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The Portrait Piper
collaborations, galleries and visual arts, performance, Uncategorized
By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2019-07-08T01:16:57+00:00 November 4th, 2018|collaborations, galleries and visual arts, performance, Uncategorized|
Zsuzsi Soboslay, with flautist extraordinaire Eliza Shephard, leads a new guided interpretation of the life of portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, NPG Spring Festival, Oct 28, 2018. “We need a different kind of language and a different emotional register if we are going to touch people…. And that’s what you are creating…” [writer, [...]
Time Borrowed/Subnivien
collaborations, dance ecology, galleries and visual arts, performance, philosophy & ethics
By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2019-06-17T06:29:53+00:00 October 2nd, 2018|collaborations, dance ecology, galleries and visual arts, performance, philosophy & ethics|
Remembering a favourite collaboration with visual artist Annee Miron and sound artist Clive Bourne, @ CraftACT Craft and Design Centre, May 2017. Part of an exhibition of works by artists involved over 10 years of residences at Namadgi National Park Time Borrowed/Subnivien: beneath us, a world we cannot see. The weaving--a [...]
Ventilate, part of Contour 556
collaborations, dance ecology, galleries and visual arts, performance, philosophy & ethics, theatre
By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2018-11-25T03:53:18+00:00 October 2nd, 2018|collaborations, dance ecology, galleries and visual arts, performance, philosophy & ethics, theatre|
Artwork by S.A.Adair, collaboration with dancer/theatre-maker Zsuzsi Soboslay and musician Richard Johnson, Saturday Oct 6@2pm Getting ready to perform within S.A.Adair's beautiful, moving installation work on Saturday at 2pm. Part of Contour 556, Commonwealth Place, East Space Gallery, Saturday October 6 @ 2pm.
Locus, with S.A.Adair
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By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2018-11-25T03:53:36+00:00 August 4th, 2018|collaborations, galleries and visual arts, performance|
Working within textile artist Sally Adair and musician Richard Johnson, ANCA Gallery Dickson, June 14&15, 2018.
Moon Stories: The Day the World Changed! (2019)
collaborations, cross-discipilary, cross-disciplinary, ecology, educational, environmental sciences, galleries and visual arts, inclusion projects, intercultural, performance, theatre, Upcoming Events
By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2019-07-01T04:14:19+00:00 June 11th, 2018|collaborations, cross-discipilary, cross-disciplinary, ecology, educational, environmental sciences, galleries and visual arts, inclusion projects, intercultural, performance, theatre, Upcoming Events|
Moon Stories: The Day the World Changed! is a project that commemorates the 50th anniversary year of the broadcast of the first Moon Walk from the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, just outside the ACT. It deals with history, human footprints, cultural differences and ‘deep time’. The project establishes partnerships between [...]
collaborations, dance ecology, homepage, performance, theatre
By Zsuzsanna Soboslay| 2018-06-15T03:02:45+00:00 June 7th, 2013|collaborations, dance ecology, homepage, performance, theatre|
This is a 3 minute video of my major project, Anthems and Angels It is concerned with the memories and experiences of refugees. Its process matches my intention to pay respect to what often gets censored or ignored (memories, sights, sounds, smells, kinetic sensations). If everything is potentially of equal value, then sound, space, [...]
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AUTHOR GUEST POST: Creating Victorian England by Mark A Latham
September 18, 2017 | Gemma
In celebrating the release of The Legion Prophecy, the latest book in Mark A Latham’s The Appollonian Casefiles Series, Mark has kindly provided a guest post giving an insight in creating this unique world. Please do check out both the post and the series. Also do be sure to check out the other stops on the tour
Creating Victorian London
One of the great challenges of writing the Apollonian Casefiles was creating a believable ‘historical’ world in which to set my nineteenth-century adventures. This was really important to me, because my goal with the first book, The Lazarus Gate, wasn’t just to create a passable version of history, but to write a piece of ‘transreal’ SF – a book that, at first glance, might pass as a historical novel, before the science fiction elements kick in and take things in a new direction. In book three of the series, the Legion Prophecy, I return to Victorian London, and that early groundwork in creating what I hope was an authentic and believable setting paid dividends, giving me a solid foundation to work with. Key locations are by this point already cemented in the readers’ minds, allowing me to introduce new areas of the city for my characters to explore without repeating myself.
So, how did I go about creating the Big Smoke of the 1890s? The short answer is of course, ‘research’. As all writers know, only a tiny fraction of the research done actually makes the final draft, but without it the whole book feels less believable.
The geography of London has changed quite a bit in the last century or so, and getting the key details right was really important to me. If my character cuts down a back alley, then I want to be sure it was there in 1890 even if it’s not there today. If he goes to the pub, I want the name of said establishment and the physical description of it to be as it was, rather than the gentrified gin bar that probably stands there today.
To get the details right, I rely on three main sources: maps, first-hand accounts, and visual reference.
Regular readers of my blog will know that my bookshelves are rammed with period reference – over 200 tomes, in fact – which I call my ‘Victorian Google’. Amongst these are several invaluable guidebooks (the best being Baedeker’s London 1890, Bradshaw’s Handbook of London 1863, and Dickens’s Dictionary of London 1888), which contain extensive descriptions of every landmark, key building and street, as well as peculiarities of local customs. I also own over a dozen maps of the city, including a splendid copy of Bacon’s New Large-Scale Ordnance Atlas of London & Suburbs, 1888). These make plotting the key locations and journeys between them that much easier. If you’re a map nerd like me, you can also find the most incredible interactive resource at the National Library of Scotland’s map department, here
Once my map of the essential action was sorted, I then needed physical descriptions. Many of these are taken from first-hand accounts, such as letters to the Times, the writings of Henry Mayhew, and period fiction. Many are taken from old photographs, again from my book collection. But ultimately, much of Victorian London still exists, and there’s no real substitute for visiting, and footslogging around Jack the ripper’s old haunts, or the Clubland of St James’s and Pall Mall.
Just as my places are largely real, so too are my ‘extras’. The books blend fiction and non-fiction shamelessly – there are many characters who are real historical figures, and where I’ve used them I’ve tried to make it plausible that they’re in the right place at the right time. In the Lazarus Gate, when John visits the Ten Bells pub, the publican named is the real publican of the time. When he goes across the road to Christ Church, Spitalfields (that amazing Nicholas Hawksmoor building), not only is the description of the building accurate from sketches made before its reconstruction, but the Dean of the church really was the incumbent clergyman – I had to email the Friends of Christ Church for that information.
As John Hardwick travels around London for the first time in ten years, he takes in the sights, sounds and smells of a city that has expanded and changed dramatically, and is almost a strange land to him. The crowd scenes I write are all peculiar to the area of London in which they’re set. From the East End with its immigrant population, costermongers, dolly-mops and cut-purses, to the West End with its gentry heading to the theatre of an evening whilst passing entertainers and book-sellers, there’s historical precedent for pretty much everyone I describe in the books.
Finally, it’s worth mentioning the dialogue: as an English student, accent and dialect has always fascinated me, and so I turned to several period of dictionaries of slang to get the language right. A few more modern uses of certain words did creep in, nu these were all conscious decisions – Victorian English can be pretty hard to follow at times, and while great for flavour, the last thing I wanted to do was alienate the readers.
So there you have it – my attempts to bring Victorian London to life in a nutshell. Doing lots and lots of research, so you don’t have to!
THE LEGION PROPHECY
Release Date: 19th September 2017
Genre: Steampunk, Fantasy
Lose yourself in Victorian London in The Legion Prophecy, the third instalment in the Apollonian Casefiles series from Mark A. Latham. Following on from the events of The Iscariot Sanction, Latham’s rich and exciting prose will have you instantly immersed in this wonderful fantasy epic.
London, 1893. The Order of Apollo, investigator of mysterious events for the Crown, has been uncovering artefacts and refugees from another world, smuggled through boundaries which seem to be thinning. A breach would mean disastrous consequences for the entire universe.
Meanwhile, rumours abound of an enemy the Order thought long-since dead, alive and gathering followers. Colonel John Hardwick, an embittered veteran of Apollo, is forced to join the fight again, with his former friend Captain Jim Denny and mysterious adventuress Marie Furnival. But facing this new threat brings them to dark secrets which implicate whole nations and threaten the very fabric of reality.
Mark A. Latham is a writer, editor, history nerd, frustrated grunge singer and amateur baker from Staffordshire, UK. A recent immigrant to rural Nottinghamshire, he lives in a very old house (sadly not haunted), and is still regarded in the village as a foreigner.
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ABOUT MARK A. LATHAM
Mark A. Latham is a writer, editor, history nerd, frustrated grunge singer and amateur baker from Staffordshire, UK. A recent immigrant to Nottingham, he lives in a very old house (sadly not haunted), and is still regarded as a foreigner.
Formerly the editor of White Dwarf magazine, Mark dabbled in tabletop games design before becoming a full-time author. A writer of strange, fantastical and macabre tales, his short stories have been published by Titan Books and Black Library Publishing. Revelling in the moniker ‘the Lost Victorian’, Mark’s research into nineteenth-century life has become something of an obsession, which he salves by writing on the subject for far longer than can be considered healthy.
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New report summarises evidence-based approaches to dementia prevention, intervention and care
July 20, 2017 Stina Saunders
A new report from the Lancet Commission has summarised key points around dementia prevention, intervention and care. We are delighted Prof Karen Ritchie based at the Centre for Dementia Prevention was one of the co-authors of this paper.
While scientists have looked into possible treatments for dementia for decades, the prevention aspect of the disease has so far been less researched. We know that Alzheimer’s disease starts developing decades before dementia occurs – in effect, making dementia an illness of midlife that manifests in later life. It is therefore crucial to study a younger, midlife population in order to be able to identify these early risk factors that contribute towards eventual dementia. This is the aim of the UK wide PREVENT Dementia study and the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) project, both led from the Centre for Dementia Prevention.
The Lancet Commission results suggest that around 35% of dementia is attributable to a combination of the following nine risk factors: education to a maximum of age 11–12 years, mid-life high blood pressure, mid-life obesity, hearing loss, late-life depression, diabetes, physical inactivity, smoking, and social isolation. Interestingly, social isolation is thought to be a risk factor for dementia because it increases the risk of high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and depression. The most beneficial diet to brain health is again suggested to be Mediterranean diet.
Possible treatments for dementia have not been developed and progress in research has not led to disease modifying drugs but to improvements in symptom management, treatment of associated pathology and protection of the person. The commission report concludes that we currently extend life expectancy and therefore, paradoxically, disease duration and dementia prevalence. On the assumption that dementia is neither treatable nor preventable care policy is currently largely based on a crisis-intervention model. The Lancet commission has extended the definition of care beyond crisis intervention to a life course approach, emphasising potential windows for early interventions such as starting prevention efforts in a normal healthy populations in their mid-life. Leading research in dementia prevention was covered in BBC Radio 4 (from 17 min 10 sec) and BBC news (from 19 min 50 sec) yesterday, focusing on the work Centre for Dementia Prevention does around identifying risk factors in mid-life.
There are multiple examples in the history of epidemiology of risk factor removal leading to significant decreases in disease incidence although the etiology remains unknown. The Lancet report drew on an earlier paper by one of the co-authors Karen Ritchie and colleagues where a potential 25% reduction of dementias was shown with elimination of cardiovascular risk factors and depression but only a 7% reduction with elimination of ApoE e4 gene. A significant finding in epidemiological evidence is the suggestion that risk factor elimination will be the most effective in mid-life.
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Trans Mountain CEO says shovels could be in ground on pipeline by September
June 19, 2019 - 12:00pm
CALGARY — The CEO of the Crown corporation building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says shovels could be in the ground by September following cabinet approval Tuesday of the long-delayed project.
Oil could be flowing in new segments of the pipeline between Edmonton and the West Coast by mid-2022, Ian Anderson said, about one year later than the timeline envisioned last August when the Federal Court of Appeal quashed its regulatory approval and halted all fieldwork.
"We're excited, our shippers are excited and the communities we touch are excited along the pipeline corridor," said the CEO of Trans Mountain Corp. during a conference call Wednesday.
"We're confident now that our project will meet every standard, every regulation, every test and reflect the values and priorities and principles that we all care for as Canadians."
The National Energy Board is being asked to reinstate the record from the previous regulatory proceeding in 2016 so that the project can be brought back to the same state of construction readiness as last summer, Anderson said, a process expected to take some weeks.
He said the fact the federal government owns the pipeline won't change or hurry the process.
Two re-routing requests are still to be decided, he said, including one involving B.C.'s Coldwater reserve, although those processes aren't expected to affect the timeline.
He said contractors are being mobilized, pipe is being stockpiled in yards in Alberta and B.C. and the Burnaby Terminal on the West Coast is being made ready so that construction work can begin there as soon as permitted.
Anderson said there is no update on the last estimated project cost of $7.4 billion, while conceding that "time is money."
Earlier Wednesday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau told a Calgary business audience the best way to convince a skeptical oilpatch that the expansion will actually be built is to go ahead and build it.
"What we said yesterday was that we renewed that (pipeline) approval," Morneau told reporters.
"What's happening today is we're back at work. The re-permitting is happening starting today. We are going to get work going this construction season. I want people in Alberta and people across the country to know that intent is real."
He repeated commitments made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday that profits from the operation and sale of the pipeline will be used to support clean energy initiatives.
In his speech to the Economic Club of Canada, Morneau acknowledged the "huge amount of anxiety" in Calgary over the future of the oil and gas sector despite approval.
He insisted Canada can approve pipelines and still battle climate change, drawing a link between the issue of global warming and Western Canada's wildfire problem this spring.
But much of the speech was devoted to an election-style listing of his government's economic accomplishments over the past three years.
A federal election is expected in October.
Last August, the Federal Court of Appeal ripped up the original federal approval of the 590,000-barrel-per-day expansion, citing incomplete Indigenous consultations and a faulty environmental review.
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Musings from Brian J. Noggle
To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
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An Incomplete Headline
June 19, 2014 Brian J. Noggle
The headline is Millions Paying Less Than $100 Per Month For Obamacare.
Now the numbers are coming in, and it appears that for many Americans the health-insurance plans bought under the new government program are fairly affordable. Almost seven out of 10 people who bought plans through federally run marketplaces and who receive tax credits are paying monthly premiums of less than $100, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday.
So the real headline should be something like Millions Paying So Millions Can Pay Less Than $100 Per Month For Obamacare.
I’m surely in the former millions. I’m not even paying less than $100 a week on insurance these days.
Citing My Sources
September 9, 2012 Brian J. Noggle
In a comment at Dustbury’s, I said:
My refund check was less than the quarterly increase in my premiums.
Kinda like the Bush stimulus check was less than my quarterly estimated tax payments, which I had to write in the same month.
The chicanery only works if you’re not paying attention and you work for someone else.
Optimism Must Be Educated Out Of The Populace Or Regulated
July 2, 2012 Brian J. Noggle
Dustbury links to a story about the Feds worrying about the uninformed masses who must be shepherded: Study: Nearly Half Of Consumers Fooled By “Up To” Claims In Advertisements:
The Federal Trade Commission recently commissioned a study that looked out how consumers perceive and comprehend the “up to” conditional in advertisements.
The researchers used different versions of an ad for windows — one that stated that the windows were “proven to save up to 47% on heating and cooling bills,” and one that simply stated, “proven to save 47%.”
Of those who looked at the “up to” version, 45.6% mistakenly said the ad promised to save 47%. Meanwhile, only 58.3% of consumers who saw the unconditional version said the ad promised to deliver 47% savings. According to the FTC, the small difference between the two results indicates that the use of “up to” did little-to-nothing to change consumers’ perception that the ad was promising the maximum level of performance.
Friends, Americans, and countrymen under the DREAM thing, this results from the Lake Woebegone Effect and self-esteem based educational curricula. People all believe they are better than average, better looking than average, smarter than average, and in the tops in whatever they’re measured. Whether they are or not.
So of course they believe that the absolute best possible result of a product applies to them. Some people, not just in Chicago, spend their winters thinking the Cubs might win the World Series. People like blood sausage, too.
Now that the FTC has discovered this fact, what does the FTC want to do about it? Solve the problem of optimism, no doubt.
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Federal Government Again Recommends Fewer Medical Tests
March 22, 2012 March 22, 2012 Brian J. Noggle
In a stunning turn of events, the Federal Government has decided that women are getting too darn many pap smears:
Many women will need to get Pap smears only every five years under new national guidelines released this month.
“We’re going to be able to identify a subset of women that we can put at ease,” said Dr. Rosanna Gray-Swain, a obstetrician/gynecologist with BJC HealthCare. “If they have normal Pap smears and are negative for (human papillomavirus) … they have essentially zero chance of developing cervical cancer in five years.”
Essentially zero is not equal to zero. Following these guidelines, a small number of women will develop cervical cancer that could have been caught by more frequent pap smears. To the United States government, these are acceptable losses.
This new recommendation to cut testing that would catch cancer earlier mirrors the 2009 guideline that also recommended fewer mammograms which would mean breast cancer would go undetected longer in some women.
One wonders why we don’t hear about the United States Preventive Services Task Force’s War on Women, since its governmental actions put women at greater risk of advanced cancer and death.
Contrast this with the Republican “war on women” which thinks men and women should pay for their own contraception and abortifacients or insurance plan that covers them.
(Fun fact: Abortifacients in animal breeding are called mismating shots. How would it frame the debate if we used that term instead of the scientific and rational sounding “abortifacient”?)
The Large and Loving Mamma Government: Manufacturing Hypocrites, One Conservative at a Time
December 17, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
HotAir links to story about Rick Perry’s prudent participation in his employer’s retirement program:
Rick Perry has done something his opponents have been hoping he’d do for years: retire. But it’s not what the governor’s detractors had in mind.
Perry officially retired in January so he could start collecting his lucrative pension benefits early, but he still gets to collect his salary — and has in turn dramatically boosted his take-home pay.
Perry makes a $150,000 annual gross salary as Texas governor. Now, thanks to his early retirement, Perry, 61, gets a monthly retirement annuity of $7,698 before taxes, or $6,588 net. That raises his gross annual salary to more than $240,000.
On a swing through Cherokee, Iowa, Perry was asked why the Employee Retirement System should be paying his retirement while he’s still collecting a salary.
“That’s been in place for decades. … I don’t find that to be out of the ordinary,” Perry said. “ERS called me and said, ‘Listen, you’re eligible to access your retirement now with your military time and your time and service, and I think you would be rather foolish to not access what you’ve earned.’”
Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan said the governor’s early collection of his pension benefits is “consistent with Texas state law and Employee Retirement System rules.”
Allahpundit is displeased:
He “retired” back in January, months before he decided to run for president. Had he known he was going to jump in and take withering fire from Romney on his entitlements rhetoric, I assume he’d have waited to start collecting. But it is what it is, and it’ll be thrown in his face every time the subject of Medicare or Social Security reform comes up. I don’t blame him for his logic: He paid in, he worked hard, he followed the rules, and now he wants his money. Problem is, that’s the same attitude seniors take towards federal entitlements, and if Perry beats Obama, he’ll suddenly be the guy tasked with convincing them to relax that attitude a bit in the name of our common fiscal good. How does he rally them to take one for the team and wait until, say, age 68 to enroll in Medicare if he couldn’t wait until finishing his term as governor to start taking his own pension?
You know what? It does open one up to attack for participating in a system one might eventually want to alter.
But by the same token, “conservatives” are open to–and often suffer–attacks from big government revolutionaries because the conservatives sometimes participate in big government programs. Follow the logic here:
Receive welfare benefits but oppose welfare? Hypocrite! Yes, government checks covered my expenses in the early 1980s when I lived in the housing projects, and I ate the government cheese. In my defense, I was a minor and not responsible for the situation.
Take government help for college but think the program might deserve reconsideration? Hypocrite!
Receive retirement or death benefits from the estate of a Federal employee but think they might get too many benefits? Hypocrite! My mother was a long-time Federal employee, and after she passed, I got a couple checks as part of her retirement death benefit.
Take tax credits but oppose the stimulus? HYPOCRITE!!! Although, in my defense, I did not end up taking stimulus money for my washing machine because it seemed a bother to fill out the paperwork.
Go to public schools, but think too much is spent on them? Hypocrite!
Eat agricultural products, but oppose agricultural subsidies? Hypocrite! Actually, I’m not sure how that would follow, but you can bet the charge would follow.
Drive on public roads, but think billions of dollars in Federal spending in omnibus transportation bills is a bad idea? Hypocrite!
Obey the law of gravity, but think space travel is vital? Hypocrite! Okay, I’m tripping into ad absurdum with the list here, but the illogic is very similar.
Frankly, I must be the walkingest hypcrite there is. I believe that the Federal government is large, but welfare fed me, government checks fed me, then Pell Grants educated me, and I claim deductions of any sort on my annual tax returns, I must hate myself or something.
Instead of merely being part of the system I’d like to change for the better.
Freedom Update: Slaughtering Horses Now Okay, 100 Watt Incandescent Bulbs Not So Much
December 1, 2011 December 1, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Obama, Congress restore horse-slaughter industry:
President Obama last month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering was backfiring.
The domestic ban didn’t end horse slaughter but instead shifted the site of butchery to Mexico and Canada – which meant increased abuse or neglect as the horses were shipped out of the country and beyond the reach of U.S. law.
The ban had been imposed in 2006 when Congress defunded the government’s ability to inspect plants that butchered horses for consumption. Without inspections, the meat couldn’t be sold, and the industry withered.
But the Agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving dropped the prohibition on inspections, and the administration said it now stands ready to conduct them should anyone open a horse-slaughter plant.
Congress is in the pockets of Big Horsemeat!
Actually, not so much. On the whole, I don’t see why horses differ from other livestock that prompted this ban except some people like horses as more than an animal.
But Congress managed to restore a freedom opposed by PETA and the HSUS through and signed by the President. A bit of how it really happened:
This year, the House version of the Agriculture spending bill maintained the slaughter-ban language, but the Senate did not. When the two chambers reconciled their bills, the language was not in the final version.
Mr. Obama signed the spending bill by autopen on Nov. 18. He was traveling in Asia at the time the bill was presented to him, so he used the automated signature machine for the second time in his presidency.
Make no mistake: this restoration of freedom was not brought to you by the Republican-controlled House, but by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Cynically, one could posit that the Republicans in the House are not that eager to start restoring freedoms and overturning bans, whether they’re esoteric issues like slaughtering horses or more everyday-life-affecting decisions to compel usage of little glass mercury bombs throughout your home. Maybe that’s a good question for your Republican Congressman if you have one.
(Link to the Washington Times story seen on Instapundit.)
Tax The Rich States
August 19, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Courtesy of Instapundit, we have this story:
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced Thursday that Virginia has finished its fiscal year with a surplus of $544.8 million through higher-than-expected tax revenue and savings.
And suddenly, the idea comes to me: The Federal Government should tax the rich states!
I mean, why should the fiscally prudent legislators and governor in Virginia get to keep that surplus? I believe when you spread the wealth around states, it’s good for everyone, especially California, New York, Illinois, and other blue state fiscal disaster areas.
Plus, it punishes the mostly red states and encourages them to spill every drop of taxpayer sweat they can.
Damn, it’s a good thing I’m not a Democratic strategist. I’m awful devious.
Hopefully, It Will Have A Happy Ending, Or At Least Sandra Bullock
Quoth the Angus:
Obama and Pelosi remind me of that movie about the bus. It’s like if they stop spending money at a certain high rate, they will explode.
Obama Administration Increases Health Insurance Costs
August 2, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
The headline is all about the free candy: Women’s contraceptives must be fully covered soon. Lots of free candy:
The Obama administration issued new standards on Monday that require health insurance plans to cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or other charges.
The standards, which also guarantee full coverage of other preventive services for women, follow recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences and grew out of the new health care law.
The article gives proper talking points about who will get the free candy and why free candy is good:
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said, “These guidelines will save countless dollars and lives, and send a hugely powerful message about the importance of women’s preventive health care.”
Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif., also praised the requirements, saying they would “ensure that women have increased access to the services they need to be healthy.”
Christers oppose it:
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and conservative groups, including the Family Research Council, oppose any requirement for coverage of contraceptives.
If enough people don’t take free candy, the federal government will spend money creating and running ads and marketing to shout “FREE CANDY!!!!”:
Researchers have found that people who have coverage of preventive services, under Medicare or private insurance, use them much less than recommended. Federal officials said they would try to promote their use by publicizing the fact that wider, cost-free coverage is now available.
The article explains how this mandate will be funded:
Allow me to ‘splain: Health insurance premiums will go up so insurance companies can buy the candy that Sugar Daddy Sam mandates that health insurance providers give to you at no cost to you.
Evil insurance companies will arbitrarily raise your monthly bills. Because they’re evil. And the saintly unelected boards in Washington, D.C., are good. QED.
A Lesson Unlearned
July 14, 2011 July 15, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
The President spoke to calm the citizenry recently:
Sorry, did I say “calm the citizenry”? I meant to “rile those subjects receiving alms from his most beneficent largesse”.
It would be a good exercise in imagination for those who receive these giveaways to think about what they would do if those benefits actually stopped. And I don’t mean “stopped” in the sense of “went on furlough for a couple weeks or months, only to come back with additional sugar to make up the shortfall.” I mean, what if the Tea Party people are right and this rate of expenditure is unsustainable and eventually the huckster’s constant motion machine falls to a pile of gears and pistons. Then what will they do? Get some sort of job even with their chronic back pain? Perhaps pick up some craft they can barter? Attend a church that can help out? Maybe cultivate some family relationships and bear some children so they have someone to take care of them in their old age?
The rhetoricians–and I apologize to Cicero for calling them that–on one side of the debate seem to want to carve different channels for imaginations to run. Instead of self-reliance, some leaders preach that while some citizens don’t have it, someone (“the rich”) does have it, and someone must take it from the haves and give it to them. It’s a Mad Max mentality where the government is The Humungus, liberating gasoline for its followers. We don’t need deserts, leather, and collanders. We might already be there.
(Video conveniently seen on Real Debate Wisconsin as I was thinking about this post.)
UPDATE: Thanks for the link, Tam. Hey, VFTP readers, you can get the trade paperback version of my novel John Donnelly’s Gold, which Roberta X. mentions here, for 20% off today (Friday, July 15, 2011) by entering the secret code BIG305 at checkout.
Building An Empire
July 12, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Remember when we used to have a republic, where elected officials at the lowest level of government handled the immediate needs of citizens? I almost do, too.
Which is why I find this development deeply disturbing:
The Obama administration is launching a pilot program designed to spark economic growth in urban America by partnering federal officials with local decision-makers in six cities, the U.S Housing and Urban Development secretary announced Monday.
The idea, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said, is to create what he called Community Solutions Teams, which will include employees from several different federal agencies, and have them work directly with local officials in Detroit; Chester, Pa.; Fresno, Calif.; Memphis; Cleveland and New Orleans.
The federal staffers will in effect be embedded in the cities, working on issues the mayors have identified as important, such as developing transportation infrastructure, improving job-training programs and the like. In Detroit, Donovan said, up to a dozen “federal folks” will be in town for a year or two.
Sure, a year or two.
And suddenly, the elected officials in these cities will do what the federal staffers want if the local officials want the money. The old way of doing it, where the feds offered dollars with lots of strings, was bad enough. Now they will be directly directing things at the local level.
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British Journalist Misses The Point
July 4, 2011 July 4, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Ed Driscoll and Instapundit link to this Independence Day column in the British The Telegraph paper where the journalist describes the American Revolution but misses the point by a little, and a lot:
On this day in 1776 a group of 13 colonies broke away to found a new nation free to govern itself as it saw fit, pledging that each citizen would have the unalienable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. A nation, as Americans are apt to declare without equivocation, which became the greatest on the face of the earth. [Emphasis added.]
Erm, no.
Let’s go to the text:
Understand these rights are inalienable and bestowed by the Creator. They are not proffered nor pledged by citizens, the founding fathers, or whatever government or governing documents they and we write or elect.
I don’t know if this is the Continental or the Transnational mindset or what, but certain people–not necessarily this journalist–would like you to believe that the government is the source of rights and can manufacture them or remove them at will. Strangely enough, a lot of those certain people are in or would like to be in the governmental Department of Rights Management.
We need to be sure that we educate people to the proper, and intended by the framers of our nation’s founding documents, defintion of right.
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The Incandescent Rapture
June 26, 2011 June 30, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Instapundit has spent some pixel inches recently covering the year-end ban on 100-watt incandescent light bulbs. Some of the things he links to, such as this Investors Business Daily piece, talk about people up in arms about it. However, the people who get linked by Instapundit and who pay attention year-round to the governments’ actions tend to remain a minority. I fear most people don’t know about what the government does in its omnipotentbus bills and their eventual effects years later.
Remember, the bill banning light bulbs was passed four years ago. Long enough for cause to be forgotten when effect rolls around. Did the Department of Energy send its armed SWAT units into stores to forcibly remove them from the shelves on the day the law went into effect? Of course not.
But at Instapundit’s reminder, I stopped by the light bulb aisle to pick some more up (remember, I am a noted stockpiler). Even as I was in the aisle, the store employees were completing a reset of the shelf space. Gone were the 24-packs of incandescent bulbs. Instead, the aisle was given over to a wider selection of LED and fluorescent bulbs.
And when the year-end arrives, the 100-watt bulbs will just be gone without fanfare or explanation. In coming years, the same will happen to the remainder of incandescent bulbs. Consumers not engaged in the political process will not know why; they just will not have the chance to buy them and will have to spend a couple bucks on a nice expensive toxic-waste-to-be glass corkscrew instead. Kind of like how all the old timey used children’s books with “Good vs. Bad” or “Building Things Is Good” style plots disappeared, leaving only the new timey “Love Those Who Are Different From You” and “Unspoiled Nature Is Better Than Any Human Activity” plots remain available.
The government acts, time passes, and the citizen’s choice just seems to evaporate years later with no clear reason why. Maybe, sometimes, a consumer will say, “Hey, I remember when I could get a 25 cent light bulb,” but that thought doesn’t necessarily translate into sustained political action.
So pardon me if I’m not sanguine on the prospects of a government reversal. The bureaucracy in charge does not want to lessen its control. The Democrats in the elected government don’t want to anger their activists. The Republican professionals might not want to take away a galvanizing issue that gets the dander of its voters up–after all, if Republican elected officials were to solve the problems they were elected to solve, why would Republican voters vote next election?
No, I guess I’m with Instapundit. Stock up while you can, if you can anymore.
(Cross-posted on 24th State.)
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers! If you work in IT, check out my software quality assurance blog QA Hates You.
UPDATE 2: Thanks for the link, Ms. K.
Department of Education SWAT Teams
June 8, 2011 June 8, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
If those words aren’t enough to make you vote for smaller government, perhaps the full headline will. Dept. of Education breaks down Stockton man’s door [This headline and story have been removed]:
Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his [estranged] wife’s defaulted student loans.
The federal Department of Education should be abolished and have all its cowboys lay down their arms.
Somehow, though, being a Tea Party conservative makes me a fascist, but supporting a regime that kicks in doors for debts incurred pursuing useless -Studies degrees is humanitarian or something.
UPDATE: An updated story doesn’t reassure me much:
U.S. Department of Education spokesman Justin Hamilton confirmed for News10 Wednesday morning federal agents with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), not local S.W.A.T., served the search warrant. Hamilton would not say specifically why the raid took place except that it was part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Hamilton said the search was not related to student loans in default as reported in the local media.
OIG is a semi-independent branch of the education department that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud, embezzlement of federal aid and bribery, according to Hamilton. The agency serves 30 to 35 search warrants a year.
My point remains: The Department of Education has no point busting down doors with its own SWAT team for any reason.
UPDATE II: My update tracks with Tam’s.
The Harpies In Washington Pluck The Strings
April 22, 2011 April 22, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
When the government holds out the dollar, you dance like the government likes or you don’t get the dollar:
Now, the federal Department of Health and Human Services is attempting to oust Solomon from his job. According to the company, the agency’s Office of Inspector General advised Solomon, a Yale Law School alum, last week that it planned to exclude him from doing any business with federal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The move — similar to the government’s exclusion of KV Pharmaceutical’s former chairman, Marc Hermelin — is part of a new effort by regulators to use this enforcement tactic to root out “untrustworthy individuals” who knew or should have known that health care fraud was being committed on their watch.
But some experts, who point out that Solomon was never charged with a crime, question whether regulators have overreached, bypassing the court system in favor of banishing drug company executives without having to prove a case against them.
This seems an unethical and unconstitutional device circumventing the court system tht requires a burden of proof. Instead, we have regulators as judge, juries, and banishers. This is a nation of bureaucrats, not of laws.
Imagine the government saying that your employer should fire you or else it won’t be able to do business. “But, Brian J., I am not a fat cat wealthy evil drug company executive!” But if the government can do this to a wealthy fat cat evil capitalist, why can’t the government do it to you? Because you’re obscure or because you’re a right-thinking Democrat voter?
April 18, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Hey, where have I heard this before?
Imagine–one secure credential that you can use to shop online, bank, even get quick information about what to do during natural disasters or other emergencies.
Good idea? The Obama administration thinks so and announced a plan on Friday to achieve it.
It’s a little thin on details, but the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace envisions a day when people conducting online activity no longer have to rely on passwords, which can be hard to remember or can be hacked.
Instead, people will be able to get a secure credential in the form of a smart card or a USB thumb drive, which will carry their personal information and can be used to authenticate their identity online.
Instead of your papers, please, it will be your plastic, please. Make no mistake, this is a national ID sneaking in the back door.
I know, there are reasonable arguments for a national ID card, but I don’t think they trump the risk of abuse by government officials who would have a great deal of ability to track the citizens. Whether as a matter of policy or simply because bad apples could, they would dip into that data with less innocent intent than proponents would argue.
Thanks, but I’ll stick with using my children’s names as passwords and writing them on Post-It notes so I don’t forget.
Cathartic, But Unconvincing
Larry Correia goes off on government spending:
Government can’t balance a checkbook. They’re idiots. I know finance math. I do it for a living. And when I look at the numbers involved here, (and the interest!) it makes my head swim. Okay, for you non-accountants, when they start bandying numbers about on the news of 4 trillion such and such, and a hundred billion this and that, I know that your eyes glaze over. You think to yourself, “Oh, it is just the same old same old, bunch of politicians spending too much money, blah blah blah.”
NOOOOO!
Saying that this is the same old same old, is like saying that gophers digging up your lawn is the same level of disaster as Krakatoa. Over the last couple of years we’ve reached a whole new level of crazy. Our spending has gone insane. We’re spending more money, faster, than all of mankind, throughout all of recorded human history. Economists aren’t sure what’s going to happen, because this has never happened before. Ever. On Earth. We’ve strayed into strange new territory here and there are many possible outcomes if we don’t stray the hell back out. And don’t for a second think that any of those possible outcomes are remotely good. No. They range somewhere between the Great Depression and Mad Max.
He’s right, of course, but the only way to convince somewhere between 51 and 80 percent of the country is for the end to occur, suddenly and unexpectedly!
And it will be the fault of the doomsayers even then. Cassandra will be the first to the guillotine.
(Link seen on Instapundit.)
Stunning, the Perfidy
February 4, 2011 February 5, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
Forget the eagle, forget Uncle Sam. With this current administration, we have a new mascot.
Stunning, the Perfidy.
Whenever I think the president and his smartest-people-in-the-universe have reached the utmost limit in selling out, nay, for selling out, you get something; whenever I think the president and his collegiately credentialed Marxist studies professionals have reached the limit in giving out our nation’s long time allies, they broaden my understanding.
Witness this:
Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.
The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
In two years, I wonder if the United States will have any standing in the world or any allies left.
UPDATE: Thanks for the link, Ms. K.
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“Daddy, Are Monsters Real?” The Little Boy Asks
January 24, 2011 Brian J. Noggle
I have this Q&A frequently with my four-year-old. I tell him about various monsters, stories about monsters, and fictional monsters and add a great depth of complexity to his world that he does not understand. The end result, though, is I assure him that monsters do not exist.
But I’m lying to him.
It saves me from having to try to explain this:
I haven’t written anything about the Women’s Medical Society atrocities in Philadelphia because abortion isn’t one of the hot buttons for me. I’ve been historically reluctantly pro-choice governmentally while pro-life morally (fun fact: I belonged to the Students for Choice group at the University, which confused my sisters-in-arms who knew me as an arch-conservative from my student paper column).
But I’ve read some of the “abortions” performed there (as recounted on Pundit and Pundette), and it becomes harder to remain governmentally pro-choice. It’s clear that, to some people, that lump of tissue remains nothing but a lump of tissue even after it’s viable, even after it’s born because abortion is okay.
Sadly, monsters are real, and most of the time they think they’re doing the right thing.
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LCS Survivability Debate: What the Data Doesn’t Tell Us
February 1, 2015 Doyle 19 Comments
“Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that’s even remotely true. Facts, schmacts.”
-Homer Simpson, from Lisa the Skeptic
Both Steven Wills in his USNI Blog opinion piece and Chuck Hill in his response trot out some interesting numbers in support of diametrically opposed positions on the survivability of LCS. According to Wills, the US Navy lost ships under 3400 tons at a much higher rate than larger vessels in WWII. Hill looks at the numbers and comes to the opposite conclusion. The debate reminds me of the recent statistical dustup over the Patriots’ propensity to fumble that has accompanied Deflategate. And the numbers are just about as meaningful.
Wills asserts that the US Navy lost 71 destroyers and 11 destroyer escorts in WWII. Hill makes that number to be 58 destroyers and 9 destroyer escorts. From what I can tell, they’re both wrong. Using the summary report for ship losses to enemy action from 17 October 1941-7 December 1944, the US Navy lost 134 destroyers and 16 destroyer escorts through December 1944. I could not easily find numbers from December 1944 through the war’s end, but the fact that these figures do not include losses from the Battle of Okinawa suggest that the actual number of destroyer losses for the whole war was closer to 150. Over the period of the report, the US Navy also lost 51 cruisers (CA and CL), 22 battleships, and 39 aircraft carriers (combining CV, CVL, and CVE losses).
After citing the number of losses, Hill uses the fate of vessels in commission at the start of the war to extrapolate survivability statistics for all vessels. Statistically, this is highly suspect. As Hill points out, the US fleet at the start of the war included just 233 major surface combatants. But between 1941 and 1945, the US built over 1,300 more major surface combatants, including 349 DD’s and 498 DE’s. Those ships in commission at the start of the war are a non-random sample, since they would tend to be older, slower, and less likely to incorporate new weapons, sensors, and other technologies that could affect survivability, unless backfitted during the war. The US had no DE’s in commission at the start of the war, further skewing the sample.
The numbers in the two reports point out some of the challenges with getting accurate data: since the US had no DE’s in commission at the start of the war, all 16 DE losses should come from those commissioned 1941-1945. But only 9 are annotated as “sunk” in the shipbuilding report. Similarly, 32 of the 349 DD’s commissioned during the war are listed as “sunk,” which when added to Hill’s figure of 29 destroyers in commission at the start of the war that were sunk comes nowhere close to the figure of 134 destroyers lost (nor even to Wills’ figure of 71, although it is over Hill’s figure of 58). But it doesn’t matter.
The most significant figure in the WWII ship loss data is zero. That’s the number of ships lost to anti-ship cruise missiles. While it’s tempting to try to draw equivalencies between threats in WWII and threats today, the simple fact is that war at sea looks different today than it did then. The Falklands campaign, in which the Royal Navy lost two ships (a 5,000 ton destroyer and a 15,000 ton logistic ship) to Exocet missiles, and another five vessels (one LCU, two Type 21 frigates of 3,290 tons, a destroyer of 5,000 tons, and an auxiliary of 6,000 tons) to aerial bombs, may provide a more relevant frame of reference. British ship losses in the Falkland campaign totaled two of 15 frigates and two of 12 destroyers or larger. While these numbers are helpful, it’s worth remembering the facts behind the data: the RN were limited in their mobility by the need to protect the landing force; the Argentinians were operating at the outer limits of their range, limiting the duration of engagements. And with such a small sample, it’s risky to draw too-strong conclusions.
The most significant contributor to ship survivability is not getting hit. Hill argues that LCS will not be a priority target due to its small size and relative unimportance. Such an argument depends on the presence of perceived higher-value targets to draw fire. But the whole nature of the A2/AD problem is that it creates too much risk to put high-value targets under the threat umbrella. If LCS is the only surface platform we’ve got in the fight, it will be the platform that the adversary targets. (Worse, if LCS is heavily dependent on the proximity of vulnerable combat logistics force ships to stay in the fight, an adversary may not need to target LCS at all, choosing instead to sink the oilers, rendering LCS immobile and irrelevant.)
The debate about LCS survivability is important, especially as we look to up-arm the ships and give them more offensive punch. And, given the program’s history of overly-optimistic estimates of cost and capability, I understand why analysts would prefer to “go to the data,” rather than relying on assurances of improved survivability and defensive capability. But unfortunately, we don’t have access to survivability data in an unclassified debate. In the absence of the models and simulations that have been run on LCS versus modern threats, looking for examples from the past of different ship types versus different threats only clouds the picture. In short, going back to World War II data to try to prove a point about the survivability of large ships versus small ships in modern combat is about as relevant as pointing out that USS Constitution, a ship of only 1,500 tons, was so survivable that she earned the name, “Old Ironsides.”
Doyle Hodges is a retired Surface Warfare Officer currently pursuing PhD studies at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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19 thoughts on “LCS Survivability Debate: What the Data Doesn’t Tell Us”
Uh, the chart you’re looking at (I think) is for ships “damaged or lost,” not just lost. I take that to mean ships that were sunk are counted as are ships that were damaged. My sense of that is confirmed by the fact that the United States had only 26 BBs in commission during all of World War II. The idea that 22 of them got sunk is ridiculous. Similarly, there were only 20 CVs around during the period you’re looking at, so unless some of them got sunk twice…
I’m pretty sure the other two folks are talking about lost as in _sunk_. They’re not wrong, they’re just citing different things.
Ken Adams says:
David’s got it right. Working on a post to lay out the right numbers.
Gordan E Van Hook says:
Smaller ships are usually less survivable – I think that’s generally accepted. LCS is probably less survivable than a Level II or III, but also larger FFG (4500T) or DDG (9500T). It is also probably more survivable than an MHC or PC. The issue becomes contentious when we call LCS a frigate replacement and give it more frigate missions. In the case of a mine hit, LCS 2 may be more survivable with its catamaran hull, it is also all aluminum with increased burning and cracking issues. I saw a stupid Navy PR photo of Independance in plane guard for RIMPAC. An un-named flag officer cited it as an example of LCS success. When our leadership is so confused on this ship’s missions, it’s no wonder the rest of us are asking legitimate questions.
Thomas McCabe says:
For our losses in WWII, is the author using Japanese press figures? For instance, we lost the battleships ARIZONA and OKLAHOMA. What were the other 20?
You may also want to count the kamikazes as manned cruise missiles, and we lost a lot of ships to them in the last year of the war.
Doyle Hodges says:
@David: Wow! You’re absolutely right. I completely missed the “damaged or” in the title of the chart. That’s a big mistake on my part.
Fortunately, while I was sloppy in reading the chart, that doesn’t affect the primary point of my piece: That WWII ship loss data is not relevant to the LCS debate, since the platforms, technologies, and threats are very different. The WWII data can show that, all other things being equal, large ships are more survivable than small ships, but that’s not the question in the LCS debate. The question in the LCS debate is really, “is LCS survivable enough for the threat it will face?”
Thanks for pointing out my error.
-Doyle
Steven Wills says:
Ok, fair enough. As I told ChuckHill, the WW2 data is relevant in that small ships were lost in greater numbers than their larger cousins. Employment certainly plays a role, but physics are just not in their favor. I agree, the debate is whether LCS is “survivable enough”, given its intended mission and cost. My point was to show that small ships can only be moderately survivable if costs are to remain on the low and the crew of small size side.
Can’t agree with you on relevance. The key technologies in the issue of survivability are still explosives, steel, compartmentation, and anything that keeps the water on the outside of the ship. Bigger ships are inherently more survivable than smaller ships.
So don’t use small ships to do big ship missions. Foreign frigates average over 6000 tons.
The LCS was not designed for for big ship missions. It was designed for minesweeping, sub hunting and chasing pirates/ drug runners. Now the navy wants them to be major combatants. They are adding serious firepower, but no armor. That is like adding a cannon to a Humvee and calling it a tank.
chuckhhill says:
I did not write my response as a defense of the LCS, rather as a response to the contention that WWII data indicated that small ships have no place in the US Navy because they are inherently not survivable. I think I disproved that.
By all means make the small ships as survivable as possible.
My own opinion of the LCS and the SSC is that the extreme high speed requirement was unnecessary and counter productive and that the ships need VLS.
Ok, that’s fair. I do not suggest small ships have no place, but rather that basic physics makes it hard to make them more survivable at a reasonable cost. The WW2 data only suggests more of them were lost than smaller ships.
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Budgeting prevails.
Yes, as they always have when money is tight and absent a systemic threat. An example of when they have less influence would be the SSBN programs of the Cold War – money was found to counter the threat with MAD.
I think it would be fair to say that survivability ought to include more than looking at the post hit survivability. It should also include its ability to avoid being hit. LCS advocates point to speed, but I find that unconvincing. On the other hand small size confers some advantages. They are harder to detect. They are harder to discriminate from other contacts. They are easier to hide with soft kill measures. Because they would presumably be more of them, it is more difficult to track them and be sure you have accounted for all of them.
We need more ships. I would never object to steps taken to improve the survivability of ships. Improve compartmentation. Provide redundant propulsion and generator capacity. But taking a position that every ship should be able to take a torpedo hit amidships and continue to fight is unrealistic.
In fact World War II data does not show that larger ships were more prone to survive in the high threat environment that was WWII. It shows the opposite, so people should stop pointing to WWII data as if it were proof of their claim that, ” all other things being equal, large ships are more survivable than small ships,” because that is not what the data shows.
The planners in WWII realized they were going to loose ships, we should also recognize that.
leesea says:
There are so MANY factors which go into survivability no the least of which is destructive aka live fire testing. And I wonder about much of what is said about the AL hull and/or superstructure of LCS. To me, compartmentation of smaller ships is very important. One AMV SME, repteatly states that catamarans are better than either LCS hull form.
And yet… I have heard two well informed individuals state: that since there is an increased threat from missiles of various types, the USN should NOT improve the self-defense weapons on MSC CLF and landing craft. That to me is counter intuitive.
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A kamikaze is a cruise missile. Guidance system was Mk 1 shinto pilot type and had issues, but for a pre prototype, was quite effective.
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Joe Vogel on May 2, 2009 at 7:38 pm
From Boxoffice, March 27, 1972: “Chet Werner, owner-operator of the Le Sueur Theatre, was featured in a New-Herald article recently…. His father, William J. Werner, purchased the old Snow Opera House in 1923 and converted it into a motion picture theatre. The building, located at the same site as the present Le Sueur Theatre, burned to the ground in 1933. The present showhouse was constructed in 1934.”
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The Le Sueur is listed as closed on the Hardin Theatres website.
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At the site now. Below marquee (which is in disrepair) it reads “Closed ‘Til Spring.” Admission prices are still in the window and posters from recent movies still up. It is ambiguous whether the theatre is permanently open or closed from on site evidence.
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48% Of Nursing Homes Rated Above Average For Staffing, Under New CMS Rankings
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With tougher standards, 48% of the state’s nursing homes—104 facilities—received a four- or five-star rating for staffing, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show.
Thirty-nine nursing homes (19%) earned a one- or two-star rating for staffing levels.
Nursing Home Compare’s five-star system (5 being “much above average,” 4 “above average,” 3 “average,” 2 “below average” and 1 “much below average’) examines quality of care delivered, staffing and overall performance, among other factors. It gives consumers the ability to compare quality among facilities. CMS updated the rankings in April, following the release of new payroll data that gives insights into nursing home staffing trends. The site rated 217 facilities in Connecticut and thousands more nationwide.
After a series of complaints about the quality of residents’ care nationally, CMS announced in 2018 measures to increase nursing home oversight and provide transparency on staffing. In compiling its staff ratings, CMS considered facilities’ staffing hours for registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), licensed vocational nurses (LVNs), and nurse aides. The information compiled is from the fourth quarter of 2018, from the most recent payroll data available.
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Lisa Freeman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for Patent Safety, said staffing levels are a top priority among family members of nursing home residents. “It’s always an issue that’s brought up,” she said. In some cases, facilities simply are short-staffed; in others, staff may not be used the most efficiently, she said.
Putting more attention on staffing levels will help spur improvements, Freeman said.
Nationally, 1,638 nursing homes received one-star ratings for staffing, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis. Some facilities were downgraded because their payroll records showed no registered nurse hours for four days or more, while others failed to provide payroll information. Medicare had previously penalized nursing homes with seven or more days without an RN.
Among the Connecticut nursing homes given a five-star rating for staffing are: Avon Health Center; Edgehill Health Center, Stamford; Filosa for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Danbury; Grimes Center, New Haven; Jerome Home, New Britain; and Jewish Senior Services, Bridgeport.
The facilities with the one-star rating for staffing include: Advanced Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, New Haven; Bridgeport Health Care Center; Bishop Wicke Health and Rehabilitation Center, Shelton; and Village Green of Bristol Rehab and Health Center.
Matthew Barrett, president and CEO of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities, said Nursing Home Compare is a valuable tool for families and nursing home residents, but shouldn’t be the only thing consumers look at when choosing or evaluating a facility.
The latest ratings were released after CMS “abruptly” changed the methodology by which it rates facilities, which could confuse some people, said Barrett, whose organization represents 150 nursing facilities.
“The government has made changes to how it rates skilled nursing care centers across the nation that will result in some Connecticut skilled nursing facilities receiving a lower [overall] rating” he said. “Although the rating has changed, the quality of care being provided in these Connecticut skilled nursing homes hasn’t. Specifically, the government has updated the Five-Star Quality Rating System in a way that makes it harder for all nursing centers to earn stars.”
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The Grimes Center, New Haven, received five-star ratings for staffing and overall performance.
In Connecticut, 64 facilities (29%) received a five-star, overall rating from CMS. They include, Autumn Lake Healthcare at Norwalk; Avery Heights, Hartford; Branford Hills Health Care Center; Grimes Center, New Haven; Saint Mary Home, West Hartford; Valerie Manor, Torrington; and Guilford House.
The lowest overall rating, one-star, was given to 29 facilities (13%), including Advanced Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, New Haven; Apple Rehab Avon; Apple Rehab Saybrook; Arden House, Hamden; Bridgeport Health Care Center; Cassena Care at Norwalk; Hewitt Health & Rehab Center, Shelton; RegalCare at Greenwich; and RegalCare at New Haven.
Overall ratings encompass not only staffing, but also health inspections and quality of care.
Barrett said several former five-star homes have lost one or more stars under the new system.
“That is concerning,” he said. “The latest star ratings cannot be compared to ratings prior to April because the goal posts have been moved and are just different.”
Still, Barrett acknowledged some nursing homes struggle with staffing.
The Conn. Health I-Team reported last November that staffing levels challenged the quality of care at some facilities. Between 2015 and 2018, the state Department of Public Health cited and fined nursing homes for a total of 247 violations. In 25 of those cases, citations noted that two staff members were required to help or move a resident and only one was used. Of those cases, 17 incidents occurred in 2017 and 2018, and most resulted in a resident being injured.
Though it doesn’t change staffing requirements, a bill approved by the state legislature requires nursing homes to calculate and post daily staffing information.
Separately, the state budget requires the Department of Social Services to increase Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes by 4% by January 2021. The budget calls for a 2% increase starting July 1, another 1% increase starting Oct. 1, 2020, and another 1% increase by Jan. 1, 2021. That money is earmarked for employee wages and benefits, Barrett said.
One looming challenge on the horizon for facilities, Barrett said, is the state’s rising minimum wage, which could make it harder for nursing homes to recruit and retain workers. Once minimum wage increases to $15 an hour, he said, service sector jobs will pay close to what nursing homes pay—and nursing-home work often is more difficult, both physically and emotionally.
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In 2018, the state took the unusual step of issuing a consent order requiring a New Haven nursing home to hire an independent nurse consultant and implement minimum staffing ratios after inspections at the facility uncovered numerous lapses in care and safety violations. The order, agreed to in April by the Advanced Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation and the state Department of Public Health (DPH), tasked the independent nurse consultant with assessing the staff’s ability to do their jobs and evaluating how care is delivered.
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He became the partner of a year-old woman who became pregnant with twins, Lisbeth and Camilla. Zalachenko was an itinerant father who physically and emotionally abused his partner when he was home.
