much more. In particular, Ships will take the basic chapter on ship-building and in-game use of ships from the core rules and build upon it, offering expanded details, options, and ways of creating and using ships in your own game.
Plus there will be those deck plans and details, closer looks at even more types of ships found in The Expanse, what they look like and how they’re laid out. This will make Ships of the Expanse a popular book with fans of the series and gamers alike.
Ships of the Expanse is in the design phase, with authors just completing their first drafts, as it moves into development.
Further Out
As players of The Expanse RPG know, the core book focuses on the period between the first two novels (Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War) with a lot of Expanse history waiting to unfold in the future. We’ve identified several distinct eras to Expanse game play, and the next one takes the setting and the series “further out” than ever before—far further than most of humanity ever imagined—once the protomolecule’s mysterious work on Venus is complete.
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The Expanse Roleplaying Game and GM’s Kit: Pre-Order and PDF
May 15, 2019 /in Green Ronin News, The Expanse RPG /by Evan Sass
If you missed the Kickstarter campaign, you can now pre-order both the Expanse Roleplaying Game and the Expanse RPG Game Master’s Kit in our Green Ronin Online Store.
The Expanse RPG brings the science fiction universe from James S. A. Corey to the tabletop. Using the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) rules that power Green Ronin’s Fantasy AGE, Blue Rose, and Modern AGE RPGs, The Expanse takes players to a far-future solar system where humanity is divided: Martians, Belters, and the people of old Earth struggle for political power and resources, but older, alien, forces stir in the universe, and human history is about to take an unexpected new turn.
The Expanse Roleplaying Game (Pre-Order)
The Expanse Roleplaying Game (PDF)
The Expanse RPG Game Master’s Kit (Pre-Order)
The Expanse RPG Game Master’s Kit (PDF)
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The Expanse: Expansive Content
We’ve had a lot to say about The Expanse Roleplaying Game during the game’s development and successful Kickstarter, so we thought it would be helpful to provide a quick and helpful guide to all things Expanse from Green Ronin Publishing here on our site and elsewhere.
First and foremost, the link greenronin.com/blog/category/the-expanse-rpg/ is your key to Expanse-related posts on the GR.com site. You can download The Expanse Quickstart from here to check out the game and give it a try with a complete starter adventure and pre-generated crew of characters.
The Expanse Kickstarter
The Expanse RPG Kickstarter is where it all begins
Where you can see all of the promotional materials of the Kickstarter and, more importantly, view all of the public updates
The updates include a number of excerpts and previews from the game as “Expanse Extras”:
Expanse Extra: Spaceship Combat Example
Expanse Extra: Qualities & Flaws
Expanse Extra: Interludes
Expanse Extra: The Churn
Ronin Roundtables
Next, you can check out the previous Ronin Roundtable articles on The Expanse, looking at different previews and aspects of the game to supplement the information found in the Expanse Quickstart.
The Expanse: Questions of Canon
The Expanse: Doors and Corners
The Expanse: Starting Points
The Expanse: Space Combat
The Expanse: Power Armor
The Expanse: Character Creation
The Expanse vs. Modern AGE
Expanse Transmissions
Even with only the Expanse Quickstart and the PDF edition of The Expanse Roleplaying Game core book available, a number of groups have already launched their own Expanse games. If you’re curious to see the game in action and want to check out some actual play games on The Expanse online, here are some good places to start:
Happy Jacks offers an actual play of The Expanse RPG from ShadowCon
Jowzam’s Den ran a stream of the Expanse Quickstart adventure “Cupbearer” live on Twitch. Available for viewing on YouTube
Mosaic Gaming Network’s “Rolling with the Regulars” offers their “Phoenix Rising” vidcast and podcast of The Expanse, starting with Episode 0
The Spice Must Roll is a live broadcast of sci-fi tabletop RPGs. Season 1 focuses on The Expanse RPG, starting with Episode 0
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February 19, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve Kenson
The Expanse series of novels details major characters and events that establish the setting where The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes place. Much of this is described in the core book, but when you’re writing an adventure, how much of the “canon” of the setting should affect what you’re writing and, if it does, does it matter if you change it? When designing your game, you’ll be faced with deciding how much the existing Expanse setting and series affects your story. The following are some techniques to use when dealing with it:
Art by Victor Leza Moreno
Inspiration: You can use the existing canon as a springboard for your own storyline. Use of existing characters and events gives you a healthy pool of stories, personalities, and ideas from which to create a foundation for a great campaign. This also creates an immediate level of recognition for you and players familiar with The Expanse series. The trade-off is that you are bound to those portions of the canon you incorporate into your game. For example, if you decide to use Miller as a major NPC in your game, you are limited to a certain periods of time where that would be possible, and you have to be aware of Miller’s ultimate fate (and the fact that your players may know it as well) unless you choose to change things. If you do, you might find it messes with the players’ expectations. That can be a good thing or a jarring and unpleasant experience.
Flexible Canon: You can use canonical elements in your game, such as the setting or past events, but choose to change some things that might conflict with your planned storyline and allow the player characters to significantly alter canon through their actions. All of the major components can remain prevalent, such as the major factions and locations, but with tweaks in the events that follow. What if there were more survivors of the Canterbury? What if the player characters were the ones hired to track down Julie Mao—or were hired in addition to Star Helix and Miller? What if your story involved the crew of the Rocinante as major NPCs? The “flexible canon” approach is generally the one we have taken with the Expanse RPG: Things are as described from the books, at least initially, but the potential exists for the player characters to change things. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be much tension or excitement for their story, would there?
Ignore Canon: You can bypass canon altogether, or base your story around events with little to no effect on existing canon. The Expanse setting is vast and you could tailor stories and events that barely even touch the established canon outlined in the fiction. An entire campaign could focus on a crisis on one of the many different stations, or center your story on an exploration crew traversing the outer planets.
Whatever you decide, make sure if your players are aware of existing canon, they are also aware of any important changes you make to avoid confusion and clashes of expectation. In addition, if you do alter major events, be aware of the chain-reaction it may have on other events and characters down the road.
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The Expanse RPG tweaks the damage system from the AGE System a bit by changing Health to Fortune, a measure, not of how healthy and durable characters are, but how lucky and “important to the plot” they are (the durability aspect gets covered by a Constitution-based trait called Toughness instead). The “ablative” qualities of Fortune remain the same: players spend it in order to reduce or mitigate the damage their characters suffer. If an attacker rolls 10 points of damage, a player can spend 10 Fortune points, and the character escapes any serious harm—that time. Of course, players can also spend Fortune to improve their characters’ chances of success with tests and, sooner or later, their luck is going to run out.
Art by Mirco Paganessi
Injuries & Wounds
If Fortune isn’t enough to completely spare a character from damage, then it is going to hurt. The character is either going to be taken out (see the following) or needs to take an injured or wounded condition to reflect the remaining damage.
If the character accepts an injured condition, the damage is reduced by 1d6. If any damage remains, or the character is already injured, the character must accept a wounded condition next or be taken out. If the character accepts a wounded condition, the damage is further reduced by 1d6. If any damage remains, the character is taken out. Once a character has the wounded condition, any damage that gets past Fortune takes them out.
Taken Out
If damage remains after applying Toughness, Fortune, and taking an injury or a wound, then the target is taken out of the encounter. The attacker may choose to impose any one condition reasonable for the type of attack which takes out the target. So, for example, an attacker may choose to take out a target with a gunshot and leave them dying, just wounded, or even just unconscious. The key point is that the attacker decides on the target’s condition.
Rolling Over
An Expanse character can also choose to roll over in an encounter. In essence, the character’s player chooses to take that character out of the encounter, except the player chooses the character’s condition, subject to the approval of the GM, rather than leaving their fate up to their opponent. Rolling over is a “live to fight another day” tactic for when it’s clear a character is overmatched and doesn’t have much of a chance otherwise. You can only roll over in an encounter before you are taken out. Once you begin applying damage from an attack that has the potential to take you out, it’s too late to roll over, so choose carefully.
Option: Dead-to-Rights
If you want a slightly more lethal Expanse game, consider the following option: In any situation where one character has another “dead-t0-rights” the target character cannot spend Fortune to eliminate damage, all damage must be accounted for with Toughness, injuries, or wounds, and any excess results in the character being taken out, as usual. Standard situations where a character is dead-to-rights include being completely surprised by an attack (such as shot by an unseen sniper, for example) or having the helpless condition, completely unable to avoid an attack or hazard. It’s up to you to define situations that leave a character dead-to-rights, and to tell the players in advance. For example, if you want them to respect guns, make it clear that having someone holding a gun on you means they have you dead-to-rights, unless you can somehow distract their attention. This means characters will probably be less likely to rush armed opponents, for example. Try to use this option as a tool to help the players make informed decisions about the risks their characters take.
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February 4, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve Kenson
The setting described in The Expanse RPG is just after the events of the first novel, Leviathan Wakes, but that doesn’t mean you have to set your game at that point. You could go back to the beginning of Leviathan Wakes and tell a story that runs parallel to the adventures of the crew of the Rocinante, or even have your player’s characters take their place. Alternately, if you prefer, you could run a game set in the period of the later novels, or a time much earlier when humanity is first leaving Earth. The core Expanse RPG book doesn’t provide source material for either of these possibilities (though you can expect to see later history covered in future Expanse RPG books) but that shouldn’t prevent you from doing what you want.
The early history of The Expanse is ripe with campaign and adventure possibilities. The novellas Drive and Butcher of Anderson Station offer insights into history before Leviathan Wakes.
The early expansion and colonization of the Belt offers a lot of potential stories and adventures. Rival companies vie for influence and control. Newly established colonies in the outer planets smuggle in the goods and supplies needed to survive. The early days of the expansion from Earth and Mars are much like the Wild West as humanity spreads out into the solar system in search a new and better life – anything to escape the overpopulated cities of Earth.
The novella The Churn describes the crime-ridden, overpopulated city of Baltimore. Crime bosses and their “families” smuggle weapons and illegal cybernetic implants while engaging in all-out war with the authorities. Players could be part of one of the underground smuggling operations or the desperate authorities trying to stem the tide of crime.
Corporations vie for power and influence as humanity reaches out to colonize asteroids, moons, and planetoids throughout the solar system. Early pirates prey on ships that travel the vast, empty spaces between worlds. Most of the early pirates are essentially privateers in the employ of corporations, using the greedy and morally compromised to do their dirty work for them.
The Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) springs from the wants and needs of the citizens of the planets beyond Earth and Mars. The Belters find themselves perilously close to slavery since they are dependent on resources controlled by Earth. The characters could be early members of the OPA struggling to keep the people of the Belt free and dreaming of a day when they control their own destinies. The Butcher of Anderson Station is a perfect example of the conflict between the OPA and the inner planets.
Future Stories
Future supplements for The Expanse will explore the events of Caliban’s War and beyond, but don’t let that limit where and when you set your stories. The struggle for power continues as humanity travels out into the stars. For the time being, stories in this time are up to the GM. You could use the novels as inspiration, telling stories that run parallel to those in the books, or the characters could take the place of the protagonists in those novels, but with the opportunity to take the story in their own direction. You could also choose to go in a completely different course with the story. The Expanse RPG does look at some of these possibilities, including a number of “beyond canon” series concepts where the protomolecule does something quite different, or ends up somewhere else altogether.
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January 28, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Green Ronin News, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Steve Kenson
The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may have even backed it then. In that case you have our thanks and the opportunity to check out a lot of existing previews. There’s also The Expanse Quickstart available to download for free. As the game will also be going into pre-orders soon, we’re going to preview a few more things to give you a look at what you can expect from it.
Space Combat Stunts
Combat between ships in The Expanse is similar in some regards to combat between characters, but on a much larger (and often slower) scale and more simultaneous in execution than character-scale combat.
A round of space combat tends to be a bit longer than a round of character-scale combat, upward of a minute or so, although the exact time is flexible, as with character-scale combat. It’s long enough for all of the ships involved to execute all of the steps listed previously.
At the start of each round of combat, the character in command of the ship makes a TN 11 Communication (Leadership) test. If successful, the commander generates 1 Stunt Point, plus additional SP equal to the value of the Drama Die, if the roll contains doubles, much like a Stunt Attack action.
The commander may spend SP generated from the command test on other ship combat actions that round. This is an exception to the general rule that SP must be spent immediately—they can apply to any test by the ship’s crew that round. However, other tests by the crew during that round do not generate SP, only the commander’s initial test. Once a new round of ship combat begins, any unspent command SP from the prior round are lost, and the commander makes a new command test.
Command Stunt Points may be spend on the following stunts:
These stunts are used by ships in space combat.
SP Cost Stunt
1+ (Core) Guidance: You grant a +1 bonus to a chosen ship combat test this round for each 1 SP you spend. Choose one of the following: maneuver test, electronic warfare test, evasion test, point defense test, or damage control test.
1+ Blinding Maneuver: You maneuver your ship in such a way as to blind or limit an opponent’s Sensors. Each SP you spend reduces an opposing ship’s Sensors score by 1 (to a minimum score of –2) until the start of the next round.
2 Multi-Targeting: Your ship’s point defense cannons (if any) can both attack and defend this round without any penalty.
2+ On-Target: Every 2 SP you spend increases the TN of tests to evade your ship’s weapon attacks that round by +1.
2+ Tactics: Every 2 SP you spend increase the TN of an opposing ship commander’s next command test by +1.
3+ Evasive Action: Every 3 SP you spend grants a +1d6 Hull bonus to your ship that round for resisting damage from successful weapon attacks.
3 Perceived Weakness: You increase the damage of one successful weapon attack by 1d6. This stunt is a risk, as it has to come in Step 5 of the round, and requires a successful hit.
4 Precise Hit: One of your successful weapon attacks results in an additional Loss, even if the target’s Hull completely eliminated the damage.
4+ Set-Up: You maneuver an opposing ship into a hazard, such as a normally shorter range weapon, a field of debris, or even a floating rock. This stunt is considered a weapon attack inflicting damage dice equal to half the SP spent (round down). The Set-Up can be evaded; the TN is 10 + your Intelligence + Leadership focus (if any) + half the SP spent. So if a character with Intelligence 2 and Leadership spends 5 SP on this stunt, the TN to evade the Set-Up is (10 + 2 + 2 + 2.5, rounded down to 2) or 16, and a failure on the evasion test results in 2d6 damage to the target ship.
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Green Ronin in 2019! Part 1: The Expanse, Nisaba Press, Freeport, and Blue Rose
January 22, 2019 /in AGE RPG, Freeport, Green Ronin News, Nisaba Press (Fiction), Pathfinder, Ronin Round Table, The Expanse RPG /by Chris Pramas
It’s January and that means it’s that magic time when I talk about Green Ronin’s plans for the coming year. We have quite a lot going on, so this year I’m going to be splitting this message into three parts that we’ll reveal Tuesday to Thursday this week. Today I’ll be talking about The Expanse, Nisaba Press, Freeport, and Blue Rose.
Last year we ran a hugely successful Kickstarter for a new roleplaying game based on The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey. The core rulebook is in the final stages of layout so we’ll be releasing it soon. We will be opening up late pledges for the Kickstarter via Backerkit so if you missed the original campaign, you’ll have another chance. You’ll also find The Expanse in book and game stores, of course, and it’ll be available through our online store as well. Releasing concurrently with the core rulebook is the Game Master’s Kit, which has a screen, a new adventure, and reference cards. Later in the year we’ll be releasing Abzu’s Bounty, a six-part adventure for the game.
After that initial suite of products, we’ll be expanding the game in different ways. The core rulebook is set between the events of the first and second novels. As the game line continues, we’ll be incorporating the events of the later novels in various sourcebooks and adventures. If you’d like to learn more about the game, lead designer Steve Kenson started a series of Ronin Round Table posts about it. You can read parts 1 and 2 now and more will follow starting next week.
Nisaba Press
Last year we started Nisaba Press, an imprint for fiction publishing. We are doing both short and long-form fiction that ties into our various game worlds. We began with short stories last year. These were initially released individually but we’ve moved to an electronic magazine format. You’ll now find our short fiction in the Nisaba Journal, a bi-monthly magazine that supports our various game worlds. Issue #1 came out towards the end of last year and issue #2 is out this month.
This year’s exciting development is full length novels! We’ve spent the past year building towards this and we’re beyond excited to debut our first novel this month. Shadowtide is a Blue Rose novel by our own Joseph Carriker and you can order it right now! We’ll be following that up with Height of the Storm, a Mutants & Masterminds novel by Aaron Rosenberg, and a collection of Lost Citadel short stories. More novels are in the works, so keep an eye on Nisaba Press.
Last week we started the pre-order for Return to Freeport, a six-part scenario that is the biggest addition of adventure content for the setting in more than a decade. Since 2013 our Freeport releases have used the Pathfinder rules and Return to Freeport follows suit. As you’ve likely heard, however, a second edition of Pathfinder is coming this summer and while we wish our pals at Paizo the best, we aren’t going to support the new edition.
Does this mean the Freeport line is ending? Hardly! Freeport is our oldest setting, first seen in the Origins and ENnie Award-winning adventure Death in Freeport back in 2000. 2020 is thus both Green Ronin’s and Freeport’s 20th anniversary and you better believe we have some plans.
So this year you will get Return to Freeport and short fiction from Nisaba Press. We’ve collected last year’s Freeport stories into a short anthology called Dark Currents, which is available now. More Freeport fiction will appear in Nisaba Journal throughout the year. Then next year we’ll be doing a big re-launch for Freeport with a different rules system. Stay tuned for more news about that!
Last but by no means least, we’ve got Blue Rose, our romantic fantasy RPG. We’ve got two books planned for the game this year. The first, Envoys to the Mount, is something special: a full-length chronicle. This series of adventures will play out over five years of game time and see the characters advance through all four tiers of play. Then, late in the year, we’ve got Touching the Wild. This is a dual-purpose book. Half of it is a bestiary of various Shadowspawn to provide new challenges in your chronicle. The other half is a player’s guide for Rhydan with lots of new options for Rhydan PCs. If you like Blue Rose but have wanted more psychic animals, Touching the Wild is for you!
That wraps up part 1 our 2019 plans. Come back tomorrow to learn about Mutants & Masterminds, Sentinels of Earth-Prime, and 5E.
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The Expanse Roleplaying Game takes the popular science fiction universe of The Expanse fiction series by James S.A. Corey (starting with the novel Leviathan Wakes) and brings it to tabletop gaming using the Adventure Game Engine or AGE System. You may well have heard about The Expanse RPG during our wonderfully successful Kickstarter, and may have even backed it then. In that case you have our thanks and the opportunity to check out a lot of existing previews. There’s also The Expanse Quickstart available to download for free. Now that the game is also going into pre-orders, we’re going to preview a few more things to give you a look at what you can expect from it.
Artist: Mirco Paganessi.
One of the most fearsome sights on the modern battlefield of the System is military power armor, like the Goliath suits worn by Martian Marines. Two and a half meters tall, and weighing 400 kilograms even before a soldier climbs inside, power armor provides both formidable offense and defense. Half armor and half spacesuit, the armor has radiation shielding sufficient to let soldiers walk through a nuclear bomb crater minutes after the blast. The armor’s titanium and ceramic-composite exterior shielding is typically painted in camouflage patterns appropriate to the assignment, and enemies are often surprised just how well an enormous soldier in power armor can blend into the environment when they stand still.
The armor’s hydraulics system magnifies the wearer’s strength, much like a mech rig, and carries most of the weight of the suit, allowing soldiers in power armor to undertake marathon hikes and move surprisingly fast. They also enable the armor carry heavy weaponry, typically a rotary machine gun and sometimes a grenade launcher or micr0-missile pack. Sensor packages feed data to the wearer on the helmet’s HUD, allowing them to identify and track infrared targeting lasers used by opponents’ weapons, and even visually parse those weapons using the suit’s camera feeds to match them against an internal database. Those same cameras monitor in all directions, sending feeds back to squad officers and their military command center, which can monitor the life signs of both the soldiers and opponents who have been detected and attacked.
In AGE System terms, power armor grants the wearer the following:
All of the benefits of a vac-suit.
+12 armor bonus with no armor penalty, so long as the armor is operational.
+10 effective bonus to Strength and Strength (Might) tests.
+2 bonus to Speed and +4 bonus to Constitution (Endurance) tests.
An integral rifle doing 3d6 + Perception damage and capable of performing automatic weapon gun stunts.
+2 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) tests compatible with the unit’s camouflage.
+2 bonus to Perception tests where the armor’s sensor package applies.
If power armor loses power, it becomes massive deadweight, effectively leaving the wearer restrained and unable to use any of the armor’s systems.
Maintenance: Power armor requires regular maintenance activities during interludes to remain in full working order (see Interludes in Chapter 5).
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If you keep illegally dumping fracking waste, Big Oil, we’ll keep videotaping you
By Holly Richmond on May 19, 2014
Earlier this spring, a tanker truck leaked roughly 1,000 gallons of toxic fracking fluid on eight miles of road in South Texas. Authorities can’t be certain that the middle-of-the-night spill was intentional, just like no one knows where flowers come from.
But at least now, thanks to surveillance footage, the company responsible is under investigation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the state Railroad Commission. As detective Robert Ebrom, Jr., said, “If I could, I would file criminal charges.”
Here are the gory deets from Inside Climate News:
When the On Point Services tanker left the Marathon drilling site, it contained 20 to 30 barrels (840-1,260 gallons) of contaminated drilling fluid, according to the report. Records show the tank was empty when it arrived at facility where tankers are cleaned out.
Convenient!
The driver told sheriff’s investigators the valve of the back of his tanker sometimes leaked, though he said he couldn’t remember whether he checked on that particular load to see if the valve was closed …
Double-convenient! You’re working in the booming Eagle Ford Shale, pounding the ground with an undisclosed poisonous blend that includes “dangerous chemicals, oil, metals shavings, and naturally occurring radioactive materials.” But that toxic sizzurp’s gotta go somewhere when you’re done tainting the local water supply working. Why not accidentally lose it on a stretch of rural land?
Because people like mom and organic farmer Amber Lyssy will bust you, that’s why. (Fist pump!) In a very similar case four months ago, Lyssy was driving at night when she spotted black goo coming from a tanker truck. She took some shaky video of the spill near Hunt Oil and scooped up some of the gunk:
Unfortunately, law enforcement “pooh-poohed [it] away,” Lyssy says, and scolded her for not getting a photo of the offending truck. RIGHT. Because it’s her fault oil giants are breaking the law.
If Big Oil is gonna keep fracking, wouldn’t it be cool if they actually obeyed the rules? Until then, we’ve got camera phones, and we aren’t afraid to use them [glares menacingly].
Illegal Dumping of Texas Frack Waste Caught on Video , Inside Climate News
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Nietzsche
Our Island Story - H. E. Marshall
The Commonwealth—The Adventures of a Prince
King Charles was beheaded on 30th January 1649 A.D., and Parliament immediately proclaimed that kings were bad and useless, so England would have no more. The Government would be a commonwealth. Common here means 'belonging to all,' and wealth, although we now use it to mean money, at one time meant well-being or happiness. Commonwealth really means the well-being or happiness of all. No one was to be greater than another; all were to be equal. The House of Lords was therefore, they said, useless and dangerous, and they did away with it. They also made it a crime for any one to call Prince Charles king, although he was the eldest son of Charles I.
The people of Scotland and Ireland, however, were very angry when they heard what had happened. The Scots had never wished the King to be killed; they had hoped to force him to rule better. Now that he was dead they proclaimed his son Charles king. At the same time the Irish rebelled, and Cromwell and his Ironsides went to subdue them. Very many of the Irish were Roman Catholics, and some years before they had risen and cruelly murdered the Irish Protestants. Cromwell hated the Roman Catholics, and he intended now to punish them for their cruelty to the Protestants, as well as for rebelling against the Commonwealth, as the Government of Britain was now called.
Cromwell remained nine months in Ireland, and so cruel and pitiless was he, that for many years no Irishman could hear his name without a shudder and a curse. The country was utterly subdued. Many of the people were killed, others were sent as slaves to the West Indies, and all who could fled to far countries to escape the fury of Cromwell.
When he had finished this dreadful work, Cromwell returned to England, and then marched into Scotland. The Ironsides had never been defeated, and now they won battle after battle, and at last Charles decided to march into England and fight for his crown there.
Cromwell was very much astonished when he heard what Charles was doing, and he hurried after him as fast as he could. The English did not flock to join Charles as he had expected, and when the two armies met at Worcester, Cromwell's army was nearly twice as large as that of the Prince. A dreadful battle followed. The Scots fought gallantly for their Prince, but they were utterly defeated. Hardly any escaped, and those who were not killed were sold as slaves.
Cromwell called this battle his 'crowning mercy,' for with it Charles lost all hope of regaining his kingdom. It was fought on what Cromwell used to think was his 'lucky day,' the third of September.
Charles fled from Worcester, and had many adventures before he reached safety. Great rewards were offered to any one who would tell where he was hiding, punishment and death threatened those who helped him. Yet so many were faithful to him that he escaped.
He cut off his beautiful hair, stained his face and his white hands brown, and instead of silk and satin, he put on coarse clothes which were much patched and darned, so that he looked like a labouring man. Then with an axe over his shoulder, he went into the woods with four brothers, who really were working men, and pretended to cut wood.
All day long they stayed in the wood, and at night the four brothers guided the Prince to another place. There they found so many of Cromwell's men that it was not safe for Charles to stay in a house. That night he slept in a hay-loft. Next day, finding that even there he was not safe, he climbed into an oak-tree, and lay among the branches. As it was September, the leaves were very thick and hid him well.
Charles lay very still and quiet. His heart thumped against his ribs, and he held his breath when some of Cromwell's soldiers rode under the tree. They were so close that he could hear them talk.
'The Lord hath given the ungodly one into our hands,' said one.
'Yea, he cannot be afar off.'
'We will use well our eyes. Perchance the Lord may deliver the malignant even unto us.'
But the kind green leaves kept close, and little did the Roundheads think that the very man for whom they were looking was close above their heads and could hear every word they said.
For a whole long day Charles lay in the oak, and at last Cromwell's men, having searched and searched in vain for him, went away. Then Charles climbed down from the tree and walked many weary miles till his feet were blistered and sore, and his bones ached.
At length he reached the house of a Royalist lady and gentleman, who were kind to him.
The lady pretended that she had to go on a journey to visit a sick friend. Charles was dressed as her servant and mounted upon a horse, and the lady got up behind him. In those days, before there were trains or even coaches, ladies very often travelled like this. They did not ride upon a horse by themselves, but mounted behind a servant or a friend.
For many miles Charles travelled as this lady's servant, having many adventures and escapes by the way. As Charles was supposed to be the servant, he had, of course, to look after the horse. One evening, as he went into the stable-yard of the inn in which they were to spend the night, he found it full of Cromwell's men. One of them looked hard at the Prince.
'My friend,' he said, 'I seem to know your face.'
'Like enough,' replied Charles, 'I have travelled a good deal with my masters.'
'Surely,' said the man, 'you were with Mr. Baxter?'
'Yes,' replied the Prince calmly, 'I was with him. But now make way, my man, till I see after my beast. I will talk to you later.'
So Charles busied himself with his horse, and escaped from the man who took him to be a fellow-servant.
After many dangers, often being recognised in spite of his disguises, the Prince arrived at Lyme Regis, and there a little boat was found to take him over to France. But when the captain's wife heard who was going to sail in her husband's boat, she was afraid. She was afraid that Cromwell might hear of it, and perhaps kill her husband. So she told him he must not go.
'I must go,' said the captain, 'I have promised.'
'You shall not go,' said his wife, and, seeing that talking did no good, she locked him into a room and took the key away.
Charles and his friends waited in vain for the captain, and at last they left Lyme Regis in despair. After more adventures they reached Brighton, and there they really did find a boat and a captain willing to take them over to France.
The evening before starting, Charles was having supper at a little inn in Brighton, when the landlord came behind him and kissed his hand. Again he had been recognised. But the landlord was faithful, and would not betray him.
'God bless your Majesty,' he said, 'perhaps I may live to be a lord, and my good wife a lady.' He thought that if Charles ever came back to the throne he would not forget those who had helped and served him when he was poor and in trouble.
For more than six weeks Charles had travelled in fear and danger among his bitter enemies. In spite of his disguises, many people had recognised him. Yet not one had betrayed him. Instead, they had taken a great deal of trouble and run many risks to help and save him, and now his difficulties and dangers were over.
Very early next morning, while it was still almost dark, the little party crept down to the shore. In the grey dawn Charles stepped on board the boat, the sails were set, and slowly he was carried away from his kingdom which he was not to see again for many long days.
Albion and Brutus
The Coming of the Romans
The Romans Come Again
Caligula Conquers Britain
The Story of Boadicea
The Last of the Romans
The Story of St. Alban
Vortigern and King Constans
Hengist and Horsa
Hengist's Treachery
The Giant's Dance
The Coming of Arthur
Founding of the Round Table
Gregory and the Children
King Alfred Learns to Read
Alfred and the Cowherd
More About Alfred the Great
Ethelred the Unready
Edmund Ironside
Canute and the Waves
Edward the Confessor
Harold Godwin
The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Hereward the Wake
The Story of William the Red
The Story of the "White Ship"
The Story of King Stephen
Henry II—Gilbert and Rohesia
Thomas a Becket
The Conquest of Ireland
Richard Coeur de Lion
How Blondel Found the King
The Story of Prince Arthur
The Great Charter
Henry III and Hubert de Burgh
Simon de Montfort
The Poisoned Dagger
The War of Chalons
The Hammer of the Scots
King Robert the Bruce
The Battle of Bannockburn
The Battle of Sluys
The Battle of Crecy
The Siege of Calais
The Battle of Poitiers
Wat Tyler's Rebellion
How Richard Lost His Throne
The Battle of Shrewsbury
Prince Hal Sent to Prison
The Battle of Agincourt
The Maid of Orleans
Red Rose and White
Margaret and the Robbers
The Story of the Kingmaker
A King Who Wasn't Crowned
Two Princes in the Tower
The Make-Believe Prince
Another Make-Believe Prince
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Defender of the Faith
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Story of a Boy King
The Story of Lady Jane Grey
Elizabeth a Prisoner
A Candle Lit in England
Elizabeth Becomes Queen
A Most Unhappy Queen
Saved from the Spaniards
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Queen's Favourite
The Story of Guy Fawkes
The Story of the Mayflower
A Blow for Freedom
King and Parliament Quarrel
The King Brought to Death
The Adventures of a Prince
The Lord Protector
How Death Plagued London
How London was Burned
The Fiery Cross
The Story of King Monmouth
The Story of the Seven Bishops
William the Deliverer
William III and Mary II
A Sad Day in a Highland Glen
How the Union Jack was Made
Earl of Mar's Hunting Party
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Flora MacDonald
The Black Hole of Calcutta
How Canada Was Won
How America Was Lost
A Story of a Spinning Wheel
Every Man Will Do His Duty
The First Gentleman in Europe
Two Peaceful Victories
The Girl Queen
When Bread was Dear
Victorian Age: Peace
Victorian Age: War
The Land of Snow
The Siege of Delhi
The Pipes at Lucknow
Under the Southern Cross
From Cannibal to Christian
Boer and Briton
List of Kings
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World Juniors 2018 Round 10: Can Abhimanyu win a medal?
by Sagar Shah - 15/09/2018
The World Junior Championship 2018 is poised excitingly for the silver and bronze medals in the open section and all the three medals in the women's section. The gold has already been decided in the open section with Parham Maghsoodloo scoring another fine win in the 10th round against Maxim Vavulin. For Indians our best hope is GM Abhimanyu Puranik who is currently in the fourth position and plays GM Aram Hakobyan with the black pieces in the final round. If Abhimanyu can win this game, he will be assured of the medal. The final round begins at 12.30 p.m. IST. We have embedded the live game player as well as the live commentary and an opening video in this article. Don't miss it.
Overview of Indian performances:
Currently two Indians have a chance for a medal - Abhimanyu Puranik has a realistic chance as he is in the joint second position with 7.5/10, while Varshini is in 8th position and is one point behind the leader. The difference between Abhimanyu and Varshini is that if Abhimanyu wins he is guaranteed of a medal, but even if Varshini wins, she has to have other results going her way in order to get a medal.
SNo Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pts. Rk. K rtg+/- Group
4 GM Karthikeyan Murali 2605 IND 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 6,5 18 10 -3,50 Open
10 GM Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. 2578 IND 1 1 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 6,5 26 10 -2,20 Open
13 GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan 2573 IND 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 7,0 11 10 1,80 Open
23 GM Puranik Abhimanyu 2524 IND 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7,5 4 10 17,20 Open
27 IM Karthik Venkataraman 2519 IND 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 0 ½ 6,5 14 10 17,90 Open
40 IM Harsha Bharathakoti 2474 IND 1 1 1 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 6,5 15 10 11,80 Open
50 IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh 2443 IND ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 6,0 40 10 -0,30 Open
56 IM Raja Harshit 2419 IND 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 6,0 39 10 0,00 Open
77 IM Krishna Teja N 2356 IND 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 5,0 98 10 -10,00 Open
94 FM Shailesh Dravid 2325 IND 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 5,5 71 20 7,00 Open
12 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 2279 IND 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 6,5 15 40 -18,40 Girls
21 WIM Mahalakshmi M 2213 IND ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 5,0 45 20 -19,60 Girls
32 WIM Varshini V 2173 IND 1 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 7,0 8 20 26,60 Girls
36 WIM Ivana Maria Furtado 2144 IND 1 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ 5,0 43 20 -1,80 Girls
55 WCM Isha Sharma 2012 IND 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 5,5 29 40 111,60 Girls
65 Meenal Gupta 1963 IND ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 0 0 5,0 44 40 102,40 Girls
If Abhimanyu Puranik wins his game today, he is assured of a medal
V. Varshini is currently in eighth position. She has to win her game and hope that other results
In the ninth round Abhimanyu drew his game against Bai Jinshi
Getting some excellent exposure at the World Juniors - Harshit Raja and Shailesh Dravid
The World Junior Champion 2018 Parham Maghsoodloo
Parham Maghsoodloo became the World Junior Champion 2018 with a round to spare. He scored 9.5/10 and is two points clear of the field! He has gained 26.5 Elo points and has a rating performance of 2976! Unbelievable, but true. His live rating is now 2691.
I first saw Parham live in action at the IIFLW tournament in Mumbai in January 2018. He was the sixth seed with a rating of 2570. He won the tournament ahead of some strong players like Abhijeet Gupta, Timur Gareyev, Ivan Rozum and many other GMs. After the tournament ended I asked Parham for a short interview. Here's how it went:
Interview with Parham Maghsoodloo at IIFLW tournament in January 2018
One of the things that stood out from that interview was Parham saying," I work 20 hours a day on chess!" I was not sure how to take that. Was that an overstatement? Was he making fun of me? Or was it really true? A lot of people messaged me that day and on the following day that they had seen the video and were surprised that someone could work so hard and love chess so much.
Instead of trying to explain to the world, Parham decided to let his performance do the talking. Just 9 months later Parham has a live Elo of 2691. That means he has added 121 Elo points in last nine months. It is very clear to any chess literate person that this can only be possible for someone who works hard on chess. In the last 10 days I have interviewed Parham at least 8 times and every time he is able to surprise me in some way or the other. Sometimes it is his phenomenal opening preparation that runs as far as 35 moves, sometimes it's his memory that he can actually replay those 35 moves on the board, sometimes it is his ability to find the best move in any given position, no matter how bad it is, and lastly his hunger for chess. Every time he played a game there was a child like enthusiasm in him to see whether he had made the best moves or not. I guess what really motivates him is the challenge of finding all the best moves in the position. Sometimes after the game he would ask me, "So, how did I play?" He knew that I would have checked the games with the engine. The focus for Parham is always on making the best moves in any given position. No wonder, he is able to win game after game! I have no doubt that in the years to come he will be one of the finest players in the world.
Parham Maghsoodloo with his family
Follow the games Live which begins at 12.30 p.m. IST
Watch the commentary Live
Live Commentary for the final round on Turkish Chess Youtube Channel
Abhimanyu Puranik wins silver medal at World Juniors 2018
@ 17/09/2018 by Sagar Shah (en)
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Question answered.
That’s not Henry Mallick.
That’s Mr Magoo.
But Henry could easily look a lot like him.
See, Henry Mallick is really me. Or one possible version of me. An alter-ego if you like. Aged roughly 30 years from now and wearing comfortable shoes but still somehow managing to pull on his trusty KISS ‘Destroyer’ t-shirt. That’s Henry. Sitting on his front porch, the grandkids gathered at his feet, lauding – “I’ve seen a lot of things in my day. Most of it on TV and the Internet.” Classic Henry.
What follows is something written by me, purporting to be a short story, featuring Henry called TRIUMPH BY MISTAKE.
From beginning to end it will take ten minutes to read, which is exactly half the time James Cameron’s 1997 movie TITANIC needed to kill off the preamble and introduce its Jack and Rose story.
Given it’s length, I now knowingly bid farewell to 99% of readers. For the other 1%, I hope you enjoy the story of Henry Mallick and his bid for ‘one last go on the swings’ amidst the pea-soup fog and irrelevancy of old age. Let the walking stick schtick begin..
Wizened Henry Mallick had come to realize the trouble with retirement was you never got a day off. Since finishing up his job as a career locomotive train driver the day he turned sixty-five, he’d taken up position in the comfortable, well-worn and floral-upholstered recliner that was retirement. Where once he’d been surrounded by all the paraphernalia and status of a busy working and family man, now there were only scrapbook memories, lack of a daily schedule and reminders of the much barer landscape he’d inherited. “Hello pension – Goodbye tension” read the peeling-at-the-edges bumper sticker on the back of Henry’s car. Life had slowed to a more sedate pace and ‘quality time’ was the bright-sided, catchphrase-sounding order of the day. Though he was, according to his two adult daughters – both of whom were too busy to visit – a bona-fide ‘gentleman of leisure’, life for Henry had begun to feel a lot more like just passing time, whilst forever bobbing on an ocean in nothing more than a leaky rowboat. Now swimming in the tide of his seventh decade, Henry Mallick may have contented himself with mooching around in a cardigan amidst the cozy surrounds of the ‘stylish, affordable and ergonomically designed’ retirement village he now found himself accommodated in, but it wasn’t difficult for him to remember a time, many decades past, when he’d definitely have wished to die before getting old and smelly and boring and embarrassing.
For a man rumored to have at one time in his life been a closet dagger-between-the-teeth type of guy (amongst the rolling stock and diesel engine crowd, that was) his days were now filled with the less-than-heady cocktail of tending to his rose garden, earning his ‘netizen’ stripes with attendance at internet classes for seniors and going on long nocturnal walks by the sea wall. Quoting the opening line of the Charles Dickens novel ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ – “Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking” was a favorite conversation gambit Henry used on unsuspecting checkout staff down at the local supermarket. He also regularly found the time to go looking for things he swore he’d just placed down moments before on his tea-stained marble kitchen benchtop.
When not occupied by any of these pastimes, Henry devoted himself to the cerebral challenges offered by computer scrabble and on-line jigsaw puzzles, writing letters to council about the need for more park benches as well as indulging one of his more unorthodox interests in the form of researching the ‘true’ identity of Jack the Ripper. “It’s a known fact The Ripper and Vincent Van Gough were one and the same person”, Henry had become fond of telling anyone who had the misfortune to indulge him on the subject. Since his wife had passed away a year ago after a freak accident involving an exploding bottle of ammonia (reported in the newspapers) and he’d begun the daily existence of staring down the barrel of an empty apartment every day, he’d taken up with increasing vim the search for fresh meaning and purpose in his life. In what seemed an intuitive next chapter and extension of his former working life, Henry had begun attending once-a-month meetings, twice a year conventions and semi-regular swap-meets for model railway hobbyists. Here he could discuss track gauges, circuit-board soldering tips, and brass loco pickups to his heart’s content with like-minded people. As someone who’d at one time in their life also owned competitively raced greyhounds, he found the time as well to volunteer at his local animal welfare shelter answering phones, dog-walking and sometimes even cleaning out cages. Henry also found himself going on reading kicks, bingeing on one subject, such as the Rum Rebellion of 1808, or the Roman aqueducts, or basic color theory or the breeding habits of freshwater carp and reading everything he could get his hands on about it. For weeks he would talk about nothing else, until, unaccountably, he would stop talking about it altogether. He had become as suggestible to books and information gathered on the internet as a hypnotized subject, so eager was he to be taken out of his humdrum life.
Though he had gathered, to the best of his ability, the requisite components of what in the eyes of some might have passed for a padded-out life – taken as it mostly was from the garden-variety, silver-haired set-pieces and hobbies standard for people at his stage of life – (an interest in Jack the Ripper not withstanding) – with each passing day Henry began to sense, with every pilling thread of his favorite brown cardigan, that he was, despite his best attempts to the contrary, finally being beaten down by old age and the plain monotony of things. But Henry Mallick was defiantly stubborn in his refusal to fade away completely and assume the recognizable shuffling gait and pallid ghost-mask of a person from yesteryear. Unlike many of his fellow alumni, he was unwilling, at least just yet, to hang a metaphorical laminated cardboard sign around his neck that said – “I’m retired – go around me.” Instead Henry viewed the present stage of his life as having not dissimilar qualities to an old abandoned mine. While all too aware others may have regarded him and the type of life he was now leading as being only a couple of crusty, backfill-layers off a gaping dirt hole in the ground that had long ago exhausted its use, given up it’s worth and ceased being a source of anything of real value, with equal conviction he knew of the shards of gold and silver still embedded, just waiting to be brought to the surface. Other folks may have had their bucket lists prior to kicking the oxygen habit for good -Henry preferred the somewhat more direct term ‘But I’m not dead yet list’ – boasting of aspirations as considerable or lightweight as wanting to work in a lighthouse, serve on a jury, eat bulls testicles or use a fake name at Starbucks – but for Henry Mallick, his lifelong yearning had always been to attach himself to some kind of discovery, invention or breakthrough. For this reason he kept a black and white poster of the 18th century American polymath Benjamin Franklin on the wall of his garage workshop. Henry liked to remind himself that amongst the great scientist/politician/author/diplomat and electricity pioneer’s many accomplishments was the invention of the odometer while well into his seventies. In truth, Henry had come close several times during his working life to being credited with contributing to breakthrough discoveries connected with locomotive engines. In the 1980’s he’d been briefly part of a research and development team that had set about trying to develop a new type of low-maintenance wheel set for trains. The technique he’d been helping to develop, before funding was first reduced then pulled altogether, involved heat-treating a specific type of low-carbon steel alloy that was resistant to stress and fatigue. The idea never saw the light of day and new technologies arising from applications of titanium foam and supercritical-cooled aerogels eventually superseded his plans and became the industry standard. He’d also put forward ideas on an electronically controlled pneumatic braking system to replace the old mechanically operated ones diesel locomotives once used, but his ideas had never risen above the interest of middle management. Eventually a Middle Eastern engineering firm was awarded the contract to develop the technology and Henry told himself he had little choice but to conclude his forward thinking, and what he’d heard referred to as ‘metaphorming’, were abilities destined to go unrewarded and not, for the time at least, find a place in the world. But now that time had begun to dissolve into itself, as shapeless as the rain, and he could decide for himself the direction of each day, he set about with all the fervor of youth to find something he could attach his name to, which might even serve as his lasting legacy and the way people would remember him. Yet something as conventional as a longer lasting light bulb was definitely not on Henry’s drawing board. There were naturally a great many failures, disappointments and frustrations along the way. His time at the animal shelter prompted Henry to recall an idea he’d read about a number of years back about beef-flavored water for dogs. After several uniquely experimental attempts at home-brewing involving immersing whole rump steaks in buckets of tap water for three days and then pouring the contents into an odd assortment of plastic bottles, Henry was ready to begin clinical trial testing in secret (that meant when no one was looking) at the shelter. However when his two main test subjects, a raisin-black Alsatian known as B.T (pronounced ‘Bee Tee’ and short for Bark Twain) and a disheveled Maltese with a broken tail that answered to ‘Socks’, showed as much interest as Henry himself had when he’d been invited by a village neighbor several weeks back to attend the premiere live stage show of URINETOWN : THE MUSICAL – which was to say none – he knew it was time to turn his attention elsewhere. What followed, as the next months flipped over like the pages of Henry’s precious library books, was a series of ever more ‘unexpected’ (read hare-brained and screwy, with the commercial appeal of singlet pockets) attempts at invention. An aborted go at creating a DVD rewinding device was followed by six weeks of research devoted to investigating the feasibility of a motorized surfboard. When the light of reason and practicality finally put paid to those plans, appearing in quick succession next on his assembly line of unorthodox ideas were: a negatively geared bicycle for accountants; a car rearview mirror that could not see someone sitting in the backseat; insect gender specific fly squatters (the male house fly being slightly smaller and less agile than its female counterpart, according to his research, thereby necessitated the need for a different shaped, angled and weighted striking implement); and anti-theft Christmas lights. The idea for this last brainwave being put unceremoniously to bed with a whopping great silvertanium shovel when Henry learned smart householders simply put the most expensive lights on the roof anyway as a way of preventing them being stolen. Henry’s set-backs began stacking up larger than a New England leaf pile. Though he fritted from one idea to the next with the agility of a snow leopard, even he had to admit that all his efforts, driven as they were by nothing more than shiny ingots of his personal passion and desire for recognition and notoriety, weren’t really amounting to much other than a quite absorbing use for his time – of which he still had a sizeable oversupply. Alone at night, the thought occurred to him that perhaps attaching his name to something as its inventor and getting it to market (as the premium business types would say) just wasn’t in the chorus of his destiny. No longer dealing with an unstruck match of possibility, and increasingly left with little other corner to turn, Henry began to scan the landscape of his own routines and ways of doing things for smart ideas he thought he might one day be able to turn into something. He may have considered himself at the cutting edge of resourceful for having the smarts to don swimming goggles whenever he cut onions or for arming himself for personal security reasons with a water pistol filled with vinegar whenever he ventured on one of his possum-taming night walks, but he had to ask himself were any of these routines springboards onto something bigger and more wholesale than just his own quirky habits? Henry knew he needed a break from all the thinking. That day he did something he’d never done before. He took himself off to the retirement village’s bingo morning. Entering the carpeted hall by himself, Henry worked the room like a politician, shaking hands and cracking jokes with the people he knew while fielding their questions about how his quest for inventing glory was progressing. Most in the village knew of his pursuits as he made no secret of it. They could also hardly forget Henry’s story from a few years back that he’d found a listening device in his fruitbowl. When the last numbers had been called and the game was finally over, Henry picked up his pink highlighting dabbers off the table and walked back down to his unit. He’d been watching a movie on his DVD player in small parts and was keen to finish it. Henry made himself a drink of iced tea, then added a splash of pineapple juice and a thimble full of his favorite Dragon Berry rum (before joining the railways he’d worked briefly as a bartender) then sat down on his leather couch and pressed play on the remote. The Big Sleep (1946) was one of his favorite films and having seen it numerous times he was able to cite in detail specifics of many of its scenes. He resumed his viewing at the moment where Lauren Bacall’s character memorably tries to use a back scratcher to knock the gun out of Lash Canino’s hand as he attempts to shoot private detective Phillip Marlow, played by Humphrey Bogart.
Henry sat back, watched and enjoyed himself for the next unbothered hour, lifting from the couch only once to answer the phone (it turned out to be another automated robocall message from his local politician, which he promptly hung up on). He enjoyed seeing old movies. They transported him back to a simpler time when heroes were heroes, villains were the cartoonishly one-dimensional version of bad, and the line between them was never crossed. He enjoyed the brief sortie into this terrain of simplicity and clarity (with gunplay and great-looking dames thrown in for added measure) that was so rarely offered to the thinking person in real life. Then, with Henry’s interlaced fingers supporting the back of his head and his feet extended out in front of him atop of his favorite lint-grey, crocheted footstool, at a certain moment, something quite extraordinary happened. As the movie continued to play, Henry was heard to say aloud to himself “Are you kidding?” while bending his neck forward, lowering his glasses to look over the rims and continuing to stare slack mouthed at the television screen. Henry pressed the pause button and then rewound what he thought he’d just seen. In his excitement he went back too far and had to overcorrect by forward advancing to find the spot in the movie where he’d just been. Pressing a hand against his chest with fingers splayed out, he commenced a slow, disbelieving shake of his head while all the time repeating softly to himself, “I can’t believe it.” Amazement didn’t quite cover it. It felt to Henry like someone had taken his initial spark of wonder and poured on kerosene. As he replayed again and again what his eyes told him couldn’t be true, it was like every neuron in his brain was trying to fire in the opposite direction at once – the best, most mind-bending kind of paralysis. Henry finally unstuck himself from the couch and managed to walk light-headedly the half dozen steps to the window directly in front of him, sliding it open. He needed fresh air. After several minutes looking out onto his neighbor Howard Mourn’s side garden and going over in his mind what he’d just seen -while at the same time making a mental note to let Howard know he had nibbled caterpillar holes in his petunia plants and more importantly exactly what he could do about it – Henry closed the window and walked back over to the television set. He sat down and resumed poring over the details of the movie scene he understood he’d just witnessed. Only this time he had moved closer to the appliance he referred to, using the ancient tongue, as ‘the telly’ and was not reclined on the couch but sitting bolt upright, legs astride the footrest, staring unblinkingly straight ahead at the screen like he’d seen his own doctor do when examining black and white x ray charts. There it was again, just as plain as day. He wondered why he’d never spotted it before. He’d seen the movie enough times. More than half way through the film, in a scene set inside a casino, a woman seated to the right of small-time, blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars (played by American star of the 1940’s John Ridgely) puts her chips on number 30 as he speaks to Lauren Bacall. In the very next shot, when the croupier asks everyone to take their chips off the table, whoa and behold there’s nothing on number 30! Henry checked again a few more times just to make sure. There was no mistake. He’d found a genuine continuity error and it would take some doing to wipe the smile off his face. This was what he’d been waiting for and trying so hard for so long for: a discovery he could finally put his name to. Perhaps it didn’t rate as highly as cracking the Riemann Hypothesis (that all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of one half, or some such thing) or any of the other Millennium Prize Problems that carried a $1 million reward for their solutions; nor even a thing as life-changing as the invention of the world’s first functioning teleporter, but it was, however modest, something. Something he could hang his hat on. At his stage of life he wasn’t about to pass up an opportunity to achieve a lifelong goal no matter how miniaturized the success or small the achievement. That night, as he tossed and turned in bed, thinking about how he’d somehow turn his hard-won and, by his thinking, miraculous ‘discovery’ into a fist-sized ingot of credit and recognition for himself, so many ideas flooded his brain he found it impossible to get to sleep. Was this really the sweet bird of success finally visiting him or just another of life’s pigeons dropping down false hope? Henry’s mind churned on in the darkness like a runaway steam train billowing diesel exhaust. The sleeping pills his doctor prescribed somehow didn’t work and time trickled by, marked only by the glowing Martian-green numerals of his bedside clock. In an attempt to end his tossing and turning Henry even considered putting into action a plan he’d been thinking about for some time but never actually done anything about. He’d thought for some time about knocking on the door of his across-the-way elderly neighbor Clover Christie and asking if she’d like to come to his house to lie in his bed. Not for sex, but to talk and fall asleep together, companionably. For lonely people such as he, the nights were always somehow the worst. He knew an idea like that, carried out the wrong way, could get him into a lot of trouble. After a time he thought the better of it and eventually fell asleep with the help of one of his trusted, old-timey remedies – drifting off to the inane chatter lullaby that was talk back radio. It bothered him little that he’d reliably wake up sometime the next morning to the sound of badly lisping and staticky radio announcers, the dial somehow always finding a way to move off station by itself throughout the night. Finally asleep, Henry dreamed the dreams of the triumphant and the contented, which for some unexplained reason, in his case, involved a waddle of penguins marching over a steep ice cliff and falling like tumbling pins into the sea below. The next morning Henry – invigorated, alive, vanquishing ‘discoverer’ Henry – awoke early. Through the translucent white curtains of his bedroom he could just make out the faintest trace of fine, duck-egg blue painting the horizon due east – the first hint of the coming dawn. No sooner had he risen was he tapping away at the computer keyboard in his unit’s disproportionately large middle room, that always smelled of cilantro, and trying to find out exactly how and to whom he should make known his unique find. Before long he’d hit upon a website dedicated to precisely such things – www.moviemistakes.com . He emailed them news of his most celebration-worthy unearthing plus a few questions concerned with the details of precisely how and in what form he would receive his much-prized official crediting.
Henry was made to wait a number of hours for a reply but later that afternoon he saw his inbox now contained a response from the site administrator. There was good news and bad news, he was told. The good news was confirmation he had indeed discovered a genuine continuity mistake not previously recognized for the movie The Big Sleep. Additionally, Henry would receive named credit on the website for the find. The less than joyous news that managed to at least temporarily remove some of the shine from the moment for Henry was the promise from the site administrator that he would duly add Henry’s found treasure to the list of 368 other verified mistakes already attributed to the film. Henry Mallick wasn’t to know but for those that did, the common wisdom was the older the movie the greater the chances of finding hidden boom microphones and continuity slipups. It made sense when one took into account the much cheaper production values of bygone eras. A modest triumph it may have been but Henry knew better than to scorn life’s small victories. Only last week he’d managed to apply window tinting film to his 1982 Ford F-Series utility pickup truck without so much as a single air bubble. He sensed with all the intertwined hope and certainty of a dedicated slot machine player that this comparatively small payoff was a sign that a big win was somewhere close on the horizon. He’d keep going, keep trying to make the next discovery or breakthrough in whatever form it took. That night, as a sign of his renewed commitment to his quest, Henry Mallick erected his stepladder and affixed another poster upon the wall of his garage next to Ben Franklins. The words of Irish novelist James Joyce would greet him from that day forward whenever he tinkered in his workshop – “Mistakes are the portholes to discovery.” Encouragement like that was ammunition in his daily battle against feelings of unaccomplishment; that sense of being obsolete that tended to come with the territory colonized by a person of his age and countenance and make him some days feel as fragile as the wings of a dragonfly. With a sense of pride, Henry Mallick made a mental note that each time he read the words of the famous Dublin born writer he would remind himself of one very relevant point. The specific reference to ‘mistakes’ in the quotation, though Joyce could never have envisaged it writing back when he did, most certainly and for Henry, triumphantly, included those of the motion picture variety as well.
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Food Explainer: Buffalo Mozzarella
What exactly is buffalo mozzarella? Mozzarella cheese made in Buffalo, New York– much like the city’s alleged “buffalo” wings perhaps?
This time, buffalo literally means buffalo. Buffalo mozzarella, or mozzarella di bufala, is a rich cheese that is made from domestic water buffalo milk. Water buffalo milk provides higher levels of protein, fat and minerals than cow’s milk, which contributes to the cheese’s high quality, fresh deliciousness. Buffalo mozzarella is produced in many locations around the world, but originated in Italy, where buffalo mozzarella production is still a key industry and cultural tradition. The majority of buffalo mozzarella produced in Italy comes from southern Italy– namely Salerno, Napoli, Basso Lazio, Caserta
and Foggia. It is served in salads, melted on pizzas, on top of bread, or on its own. Fresh buffalo mozzarella is very dense, but soft and can be cut easily with a knife. It still retains a lot of moisture so some liquids may come out when you cut it. Therefore, making pizzas with buffalo mozzarella often requires using types that have lower moisture content.
There are many theories on how water buffalos first arrived in Italy. It is widely believed that they were introduced to mainland Italy by Norman Kings around the year 1000, after Arabs brought them to Sicily. The presence of buffalos and their by-products have since been traced back to the 12th and 13th centuries.
Domestic water buffalo. Image from http://www.mlive.com
The name mozzarella originates from the Italian word, “mozzare”, or “to cut off”, which represents the stage in the production process where cheese makers hand-cut the freshly made cheese paste.
These are the main steps for buffalo mozzarella production. For more details and photos, visit the Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP page.
1. Milk processing and curdling- Raw buffalo milk is stored, heated and then allowed to curdle by adding natural whey. The curds are then stirred and broken up manually. The solid matter is then separated from the liquid milk.
2. Curd maturation- Curds are left in the why to ferment for 4-5 hours. When the paste is ready, as determined after a few manual tests, it is placed on a table to drain off the excess whey, cut into strips and placed into special vats.
3. Spinning- Boiling water is added to the cheese mixture and manually spun using a bowl and wooden stick. It is continuously kneaded and stretched until a homogenous paste is obtained.
4. Shaping- Shaping the cheese can be done using traditional or industrial methods. Traditional methods entail one cheese maker holding up the spun paste while another cuts it manually. Industrial cheese makers have mechanical molds. Buffalo mozzarella is usually shaped into bite-size pieces, knots, braids, or its well-known spherical shape.
5. Packaging- The cheese is packaged on-site in liquids for preservation.
How to Identify Authentic Buffalo Mozzarella from Italy
In Italy, certified buffalo mozzarella producers belong to a consortium and follow strict guidelines that ensure authenticity and freshness. In 2008, it was discovered that some uncertified buffalo mozzarella contained a high level of carcinogens, most likely from contamination caused by the illegal trash problem in Naples. Buffalo mozzarella can only be sold if it is pre-packaged at the source. By Italian law, if the cheese is packaged in a knotted bag, the manufacturer must place a seal of guarantee above the knot to prevent possible contamination.
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The Birth of Pizza
The first pizza was born when a Neapolitan visionary put a tomato topping on flat pizza crust in the late 17th – 18th century. No cheese on the pizza….yet. Although flatbreads had been around for centuries, the Italians were the first to revolutionize plain flatbread and turn it into a versatile meal that can be modest or luxurious with the right selection of toppings. The pizza we know and love today, with oozing hot mozzarella cheese, rich tomato sauce, and toppings, evolved from its Italian ancestor, the Margherita pizza.
Old-timey Margherita pizza. myyyya ...see?
I was lucky enough to sample many varieties of pizza in several restaurants during my time in Naples- one of the benefits of traveling with other fellow pizza lovers who don’t mind sharing!
Pizzeria Brandi
Salita Sant’Anna di Palazzo, 1 (small street off of Via Chiaja), 80132 Napoli, Italia
Tucked away on a tiny side street is Pizzeria Brandi- where it all began in 1780. We are presented with royal blue menus with super fancy script font that takes forever to decipher, but indeed appears very regal. There are original pizzas and special pizzas, named after Italian icons such as Sofia Loren. Each menu has a lovely introductory story about the restaurant and how the pizza Margherita came to be.
The founder, Pietro Colicchio, first named the restaurant “Pietro…e basta cosi” (Peter… and that’s enough!). All subsequent managers were then referred to as “Pietro”, regardless of their real names. Kind of like how all Yankees managers would be called, Joe, after Joe Torre (lucky for current manager Joe Girardi who already fits the bill), according to present-day boyfriend Pietro. In 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita di Savoia requested a sampling of pizza from Pizzeria Brandi, and later declared the Margherita pizza– made with mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce, and basil leaves to reflect the colors of the Italian flag–to be “excellent”. The restaurant still has the original letter framed.
But first, an appetizer of buffalo mozzarella with pomodorini and arugola leaves. No sauce, no seasonings- the mozzarella and produce have enough flavor to stand alone. The buffalo mozzarella is juicy when you cut it, since it still retains a lot of liquid from being submerged in water, and it tastes very dense and rich, but mild.
We order a few different pizzas- the Margherita, the Enrico Caruso (mozzarella, prosciutto with arugola), and a traditional seafood pizza. Beverages include red house wine and mineral water.
The Margherita pizza (below, left) definitely lives up to its name of being the first of its kind. The fresh mozzarella is melted, with some of the leftover moisture from the cheese running throughout the pizza and combining with the other ingredients. The mozzarella cheese is added in chunks and spread out, as opposed to many pizzas we see today, with cheese spread throughout the pizza and reaching the crust to produce a complete cheesy cover.
Pietro...and Pietro! Courtesy of B. Mannisi!
The Enrico Caruso pizza (above, right), named after the famous Italian tenor, features a combination of sliced pomodorini (mini tomatoes), arugola, mozzarella, and thin-sliced prosciutto (no sauce). In Italy, pizza is often eaten by cutting it with a knife and fork, which works well with this pizza since the toppings are all loose. This is a common pizza in Naples in terms of the ingredient combinations, but the freshness is what counts. There is a little too much dough for my taste, which fills me up quickly, so I cut around the crusts, and enjoy the toppings.
Present-day boyfriend Pietro gets the traditional seafood pizza (left), with a simple layer of fragrant tomato sauce and a generous helping of seafood toppings. There are baby octopuses with their eight little tentacles intact, squid, clams, mussels, and basil. When you first taste it, it almost feels like something is missing. It’s really good. But I was told this is pizza. Where is the melted pizza cheese? Well, you just have to embrace the original. I’m sure Italians come to America and think, Why is there so much cheese? Cheese everywhere! You can’t taste anything else!
Ristorante Mattozzi
Piazza Carita 2, 80134 Napoli, Italia
Founded in 1832, Ristorante Mattozzi also boasts historically amazing pizza. I order the spaghetti vongole (bottom, left), which has a little more red sauce than the previous version from Ciro a Medina. The spaghetti vongole here is, in the words of Queen Margherita di Savoia, “excellent”. The pizzas is fantastic, and has a very flavorful tomato sauce to build on. The crust is puffy and chewy, a higher crust-pizza ratio than the others.
Most pizzerias in Naples have the option of adding buffalo mozzarella for an additional charge, or offer a pizza that uses buffalo mozzarella exclusively (above, right). These pizzas are especially rich. We also get a pizza with prosciutto, tomato sauce, cheese, and basil, (left) which is great.
Pizzeria Sofi
Via Cristoforo Colombo, 3 80133 Napoli, Italia
Hunger and hunger-driven intuition leads us to Pizzeria Sofi, with surprising, yet wonderful results. We are famished after our long train ride from Bologna and decide to walk straight from our hotel to the port area of Naples to find something, anything, to eat. The pizza at Sofi is slightly different from the centuries-old pizza restaurants we tried. Its pizza crust is even thinner, with more cheese spread throughout the entire surface of the pizza. I think it is closer to the pizza we are used to today but with an a paper thin crust, high quality ingredients, and flavors that come together very organically. All in all, a terrific pizza. I dare say one of the best I’ve had in Italy so far.
I really want to try one of the anchovy pizzas, since southern Italy (namely Sicily) is known for its anchovies. It is called a pizza romana here (below), which is really strange considering most pizzas with anchovies (at least in the north) are called pizza siciliana. The pizza siciliana in opposite-world Pizzeria Sofi is an eggplant pizza. Pietro’s dad asks why pizza siciliana here has eggplant and the waiter said, “because eggplant is good in Sicily.” Fair enough!
Yummm the anchovy pizza here is incredible! Pietro orders the quattro stagioni (four seasons) pizza (below), separated into four corresponding sections with mushroom, prosciutto cotto (cooked prosciutto…really good ham, essentially), artichoke, and four cheeses. I once asked a waiter which season corresponded to which topping, and he said that it wasn’t literally a representation of four seasons but a selection of the different pizza ingredients the chef wants to put on the pizza. I guess sometimes when you really want there to be a story behind something, there is none and that’s that. Unless he just didn’t know, which is quite possible.
Trattoria Medina
Via Medina, 32 80133 Napoli, Italy
I have to bring this pizza back from the previous post (despite the poor photography on this one)- it is too good. I would just like to reiterate how fantastic fresh (not like a newly-opened Polly-O-string-cheese-wrapper type of fresh, but dripping-with-the-cheese-water-it-was-conceived-in type fresh) Italian cheese is on pizza. Particularly this ricotta. It is pretty inspirational, actually. Makes me want to experiment with making my own cheese at home. (And now that I have written it down, I guess I’ll have to follow through at some point!)
Pizza has come a long way since its humble beginnings as glorified flatbread. In the 19th century, the Florentine author of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi, aka one of the first food “bloggers”, remarked that all of the toppings, bits of cheese, and tomato made Neapolitan pizza look just like the “complicated filth” of the city*. Although I suppose people still crack jokes about the humble pizza, (Jack Donaghy from the amazing show 30 Rock referred to it as, “greasy peasant food”), pizza has prevailed. It can be found in many corners of the world, adapted to the preferred ingredients and tastes of fans from all different countries, and in fact, it is now an (if not THE) Italian icon…right next to Sofia Loren and the famous Italian tenor Enrico Caruso that my pizza was named after.
* Capatti, Alberto and Montanari, Massimo. Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Jack Donaghy!
Check out this pizza from Japan, at 646 calories a slice:
Looks like America better step it up!
http://www.gizmodo.com
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September 19, 2010 · 11:36 pm
Naples: Southern Charm…or Dirty South?
The southern port city of Naples, or Napoli in Italian, evokes very polarized views among travelers, Neapolitans, and northern Italians. Founded by the Greeks in the 9th century B.C., it is a city that has evolved through a long history of conquests and shifts in civilization, religion, and culture. On the train ride to meet up with Pietro’s family in Naples, I sit next to an older Italian gentleman who starts asking about my trip. During our conversation, I ask whether or not he is from Naples. He looks at me incredulously and laughs at my stupidity, “What? Naples?! Ohhh no no no! No way! I’m from Milan!” and immediately warns me about all the shady characters I might encounter there. Although Naples is not without its share of problems—dumpsters and street corners perpetually overflowing with garbage; political corruption; petty street crime—it possesses a certain southern charm that is not always apparent in northern Italian cities.
For the most part, the people are friendly and open- particularly if you try to speak some Italian first. In fact, they seem very family and pet-oriented (the city is especially pet-friendly…a few restaurants we went to allowed dogs). However, navigating the city proved challenging. Maps are simply unable to capture all of the tiny streets and piazzas that have existed since ancient times. The Neapolitans are always happy to point us in the right direction. But the traffic- oh the traffic. It is said that Naples has the worst traffic in the world, outside of Cairo, Egypt.
From the main train station in Naples, we get a cab and head towards the hotel. The cab proceeds to weave through a mess of cars, buses, mopeds, and pedestrians coming from all directions and heads straight into oncoming traffic on a busy two-way street. At the last minute, the cab swerves over the right lane- a few other cars follow suit, as if it is business as usual. Two-way streets are open to interpretation in Naples. You can go along traffic, against traffic, take left turns directly into oncoming traffic…no problem. There is a mutual understanding on the streets that somehow makes it all work. That doesn’t mean that my life doesn’t flash before my eyes every so often while riding the cabs or crossing the streets.
All pros and cons aside though- Naples has absolutely incredible food. It is the birthplace of pizza, land of the most delicious pomodorini (small tomatoes that grow by Mount Vesuvius), and source of great, fresh seafood.
Ciro a Medina
Ciro a Medina is a fantastic restaurant with a homey feel and simple, reliably good food. I liked it so much that I actually went twice during my week in Naples.
We get two seafood appetizers- the first (above, left) is an insalata ai frutti di mare, or salad with seafood. There is a cold mixture of small clams, mussels, whole shrimp, squid, on top of a bed of radicchio, with lemon on the side. The other antipasto platter (above, right) is olive oil and vinegar marinated salmon and sardines. Both types of fish have a very delicate texture, and the vinegar marinade is not very overpowering, but presents only a hint of acidity. The dishes are both garnished with fresh Italian parsley- fresh herbs definitely enhance any dish.
Restaurants in Naples have different interpretations of pasta dishes, particularly sauces. At Ciro a Medina, spaghetti vongole (spaghetti with clams), the pasta is cooked in a light sauce, in what appears to be only an infusion of olive oil, clam broth, and perhaps butter. The pomodorini are cooked and served in slices, and not in the form of red sauce. As you can see, this dish does not require many complex ingredients- in fact, it only really features three or four. At the same time, it is absolutely delicious, flavorful, and refreshing.
Most of the staff at Ciro speak English, and are very friendly when we ask about the linguistic differences between Northern and Southern Italian. The English word “now” in Italian is adesso while in Neopolitan Italian it is simply “mo” (not sure of spelling). The restaurant is a cheerful place- frequented by tourists as well as locals and sometimes, their small dogs. Paintings of old Italian market scenes adorn the walls.
I notice a basket on the ledge of the low wall on the second floor of the restaurant. It is tied to a long rope, which is tied to a column in the restaurant. The basket is used to quickly transport bread from the kitchen on the second floor to the dining areas on the first floor. One waiter fills the basket with bread, then immediately drops it down to the first floor, where another waiter picks up the bread and distributes it to the diners.
Down the street from Ciro is another great find- the Trattoria Medina. There is one waiter who is in charge of about 10 tables and is working at the speed of light. He quickly gets us our bottled water and rushes over to the basket dangling from the second floor to pick up our bread. In Italy, tap water is not usually served at restaurants. Italians order mineral water, either aqua naturale or aqua frizzante (still water or sparkling water). The waiter hands us a neatly wrapped brown paper package with visible grease stains seeping through. What could it be? A distinct greasy Five Guys brown paper bag filled with amazing fries perhaps?
Well- I think I’m going to have to give this one to the Italians. Upon unwrapping our lovely little gift, we discover various fried treats from fried risotto balls to fried potato and cheese. I personally think it would be a great new food truck idea because who wouldn’t love fried Italian food? It is crazy delicious! Of course we ended up being charged for our gift, but I guess that should’ve been obvious, since it was definitely worth the additional 4 euros.
Now for the pizza. Pizza in Naples is different from what we have grown up with, unless you grew up in Italy in which case you have been lucky enough to experience this from a young age:
This is a pizza with mozzarella, pomodorini, Italian salami, and fresh ricotta cheese. Note: there is no tomato sauce- only real tomato slices, as tomato sauce is added to certain types of pizza (such as the simple Margherita pizza with tomato sauce, mozzarella, and basil). The ricotta cheese is out of this world. Despite how the mounds of ricotta appear to be taking over the pizza, they do not overpower the rest of the ingredients at all. In fact, the ricotta is very mild, with a creamy and rich texture. The pizza crust is very thin, with a chewy crust. Now that is a great pizza.
On the agenda for the evening is a classical concert at the renown Teatro di San Carlo, founded by the Bourbon King Charles VII of Naples (or Carlo VII in Italian) in 1737. We happened to come across a poster for the night’s performance of Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven while walking past the theater and decide to get tickets. The event at this glamorous venue is open to the public and accessible at 15 euros per person.
We quickly realize that MTV Italy’s free Summer Music Festival is also scheduled for the same night close to the Teatro, at the Piazza del Plebiscito. There are 15 acts lined up for the concert, with Maroon 5 and N.E.R.D., among the Italian artists. After a memorable and enjoyable night of symphonies from the 18th century, surrounded by royal decor and rich marble statues of battling angel babies, we walk over to the Piazza to check out the scene.
And of course the scene is a 180 from where we were 10 minutes ago- from a hushed, ornate concert hall attended by older cultured types to a large outdoor rock venue with jumping tweens wearing flashing bunny ears and screaming along with their favorite Italian bands. The ground is covered with plastic and glass bottles, empty food wrappers, paper cups, and other litter. The crowds crush the litter and kick it around while they rock out to the songs. One look at the available waste facilities (below) and you can probably understand why this might be the case. It is kind of an organized mess- with glass and plastic bottles piled carefully around the tiny bin- but it inevitably ends up spreading throughout the rest of the venue.
Upon first glance by the unsuspecting visitor, Naples can be quite overwhelming and stressful- chaotic streets with litter and young loiterers everywhere– but like most places and situations, there are reasons why a place is the way it is. How you perceive it depends on how much you are able to accept and try to understand the context. Above all, in Naples you have to roll with the punches!
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Nacional Records’ Amazon Original, Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul, Debuts Live at Lincoln Center
The sounds of old-school, Texas Chicano R&B will fill NYC’s Damrosch Park as Adrian Quesada (formerly of Grupo Fantasma) brings the 2018 Nacional Records, Amazon Original album Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul to life with the help of Tejano trailblazers Johnny Hernandez of Little Joe & the Latinaires, Ruben Ramos, Jonny Benavidez, Eric Burton, Kam Franklin, Paul Schalda, and a multigenerational all-star Texas band.
A rich mixture of blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and classic mariachi, the project highlights the unsung musical heroes of 1950s and ‘60s San Antonio. The lineup for the evening also includes soul revival legend Lee Fields & the Expressions and Austin Music Awards’ Best New Band, the psychedelic Black Pumas.
“Texas soul to me is a unique Texas take on what we know as soul music, in a way that could have only happened in this state. You had this melting pot of black, brown, white; and you had proximity to the Mexican border adding influence…what has been exciting to me about making this record has been the process of working with some of these living legends – getting them in the studio, hearing and documenting their lifetime of stories…and honor the fact that these people opened the door for us to do what we do now.” – Adrian Quesada
Last October saw the arrival of the Amazon Original Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul on Amazon Music. Curated by Nacional Records, this lovingly-crafted project finds GRAMMY-winning Texas producer Adrian Quesada returning us deep inside the heart of a unique multicultural fusion with the assistance of many original musicians who gave birth to this distinctive regional sound, along with a new generation of Texas musicians who they inspired. The album released to critical acclaim and the Lincoln Center show marks the first live performance gathering this talented group of musicians.
Listen to Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul,on Amazon Music, here:http://amazon.com/lookatmysoul
About Lincoln Center Out of Doors:
Today, Lincoln Center announced its 49th annual Out of Doors festival season, offering free music, dance, family events, and spoken word performances in Damrosch Park and across the Lincoln Center campus from July 24 – August 11. This year’s festival showcases the unique talents of NYC-based dancers, performers, and musicians alongside renowned international artists for a multifaceted experience of the arts.
All events are FREE, require no tickets, and take place on Lincoln Center’s campus between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, from West 62nd Street to West 65th Street (except where noted). Visit LCOutOfDoors.org for more information and program updates.
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PREMIERE! Radio Free Honduras Debuts Suavecito
TOUR NEWS: New Kingston Spring Tour Brings Them to Chicago’s Wild Hare on May 24
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Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Would Make Good Video Games
Top 5 Wednesday is a weekly meme from Goodreads, created by Lainey from Gingerreadslainey and now moderated by Sam from ThoughtsOnTomes.
I’m going back in time in the T5W bank, because today’s was sci-fi/fantasy related again and I just did one of those! Let’s mix it up a bit =P I’m slowly getting back into games after trying Horizon Zero Dawn~
5. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Thought of you, Nancy! =P Eleanor & Park is an incredibly cute but incredibly heartbreaking story about two misfit teenagers falling in love. It’s set in the ’80s, but I often forgot that while reading it because the story and themes are so timeless. I think it would make a great 8 bit platformer game. You could alternate playing as Eleanor and Park every other level, and find different comics and tapes referenced in the book to give to the other person. There could be a heart meter that goes up or down depending on how many or what you find and give. And maybe the game would reveal the three mysterious words on the postcard – and change every time depending on how you play and how full you get the meter!
4. Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor
The first book is amazing and even if the sequels aren’t on the same level, y’all should read it. This trilogy is about a girl with blue hair named Karou, an artist who’s raised by monsters. One of her guardians deals in animal teeth, and you find out later he builds other creatures from the teeth he collects and strings together like necklaces. Wouldn’t that be an awesome sidequest in a game??? Finding teeth and stringing them together to build creatures for an army, each animal with different stat attributes? Deal me in!
3. Wonder Woman by George Perez
Okay, I admit I’ll take any incarnation of WW as a game, but the story and art of this run are iconic and stellar! I think it would lend itself well to a video game. There are also plenty of plot threads – main and side – that would translate well to a game. As it was written in the ’80s, I imagine it as another 8 bit sidescroller… complete with all the melodramatic cheesy dialogue goodness!
2. Birds of Prey by Gail Simone
There are a lot of angles from which a Birds game could be played. You could play strictly as Oracle, where you choose the heroes you send into the field, and see them from a birds-eye view (pun not intended!), and manipulate them as if you were playing a tactical board game. In addition to moving your heroines around, there could also be puzzles to solve and codes to crack in order for the mission to succeed. You could also play as one of the heroes and go into the field, with Oracle as your AI guide, for a more action-oriented game. I feel no matter which incarnation you get, there should be a role-playing element, to highlight the bond between the Birds so evident in the comics!
1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Okay I know we’ve had ports of movie tie-ins to just about every console and handheld from the PS1 and GameBoy on… we had Pottermore back when it was actually a game (and I’m still incredibly salty it’s not anymore)… but wHERE IS MY HARRY POTTER SIMULATOR??? WHEN CAN I MAKE MY OWN CHARACTER AND PLAY AS HER THROUGH HOGWARTS??? WHEN?!!?!? IT’S 2017 AND WE DON’T HAVE THIS YET AND IT’S A TRAVESTY TO HUMANKIND TBH
Honorable mention was a Batgirl game… one half-baked Arkham Knight DLC is never going to be enough… #saltyaboutit
What book to game incarnations would you want to see? =D
– Kathleen
I'm an artist/librarian in Chicago who loves reading, creating, and playing video games!