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Armansky is satisfied, as his true goal in aiding the investigation—ensuring Salander is not simply condemned as a murderer out of hand—has been achieved. He has deduced that Salander has entered what Roberto and his boxing friends called " Terminator Mode", where she attacks without restraint to defend her life and those she cares about. Salander enters the farmhouse and is captured as a result of secret cameras and alarms Zalachenko had installed. Zalachenko tells Salander that Niedermann is her half-brother.
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Trail Planning for Active Rail Corridors
In the 1960's and 70's, the consolidation of our nation's railroads resulted in abandonment of miles upon miles unused rail lines. City governments were drawn to the appeal of these corridors, as they connected cities and often ran through areas of historic or scenic value. Some prime corridors were transformed into greenspaces and recreational corridors for hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding. The trend gained steam and before long trails were being considered for active rail corridors as well. With the current movement to rejuvenate rail corridors nationwide, it seems an incredibly opportune time to take stock of our existing infrastructure and realize the benefits of rails-with-trails.
Converting an inactive rail corridor to a trail (rail-to-trail) is relatively straightforward, but establishing a trail within the easement of an active rail corridor requires more strategizing. For starters, why would a private railroad agree to a trail within their right-of-way? As the railroads are coming to realize, rails-with-trails aren't one-sided endeavors; they offer advantages to the railroad owners as well. With a trail often comes substantial benefit to the railroad, including beautification of the rail corridor and improvement of the railroad’s image in the eyes of the public (through appropriate community outreach). Public agency trail managers might attempt to acquire the easement from the railroad, in some instances reducing the liability of the railroad. Whether the area is patrolled or not, when people actively use a rail corridor trespassing and vandalism rates typically decrease. In the case of rail transit corridors, projects such as the Folsom Parkway Rail-Trail, have produced an increase in transit ridership by thoughtful integration between the two facilities.
Most railroad companies are in favor of rails with trails; according to a survey performed by the Rails to Trails Conservancy, less than 10% of railroad companies initially opposed the idea. In those cases where the trail was opposed, the railroad cited concerns over safety and liability. For obvious reasons, building a trail within an active rail corridor can carry a heightened level of concern for safety, but careful planning can assuage potential problems. Statistically speaking, using a trail in an active rail corridor is far safer than bicycling or walking along a busy city street. In the 34 year history of the program, there has only been one incident. And in this particular incident a biker ignored warnings signals, rode around a lowered gate and was injured by an oncoming train. (See the groundbreaking Rails to Trails Conservancy Study, Rails With Trails for one of the first extensive research efforts on this topic.)
Setbacks and appropriate separation from rail lines is a key factor in designing safe trails. Per “Rails With Trails”, trails are on average 10 to 11 feet wide with the average separation between track and trail being 33 feet. Many trails provide a barrier between the rail tracks and trail, particularly when the two facilities are close together or when railroad speeds are high. These barriers can be anything from heavy duty cast in place concrete walls or a grade separation to a ditch, fence or even just vegetation, depending on actual and perceived risk to trail users and the railroad. Along the Folsom Park Trail, when railroad easements didn't accommodate adequate separation between train and pedestrian, the design team chose to raise the trail almost 3 feet above the train tracks and provide a retaining wall with metal fence to ensure user safety.
Areas of intersection, where the rail and trail cross paths are critical points to introduce enhanced safety measures. When possible avoid at-grade crossings and attempt to introduce tunnels or overpasses. Standard signage that is universally understood should be used in conjunction with audible and visual signals to warn pedestrians and bicyclists at all crossings. Boston's Southwest Corridor Park spent almost $27 million on a trail that goes to great lengths to avoid at-grade crossings. The 4.7 mile trail includes 17 crossings that redirect pedestrian traffic via tunnels or bridges. On the Heritage Rail Trail County Park in Pennsylvania, the existing rail line passes through a narrow tunnel. To design around tight clearances (at some points within the 250 foot long tunnel the trail was within 6 feet of existing railroad tracks) the lease granted to the railroad by the county gives priority to bicyclists, requiring all trains to stop before entering the tunnel and wait until it is clear. Of course this only works with excursion railroads and not with scheduled or headways-based transit service.
The Federal Highway Administration has additional guidelines for designing trails in active rail corridors. FHWA advises against calling the trail 'safe' and suggests trail managers warn users to be vigilant as trains continue to use the corridor. Material selection and crossing surfaces should be selected to provide traction for runners and bicyclists and adequate illumination should be provided. The FHWA also emphasizes the importance of implementing a maintenance schedule to ensure the condition of the trail is routinely monitored, any hazards are fixed, and the trail is kept generally free of debris. As with any infrastructure project, thoughtful planning and continued maintenance will aid in creating a vibrant corridor for years to come.
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Why is the WMAP picture of the CMB an ellipse? (Intermediate)
Answered by Christopher Springob
I do not understand how the WMAP (and earlier, less resolved COBE) picture of the CMB and the early universe can be portrayed as a two dimensional ellipse. If the WMAP satellite scanned the entire universe in all directions, would it not have to be portrayed truly like an image on the inside of a globe? Or like the projection of stars on the inside of a planetarium dome? Has such a three dimensional image been flattened for purposes of display on a page, similar to a Mercator projection map?
You're probably referring to a picture just like this one:
A map of the sky made by the WMAP satellite. Credit: WMAP,NASA
You're absolutely right that the "true" projection of the sky as seen from Earth is akin to the inside of a globe. Astronomers refer to this as the celestial sphere.
But unfortunately, computer screens are only 2-dimensional. So there's no good way to display a 3-dimensional image. You can see 2-dimensional pictures of the WMAP projected onto a 3-d sphere on the WMAP homepage. But of course you need views from multiple angles to see the whole sky.
The ellipse that you describe is called an Aitoff projection and it's the most commonly used projection by astronomers when we want to look at maps of the whole sky. It's also of course used for many world maps. The Aitoff projection is a compromise between the shape distortions and scale distortions which are inevitable whenever you project a 3-d globe onto a 2-d surface.
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Gary Grigsby's War In The East 2 WITE2
Author Topic: Gary Grigsby's War In The East 2 WITE2 (Read 10805 times)
Joel Billings
We are currently working on WitE2, which uses the War in the West map (expanded to cover to east of the Urals). This game will use all the new features in WitW (new logistics, new air system, etc.). It will have many other elements that are different from WitE1, although the fundamental ground game will be similar to WitW. We are building the database to include everything that was in WitW and WitE. This will give us the potential of creating a future game that would cover all of Europe from 1943-45. Using the map to create other scenarios from earlier in the war would also be possible (I expect modders will eventually be able to do this if they want to, although adding new armies is a lot of work). It is even possible that eventually a 41-45 WiE would be doable, but that would be a lot of work. Going back to 1940 or 1939 as the start of a full WiE is probably more than we'll ever do, although one should never say never. We are doing this while also working on a new tactical game inspired by Gary's old Steel Panthers series, something we are working on jointly with the Matrix development group. We hope that one or both of these games will come out in 2017, although this part of the post will self-destruct within 30 days and I will deny ever saying it.
Re: Gary Grigsby's War In The East 2 WITE2
It starts from the WitW engine so it has expanded air and logistics rules. It uses the War in Europe map that was in WitW (but with further work done in the eastern areas to improve it further). The OB started from WitE's OB but with further research and improvements. Basically all data areas are constantly being improved. From this starting point there are may additional changes including big ones like the event system and theater boxes and smaller ones like double and single rail lines on the map. If you have played WitE you will recognize about 50% of the game, and if you've played WitW, you'll recognize another 25% of the game (give or take). Having played both you'll be able to jump in quickly and start playing, but you'll find lots of subtle and not so subtle changes that will impact your strategies. In theory, by using the WiE map, we have the potential for someday having scenarios that include both east and west, although as has been mentioned before, anything before 1943 would require more involved naval rules or treating the Western Front as a Theater Box until 1943.
Update on progress
"WitE stated develeopment in 2000, was stopped and started several times (got distracted by War in the Pacific and a few other games during that time) and only got back to full time development in 2008. It released in December 2010. WitW started at that time and was released in December 2014. WitE2 started at that time, but we're also working on a remake of Gary's old Steel Panthers series. We're a small dev group and these games take a long time to develop. The testing time alone is enormous (testing for both bugs and game balance). We are still in alpha testing as there are a few major pieces of the game that still need to be completed before we can start beta testing. All we can say is that we are working on WitE2 and until it's in true beta testing we're still quite a ways out from release. "
-= Hk =-
Hmmm, i didn't get confortable with these arguments.
I own WiTE and WiTW and are both great games.
However, what i felt about this statement is that their are not going to introduce a significant change in the game besides a larger map.
It would really be cool if you could have the possibility to micromanage somethings (if you wanted to) like the focus of production of your country.
For example. You are the general commander of your forces, you noticed that you are going to launch a massive panzer operation in a couple of months, it would be reasonable to tell the politicians to focus the production lines to more panzers than field guns for example, that way, you would have much more equipment in your storages.
Archtung Panzer!
General Sandman
Quote from: Selva on July 19, 2018, 07:57:47 PM
This isnt the initial intention about WITE 2. I read, that the Devs basically wanted to add the improvements of WITW to the eastern front game.
I hope, that I misunderstood a posting, that they plan to only convert data, so that the earliest start of the German-Russio-War will be in 1943, like it is in WITW. ... Or at least that this info is outdated.
I dont really miss production management, cos this feature is intentionally recessed by the Devs anyway. You are only to be in charge of the pure operational tasks in this game.
Nevertheless IMO the perfect wargame was a symbiosis of the WITW, Hearts of Iron, Command Ops and Combat Mission series or Graviteam products like Operation Star. So unit production would be included.
But what I´d like to be changed is the strict withdrawal schedulings. It simply doesnt make sense, that mostly intact and highly skilled formations are getting dissolved, just because it is considered as historically accurate, cos a certain unit had been hit hardly in reality. Better to let the player select the units for dissolving or withdrawal from defined contingents by the highcommand.
They are basically adding the new parts from WITW to WITE2. This should eventually allow them to unleash the monster that is WITE" + WITW in one game
Event System.
from the devs:
"This is probably the biggest change in WitE2 from the earlier games of this lineage. For a scenario designer like me it adds the ability to introduce unparalleled flexibility and variation to the game whilst also giving the ability to keep a scenario on track.
The system allows a range of actions to be set ( e.g. units unfreezing, multipliers changing) to occurrences in the games (locations captured, time reached). An example is D-Day triggering increased combat intensity in the Western Theatre Box which will encourage the Axis player to send units West. The system allows a probability to be set too so occurrence is not scripted to a given turn.
As the recent discussion has focused on Finland the screenshot shows the events related to the Finland Campaign from the editor and shows how the ability to have the Finns participate on the map has not been lost. "
What I missed in WitE was an accurate siege modus. I mean, there should be the opportunity to propperly only bombard fortified urban territories by large heavy arty contingents to soften the defence and hitting a certain amount of different structures without storming the objective with line formations yet.
Anybody heard about such a feature in WitE#2?
The Commmander's Report has just had a big overhaul.
Pavel (Helpless) has starred again by creating an improved system where the CR is now a sorted table which is modular and consists of 5 sections.
1. Functions.
2. Filters.
3. Column header.
4. Table.
5. Footer.
The really good thing as I understand it is that you can configure the tables as you want to present the data you need and this is saved in your preferences. As in old CR, table entries can be linked to some function (eg. go to the map and select air group) or quick filter selection (select all FB in type filter).
It is also possible to colour code particular entries.
all i know is it looks and plays much better than WITE does, feels much different than WITW does and on one campaign im on atm, it takes epic to another level
under a NDA so can't say much if anything at all lol
Thanks for the input Zak
By Red Lancer Dev
[...]The usual caveats of we are still in alpha and our focus is getting the main areas of historic combat correct apply.
Treatment of Finland
As you’ll have picked up from the thread the relative importance of the Arctic Theatre, its size and AI challenges has led us to abstract it for the Campaign games. What happens in the Theatre Box (TB) is governed by Events and CV. There is currently no event that triggers an increase in supply in the TB when Leningrad is captured but it could be added. In a similar way if the Soviet player fails to commit sufficient troops to the TB then LL ought to take a hit.
Rail Construction
Rails are not dynamic. As we have created the map we have carefully chosen the best compromise based on time and geography.
I’m not 100% sure how the logistics system works with resource movement as it is largely hidden. I do know that the game now allows port depots to be switched between send and receive to allow freight to be better channelled by sea as required. Shipping values are set separately for the Baltic, Black, Azov and Caspian Seas. We could also add an event that triggers on cutting the supply from Baku, by say, capturing Astrakhan, Lagan or Makhachkala.
Your argument is well made. This level of nuance is applied through broad modifiers on supply as at the basic level we don’t separate agriculture from other resources – only oil is treated separately.
By Joe Billings: Dev
We don't like to give a time frame, especially when we're still in alpha. It's a lot easier to do it when you get to beta. Although a lot of the game is working, and working pretty well, we've got at least two major items left. Lately we've been working on changes to the air game to make it easier to use and make it possible for player's to turn a lot of control of the air forces over to the AI. Although we're using the WitW air system, we're trying to make more of it playable from the map. Also, the WitW AI assist works ok for WitW but needs a complete overhaul to make it worthwhile to use in WitE2. Once most of the air game changes have been made, we're likely to bring in more testers as players won't need to be familiar with the WitW system to come up to speed quickly. After that, we'll be working on a facelift for the interface. We'll be assuming a slightly higher screen resolution which will give us some more room when the maps up. Until the air game changes have been made, we're still a ways out. On the positive side, our scenario designers have 8 scenarios up and running now. Although they require some data changes for the air changes, they're in pretty good shape and the amount of data and historical research that has gone into these scenarios is more than I've ever seen. The scenarios are:
Campaign 41-45
Stalingrad to Berlin Campaign (Nov 42 to 45)
Vistula to the Oder Campaign (1945 Campaign)
Road to Leningrad
Operation Typhoon
Red Army Resurgent (Soviet Stalingrad Counterattack)
Red God of War (Operation Mars)
Velikie Luki 42 (tutorial scenario)
We hope to add a few more scenarios before release.
The line graphs are in WitW, so we are just expanding the items graphed for WitE2. The pie charts are a new element in WitE2.
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Won’t Back Down Nonton Movie Won't Back Down Subtitle Indonesia Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Won’t Back Down
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Aiyyaa
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Summer Clinics and Camps!
Bill Melvin's baseball camps are designed to teach and improve the baseball skills for kids ages 4 to 12.
Bill mixes baseball fundamentals with some life lessons and games and fun.
Participants work on a variety of skills including fielding, batting, pitching, base-running, and much more in a safe and fun environment. Coach Melvin employs a number of local baseball standouts as camp counselors to ensure that each camper will enjoy his share of personal instruction and attention.
What to expect at camp:
- a safe environment for each player
- qualified instructors who care about the well-being of players
- learning the fundamentals for hitting, pitching, fielding and throwing
- strategy and philosophies of the game of baseball
- more fun that you could ever imaging in the middle of summer in the Georgia heat
- great friendships
What to bring to camp:
- an attitude to learn the game of baseball
- the baseball equipment that you need for the game
- LUNCH!
- hat and sunscreen (shorts are permissible)
- signed medical release and registration form
- check for the camp (see registration form for amount)
DHYS Baseball will host Bill Melvin's camp at Medlock Park from June 9-13, 2014 and June 16-20, 2014 for ages 4-12. Cost of enrollment is $225.
Click HERE to register for the June 9 - 13 Camp!
Click HERE to register for the June 16 - 20 Camp!
For more information, visit http://www.pitchingforexcellence.com,
email Coach Melvin at , or call Bill at 404.213.3913.
Click below for information on:
DHYS Wishes to Thank
Coach Mike Twardoski
from the Emory University Eagles
He has put together age appropriate tips and skill drills to use with your players.
You can download his tips here:
Lower Leagues (Ages 5-7)
Upper Leagues (Ages 8-14)
Ben Johnstone's Top Tier Baseball Advanced Development Camps:
Camp 1 - June 2nd to June 6th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Camp 2 - June 23rd to June 27th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Camp 3 - July 7th to July 11th, 9:00am-1:00pm, Medlock Park
Click here for Registration form or send form request to
All Players ages 11 (advanced 11's only) to 15 years-old are welcome to attend!
*Parents may drop off as early as 8:45am and must pick up no later than 1:00pm. Post-camp lesson slots are available by appointment. All campers should bring a water bottle and a snack or lunch. Snacks and lunch will not be provided by the camp.
Ben Johnstone will be conducting his annual Top Tier Baseball Summer Advanced Development Camps the weeks of June 2nd-6th from 9am-1pm, June 23rd-27th from 9am-1pm, and July 7th-11th from 9am-1pm at Medlock Park. At these hard work camps players will work on developing college and professional level skills in the areas of Hitting, Fielding, Pitching, Catching, Base Running/Stealing, and Team Fundamentals. Players will leave these camps clearly understanding what is expected of young players at the high school, college, and professional levels, and each player will feel more prepared to work toward their goals of making higher level teams in the years to come. THESE ARE THE MOST ADVANCED CAMPS IN THE ATLANTA AREA. Former campers are on varsity teams at many of the local high schools, and several are now playing in college or have finished their college careers.
These camps are part of Ben's Top Tier Baseball Instructional Program that includes year-round lessons at Medlock Park as well as clinics for players, parents, coaches, and teams. Through Top Tier Baseball Ben works to promote the ideals of scholar-athleticism and strives to contribute to the positive confidence-building experiences of children, teens, and families in the community of youth sports. For more information please visit www.toptierbaseball.com .
Ben Johnstone (the baseball player):
two-sport standout at Yale University (football / baseball)
played in the prestigious Cape Cod College Summer League
team co-MVP, Cape League All-Star, and Cape League Sportsmanship Award
drafted by the Chicago Cubs (1999)
named Best Defensive Outfielder and Fastest Baserunner by Baseball America
Cubs' MVP for both Instructional League and Spring Training
led the Cubs organization in stolen bases with 54 (2000)
Ben Johnstone (the coach):
13 years of coaching experience
has coached players and coaches as high as the college level
founder of Top Tier Baseball and Top Tier Recruiting
has guided dozens of players through high school into college ranks
is proud of all the young scholar-athletes he sees and works with each day
is grateful to all of the families in the DHYS community for their positivity and support over the past 10 years
NIKE Greg Frady Baseball Camp at McCoy Park
(Click the pic to register!)
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Skidmore News
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the Skidmore News
the campus authority
volume 79 November 15, 1990 issue # 9
Polo Team Headed Out to Pasture?
by Jennifer Lanfranco
The results of a three-year study expected to be released soon may eliminate polo from Skidmore College.
Many school officials argue that polo is too expensive and elitist for a college sport. In fact few other schools have polo teams. They are just 17 intercollegiate teams across the country.
When President Porter came into office in 1987, the controversy arose. Then, the college committee as well as the physical education department recommended scratching the sport. Due to student protest, Porter began the three-year study.
Players and other supporters argue that polo adds much to Skidmore and Saratoga Springs. The polo teams have also always been quite successful. In 1988-89, the women's varsity team captured the national championship. Also, during the 1980's three members were chosen as All-Americans.
Since 1987 polo was made a club sport and other changes were made to cut costs. The team has a part time coach, Richard Kucik, and also receives SGA support.
According to Tim Brown, athletic director, polo costs the school $8000 to $10,000 per student to play. Most sports, on the other hand, cost the school about $300 to $500 per player. He suggests that it also is
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Ex-Con Speaks to Students
by Todd Zorn
Alan Miller a convicted white collar felon, spoke on his criminal activities to a group of Skidmore business students this past Monday.
Mr. Miller, a former vice-president of a steel distribution firm in Philadelphia, was convicted on one count of conspiracy and served 20 weeks in a federal penitentiary in Lewisboro, Pennsylvania. The conspiracy charge stemmed from the U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle, Washington. It involved a phony invoice scheme which centered around a fabricated company and many other steel distribution firms.
Miller described the events which led up to his eventual conviction. It began because the family business was absorbed into an industry which centered around gift giving to favor clients. As a consequence a minority stock holder drained money from the firm and placed it in financial risk. The company lender then proceeded to scheme in order to get clients. This involved making out bonus checks and cashing them without reporting state or federal taxes . The extra money was given as gifts to potential clients.
"I took the stance since I was not recovering any personal benefit, I was not in the wrong. I made a passive decision which led to active participation," said Miller. He feels that doing these lecture series at
Starbuck Gets Bloody
by Brett Schneider
Skidmore College held its first blood drive of the year this past week in Starbuck. In all, over 130 pints of blood were collected.
Professor Mahoney of the Biology Department and Chairman of the Saratoga Bloodmobile Program, initiated Skidmore's first blood drive back in March, 1969. At that time, the all-female college had a strong nursing major with students who played a large role in the ven-
More Than Just “The Baseball Coach”
Tom Hanson:
by Sara Bennett
I happened to pick up the Sunday New York Times sports section while sitting in Kennedy airport waiting for a connecting flight to Albany a few weeks ago. I expected to see some "big" sports names, when I glanced through, such as Patrick Ewing, Wayne Gretzky or even Glenn Braggs (the Reds had just won). However, a certain boldface name stuck out even more than these stars: Tom Hanson.
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Kari McPhail
King Charlemagne leads his soldiers to war in the recent production of Pippin
Anti-Antepenultimates
Pippin Dazzles Audiences
Children Should Be Seen...
Smokin' & Tokin' II
Title November 15, 1990
Date November 15 1990
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Transcript the Skidmore News the campus authority volume 79 November 15, 1990 issue # 9 Polo Team Headed Out to Pasture? by Jennifer Lanfranco The results of a three-year study expected to be released soon may eliminate polo from Skidmore College. Many school officials argue that polo is too expensive and elitist for a college sport. In fact few other schools have polo teams. They are just 17 intercollegiate teams across the country. When President Porter came into office in 1987, the controversy arose. Then, the college committee as well as the physical education department recommended scratching the sport. Due to student protest, Porter began the three-year study. Players and other supporters argue that polo adds much to Skidmore and Saratoga Springs. The polo teams have also always been quite successful. In 1988-89, the women's varsity team captured the national championship. Also, during the 1980's three members were chosen as All-Americans. Since 1987 polo was made a club sport and other changes were made to cut costs. The team has a part time coach, Richard Kucik, and also receives SGA support. According to Tim Brown, athletic director, polo costs the school $8000 to $10,000 per student to play. Most sports, on the other hand, cost the school about $300 to $500 per player. He suggests that it also is continued on page 3 Ex-Con Speaks to Students by Todd Zorn Alan Miller a convicted white collar felon, spoke on his criminal activities to a group of Skidmore business students this past Monday. Mr. Miller, a former vice-president of a steel distribution firm in Philadelphia, was convicted on one count of conspiracy and served 20 weeks in a federal penitentiary in Lewisboro, Pennsylvania. The conspiracy charge stemmed from the U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle, Washington. It involved a phony invoice scheme which centered around a fabricated company and many other steel distribution firms. Miller described the events which led up to his eventual conviction. It began because the family business was absorbed into an industry which centered around gift giving to favor clients. As a consequence a minority stock holder drained money from the firm and placed it in financial risk. The company lender then proceeded to scheme in order to get clients. This involved making out bonus checks and cashing them without reporting state or federal taxes . The extra money was given as gifts to potential clients. "I took the stance since I was not recovering any personal benefit, I was not in the wrong. I made a passive decision which led to active participation," said Miller. He feels that doing these lecture series at continued on page 3 Starbuck Gets Bloody by Brett Schneider Skidmore College held its first blood drive of the year this past week in Starbuck. In all, over 130 pints of blood were collected. Professor Mahoney of the Biology Department and Chairman of the Saratoga Bloodmobile Program, initiated Skidmore's first blood drive back in March, 1969. At that time, the all-female college had a strong nursing major with students who played a large role in the ven- continued on page 2 More Than Just “The Baseball Coach” Tom Hanson: by Sara Bennett I happened to pick up the Sunday New York Times sports section while sitting in Kennedy airport waiting for a connecting flight to Albany a few weeks ago. I expected to see some "big" sports names, when I glanced through, such as Patrick Ewing, Wayne Gretzky or even Glenn Braggs (the Reds had just won). However, a certain boldface name stuck out even more than these stars: Tom Hanson. continued on page 16 Kari McPhail King Charlemagne leads his soldiers to war in the recent production of Pippin In This Issue... Anti-Antepenultimates page 8 Pippin Dazzles Audiences page 10 Children Should Be Seen... page 6 Smokin' & Tokin' II page 7
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Vadim Pritulyak on the Dakar Rally
Joan Barreda: “We’re arriving in Abu Dhabi eager to win and without pressure�
DakarinterviewJoan Barreda
Countdown to the new rally season. It’s ten weeks since the Dakar 2015 ended and Joan Barreda is now all fired up and ready to get down to business with Team HRC at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. Back to the grind!
Joan Barreda is a man on mission: to dispel the chills and the snow of his Andorra home and get a full-emersion thaw-out in the first round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship with the heat of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. Barreda has made a trip back to his folk’s garage in his native Torreblanca, Castellón, to pack up his bags and grab one last training session before remounting the Honda CRF450 RALLY. The high temperatures and dunes of the Emirates will welcome the Team HRC star shortly.
Just a couple of days to go until the start of the 2015 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. After such an intense Dakar, the World Championship now takes us back to the sand and dune-filled rallies where you feel most at home.
Yeah, sure. After a bit of time off, we’re back and have been doing some physical training before returning to the competition. We start up with the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge – a quite different rally from the Dakar – with a lot of sand, dunes and quite a bit of navigation. There, it’s important to be in top physical shape so as to keep a steady pace, as well as to maintain the mentality agility needed for having the strength and will to attack and win.
Have you been able to get any rest after the Dakar? How have you been preparing the return to competition?
At the Dakar you get the top-level in every sense, because it’s the greatest test and you have to give it everything. Once it’s over, it’s fundamental to rest both physically and mentally and make sure that you really put the old season well and truly behind you.
We’ve now started the first part of the pre-season. We use the start of the year to train in motocross for a few weeks to increase stamina, speed and have a bit of fun with the motocross bikes while doing some quality training.
Last year it was team-mate Paulo Gonçalves who won this race. What are we to expect this time?
Last year was a great all-round team effort that saw Paulo win the race. But you should bear in mind that these are really tight, sprint races and the difference between the riders is minimal. I think that there will be five or six riders in the running for the victory, including some of the local riders who know the race really well and could be at an advantage.
Will you be aiming at a win in the first race of the 2015 season?
I think that I arrive here in really good shape, especially physically. I’ve had a month and a half of intense training in Andorra, in both the gym and outside with other disciplines such as skiing. This, together with the training on the cross bike, which really works the agility, rhythm and manoeuvrability on the bike, means that I’m arriving in Abu Dhabi in top form for the first race. We come here with a lot of will to win and without pressure. I believe that if we keep our concentration without making any mistakes, we will be in the running for victory in the rally once again.
The first two rallies of the season, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, which you won last year and put you ahead in the championship, are very different from the ones to be disputed in Sardinia, Atacama and Morocco.
Qatar and Abu Dhabi are rallies with a lot of dunes. They are also very heterogeneous. In Abu Dhabi we navigate with a lot of GPS and waypoint eclipse (WPE) with an open arrow. In Qatar, the terrain is different: there is a lot of track and paths that are not marked. It’s rockier and needs navigation using waypoint masqué (WPM) with a closed arrow that only opens at 800 metres from the point, which complicates everything. I think that it’s the most difficult rally of the world championship. We go from a very physically demanding rally without much navigation to another which is more technical with complicated navigation.
Has your season been planned?
Although it hasn’t been confirmed yet, we think that from June we will have the Dakar 2016 bike, which we will have to run in. I probably won’t be doing all the races in the world championship. I’d also like to race in the Baja Aragón, which I missed last year while I was getting over the problem that I had in Sardinia. It’s a race on home soil that I’d like to take part in, as well as the Ruta 40 and the China Grand Rally. They are two very interesting events for this season. We’ll take it as it comes.
Your team-mate Paulo will be fighting for the championship. He finished runner-up last year.
Honda really trusts in the teamwork that we have been doing, especially over the last year. We are on the right path and the aim is to win the Dakar. The whole season is focused on the Dakar. This allows us to prepare well and put in the kilometres, without having to battle at the extremely high pace of the world championship, which means I am able to compete in whatever other rallies I feel like to help develop and work on the bike. Paulo will be aiming at the world championship and I’ll be trying for the Dakar. It’s a great line of work and we will be fighting to achieve both aims.
We don’t know much about the Dakar 2016 yet, although soon the ASO will announce the first outline of the race.
The Dakar is trying to revamp itself, to change and to explore new territories. We hope that it continues that way and keeps on adding new countries because over the last few years we have been repeating quite a lot. I’d personally like it if we entered Peru, although there are many factors that will be involved in deciding the Dakar route. We’ll know about it in three weeks.
Regarding the bike. Will there be any changes made to the one that you rode in the last Dakar?
The base will be the same as they did a lot of work on the chassis for the last Dakar. There might also be some minor details concerning the engine and weight, but all that is to be defined later.
Re:Joan Barreda: “We’re arriving in Abu Dhabi eager to win and without pressure�
The CWM LCR Honda team begins a new chapter
Marquez and Pedrosa finish first test on top
Productive second day in Sepang for Marquez and Pedrosa
Marc Marquez: “Riding in the 1’58s at Sepang was a special moment�
Sergei Bednaruk: Russia's WSBK debut successful
Alexander Polovinka: Any respectable motorcycle store eligible for Royal Enfield dealership
Denis Alexandrov: Vespa scooters enjoy stable demand
Boris Savitsky: Kawasaki sales close in on 1,500 in 2011
Revaz Magalashvili: We’re seeing significant growth in the sales of MotoGP watches
Luigi Termignoni: I cannot imagine myself without a motorcycle
Andrey Krasilov: Spyder Roadster’s key feature is that it does not fall over
Sergey Litovchenko: Peugeot mulling Russian scooter team
Alexander Mitin: Sales up 4-fold from pre-crisis 2007
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Clampdown on Obama’s Open Government
Climate scientist James Hansen says censoring science and controlling the message or restricting access is not unique to the Bush White House. (Photo courtesy of The White House)
The Obama administration has stressed openess and transparency in government. But Lester Graham reports, government employees, scientists and journalists say that transparency is not as clear as they’d like.
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The Obama administration has stressed openness and transparency in government. But Lester Graham reports, government employees, scientists and journalists say that transparency is not as clear as they’d like:
Federal government websites have started featuring plans for transparency. Go to the Environmental Protection Agency site and you’ll find the “Open Government Plan 1.0.” The Food and Drug Administration site has a “transparency tool.” You can click on the Department of Energy’s “open” icon. Nearly every federal agency has a similar openess and transparency plan.
But inside the agencies you’ll hear a different story.
James Hansen is a climate scientist in NASA’s Goddard Space Center. He was famously muzzled by the Bush administration because Hansen’s science on climate change did not match the Bush White House policy on climate change. But James Hansen says censoring science and controlling the message or restricting access is not unique to the Bush White House.
“It’s really both parties feel they control the offices of public affairs in the science agencies. And, they think that the news that comes out of the offices of public affairs should be supportive of the administration’s policies.”
It seems to be a carry-over from political campaigns. During the campaign, handlers work keep everyone “on message” to make there are no embarrasing statements. Then, they bring that same mentality with them when they’re rewarded with jobs in the government.
One career press officer who did not want to be identified told me about “exteme frustration” among his colleagues. Recently there’s been a quote “tightening of the screws” by political appointees overseeing the press officers. Instead of the press officers doing their job, helping journalists get in contact with the bureaucrats, and scientists within an agency… they’re inhibited, restricted by political appointees.
Journalists have been trying to work around the obstacles thrown up by the political appointees.
Christy George is a reporter and the President of The Society of Environmental Journalists. Full disclosure here– I am a member of the SEJ. She says the journalists have been fighting this battle against many presidential administrations.
“Politicians love to control their message.”
But with all the promises of transparency in government, some reporters thought things would change.
“When President Obama came in and pledged to greater transparency and open government, we thought that was going to be a good thing and dramatically different from the Bush administration. And it’s not dramatically different in certain agencies. It seems like things are just largely continuing on.”
Christy George is quick to note, the Environmental Protection Agency has addressed some of the journalists’ issues. But, there are still problems of getting access to key scientists and others who contribute to how laws are enforced.
“It becomes harder to get information out of government when people are trying to manage information.”
Darrell West is the vice president and director of Governance Studies at the think tank, the Brookings Institution. He says when political appointees work to control the message, it’s not helpful to anyone.
And West says some of this transparency that agencies are trumpeting is really a way to avoid the scrutiny of journalists and activists and present information directly to the public through the internet.
“There is a risk that the flow of information is going to be more restricted and people are going to be told only what the government wants them to hear.”
And if you’re only hearing what the government wants you to hear… there’s a significant risk you’re not going to hear all you need to know.
For the Environment Report, I’m Lester Graham.
The White House: Transparency and Open Government
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Read the EPA’s Open Government plan
TV Weathercasters on Climate Change
TV weathercasters have differing opinions about climate change according to a recent study. (Photo courtesy of Scott Eric CC-2.0)
A new survey reveals what TV weathercasters think about climate change. Lester Graham reports… that’s important because many people look to the TV weathercaster for information about climate change.
http://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/100330_graham_spot.mp3
Surveys by the George Mason University researchers have shown many people trust the person who tells you whether to take an umbrella for news of global warming.
Edward Maiback is director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason. The survey revealed different TV weathercasters have different opinions about climate change.
“About half of them tell us, responded to our survey that climate change is real; about a quarter said that it wasn’t and about another 20 percent said that they weren’t sure.”
By comparison, a survey of leading climate scientists found 96-percent of them indicated climate change was real and human activity is a significant cause.
Maybe that differences shouldn’t be surprising. Forecasting the weather is not the same as predicting climate change. Weather… is next week. Climate is the next century.
Read the study
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Saving Energy in Online Activities
Servers at Expedient data center in Garfield Heights, near Cleveland, Ohio (Photo by Julie Grant)
They use big piles of batteries for power supply (Photo by Julie Grant)
One industry that’s not suffering in the economic downturn is information technology. The demand for IT keeps growing. But that worries some people. Our growing number of internet searches and data storage is using a lot of energy. Julie Grant reports on how some companies are making their IT more environmentally friendly – and saving money in the process:
(sound of an internet search with a tea kettle)
By some estimates, two Google searches create the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling water for a cup of tea.
Most people don’t think about the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their internet use. But there are about 200-million
searches globally each day – and each search kicks a lot of servers into gear. It adds up.
Albert Esser is an IT expert with Dell Computers. He says
in just a few years internet use could use 3% of the nation’s energy supply. That’s a lot of carbon pollution.
“From a global greenhouse perspective, that’s about the same as the airline industry will cost.”
But Esser says computers don’t need to use that much energy. Most computer systems are so
in-efficient today – that they’re wasting more than 90% of the energy they use.
(sound of a data center)
This is a data center. It’s filled with racks and racks of servers.
A hundred different companies rent space here. Each company has its own set of servers – to coordinate its email systems, word processing, online credit card transactions – all kinds of programs its employees and customers use.
But data centers can be real energy hogs. They need electricity to run all those servers. That creates a lot of heat, so they also need air conditioning. One data center can use as much electricity as a good-sized town.
(sound of electricity in the data center)
“You can hear the electricity, in here. The piles of batteries you see are attached to the uninterruptable power supply.”
Bryan Smith is marketing director for Expedient, which runs this and other data centers around the country. His customers want their computers to be fast, and that takes a lot of power.
But Smith says the data center does everything it can to cut down on energy usage.
“It’s obviously in our best interest to be energy efficient, because we’re the ones paying the power bill.”
So, they’ve set up the server racks to make them easier to cool. They’re also building a system to pull in cool air from the outside, instead of using so much air conditioning.
Some companies that use the data center are also starting to use software to create what are called virtual servers.
“This rack here is a virtualization rack, so you’ve for one rack here that has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 computers in it. Right? So each one of these servers is equal to 16 physical servers.”
And so for each of those ‘virtual servers’ they can turn off
15 actual servers.
But, even with all that saved space and energy, Expedient’s data centers are growing faster than they ever anticipated.
This one built in Cleveland only two years ago is just about sold out of space – so Expedient is building another data center next door.
Albert Esser at Dell says the most environmentally friendly way to build data center is not to build one at all.
He says making better use of old centers, with virtual computers and other energy efficiency measures, produces a lot less pollution. And it saves money.
“I think the economic downturn, as harsh as it sounds, is the best thing which could ever happen to green IT. Because the economic pressures will make people think much harder to just build a new data center without changing the way they operate it.”
So IT is learning what a lot of companies are learning – that going green can mean saving energy – and that’s better for the bottom line.
Environmental Impact of Google Searches
A related news article
Report: Epa Limiting Info Access
A government watchdog group says the Environmental
Protection Agency might be limiting the public’s access to
information. Rebecca Williams reports that could hurt future
research on health and safety:
The EPA has been closing several of its research libraries. The agency
started doing that two years ago to save money. The libraries have
information on chemical safety, Superfund sites, and all kinds of other
health and safety data.
The Government Accountability Office says the EPA cut corners… and acted
too quickly.
The GAO reports the EPA closed the libraries without consulting outside
experts.
The report says the EPA closed its Chemical Library without notifying EPA
staff or the public. EPA scientists used the library to review industry
requests before new chemicals could be put on the market.
Congress has directed the EPA to re-open the libraries. The EPA hasn’t
reopened them yet. But the agency says it’s reviewing its library plans.
EPA’s National Library Network webpage
A related article from the New York Times, Dec. 2006
The Encyclopedia of Life
A new online encyclopedia wants to give all living things on Earth their own
web sites. Even the mosquitoes and leeches. Rebecca Williams reports:
The Encyclopedia of Life is like MySpace for bugs, birds and bottom feeders.
There are bios, photos and videos of 30,000 species on the site. But
the scientists who run the site are planning pages for every species on
Earth. All 1.8 million of them.
Jesse Ausubel helps manage the encyclopedia. He wants you to be able to
pull up the site on your phone or Blackberry while you’re on a hike. Like a
field guide to find out what that funny looking bug is.
“But it’s also for scientists looking for large patterns in nature – if you want to study all plants that have purple coloring or all
animals that live at least 60 years.”
Ausubel says in a few months, they’ll launch the interactive version of the
Encyclopedia. Experts will make sure the science is accurate. But if you
want to blog about your favorite spider, there’s room for that too.
A blog about EOL behind the scenes
Cash Strapped Biologists Lean on Volunteers
The lynx was recently considered extinct in Michigan until a trapper caught one. (Photo courtesy of USFWS)
For years, federal and state governments have cut funding for wildlife protection. That’s led to complaints from biologists who say they don’t have enough money to adequately do their jobs, but it’s also led to a new movement. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Celeste Headlee reports on how citizens are starting to take over duties once performed by trained scientists:
http://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/headlee_010906.mp3
For years, federal and state governments have cut funding for wildlife
protection. That’s led to complaints from biologists who say they don’t
have enough money to adequately do their jobs, but it’s also led to a new
movement. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Celeste Headlee
reports on how citizens are starting to take over duties once performed by
trained scientists:
Ray Rustem says wildlife biologists these days are often chained to their
desks.
“Years ago, when I first started with the Department of Natural
Resources, wildlife habitat biologists spent quite a bit of time in the field
actually doing fieldwork. With the types of things that are going on now,
they’ve become much more in getting the planning done and we’ve had
to shift some of that fieldwork done to the technician level. Frankly,
yeah, we could always use additional people out there.”
Rustem is with the Wildlife Division of the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources. He says state funding has fallen steadily for years,
and one way he’s made up the difference is by involving Michigan
citizens. Rustem says the DNR uses dozens of volunteers for its frog and
toad survey in the early part of the summer.
“This is our tenth year and we’ve got at least 120 people who’ve been
doing this all ten years. That’s a tremendous amount of data that’s being
provided for us on information about species and where they’re located.”
Many groups are now using so-called citizen scientists to collect data.
Sally Petrella is a biologist who works with the non-profit organization
the Friends of the Detroit River.
“We’ve cut out so much of the funding for regular science that there’s a
real lack, and citizen scientists can cover far more areas than
professionals can, at a much lower cost.”
Petrella is standing beside the murky, reed-choked waters of the Rouge
River Watershed. It’s home to six species of frogs and toads. Every
summer, Friends of the Detroit River enlists the help of 700 people to
listen for the creatures as they call to each other from the marshy
grasses.
Petrella is standing beside one of her more loyal volunteers… Al Sadler.
Sadler admits that part of the appeal is the walk along the banks of the
river… but he also believes that public participation in wildlife
protection has become an absolute necessity.
“I think that it’s required if we plan on keeping any wildlife areas
around. I think that if citizens don’t get involved, I think that people
won’t know what they’re going to miss, and before we know it, there
won’t be much wild places left.”
Sadler is a fairly typical citizen scientist. He has a day job as an engineer
and volunteers in his spare time, but there are also people with advanced
degrees in biology and wildlife management who are called citizen
scientists simply because they don’t work for the government.
Dennis Fijakowski is one of those people. He’s the executive director of
the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy.
“We can’t count on the government to do everything for us. We have to
be a part of the solution.”
Fijakowski says ordinary people have made important contributions to
wildlife conservation. He says the lynx was considered extinct in
Michigan until a trapper caught one, and a rare Great Gray Owl was
discovered on a national wildlife refuge last spring by a photographer.
“You look back at the conservation history of our state and it was citizen
led. All of the important, the milestone decisions, legislation… it was
citizen led.”
John Kostyack with the National Wildlife Federation says involving
citizen scientists is great, but…
“They’re not really a substitute for having staff in the wildlife agencies…
state and federal and tribal. Because they are the ones who are going to
take this initial data, which is going to be very rough from volunteers,
and then use it to decide upon where to take the research next.”
And there have been cases in which citizen scientists have clashed with
state and federal governments. They are consistently at odds with government
officials over issues related to global warming and the Michigan Wildlife
Conservancy is locked in a bitter battle with state biologists over whether
the state is home to a viable cougar population.
The Conservancy’s Dennis Fijakowski acknowledges that the union
between government biologists and citizen scientists may not always be
an easy one, but he says the involvement of residents in the protection of
their state’s wildlife can only be a good thing.
“Because all anyone of us wants is that we pass on a wild legacy to our
children and grandchildren… and we’re not going to if we don’t get our
acts together.”
Many organizations offer citizens the opportunity to get involved in data
collection, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For the GLRC, I’m Celeste Headlee.
Michigan Wildlife Conservancy
Friends of the Detroit River
Home Renovation Turns Up Surprise for Science
Egg collectors kept precise records about where and when their prize possessions were gathered. They carefully removed the contents of the egg, then nested the shells in cedar sawdust to protect them from insects. (Photo courtesy of Carrol Henderson)
The squiggly coloring on this rufous-backed shrike egg is from blood that accumulated in the shell as it formed. It was collected in India in 1919. (Photo courtesy of Carrol Henderson)
Carrol Henderson spend weeks photographing and cataloging the 3,600 eggs in the Handsaker collection. Now he's helping the Handsaker family donate the collection to a research institution. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
More and more people say their favorite hobby is bird-watching. Many travel to hot bird-watching spots, and keep lists of which birds they see and where. A hundred years ago, birders were just as enthusiastic, but they practiced the hobby very differently. They collected bird eggs. A Midwestern farm family recently discovered an ancestor’s egg collection when they were remodeling an old farmhouse. Experts say the collection has a lot to offer to scientists studying birds today. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Stephanie Hemphill reports:
http://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/07/hemphill_071805.mp3
More and more people say their favorite hobby is
bird-watching. Many travel to hot bird-watching spots, and keep
lists of which birds they see and where. A hundred years ago,
birders were just as enthusiastic, but they practiced the hobby
very differently. They collected bird eggs.
A Midwestern farm family recently discovered an ancestor’s egg collection when they were
remodeling an old farmhouse. Experts say the collection has a
lot to offer to scientists studying birds today. The Great Lakes
Radio Consortium’s Stephanie Hemphill reports:
Carrol Henderson considers himself a very lucky man. He’s the director of the non-game wildlife program at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He grew up on a farm in central Iowa.
Last summer, he learned that a family in his old neighborhood was renovating a farmhouse. It had belonged to Ralph Handsaker. When Handsaker died thirty years ago, the house was boarded up and left alone.
“… And when the family started renovating this old farmhouse for the great-great-grandson, John Handsaker, along with a number of old animal mounts and interesting things, there were these two large chests with about fifteen drawers each, that were totally filled with little sets of wild bird eggs.”
The smallest egg, from a hummingbird, was small enough to sit on top of a dime. The biggest was an ostrich egg almost six inches long. Some were creamy white, others were speckled, others streaked with color like a Jackson Pollack painting.
There were more than 3,600 eggs, representing more than 400 species of birds from all over the world. And they were in perfect condition.
“Each set of eggs was very neatly labeled with information about the day they were collected, who the collector was, and information about the habitat where the egg was collected. Some of these eggs went all the way back to 1875, and they were collected by over three hundred different people from all over the world.”
This is how nature-lovers expressed their passion in those days. They called themselves oologists. They kept their eggs in drawers lined with cedar sawdust to protect them from insects. They also kept meticulous records.
“So the scientific data was very high quality among these avid collectors. So even today, these provide very important nest records for birds that are now gone. Like in my home county of Story County, Iowa, there were Marble Godwits, King Rails, Prairie Chickens, and Bobwhite Quail, and those are all gone now.”
The birds disappeared as people turned prairies into farms. But Carrol Henderson says the records in the bird collection provide detailed information about where and when they nested.
“And another intriguing thing is that when these people blew out the eggs, there was still a lining of the egg white or albumen left inside the egg. And that still has the original DNA genetic material, so it actually would be possible for scientists to do DNA analysis of these eggs to take a look at how they may compare with birds nowadays.”
Henderson says these collectors didn’t think they were harming the birds. That’s because if their eggs disappear, most birds will lay another set. But competition for the eggs of rare birds was disastrous.
“One person in Philadelphia had a collection of over seven hundred Peregrine Falcon eggs. Another Peregrine egg collector went to the same cliff and collected all the eggs from the Peregrines every year for 29 consecutive years. And then finally the nest was abandoned. And he said it was abandoned due to encroaching civilization. That was where egg collecting really had something of a dark side.”
Eventually, attitudes began to change. In 1918, the federal government passed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, to protect birds and eggs. But the government let three collectors keep on collecting. One of them was Ralph Handsaker. So his collection goes into the early 1950’s.
Carrol Henderson says there’s a lot to learn from these eggs. One of the best lessons is about human responsibility. Henderson says people these days enjoy nature differently than they did a hundred years ago. But we can still learn something from earlier methods.
“It’s like a little time machine: stepping back in time, seeing what was here, and then looking at what’s changed, and what does that mean for our own conservation efforts, how can we do a better job today to collect information and use that for our own conservation of wildlife species?”
Carrol Henderson’s article about the Handsaker egg collection will appear in the October issue of Birders World magazine. The Handsaker family is planning to donate the collection to a major university.
For the GLRC, I’m Stephanie Hemphill.
Gao Report: Epa Can’t Properly Review Chemical Safety
The Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to give the EPA help in assessing chemical safety. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Government Printing Office)
A government report reveals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot assess the health risks of most of the chemicals in the products we use. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
http://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/07/graham_071805.mp3
The investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accounability Office, found the EPA didn’t have the authority or the funding to properly review 85% of the chemicals in use today.
Chemicals that have been in use for years have not been properly reviewed because the EPA only has access to limited information. The laws, as they are written now, protect a chemical or other company’s secrets over public knowledge of the health risks.
Independent studies have indicated many of the close to eighty thousand chemicals in use might be threats to human health. The GAO report also indicates the EPA “…lacks sufficient data to ensure that potential health and environmental risks of new chemicals are identified.”
The GAO recommends that Congress give the EPA more authority to improve its ability to assess chemical risks.
For the GLRC, this is Lester Graham.
Read the GAO abstract of the report
Epa Needs to Improve Air Toxin Monitoring
The Inspector General says that the EPA could improve the air toxin monitoring system. (Photo courtesy of the National Institutes of Health)
The Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency says the agency needs to improve its air toxin monitoring system. A new report says there are no monitors in 45 out of 50 areas where cancer risks are highest. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Celeste Headlee reports:
The Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency
says the agency needs to improve its air toxin monitoring system.
A new report says there are no monitors in 45 out of 50 areas where
cancer risks are highest. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Celeste Headlee reports:
The greater Chicago area is at the highest risk for cancer from air toxins in the Great Lakes region, though residents of big cities in all of the Great Lakes states are at an elevated risk.
The Clean Air Act lists nearly 190 hazardous air pollutants the EPA must regulate. The EPA Inspector General’s report says many high-risk areas have monitors but not within the specific area where people are most vulnerable.
Jim Pew is an attorney with the activist group, Earth Justice. He says it’s important to construct more monitors, but it’s more important to act on the data the EPA already has.
“It’s not a lack of information that’s stopping EPA from acting to get these risks down, and it’s not an impossibility, there are known ways that these problems can be addressed, it’s a lack of will. The agency just doesn’t want to do it.”
Officials with the EPA say they generally agree with the inspector general’s findings.
Read the summary of the report from the EPA (.pdf document)
Find your local air quality conditions
Birders’ Passion Helps Scientists
The costs of hiring biologists to do a bird count across the U.S. would be astronomical. (photo by Deo Koe)
Every year, tens of thousands of avid birdwatchers wander through frozen fields and marshy swamps. Their job is to record as many birds as they can find in a given area. For birders, it’s a day to enjoy the outdoors while doing what they love most. But as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Karen Kelly reports, that passion serves another purpose – it helps scientists:
http://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/01/kelly_011005.mp3
Every year, tens of thousands of avid birdwatchers wander through
frozen fields and marshy swamps. Their job is to record as many birds
as they can find in a given area. For birders, it’s a day to enjoy the outdoors
while doing what they love most. But as the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Karen Kelly reports, that passion serves another purpose – it helps scientists:
(sound of footsteps)
Georgina Doe: “There’s five robins right there and there’s three common mergansers,
Georgina Doe scans the shoreline with her binoculars. Within seconds,
she spots a tiny glimpse of a bird and names it.
She knows them by the way they dive in the air, and the way they thrust
their chests out.
Doe has been scanning the treetops of Carleton Place, Ontario for
more than 30 years. She says she loves the chase and the element of surprise.
And over the years, birding has also been her escape.
She remembers watching a robin build its nest when her grandson
was seriously ill.
“So I used to count the birds every morning before I went off to
the hospital. And then after that, you come back to reality. Somehow a
little bird can just make you feel better.”
Birds have been a part of all of our lives. We might not know their names.
But we can remember holding a baby chick. Or hearing a cardinal on a crisp cold day. But now, many bird species are dwindling. And scientists are
counting on birders like Georgina Doe to help them find out why.
Doe is one of many birders in North America who collects
information for scientists. Jeff Wells works with that information
at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology.
“There’s no way that we could ever pay the tens of thousands of
trained biologists that would be necessary to gather this kind of
information. It’s only possible when we can engage volunteers like
we do in citizen science projects.”
Cornell runs at least a dozen programs that rely on information
from average birders.
There’s the Christmas Bird Count. About 50 thousand people participate.
Another 50 thousand track species during the Great Backyard Bird
Count in February.
The volunteers reported that wood thrushes are disappearing in
many areas. And they’re tracking the effect of the West Nile Virus
on bird populations.
“If a little bird dies, usually it just disappears quickly
and no one ever sees it. So we don’t really know the impact.
And so looking at the differences in the numbers and distribution
might give us some sense of when the disease was rampant in the summer,
whether it killed off enough birds to make a noticeable
difference in our count.”
(sound of quiet footsteps)
Robert Cermak: “You can see it’s about 10 inches high. It’s all fluffed
up right now…”
Birder Robert Cermak tiptoes closer to a barred owl sitting in the
crook of a tree. We’re in Ottawa, Canada’s capital and a city of about a million
people. When it comes to bird counts, this is Cermak’s territory.
“It’s not often that you see a barred owl, any owl, during
the day. They’re usually more secretive. This one is not too
afraid to be out so it’s probably more accustomed to having people
around it, since this is the center of the city.”
Like Georgina Doe, Cermak has been birding for years. But even with
veterans, there’s always concern about their accuracy. Cermak
discovered this firsthand when he reported seeing a rare
harlequin duck last year.
“I sent it in and a few hours later, someone from Cornell –
very politely because it’s a delicate subject to question
someone’s sighting of a rare bird – but they very delicately
indicated that a harlequin duck is extremely unusual in Ontario and
could I please provide a few extra details.”
Cermak sent them a published account of the sighting. He also
gave them the number of a local expert.
Jeff Wells says researchers check their facts carefully. They look
for reports that don’t match others in the surrounding area. Sometimes
an investigation turns up a trained ornithologist… and sometimes not.