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18 thoughts on “Top 5 Wednesday: Books That Would Make Good Video Games”
jerscomicbooks
To Kill a Mockingbird. The long dialogue in the court scenes would be exhilarating to play. Jk!
The Odyssey would make for an incredible adventure game.
Hey, for those who like Ace Attorney, TKAM might be exciting XD The Odyssey would be amazing!
yaykisspurr
Awww I loved your idea for an Eleanor and Park game! Yes! I didn’t even think of one like that! Actually I don’t know of many people who don’t love the entire Daughters of Smoke and Bone series so it was refreshing to read you say that! I didn’t like 2-3 nearly as much as the first one…though I’m not sorry I read them. I agree a game based on that book would be awesome… great post!
My inspiration came from the affection meter in Dragon Age: Origins! Now there’s a game I haven’t picked up in a while =P
THE FIRST BOOK! IS JUST!! SO GOOD!!! It really is a shame the rest of the trilogy didn’t live up to it =( I’ve just started Strange the Dreamer tho and IT’S AMAZING! And one of the main characters is ALSO A LIBRARIAN!!! It makes my heart so happy =D Thank you for your kind words ❤
elliempatten
The world *needs* that Harry Potter simulator! I would literally live inside of that game.
Me too! I’d never come out for anything… not even to go to work =P
Reads & Reels
Cool post! Hunger games would make for a cool game I think.
That’d be a good simulator too… make your own character, get placed in a District, have the Games change every time you play!
Yes that would be really cool!
criticaloptimistblog
Can’t beleive nobody mentioned Percy Jackson yet. The series is practically begging to be made into an adventure rpg.
I didn’t mention it because… I haven’t read it *GASP* But I do know enough about it to where I could see it as a game!
YES to Eleanor & Park!! I would so ace that game!
I know you would! =D
Cheeky Booky
Ready Player One 😀 Since it’s about videogames anyway XD
Games within games within games!
Life of a Female Bibliophile
These are all really good picks! I really could see Daughters of Smoke & Bone as a video game, with the right visuals and voice acting it would be prefect!
Yes! I just finished “Strange the Dreamer” and I could see that as a great game, too!
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ICYMI: Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Rachel’s ‘Bachelorette’ Decision
Drew Weisholtz
Is the vice president eyeing a promotion? The Late Show host thinks he might be.
Stephen Colbert discussed the rumor that Mike Pence may be considering a run for president in 2020 on his show Monday night. The idea that Pence may want the Oval Office all to himself was too much for Colbert.
Over on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon had some fun with polls. He's taken some heat for not getting too political, but give Fallon credit here -- he definitely poked fun at President Trump and his administration.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was more concerned with matters of the heart, namely Rachel Lindsay's heart. He took some time out of his show to address her final decision on The Bachelorette.
The Late Late Show with James Corden upheld its reputation as one of the most entertaining and fun programs on the small screen when it played a game called "None of the Above," in which a contestant has to guess what someone in a news clip will say.
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Source: ICYMI: Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Rachel’s ‘Bachelorette’ Decision
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#NextGenLíderes San Francisco Recap
San Francisco, California, Thursday, September 14, 2017
By Vianni Busquets
In partnership with Northwestern Mutual, Hispanic Executive was thrilled to host the third and final installment of the 2017 #NextGenLíderes national tour in San Francisco on Thursday, September 14.
Sergio Fernandez, Chief Strategist for Guerrero Howe, parent company of Hispanic Executive magazine, kicked off the evening at One Kearny Club. “At 79 million strong, the millennial generation is now the largest, most diverse generation in the United States,” he said. “Now with the #NextGenLideres tour we feel we are initiating something quite powerful. By bringing together talented, multicultural, young professionals setting themselves up to be the líderes of tomorrow.”
Rocio Tapia, financial advisor at Northwestern Mutual, welcomed guests, shared insights on the importance of financial planning for millennials, and introduced the guest speaker for the evening.
“I strongly believe that millennials have the strong desire to make wise financial decisions. They just need somebody there to help coach them between their intentions and implementation of a financial plan.”
–Rocio Tapia
“We believe that young Hispanic professionals have the potential to become the success stories that will inspire the future workforce of this country,” Tapia continued.
One such success story, Tapia pointed out, is Marisela Garcia, who founded Iberus in 2015 to focus on cross-border investments in tech startups between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and international markets. She is the first Latina millennial leading cross border investments.
During the #NextGenLideres San Francisco program, Garcia shared some of the tips that have helped catapult her into unprecedented success. Most recently, she co-lead a delegation of Silicon Valley Latinos in Tech to Guadalajara and continues to promote delegations to emerging startup ecosystems around the world.
“I see Iberus becoming an international fund led by women investing in women tech entrepreneurs. Especially in today’s political climate, I think the fight for women to position themselves in business is continuous”
—Marisela Garcia
For more information on Marisela Garcia, catch her featured story in the next issue of Hispanic Executive. For more information on Northwestern Mutual, please visit their website.
Thank you to all who participated in the 2017 #NextGenLíderes tour!
For more images of the event, please visit our Facebook page. All photos by Gillian Fry.
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All About White Nose Syndrome In Bats
By Susan Linville
The mystery began in a cave near Albany, New York in 2006...
A bat with White Nose Syndrome.
The mystery began in a cave near Albany, New York in 2006. A caver noticed a group of hibernating bats with white “stuff” on their noses.
By the next winter, a few hundred bats with the same white fungus were found dead in several New York caves. Those infected, but still alive, were behaving oddly, flying out of their caves in the middle of the day, searching for food and dying in droves on the ice and snow.
What’s Happening To The Bats?
Nearly fifty bat species live in the U.S.; most are insectivores, and use echolocation to capture thousands of insects a night through the summer.
However, as temperatures fall and insects disappear, some bats enter caves and mines where they hibernate for the winter, slowly burning precious fat reserves till warmer weather arrives again. This is the time when white nose syndrome strikes, when hibernating bats are at their most vulnerable.
Fungus To Blame
With more than a million bats dead in sixteen eastern US states and four Canadian Provinces, scientists have been working overtime to find the cause and find a way to fight the deadly disease. Researchers identified the fungus causing white nose syndrome as Geomyces destructans, a new to science fungus.
Using genetics, researchers quickly tied the fungus to Europe, although bats there don’t seem to be affected by the disease. Scientists hope that by studying the fungus, how it affects bats and differences in susceptibility, they will be able to pinpoint a way to stop the disease.
Now that scientists know what causes white nose syndrome, their job isn’t over. The US Fish and Wildlife Service leads over 100 agencies and organizations in the disease investigation and management response. They are determined to avoid irreversible losses to an often unrecognized, yet extremely important resource, North American bat populations.
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Trending Globally
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Prince Harry turns photographer for wife Meghan Markle, clicks adorable photo of Duchess cradling her baby bumphttps://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/prince-harry-turns-photographer-for-wife-meghan-markle-baby-bump-5431751/
Prince Harry turns photographer for wife Meghan Markle, clicks adorable photo of Duchess cradling her baby bump
Like a proud husband and father-to-be in the new-age digital era, the Duke of Sussex turned a lensman and captured his glowing wife, cradling her baby bump standing amid the majestic Redwoods Treewalk in Rotorua in New Zealand.
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The photo has garnered a lot of attention on Instagram and fans can’t stop showering love of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. (Kensington Palace/ Instagram)
Ever since their engagement, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been giving the world couple goals, and fans can’t have enough of them. And the royal wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made people head-over-heels of the newlyweds. With numerous romantic gestures and cute moments, people have been rooting for the young royal couple and it all escalated a bit more with the Duke’s latest gesture. Kensington Palace released a new photo of the the Duchess taken by none other than her husband, Prince Harry himself, and people can’t stop gushing about it.
Like a proud husband and father-to-be in the new-age digital era, the Duke turned a lensman and captured his glowing wife, cradling her baby bump standing amid the majestic Redwoods Treewalk in Rotorua in New Zealand. As the couple visited the sprawling woods with trees more than 100 years old during the final stretch of their 16-day visit to Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand.
Thanking the people of New Zealand for the Commonwealth country tour, the post with the Duchess’ candid photo, specified the credit as the Duke of Sussex. “Thank you New Zealand for the most wonderful last week of our tour. It has been a privilege to meet so many friendly Kiwis,” read the statement from the couple in the caption. “Australia, Fiji, Tonga and NZ – we leave feeling inspired and reminded of how every single one of us can make a difference.”
It also included a quote from Kate Sheppard, a prominent member of the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand: “The rain that refreshes the parched ground, is made up of single drops.” Other photos from the park include the royal couple holding hands and walking in the park and overlooking a small lake.
It is not the first time, Prince Harry took charge of the palace’s Instagram handle, as a photo clicked by him was shared on their stories during their visit to Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand. The duke is not alone however, as it was started by his wife.
The Duchess of Sussex took a sweet photo of her husband as they rehearsed their speeches for the Invictus Games’ closing ceremony, and the photo was shared on place’s Instagram and Twitter pages.
Getting ready for tonight’s @InvictusSydney closing ceremony, where we will celebrate the #InvictusGames competitors, and their friends and families. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will both speak at the ceremony this evening. #IG2018
📷 The Duchess of Sussex pic.twitter.com/XAck2r3wf4
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) October 27, 2018
The former actor who had an active social media life prior to her engagement is not new to the platforms but Netizens are thrilled to see Prince Harry stepping up.
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Burgapalooza on May 14
Wartburg Student Senate will host the third annual Burgapalooza grill-out on the sand volleyball courts behind the Manors on Tuesday, May 14, 4-8 p.m. Grab your friends and head over for some FREE Dilly Bars, burgers, hot dogs, yard games, and beach volleyball! To sign up a team for the volleyball tournament, click here.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dining hours for May Term
Please click here to see the Dining Services hours for May Term, beginning Monday, April 29.
• MEAL TRANSFERS end for the year at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, May 23
• BOARD PLAN ends after lunch on Friday, May 24
• POINTS will work through Sunday, May 26
Memorial service for Dr. Peter Nash
A memorial service for Dr. Peter Nash, professor emeritus of religion and former Saemann Chair, will be held Tuesday, April 30, at 11 a.m. in Wartburg Chapel. All are welcome to attend. Peter died April 15 at the age of 65. Throughout his time at Wartburg, Peter was a steadfast champion for diversity and inclusion and his thoughtful advocacy will be greatly missed. He retired from Wartburg in 2016 and is survived by his wife, Jette Irgens, Pathways Center assistant director. Please click here to see the obituary.
End-of-year shuttle rides
The end of year student shuttles will be departing for Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Chicago, Minneapolis and Des Moines on Friday, May 24. Remember to sign up before May 17 to guarantee your spot. Reservations can be made at www.wartburg.edu/shuttle. Contact Jennifer Onuigbo in Student Life with questions.
Online summer course registration
Registration for online summer courses is due prior to Monday, May 27. On May 27, courses will be canceled if under-enrolled (minimum of six students who do not qualify for tuition remission).
Law school admission test prep
An LSAT prep class will be held Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in LH201. Anyone interested in learning more about how to prepare for the law school admission test is encouraged to attend. The cost is $50 per person and the class is taught by an experienced LSAT tutor. Both Wartburg and non-Wartburg students are welcome. To register or get additional information, contact Karen Thalacker.
New: Strawberry Orange Dream at the Zesty
Beginning Monday, April 29, the Zesty will be selling a new smoothie called the Strawberry Orange Dream for $4.49 and it is da bomb dot com! Come and get your smoothie on!
Presidential Forum schedule
Notes from the April 9 Presidential Forum are posted on the InfoCenter under President’s Reports. Next year’s forums will be held at 11:30 a.m. in WBC 214, Buckmaster on the following dates:
• Sept. 24
• Oct. 22
• Dec. 3
• Feb. 25
• March 24
Pathways Peer Learning Lab’s May Term hours
Check out the resources in the PLL, Vogel Library 204, during May Term:
• Math Lab, Sunday-Thursday, 7-9 p.m.
• WRSL, Monday-Thursday, 1-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m.
• Walk-ins welcome, but online scheduling is available at this link.
• No Peer evening hours; stop in Pathways Office, LIB 314, for assistance, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Juice publishing schedule for end of the term
Please make note of the Juice email publishing schedule through the end of the academic year:
• The final weekly Juice of the term will be May 20.
• The Juice will publish intermittently through the summer as needed, about every other week for the Faculty/Staff edition.
• Weekly Juice emails will begin again Monday, Aug. 26, just before the start of Fall Term.
If you have items that need to be sent through the Juice, send an email to Juice@wartburg.edu. For items that need to be sent immediately, contact stephanie.boeding@wartburg.edu (the Juice email inbox is not monitored throughout the day).
Adams Parkway bridge closure begins May 6
The Adams Parkway Bridge in Waverly (north of Nestle’s and Waverly Utilities) will be completely closed to vehicles and pedestrians for about two months starting May 6. Cedar Lane will be the detour route. Click here for details and a map.
The U.S. Department of Education requires institutions receiving federal funding to provide notice regarding how to register to vote. Directions on how to register to vote are available at this link.
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Incomplete grade policy reminder
An incomplete grade is not valid unless it is supported by a Student Request for Incomplete Grade Form. Students should initiate completion of the form to confirm they have been in communication with the instructor regarding the incomplete grade policy. The form is available under Special Request Forms - Student from the Academics tab of MyWartburg or in the Registrar’s Office. Any incomplete grade submitted by the instructor without support of the form will be changed to an “F.” Additional information about the incomplete grade definition can be found online in the 2018-19 academic catalog.
May Term Senate election results
The following students have been elected as May Term Senators:
• Josh Voigt
• Seth Jobes-Ryan
• Lexi Retz
• Katheryn Opperman
• Sara Ashar
• Andrew Walker
• Joseph Makondo
• Brett Kelting
Try the TriByKnight triathlon
The TriByKnight Triathlon, now in its eighth year, is one of the most popular early season events in the region. This USAT-sanctioned sprint tri (300-yard swim, 15-mile bike, 3.1-mile run) is perfect for those just getting started in the sport and is staged on the Wartburg College campus Saturday, May 4. Registration is $70 for an individual or $100 for a team of three; click here for details.
Dance Marathon smashes fundraising goal
Wartburg College Dance Marathon would like to thank Wartburg students, faculty, and staff for supporting our mission. This year WCDM crushed its goal of $130,000 and raised a total of $153,307.11 for the kids at the UI Stead Family Children's Hospital in Iowa City. Contact wcdm@wartburg.edu for more information about WCDM.
Students compete in Values and Ventures Business Plan Competition
Wartburg students Haley Harms, Liam Conroy, Jackie Falconer, Ashlee Henderson, and Alison Rusch competed as finalists in the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center Values and Ventures® Business Plan Competition at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, April 5-6. The team developed its business plan under the guidance of Dr. Allan Bernard, assistant professor of business administration. Jeff Martinelli mentored the members and Wartburg alumnus and Board of Regents member Michael Murphy ’89 sponsored the team.
SPIRITUAL LIFE & CAMPUS MINISTRY
Happy Easter season to all! There are no Midweek Chapel services during May Term but if you missed a Chapel message this year, you can find all of them at this link and re-watch at any time.
Upcoming Sunday worship:
May 26 – Celebration and Blessing for the Class of 2019 (Baccalaureate), 10 a.m., Neumann Auditorium
Sanctuary on Wednesday nights
Sanctuary will meet each week of May Term on Wednesday nights in Chapel Commons (basement). Come at 8:45 p.m. for treats and fellowship, and stay for a relaxed time of Bible study, fellowship, worship band music, prayers, and communion.
May Term begins
Dr. Nash memorial service
Sanctuary in Chapel Commons
TriByKnight Triathlon
LSAT prep class
Burgapalooza
WARTBURG IN THE NEWS
Two Wartburg College students — Annika Wall and Ryan Reebenacker — swept the three scholarships awarded by the Iowa Broadcast News Association during its annual convention April 13 in Johnston, and several students won statewide media awards.
Two Wartburg College student projects, led by Saffa Bockarie, Tyler Bitting, and Rachel Ndjuluwa, received $10,000 grants each from the Davis Projects for Peace to implement projects in Sierra Leone and Namibia, as reported by KGAN/Fox28.
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Home Entertainment Aretha Franklin Earns Posthumous Pulitzer Prize
Oyinloluwa Oketade
The Queen of Soul is now a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Aretha Franklin has been awarded a special citation honouring “her indelible contribution to American music and culture for more than five decades”.
She becomes the 12th musician, and first female performer, to be given the citation – joining the likes of Bob Dylan, Scott Joplin and John Coltrane.
Franklin died of pancreatic cancer last August, aged 76.
During her career, the singer won 18 Grammys, had 17 top 10 US chart hits and became the first woman admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
An artist of immense versatility, her powerful voice, trained in the gospel tradition, moved on to embrace jazz, soul and rhythm and blues.
Rolling Stone magazine rated her as the greatest singer of all time, thanks to songs like Respect, Chain Of Fools and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for music went to Ellen Reid’s opera p r i s m [sic].
The Pulitzer jury described the piece as a “bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: The effects of sexual and emotional abuse”.
“It feels unreal – like I’m going to wake up!” said the Tennessee-born composer.
She described her winning opera as challenging and personal, but said it was designed not to alienate the audience.
“There’s something about the piece that makes people who haven’t experienced sexual assault understand just a little bit more what it might be like,” she told US radio station NPR.
The Pulitzers also honour the best in literature, theatre, and journalism.
Jackie Sibblies Drury won the drama prize for Fairview, a play which seems to be a black family comedy in the style of The Cosby Show or A Different World, but takes some unexpected turns, both for the characters onstage and the audience themselves.
The Pulitzer jury called it “a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices”.
Novelist Richard Powers won the fiction prize for The Overstory, a multi-narrative look at nine Americans who are brought together unfolding natural catastrophe; while David W Blight picked up the history prize for his acclaimed biography of Frederick Douglas, the escaped slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
The New York Times and Washington Post won journalism awards for their coverage of President Trump, while there was a special citation for the staff of the Capital Gazette, a paper in Maryland that suffered a deadly attack in its newsroom.
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Newman sends out distress signals over Westfield scheme
Posted on March 25, 2019 by insidecroydon
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on the latest non-statement on lack of progress from the council leader
Is Tony Newman, the leader of Croydon Council, panicked by the lack of progress over Westfield’s long-promised £1.4billion redevelopment of the town centre?
Tony Newman’s tweet this morning. Is he begining to fret, much?
Certainly, a tweet Newman sent out this morning, despite his usual nuclear weapons-grade incoherence, seemed full of distress signals.
We quote Newman’s gibberish here, verbatim:
“Welcome letter re our next meeting from @urw_group stating Westfields clear commitment to & @yourcroydon as a ‘flagship scheme for the company’ in terms of timing letter recognises ‘Brexit Uncertainty’ & challenges re the UK ‘political outlook’.”
We’ll leave our loyal reader themselves to try to decipher what Newman was actually trying to say.
‘Look everyone!’ Newman’s tweeted extracts of the Westfield letter seems to be suggesting, ‘I’m important. They sent me a letter’
Curiously, Newman attached to his tweet some pictures of random sections of a letter, apparently sent to him by Unibail-Rodamco Westfield.
Was this Newman’s attempt at having a Neville Chamberlain moment: “I have in my hand a piece of paper… Peace in our time”?
Indeed, from what can be seen of the letter from Unibail-Rodamco Westfield, the now French-owned mall operators, it actually offers little more than the platitudes and lukewarm assurances that were issued a month ago, when the company announced that they were to “review” the Croydon scheme. And they have become no more convincing, or reassuring, with the passing of time.
Of course, Westfield is only one half of the “Croydon Partnership” which has been inflicting development blight on Croydon town centre for the past seven years. Hammerson, the other half, have also expressed reservations about the project, in the midst of their own serious corporate financing problems, as well as the retail downturn and the catch-all cop-out of “Brexit uncertainities”.
Newman failed to mention whether Hammerson, too, had inspired him with confidence in their “commitment” to Croydon.
For all the faux confidence Newman attempted to imply in his tweeted message, other straws in the wind from the Town Hall betray growing doubts at the council about Westfield and Hammerson’s intentions.
The past week has seen the distribution of Your Croydon, the 24-page quarterly magazine produced by the council using your Council Tax. It contains not a word about the redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre, which not so long ago was regarded as the single most important project in the borough’s history.
A double-page spread about town centre rdevelopment in the latest Your Croydon magazine, and not a word about Westfield. It’s almost as if it is not actually happening…
The magazine has the obligatory puffery from the council leader’s column. It has not a single word about Westfield.
There’s even a double-page spread feature under the bold headline “Our Growing Town Centre”.
And there, among all the developer-friendly copy about “cranes rising up across Croydon town centre”, detailing this tower block or that office scheme, you can see on the schematic map the old Whitgift Centre in the middle of all this activity. But not a word about the demolition work which was supposed to have started on the shopping centre this autumn, but which has now been postponed, indefinitely.
It seems very likely that Newman this morning felt shamed into making some public gesture of his own importance to the project, because of events at City Hall last week.
There, Steve O’Connell, the Conservative London Assembly Member for Croydon and Sutton, raised the stalled Westfield project with London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Mayor promised to intervene. It very much sounded like Khan is about to go over Newman’s head.
“The Greater London Authority and Transport for London continue to work closely with Croydon Council to ensure that the required infrastructure is delivered at the right time,” Khan said, as he gave an undertaking to have a meeting with the developers.
Tony Newman might get an invitation to tag along, too, if he behaves…
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6 Responses to Newman sends out distress signals over Westfield scheme
Yea, verily, the Lord of Incoherence has spoken again and he confirms, in his own inimitable and jargon free manner, that Westfield may not occur, thus confirming the prediction of the present correspondent , the Prophet of Doom, who has predicted thus from the very inception of the mighty project.
Newman starting to show signs of cracking up with a display of the Monday morning blues. Perhaps we are beginning to see the realisation of the extent of the failure of his plan using the Developer’s friend Jo Negrini to front something that only ever produces disappointment and alienation to the residents of Croydon. No doubt he has received some news which has not yet been publicly revealed.
Helen Benjamins says:
Good gracious what a shambles. I wonder if Newman has thought about changing the name of Croydon yet. I could mention a suggestion or two but I doubt they’d be printed.
Croydgone ? – retain the exclamation mark, but still think SportsDirect.com/Croydon could still be in with a chance with Ashley buying up all the remaining retail businesses on the high street and Jo Negrini just prepared to take any offer going.
Dave Scott says:
The quality of his tweet sums up Croydon. A disjointed mess. Why on earth do people vote for this man?
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Home / Business / Local Business / Lagos flags off work on Oshodi-Airport road
The New Oshodi Airport Road scheduled for completion in 15 months
Lagos flags off work on Oshodi-Airport road
Charles Igbinidu September 5, 2017 Local Business Leave a comment
The Lagos State Government on Monday flagged off the building of a 10-lane Oshodi-International Airport Road, with a pledge to complete the project within the next 15 months.
The state Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Mr Adebowale Akinsanya, said at the ceremony that the project was in line with the state government’s commitment to transform the entire axis.
Akinsanya said that the state government took it upon itself to undertake the reconstruction of the road, being one of the busiest roads in the state with vehicular volume average of 50,000 daily.
According to him, the poor state of the road is not acceptable for the status of the state as the fifth largest economy in Africa and the nation’s commercial hub.
Akinsanya said some of the fences along the corridor had been identified to be within the right of way, adding that government would minimise the impact of the project on property owners.
“To fast-track the project, three groups of workers will work on the project and they will work day and night, while upon completion, the project will be linked to the Oworonshoki Reclamation Project, which is also ongoing,” he said.
The commissioner said that a stakeholders’ meeting would hold on Thursday to sensitise people of the area about the project.
He urged the residents and motorists to cooperate with the state government while the construction would last, saying that the intention was to transform the area.
“There will be some minor inconveniences, but we are going to mitigate the impact. The work will be accelerated.
“The project is to make life easier for everybody. We just want to appeal to people to cooperate with us.
“We will be here to talk to the people in case of any issue, and we are also working with our partner, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN),” Akinsanya said.
Also, Mr Biodun Otunola, the Managing Director of Planet Projects, the firm that designed the project, said that prior to the commencement of the construction, adequate feasibility studies were carried out.
Otunola said that the project, upon completion, would facilitate total transformation of Oshodi and International Airport corridor.
The managing director said that in as much as there would not be alternative roads created specifically for the project, adequate measures had been put in place to educate the public on the stages that would be developed.
He said that the project would be executed in phases, while motorists would make use of other sections of the road during construction work on a particular section.
The project designs include reconstruction and expansion of the existing carriage to a three-lane expressway on both directions, construction of a two-lane service roads in both directions.
They are construction of a Ramp Bridge to provide a U-turn from Ajao Estate to Airport, construction of a flyover at NAHCO/Toll Gate and drainage works.
Others include the removal of existing Pedestrian Bridge at Ajao Estate and construction of Pedestrian Bridges at Ajao Estate and NAHCO/Hajj Camp, construction of Slip Road to provide access to Ajao Estate, construction of Lay-bys and installation of street lights.
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A Mills man who prosecutors say has a criminal history, is accused of pointing a gun at people and leading police on a chase through Casper.
Thirty seven year old Doyle Gabbert has been charged with one count of aggravated robbery, three counts of aggravated assault, two counts of larceny, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a deadly weapon with intent to threaten the life of another.
Casper Police say at around 10:40 a.m. on Friday, August 12th, police responded to a report of a weapons offense at Ridley’s Family Market, near 2nd and Wyoming Boulevard.
Witnesses identified an armed male subject who aggressively confronted and aimed a firearm at people in the parking lot.
When officers approached, Gabbert took off in a small sedan.
Police stopped the car near Hobby Lobby on East Second Street, but Gabbert escaped and a stole a van from a nearby storage facility.
Gabbert eventually crashed the van near Roosevelt High School, and ran towards the Loaf 'N Jug Store on North Center Street, where he got into the cab of a Coca-Cola tractor trailer.
He was bitten by a police dog, and then surrendered.
Two days before that incident,there was a report a shooting at 11th and Trigood.
A motorist reported that he almost got into a collision with Gabbert, and then Gabbert fired 1 shot at the motorist, shattering the back window of the vehicle.
Police recovered a shell casing at the scene.
Gabbert is awaiting trial on $1,000,000 bond.
Natrona County Prosecutors say Gabbert has a number of prior felony convictions including aggravated robbery, and are seeking to apply the habitual criminal label on him, in connection with the aggravated robbery and aggravated assault charges.
If this happens, Gabbert could face between 10-to-50 in prison on each charge if convicted.
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Mark Steele & No Malice Team Up For New “Grace Of God” Visual
Steele is back with his new album and a new video. Tune in.
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After teasing fans with his “Imaginary Player” freestyle video last month, North Carolina rapper Mark Steele is back with his full-length album, as promised. Steele lives up to his reputation on It’s Been A Minute, a beautiful 12-song project that explores self-worth, homelessness, religion, and more.
It seems the upcoming rapper was sleeping in his car for at least 6 months at one point. On his song “Big Dreams II” featuring singer Montana, he says not even his own mother knew. “I kept it low, I ain’t even tell my moms/I guess she’ll find out on the day she hear this song/Is it wrong that I spill it in my verses/Living out God’s plan, admitting I was nervous/to, bust out the leash, I had to break my lease on purpose/and find out just because your homeless, you ain’t worthless,” he revealed in a heartbreaking moment over Mary J. Blige vocals. Elsewhere on the album, Steele continues to push himself, teaming up with Clipse rapper No Malice on “Grace Of God” to pay homage to a higher power and reflect on just how much he’s been through. “How we make it here? How we still alive?” he sings on the hook. “How we make it through? How did we survive? How we blessed to see another morning rise? How we still alive? Grace Of God!”
Now, we can also enjoy a “Grace Of God” visual that hilariously puts their acting chops to the test. After getting run over in a previous music video (“Surprise”), Steele travels through a portal to a place where No Malice’s nerdy alter ego is working as a tour guide at the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Steele told Billboard, “There’s usually two type of people in the streets. The person bringing the action, and person caught in the middle of the action. Either way there’s a large number of people from our neighborhoods that don’t survive it all,” Steele tells Billboard. “This song and video represents that story. Starring two survivors that lived to tell it. Only because of God’s Grace.”
As for No Malice’s verse, Steele hit social media to say “The big homie @nomalice757 completely BODIED this!!”—and he’s right. Watch “Grace Of God” up top and be sure to cop or stream the album here. Needless to say, fans are loving it:
Album is a monster!!” – @reallyfoster
“Concrete Pillow is one of my favorite joints on the album” – @big_o_popamericaent
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“Best rap I’ve heard in a long time Lyrics on point!” – Kevin De Champ
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POETRY COMPETITION DEDICATED TO STATE SYMBOLS
Astana mayor’s office has announced a poetry competition among the country’s young poets. The theme of the contest is devoted to the state symbols including the Kazakh flag and the Kazakh coat of arms. The literary competition will be held in three stages. The deadline for applications submission is September 5 and then a qualified jury will choose the best works on September 10th. Furthermore, the national museum will host the awards ceremony for the winners. 50 best works will be published in a special collection with 1,100 copies. Then, these books will be distributed to public schools. In addition, ten winners will receive a cash prize. The overall fund of the competition is one million tenge.
ASKHAT ORALOV, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT FOR YOUTH POLICY, ASTANA MAYOR’S OFFICE:
- A young akyn who won the first place will receive 300, 000 tenge, young poets who are granted 2 second places will receive 200, 000 tenge and every of three akyns who are awarded 3rd places will receive 100, 000 tenge. Poets who won from 6th to 10th places will also receive a cash prize of 50, 000 tenge.
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PBS Parents reports that "Research has found that learning music facilitates learning other subjects and enhances skills that children inevitably use in other areas. In their article, "The Benefits of Music Education," the magazine goes on to say, "Making music involves more than the voice or fingers playing an instrument; a child learning about music has to tap into multiple skill sets, often simultaneously. For instance, people use their ears and eyes, as well as large and small muscles...Musical experience strengthens the capacity to be verbally competent."
In "Tuning In: Six Benefits of Music Education for Kids" the New England Board of Higher Education talks about six benefits of music education and goes on to say that "In fact, these six benefits of music education not only show how music can benefit children now, but how it goes hand-in-hand with their preparation for future endeavors." The journals lists these six benefits as Enhanced Language Capabilities, Improved Memory, Strengthened Hand-eye Coordination, Powerful Study Habits, Teamwork, and Mental Processing & Problem-solving heightened. The journal goes on to say that, "Especially in young children, music directly benefits the ability to learn words, speak them correctly, and process the many new sounds they hear from others."
College Magazine in "10 Life Long Benefits of Music Education" spoke to passionate college musicians and professors about the life long benefits of music education—the ones that linger long after you play your last note. Among the benefits the magazine cited in their article:
You learn what achievement really means
You learn to never give up
You learn to be a leader
You aren't afraid to try something new
Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i Director Alan Akaka shares his own experiences:
"As a child I was surrounded by music at church, home, family gatherings, shopping centers, in the car—everywhere. At parties and concert performances I was mesmerized by those who sang, played and delighted audiences which led me to realize early in life that I wanted to play an instrument and sing.
"Today I find a great deal of joy and happiness when I get on my instrument at home and enjoy jamming with others at gatherings or when I am playing my gigs in Waikiki.
"I met many who had that desire to play an instrument and now they are coming to Ke Kula Mele."
There is no doubt that research shows music helps children become better learners. Infants respond to music by cooing, smiling, and even swinging their arms or kicking their legs to the beat. Children love to dance, swing, and sing as they develop their motor and aural skills. Neural pathways are strengthened by making up songs and rhymes as their imaginations run wild.
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Faculty Fellow
Peter J. Casarella
Associate Professor of Theology
Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns
PhD, Yale University, 1992
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Peter Casarella – Director of LANACC and Kellogg Faculty Fellow – will be the moderator as well as a panelist. Before coming to Notre Dame in 2013, Peter Casarella served as professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University where he was also the director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. He has taught previously at the University of Dallas and The Catholic University of America. He has published almost fifty essays in scholarly journals on a variety of topics – e.g., medieval Christian Neoplatonism, contemporary theological aesthetics, and the Hispanic/Latino presence in the U.S. Catholic Church. In 2005 he served as President of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the US (ACHTUS). He has edited or co-edited: Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (1998), Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thought of Louis Dupré (1998), Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (2006), and, most recently, A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011).
Thematic Interests
Systematic theology; Latino/a theology; Medieval Christian thought (especially Bonaventure, Nicholas of Cusa); theological aesthetics
Teología del Pueblo and the Idea of God in Latino/a Experience and Theology
Research Sub-Discipline
Sociological theory
Transnationalism
Bingemer, Maria Clara, and Peter Casarella, eds., Testemunho: profecia, política e sabedoria (PUC-Rio Editora/Editora Reflexão, 2017)
Diálogo, Journal of the DePaul Center for Latino Research, no. 16, guest editor for two issues on “Cosmic Liturgy: Latino/a Catholicism Today” (2013)
Bingemer, Maria Clara, and Peter Casarella, eds., Witnessing: Prophecy, Politics, and Wisdom (Orbis, 2013)
Coeditor. A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (with William F. Storrar and Paul Louis Metzger) (2011)
Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (The Catholic University of America Press, 2006)
Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thought of Louis Dupré (with George P. Schner SJ) (1998)
El Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Catholic Church (with Raúl Gómez SDS) (CSS Publishing, 1998)
“Beauty and the Little Stories of Holiness: What Alejandro García-Rivera Taught Me,” Diálogo 16, 2 (Fall 2013)
"Recognizing Diversity after Multiculturalism," New Theology Review, 21,4 (2008)
"Cusanus on Dionysius: The Turn to Speculative Theology," Modern Theology, 24,4 (2008)
"'The Great Task of the University': Reflections on the Regensburg Address of Pope Benedict XVI," Cultural Encounters—A Journal for the Theology of Culture (2008)
"Carmen Dei: Music and Creation in Three Theologians," Theology Today (2006)
“The Painted Word,” The Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 6 (November 1998)
Casarella, Peter J. “Dar Razón de Nuestra Esperanza: Teología Pública y el Desafío Actual del Diálogo Interamericano,” in Dar Razón de Nuestra Esperanza. El anuncio del Evangelio en una sociedad plural, ed. Cecilia Inés Avenatti de Palumbo and Jorge Scampini, OP (Buenos Aires: Agape Libros, 2012)
“Secularismo: genealogia espiritual e diálogo intercultural,” in Secularização: Novos Desafios, ed. Maria Clara Bingemer and Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade (Rio de Janeiro: Editora de PUC-Rio, 2012)
Casarella, Peter J. "Thinking Out Loud about the Triune God: Problems and Prospects for a Trinitarian Social Ethic in a Procedural Republic," A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011)
"Trinity and Creation: David L. Schindler and the Catholic Tradition," Being Holy in the World: Theology and Culture in the Thought of David L. Schindler (2011)
"Modernity and Post-Modernity" (Part I: Catholic Histories, Chapter 6), Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (2010)
"Disciples in the Midst of the World: Collaboration of the Lay Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priests," Called to Holiness and Communion: Vatican II on the Church, ed. Rev. Stephen Boguslawski O.P. and Robert Fastiggi (University of Scranton Press, 2009)
“NATO In Kosovo: A Reply to Jurgen Habermas,” in Danny Postel, ed., Debating Kosovo: Contending Perspectives on the Left (2005)
“La productividad de la imagen en San Buenaventura y Nicolás de Cusa,” in El problema del conocimiento en Nicolás de Cusa: genealogía y proyección, eds. Jorge M. Machetta and Claudia D’Amico (Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2005)
“Art and U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience,” in Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience, ed. Hector Avalos (Brill Academic Publishers, 2004)
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Three Kellogg faculty fellows will serve on a Notre Dame–CELAM committee to explore opportunities for future collaboration and partnership as the result of a new agreement between the University and the Latin American Episcopal Conference.
Faculty Fellow Peter Casarella Awarded Prestigious Research Grants
Faculty Fellow Peter Casarella has been awarded a Luce Fellowship as well as a sabbatical grant from the Louisville Institute for a book project that explores the idea of God from the perspective of Latino Catholicism.
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by Knowledge Leader Editor | 09 May 2016
Every industry has to keep its finger on the pulse of emerging trends to stay relevant. But in retail, the sense of urgency to understand what’s hot and what’s not is even more intense. Retailers who have a strong understanding of their consumers, like Trader Joe’s, Lululemon, and Nordstrom Rack, thrive. Those who don’t struggle to remain competitive. To illuminate what’s driving the industry today, Knowledge Leader magazine asked industry leaders across the country about the state of retail in the U.S. market.
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Positive economic numbers and increased consumer confidence have enticed national and regional players to expand and grow their businesses in new locations. Demand for space has been the strongest in coastal markets, especially in California; Seattle, Washington; Florida; Greater Washington, D.C.; and Texas. All of these markets feature desirable locations and have a strong mix of density and favorable zoning.
Despite the positive environment for growth, online shopping has caused retailers to face major challenges the retail property market. Notably, our experts have witnessed not only the changing shape and size of physical brick and mortar stores, but also the changing character of the spaces themselves and the experiences they provide for consumers. People now head to retail properties as much for social interactions as for the products themselves. Retail tenants that offer experiences and merchandise that are not easy to replicate online are appeal to today’s consumers.
Inside the physical spaces, retail centers are rediscovering the importance of providing shoppers with quality dining options. It’s more important than ever, and many experts consider restaurants to be an additional anchor tenant for retail centers. Sit-down and fast-casual restaurants that feature a great product and good value, such as Panera Bread, Modern Market, and Urban Plates, are in tremendous demand.
Value-conscious consumers are also creating a demand for Fast fashion. Younger generations are less inclined to pay for traditional items and spend more on technology, travel, and entertainment. Fast-fashion retailers such as H&M, Forever 21, and Zara have experienced tremendous growth over the past few years. As a result, top-tier, full-price retailers must watch price points and increase promotions to capture customers.
To read more from industry experts about how the retail sector is evolving, download the Spring/Summer 2016 of Knowledge Leader magazine.
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Alleged bank robber in custody over 1998 murder of Sydney man Robert McPherson
By admin On ápr 18, 2019
An alleged bank robber is behind bars after presenting himself to police in relation to the murder of an anti-drug “champion” at an inner-Sydney heroin hotspot in the 1990s.
Robert McPherson and an associate were walking back from a bottle shop along a Redfern alley in January 1998 when they were attacked by a group of men armed with baseball bats, a chain, a stick and a knife, New South Wales detectives said.
McPherson died of a stab wound to the left of his chest. He also sustained head injuries and cuts, believed to be the result of being whipped with the chain. His friend survived with minor injuries.
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Police bugged and searched a nearby home and eventually charged multiple members and associates of a suspected crime family with various roles in the killing.
In 2003 a Redfern police officer, Richard McDonald, told a parliamentary standing committee that McPherson had been killed at a time the family’s nearby “drug-dealing fortress” was flooding the suburb with heroin and cocaine.
“Robert McPherson was an absolute champion,” McDonald said. “Mr McPherson used to get kids who were dealing drugs off the streets. All he did was walk home – they mouthed off at him and he might have mouthed off back.”
After years of complex legal proceedings, the prosecution of the group collapsed.
But on Wednesday Nicholas Bentley, 41, handed himself in at Redfern police station over McPherson’s murder and for robbing a bank in 2002.
Court documents show Bentley allegedly entered a Commonwealth Bank in Botany on a March morning in 2002 armed with a chrome pistol. He allegedly made off with $385,000.
Bentley appeared at central local court on Thursday – two decades after his alleged crimes – where he made no application for bail and it was formally refused. No plea was recorded.
McPherson’s daughter reportedly arrived at court to catch a glimpse of her father’s alleged killer on Thursday. He is expected before the same court again on 13 June.
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‘SNL’ Scorecard: Chris Pratt Makes a Great First Impression
The 40th season of ‘Saturday Night Live’ has arrived (as well as the fifth season of ‘SNL’ Scorecard -- and I just can’t believe I’ve been doing this for five years) and, boy, what a difference a year makes. Last year’s season premiere featured six new cast members and was one of the clumsiest shows in recent memory. (Hey, remember ‘New Cast Member Or Member of Arcade Fire’? Gah.) This season, we have two new cast members and, more importantly, a significantly smaller cast. This was the first ‘SNL’ in over a year where I felt some actual intimacy with the cast. Look at newcomer Pete Davidson: he was everywhere! It was almost as if this incarnation of ‘SNL’ was built just to make us forget about last season. It didn’t completely work (I’ll never forget you, Rick Shoulders), but with a first-time host like Chris Pratt (who is a natural) and what feels like a much more focused show, this was a really great start.
Sketch of the Night
’Bad Boys’ (Mooney, Bennett, Pratt) It was funny reading my Twitter feed during the live broadcast while ‘Bad Boys’ was airing -- there was a lot, “What is this?” Just a few years ago, for all we knew this would have been a brand new sketch idea, but now that ‘SNL’ puts some of the sketches from dress rehearsal that didn’t air on the Internet, “Bad Boys’ technically becomes a sequel to ‘Wing,’ a sketch that never aired during the Andrew Garfield-hosted show from last season. ‘Wing’ would gave been the best sketch of that show had it aired. ‘Bad Boys’ – which, again, perfectly captures the melodrama of ‘90s young adult television programming -- only here with non sequiturs (a castle!) used for scene changes – is the best sketch of this show. (I nearly did a spit take when it was revealed that the little kid was packing heat.)
‘Marvel’ (Pratt, Bryant, Moynihan, Pharoah, Killam, Bennett, Mooney) It’s funny because it’s true. It’s been the joke since ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ became the sort of surprise hit of 2014 – Marvel Studios can put out just about anything at this point and it would be a hit. Well, yes, I would pay money to watch ‘Pam 2: The Winter Pam’ and ‘Fancy Ghosts.’
‘Weekend Update’ (Jost, Che, Strong, Jones, Davidson, Thompson) Now, this was interesting for a few reasons. There was a definite effort to present this as THE NEW ‘Weekend Update.’ There was a fancy new backdrop and a new co-host and, yes, a new vibe. As the centerpiece of ‘SNL,’ everything was done to try to make you forget about last year’s ‘Update’ – which is a smart move. Colin Jost was better, and only improved as 'Update' went along. Michael Che started out nervous and fumbled over some lines – which would be expected from anyone; but it is weird watching Che do this because I’m used to him being so smooth – but by the time ‘Update’ ended on the “Cheer Up, Obama” segment with help from Kenan Thompson, he looked like he was in mid-season form.
And this was a long ‘Update,’ featuring three individual segments. No one just gives up ‘Weekend Update.’ Someone had to take ‘Weekend Update’ away from Cecily Strong. So it was very big of her to come on ‘Update’ as The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party. She swallowed some pride to make a “See, everything is fine!” appearance when a lot of people wouldn’t do that. Leslie Jones was back and, again, killed. And, boy, Pete Davidson … what a star. He was hired to be the new “personality” and this guy is filled with personality. The thing is, I don’t even think Davidson’s material was that strong, but I couldn’t help but think, Oh, yes, please tell me more. He’s 20!
‘Booty Rap’ (Bryant, Pratt, McKinnon, Strong, Zamata, Bayer, Bennett, Mooney, Moynihan) This is basically just Chris Pratt and Aidy Bryant involved in a sing-off – and that’s fine because they're great. It’s not much of a sketch, but I guess who cares because it’s a delight.
‘Chris Pratt Monologue’ (Pratt, Faris) This was nice! Nothing too fancy, the thought here seemed to be, “Go out and be yourself.” You can tell Pratt is a natural at this after he accidentally sang the words “40 answers” instead of “40 hours,” and how he didn’t let it trip him up, he addressed it, and made it even more charming. Man, this guy…
’Cold Open: CNN State of the Union’’ (Bryant, Pratt, Thompson, Pharoah) This was fine, and the first of the two NFL themed sketches during the show that pretty much said the same thing. But, this one had Jay Pharoah’s Shannon Sharpe impression, which is a strange mixture of Shannon Sharpe and Clark Griswold’s Marty Moose impression – which somehow works!
‘He-Man and Lion-O’ (Mooney, Pratt, Killam, Bryant, Strong, Grande) Well, at least this was interesting. I mean, what would happen if He-Man and Lion-O all of a sudden became real? Would they want to masturbate? Maybe! It just felt like there could have been a couple more laughs to mine out of there being He-Man and Lion-O there on my television. For some reason if felt grim! But, whatever, the costumes were great.
‘Cialis Turnt’ (Killam, Strong, Bryant) This seemed like an excuse to perform ‘Turn Down For What,’ which already feels a little dated.
‘Video Game’ (Killam, Moynihan, Zamata, Davidson, Bayer, Pratt) I appreciate what’s going on here and, concept-wise, I found myself wanting this to go further. A simple puzzle game turns into a love drama between Chris Pratt and Vanessa Bayer’s video game characters. It almost didn’t feel weird enough. This is one of those odd sketches that I really didn’t like, yet I want them to try it again at some point during the season.
‘Vet Office (McKinnon, Pratt, Strong, Bayer, Moynihan) They did this sketch last season when Josh Hutcherson hosted and, well, for some reason, here’s another one. The concept that if you bring an animal to this hospital it’s going to wind up dead is kind of amusing – at least to the point why I can understand how it got on the air -- I’m just not sure we need this to be a recurring sketch.
‘NFL Intros’ (Bennett, Killam, Thompson, Pharoah, Pratt, Moynihan, Che, Anderson, Jost, Mooney, Jones) And here’s the second NFL sketch of the show. This felt like piling on and not that the NFL doesn’t deserve to be piled on – it does – but it felt like piling on just for the sake of piling on. This sketch pretty much said the same thing as the cold open, only in a lot less clever way. “Every NFL player is a criminal,” I don’t know, it just seems a little cheap when the target of our scorn should be Roger Goodell.
Average Score for this Show: 5.99
· Chris Pratt 5.99
Mike Ryan is senior editor of Screencrush. You can contact him directly on Twitter.
Source: ‘SNL’ Scorecard: Chris Pratt Makes a Great First Impression
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Driver fined $448 for not washing car licence plate. Picture: Traffic and Highway Patrol Command — NSW Police Force
Driver fined $448 for not washing car part
22nd Mar 2019 11:23 AM
MOST drivers are probably guilty of leaving it a bit too long between car washes, but a recent warning from NSW police may have you reaching for the hose a bit more often.
The driver of a Toyota Prado was slapped with a huge fine because they forgot to clean one crucial part of their vehicle - the number plate.
A photo uploaded to the Traffic and Highway Patrol Command Facebook page showed the rest of the car was completely clean but the number plate was caked in dirt.
This meant police were unable to read it, resulting in a $448 fine and three demerit points for obscuring the licence plate.
The rest of the car appeared to be clean but the licence plate was covered in dirt. Picture: Traffic and Highway Patrol Command — NSW Police Force
"Don't wash your car and neglect your number plate. Remove the cover," the post read.
There were mixed reactions from social media users, with some claiming it was an unfair fine while others pointed out it isn't that hard to keep your licence plate clean.
"$448 though? Seriously," one person said.
"Who has enough water to wash the car?!?! We are in the middle of the biggest drought in living memory! We don't wash cars or number plates. That is a luxury we can't afford," another wrote.
One added: "Seriously? I could clean my car every day and it would end up covered in dust by the time I reach the end of my driveway."
Other people pointed out that having your licence plate clearly displayed isn't a new law.
"It's always been mandatory that number plates be visible," one person commented.
"I'm sorry but that's common sense as to having your licence plate to be visible," another wrote.
It is illegal to hinge your licence plate. Picture: Traffic and Highway Patrol Command, NSW Police Force
The driver of the Toyota Prado wasn't the only motorist to be caught out for issues with their licence plate lately.
In another instance a car with a trailer was pulled over for having the number plate hinged to the trailer instead of fixed in place.
"Number plates are not allowed to be hinged. The must be securely fixed to prevent them swinging out of sight," a Facebook post by the NSW police read.
The driver also copped three demerit points and a $448 fine.
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Pakistan’s first-ever 9-day Lahore International Children’s Film Festival was held at The Ali Auditorium from June 14 to June 22, 2008.
Nearly 11,000 people, including children, families, teachers and general film-lovers, visited the festival during its 9-day run. The management of the festival was overwhelmed at the response to the first initiative of its kind.
The festival enjoyed national level press and electronic media coverage. Almost all major newspapers published the festival news. Key English and Urdu media channels not only gave the festival news in special reports but some of them also broadcasted 30-minutes programmes on the festival.
The feedback of the festival visitors was very encouraging. It seems that there is a great need for the creation of such events in order to establish arts education in Pakistani society.
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GOP Claims Multiple Voting Irregularities in Pennsylvania Special Election
by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:01 pm, March 14th, 2018
Republican officials in Pennsylvania allege multiple voting irregularities occurred during Tuesday’s special election for the 18th congressional district. To that end, GOP leaders are seeking a court order to impound every single voting machine used during Tuesday’s balloting.
Additionally, the Pennsylvania Republican Party has hired an independent firm to “look for voting irregularities” after the apparent upset, according to local news station WPXI 11.
For now, Tuesday’s election appears to have been won by Democrat and veteran Conor Lamb–who currently holds a remarkably slim lead over Republican state Representative Rick Saccone.
Lamb’s lead at present hovers somewhere in the area of 627 votes, according to the latest number crunching by The Philadelphia Inquirer. In all, over 200,000 votes were cast.
There are currently hundreds of absentee and provisional ballots, however, which could still hand the race to Saccone—whose loss would signal the end of the GOP’s long-term hold on the seat.
According to The Inquirer, a Republican “familiar with the [Saccone] campaign” said the GOP would petition for all the voting machines used across four counties to be impounded in the anticipation of a recount.
Republicans are currently said to be investigating reports of various election day irregularities, including unspecified “problems” with voting machines, voters being given incorrect voting location sites, and perhaps most controversially, GOP-linked attorneys being prohibited from overseeing the counting of absentee ballots in relatively Democratic Allegheny County.
Allegheny County spokeswoman Amie Downs said she had already engaged in discussions with Republican lawyers about their inability to oversee the vote-counting there.
Under Pennsylvania’s election code, election observers must produce a signed authorization affidavit from the chair of the county committee. Downs remarked, “They didn’t produce that until the very end of the evening, when the ballots had already been scanned.”
The Director of Elections in Allegheny County, Mark Wolosik, said he received a few phone calls late Tuesday morning from self-identified Republican lawyers requesting information about observing the vote tabulation but noted that this was a late-game request. He noted that usually, “people ask ahead of time.”
Still, Wolosik and Downs say they cooperated to the best of their ability. Eventually, two Republican lawyers arrived at a central tabulation center in Pittsburgh.
One of those attorneys identified himself as “from the Saccade campaign,” according to Wolosik. This attorney was quickly dismissed because state law only allows people affiliated with political parties to watch votes being counted—members of candidates’ campaigns are not allowed.
Another Republican lawyer showed up at the central tabulation center purporting to have authorization from the state GOP—but was initially held back because his authorization form didn’t have a signature, according to Wolosik.
The second attorney later obtained the needed signature via email and was then sworn in by Wolosik.
For its part, the Allegheny County Board of Elections doesn’t anticipate much controversy. The county only reported two isolated issues with their voting machines: (1) one machine had low power; (2) another had a blank screen.
Democrats dismissed the accusations. Rob Cohen, the Vice President of the Massachusetts Young Democrats seized on the news to mockingly opine, “The ‘irregularity’ being that more people voted for the Democrat.”
The “irregularity” being that more people voted for the Democrat https://t.co/5U2epJHqSb
— Rob Cohen (@Rob_Coh) March 14, 2018
Law&Crime reached out to the Pennsylvania GOP to clarify what, if any, steps the party would take to contest the election. An official there said they had no comment.
Law&Crime also left a voicemail with the Saccone campaign, but this phone call was not returned by the time of publication.
Update: the National Republican Campaign Committee released the following statement late this afternoon:
Earlier today we sent 4 letters (one to each county) demanding they impound all ballots and machines used in the election. We gave them all until 2pm to comply with our request. They did not. Now the campaign is filing suit in the Court of Common Pleas in each county to ensure that these ballots/machines are impounded to prevent them from being altered in any way in preparation for a likely recount. Impounding these is our right. Also, the NRCC is unveiling a digital voter outreach program where voters in the 4 counties can tell their stories if they were turned away from voting, witness any irregularities, or improprieties. We also are working to ensure that anyone who cast a provisional ballot follows through and sees that those ballots are counted.
[image via Drew Angerer/Getty Images]
Editor’s note: this story was amended after publication to include and reflect the NRCC’s statement.
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One of my favorite bits in the Bible is in Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth. He uses the metaphor of a body to describe the community of the faithful. And I would argue that this theme–even when not always in the same language–is pervasive in the Jewish and Christian canons.
Each body part tends to think it’s the only one that matters and has a hard time seeing past its own ways of looking at and interacting with the world. Or, um, that’s the way the eyeball would say it. The eye wants everyone to think and act like an eye. The reality is that we’d look (damn, there’s that bias again) pretty ridiculous and be completely dysfunctional if we were all just eyeballs. Or ears. And even the lowly sphincter, toenail or intestinal villus is important–vital even.
I have rarely felt that folks fully comprehended the truth and profundity of either the passage or broader analogy or the depth and breadth of its proper application, let alone the extent to which most of our behavior belies it.
That we should fight against discrimination in all of its forms–gender, race, religion, culture, sexual orientation, disability, age, etc.–should go without saying. And yet it must be said.
Too many operate under the illusion, for instance, that we live in some kinda of “post-racial” society. However sincerely they might believe it and however much I wish they were right, I know that they are wrong. And the most telling rebuttal is the experience of racial minorities. One need look no further than the morning news to see bigotry rampant–in everyday life, in popular culture, in public policy.
Discrimination–including both extreme manifestations such as apartheid (which exist in essence in parts of this country), hate crimes, genocide, blatant economic and political oppression and lesser but still dangerous forms such as hiring, social and consumer biases and bigoted speech–is in itself an issue of justice and social responsibility. It is, in other words, a moral imperative.
So-called “affirmative action” policies may or may not be situationally effective and their inclusion in specific solutions would therefore be conditional. Deliberately, proactively–indeed, aggressively–attacking the problem is not. Action is necessary and it must be targeted and strategic. Simply ignoring the problem, thinking wishful thoughts against it or even rhetorically opposing it won’t make it go away.
As with any issue of this enormity and importance, action most be taken individually and collectively. The solution must be part of how we live but it must also be institutionalized both in corporate and governmental policy.
But my point extends beyond issues of discrimination, oppression, inequality of opportunity and disenfranchisement. Returning to the body metaphor, overcoming bigotry and xenophobia and practicing inclusion are acts of enlightened self-interest. We are stronger, smarter, more effective, more whole–indeed we can only be complete and we can only ever hope to overcome our challenges and achieve our potential–to the extent that we not only tolerate and respect, but seek out and embrace diversity.
The principle of diversity applies to religion. While we may in some sense be called a “Christian” nation, those who cling to that identity must acknowledge that “Christians” themselves fundamentally and broadly disagree about both core values and practice. More importantly, what has allowed this nation to survive and thrive is not an arbitrary “Christian” dogma but pluralism and an appropriate separation of Church and State.
Religious freedom does not mean–as some seem to think it does–that I have a right to impose my personal religious convictions on others–either to compel or restrict their behavior. As a person of faith–yea, as a person of passions and conviction–I cannot separate my beliefs and religious values from my public and political participation, but as a citizen, I must exercise and express those values in a way that respects the beliefs and values others.
To be clear, we are stronger as a nation in part because of our cultural, philosophical and religious heterogeneity.
The principle of diversity applies not only domestically but to our engagement internationally. Our foreign policy must fully respect not only the humanity but the cultural legitimacy of both our allies and those we label as “enemies.” Of course we shouldn’t embrace what is immoral or amoral, but we should be circumspect enough to recognize that many times these judgments are wholly subjective and that often it is our behavior and/or the behavior of our allies that is repugnant.
Being American doesn’t make us right. Being American doesn’t elevate us above or excuse us from accountability to the rest of humanity or to the court of nations.
Our foreign policy should be free of imperialism and it must not subordinate the rights and interests of other states. We should be cooperative participants in the international community and guardians of the ideals that unite, protect and advance all of our planet’s citizens.
Much of the greatness of our identity is that we are a nation of many peoples and that our cultural and intellectual inheritance is international, global and encompassing.
We are an immigrant nation. Indiscriminately locking down our borders or tolerating a subordinate, essentially slave class of disenfranchised laborers is inconsistent with our national achievements and the nobility of our ideals and aspirations; and it is a tragic waste of the costly lessons of our national history.
Our immigration policy must be merciful and rational and it must recognize the contributions of our undocumented residents and acknowledge and accept our responsibility to humanity beyond our circumscribed–geographically or otherwise–borders. The pathway to citizenship must be open and not unduly arduous. Our treatment of immigrants–documented or otherwise–has to respect their human rights and their basic human needs.
Again, a humane immigration policy is enlightened self-interest, appreciating and facilitating the continued infusion of vitality, innovation and productivity from our newest residents, workers and citizens.
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Review: The Endgame (Ogawa / Davies)
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Post subject: Re: Review: The Endgame (Ogawa / Davies)
#61 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:41 am
John Fairbairn wrote:
TRANSLATION CONTINUED
First preventing expansion of the moyo
O Meien p153a.png
Diagram 8
Diagram 8: I therefore turned to Black 1 to whittle down White’s moyo.
It would have been dangerous to go any further than this, and so this was as far as I could intrude. In addition, it looks at Black A next and so it is a double-purpose move.
After suffering this Black A, White will see his territory on the left side reduce by about 10 points.
O Meien p153b.png
Diagram 9: Therefore, Koichi defended at White 1. Then I captured the four White stones with Black 2. The assessment must be that the exchange of Black 1 in Diagram 8 and the White 1 here has played a major role in blocking the development of the White moyo before it got started.
Play then proceeded up to Black 33, at which point we can again do an evaluation of the position. It will be clear to what extent the exchange of Black 1 in Diagram 8 and White 1 in Diagram 9 has been a plus.
If we can project that Black's incursion will be played with sente, then that settles the question of whether to play it instead of capturing the four stones, since, as happened in the actual game, Black can come back and capture the four stones, anyway.
Leela Zero prefers to capture the four stones, and suggests a slightly different incursion. Interestingly, in either case it thinks that Black is ahead, with a komi 2 pts. bigger.
Thank you, John, for sharing this. I'm only sending one like instead of one for each post.
Edit: And for those who like general principles, when the choice between two moves is a close call, in general the move with a substantial follow-up for you will be better.
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RobertJasiek
It's a shame that Robert chose not to share his magical method of knowing exactly what O Meien said without reading Japanese.
LOL. If you expect me to translate informal text, of course, I cannot do it. With the exception below and the general method related to half the move value, the details in the informal text have little relevance, as long as one can infer from the diagrams what O is talking about. If you expect me to provide a complete "translation" and analysis for O's example, I cannot do it because writing more books has very much higher priority.
You had mentioned the "(calling an / certainty of) election" earlier so I asked about its meaning here earlier and somebody said that it would have little meaning in itself. Now you stress this election again. Instead of all the translation, as interesting as it may be and as much as we are grateful for it, I would be more interested in learning about the meaning of "election" or "when to play for certainty" if it adds anything to the calculated values of (half of the) largest move value and error margin (which appears to be a quarter).
(Presumably you have considered copyright issues. Summarising instead of translating several successive pages puts you on the safe side, unless you have rights to translate this particular book anyway.)
Getting the book was easy at least last year: Amazon-Japan. Just the postage may be very high if airmail is your only option. Shipping was fast.
It is White to play next. The biggest move on the board is an 8-point gote at White B. Therefore the “value of the move” is half that, or 4 points, and so the “advantage of first move” is half again of that, or 2 points.
Adding the “margin of error” of 1 point (half the advantage of first move) to these 2 points, 3 points are added to White’s territory
This is the important part and I understood it without translation when reading the book.
"The biggest move on the board is an 8-point gote": difference value = deiri counting gote move value.
"the 'value of the move' is half that, or 4 points": miai counting gote move value of the largest move in the environment, also called the temperature T in modern endgame theory.
"the 'advantage of first move' is half again of that, or 2 points.": playing first in the [ideal] environment is worth half of the miai counting move value of the largest move in the environment, that is, T/2.
"Adding the 'margin of error' of 1 point (half the advantage of first move) [...] to White’s territory": O's error margin is T/4 (a quarter of the temperature aka largest miai move value in the environment).
I am just not exactly sure whether O adds the error margin to the opponent's points or the next moving player's points or somehow else. (In this example, both conditions coincide.)
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Knotwilg
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Rank: Bel 2d KGS 3d TG 4d
KGS: Artevelde
Tygem: Knotwilg
Allow me to call out the proverbial elephant in the room: the situation in the upper right.
O Meien doesn't discuss whether a White hane there can be cut and Black will win the capturing race, or Black should submit and retract, thereby losing a fair amount of potential territory, presumably in gote. O merely adds a reinforcing Black hane in one of the sequences.
LZ conveniently adds a 24 move sequence to Black's choice to capture the 4 stones in the top middle, proving that he has time to do so and more importantly that move is big enough because there is no threat in the upper right of losing territory in sente.
Putting that aside, it's very comforting for mankind to see that O (and Uberdude) discusses the same moves as LZ. Only LZ prefers the capture of the four stones, presumably seeing that this indeed reduces the temperature at the top, while O wants to deal with the uncertainty of White's moyo (and shifts the focal point one up). In any case, responding to the kosumi is not urgent, because of the reasons O convincingly adds.
So why the elephant? Because life & death remains the key to proper endgame. If you are not capable of calculating what happens to the upper right, you rely on chance to respond to White's hane, or reduce uncertainty while playing there yourself. LZ shows she knows, O presumably knows too. Both then concentrate on the choice between reducing the moyo and capturing the stones. Both dismiss the defence at the bottom. But what can be expected from us, amateurs?
Incidentally, what I don't like about O's diagrams is that he shows how big White's diagonal is, by playing out a sequence as if White had passed. Any analysis should compare the effect of tenuki with the alternative gain. This has always troubled me in professional writing: magnifying the size of a move by having the opponent pass first.
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Knotwilg wrote:
So why the elephant? Because life & death remains the key to proper endgame.
Bears repeating.
Assuming tenuki (not really a pass) is normal for evaluation. It is relevant. But this comment about the left bottom side and your comment about the upper right side indicates that we amateurs could benefit from having more diagrams. I know it's a burden on the writers, but there you are.
Local analysis uses pass or tenuki and often need not refer to its value. (Combinatorial game theory goes even further dropping the rule of alternation entirely.) Global analysis might have to consider values of tenuki, depending on the kind of analysis.
Adding the “margin of error” of 1 point (half the advantage of first move) to these 2 points, 3 points are added to White’s territory of 64 points to give 67 points, but that still leaves him 7 points behind on the board (and at the time of this game komi was still 5½ points).
We can say that as long as the figure produced by adding the advantage of first move and the margin of error gives a lead, even by as little as half a point, you can be 99% certain.
For some strange reason O has reverted to deiri counting of the gote at B. After all, the first part of the book is about 一手の価値 (the value of a single play, i.e., miai value). Anyway, all's well that ends well, I guess.
Here is the story. The value of a single play is how much one local play gains, on average. If that is indeed, the largest play on the whole board, then that is also the maximum that White gains overall from making that play. OTOH, it is possible (with no ko) that Black will be able to gain that much back (and no more), so that White ends up gaining 0. We may estimate the overall gain at the end of play as the average of the local gain and 0, or half the local gain. We may call that the average profit from playing first. Advantage seems too vague to me.
O realized that, since the average profit is an estimate, it has an associated error, which again, could range from 0 to its value. One half of the average profit is its average error, or its margin of error.
So, recasting that passage, if I may, into more technical language, we get this.
It is White to play next. The biggest move on the board is an 8-point gote at White B. Therefore the value of one move is half that, or 4 points, and so the profit from playing first is half again of that, or 2 points.
Adding its margin of error of 1 point (half the profit from playing first) to these 2 points, 3 points are added to White’s territory of 64 points to give 67 points, but that still leaves him 7 points behind on the board (and at the time of this game komi was still 5½ points).
Actually, assuming perfect play, the maximum gain for White at that point was 4 points, which would leave him 6 points behind on the board, assuming the count is correct. With only 5½ komi, that's a sure win for Black.
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RobertJasiek wrote:
He adds it to the opponent's points. It's an (almost) worst case analysis.
#69 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:27 am
KGS: oren
Tygem: oren740, orenl
IGS: oren
Wbaduk: oren
A reminder of the book's ISBN: 4-8399-1508-3 ("Absolute Counting in the Endgame"). It is from 2004, so maybe getting hard to find, but I think it should be on your shelf even if you don't read Japanese.
It's available as a kindle book from Amazon or a PDF from mycom.
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pnprog
#70 Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:52 pm
Rank: OGS 7 kyu
The rest of you will have to make do with my translation.
Thanks a lot John!
It certainly makes more sense (to me at least) than the following:
Apparently O wants to compensate uncertainty of non-ideal environments by a defensive error margin to predict whether a player has a guaranteed win.
I wish I could read Japanese
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#71 Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2018 10:06 pm
pnprog wrote:
Since O uses an error margin, the questions are: why does he use any; is the used error margin meaningful; what properties has it?
During the early endgame, we can distinguish the "ensemble" of the largest local endgames / hot local endgame regions from its "environment" of smaller, peaceful local endgames. A typical simplifying assumption about, and model of, the environment is that it only consists of simple local gote endgames.
If furthermore their move values drop constantly, we have an "ideal environment". An environment has a largest move value, which is called the "temperature T" (not in O's book though). E.g., the move values of the ideal environment might drop in steps of 1. Then the move values of the ideal environment would be T, T - 1,..., 3, 2, 1. E.g., if the temperature is T = 4, we have the ideal environment 4, 3, 2, 1.
O assumes without proof and I have proven that playing first in an ideal environment is worth half the temperature, that is, T/2. I think that O does not even speak of "ideal environment", but then he assumes this concept implicitly. E.g., in the ideal environment 4, 3, 2, 1, the first playing player gains +4, his opponent lets the player lose -3, the player gains +2 during the sequence, his opponent causes the player to lose -1. In total, we have + 4 - 3 + 2 -1 = 2 as the net profit of the sequence. Since the temperature of this ideal environment is T = 4, half the temperature, or the value of playing first in the ideal environment, is T/2 = 4/2 = 2. This is the player's previously calculated net profit during the sequence of playing out the ideal environment.
If each environment were an ideal environment, in which playing first were worth exactly T/2 (half the temperature, that is, half the value of the largest move value of the environment), we would not need any error margin at all!
However, environments can be non-ideal environments with different drops of move values. If still we assume that an environment only consists of simple gotes, the exact value of playing first in such an environment is at least 0 and at most T. During the early endgame, we do not know what the exact value is even if there should only be simple gotes. Therefore, O in his book and modern endgame theory estimate the value of playing first in the environment. On average, this value is T/2.
Since this is a model value, or estimate, we can just be aware that it can be imprecise or one can also try to estimate an error margin for this value. In his book, O prefers to consider an explicit error margin, which he assumes to be half the value of playing first in the environment. Since T/2 is the value of playing first in the environment, half of it is T/4. In our example of the temperature (largest move value in the environment) 4, we have T/4 = 4/4 = 1.
Error margins can be introduced in different manners. O has the, somewhat arbitrary, preference of taking the player's perspective and a defensive attitude. He calculates a defensive error margin - defensive from the player's perspective. Therefore, O adds the error margin to the opponent's points.
After calculating points, adding T/2 for the value of playing first in the environment and adding the error margin T/4 to the opponent's points, if the player is still ahead, O seems to speak of his "certainty" of winning the game, assuming reasonable play by both players.
Non-ideal environments (maybe also with local sente endgames and other excitements) have an uncertainty in them whether accounting T/2 for the value of playing first in the environment predicts the winner well enough. O's error margin T/4 for half the value of playing first in the environment shall remove most of the uncertainty of whether the player has a guaranteed win. In the translation, O throws in 99% certainty achieved thereby, but this symbolic figure cannot be derived from the error margin he defines.
There are many ways of defining an error margin. E.g., one could also define it as the maximum possible error, T/2, for a non-ideal enviroment of simple gotes. Even then, we would not have 100% certainty because there are also local sentes, kos and other excitements.
A simpler model would not use any error margin at all. We might simply consider T/2 for the value of playing first in the environment. John likes to claim that my theory would be an overkill, but we can ask whether O's use of his error margin at all is an overkill. I am not convinced that we need such an error margin. Not using it is simpler. Then we also need not worry how good or bad the specific error margin is.
To start with, why should it be more meaningful to add the error margin to the opponent's points instead of using it as a plus-minus tolerance of the next moving player's points?
John Fairbairn
#72 Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 1:29 am
Well, you claimed to have understood O's theory perfectly, so you tell us.
In fact you have omitted an important question: When to use O's "trick". See the heading of Chapter 4.
Furthermore, by projecting your own approach onto O you are misrepresenting him. That is not good science. He says
Next, the margin of error. There is a relationship with things like the last play (the final tedomari) and so it is not something we can calculate exactly. However, even if we slip up, there is a limit to this, and what I am saying is that keeping it within a value of half of the value of the advantage of first move is a figure that I have come up with on the basis of my experience so far.
A simpler model would not use any error margin at all
Mathematical elegance and mathematical proofs do not necessarily equate with simplicity. For most practical purposes humans want something that is easy too understand and useful in practice. That's what O's book gives. That's why it's good and other books are not.
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You use many words to avoid admitting that O does not justify his use of an error margin well.
His experience is weak justification. A study of possible simple environments is good justification because of the extreme values 0 and T, the symmetry and therefore the average T/2.
For most practical purposes humans want something that is easy too understand and useful in practice. That's what O's book gives.
Again, why have an error margin at all? It is not easy to understand, it is unclear why it is more useful in practice than not using any.
That's why it's good and other books are not.
Rather WRT to early endgame it is good because it is still the only book considering the value of first playing in the environment by a value with good theoretical justification.
However, go players know that one simple value does not explain everything. The literature on life+death, opening, josekis etc. goes into details despite our wish for easy and useful in practice. Endgame evaluation is no different. There are further aspects that do require details and profit from more detailed theory. Not only books that stop at the easy basics can be good. Recall your praise of certain life+death books studying lots of detailed aspects.
Mathematical elegance and mathematical proofs do not necessarily equate with simplicity.
Regardless of this insight and therefore my preference to separate teaching from presentation of proofs, mathematics affects two aspects of the current discussion.
How reliable is half the largest move value in the environment, aka half the temperature, or T/2? With O's opinion alone, it was as reliable as postulating atoms more than 2000 years ago. My mathematical proof transforms opinion into confirmation, like physical evidence of atoms confirmed the old conjecture. The proof is not necessary for applying the simple concept of the value T/2, but it is good to know that the simplicity is supported by the mathematical theorem.
O's error margin has much weaker mathematical support because there can be different kinds of error margins. Every player is aware of maybe the best error margin for score certainty: being ahead / behind by a number of points is the better / worse the larger the number. This is a dynamic error margin and so can be interpreted flexibly depending on how flexible and open to uncertainty a studied position is. There is no need for artificially replacing this dynamic, and therefore more powerful, error margin by O's static one.
O Meien wrote:
AFAIK, O Meien's book is the first endgame book by a pro even to deal with the question of temperature (the value of having sente, or the value of the move, or the value of the advantage of first move). I remember when I first read Sakata's book on endgame evaluation aimed at dan players, I was disappointed to discover than he did not address the value of the move, he just made a static evaluation. So it is quite refreshing to see O Meien tackle the question.
O does not consider an ideal environment, or even (explicitly) a rich environment with many plays of similar value. Let us assume that all we know about the board is that it contains a move that gains T pts., which is the maximum gain of any play, and that it does not contain any ko position that messes up our calculations. Then what is the value of having sente? The minimum with correct play is 0. For instance, we may make a move that gains T pts., and then the opponent replies with a move that gains T pts., and that move is the last play, and so the value of having sente is 0. The maximum is T pts. For instance, that play may be the last play. (OC, that is not so if the move is a regular ko, in which case the maximum value is 2T.) So the value of having sente lies between T and 0, based upon our assumptions. How do we estimate that value? One way is to minimize the maximum error of our estimate, which we can do with an estimate of T/2. Our maximum error is then T/2. (I doubt if O made his estimate this way. There are a number of ways of coming up with it.)
O carries this one step further. He wants to know his chances of winning, at least as well as the newsroom projections of elections. We can do the same thing again. We know that the maximum error of the value of having sente is T/2. The minimum error is 0. So we can estimate the error as T/4, with the maximum error of that estimate as T/4. Again, I don't know how O came up with his figure, which he calls the margin of error, but in his experience in actual play it was hardly ever violated.
In practice this is an improvement over Sakata. Sakata could be sure of winning if he is already ahead and has sente. O is almost certain of winning if he is less than T/4 pts. behind and has sente. To be sure, he will probably win if he is less than T/2 pts. behind, but he may still feel the need to take some chances. If he is less than T/4 pts. behind he can play more conservatively.
O's use of temperature is a definite improvement over the old ways.
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The United Arab Emirates tops the index yet again. UAE's competitiveness stems mainly from its extraordinary performance in ICT adoption indicators worldwide (6th)(c). This coupled with a world-class visionary leadership has turned the UAE into one of the most agile and future-ready nations in the world. The ‘UAE Centennial 2071' Vision - a long-term government plan - aims at making the country the best country in the world by 2071 - the UAE's 100th anniversary. Establishing the world's first Artificial Intelligence Ministry, and a virtual Ministry of Opportunities(d) are just examples of Emiratis' future readiness.
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UAE's Vision 2021 & National Innovation Strategy has been designed to propel the country to being ‘among the best in the world'. Cloud computing has a pivotal role to play to realize this vision. This is why the UAE is making a conscious effort toward positioning itself as the ‘Regional Data and Cloud Hub'. While Public Cloud & Cloud Services markets are projected to reach $410m & $290m respectively by 2020(e), which is a which is a small proportion of the total ICT spending, UAE's massive bet on disruptive technologies such as: Smart City, AI, IoT & Blockchain - most of which should be preceded by the provisioning of reliable Cloud platforms -promises a hockey-stick increase in the size of the Cloud market in the country. Another significant initiative introduced and implemented by Dubai Smart City, which is the regulator in the data ecosystem, is Dubai Data Strategy. Having already been implemented in government entities, Dubai Data Private Sector Strategy and Policy is expected to facilitate cross-border data transfer through strengthening the Public-Private Partnerships while providing guidelines for governance, privacy & security.
The UAE can maintain and even enhance its standing by introducing a world-class Data Protection Law injecting more transparency into what can and cannot be done when it comes to Cloud. While the existence of special zones with clear regulations - i.e. DIFC & ADGM - and the release of Dubai Data Strategy are helping, introducing a general data protection regime consistent with international frameworks would significantly increase Emirati Cloud Competitiveness in the region.
Despite the UAE's Telecom Regulatory Authority's (TRA) efforts to create a cloud-first policy framework, we are yet to see the introduction of such a vision as a formulated guideline. If implemented properly, UAE can extend its lead even further in the regional Cloud market.
It would take strong high-level skillsets to make organizations embrace the Cloud. While the UAE scores very competitively when it comes to, say, Delegation of Authority (20th worldwide), its cloud competitiveness can be strengthened by performing better in the Global Knowledge Skills indicators - particularly Talent Impact variables: High-value Exports, New Product Entrepreneurial Activity & Innovation Output(f).
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(c) Global Competitiveness Index 2018 - WEF
(d) The United Arab Emirates’ Government Portal
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BPAI Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences Patent and Trademark Office (P.T.O.) *1 EX PARTE N. CHUNG SIZTO AND CYNTHIA G. ROUX Appeal No. 87-1346
*1 EX PARTE N. CHUNG SIZTO AND CYNTHIA G. ROUX
Appeal No. 87-1346
Application for Patent filed March 27, 1984, Serial No. 593,762. Calibration Device For Heterogeneous Immunoassay.
Theodore J. Leitereg for Appellants.
Primary Examiner--Christine M. Nucker.
Before Seidleck, W. Smith and Skinner
ON BRIEF
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20, all of the claims in the application.