But overall, Wells says the information has formed the basis for
hundreds of published studies.
That’s something that makes birders like Robert Cermak and
Georgina Doe feel proud.
“It’s nice because you’re contributing. You’re doing a
lot of hours, it uses a lot of gas, you go around a lot of blocks
but we just think it’s important.”
(sound of Georgina Doe walking)
Georgina Doe says she doesn’t really think of herself as a
scientist. But she’s out there every day, with her ear to the wind. And that’s
what the scientists are counting on.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I’m Karen Kelly.
Learn about how Audubon does the ‘Christmas Bird Count’
Want to participate in Audubon’s ‘Great Backyard Bird Count’?
More on West Nile’s effect on birds and other animals
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Photo hanging on the wall at
Boys' Brigade
Battalion HQ
The Pavilion, Ferry Road, Leith
Boys' Brigade - Marching
Who? When? Where?
48th Edinburgh Company at the foot of Fishmarket Close
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk
Reproduced with acknowledgement to Alastair Chalmers, BB, Edinburgh
This is one of three photos hanging on the wall of The Pavilion, Ferry Road, the HQ of Boys' Brigade, Leith Battalion.
Who is in this photo, and when and where might this photo have been taken?
Rhona Stewart Cameron
New Town, Edinburgh
Thank you to Rhona Cameron who replied.
"The lane in this photo looks like the lane that runs between the Conan Doyle Pub and St Mary's RC Cathedral."
Rhona Stewart Cameron, New Town, Edinburgh: July 15+20, 2012
Jim Williamson
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Thank you to Jim Williamson who replied.
48th Edinburgh Company
"I think this photo was taken just off the Cowgate.
It's the 48th Edinburgh Company whose captain can be seen with black moustache. He was Captain Hugh Craig MC who won his Military Cross in the First World War.
The HQ of the company was the Church of Scotland Shelter just off the Cowgate."
Jim Williamson, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: October 16, 2013
Thank you to Jim Williamson for writing again about this photo.
Jim added:
48th and 59th Edinburgh Companies
"I originally came from Musselburgh. It was during that time that I became involved with the 48th Coy BB, as they used to come camping with my company, 59th Edin. (Musselburgh) Coy during the 1960s and into the 1970s.
Captain Hugh Craig
It was Captain Hugh Craig who I recognised in the photo; a real captain in WW1."
Jim Williamson, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland: November 6, 2013
James A Rafferty
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Thank you to James A Rafferty who wrote:
Fishmarket Close
"I'm certain this photo was taken at the foot of Fishmarket Close outside the B.B. Hall. "
"I was in the company in the early 1960s and Captain Craig was playing the bagpipes at that time. His sister used to play the piano at the Sunday Service."
James A Rafferty, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Edinburgh & Leith - Clubs and Organisations (including Boys' Brigade)
Photos - around Edinburgh
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Parius – “The Eldritch Realm”
By Ashley JacobAugust 14, 2018 No Comments
Parius deliver us a quick-witted and zesty tech death experience, which is as entertaining as it is blistering.
Released: July 20, 2018 | Independent | Spotify | Bandcamp | Facebook
Really, what is there not to like? From the outset, with the vintage B-movie horror openings of “Into the Realm”, we already feel that there is a real treasure about to be discovered. And from here, we go into the first full length song “Eldritch”, a track with so much damn scope it should be a prescribed cure for metal-related boredom. Within The Eldritch Realm, Parius deliver us death metal which goes, up down, front to back, and across every other inch of the fret board. They give us snippets of Between The Buried and Me, Lamb of God, and Beyond Creation but ultimately, they fall into an identity of their own.
It’s that borderline tongue-in-cheek sense of adventure, adopted by many recent tech death bands of the past year, that makes me love this record so much. Parius are of the small contingency who have the talent of making the listener chuckle at the exact point they are supposed to. Yet at the same time, they do not stray too far from their staple intent of impressing listeners musically and simultaneously detonating eardrums.
The pummeling groove of “Phylactery” is interwoven with some entertaining spoken-word vocals, reminiscent of Devin Townsend. Fourth track “The Binding” focusses on some of the traditional conventions of tech death, not that this will be a deterrent for anyone looking for a more experimental hit. At this point in the album, the majority of listeners will be hooked one way or another. And we get a pleasant change in momentum with “Between Hell and I”, a remarkable song primarily for the unrestrained vocal screams.
But the technical musicianship comes to an explosive boiling point in “The Boundless”, an extremely apt name I find. The speed versus the density of each riff makes for a complex yet extremely pleasurable listen. Even the song’s soft proggy interlude is exploding with energy, so you can only imagine what the following solo sounds like. Those a cappella harmonized vocals at the end also make for a nice finish.
But the biggest morsel of fun is saved until last in the album’s finale “Crashing Black Moon”. The track is a pacy concoction of jazzy licks and ultra groovy riffs which give us every bit our money’s worth. At eight minutes, it’s the epic finale that the album deserves, and the ultimate showcase of the band’s talent.
Plus, I can’t stop laughing at that “Ooooohhh!” from the vocalist. It’s extremely crisp.
It might also be worth mentioning at this point that the album in its entirety is pretty short, but it’s so well structured that you’ll feel well-fed nonetheless. One must also consider that the rapidity of ideas is so swift that they could fit amply in an album twice the length. But Parius’ choice of rich controlled bombardments of quality instinctively feels like the right one.
Tech death might have been at risk of turning into a repetitive swill of unoriginal ideas, if it weren’t for bands like Parius. They do an excellent job of ensuring that outlandish liveliness plays its part and makes the genre a fun thing to dive into. Yet there is no compromise in the intensity, or technicality. So it’s all good. The Eldritch Realm is a well-measured burst of rocket-fueled madness that one will find near-impossible not to love.
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Communiqués FARC-EP
Communiqués published by the Peace Delegation, the Central High Command and the National Secretariat of the FARC-EP
With respect to the parliamentary elections held on March 11, the People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force-FARC,
DECLARES:
1.- Once again we fully complied with the Havana agreements as to our commitments on political participation, despite having had to conduct an election campaign in the midst of immense and very diverse difficulties, widely known by the public opinion.
2.- The development of the electoral process and the results of the elections reaffirm the need to advance in a political-electoral reform of a structural nature, such as that foreseen in the Final Agreement, in order to overcome corrupt and clientelistic practices and provide conditions of equity to all the political forces that participate in the political contest, particularly to the organizations committed to alternative political projects.
3.- Although the electoral results did not modify in an essential way the structure of the Congress of the Republic, generating rather a reallocation of seats among the parties of the establishment, an important advance must be registered in the representation of democratic sectors and of the left, particularly in the Senate. To those sectors and to all those who have made the causes of the construction of peace their own, we offer them our recognition.
4.- Our bench of five Senators and five Representatives to the Chamber will focus its parliamentary action on the pending reforms of the process of implementation of the agreements, as well as on the presentation and processing of legislative projects that contribute to generating better living conditions and of existence for the great majority. Likewise, we will fully exercise the function of political control.
5.-We will offer our representation to contribute in the conformation of a parliamentary block of wide convergence that responds to the requirements of the moment our country is undergoing. The perspective of democratic reform in different aspects of national life is fully valid.
6.- We wholeheartedly thank our supporters and the citizens that accompanied with their vote our programmatic proposals. To our militants, to the whole FARC, to the campaign teams the maximum recognition for their tireless work and unwavering commitment. All of them fill us with courage and hope to continue with determination the new stage of the struggle that we undertook with the signing of the Final Agreement and to realize the programmatic purposes that guide our political action. We will continue the construction and strengthening of the Party and we will fully commit ourselves to the pending tasks of the reincorporation.
7.- Under the understanding that we do not define ourselves exclusively as an electoral party, we express our desire and firm conviction to accompany the social and popular struggles throughout the national territory; we will be present in the just causes of the mobilization and the protest of the common people, and we will contribute to the constituent dynamics generated by social and popular movements.
NATIONAL POLITICAL COUNCIL
Bogotá, D.C., March 12, 2018
Published in FARC-EP
Declaration of the People's Alternative Revolutionary Force
We wholeheartedly thank our supporters and the citizens that accompanied with their vote our programmatic proposals...
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Attorney General, No more media show
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Public denounce to the national and international community
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Tag Archives: Dub and Hazel Heglar
Posted in Oral History
Oral History – Dub and Hazel Heglar – Part 4: ‘Police – Fire Department – Town Hall’
by Ann Hertzer
Dub was the only man that did every job in Kure Beach except the office work. Dub worked for a construction company until a replacement was needed at Kure Beach. When Dub first went to work, there were 2 others –Ed Smith and a man named Fisher who had been a policeman. One day a week trash was collected on a flat bed truck from residents and the few businesses that were here. Summertime pickup was 4 or 5 times a week for restaurants who paid extra. All trash went to the private trash landfill near the end of H St.. They kept that flatbed truck until the latter part of the ’60s when they hauled trash to the landfill on the other side of Wilmington.
Dub joined the fire department to help fight fires when he first went to work for the town. They already had the fire truck – old, but it was a fire truck. A lieutenant from the Wilmington fire department came about every year to hold up-date classes on how to fight fires and how to take care of the equipment. They still do that. The fire department was in the community building on third street – the kitchen was the town hall; the big area was the fire department where the truck was housed, and the police department was behind it all.
After a while KB got 2 trucks. If a fire was happening, they’d blow the siren and use telephones. They didn‟t have radios. Most of the volunteers worked or lived on the beach – a lot of them worked and couldn’t come. They wanted as many as they could get that lived at Kure Beach to back it up.
Dub has been chief of police in Kure Beach 5 times! All the town was required to do was have a Chief of Police- no training required. Dub’s longest stint was 6 months. Every time a policeman quit or was fired, they’d swear Dub in until one was hired. The only thing furnished Dub was the little police station back of the fire truck in the Community Building. For a serious crime Dub would have called the County Sheriff’s Department for qualified people.
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Oral History – Dub and Hazel Heglar – Part 3: ‘Ocean View Restaurant’
Hazel Heglar owned and ran the Ocean View Restaurant, a favorite Kure Beach restaurant from 1979 to 1989. It’s the old Pier House in 2010. Heglars didn’t own the building. The restaurant was opened in the summer. Business slowed down after Labor Day so was closed Thanksgiving through March. Local families did not eat out often. It was mostly tourists and fishermen. Hazel was a very good cook.
The menu had sandwiches – hamburger, hot dogs, and French fries – and home cooked meals such as fish, shrimp, steak, and fried chicken. Everybody wanted chicken. Hushpuppies were served with every meal. Beverages were mostly sweet tea and coffee. Banana and vanilla pudding were popular desserts. Vegetables were her most important item – all kinds – green beans, peas, blackeye peas, creamed potatoes, corn, squash, okra, collards, mustard and turnip greens.
Hazel served breakfast at the Ocean View Restaurant at 7:00 a.m. read more
Oral History – Dub and Hazel Heglar – Part 2: ‘Kure Beach Public Works’
Dub Heglar was Superintendent of Public Works for Kure Beach from 1961 to 1986 in charge of water, sewer, streets, and sanitation (trash). The town switched from septic systems to the sewer system when Kure Beach incorporated. They had permission to pump raw sewerage to the river. Henicker Ditch drained all of Wilmington Beach and the overflow from the Carolina Beach Lake. EPA stopped that.
Dub put in water and sewer lines as Kure Beach added on. A lagoon treatment plant was built right after Dub went to work for the town about ’64 or ’65. Kure Beach still has one down there. Everything from Kure Beach Village and Hanby goes into that modern one and is much cheaper.
Ft. Fisher Blvd., Atlantic Ave, 3rd Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, over to 7th had water and sewer put in about 1953. These 3 and 4-inch foot pieces of old terra cotta pipe are the lines that they’re updating. Joints have come loose, draining water. Hopefully, water bills will come down when all the work is done in Kure Beach because so much surface water collecting in the old sewer lines has been pumped to Carolina Beach. Kure Beach pays for Carolina Beach treatment. read more
Oral History – Dub and Hazel Heglar – Part 1: ‘Moving Houses’
by Ann Hertzler
The moving cost to a family was $50. The barracks cost $250, the lot $200. Thus, for $500 total, many early KB families started their first home.
Dub and Hazel Heglar were married in 1942 before Dub went off to war (WWII). Dub’s nickname resulted from his sister not being able to pronounce his initials – J. W. It’s been Dub ever since. Dub spent almost 3 years in the Navy in World War II in the Pacific. The Heglars came to Kure Beach on vacation in 1946 after Dub came out of the service.
Moving Houses- In September ’48, after meeting Walter Winner at Ft. Fisher, they stayed permanently and Dub went into partnership with Winner doing commercial fishing, construction work, and moving houses.
They bought two Army 4-wheel drive vehicles, weapons carriers from the Army, and built a trailer to move the tiny match box houses. The moving cost to a family was $50. The barracks cost $250, the lot $200. Thus, for $500 total, many early KB families started their first home.
When the Heglars moved to Kure Beach in 1948, son Harold was almost a year old. Harold went to New Hanover and is now fire chief of Kure Beach. Son Jerry, born in New Hanover County at James Walker Hospital in 1951, was in the first Hoggard graduating class. Heber Johnston was a doctor at Carolina Beach in the 50s. Dr. Sharon, a Carolina Beach doctor before moving to Wilmington, was around the yacht basin all the time. When someone got hurt around the boats, he had needles and thread in his pocket to sew them up right there.
Fort Fisher Blvd was called Second Street when the Heglars moved here in the 40s. Most buildings in the old part of Kure Beach from N Street to Hanby Beach were owned by International Nickel. It was first owned by Ethel Dow Chemical Company with a big plant over on the river shore on the back road with test stations at LaQue. Ocean water was pumped from the Atlantic Ocean to the plant for bromide. Jack Lewis worked and retired from there. Dub remembers when that area was all trees and very beautiful.
The Hanby area and much of Wilmington Beach were owned by Lawrence Kure and Glenn Tucker.
When the Heglars came here, they lived in Wilmington Beach for about two months; then moved to Spartanburg Avenue; and later across the street from the Lutheran Outdoor Ministry. The building just north of it is where army buildings were moved from Battle Acre at Ft. Fisher. They lived in one of the inner’s frame houses until ’49 and sold the business across the street from the Lutheran Church in 1964 where the Outdoor Ministry is now. They then built rooms to rent and a 5-room house on the ocean.
One of their 12 or 13 year old sons got caught in the ocean rip current. Dub swam out to get him. Dub had to relax till the current carried them all the way out. When the rip current turned Dub lose, he swam with an arm lock bringing the child to shore.
There were two houses just alike near the northern extension fishing pier in Carolina Beach. Hurricane Hazel put one house in the marsh near the inland waterway and the other about a block away from where it was supposed to be. The owner said she’d give him one house if he’d put the other one back on the foundation where it belonged. People didn’t have a lot of money, so they traded for services. His house has been moved 3 times.
Dub wanted off that highway after heart surgery. They had an air conditioning window unit over on the ocean but got central air just after they moved the house off the highway about the mid 80’s.
When Dub went to work for Kure Beach, the only streets from the south of Kure Beach to the north end were E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M and N. The furthest over, 7th Street, was only one block long. It stopped the other side of the Baptist Church. The government line came through that next block, down to I Street, but was never developed as a street. And the line came where there are 3 houses on 6th Street. The government line goes way down to the only house on that side of 5th street. Then the government line cuts back into 5th Street and comes straight down here. 7th Street used to be over to 9th Street. The government line went from E to N and from Atlantic to about 7th in odd shapes.
Before Dub went to work, you could go over to 9th Street. But the government took all houses built over there for a buffer zone, so most houses were moved. The land grew back into vegetation. Most of the Museum and the Air Force Base are in the buffer zone.
World War II The Army during World War II had a few houses on the ocean front and a lot of cottages on that side of the road. They patrolled all around there. People who lived here could see burning ships that German submarines had torpedoed at night. The Air Force wanted to put in radar. They got a Fayetteville outfit to do the construction work. Some of the buildings are left from the Army days.
The Air Force Recreation Center was part of the World War II base for advanced training for soldiers getting ready to go to the war zone. Some of the original buildings are still there. The state owns a chunk of land – Ft. Fisher State Park, the Aquarium, and the Civil War battle historic site.
Hugh Morton owned the land where the Aquarium is and gave that to the State. He owned Grandfather Mountain and he also owned the shopping center where K & W Cafeteria is located.
Sunny Point came in about 1955 and condemned and declared a no-building zone or bought all the land. All that property back of Dub’s house, all the way to the river, was owned by Davis Brothers (around a hundred acres of farm land). Dub’s house is only 30 feet from the buffer zone. Carolina Beach had a lot of houses in there. There is also a Baptist church; a Methodist church cemetery and the Newton family cemetery.
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Electronic Publishing formats
MIME Type(s)
application/epub+zip
fmt/483
2 Version 2
4 Digital Rights Management & Encryption
4.1 How it works
4.2 Digital watermarks
5 MIME Type
7 Online utilities
8 Sample files
ePub is an open format defined by the Open eBook Forum of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It is based on XHTML and XML along with optional CSS stylesheets. Its predecessor was the OEB standard.
Quoted from the IDPF web site:
'.epub' is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. '.epub' is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. '.epub' allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The Open eBook Publication Structure or 'OEB', originally produced in 1999, is the precursor to OPS.
The intent of ePub is to serve both as a source file format and an end user format. For this reason the files are collected into a container for easy dissemination and use. This container is generally a zip file but the extension has been renamed to .epub. It has special requirements by including an uncompressed mime type file while the rest of the data in the file is compressed. An ePub reader should be capable of reading the content in its compressed format. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EPUB
The IDPF specification page contains the specifications for this format. In particular check the version 2.01 OPS and OPF specifications and the version 1.01 OCF specifications. The informational documents are also quite useful in understanding the standard's intent and content.
An alternative XML syntax called DTBook was available as an option in this version, but this was removed in EPUB 3.
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EPUB
http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm
ePub version 3 is the newest version of the standard and has now been recommended by the idpf standards committee.
In version 2.01 there were three defining documents, the OPF (Open Packaging Format), the OCF (Open Container Format), and the OPS (Open Publications Structure). The OPS referenced a DAISY standard for the NCX file. The new 3.0 standard has 4 defining documents with new names. The OPF becomes the ePub Publications standard. The OCF remains the same and the OPS received the most changes to become the ePub Content Documents. This now includes the old NCX specifications which are no longer used. A fourth document is concerned with Media Overlays and is a new feature of ePub version 3. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EPub_3
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EPub_3
http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-overview.html
Digital Rights Management & Encryption
When preserving ePub files, it is important to know what if any rights restrictions and encryptions are present, so that action can be taken to ensure the content can still be accessed in the future. Unfortunately, there are currently no reliable tools we can use to automate this analysis. A general introduction to copy protection and ePub can be found here.
Adobe attracted controversy early in 2014 by announcing a "new, improved" DRM scheme for their version of EPUB files, which has the "feature" of being incompatible with the many e-readers that support their old DRM.
According to section 3.2 ("OCF ZIP Container") of the EPUB 3 spec. (section 4 in the 2.0.1 spec.):
"Conforming OCF ZIP Containers MUST NOT use the encryption features defined by the ZIP format..."
i.e. a valid EPUB's content files can always be read regardless of the DRM scheme in use.
Section 2.5.5 ("Rights Management"), again 3.5.6 in the 2.0.1 spec, states that:
"An OPTIONAL file with the name “rights.xml” within the “META-INF” directory at the root level of the container file system is a reserved name in a valid OCF container. "The rights.xml file MUST NOT be encrypted. "When the rights.xml file is not present, the OCF container provides no information indicating any part of the container is rights governed."
i.e. the presence of the META-INF/rights.xml file is an indicator that DRM is likely in use (however, its absence is apparently not an indication of the contrary).
Section 2.5.2 ("Encryption") - 3.5.5 in 2.0.1 - states that:
"...if any resource within the container is encrypted, “encryption.xml” MUST be present to indicate that the resource is encrypted and provide information on how it is encrypted."
Consequenly the existence of this file indicates that one or more encrypted files exist within the EPUB. However, as the rights information is essentially decoupled from the encryption scheme
Encrypted but not strictly governed by rights management.
Governed by right management but not encrypted.
Both encrypted and governed by rights management.
Though in these latter two cases the rights governance may not be clear from the EPUB structure.
Furthermore, note that not all encryption schemes are 'bad', i.e. requiring individual private key information - some are mere 'obfuscation' (some sample, with obfuscated fonts, can be found here: http://idpf.github.io/epub3-samples/samples.html). Any reliable risk identification tool will have to take this into account.
Digital watermarks
Commercial e-books often have embedded "watermarks" that allow a particular copy to be traced to the person who originally purchased it. Several schemes have been used, most controversially ones that actually alter the text of the book to distinguish copies (possibly harming their literary quality in the process). Other schemes simply involve embedded numbers or images in places where they aren't very noticable. One variety uses bar codes embedded in data: URLs.
What an e-book watermark looks like (external link)
The MIME type for ePub is not registered at IANA, however the specification of ePub's Open Container Format defines the unofficial MIME type application/epub+zip.
Cool Reader
Azardi ePub3 Reader
Readium - Open source library for reading ePub versions 2 and 3 (including Google Chrome Web App)
ePubCheck - ePub validator (suppports versions 2 and 3)
libepubgen: EPUB generator for librevenge framework
Pandoc: Document format conversion swiss-army knife
Sigil: multi-platform EPUB editor
Online ePub validator (based on ePubCheck)
EPUB validator / best-practice checker (requires registration to access)
epubtest: Online EPUB resources
ePub 3 samples - intended to demonstrate features of ePub 3
Azardi ePub 3 samples
Azardi Fixed Layout ePub 3 samples
Guy de Maupassant Short Stories in 5 formats - includes ePub 3
ePub testsuite - Apparently by IPDF, under construction and so far without documentation (status October 2013)
Hindawi sample articles (publisher of open-access scientific journals, most of which offer content in ePub format)
Journal of Neuroinflammation - Open access scientific journal that offers content in ePub format
ePubs from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins journals
Homeland, by Cory Doctorow
EPub test suite by IPDF, includes scripts for making one's own sample files
Example file of DTBook variant of EPUB 2
ePub KB policy testing examples
EPUB for archival preservation - Blog post with link to report (2012 ) by KB / National Library of the Netherlands
EPUB for archival preservation: an update - Update (2013) to KB report
How to package an epub file using InfoZip
Policy-based assessment of EPUB with Epubcheck
The Best EPUB reader for Windows?
Advancing Portable Documents for the Open Web Platform: EPUB-WEB (W3C White Paper)
The Convergence of EPUB and the Web (Presentation)
EPUB Format Preservation Assessment
Retrieved from "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=EPUB&oldid=23523"
File formats with extension .epub
ZIP based file formats
XML based file formats
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Episode 181.5 - Minisode 181.5
By JulyDiaz, February 9, 2018 in How Did This Get Made?
Cameron H. 21052
Your Huckleberry
Location: Cloud 9
Apropos nothing, you’ve got to love marketing...
Theatrical release promotional material:
Home Video Release promotional material:
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Elitist Prick
Whenever I talk about Glam Metal, I always end up thinking of three things.
The first being the quote from Dave Mustaine when he formed Megadeth, "What do I think of Glam Metal? Well, its G-L-A-M, it's Gay LA Metal"
Great googly moogly, I have so many thoughts on this subject, but I will try and save them for the actual episode thread. For now, I will address this particular comment from Dave Mustaine, the bonehead of eternal irascibility and immeasurable musical talent and ability. The comment is emblematic of the problem Metal has had for decades, that is, a tinge of toxic masculinity in its response to anything it terms "feminine," yet those things it is criticizing are indeed formulaic copycat examples of the form, homogenized by record executives to make a splash on (at the time) mainstream radio and MTV. So it just encourages the toxic masculinity, which makes it more unapproachable to outsiders, no matter how fucking awful so much of that hair metal was. It would have been more constructive to avoid calling glam metal "gay" or "for girls" and just criticized it for being the musical version of hairspray-soaked rice cakes that it was. I mean, it's not like "Grunge" or "Alternative" music in the 1990s didn't degrade into the same limited number of fashion tropes. Glum dudes with scraggly hair, sunglasses on indoors, and flannel shirts in all environs became the uniform as much as big hair and nut-hugger jeans were a decade earlier.
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The irony of glam metal was that it superficially embraced femininity while at its core being pure macho chauvinism.
I always thought it was Guns N'Roses that killed glam, being that they came from Los Angeles and had a direct local impact on the scene. Not a metalhead so I may be off here.
sycasey 2.0 1909
Oh boy. There are few things I find more tiresome in pop culture than the endless discussion of the various subdivisions of music fandom and what kind of music you are "allowed" to like to remain in said subdivision.
This is not exclusive to music fandom (see the ridiculous Marvel-vs.-DC movie rivalry) but the current seems to run strongest there. The older I get, the less I care about this stuff.
(EDIT: Sorry, not trying to insult anyone personally here, as I don't think the discussion has gotten super-toxic in this thread. Just commenting on general social trends and where this kind of thing tends to go.)
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GnR didn't so much "kill" glam, but they bridged the gap between the glam and the "real metal" groups, they managed to get both sides, which is why they fell so hard after the infamous 1992 tour with Metallica, because they were made to look like poseurs.
Great googly moogly, I have so many thoughts on this subject, but I will try and save them for the actual episode thread. For now, I will address this particular comment from Dave Mustaine, the bonehead of eternal irascibility and immeasurable musical talent and ability. The comment is emblematic of the problem Metal has had for decades, that is, a tinge of toxic masculinity in its response to anything it terms "feminine," yet those things it is criticizing are indeed formulaic copycat examples of the form, homogenized by record executives to make a splash on (at the time) mainstream radio and MTV. So it just encourages the toxic masculinity, which makes it more unapproachable to outsiders, no matter how fucking awful so much of that hair metal was. It would have been more constructive to avoid calling glam metal "gay" or "for girls" and just criticized it for being the musical version of hairspray-soaked rice cakes that it was.
It's the Rob Halford paradox.
You have one of the most respected guys in metal, up there with Ozzy and Lemmy as one of those guys who is universally respected by everyone in metal, and the guy happens to be gay. To make it even more ironic, he himself is calling things "gay".
This goes to show you what happened with the Glam bands, from Warrant's Jani Lane.
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Ninja Cum Assassin
The worst I remember seeing was a parent bringing their, I don't know, 10-12 year old kids out of Hostel saying it was inappropriate. They thought the movie had too much nudity and thought it would be more like Saw.
IMHO Glam killed Glam, by ripping a hole in its Spandex tights and disappearing up its own arsehole
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OK I want to talk about this movie because my boyfriend and I watched it last night and we laid in bed for about 90 minutes just discussing everything we had encountered with this movie and I think we ended up with more questions than answers:
1) This part left me screaming - the end of the movie where Chris or whatever Mark's character's name is singing at a club or coffeehouse and Emily comes in and he sees her so he then tells his band mate that he's going to go talk to her and then WALKS OFF THE STAGE DURING THE SONG and no one seems to even notice! I can't deal with it.
2) There seemed to be a lot of homophobia in this movie - the other "f word" was used a couple times, Chris's brother questions his sexuality in front of his parents, the band fires their lead singer and swears it's not because of his sexuality but then proceeds to taunt him about being gay ("I don't care if you're gay, just keep your cock away from me"), and then at the very end during the credits I feel like they try to insinuate that the lead singer started doing Riverdance because he's gay... This is 2001, mind you.
3) On a related note, let's talk about the woman who's name I do not know but she has a black, bobbed haircut and she picks up Chris and Emily at the airport... at the end of that orgy scene are they insinuating that she has a penis because she's peeing standing up? If so, are they trying to make a joke that haha, Chris maybe slept with a trangendered woman and didn't know? Also, who is this person and what role does she play with the band? Cause she's too involved to be a groupie but not involved enough to be a manager or a musician. I don't get it at all.
4) When Emily meets Chris in Seattle did they meet in Emily's home or a hotel? Because the dialogue left me confused about this. Also, Chris didn't seem high or drunk but just very very sleepy and instead of storming off I probably would have just asked him if he needed sleep or some kind of medical attention instead of breaking up.
5) Do we ever find out what business Emily has? I don't think it's ever mentioned and the one shot from inside her place of business left me confused on what it was.
1) That happens a lot during club/bar gigs, when there's a solo, the singer will leave the stage, sometimes to get something from the bar and let the guitarist/drummer/whoever to take centre stage.
2) Not only is it a film from 2001, it's also set in the 80s, lot's of homophobia going around. Not only that, it sets up the members of Steel Dragon as horrible people, so then you can see why Chris wants to leave a dream gig.
3) Tanya is basically like a consierge for the band, they tell her to get stuff, she'll go out and get it.
4) It's a hotel. Emily is pissed because Chris has basically shoved her to the side to have this Rock Star lifestyle, it started when he chastised her for calling him "Chris" instead of "Izzy" in front of people.
5) I think it's a coffee shop
But does the movie try to suggest she's got a penis because she pees standing up? I was so confused by that
Yes, I think so.
It was kind of foreshadowed earlier in the film where Tim Spall, when asked by Mark Wahlberg for a backstage pass "Not without a blowjob and a sex change", and then talking about how she dated Bobby Beers, which I think was a clumsy way of saying that he dated Tanya, because he couldn't be seen as gay publicly. That's what I'm extrapolating from it anyways.
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Get ready to install a fairly large batch of security patches onto your Windows computers.
As part of its September Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released a large batch of security updates to patch a total of 81 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, on all supported versions of Windows and other MS products.
The latest security update addresses 27 critical and 54 important vulnerabilities in severity, of which 38 vulnerabilities are impacting Windows, 39 could lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE).
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Windows .NET Framework RCE (CVE-2017-8759)—A zero-day flaw, discovered by researchers at cybersecurity firm FireEye and privately reported it to Microsoft, resides in the way Microsoft .NET Framework processes untrusted input data.
Microsoft says the flaw could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data by tricking victims into opening a specially crafted document or application sent over an email.
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According to FireEye, this zero-day flaw has actively been exploited by a well-funded cyber espionage group to deliver FinFisher Spyware (FinSpy) to a Russian-speaking "entity" via malicious Microsoft Office RTF files in July this year.
FinSpy is a highly secret surveillance software that has previously been associated with British company Gamma Group, a company that legally sells surveillance and espionage software to government agencies.
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Thursday, August 16, Divine will perform on stage in EuroPride Park at Kungstorget in Gothenburg.
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Divine has in the last years in Sweden sung with, for example, the Radio Symphonics, DalaSinfoniettan, Drottningholms Barockensemble, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Rebaroque and more. And recorded a Christmas album with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. In 2017 their third album was released; ”Nightingales”.
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Protecting Human Rights Online: The Freedom Online Coalition
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The Freedom Online Coalition is a group of 30 countries, from all regions of the world, committed to coordinating efforts with each other and with other stakeholders to advance Internet freedom. At this IGF Open Forum, as incoming Chair of the Coalition Germany will outline the FOC’s plan for 2018. The FOC’s new mode of multistakeholder-engagement, the Advisory Network, will be presented and officially launched at this year’s IGF. Coalition members will further give updates on the work of the Coalition since the IGF in Guadalajara, including the outcomes of its strategy meeting on the margins of the Stockholm Internet Forum hosted by Sweden on May 16 and notably explain key provisions of its revised Terms of Reference and the work of the Digital Defenders Partnership to support civil society facing online threats.
We invite the IGF community to engage in a discussion on the work of the Coalition in 2018 and the state of Internet freedom in 2017, in light of the member’s commitments—reiterated in the San Jose Statement in October 2016 to mark the Coalition’s five-year anniversary. This Open Forum will be a platform for all interested members of the IGF community to participate; members of all stakeholder groups are encouraged to attend.
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REVIEW: Firestorm in Batman The Brave and the Bold
Over a year ago it was announced that Firestorm would appear on the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon. This past Friday, the Nuclear Man finally graced our screens in his first animated appearance in nearly 25 years. Was it worth the wait? That really depends upon your perspective.
The episode teaser featured Booster Gold and Batman at the mercy of the Riddler. After some wacky hijinks, they dispatched the Riddler and his goons. In the episode proper, we’re introduced to high school coach Ronnie Raymond and science whiz kid Jason Rusch on a school field trip touring a nuclear testing facility. Unbeknown to the students, the supervillain Dr. Double X was attempting to cause a nuclear accident in order to super-charge his powers. Batman arrived to stop Dr. Double X and all heck broke loose. A massive nuclear explosion triggered the fusion of Rusch and Raymond into one being, while Batman was fissioned into three separate beings. Rusch and Raymond found themselves sharing a nuclear-charged body, but had to figure out a way to work together. Rusch controlled the body, while Raymond could advise as a voice only Rusch could hear. The bulk of the episode explored the combination of Rusch and Raymond, while the three different Batman personalities were for laughs (logical Batman, violent Batman, and slacker Batman). In the end Dr. Double-X was defeated, Batman was reintegrated into one body, and Firestorm came into his own as a superhero. For a more detailed recap, visit TV.com by clicking here.
Overall, I enjoyed the episode for what it was – a kids cartoon. Normally I have no problem watching Batman: The Brave and the Bold, but this time my wife (a non-geek) watched it with me. Having her there made me more self-conscious than usual and helped me to realize the target market for this cartoon was probably 10 year old kids. Funny how having her around makes me act more mature. Speaking of 10 year olds, my step-son watched the episode and declared it “AWESOME!”
Seeing Firestorm on the small screen was a blast. Rusch’s interaction with Raymond’s floating head was well done throughout the episode and often funny. The show creators managed to demonstrate the majority of Firestorm’s powers, including his energy blasts, transmutation of non-organic objects, and flight. The transmutation was explored during a fun montage, but was also utilized in combat. The costume, which was provided by Batman to dampen the radiation Firestorm was exuding, was basically Ronnie’s classic costume with Jason’s chest emblem and collar. I was totally jazzed that the flaming hair looked so great! The fire was in constant motion (unlike Firestorm’s first season on Super Friends) and there were “Kirby Dots” at the base of the flame. Loved it! Interestingly enough Firestorm did quite a bit of punching in this episode, not something normally associated with the character (outside of the Super Powers action figure). There were also some funny gags, like suggesting Firestorm adopt the superhero name, “Flame Dude”.
There were a few great Firestorm moments worth mentioning. Early on we got a quick glimpse of a Professor Martin Stein look-a-like at the nuclear testing facility. That made me smile. In another scene, Raymond influenced the body creating havoc on the merged body’s balance as Rusch and Raymond fought to go in different directions. That’s not something often explored in the comics. The credits at the end of the show stated, “Firestorm created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom”. I was very happy to see credit given to Gerry and Al. They deserve it. Finally, the best Firestorm-related laugh of the show was when slacker Batman referred to Firestorm as, “Our little schizophrenic candlestick.” LOL!!!
In terms of voice acting, Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick on SpongeBob SquarePants, and Dauber on Coach) was wonderful as the dim-witted version of Ronnie Raymond. While this isn’t my favorite interpretation of Ronnie, Fagerbakke did a great job given how the character was written. Tyler James Williams (Chris on Everybody Hates Chris) did a really good job switching between geeky teenager Jason Rusch and more confident Firestorm. Again, given how these characters were written, I think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that could have done better than these guys.
I enjoyed this version of Firestorm for the purposes of the cartoon, but it also made me realize from a storytelling perspective that Jason doesn’t need Ronnie. If Jason had been more timid, I could see how the more aggressive Ronnie would be of benefit. Since Jason didn’t have any trepidation and already had the science knowledge, I’m not sure what Ronnie brought to the matrix besides fun “buddy movie” interaction. This same logic might apply to the comics too. Now I’m left wondering what the ideal matrix would be after Blackest Night. Maybe Ronnie in control of the body with Jason as the scientific adviser? That works, but doesn’t seem fair to Jason who has earned his place at the JLA table.
While Batman and Firestorm shared equal screen time, my review has focused on Firestorm for obvious reasons. The episode was fun and I’ll take this version of Firestorm for what it’s worth, but I keep hoping that someday we’ll get a serious animated version of Firestorm more inline with the comics. I’ll finish with the absolute funniest quote of the show; violent Batman shouting in a rage, “Batman does not eat nachos!” … Maybe you had to be there.
What did you think of the episode?
For further discussion, check out the following sites:
DC Comics Message Board – Firestorm Forum
Comic Book Resources Forum – Batman: Brave and the Bold thread
Bat-Blog posts about Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon
Review at the Mail it to Team-up blog
Discussion at rec.arts.comics.dc.universe
Comic Bloc forum (at Geoff John’s web site) – Brave and the Bold thread
Review at Replublibot
My thanks to Tommy over at the Bat-Blog for sending me so many great screen shots and the video clip!
Posted in: Cartoons, Jason Rusch, Ronnie Raymond.
Tagged: Batman: The Brave and the Bold · Bill Fagerbakke · cartoon · Firestorm · Jason Rusch · Ronnie Raymond · Tyler James Williams
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I was a little disappointed. Yes, I realize this was a cartoon for kids but it really annoyed me their portrayal of Ronnie. Overall the episode was fun, especially with the three Batmans.
Yeah, I think some of us are especially protective of the Firestorm mythology. They rebooted his creation story, which I have issues with.
But it’s still a fun show. My 4-year-old loves it.
They’ve changed characters before, and I think they’re doing it to keep things simple for the young audience base.
Characters like Firestorm and Aquaman have such complicated histories that simplifying their back-stories and their personalities makes it less of a headache to follow for the youngens.
However, it’s not going to help simplify things when I finally hand over my Ronnie Flamehead toys for my boy to play with.
I liked the episode, as I like pretty much every episode of this series. Definitely fun to see Firestorm kicking around again.
But like you say, the combination of Ronnie and Jason does not make much sense for a comic book take. On the cartoon you can play Ronnie for laughs, but I don’t know if that is a direction which would work on the character long term in the printed page.
Is Dr. Double X an old Firestorm baddie? For some reason he reminded me of someone the Hulk would fight more than a DC bad guy, except for his name which is totally DC.
Shag says:
Doctor Double X is actually a Batman baddie. I vaguely recall him from the 1980s Who’s Who.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Double_X
If you are a fan of BATB, you will remember the Bat-Mite episode and that character’s mini-speech about Batman’s rich history. If not, look it up. This applies to comic characters in general, IMO…and Firestorm is no different. I tend to be accepting in this manner, with exceptions (one needs to look at certain live action versions of characters for said exceptions…)
And that’s why I accepted this version of Ronnie, Jason, and Flamehead all the same. Just like how I love “outrageous” Aquaman (though in that case, that version has overtaken the other ones in my heart 😉 ;-)) There’s just enough exclusive to the show, and just enough to appeal to us fanboys. Which is fine with me. (and how I see BATB in general…it’s a kids’ show, yes, but they know that comic fans watch too and give us a lot of cool nods to the past and present)
We’re still waiting for the definitive animated FS, yes (JLU = COLOSSAL MISSED OPPORTUNITY…hopefully they have something for him in the D2V JL movie, which he is in, apparently). But this was a fun episode…I am glad you weren’t resentful that Slacker Batman seemed to steal the show, at least on 4chan, that is 😉
I maintain that the comic version of FS would have a better Ronnie/Jason interaction. Ronnie isn’t the scientific genius that a Martin was, but he has the experience of being a veteran superhero, which came through the last time the two shared a body (in Jason’s series). As I kind of lost track after that ended, I don’t know if Jason would still need an “experienced” figure standing behind him, though. And what happened to the Jason and Stein pairing anyway?
A good compromise would be to give the two the ability to switch who’s in control, like what happened in Jason’s book. In the comics, but also for when (if) Firestorm returns on the cartoon.
rob! says:
I friggin’ love B:BATB–I think it has all the charm of the goofy 1970s superhero comics, and its perfect for getting kids involved in the DCU. I was glad to see Firestorm finally introduced into the B:BATB world.
And I laughed out loud at the “nachos” line!
Here’s an idea: if FS is in another episode, have Ronnie and Jason develop the latter’s “can merge with anyone” power from the comics. Ronnie can somehow get fused with the Professor (if that was indeed him) and then they can introduce Gehanna who gets to be a part of Jason’s FS.
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Bookings to Turkey climbing slowly from the valley
After a considerable zomerdip is Turkey back gently as a holiday destination of the Dutch
Dutch posted in August 15 per cent less package holidays to the country than in the same month last year, reports trade association is a Dutch Association of Reisondernemingen (ANVR). That is, according to the travel industry organization, a significant improvement compared with the previous month.
So, the decline in July, less than 45 percent in June to 26 percent. Since the beginning of the year, the bookings to Turkey now for about 34 percent behind compared to last year around this time. Especially Spain (plus 29 percent) and Portugal (plus 23 percent) were able to take advantage of the slump in Turkey. Also Greece is doing well as a second home destination.
In total, Dutch people, according to the ANVR slightly more (0.5 percent) vacations booked in the first eight months of the year than in the same period last year.
According to tour operators attracts Turkey because it is cheap. “For the price of a four-star apartment in Spain with the fall in a five star all inclusive in Turkey”, says Daisy Mijnals of Corendon, the largest provider of travel to Turkey in the Netherlands.
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Timberwolves vs. Lakers NBA Preview
Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Los Angeles Lakers NBA Preview & Pick
Thursday, January 24 at 10:30 PM ET
Coverage: TNT: Line: Lakers -2; O/U: 229.5.
The Minnesota Timberwolves visit a Los Angeles Lakers team that could have Rajon Rondo back.
The Timberwolves are coming off back-to-back wins over the Suns; first in a tight 116-114 contest at Minnesota on Sunday and then with a 118-91 beating at Phoenix on Tuesday while the Lakers have lost four of their last six games, including Monday’s 130-111 setback against the Warriors, when they witnessed Klay Thompson set an NBA record by making his first 10 3-point attempts.
Towns can’t be stopped
The Timberwolves are 2-1 against the Lakers this season and 4-3 under interim head coach Ryan Saunders, who took over for Tom Thibodeau when the team fired him after a 108-86 win against the Lakers on January 6.
Karl-Anthony Towns is playing at a high level, scoring at least 20 points in 13 of his last 14 games while averaging 26.1 points over that stretch. Towns scored a combined 55 points in the two games against the Suns while rookie Josh Okogie finished with a career-high 21 points at Phoenix last Tuesday and he’s averaging 11.7 points in seven games this month.
Rondo on his way back
Rajon Rondo will be a game-time decision tonight as he recovers from a torn ligament in his right ring finger and when he returns the Lakers will have a true point guard on the floor, as Lonzo Ball will miss at least a month after spraining his ankle against the Rockets last Saturday.
The Lakers employed a point-guard-by-committee approach in Monday’s loss against the Warriors and they had just 20 assists while the Warriors finished with 41. LeBron James, who averages team-bests with 27.3 points, 8.3 rebounds and 7.1 assists, could have assumed ball-handling duties today but he’s still out with a groin injury, although he could come back against the Suns next Sunday.
James and Rondo haven’t played since Christmas Day, when the Lakers beat the Warriors 127-101 at ORACLE Arena and the team is just 5-9 since, with wins at Dallas and Oklahoma City but also with a home loss to the Cavaliers.
NBA Trends:
The Under is:
9-3-1 in Minnesota’s last 13 games against a team with a winning straight up record
8-3 in Minnesota’s last 11 games against Pacific Division opponents
23-8 in Los Angeles’ last 31 home games against a team with a losing road record
28-13 in Los Angeles’ last 41 overall
The Lakers won’ have James and Ball while Timberwolves guards Jeff Teague (foot) and Tyus Jones (ankle) are day-to-day and forward Robert Covington (knee) is out indefinitely. If Teague is out, Derrick Rose could get another start.
Rose was quiet on Tuesday, scoring just six points on 3 of 9 shooting in 23 minutes but he recorded five assists and he’s averaging 21.0 points, 6.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds in 33.0 minutes over two games against the Lakers this season.
The Lakers couldn’t stop Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins in the last meeting and their 21 turnovers led to 27 points for the Timberwolves but this is a very high total. If Rondo comes back he will push the pace and create for his teammates and the Timberwolves love to run up and down the court but that won’t necessarily translate into enough points to get Over this total.
Team rankings based on offensive efficiency:
Timberwolves – 14th (107.7 points scored per 100 possessions)
Lakers – 21st (105.3 points scored per 100 possessions)
NBA Pick: Under 229.5 (-110) at Jazz Sports
Check odds here: Jazz Sports
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Gap (8:07)
Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro, David Fleming, Andy Page
Dark (4:27)
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Frameshift (8:15)
Hans Zimmer, David Fleming, Andy Page
Amity (5:52)
Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro (Traditional)
Intimate (10:14)
Negative (3:58)
Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro
Deletion (4:51)
Reckless (9:35)
Insertion (7:56)
Hans Zimmer, Steve Mazzaro, David Fleming
Coda (4:40)
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badbu Replies: 2 || 2019-07-18 15:09:08
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
Deleted Scenes:
Charles Returns Home
Beast MIA
Charles Says Goodbye
Rise of the Phoenix: The Making of Dark Phoenix (5-Part Documentary)
Scene Breakdown: The 5th Avenue Sequence88
How to Fly Your Jet to Space with Beast
Audio Commentary by Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker
*Commentary available on Blu-ray, iTunes Extras and Movies Anywhere only
no Hans (making of) and no isolated score :/ damn...
Ahmad 2019-07-18 16:28:51
Wasn't expecting any of that so I'm not disappointed :D
badbu 2019-07-18 17:15:40
haha that’s true :D
LS100 Studios Replies: 4 || 2019-07-10 22:21:13
Wasn't a fan of this score on my first listen, and I'm not a fan of the film either - but I like the new themes Zimmer wrote and how they're weaved throughout the score. Thought I'd analyze the themes and how they recur in the score.
Zimmer made three major recurring themes - the new X-Men theme, the Phoenix theme, and Magneto's newest theme. "Amity" might contain a motif too, I discuss that more below.
1. "Gap" debuts the new X-Men theme, with various renditions throughout before the Phoenix theme debuts up at the end. Love how the X-Men theme starts off quiet, wish we had more of that in the score.
2. "Dark" is a suite for the Phoenix theme, it has various renditions of it too.
3. "Frameshift" starts off with the Phoenix theme, and then debuts Magneto's motif. The Phoenix theme returns more quietly through the track, then builds up to a violent rendition towards the end.
4. "Amity" is mostly gloomy ambience from the sound of it, but after listening to the whole score it seems like a theme of mourning. It plays after Mystique dies, and again after the loss of Jean. So I guess this counts as a fourth theme?
5. "Intimate" starts off with some uncertain vibes, then transitions to a more ethereal score. Magneto's theme returns, this time in full, with the full theme playing around 6:42. We're welcomed to more renditions of the X-Men theme during the NY skirmish.
6. "Negative" doesn't feature any of the other themes - save for a bit of the X-Men theme towards the end. This track might be a theme for the D'Bari, I think it's when Jessica Chastain takes the Phoenix force.
7. "Deletion" opens with Magneto's theme, and transitions to a violent rendition of the Phoenix theme, which continues through much of the track. The end of the track gave me some Ottman vibes.
8. "Reckless" starts off with a short piano theme - seriously thought Ottman's "Hope" theme was gonna' start at 0:35, haha. It's then followed by the gloomy theme from "Amity", can't remember what scene. Much of this track, similarly to "Gap", contains renditions of the new X-Men theme. An action rendition of Magneto's theme starts around 7:20.
9. "Insertion" starts off with Magneto's theme, its last appearance in the score - followed by a calmer version of the Phoenix theme, which leads to a more violent rendition of it. The theme quiets down to an eerie rendition of the Phoenix theme halfway through the track, and builds up to another violent rendition. The track concludes with a choral arrangement which kind of reminds me of the ending for "Terraforming" from Man of Steel.
10. "Coda" wraps up the score with a reprise of the mourning theme from "Amity". Splices in some bits of the X-Men theme too, and some piano notes towards the middle are derived from the Phoenix theme. Also uses some of the Phoenix chants towards the end. All in all a nice hopeful track to wrap up the film.
Might be some mistakes or things I missed. Hoping for that second score to release, I'd love to see Zimmer's ideas/sketchbook for the film.
nvictor 2019-07-11 03:26:02
i identified four themes too. roughly in the order you describe them. two in gap -- although i am not familiar with x-men scores, so i didn't know about the new x-men theme. dark is by far my favorite track. and frameshift -- in my head, without seeing the movie -- is a theme that feels like a transition to evil. now that i read your comment, that phoenix theme is "that" villain theme in my head. and the magneto theme in frameshift is "that" transition. at least to me...
now, amity is where i am hearing the progression from Dido's Lament by Henry Purcell. a few people mentioned it was the inspiration for the score. since i have been paying attention to it, i am finding that other parts and themes blend so well with it or complement it well. the same thing with all the other themes. they blend so well that one could have started as chords or accompaniment for the other. and later turned into its own theme.
i am hoping to figure out how all these themes came from amity or from one another. and pray we get that 2nd CD that will have suites because it will solve everything :)
mpolonest123 2019-07-11 04:05:24
“Negative” is definitely the villain theme for Jessica Chastain, it also opens up the first two minutes of “Intimate”.
Great breakdown, there is still so much with the score to dissect. I love the way the Purcell motif from “Amity” recurs throughout the score, transforming into an action variation in “Reckless”.
I was going to do a similar analysis but got too lazy :P
Dark (or the first section of it) actually plays right after Gap in the film. Starts with Jean waking up and them arriving at the school.
I love how Hans sprinkled the new X-Men theme and Amity all over the score. The piano at the beginning of Reckless is actually part of the new X-men theme "Gap" and the big conclusion at the end of "Insertion" is a variation on the theme as well.
I count at least five unique themes:
1- The new X-Men theme
2- Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix
3- Magneto
4- Tragedy (Amity)
5- Vuk's theme (Chastain's character) - which is incredible
I really love the score and I hope we get to hear the content of the second CD. The end credits suite had very interesting variations not included in the album.
BC 2019-07-12 17:25:13
You're forgetting Jean's theme at the beginning of "Frameshift", which in my opinion is one of the prettiest parts of the score. It starts shifting over to the Dark Phoenix theme 44 seconds in.
John G. Replies: 4 || 2019-07-02 18:22:21
Is there a source that confirms a 2CD release/existence? I’ve been looking around and I’ve found nothing so far.
George 2019-07-02 19:39:22
Facebook group. HZ confirmed himself. Go sign the petition, otherwise this release may not happen at all!
Kevin 2019-07-09 09:02:43
I'm really hoping they pull through with that 2 CD edition, it would be great to have not only a physical copy but to know what his bonus material has to offer.
The whole thing is about getting the CONTENT of CD2 out :)
A physical release seems highly unlikely.
Physical release is pretty much a no go at this point. Maybe if the movie hadn't bombed so hard, but the fact that Disney/Fox is going to lose about $150 million on it means that they're definitely not going to throw out money on getting a physical release done. We'll be REALLY, REALLY lucky if we get a digital release with the second disk, and I can live with that, despite wanting a vinyl copy of this very badly.
Nicklas Replies: 0 || 2019-07-09 12:18:14
Hybrid Soldier - It seems like you work in the bizz? are you working the same place as Hans?
I have a few questions maybe you can answer?
A few weeks ago Hans Zimmer composed the theme for 13 Minutes to the moon. And last year he did a theme for a car commercial (scoring the drive).
And now the ekstra cd release with Dark Phoenix, which is doubtful will ever be released even though we have signed the petition. A track that is also missing a release is Thunderbirds - Live in Prague...
None of these music tracks were ever released on Apple or Spotify. Why not?
How can a world famous genius composer like Hans still compose great music that don't get I digital release, these days... How can that be?
Who decides if it gets a digital release on iTunes or Spotify if not Hans himself?
Us - the fans have to find it on youtube which is too bad.
You would think that a creative and music lover like Hans would want to get all his music out to the public?
Friendly regards.
Der Profl Replies: 1 || 2019-07-02 21:47:59
What does "(Traditional)" mean in the composer credits for "Amity" mean?
Der Profl 2019-07-02 21:53:44
Oh, wow. My English is at its best today. XD
HiX Replies: 0 || 2019-07-01 01:16:25
Crysis 2 has a track named "Insertion" as well
Here is one way to make them realize :
change.org/p/head-of-music-at-fox-music-danielle-diego-relea se-the-second-part-of-the-dark-phoenix-original-motion-pictu re-score-by-hans-zimmer-87958d0b-fc42-4b8e-bed9-94f3f23ff4be
don‘t understand why fox didn‘t release it digitaly...
Thanks for the link @Hybrid. With Han’s clout I can’t see why on earth they wouldn’t put out an already finished album. Regardless of the film’s performance.
Fred Replies: 2 || 2019-06-30 11:54:04
so...are there more tracks coming?...
Hybrid told us not to hold our breath and what he says is often right...