Appellants' invention relates to an improved immunoassay method and device with a calibration surface employing a receptor that is capable of specific binding to a conjugate of a catalyst with a member of an immunological pair, but is substantially incapable of binding to the catalyst or the member of the immunological pair apart from the conjugate. Claims 1 and 15 are representative:
1. In a method for determining the presence in a sample of an analyte, which analyte is a member of a specific binding pair ("mip") consisting of ligand and receptor ("antiligand"), said method comprising the step of:
(a) contacting with said sample (i) at least one catalyst including a catalyst bound to a mip ("catalyst-bound-mip") and (ii) a solute which is catalytically transformed by a catalyst bound to a mip-containing measurement first surface to produce a change in a detectable signal at said first surface in proportion to the amount of catalyst-bound-mip bound to said first surface, wherein said catalyst-bound-mip binds to said first surface in proportion to the amount of analyte in said sample, and (iii) a calibration second surface, adjacent to said first surface, to which second surface catalyst becomes bound in an amount which provides substantially predetermined ratios to the amount of said catalyst bound to said first surface, whereby the ratio of the change in signal at said second surface to the change in signal at said first surface is related to the amount of analyte in said sample, and
(b) determining said ratio,
the improvement which comprises employing on said second surface a receptor for said catalyst-bound-mip, said receptor being capable of specific binding to said catalyst-bound-mip and being substantially incapable of binding to said catalyst or said mip apart from said catalyst-bound-mip.
15. An internally calibrated diagnostic device comprising a support, a measurement surface of a porous material, a calibration surface of a porous material in close proximity to said measurement surface, a member of a specific binding pair ("mip") non-diffusively bound to said measurement surface, and a receptor non-diffusively bound to said calibration surface, said receptor being capable of specific binding to a conjugate of an enzyme and a mip but substantially incapable of binding to said enzyme or said mip apart from said conjugate.
The references relied on are:
Decker et al (Decker) 4,230,683 Oct. 28, 1980
Litman et al (Litman A) 4,533,629 Aug. 6, 1985
(filed May 4,
Litman et al (Litman B) 4,540,659 Sep. 10, 1985
(filed Jul. 16,
Jhsani et al (Jhsani) British 2,098,730 Nov. 24, 1982
Litman et al (Litman C), "An Internally
Referenced Test Strip Immunoassay for
Morphine", Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 29(9), pp.
1598-1603 (1983).
*2 Claims 1-20 stand rejected on the basis of 35 USC 103 as unpatentable over Litman A, B and C taken collectively in view of Decker or Jhsani. Claims 1-20 stand rejected on the basis of 35 USC 112, first paragraph, as based on insufficient disclosure in that the specification fails to provide an enabling disclosure and fails to adequately teach how to make and use the invention. Claims 1-4 also stand rejected on the basis of 35 USC 112, first paragraph, as exceeding the scope of the enabling disclosure in that the specification is enabling only for catalysts which are enzymes.
The Rejection Under 35 USC 103
The examiner and appellants agree that the subject matter of the claims on appeal is an improvement over the disclosures of Litman A, B and C. The improvement resides in the receptor on the calibration surface, which selectively binds to a conjugate of a catalyst with a member of an immunological pair (mip), but does not bind to the catalyst or the mip apart from the conjugate. The examiner urges that Decker and Jhsani teach assay methods which employ a hapten-label antibody and an anti-hapten antibody, and that these anti-hapten antibodies of the prior art have functions and characteristics similar to those of appellants' receptor materials. We will not sustain this rejection.
Decker teaches a hapten-antibody conjugate and a labeled anti-hapten antibody. The anti-hapten antibody binds to the hapten portion of the conjugate and the antibody portion of the conjugate reacts with an antigen bound to a solid support. Jhsani discloses a method of detecting an antigenic substance in which a primary antibody to the substance is raised, linked to a hapten and then reacted with the antigenic substance. The primary antibody is then bound to a specific bridging antibody, which is subsequently linked to a detecting agent. We are unable to find any suggestion in either of these disclosures, and the examiner has pointed to no specific teaching, to the effect that there is any selective binding of the receptor to the entire conjugate without binding to the elements apart from the conjugate. Neither reference recognizes that degradation of the conjugate would occur or that such degradation would affect the immunoassay. In view of the lack of suggestion or motivation in the prior art to prepare a calibration surface receptor capable of selective binding to catalyst-bound mip conjugate we find that no prima facie case of obviousness has been established, and this rejection of claims 1-20 is reversed.
The Rejection Under 35 USC 112 (Claims 1-20)
The examiner contends that appellants' disclosure with respect to the preparation of antibody specific to the conjugate is inadequate in that a general outline of the methodology is not shown, and that non-reactivity with the individual components of the conjugate has not been demonstrated. However, we find appellants' arguments in this regard persuasive. Appellants have referred to a well-known method for preparing monoclonal antibodies at page 13, line 14, of the specification, and have subsequently outlined the general methodology relevant to the invention. As the examiner concedes, the methodology for preparing monoclonal antibodies is generally known and routine. In Example 2 of the specification appellants have also set forth the preparation of a penicilloic acid-bovine serum albumin conjugate, the myeloma cell line used for cell fusion, the ELISA assay used to isolate and clone the anti-HRP-PA and the preparation of the desired surfaces. Further, we are convinced that appellants' Examples 6 and 9 sufficiently describe the specificity of the binding by the receptor materials of the invention. In the absence of evidence that the disclosure is inadequate, we are of the opinion that one of ordinary skill in this art would have been enabled to make and use the specific receptor materials of the claims on appeal. This rejection of claims 1-20 is therefore reversed.
The Rejection Under 35 USC 112 (Claims 1-4)
*3 The examiner has taken the position that the single example disclosing an enzyme catalyst is not sufficient to support the claims to catalysts in general. Appellants have incorporated into the specification by reference those portions of U.S. Patent No. 4,160,645 which disclose a "wide variety" of non-enzymatic catalysts which may be employed. However, as the examiner has noted, this wide variety includes compositions which are vastly different from enzymes. They include quinones, quinonediimines, biaryls, heterocyclics, metal complexes and electron transfer agents. We find ourselves in agreement with the examiner that where the enzyme and non-enzyme catalysts are so divergent, it is not unreasonable to require a reasonable number of examples in support of the broad claim. While we agree with appellants' citation of the general rule to the effect that there need only be an enumeration of a sufficient number of members of a diverse group, we also are persuaded that where, as here, there is unpredictability as to the characteristics of conjugates prepared from, e.g., metal complexes and electronic transfer agents as compared to enzymes, the scope of enablement must be commensurate with the scope of the claims. In re Fisher, 427 F.2d 833, 166 USPQ 18 (CCPA 1970). We find such enablement for catalysts other than enzymes lacking.
Appellants point out that the invention broadly relates to a method, and not a specifically active antibody. However, the receptors of the invention are specific to catalyst-mip conjugates. Given this specificity, it is necessary to inquire into the object of the specific activity, i.e., the conjugate. Thus the nature of the catalyst becomes critical to ability to make and use the invention. Appellant also points out that the specification at page 11, lines 21-29, refers to non-enzymatic catalysts. This passage appears to us to indicate that the presence of an enzyme is required in the conjugate, even when non-enzymatic catalysts are involved. We do not find this persuasive enablement for a wide variety of catalysts other than enzymes.
Based on the foregoing, this rejection of claims 1-4 is affirmed.
Under the provision of 37 CFR 1.196(b), we reject claim 13 on the basis of 35 USC 112, first paragraph, for the reasons set forth in the preceding rejection of claims 1-4. Claim 13 likewise recites a catalyst as part of the conjugate, and the disclosure is enabling only for claims limited to catalysts which are enzymes.
Any request for reconsideration or modification of this decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences based upon the same record must be filed with one month from the date hereof (37 CFR 1.197).
With respect to the new rejection under 37 CFR 1.196(b), should appellants elect the alternate option under that rule to prosecute further before the primary examiner by way of amendment or showing of facts, or both, not previously of record, a shortened statutory period for making such response is hereby set to expire one month from the date of this decision. In the event appellants elect this alternate option, in order to preserve the right to seek review under 35 USC 141 or 145 with respect to the affirmed rejection, the effective date of the affirmance is deferred until conclusion of the prosecution before the examiner unless, as a mere incident to the limited prosecution, the affirmed rejection is overcome.
*4 If the appellants elect prosecution before the examiner and this does not result in allowance of the application, abandonment or a second appeal, this case should be returned to us for final action on the affirmed rejection, including any timely request for reconsideration thereof.
37 CFR 1.136(a) does not apply to the times for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal.
AFFIRMED-IN-PART. 37 CFR 1.196(b).
James A. Seidleck
William F. Smith
William A. Skinner
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Quantitative usability, assistive technology, and the right to privacy
April 25, 2019 • Tagged assistive technology and lighthouse labs
You have a legal obligation to produce an accessible website; these are some thoughts about what comes next.
At Lighthouse Labs this month, there was a lively discussion on “Detecting accessibility events, a debate on the ethics and implications of this new feature from Apple” [article]. I offered this in the pre-discussion email thread:
I wanted to share some perspective as a web developer: I would like to have aggregated analytics about what screen-readers are using my website (how many and which ones). Here’s why:
Within an agile process, once we achieve the baseline of WCAG/valid/passable/usable, the question becomes how do we make it even better and where do we start? Being able to point to analytics is useful for prioritization discussions about bottlenecks/friction. For example, on GetCalFresh.org, which has helped 700k people apply for food stamps, we can identify completion differences between, for example, English and Spanish-language users on particular parts of an application flow, and prioritize improvements based on frequency and severity. I don’t have the data to do that kind of prioritization for screen-readers, but I would like to.
The Lighthouse Labs discussion brought up several dimensions of the issues:
People with disabilities are legally protected from discrimination, and have legal rights to privacy of their conditions and freedom from discrimination.
If the lived experience is a spectrum of “discrimination - inaccessibility - accommodation - accessibility - usability” (these are my words, imprecise), the majority of experience lives towards the left of that spectrum. Everyone has a story of being identified as a low value / low priority user.
Some people would like to be fully and accessibly served; others would like to remain apart; everyone wants individual agency in that decision. An example of this was some people saying “I want websites to be completely accessible” and others saying “I’m fine not experiencing advertising and junk”. This came up as “ghettoization”, but I have been thinking about it as the difference between exclusion and seclusion.
Differentiating between accessibility, accommodation and discrimination in digital products is important yet slippery. An example: Twitter’s native iOS client generally works with Voiceover (accessible), but used a separated streamlined UI for composing a tweet when the app detected that VoiceOver was in use (accommodation); when Twitter changed to 280 characters, they failed to update that sheet in a timely manner (discrimination). [article]
When discussing this with a my data science coworker, she shared “Counting the Countless: Why data science is a profound threat for queer people” by Os Keyes:
So: trans existences are built around fluidity, contextuality, and autonomy, and administrative systems are fundamentally opposed to that. Attempts to negotiate and compromise with those systems (and the state that oversees them) tend to just legitimize the state, while leaving the most vulnerable among us out in the cold. This is important to keep in mind as we veer toward data science, because in many respects data science can be seen as an extension of those administrative logics: It’s gussied-up statistics, after all — the “science of the state.”
…perhaps a more accurate definition of data science would be:The inhumane reduction of humanity down to what can be counted.
Within the context of assistive technology, it is not a far leap between tracking screenreader usage and creating an implication of a disability and the segmentation that comes with it.
These discussions have made me think a lot more about my own digital footprints. I frequently use VoiceOver to explore websites and mobile apps and I now wonder about the impact/risks of being tracked and weigh them against the benefits to my own design practice and discernment, of which quantitative analysis is a tool.
If you have thoughts about this post, quantitative usability testing and advanced product management for assistive technology and disabilities, I’d love to chat. Tweet me at @bensheldon or email me at [email protected].
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IT Security Waiting for Attack
Apr 25, 2012 | News, Research
Almost two thirds of IT security professionals feel their organizations will be the target of a cyber attack within the next six months — and 61 percent say they feel Anonymous or other hacktivists will lead those attacks, a new survey said.
“Respondents choosing hacktivists as a more likely source of cyber attacks than cybercriminals is similar to how most people fear flying more than driving, even though, statistically speaking, it’s far more likely for someone to be involved in a car accident than in a plane crash,” said Bit9 chief technology officer Harry Sverdlove. “The truth is that you are less likely to be attacked by Anonymous or hacktivists — depending on what public statements you make — than to be attacked by a cybercriminal enterprise or a nation state,” he said.
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On the other hand, the attack methods that dominate security pros’ concerns do not tie into Anonymous, according to the 2012 Bit9 Cyber Security Research Report. Forty-five percent of respondents worry most about malware attacks, and 17 percent fear spear phishing (both common attack methods for cybercriminals and nation states) — while Anonymous’ favored method, the DDoS attack, leads the concerns of only 11 percent of respondents.
“The survey results put a spotlight on an interesting contradiction: On the surface, people are most afraid of embarrassing, highly publicized attacks from hacktivist organizations like Anonymous, but they recognize that the more serious threats come from criminal organizations and nation states,” Sverdlove said.
It would seems like IT professionals have little faith in the employees in their company, with 26 percent saying security on laptops and desktops is effective. An overwhelming 95 percent said the public should know about any cyber security breaches, with 48 percent adding companies should provide details on what, if anything, the criminals stole, and 29 percent felt the details of how the attack occurred should be included as well.
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Pope Francis adds new pathway to sainthood, mixing martyrdom and devoutness
Until now, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living a life of heroic values or having a clear saintly reputation
The Vatican announced that the Pope has issued a law on his own initiative adding the fourth route to sainthood.Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images/File
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has added a fourth pathway to possible sainthood: people who lived a good Catholic life and who freely accepted a certain and premature death for the good of others.
Until now, gaining consideration for sainthood in the Catholic Church required martyrdom, living a life of heroic values or — less frequently invoked — having a clear saintly reputation.
The Vatican announced Tuesday that the Pope has issued a law on his own initiative — known as a mutu proprio — adding the fourth route.
Examples of people who might fall into that category include those who take the place of someone condemned to death or expectant mothers with fatal diseases who suspend treatment so their babies can be born.
While John Paul II streamlined the canonization process, Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci, an official of the Vatican’s Congregation of the Causes for Saints, noted in L’Osservatore Romano that the norms for beatification — the first step toward sainthood — have been in place for centuries.
However, the three pathways “don’t seem sufficient to interpret all of the cases of possible saints to be canonized,” he wrote, acknowledging the new route incorporates both elements of martyrdom and living a life of heroic values, without being fully covered by either.
Under the new category, a miracle must be attributed to the candidate’s intercession prior to beatification. Martyrdom — being killed out of hatred for the faith — does not require a miracle.
The pathway could apply to cases like that of Chiara Corbella, a young Italian woman who died in 2012.
She had insisted on continuing with two pregnancies despite being told that the fetuses were deformed, losing both at birth. Diagnosed with cancer when she was pregnant for a third time, she had forgone chemotherapy and other treatments to safeguard the life of her son, Francesco, who was born safely.
Friends started an association last month, on the fifth anniversary of her death, to seek her beatification.
On the weekend, the Pope also issued guidelines on what kinds of bread and wafers should be used during communion. His letter, released in June but published on Saturday, caused a stir because it said the communion host cannot be gluten-free. It reaffirmed the policy that churches can use low-gluten wafers instead.
The Catholic Church holds communion, also called the Eucharist, at every mass as a recognition of Jesus’ Last Supper. Catholics receive bread and wine, believing that they are receiving the literal body and blood of Christ.
Some Catholics have discussed whether the church should consider whether if the bread could be made of something else, like rice, or whether the wine could be made from the sap of palm trees. “Christ did not institute the Eucharist as rice and sake, or sweet potatoes and stout,” said Chad Pecknold, a theology professor at Catholic University in Washington.
— With a file from The Washington Post
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Leadership race begins as UK Prime Minister Theresa May steps down after Brexit failure
May announced she would step down last month after failing to deliver Britain's departure from the European Union on time
Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, delivers a speech announcing her resignation outside number 10 Downing Street in London, U.K., on Friday, May 24, 2019. May said she will step down on June 7.Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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British Prime Minister Theresa May stepped down as leader of the governing Conservatives on Friday, officially triggering a contest to replace her that could see her party embrace a tougher stance on Brexit.
May announced she would step down last month after failing to deliver Britain’s departure from the European Union on time, deepening a political crisis in a divided country struggling to move on from a 2016 referendum on Brexit.
She will continue to work as prime minister until her party elects a new leader, a crowded race that will be defined by Brexit and competing approaches on how to deliver Britain’s biggest foreign policy shift in more than 40 years.
“For the remainder of her time in office, she will be building on the domestic agenda that she has put at the heart of her premiership,” her spokeswoman told reporters.
May exchanged letters with the leaders of the influential 1922 Committee of Conservative lawmakers, according to a statement from the committee.
May, once a reluctant supporter of EU membership who emerged from the chaos after the 2016 referendum as prime minister, steps down with her central pledge — to lead Britain out of the bloc and heal the country’s divisions — unfulfilled.
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Her team has been keen to shape her legacy beyond the Brexit failure, but she bequeaths to her successor a nation where traditional political divides are being eroded by strong beliefs on whether Britain should leave the EU, and how it should do so.
The contest to replace her has been heating up for weeks, with candidates arguing over the rights and wrongs of a so-called no-deal Brexit, or leaving the EU without a deal.
Official nominations will be received on Monday. The selection process should be completed by the end of July.
Former foreign minister Boris Johnson is the favourite to win. He champions a tougher stance on Brexit, saying Britain should leave with or without a deal by the new deadline of Oct. 31. He is seeking to persuade Conservatives that he is the only candidate who could win a new national election for the Conservative Party.
Other leading contenders include the current foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, and environment minister Michael Gove, who take a less hardline stance on Brexit.
But Michel Barnier, the EU’s Brexit negotiator, said on Friday any new prime minister will still face the problem of what to do with the Irish border, in order to secure frictionless trade, after Britain leaves the bloc.
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Rex Murphy: It may have been many things, but Ontario's election was not 'historic'
The province did not elect its first Green politician Thursday. It has had a whole government of Green politicians — named Liberals — for 15 years
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford and his family celebrate his party's election win on June 7, 2018.Nathan Denette/CP
Rex Murphy
People may recall when “historic” was reserved for events of mighty significance, outstanding in their singularity and magnitude of effect — Charles Martel defeating the Moors in 732, the barbarian invasions that brought about the fall of Rome, Nelson at Trafalgar or, closer to our time, the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, the great hinge combat of the Second World War.
Friday morning as I glissaded over Google to sample the highs and lows of Doug Ford’s triumph in Ontario, it was oddly apparent that most of the press and commentariat saw within the evening’s results something worthy of being called historic. I better be clear. It wasn’t the election itself that grabbed the adjective, though you could make a trivial case for it. After all, the Tories self-detonated their party just as the contest began, suffered the manic divisions of an extemporaneous leadership race, chose what better minds viewed as a dread populist Trump wannabe, and yet still wiped the board. That was remarkable, surprising even, but not really historic.
Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner and federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May campaign in his home riding of Guelph, Ont., on May 25, 2018. Kenneth Armstrong/CP
It was the election of a Green candidate in Guelph that a thousand laptops proclaimed as historic. First-ever Green elected in Ontario — historic win. The Toronto Star, usually rationing its exuberance for matters genetically Liberal, went with the tide: “Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner makes history with victory in Guelph.”
What would the headlines have read if Ontario had elected two? One can but speculate. The great organs of world opinion and news would have worn such headlines as: World Staggers. UN Convenes Security Council. Trump Cancels Kim Summit, Will Meet Ontario Greens To Revise New World Order. Or, perhaps taken a slightly more subdued reading with something like “Great Hopes From Guelph. This is the moment when the rise of the oceans begins to slow and our planet begins to heal.” But part of that, I believe, is taken.
The chosen one himself, Green Leader Mike Schreiner, quite understandably was in consort with the mass judgment, exclaiming over his victory, “We’ve made history.” But, really, did they? Was it, really, historic? Guelph, for those marooned in the lesser provinces, is best understood as a kind of inland Salt Spring Island, a veritable nursery and greenhouse of save-the-planetism and millenarian global warming. It boasts an environmental movement near Calvinist in its determinacy and dourness.
Former Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne is helped off stage after speaking in her riding of Don Valley West following the Liberals’ electoral defeat on June 7, 2018. Christopher Katsarov/CP
“Historic” has gone the way of “awesome.” Just as “like” is a verbal hiccup, “historic” is a mere sound, a pothole filler on the journalistic highway, meaning if anything, “Hey, this is the first time that’s happened.” E.g., “Went to Rabba’s for a Kit Kat. They were out.” Historic.
Actually, there wasn’t much historic about the entire evening. The Liberals were savagely rejected. How could they not have been? Their rule is best described as insanely haughty and prescriptive. They imposed a centrally driven and coterie agenda on an entire province, ransacked the idea of accountability, chose righteousness over regard for the electorate, and most fatally, abandoned all the real duties of governance for a feverish and total embrace of the destructive and always delusionary climate-change agenda.
The fate of the Ontario Liberals is an 'evidence-based' illustration of what happens to a political party when it is captured by Greenism
The fate of the Ontario Liberals is an “evidence-based” illustration of what happens to a political party when it is captured by Greenism. Inevitably it becomes a Father Knows Best government, ignores or dismisses real and present concerns of an electorate, and scorns the lesser obligations of governance: traffic, home heating, jobs and — every government’s principal reason for being — respect for life as it is being lived by its citizens. Add Greenism to furious “rights” mongering and social-justice infatuations, and you produce a government so far out of touch, that given half a chance, an electorate will leap in gymnastic urgency to any alternative, however dubious or untried.
Ontario did not elect its “first” Green politician Thursday night. It has had a whole government of Green politicians — named Liberals — for the past 15 years. For which Doug Ford is now infinitely thankful.
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Manchester Piccadilly: a visual history
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Lorna Frost, Assistant Curator - Image Collections
Poster, British Railways (London Midland Region), Manchester’s New Station, by Claude Buckle, 1960
As a regular visitor passing through Manchester Piccadilly train station, I’ve been interested by some of the paintings and photographs in the collection which give a few insights into its history. I’ve selected some of my favourite images to show the story of the station’s fantastic transformation over the years.
Manchester London Road station and forecourt, 1913
The station was originally built as Store Street Station by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway in 1842, before being renamed London Road Station in 1847. It was shared by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Railway and it has been rebuilt and added to a number of times, with two news spans added to the train shed roof in 1881 and island platforms added linking to Manchester Oxford Road in 1882 (replacing two old Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway platforms which were built next to the station).
Trains waiting at Manchester London Road station, 1913
Manchester London Road station dining room, about 1956
In 1960, under nationalised control by British Railways, the London Road Station became Manchester Piccadilly and reopened in 1962. The painting below (and the poster it became, at the top of this blog post) shows the huge contrast with the old station buildings.
Painting, oil on canvas, Manchester’s New Station, Piccadilly, by Claude Buckle, 1960
In 1992, the vaults below the station, formerly a goods depot, were transformed to incorporate the MetroLink tram service. The station was once again modernised in the run up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the city, with dramatic results. I haven’t been able to find a photo of the current building among our collection, but here is one of the MetroLink instead.
You can now browse 1000s of photographs from our collection on the new photos section of our main website.
For more on the history of the station check out the Network Rail Archive, which has further details and plans of the buildings.
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11 Responses to Manchester Piccadilly: a visual history
Jonathan Morton says:
What, no mention of the 1500V DC electric system? It reached half of the terminus platforms from Sheffield (via Woodhead) and the island platforms from Altrincham – and the two systems never met, despite being compatible. The electrics were already in place by the time London Road was rebuilt into Piccadilly, and stayed there.
The original 1500V gantries were largely retrofitted for 25kV power rather than being replaced entirely, particularly on the Hadfield line. They make a sharp contrast to both early (WCML) and later (ECML) installations of native 25kV power. Yet this puts the lie to one of the justifications for closing Woodhead, which was that upgrading to 25kV would be “too difficult”.
This in turn ties in to the current plans for HS2. There used to be three distinct north-south main lines, and the two that remain are now congested beyond the limits of reliable and efficient service. The third was the Great Central line – whose northernmost section was Woodhead. The lesson here is that major infrastructure planning needs to look 50 years ahead, even if individual governments are only in power for a tenth of that time.
Terence Pickering says:
Were not the termini for this line St Pancras and Manchester Central?
Richard Standing says:
No, that was the Midland Line, of which a number of parts are also sadly “missing”. The Great Central line ran out of Marylebone via Aylesbury (the Chiltern route) then up to Sheffield and into London Road via Woodhead. As regards the cost of converting to 25kV AC, the “Flashover” distances are much further than for 500V DC so maybe the tunnels and bridges on the Woodhead line would have cost too much to rebuild to give the correct clearance (the remaining line to Hadfield has very few overbridges IIRC).
I admit, flashover to the tunnel roof may have been a factor. However, 25kV wires already go through some pretty tight clearances without trouble, and I doubt that the nearly-new tunnel – which was specifically designed to be electrified – would have been built to such tight tolerances as to forbid later upgrade. Indeed, in many cases it has proved sensible to add a few inches to the headroom of a tunnel or bridge by lowering the trackbed.
There were originally small areas on the AC network wired at 6.25kV due to clearances – while still worked by ordinary AC traction – but improvements in insulator technology had eliminated those quirks long before Woodhead was seriously considered for closure. IIRC the later classic AC locos (86, 87) had already dropped 6.25kV compatibility measures (which would have applied to the auxiliary supplies rather than the traction circuit) by the time they were built. Retrofitting this back into them would probably have been possible, and the tunnel is on a less severe gradient than the rest of the line.
If all else failed, they could have kept 1500V wiring and waited for dual-supply technology to mature to avoid the need to change locos en route. The 313 was already switching between overhead AC and third-rail DC at the time, and the Eurostar later spent some time dealing with four electric systems (750V, 25kV, 25kV double height, 1500V) on one journey. A major advantage of the 1500V DC system was that it made regenerative braking rather easy, which was very helpful for coal trains on 1:100 gradients.
A potentially more serious problem was the mining subsidence which I hear was quite noticeable along the route. This mostly resulted in irregularities in the gradients, some parts being noticeably steeper than the theoretical ruling gradient. A thorough refurbishment of the route could have corrected the settling that had already occurred, although it would undoubtedly develop further and need to be corrected again – but only after *another* century of heavy use.
The smoking gun, however, has to be found in the hands of the more southerly Manchester-Sheffield route, which is a much slower and more winding line, but happened to pass through a number of marginal constituencies and could therefore not be closed without much political fallout. Yet the idea of having *two* lines between two cities was considered a waste, so Woodhead had to go. So, as the practice was at that time, technical excuses were made up to create less silly-sounding justifications for closure.
chaco sandal says:
new blance
Ian Whitehead says:
Hi Anybody,
I am quite interested in the history of Piccadilly Station in Manchester, can anyone tell me what the small Stone Arch on the right was originally used for as you go under the Bridge from London road?
Hope someone out there knows, Highest Regards Ian.
Lorna Frost, Assistant Curator - Image Collections says:
Hi Ian, The sign above the arch reads ‘London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. / General Carriers’ so perhaps it was a warehouse or goods entrance?
Hi Lorna,
Sorry for my late reply, was down there last week and could not see a sign I keep wondering if it was a stairway to one of the two building near the front of the Station you can see in the old 1913 picture of the Station, where the horses and carriages are?
Thanks for your reply Ian
Jane Beckett says:
On the first photo of the station and forecourt, there are the letters BVD all along the stonework under the fence and also under the bridge. Can anyone tell me what the letters mean, please?
Terence Buckle says:
Can any one comment if the frontage showing the lettering “Picadilly Station” shown in the Poster, British Railways (London Midland Region), Manchester’s New Station, by Claude Buckle, 1960 at the top of the page was ever built?
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In Defense of Hand Shakers (Sort of)
January 15, 2017 January 9, 2018 iblessall 17 Comments
Hand Shakers, unlike K, isn’t about cute boys. And that is where it all went wrong.
If you haven’t watched the first episode of Hand Shakers yourself, you’ve probably at least seen the screenshots or heard the buzz about just how bad the show looks. But although the idea of the episode being a complete visual mess from start to finish is an exaggeration that leaves some of the moments when the Hand Shakers‘ visual contortions hit the mark sadly unacknowledged—an exciting event for reasons which we’ll touch on later—I’m not here to argue that Hand Shakers looks good. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, whether or not Hand Shakers is a work of misunderstood visual genius or overindulgent visual vomit is largely irrelevant (for what it’s worth, I’d lean towards the latter).
It should be noted that Hand Shakers‘ existence as this particular… thing… is neither surprising nor sudden. Since Mardock Scramble came out in 2010, studio GoHands has been refining a unique audio-visual aesthetic (particularly with K), and it was clear from the moment the first PV dropped that Hand Shakers was destined to become the culmination of those efforts: a wonderland of oddly serene music, digital effects work, overblown cinematographic techniques and every color you can imagine. It’s like a bowl of the marshmallows from Lucky Charms, melted down into a stunningly chaotic puddle.
Kvin’s post on Hand Shakers over at the Sakugablog lays out a really effective critique of Hand Shakers‘ ridiculous visuals from a craft/end result perspective; I recommend checking it out if you want a little more context to put around Hand Shakers and I largely agree with his points about the end result. However, he also hits on a particularly interesting idea regarding what’s going on over at studio GoHands:
It feels like at some point the methods replaced the goals – scenes no longer are meant to achieve a result, they’re showcases of this particular aesthetic the studio’s built.
This is a fascinating observation and, from what I can tell, an accurate one. However, it also presumes a particular paradigm for creating anime is the correct one; that is, that scenes in an anime should achieve a “result,” not simply serve as vehicles for a studio aesthetic. But why shouldn’t they? In fact, why not have the result that scenes are meant to achieve be showcasing a particular aesthetic? Of course, in the case of GoHands one could answer, “Because the aesthetic is bad,” but as far as I can tell seeking to perpetuate an aesthetic is just as valid a goal as any other. It just so happens that the goal in this case one that flies in the face of our expectations of what good anime should look like.
In other words, I may not want to defend the end results of GoHands’ artistic choices for Hand Shakers, but I’m happy to stand up for the studio’s right to make those choices. That being said, I do think there’s something about the consistency of Hand Shaker‘s off-the-chain (sorry) efforts that makes it an astounding, if not engrossing, watch. It’s a kind of cross between being unable to look away from a car crash and being hooked in by the sheer curiosity of wondering what will come next. There are few anime that so thoroughly chuck out all semblance of caring about anything besides one particular goal—in this case, maintenance of an aesthetic—and seeing GoHands attempt this via Hand Shakers is… well, it sure is something. It may very well be a case of misused ambition, but it’s ambition nonetheless and, for my part, I’m intrigued by the effort itself.
With the story and characters of Hand Shakers being what they are (more on that in a second), Hand Shakers seems to me to be a show that’s willing to present its style as its substance. So much of what Hand Shakers is doing is gratuitous and unnecessary by most traditional standards (stuff like specular reflection that moves even when the camera’s still is the epitome of this), but amidst the visual cacophony there are without doubt moments that somehow push through through the insanity to stand out. Whether it’s an unholy yet compelling neon depiction of a city, a pattern of two lights and one reflection on a chain, weird compositing that makes some character seem like they’re glowing, or a suddenly pretty use of blues and greens, Hand Shakers pretty consistently delivers shots that feel like true expressions of the GoHands aesthetic. It’s this rhythm, the constant iterative attempts by the show to reach aesthetic—failing, failing, succeeding, failing, and so forth— that’s so fascinating.
So far I’ve mainly focused on Hand Shakers‘ visuals, but it’s worth mentioning that GoHands has a pretty distinct sensibility to the way it uses music and sound, too. Thanks to K, the studio’s already well-known for their use of “elevator music” in seemingly unfitting scenes, and Hand Shakers carries on this odd tradition, mixing in sound effects that sound like a poorly executed version of Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta‘s excellent work in that department. And yet, again, there are moments where the aesthetic truly takes over, such as in the now-infamous scene where the class president’s boobs bounce as she’s listening to music, creating a stunningly strange and unique effect.
Starting at 0:07, Lily hits the play button, cueing in the song (a GoHands-style piano piece) on her mp3 player. When the music begins, the sound is somewhat muted and hollow, a recognizable effect used to indicate the the song’s diegetic presence inside her earbuds. But then at 0:24, just as Lily leans in toward Tazuna, the sound levels fill out and the volume increases slightly, a shift that clearly marks the music as now non-diegetic (something reinforced when she removes the earbuds at 0:31). The cumulative effect is an odd one, and if we’re talking purposes, it’s difficult to see how this choice has any conventional logic supporting it. But what it does do is create an odd undercurrent. It is, I daresay, aesthetic—whatever you think of the moment’s efficacy, it’s undeniably distinct.
As we close, I want to make clear here that this defense only carries as far as Hand Shakers‘ audio-visual elements. The story itself already seems like K with less care put into characterizing the cast and making them likable and more directionless adrenaline (Nimrods, the Revelation of Babel, etc.), and the pivot away from K‘s bishounen dominated cast to one with a more balanced gender ratio has resulted in a corresponding increase in the gross fanservice that only rarely appeared in K. As far as I’m concerned, this is easily the biggest liability Hand Shakers has displayed so far. While I’m excited to watch the visual insanity and can tolerate a nonsense plot, shows that fundamentally disrespect their characters are hard for me to stomach. GoHands seems chronically incapable of treating female characters well, so maybe it’s best if they just don’t have them in their shows at all.
As defenses of shows go, this is a pretty poor one. In its pursuit of its aesthetic, Hand Shakers becomes garish in the extreme—to the point that it’s nearly indigestible. It’s a toxic blend of mismatched visual techniques, with a solid helping of bad writing on the side. Even so, I can’t help feel that, viewed as an attempt to constantly execute the purest form of its own aesthetic priorities, Hand Shakers is a somewhat remarkable work. The end result as a whole may not be something I can say I enjoy, but I at least find a strange sense of joy in simply watching the attempts and occasional successes.
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17 thoughts on “In Defense of Hand Shakers (Sort of)”
DerekL says:
Still, I’m not watching it… One ep was enough. Though I’ll probably hate-read the reviews on ANN.
And how in haitch-e-doublehockeysticks did this poll high enough to get reviewed and Demi-Chan didn’t?
iblessall says:
I don’t recommend anyone watch it if they don’t appreciate what it’s trying to do. Seems like a recipe for bitterness.
ANN readers have provably poor taste in anime, this is just the latest evidence lol.
stardf29 says:
Except Demi-chan is getting reviewed? Look at Paul Jensen’s selections.
And I’m pretty sure Hand Shakers only got voted to be reviewed to see how much the reviewer would tear it apart.
swabl says:
I’m a little surprised you didn’t bring up SHAFT in this post, because (at least, for me) Monogatari represents a successful execution of studio aesthetic as its own substance or goal. I mean, that’s 90% of the reason why I’ve kept watching it to be honest…
So I don’t think you’re off-base in your, uh, appreciation? of Hand Shakers (or maybe just GoHands), because that’s where I sit with Monogatari. You’ve certainly managed to make explicit a couple of sentiments I had about this!
There’s probably a good follow-up post in comparing SHAFT’s and GoHands’ approach to aesthetics and how one succeeds where the other seemingly fails – they’re about the only two studios going so hard on a singular aesthetic, but the reception to them couldn’t be more different.
I actually thought about SHAFT when I was writing this post, just didn’t find a place where I felt like mentioning it fit it.
I will say that I personally think that, for Monogatari at least, the SHAFT aesthetic serves distinct purposes beyond serving itself, but for others shows like Nisekoi that’s not true (something I’ve written about before, actually: https://mageinabarrel.com/2014/06/04/nisekoi-review-bright-colors-and-shiny-eyes/).
I actually think the Sakugablog post I linked does a good job of explaining why GoHands’ approach to aesthetics is less than successful, but there are plenty of people out there who hate the SHAFT house style, too! So ultimately it does come down to a matter of taste, although GoHands is a quite a bit less digestible than SHAFT, at least if we’re going by popular reception.
videogamep says:
I tried to watch the first episode to see if it was as bad as people say, but I just gave up after the first few minutes. I don’t mind having a distinctive style for its own sake, but this was just unpleasant to look at (the creepy fanservice didn’t help either).
I can’t blame you for that! And yes, the fanservice is awful, even worse and more prevalent than it was in K.
SStefania says:
The only GoHands I watched wholly was Coppelion. It started weak and I’d drop it if I wasn’t writing a review for a magazine, but fortunately I didn’t – the second half evolved into extremely dumb action series and I remember having some fun after all. The typical GoHands aesthetics never bothered me back then or when I looked at any K or Mardock Scramble materials (I plan to watch both some day), but Coppelion was special, as it was an adaptation – and I liked the drawings more than those in the original manga. Moreover, my most anticipated and currently favourite show of the season, Onihei, has a similar weird filter in some scenes as well.
So, because of all that, I thought I could handle Hand Shakers. But there’s something about this particular show that makes me cringe, I am guessing it’s because of the character designs. Coppelion had clear, strong, black outlines – sometimes too strong, so on some screenshots the characters look like not actually being in their environment. Hand Shakers has almost no outlines, which makes the characters more creepy and alien.
These boobs are actually nice, they reminded me of Eiken, an OVA with ridiculously huge tits that flowed in the wind together with the girl’s hair in a t least one instance.
I, too, think they should keep what they are doing with these aesthetics if they feel like it, but I also still won’t like it. At least it’s not being defended as Deep And Profound Art like those *monogataris, just today I saw someone writing that one of the girls there is not being exploited by the camera, she poses for it, because she’s apparently so empowered and has real agency despite being a cartoon. And this is why I mercilessly bully *monogatari fans 😉
K and Mardock Scramble (the later in particular) are both more visually restrained than Hand Shakers and better for it. You’re spot on with the outlines for Hand Shakers, too, the lineart is super inconspicuous, and yet still the characters don’t blend at all because of the CG environments.
Nothing wrong with not enjoying a studio’s preferred aesthetic. We might clash a bit regarding Monogatari, but perhaps we can let that particular disagreement slide for now haha.
Handshakers triggers my motion sickness/photosensitivity combo worse than any show I can remember. I didn’t make it far past the credits, and I felt mildly ill when I closed the window. I didn’t get to any fansersive or story, and because of this I can’t really have any stance on the show one way or another. (Btw, that clolourful mess, third picture-square from the top, is painful for me, even when it’s not moving.)