Fred 2019-06-30 14:29:37
oh damn...:( and digital? :(
nvictor Replies: 2 || 2019-06-28 03:20:51
there is so much to love about this soundtrack. it always brightens my day when i discover something i haven't noticed before. here are a few favorites:
the sharp transition from very quiet to very loud at the beginning of "Gap" gets me every single time.
"Dark" is such an amazing track. i have grown as a score fan and listener and now i gravitate towards tracks that are moving slow, moody, with only a few strong moments. "Dark" delivers all of that. at the moment it's easily my favorite.
the choir in "Dark" (and throughout the album) is said to have been done before but nothing i heard before compares to the "humming" and those tribal sounding voices. it's such a joy to listening to plus when it complements the percussion it is just awesome.
the end of "Reckless" does not seem to have a resolving note and that trick has been used before. but what's new for me is that i seem to hear that final note at the beginning of next track "Insertion". also the end of "Reckless" is pretty much "Amity" but more intense.
when i previewed "Coda" i thought it sounded hopeful like the end of Gladiator. but now it also sounds like Chevaliers de Sangreal. and the voices give me a Circle of Life vibe. it is such a hopeful track and yet feels so incomplete. that's what makes it so beautiful.
"Amity" looks like is it in a canon form with the main and accompanying themes circling on different instruments. really simple but effective. i also like that pulse in the low end (a la dunkirk).
Nahuel 2019-06-30 08:42:58
Decent movie, way better than crappy endgame.
Nick Replies: 1 || 2019-06-28 02:43:28
This score is the very definition of hit-or-miss for me.
On one hand, I admire that this is a lighter and more colorful effort by Zimmer and co. compared to their other superhero scores. The "main theme" introduced in Gap is simple yet uplifting and inspiring enough, and I am really liking the use of female choirs to denote Jean and The Phoenix. It is reminiscent of classic Zimmer bombast from scores such as Crimson Tide and Pirates, and to me (and I'm sure many others) that is a breath of fresh air when compared to his other works in the last decade or so.
On the other hand, I don't think it's quite the return to form for Zimmer some of us were hoping for. The fact of the matter is the reason most of the cues are so long is because half of them are taken up by discordant ambiance and rhythmic pounding (take out the non-melodic/themed content in a cue like Reckless and it could hover around the four minute mark). And the themes themselves aren't anything too special; the aforementioned Gap is more reliant on powerful, overstated chords and piano arpeggio, which doesn't sound bad, sure, but it doesn't elevate it to levels of greatness.
Also correct me if I'm wrong, but in the year prior to the score's release Zimmer was hyping up "trying something [I've] always wanted to do in a film score," and unless I'm mistaken it's adapting "Dido's Lament" for a blockbuster action score? If that's the case then I guess it works out fine (except in a cue like Amity, which irritated me to no end), and the "pounding" remix it sees in a cue like Reckless is entertaining but not really that innovative. Zimmer's toyed with the "adapting classical pieces for the big screen" idea before (Gladiator, Hannibal, Dunkirk, etc.) and this particular treatment doesn't strike me as anything special.
So overall I think Dark Phoenix is one of Zimmer's better efforts in the last ten years but it doesn't reach the heights achieved in a score like Gladiator or Pirates or Angels and Demons (my personal favorite). I'll definitely find myself exploring the soundtrack later on, maybe I'll find another thing to like about it.
This sums up quite nicely how I feel about the score as well. In a way Dark Phoenix is a perfect microcosm of how the 2010s have been for Zimmer in general - a mixture of genuinely great moments with a lot of frustration and understated droning and ambience that is not nearly as revolutionary or groundbreaking as the composer would like you to think it is. It's an okay score, and I definitely am curious to hear what ideas got left by the wayside, but it's getting more and more clear to me with each new release that what I loved about Hans Zimmer's music and what Hans Zimmer himself currently is interested in pursuing are no longer the same thing.
maybe Replies: 10 || 2019-06-27 00:54:31
My Question again?!!!!
CD RELEASE???
we don’t have a release day...
Don't hold your breath...
@Hybrid
That’s disappointing to hear. Was it the film’s box office failure?
it will be released. maybe not a cd but digital...widows was not a good movie and there is a vinyl :D
maybe 2019-06-27 15:52:01
thanks for the long-awaited answer. It's a shame to hear that there is no cd-release. at a score from Hans Zimmer something completely new.
Nick 2019-06-27 16:27:54
@badbu Widows was still a critical and commercial success, and all that combined with the nostalgia, subject matter, and talent both behind and in front of the camera undeniably contributed to a vinyl release, even though I didn't think the score was anything special.
kekec 2019-06-27 19:47:01
Do you know something more specific, Hybrid? Not so long ago it seemed the 2CD release was confirmed.
Why are we comparing Dark Phoenix to Widows again?
Widows got a CD and vinyl release. The key here is the record label. Widows was Milan Records while DP is Fox Music and apparently they don't do physical releases.
Wish they had given it to Sony like previous X-Men soundtracks, maybe things would've been handled better.
Gump 2019-06-27 21:05:03
Does that mean the 2nd cd is canceled?
for me a digital release is enough :D
Aere Replies: 0 || 2019-06-27 13:48:08
when Jean visits her father there was a subtle humming cue not in the soundtrack. I am not sure is that the school cue that is missing?
Bdange Replies: 6 || 2019-06-23 20:15:06
This is not a best soundtrack of Hans, but the theme "Gap" and the first two minutes for me are very good, no good....excellent.
for me the best cues are:
the unreleased piano cue (school)
Deletion (what a scene!)
Insertion and Coda!
I like the choir so much in this cues! Amazing work!
I can't wait for the second "cd" and i also hope we get a making of the score (video)!!!
ThePhantasm 2019-06-26 03:09:20
The song Deletion plays in what scene?!
Mephariel 2019-06-26 04:12:37
Insertion and Coda are probably my two favorite cues other than Gap. But the last 3 minutes of Intimate is the best action sequence of the entire album. I just wish there is a cue completely devoted to that sequence.
@ThePhantasm the magneto vs jean scene ;)
Any reason why Negative is put before Deletion other than to piss us off and ruin the chronological order? :P
Intimate > Deletion > Negative > Reckless > Insertion > Coda
@Ahmad hahah idk :D
JamesT Replies: 1 || 2019-06-19 15:12:51
Is there any word or time frame on the second release?
no :(
... Replies: 13 || 2019-06-20 14:57:53
I saw the movie again and can confirm that most of the music is on this release. There are 3 unreleased cues I would like to hear... The scene where Jean and professor X arrive at the school, romantic cue which ends with the aliens landing on earth and finally end end credits cue.
I'm actually quite pleased and surprised that most of the album if not all of it is comprised of actual cues - not suites, not edits (although some tracks are slightly edited like Reckless - which extends the X-Men theme with brass @ 4:20).
The romantic cue/s (I think there's more than one) is a variation of the Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix theme played with high strings.
The end credits are easy to get when the Blu-ray comes out so I don't give it any thoughts. And I think the first part of the cue is probably taken from CD2 or would be featured on CD2.
The cue at the school is really good though. Wish it was put on the album. And that loud swell that played during the title card is incredible.
One thing, they definitely butchered and buried some cues in the mix. The first part of Intimate, parts of Reckless and Insertion, sound effects took the center stage.
all i want is the "school" cue :D
Isn't funny how we always focus on the cues we don't have instead of the really cool ones we already got? :D
CD2 and the school cue lol.
@Ahmad
For me personally it really depends on how well the album is put together/what is missing. If an album is arranged well enough and nothing important is left off I’m usually happy.
The problem with most Zimmer releases (thankfully not this one) is that there are always major/important cues left off for no reason whatsoever. When you are missing “Escape From Ship”, “No Time For Caution”, or most of “Dunkirk” it becomes a burden. Especially when so many composers nowadays are putting out longer albums.
I will say though, I think Zimmer has gotten better in recent years in terms of albums. Dunkirk aside most of his releases have been pretty strong. Compare that with Sherlock Holmes 2 or the Pirates scores.
... 2019-06-20 17:37:40
Well the school cue is one of the best in the score.
@Ahamd haha yes it is :D
No... i'm really happy about this release!
@mpolonest123
Long post :)
I totally agree with you. I think this release is very satisfying because you really get most of what you hear in the film. But also it does make the cues not included stand out because you can literally count them, plus they're really short so they could've been included as well.
I really enjoy releases like Justin Hurwitz's First Man where we got literally got every single cue (some alts but still). People still complained about "filler tracks" or whatever that means but you can always make your own playlists.
With Dunkirk (I might be wrong) but I feel like the score doesn't exist in a traditional way like other scores - I'm going by what they Zimmer and Nolan said publicly. The idea that the score was constructed as one long track. Although Nolan did mention exporting having to re-export music stems for archival purposes as they were mixed with unwanted sound effects, so audio files exists. So couldn't they have found a way to export the music and give us a proper film version? They probably could have done that. But I feel like they didn't think it would be a good listening experience so they opted with the suites.
Also, I feel like Hans may not want to release cues if they are heavily edited by music editors. That might be the case with the film version of NTFC and Dunkirk.
Interstellar was an interesting one. It seems very satisfying as we eventually got all important cues but it missed some really good ones like Quantifiable Connection and Landing In Tesseract.
One last thing... although I love physical media and love to collect CDs, why are they still concerned with having to cut stuff out to fit stuff on CDs? Although with Hans it seems like it's more about a pleasant listening experience. But they can put out hours of music digitally while putting a short concept album physically. There should be no limits.
Dunkirk is one of those rare instances where the only presentation that would have worked would be a complete one, for the reasons you stated.
And I definitely give major props to whoever is handling the Marvel score releases nowadays. Both of the latest Avengers and Black Panther had some
extremely comprehensive album presentation on the digital side of things. Or even Brian Tyler (who I’m not generally crazy about) and Ben Wallfisch, who put out long albums.
In today’s digital age there is no reason to skimp on music. I’m personally satisfied with Dark Phoenix’s release because, while not complete, it does at least contain almost every major cue (pretty much the last 30 minutes is completely intact). Now that doesn’t mean I’m still not waiting eagerly for that bonus disc....
Yes, exactly. It's an experimental film to the core so I wish they walked the extra mile and released the music in an unconventional way by releasing it as one-ish track (there are 2 to 3 pauses actually).
Well... I'm not with you on Marvel lol. They skipped incredible tracks with Captain Marvel and Endgame. There's one cue in CM that's so incredible and I cannot believe they skipped it. Another cue in EG which is literally in one of the biggest and most important moments in the film. They released the cue before it and the cue right after but kept it out of the release.
But I love that they do put out extended versions of the albums digitally and not conforming to the limits of physical media.
iamtommie44 2019-06-20 21:44:58
I've been wondering something for quite some time now.
Why are there soundtracks albums made? Why aren't the Complete Score/Sessions just released at first hand?
Is there a reason for this?
Anonymous 2019-06-20 22:04:30
@iamtommie44
may i compare with mainstream music for a minute here. albums are important because putting one together is an art form on its own. the best albums are often not the ones with only the good tracks. but of course there are also those you buy because of track #2 or #3
in hiphop for example, mixtapes are a big thing. they seem like a freer album form. a way for artists to test new ideas and project directions. based on the response, those ideas would show up in albums. it's a nice way of testing things (or us lol) since our taste, especially in music, changes often. sometimes these artists want to see what works and what doesn't. i wouldn't mind buying experimental stuff from my favorite composers to be honest.
but anyways, dundirk is a very good album if you ask me. it's one of those that i can listen to in a loop and not get tired of. the tracks carry you along the journey. and by the time you reach the end of the last track, it loops right back into the first one...
Why soundtrack albums are made? Because most of the times a well edited album is a much better listening experience than the music as heard in the film, complete and chronological. At least 9 out of 10 cases I prefer to listen a well edited album. There are very few cases when a complete album is needed, in my opinion. The other thing is: I only have about 40-60 minutes patience for an album listen.
In Hans' case it's different sometimes because I really enjoy his suites and experiments.
levraibond Replies: 0 || 2019-06-18 11:18:55
No more superhero film score for me, he said .... :D
Mr.Unbreakable Replies: 12 || 2019-06-12 20:02:10
I know it's a lot to ask, but @Hybrid thinks you could put the credits of Mazzaro and Fleming?
All credits added for the OST, even though since it's long montages from lots of cues, it doesn't make THAT much sense... :)
why does Amity say (traditional)?
Because it's heavily influenced by Henry Purcell, that's what Hans said :
"Dark Phoenix is all Henry Purcell... I felt the last few bars of “Dido’s Lament” with the endlessly descending line and the “Remember Me” perfect for the characters... less the tune, more the harmonic movement"
I guess I should know better at this point but I'm still a little disappointed that there are no solo Hans cues. Although I suppose there could be some hidden inside the longer album tracks.
"heavily influenced" indeed :D
I really love Amity and I love how the theme appears in several other cues:
Reckless which features an epic/action rendition
Insertion = a short quote at the beginning
Coda = another call back to the theme
Been listening to the score since I saw the film. Love it. Eagerly waiting for CD2. I wonder if it includes an extended version of the last 2 minutes of Insertion - INCREDIBLE.
@Edmund
I wonder if this is one of those situations where the material in film is derived heavily from the suites, with everyone either arranging it or adding elements onto it. Just guessing of course, I’m sure we’ll get a clear picture once the bonus stuff gets released.
And apparently there is about 16 hours of music “lying around”, going off of what Hans mentioned in the Vi-Control forums.
Michael Baker 2019-06-17 19:07:37
Yeah... Wait till CD 2 and I'm sure we'll get a much stronger idea of what's solo Hans in here.
@Michael Baker - I can’t be the only one who read that as Han Solo right?
The same thing happened to me George
A surprise reference to be sure, but a welcome one.
Posibly
CD RELEASE????
Saw the movie. Great score and it really fits the movie.
Missing stuff:
- 25 seconds of a piano version of Gap without the brass and bells
- a 30 second badass version of the main theme during the mageneto/jean helicopter stand off
- 1.5 minute end credits suite. Typical Zimmer to leave the best and most epic track and best main theme version off the album. I hope it will be on CD2, but knowing Zimmer the best tracks always remain unreleased. This is another escape from ship...
Yes! That piano part is amazing!
„when charles and jean stand in front of the school“
Zac 2019-06-16 20:37:05
There was also a Jean/Scott love theme that was briefly used in the bedroom scene after they return from space. It was included in the end credits suite as well.
Which instruments were used to play the love theme? Piano?
No piano. I believe it was mostly strings and had a small bit of the choir.
Meta 2019-06-17 01:16:11
Just rip it off the DVD....no biggie
Right. Hopefully the other missing stuff gets released on the 2nd CD though.
after listening and listening...this score is truly amazing! i love it so much! i want the suites and ideas NOW! :D
maybe Replies: 0 || 2019-06-16 18:12:56
CD RELEASE?
been listening to this score for a week now and i am going to wait a little more before putting a comment on it here... but there's something else i have been saying for a while now. let's stop associating scores with movies and start seeing them as a work of art in their own rights. (albeit inspired by movies)
people are here complaining about the movie that it didn't speak to them. and then i have the feeling that they project their disappointment on the soundtrack. but both pieces of art co-exist and not depend on each other. i, for example, seldom watch any of these movies. but i have listened to their soundtracks and love them.
also i never asked for an extended CD before... but we need one for this one. it's very clear that tracks like gap and coda were definitely shortened.
also i never asked for an extended CD before but we need one for DP. it's clear that tracks like gap and coda were definitely shortened.
Choir Replies: 0 || 2019-06-14 14:38:42
There's nothing unique about those choirs, standard East European chorus stuff mixed with Johansson. Check out Debbie Wiseman's Warriors from 2000 and you'll get a much more elaborate version of this music.
Spor Replies: 5 || 2019-06-13 12:32:23
Ah, maybe it's not that bad. Gap is fantastic for the first two minutes. There's some nice stuff in the other tracks. But this is so derivative. Everything outside of Gap comes from somewhere else, Da Vinci Code, Interstellar, even older Hans like frigging Pacific Heigths and Spirit.
It's not a bad score but it sure is a massively overwhelmingly disappointing one. So Kinsberg wanted something progressive/conservative and fucked up his film and Hans went back to the 1990s to get some inspiration? Sounds plausible.
Ds 2019-06-13 13:30:55
I'm curious... where did you hear Spirit?
Some of the synth work throughout is definitely like Spirit. The first couple minutes of Coda are one example.
Ian Brown McCarthy 2019-06-14 02:00:33
Yeah, while this does have a great deal more substance than most of the work Hans has done the past few years, I struggle to say it's a genuinely *good* score.
I mean, within the first minute I'm reminded of Dunkirk, then we get a pretty standard Zimmer/Balfe buildup we've heard a million times since Inception... and it doesn't get hugely better from there.
I will definitely give Zimmer credit for the unique and genuinely creative use of female choir in some of the cues, though.
AFan 2019-06-14 10:28:34
I agree that Gap is the best track. My main complain with this score is that it feels that Zimmer composed it on autopilot. For me those choirs sounded too much to Electro's Theme in TASM. Is too standard and has very few remarkable moments. The movie itself lacks of personality and the score is part of that problem. I think they just wanted "dark" and hired Zimmer for making his dark ostitatos.
Medigo 2019-06-14 11:07:08
I cant say that this chorus reminds me of anything I have heard Zimmer done before. And I have played all his scores to death.
Collector Replies: 0 || 2019-06-13 09:26:26
Seen the film last Friday, its definitely not as bad as they are saying it is. Not very good either, but a solid average. Loved the score! Works really well in the film, I need to give it a thorough listen tho. Been listening since Friday and Im only on track three now, but enjoying the hell out of it so far. Thank you Mr. Zimmer!
Morgan Joylighter Replies: 7 || 2019-06-12 12:43:11
I hope the box office results don't discourage them from releasing the 2CD album. There are so many great ideas in this score that I'm dying to hear further development in suites.
It's in the works.
Jordan 2019-06-12 13:35:21
Very happy that the 2CD edition is still in works and not canceled !
Do you know if the bonus music is exclusively for the physical release or will it also be released digitally?
Digitally, sure. Physically, maaaayybe ?
i can‘t wait!!!! :))
That’s great to hear, if it is digital that means a faster release hopefully :-)
Vinyl?
Topic Replies: 0 || 2019-06-12 13:01:33
Even though I agree with the previous poster - would love to hear what Hans came up originally - but sadly a lot of this sounds like copying Interstellar (when it's good) and Dunkirk (when it's totally useless). Hans is not a man to innovate from score to score, so if all sounds like previous work?
Zach Replies: 0 || 2019-06-11 21:34:25
I’m not in love with the score, but l love the piano motif in the first two minutes of track one. Shame it wasn’y used more.
Do you know how many tracks are on the second cd? Any infos about it? :)
Why do we talk about CD1 and CD2 when no CDs have been released at all? OK, I admit Download1 and Download2 sounds terrible...
There is a CD coming ;)
CD 1 - Score / CD 2 - Suites and Ideas
Dark Phoenix soundtrack - Hans Zimmer 2019
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Recruit Spotlight: OL Garrett Brumfield, University Laboratory High School, Class of 2014
Posted by: Reid Althage January 14, 2014
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LAFM: Name, position, school?
My name is Garrett Brumfield. I played OL for University Laboratory School, and I am committed to Louisiana State University.
LAFM: Current height and weight?
6-4, 287 lbs
LAFM: Current ACT score and GPA?
26 ACT 3.1 GPA
LAFM: Max bench, max squat, and max clean?
I have not maxed since before the season started. At that time, I squatted 535, benched 345, and cleaned 340.
LAFM: How did the season go for you and the team?
Overall it was pretty good. Personally, I had alot of individual goals I wanted to accomplish and feel as though I did. As a team, we wanted to win a State Championship and came up one step short. Still, overall I though we had a real successful season.
LAFM: What was your favorite games this season?
My favorite games this season were both against Parkview Baptist who we played in week 6 and in the semifinals. I played some of my best football in those two games. Recently, we have developed somewhat of a small rivalry with them. They are a good school with a great program. I am proud that our team was able to play well against them both times.
LAFM: Who is your favorite football player of all time?
Bruce Campbell-He was a great player in college when he played for the Maryland Terps. He was drafted by the Raiders and now plays for the Panthers. The guy has both a great personality and a great skill set. He is really athletic and really mobile which is hard to find in the average Offensive Lineman.
LAFM: How old were you when you started playing and where?
I was 8 when I played for the Baton Rouge REC League. My team was the Baton Rouge Saints.
LAFM: Do you have any family members or friends that have had a big influence on you as you play football?
Although not necessarily in football, my dad has been a great influence on me. He is just a great father and mentor who has taught me the difference between right and wrong.
LAFM: If football does not work out for you, what do you see yourself doing? Have you thought of a major in college? Why?
I plan on majoring in Sports Administration. I enjoy it and it opens up a couple different options and not one thing. I do not want to be limited to just football. I want to be able to have a few different fields I can go into once I graduate.
LAFM: You are committed to LSU. Why did you choose the Tigers?
LSU is just a great place. I am from Baton Rouge and of course have many great connections to the school. The program has a great football team with great tradition. They have alot of wins and several national championships. I really look forward to playing with the Tigers next year.
LAFM: What positions are you being recruited for?
I will be playing the Guard positions and probably LG.
LAFM: What do you bring to LSU’s football team?
You know I have been told I am a natural leader. I try always to be a leader and a good teammate. I trust the guy next to me to get his job done and do my best to raise the confidence of those around me. I want to make sure my teammates know we can get the job done as long as we can do it together.
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I would say the chemistry with our team. Since I have been here, this team has had the best chemistry than anyone I have ever been on. Everyone was treated as an equal whether you were a freshman or a senior. Everyone had a role to play and everyone did that role to the best of their ability.
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Baker senior WR/CB Bryant Williams (3) can line up at different positions including at wide receiver as seen here. (Photo courtesy of Griffin Vizion Photography)
The Baker Buffaloes Are Going to Rely on Their Senior Talent to Compete in an Extremely Tough District
Posted by: Jace LeJeune September 12, 2018
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Baker senior WR/CB Bryant Williams is a big time playmaker for the Buffaloes. (Photo courtesy of Griffin Vizion Photography)
Baker High School Head Coach Eric Randall has to compete against some of the most talented teams in the state each year in University Lab and West Feliciana, both of which won state titles in 2017. Going into his third season leading the Buffaloes, Coach Randall has a team that has the talent and experience to compete in a talented district.
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It might be hard to think that the passing game is not the strength of the offense with an athlete like Williams on the outside but the strength is actually their running game.
“Our biggest strength is our running game with three very athletic backs in Kiley Clifton, Desmond Windham, and Javouris Knox,” Williams said.
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“Griffith has good feet and is a tough, strong kid,” Brecheen said. “He has size and could play guard or center in college. He would be a steal for a I-AA or D-II program.”
The Buffalo defense will be led by DE Camryn King. King is a 6-2, 215 pound senior with some speed. He will be a nightmare for opposing offenses this season.
“King is a very athletic defensive end/linebacker for the team,” Brecheen said. “He can really run for a lineman with a 4.65/40. He has a frame that will allow him to get bigger and a strong showing his senior season would go a long way for him in recruiting.”
Ladarien Scott will lead the next level of the defense. He will anchor down the middle of the field as a linebacker. Scott is excited about how the has improved so far this season.
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“He has good size and can run well,” Brecheen said of Scott. “He is 6-1, 215 and can be a defensive end or middle linebacker in college.”
Bryant Williams is not only a playmaker on offense but he is also a big part of Baker’s secondary as well. In Week 2 against Dunham High School, Williams had an 80-yard interception return for a touchdown.
The coaches are doing their part in preparing every player for the challenging schedule. It is up to the players to go out on the field and execute.
“The coaches have prepared us by making practice have the atmosphere of a game,” Williams said. “Practices are loud, we cannot hear anything which helps us communicate with each other while on the field.”
Scott had something similar to say. “Our coaches create a hostile environment at practice to help us deal with uncomfortable positions.”
Having played two games up to this point, Baker has learned what they need to do to be successful.
On defense, Baker has learned to give it their all. “We have learned to never underestimate our opponent and 100 miles per hour and think throughout the whole game,” Scott said.
“So far we have learned how to be consistent on every drive,” Knox said of the offense.
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We visited Serengeti during the famous annual migration of white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes mearnsi). In this picture, myriads of wildebeest are running down a river bank, causing huge clouds of dust to rise. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
It is raining. I am sitting in our car, writing my diary, while my companions, Lars Nørgaard Hansen, Thomas Bregnballe, and Conny Asmussen, are on their way on foot up Mount Meru (4565 m), the highest mountain in Arusha National Park, northern Tanzania. Undoubtedly, they are very wet, since they didn’t bring any rain gear. I stayed back at the car, as I am a little weak after a bout of diarrhoea.
Beautiful mountain forests
In Arusha, we have rented a car and a driver, Moses – an elderly, very knowledgeable man, who was once employed as a national park ranger. On our way towards the national park, the cloud cover lifts, and we have a fine view towards Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m), the highest mountain in Africa. Once we reach the national park, we observe many giraffes, grazing on the grass-covered mountain slopes. The pattern of these giraffes is quite unique, and some authorities call them Galana giraffes, regarding them as a hybrid between reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis ssp. reticulata), and Masai giraffe, ssp. tippelskirchi.
Our camp is situated at a beautiful spot in the foothills of Mount Meru, beneath a few large trees, which are enveloped by strangler figs (Ficus). The area around our camp is an important feeding area for animals like giraffe, bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), and a tiny antelope, Cavendish’s dik-dik (Madoqua cavendishi). Birdlife is abundant, including Hartlaub’s turaco (Tauraco hartlaubi), paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis), and, along streams, mountain wagtail (Motacilla clara) – a habitat quite similar to that of the Eurasian grey wagtail (M. cinerea). A young crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) is calling from a tree.
During our first night here, we are a little alarmed by an unbelievably powerful noise from the trees above our tents, sounding like a mixture of some gigantic croaking frog, and a car engine that won’t start. As it turns out, the source of this sound is a troop of Kilimanjaro black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza ssp. caudatus), which live in the trees around our camp.
In the morning, a park ranger arrives at our camp, armed with a rifle. He is going to be our guide on a hike up the mountain. We drive up a dirt road, often being forced to use four-wheel-drive, as heavy rain has made the road very muddy. The montane rainforest is very beautiful, with many large trees, their trunks covered in mosses, while their branches are festooned with old man’s beard lichens (Usnea). (You may read a fascinating account of these lichens on the page Quotes on Nature.)
In the understorey, we observe tree heath (Erica arborea), a shrubby species of St. John’s wort, Hypericum revolutum, a species of balsam, probably Impatiens pseudoviola, Thunbergia gregorii, and others. High above the forest, two mountain buzzards (Buteo oreophilus) are soaring.
Soon the road comes to an end, and although dark, threatening clouds are looming on the horizon, my companions commence their walk. Shortly after their departure, rain starts pouring, continuing almost incessantly throughout the day.
The cloud cover lifted, and we had a fine view towards Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m), the highest mountain in Africa. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Giraffes in Arusha National Park has a quite unique pattern. Some authorities call them Galana giraffe, regarding them as hybrids between reticulated giraffe and Masai giraffe. In the background Mount Meru (4565 m). (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
We were a bit alarmed, the first time we heard the powerful noise, emitted by a troop of Kilimanjaro black-and-white colobus monkeys. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Young crowned eagle, calling from a tree. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Many trees on Mount Meru are festooned with old man’s beard lichens. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
A species of balsam, probably Impatiens pseudoviola, photographed after heavy rain, Mount Meru. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Tent washed away
Tarangire National Park is renowned for its many great baobabs (Adansonia digitata), and its spectacular herds of elephants (Loxodonta africana). We pitch our tents at a primitive campsite near the river, then go on a game drive to experience the rich wildlife of the park. On the savanna, large herds of impalas (Aepyceros melampus) and Grant’s gazelles (Nanger granti) are grazing, accompanied by a troop of about a hundred olive baboons (Papio anubis).
Two barn owls (Tyto alba) are sitting in a huge baobab, using the tree as a day roost. A strong musk scent drifts out from the interior of the hollow baobab, indicating that bats spend the day here. Several spikes are hammered into the trunk, all the way up – placed here by honey gatherers, says Moses.
Early in the afternoon, a tremendous rain storm passes over. It rains so hard that the landscape is barely visible through the dense mist. Just before sunset, the rain ceases, the sky turning red and yellow in the west. Back at our camp, we are met by a pitiful sight: Lars’s tent and mine are flattened, and everything inside is drenched: sleeping bags, sheets, clothes. Thomas’s and Conny’s tent is simply missing, washed away, and they find it about 50 m from the camp. Luckily, before leaving, they had the foresight to empty their tent, and they are kind enough to lend me a spare sleeping bag, while Lars spends an uncomfortable night on the front seat of the car, which is alive with bed bugs. He hardly gets any sleep at all. Luckily, the following day is bright and sunny, and we spend some hours drying our equipment.
A tremendous rain storm, passing over Tarangire National Park. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Tarangire is renowned for its many great baobabs. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Barn owl on its day roost in a huge baobab. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Olive baboons are very common in Tarangire. This troop is resting in a palmyra palm (Borassus aethiopum). (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Thomas, observing from the top of our Landrover, Tarangire. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Lars, photographing a leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis), Tarangire. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Wildlife in the Ngorongoro Crater
We now head for the famous Ngorongoro Crater, which is more than 600 m deep and c. 15 km across – the remains of a giant, long extinct volcano that collapsed, creating a caldera, which is today one of Africa’s best wildlife areas, with numerous white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes mearnsi) and plains zebras (Equus quagga ssp. boehmi), besides lions (Panthera leo), spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), African buffalos (Syncerus caffer), black rhinos (Diceros bicornis), hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius), and many other mammals.
Two zebra stallions start fighting, neighing loudly and galloping side by side, biting each other’s legs and doing their best to bite at the opponent’s testicles. A bull black rhino sniffs a tuft of grass, into which a female has urinated, baring his lips in a posture, called flehmen. The inhaled air passes special sensing organs, which are able to detect whether the female is in heat. This behaviour is seen in many mammals, among others horses and cats.
Birdlife is also abundant in the crater. In a salt-lake, thousands of lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) are feeding, besides many species of waders. In the grass, large kori bustards (Otis kori) and Masai ostriches (Struthio camelus ssp. massaicus) strut about. During a slight rain shower, a male black-bellied bustard (Lissotis melanogaster) is displaying, bending his long neck and filling it with air, while emitting a humming sound. He then stretches his neck as far into the sky as possible, ending the whole séance with a loud ‘pop’.
Two plains zebra stallions gallop side by side, biting each other’s legs and doing their best to bite the opponent’s testicles. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
This bull black rhino is sniffing a tuft of grass, where a female has urinated, baring his lips in a posture, called flehmen. Hereby, a certain sensitive area in his mouth can detect whether the female is in heat. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Despite the fact that it is raining slightly, this male black-bellied bustard still performs his courtship display. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Most of the elephants in the Ngorongoro Crater are bulls, often forming small herds of bachelors. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Memorable nights
Back at our camp, we are met by yet another pitiful sight: all three tents have been flattened. One of the poles of Lars’s tent is broken, and there is a long tear in the canvas. The carbon bow in Thomas’s and Conny’s tent is broken. The canvas of my tent is completely destroyed, and the inside of the tent is a foul mess, as my sleeping bag is smeared in monkey shit.
From other tourists, camping nearby, we learn that during our absence they saw a troop of green vervets (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), jumping up and down on our tents. These monkeys are incredibly naughty. As soon as you turn your back on them, they steal fruit or other food items. But we can hardly believe that these small monkeys would be able to create such havoc. Maybe the tents have been destroyed by baboons or buffaloes. Lars, Thomas and Conny now spend quite some time repairing their tents, while I clean my sleeping bag. My tent is beyond repair, so I hand Lars one of my tent poles, which, luckily, can replace his broken one. As I am now without a home, Lars generously suggests that I sleep in his tent, which has plenty of space for two people.
The following evening, as we are just about to take our seats on the rim of a concrete fireplace to enjoy our meal, Moses suddenly exclaims: ”Careful, there are lions around!” We switch on our torches, and there, less than 10 m away, are three lionesses. We quickly retreat to a respectful distance. The lions, however, are not interested in us, but in a puddle of water, which has gathered beneath a leaking tap. When they have quenched their thirst, they disappear into the darkness.
In the night, I am awoken by Lars, who is shaking my shoulder. ”There are elephants just outside our tent, breaking branches off trees!” he whispers. ”What are we going to do?” – Loud creaking and crashing sounds can be heard, besides a crunch-crunch, when their strong teeth crush branches and twigs. The huge animals are so close that we can also hear their stomachs rumbling. All we can do is to stay as quiet as mice.
Thomas, in the other tent, is curious to see, what’s going on, so he starts unzipping the tent. Moses, who is spending the night in our car, shouts: ”Thomas, stay in your tent!” But the elephants have heard the noise from the zipper and are now on their way towards the other tent to investigate. Moses yells, flashing the headlights of the car and starting the engine. The elephants get confused and retreat a short distance. However, they remain in the area for a couple of nerve-shattering hours, but finally we manage to fall asleep again, awaking at dawn, unharmed.
Wildlife around our camp
There is a problem with the clutch of our car, and Moses has to bring it to the park headquarters, on the crater rim, to get hold of a mechanic. He’s away for three days, and meanwhile we spend our time studying the wildlife around our camp. Zebras, wildebeest, Grant’s gazelles, kongonis (Alcelaphus cokei), and Defassa waterbuck (Kobus defassa) are grazing nearby, and in the trees around our camp site, tree hyraxes (Dendrohyrax arboreus) emit piercing screams. They look somewhat like fat rabbits with sharp fangs, but, in fact, their nearest living relatives are elephants!
In order to dry my laundry, I want to tie a clothes-line to a tree branch, but, as it turns out, the tree is occupied by a huge male baboon, who bares his formidable canines, assuming a threatening position. ”On your guard, you weakling!” he seems to say. I hastily retreat, finding another tree for my clothes-line!
Several bird species bathe in a small puddle, among others superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) and rufous-tailed weaver (Histurgops ruficauda). In a fig tree, bearing ripe fruits, various birds are feeding, including African green pigeon (Treron calvus), red-eyed dove (Streptopelia semitorquata), violet-backed starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), and superb starling.
Lars, photographing a tree hyrax. (Photos copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Various birds were feeding in a fig tree, full of ripe fruits, including African green pigeon. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Superb starling, bathing in a puddle. The bird in the background is a rufous-tailed weaver. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
From Ngorongoro, we head north towards the Serengeti Plains. In a small growth of acacia trees, a pride of seventeen lions are resting. One lioness has a huge, open wound on her snout – the result of a confrontation with a spotted hyena, says Moses. He learned this from a person, who witnessed the incident.
In the bushes above the lions, many wattled starlings (Creatophora cinerea) have built their nests – large heaps of sticks, with an entrance hole on the side. Most of the nests contain young of different age groups, and several tawny eagles (Aquila rapax) are sitting on top of the nests, scanning the surroundings for inexperienced young, which have just left the nest.
At Ndutu, we pay a visit to a luxurious lodge, hoping to supplement our rather monotonous diet with a delicious meal. Learning that a meal will cost 1900 Tanzanian Shillings, we make an orderly retreat, instead heading for the camp ground, where we cook our own meal – monotonous or not!
The following morning, the savanna west of Ndutu is indeed a wonderful sight: sunshine behind us, and pitch-black rain clouds in the western sky. It is time for Serengeti’s famous annual wildebeest migration. The savanna is completely covered in dense masses of wildebeest, as far as you can see, many of the dark-grey wildebeest cows followed by a pale-brown calf. For an hour or more, we are parked near a small stream, where myriads of wildebeest are running down the bank, causing huge clouds of dust to rise – yet another great sight!
This lioness has a huge, open wound on her snout – the result of a confrontation with a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The savanna around Ndutu was completely covered in dense masses of white-bearded wildebeest, many of the dark-grey cows followed by a pale-brown calf. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Punished hyenas
Our highest wish on this trip is to watch a pack of African hunting dogs (Lycaon pictus) on the hunt. We succeed in finding a pack near Gol Kopjes. Kopjes are isolated rocky outcrops, which, somewhat wantonly, pierce the savanna here and there. Incidentally, they are the remains of ancient, eroded mountains. To the Boer, when they migrated to Southern Africa in the 1700s, these outcrops resembled heads, so they named them kopjes (‘head’ in Dutch).
When a spotted hyena enters the territory of the hunting dogs, two of the dogs immediately give chase. The hyena utters its peculiar laughing call, leaving the area at full speed. But it’s far too slow, compared to the swift dogs. After a few seconds, they catch up with the hyena, biting its hind legs a couple of times. The hyena screams, whirling around to snap at the dogs with its powerful jaws. The incredibly fast dogs swarm around the hyena, biting its behind and jumping backwards, before it is able to bite them.
The poor hyena zooms across the savanna, bleeding from its legs and behind, still chased by the furious dogs. Finally, it backs into a hole, where only its head and front paws are exposed. Here the dogs are unable to bite the hyena, as its powerful jaws keep them at bay. After a few minutes, the dogs return to their territory. Two other hyenas, which receive the same punishment, quickly retreat.
Hyenas are much attracted to hunting dogs, their favorite food being the dogs’ faeces, which they are willing to do almost anything to get at. There have been instances of hyenas, creeping up to a sleeping hunting dog to lick its anus – afterwards being bitten in their own behind. Hyenas often try to steal the prey of hunting dogs, and if their pack is large enough, they often succeed in chasing the dogs away from their prey.
After a brief chase, the hunting dogs caught up with the hyena, biting its hind legs a couple of times. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Hunting dogs hunting
After chasing away the hyenas, the five dogs are restless. Four of them set out to follow a herd of Thomson’s gazelles (Eudorcas nasalis), carefully estimating which animal shows signs of weakness. The dogs are incredibly fast. In a moment, they have caught up with the gazelles, picking out a possible prey. Two of them chase a buck, the other two running some distance behind them, ready to prevent the buck from turning back. When gazelles start getting tired, they often begin to run in semi-circles, in which case the dogs at the rear quickly take over the chase.
This hunt ends abruptly after only two minutes, when one of the dogs collides with the buck. The collision is so powerful that the buck makes a somersault, and a few seconds later the dogs have a firm grip at it. Their sharp teeth tear up the belly of the gazelle, and they start eating its intestines, while it is still alive. This is a rather nasty sight, and for this reason, in the past, many hunting dogs were shot on sight by people, who hated this behaviour.
In fact, this way of killing is fast and efficient. Large and deep wounds cause an instant shock effect, and the sufferings of the prey are probably rather limited, before it dies, which mostly happens within a few minutes. Larger prey like zebras and wildebeest live a little longer – up to 17 minutes has been recorded, but such cases are very rare.
People seem to have a much more sympathetic attitude towards the way large cats kill their prey, namely by biting it around the neck until it is strangled. This is not a very bloody affair, which is probably why people regard it as more ’humane’. In reality, the prey is suffering for a much longer time from being strangled than from being torn apart alive.
Thomson’s gazelle is a favourite prey species of hunting dogs. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Pups galore
“Hang on!” shouts Moses, proceeding to drive across the bumpy savanna at 70 km/hour. We reach the dogs, just as they have started gorging themselves on the intestines. They ignore us completely. The gazelle is long dead, and in ten minutes it has been devoured, only head, skin and bones left behind. As a gazelle buck weighs around 60 kilograms, each of the four dogs have eaten ten to twelve kilograms of meat!
After finishing their meal, the dogs trot across the savanna towards their territory, and we decide to follow a bitch with swollen teats. She doesn’t mind the car at all, but approaches a den, emitting a strange, bird-like twitter. Nine pups immediately emerge from the den. They are about four weeks old, with black, wrinkled faces and enormous ears, tottering about on their short legs.
The pups surround the bitch, licking the corners of her mouth. She retreats a bit, making a few convulsive throat movements, regurgitating a large portion of meat. The pups immediately fall upon it, swallowing the smaller bits and fighting over the larger ones. Sometimes it evolves into a tug-of-war, in which two pups haul at either end.
When the other three dogs return to the den, they also regurgitate meat, not only for the pups, but also for the mother and for the fifth dog, which remained back at the den to guard the pups. All dogs in a pack participate in rearing a litter. When the pups are young, the mother – and often another dog – will remain at the den, while the other members of the pack go hunting. Even if the mother dies, the other members of the pack will rear the pups. There has even been an example of a pack of male dogs rearing a litter, when the mother – which was the only female in the pack – had died.
Read more about these fascinating dogs on the page Animals: Hunting dogs – nomads of the savanna.
In ten minutes, the gazelle had been devoured, only head, skin and bones left behind. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
The bitch made a few convulsive throat movements, proceeding to regurgitate a large portion of meat for the pups. Note that the other dog is wearing a radio-collar. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Hunting dogs have no fear of vehicles. (Photo copyright © by Kaj Halberg)
Lawick, H. 1973. Solo. The story of an African wild dog puppy and her pack. Collins
Lawick-Goodall, H. & J. 1970. Innocent killers. Collins
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Penguin named Colonel in Chief in the Norwegian Army
An Edinburgh resident has been promoted to one of the most senior ranks in the Norwegian Army after a special ceremony at his home. But Colonel in Chief of the Royal Norwegian Guard, Nils Olav, is no ordinary soldier. He is in fact a penguin.
Proud penguin Nils Olav was today inspecting his very own guard of honor. Nils was adopted by the Norwegian Army back in 1972 and as well as being designated their official mascot, was awarded the rank of Lance Corporal in the Royal Norwegian Guard. He has been promoted four times since then and was today given the top job – Colonel in Chief…
But does his promotion mean he will avoid active service from now on? Major Egelien said: “He will have frontline fighting duties.”
Read more / watch the video
How does on go about joining the Royal Norwegian Guard? I’m thinking our Colonel in Chief may need an assistant.
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.1-3-g152610e (webtiles) character file.
10682 dis the Martial Artist (level 11, -1/74 HPs)
Began as a Vampire Venom Mage on Mar 3, 2016.
Was a High Priest of Makhleb.
Killed by nerve-wracking pain
... invoked by an orc priest
... on level 3 of the Orcish Mines on Mar 8, 2016.
The game lasted 00:55:15 (21014 turns).
dis the Martial Artist (Vampire Venom Mage) Turns: 21014, Time: 00:55:15
Health: -1/74 AC: 9 Str: 8 XL: 11 Next: 39%
Magic: 21/21 EV: 19 Int: 20 God: Makhleb [*****.]
Gold: 1304 SH: 0 Dex: 15 Spells: 4 memorised, 14 levels left
rFire . . . SeeInvis + - Unarmed
rCold + + . Clarity + p - +2 robe {rC+}
rNeg + + . SustAt . (no shield)
rPois + Gourm . (no helmet)
rElec . Spirit . a - +1 cloak
rCorr . Warding . (no gloves)
rMut . Stasis . h - +2 pair of boots
MR +.... J - amulet of clarity
Stlth +++....... (no ring)
q - +2 ring of evasion
@: very slightly contaminated, regenerating slowly, somewhat resistant to
hostile enchantments, fairly stealthy
A: fangs 3, repulsion field 1, see invisible, mutation resistance 1, unbreathing
a: Bat Form, Minor Destruction, Lesser Servant of Makhleb, Major Destruction,
Greater Servant of Makhleb, Renounce Religion
You were on level 3 of the Orcish Mines.
You worshipped Makhleb.
Makhleb was extremely pleased with you.
You were thirsty.
You visited 4 branches of the dungeon, and saw 14 of its levels.
You collected 1304 gold pieces.
F - a +2 scimitar of electrocution
c - 31 tomahawks (quivered)
a - a +1 cloak (worn)
h - a +2 pair of boots (worn)
i - a +0 robe of the Archmagi
j - a +0 robe of fire resistance
p - a +2 robe of cold resistance (worn)
e - an uncursed ring of teleportation
f - an uncursed ring of ice
o - an uncursed amulet of guardian spirit {unknown}
q - a +2 ring of evasion (left hand)
s - an uncursed amulet of regeneration {unknown}
y - a cursed ring of loudness {unknown}
E - an uncursed ring of protection from fire {unknown}
J - an amulet of clarity (around neck)
B - a wand of lightning (10)
C - a wand of disintegration (2)
g - 3 scrolls of enchant armour
k - a scroll of magic mapping
m - a scroll of recharging
v - a scroll of amnesia
x - 2 scrolls of teleportation
z - a scroll of fog
d - 5 potions of might
l - a potion of beneficial mutation
n - 2 potions of agility
r - 2 potions of flight
t - a potion of mutation
A - 27 potions of blood
D - a potion of invisibility
I - a potion of brilliance
b - a Young Poisoner's Handbook
a - Sting Conjuration/Poison 1
b - Cure Poison Poison 2
c - Mephitic Cloud Conjuration/Poison/Air 3
d - Olgreb's Toxic Radiance Poison 4
e - Venom Bolt Conjuration/Poison 5
H - a lamp of fire (inert)
* Level 9.2 Unarmed Combat
- Level 4.0 Air Magic
- Level 7.0 Poison Magic
* Level 7.1 Invocations
You had 14 spell levels left.
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Dungeon (9/15) Temple (1/1) D:5 Lair (1/8) D:8
Orc (3/4) D:9 Elf (0/3) Orc:3
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Elyvilon
Gozag
Kikubaaqudgha
Makhleb
Okawaru
Qazlal
Sif Muna
Yredelemnul
Beogh
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D:4 mizuno's ghost, novice MiFi
D:5 Menkaure
Lair:1 Jaetan's ghost, journeyman TrMo
You heal slowly.
You have razor-sharp teeth.
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
You can survive without breathing.
You are surrounded by a mild repulsion field (EV +2).
You are somewhat resistant to further mutation.
You are feeling thirsty.
The orc priest barely misses you.
You hit the orc priest.
The orc priest is severely wounded.
The orc priest hits you with a dagger.
You catch the helpless orc priest completely off-guard!
You hit the orc priest but do no damage.
You bite the orc priest.
You barely miss the orc priest.
You flicker back into view.
The orc priest calls down the wrath of Beogh upon you.
You resist with significant effort.
Pain shoots through your body!
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Erolcha (Orc:1)
Nergalle (Orc:1)
Pikel (D:9)
An orc sorcerer (Orc:2)
Maurice (Orc:2)
A komodo dragon (Lair:1)
A troll (Orc:1)
Prince Ribbit (D:6)
A blink frog (Lair:1)
Sigmund (D:4)
An ice beast (D:9)
A wyvern (Lair:1)
A warg (Orc:1)
3 hungry ghosts
9 orc warriors
A sky beast (D:8)
A wasp (D:7)
A black bear (D:9)
A necrophage (D:8)
3 slaves (D:9)
2 ogres
4 centaurs
3 big kobolds (Sewer)
A crocodile (D:9)
8 giant frogs
Blork the orc (D:5)
2 wyvern skeletons
2 scorpions (D:9)
4 killer bees
5 wights (D:8)
3 crimson imps
6 hounds
7 worker ants
5 giant frog skeletons
2 jellies
5 iguanas
11 orc priests
12 orc wizards
Natasha (twice) (D:2)
2 killer bee zombies
14 adders
A river rat (Sewer)
2 shadow imps
4 gnolls (D:2)
8 oozes
An adder zombie (D:7)
8 worms
132 orcs
A bat zombie (D:7)
10 jackals
4 ball pythons
A giant gecko zombie (D:5)
A jackal zombie (D:5)
8 kobolds
A quokka skeleton (D:7)
A quokka zombie (D:5)
Vanquished Creatures (collateral kills)
A hydra (Lair:1)
Fannar (Orc:2)
A black mamba (D:8)
2 blink frogs (Lair:1)
A hippogriff (Lair:1)
A giant frog (Lair:1)
An orc priest (Orc:2)
4 orcs
Vanquished Creatures (others)
A slave (D:9)
A jackal (D:9)
A fungus (Lair:1)
3 creatures vanquished.
Grand Total: 387 creatures vanquished
0 | D:1 | dis the Vampire Venom Mage began the quest for the Orb.
1732 | D:2 | Learned a level 3 spell: Mephitic Cloud
1787 | D:2 | Noticed Natasha
2163 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You are surrounded by a mild repulsion field (EV +2). [potion of mutation]
2163 | D:2 | Gained mutation: You are somewhat resistant to further mutation. [potion of mutation]
2165 | D:2 | Killed Natasha
2165 | D:2 | Reached XP level 4. HP: 8/30 MP: 0/9
2629 | D:2 | Reached skill level 1 in Conjurations
3255 | D:3 | Reached XP level 5. HP: 35/35 MP: 7/10
3339 | D:3 | Noticed mizuno's ghost (amateur DEWz)
3403 | D:4 | Reached skill level 4 in Poison Magic
3486 | D:4 | Found a sand-covered staircase.
3751 | D:4 | Noticed mizuno's ghost (novice MiFi)
4207 | D:4 | Found a white marble altar of Elyvilon.
4421 | D:4 | Found Loam's Armour Shop.
4554 | D:4 | Killed Sigmund
4716 | D:5 | Entered Level 5 of the Dungeon
4828 | D:5 | Noticed Menkaure
4845 | D:5 | Noticed Blork the orc
4858 | D:5 | Killed Blork the orc
5121 | D:5 | Reached XP level 7. HP: 42/46 MP: 10/13
5347 | Sewer | Learned a level 4 spell: Olgreb's Toxic Radiance
6856 | D:5 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple.
6906 | Temple | Entered the Ecumenical Temple
7133 | Temple | Became a worshipper of Makhleb the Destroyer
8056 | D:6 | Reached skill level 5 in Spellcasting
8196 | D:6 | Noticed Prince Ribbit
8275 | D:6 | Killed Prince Ribbit
8275 | D:6 | Reached skill level 1 in Invocations
10516 | D:7 | Reached skill level 5 in Unarmed Combat
10659 | D:7 | Reached * piety under Makhleb
11497 | D:7 | Found a snail-covered altar of Cheibriados.
11591 | D:7 | Reached XP level 9. HP: 57/57 MP: 17/17
11813 | D:7 | Found an ancient bone altar of Kikubaaqudgha.
11849 | D:8 | Found a staircase to the Lair.
13764 | D:9 | Found a stormy altar of Qazlal.
13880 | D:8 | Learned a level 2 spell: Cure Poison
14207 | D:9 | Reached ** piety under Makhleb
14332 | D:9 | Noticed Pikel
14584 | D:9 | Killed Pikel
14584 | D:9 | Reached skill level 5 in Invocations
14781 | D:9 | Reached XP level 10. HP: 56/63 MP: 11/19
15381 | D:9 | Reached *** piety under Makhleb
15496 | D:9 | Found a staircase to the Orcish Mines.
16035 | Lair:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
16081 | Lair:1 | Noticed a black mamba
16099 | D:8 | Killed a black mamba
16661 | Lair:1 | Reached skill level 1 in Fighting
16675 | Lair:1 | Noticed a five-headed hydra
16695 | Lair:1 | Killed a five-headed hydra
16769 | Lair:1 | Reached skill level 8 in Unarmed Combat
16778 | Lair:1 | Reached skill level 5 in Dodging
17241 | Lair:1 | Noticed Jaetan's ghost (journeyman TrMo)
17523 | Orc:1 | Entered Level 1 of the Orcish Mines
17747 | Orc:2 | Noticed an orc sorcerer
17755 | Orc:2 | Killed an orc sorcerer
18304 | Orc:1 | Noticed Maurice
18308 | Orc:1 | Noticed Erolcha
18443 | Orc:2 | Killed Maurice
18443 | Orc:2 | Reached XP level 11. HP: 71/73 MP: 13/20
18460 | Orc:2 | Found a roughly hewn altar of Beogh.
18460 | Orc:2 | Noticed Fannar
18471 | Orc:2 | Killed Fannar
18578 | Orc:1 | Reached **** piety under Makhleb
18877 | Orc:1 | Noticed Nergalle
18898 | Orc:1 | Noticed a spectral orc warlord
19610 | Orc:3 | Noticed an ettin
20057 | Orc:1 | Reached ***** piety under Makhleb
20061 | Orc:1 | Killed Erolcha
20061 | Orc:1 | Reached skill level 9 in Unarmed Combat
20212 | Orc:1 | Killed Nergalle
20212 | Orc:1 | Reached skill level 5 in Conjurations
20359 | Orc:3 | Found a staircase to the Elven Halls.
21014 | Orc:3 | Killed from afar by an orc priest
Action | 1- 3 | 4- 6 | 7- 9 | 10-12 || total
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Melee: Unarmed | 69 | 124 | 291 | 359 || 843
Throw: Tomahawk | | | 3 | || 3
Cast: Sting | 63 | 137 | 344 | 129 || 673
Mephitic Cloud | 1 | 7 | 33 | 48 || 89
Olgreb's Toxic Ra | | | 2 | 28 || 30
Cure Poison | | | | 15 || 15
Invok: Minor Destruction | | | 12 | 63 || 75
Lesser Servant of | | | | 18 || 18
Major Destruction | | | | 4 || 4
Abil: Bat Form | | 2 | 6 | 9 || 17
End Transformatio | | 2 | 5 | 10 || 17
Evoke: Lamp of fire | | | | 1 || 1
Wand | | | | 7 || 7
Use: Potion | 2 | 3 | 17 | 20 || 42
Scroll | | 2 | 5 | 13 || 20
Stab: Sleeping | | | 3 | 2 || 5
Distracted | | | 1 | 1 || 2
Confused | | | | 8 || 8
Invisible | | | | 1 || 1
Eat: Corpse | 9 | 7 | 3 | || 19
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a stone
a cursed -3 club
a +0 leather armour of fire resistance
a beef jerky
a +0 scale mail
a bread ration
a meat ration
a cursed +0 spear
a cursed +0 shield
a cursed -2 ring mail
a +0 war axe
[Shop] Loam's Armour Shop
a +0 leather armour (20 gold)
the +2 cloak of Starlight {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--} (495 gold)
It affects your evasion (+4).
It protects you from cold.
It insulates you from electricity.
It makes you much less stealthy.
a +0 ring mail of magic resistance (110 gold)
the +2 robe of Distant Worlds {rN+ MP+9 Stlth+} (247 gold)
It protects you from negative energy.
It affects your magic capacity (+9).
It makes you more stealthy.
a +2 robe of the Archmagi (377 gold)
a +2 scale mail of cold resistance (210 gold)
the +2 helmet "Xemeulit" {+Inv rPois Str+3 Slay-5} (180 gold)
It affects your strength (+3).
It affects your accuracy and damage with ranged weapons and melee attacks
(-5).
It protects you from poison.
It lets you turn invisible.
a +0 ring mail (40 gold)
a +0 robe (7 gold)
a cursed +0 leather armour (10 gold)
a +0 scythe
(unseen)
a +0 hand axe
a cursed -3 flail
a +0 shortbow
7 gold pieces
3 arrows
an arrow
21 sling bullets of flame
a +2 hand axe of venom
3 exploding tomahawks
21 exploding sling bullets
4 needles of frenzy
a +0 scimitar
14 arrows of flame
a +0 plate armour
2 arrows of flame
an arrow of flame
a +4 chain mail of fire resistance
a +2 whip of venom
14 arrows of frost
3 beef jerkies
a throwing net
3 bread rations
a cursed -1 shortbow
a +0 scythe of slicing
a +0 great sword
a +3 falchion of freezing
a +0 animal skin
a +1 whip of freezing
a cursed +0 animal skin
a cursed +0 chain mail
a +1 flail of protection
a +0 trident
a cursed +0 dagger
a cursed +0 scale mail
a cursed -3 hand axe
the Ecumenical Temple
Level 1 of the Orcish Mines
(0, 0, Orc:1)
(-5, 6, Orc:1)
(-13, 16, Orc:1)
(-9, 17, Orc:1)
(2, 20, Orc:1)
a cursed +0 flail
a cursed -3 dagger
a +0 giant spiked club
a +0 falchion
a scroll of random uselessness
a +0 dagger of flaming
a +0 flail of holy wrath
a +2 ring mail of fire resistance
a +0 dire flail
a tomahawk of returning
a troll hide
a +0 battleaxe
a +0 quarterstaff of freezing
a +1 mace of holy wrath
(-51, 4, Orc:3)
a +0 morningstar
Level 1 of the Lair of Beasts
(0, 0, Lair:1)
(-12, 3, Lair:1)
a +0 cloak
(-3, 4, Lair:1)
(4, 11, Lair:1)
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Crime and Punishment: A Critical Analysis (Book Review) │ Ben Khamis
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‘Will I Really – I mean, really – actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?… Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood… Axe in hand?… Lord will I really?’
It is the eternal crime of the reader that we judge a book by its cover, and not its content. However, when we are faced with a new translation of a classic novel such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, it can often become hard to distance ourselves from the old versions and adapt to a new vision of the story which we know and love. It is therefore fitting perhaps, that the above quote was chosen to reel readers in and introduce them to this revitalised tale of inner turmoil.
Oliver Ready’s translation begins with a detailed introduction which, whilst full of reflections on Dostoevsky’s other novels, also explains the reasoning behind another translation from Russian. Remember to take the time to read this section, as it shows an insightful and interesting background of Russia, and Dostoevsky over the course of the novel’s creation, and of the novel itself.
Crime and Punishment tells the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a twenty-three-year-old ex-University student who is struggling to live on a pittance, given to him by his poor mother and sister. Tall, dark, and handsome, Rodion’s actions confuse the reader, as you find yourself both repulsed by his brutality and drawn in by his unusual acts of kindness, one of which serves to introduce Sonya, a teenage Christian prostitute with whose help Rodion manages to find both his punishment and salvation.
Cut into six parts, the novel begins so clearly with an intent – money, and a crime – the murder described previously. Yet, over the course of the next five parts, you begin to realise that the compulsion to commit this murder cannot possibly come from sheer monetary intent. Instead, this novel becomes a tale of psychological depravity, an inspector novel which the reader must indulge in to find Rodion’s sanity and join in with the cat and mouse game in progress.
I found myself reading Crime and Punishment because it’s just one of those books, a vast classic tome that sounds clever when mentioned at parties, and thought that I would at least be able to put it down for a moment. Instead, I was subjected to sleepless nights as I delved more and more into this complex tale. Grabbing my attention, Dostoevsky, with the help of Ready, held it for endless hours as I poured over this book, wondering why I both loved and hated Rodion, why I detested Porfiry Petrovich, the detective in charge of the murder investigation, purely because he could put Rodion in prison, and why I disliked Pulkheria, Rodion’s mother, who I felt a compulsion to shake, before realising that she only knew what Rodion had told her, which was, in fact, fairly little.
I found it hard to write this review, as I felt like shouting what happens from the rooftops, and talking to friends about it for an age, simply to satisfy my own need to know that everything that happened was justified, especially in a time where a relatively short sentence for a brutal murder is unheard of. I would recommend that as many people as possible read this novel, not only to make sure that Dostoevsky is remembered, but because it has influenced so many, and will continue to do so for years to come if given the chance, I’m sure.
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Rihanna Smells Like ‘Cinnamon, Bubble Gum, and The Sea’ and All Other Scents Are Cancelled | Elle
By msensory team 21/05/2019 Smell
In April, Jeremy O. Harris (playwright, burgeoning tastemaker) sat down for a conversation with Rihanna (icon, the epitome of taste) in an actual chocolate factory in London, because sometimes when GOATs meet each other, everything becomes poetic and highly symbolic. In said interview, which was published in The New York Times Style Magazine, Harris applies his singular way with words to evocative descriptions of the multi-platform mogul’s ascent, influence, next steps, and—most importantly for me—her aroma. “As the doorbell chimed, a brilliantly heeled foot — wearing one of the aggressively pointed leather Fenty sandals I’d previewed the day before — stepped through a hidden side door,” Harris writes. “She smelled like cinnamon, bubble gum and the sea, her scent dominating the overpowering chocolate around us.” I mean this with all the seriousness I can muster and an absolute lack of even the faintest trace of hyperbole: this is the greatest sentence ever written and all other words, smells, notions, and ideas are cancelled.
First of all, the idea of Rihanna ringing a doorbell is astounding. I was under the impression that all entrances fly open with ecstasy upon her arrival. Also, the phrasing makes it seem like the door just started chiming spontaneously as soon as her foot pierced the frame. This all tracks.
But we’re not here to talk about how Rihanna brings every part of buildings to life like a benevolent version of the spell in Beauty and the Beast. We’re here to talk about aroma! We definitely do not have enough information about what most celebrities smell like. This is probably because it is definitely rude to just roll up on your fave and take a whiff. Do not do that. Having said that, there is little that I’m more curious about than what the olfactory experience of being in the presence of a legend is like.
Last year, I interviewed David Litt, who worked in the Obama White House for years, and, of course, I grilled him about what the former president smells like. Secret Service never let him get close enough to find out for sure, but he guessed it was “history and aromatic coriander” which is a Yankee Candle I would definitely buy. This stood as the most important scent for about a year (all my all-caps emails to Kelly Rowland with the subject “WHAT DOES BEYONCÉ SMELL LIKE?” have gone unanswered). But today we have a new winning smell, by a nose!
Let’s break this down into parts. Part the first: Cinnamon. A truly perfect scent. Notes of your grandparents’ house, notes of a shop in the mall that sells snickerdoodles, notes of the tagine someone once made for you on what is still the best date ever.
It’s possible that the sweetly earthy aroma of cinnamon was coming from Rihanna’s second signature fragrance “Crush,” it’s also possible that she passed a cinnamon tree on her way to the interview and the branches erupted into a joyous dance while the blossoms sang “You Da One” in unison. Equally possible. Let’s continue to investigate.
3-Pc. RiRi Gift Set
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Next scent: bubble gum. Wow. We’ve gone from a market in Agrabah frequented by Prince Ali, to a 16th birthday party at a roller rink. HER MIND! HER PASSPORT! Bubble gum can be a treacly aroma so congratulations to it for being permanently upgraded by association with Rihanna.
Whereas cinnamon is homey and potentially worldly, bubble gum is brightly youthful, accessible, cruising down a highway in a convertible with the top down blasting “Pon de Replay.” It’s possible that we’re talking about Rihanna’s scent “RiRi by Rihanna” but it’s also possible that she arrived at the chocolate in a gauzy, pink bubble because cars are so last year.
Rihanna Reb’l Fleur Eau de Parfum Spray 1 oz (Pack of 3)
Final component: THE SEA. I will be thinking about this for the rest of my life. Picture me as Citizen Kane except instead of “Rosebud” my final words are “Cinnamon, bubble gum, and… the sea.” It won’t take an entire movie to figure out what that means, however, because by that time every school child will memorize the three elements of Rihanna’s aroma before they learn the Pledge of Allegiance. No, strike that, the three elements of Rihanna’s aroma will be the Pledge of Allegiance.
What does the sea smell like? Salt and air and freedom and suntan lotion and phosphor and glass becoming sand? Sure, probably. Maybe. It’s possible we’re talking about the hibiscus flower and coconut water notes in Rihanna’s “Reb’l Fleur” but it’s equally possible that every molecule of every sea on the planet experienced a spontaneous phase change and clung to her skin in an act of magic and love and devotion. Actually, the second theory is more likely. I mean, what would you do if you were a sea. “I could be Dead or I could be Rihanna-adjacent?! You do the math.”
How does one smell like the sea? What can I do to harness an entire body of water? Should I go shout the lyrics to “Needed Me” at the nearest lake, bay, or reservoir?
I’m not sure it’s even possible to combine such different aromas if you’re not Rihanna, but I will be trying for the rest of my life. For instance, my evening will be spent soaking in a salt water hot tub full of cinnamon sticks, madly chewing an entire roll of bubble gum tape and waiting for the magic to happen.
Source: Rihanna Smells Like ‘Cinnamon, Bubble Gum, and The Sea’ and All Other Scents Are Cancelled
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Scholarships • Student Corner
by Z.A
Written by Z.A
There are several scholarships out there for postgraduate and doctor’s degree levels to assist academically precocious students and the college. Learn a lot of concern national scholarships here.
High Minister’s Charge Reimbursement Scheme For Less Developed Areas (Selected Regions)
The theme was approved in June 2012 by the gift and was ab initio designed to reimburse tuition fees and on and off necessary charges for the scholars of Balochistan, FATA and Gilgit Baltistan. In 2013, it’s been created AN integral a part of the Prime Minister’s Youth Program. The scope of the Program has been magnified since then and currently 114 districts of Asian nation are eligible beneath the theme.
USAID-Funded Merit And Needs-Primarily Based Scholarship Software
The Higher Education Commission offers scholarships for financially underprivileged students to review agriculture and business administration programs since 2004. The program is in line with the HEC’s goals to support financially worthy students, widen access to quality education, and encourage tutorial interest in the fields that area unit important to Pakistan’s economic development.
The Pak-USAID merit and need-based totally Scholarship application segment-II is centered on offering possibilities to get right of entry to to better education, specifically to beneath-privileged applicants who, regardless of possessing educational merit, are unable to finance their training. The scholarship covers training, accommodation and living fees.
The executive Committee of the country wide monetary Council (ECNEC) has authorized the program at a total price of Rs. 2,954.808 million in its meeting held on sixth September 2013. The venture is funded via the government of the USA of the united states as provide in aid.
Segment-I of the program become initiated in 2004 at 11 (eleven) universities with 1807 scholarships. Of all recipients, 94% graduated on time.
Goals
To enable the academically certified and financially needy Pakistani college students pursue higher schooling at pick non-public and public universities of Pakistan in the fields of agriculture, medicine, business, social technology, and engineering. Pakistan and nearby public and private area universities in designing and enforcing MNBSP section II.
Indigenous Ph.D. Fellowship Application
Qualified human assets in all fields of research taught in the superior degree in neighborhood universities. These domestically certified teachers and researchers will enhance the R&D ability of the public in addition to personal universities and it will also beef up the nearby commercial zone.
With the launching of the scheme, studies tradition in public/personal area Universities has been evolved according to global norms/standards. This venture is centered at diversified disciplines belonging to all fields of technology know-how & technology. To improve the study facilities in these fields the better schooling fee has funded many Departments/Universities to establish research labs. This has introduced a tremendous change in studies, culture of the Pakistani Universities.
HEC has stored top notch emphasis on indigenous scholarship schemes due to the fact locally educated researchers paintings on nearby problems of amazing country wide importance. Their studies, therefore, are expected to have direct relevance to the boom and social-monetary improvement of Pakistan.
In addition, this scheme also provides funds to the universities for upgrading their research facilities, particularly small laboratory equipment, chemical substances, IT gadget and many others. Which no longer best facilitates research of the HEC student, but also serves as an asset for the branch to establish updated studies laboratories.
Indigenous Scholarship Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan Assignment
The Indigenous Scholarship program is focused to decorate the research subculture in nearby universities/research institutes. Higher education fee enables indigenous students with research facilities to explore answers to local issues and make contributions to the country wide cause.
Underneath this scholarship program, 400 Indigenous Scholarships are being provided to neighborhood home holders of Balochistan, on district quota foundation. These qualified researchers will enhance the R&D capability of provincial universities/research institutes and could assist give a boost to the nearby commercial zone.
HEC German Needs Based Scholarship Application
This system turned into began returning in 2013 with the assist of the German government to increase assisting hand to the destitute college students of deciding on Pakistani Universities. The preference become given to the students from FATA/ Baluchistan with an especial emphases to pick extra female students. Section-I is completed and plans are underway for phase-II to be able to be announced once authorized.
1.Economic help & scholarships are to be had for having a look at at undergraduate the graduate level in the prescribed disciplines at the chosen ten Pakistani universities and degree awarding institutions.
2. Students need to compete for securing admission in the accepted field at the taking part group as per admission coverage of the group and be enrolled in Undergraduate (4 Years) / Graduate (2 Years) programs.
Three. Most effective those students who are enrolled in first professional yr in the respective courses offered by way of the participating institutions are eligible to apply. Four. The eligibility of a candidate is connected to neediness of the candidate as decided & assessed by way of the economic background of his/her own family.
Top 10 Universities of Pakistan
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Dr. Avverahally Thammanna Sadashiva
Born in Channapatna, Karnataka on 20 June 1957. B.Sc. (Hort.) 1980, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru; M.Sc. (Oleri) 1982, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana; Ph.D. (Hort.) 1988, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru
Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, 2014 to date.
Scientist, 1987-92, Scientist (Sr. Scale), 1992-98; Senior Scientist, 1998-06, Principal Scientist, 2006 to date and Head, 2009-14, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bengaluru
Awards/Honours: ICAR Interdisciplinary Team Research Award, 2013-14; UAS-B Dr. M.H. Marigowda National Endowment Award 2016-17; UAS-B Dr. Kalayya Krishnamurthy National Award, 2014-15; HSI Dr. Kirti Singh Gold Medal, 2014; ISVS Dr. Kirti Singh Life Time Achievement Award, 2014; IIHR Special Award of Excellence, 2012; Lt. Amit Singh Memorial Award, 2010; HSI Best Poster award, 2014
Fellow: Horticulture Society of India, 2015
Research Areas: Vegetable Science (Tomato Breeding)
Address: Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Vegetable Crops, ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta Lake P.O., Bengaluru 560089, Karnataka; #1420, 3rd Main, 3rd Cross, Chandra Layout, Bengaluru 560040, Karnataka; [Tel: Off. (080) 23086100 Ext. 278, 282; Res. (080) 23218526; Cell: 9845097472; Fax: (080) 28466291; Email: sadashiva.at@icar.gov.in; atsbrs@yahoo.co.in; atsbrs@gmail.com]
Dr. N.G.P. Rao Endowment Award 2017-2018
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Detect. Inspect. Prevent.
Little Moths Can Cause Big Stored Product Problems
Indian Meal Moth (Plodia interpunctella). One of the most common of all stored product pests, it feeds on grain, nuts, dried fruits and processed foods. Groupings of up to 30 eggs are laid on the food surface, with the hatched larvae trailing webbing as they crawl and feed.
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Moths are one of the predominant stored product pests of both ingredients and finished products in the warehouse. Because they are able to fly from area to area, they can disperse their eggs fairly rapidly across an array of food, contaminating and damaging grains, cereals, pet foods, dried fruits, and even chocolates.
But while it is the adult moths that are most readily seen, it is the moth larvae that cause the most damage. “The larvae of these moths do considerable damage to stored product by eating the product and leaving behind their waste,” said McCloud Training Manager and Entomologist Anna Getchell, adding, “The economic damage caused by these pests is often greater than the food safety risks. Food they’ve infested is hard to sell, as the food is laced with webbing, fecal matter, and moltings; resulting in recalls, returns, and rejection.”
Almond/Tropical Warehouse moth (Ephestia cautella). Similar in size and food preference to the Indian meal moth, it is most often found on nuts. Able to survive outdoors, it is most common in the western and southern states, but it can be transported anywhere in goods.
In addition, some larvae will consume stored food product such as bird seed, pet foods and candy bars, said Insects Limited Technical Director Alain VanRyckeghem, and a single infested package of product can be a source of larvae that then search out other food products to continue feeding or to pupate on or in the packaging. For example, a perfectly sealed package of baby formula may have no infestation, “but the presence of larvae on the container will cause consumer complaints, and rejection of the product,” he said. “This is essentially collateral damage from another food product.”
While causing contamination of the food, the webbing that many of the moths spin is difficult to remove, has been known to clog food-conveying systems, and can lead to sanitation deficiencies, added Trece PCO Market Manager James Miller.
Keeping your food products safe from this moth damage and contamination involves a four-phase system of monitoring, inspection, control, and prevention.
MONITORING. “Monitoring for stored food moths is designed to be an early warning system,” said VanRyckeghem. “The objective is to detect sudden rises in catch rates indicating a recent introduction of infested product, or a sanitation issue that has been overlooked.” As such, he said, detection of a couple moths early in the season can help prevent or reduce further outbreaks during the summer and fall.
Without the use of monitors, it can be difficult to know there is a problem until there are a number of adults flying around. Then that population can explode, resulting in further infestations that are more difficult to control.
Mediterranean Flour Moth (Ephestia kuehniella). Common across the U.S., it feeds primarily on flour, grains, beans, and dried fruits. Like the Indian meal moth, eggs attached to the food surface and webbing spun by the larvae are key signs of infestation.
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Sex pheromone lures are the best monitoring tool for detecting stored-product moths, Miller said, as the monitoring systems also enable determination of population size, as well as verification of corrective actions taken in an IPM Program.
As explained by Getchell, the pheromone monitoring traps are sticky tent traps with a sex pheromone which attracts the adult males. Males believe the scent to be emitted by a female ready to mate, so they fly within the plume of the pheromone to find her, only to find that they’ve been tricked: there is no “her” and they are stuck to the glue of the sticky trap.
These traps are effective in monitoring for moth presence because they can operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and can be placed in any environment, VanRyckeghem said. Placement can be in a grid system to detect recent invasions, or it can be targeted to monitor selected storage areas or help pinpoint an infestation.
However, it is important that the traps not be thought of as a control method. “Far too often people consider pheromone monitoring systems as ‘mass-capture’ traps,” expecting that the traps will solve an infestation, he said. Because the traps attract only the adult male, training and education on the effective use of monitoring systems is crucial to a successful food IPM program. Additionally, Miller said, “Where you have stored product moths, you almost always have stored product beetles.”
INSPECTION. If moths are detected through monitoring, the next step is to conduct a thorough inspection to identify the species and determine the source. This should start with examination of the product nearest the monitors with the most activity, using a flashlight to search for signs that include active larvae, webbing, and food spills that could be attracting the moths.
As with all pests, the goal is to eliminate the problem at the source. “The moth adults will point us to the general direction of the infestation, but evidence from the juvenile stages will really tell us if we’ve found the source,” Getchell said. Thus, the inspection should focus primarily on stored foods with emphasis on older or forgotten product and the shelving/packaging that the product is on or in.
Webbing, which is typically found in nooks and crannies of the product, packaging, or shelving is a clue that the source is nearby, and Indian meal or Mediterranean flour moth larvae may be seen crawling in the product, she added. Because Angoumois grain moths develop inside the kernel, the larvae are not visible, so the existence of exit holes in the kernels is evidence of an infestation of these moths.
CONTROL. “Detection of insect activity will require movement and segregation of the product for further action,” VanRyckeghem said. “This may include cleaning, disassembly, fumigation, or disposal.” Pallets with insect activity should be covered before being moved to reduce accidental dispersal to uninfested areas, and sanitation issues should be cleaned up and the waste discarded outdoors in an approved dumpster system.
Angoumois Grain Moth (Sitotroga cerealella). Found around the world in mild climates, the larvae feed inside kernels of corn and grain, causing significant damage before an infestation is detected. One sign of its presence is an unpleasant smell.
PREVENTION. Once all infested product and moth life cycles are removed, steps should be taken to prevent reinfestation. These should include:
Continued monitoring at the area of original activity and adjacent traps, with any further activity spurring repeated inspection
Keeping product sealed and protected in a clean environment at all stages from farm to fork.
Maintaining a clean and pest-free environment in the plant and ensuring all food is put into well-sealed packaging.
Implementing a good sanitation and product rotation program to decrease the risk that moths pose to stored product.
Rejecting infested materials at the receiving areas. This requires receivers to be knowledgeable about webbing on boxes or bags, live and dead larvae in the stretch wrap, and live moths flying out of the trailer or off a pallet.
Use of a pheromone trap in the truck trailer, placed by the vendor at the time of shipment, also can provide an early warning of moth activity in the trailer.
The source of most stored product pest moth infestations is incoming goods, Miller said, so a rigorous incoming goods inspection program, supplier inspection program, and use of monitors inside transport containers/trailers can enable you detect a potential problem before it gets in your plant. However, Miller added, some moths also will fly in from outdoors, so occasional exterior monitoring also should be considered. “Never overlook outside environmental activity of the Indian meal moth,” he said.
The author is Editor of QA magazine. She can be reached at llupo@gie.net.
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Fortnite gadgets its the games strongest Points
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Fortnite gadgets is the games strongest Points
Fortnite’s development gadget is one of the game's strongest Points. each player goes into combat with an ax or similar tool that she or he uses to chop down and assemble objects. lots of the ambiance is destructible, and hacking down everything from residences to vehicles to timber and rocks is without end fulfilling. You don’t ever run out stamina while scavenging, which is terrific, as is the fact that the online game immediately adds the cloth to your inventory when you wreck them down. It’s a really brief and helpful gadget. a further small aspect I recognize is the sound design; you hear an more and more greater-pitched tone with each and every ax swing as you get closer to destroying an object.
Objects break down into three leading materials: timber, bricks, and metallic. you have got 5 slots for constructing objects, including a fence, rectangular floor, pyramid, campfire, and stairs. which you could construct objects with any of the materials aside from the campfire. metallic is the strongest cloth, adopted by brick, and then wood.
keep in mind that the better the cloth, the longer it takes to build. So, when you are in a good part and wish instant cover, constructing picket boundaries is your premier wager. It’s extraordinarily fundamental to construct a building or makeshift guard. every thing snaps collectively nicely, and it’s handy to customize individual accessories in the event you need to add a window or door. that you would be able to additionally smash down or movement limitations in case you by chance inaugurate constructing within the heinous vicinity.
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remastered
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remastered Release Date 4-30-18
MW2 Remastered should be available for an April 30 2018 release date, that does look rather early, and it might simply be a placeholder date for a soon-to-be announced game. Then once more, if Activision does live up to that date MW2 Remastered on April 30, it would make a six month time frame between it and the launch of Call Of Duty Black Ops 4, which could maximize the video games selling potential.
We don’t know if MW2 Remastered is going to be for sale on April 30, nonetheless it’s a safe wager that the online game is in building. We feel that Activision plans on releasing extra call of duty remastered games after the success of MWR remastering the cod games for modern consoles is a great idea and a money maker for activision.
Once MW2 Remastered comes out, it will be exciting to see what enhancements or different elements are included to entice cod players.It will also be exciting to see if there is any censorship in the video game concerning the Russian Mission, in view of that footage in that mission.
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Its A Leprechaun - Its A Zombie - Its A Nazi Zombie Leprechaun
Its A Leprechaun No Its A Nazi Zombie Leprechaun
grab a few drinks and gear up for the big St. Patricks Day get together now in Cod: WW2. The special games aren’t just limited to multiplayer the enjoyable extends all the approach to the three latest Nazi Zombies modes. Operation: Shamrock will be available from March 15-April 3, and in that point, you’ll be able to earn three new unique weapon camos.
New unlockable customization is cool but even greater are the sparkling Easter eggs. sure theres a brand new boss and the end of the rainbow, and this Leprechaun incorporates a pot of gold for any person inclined to hunt him down. To summon the zombie critter you will need to donate facets to 4 different 4-leaf clovers hidden in every map. Defeating the Leprechaun boss by Discovering all the clovers first.
The particular ‘Operation: Shamrock’ event provides Easter eggs to all three maps that can be found now The remaining Reich, Grousten Haus, and The Darkest Shore. On each of those maps, you’ll find a small Easter egg quest that unlocks new camos one camo for each map. Pay attention the brand new Leprechaun Zombie boss! It’s a literal, tiny zombie with a pink beard and stunning green outfits. He looks in all three maps throughout the event. The Operation Shamrock experience begins on March fifteenth and ends on April third, so get into these maps and check out the adventure before it’s too late.
Fortnite Battle Royal iOS Pilot Program Crashed Website
Ok so maybe it did not break internet but the release of the Fortnite Battle Royal iOS Pilot Program sign up has caused problems and brought the official site down to its knees!
I have an iPad so I did try and get on, as did my son who has an iPhone, but neither of us had any luck in getting the site to load. There must be a ton of people looking to sign up for this and it is no wonder why as Fortnite Battle Royal is one of the biggest free to play games in years.
We all knew it would be popular on mobile but to this degree? I am not so sure. It is a pure lottery system if you get to take part. Epic has said that it is going to be pure luck on if you get accepted to take part or not. Do not worry if like me, you could not get on right away as they have said that more invites will be sent out at a later date.
While all the focus is on the iOS version of Fortnite Battle Royal, it is worth noting that in the coming months it is also going to be coming to Android mobile devices. Which I think is very interesting as Android is very easy to hack so it will be intriguing to see what the community there will be like.
Epic has said that the Fortnite that we will be playing on our mobile devices is the same Fortnite that we have been enjoying on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. What I am most interested to see is just how well the game will translate to touchscreen controls.
Should Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 Have A Battle Royal Mode
Should Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 Have A Battle Royal Mode?
As I am always on the hunt for news on what is coming in the world of Call Of Duty, I was pretty blown away by what I have read today and that is the possibility of a battle royal mode coming to Call Of Duty!
We all know that and are killing it right now, these games not only have millions of people playing them, but they are the most popular games on Twitch right now.
Well according to they are very aware of this and have an eye on the Battle Royal genre. This was said to a group of investors. Now to be fair they did not come out and say that there is the talk of adding a Battle Royal mode to Call Of Duty Black Ops 4, but unless they have some new IP that we do not know of, what other game from could possibly have a Battle Royal mode in 2018?
I may be reading a lot into this, but like most companies love money and they know that right now the money train is Battle Royal modes. I think adding a Battle Royal style game mode to Call Of Duty Black Ops would be a great idea. Maybe it would not be ready at launch and to be honest I do not feel that they would need it, but as an update, released after the holiday rush of sales, I think it could shift a ton more copies of the game!
Who knows, may even decide to have a Call Of Duty Battle Royal free to play game in the same style as .. that would be huge!
Is Fortnite Battle Pass Worth The Money
Fortnite Battle Pass is it Worth The Money
I have been having a blast playing Fortnite Battle Royale on the PlayStation 4 (I am meaning to start a game on Xbox One too!) and I wanted to talk to you guys about the Battle Pass.
Fortnite Battle Royale is a free to play game and I would go as far to say one of the fairest free to play games on the market. The Battle Pass which costs around ten bucks is there for players who want that little bit more, but at the same time, it does not give them an edge over players who are strictly free to play. This is the way things should be done….take note Star Wars Battlefront II!
I think the Battle Pass is certainly worth the money. For one thing, I am more than happy to support a game I believe in, but I feel the content you are getting is pretty sweat. If you are into getting cool cosmetic items (the space gear, in particular, is cool) the Fortnite Season pass is ideal for you.
What really seals the deal for me though is the extra challenges that the Fortnite Battle Bass gives you that I love it for. The new challenges that are given each week add an extra element of fun and challenge to the game that keep it fresh. The Battle Pass challenges are great in that they force you to try different things, not just drop in the same place, try different weapons, take more risks and so on. It is awesome when you achieve one and you did not even mean to!
I honestly think that the Fortnite Battle Pass is well worth the money, more so for the extra challenges than the funny loot that you get.
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MLM152: It Comes Down to Hard Work 0
In this episode, I get to sit down with Adam Smith, President and Founder of Colorado Real Estate Finance Group, a commercial and residential real estate finance firm. In 2017, he and his team handled 470 transactions and $150 million in production. He shares his secret to success — hard work and perseverance, as well as why it’s so important to build and maintain relationships with clients, prospects and leads. Tune in to find out more!
[:38] Jennifer introduces her guest for this episode — Adam Smith.
[2:48] What is Adam’s average loan amount?
[3:30] How did Adam get started in this business in 2005? How did he survive the credit crunch subsequently?
[7:18] Adam and Jennifer share their thoughts on entrepreneurs.
[8:15] What are some things Adam has done in his career that have really turned the tables for him?
[12:50] Adam explains more about the non-transactional calls he makes.
[17:22] How does Adam use Outlook as his CRM system?
[22:26] Adam shares more about his process for following up and his different touch points.
[26:52] What are Adam’s tips for getting started on reaching out to your database?
[30:24] To what extent does Adam have a conversation with a client?
[32:54] What does Adam include as part of his video content?
[36:23] How often does Adam meet with Realtors®? What does Adam’s daily routine look like?
[39:19] What is Adam’s advice for loan originators who don’t have a team they can rely on?
[44:09] Looking back on his career, what would Adam do differently?
[46:14] What does the future look like for Adam?
[50:05] What is the one thing that continues to surprise Adam after all these years about what other originators are doing?
[56:24] What is Adam reading right now?
Jennifer Du Plessis
Launch! Take Your Business to New Heights,
by Jennifer Du Plessis on Amazon
Mortgage Revolution 2018
Call Adam Smith: 303-770-2262
Books by Ryan Stewman
The School of Get Shit Done: How Imperfect Action Leads to Success in Life and Business, by Chad Prior
4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris
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Sergio Roitberg
Sergio Roitberg is an innovative entrepreneur who founded Newlink in 1998 out of his home in Miami Beach.
Under his leadership, the company has grown to become an internationally recognized consulting firm that operates with 350+ employees across the Americas.
Sergio, author of the book "Expuestos", is the brain behind Newlink. He believes that today’s hyper-connected climate presents a challenge to organizations and individuals, constantly exposing them to the scrutiny of the public eye. Sergio created his own proprietary consulting methodology, Orbital Thinking, to help clients navigate this ever-changing landscape and harness the power of change.
Prior to founding Newlink, he was an award-winning news anchor, correspondent and producer for international television networks. Milestones in his journalism career include positions with CNN and CBS Telenoticias, and other key Latin American broadcast outlets including Radio Continental and channels 13,11, 9 and 7 in Argentina, TV Nacional in Chile, and RCN in Colombia.
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SHOCKING! Some Nigerian Workers Still Get Paid 6,000 Naira Minimum Wage
"Governor Abdulaziz Yari’s non-compliance with the 18,000-naira minimum wage, was the real reason he is obstructing the actualisation of the proposed 30,000-naira minimum wage"
If you thought that 18,000 naira minimum was unsustainable, how about some Nigerian workers who still get paid 6,000 naira per month?
That is the fate of some local government workers in Zamfara state who are said to be the worst paid in Nigeria.
They still earn less than $20, about 7,200 per month as minimum wage.
This is a far cry from the 18,000 naira set nationally.
Ibrahim Khaleel who is the National President Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) made the alarming revelation in Abuja, ahead of the 40th anniversary of the union.
Also Read: MINIMUM WAGE: 5 Things 22,500 Naira Can Never Buy
Khaleel said Governor Abdulaziz Yari’s non-compliance with the 18,000-naira minimum wage, was the real reason he is obstructing the actualisation of the proposed 30,000-naira minimum wage.
Khaleel, who is also the National Treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), insisted that the low-earning power of Zamfara residents was responsible for the rising insecurity in the state.
The labour leader noted that as long as the workers were not well paid, there would be no peace in the state.
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Departmental Examinations
1. LGO examination to PA / SA cadre will be held on 6.11.2009
2. Inspector Posts examination will be held from 04-01-2010 to 06-01-2010
PLI funds to be invested in market.
Speaking to press persons after inaugurating the modenised General Post Office at Banagluru on Monday (7.9.09), Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy, Secretary (Posts) said that starting from october, 1 funds collected under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) would remain with India Post and would not be moved to the Ministry of Finance like earlier. This fund will be invested in the market, as directed by a board constituted to take care of the safety of public money. State Bank of India and UTI Bank have been appointed fund managers, said Ms. Doraiswamy.
Explaining the other initiatives, she said that Post Offices in towns and cities would soon have ATMs. The department had appointed Accenture to provide technology solutions. This, said Ms. Doaiswamy, was part of the Prime Minister's 100-day programme.
Railway booking facility will also be provided in 5,000 post offices. Ms. Doraiswamy said that India Post would acquire two aircraft of its own to improve cargo services.
(Source: 'The Hindu' dt. 8.9.09)
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InPeru, Photography, Puno, Subway Handle, Travel
March 23, 2019ByNY See You Later
See You Later, Lake Titicaca, Peru 🇵🇪
Here are tips for planning your visit to Lake Titicaca, Peru, recommended by Emille, from NY See You Later.
The largest lake in South America—Lake Titicaca—also holds the distinction of being the “highest navigable lake” in the world for commercial vessels. Crossing the borders of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes Mountains, at an elevation of 12,507 feet, or 3,812 meters, this massive body of water never warms beyond 57 °F (14 °C).
Underwater temple ruins were discovered in the year 2000, which sounds like the subject of an amazing scuba quest. After visiting, though, it was our impression that the water is too cold and murky to attempt an exploratory scuba diving adventure—which could explain the absence of dive shops. The international archeologists who made the discovery believe that the ruins were constructed by the Tiwanaku people prior to the Incan occupation.
Although we didn’t witness any wildlife firsthand, it is said that the giant lake is a refuge to several wildlife species, including the Chilean flamingo and Titicaca grebe—a threatened flightless bird, along with more than five hundred species that reside under its surface.
We were very excited for our Puno stop as we booked a homestay on the islands—the “floating islands”—we thought. Emille loves recommending places to see and visit, but we felt that Puno was more touristy than expected. There are some disingenuous things about most destinations, but Puno has more than expected and it left a disappointing taste in our mouths.
We learned about how the Uros, or Uru, people created the floating islands from layers of totaro reeds and earth so that they could live safely away from their hostile land-dwelling neighbors. They said that their ancestors, originally from the Amazon, attempted to settle on the banks of Lake Titicaca, but were prevented by the locals. The floating reed islands could be positioned toward the center of the lake, occupying an “out of sight, out of mind” position.
They cut the reeds and layer them atop of their manmade floating islands. The demonstration was informative, but we learned that, contrary to their advertising, they no longer live on the islands. It’s an elaborate show devised to pressure tourists into buying handicrafts, which are not made by hand. One of our new friends said that she felt like she might not have been allowed to exit the hut without buying something after a sales pitch.
We made two stops to floating islands and had about an hour and a half of time on the islands including time spent watching demonstrations. This only left thirty minutes in the midday sun for photographs, but we managed to get a few subway handle shots atop a thatched watchtower and with new friends from our group.
Third, they don’t get paid a fair wage from the tour companies, so they constantly hustled us for tips. The travelers in our group were a lot of fun, so that made this excursion more fun, and we witnessed one breathtaking sunset. We learned about the interesting dating customs and attire that indicates their relationship status on Taquile Island. Learning about their culture was enlightening, but our group agreed that the whole experience felt like a production for tourists.
Our biggest disappointment was that our lodging was at a hostel on land, which confused our entire group, as we all had expected to stay in a thatched hut on a floating island. The majority of our day on the floating islands was spent in transit on a motorboat.
We learned that they don’t receive a fair wage from the tour companies, so they constantly hustled us for tips. The travelers in our group were a lot of fun, so that made this excursion more enjoyable, and we witnessed one truly breathtaking sunset. We learned about the interesting dating customs and attire that indicates one’s relationship status on Taquile Island.
Learning about the ancient cultures and customs was enlightening, but our group agreed that the whole experience felt like a production for tourists. Overall, it was an interesting excursion to a remote location, but a bit spoiled by tourism.
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Yesterday afternoon our local MP, Jo Cox, was murdered in our own local area. She was out and about in her local constituency doing her job and helping people in her own home town. This horrific murder has left us all shocked to the core. Not only because it is not the kind of thing that any of us expect to happen nor is it what politics is about, but also because we knew Jo. She was our local MP, a local “lass”.
Jo was tirelessly doing her job for her constituents. She believed in equality for all, she fought for victims of violence and injustice. In her first speech in the House of Commons she said –
“While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than the things that divide us.”
Jo had worked for charities including Oxfam before she became an MP and had spoken up for several campaigns. Members of the choir met with her some weeks ago and she told us about the Commission that she was launching in September to combat Isolation and Loneliness within communities. She described her work and her goals with commitment, passion and determination. Here was a woman that would get things done! Her drive was amazing!
Jo was interested in what we were doing as a choir and listened intently to us as we explained the benefits that singing can bring to people. She supported what we were aiming to achieve and recognised that the improvements in health and wellbeing provided through singing would help in her campaign against isolation and loneliness in communities. Jo suggested that we visit Westminster to sing to MPs! A daunting prospect for us, but she believed that we could and would do it and so she was arranging it for later in the year.
What struck us all was her amazing energy, enthusiasm, and her belief that we can all work together to make the world a better place. Jo really cared about people.
We may not always see eye to eye with each other nor with the views of our MPs, but Jo was an exceptional person, working hard for others and speaking up for those that do not always have a voice. She wanted to do the right thing, she was committed to Yorkshire and its people. Jo was a “proud Yorkshire lass” who achieved her dream of representing her home town.
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RIP Jo Cox. Our parliament and the world will be a poorer place without you. we are proud that we met you and that you were our MP.
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Recent Advances in Molecular Genetic Linkage Maps of Cultivated Peanut
Guo, B and Pandey, M K and He, G and Zhang , X and Liao , B and Culbreath , A and Varshney, R K and Nwosu, V and Wilson, R F and Stalker , H T (2013) Recent Advances in Molecular Genetic Linkage Maps of Cultivated Peanut. Peanut Science, 40 (2). pp. 95-106. ISSN 0095-3679
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The competitiveness of peanuts in domestic and global markets has been threatened by losses in productivity and quality that are attributed to diseases, pests, environmental stresses and allergy or food safety issues. Narrow genetic diversity and a deficiency of polymorphic DNA markers severely hindered construction of dense genetic maps and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in order to deploy linked markers in marker-assisted peanut improvement. The U.S. Peanut Genome Initiative (PGI) was launched in 2004, and expanded to a global effort in 2006 to address these issues through coordination of international efforts in genome research beginning with molecular marker development and improvement of map resolution and coverage. Ultimately, a peanut genome sequencing project was launched in 2012 by the Peanut Genome Consortium (PGC). We reviewed the progress for accelerated development of peanut genomic resources in peanut, such as generation of expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) (252,832 ESTs as December 2012 in the public NCBI EST database), development of molecular markers (over 15,518 SSRs), and construction of peanut genetic linkage maps, in particular for cultivated peanut. Several consensus genetic maps have been constructed, and there are examples of recent international efforts to develop high density maps. An international reference consensus genetic map was developed recently with 897 marker loci based on 11 published mapping populations. Furthermore, a high-density integrated consensus map of cultivated peanut and wild diploid relatives also has been developed, which was enriched further with 3693 marker loci on a single map by adding information from five new genetic mapping populations to the published reference consensus map
Arachis hypogaea, Arachis species, genomics, genetic maps, molecular markers, molecular breeding, Peanut Genome Consortium (PGC)
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http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/7732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3146/PS13-03.1
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We would like to express our appreciation to U.S. Peanut Industries and the leadership of the Peanut Foundation and American Peanut Council, particularly to Howard Valentine for his efforts to make this PGI and PGC a reality. We also thank Dr. Howard Shapiro of Mars Inc. for initiating discussions with BGI and opening the way for collaborations with Chinese researchers. We are grateful for the financial support from USDAARS, Peanut Foundation, Georgia Peanut Commission and U.S. National Peanut Board, Mars Inc., Chinese genome collaborators (Henan Academy of Ag. Sci., Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Ag. Sci., and Hi-Tech Center of Shandong Academy of Ag. Sci.), National Fund of the Basic and Strategic Research in Agriculture (NFBSRA) of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), and
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Updated Spring 2006 - What Marvel Lady Should Nightcrawler be With?
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Post by Angelique » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:48 pm
Ya think? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. *prays for atheist writers*
I think a talented enough writer can write a religious character well and respectfully even if he or she happens to be an atheist. Even a not-so-talented writer can pull it off if he or she does thorough enough research and has enough respect for the character and the character's background.
What we have instead are examples of people simply not caring about sensible character development. We have Kurt being a very prayerful, devout Catholic... who then beds his foster sister... and again after he finds out she's his foster sister... beds a baddie just because he's lonely and she's there... says he never even goes to church...then enters the seminary... and demonstrates an occassionally abysmal understanding of his faith's teachings and practices even when he thought he was a priest, then smooches one lady while he has eyes for the lady his best friend is dating.... AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!!!!
One reason why I think it would be a good thing to find Ms. Right for Kurt and have them marry and stay married is that it could very well spell the end of such convoluted crap.
(Surprisingly, I have little to no complaint about the times when he gets angry with God, and tells God all about it. A more obvious sign that his faith is weakening is when he decides there's no point in talking to a god that doesn't care or doesn't exist.)
[Edited on 27/3/06 by Angelique]
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Post by Confizzle » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:57 pm
Originally posted by Angelique
That doesn't mean he's given up on trying to be a better Catholic, though. And consider that he made a stab at the priesthood, celibacy, and all that afterward... no, once a fornicator doesn't mean always a fornicator.
And, of course, I could cite those affairs as examples of Marvel simply not thinking these things through.
It seems that just how devout a Catholic Kurt is doesn't depend on logical development of character, but just on what the writer's mood is at the moment.
Oh, and I've seen the movies. And I've also had some real-world experience going through a lot of stuff with people.
Hey, if sticking together through hell and high water is enough to ensure a solid relationship, I would have married my bipolar ex-fiance who refused to take his meds, because I was there for him through the fallout of his divorce from his abusive, unfaithful, ex-wife, I was there for him when he started recovering memories of childhood abuse, he was there for me and my family when my grandfather died and my brother's kidney problems were diagnosed.... Make no mistake- there was a definite bond, not easily broken there. But we would have been miserable if we remained together.
I believe that Kurt remains a devout Catholic in some aspects, but when he gets too devout he usually gets angsty. Also I can cite Kurt becoming a priest as Marvel not thinking things through, it was pretty much from what I've read "Ooohh...let's make Kurt a Priest" where as most of his "affairs" were a nice part of the storyline".
The level of devotion to a religion changes with writers in other people than Kurt, I mean sometimes Kitty acts very Jewish and sometimes she doesn't that part of the difference of the writers.
I really doubt that you can compare real life relationships to comic book relationships, cause they don't make sense. I mean it comic books we got Cyclops marrying the clone of his dead girlfriend, then dumping her when his dead girlfriend isn't dead anymore. We got Professor X in a relationship with an Empress from an intergalatic empire, it doesn't make sense, I mean I'm supporting a couple consisting of a blue furry demon and the alternate daughter of Scott and Jean who has the Phoenix force in her, it doesn't make sense, so in conclusion if Chewbacca lived on Endor you must acquit, oops wrong agruement.
Out of curiosity how many people have I convinced that Kurt/Rachel is an okay pairing?
Added in to respone to Ang's latest post:
All right....is it that difficult to imagine that Kurt had feeling for Rachel while he also had feeling for Storm....I'm just asking cause you seem to just think that it was a mistake on Kurt's part, and while it may have been there is still proof that he had his eyes on both Storm and Rachel.
We all know that marrying comic characters off just adds more convulted crap into the arena, look at Scott and Jean.
Who is to say that what Kurt has gone thru is not sensible character devlopment, from what I've seen it's about the level of oddity with every other Marvel character.
[Edited on 3/27/2006 by confusedelf]
Well, just because other comic book relationships make crap for sense doesn't mean we shoudn't ask for better.
I think a Kurt/Rachel ship makes more sense than Amanda or Anjulie, but that's not saying much.
Look Kurt/Rachel could make more sense than any other pairing in the Marvel Universe, and still that wouldn't be saying much....
Here are some examples of the lack of thought put into some of Kurt's previous relationships....
Kurt/Kyrmi: In X-Men:The End they are married, this makes little sense, I mean in EX #16 Kyrmi shows a far greater amount of interest in Alistare than in Kurt, and also how did she get across dimensions just to marry her doppleganger?
Kurt/Storm: Alright in the comic canon Storm has shown little or no interest in Kurt until UXM #445, now this can be an agruement againest Kurt/Rachel as the first interest there was in UXM #450, anyway even when she showed some interest in Kurt he was playing second fiddle to Logan, whereas Rachel only had eyes for him. Storm was too busy with Forge in the 80's, Wolvy just recently, and now T'Challa to really be a good choice for Kurt.
Kurt/Cerise: Cerise was to be Kurt's girlfriend permenatly, but even if it was an interesting couple it made little sense, Cerise is a Shi'ar who lost her way and ended up having to learn the ropes on Earth well Kurt taught her and ended up in a relationship, well at least till she was arrested.
Now another Marvel romance that made little sense.
Captain Britan/Meggan: What we got here is a guy, who is a jerk and alcholic, taking in this creature(Meggan) and lets it sit around and watch t.v. all day, now when Meggan manages to shapeshift into a stacked blonde, now the Cap is interested.....the rest of Excalibur had to teach Meg to read while Brian was drinking or ignoring her, and yet she still called him "love" which always creeped me out.
So as my examples say MU romances rarely make sense.
That's why I think Christine's the best of a pretty bad lot, but I still stand by my vote for "anyone but them"- simply because Marvel needs to improve character development and put some more thought into their relationships besides "they're both hot and/or powerful. Let's pair them up!"
Well if you disprove of every female on this list, I guess Kurt could always be gay.....would you support Kurt/Logan or Kurt/Colossus...
Most comic books are marketed to teenagers and we want to see action, adventure, Psylocke in her lack of a costume, we don't want no stinking character development . But really most of these characters have been around since the 80's and they have been developed and then some.
We can only speculate if your "They're hot, They're powerful, let's pair em up" theorem is true, we have no idea what is going on in the writers heads ,but I'm sure that there are reasons for every couple that are more complicated than that.
And why is it that comics continue to be marketed to teenagers, anyway, when it seems more and more people buying the books are- erm- 30-somethings, sometimes with spouses and kids of our own? And many of the characters are in their mid- to late 20's or thereabouts- age when a lot of people pick one person and have a baby or two.
The success of The Incredibles is proof positive that there is a demand for comic book heroes that juggle adventure with normal everyday 40-something married couple-with-kids responsibilities.
Post by Confizzle » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:46 pm
Ummm....yeah....I'd buy a comic that had adventures with kids....I can see the title now.
Read as the Uncanny X-Men fight their greatest enemy, Colic.
Yeah, really riviting, why do you think that most kids they have in the comicverse are full grown from alternate realities or are sent into the future....cause they can't make a good storyline that often....
Aren't most 30-50 year olds that still buy comics the comic book geeks that bought them in the 70's and 80's ? I'm just asking....
The Incredible's were succesful but I'm not sure if the X-Men or other Marvel comics could pull it off....
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Post by NachtcGleiskette » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:54 pm
Wait...are you talking about the Incredibles the cartoon movie??
And there have been plently of married super heros over the years. Reed and Sue Richards? As mentioned, Jean and Scott, Wanda and Vision, Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym (right? or did I name the wrong guy?) and thats just what I know from Marvel...
The biggest problem with marrying two characters, is that you then limit the kinds of stories that can be told with them. I understand the "but a good writer should be able to-" and if only one writer had to worry about writing these characters, he'd have the time to truly develop a relationship that would eventually lead to a healthy, strong and long lasting marriage. The problem? Writers change frequently, and in the X-books, so do characters. Let's say that a writer married Kurt off with Rachel, right? Now, that writer is long gone, and something like Reload happens, and the current Uncanny writer decides he wants to keep Rachel, but someone else wants to take Kurt and write him in a book set in Australia or something. Now, how do we handle that, now that these characters are married?
X books are tougher than books like F4 and the Avengers, because there are SO many spinoffs, and therefor characters can be split all the time. The only definate that ever existed was Scott and Jean. And even THAT has been split, numerous times. The fact is, due to this, it's just not logical to make any "permanent" pairings with characters, because a new writer will eventually come in, and retcon the whole thing....it's not a matter of poor writers, its a matter of instability within the genre....
Its just a fact of comics. It's the way things are. And honestly, I dont see many fanboys clamoring to get characters married...
[Edited on 28/3/06 by NachtcGleiskette]
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Post by kurt_the_quick » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:17 pm
Originally posted by NachtcGleiskette
yeah, those are all right. Wanda/Vision, Jean/Scott and Janet/Hank are all broken up right now.
Spider-Man/Mary Jane and Reed/Sue Richards are the only two married couples I can think of that have not had lasting seperations. and MJ is not a superhero, so I guess it's just Reed and Sue.
Post by Angelique » Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:42 pm
>it's not a matter of poor writers, its a matter of instability within the genre...
I would not blame the genre. No matter how often writers change, if the writers and editors had respect for continuity, they could pull it off.
And I thought an increasing number of the comic book buying public doesn't exactly fit the "fanboy" description. How many of us here, for instance, are adult women?
Post by NachtcGleiskette » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:10 pm
Then fans in general. In fact, there's been nothing but annoyance at the Storm/Black Panther thing..
Continuity is both good and bad. Plenty of writers do have respect for continuity. They follow it, and try to work through it before they get to their own ideas. But, if we can keep things that will cause continuity issues out of the comics, then all the better for the writers in general.
The fact is, that for a marriage to occur between two characters, there had better be a hell of alot of backstory, a hell of alot leading up to it. And, frankly, writers of X-books just don't stick around long enough to be able to flesh that out. And honestly, how much time has passed in Marvel time? 7-8 years at most? Thats whats so "brilliant" about having children visit from AU's and futures (and I am using brilliant very very liberally here. Generally, its stupid, but here's the one good thing it does:) is that it shows that, yes, these characters will eventually find happiness and stability in a lasting relationship. But, even then, they don't last.....Kurt didnt end up with Amanda, as Days of future past would suggest..
The whole point is comics are confusing enough, without throwing all this in. And you want Kurt married? Write a fan fic about it. That's the beauty of fan fic....when you want to see your fav character in a situation that would not normally occur, you can.
And, please, Angelique. We've asked you to use the quotes numerous times.