Aside from that, I don’t like CGI. There are exceptions. Most notably the currently airing Nyanbo is excellent, with its geometrically shaped cat-robot thingies in a real life environment. Do things like that and even I approve. But generally… it’s not for me.
There’s one last comment I have: when you have your own, distinctive aesthetic, you have to experiment. And it’s in the nature of experiments that success varies, and you can’t know how much you succeed beforehand. If you just stick to what you’ve done all along, and it’s distinctively your style, it can become either boring or annoying. So you have to keep moving forward and try out what works and what doesn’t.
Like Swabl, I thought of Shaft. More specifically, I thought of the currently airing Sangatsu no Lion. I’m not an animation expert, but my impression is that they’ve found, after a few episode, a balance that works well for the show. It’s now better than it was for the first few episodes. It feels more restrained, but not watered-down. In a sense, that’s experimentation. You do something, evaluate the results, and then adjust.
The evaluation part is easier when you have a goal other than just showcasing your aesthetic. If it’s all about the aesthetic, all the artist can rely on is the gut feeling, but “gut feeling” doesn’t always work when you’re in critical mode. Basically, you’ll see more clearly when you’re distanced from the work. With anime being produced as it airs, this can sometimes lead to “bad” work, “failed” expirements being aired. But that’s important, too, because without those “failures” you can’t really learn about the limits what you can do.
Maybe the creators of Handshakers will come to think “Well, that didn’t quite work out the way we hoped,” or maybe it’s going to be “Well, we actually quite liked it. Pity there are so few who agree.” But from what little I’ve seen Handshakers is definitely not Go Hands settling down. One way or another, it’s a learning experience – about what they want to do, and/or about what they can get away with. I’m a lot more sympathetic to “Well, that didn’t quite work out the way we hoped,” than I am to “But they’ve always liked it before!”
Which brings me to PA Works and Glasslip. That was definitely an experiment. I’m actually quite fond of the show, even though I don’t think the show was an unmitigated success. But because it’s so obviously itself it’s easy for me to appreciate it for what it get rights. And there’s plenty.
And that’s the end of me rambling.
It sure would be interesting to hear what the creators at GoHands think about the monstrosity they’ve created with Hand Shakers! As Kvin notes in this post, the aesthetic seems to be being handed down from the executives rather than growing out of the creators’ own ideas, so it might be that the people actually making the show don’t really like what they’re doing. Or maybe they do, and that’s why they signed on for the project.
March comes in like a lion definitely is an interesting case study, as it’s definitely got some of the typical SHAFT flair but seems to (at least in the bits of it that I’ve seen) have carved out a bit of its own unique niche within the pre-established patterns.
Regardless, if Hand Shakers makes you physically ill… well, perhaps that speaks for itself.
Hand Shakers does make me feel physically ill, and more than I’d have expected, too. But I’m sort of sensitive to odd camera/light constellations, so I’m not how much that says about the show, rather than about me. (I don’t know if I said it before, but the last show I couldn’t watch was Sidonia no Kishi. I also can’t watch shaky-cam live action films, or anything 3-D [with the glasses].)
Martin Wisse says:
If I’m being snarky, I’d argue that if you want to aim for aesthetic as the driving force in your show, you’d better get it right, rather than induce motion sickness in your audience. With Handshakers, I found the individual elements — CGI chains, CGI background people, motion cycles etc — to be bad enough, but what really hurt it was their integration. It’s as if there was no thought given on how all these elements would fit together.
A good aesthetic can uplift otherwise mundane stories — Shaft’s work on e.g. Nisekoi has already been mentioned, but Redline is also a good example — but you still need to think about what and how to enhance. The opening shot of Bakemonogatari, the panty shot of Hanekawa seen in slow motion with a stopwatch timer running next to it, takes a entirely mundane and predictable bit of fanservice and uses it as the opening statement for the entire Monogatari series. The enhanced gainaxing in the example given for Handshakers on the other hand does nothing but make an already irritating cliche even more silly and irritating.
I think your argument, snarky or not, is still on point. Just because Hand Shakers is aiming at an aesthetic doesn’t meant that it justifies the aesthetic itself. As I said in the post, I do think there are some times when it works despite everything and winds up looking really neat, but are those moments worth slogging through the rest for? Well, that’s up to each person, I think.
Theemathas says:
I hope I’m not the only person whose reaction to the screencaps is “Woah. Maybe I should watch this show?”
It’s a wild ride, at the very least!
Alvi Syahri says:
what I don’t really like about this anime other than the story:
1. Re-used background scenes. (people interactions in them included)
I guess it makes sense at first when they just ran out of time and money, but after the same interactions by the same people with the same scenes happened again and again, the scene just becomes boring instead of beautiful
2. Messy fight scenes
K project has done it well, but Hand Shakers’s attempt to be unique makes the fight scenes unwatchable and only make me dizzy instead. The perspective is changed so many times that it makes the tense feeling lost
3. Jiggly boobs
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February 21, 2018 Erica Ho 5 minute read Culture & Science Features Flights Food Transit
For better or for worse, airline food is a mystery. How does the food get there? How is it prepared? Do they just stick in a microwave oven? Is that real white meat, like McDonalds’ claims? Because, most of the time, it’s not like there’s much choice in the matter.
Being in the air, it turns out, does all sorts of weird things to food. It would seem that the palate changes considerably up in the air, and to get the same oomph on the ground, chefs must often double down on both the flavor, umami, and acidity to resemble a dish created a little bit closer to home.
So, perhaps, there is an actual legitimate reason, why overall, food may seem worse 30,000 feet up in the air, or at least, have that reputation.
To get an idea of what happens, Singapore Airlines was gracious enough to let us get a sneak peak of exactly what goes on. It’s a true process that has even led the airline to create a super-duper pressurized kitchen that replicates the exact same environmental cabin conditions at its home base in Singapore, but short of flying there, we opted to go behind the scenes with the airline at JFK airport instead.
So while the plane is sitting on the ground..
In general, airline food is never cooked onboard, simply because most planes don’t have the equipment. It would also create a logistical nightmare for the flight crew, many of who are meeting each other for the first time ever.
Instead, the food is often prepared down on the ground, at each individual airport. Many often airlines choose to use a catering group, or whatever in-house kitchens they choose to use at each individual airport. The quality of the food really depends on who’s cooking at the departure location.
Every time the plane touches down for an international flight, all the food onboard is immediately destroyed in an oven according to customs regulations, burning everything down to a crisp at a temperature up to 700 degrees Fahrenheit. Meanwhile, all the silverware is cleaned in a washed in a commercially-sized industrial dishwasher.
Then the kitchen loads everything onboard the aircraft. In this case, Singapore is served by Flying Food Group out of JFK. Bob Son, a vice president at the company, mentions, “The plane is cleaned, and then when the plane is ready to go, we load everything from water to food, you name it, and the plane becomes full again, in every city.”
At Flying Food Group’s location at JFK.
(Flying Food Group services 70 airlines in total across the board, but services 24 airlines at JFK specifically. Only 2 airlines, JetBlue and Hawaiian, are domestic, because, well, domestic airlines don’t really serve food. Load up on peanuts, folks.)
No, the same food is not served on every airline. Each airline has its own dishes, preferences and tastes. More or less, Son notes, “it’s like having 70 different children.”
Food actually tastes different up in the air.
The phrase ‘cooking is a science’ has never rung more true, especially when speaking about airline food. Everything from the humidity of the cabin and the altitude can literally alter what you taste onboard, meaning things have to be prepared completely differently on the ground.
Flying Food Group does the best that they can to replicate plane conditions on the ground, by first precooking the food, and then reheating it. It is at that point, Leanne Koh, Singapore’s JFK station manager, is in charge of checking the food every quarter, to make sure all the offerings hold up to snuff (or taste).
Koh mentions, that in particular, stews and curries do very well for Singapore’s flight out of JFK through Frankfurt, and are a particular passenger favorite. But there is more to it than what the passengers like.
“I [think about things like], is the rice in proportion to the meal, is the sauce flavorful enough because it’s not just about the salt, right? It’s about the flavor, and your taste buds with the altitude is not as sensitive when its 30,000 feet up in the air, so you have to amp up the flavor.”
The same thing also applies to acidic dishes, which are affected by the altitude. Vinaigrettes can be tricky to pull off if not done correctly, and will often require an extra squeeze of lemon (or two, or three) to get a dish where it needs to be.
Leanne Koh, station manager, discusses the technique behind a specific dish with another chef.
Koh’s job, essentially, is to check and taste the food to make sure it is up to standard, working closely with the chef and kitchen on each dish on presentation, taste, and quality control. To replicate the experience, the food is often prepared and then reheated the exact same way to make sure the food tastes exactly like how a passenger would experience it.
Loading up all that food… and silverware
There’s a lot of logistics that go down to how much food and silverware is carried onboard, simply because an airline’s biggest expense is fuel. This is no exception with Singapore Airlines.
Because the silverware is reused between flights, it is also important that there is menu consistency between its previous and next route—but not too much, lest the first- and business-class passengers, who tend to be the most frequent flyers, notice.
The airline must maintain a fine line between balancing the cargo weight of the silverware and making sure the menu isn’t monotonous. No two lobster rolls in a row for you!
Truly, the real role of the flight attendant is making sure all the passengers onboard are safe. But, in order to make it easier for the cabin crew to reheat and plate the food, the meal is often portioned out in on individual trays, then photographed, which is then given as a plating guide to the flight attendant. (In some cases, circular dishes may be pre-plated with a shirt collar.)
Left, how it should be prepared. Right, how it appears to flight attendants.
(For the record, the silverware used does dictate the class of service.)
Cooking airline food isn’t exactly what you think it would be like.
Even bread just isn’t bread up in the air. Everything is prepared on the ground, except for eggs.
Singapore Airlines has a proprietary, secret way of cooking scrambled eggs onboard. Like, for realsies. (They didn’t tell us.)
In general, the food is cooked about 40% of the way through on the ground, and then placed in a blast chiller to prevent the residual heat from continuing to cook the piece. It stays there, which is maintained at a temperature around 39 degrees Fahrenheit, just slightly above freezing point.
Later, the food will later be reheated on the aircraft either using a convection oven, or steamer, depending on the actual item.
There are some interesting nuances, since cabin crew don’t often have access to the tools they would have on the ground. Garlic bread is one such interesting item, since the garlic needs to be sautéed on ground first, and then processed into a compound butter beforehand. There is simply no way to toast fresh, raw garlic onboard, and even if it was possible, just about everyone would hate you.
Breads also pose a unique problem because of the plane cabin’s humidity, which typically hovers around 15%.1 Since breads can dry out quickly, this means a couple of things. Breads served onboard typically need to have a crust, be sliced, and already toasted. Pretzel bread and challahs don’t do well in the air and are much less likely to make it into the normal selection.
This also affects rice dishes, which need to be layered with a thin slice of cabbage to keep the grains fresh and moist.
One of the meals in first class. (Courtesy of Singapore Airlines)
James Boyd, a spokesman for the airline, also pointed out that the meat cuts often tend to be compact and thick for a reason, allowing them to be served (properly) medium rare. “What this allows us to do, is that when we reheat, we can reheat it so that the inside stays rare, and maintain the structure of the cut.”
Plus, I assume, there’s all that convection oven crust browning action going on there. (The steamer is for, um, creating moisture.)
In general, the list of meats that tend to do well up in the air might surprise the average cook: chicken (no surprise there), salmon, cod, sea bass, beef, prawns, and scallops all tend to reheat well. Seafood, in other words, one of the easiest things to overcook, thrive in the steamer. Smoked salmon is another favorite.
But duck and turkey? Probably not. It doesn’t mean the airline isn’t striving to push the envelope, notably exploring with several sous vide offerings, and a collaboration with Michelin chef Alfred Portale, who heads up New York’s Gotham Bar and Grill. (In Los Angeles, the airline works with noted chef Suzanne Goin.)
But, expectations are generally high for those twelve people in the famed Singapore suites, the 86 people in business, and anyone else who might have selected the book-to-cook option in premium economy. I’ll still be sitting back in economy with my Häagen-Dazs, though.
1 footnote
Even the Boeing 787s carry an air cabin humidity around 22-23% at the very most. For most people that don’t live in the desert, it’s far more common to have a humidity range 50% on the ground. ↩
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Michigan Units Dash Hopes at Saber Guardian 19
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The 172nd (Army) and 301st (Air Force) Cyber Protection teams provide realistic cyber threats to sharpen the defensive skills of units participating in Saber Guardian 19. Saber Guardian 19 is an exercise co-led by the Romanian Joint Force Command and U.S. Army Europe, taking place from June 3-24 at various locations in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Saber Guardian 19 is designed to improve the integration of multinational combat forces.
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany – There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of a Cyber Protection Team, but if you’ve encountered one in a training exercise, there’s an even better chance that they ruined your day.
This year the 301st and the 172nd Cyber Protection Teams are here at Grafenwoehr, Germany to apply their craft to sharpen the defensive measures of units fielded for Saber Guardian 19. Their goal is to create chaos by accessing the network and either disabling it or stealing classified information and using it against the units involved in the exercise.
In previous years the cyber threat has been notional and offered little training value beyond reminding commanders to consider cyber threats when planning and executing their missions. This year, that came to an end.
“We were asked by U.S. Army Europe to come and red team for them,” said Capt. Joe McNerney, battle captain for the 301st CPT. “This is the first time cyber threats are simulated. In the past they were white cards so this is much more realistic and adds greater training value.”
According to McNerney, the red team, or enemy training script simulates an insider threat, or a friendly agent with access to the network. While the 172nd is made up of units from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, all of the Soldiers and Airmen here are from Michigan. The 301st is an Air Force unit led by Lt. Col. John Brady and is based at the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base while the Soldiers in the 172nd hail from Joint Force Headquarters in Lansing and are led by Lt. Col. Robert Maciolek.
To make things even more interesting, some of the members of the 172nd are in Wiesbaden working to defend the network from the team in Grafenwoehr.
“They’re people we work with on a daily basis so we want to beat them,” said Sgt. Brian Stevens, an information technology specialist from Detroit. “We have to make them feel pain at some level.”
The primary role for both units during a deployment is defensive cyber operations which is more in line with what the personnel in Wiesbaden are doing, but there is always value in conducting cyber threat emulation.
“If the unit deploys with 40 personnel, five will spend all of their time conducting CTE on our own system in order to detect and mitigate weaknesses,” said Brady.
At the end of the exercise, the team will provide a comprehensive list of vulnerabilities in the network, protocol and processes and a full remediation plan in order for units to make the system more resistant to cyber attacks. The goal is for units to address any issues and make it harder for the “bad guys” to gain access next year.
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The Banana and the Narrow Gate
Does anyone know what the most popular item is that Walmart sells? In both the US, and the world?
The Banana!
More correctly, the Cavendish Banana.
It's eaten by more Americans than Apples and Oranges combined.
But did you know that before 1960, the Cavendish was called the "Junk Banana", due to its lack of flavor, being less hardy, and less good for you.
It's also a sterile mutant, the seeds are not able to create a new banana plant. The only way they get more is to use cuttings from existing plants to create new plants.
Before the Cavendish, most everyone ate the Gros Michel.
In the 1960's Panama disease hit and killed 99.9% of the Gros Michel.
Due to that, Banana producers switched to the Cavendish. Once everyone got over the lack of flavor, and the delivery concerns got figured out, it turns out people liked it better, since there was no inconvenient seeds.
Gros Michel seeds
Ever notice that banana flavored candy doesn't taste like the Banana of today? It's actually patterned after the Gros Michel.
When I first learned about all of this, it stuck with me as very interesting. Weirdly, each time I came to church it came back into my mind. I didn't know why it kept coming to mind, though. It finally hit me that this is like what we find with Christians all too often.
I Timothy 4:3-6
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following
How often do people today look for things that are easier, people that teach what they want to hear, instead of look at the Bible for what it really says. Even if we don't see this in ourselves, we can certainly see it in the world today.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits."
Do we want the easy way that is sterile and has dead seeds?
Or do we want the more difficult way that has a more rich flavor and can bear real fruit?
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She’s still got it: £78m Madonna named Forbes’ highest-earning musician of 2014
Jenni McKnightWednesday 20 Nov 2013 11:53 am
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She is known as the queen of pop and Madonna proved she’s still got it as she earned the title of the world’s highest-paid musician.
The 55-year-old raked in £78million from June 2012 to May 2013 thanks to her MDMA tour, according to Forbes magazine.
Despite her poor album sales, the publication states that it ‘took into account concert ticket sales, royalties for recorded music and publishing, merchandise sales, endorsement deals, and other business ventures’.
Following in her footsteps is Lady Gaga, who came second after earning £50million – although if she hadn’t cancelled the remainder of her Born This Way Ball Tour due to injury, Forbes claim she could have pulled in more than £100m.
Lady Gaga came second despite missing most of her tour due to injury (Picture: Xposurephotos)
However, if sales for her latest album ARTPOP and its accompanying tour are successful, Gaga could easily top the list next year.
Bon Jovi and country singer Toby Keith were next, before Coldplay finally put Britain on the list in fifth place with £40m.
Elton John was in eighth place on £34m and Paul McCartney at number 12 on £29m, just ahead of Calvin Harris on £29.5m.
One Direction and Jay Z were in joint 18th, earning £26m each.
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Mesut Ozil named Germany’s Player of the Year for 2016
Chris DavieSunday 15 Jan 2017 1:45 pm
Mesut Ozil has been named Germany’s Player of the Year. (Getty Images)
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has been named Germany’s Player of the Year for the fifth time in his career.
The 28-year-old claimed 54.5% of the 316,850 votes to win the award, while Real Madrid’s Toni Kroos came in second place with 33.9%.
In third was Jonas Hector with 4% of the vote.
Ozil has won the award in five of the last six years, with Kroos winning after Germany’s World Cup win in 2014.
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‘I’ve changed a few things in my life this past year, for example my diet and my training,’ Ozil told DFB’s official website.
‘That helps me to regenerate fast after games and it reduces the chance of getting injured. And obviously you can’t lose the love for the game. But that’s not going to be the case for me!’
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Westlife confirm reunion tour and new music – without Brian McFadden
Rebecca LewisWednesday 3 Oct 2018 8:50 pm
They’re back! (Picture: Ruven Afanador)
Pop band Westlife has confirmed a new tour and new music, their first in eight years.
Cue the fangirl squeal!
The lads confirmed the news in a video which shows Shane Filan, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily and Nicky Byrne all turn up individually to sit on stools.
Counting them down – ‘1,2,3’ – Shane, Kian and Mark all address the camera but Nicky plays on their classic key change routine of standing up from the stools.
‘I thought we were doing the key change!’ exclaims Nicky before the lads add: ‘We’ll be seeing you soon.’
The band will hope to return to the charts after signing a new deal with Universal Records; their tour will take in stadiums and arenas in 2019.
It is thought that Ed Sheeran was involved in writing the band’s comeback single.
Rumours of a reunion have regularly been attached to the band – which used to also include Brian McFadden – and although Brian had confirmed he would be interested in reuniting with the lads, Shane confirmed earlier in 2018 that if they were to return to the music scene it would be without Brian.
Brian has now been confirmed to star in the upcoming series of Dancing On Ice.
‘I haven’t seen Brian in 10 years. We’ve just lost touch, it’s like going to school with somebody and then not speaking,’ he said.
‘I wouldn’t speak to him to reminisce, not all all. We all had a good relationship with Brian then he just left the band very early on and I don’t think we would ever reunite with him.’
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He added that if a reunion were to happen it would be just the four of them, who split after 14 years together.
‘I honestly see Westlife as being four people now – the four people who started and finished Westlife are what I consider the band,’ he said.
‘Brian has been out of the band longer than he was in it.
‘If we ever reunited down the line it would only be the four of us.’
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Dateline: October 04, 2011
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Disneyland is advertising its annual Halloween fright fest and, as usual, I'm confused. The theme park is scary year-round as far as I'm concerned. So, what happens in October? It gets even scarier? Oh, my. Halloween Time, which continues at the park through the end of the month, features a specially decorated Main Street, retooled rides like "Haunted Mansion
Disney Know It All's
As a Disney "know it all" and contributing writer here at DLDHistory.com I have to admit there are times when I am quite annoyed when listening to another fan talk about material concerning the history of Walt, his Family and the Disney Theme parks. I often have examined (in my head) my rational for having such feelings and why I get so bothered about. They usually range
Bill Justice, Walt Disney Studios Animator Worked On Fantasia And Bambi
Dateline: February 10, 2011
Source: allaboutjazz.com
Bill Justice, a former Walt Disney Studios animator who worked on classics such as "Fantasia," "Bambi" and "Alice in Wonderland" and later joined Walt Disney Imagineering where he helped program Audio-Animatronics figures for attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, died Thursday, a day after he turned 97. Justice died of natural causes in a nursing home in
A Great Destination For All Generations
Source: Wired News
I had been pretty neutral on all things Disney while I was growing up, and as a young adult I didn't seek out any Disney entertainment. I had been to Disney World once when I was eight or nine, but that was pre-Epcot and all I remembered was loving Peter Pan and hating Space Mountain. But in 2006 when my kids were five and two, I had the chance to go to Disney World
An Exclusive Look Inside Disneyland's Mr. Lincoln
Disneyofficials say the Mr. Lincoln animatronic figure will star in a new show, "The Disneyland Story Featuring Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln," as early as Dec. 18. Disney spokesman John McClintock said Imagineers - the Disney technical pros - are still tinkering with the classic attraction, which has been on hiatus for several years. The Mr. Lincoln robotic
When The Mouse Roared Back Part 3
So while things were heating up at Disneyland, what was going on over at a relatively secret location in Glendale where all the shows and rides found at Disneyland were created? The newly christened Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) was rapidly expanding staff to handle the massive project load that was building courtesy of the new management structure. WDI is unique in many
Disneyland's New Mr. Lincoln Mixes Technology With Emotion
Dateline: September 12, 2009
After a long hiatus, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln is set to return to its home on Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland. Imagineers plan to bring back the attraction with the same charm and nostalgia, but with new technology and more emotion, creators said today. "In bringing the Lincoln show back, one of the things I remember about the first show is it made you
5 Disneyland Secrets That Nobody Knows
Dateline: June 30, 2009
If you're heading to Disneyland this summer, you can increase your knowledge and impress your traveling companions by sharing these 5 little-known secrets from the park. So without further ado: 1. The Disneyland "Test Bricks" If you are heading down Main Street toward Sleeping Beauty Castle, take a quick right toward the locker rentals. There, just to the right
Politics Hit Disneyland
Source: Dixie Sun
Over Presidents' Day weekend a group of friends and I embarked on a trip to the happiest place on earth in an effort to honor famous presidents of the United States, of course. Right to honor past presidents that is why we went right. Disneyland, contrary to popular belief, has played a very significant role in the history of American presidents. The life of every
The Pirates of the Caribbean's 40th Anniversary at Disneyland
March 18, 1967 Disneyland, Anaheim California - The day dawned gray and drizzly, and the passing of Walt Disney was still felt sharply, yet the Press, tourist and locals turned out for Disneyland's newest Attraction - the long awaited and much anticipated "Pirates of the Caribbean". This was the first big event at Disneyland since it's founders death, and was marked
Eustace Lycett, 91; Oscar-Winning Special Effects Expert For Disney
When Eustace Lycett was studying mechanical engineering at Caltech in Pasadena in the 1930s, he figured he'd wind up in the oil or aircraft industries when he graduated. He never considered a career in the movies. But three days after graduating in 1937, he went to work in the engineering department at the Walt Disney studio on Los Angeles' Hyperion Avenue, where he
Disneyland Intros Roving Animatronic Muppets; Mickey And Friends Fear Pink Slips
Source: engadget.com
The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland, not Las Vegas during CES) just got a little happier this week, thanks to a new exhibit called the Muppet Mobile Laboratory that roams the park and delights visitors with inane banter and sprays of water. Probably having nothing to do with the fact that the human costumed characters like to videotape themselves in suggestive poses
Oakland Museum's Disneyland Exhibition
Walter Disney's daughter and a longtime collaborator were in Oakland Wednesday to launch the Oakland Museum of California's new exhibition "Behind the Magic -- 50 Years of Disneyland.'' Diane Disney Miller and Martin (Marty) Sklar, vice chairman and principal creative executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, were on hand to talk about the exhibit and the idea behind
Thanks For The Magic Memories
Source: Contra Costa Times
Some people preserve family memories in scrapbooks and dresser drawers, filling them with vintage photographs of mom and dad, mementos of wartime service, souvenirs of that first trip to Disneyland. Diane Disney Miller has all that, too -- and she's planning a museum to share it with us. It will be a lot more than a scrapbook, but it won't look like a monument,
50 Years Of Disneyland
Dateline: January 31, 2006
Source: boxofficemojo.com
Disneyland spokesman Tim O'Day, hired as a parade performer in 1976 and knowledgeable about virtually every Disneyland detail, is practically the grand marshal of the theme park's rich history, including its integration to motion pictures. The co-author of Disneyland: Then, Now and Forever talked with Box Office Mojo about the Happiest Place on Earth. Box Office
50 Things You Didn't Know About Disneyland
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
In honor of Disneyland's 50th anniversary, we present 50 cool, obscure and simply odd things you probably didn't know about the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth. Many were culled from Mouse Tales by David Koenig (Bonaventure, $19.95). Some were provided by Disney archivist Dave Smith, and others came from 101 Things You Never Knew About Disneyland by former park
The Kingdom Was His Glory
To build his dream theme park in Anaheim a half-century ago, Walt Disney borrowed against his life insurance policy and cashed in property, including a vacation home in Palm Springs, to pay the $17 million construction bill. When the park opened July 17, 1955, toilets clogged, the food ran out and women's high heels sank into wet asphalt. Disney officials still refer
A Park With A Powerful Spell
Disneyland opened on this day in 1955. For five decades, the Anaheim attraction has worked its magic on our culture and transformed the entertainment industry. To build his dream theme park in Anaheim a half-century ago, Walt Disney borrowed against his life insurance policy and cashed in property, including a vacation home in Palm Springs, to pay the $17-million
The Big Ooh
Craftsmen must use their hands, heads and hearts to create the rides and inventions that make the park distinctly Disney. Walt Disney dreamed the idea for Disneyland, but it took an army of innovators to build a place where people could step inside a story. Disney tapped the best artists and risk-takers in his film studio to transform their two-dimensional
Mouse Memories
Source: Modesto Bee
Disneyland's golden anniversary party began Thursday and will run through Thanksgiving 2006. We asked Bee readers to share memories of the park's early days. Here's what they recalled. Pop on your golden mouse ears and take a trip back in time ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My wife and I were married Sept.
A Restless Dreamer And A Prolific Creator
As Disneyland launches its 50th birthday celebration, it seems appropriate to consider the founding father who turned his last name into an enduring brand and created a media giant that bestrides the planet. Walt Disney, as many have noted with varying degrees of accuracy, was not always the kindly, genial Uncle Walt who cared only about making children laugh. He was much
Discovering Disneyland
You have to look quickly, and you have to know exactly where to look. But if you do, you'll catch a pretty cool inside joke at Disneyland. On the Star Tours ride, just before your runaway Starspeeder exits the space station, keep your eye on the lower right side of the screen: You flash past what looks like a giant electron microscope. Old-timers will recognize it
Dinosaur Will Roam Free In Disney Park
Walt Disney Imagineering has brought us birds that sing, pirates that wink and presidents that stand to greet us. Now, it plans to introduce the first walking Audio-Animatronic figure in a theme park. An as-yet unnamed dinosaur will begin roaming through a designated area of either California Adventure or Disneyland this spring, said Marty Sklar, vice chairman of
One Score and 17 Years Ago
Source: Disney Magazine
You'd expect the term "renovation" to denote a polish and a shine. In the case of Mr. Lincoln at Disneyland, though, the renovation had a bit of a reverse effect. Imagineers refashioning Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln realized that the perfect hair and wrinkle-free finery of the Audio-Animatronics president didn't jibe with portraits of the time. Honest Abe needed a more
It's a typical scene in Anaheim: 18-wheelers shake up Fantasyland, the boats of the Jungle Cruise run the river backwards, and the Main Street sound system blares tunes by the Wallflowers. Disneyland in a parallel universe? Not exactly. More like the overnight flip side of the theme park when crews tweak, polish, paint, scrub, and fine-tune the place to perfection.
A Little Night Light
Here's some advice for those Disneyland purists who have been howling over "Light Magic," the new show unveiled this month as a replacement for the venerable Main Street Electrical Parade: It's different from its predecessor, and entertaining in its own unique way. Deal with it! Life is about change. Hey, Walt embraced it. Even Disneyland needs to make an occasional
It's A Cool World After All
Source: Austin Newsletter
A major upgrade to chilled-water systems at Disneyland is improving cooling capacity, increasing flexibility and reducing energy costs at the world-famous Southern California theme park. The project included updating equipment in the 85-acre park's two 30-year old chiller plants and drawing together the two formerly separate plants to allow load sharing. Because the
Your Best Day Ever At Disneyland
Source: Sunset
Enjoy a Mickey Mouse flapjack for breakfast, then hit Splash Mountain early. Eat lunch at the Big Thunder Ranch. Top off your day at Disneyland by watching fireworks from a little know vantage point. Those are some of the tips we picked up after visiting Disneyland five times last season. We learned how to tackle the park during its busiest time-summer. We discovered how
Kermit May Depose Lincoln
Source: Vallejo Newspaper
Abe Lincoln, a fixture at Disneyland for 25 years, may be deposed by Kermit the Frog and the Muppet gang. "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" which features a robot replica of the 16th U.S. president will be closed Aug. 26, with no reopening date set. Disneyland spokesman Bob Roth said Friday. Roth said he could not comment on employee contentions that a 3-D movie
Abe Gets To Stay At Disneyland
Honest, Abe, Disneyland says you haven't worn out your welcome. At least for now. The amusement park has revised its decision to close the "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" exhibit Sunday, park spokesman Bob Roth said Friday. The park told the Associated Press last week that the exhibit, set in the Main Street Opera House and featuring a robot replica of the 16th
Disneyland Through The Years
Source: Disney Channel Magazine
1954-Summer Construction gets under way and Disneyland begins to emerge from the surrounding bean fields and orange groves of Anaheim. 1955-July 17 The opening day ceremonies are beamed coast-to-coast in a TV special. One of the hosts: actor Ronald Wilson Reagan. 1956-October Attendance hits the five million mark; the Skyway, Tom Sawyer Island, Storybook Land
Disney Coast To Coast
Source: American Heritage
When I was ten years old, my parents entrusted me to TWA for a rumbling eternity in a prop-driven plane that pulled me across the continent to California. I was going to visit my aunt and uncle, but they were merely the agents of my real goal: Disneyland. The park had opened two years before, in 1955, and its effect on me was every bit as magical as the publicists had
New Wonder In Disneyland; Strike
Source: Newsweek
What is going on, anyway, in the magic kingdom of Disneyland? As if it weren't bad enough that a band of hippies invaded the park last month, some of its own inhabitants chose to walk out last week in a potentially crippling strike-the first in the fifteen-year picture-book history of the Anaheim, Calif., multimillion-dollar wonderland. The strike started as a demand
New Fun For The Whole Family At Disneyland
Source: Better Homes & Gardens
Imagine it's 200 years ago and you're a passenger on a small boat picking its way carefully along a dark and treacherous stretch of coastline on the Spanish Main. Suddenly pandemonium breaks loose. The air resounds with the roar of cannons and the crack of muskets. A band of pirates is attacking a town and you're right in the middle! The rogues are everywhere-taunting the
Disney Version
Source: American West
For all the natural grandeur of the west, its greatest tourist attraction is a synthetic creation: Disneyland-the subject, along with Disney's films and Disney himself, of Richard Schickel's The Disney Version (Simon and Schuster, $6.50). Those who remember Disney fondly may find this book discomforting or worse. Schickel's view is critical and frequently provocative,
Disneyland's Big New Pirate Ride
Source: Life
Cutlasses to all hands and prepare to take the town! In the costliest and most technologically sophisticated amusement park ever built, California's Disneyland has evoked the blood-curdling buccaneering past of the Spanish Main. Called The Pirates of the Caribbean, it is a 15-minute boat ride through the sacking of a town, marked by as harrowing a series of misadventures
Disney's Fantasy Empire
Source: Nation
This article was conceived as a critique of a man, his works and organization. The recent death of Walt Disney necessitated not only changes in tense but a look at the Fantasy Empire's future. No other revisions of fact, opinion or judgment are deemed imperative. -The Author Walt Disney, grand vizer of fantasy, possessed the world's largest collection of personal
Pirates, Puppets And Pterodactyls
Source: Motorland
Disneyland, Walt Disney's 70-acre "Magic Kingdom" at Anaheim, California, probably draws more visitors each year than any other attraction in the world-6.5 million annually, 58 million to date. Each season new visitors come, and others return for repeat visits. Disneyland is worth returning to again and again because something new is always being added. During its
Disneyland Capital Investment Grows
Source: Independent Press Telegram
During its first 10 years, Disneyland's capital investment grew from $17 million on opening day to more than $53 million. In the next five months, the figure will jump another $20 million with the completion of four new gigantic attractions. "What we will do by this summertime," Walt Disney said after announcing the new attractions last week, "is to raise our
Machine Tooled Happyland
Source: Holiday
The wondrous devices of Disneyland take on startling importance in the mind of a science fiction seer Two thousand years back, people entering Grecian temples dropped coins into machinery that then clanked forth holy water. It is a long way from that first slot machine to the "miracles of rare device" created by Walt Disney for his kingdom, Disneyland. When
Tinker Bell, Mary Poppins, Cold Cash
It is a place of improbable dreams, a 65-acre world drifted over with pixie dust. It is a place where Tinker Bell and Mary Poppins soar matter-of-factly through the evening sky, where Tom Sawyer plies his raft on the muddy Mississippi and the Lost Continent of Atlantis is cheek by jowl with the moon. It is, of course, Disneyland-Walt Disney's incredible pearl in the
Walt Disney King Of Fantasy
Source: Palm Springs Life
Walt Disney and friends. Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck brought laughter to the world and whose Disneyland is a playground for the world's people, calls his home at Smoke Tree Ranch, "my laughing place." Whimsical, as always, he refers to the Uncle Remus story where Brer Rabbit oh-so-casually mentions his "laughing place" and makes it sound so
Disneyland Jumping During Tencennial
Opening of "Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln" plus a new Victorian restaurant and spectacular nighttime entertainment will make Disneyland's Tencennial Summer the most exciting in its 10-year history. "Mr. Lincoln" will provide a new three-dimensional "experience with history" for guests of the "Magic Kingdom." Its West Coast premiere is set for about July 1 at
A Fantasy That Paid Off
Source: New York Times Magazine
The place is surrounded by a berm, a high barrow of earth, that insulates it from the external world. There is a single gateway where admission is charged. This, the land of Disney, is more secure than ancient Troy. No Trojan horse will get into Disneyland. Guards at the main gate closely scrutinize all who enter. Not even an unseemly teenager will get past them, much
Magic Worlds Of Walt Disney
Source: National Geographic
Disneyland really started more than 20 years ago, when Walt got the idea for an amusement park that grownups as well as children would enjoy. "I had all my drawing things laid out at home, and I'd work on plans for the park, as a hobby, at night." At the time, amusement parks were dying all over the country, "I talked Disneyland but no one could see it," Walt
Wide World of Walt Disney
In the world of children. he is the rich uncle-the casual, ordinary-looking man with the graying mustache and the baggy eyes who shows up from time to time, does funny tricks and gives wonderful presents, and then goes away until the next time. He makes everybody laugh, and everybody wonders about him-because like any proper rich uncle, he presents a fascinating mystery.
Disneyland A New Wonder Of The Amusement World Nears Completion
Source: Sunday News Journal
A wonderland of delights such as the World may never have seen before is rising out of the orange groves in this sunny suburb of Los Angeles. It is Disneyland, a 17 million dollar paradise for children. When the gates are opened on July 19, customers will see an amusement built on the scale of a World's Fair. The fantastic world of Disney films will be transformed
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The First Lincoln figure built (1964) was shown at the Worlds Fair
The Second Lincoln figure built was a spare never shown to the public
The Third Lincoln figure built (1965) was a revised design and shown in the Worlds Fair second year
The Fourth Lincoln figure built (1965) was shown at Disneyland: Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln
The Fifth Lincoln figure built (1971) was shown at Walt Disney World
The Sixth Lincoln figure built (1975) was shown at Disneyland: The Walt Disney Story Featuring Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln
I believe there was one built around 1977 that traveled around the U.S. for shows. I am having trouble confirming that though.
The Seventh Lincoln figure built (1984) was shown at Disneyland: The Walt Disney Story Featuring Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln
The Eighth Lincoln figure built (1993) was shown at Walt Disney World
The Ninth Lincoln figure built (2009) is currently being shown at Disneyland: The Disneyland Story Featuring Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln
The narrator's name is the late Paul Frees. His distinctive voice can also be heard in several other Disney attractions such as "Haunted Mansion" (narrator), and "Adventure thru Inner Space" (narrator).
In 1965, the figure constantly went into spasms in mid-performance. After thoroughly checking the robot's electrical system, maintenance realized that the show's power supply was fed by the same sub station that fed 600 volts to the Monorail. Whenever the Monorail, ran in these sections, there would be a power surge, causing Lincoln to spasm. Surge suppressers didn't work, so Lincoln's power line was run under Town Square and linked to another sub station behind City Hall.
First introduced to guests at the 1964 New York World's Fair. This incredibly lifelike show stunned audiences with its realism, and marked the first time Audio-Animatronics -- an electronic animation and synchronization process -- was used to animate a human form.
Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln was inspired by Liberty Street which was to be located between Main Street and Tomorrowland but was never built.
This was the first Disney attraction to show on both coasts simultaneously: New York Worlds Fair and Disneyland
Buddy Baker composed the original music for this attraction.
Pre-show narrator - Pete Renoudet
Narrator - Paul Frees
Abraham Lincoln - Royal Dano
The Lincoln figures that have compliance were actually developed at the University of Utah and SARCOS Research Corp.