Post by Confizzle » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:10 pm
I don't see many fangirls clamoring for Kurt to be married, either, and you have to admit a large percentage of people on here are women, because...ohhh....this is a site about Nightcrawler who's fanbase has to be about 60-80 % women, if you go somewhere like X-dream or Comicxfan then you will find that there are more fanboys around. Why do you think Emma Frost had that tiny costume in New X-Men, fanboys, Psylocke in that lack of costume, fanboys, and fanboys have control over a good portion of the comic book market, using the people here at Nightscrawlers as an example of what makes up the comic book market is unfair and bias.
That's the unfortunate thing about fanfic vs. canon.
Even if fanfic is rarely well-written, there are some ficcers that demonstrate a better grasp of character development, plot, and continuity than some "professionals" do.
And we can read fic for free! (Which is why I do indeed read fic more often than I buy books.)
In fanfiction you get what you pay for, nothing, nearly all of fanfiction is absolute garabage, there is a far better chance of finding a good comic book than a good fanfiction. Most ficcers charcter development for Kurt consists of Angst or other crap like that, most plots are cookie cutter, also we can't really say that ficcers would perform better on a comic book than the people actually writing it, we can only speculate.....but I guess we are getting off topic here, so to get back on topic Kurt/Rachel rules...
Post by chicory » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:44 pm
I'm fine with Nightcrawler being married and having a family. But, like Nacht said, only if there's lots of back-story leading up to it. And those stories probably do work better in What If books and alternate dimensions. Fanfic is great for that too, if well-written - fans often have a better grasp on a character than a writer who's new to a book.
Settling a character down, like Cyclops with Maddie, makes that character less interesting because it's no longer a mystery how they end up. But, when they try to remedy that by breaking the partnership up they often make one party (Scott) look like an @ss.
Spaz> I don't think he had time to be a priest. But, wasn't there a six month gap where he started to attend seminary with the intention of becoming a priest? He was tricked into thinking he actually was one - but it wasn't secret knowledge that he was studying.
As for the the security guard - maybe he watches that VH1 Behind the Heroes too and heard that Kurt had left the X-men for a time because of that. (Wonder where they got their sources? Nightcrawler was telling everyone who would listen that he was a priest - and about how part of priest training apparently is how to deliver babies )
And yeah maybe Father Whitney was an alcoholic before he met Kurt. (But, mentoring him didn't help )
Kim, the thai girl who is still staying at the church checks out the noise and is startled by the sight of a blue devil, but Father Whitney calms her down and takes her inside. Kurt apologizes to his friend for having startled their guest, but Whitney says that his quest is no excuse for his behavior. While the Father drinks from a hip flask, Kurt says he is close to finishing it, though the priest says that it is far from over. The slaves face an uncertain future either way. Kurt says that he will take out the leader and shut down his organization, but Whitney wants to know how things will proceed afterwards and takes another drink.
Kurt finally voices his concern about the amount of alcohol his friend is consuming. Whitney explains it as him being tired. Tired of preaching in an empty church and of mentoring a student priest who spends most of his time beating up people. Kurt says that he is trying to do his duty, but the priest says that if that were the case he should start a literacy program, or feed the homeless, but leave the international crime syndicates to the pros. Nightcrawler asks to whom, the police, the government, the Fantastic Four ? They all seem to have other priorities, and the unwanted people have to suffer for it. Kurt thinks that since he has been gifted with his mutant power, he should use it, and Whitney agrees, but also he reminds him that he is not God.
From UXN - Father Whitney was a decent character in that series - although, at the time, I did read that as though Kurt was driving him to drink.
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Post by Angelique » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:38 pm
I only think settling a character down makes a character less interesting if the writer subscribes to the notion that a wedding means the end of a story, or that a spouse is just a ball and chain.
I think Cyclops is a bad example, because I never found him a very interesting character to begin with. And I think his marriage was handled badly because after so long- his and Jean's whole relationship was defined by how they weren't married... yet. Of course getting married would put the kibbosh on that.
I liked reading Spiderman in part, because Peter and MJ face the same difficulties normal happily-weds face, all of course compounded as realistically as possible by the fact that he's a superhero. Getting married, even being happily married, never means in real life and doesn't have to mean in well written fiction "happily ever after- that's it folks. Close the book now. Story's over."
Completely doing away with the notion that a marriage has to be "happily ever after," without resorting to tactics like repeatedly killing off and resurrecting a spouse, evil ex-wife trying to kill the kid, infidelity with the newest hot telepath on the team, or other unnecessarily drastic measures can only stand to improve comic writing.
Otherwise, someone may have to remind me why I read comics instead of watching soap operas.
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Post by idsunki » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:19 pm
Hate to break it to you, but comic books are soap operas with super powers. At least most traditional comics are - especially X-Men.
Take care, I've gotta catch up on my stories.
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Post by The Drastic Spastic » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:02 pm
Originally posted by chicory
Yes, it was! There is a scene where he mentions it at an X-Men meeting and everyone else is like... WTF??? And he's like, but you all came to my ceremony! I remember it! You! Scott! You were there! And Scott's like, bogus.
I'll find the page and post it.
I was off a little on the dialogue. Dun dun daaaah!
[Edited on 29-3-2006 by The Drastic Spastic]
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Post by kurt_the_quick » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:53 pm
Originally posted by idsunki
yeah, we're basically reading soaps. I love "space opera" which is basically soaps in space also. and sci-fi channel recently aquired the rights to some soap. *shrugs* I'd like to say the stuff I read and watch has better writing than soaps, but honestly I read and watch some wretched stuff. we all have our indulgences.
Originally posted by The Drastic Spastic
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Post by Confizzle » Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:43 am
If you look really hard and squint just right you can see a tiny Kurt/Rachel moment in UXM #471 , well I guess you can.
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Post by elfofdoom » Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:41 am
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Post by Confizzle » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:16 pm
Do you mean Jean or Rachel?
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Post by Blue_Demon94 » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:00 pm
It was a pretty obvious Kurt/rachel moment, though it was handled wrong.. I didn't care for this issue very much (it was too rushed and I was expecting to see Lilandra and everything).. it could've been better, but overall it was okay:rolleyes:bamf
Post by Confizzle » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:10 am
Yeah, Kurt did look a little stiff, but altogether it was an okay comic, a B-.
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Stories from….A Western
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tories from… is a way of telling stories. Three performers and two audience participants tell a story together. Images are weaved together by the performers manipulating the surroundings and manoeuvring the participants. The images tie together to tell the story, any story can be told, no words need be said.
Stories from the Wild West utilises this format to tell a classic Western tale, complete with a villain, a heroe and a damsel (of sorts). It is a piece designed for children and adults alike and is one of our most accessible and fun projects.
The story goes as follows…
Oakstown is a town in peril, the playground of a villainous scoundrel. When the Sheriffs daughter is abducted, a line is crossed. In rides our Hero, the fastest gun in the west. A Knight Errant of the Old West. Set to original songs from The Oakstown Crooners, watch the timeless battle between right and wrong unfold.
“Welcome my friends to Oakstown – a town that’s rather down on it’s luck
We’re going to tell you the story of Oakstown – and a dastardly rancher named Buck
Now Buck has a whole load of money – but he doesn’t much like sharing it around
He treats all the townsfolk like graybacks and dogs – which makes for a very sorry town
There’s stray dogs and alley cats and bandits all around
There’s always something burning and the houses fall on down
Cos Buck won’t spend a penny of the money he has now
He’s hungry for power in Oakstown”
Stories from the Wild West premiered at on the 26th, 27th and 28th of July at Nozstock Festival
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FATHER OF NATION, INDEED!
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................."Father of the Nation"?
VICHARAMALA no. 76 Oct 25, 2004
Thoughts on issues of current interest [my comments - as an Indian citizen - within square brackets], including instances of some double standards of our public figures, especially in the construction of Indian identity (all those Macaulayan myths, and the hypocrisy that is Nehruvian secularism) - Krishen Kak
[Another Gandhi Jayanti came and went, the newspapers full of government advertisements about the "Father of the Nation". Yes, how many generations of Indians have grown up believing the Mahatma forged us into a nation and secured us our independence. And yet, how much of a myth this is, sedulously fostered by Nehruvian secularism.
This offering analyses the popular title our textbooks repeat for the Mahatma - and you decide for yourself to what extent he truthfully deserves it.
First, "nation" (or "nation-state") - a European invention in the 16th century that steadily matured and peaked in the 19th, and then, at least in the West, began to disintegrate in the 20th - "a continuous, stable territory with an increasingly homogeneous population" and "one source of [centralized] authority" (J Barzun, "From Dawn to Decadence", HarperCollins 2001:239,241,774). Note the parallel to an exclusivism (such as Christianity and Islam). Note too the complete irrelevance of application of this invention to us and our dharma.
Okay, "nation" used loosely and colloquially. The Mahatma still irrelevant, because such "nation" antedates him by thousands of years. By the time of the Mahabharata 5,000 years ago, the Indian "nation" - a spiritual-cultural complex, a civilization - was well in place (only it was then called Bharatavarsha). Recall the Vishnupurana: uttarananyat samudrasya himadrashchaiva dakshinam / varsh tad bharat naam bharati yatra santatih.
Bharatvarsha suffered its ups and downs and, in 1947, thanks in good part to the Mahatma, it suffered a major down in that large portions of it were formally and bloodily cut away from it. Bharatavarsha officially became the Republic of India, and we are taught that we owe our "freedom" to Gandhi who forged us into a nation (and to Nehru, rather than Patel). Hence, Rashtrapita - or Father of the Nation. But, as you can see, patently untrue.
And that he got rid of our British rulers too is as much a myth as that of his fathering our identity. As are myths that ahimsa and satyagraha drove the angrez out.
The British, who should know, went because of Netaji Bose, not Mahatma Gandhi (V'mala 45, 71). Indeed, the British, again who should know, recognize Savarkar as an "Indian patriot" (municipal plaque outside India House in London - BP Singhal, letter, The Pioneer, Oct 7, 2004). As Ram Kumar says, "It is significant that at times the British easily released Gandhi and Nehru unlike Savarkar, who underwent rigorous imprisonment of 11 years. This only goes to show the danger Savarkar posed to the British" (letter, The Pioneer, Sept 23, 2004) - unlike Gandhi and Nehru who weren't much of a danger.
And Roopa Kaushal explains, "Significantly, on Gandhi’s assuming charge of the Congress in 1920 and launching the Khilafat movement, DG Tendulkar writes in his famous treatise, Mahatma (Vol I, p 343): `Around Gandhi, new forces were gathering. The ulema felt that the Muslim divines of India whose collective power and influence had been shattered after the Revolt of 1857 should again come together. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad entered the field...' Gandhi and Nehru were well aware of the real aim of the Maulanas. Even if in doubt, the declaration of Nizam-e-Mustafa (Islamic rule) by the Moplahs in Kerala, the genocide of Hindus, their forcible conversions, and the manner in which the Maulanas defended the Moplahs, were more than enough to dispel it" (letter, The Pioneer, Sept 24, 2004).
But dispel it, it didn't - witness, for example, the unquestioning and total acceptance by the Mahatma of Maulana Muhammad Ali's interpretation of Indian history - that the British were responsible for the Hindu-Muslim "quarrel", and that "we have chapter and verse given to us by Hindu historians and by Mussulman historians that we were living in comparative peace" and that, prior to British rule in India, Hindus and Muslims "in the villages...were not known to quarrel at all" (speech at the Round Table Conference in England on 30-11-1931, quoted in The Pioneer, Sept 26, 2004). One Hindu historian the Mahatma obviously couldn't have read was SR Goel who cites Mussulman chapter and verse extensively that irrefutably establishes the Mussulman understanding of "comparative peace" was very different from that that the Mahatma claimed ("Hindu Temples" , Voice of India, 1998).
The Hindu, Oct 22, 2004 carried a report by Sunny Sebastian that "Author denies link with RSS". Shri Dharampal, now settled in Wardha, found it necessary to "confess" to Gandhian Shri Siddhraj Dhadda and others of the "Gandhian Sarvodaya fraternity" that "hobnobbing" with Shri Govindacharya does not mean "any ideological or organizational relation with RSS".
Wah! Our Nehruvian secularists can hobnob with communists and their helmsmen, with padres and their pope, and with mujahids and their mullahs - three ideologies/organizations whose history is soaked with the blood they shed of millions of nonbelievers - but to meet an RSSwala is to invite excommunication?
The Mahatma was contemptuous of South African Blacks (http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/gandhi.html). That's okay. The Mahatma called Hitler his "beloved brother". That's okay. The Mahatma exculpated Muslim violence against Hindus. That's okay. The Mahatma invited Hindus to glory in their destruction by Muslims. That's okay. But Dharampal meets Govindacharya - and Gandhism rears its secular head in horror.
Today, in our country, above the PMO there is a Super PMO, and above that there is the Supreme PMO. The Supreme PMO is controlled by those whose administration and police killed "thousands" in 1979 in Morichjhapi in West Bengal. Belonging to this ilk is the Speaker of our Lok Sabha who declared he is proud to be a Stalinist. Stalin was a mass murderer before whom even Hitler pales in comparison (U Namboodiri, "Unmask Red terror", The Pioneer, Oct 14, 2004). That's okay. For Gandhians and Nehruvian secularism, the only villain is one who is proudly a Hindu.
That satyagraha and ahimsa obliged the British to leave is now revealed to be a well-executed Nehruvian-secular hoax perpetrated on generations of Indians, especially schoolchildren. That the Mahatma's descendants parrot this hoax is only to be expected, as glory reflecting on them and providing them with an easy means of livelihood.
So that for grandson Arun Gandhi to go to Palestine and recommend this strategy against Israel is a delicious irony, seeing that the grandfather had earlier recommended it to the Jews against the Muslims! Indeed, that the Mahatma's moral stance ("inner voice", "conscience") was often a pretence of his ego and political ambition, supported by the "Gandhi-Nehru camp", is sufficiently evidenced in B Punj, "Remember Jatindra Nath Das?" The Pioneer, Sept 10, 2004.
And grandson Rajmohan Gandhi has "the same commitment " as his grandfather - "For Hindu-Muslim amity I am prepared to pay any price" (The Hindu, MetroPlus supplement, Oct 2, 2004). Like his grandfather did? Read on.....
The Mahatma was a bully in politics (and a bully at home too - V'mala 45, and now his great-granddaughter Uma Dhuphelia-Mesthrie's book, "Gandhi's Prisoner?"). There was no morality about the Mahatma's fasts-unto-death: they were sheer political blackmail. And were given up as soon as those who disagreed with the Mahatma gave in to his coercion. And if indeed there was any morality involved, the Mahatma had no hesitation abandoning it for the sake of political expediency.
Witness the Mahatma deliberately and coldly ignoring the death of Jatin Das, the sole example in the entire Gandhian freedom struggle of the Gandhian fast-unto-death being taken to its logical conclusion (B Punj, op.cit.). Why? Because it would show up the Mahatma's own hypocrisy? You don't believe me?
Witness then the Mahatma's declaration that "Pakistan will be created on my dead body" and thereafter (Nehru and) Gandhi making a total somersault. "While justifying the creation of Pakistan, Nehru said: "We have solved the Muslim problem for all times to come." Gandhi said, "If two brothers cannot live together, let them live separately." They also did not agree to the demand for exchange of population as was visualised earlier. In fact, one of the demands Gandhi made when he went on fast on January 11, 1948, was to stop the migration of Muslims from India to Pakistan, besides giving Rs 55 crore to Pakistan" (V Sagar, "Dangers of appeasement", The Pioneer, Sept 22, 2004).
It is Godse who reminded the country of the Mahatma's bold "on my dead body" declaration - and is now reviled for holding the Mahatma to his self-professed morality.
Ram Gopal quotes Nirad C Chaudhuri, "Partition of India took place because of a combination of three factors: Hindu stupidity in the first instance and Hindu cowardice afterwards; British opportunism; and Muslim fanaticism" ("Fresh look at Partition", The Pioneer, Sept 20, 2004). And to which Hindu does this topi best fit? - why, he who gave his name to it: the Gandhi topi.
Such Hindu stupidity and cowardice continue - manipulated now by the Super PMO and the Supreme PMO. The hollowness of Gandhian ahimsa was on this Gandhi Jayanti itself exploded in the northeast in a devastating dance of death and destruction directly traceable to Nehruvian-secular "votebank politics brazenly practised in the North East but especially in Assam" (http://www.sulekha.com/news/nhc.aspx?cid=405221).
It is therefore that NS Rajaram re-titles the political Gandhi "MAHA-TAMAS (great ignoramus)" (email, Aug 14, 2004).
The epithet is singularly apt because it is Gandhi himself who connected his sexuality (and sex is tamasik, isn't it?) to his politics. He enjoys the intimate ministrations of a woman other than his wife, ministrations earlier performed by Kasturba as "wifely devotion and duty" but allowed now by him to be performed by the other woman even as his wife sits there and "watches mutely" (A Jaiman, "A tale of devotion", The Hindu, Magazine supplement, Oct 17, 2004). He regularly watches "innocent young girls" at their bath. He shares his bed with a young girl. He is "cradled" by middle-aged women and "by having (sometimes naked) women near him at night". If he could control himself, "If I can master this,' the Mahatma is said to have remarked, `I can still beat Jinnah' - that is, prevent the partition of India" (E Erikson, "Gandhi's Truth", Norton: 1969:237,403-404). There is a technical term for this - "shunamitism". Psychoanalysts go to elaborate lengths to rationalize and exculpate Gandhi's shunamitism because, after all, he is the Mahatma. But you try doing what he did, and how much will you bet that you will not just be called "sick" and "a dirty old man", but that you might even end up in a complaint to the National Commission for Women ("Dirty-old peeping Tom harassing women", The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2004).
And, of course, unlike his preaching to others to die for a basic belief, he preferred Partition (and hundreds of thousands of others dying in consequence) to his keeping his word of his own death first.
Finally, check out http://members.tripod.com/nsrajaram/gandhi.html . "Father of the Nation" indeed! My case rests.]
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Afsan Chowdhury
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018
On the 2nd anniversary of the Holey Artisan attack it is time to take a stock of the lessons learnt or not learnt at all. The problems of Violent Extremism are many. Not only do they create their own massive problems, they also create responses which give rise to more crisis. Once it touches society or the state, it doesn’t disappear entirely nor are its manifestations limited to armed confrontations between groups. Fertile grounds for breeding violence and extremism of all sorts are also very significant.
Countering and preventing VE
Since the occurrence of the Holey Artisan attack, a lot of work has been done in several fields ranging from direct neutralization of the armed violent extremists to research and capacity building. This includes community based work for peace building, tolerance promotion and education against all forms of Extremism. While they are not large scale interventions, they have begun to show results.
Research shows that people are inherently against violence and extremism both. There is no support for such causes and communities are keen to promote values that have sustained such societies for many years.
Yet VE does occur and we see that happening. Police action after the Holey Artisan attack has however nearly wiped them off. However, law enforcers say that they have been significantly crippled but are not wholly finished. This is usually the case as the patterns elsewhere also show that there are various stages of VE. There is the preparatory phase, the planning and execution phase, the peak phase and finally the countering and mop up phase. Most experts think that we are in the last phase.
That doesn’t mean that the threat is over but that it’s vastly reduced. Yet the need to look at the situation to ensure that this remains in the final stage and that there is no resurgence is very important. This battle is long term and is about the stamina and the ability of societies to create environments which are peace and tolerance friendly. But as research shows, we take such situations far too lightly and often end up going back a stage or two.
A systemic conflict?
Where then should the focus be if we live in a society where social structures are more inclusive but political structures are less so? How do we negotiate the potential for conflict between the social and the political world that can often create corridors through which terrorism walks in? Most importantly, how do we get most of the people who matter on the same page about the importance of conflict resolution.
Bangladesh was a product of a violent birth whose scars still continue to fester. As any historian will note, society’s capacity to withstand violent and suffering was tested to the very limits during the war. It’s a sign of its extreme ability that it survived such pressures and managed to get back on its injured feet and wounded body.
But the problem lies with the managers of power and by extension the tools used to obtain and sustain power. A lot of that is in conflict with the traditional values of this society which overcame the horrible sufferings of 1971.
In Bangladesh, the power mongers behave in one way and society behaves in another and that is where the major problem is. Society by its very nature is far more inclusive, built as they are around multiplicity since societies are inherently so.
The toxic legacy
But our power system is such that in the last 47 years , we have more or less lived on the edge of constant violence. We are unable to find ways to contain and curtail a whole menu of conflicts. No one can look at our collective political life and claim that we have solved the riddle of how to live together.
We have not learnt that very important lesson about peace and tolerance nor have shown interest in wanting to learn. Conflict driven paradigms have become the brand of politics itself. Peaceful politics has departed from our imagination.
This puts society at a position which makes its survival as an inherently peaceful construct very difficult indeed. The language which social institutions use and those political ones do is so different that neither understands each other. The result is a breakdown and society is retreating from close contact with politics as it’s a threat to its being.
But societies can’t survive without political state. However, the idiom of the state is used by a limited few with much less contact with social beings. Perhaps this alienation is the most violent reality we have.
As we observe the two years since the horrible night and day when many died and social imaginations were damaged so badly, let us hope we learn the lesson that peace and tolerance are essential not just for living but countering merchants of death.
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Canelo vs Chavez HBO Fight Live Stream Free 2017
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One of the biggest boxing matches in years is set to take place on Saturday when lineal middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez faces off against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. There will be a big payday and not a whole lot else on the line outside of pride. A whole lot of pride.
Saturday’s fight is being put on by Golden Boy Promotions, and is set to begin on Saturday, May 6 at 9 p.m. ET from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The card will be available via HBO pay-per-view in the United States, with a live stream available via Golden Boy.
The undercard for the bout will include three big fights. David Lemieux will take on Marcos Reyes, Lucas Matthysse will face Emmanuel Taylor, and unbeaten featherweights Joseph Diaz Jr. and Manuel Avila will also fight. There will be a preliminary card prior to the pay-per-view card that involves even more fights, which will be streamed live on YouTube.
Alvarez, 26, has 48 wins and just one career loss. He’s won 34 of his 50 fights via knockout, and also has a draw on his record. His only career loss came to Floyd Mayweather Jr. back in Sept. 2014, where he lost the WBA (Unified), WBC and The Ring light middleweight titles.
Since that fight, Alvarez has dusted four fighters through knockout, and taken two other decisions.
His opponent has 54 fights to his name, having won 50 of them with two losses, a draw and a no contest. He’s won 32 of his career fights by knockout, and last lost in April 2015 to Andrzej Fonfara. He hasn’t scored a knockout since he dusted Andy Lee in June 2012.
Alvarez should be considered the favorite, especially if Chavez has trouble making weight or has conditioning issues as he’s shown in recent fights. But Chavez at his best could spell bad things for Alvarez.
Below is all you need to know to watch the fight as well as the full fight card.
How to watch Canelo vs. Chavez
Date: Saturday, May 6
Location: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
Time: 7 p.m. ET (preliminary), 9 p.m. ET (PPV)
Online Streaming: HBO PPV
Full fight card
PPV Card
Super middleweight: Canelo Alvarez (48-1-1) vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1)
Middleweight: David Lemieux (37-3) vs. Marcos Reyes (35-4)
Welterweights: Lucas Matthysse (37-4) vs. Emmanuel Taylor (20-4)
Featherweight: Joseph Diaz Jr. (23-0) vs. Manuel “Tino” Avila (22-0)
YouTube preliminary card
Ronny Rios (27-1) vs. Daniel Noriega (30-10-1)
Ryan Garcia (8-0) vs. Tyrone Luckey (8-6-3)
Marlen Esparza (1-0) vs. Samantha Salazar (2-3-1)
Raul Curiel vs. Jesus Sanchez (2-1)
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Wall Street climbed more than 1% on Friday following its worst two-day slide in eight months, with technology and other high-growth stocks leading a fight back.
Wall Street’s two-day slide this week was its worst in eight months, pulling the three major indexes down a little over 5% each, with the Nasdaq narrowly avoiding moving into correction territory.
Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, led by the technology sector’s 3.11% jump, with Microsoft and Apple gaining 3%.
JPMorgan and Wells Fargo reversed earlier gains to tread lower after their quarterly results, while Citigroup was up 1% as its profit topped estimates.
The bank results launch a quarterly reporting season that will give the clearest picture yet of the impact on profits from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
Earnings at S&P 500 companies are estimated to rise 21.3% in the third quarter, a slowdown from the previous two quarters.
US FINANCIAL MARKET
JPMorgan’s consumer banking strength offsets bond trading weakness
JPMorgan Chase reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday as gains from higher interest rates and growth in loans helped the bank offset weakness in bond trading revenue.
All four of JPMorgan’s four main businesses recorded a rise in revenue, with consumer banking posting the biggest jump, as the lender’s diverse business mix helped it weather the ups and downs of its trading business.
The bank’s total revenue rose 5.2% to $27.82 billion.
Net interest income rose 7% to $14.1 billion as the U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates four times since the third quarter last year.
The bank’s average loans were up 6% in the quarter even as higher rates crimped borrowing in areas such as mortgage loans.
Net income rose 24.5% to $8.38 billion, ahead of estimates.
Citigroup profit beats on higher bond trading, LatAm growth
Citigroup reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped by higher bond trading revenue and strength in its consumer banking business in Mexico.
Total revenue was slightly lower at $18.39 billion, compared with $18.42 billion a year earlier.
Bond trading revenue at Citi rose 9%, in sharp contrast to JPMorgan, which reported a 10% drop in bond trading revenue earlier on Friday.
Investment banking revenue fell 8% to $1.2 billion.
Net income for the third-largest U.S. bank by assets rose to $4.62 billion in the third quarter, from $4.13 billion a year earlier.
Wells Fargo quarterly profit falls short of estimates
Wells Fargo posted a quarterly profit that fell short of analysts’ estimates on Friday, as a $13 billion drop in new mortgage borrowing offset the bank’s efforts to cut costs.
Total revenue rose 0.4% to $22 billion, with only community banking showing growth in revenue.
Total loans at the fourth largest U.S. bank by assets fell 1% to $942.3 billion, while net interest margin, a measure of how much a bank earns on its investments, rose to 2.94% from 2.86% in the year-ago quarter.
Net income rose to $5.45 billion in the quarter, from $4.13 billion a year ago. This missed estimates.
PNC Financial reports sluggish loan growth, shares fall
PNC Financial Services beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Friday but loan growth at the U.S. regional bank was sluggish, sending its shares down 3.5% in morning trading.
Revenue increased to $4.4 billion from $4.1 billion a year ago.
PNC posted a meager 2% rise in total loans in the third quarter, compared with a 4% increase in the second quarter.
Net interest income rose 2% to $2.4 billion, helped by higher interest rates, which allow banks to charge more on loans.
PNC’s net income rose 26% to $1.32 billion in the quarter.
GE pushes third-quarter earnings to October 30
General Electric said on Friday it has pushed back its third-quarter earnings release date to Oct. 30 to allow new Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp complete business reviews and site visits.
GE was earlier expected to report on Oct. 25.
Jury clears J&J of liability in New Jersey talc cancer case
A New Jersey jury on Thursday cleared Johnson & Johnson of liability in a case involving a woman who alleged that the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused her cancer.
J&J is facing some 10,600 liability lawsuits across the United States over its talc products, most involving claims that they caused ovarian cancer, and that the company knew of and concealed risks associated with the products.
In April, J&J lost the first trial over such allegations when a jury in New Jersey awarded $117 million to a man suffering from mesothelioma and his wife.
Abbvie settles Humira patent disputes with Novartis unit
Abbvie said on Thursday it settled all patent disputes with Novartis AG, granting it a non-exclusive license to manufacture and sell a copycat version of blockbuster drug, Humira.
Abbvie did not disclose details regarding the royalties it will receive from Novartis generics unit as part of the agreement.
Humira is the world’s best-selling prescription medicine and has long buoyed AbbVie’s business, raking in $5.19 billion in second-quarter sales.
Lockheed, Rheinmetall to make joint bid to supply German navy helicopters
U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin and German peer Rheinmetall said they will make a joint bid to supply the German navy with MH-60R Seahawk helicopters built by Lockheed’s Sikorsky unit.
The two firms are also cooperating on a bid to supply new heavy-lift helicopters to the German air force, as announced in February, for a contract that could be worth around 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion).
Europe’s Airbus is also likely to bid for the contract with its NH90 Sea Lion multi-role naval helicopter, as is AgustaWestland, part of Italy’s Leonardo Finmeccanica, which built the current fleet of helicopters.
U.S. senators asks Google to explain delay in disclosing vulnerability
Three influential Republican U.S. senators on Thursday asked Alphabet’s Google unit to explain why it delayed disclosing vulnerabilities with its Google+ social network.
Google said this week it would shut down the consumer version of Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after revealing that the private profile data of at least 500,000 users may have been exposed to hundreds of external developers.
The three Republicans asked Google to turn over a memo that said that a factor in not disclosing the issue earlier was that it would draw “immediate regulatory interest” and “almost (guarantee)” that Pichai would have to testify before Congress.
Walmart to pay $65 million to settle lawsuit over seating for cashiers
Walmart has agreed to pay $65 million to nearly 100,000 current and former cashiers in California who accused the retailer of violating state law by refusing to provide them with seating while they worked.
Walmart denied any wrongdoing in the nine-year-old case, which was scheduled to go to trial later this year.
The lawsuit was one of the first brought under a California regulation that requires seating for employees “when the nature of the work reasonably permits.”
IEA Cuts Oil Demand Forecasts but Sees Prices Staying High
The International Energy Agency cut forecasts for oil demand this year and next because of growing threats to global economic growth, yet warned that dwindling spare oil supplies will keep prices high.
The IEA cut its estimate for global oil-demand growth for both 2018 and 2019 by about 110,000 barrels a day to 1.3 million and 1.4 million barrels a day respectively.
Both global demand and supply are close to hitting 100 million barrels a day for the first time.
US ECONOMY & POLITIC
U.S. import prices increase 0.5% on jump in fuel
U.S. import prices jumped faster than expected in September amid resurgent energy prices but prices excluding fuels were unchanged.
Import prices rose 0.5% last month, the largest increase since May and followed a revised 0.4% decrease in August.
Economists had forecast import prices rising 0.2% in September.
In the 12 months through September, import prices rose 3.5%.
U.S.-China trade talks must cover currency, U.S. Treasury chief says
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he told China’s central bank chief that currency issues need to be part of any further U.S.-China trade talks and expressed his concerns about the yuan’s recent weakness.
Mnuchin’s comments come ahead of next week’s release of a hotly anticipated Treasury report on currency manipulation, the first since a significant weakening of yuan began this spring as trade tensions between the economies escalated.
Mnuchin would not discuss the findings of the currency report and declined comment on media reports that Treasury staff had recommended that China not be labeled a currency manipulator.
U.S. business group says Trump China tariffs cost $1.4 billion/month
A coalition of U.S. business groups fighting President Trump’s trade tariffs has launched an advertisement aimed at telling voters ahead of the midterm elections that the measures are costing American businesses and consumers $1.4 billion a month.
The group says that in Michigan, a state with several competitive elections this fall, tariff costs tripled in August from a year earlier, while they more than doubled in places like Texas, Illinois and West Virginia.
Nationally, there was a 45% uptick in August compared with the previous August – and the organization cautions not all of the tariffs have gone into effect.
EUROPE & WORLD
China auto sales post biggest drop in 7 years as growth engine stalls
China’s car sales fell the most in nearly seven years in September, stoking concerns the world’s biggest auto market could contract for the first time in decades this year amid cooling economic growth and a biting trade war.
Vehicle sales slumped by 11.6% to 2.39 million units last month, the third straight decline.
The slide in September auto sales follows a 3.8% fall in August and a 4.0% drop in July. Vehicle sales increased 4.8% in June.
China’s top auto industry body said its already meager forecast for full-year growth would be missed, though the market should avoid a sales decline.
Tencent Music delays $2 billion U.S. IPO due to weak markets: sources
Tencent Music Entertainment has delayed its planned U.S. initial public offering (IPO) until at least November as the owner of China’s most popular music apps prefers to wait for global stock markets to stabilize, three sources said.
The music arm of tech giant Tencent is expected to raise at least $2 billion and was originally planning to launch its offering as soon as next week, the sources said.
The company owns streaming apps QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo as well as karaoke app WeSing, and claims more than 800 million monthly active users.
SoftBank picks Nomura, Goldman, three others to lead mobile unit’s IPO: source
SoftBank Group has chosen five investment banks, including units of Nomura Holdings and Goldman Sachs, as lead underwriters for the mammoth initial public offering of its mobile-phone unit.
Bloomberg News reported that the Japanese investment and technology firm aims to sell around 3 trillion yen ($27 billion) of shares, listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December.
An IPO of that scale would be the biggest ever, topping the $25 billion worth of shares sold by China’s Alibaba in New York in 2014, and the $22 billion raised by Agricultural Bank of China in Hong Kong in 2010.
Canada to impose steel safeguards after U.S. tariffs
Canada will impose new quotas and tariffs on imports of seven categories of steel, the federal government said on Thursday, fresh measures to head off a potential rise in imports as overseas steelmakers shut out of the United States seek new customers.
A tariff of 25% will apply starting Oct. 25, 2018 to imports “in cases where the level of imports from trading partners exceeds historical norms,” the government statement said.
The products covered include heavy plate, concrete reinforcing bar, energy tubular products, hot-rolled sheet, pre-painted steel, among others.
Mexico to protect steel exporters from Canadian measures: statement
Mexico laments trade protections announced earlier in the day by Canada covering some steel products and will take action to protect its own exporters in the short term, according to a statement from Mexico’s economy ministry on Thursday.
BMW says trade war could hit 2019 results by up to 500 million euros
German carmaker BMW expects a hit to earnings of up to half a billion euros ($579 million) next year if tariffs between the United States and China remain in place.
Tariffs between the United States and China have knocked exports of sport-utility vehicles from its U.S. plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to China, resulting in a hit to earnings of just below 300 million euros.
“If the tariffs remain in 2019, it could have a full-year impact of half a billion euros,” Chief Financial Officer Nicolas Peter added.
Cannabis producer Aphria profit surges on strong demand, investment gains
Cannabis producer Aphria posted a 41% rise in quarterly profit on Friday, boosted by strong demand and gains from its investments in medical marijuana companies Liberty Health Sciences and Hiku Brands.
Aphria is in talks to sell a stake in the company to Marlboro maker Altria, the Globe and Mail reported earlier this week, citing multiple sources.
The company said its revenue more than doubled to C$13.29 million, helped by higher wholesale orders.
Aphria’s net income rose to C$21.2 million for the quarter, from C$15.0 million a year earlier.
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Transcript of Radio Interview with Scott Thompson
On Thursday, September 17 at 5:40 PM, Scott Thompson of AM900 CHML conducted a live telephone interview with me on the subject of bike lanes. Here is a transcript of the interview.
Scott Thompson, AM900 CHML (ST): If you missed yesterday's column in the Hamilton Spectator , it is there for you at 900chml.com. Simply click on the Scott Thompson show page and you will find it. It talks about cycling and cars and how we all just need to get along. You can also read in Raise the Hammer, raisethehammer.org, Ryan McGreal is the editor of raisethehammer.org, and the headline is "Talk Radio Ran No Way to Debate Policy". He says, "Yes I'm talking about Scott Thompson's steaming load of codsawallop on the subject of cycling and bike lanes. Maybe streams of ignorant, self-important riffing are standard fare for talk radio, but we should expect a higher standard from the paper's opinion pages. Uninformed rationalizing from a set of prejudices might make for entertaining rants on the long route home, but makes for a lousy public policy debate." Hello, Ryan, how you doing?
Ryan McGreal, Raise the Hammer (RM): Not bad, how about you?
ST: I'm doing very well, but I'm hurt.
RM: I know, I'm not usually that grumpy.
ST: You know, I'm thinking, first of all, Ryan, that if we spend enough time with our heads together, trying to come up with a constructive plan as you have trying to insult me, maybe we'd have a solution to this!
RM: But you know, we already have a solution, that's the beauty of it. We already know what works. All we have to do is look at cities all around the world that have built continuous bike networks. And they don't have these conflicts, they have lots more cyclists, they have cleaner air, they have fewer casualties. I mean, we don't have to guess about what works. All we have do do is look at what's already working.
ST: I don't think that anybody - as I said in the article, I don't think anybody in Hamilton is against bike lanes, or networks, or hooking them all together, all of that sort of thing. My point in the article was, is that, Obviously in Southern Ontario, we have a congestion problem that isn't going to go away just by announcing that tomorrow, everybody has to ride a bicycle. Removing a car lane, and again, I'm all for figuring out ways to make it work, and I think there's lots of different ways. I just, I question whether we should be removing a lane of traffic in order to make a bicycle lane. Would that not increase congestion?
RM: Well, I don't think so. If you think about it, you can fit a lot of bicycles in the same area as one car. You know, if you have - I mean, you don't need a full lane to ride a bike. All you need is a few feet.
ST: I'm well aware of that, Ryan, but at the end of the day, way more people are driving their cars than are riding bicycles.
RM: Well, sure they are.
ST: When it gets to the point where this is obviously, the other way around, then I can see your point. So again, how can we come up with a way of integrating the bicycles and the cars together but not necessarily sacrificing one or the other? Neither one's going away.
RM: Well, see, the thing is, people respond to incentives. If you make it very easy to do something-
ST: Absolutely.
RM: -People will do more of it.
RM: If you make it harder, people will do less of it.
RM: Right now, most people drive most of the time because there aren't any other choices-
ST: Absolutely, Ryan, but, but don't you think this is a much more complex problem than erasing the lines on a road and painting new ones? I mean, this is a transit issue, this is a cycling issue, it's a sidewalk, it's a pathway issue, it's a very complex onion. And to just all of a sudden say, "Alright, no more cars allowed in here", and hopefully-
RM: Hold on-
ST: Hang on a sec, and hoping that everybody-
RM: Hold on, Scott-
ST: Hoping that everybody jumps on their bike and all of a sudden starts riding is unrealistic.
RM: You're attacking a straw man. Nobody's saying no more cars.
ST: I'm not attacking a straw man! Come on, Ryan! Don't give me that crap about a straw man!
RM: If you look at how much space a bike lane takes up, it's a tiny fraction of the amount of space that a car lane takes up, and it can actually carry more people more efficiently in less space-
ST: It can-
RM: It's a more efficient use of the road.
ST: It can, but it's not right now. That's the point.
RM: It's not because the bike lanes aren't there. How can bike lanes carry people more efficiently if there aren't any bike lanes?
ST: Look at any of the bike lanes that are around the city right now. They're not jammed.
RM: They're not continuous, Scott. If I built a road that started nowhere, and it continued and went to nowhere, and it wasn't attached to any other roads, would people take it?
ST: You know-
RM: They wouldn't. A bike lane that goes from nowhere to nowhere is no use to anybody. It's the connectivity that-
ST: I agree with everything-
RM: If you build a continuous bike lane, people use it. If you look at Portland, if you look at New York, if you look at London, Paris - all of those cities-
ST: I'm in agreeance [sic] with -
RM: They used to be very hostile to bikes and now they're becoming more and more friendly and more people are riding.
ST: I'm in agreeance with everything that you say. I'm in agreeance with everything you say about bicycles, I'm a cyclist. What I have a problem with, and where I think we need a little bit more consultation and a little bit more ingenuity, is a way to create a network that doesn't necessarily mean taking a lane out of two or three or four lanes of traffic. Because right now, the need just simply isn't there. The demand simply isn't there.
RM: I think the demand is there, but it's latent. If you look, over the last few years, cycling has been increasing steadily even without having proper infrastructure. And if you look at cities where they actually build it, people use it. I mean, if you look at Portland, they've increased their cycling eight times in the past-
ST: I would agree with that. I would agree with everything you're saying, Ryan, but what I'm-
RM: But if you agree that if we build it, people will use it, and the other thing that's really important to remember is that, you know, in the article you talk about "conflict" between cars and cyclists, now I ride a bike every day, have done for years, that's how I commute to work and back, I ride in mixed traffic, I ride on York Blvd, I ride on King, I ride on Main, and I don't feel that it's a war. I'm not in conflict with cars, I get along well, I feel safe, you know, I don't feel that there's this war going on. I think it's a lot of sensationalizing.
ST: Well, you know, the only war that, I don't think the car drivers feel there's a war either, I think it's the cyclists that feel that there's a war. You know, again, I mean, if you look at all the cyclists on the road, and all of the cars that are on the road, and how many cars are obeying the laws, and the traffic laws, and how many bikes are disobeying them, I mean come on, it's, it's, it's-
RM: You know what? I can show you, you go to any intersection that has a four-way stop, and sit there and mark how many cars come to a full stop. Almost zero.
ST: How many bikes don't even slow down? They just go blasting right through, Ryan. Come on!
RM: And some cars do, too. You can't, you can't look at, at, you know, at-
ST: We're getting off track now. We're getting off track. The point is, my point is, is that, you know, I think there's a great need for this, and I think it, it, people want this, but I think, as soon as you start creating and adding congestion to the roads by removing a car lane, a traffic lane, and that's what you're doing, you're adding congestion to the roads by adding -
RM: You're not, because the more people who ride a bike, each person in a bicycle isn't in a car.
ST: I know but the point-
RM: When I ride a bike -
ST: I know that, Ryan.
RM: I'm not in a car.
ST: I know that, Ryan, but-
RM: But you can't ignore that.
ST: I know that, Ryan, but the point is-
RM: It's a dynamic system, it's a dynamic change. You're increasing the number of cyclists, you're reducing the number of drivers. And every bicycle takes up a lot less space on the road than a car with one person in it, and most cars have one person in them most of the time-
ST: The reality is-
RM: Congestion will go down.
ST: So again, what you're demanding everybody to do is stop driving and start riding their bike.
RM: Of course not! People will always drive. I drive sometimes, and I'll continue to drive. What I'm saying is that people should have a choice. If people want to ride a bike, the facilities should exist -
ST: Nobody's disagreeing-
RM: We can build a bike network across the entire city -
ST: Nobody's disagreeing with any of that-
RM: for less than what it costs to manage our roads for one year.
RM: The cost is very small. It's a very big payoff for a very small cost. The air is cleaner, the roads are safer, congestion goes down, people have more choice-
ST: I don't see how you can be removing a lane of traffic and congestion going down.
RM: Because people who were in cars are now in bicycles.
ST: All we have to do is see the accident on, listen, Ryan, the last time there was an accident on the 403, and everything was closed down, and it all went into the back streets, and ended up, you know, we're going down two lanes of York Blvd. Again, I agree with everything you're saying, I agree with everything you're saying, but I think there's a more, it needs a little bit more ingenuity here and I think we can come up with a better solution than just eliminating a car lane. Anyway, very much appreciative, Ryan, of you joining us, it is called "Talk Radio Ranting No Way to Debate Policy", raisethehammer.org, Ryan McGreal, thanks for joining us.
RM: Thanks a lot for the time. Take care.
(Original audio source available on the Scott Thompson Talk website.)
By birdie (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 12:44:17
Summary: I agree with everything you say but refuse to draw the only possible conclusion.
By Really? (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 13:14:46
Said like a True Hamiltonian! "If it aint broke, don't fix it" "But what about the cars!?" "But what about the cars!?" "But what about the cars!?"
Seems like he just kept repeating his same argument over and over and over and over... ok, ok... while not even acknowledging your (Ryan's) responses, although 'agreeing' with them.
Is it any wonder why Hamiltonians are so ignorant towards Urban Living, or Progressiveness, in general? It's clearly b/c of ignorant people who 'report' these stories to them.
By jason (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 13:31:07
no wonder I never listen to CHML. The guy did nothing but interrupt and make zero sense.
Geez, when you see the crap that is fed to the public via CHML and The Spec it's no wonder our city is like a backwater deadzone in the most prosperous region of Canada.
I'm reminded of a great book that is 100% true today as it was when it was written - "The media, the mafia and the party machine". This city will never have a hope of becoming successful again as long as the current powerbrokers are in charge. Brutal.
I should say though Ryan, you did a great job. All of your points made sense. So much sense in fact, Thompson seemed to repeat the same line over and over - "I agree, I agree".
Unfortunately he didn't finish the sentence - "I agree, but I choose to attack a strawman because it will be better for my ratings".
By Tammany (anonymous) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 13:49:24
"This city will never have a hope of becoming successful again as long as the current powerbrokers are in charge. Brutal. "
I couldn't agree more. Any campaign seeking to effect major change in the governance of this city should start by exposing the nexus of interrelation and mutual benefit existing between politicians, bureaucrats, and prominent businesspeople (read developers) in Hamilton. I can assure you that a little digging will yield up something a lot more rotten than you would have imagined.
As for this interview, Scott comes across as a complete baby and reactionary. He's trying to put up a facade of progressiveness and hipness - "I'm a cyclist" - but he just keeps devolving into fearmongering and obfuscation. No one is trying to take the roads away from the drivers, and Scott knows this, but he also knows that the perfectly reasonable argument that Ryan is trying to advance will not elicit the reaction he seeks from his listeners.
By nobrainer (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 13:53:20
Reminds me of that famous interview with Jon Stewart on CNN Crossfire where he tells the hosts their show is "hurting America".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpD...
Scott Thompson and his ilk are hurting Hamilton. Stop. Stop hurting Hamilton. Start working for us, the people. We don't pay well but you can sleep at night. We need your help.
By z jones (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 13:56:26
OK question: you're a Scott Thompson listener, you're not an RTH reader, you hear this interview. What do you think at the end? Is this Ryan guy a loony left from the fringe? Is Scott being fair to him? Is he making any sense?
I'm not just asking for affect. What does the average talk radio listener think after hearing this?
By Kev (anonymous) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 14:00:24
I think an important point has been missed in this interview.
Before there was cars on the roads, someone built a road. So it reasons that if you want people to ride their bikes, make a place for them to ride their bikes.
Ryan was right, if you want people to do something, you need to give them an incentive. As an example look at the HOV lanes on the 403. Following Scott's logic, converting a lane to HOV would cause greater congestion in the other lanes. Perhaps, but the goal is to get more people to car pool so that there are fewer cars, and the HOV is the incentive to do that. If you create bike lanes, that would be the incentive for people to ride their bikes.
As for bikes lanes already in the city, I was driving down a section of Stonechurch the other day and thought of how ridiculous it was to have a bike lane in the middle of car paradise. Clearly the city was just trying to give the illusion of creating a bicycle infrasture, as this lane is nowhere near where it could be most useful to the largest amount of people.
By frank (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 14:05:35
I listen to CHML, I also listen to other stations, and read online news, and read onlinepolls, visit cities, and I THINK!!! The problem isn't the medium, it's that some of the people listening or reading accept as factual what they hear or read without thought.
Use of hyperbole in Scott's statements was rampant - using words like "demanding" or stating that because you want a proper cycling infrastructure you're saying that no cars are allowed on the road is typical of the fear mongering taking place on the opposite side of the debate. What they don't realize is that it's quite possible, in many locations, to make smaller lanes (which slows down traffic - a good thing) and incorporate a bike lane.
I also don't think Scott's listeners are all supportive of his arguments (I for one am not) but I happen to agree with the title of Ryan's original article, talk radio rants are no place to promote a personal opinion on such a topic.
By nobrain (anonymous) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 14:09:40
By Brioski8 (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 14:23:28
Since Mr. Thompson is unfamiliar with the logical fallicy of "Attacking a Strawman" Here is the Wikipedia entry:
"A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position"
Here is the Straw man:
"And to just all of a sudden say, 'Alright, no more cars allowed in here'"
And here is Mr. Thompsons refutation of said Straw man:
"Hoping that everybody jumps on their bike and all of a sudden starts riding is unrealistic"
Here is Ryan calling Scott out:
"You're attacking a straw man. Nobody's saying no more cars. "
And here is Mr. Thompson displaying his ignorance for all to see:
"I'm not attacking a straw man! Come on, Ryan! Don't give me that crap about a straw man"
Wow, my respect for you as a person and a radio personality has just plumetted Mr. Thompson. Do you even listen to your words as they come spilling out of your mouth?
By rusty (registered) - website | Posted September 21, 2009 at 14:41:34
I remember a cool movie where a bunch of natives burned a huge straw man in the middle of a field - anyone know it?
Ben Bull. Cap'n Bully has a new Blog! http://bullysmoviereviews.blogspot.ca/ or something like that.
Maybe you're thinking of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert?
No it's not that...! There was a bunch of angry natives holding torches, they ran into a field and burned down this huge straw man. It was near the end of the movie.
Ben, are you thinking of the Robin Hardy movie "The Wicker Man"?
It's a pretty chilling film, despite all the burning ...
By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 15:07:16
Firstly, rusty, I believe you're talking about the 1973 British horror film "The Wicker Man" (or its god-awful 2006 remake staring Nicolas Cage).
Secondly, its interviews like that which completely turn me off of talk radio and any of those so called "debate" or "discussion" shows on TV. Someone needs to explain to the mainstream media that democracy is not Latin for "the loudest one wins".
By Jelly (anonymous) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 15:15:26
You think Scott Thompson is bad- this summer I heard Dave Shuttleworth over at Talk 820 suggest on his show that Bikes shouldn't even be used as a method of transportation. He said something along the lines of "we have great trails down at the Bayfront, if you want to ride a bike, ride down there." I'd love to see someone topple his load of codswallop.
16 Comments... looks like Scott Thompson, and his fear-mongering partners, have won (for now)... We're discussing/debating this interview, just like he wanted. That was his and AM900's plan all along.
I wonder if their brief, temporary rise in ratings is really worth destroying a City and it's Character?
After everything the last week, month, YEAR... can anyone truly say that they are Proud to be a Hamiltonian? I know I sure can't (not anymore). Isn't the point of local media to bring a community together, not tear them apart? Why put Cyclists vs Drivers, The Poor vs The 'Wealthy', Hamilton vs Toronto?!
I wish Media in this City acted like Media in Toronto. I can't help but watch CBC Toronto, or especially CTV Toronto with jealously, with their "This is MY Toronto" campaign, or "Save Local Media" campaigns... regular outings at festivals, etc.
Why can't Hamilton be like that!? More importantly, why aren't we like that ALREADY!?
Is there any reason why Hamiltonians 'hate' Toronto!? It's b/c we truly are jealous of their ACTUAL sense of community.
Really? wrote: "After everything the last week, month, YEAR... can anyone truly say that they are Proud to be a Hamiltonian?"
At least the Ti-Cats are doing well this year...
Yes that's it! The Wicker Man! Thanks! I remember watching it when I was little - very spooky. One positive note to all of this - at least Hamilton media is talking about bike lanes. It's sort of predictable that they would pan them, but at least they're on the radar (now we just have to wait 50 years to see any of them)
"We're discussing/debating this interview, just like he wanted. That was his and AM900's plan all along."
I've got a different take "Really?". In radio an interview happens and then floats away down the river, you can't get back to it to take a closer look, so radio hosts can afford to be fast and loose with, y'know facts and arguments.
But now that the interview has a permanent home on the Web people have a chance to take a closer more critical look. And Scott's argument style doesn't hold up under that kind of scrutiny. Believe me this doesn't help his bottom line, it makes him look like a poor interviewer and certainly doesn't pull more listeners to tune into his show. This page is already #6 result for "scott thompson" on google http://www.google.com/search?q="scot... and it's as 'sticky' as his radio show is 'slippery'.
He's on radio because the web would Eat. Him. Alive.
When I compare this to seasoned interviewers like Andy Barry it doesn't hold up too well :) I guess it's a question of whether the radio is looking at news as entertainment or news as, well, news.
By JonC (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 16:14:57
So Really?, is your suggestion that this not be discussed, because that is stupid. Discuss that. Not calling shit shit gives the impression that it is an acceptable opinion. If his plan was to have us discuss/debate the interview was his plan to have people discuss/debate his initial letter. No, his initial point was to frighten car drivers into keeping the road to themselves. To have a debate, the opposing opinion needs to be expressed. In Scott's case, the opinion is bikes should get nothing. To be fair is was that cars shouldn't lose anything, which is the same as saying bikes shouldn't get anything. Unless he has a science fiction solution that involves bicycles traveling on something other than roads.
For reference, the cyclist versus driver debate is cranked up to 11 in Toronto http://www.thestar.com/article/695759 http://www.thestar.com/article/695234 http://www.thestar.com/article/698501 http://www.thestar.com/Article/697365 http://www.thestar.com/article/697368
and the save local media campaign was instituted by the stations to get government handouts and/or to have legislation changed so that they actually DON'T have to provide local coverage. The only time sensible Hamiltonians actually hate Torontonians is when the Argos are in town.
By zookeeper (registered) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 16:23:11
First of all Ryan, kudos for how you handled yourself. That must have been scary going into the lions den. You started out polite but when he kept cutting you off you came on just strong enough to get your point across. It's no wonder he kept interrupting you; you just systematically demolished his argument point by point every chance you had.
He was concern-trolling pretty hard and for the most part, you didn't take the bait, you just went back to the argument and chipped away at it. By the end he just sounded ridiculous saying over and over "I agree with everything you say" and then with this ridiculous pretense that people will somehow be ordered to stop driving.
Second of all it's a shame talk radio is all about people talking over each other. You did a good job of teasing out the convo in this transcript but the reality is that a big chunk of the time the audio clip was just CROSSTALK. You were both guilty of interrupting but the real culprit, I think is the medium itself. The nice thing about comments is that you can troll, but you can't cut someone else's comment off mid-post.
Finally I second nobrainer above, I think having you on hurt his argument, not only did you hold your own on the show but you also made a permanent record where people can critique at leisure and see his straw man attacks and stoking ignorance and fear.
the problem is, most CHML listeners are just like Scott. Logic doesn't win out. Fearmongering of the unknown and reluctance to change are hallmark traits of the demographic who follow the old media in this city.
Jason! Those are our old listeners!
I agree 110% with Jason! That's the point I was trying to make; no matter how much we debate it online ('our' medium), the people who listened originally wont have this fantastic blog to read-up on.
And that again is the #1 major problem with Hamilton, this 'If it aint broke, Don't fix it attitude'.
It's sad, but it's the tune being played in City Hall by the Elders that run it; Whether it be staff or council. Hamilton wont change until those making the decisions change.
They're stuck in 1969, when we're trying to be 2009! One-way streets work b/c that's what they learned in their day. And when someone from a latter, perhaps more-urban, generation presents an idea, I'm sure it's 'considered' then carefully filed under 'G' (for Garbage).
Hamilton wont change until people of the younger generations start to run it. But how is that going to happen when progressive thinkers with the balls to work for the City are too progressive for Hamilton-thinkers and are forced to other cities? Oh ya, they start to urban plan for Kitchener-Waterloo or Toronto or Vancouver or Montreal... Just not in Hamilton.
I mean, c'mon, Ryan... what are you expecting? Some sort of 'Taj Mahal' Network of Cycling Lanes!? Psssh... ;)
Rusty, I know. That's why we got booted off the air. LOL. We weren't jiving with their 'demographic' we were told. All I can say to that is "thank goodness!!"
Really? The best part about these people who selectively use the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' line is that they are the ones screaming bloody murder about changing Hamilton and how useless our city is and what a crummy place it is yadda yadda yadda.
They speak out both sides of their mouth and the end result is always the same - NO action and NO change. Don't criticize city hall for doing nothing to fix Hamilton and then get mad at them when they start making moves to fix Hamilton. Imagine the uproar when LRT becomes more of a hot issue. The old media will be drooling all over themselves exploiting the typical Hamiltonian and their 'don't change a thing, but change everything' attitude.
By lukev (anonymous) | Posted September 21, 2009 at 18:09:00
Talk radio is a cesspool for idiocy. Not just this station, but around the world.
The way to win an argument in radio land is to drown out the opposition with meaningless interruption.
And if you're wondering why City Council isn't urban or progressive, it probably has something to do with the fact we have Councillors from Glanbrook deciding what can happen in Downtown Hamilton.
How can anything be achieved in these circumstances. It's like giving a Sarnia representative veto power over Hamilton issues.
I'm actually nervous about the impending LRT 'opposition', or the Mirage of an opposition created by CHCH Scream Match @ 5:30 and/or The Spec editorials. I'm nervous their greedy ways may taint the opinions of those already on board, and de-rail the plan.
I'm certain that, with Metrolinx behind the wheel, LRT will have more push behind it --especially since it's run by experts and not elected officials.
"especially since it's run by experts and not elected officials."
You're kidding right?
The Metrolinx board is now stocked by pure patronage. There is not a single transit engineer to be found. Aside from Paul Bedford (former chief city planner for Toronto) no one is really qualified to advise on transit issues (and I question whether Bedford really is). The Board is basically composed of lawyers, consultants, and chief executives. Seems like a sinecure to me.
From what I've heard, reports of the in-fighting, grandstanding and parochialism of the politician members were greatly exaggerated.
By TomCooper (anonymous) | Posted September 22, 2009 at 13:18:25
I'm sensing a surprising amount of elitism (should I say snobbery) from a crowd that is generally thought of as a progressive source of informed debate in Hamilton.
If folks had taken the time to dig a little deeper or perhaps listen once in a while, they might have found that Scott Thompson has been one of the biggest 'mainline' media supporters of policies such as LRT, the Pan Am Games and generally boosting Hamilton out of its malaise. It's fun to crowd-thump somebody for being part of the 'established media', but at best it gets old really fast and at worst is simply intellectually lazy.
Like it or not, the vast majority of residents in this City still listen to local radio, watch CHCH or read the Spectator... by simply dismissing those mediums as old and tired and not worthy of the effort, progressive voices are missing out on an opportunity to engage the community on a wider scale and actually change some minds - instead of simply preaching to the church.
@TomCooper,
Is it "snobby" to call a strawman attack a strawman attack? Is it "elitist" to point out that an ignorant argument is ignorant? We're not "crowd-thumping" him for being part of the "established media", we're "crowd-thumping" him because he's talking out his his ass on bike lanes. Period.
I don't listen to talk radio and the reason why is the very low quality of debate as evidenced by this audio clip by a supposedly progressive cyclist.
Frankly I don't know what Scott has to say about LRT, I hope it's good things but I can hardly imagine he'd be willing to give up two whole lanes of road space for LRT when he can't even bear to give up a few feet for a lousy bike lane (but he's a "cyclist"), maybe he thinks we need to put our heads together and come up with some ingenuity to figure out where the LRT lanes should go (maybe suspended in the air next to the bike lanes).
Should I force myself to listen to this ignorant garbage so as not to be accused of "elitism" - ooh, those talk radio DJs and listeners are the salt-o-the-earth! - because I can feel my brain cells shutting down at all the ignorant FUD flying my way out of the radio. Sorry but I'm not going to subject myself to that kind of ignorance.
Guess what, a progressive new media guy did just try to "engage the community on a wider scale" by appearing on Scotts show and he got interrupted and cut off for the effort.
The old established media aren't ignoring progressives because we don't care about them, no it's exactly the other way around.
We stopped paying attention about them because they kept ignoring us and ignoring what's important to us and ignoring voices that speak for us, and we got tired of being ignored so when the internet came along we started up our own media that are more free and democratic. Your comment is proof of that, if you don't like what someone writes you get to debate it with them, no one's going to cut you off and if you make sense, everyone gets a chance to see it and respond to it.
Look, assuming you're the Tom Cooper who sometimes writes for the spec, I really respect and appreciate what you do. You write about things I don't get to read anywhere else in the paper, and the paper is less bad for having you in it. But the paper is still bad, and the game is still rigged against progressive thought and making policy from facts rather than what lines the pockets of the establishment.
None of the items that Tom Cooper mentioned are cycling infrastructure, which was the point of the whole original article that led to Ryan being interviewed, on the medium that Tom suggest we get involved with. So I don't see what your complaint is about, unless you've decided to take the hack approach of taking two or three users comments and taking those to be everyone's values. Good work there.
@ zjones & @JonC... I'm talking about voices such as Jason's - who from my previous visits here, I would not consider a fringe element on this site, but rather an articulate and thoughtful commentator. But even he is making wild blanket statements such as:
"the problem is, most CHML listeners are just like Scott. Logic doesn't win out. Fearmongering of the unknown and reluctance to change are hallmark traits of the demographic who follow the old media in this city."
It just seems that many contributors to this site are falling into the same exclusionary trap that you accuse those 'old media' of perpetuating. Sure there's a percentage of 'knuckle dragging', 'FOX News watching', 'Rush Limbaugh longing' types in Hamilton, but there are also a lot of others who are informed, progressive and interested in positive change in our community. If you paint them all with the same brush you are missing an opportunity to affect real change. I feel a quote from McLuhan would be apt here, but I'll refrain.
I'm just suggesting to keep an open mind, keep the dialogue flowing in a constructive way.
OK Tom, but you're barking up the wrong tree. We are definitely interested in keeping the dialogue flowing in a constructive way, the mainstream media ARE NOT.
So one person's comment is worth "I'm sensing a surprising amount of elitism (should I say snobbery) from a crowd that is generally thought of as a progressive source of informed debate in Hamilton." If you want to address one (or two or three or...) person's comments, do that.
I'm just suggesting your broad strokes are a little too broad.
There is also a problem in reaching those who obtain all their information from the radio or tv. I don't own a radio or tv station. I'm surprised that had Ryan on to provide a decent counter point at all.
By joejoe (anonymous) | Posted September 22, 2009 at 19:58:54
"There is also a problem in reaching those who obtain all their information from the radio or tv. I don't own a radio or tv station. I'm surprised that had Ryan on to provide a decent counter point at all."
Yes, kudos to CHML for asking Ryan to come on (even if it was just to stoke the imaginary conflict)
Just to clarify my comment Tom Cooper, I wasn't meaning my comment about CHML listeners to be elitist, I'm merely sharing my view as someone who once had a show on CHML and along with the other 'Green Berets' were told that our show needed to be cut because we didn't fit their typical demographic. I should have made that clear in my initial comment. Cheers
By A Smith (anonymous) | Posted September 23, 2009 at 02:02:40
Kev >> Ryan was right, if you want people to do something, you need to give them an incentive.
What is the incentive for politicians to take the risk of building bike lanes at the expense of car lanes? Why would they risk their re-election just because a minority of people tell them cycling is good, when they KNOW that many more people already like to drive?
Possible incentives...
1) Cash
2) Volunteering to help re-election.
3) Hard evidence, like a petition with massive public support.
4) Willingness of cyclists to pay an extra "cycling" fee that would reduce the road taxes for drivers. This could be based on the premise that because bikes are much cheaper to buy and operate than cars, cyclists could afford to compensate drivers who will be injured by slower traffic.
If everyone believes that Ryan is correct in saying that people are influenced by incentives, what incentives are cyclists using to change the behaviour of Hamilton's politicians?
I'm curious as to why you would want to financially punish people for making a fiscally sound investment (via "This could be based on the premise that because bikes are much cheaper to buy and operate than cars, cyclists could afford to compensate drivers"). Sounds particularly unlike your usual harping self.
By grassroots are the way forward (registered) | Posted September 23, 2009 at 08:23:51
"cyclists could afford to compensate drivers who will be injured by slower traffic."
This statement does not even make sense, just how are drivers injuried by slower traffic, besides, them losing their minds. Are talking about road rage, mental stress?
Those from the grassroots can affect change
Drivers should compensate cyclists for pumping out air pollution that the cyclists have to breathe even though they didn't produce it. Cyclists should also be compensated for REDUCING congestion by taking up less space on the road leaving more room for drivers to get where they're going. Especially if the city gets off it's ass and builds bike lanes so it's EASIER for cars and bikes to share the road.
By Borrelli (registered) | Posted September 23, 2009 at 09:56:39
I actually think A Smith's idea of bicycle licensing is a decent idea with a bunch of upsides, though not necessarily for the same reasons he does. This isn't an issue of compensating drivers, but if there is an actual concern about conflict between car drivers and cyclists, then there needs to be mutual understanding about the rules of the road for each set of users.
A licensing scheme that involved a nominal fee to pay for administration costs would be very fair, I think, and would make bike use on main roads a responsibility/privilige on par with driving. Ideally this would make cyclists (especially NEW ones) aware of the rules associated with responsible cycling in mixed traffic, and create a cohort of cyclists who abide by a set of standard cycling safety guidelines. As a ped, I look forward to a day when cyclists feel safe enough to use roads and assertive enough in this knowledge that they don't endanger me and others (and themselves) by using sidewalks or other cycling safety 'shortcuts' that are broadly tolerated now.
By highwater (registered) | Posted September 23, 2009 at 10:59:14
Cyclists need to 'compensate' drivers the way that women need to 'compensate' men for all the space we take up in the voting booth.
I really don't believe that licensing is counter-productive, all things considered. Even with relatively high administration costs, this isn't about about setting up a regulation regime, its really about creating broad legitimacy for cycling among a car-dependent and sometimes suspcicious public. Let's face it, the vast majority of road users are drivers, and if public reaction in Toronto is any indication, there is significant animosity towards cyclists (whipped up by the media or not).
A recent poll commissioned by Share the Road Cycling Coalition found that more than half of Ontarians (60%) would ride a bike more often if not for safety concerns. The survey results can be seen on the Share the Road website (sharetheroad.ca), and the organization's founder also stated that "We now know that Ontarians in the 34-49 age range are the most likely to have a bike, but also are most likely to say they rarely or never ride it. Given that many of these Ontarians have families, the likelihood that their children do not ride regularly nor are they encouraged to ride (given the fear factor) is very high."
Ryan, while I generally agree with your "if you build it, they will come" orientation towards cycling in Hamilton, there is still a significant perception problem with cycling that needs to be overcome, and it may be compounded by being transmitted to a younger generation who may have less experience or enthusiasm for cycling.
What needs to be addressed specifically is how people perceive the risks associated with biking (especially in mixed traffic). Since Hamilton (and Ontario in general) does not have a well-developed cycling culture (unlike the cities that you most frequently cite as models of progressive urban cycling planning), I think that licensing can play a public awareness role and I seriously doubt it would act as an impediment to use in our specific context--the biggest issue would be dealing with griping from established cyclists who now have to abide by the regime.
I see your point about reinforcing positive behavioural norms by simply haivng more cyclists around, but this is also a recipe for reinforcing bad habits which (true or not) many people believe are widespread. (Urban) Cycling as an activity in general needs to be further legitimized not just for cyclists, but among drivers with whom they will share the roads, and no better way to do that and establish mutual trust and respect than by casually regulating it and signalling to people that governments take cycling seriously.
Here's an interesting link to an article:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/20...
The primary issue with licensing, and why it will never happen, is that kids start biking at a very young age, younger than you could expect them to pass some sort of licensing test and younger than they could engage in any sort of contract.
So, either you waive the requirement for kids and then force them to license at 18 or 16 or whatever, which is nonsense after cycling for ten years, or you waive it altogether.
The other issue is the cost. How much would the operating budget of the MTO (1.35B) http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/re... increase if all bikes and/or cyclists had to be licensed and how much would you charge cyclists. Even if this increased the quality of cyclists' driving, it would reduce the number of cyclists, reducing the level of safety (see above from Ryan). Additionally, this would be an unfair burden to those that bike not by choice, but due to economic hardship.
I get the idea of why it would be nice to require training, but in general, it's a bad idea.
The media is completely abdicating its responsibility here. They could be playing an important role in educating cyclists and drivers about the rules of the road. Instead they're actively endangering their readers by stoking road rage and spreading dangerous falsehoods about cyclists using sidewalks as an alternative to bike lanes.
Should have said 'readers and listeners'. Darn RTH's lack of editing capability.
The media (if we insist on treating them as some monolithic beast) will continue to do what they've always done, and concern themselves with selling their product. It'd be nice if they provided a public service component, but I don't think it's much use expecting that they will do it in the absence of some external requirement. That why good governance is important, in my opinion.
Ryan, since you keep referring to these "proven" facts, I'm gonna have to ask you to cite some sources I can review, because the best I can find is a British Medical Journal article from 2003 (which mentions a study of traffic interaction in Hamilton, believe it or not) indicating that while collisions between motorists and cyclists/peds decreases with larger amounts of non-motor traffic (i.e. there is safety in numbers), this is largely the result in change of motorist behavior, and it says nothing of external contextual changes that accompany increased cycling/cycling promotion.
So basically, considering the nature of the study (using time-series data in a variety of national contexts), I think it's a bit of a stretch to state simplistically that building infrastructure = more cyclists = safer cycling. There are likely to be significant effects of roadway design and other interventions. Which is to say that I think the reductionist approach to cycling promotion that you have taken is misleading, and that cycling proponents will likely have to do more than just nag municipalities to build bike lanes.
From my reading, all this article "proves" is that policies to promote cycling and walking (since every jurisdiction will promote cycling differently) result in relatively safer interactions between motorists and cyclists/peds. But as it often is, these polices come as part of a larger packages (i.e. connecting road networks + awareness + changes to law, whatever else, etc.).
So what I'm getting at is: you cannot so easily discount licensing as a potential option to increase cycling/safety. In fact, a 2000 Swedish study (cited in the BMJ study) found that perception of safety was an important determinant in INCREASING bicycle flow, which is to say, getting more cyclists out there is not just a simple issue of building infrastructure, or changing laws, etc.--also required is some cultural component that builds social trust in cycling as a safe alternative to driving, and how you affect this cultural shift will depend on local context.
Oh, and I guess to cap that argument, I'm saying that given the sometimes fiery relationship that cyclists have with motorists in the GTA, I believe the idea of licensing, or some other soft-regulatory approach to creating and maintaining a safe-cycling culture, might be a viable option going forward. It shouldn't be discounted offhand just because A Smith brought it up and it would be unpopular among current cyclists--in terms of cycling promotion, we're not trying to preach the choir here, breaking through to drivers is the goal and things should necessarily be tailored to this skeptical demo.
Yeah, sorry if this isn't appropriate for the comments, but my internal skeptic woke up when you stated there's a 'proven' way to do something. Happy to continue this offline or whatever.
And these are great sources, but none of them "proves" that infrastructure development works alone. Post-hoc analysis of NYC ridership and casualty numbers only highlights an association but says nothing of its causes or concommitant contextual changes. I'm pretty sure this audience doesn't need a correlation ≠ causation speech, so I'll refrain.
However, none of these sources answers the question: how do we get a skeptical demographic on to bikes in the first place and increase traffic flow? You assert that merely having infrastructure in place is enough, and while you're probably right that having infrastructure present will result in increases in ridership, I see no evidence that infrastructure alone has this effect universally--it appears (to me) necessary, but not sufficient.
I mean, those websites pretty well lay it out: the Dutch and Danes used road design and other policy and planning interventions to create a safer system of roadways, and the Americans have issued a lament for the bicycling culture of the 50s and 60s while the Danes use cultural intervention (hugging non-helmet wearers) to increase awareness and safety. I'm suggesting that we're a long way off from having either in Hamilton/GTA and that socio-cultural intervention may be an appropriate compliment to creating more bike lanes.
Also, here are the City of Toronto's issues with bicycle licensing. They're all pretty reasonable, but I think they're based firmly in the here-and-now and don't adequately prepare for a scenario where fewer people in cities own and drive cars. Right now the province relies primarily on the universality of driver's licenses to communicate the rules of the road, but if we anticipate a future where a large portion of citizens may only ever own and ride bicycles, we need to consider alternative arrangements in the absence of major changes in infrastructure (i.e. raised bike paths, etc.).
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/safety/lis...
Ryan, what incentives do politicians have to increase the number of bike lanes? What's in it for them?
Not to answer or Ryan's behalf, but: - decreased injuries/deaths (auto/auto, auto bike, auto/pedestrian, bike/bike & bike/pedestrian) - increased health of citizens (both cyclists and non-cyclists) - increased urban density - increased visitation to commercial districts - increased disposable income for users - decreased infrastructure maintenance costs - planning ahead for a time when automobile transit won't be as appealing (due to increased oil prices) - and it should increase transit usage
That's just a few.
Downsides I can think of are: - initial cost - reduction of on street parking - drivers readjusting their commutes (should funnel people traveling crossing the city at 70 or 80kmph to the 403, QEW, Linc and Red Hill) - possible increased travel time during peak hours
By A Troll (anonymous) | Posted September 24, 2009 at 10:17:25
I think the thing you are all missing is that the core is a transportation hub for the entire city's poor population. It's not that those people are just living downtown, is also that they can easily access downtown, on buses and bikes.
As Ryan has argued, the concentration of the poor downtown doesn't help, it only damages the city's image. It's not just about the Connaught at this point. It's the fact that having a strong transit system only increases the poor's mobility to live elsewhere and then to spend their days ghettoizing downtown.
JonC, you want more bike lanes. My question to you is, what are you willing to give up to get these bike lanes?
In life, if you want something, you have to pay the price. If you want to do feel good drugs, you pay the price of sickness and disease. If you want to get rich, you have to work hard, take risks and incur lots of rejection. If you want to stay strong physically, you have to exert yourself now and again.
I genuinely wish that you get bike lanes, because I don't think it's safe for bikes to surrounded by fast moving cars, but you have to be willing pay the cost. Therefore, how much are you willing to suffer to get your bike lanes?
For example, what about starting a petition? If you could get enough names in support of building a bike network in Hamilton, you would make it very hard for the politicians to turn you down. Are you willing to go door to door getting names? If so, you will be rewarded for your hard work. If not, you will be stuck with what we have today. It's your choice.
How hard would it be for you, Ryan, Jason and a few more people to gather names of people who support better bike infrastructure here in Hamilton? If you guys put in the work, karma will send some good stuff right back to you, because you will have earned it by your efforts.
A Smith, I'm going to shock myself and up vote you for this ^^ because... well, what you're talking about is exactly what this site is about and for once you're not posting trollish "bikes are for children" type comments. I don't know if a petition is the best way to go but you're quite correct that citizens who want a policy need to organize and reach out to councilors to get there message across.
I should also point out that the city has had a number of studies prepared for them demonstrating the value of cycling infrastructure as well as the routes that provide the best mix of benefit to cyclists and minimal disturbance to automobile drivers. Anyone can access them physically at the library. More importantly, previous councils have already agreed to implement the plan, but everyone drags their asses (for example, the Aberdeen bridge lanes over the 403 was supposed to be completed this summer). Renovating that bridge will be a big boon for cycling as it provides a direct link from the student rental area south of campus to both the radial trail and gets people to the east side of the 403 without having to deal with the king or main street traffic. That's also when the mini bike lane on Aberdeen @ Longwood will start making sense, and will get expanded further east.
Aaaaaaaand back to the crazy. :(
By Jonathan Dalton (registered) | Posted September 24, 2009 at 15:31:32
We REALLY need to can this nonsense about bike licensing, and quick. We are discussing incentives for cycling here. I don't know why any cyclists would want to make their own lives more difficult and more expensive, but even those who do can't argue that licensing is a strong disincentive for anyone to start riding a bike.
where's the zookeeper when you need him?
By Scott Thompson (anonymous) | Posted September 26, 2009 at 18:56:42
My my my….
Look at all this wonderful 'dialogue' that has started simply because I wrote a column in a main stream newspaper and asked the editor of this blog to appear on my main stream radio show!
And…I'm sure 'Raise the Hammer' has a few more readers as a result….
You are all very welcome!
Thanks for listening and reading!
The Scott Thompson Show
News/Talk 900 CHML
Hamilton, Ont. CAN.
905.521.9900x2611
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"Mission accomplished…."
If you made your "mission" to raise the level of debate in Hamilton instead of selling fear and controversy, you would be a real positive force for change in this city that desparately needs it. You know, you might be surprised at how many potential listeners would love to listen to a real progressive, fact based talk radio announcer instead of the usual emotional yell/counter-yell. Anyway congratulations on earning a paycheque stoking prejudice and ignorance instead of informing and empowering your audience. In the mean time another opportunity to move this city forward slips away. "Missing accomplished" indeed. :P
By sara (registered) | Posted October 05, 2009 at 00:33:16
Great Conversation! I can't explain that how much i am excited to watch this kind of brilliant interviews. I can say Scott Thompson is great straight forward guy. I really enjoy your article. Thank you much for sharing it here.
By Dan McIntyre (anonymous) | Posted November 04, 2009 at 13:40:07
City politicians who took campaign contributions from landlords, developers and other businesses in 2006.
THOSE WHO TAKE LITTLE MONEY
Ward Candidate Landlords/Dev Other Businesses
Mayor David Miller 0.0% 0.0%
1 Suzan Hall 7.8 20.6
4 Gloria Lindsay Luby 12.3 10.5
8 Anthony Perruzza 10.3 5.8
9 Maria Augimeri 13.5 11.4
14 Gord Perks 0.6 0.0
15 Howard Moscoe 6.5 13.9
18 Adam Giambrone 7.8 1.6
19 Joe Pantalone 0.0 0.0
20 Adam Vaughan 0.0 0.0
21 Joe Mihevc 0.0 0.0
22 Michael Walker 0.0 0.0
23 John Filion 6.5 7.0
25 Cliff Jenkins 0.0 0.0
27 Kyle Rae 0.0 0.0
28 Pam McConnell 0.0 0.0
30 Paula Fletcher 0.9 0.0
31 Janet Davis 0.0 0.5
32 Sandra Bussin 0.0 11.1
33 Shelly Carroll 11.1 12.0
35 Adrian Heaps 0.6 2.8
38 Glenn De Baeremaeker 10.4 8.3
40 Norm Kelly 6.2 14.7
41 Chin Lee 1.6 9.8
42 Raymond Cho 0.0 3.2
44 Ron Moeser 0.0 1.4
THOSE WHO TAKE LOTS OF MONEY
2 Rob Ford 32.5 24.2
3 Doug Holiday 24.0 28.3
5 Peter Milczyn 41.7 26.4
6 Mark Grimes 22.6 18.8
7 Giorgio Mammoliti 41.4 26.0
10 Michael Feldman 29.6 16.1
11 Frances Nunziata 39.1 32.9
12 Frank Di Giorgio 39.5 27.5
13 Bill Saundercook 17.5 31.4
16 Karen Stintz 47.0 2.0
17 Cesar Palacio 37.4 2.1
24 David Shiner 25.5 21.3
26 John Parker 25.4 17.4
29 Case Ootes 28.1 30.2
34 Denzil Minnan-Wong 32.5 30.0
36 Brian Ashton 30.4 15.6
37 Michael Thompson 20.0 28.9
39 Mike Del Grande 37.5 10.7
43 Paul Ainslie 27.3 24.0
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The study and monitoring of recent climate changes and the current sea level are organized worldwide by the GLOSS programme of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. This programme principally relies on a world network of some 300 coastal tide stations around which the denser regional networks revolve. The GLOSS stations are typically grouped according to three poles of scientific interest:
GLOSS-LTT, for studying long-term sea level trends
GLOSS-ALT, for "calibrating" satellite mounted radar altimeters
GLOSS-OC, for monitoring overall circulation in the oceans
GLOSS: global coordination based on the voluntary participation of nations
GLOSS does not have its own resources to develop such a network of tidal observatories. However, it is a network that should be densified to better understand the mesoscale structures of the ocean, as well as the complex processes in the littoral zone. The GLOSS programme acts on a worldwide scale as regards coordination of resources and efforts. Its success relies on the voluntary participation of countries and national organizations. This is the level where concrete resources need mobilizing.
France's involvement in GLOSS
Through its Overseas Territories, France has the second largest maritime area worldwide. Accordingly, 15 tidal stations are deployed on the territory. The stations are detailed in the table below. The RONIM and ROSAME networks are the French contributors. Note that one sea level observatory does not have a permanent tide station (Clipperton Island)
To find out more:
GLOSS Internet portal
GLOSS presentation hosted at the PSMSL website
UNESCO (2012). The Global Sea Level Observing System Implementation plan 2012. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. Technical Series 100 (en).
Every two years, a review of tidal observatories is officially recorded in the national reports, the most recent of which for France are listed below:
Voineson G., Pouvreau N., L. Testut, A. Coulomb, J-P. Barriot, G. Wöppelmann (2011). National Report of France to the XIIth GLOSS Group of Expert Meeting. UNESCO, Paris, 09-11 November 2011. 10pp.
Barriot J.-P., L. Sichoix (2009). National Report of French Polynesia (south central Pacific Ocean) to the XIth GLOSS Group of Expert Meeting. UNESCO, Paris, 13-15 May 2009. 4pp.
Wöppelmann G., R. Créach, L. Testut (2009). National Report of France to the XIth GLOSS Group of Expert Meeting. UNESCO, Paris, 13-15 May 2009. 5pp.
Wöppelmann G., R. Créach, L. Testut (2007). National Report of France to the Xth GLOSS Group of Expert Meeting. UNESCO, Paris, 5-8 June 2007. 8pp.
Wöppelmann G., T. Aarup, T. Schöne (2007). An inventory of collocated and nearly-collocated CGPS stations at tide gauges. Progress report (as of July 25, 2007) on the survey carried out under the GLOSS program of IOC/UNESCO. The HTML version of this report provides the links to the text file tables of the report.
Calmant S., R. Leroy, L. Testut and G. Wöppelmann (2005). National Report of France to the IXth GLOSS Group of Expert Meeting. 3pp.
Le Provost C., R. Leroy (2001). National Report of France. 3pp.
Last uupdated: 12/28/2012
List of international programs
IOC - sea level monitoring facility
PSMSL
EuroGOOS
List of programs, projects and reconstructions of tide gauge data
French programs
Construction and analysis of coherent sea level data
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PCI Biotech: Successful Investigational New Drug application
December 14, 2016 /in Portfolio Companies /by Elisabeth Andersen
PCI Biotech has received clearance by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to include patients in the US in its Phase II clinical programme for fimaporfin (Amphinex®).
Fimaporfin is in clinical development for inoperable bile duct cancer and the opening of the IND is in accordance with the previously communicated plan to expand the bile duct cancer programme to the USA following the promising early signs of efficacy in Phase I.
PCI Biotech is one of Radium Hospital Research Foundation´s portfolio companies.
www.pcibiotech.com
About PCI Biotech
PCI Biotech is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on development and commercialisation of novel therapies for the treatment of cancer through its innovative photochemical internalisation (PCI) technology platform. PCI is applied to three distinct anticancer paradigms: fimaChem (enhancement of chemotherapeutics for localised treatment of cancer), fimaVacc (T-cell induction technology for therapeutic vaccination), and fimaNAc (nucleic acid therapeutics delivery).
Photochemical internalisation induces triggered endosomal release that is used to unlock the true potential of a wide array of therapeutic modalities. The company’s lead fimaChem programme consists of a clinical Phase I/II clinical study in bile duct cancer, an orphan indication with a high unmet need and without approved products. fimaVacc applies a unique mode of action to enhance the essential cytotoxic effect of therapeutic cancer vaccines, which works in synergy with several other state-of-the-art vaccination technologies. fimaNAc utilises the endosomal release to provide intracellular delivery of nucleic acids, such as mRNA and siRNA therapeutics, thereby addressing one of the major bottlenecks facing this emerging and promising field.
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Nordic Naonvector raised 497 MNOK
December 7, 2016 /in Portfolio Companies /by Elisabeth Andersen
Nordic Nanovector raised MNOK 497 in gross proceeds through a private placement. The Private Placement was completed at a subscription price of NOK 114 per share, which was determined through an accelerated book-building process.
The Private Placement was oversubscribed and attracted strong interest from both existing shareholders and new institutional investors.
Nordic Nanovector intends to use the net proceeds:
To fund a Phase 2 combination study of Betalutin® and Rituximab CD20
To fund a Phase 1 study and GMP manufacturing for 177Lu-conjugated chimeric antibody (anti-CD37 ARC)
Develop new proprietary antibody production technology
Accelerate pipeline of pre-clinical assets to clinical trials
Prepare for commercial launch of Betalutin®
General corporate purposes
Please go to Nordic Nanovector`s latest investor presentation.
About Nordic Nanovector:
Nordic Nanovector is a biotech company focusing on the development and commercialisation of novel targeted therapeutics in haematology and oncology. The Company’s lead clinical-stage product opportunity is Betalutin®, the first in a new class of Antibody-Radionuclide-Conjugates (ARC) designed to improve upon and complement current options for the treatment of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL). NHL is an indication with substantial unmet medical need and orphan drug opportunities, representing a growing market worth over $12 billion by 2018.
Betalutin® comprises a tumour-seeking anti-CD37 antibody, lilotomab, conjugated to a low intensity radionuclide (lutetium-177). The preliminary data has shown promising efficacy and safety profile in an ongoing Phase 1/2 study in a difficult-to-treat NHL patient population. The Company is aiming at developing Betalutin® for the treatment of major types of NHL with first regulatory submission anticipated in 1H 2019.
Nordic Nanovector intends to retain marketing rights and to actively participate in the commercialisation of Betalutin® in core markets, while exploring potential distribution agreements in selected geographies. The Company is committed to developing its pipeline of innovative targeted immunoconjugate therapies for multiple selected cancer indications.
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Nordic Nanovector appoints Dr Lisa Rojkjaer, MD as Chief Medical Officer
November 16, 2016 /in Portfolio Companies /by radforsk
Nordic Nanovector ASA (OSE: NANO) is pleased to announce that Lisa Rojkjaer, MD has joined the company today as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and as a member of the Executive Management Team. Dr Rojkjaer will lead all clinical development strategy and execution and support the company’s efforts to identify opportunities to expand its pipeline of innovative targeted therapies for haematological cancers.
Dr Rojkjaer is a board-certified haematologist with more than 15 years of global and regional clinical development and medical affairs expertise in the biotech and pharma industries, and has extensive experience in the development of both biologics and small molecules in haematology and immunology. She joins Nordic Nanovector from Novartis Pharmaceuticals where she held the position of Global Clinical Program Head, Oncology Global Development. Her previous roles also include CMO at Molecular Partners (Switzerland), Vice President, Head of Clinical Development at Morphosys AG (Germany), and Head of Global Medical Affairs, Biopharmaceuticals and Director of Clinical Development, Hematology in the US for Novo Nordisk.
Dr Rojkjaer holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto and received board certification in both internal medicine and hematology.
Dr Rojkjaer commented: “I am delighted to join Nordic Nanovector at this exciting time in its development. The company’s lead candidate Betalutin® is demonstrating in clinical studies its potential to become an important new therapy for the treatment of NHL patients. Its technology is also providing multiple exciting new pipeline opportunities. I look forward to working with the management team and contributing to the future growth of the company.”
Luigi Costa, Chief Executive Officer, added: “I am very pleased to welcome Lisa to the team. She brings on board strong expertise in clinical development of novel cancer treatments, particularly in the field of haematology. Lisa’s knowledge and leadership will be key to the development of Betalutin® as well as to support the growth of Nordic Nanovector’s promising pipeline.”
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Photocure ASA: Third Quarter 2016
Photocure ASA (OSE: PHO), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on photodynamic technologies in cancer and dermatology, reported a revenue growth of 17 % to NOK 31.6 million in the third quarter of 2016 (Q3 2015: NOK 27.0) for the Hexvix/Cysview commercial franchise and a corresponding EBITDA of NOK 8.0 million.
“As in the previous two quarters, Photocure continued to grow sales revenues in third quarter. The Hexvix/Cysview sales revenue increase for the quarter and first nine months was double digit. It is encouraging to see the positive momentum of volume growth and increased adoption of Cysview in the US, both in the quarter and year to date,” says Kjetil Hestdal, president and CEO.
Photocure reported total revenues of NOK 35.2 million in the third quarter of 2016 (35.9), with an EBITDA of NOK -1.6 million (-1.6). Net profit was NOK 0.1 million (-5.0), while the cash position ended at NOK 93.9 million. The underlying sales revenue growth of 17 % for the Hexvix/Cysview franchise was driven by increased demand in the US, price increases and foreign exchange rates. Total Hexvix/Cysview global in-market sales increased 12% to NOK 181 million year to date with a year to date in-market unit sales growth of 5%
In the US, third quarter revenue increased 46% and year to date revenue increased 43% compared to same periods the prior year. The increase was driven by volume growth, positive foreign exchange rates and price increase. In constant currency, year to date revenue grew 35% compared to the same period in 2015.
“The US growth was driven both by the number of permanent blue light cystoscopes (BLCs) installed at leading US hospitals/urology centers and by increased average usage per center. In addition, several new and key medical publications on the medical benefits of Blue Light Cystoscopy with Hexvix/Cysview were announced in the third quarter, including studies published in Bladder Cancer, World Journal of Urology and The Journal of Urology, documenting clinical benefits for bladder cancer patients by using Hexvix/Cysview,” says Hestdal.
Photocure expects to increase unit sales for Hexvix/Cysview through continued positive sales development of Cysview in the US, launch in new markets as well as growth in key mature markets. The company will continue to expand its commercial presence in urology by furthering the Hexvix/Cysview opportunity in the bladder cancer surveillance market with finalization of the new phase 3 clinical trial.
The company expects this trial to cost USD 7.5 million in total, down from originally planned USD 8.5 million. Photocure is entitled to receive EUR 4 million from Galderma in the fourth quarter of 2016, as the final payment related to the 2009 Metvix asset purchase agreement.
“The patient enrollment in the phase 3 clinical study of Blue Light Flexible Cystoscopy with Cysview is progressing according to plan and expected to be fully recruited by the end of 2016. Our cash position is expected to remain solid throughout 2016 including committed deferred payments and milestones. We are also working closely with our advisor and remain fully committed to establish strategic partnerships for our non-urology pipeline products, Visonac and Cevira”, says Hestdal.
Please see link to the full financial report and presentation.
Photocure ASA will present its interim report today at Hotel Continental, Oslo, Norway. Continental, Oslo, Norway. The presentation will begin at 08.30 (CET) and representatives from the company will be Kjetil Hestdal, President & CEO, Erik Dahl, CFO. The presentation will be publicly available at www.photocure.com. It will be possible to follow the presentation through a live webcast.
Photocure will additionally host an audio webcast and conference call today in English at 17:00 CET / 16:00 GMT / 12:00 EST.
Please join the event conference 5-10 minutes prior to the start time using the number and confirmation code below:
NORWAY: +47 2350 0296
UK: +44(0)20 7026 5967
Confirmation code: 9330000
It is possible to listen to a replay of the conference call on the following numbers:
NORWAY +47 2350 0077
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Oncoimmunity, Vaccibody, Nextera and Nordic Nanovector granted BIA-funding
February 1, 2016 /in Portfolio Companies /by radforsk
The Norwegian Research Council granted Oslo Cancer Cluster member companies Oncoimmunity, Vaccibody, Nextera and Nordic Nanovector funding through the Programme for User-Driven Research Based Innovation (BIA).
In total, the Norwegian Research Council will grant 532 MNOK to 50 Norwegian companies, of which 10 are within biomedicine.
Oncoimmunity, Vaccibody, Nextera and Nordic Nanovector will receive between 15-20 million NOK each over 4 years, depending on the outcome of the contract negotiations between the council and the companies. Funding from the BIA programme is a quality stamp since the companies compete in “open class” where all sectors are represented.
Titles for the granted innovation projects:
Vaccibody: Targeted Personalized Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
Press release from Vaccibody
Nordic Nanovector: Development of Two New Antibody Radionuclide Conjugates for Treatment of Malignant Lymphoma and Leukemia
Oncoimmunity: Software for profiling tumor neo-antigens to empower cancer immunotherapy
Nextera: Novel targeted therapy for treating Leukemia
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U.S. job-seekers try new tricks to get employers' eye | Oddly Enough | Reuters
U.S. job-seekers try new tricks to get employers' eye
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Job-seekers are using unusual gimmicks to grab the attention of potential employers, such as in one case sending a shoe along with a resume to get a "foot in the door," said a survey released on Wednesday.
Almost a fifth of hiring managers report seeing more unconventional tactics this year, compared with 12 percent who said so last year, according to the study by CareerBuilder.com, an online jobs site.
Faced with the highest unemployment in 25 years, candidates are trying a variety of tricks, including:
* handing out resumes at stoplights
* washing cars in a company parking lot
* staging a sit-in in a company lobby to demand a meeting with a director
* sending a cake designed as a business card with the candidate's picture
* handing out personalized coffee cups
* going to the same barber as the company chairman to have the barber speak on his behalf
One job-seeker attached a shoe to a resume as "a way to get my foot in the door," a respondent told the survey.
"The search for employment is taking longer and is more competitive than it has been in past years," said Jason Ferrara, senior career adviser at CareerBuilder, in a statement. "To compensate, some candidates have turned to extreme tactics."
But he cautioned: "While unusual job search antics may attract the attention of hiring managers, they need to be done with care and professionalism so that candidates are remembered for the right reasons."
The online survey was conducted for CareerBuilder by Harris Interactive among 2,543 full-time hiring managers and human resource professionals between February 20 and March 11, 2009. The overall results have a margin of error of plus or minus 1.94 percentage points.
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A scenario of geophysical events inferred to have preceded the 5.6 ka Whakatane eruption episode from Haroharo volcano
Sherburn, S.; Nairn, I.A.; Smith, V.C. 2005 A scenario of geophysical events inferred to have preceded the 5.6 ka Whakatane eruption episode from Haroharo volcano . Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences science report 2005/30 36 p.
Abstract: Rhyolite eruptions during the ~5.6 ka “Whakatane” eruption episode occurred from multiple vents across Haroharo volcano (part of the Haroharo linear vent zone – HLVZ), within Haroharo caldera in the Okataina Volcanic Centre (OVC). Insights into the magmatic processes which occurred before and during the eruptions have been obtained from detailed geological and petrological studies of the eruption deposits. We have combined these magmatic insights with geophysical interpretations of the crustal structure of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, and Haroharo volcano, to produce a conceptual model of the volcano and the pre-eruption processes. This model, enhanced by the addition of geophysical data recently recorded from Long Valley caldera, a somewhat similar type of volcano in California, provides a framework for construction of a scenario of the geophysical events likely to be tested against the actual ~5.6 ka events, and contains some assumptions that also cannot be tested, it provides a plausible account of the precursors to be expected before a future Whakatane-type episode. (auth)
Risk assessment for population, agriculture, and infrastructure in the Rotorua District from a rhyolitic eruption at the Okataina Volcanic Centre
Impacts of a Whakatane-type rhyolite eruption on modern day New Zealand
A scenario of geophysical events inferred to have preceded the ~1300 AD Kaharoa eruption : lessons for the future
Geology of the Okataina Volcanic Centre : sheets part U15, part U16, part V15 & part V16, scale 1:50,000
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Crispvs (Paul Geddes)
In creating what we hope is an accurate image of the Roman soldier we are often faced with a series of choices, not just in terms of what specific armour or helmet we choose but a host of other things as well. Often the choice of what a person ends up purchasing come down to a mixture of what they see others carrying and what they can afford. This often translates into being a matter of the 'flashiest' kit a person can get their hands on. We tend to want THESE belt plates (because they look nice) or THIS helmet (again because of how it looks) and so on.
However, we should also be thinking about what we are portraying. Supposedly we portray soldiers either of Legio XIIII GMV or Cohors I Batavorum. What did these soldiers actually look like? Leaving aside the obvious anacronisms of our own physical conditions and ages, how much does the equipment we use actually reflect the equipment used by the units we seek to portray? Evidence is steadily emerging to suggest that shield blazons and totemic symbols were not the only things which made soldiers of different units look different to each other. The examples of the possible use of helmet wigs and red face paint by Batavian soldiers are now fairly well known but what other things might we also find when we look at the assembled state of the evidence?
As we learn ever more about Roman military equipment and buildings, some trends have emerged which strongly suggest that some items could have been unit specific, and might therefore be inappropriate in reconstructions of other units.
A well known example of this is the presence of figural type 'B' belt plates in Britain (these are the embossed plates featuring wolf and twins, acanthus leaves, chasing animals and emperor and cornucopia motifs). Studies have shown that these plates have been found mainly on sites associated with Legio II Augusta. Care should be exercised in any conclusions here, though, as a cast item featuring a chasing animal motif [fig. A], which was almost certainly used for stamping the design into belt plates, was found near Colcester, a site associated with Legio XX.
In addition to this though, a number of examples of a fifth type of figural plate, featuring winged thunderbolts have been found at Vindonissa and seem to be specific to that site, suggesting that these might have been specific to a particular unit.
Figure A. Sheepen stamp
Figure B. Mainz Gallic I
Figure C. Aquincum Gallic I
Some other items however, stand out as better candidates for unit specific items. The most obvious of these is the example of the copper-alloy Imperial Gallic type 'I' helmets. Four of these helmets are now known, one from Mainz [fig. B], one from Budapest [fig. C], one which was part of the collection of Axel Guttmann (of unknown origin but probably the Balkans) [fig. D], and one in the collection of the Dorestad Museum whose findspot is also unknown to me [fig. E]. In addition to all being made of copper-alloy and having deep, sharply angled neck guards, these helmets all feature fittings for a central 'front to back' crest and side plumes. The central crest attachment on the Budapest (or 'Aquincum') helmet takes the form of an anther with a slot in the top, like an elongated version of the type found on Coolus helmets. The Mainz helmet is normally reconstructed with a 'twist on' type crest attachment but when it was found no central crest holder was present but a circular patch of solder showed that there must have been one. The Guttmann and Dorestad helmets have similar patches of solder where they have also lost their crest attachments. Given the similarity of these three helmets to the Aquincum helmet it seems reasonable to think they may originally have had anther type crest fittings like that helmet. All four of these helmets then, are made of copper-alloy, possibly featured anther type crest supports and had fittings for side plumes. However, the helmet from Mainz also has an inscripion, showing it to have belonged to a soldier of Legio I Adiutrix. Perhaps not coincidentally Budapest/Aquincum was the base for Legio II Adiutrix, making the Aquincum helmet likely to have been owned by a soldier of Legio II Adiutrix. In addition to these, the grave stele of Gaius Castricius Victor, of Legio II Adiutrix, also from Budapest, shows the soldier wearing a helmet with a central crest and what are probably side plumes [fig. F].
Fig. D Guttman Gallic I
Fig. E Dorestad Gallic I
Fig. F Castricius Victor Head
All this shows then, that these Imperial Gallic type 'I' helmets should probably not be used in reconstructions of any units other than the two Adiutrix legions (which had both been converted from Marine units in the AD60s). Further evidence for particular cresting arrangements comes from Caesar's mention of his fifth legion, who were known as the 'Larks' (alaudae), due to their particular style of crests. In addition to these, helmets shown being worn by soldiers depicted on a column base from Mainz, dating to the Flavian period, feature fishes in place of the normal 'eyebrow' decorative reinforcement [fig. G]. This may also be intended to show a specific unit.
Fig. G Mainz base b
Fig. H Junius Dubatius boss
Fig. I Vindonissa boss fragment
Fig J pugiones
Other unit specific items can also be identified. The well known shield boss of Junius Dubatius [fig. H], currently in the Museum of Antiquities in Newcastle upon Tyne, carries the inscription 'LEG VIII AVG' showing him to have been a member of Legio VIII Augusta. A fragment of a very similar shield boss [fig. I], on which the abbreviation 'AVG' was inscribed in the same place as on the Tyne boss, was also found at Vindonissa, where Legio VIII Augusta were stationed for some time, making it likely that this particular style of boss was specific to Legio VIII.
Another possible example of an item limited to a particular unit is a type of dagger sheath which combines side guttering with a type 'B' front plate engraved with vertical and horizontal lines. An example of this type has been found in Nijmegen in a context which possibly links it with Legio X Gemina. Similar sheaths are known from the area of Spain where Legio X Gemina was stationed in the latter half of the first century BC [fig. J - Nijmegen sheath plate on left, almost complete Iberian sheath on right].
Moving away from equipment, other items could also be unit specific. At the Carlisle Millenium Conference in 2004, the late Dr Vivian Swann demonstrated that specific pottery forms were associated with particular units. Her study of pottery from sites associated with Legio II Augusta and Legio VI Victrix showed that both units could be reliably identified from their pottery. She suggested that pottery was made by soldiers, who learned the forms for their pottery from other soldiers in the same unit. When the unit moved, the type of clay being used changed but the forms of pottery being made remained the same. The particular shapes produced differed between the two units. Although Dr Swann told me that she had only studied the pottery of these two units, she thought it reasonable to suppose that most other units would have done the same and thus their particular pottery would probably be identifiable as well. An example she gave was that of 'wall sided' mortaria, which are archaeologically associated with Legio XIIII.
Finally, looking at buildings, it is evident that units differed in their building practices. It is well known that Hadrian's Wall was built by soldiers of Legiones II Augusta, VI Victrix and XX Valeria Victrix, with each unit responsible for a specific sector of the wall. The eastern and central sectiors of the wall were originally built in stone, but the western sector the wall was originally built with turf. It has been suggested that this was because of the lack of good building stone in that region but, given that that sector was rebuilt in stone only a few years later by Legio VI Victrix, it may be that Legio XX Valeria Victrix, who were originally responsible for the western sector, had not started building fortifications in stone at that stage and were still sticking with turf and timber construction methods.
Looking at military buildings, the Metchley Fort, which today is largely covered by Birmingham University featured barrack blocks where the centurions' quarters at the end of each block were separated from the rest of the block by a corridor or alleyway. Although this is within the region that Legio XIIII were active in the post invasion phase, this arrangement is consistent with sites associated with Legio XX. There are indications (such as the presence of fragments of wall sided mortaria) that the fort was originally built by Legio XIIII but the corridors are a later feature, cut through the original plan. Buildings excavated at attested Legio XX sites show the same feature, strongly suggesting that this was a standard building practice in Legio XX which differed from the building practices of other units. The suggestion here is that soldiers of Legio XX occupied the Metchley site after Legio XIIII had moved on and adapted the buildings to their own pattern, based on the changes to the buildings in the second phase of the site.
It is evident then, that every unit did not look the same and did not do things the same way, and as we discover more, the evidence for this is likely to increase. We may not know what any specific unit looked like but we can now state with confidence that there were differences between units and we can now identify some of these features.
Acknowledgments and sources of images
Figure A - M.C. Bishop
Figures B,C,D and E - Romanarmy.com Helmet database
Figure F - Romanarmy.com Imagebase
Figure G - M.C. Bishop
Figure H - Timetrips.co.uk
Figure I - Roman-artifacts.com
Figure J - J Obmann - 'Studien zu roemischen Dolchscheiden des 1. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.'
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Unlucky Charms
I don't know if this warrants a disclaimer, but I've been sick for a few days. I believe I may be coming out of the "bug fog." Congestion persists, as does the loblolly (it's a word, I swear on my own grave) secreted by my mucous membranes. I mention these yucky details to point out that my dragging condition could very well color my opinion of 2013's Unlucky Charms. I'm fucking irritable. However, it's likely that a healthy Dom would find the exact same faults. I thought it might be nice to conclude my Full Moon Five experiment with a recent production minted by the b-budget studio. This one was directed by Charles Band himself. We can blame him, just like I can blame myself for deciding to watch. Because I thought it would be "nice." Hold up; I need my DayQuil hit.
On Full Moon Streaming, the running time is 70 minutes. On IMDb, there is an uncut version listed at 80 minutes. In fact, it's the only version listed. What gives, Charlie? Are you holding out on us? The cuts would have to be related to the plot, as the death sequences don't leave room for extra gore. Maybe extraneous characters crop up only to be carved up (think F13 Part IV...the hitchhiker). Either way, I'm fine with Unlucky Charms being a spuddy, abbreviated sit. It was marketed as yet another "killer leprechaun" romp and Mr. Band had the foreskin to sell Special Edition copies in a cereal box. He's one hell of a huckster, you have to give him that. As it turns out, the lep-dude is one of four "villains." Quotation marks denote sarcasm, which means...
They're the good guys! Look at the poster again. Those are the good guys. They lost their precious gemstones above ground (on Earth), and that's terrible news for humankind. Whomever possesses said bangles wields power over the four sprites, and of course, the current owner happens to be a miserly narcissist. Farr Darrig (the red leprechaun) doesn't want to commit acts of evil, but is his will strong enough? Is he strong enough to be my man? For some Band-y reason, this cinematic picador is known as Miscreants on Full Moon Streaming. He has done that with more than a couple of flicks, I've noticed. "Which title shall I change today? I'm goddamn God!" Oh, is it worth watching? I forgot that part.
It's enjoyable to a certain extent. The bulk of the acting is wretched, but Jeryl Prescott gives a standout performance as a Tyra Banks type. She's the true antagonist. It doesn't surprise me to learn that she was on The Walking Dead because I kept thinking that she was too talented for Unlucky Charms. The make-up effects are weak. Farr Darrig does not - I repeat - DOES NOT resemble the imp on the cover. He's merely a guy with bad acne. We are treated to bare flesh, though the lovely Anna Sophia Berglund seems to cover her breasts during a sex scene after we've seen her breasts. It's odd. She's on top. There is no conceivable reason for her to obscure her nipples with one arm. What the cuntiferous jizm???
To top it all off, the pace...actually, the pace is dandy. There are plenty of lapses in logic I could dislimb, but I've reached my flagellation quota for the day. Unlucky Charms is stunningly average. The ending is rushed, so taking the running time misinformation into consideration, I'm willing to bet that a "Director's Cut" will surface, if anyone gives two fickle fucks. And that! Was! The Full Moon Five! I hurt! Inside!
Geek Out #123
I'm under the weather, so I don't feel like writing much of anything today. The next item I post will most certainly be the last gasp of my Full Moon Five spree, but first, you gotta...GOTTA see this. It's the trailer for 1992's My Grandpa is a Vampire. The vampire is played by none other than Al motherfucking Lewis! I use too much profanity, don't I? In a sense, Lewis was Pappy to all of us. He may have been typecast as Grampa Munster, but that's because Grampa Munster was the straight dope.