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Once seated in the theater, the show begins with a slide presentation offering an introduction to the tumultuous times when Abraham Lincoln became President. A realistic figure of Abraham Lincoln then rises from his chair to deliver an inspiring and prophetic address to the audience, with words derived from Lincoln's own speeches from more than 100 years ago
People:We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Narrator:These immortal words, when first they were written, proclaimed to the world an idea new among men. This was the American dream, the prayer for the future. But that golden goal was not to be had without cost. The American way was not gained in a day. It was born in adversity, forged out of conflict, perfected and proven only after long experience and trial. Our nation's greatest crisis occurred when Abraham Lincoln was our President, and our protector. For Abraham Lincoln gave all to save the Union
Lincoln: My countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with those great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence, if you have listened to suggestion that would take away it's grandeur, if you are inclined to believe that all men are not created equal, let me entreat you to come back. Come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity. If that Declaration is not the truth, let us get the statute book in which we find it and tear it out. Then let us stick to it then, and let us stand firmly by it.
Narrator:Abraham Lincoln became President faced with the terrible threat of Civil War, a thing he dreaded, yet a calamity he was prepared to meet if he must.
Lincoln:Without union, the Constitution is only a piece of paper. I know there is a God and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming. I know His hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me, and I think He has, I believe I'm ready. I am nothing. But truth is everything. And with God's help, I shall not fail.
Narrator:April 12th, 1861, Fort Sumpter. The cannons spoke for war, Civil War. Violent. Devastating. Now had come the reckoning, the supreme test that would decide whether a republic founded on liberty could survive the terrible strife of men's passions.
Soloist:Two brothers on their way
Two brothers on their way
One wore blue and one wore gray
As they marched along their way
The fife and drum began to play
All on a beautiful morning
One was gentle, one was kind
One came home, one stayed behind
A cannon ball don't pay no mind
If you're gentle or if you're kind
It don't think of the folks behind
Lincoln:Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Narrator:Abraham Lincoln, man of the people, man for the ages. His spirit is with us still, for he is one with us, and we are one with him.
We pay tribute here not to a man who lived a century ago, but to an individual who lives today in the hearts of all freedom-loving people. His prophetic words are as valid for our time as they were for his. And now the skills of the sculptor and the talents of the artist will let us relive great moments with Mr. Lincoln.
AUDIO-ANIMATRONIC PRESENTATION
Lincoln:The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against is? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us in a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide.
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by the menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Choir:America, you must be dreaming now
Dreaming of promised lands
Of your pioneers
Keep on flying now
Keep your spirit free
Facing new frontiers
Spread your golden wings
Sail on freedom's wind
Great bird
With your golden wings
Keep on flying high
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New Machine Learning Program Shows Promise For Early Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
Neuroscience News August 15, 2017
Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedNeurologyOpen Neuroscience Articles5 min read
Summary: Researchers have developed a new algorithm that integrates Alzheimer’s indicators from MRI measurements to predict patients with the neurodegenerative disease.
Source: Case Western Reserve.
A new machine learning program developed by researchers at Case Western Reserve University appears to outperform other methods for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms begin to interfere with every day living, initial testing shows.
More than 5 million Americans may have Alzheimer’s disease, according to estimates, and the numbers are growing as the population ages. The disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. And while there is no cure, several drugs can delay or prevent symptoms from worsening for up to five years or more, according to the National Institute on Aging and published research.
Meanwhile, early diagnosis and treatment–the goal of the new computer based program–is key to allowing those with the disease to remain independent longer.
The computer program integrates a range of Alzheimer’s disease indicators, including mild cognitive impairment. In two successive stages, the algorithm selects the most pertinent to predict who has Alzheimer’s.
“Many papers compare the healthy to those with the disease, but there’s a continuum,” said Anant Madabhushi, F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve. “We deliberately included mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to Alzheimers, but not always.”
In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Madabhushi, Asha Singanamalli, who recently earned her biomedical engineering master’s degree and Haibo Wang, a former postdoctoral researcher, tested the algorithm using data from 159 patients collected via the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.
The team developed what it calls Cascaded Multi-view Canonical Correlation (CaMCCo) algorithm, which integrates measurements from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, features of the hippocampus, glucose metabolism rates in the brain, proteomics, genomics, mild cognitive impairment and other parameters.
Madabhushi’s lab has repeatedly found that integrating dissimilar information is valuable for identifying cancers. This is the first time he and his team have done so for diagnosis and characterization of Alzheimer’s disease.
“The algorithm assumes each parameter provides a different view of the disease, as if each were a different set of colored spectacles,” Madabhushi said.
The team developed what it calls Cascaded Multi-view Canonical Correlation (CaMCCo) algorithm, which integrates measurements from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, features of the hippocampus, glucose metabolism rates in the brain, proteomics, genomics, mild cognitive impairment and other parameters. NeuroscienceNews.com image is for illustrative purposes only.
The program then assesses the variables in a two-stage cascade. First, the algorithm selects the parameters that best distinguish between someone who’s healthy and someone who’s not. Second, the algorithm selects from the unhealthy variables those that best distinguish who has mild cognitive impairment and who has Alzheimer’s disease.
“The remaining views are combined to give the best picture,” Madabhushi said.
In predicting which patients in the study had Alzheimer’s disease, CaMCCo outperformed individual indicators as well as methods that combine them all without selective assessment. It also was better at predicting who had mild cognitive impairment than other methods that combine multiple indicators.
The researchers continue to validate and fine-tune the approach with data from multiple sites. They also plan to use the software in an observational mode: As a collaborating neurologist compiles tests on patients, the computer would run the data. If CaMCCo proves useful in predicting early Alzheimer’s, Madabhushi expects to pursue a clinical trial for prospective validation.
Funding: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources, DOD Prostate Cancer Synergistic Idea DevelopmentAward (PC120857), DOD Lung Cancer Idea Development New Investigator Award, DOD Prostate Cancer Idea Development Award funded this study.
Source: Kevin Mayhood – Case Western Reserve
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.
Original Research: Full open access research for “Cascaded Multi-view Canonical Correlation (CaMCCo) for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease via Fusion of Clinical, Imaging and Omic Features” by Asha Singanamalli, Haibo Wang & Anant Madabhushi in Scientific Reports. Published online August 15 2017 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03925-0
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Cascaded Multi-view Canonical Correlation (CaMCCo) for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease via Fusion of Clinical, Imaging and Omic Features
The introduction of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as a diagnostic category adds to the challenges of diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). No single marker has been proven to accurately categorize patients into their respective diagnostic groups. Thus, previous studies have attempted to develop fused predictors of AD and MCI. These studies have two main limitations. Most do not simultaneously consider all diagnostic categories and provide suboptimal fused representations using the same set of modalities for prediction of all classes. In this work, we present a combined framework, cascaded multiview canonical correlation (CaMCCo), for fusion and cascaded classification that incorporates all diagnostic categories and optimizes classification by selectively combining a subset of modalities at each level of the cascade. CaMCCo is evaluated on a data cohort comprising 149 patients for whom neurophysiological, neuroimaging, proteomic and genomic data were available. Results suggest that fusion of select modalities for each classification task outperforms (mean AUC = 0.92) fusion of all modalities (mean AUC = 0.54) and individual modalities (mean AUC = 0.90, 0.53, 0.71, 0.73, 0.62, 0.68). In addition, CaMCCo outperforms all other multi-class classification methods for MCI prediction (PPV: 0.80 vs. 0.67, 0.63).
“Cascaded Multi-view Canonical Correlation (CaMCCo) for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease via Fusion of Clinical, Imaging and Omic Features” by Asha Singanamalli, Haibo Wang & Anant Madabhushi in Scientific Reports. Published online August 15 2017 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03925-0
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September 7, 2017 September 7, 2017 Donny Levit Arts, Brooklyn, Music
Concert Review: R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney ‘Supergroup’ Filthy Friends Rips Through The Bell House
[L-R] Corin Tucker, Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch, Peter Buck, and Linda Pitmon of Filthy Friends at The Bell House on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. (Photo by Donny Levit / New Pulp City)
Corin Tucker squinted a bit before apologizing to the audience.
It was a brief moment that would have gone by relatively unnoticed if she didn’t make such a point about the feedback she caused when kneeling down for a sip of water from a bottle resting on the stage floor in front of her. The microphone’s proximity to her monitor caused the short-lived, piercing sound.
Tucker explained she wasn’t used to holding a microphone in her “other band” because she’s used to playing her guitar when singing. Even as a seasoned veteran of the “riot grrrl” rock trio Sleater-Kinney, she’s ready to admit she has a lot to learn.
Tucker was very much the front and center of Filthy Friends, a newly-minted rock supergroup which made quick work of dazzling the audience during their sold-out out show at The Bell House in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.
The band boasts a stunning pedigree. In addition to Tucker, the self-described-tongue-in-cheek “David Bowie cover band” includes iconic R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Kurt Bloch (The Fastbacks, The Minus 5), Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5), and Linda Pitmon (Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3, The Baseball Project). Add album drummer Bill Rieflin (Ministry, King Crimson) with the occasional appearance of Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and it’s hard not to be overwhelmed by this group of musicians.
And yet, this supergroup smacks of hungry musicians who greatly enjoy their bandmate’s presence. The quintet displayed a rich exuberance as they powered through songs off Invitation, their album which they released mere weeks ago.
[L-R] Linda Pitmon, Scott McCaughey, Corin Tucker, Peter Buck, Kurt Bloch (Photo via Filthy Friends / Facebook)
Filthy Friends have not been on a full-fledged tour; rather, this primarily Pacific Northwest contingent has done just a handful of performances.
The evening provided Tucker an opportunity to take the lead while Buck hunkered down on stage left to effortlessly churn out his singular sound that defined R.E.M.
While Buck was clearly locked in, his poker-faced expression set him somewhat apart from the conviviality especially evident between bassist Scott McCaughey and Kurt Bloch’s vivacious guitar acrobatics. Bloch mischievously paced the stage, both feeding back into his amplifier and sputtering off Pete Townsend helicopters throughout the night.
Linda Pitmon’s drumming held down the rhythm tightly. While not immediately evident, Pitmon’s percussion and McCaughey’s bass make for a sinewy rhythm section.
Kurt Bloch (left) and Peter Buck of Filthy Friends. (Photo by Donny Levit / New Pulp City)
Underneath the vibrancy of their live performance exists an album both raw and catchy, anchored by extremely political songs. “The whitest jock on this land is about to disappear,” sings Tucker on their song “Despierta” which leads off their album. “Holding on to the past won’t make it repeat / It’s time to get up, I think you’re in my seat.” The song originally appeared on the anti-Trump music collection, 30 Days, 30 Songs.
“The Arrival” is also notable — a snarling, infectious, and tight song which features Corin Tucker’s familiar Sleater-Kinney howl. In turn, Buck holds down a contained, confident rhythm which Bloch weaves above, below, and in between.
The band capped off the evening with David Bowie’s “Rebel, Rebel” when they returned for their second encore. They were both loose and confident, letting Bowie’s song do its work. Their acumen made the impressive evening feel effortless.
Versus opened the show at The Bell House on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. (Photo by Donny Levit / New Pulp City)
Also of note is the band Versus, who opened the evening with an impressive set redolent of that “loud-quiet-loud” alternative rock sound of the 1990s. Their complicated tunings, tempos, and harmonies serve as an excellent reminder of that pleasurable and lush guitar-heavy sound.
And something must be said about the continuously welcoming and comfortable Bell House. There’s not a whiff of the attitude all too present in many concert venues. Very few music spaces in New York City are this inviting.
Set List from Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at The Bell House:
Tears Are Falling
You and Your King
Emerald Valley
No Forgotten Son
The Elliott
Come Back Shelley
Only Lover Broken
Any Kind of Crowd
Second Encore:
Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)
Tagged Bill Rieflin, Corin Tucker, Filthy Friends, Filthy Friends Invitation, Kurt Bloch, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Scott McCaughey, Sleater-Kinney, The Bell House, The Fastbacks, The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows
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Hasbro has finished planning out the next 10 years of Transformers movies
Sam Barsanti
Making good on a promise/threat from back in March, Hasbro’s Steven J. Davis has confirmed that his company has finished planning “the next 10 years of Transformers.” That comes from Variety, which also notes that those 10 years will see the release of not only a fifth Transformers movie, but a sixth. And a seventh. And an eighth. Yes, by 2025, the Transformers series will have run for almost as many movies as Star Wars, making it a rare double-tetralogy.
This is all thanks to the noble and tireless work of the Transformers writers room, which was assembled earlier this year from some of the brightest minds in Hollywood (and the guy who wrote X-Men: The Last Stand). That writers room also spawned an upcoming animated Transformers spin-off, which—as far as we know—won’t count as number 6, 7, or 8. That means there are probably even more Transformers movies we can look forward to!
As we’ve previously reported, Michael Bay hasn’t officially signed on to direct any of these future movies, but we assume Hasbro and Paramount will do everything they can to keep him on board. After all, Bay’s talent for choosing where to put explosions is just as integral to this series as annoying humans and their dumb jokes about pot brownies, so we can’t imagine Transformers without him.
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Black Spaces Vs White spaces in America
After shout I can’t help but noticed the difference between cultural spaces. As the black community within the blues dance community find each other, the thing I’ve always felt, becomes overwhelmingly apparent. The difference is stark. Also it’s about more than just bringing in people of a different culture: it’s also about understanding the implicit biases which places value on how people act. Let’s explore Blackness vs Whiteness: event spaces.
An example of what’s “appropriate”.
<div>As I sit at dinner, after a hard day I find myself laughing. Not just any laugh, the loud rolling thunder of black laughter, filled with passion and lack of discomfort over my emoting. The table roars with me and jokes fly back and forth. It felt as though a weight was lifted from my chest. I could finally be me. For as long as I can remember I’ve never been loud, but in that moment it became clear again that that line shifts depending on what group of people I’m with. Our laughter was inappropriately loud in white context (as the table near us passive aggressively tried to tell us) and yet, in a black context, I was still very quiet.</div>
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<div>During talks about being inclusive, assumptions are made that the dominant culture is everyone’s culture. Nah.</div>
<div>Black spaces have:</div>
<div>Hierarchy</div>
<div>Respect</div>
<div>Passion</div>
<div>Unabashed emotions</div>
<div>Jokes</div>
<div>Empowered sexuality</div>
<div>Style</div>
<div>LOVE</div>
<div>Genuine care</div>
<div>Side eye</div>
<div>Cultural markers</div>
<div>Shade</div>
<div>The general feeling of these spaces is totally different. Black spaces tend to be more relaxed and more community-oriented. Still, not in the way that the blues community typically talks about it. Being community-oriented is more than just putting up signs, making safer spaces policies, and playing improv games. Being community-oriented means having everyone look out for each other, know each other’s names, introduce each other, hang out outside of dance, carpool together, watch each other’s children, and typically attend church together. Community-oriented is the leadership knowing your name -or if they don’t know your name they at least know who your friends are, and check in with you about how you’re doing in life. The leadership gives you advice and show they care, some are willing to even take on the roles of family.</div>
<div>Recently I went to a training at a beach house and found it to be one of the blackest space that I’d been in a long time. Regardless of the number of people that were not Black there were many aspects about it that made it feel that way for me. One was the fact that even though things ran explicitly on time, the black people and white people (who become like family to me) totally understood why I was always running a little bit late. There was almost always music playing and our down time teasing always occurred over dinner time. I found myself feeling comfortable asking for emotional support from elderly women in a way that didn’t just feel like they were going through the motions. Laughter rang throughout the house. Seasonings, hot sauce, hanging out and storytelling was rampant. it was just incredibly relaxed and incredibly black. So much so at one point I forgot to go to code switch and interacted with white folk in a black manner.</div>
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<div>When I go out dancing to blues music or Lindy Hop it’s very decidedly not bad. I have to code switch with the blues community almost as much as I have to code switch to go to the doctor’s office. I often feel like a foreigner in dances that were originally by my people. To me, white spaces feel sterile. It feels like walking on eggshells and being surrounded by strangers. I feel like I’m playing a video game without knowing the rules while everyone else seems to know how to play but no one seems exactly be enjoying the game either. Everything about my personality has to be repressed, everything runs exactly on time meaning I’m often slightly stressed, and things that feel incredibly rude to me happen regularly. As the community starts to learn more about Black Culture, I’m curious if they recognize that on some level they are just going through the motions. inviting more black people in the scene will not fix this cultural problem. This is not to say that there’s anything in particular wrong about the way the White Community runs events, but to say that it’s really different.</div>
<div>Even with my anxiety, when walking into a black space I feel at home within 20 minutes, because I trust the leadership if no one else. The longer you stay in a relationship with these people the more they feel like family – like true family. When was the last time you went to a dance event and wanted to tell most of the people in the room a non dance related success in your life? Better yet, when was the last time you wanted to just talk about your hardships with them? if your answer is “never”, that’s part of the problem. Of course, there’ll always be people you don’t like or trust, and bad situations but that there are people who travel and see each other so frequently but know nothing about each other that says something about the community-at-large.</div>
<div>There is also the strangeness of the fact that there are no bottom or top in the blues dance community. Where are elders and where is our youth? About a year ago I went to a West African dance class- one of the first things I noticed was not only it were there youth at the event but that they were the children of the organizers. it was clear that they were regulars there, and they had options for how much they wanted to participate. be that dancing or drumming it was about as much as a part of their life as it was important to them to pass on that lineage. Granted youth does not necessarily mean under 18 but around college-age, students should be supported more in our community if it were to be a black space. At the same time, the lack of Elders is distressing. Not all Elders can dance but it doesn’t mean they don’t have a place within the community. They’re there for emotional guidance and to carry on the tradition and to maintain the space. Additionally they generally keep the youth in place and can be an emotional support for them beyond their nuclear family.</div>
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<div>I find it strange that we don’t have people in the community that aren’t dancers. The spouses of people who are dancers who just want to support should be able to attend as much of the community as the dancers are. Additionally, perhaps a person struggles musically but is extremely excited about music should have a place within the community? Maybe they just like making pies and hanging around talking. We don’t have space for them within the current blues dance community and Lindy Hop community. There is no structure and understanding for the fact that this type of community is important, more than just bringing in black instructors.</div>
<div>When black people talk about the space feeling very white, I suggest taking some time and thinking about how things would be different if you went to a different country. How out of place you might feel and yearn for what you know. Then realize that’s what they are trying to describe to you.</div>
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As I sit at dinner, after a hard day I find myself laughing. Not just any laugh, the loud rolling thunder of black laughter, filled with passion and lack of discomfort over my emoting. The table roars with me and jokes fly back and forth. It felt as though a weight was lifted from my chest. I could finally be me. For as long as I can remember I’ve never been loud, but in that moment it became clear again that that line shifts depending on what group of people I’m with. Our laughter was inappropriately loud in white context (as the table near us passive aggressively tried to tell us) and yet, in a black context, I was still very quiet.
During talks about being inclusive, assumptions are made that the dominant culture is everyone’s culture. Nah.
Black spaces have:
Unabashed emotions
Empowered sexuality
Genuine care
Side eye
Cultural markers
The general feeling of these spaces is totally different. Black spaces tend to be more relaxed and more community-oriented. Still, not in the way that the blues community typically talks about it. Being community-oriented is more than just putting up signs, making safer spaces policies, and playing improv games. Being community oriented means having everyone look out for each other, know each other’s names, introduce each other, hang out outside of dance, carpool together, watch each other’s children, and typically attend church together. Community-oriented is the leadership knowing your name or if they don’t know your name they at least know who your friends are, and check in with you about how you’re doing in life. The leadership gives you advice and show they care, some are willing to even take on the roles of family.
Recently I went to a training at a beach house and found it to be one of the blackest space that I’d been in a long time. Regardless of the number of people that were not Black there were many aspects about it that made it feel that way for me. One was the fact that even though things ran explicitly on time, the black people and white people (who have become like family to me) totally understood why I was always running a little bit late. There was almost always music playing and our down time teasing always occurred over dinner time. I found myself feeling comfortable asking for emotional support from elderly women in a way that didn’t just feel like they were going through the motions. Laughter rang throughout the house. Seasonings, hot sauce, hanging out and storytelling was rampant. It was just incredibly relaxed and incredibly black. So much so at one point I forgot to go to code switch and interacted with white folk in a black manner.
When I go out dancing to blues music or swing, it’s very decidedly not black. I have to code switch with the blues community almost as much as I have to code switch to go to the doctor’s office. I often feel like a foreigner in dances that were originally by my people. To me, white spaces feel sterile. It feels like walking on eggshells and being surrounded by strangers. I feel like I’m playing a video game without knowing the rules while everyone else seems to know how to play but no one seems exactly be enjoying the game either. Everything about my personality has to be repressed, everything runs exactly on time meaning I’m often slightly stressed, and things that feel incredibly rude to me happen regularly. As the community starts to learn more about Black Culture, I’m curious if they recognize that on some level they are just going through the motions. Inviting more black people in the scene will not fix this cultural problem. This is not to say that there’s anything in particular wrong about the way the White Community runs events, but to say that it’s really different.
Even with my anxiety, when walking into a black space I feel at home within 20 minutes, because I trust the leadership if no one else. The longer you stay in a relationship with these people the more they feel like family – like true family. When was the last time you went to a dance event and wanted to tell most of the people in the room a non dance related success in your life? Better yet, when was the last time you wanted to just talk about your hardships with them? if your answer is “never”, that’s part of the problem. Of course, there’ll always be people you don’t like or trust, and bad situations but that there are people who travel and see each other so frequently but know nothing about each other that says something about the community-at-large.
There is also the strangeness of the fact that there is little bottom or top in the blues dance community. Where are elders and where is our youth? About a year ago I went to a West African dance class- one of the first things I noticed was not only it were there youth at the event but that they were the children of the organizers. it was clear that they were regulars there, and they had options for how much they wanted to participate. be that dancing or drumming it was about as much as a part of their life as it was important to them to pass on that lineage. Granted youth does not necessarily mean under 18 but around college-age, students should be supported more in our community if it were to be a black space. At the same time, the lack of Elders age wise is distressing. Not all Elders can dance but it doesn’t mean they don’t have a place within the community. They’re there for emotional guidance and to carry on the tradition and to maintain the space. Additionally they generally keep the youth in place and can be an emotional support for them beyond their nuclear family.
I find it strange that we don’t have people in the community that aren’t dancers. The spouses of people who are dancers who just want to support should be able to attend as much of the community as the dancers are. Additionally, perhaps a person struggles musically but is extremely excited about music should have a place within the community? Maybe they just like making pies and hanging around talking. We don’t have space for them within the current blues dance community and Lindy Hop community. There is no structure and understanding for the fact that this type of community is important, more than just bringing in black instructors.
When black people talk about the space feeling very white, I suggest taking some time and thinking about how things would be different if you went to a different country. How out of place you might feel and yearn for what you know. Then realize that’s what they are trying to describe to you.
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lizziecallie
• Sep 17, 2016
I am currently arranging some pop music. I have some questions for anyone that would be willing to help an amateur:
1. In pop music, sometimes artists embellish a little with vocals and etc. Is it better to use complex rhythms to come close to what the artist does, insert an simpler rhythm, or change it all together?
2. In giving out the melody parts, I don't really want to give it to the trumpets every time because they always get it, and the flutes are usually really hard to hear? What other options do I have that will actually sound good? I know that just about every instrument can play melody, but I also know that if not executed correctly it could be a disaster.
3. Does anyone have any suggestions for songs that I could do?
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I've done a fair amount of arranging of pop music. 1. I personally like to try to get everything as close to accurate as possible. I do this because then when people who already know the song you've arranged try to play it, they can play the rhythm as they hear it. If you change it they'll have a tendency to play it the way it sounded in the song and not the way you've rewritten it. Plus, I think it's just cooler in general if it's more accurate, even if it's more difficult to arrange. 2. If you have skilled trombonists and baritones, then they are often a good choice to play the melody as long as it's tenor/alto range. Any higher and they can't play it, any lower and they tend to get a rough sound. Another option is to give it to literally the entire woodwinds section, including saxophones, because only then will it get heard. 3. Maybe Ex's and Oh's by Elle King
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I know somebody else already gotchu but Ima add my input too, I don't know if you play in a corps style (white) band or a show style (black) band but i'ma give you advice for show style songs because that's mostly what i know about. 1) it honestly depends on the skill of your band and who has the melody. if you have trumpets w/ the melody and a weak trumpet section, make it simple but good sounding, but if your band's trumpet section is strong, then make it harder. if your writing for other bands, think about your target band. is it upper level college bands you arranging for? lower level high school bands? etc. and that'll give you your answer on whether not to throw in embellishments. 2) so how i write my music bc i had a fantastic band director who taught me this method is basically this: you write a rough draft of your piece via musescore with pianos as the playback sound. i know it sounds odd but get you a score of four basic staffs, two with treble clef, two with bass; the topmost is soprano, then alto, then tenor, and then the bottom staff is bass. then write your song with these four staves. if the tenor part or alto part gets the melody, then they do, and then when its ready apply it to a larger score with a full band set up. if you look at my scores, trumpets/clars/piccs are always soprano so they'll have the same part, alto saxes and mellos will have the same part, and then bones and btones will have the same part, w/ tuba at the bottom. That's how i would reccomend writing too. makes the whole chords thing easier 3) Broccoli by D.R.A.M. and lil yachty is poppin right now. also One Dance by Drake to name another
Thank you so much!!! I'll try that.
I am currently arranging some pop music. I have some questions for anyone that would be willing to help an amateur: 1. In pop music, sometimes artists embellish a little with vocals and etc. Is it better to use complex rhythms to come close to what the artist does, insert an simpler rhythm, or change it all together? 2. In giving out the melody parts, I don't really want to give it to the trumpets every time because they always get it, and the flutes are usually really hard to hear? What other options do I have that will actually sound good? I know that just about every instrument can play melody, but I also know that if not executed correctly it could be a disaster. 3. Does anyone have any suggestions for songs that I could do?
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Cut in the same colorful material simply because upbeat indie pop contemporaries like Fun., Jukebox the Ghost, Walk the Moon, and Imagine Dragons, Youngblood Hawke, called after a 1961 Herman Wouk book based on the life span of Thomas Wolfe, was produced in 2011 by previous members of brand-new influx revivalists Iglu and Hartly. Featuring the abilities of longtime close friends Sam Martin and Simon Katz, along with Tasso Smith, Alice Katz, and Nik Hughes, the Los Angeles-based quintet’s sun-drenched disposition and adherence to life-affirming, danceable electro-pop impressed General Republic, who agreed upon the group and released their eponymous debut EP in 2012. In 2013, Youngblood Hawke came back with their initial full-length album, AWAKEN.
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Honda unveils its new torque-vectoring AWD system on the 2016 Pilot. It reacts 46 per cent faster than the older models
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In August 2015, the new Honda Pilot was given the highest possible safety rating by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
The 2016 Honda Pilot is no longer the midsize SUV underdog.
When it came time to craft the 2016 Pilot, Honda made the daring choice of developing it with the use of computer modelling and 3D printing. Until their vehicles were in pre-production last year, Honda had only seen the Pilot on their computer screens — a futuristic approach for a 67-year-old car manufacturing company. For decades, cars have been built using million-dollar physical prototypes designed by even more expensive machines. Honda says computer modelling and 3D printing trimmed months off of the development time and saved the corporation millions of dollars. But did it make a better product? Although it was a controversial choice, Honda was willing to take a chance.
Engineers tweaked over and over again to give midsize SUV lovers the sleekest Pilot yet. The exterior of the 2016 model is much more soft and round compared to the outdated square look of earlier iterations. So much so that owners of older models might find this new version unrecognizable. Not only did the esthetic of the vehicle change, but so did the weight. Honda was able to shed 300 pounds off of the Pilot, improving its performance.
Keeping in the theme of performance improvements, under the hood you’ll find a 3.5-Litre i-VTEC V-6 engine. This gives the 2016 Pilot 280 horsepower and 262 lb.-ft. of torque for its 6- and 9-speed automatic transmissions. The 9-speed automatic transmission, which is actually new to Honda, is only available on the top-of-the-line touring model. Also new to Honda and being unveiled on the Pilot is the torque-vectoring all-wheel drive system. According to Honda, this new AWD reacts 46 per cent faster than the older model.
On the inside, the Pilot remains a seven- or eight-passenger vehicle (capacity depends on model) even with its 300-pound weight loss. Despite the seemingly smaller appearance of the 2016’s exterior, the SUV was able to gain interior space. The entire vehicle had a 90 mm length increase; the wheelbase is 45 mm longer, the rear cargo area is 35 mm longer, and the passenger compartment gained 25 mm in spaciousness. There is also a detachable shelf behind the third row for additional storage, which can easily be reached thanks to the easy-to-move captain chair back seats.
The Pilot is technologically advanced. As opposed to conventional shift levers, Honda went with the trendsetting push buttons instead. This means that if you want to shift gears from drive to reverse, it only takes the push of a button. Easy, right? Not necessarily. If you’ve been driving for years with a shift lever this may take time to adjust to, as it doesn’t take much to accidentally push the wrong button. In the centre console, you’ll find five USB ports (probably more than necessary) and four 2.5-amp cellphone charging outlets. Passengers will not be calling “shotgun!” when they find out that the back seat has a nine-inch Blu-ray compatible screen, a 115-volt plug, and “legacy inputs” for older technology devices. One of the unique features this midsize SUV comes with is a Smart Key automatic starter, which has a 55-metre range and remote climate control in case you have an exact temperature preference for when you’re sitting in the car. Gone are the days of suffering the unbearably freezing winter mornings and hot, humid summers.
The 2016 Honda Pilot is certainly a family vehicle, which means safety was the No. 1 concern many critics had when it debuted; with such innovative manufacturing, safety was constantly questioned. Honda was able to silence the critics when the 2016 Pilot was given the highest possible safety rating by the IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) back in August. If you wondered how all these new improvements and changes would fare when implemented using computer modelling and 3D printing as opposed to traditional machines and prototypes, clearly the answer is: quite well. In fact, Honda says that from now on this is how they will manufacture all of their vehicles.
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Amazon’s Advertising Business Is in a Transition
Rohit Chhatwal
In its recent earnings, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) reported a substantial slowdown in the growth of Others segment, which is primarily made of advertising revenue. At 36%, the growth rate in this segment is only a few percentage points higher than Facebook’s (NASDAQ:FB) growth of 26% in the latest quarter. This has led to concerns that Amazon is close to hitting the saturation in terms of ad load and pricing. Strong growth in advertising segment gave a bullish momentum to Amazon stock in the last few quarters. Hence, a slowdown in this segment can hurt the long term sentiment.
Why Amazon Stock Could Be Hurt by a Lack of Focus
However, there are a number of levers which Amazon can use to deliver better advertising growth in the near term. For starters, Amazon is experimenting with video search features. It is also developing better tools to improve ad conversions. Amazon has a long growth runway to improve its advertising business and increase the market share in digital advertising.
The advertising segment continues to be an important factor for Amazon stock and investors should closely watch the future growth trend in this business.
A Slowdown or a Transition for Amazon?
The quick growth in Amazon’s advertising business had taken the market by surprise. Now, it has increased expectations, which led to a mismatch between revenue growth and current capabilities. Amazon’s advertising growth in the last few quarters was over 100% but that was due to an accounting change. If we remove this factor, the Q4 2018 growth was 38%. The growth rate in the advertising segment was between 51% and 73% in the previous quarters.
Source: Amazon filings
Facebook was also at this revenue rate in 2014. Since then, it has reported an average revenue growth rate of close to 45%. And like Facebook, Amazon has a number of options to improve its revenue from advertising. Long-term investors should see better sentiment in Amazon stock as the company improves its advertising tool.
Amazon is currently trying to make those improvements with video search ads, which is a direct shot at Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google. The less-controversial nature of Amazon’s platform is also attracting more brands. Last year, Piper Jaffray’s Michael Olson had forecasted that Amazon’s advertising income will surpass AWS profits by 2021.
Next Big Growth Driver for Amazon Stock
One of the big opportunities with Amazon is to shift marketing spend from in-store branding. Morgan Stanley has estimated that a whopping $178 billion is spent on in-store brand promotions and coupons. While Google can only offer brand marketing to bigger consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) companies, Amazon can offer performance marketing. This means that Amazon’s platform helps in driving sales for these companies. On the other hand, Google can only put the ads in front of customers — it’s far less of a guarantee of converting them into sales.
This is a gradual process in which more ad dollars will shift to Amazon’s platform. Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is trying to improve its own advertising business. Recently, the company moved its entire ad sales for its stores and website in-house. While Walmart has a larger sales base, Amazon is ahead in terms of its tools and third-party sales. This is a big advertising segment and Amazon is sure to grab more ad dollars from in-store promotions industry.
What About the Competition?
Amazon’s rapid growth has alarmed Google and Facebook. Both these giants are now looking to expand their own retail presence. Facebook has launched new features which allow customers to directly make a purchase from within Instagram. Google has recently launched new shopping features at Google Marketing Live event. Users will be able to make purchases from within YouTube by the end of this year. Google will also have a personalized Google Shopping page where users can compare and filter by price and brands.
According to eMarketer, Amazon is in third position behind the duopoly of Google and Facebook in terms of digital ads. And it’s coming for them.
Source: eMarketer
In the recent quarter, Amazon’s growth was ahead of both Facebook and Google. As new features and advertising tools are launched by Amazon, we should see an upward trajectory for growth in advertising revenue. Amazon’s advertising segment is currently close to $10 billion on a trailing-12-month basis. At the current growth rate, this number should hit $20 billion by the end of 2020. Better margins in advertising will help in driving the overall margins higher. We have already seen this in the past few quarters. Amazon reported an operating margin of 7.4% compared to 3.8% in the year-ago quarter.
Investor Takeaway
The concerns over a slowdown of the advertising segment in Amazon are overblown. Even at the current growth rate, Amazon should be able to show a revenue trajectory similar to that shown by Facebook in the last five years. There is a high probability that we will see an uptick in advertising growth from Amazon as new tools and features are launched.
The long-term growth projections for Amazon’s advertising segment are very bright. This will help in lifting the operating margin of the entire company and help in the improvement of EPS. And we should continue to see bullish momentum in Amazon stock in the near future as the advertising segment increases its revenue share.
As of this writing, Rohit Chhatwal did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Nuggets continue march through east, pummel Knicks
Reuters March 23, 2019
Nikola Jokic scored 21 points and pulled down 17 rebounds Friday night for the surging Denver Nuggets, who moved back into a tie for the top seed in the Western Conference by cruising to a 111-93 win over the host New York Knicks.
With their sixth straight win, the Nuggets (49-22) tied the idle Golden State Warriors for the best record in the West. Denver has never earned the top seed in the West and has yet to make an appearance in the NBA Finals.
Jamal Murray scored 18 points for the Nuggets, who also received 14 points from Gary Harris, 13 points from Monte Morris, 12 points from Will Barton and 11 points from Mason Plumlee.
Denver will look to cap a perfect four-game Eastern Conference road swing when it visits the Indiana Pacers on Sunday.
Emmanuel Mudiay scored 21 points and Mitchell Robinson (16 points, 10 rebounds) recorded a double-double for the NBA-worst Knicks (14-59) who have lost three straight and 11 of 12. New York needs to win at least four of its remaining nine games to avoid tying or exceeding the worst record in franchise history.
Kevin Knox added 19 points for the Knicks while DeAndre Jordan had 11 rebounds.
The Knicks took their only lead at 5-4 on a 3-pointer by Mudiay just 2:11 into the game. Murray's 3-pointer on the next possession put the Nuggets ahead for good and Barton scored eight of his points during a 15-0 run by Denver that gave them a 26-9 lead with 5:28 left in the first.
The Nuggets extended the lead to 21 at 37-16 on Plumlee's layup with 31 seconds left. Robinson scored seven points during a 13-2 run by the Knicks that spanned the first two quarters, but the Nuggets held New York scoreless for more than four minutes in the second and went ahead again by 20 at 52-32 on Murray's free throw with 4:07 left in the half.
Mario Hezonja scored seven points for the Knicks during a 12-3 run that pulled them within 67-59, but Morris and Jokic had five points apiece as the Nuggets ended the third on a 15-3 spurt. Denver led by as many as 24 points in the fourth quarter.
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Top French court approves border controls with Italy
AFP June 29, 2015
A picture taken on June 22, 2015 in Ventimiglia near the Italian-French border shows a man sitting in the makeshift camp set up by a group of migrants that has been denied entry into France (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)
Paris (AFP) - France's top administrative court said Monday that border controls on migrants at the Italian frontier were legal and did not violate the Schengen agreement that created Europe's passport-free zone.
The court dismissed a complaint by three organisations in support of scores of migrants stranded at the border between France and Italy since mid-June.
The migrants -- most of them Africans -- have become a source of tension between France and Italy and their plight has illustrated the immigration crisis facing Europe as it struggles to agree on how to divvy up its responsibility for those flocking to its shores.
"The suppression of systematic interior border controls in the Schengen area does not prevent French authorities from carrying out identity controls," the State Council said in a statement.
The administrative court added that such controls did not "exceed the legal framework, be it by their magnitude, frequency or implementation.
"These controls are thus not equivalent to the implementation of a permanent and systematic control at the French-Italian border," read the statement.
Between 150 and 200 migrants are camped out on seaside rocks and under a railway bridge near the Italian border post of Ventimiglia, where French police have been stopping migrants from crossing into France
French President Francois Hollande said earlier this month that the border had not been closed, but strict controls were being carried out on immigrants hoping to pass into Europe via France after washing up on Italy's shores on rickety boats from Libya.
"We are applying the rules," he said in reference to the Dublin agreement which obliges migrants to apply for asylum in the European country in which they first set foot.
Many migrants hope to avoid doing so as they do not want to stay in recession-hit Italy but hope to reach countries further north with better job prospects.
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NYC Couple Demands NYPD Reform After Cop Failed To Help
Filed Under:Alfonso Mendez, asthma, Briana Ojeda, Briana's Law, Brooklyn, cardio pulmonary resuscitation, CPR, John Slattery, NYPD, Reform
Friends and family rallied in Brooklyn on Sunday for reform in NYPD CPR training after Briana Ojeda suffered a fatal asthma attack while a police officer failed to administer CPR.
NEW YORK (CBS 2) — The Brooklyn parents whose daughter died of an asthma attack when a police officer failed to perform CPR are now mobilizing a movement to require officers to take action, and to be prosecuted if they don’t.
The parents, Michael and Carmen Ojeda of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, led the charge. They’re demanding from police not only CPR, but to live by the police slogan of “courtesy, professionalism and respect.”
“No other mother can go through what I go through now, every day waking up without my baby,” Carmen said.
Her child, 11-year-old Briana Ojeda, suffered a fatal asthma attack on August 27. She died after a police officer failed to give her cardio pulmonary resuscitation, reports CBS 2’s John Slattery.
“No only did he refuse, but he said he did not know CPR, and he’s still a cop on the police force,” Bonita Zelman, the Ojedas’ attorney, said.
The police officer, 30-year-old Alfonso Mendez of the 84th Precinct and a five-year veteran, said he didn’t know how. He’s been suspended with pay, and could face further action.
All police are trained in the technique, with retraining required every two years. The child’s parents want that changed to every year, and for officers to face a misdemeanor if they refuse to help in a medical emergency.
“We are going forward with Briana’s Law,” Zelman said.
The family who believes their daughter was wronged not only wants a change in policy, but they want the city punished. In addition to demanding changes in police policy, the Ojeda family is planning to file a lawsuit against the city.
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Stormy arrested
By Weatherman, July 12, 2018 in Miscellaneous Discussions
Weatherman 493
Stormy Daniels has been arrested in Ohio by multiple "undercover officers" in a sting operation for allowing a customer to touch during a show on her tour. Classic. Glad the local police have something to do with their time. She's accused of violating a state law called the "Community Defense Act".
Benski 42
Am I the only one who did not know strippers where not allowed to touch clients?
Smellytele 156
13 minutes ago, Benski said:
Clients can't touch them
2 hours ago, Smellytele said:
Are you kidding? You're just going to the wrong places.
I have some new insight:
Police said Daniels was busted after allegedly touching three different undercover vice police officers during her performance at the Sirens club, in violation of state law barring anyone who is not a family member from touching a dancer who is either nude or semi-nude.
So in Ohio you can only grope a stripper if she's related to you. Knowing Ohio, that makes sense to me. Probably the law in neighboring West Virginia too.
The Columbus Police Department said in a statement posted to Twitter Thursday that the arrest was part of a "a long-term investigation into allegations of human trafficking, prostitution, along with other vice related violations."
In other words... the police go to this strip club a lot.
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Trigg replied to Mr Do 71's topic in Discussion
Tried a bolt action rifle with express rounds to the head or a poison arrow to the head?
Glad it works at least to some degree! I’ll get that sorted next time I play for sure
I think you can customise your load out at a gun shop. I’ve yet to try this but this is doing my box in too!
No confirmation that its even coming to PC yet, its finally the game that made me get a pro and I'll probably still pick up the PC version if and when it does come
PS4 Pro Red Dead bundle preordered and all ready. I'm so on the hype train and I didn't even get on with the first one!
God of War (2018) - Magni-ficent!
Trigg replied to a topic in Discussion
I've only played an hour or so but I'll echo what others have said. Fantastic start and it feels like it might be a special game already. Can't wait to get proper stuck into this weekend.
DRIVECLUB - being put to sleep by Sony in March 2020
Trigg replied to Rushy's topic in Discussion
Was going to post the same thing. Stunning.
The Man Utd Thread
Trigg replied to Pixelbark's topic in Sport
Formation and starters are all a bit poo if I'm honest :P. I mean, I like Shaw but there's just no way he should be starting every week. Not to mention he's probably out the door come the end of the season. You've also seemingly dropped our top goalscorer too, what gives? I think the system you saw in the second half against Man City is what I'd like to see. A system we've played at various times this season but never with the attacking players playing that far forward. They often play more like traditional wingers and not wide forwards if that makes sense. Sanchez had a stinker in the first half, move 15/20 yards further forward and gets a bit of freedom and is involved in 3 goals. Same with Pogba & Herrera. Not so much a tactical thing but a mindset. Shackles were off and it made a hell of a difference. Thats what I'd like to see in terms of system/tactically. As for starters I think De Gea, Pogba and Lukaku are the ones for I'd start every week, the rest can fight it out. Defence and midfield will need additions too come the end of the season. Should be an interesting one.
Trigg replied to labarte's topic in Discussion
Still can't quite believe the PS4 Pro doesn't support UHD Blu-ray. Probably the only reason why I still don't own one yet.
If it's half as good as those 3 games on the right then we're in for a treat with God of War!
ONRUSH - A New Breed of Arcade Action
Lots of info in this video, looks like a lot of fun!
I love the new direction they've gone. Anticipation and expectation is high for this one!
Popular/Great Games you just don’t ‘get’
Trigg replied to joemul's topic in Discussion
I keep saying I'll try Bloodborne to be fair, just never got round to it.
Trigg replied to Harrisown's topic in Sport
It's 2 achilles surgeries now, one on each. It'll be tough alright.
I've said this before but I just can't get along with Red Dead Redemption. Not sure why but whenever I tried to play it I got bored or was side tracked by something else. I think the boat as sailed but wieldy I'm still kind of looking forward to the sequel. I've also never seen the fascination with Dark Souls. When I've seen it played its a case of die, reload, repeat over and over. Not for me thanks. Although I've only tried to play the very first one
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Got a Secret? About PLL’s “Careful What U Wish 4” and “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again”
Posted February 2, 2011 by Tim in TV. Tagged: aria montgomery, bangs, best first lines in music, careful what u wish 4, degrassi, eli, emily fields, externally valid lessons, fay wolf, got a secret, hanna marin, howard jones, if at first you don't succeed lie lie again, jonathan franzen's freedom, let the right one in, mrs. potter, new characters, no one is to blame, paige michalchuk, pretty little liars, spencer hastings, stringer bell, survivor, the great gatsby, the montgomery family, the outfield, The Wire, unsubtle teaching moments, your love. 5 Comments
Since I was too “busy” last week to go over “Careful What U Wish 4,” we’re rolling the last TWO episodes of Pretty Little Liars into one mega-review.
This combination is made more difficult, of course, by the divergence in the episodes’ respective quality. “Careful What U Wish 4” was, for the most part, bland, especially when compared to the summer’s “There’s No Place Like Homecoming”—the other episode focused on a Rosewood High School dance. But most of the missteps from “Careful What U Wish 4” were more than made up for in Monday night’s “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again.”*
*These episode titles are getting unwieldy.
Let’s dive in:
1. Can we talk about Spencer? Look, we all know you don’t want Spencer Hastings carrying the weight of the show too often. She’s more like a fourth starter in my book. But over these last two episodes, she’s stepped up Madison Bumgarner-style, and I don’t mean the fact that she wore a tie. While the other three girls have all been enmeshed in personal drama (Aria with Simone and Ezra; Hanna with Sean, Lucas, Caleb, and an increasingly malicious A; Emily with Maya and Paige), it’s basically fallen on Spencer’s shoulders to do all the investigating. Her scenes with Ian in “Careful What U Wish 4” were the highlight of the episode (outside of the music, which we’ll discuss later). Her emphatic “In-law. Creepy brother-in-law” to the description of Ian was the best “in-law” related quote since Amy Poehler was on Arrested Development. Then, Spencer had a trio of biting comebacks in “If at First…”:
A. After Jason’s “I was a jerk” at the memorial: “That wasn’t the term I would have used, but it works.”
B. After Emily’s “I can stand up for myself”: “Well, you never did with Alison.”
C. After Ali’s “I made all of you”: “You think just because you brought us together you can control us like puppets?… You’re dead to me already.”
And this doesn’t even mention how she saved Aria from almost certain ruin by dancing with Mr. Fitz and how she saved Emily by telling Ian all she knew was their romantic past. Nobody thinks on her feet like Spencer Hastings.
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2. Does this mean I like Spencer?
3. Oh my God, I kinda like Spencer!
4. Emily has really been at the opposite end of the spectrum these last two weeks. Her need to talk to Maya on the phone was far too desperate—and begged just how much time had passed since Maya went away—and her eventual disappointment at how the call went—“She was there but not there…. Maybe she’s moved on”—sounded even more reactionary. That she would throw herself back into her swimming is, I suppose, realistic* if irrelevant. At no point during Monday’s episode did I care about who would captain the Ridgewood Sharks swim team. Right now, Emily’s storyline just feels like filler.
*After all, I exercise after particularly difficult Giants’ losses.
5. Paige McCullers? Or Paige Michalchuk? Am I right?
6. There are few television characters I hated more than Paige Michalchuk.*
*I did not vet the quality of this apparent fan video of Paige. I’m not watching that crap.
7. When Paige was holding Emily’s head underwater (which totally seemed to be more threatening when it was in last week’s preview of the episode), I was all like, “Where’s Eli when you need her/it?”*
*O/U on readers who get that reference? Zero.
8. Aria’s tiff with Simone was perhaps the blandest of the bland storylines in “Careful…”. The point of adding a new character is to create new relationships, new dynamics, and hopefully, new storylines to explore;* Simone added none of that. She was a brutally inefficient way to make Aria jealous for roughly five minutes of screen time.
*Let’s hear it for being vague!
9. I thought Caleb was there just to replace Toby as the “bad guy” at Rosewood. His proficiency with cell phones is purportedly impressive—he can send emails from his! That look like they’re from his social worker!–but he’s starting to develop potentially interesting rapports with the Core Four, most notably Hanna.
10. Did Ezra Fitz hit a home run with that limo or what? That was his James Gatz-Daisy Buchanan pre-WWI kiss-in-the-car moment.
11. Speaking of kissing in cars, that seems to be a theme of the Montgomery family. Byron was able to bond with Ella while driving her to the museum in Philly and perhaps bring an end to their separation. Between their scenes trying to fix the car (“Who buys a used car with a kill switch?”), bonding in the car, or dancing last week to Howard Jones’ “No One Is to Blame,” Byron and Ella have really become the most interesting members of the Montgomery family. I’d even rather see a Mike storyline than an Aria one at this point.
12. Although Aria’s “Can we just break her other leg?” when she was frustrated by Hanna’s demagogic rule of the decorating committee was good.
13. Not as good, though, as Aria and Ella each lying about where they were the night before. The scene with Ezra and Aria talking about the artist not being at the museum seemed overdone at the time, but now I see it was an attempt at narrative economy (Aria could tell her mom wasn’t actually there since she talked about meeting the artist). I say “attempt” because the artist’s absence was hammered home a little too much in the earlier scene, if you ask me. Pretty Little Liars should respect its viewership a bit more; I’m referencing Gatsby and Swedish film here.
14. Amazingly, “No One Is to Blame” wasn’t even the best song PLL broke out at the “Let Freedom Ring” dance. Fay Wolf’s cover of The Outfield’s “Your Love”—long one of my favorite ‘80s songs since it boasts one of the catchiest first lines in music*—was terrific and just about perfect for the scene where Hanna danced with Lucas for A’s money.
*I would even go so far as to say that “Josie’s on a vacation far away / Come around and talk it over” is my single favorite opening line to any song ever. Premeditating the scoff from the blog’s resident music critic, I implore him to write a list—kind of like this one—of the best first lines in music.
15. The lyrics of “Your Love” nicely match the scenario for Hanna and Lucas, provided you show no loyalty to perspective. For instance, the first line of the chorus (“I just want to use your love tonight”) is clearly what Hanna is doing to Lucas. The second line of the chorus (“I don’t want to lose your love tonight”) is more descriptive of Lucas’ feelings. Going further, the first half of the second verse (I ain`t got many friends left to talk to / No one`s around when I`m in trouble), well that’s Hanna; the next two lines (You know I`d do anything for you / Stay the night, but keep it under cover), we’re back to Lucas.
It’s really a shame the camera angles didn’t capture this back-and-forth.
16. “Let Freedom Ring” was an ironic name for that dance, since it really focused on the Core Four’s lack of freedom. Hanna was being manipulated by A the whole time, Aria wasn’t free to see Ezra whenever she wanted with that whole “I’ll wait 50 seconds” thing,* Emily couldn’t see Maya, etc. (Again, Spencer was the only one without these shackles.)
*Fifty seems such an arbitrary number in a base-60 system. Why not just wait a full minute? Or 45 seconds?
17. Although, if literature has taught us anything, it’s that freedom isn’t necessarily a good thing.
18. What does A have against Hanna specifically? First, A tried to kill her by running her over. Then it made her eat all those cupcakes in public. Then sadistically dance with Lucas. And now reveal Aria’s relationship with Fitzy to Ella? What next week?
“Want to help mommy? Locate the Maltese falcon, discover the true kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, explain the Tunguska event, and bring me the head of John the Baptist on a platinum platter. Some $$$ for your troubles.
19. But seriously, there better be a specific reason why A does this to Hanna and not the other three. A, in fact, seems to be helping Spencer every chance it can.
20. Did Stringer Bell order a hit on Alex?
21. Hanna to Aria: “You look like a strung-out powerpuff girl.” Aria does look kind of like a powerpuff girl.
22. Can’t the Marins get a safe? Or something better than a Popsicle box in the freezer? There’s no way that money’s staying hidden for long. Who doesn’t love Popsicles?
23. Small detail I really liked from “Careful…”: Aria realizing Spencer’s laptop was stolen because her music library was online (when they all thought Spencer’s computer was off and in her bag). I like it when modern shows use modern technologies to get things right in non-pretentious ways (looking at you, Disturbia). I can’t say Caleb’s “upgrading” of Emily’s phone falls on the same plane.
24. Hey Paige: The Survivor reunion called. It wants its bangs back.
25. Didn’t like how Aria thought Hanna was jealous when H warned her not to go to the museum. As much as I like to think this is how every girl would react to the scenario, there’s really nothing for Hanna to be jealous about, and I would expect Aria to realize that.
26. I would have been fine with Hanna’s Justin Bieber references if a special trailer for his movie weren’t airing during the commercials of this episode. Could not have seemed more forced. If they did it last week, I wouldn’t have the same qualm.
27. “If she gets to Philadelphia, a lot of people are going to get hurt.”
“Is Mrs. Montgomery running a terrorist cell?”
Caleb responds to Hanna with exactly what I was thinking. Furthermore, I once had an especially aloof teacher named Mrs. Montgomery, and the thought of her running a terrorist cell is beyond hilarious.
28. Pretty convenient that the Core Four was learning about appeasement in history class that day, no? The Rosewood teachers must be thrilled with how frequently their lessons take on instant real-life validity for their students.
29. The big developments in Monday’s episode: Ian spent a lot of the fateful summer hanging out and getting high with Jason DiLaurentis, Spencer was the shadow in the infamous picture, and Mrs. Potter died! The last of these is clearly the most significant, and I expect it to be the focus of the rest of the season.
30. On the Spencer shadow thing, how are we supposed to interpret A’s caption, “Watch your back…I didn’t”? Was Spencer after her? Is Spencer the killer? Is she some sort of Core Four mole?
And I just started to like her!
Posted by John S on February 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM
I too am getting sick to death of the Aria/Fitz story, so much so that I was actually hoping Hanna would expose them this week just to bring the situation to a head. I don’t think I’m a particularly uptight person, but the way the show is handling it is borderline indefensible. They keep implying that the only thing wrong is that Fitz is her teacher, which is why they need to go to Philly for their date. Except that statutory rape in Philadelphia is just as illegal (and immoral) as it is in Rosewood.
I might feel different about the story if it were any actress besides Lucy Hale, but since she is clearly the youngest looking cast member (even younger looking than the actress who plays Alison, who is actually seven years Hale’s junior) I find the whole thing a little creepy.
Plus, it’s spectacularly boring. Now that the rest of the Core Four know, she barely needs to conceal it from anyone (since apparently nobody at Rosewood HS finds the amount of time the two spend alone in Fitz’s class at all disconcerting), and there’s no drama within the relationship. I know PLL isn’t the first show to do a student/teacher romance, but I’m can’t think of any show that’s gone this many episodes (15 and counting) without the relationship getting exposed. Enough is enough already…
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[L-R] Tony Bunyan, Duncan Campbell and Sarah Kavanagh speaking at the Arnolfini in Bristol, an event organised to mark the 40th anniversary of the ABC Campaign
The event in Bristol a couple of weeks ago to mark the 40th anniversary of the Aubrey-Berry-Campbell official secrets case was a good chance to catch up with many people I hadn’t seen for a good number of years. I was also quite surprised by the large number of bits of ephemera which I designed for the campaign. Stickers, posters, badges, the ‘souvenir programme’ which we produced for the 1978 Old Bailey trial and a few more I had totally forgotten about. The product of many nights Letrasetting headlines and pasting up artwork, and there they all were, projected onto the backdrop behind the speakers in a never-ending slideshow.
One was for this Conway Hall meeting, held in April 1977, an event I remember well.
Some people might be surprised to see Jonathan Aitken’s name as a speaker at this meeting, given that he is most famous now for being convicted of perjury following the collapse of the libel case he brought against the Guardian in 1995. However, he had himself been on trial in 1971 for breaching the Official Secrets Act, along with the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, the newspaper itself and a retired army colonel who had been an observer in the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s. All the defendants were eventually acquitted on all charges. (The best summary of the case that I could find online is actually from the New York Times.) The judge told the court that the Telegraph’s report did not contain ‘a word affecting our national security.’ and that the result should make the Government consider whether the broad terms of the act had ‘reached retirement age and should be pensioned off.’ The case against Aitken was brought by a Labour government and Attorney-General, and it was the same combination who brought the 1977 prosecution against Aubrey, Berry and Campbell. That might have been the party political reason for Aitken speaking in support of a campaign which had previously only been backed by left-wing Labour MPs (such as Neil Kinnock, Jo Richardson and Robert Kilroy-Silk(!)).
After the case, Aitken wrote a book, Officially Secret, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 1971. I have a copy of this, which I see from the stamps inside that I bought from a LB Hackney sale of withdrawn library stock in 1986 for 25p. The cover was designed by Craig Dodd, who also worked on covers for other publishers in this period. (See these posts on Existential Ennui: The Dame, The Right Stuff and The Shooting Party.)
There is another link between the Aitken and ABC cases. One of the defence counsel in both was Lord Hutchinson QC, who died yesterday at the grand age of 102. In his obituary in today’s Guardian, Geoffrey Robertson QC (who was a junior counsel in the ABC case) recalls how Hutchinson found out about the jury-vetting in the latter case, in a story which he also told at the Bristol event:
On the opening day of the ‘ABC’ trial in 1978, Jeremy discovered by chatting to an incautious Old Bailey clerk that the prosecution had made a clandestine application to a subservient judge to ‘vet’ the jury panel. This practice had been secretly used in ‘political’ cases and Jeremy’s advocacy blew it up into a national scandal. A pupil barrister (now Mr Justice Nicol) was dispatched post-haste to the LSE library to borrow a copy of Bentham’s Elements of the Art of Jury-Packing, which Jeremy used as the basis for a blistering attack on the weak Labour law officers who had approved this obnoxious form of secret policing.
By the time the ABC case came up for trial, I was working for the National Council for Civil Liberties as its publications officer. The very first item I produced in this new job was a pamphlet called Justice Deserted, written by one of NCCL’s legal officers, Harriet Harman, and LSE professor John Griffith. The foreword was by EP Thompson, no less, and I recall having to ring the great man himself to give him instructions as to where to post his text. Heady days indeed.
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The St Stephen’s parish was founded by Fr James Inglish, a priest in theAnglican Church, who started to work among residents of Noorde Paarl – or Lower Paarl as it was then called – in 1850. The Lower Paarl Mission School was also established by the Cape Town Diocese in 1854 with Fr J F Curlewis as its first teacher.
A school chapel was built in 1858 and served as a place of worship and a primary school. The building stood on the corner of Main and School Streets.
In 1876 the Anglican Church bought a property in Main Street in order to build a new church for the Noorde Paarl parish. The St Stephen’s Church was consecrated on 7 August 1877 with Fr Arthur Fraenkel Jeffery as its minister. The old chapel could then be subdivided into four permanent classrooms. In 1982 the school closed down and pupils were moved to the Nieuwedrift Primary School. The original school building in Noorde Paarl was demolished under the Group Areas Act.
The congregation had its own rugby club called the St Stephen’s RFC – also known as the Swartbekbootjies. The team was coached by Fr LK Zeeman, and many of the players also sang in the St Stephen’s Church Choir. They wore a black rugby jersey with a white collar, black shorts and black socks with a white stripe.
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The society was formed in 1882 to provide social and financial support to members living Noorde Paarl. In order to join, applicants had to be between the ages of 18 and 45. New members also had to pay a once-off fee of 75c if they were under the age of 30 years, or R1 if they were older than 30. Weekly contributions were set at 10c per member. In return, the society supported members in terms of medical costs, funeral costs and also provided financial support when members were too ill to work. Society meetings were held in the St Stephen’s church hall in School Street. The society also owned houses in Bosch Street.
When the Group Areas Act of 1961 was enforced in Paarl, Noorde Paarl was initially declared a “Coloured” area. “White” residents campaigned vigorously against this classification, and the area was subsequently reclassified as a “White” area. This reclassification happened despite the efforts of the Noorder Paarl Waaksaamheidskomitee under the chairmanship of John Martin to wanted to retain the “Coloured” classification.
The Community Development Board bought the St Stephen’s Church on 18 October 1979 for R50 000 and paid an additional R110 000 for its church hall, school, rectory, caretaker’s cottage and graveyard in School Street. Fr Frank de Jager conducted the last service on 25 January 1981.
The government subsequently sold the church building to the Paarlberg Dutch Reformed Church for R20 000.
In 1998 the St Stephen’s congregation approached the Commission of Land Restitution in order to have the building returned to them. Negotiations were set in motion between the Dutch Reformed Church and the Anglican Church, after which the State decided that R780 000 would be a fair value for the building. Funds were made available to the Paarlberg NGK so that the claim could be settled. The ministers involved in the act of reconciliation were Rev Pieter van der Walt (Paarlberg NGK) and Fr Roderick Cox (St Stephen’s).
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The photograph was discovered at the Wellington Museum. Many thanks to the Friends of the Wellington Museum letting us know about it. This is sadly, the only vintage photograph the Heemkring has of the St Stephen’s Church.
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Great, thanks for sharing this article post.Thanks Again. Keep writing.
Lovely piece of history which has answered a few questions… Particularly about Lower Paarl as I couldn’t find it on Google Maps! I am looking for information on two parishioners… Adam and Sarah Hendriks who had several children baptised at St Stephens including my Great Grandmother Rosa Isabella Johanna Hendriks (adopted), Nicholas Petrus Samuel and Zarl Jacobus Franciscos. If anyone recognises the names an email would be great! Proberton at gmail etc many thanks
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Foreign Exchange Risk and the Predictability of Carry Trade Returns
34 Pages Posted: 3 May 2012 Last revised: 5 Feb 2014
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Lucio Sarno
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Ilias Tsiakas
Date Written: February 4, 2014
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the time-series predictive ability of foreign exchange risk measures on the return to the carry trade, a popular investment strategy that borrows in low-interest currencies and lends in high-interest currencies. Using quantile regressions, we find that higher market variance is significantly related to large future carry trade losses, which is consistent with the unwinding of the carry trade in times of high volatility. The decomposition of market variance into average variance and average correlation shows that the predictive power of market variance is primarily due to average variance since average correlation is not significantly related to carry trade returns. Finally, a new version of the carry trade that conditions on market variance generates performance gains net of transaction costs.
Keywords: Exchange Rates, Carry Trade, Market Variance, Average Variance, Average Correlation, Quantile Regression
JEL Classification: F31, G15, G17
Cenedese, Gino and Sarno, Lucio and Tsiakas, Ilias, Foreign Exchange Risk and the Predictability of Carry Trade Returns (February 4, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2050106 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2050106
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Can We All Get Along? Incentive Contracts to Bridge the Marketing and Operations Divide
43 Pages Posted: 4 Sep 2013
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Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Serguei Netessine
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Z. John Zhang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Department of Marketing
The marketing and operations management arms in a firm must work in coordination: marketing efforts to create demand go to waste if supply is suboptimal, and vice versa. However, achieving this coordination has remained a long-standing problem, because in most firms these units are managed in a decentralized manner. A major source of conflict is that marketing compensation is usually heavily weighted towards sales whereas operations compensation is usually heavily weighted towards expense reduction. In this paper, we invoke agency theory to determine compensation plans for sales and operations managers to coordinate their activities in the best interests of the firm.
We first show in a single product scenario that, by rewarding the sales manager for increasing sales and the operations manager for reducing total cost, a firm cannot coordinate the two functions. Furthermore, a simple profit-sharing contract does not work, either, because of the free-rider problem. However, we show that each of the following two contract schemes can always achieve coordination: (1) rewarding the operations manager separately for increasing sales and reducing costs, and (2) rewarding him separately for reducing missed sales and leftover supply. We thus show that choosing the right performance metrics (before choosing the contract parameters) can mean the difference between being able to align the interests of the salesforce with those of the firm and not being able to do so. We identify coordination between demand and supply as a new driver of compensation structure and find, for instance, that the sales commission for the sales manager, even in the presence of risk aversion, can increase with uncertainty in demand, a conclusion that runs contrary to results from classic agency theory.
In a multiproduct scenario, when one manager manages several products, the coordinating contracts are fairly complicated. However, we show that choosing the right form of workforce allocation: either a sales-focused organization (a separate sales manager for every product, one operations manager for all products) or an operations-focused organization (a separate operations manager for every product, one sales manager for all products) can help a firm to achieve near-perfect coordination. This is in line with the observation that most firms have either a "sales image" or a "cost image," and sheds some light on how the underlying objective of aligning marketing and operations, while keeping the size of the salesforce small and compensation contracts simple, can influence the organization of a firm.
Jerath, Kinshuk and Netessine, Serguei and Zhang, Z. John, Can We All Get Along? Incentive Contracts to Bridge the Marketing and Operations Divide (November 3, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2319865 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2319865
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Future-Gazing: What Train Stations Will Offer by 2030
28 Nov 2018 | Railway-News
By Dave Ashton, CEO of Loco2 – the comparison and booking platform for train tickets in the UK and Europe
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The rail industry is going through a revolution. It’s easier than ever to buy your train tickets through apps and websites to travel almost anywhere in Western Europe. Tickets are immediately available on your mobile device and live data in apps (on-time status, departure platforms, etc.) is becoming de rigeur. In many cities, you can tap your contactless bank card to pay for public transport. And of course Uber has reinvented the taxi sector.
And what about train stations themselves? They too, are modernising. Earlier this year I took an epic train journey in China, from Beijing all the way to Hong Kong. More than 3500km in a long arc through Xian, Chengdu, Guilin and Shenzhen.
What impressed me most about the experience – beyond traveling overland at 300km an hour – was the train stations. They look more like Heathrow Terminal 5 than St Pancras. Their modern stores and restaurants accommodate tens of millions of passengers every year, with free Wi-Fi and comfortable lounges for those who want them. And it was clear they’ve planned significant additional modernisation projects.
China has had both the unfathomable challenge and beautiful luxury of building its transportation and communication infrastructure almost from scratch the last 25 years. That won’t happen in Europe: rail stations in major cities have been present since the 19th century. But there is still a lot of modernising to come in the next decade. There must be a better passenger experience not just for those travelling. We must make life easier for the people who pass through the stations that are our departure and arrival points. That last bit might just be closer to reality than you think.
I’m a technology enthusiast and frequent traveller. Therefore, I welcome any innovation or development that serves both growing rail demand and makes people’s lives better. And what’s coming will definitely do that. Not just for people in major cities but even for those in places further afield. The concept of a smart railway station, sometimes called “living transport hubs”, is coming soon.
Below is a list of my predictions of what train stations will offer us in the next decade.
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1) Sleepover stations
Train stations appeared during the Industrial Revolution. Back then they were largely soot-covered depots for trains to collect more coal and/or drop off passengers. The last thing anyone wanted was to sleep there. It’s not that way anymore. Passengers want to be comfortable not just while they’re travelling. They want to be comfortable during the waiting hours between connecting trains, too.
I can imagine large sleeping islands appearing inside train stations for passengers to sit back and relax. This will happen in a few years’ time. Furthermore, in the next decade-plus, train stations will increasingly become not just mini-city/town centres, but people will want train stations to be their homes. By 2030 more and more train stations will add housing. This accommodation will become highly sought after given the good locations in which it’ll be placed. This will be the case in both big and small cities.
2) Supermarket aisles
Craig Graeme, Transport for London’s director of commercial development believes the Transport system has the potential to be a “supermarket aisle” down which millions file every day. He said “They are time-poor people who’ve got very busy lives. All we need to do is work out what it is they need and give it to them in the most convenient format.”
Or imagine getting to your home train station parking lot and your groceries are bagged and waiting for you to pick up. Or better yet – already in your car. “Click and collect” services at London Underground stations in North London already do some of this, enabling commuters to purchase their shopping online in the morning and collect it on their way home via the station after 4pm. And also, the placing of Amazon or e-Bay lockers at stations, again for the collection of online purchases on the way home is surely an area of further growth potential for stations all over the world.
3) Takeaways on-demand
So grocery shopping via click and collect services is already available at some train stations, but what about takeaway and fast food?According to NPD Group, over the past decade, the takeaway delivery market has grown from £2.4 billion to a burgeoning channel worth £4.2 billion as of February 2018, a 73% increase.
With the unstoppable rise of the online food delivery phenomenon, train stations will increasingly collaborate with food delivery market leaders like Deliveroo, JustEat or UberEats to offer passengers an on-demand takeaway service. Passengers could order their takeaway from their desired restaurant or fast food establishment via one of the partners’ apps and input the name of the train station they wish to collect their meals. Or who knows, maybe one day your meals will be delivered directly to your reserved seat, five minutes before your train departs!
4) Mobile health clinics
A new report by the British Heart Foundation urges the NHS (as part of its long-term plan) to place nurses across England’s train stations to offer general health checks, to help identify the millions of people with undiagnosed high blood pressure. I can envisage the NHS trialling mobile clinics in select train stations to encourage people to be more aware of their health and have easier access to services. Train stations could partner with the NHS or private firms to integrate other medical facilities such as pharmacies, for commuters to pick up their prescription whilst on the go (this could be done via Boots or Superdrug).
5) Workout on your way
Trying to squeeze a daily workout at the gym is a common struggle for time-poor Britons (or maybe you’re just lazy, like me?). But what if your local train station had its own gym with ample space to workout, access to fitness equipment and facilities, and wait for it…a pool for that peaceful morning swim?
As train stations grow to become ‘living hubs’ for passengers, signs suggest they will incorporate personal services which are generally popular with people: fitness being high on the list. The gyms would work on a membership or pay-as-you go basis to enable flexibility for users. I can see this becoming a trend amongst commuters who can replace rush hour travel with a workout.
6) Drop-in workspaces
In 2014, Network Rail and The Office Group announced they were opening three drop-in workspaces in King’s Cross, Liverpool Street and Leeds stations as part of joint venture The Station Office Network, an initiative intended to provide mobile offices in train stations throughout the UK’s major cities.
Though this was set-up four years ago, it’s only the beginning of what I see becoming the ‘norm’. Major stations across the country will be keen to attract workers who will use their amenities, and drop-in workspaces enables people to be flexible and productive before or after their journey. Based on the initiative, stations will naturally offer wifi/ broadband, private offices, meeting rooms, and shared drop-in desk areas, in order to suit a broad range of businesses and rail passengers.
7) Virtual ticketing agents
The concept of an innovative hybrid between a virtual walk-up ticket office and a ticket vending machine with a video-linked call centre, is already being welcomed by some train stations. It has been trialled by the central station in Essen, Germany in cooperation with Essener Verkehrs-AG (EVAG), and this year Greater Anglia rolled out virtual ticketing agents across rural rail stations in East Anglia.
Ticketing in particular has seen rapid change in the last decade. Smartcard-based systems have rapidly overtaken traditional paper tickets on many of the world’s major transport networks. The system of virtual ticketing agents is designed to provide all the benefits of the traditional manned ticket office with the streamlined operational advantages of vending machines. It’s much more effective than ticket machines. Therefore I expect this service will be offered widely to rail passengers in the coming years.
8) Integration with other transport modes
As the idea of driverless cars starts to entice urban dwellers, there have been debates about whether these will replace high-speed rail. However, I see it as an opportunity to collaborate. Stations represent an obvious focal point for those operating fleets of autonomous and connected vehicles (CAV). Their ability to assimilate this technology into the stations will be critical. Milton Keynes Central station is the UK’s first Smart Station Demonstrator for future innovations within the rail sector. They are testing the impact of automated buses and metro, private vehicles with automated parking, and driverless cars.
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RCI Sabah is cover up commission
The Royal Commission of Inquiry absolves the culprits who were responsible for the organized free inflow of about 69000 illegal immigrants and later enrolling them in the electoral list. The RCI did not probe into the motive behind project IC or project Mahathir but shifted the blame on corrupted civil servants. Even the ordinary man in the street and the illegal immigrants themselves know the culprits involved in this fiasco but the RCI couldn’t pin point them. No civil servants dare to openly allow illegal immigrants into the country if not for the powerful political figures behind them. Tun Mustapha of USNO lost the election to PBS but could not accept the results. The federal government under Mahathir Mohamad colluded with Tun Mustapha to overthrow Pairin Kitigan of PBS. These Muslim illegal immigrants were allowed into Sabah and registered as voters. It is obvious as who is responsible for this treason against the county. But RCI did not have the moral courage and honesty to name the culprits. Datuk Seri Najib must have appointed the RCI to white wash their wrongs and absorb the wrongdoers.
On 11 August 2012, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the formation of the Royal Commission of Inquiry for illegal immigrants in Sabah and its 8 Terms of references. The announcement was in response to the resignation of 3 members of parliament who said that they were resigning due to the inaction of federal government over this matter. The current prime minister had led a parliamentary select committee in 2007 on illegal immigrants to Sabah. Nothing came out of it.
Former PM Tun Mahathir was directly involved and recently even justified project IC. To defend the issuance of identity cards to Muslim illegal immigrants from Philippines and Indonesia, the former prime minister Tun Mahathir Mohammad has said that “On the basis of the length of stay and mastering of the national language, they qualify to be citizens of this country, and so the acquired citizenship.” He further questioned that “why cannot the migrants of Sabah who have all these qualifications be accepted as citizens? The objections to them being accepted seem to be political,” he said. In his blog posting, Mahathir claimed that choosing not to naturalize migrants in Sabah was also racist, and that Malaysians should accept that their fellow citizens may come from different backgrounds.
This project IC was clearly done under the blessing of UMNO so that the political party of their choice will rule Sabah. UMNO wanted to neutralize and split Kadazanduzun and Chinese votes in Sabah so that they become politically weak, a game UMNO is good at.
Project IC involved certain political parties as well as various government agencies including the election Commission of Malaysia, the National Registration Department and the Immigration Department, which comes under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs. After 6 months of investigation, GE13 would be over and everything will be back to as before. Therefore the PM should disclose the findings of earlier PSC headed by him before initialing a new PCI with Terms of Reference that will investigate who are the culprits responsible for the fiasco.
The RCI had clearly cheated and let down the hope of Sabahans to clean up their electoral list. The RCI report is not worth the paper it is reported on. If it is worth its paper the report should be debated and deliberated in parliament.
In West Malaysia there are thousands of Malaysian born Indians and Chinese holding red ICs and after years of attempting to obtain citizenship still considered stateless. For the slightest of reasons they were issued red ICs. But hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and Filipinos illegal immigrants are freely issued citizenships. Unfortunately these wicked designs will affect the rights and opportunities of Sabahans and all other Malaysians. The end cannot justify the means.
Tags: change demographic for votes, commission of pardon, illegal immigrants, RCI, Tun Mustapha
No political party ruled forever
Umno the longest ruling political party in the world concluded the annual general meeting last week under a siege mentality blaming the whole world for the eroding support among Malays themselves. A party which is in power for the past 57 years with more than 2/3 majority support in parliament till 2008 should be more confident and rely on their past records to rally their supporters. Instead Umno leaders and delegates resorted to concocting lies such as DAP burned Quran in kedah, non-Malays out to grab power, Islam being challenged, Malay language in danger, illegal businesses of Chinese and what not. It is an admission of 57 years of poor governance and inability to rule.
These fabrications show signs of desperations and fear that they are losing support of large sections within the Malay community. Umno general assembly has become a rattling and rhetoric ground for their delegates and leaders to let lose their belligerent noises and raise the insecurity and fear among of Malays. By doing so in every AGM, Umno leaders are able to divert the real economic and social issues in the Malay community to emotions and chest beating to keep the rural community ignorant and misinformed.
After the 57 years of Umno rule, Malays remain the poorest despite the highest allocation of resources. Income inequality is highest among Malays. High unemployment and low skill still plague the community after 44 years of NEP. The urban voters and university students have started to rebel knowing the bogey and propaganda of Umno. In the 2015 budget RM24.4 billion is spend as debt service charges such as interest. This is 13.3% of government revenue and 10.9% of government operating expenditure that is amounting to 92million a day as interest payment. With RM24.4 billion, Malaysian Government can pay every Malaysian RM840 per year. BRIM expenditure per year is only RM4.9 billion and it’s about 5 times the BRIM. The delegates must be blissfully ignorant that Umno government is paying 5 times the BRIM amount as debt servicing charges per year. Umno leaders could have listed out their achievements and lay out the next plan and policies to uplift Malaysia from indebtedness, extremism, deficit and what not.
Umno wins elections by manipulating the fear and insecurities of Malays and Islam. They will campaign on hudud and islamic state to stalemate PAS and Malay race in danger of being colonized to checkmate DAP. These issues will drive the rural Malay votes into Umno fold. The scandals, wastages, abuse of power, extremism and racism issues will be swept under the carpet and Umno comes back to power with the tacit support of election commission. Unless PAS and PKR debunk Umno’s folly rural Malays are doomed to remain poor.
Even South Africa has abandoned the apartheid policies and reconciled with the past and moved on. But Umno is sinking deeper into the racial and religious divide and rule. Albert Einstein said that it is insane to do the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Umno has to grow wiser and move away from race and religion.
Merdeka center survey shows that 71% of Malays are very concerned about the rising cost of living, job security, quality of education and their future. That being the case, Umno cannot keep on harping on Islam, race and the palace all the time.
DPM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was the only sober voice in the Umno AGM. He raised the issue of widening income gap between urban and rural Malays and the failure of NEP. He also warned that a 2% shift in votes towards PR, Umno will have to sit in opposition. Unless the poor quality of education, corruption and the failure of bumiputra development programs were reviewed, it is the taxpayer’s money that is going to waste. But it was beyond the grasp of Umno delegates. Can we hope that the next AGM will be different? All I have is hope.
Tags: corrupt and irrelevance, misrule, UMNO
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