That isn't the image I wanted to use. I wanted the original VHS cover, but the only version that I could find kept uploading as grayscale. I didn't convert it to grayscale. No, I did my usual resizing routine, I boosted the contrast a smidgen (these are cabalistic insider tricks of the spade) and it was goddamn grayscale. Apparently, it was a problem with that specific file. Could it be that 1999's Totem cursed my machine? It's plausible. Back when I reviewed the entire Puppet Master series, a friend of mine - I'm not mentioning any Mexican names - jokingly suggested that I review Totem since it's tangentially related to Charles Band's tentpole franchise. I told him to suck a taco. NOTE: I'm a horrible, horrible racist. Not really. Please don't forsake me.
Of course, the plot has nothing to do with Puppet Master. I'm not even sure it has anything to do with the Totem creatures in PM 4 and 5. At. All. More than likely, I'll kick my friend's ass later, but that doesn't concern you, dear reader. Where does Totem take us? A cabin in the middle of nowhere. We join six folks already in progress, most of them teenagers. None of them know why they are there or why they felt the clamant compulsion to run in the cabin's direction. An enclosure of charged "kill-owatts" won't let them leave the premises. They can walk a few miles, but that's it. While shuffling in the open night air, our dick squad (I'll explain in a minute) chances upon a graveyard. They notice a totem pole standing to the side. It's gilded with three soulless kobolds. Hmm, that's probably not the right term...let's go with "bullies."
In any event, Totem is nonsensical, cheese-budget gab. Three-quarters of the characters are dicks, and yeah, the majority of the dicks are male. When the film starts, these people are strangers, so they have no reason to be dicks to one another. But they are! The dialogue is rasping and incessant. The acting ranges from solid to inanimate. By that I mean, I mistook a lass for a butane torch. I was going to say "dishwasher," but golly, I didn't want to come off as misogynistic. It could have been any home appliance. Actually, it could have been any inanimate object period, so I suppose a football would have worked. Fuck. Listen, she's a dreadful actress, whatever her name is. Be upset with her, not me! I wonder if the characters had names.
Totem's biggest flaw (and I count it as a single scrape) is its vague demons and their vague backstories. When the beat comes for mud to be made clear, we are shown stock footage from B&W viking flicks poorly superimposed over newly-shot footage of fire. Oh, and it's narrated. Something about spirits of war being unleashed. I don't know. I have a feeling that it was compiled in post-production. Call it a convalescent's intuition. The Totemites look neat, unless they're in transit. I know for a fact that they had multiple puppeteers toiling behind each puppet, so why is the movement shoddy? For twat's sake, you can see wires!
Thus far, this has been a 1-Z'Dar review. I'll get to the stuff I enjoyed soon, but Charles...CHARLES. You know as well as I do these pole-smokers didn't need to be midgets. What is your obsession with tiny terrors? It would have been cheaper to toss a guy in a suit! Get help. Band didn't direct Totem, by the way. That distinction belongs to Martin Tate (a.k.a. David DeCoteau, of course). The stuff I enjoyed? The climax is straight out of a Halloween theme park. It's ridiculous. Would it shock you to learn that zombies are involved? I'm assuming that authentic make-up effects were too exorbitant, so the undead actors are forced to wear zombie masks (!). The last 15 minutes straddle the line between epic and insulting. This freelancer is leaning toward epic.
After being threatened with violence, I finally watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. It was good. It was a good thing. Almost frustrating, though. The target audience is mootable. The film was primarily made for children, yet mature enough for adults. TV-Y7? My point is, where do I go with any complaints I may or may not have? Should I even bother "critiquing" it? Then again, most of the people who own Mask of the Phantasm are probably adults. They enjoyed it, and hey, so did I! But this fucking Phantasm character. Don't worry, citizens of Gotham; I won't spoil the villain's identity.
He/she can disappear at will. How? Imagine a cripple shrugging their (crippled) shoulders right now. He/she is seemingly followed by a fog machine, unless the fog is expended through some sort of intubation system. A catheter? But it would have to be the inverse of a catheter. Does Phantasm piss steam? If that were the case, then why-OH FUCK, I FORGOT TO POST PICTURES!
KO...a.k.a. the fucking man.
The weapons atop Dean's Asylum. Notice Mitch in the back.
Looks like they're standing in milk. HEY, BECKY!
The New Day pre-time travel.
The Bulletproof Balor Club of Styles. Or whatever. They need their own name.
Natty was fly.
Sad RomanTron is sad.
Cesaro post-strip.
Stephanie checking me out.
If you click on each image, you will see a version that is exactly the same size. lol Fuck off. lol
The "I Attended Raw" Write-Up
I'll try to post actual pictures tomorrow.
I had a blast! That's all you need to read, but I worked too hard on this (no, I didn't). Please read the whole thing, or I'll kick your ass (no, I won't). In retrospect, I feel a little silly telling friends to tune in and look for me, not realizing I would be behind the camera. That's where a block of "wheelchair people" were sitting. I could barely see the TitanTron, and the poor Crips next to me couldn't see it at all. There were other wheelchairs in the audience. I can only hope they had more RESPECTFUL seating. NOTE: I'm not talking about the view of the ring. Our view was great. I'm not going to bash WWE here, as it may have been the fault of the venue (in this case, the Greensboro Coliseum).
Let's talk about wrestling, shall we? I've watched clips on WWE.com, and yeah, that's pretty much what the crowd sounded like. I'm proud of us. North Carolina is the fuck-up at state family gatherings. The other states stop talking when NC walks into the room because they were prattling on our recent arrest, our pregnant stripper girlfriend and our discriminatory bathroom bill. BUT we're a wrasslin' state. Right now, as a Carolinian, that's all I have to cling to, aside from campestral mountain ranges and shit.
It is time. For a list.
~ The crowd loved A.J. Styles. Early on, they were booing the fuck out of Roman Reigns. By the end of the Uso/Club match (which was awesome), the crowd was split evenly. I dug the post-scuffle scuffle. Styles Clash on a steel chair, bruh! This feud is working. I'm convinced that Reigns is the next Cena, but fuck that. Turn him heel. Soon!
~ Zayn/Owens versus Miz/Cesaro was the bout of the night. All four guys understand storytelling...yes, even Mike. At some point, they will have to make KO a babyface. That's his only flaw as a heel; he's too likable!
~ The Shining Stars! And so Raw became mediocre for a spell. You can only repackage talents so many times before momentum is at an impasse. Viewers know that these courtly Puerto Ricans are Los Matadores, and they still don't care about them. Needless to say, the crowd was deceased for this one. Beg Carlito to come back. That's Epico and Primo's only hope. I suppose you could run an angle with their grandfather. Have him pay off a contract killer to stab Dana Brooke in the shower. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
~ Since I'm on the topic, Dana was fine in her match against Becky Lynch, but why did she win? Why??? I understand that my precious Emma is injured (back surgery...son of a shit), but Dana? And a roll-up? Did Becky pay off a contract killer to stab Linda McMahon in the shower? What the fuck? If I had to wager a guess, creative wants to send Becky on a losing streak while the title picture sorts itself out. This would also include beating the women who defeated her on her way back up the ladder. Hopefully, it ends with Becky taking on Sasha Banks for the WWE Women's Championship. Hopefully.
~ Jericho and Ambrose. Whatever. I'm loving Jericho's heel work. I'm a fan. I dig Ambrose. But...meh. They're trying so hard to push Dean as the new Mick Foley, the hardcore legend for this generation. I'm not buying it. Christ, he revved up a chainsaw in his match opposite Brock Lesnar. What, was he going to chop him in half? An Asylum Match. Because he's crazy, remember? One of the weapons hanging from the top of the cell was a mop. Is goddamn Perry Saturn going to pop up out of nowhere?
~ Not entirely sure how it played off on TV, but the crowd erupted after the Golden Truth montage. They're finally a tag team. I was skeptical at first, but it clicked. Okey-dokey, so book a confusion finish where R-Truth kicks Goldust in the face. Fucking what!? If they break up in the coming weeks, I will find a random child and remove his/her skeleton.
~ Kofi's callback to his old gimmick was hysterical. I'm cool with The Vaudevillains standing tall, even though it's painfully obvious that they're not winning the belts on Sunday.
~ A word on the pyrotechnics. My ears are sensitive, but I basically knew what to expect. You can brace yourself, unless it's supposed to be a surprise. Like The Dudley Boys. They interrupted Big Cass, and my dick jumped into my nasal cavity. My poor mom almost pissed herself. There were little kids sitting close to the bang-boom illuminations. Fuck them, I guess.
~ The ending was a riot. I couldn't believe I was hearing a "Steph-an-ie!" chant. In Flair country, of all places!
~ We didn't stick around for the dark match, but I know it was Jericho/Ambrose. You could hear Y2J shitting on everyone throughout the coliseum. Heh.
Oh, and Kalisto died.
This weekend-ish, I will work toward concluding my Full Moon Five (and all the girlies scream), but on Wednesday, I'll be reviewing Monday Night Raw. Why not tomorrow? I'll need a day of recovery. See, I'm not just reviewing an episode of Raw. I'll be attending the fucking thing. Kind of a big deal because this is my first WWE/F event ever. Am I fangirling? MAYBE.
IHSAHN - Arktis
Vegard Sverre Tveitan, you son of a bitch. You've done it again! Oh, I'm sorry. That's Ihsahn's birth name. Only true metalheads would know that. True metalheads...with access to Wikipedia. But that's not important! I could have whipped up this review a couple of weeks ago, but I wanted to sit with Arktis. I wanted to absorb its flavors as though it were marinating me. And there are a lot of flavors here. My God (er, Satan), Ihsahn cranes his blackened wings and interposes everything from black metal to witch house. From 80's traditional metal to piano balladry. From Weather Channel jazz to killer shit you can't even categorize (I'm looking at you, "Frail"). From here to eternity! Fret not, votarients; the whole of Arktis sounds like Ihsahn.
This album is so fucking good. Can I just end it there? No? Aw, piss. 2013's Das Seelenbrechen was highly experimental to the point that at least half of it was improvised in the studio. I didn't care for it, but I recognize Ihsahn's need to make that record and I would never begrudge him artistic freedom. Thankfully (for me), Arktis is more song-oriented. The arrangements are "pop-influenced." I use quotation marks because I don't want to scare off any obstinate metalheads. This isn't a pop opus, you goons. You know what it is? It's MUSIC. The three opening numbers bring you the kind of commotion one might expect from a regulation Ihsahn disc. "Disassemble" features melodic vocals from Einar of Leprous fame (those dudes are frequent collaborators). Sweet leadoff track, and then...hold on, let me break this paragraph.
There we go. "Mass Darkness" cleaves your cock/clit off and spits it down your mother's throat. Too much? I'm laughing out loud. The riffs are mean-spirited, and overall, the song simply feels apocalyptic. The kicker is that Matt Heafy (yes, the Trivium lad) helps out on the chorus. If it's any consolation, I couldn't tell it was him. Skipping ahead to "South Winds," this is where Arktis gets expansive. Electronic elements are introduced, and somehow, it feels like they are supposed to be there. Righteous stuff. My favorite ditty is "Until I Too Dissolve." Holy shit. This is King Diamond spliced with Van Halen spliced with, well, Ihsahn! Musically, it's the 80's traditional metal I was yacking about earlier. Vocally and lyrically, it's gorgeous. It's one of those songs that aims directly for the ticker. Or in this case, my ticker. Your results may vary.
"Frail" is experimental art rock? Avant-garde? Avant-prog? Avant-art experimental progressive black metal? Look, I don't fucking know what to call it, but it's amazing. Smooth harmonies, a succinct solo and optimal weirdness. Einar handles lead vox duties on "Celestial Violence," a lovely madrigal (I'm totally misusing that word, and there is nothing you can do about it). It closes Arktis with tampation (I totally made that word up, and there is nothing you can do about it). If I haven't made it clear, I love this album. You should purchase it with the currency of your country. I'm honestly not sure where I would personally rank Arktis in Ihsahn's solo discography. It's awfully close to being the best, but I hold Angl close to the chest. Now I shall rest. In my nest. And await the results of my blood test.
I can't be a father right now. I swear to Christ. She needs to shut the fuck up. She knows I don't understand Mandarin! Goddamn.
Album Cover of the Whatever
At least the logo is easy to read. This is German death metal from 1992. It was Fleshcrawl's first full-length release, and it's a skullfucker. Super doomy. But I picked it because of the cover. Giger-esque architecture (balls and cocks galore), an apocalypse-orange sky, an ominous city in the distance...this is no-nonsense metal art!
THE EVIL CLERGYMAN (1987)
We're smack dab in the middle of my Full Moon Five experiment. I knew I'd be employing a Blood Capsule amid this muddle, so I saw this as an opportunity to bonk one of the few short films on Full Moon Streaming (once again, I'm not being grease-palmed by the Band dynasty). Hopefully, you know the story behind Pulse Pounders, an anthology produced by Empire Pictures just as Empire Pictures was splintering. It was ultimately lost for 26 years until the workprint was found. Isn't it fucking enchanting how Charles Band manages to find stuff? Aw, I believed him. This time. Anyway, The Evil Clergyman is a vignette nicked from Pulse Pounders. Because for whatever reason, the whole assemblage couldn't be released as a conjunctive state of affairs.
That's dry information. What you need to know is that this 28-minute segment of Lovecraft-based (that's right, daddy-o) horror is startlingly good. It kicked my wheelchair's nugget! Fuck a synopsis. It has a plot, but the less you know, the better. Besides, the title is self-explanatory. The cast is iniminiminiminimitable. Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, David Warner, David Gale...I nearly spurted typing their names. Man, what do I say about The Evil Clergyman without spoiling the best shit? It's packed with twisted ideas, Richard Band's score is hauntingly serene and Crampton, well, she is at her absolute creamiest. My. God. Yes, that's a bovine, insolent comment to include, but I did notice her incredible performance. So there.
Let's say Pulse Pounders hit shelves on schedule in the late 80's. Granted, its insertion into an anthology would have clouded its visibility, but I believe that The Evil Clergyman would be seen as a cult classic in 2016. It's too rad.
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
Euroshock! I don't know what it is about Italian genre films and numbers, but those 8-bit plumbers sure do love to count, don't they? Calm yourselves; I'm part-Italian. I'm just saying. Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, Seven Notes in Black (a.k.a. The Psychic)...and then you have today's subject, 1973's Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye. As you might have fathomed, it's an illicit giallo. Almost every character is culpable, but there are dotty, off-center measures taken to give this spaghetti slasher its own method of functioning, as it were. It's weird shit. Why don't we analyze this weird shit and try to determine if it helps or hinders Seven Deaths?
On the surface, the plot appears to be orderly. There is a killer killing people. Beneath the surface, this is a giallo itching to chip away at the confines of Italian horror filmmaking. A high-minded tenet, but the screenplay botches the spot (wrestling vernacular; I'm convinced I can make it a popular turn of phrase). Perimetric story details are so goddamn goofy, I can't imagine how the team of producers at the bottom of this sideshow ever expected it to be taken seriously. Maybe they didn't. Our heroine is visiting her family at their castle, and her cousin casually reveals to her that he has caged (you might as well say indentured) a circus orangutan. Also, he wants to fuck her. The cousin, not the ape.
The ape subplot is militantly useless. My guess is that the totally-not-a-guy-in-a-suit is supposed to be a suspect, but we know without a shadow of a doubt that the offender is human. Help? Hinder? Both. It's fucking ludicrous, but it has z-grade appeal. Hey, there's a cat. I'm trying to cross all of the "freaky feline" flicks off of my list. I'm getting close! Seven Deaths positions a tabby (?) at the scene of each crime. What does that mean? Is the pussy unhallowed? Oracular? Is it just a dumb dick coincidence? Well, the movie didn't tell me, so I don't know. I'm going with "hinder" on that one, as it adds absolutely nothing to the feature presentation.
I'm shitting on the celluloid, but I actually had fun with Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye. I've done a masterfully poor job of interspersing positive comments, haven't I? Look, this is my first review. Ease up. The gothic atmosphere is refreshing, and there are several sweet exterior shots. Props to director Antonio Margheriti (credited here as David DeCoteau - I mean, Anthony Dawson). He had a firm grip on spooky stuff, as opposed to whatever the fuck The Snow Devils was. I'm eager to watch more of his analects, especially Castle of Blood. At any rate, I was entertained throughout. Despite ubiquitous flaws, I wanted to see how this puppy ended. Robert Z'Dar says, "I bet the killer did it. The son of a bitch."
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3 1 And I said: 'O LORD, my Lord, have I come into the world for this purpose that I might see the evils of my mother? And I went and took Jeremiah, and Adu, and Seriah, and Jabish, and Gedaliah, and all the honorable men of the people, and I led them to the valley of Kidron, and I narrated to them all that had been said to me. 9 1 And I, Baruch, came, and Jeremiah, whose heart was found pure from sins, who had not been captured in the seizure of the City. 10 1 And it came to pass after seven days, that the word of God carne to me, and said unto me: 2 'Tell Jeremiah to go and support the captivity of the people unto Babylon. 13 1 And it came to pass after these things, that I, Baruch, was standing upon Mount Zion, and lo! 3 Because you have been astonished at what has befallen Zion, you shall therefore be assuredly preserved to the consummation of the times, that you may be for a testimony. 7 And as regards what you did say touching the righteous, that on account of them has this world come, so also again shall that, which is to come, come on their account.
17 1 And the Lord answered and said unto me: 'With the Most High account is not taken of time nor of a few years.
18 1 And I answered and said: 'He that lighted has taken from the light, and there are but few that have imitated him.
4 Now regarding everything that is, it is I that judge, but do not you take counsel in your soul regarding these things, nor afflict thyself because of those which have been. 21 1 And I went there and sat in the valley of Kidron in a cave of the earth, and I sanctified my soul there, and I ate no bread, yet I was not hungry, and I drank no water, yet I thirsted not, and I was there till the seventh day, as He had commanded me. 12 you know where you preserve the end of those who have sinned, or the consummation of those who have been righteous. 16 For what we were formerly now we no longer are and what we now are we shall not afterwards remain.
19 How long will that which is corruptible remain, and how long will the time of mortals be prospered, and until what time will those who transgress in the world be polluted with much wickedness? 25 1 And He answered and said unto me: 'You too shall be preserved till that time till that sign which the Most High will work for the inhabitants of the earth in the end of days. 26 the Temple is said to be in ruins—a statement which accords with two periods only, those of the Chaldean and the Roman conquests. 3 For the former tribes were forced by their kings to commit sin, but these two of themselves have been forcing and compelling their kings to commit sin. 3 This building now built in your midst is not that which is revealed with Me, that which prepared beforehand here from the time when I took counsel to make Paradise, and showed Adam before he sinned, but when he transgressed the commandment it was removed from him, as also Paradise. 4 And it came to pass after these things that the army of the Chaldees entered and seized the house, and all that was around it. First Fast of seven Days: Baruch to remain amid the Ruins of Jerusalem and Jeremiah to accompany the Exiles to Babylon. But do you remain here amid the desolation of Zion, and I will show to you after these days 'what will befall at the end of days.' And I said to Jeremiah as the Lord commanded me.
2 And now I know that those who have sinned are many, and they have lived in prosperity,' and departed from the world, but the few nations will be left in those times, to whom those words shall he said which you did say. 11 For as the breath ascends involuntarily, and again dies, so it is with the nature of men, who depart not according to their own will, and know not what will befall them in the end.
2 For what did it profit Adam that he lived nine hundred and thirty years and transgressed that which he was commanded? 5 For now it is the consummation of time that should be considered, whether of business, or of prosperity, or of shame and not the beginning thereof.
2 For if there were this life only, which belongs to all men, nothing could be more bitter than this. 16 For if a consummation had not been prepared for all, in vain would have been their beginning. 20 Command therefore in mercy and accomplish all that you saidst you wouldst bring, that Your might may be made known to those who think that Your long-suffering is weakness. 3 For as you have not forgotten the people who now are and those who have passed away, so I remember those who are appointed to come. 4 For this reason, behold I bring evil upon this city, and upon its inhabitants, and it shall be removed from before Me for a time, and I will scatter this people among the Gentiles that they may do good to the Gentiles. 2 If I have found grace in Your sight, first take my spirit that I may go to my fathers and not behold the destruction of my mother. 4 And after these things I showed it to My servant Abraham by night among the portions of the victims. 2 And I was grieving over Zion, and lamenting over the captivity which had come upon the people. And they led the people away captive and slew some of them, and bound Zedekiah the king, and sent him to the king of Babylon. 3 For what advantage is there in this, or what (evil), worse than what' we have seen befall us, are we to expect to see? 12 For the righteous justly hope for the end, and without fear depart from this habitation, because they have with you a store of works preserved in treasuries.
5 Man would not rightly have understood My judgment, unless he had accepted the law, and I had instructed him in understanding. Therefore the multitude of time that he lived did not profit him, but brought death and cut off the years of those who were born from him.
6 Because if a man be prospered in his beginnings and shamefully entreated in his old age, he forgets all the prosperity that he had. 3 And it came to pass at sunset that my soul took much thought, and I began to speak in the presence of the Mighty One, and said: 4 'O you that have made the earth, hear me, that have fixed the firmament by the word, and have made firm the height of the heaven by the spirit, that have called from the beginning of the world that which did not yet exist, and they obey you.
But regarding everything that comes from you do you inform me, and regarding everything about which I ask you, do you enlighten me. 21 And show to those who know not, that everything that has befallen us and our city until now has been according to the long-suffering of Your power, because on account of Your name you have called us a beloved people. 3 He who travels by a road but does not complete it, or who departs by sea but does not arrive at the port, can he be comforted? 4 Because when Adam sinned and death was decreed against those who should be born, then the multitude of those who should be born was numbered, and for that number a place was prepared where the living might dwell and the dead might be guarded. 2 For it shall come to pass at that time that you shall see—and the many that are with you—the long-suffering of the Most High, which has been throughout all generations, who has been long-suffering towards all who are born, (alike) those who sin and (those who) are righteous.' 3 And I answered and said: 'But, behold! 3 When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the earth, and they shall fall into many tribulations, and again when they shall fall into great torments. And My people shall be chastened, and the time shall come when they will seek for the prosperity of their times.
For two things vehemently constrain me: for I cannot resist you, and my soul, moreover, cannot behold the evils of my mother.
5 And again also I showed it to Moses on Mount Sinai when I showed to the likeness of the tabernacle and all its vessels. 7 And if others did evil, it was due to Zion that on account of the works of those who wrought good works she should be forgiven, and should not be overwhelmed on account of the works of those who wrought unrighteousness.
13 On this account also these without fear leave this world, and trusting with joy they hope to receive the world which you have promised them. 6 But now, because he transgressed wittingly, yea, just on this ground that he knows (about it), he shall be tormented. 7 And again, if a man is shamefully entreated in his beginnings, and at his end is prospered, he remembers not again his evil entreatment.
5 you that have commanded the air by Your nod, and have seen those things which are to be as those things which you are doing.
4 Or he who promises to give a present to another, but does not fulfill it, is it not robbery? Before therefore the number aforesaid is fulfilled, the creature will not live again [for My spirit is the creator of life], and Sheol will receive the dead. O Lord, no one knows the number of those things which have passed nor yet of those things which are to come. 14 But as for us—woe to us, who also are now shamefully entreated, and at that time look forward (only) to evils.
6 you that rule with great thought the hosts that stand before you: also the countless holy beings, which you did make from the beginning, of flame and fire, which stand around Your throne you rule with indignation. 23 And reprove accordingly the angel of death, and let Your glory appear, and let the might of Your beauty be known, and let Sheol be sealed so that from this time forward it may not receive the dead, and let the treasuries of souls restore those which are enclosed in them. 5 Or he who sows the earth, but does not reap its fruit in its season, does he not lose everything?
15 But you know accurately what you have done by means of Your servants; for we are not able to understand that which is good as you art, our Creator.
24 For there have been many years like those that are desolate from the days of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and of all those who are like them, who sleep in the earth, on whose account you did say that you had created the world. 6 Or he who plants a plant unless it grows till the time suitable to it, does he who planted it expect to receive fruit from it? 8 Who causes the drops of rain to rain by number upon the earth, and alone knows the consummation of the times before they come; have respect unto my prayer. 25 And now quickly show Your glory, and do not defer what has been promised by you.' 26 And (when) I had completed the words of this prayer I was greatly weakened. 7 Or a woman who has conceived, if she bring forth untimely, does she not assuredly slay her infant? 17 When of old there was no world with its inhabitants, you did devise and speak with a word, and forthwith the works of creation stood before you. For 9 you alone are able to sustain all who are, and those who have passed away, and those who are to be, those who sin, and those who are to righteous [as living (and) being past finding out]. 8 Or he who builds a house, if he does not roof it and complete it, can it be called a house? 18 And you did say that you wouldst make for Your world man as the administrator of Your works, that it might be known that he was by no means made on account of the world, but the world on account of him. Or shall the world return to its nature of aforetime), and the age revert to primeval silence? 6 For I am first sent to speak a word to the earth, and to place in it what the Lord the Most High has commanded me.' 7 And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.
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Newly qualified yacht engineers can expect $19 to $20 an hour in South Florida and there just aren't enough of them. Launched seven years ago in a hangar-like building near Florida's Turnpike in Miramar, Broward College's marine program aims to prepare students to handle mechanical and electrical needs on yachts a€” everything from engines to air conditioning systems, electric generators to desalinization units. The Marine Industries Association of South Florida pushed for the program, and Broward College increasingly collaborates with association members and other businesses to place students in jobs. In all, the marine industry a€” including yachts and other craft and businesses from manufacturing to sales and service a€” supports more than 136,000 jobs in South Florida, mainly in Broward. Yacht technicians are just a tiny fraction of that total, which also includes carpenters, captains, salespeople and others. Indeed, demand for yacht technicians is so strong that the Broward College program, with 55 students enrolled, is nearing capacity in Miramar. Alex Thomson (40) and Pepe Ribes (43) A were swapping the jib top for the Headsail and while neither was in place all the stress went on one forestay causing the main steel pin in the the drum to shear.
Two years after a putsch against the Irish Sailing Association (ISA) a new five-year strategic plan has put the association on a new tack, reports The Irish Times. If nothing else the blueprint serves as written confirmation the ISA no longer sees itself purely in a a€?national governing bodya€? role but in the same boat as the clubs and classes it was set up to serve. The plan is based on the views that were put to a a€?Strategic Review Groupa€? in 2013 that assessed how the association needed to adjust to better serve the sport. Its author Neil Murphy, a former ISA president, says the underlying principle is moving from a a€?governance approacha€? to one of the principal stakeholders in the sport a€?working together with a goal of encouraging and developing participationa€?. Ita€™s still just a plan on paper a€“ not yet on water a€“ and for this master plan to work it must first get the buy-in of a 17,000-plus strong sailing community, spread across a network of clubs on lakes, rivers and around the coast.
Ita€™s a major step forward on previous strategic plans but Murphy warns a€?it can only work if there is a joint commitment between the clubs and the associationa€?.
Irish sailing publication afloat.ie reports, a€?This blueprint looks like a positive step forward not least because it makes an attempt to implement measurable targets for the good of grassa€“roots sailors. AYB discovers major A UK art world websites and BBC propagating identical mythical UK law to justify claims to copyright of photos of Paintings in the public domain. A Art A Collections cannot gain and sell or transfer legal Copyright without creating original art. The PCF a registered charity claims to have digitised the UK's national collection of oil paintings.
The photographer uses training and skill to photograph a painting and he or she holds copyright in that photographic image. The Museums Copyright Group ignore this ruling when they report on a case in USA, even though the US Judge relied on Lord Oliver's ruling above. BBC involvement "Two sets of permissions are required if the artist is alive, or has been dead for less than 70 years (one from the collection, which retains copyright of the photographic image, and one from the rights holder of the painting). AYB is the British Foundation with the remit to promote best practices in sales and purchase of used vessels. He was brought back to the beach on the River Teign Rowing Cluba€™s safety rib and given mouth-to-mouth and chest compression on the way back to shore. The rower from Salcombe was taken to Torbay Hospital by ambulance and is understood to be making a good recovery. Brixham coastguards said the incident happened at just before 3pm: a€?Teignmouth National Coastwatch requested assistance to a male being brought ashore at Teignmouth Beach suffering possible Cardiac Arrest from a rowing event. Following hot on the heels of a highly successful 2014 edition of the Singapore Yacht Show, the organisers have received a flurry of high-profile repeat bookings for next yeara€™s event, which will be held 23 to 26 April 2015.
Missing yachtswomans lifejacket has no emergency beacon fitted, search goes on regardless after yacht is hit by dredger off Felixstowe on Sunday.
Footage here of a Sea King Helicopter such as used in this search, being shown to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by her Grandson Prince William.
Sunday evening's launch at Anacortes Washington turned into a sidways roll which caused the engine room to flood, despite efforts by the crew to readjust the ships ballast. AYB are constantly pushing the boundaries and highlighting areas where improvements may be made. In the past whenever we had a mention on national television, the ISP's server would be overwhelmed by the sudden huge volume of traffic and most of the sites visitors justA could not get throughA the log jam. The beauty of cloud computing is that it is infinitely scaleable, we can use as much bandwith and storage as we need and never need to interrupt our site to move it to a bigger server again. To make this available to all marine companies we have set up Hosting.AYB to provide cloud hosting at lower rates then normally paid for traditional shared hosting.
Modern, Easy and A intuitive, it includes One click installation of Two Hundred mainstream software packages. However, you can't help feeling sorry for the German guy who was refused entry to the A Honokohau Small Boat Harbour by the Harbourmaster because all moorings there are A reserved for local boat owners. The Harbour master directed him to nearby Kaiula bay which was clearly marked as an anchorage on the local cruising guide as well as the chart. The classic yacht was stripped to the hull, totally rebuilt and lavishly re-equiped with zero speed stabilisers, state of the art A entertainment systems and superb built-in solid wood joinery.
Rolly Marine of Fort Lauderdale and Rybovich Shipyard in Palm Beach collaborated in this re-creation. James Male's father Graham read out a statement beside the British Foreign and Commonwealth office, thanking US coatsguard, the British Government and all thos who tokks considerable risks to seek their lost family members.
For three hours on Saturday a qualified instructor led the trainees in sailing tasks and games in brand new dinghies, all this was funded by Sport England. Taiwan International Boat Show Kicks off with 60 luxury yachts to celebrate the first 60 years of yacht building in Taiwan.
Tens of thousands of visitors visited this grand show that features 168 foreign and domestic exhibitors. The largest yacht at the show was the RP110 model designed by Horizon Yachts, the fifth-largest custom luxury yacht builder in the world, which is also a winner of the 2014 Taiwan Excellence Awards. Meanwhile, Kha Shing Enterprises presented its latest Monte Fino CAT 45 Sports Fish model, with ample space for fishing and recreation that's specially designed for fishing fans or taking buddies on fishing voyages. Taiwan yacht builders have returned from all over the world for this first boat show that's packed with prestigious international guests. Taiwan yacht parts and components suppliers have also attracted the interest of many international shipbuilding companies. In addition to overseas visitors, the Boat Show has also attracted visitor registration of executives from over 500 well-known companies in Taiwan. Simon Talbot the skipper and his hard-working crew battled hard to beat close rival Henri Lloyd.
They are now top of the 2013-14 Clipper Race overall scoreboard and hot favourites to win the prize. 11pm Saturday night Cranston Firefighters called to the Rhode Island Yacht Club marina, where they discovered a group of yachters cut off by a raging fire. US coastguard and A Department of Environmental Management also attended, A one fireman sustained a back injury. New Zealander Todd Veroe 36 took a leak on Saturday night while the two crew were sleeping. Enter a large wave and Todd is washed off deck and finds himself swimming as the yacht motors away.
All Schooners have at least two masts which were originally gaff rigged and built in Holland in the Fifteen hundreds. It is still in early stages, but the idea is that if you use readily available basic cheap diy materials and avoid fancy-priced sea-going marine fittings It is possible to build a simple solar powered floating home with electric drive and basic home utilities, suitable for use on inland lakes and canals. The design is modular, so that a small home can be dis-assembled and transported in a standard Ford transit van. There is currently a DIY manual and various Kits and components to supplement your local supplier. A Yachtsmen from 23 countries came together to put their all in thrillingly close competition all enhanced by the glorious Carribean sunshine andlocal festive atmosphere which was rocking for five days and nights!
A luxury yacht is lifted from the water in Kaohsiung Harbor and transported to the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in preparation for the launch of the Taiwan International Boat Show, May 2.
Taiwan's first international boat show, will exhibit 60 boats with a combined market value of NT$7 billion (US$233 million) starting May 8.
The vessel was built by the Horizon Group, the leading Taiwan-based luxury yacht builder and the only Asian company among the top 10 brands of the global luxury yacht market. The show will provide an exceptional opportunity for visitors to see various yachts, either at sea from a ferry or by purchasing tickets to enter the indoor exhibition center, Kaohsiung Marine Bureau director Lai Jui-lung said. According to a report carried in the Financial Times last July, Taiwan overtook Germany to become the world's sixth-largest yachtmaker, yet sales are much lower than before the 2008 financial crisis. Most of the world's top yacht makers capitalize on the fact that they are European by trading on their nations' famous histories in seafaring and design, however, the Financial Times quoted a market research firm as saying that Taiwanese boat builders have seen their reputations improve over time. The four-day Taiwan International Boat Show is one of just three luxury yacht shows that are exhibited indoors, along with Boot Dusseldorf and the Genoa International Boat Show, according to Chuang Ming-liao, a board member of the Taiwan Yacht Industry Association. The annual three day event, which is organised by Jersey Marinas on behalf of Ports of Jersey regularly attracts in excess of 30,000 visitors over the weekend and is the largest free-entry event in the Channel Islands and enjoyed not only by the Islanda€™s large boating community but residents and visitors alike. Although the event has grown in size and popularity since those early days our commitment to support and promote Jerseya€™s valuable marine leisure industry has never waived and remains as strong as ever.
RYA is sponsoring "Push the Boat Out", a National Weekend of sailing and windsurfing with open days across the land.
A a€?Push the Boat Outa€™ will take place over the weekend of 17-18 May and will see sailing clubs across the country holding open days and inviting those who live locally to come and a€?have a goa€™ at sailing and windsurfing with an experienced sailor. Whether you are a regular sailor, new to the sport or simply want a day out with the family, Push the Boat Out provides the perfect opportunity for everyone to get out on the water and celebrate a national weekend of sailing. The biggest sailing competition ever in Bulgaria, happened in Bourgas Bay over the last five days. They have been described as having a classic look above the waterline while having a modern appendage package with a deep lead bulb with wings and a trim tab to provide exceptional upwind performance. Banks themselves useA CHAPSA to move money around the financial system but there are several situations where individuals use it too.
Ita€™s only used for Sterling transactions and payments are unconditional a€“ once theya€™ve been made they cana€™t be recalled without the recipienta€™s consent. That's up from roughly 92,000 jobs in the area in 2010, the association said in an October report. Thomson was right beside the furling drum when the pin sheared watching in dismay as the mast hinged backwards, carrying the sails with it and breaking as it landed. The association lost a quarter of its members in the recession and key yacht clubs are still in choppy financial waters. That rule was something lacking on a now scrapped 2020 vision document suba€“titled a€?grow the sport, grow the membership, grow the organisationa€™. It saves them money and helps propagate our fine art heritage on the internet to many who might not see it elsewhere. From superyacht builders and yachting lifestyle accessories to brokers and dealers of superyachts, multihulls, day cruisers and sportfishers, a wide variety of companies have already committed to returning again in 2015. The A US coastguard investigation into the cause is ongoing and the usual preventitive measures A have commenced to keep the diesel in A the tanks and out of the sea. Our latest research led us to abandon traditional hosting services and move into Cloud Hosting.
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Procurement personnel from shipbuilders are here from key players including Sea Ray Boats under the world's largest yacht-making group Brunswick Corporation, renowned U.S. Through the ibon kiosks at 7-Eleven convenience stores, over 10,000 tickets were pre-sold before the show opened.
The fire department recue boat was quickly deployed and the people were saved without injury.
The 33.5-meter, 100-tonne Horizon RP110 will be the biggest one on display, according to officials from Kaohsiung City's Marine Bureau.
Production at yards in Taiwan reached just US$148 million in 2012, down from US$357 million in 2008.
Staging such an event of this scale requires dedication and commitment by all parties involved and we are delighted with the continuing support and enthusiasm for the show, not only with our local business partners and exhibitors but by an ever-increasing number from across the British Isles, Guernsey and France. It is primarily used for very high value payments and is used by corporates who make large numbers of these payments but it can be used by individuals too, although there is normally a charge of A?25 to A?30. Solicitors will useA CHAPSA payments to transfer the purchase price of a house between the bank accounts of those involved.
If you give the correct information and your payment goes astray your bank must make immediate efforts to trace the transaction and notify you of the outcome. Broward College is the only college in the tri-county area training them and working with American Boat & Yacht Council, which sets standards and issues certifications.
Having just set a new record for sailing Barcelona A to Gibraltar and setiing a new Barcelona World Race course record to the equator, they have now become the slow boat to Brazil with almost enough fuel to complete the limp to Port at Savador de Baha some 370 miles distant. Bookings have been coming in from all over the world, including: Alloy Yachts, AXA Insurance Singapore, Axis Group Yacht Design, Funair, Kingship, Luxury Yachts, MarkAgain, Premium Nautical, Princess Yachts, Reel Torque, Rossinavi, SG Boating, Simpson Marine, Sunbrella and Sunseeker, with many more key players due to sign up in the coming weeks. With dozens of servers and distributed processing, none of our sites can now be interrupted.
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The games tend to be short but sweet. Players are scored on stealth, so ideally, you should only kill your target(s) and depart without alerting anyone, just like a real assassin. The missions aren't really designed for FPS- style killing, and you'll soon find that stealth is far more fun and rewarding. Dietz and Raymond Bensen, respectively. In 2. 00. 7 it received a film adaptation, described here. A second film adaptation unrelated titled Hitman: Agent 4.
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It was just a plain AMT Hardballer in the original, but they got a chrome makeover in Hitman 2. In Blood Money, they can be given a wide range of gun accessories and different ammo types. There are just so many cool things to add- on, turning it from a fairly- bland pistol to an apocalyptic nightmare with a jumbo magazine, scope, laser sight, full- auto capability, and other deadly extras.
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The crown goes to Lenny Dexter in . Not only does he spend the entire time begging, but he'll passive- aggressively insult you depending on which weapon you're carrying, then offer to give 4. Apparently gun producers don't like their weapons to be associated with bad killings, as opposed to 'good' killings?
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The Purge (Film) - TV Tropes. James: Tonight allows people a release for all the hatred and violence that they keep up inside them. Charlie: Why don't you guys kill someone tonight? James: Because we don't feel the need to, Charlie. For the Trope entry, see The Purge.
The Purge is a 2. James De. Monaco and starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. Minutes into the Future the US government has set up a once- a- year event named The Purge, in which people are free to commit whatever crimes they want for 1.
James Sandin, a well- to- do businessman who sells home security systems for people to protect themselves from the Purge, settles himself, his wife and his two children in for the night, arming the house and protecting it from any invaders... Until a beaten- up stranger comes running down the street begging for help. After attempting to ignore him, one of the Sandin kids shuts down the security system long enough to let the stranger in. A gang of mask- wearing goons quickly arrives at the house, demanding the Sandins turn the stranger over, or they'll break in and kill everyone, including the stranger. The Purge has been described as . The Purge itself is treated as less of a necessary evil and more of a holiday.
A sequel, The Purge: Anarchy, was released on July 1. It follows several people, including a couple as they are caught outside during the Purge when their car breaks down, and a man using the Purge as a chance to pursue revenge.
A trailer for the third film in the series, titled The Purge: Election Year, is now out. It follows an anti- Purge Senator running for President, as she's betrayed on the night of the Purge, and is forced to flee for her life.
Aborted Arc: Zoey's boyfriend pretty much disappears from the plot entirely after he's gunned down trying to kill James. Neither Zoey or the other family members ever bring it up again.
But it's understandable, since they all have bigger problems to deal with. Adult Fear: The Sandin parents have a lot to be worried about, because they're trying to set a good example for their kids by doing nothing bad during the Purge (while simultaneously reassuring them that the Purge is a good thing, and that they could participate if they wished to). That doesn't even touch on the fact that one of their kids lets in a stranger because he looked like he needed help or that a psychopathic gang is quite willing to launch a home invasion and kill everyone in it.. Affably Evil: The gang leader, who is even listed as Polite Leader. An Axe to Grind: The invaders brought a fair number of axes with them. Later, James uses an axe to kill one of the invaders.
Just prior to the Purge, a neighbor is seen casually grinding a machete in his backyard. Hajime No Ippo Portable Victorious Spirits English Free Download. Arc Words: . In other words, 8. This is also reflected in the stated one percent level of unemployment, which signifies a stagnating rather than booming economy.
There would still be demand for employees, but very low supply, which drives wages up when businesses compete for employees, and then they are forced to raise prices of whatever they produce to pay these wages. Someone must have realized this (or read this page) when making the second film, because the unemployment number is bumped up to five percent. This is why killing poor people in general is an economically idiotic idea. It's also why full or near- full employment causes higher wages, as with fewer unemployed people existing workers can demand better pay and benefits without fear of being laid off (this last occurred around 1. US). The elderly would be quite vulnerable, which in turn could have negative effects on their incentives to save.
Why save your money, when someone could potentially knock you off before you enjoy retirement? On the other hand, the government would save a huge amount on retirement and medical care. A night with no emergency services running would see infrastructure damage of catastrophic proportions. With no fire fighters, fires would rage out of control, consuming whole blocks at the very least. Damage to crucial utilities such as water and power would go unrepaired. Just consider the infrastructure damage caused by chaos following the overthrow of authoritarian regimes in Iraq (e. Baghdad looting) and Libya, for instance.
The movie focuses on violent crimes, but ignores all the others, that are legal during the night, too. Money laundering, bribery, insider trading, environment pollution, high treason, downloading pirated music.. All perfectly legal until the dawn!
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Fringe, "The Same Old Story": Lather, rinse, repeat
Spoilers for episode two of "Fringe" coming up just as soon as I get some cocaine...
Pardon me while I pull on my water wings to avoid drowning in the sea of exposition -- much of it designed for the benefit of people who missed the pilot -- that was the first 10 or so minutes of "The Same Old Story."
There's a school of thought in the TV business that says you more or less repeat your pilot with the next five or six episodes. That way, if someone puts on a new show for the first time a month into the season, they won't be lost and get to see the things that in theory made the pilot so strong. But "The Same Old Story" took that concept to the extreme. Between the mediocre Comic-Con reception and critical buzz, plus Fox's curious decision to premiere the show without an established lead-in, someone at the network obviously realized that this episode (airing after "House") would have a much bigger audience than the pilot, and that they had better be ready to hold the new audience's hands for a while.
But good lord was all the re-exposition clunky. First we got the scene with Broyles recapping the events of the pilot for the benefit of Blair Brown and company, which was so awkward that it couldn't even be saved by the revelation that Olivia's team isn't the first one that's tried to investigate The Pattern. Then came Walter reminding us all that he spent 17 years in a mental hospital -- and the writers using Walter's faulty memory to explain again about the Harvard basement lab -- and finally the low point, when Peter offered to go to the crime scene because, "My limited stint at MIT did teach me something."
Once we got past the Television Without Pity portion of the hour, the episode was... well, roughly on par in quality with the pilot. Which is to say, it was occasionally creepy, but not creepy enough, and featured some amusing banter and non-sequiturs between Walter and Peter ("Do you have any cocaine?") that won't be enough by itself to keep me around longer. JJ Abrams has said that the way he wants to distinguish "Fringe" from "Alias" is by giving the audience a complete experience with each episode, such that if you don't watch every week or don't care about The Pattern, you're still getting an entertaining stand-alone story. And so far, the stand-alones haven't been that entertaining.
Maybe the secret of Peter's medical history (is he a clone?) or Broyles' reason for sending Olivia to the storage facility or Blair Brown's true motives will be interesting down the road, but if the weekly procedural stories don't get better in a hurry, I won't be watching long enough to find out.
Labels: Fringe
Man, I started watching this episode in the hopes of seeing Crazy Killer Babies. Clone armies of pituitary vampires? Yawn.
I got real excited when I saw Darin Morgan's name crop up in the credits as a consulting producer, though. I know he's been doing time on some substandard stuff lately, but hopefully this show will stick around just so the world will have another Darin Morgan episode of something.
Also, I hope someone lets me know when that airs, because yawn.
Yeah, I still feel like this show has some potential -- that in theory, the pieces are there for it to be fun and entertaining -- but it sure isn't there yet.
A few things in particular were bothering me tonight:
-If you're going to cast an actor as awesome as Lance Reddick, you should give him something to do. As written, his character could be played by just about anyone.
-I'm still finding Olivia pretty uncharismatic, which, if it doesn't change, is going to be a huge problem. Even if they fix everything else, this show is going to be a pretty tough sell if I don't care about the main character. I'm not sure if it's the writing or the actress.
-Massive Whatsitcalled: I wish that either the company's evilness was somewhat ambiguous and intriguing, or that it actually felt scary and dangerous. As far as I can tell so far the biggest threat it poses is snow blindness via decor, and Blair Brown in this role reminds me of Maude Lebowski but isn't nearly as entertaining.
You're right, the cases are pretty weak. In fact, it feels like whomever wrote tonight's eppy watched the Doctor's Daughter DW episode and Fringe'd it.
Aside from the gorgeous supers/graphics (or whatever they're called), I think the father/son relationship continues to sell me. I won't lie, I love that Joshua Jackson's back on my TV. But Anna Torv is still the weakest part of the puzzle.
Oh! And, unless I'm mistaken, *excellent* use of Frank Gehry's IAC headquarters (the largest hi-rez vid wall in the world, supposedly), and then in the conference rooms with Blair Brown. Fabulous.
Mrglass said...
I just don't get this show. The premise is fine although cliche, but the basic plot doesn't make any sense. There are just too many glaring inconsistencies for my inner geek:
1. If Walter was such a threat to the system that he had to be locked up under extreme isolation for 17 years, why was it so easy to get him out of the hospital?
2. Olivia sometimes seems to be at the bottom of the FBI hierarchy; then she has nearly unlimited powers (she can order a private university to give her an old lab room, somehow unoccupied for years)
3. What's the point/motivation of Peter in all of this? How many new talents and abilities will the writers come up with to justify his presence in the team?
X-Files this is definitely not, and with its pseudo-realistic tone I don't see Fringe having any absurdly funny stand-alone episode that other Fox show had. Two episodes and I'm out, let me know if it gets any better. But can we have House back at 9pm already?
I thought The Bionic Woman was canceled. But its spirit lives on in this ghostly, ghastly form. Someone call Mulder and Scully to investigate this paranormal phenomenon.
Torv is weeeaaak. I like Noble quite a bit, as well as those graphic doohickeys (especially the one reflected in the puddle), though I don't know that either is enough to keep me coming back. And once I start loading up the DVR on Monday nights, I may be skipping Fringe altogether so I can catch up on my Monday shows.
Bruce Reid said...
My big complaint dramatically is that this is twice now the central mystery was solved by dragging in a whole other incredibly convenient load of pseudoscience. It kind of cuts the suspense if halfway through the episode with no leads the mad scientist can just say "let's use telepathy/photograph her brain's final image/what's-next-travel-in-time?" you know?
Oh, and I have to second j on hoping we get at least another great hour of Darin Morgan out of this meh soup before it's over.
I agree with this, it's extremely lazy. There's no build-up, the doctor just has some zany idea, which is painlessly and immediately brought to fruition. "What if we could see this woman's last image.... let's go get the machine."
I really want this show to be good, because I like the premise and some of the banter, but it's gotta improve a bit. Even with such a weak freshman class this year I don't think I can stick around much longer.
memphish said...
The overall story, what's up with Peter, Massive Dynamic etc. is intriguing to me, but Fringe is committing the ultimate sin of boring me with the procedural. I started flipping through catalogs at the 35 minute mark because it was dull waiting to see them ever so conveniently have everything fall into place to solve this week's crime. The fact that this group of people can get everything they need and totally ignore normal police/FBI/anything realistic procedure is getting on my nerves too.
Agreed this show has lots of potential but so far, its potential is all it has to recommend it. it feels extremely disjointed and uneven, and I don't have a clue as to what they are intending to be - serial, procedural, X-Files clone? The cast is great but largely wasted, the writing is clunky in terms of plot though some of the dialogue btw Walter and Peter is very sharp.
Olivia is dead boring.I don't give a hoot about her and so if (gee I wonder?) this is moving towards some kind of romance between her and Peter, YAWN.
I'll watch one more episode but if it doesn't grab me, I'm out.
Grim said...
I thought the pilot was decent, and there was a real pace to it, but that was just bland.
The gruesome stuff like the eyeball and the baby just felt very tacked on to give, what is in essence a quite bland, but wacky, procedural some cult credibility. When you have a very bland central character the half-hearted mish-mash of procedural and serial doesn't work.
I actually think the show could be very good, but they need to adapt it fast. Increase Reddick and Acevedo's screen time. Ramp up the continuity and serial aspects. Finally, and most importantly, bite the bullet and get rid of Torv, they got it seriously wrong in her casting (I think the accent is very good, just she has no screen presence and already seems like a tired and weak character). Doing that would also display that the show has serious balls, pairing Pacey up with a new liason after he had grown attached to Torv (mybe shared a kiss in the episode before her death).
oh and the Maude Lebowski thing is spot on. It is effectively a bad impression.
I realised I said bland an awful lot in the above post, and although that is poor writing (and fairly ironic) it really does say so much about what is supposed to be a cool and edgy show.
I liked it better than the pilot. Can't say it bugged me that they recapped a bunch of stuff, so what? The improvised defibrillator was neat (did McGyver ever build such a beast?) and Noble's line delivery is a treat. Oh, and it wasn't Torv's character that got the lab back up and running, it was Reddick's, which we already know has quite a bit of muscle.
M. Chavez, I'm with you. I enjoyed it. I hope that every beginning starts out with some horrifically shocking. I liked that they repeated what they did the in pilot with the opening scene.
What I *did* miss was showing us anything about John and possible reanimation or what. They left that hanging from last week and then didn't give us even a crumb of info to follow.
Oh, and did no one else like the fact that the 'pattern' case was connected to Torv's past? I liked that.
Increase Reddick and Acevedo's screen time.
ITA. When Acevedo popped up, I thought, "That's right--he's on this show!" I mean, I'd almost forgotten about him completely. They definitely need to do more with his character.
One other thing - I really wish they'd give a better reason for Pacey sticking around. She had to trick him to get him to help in the pilot, and he hates his dad; now with some gentle coaxing he's a full-time helper and his dad is living with him. It wouldn't be hard to establish some emotional reason for him to stay involved.
There's just a lot of clumsy lazy stuff going on in this show, isn't there?
Can't say it bugged me that they recapped a bunch of stuff, so what?
It's not the recapping so much as the way they recapped it that was the problem. You can repeat info for new viewers, but don't devote an entire scene to two characters (Broyles and Maude Lebowski) doing nothing but repeating that info.
I hope that every beginning starts out with some horrifically shocking. I liked that they repeated what they did the in pilot with the opening scene.
That was actually very good and unsettling to a point, but then I kept waiting for them to show us what was so horrific about the newborn's appearance -- wolf-baby? "V" alien? -- that would have caused vomiting and other panic from trained doctors and nurses. At worst, it would have looked slightly older than a newborn immediately after coming out of the womb, right? That would be surprising but not puke-or-flight response.
Can someone explain what the final scene was supposed to be? I didn't get that.
Not surprisingly, ratings were way up with "House" as a lead-in. From 9 million viewers to more than 13 million, and retained 92 percent of the "House" audience.
Some of that retention is fake -- as people complained about, "House" ran a couple of minutes past 9, which artificially inflates the average of that first half-hour, but retention from 9 to 9:30 was still at about 90 percent. Even if you assume that all of the 9-9:30 number is a result of "House" running long, and that the 9:30-10 number is the true audience, "Fringe" still retained 83 percent of the people who were watching "House."
--Can someone explain what the final scene was supposed to be? I didn't get that.--
It looked to me that those were 3 more versions of the Clone/Experiment/Killer.
Yeah, that's true, why throw up if it's essentially a normal (if maybe older than normal) baby?
Just one of many, many inconsistencies and irritating things about this ep. I'd list them here but so far Fringe doesn't deserve even that amount of mental energy.
But here's my central complaint (well, one of them): Was Peter involved in every case they'll investigate? Everything from back in the day will be related to what they look into now? Bo-ring. Where's the suspense in that?
Then the formula is: Weird thing happens. Olivia investigates. Cue wacky scientist, who spews mumbo jumbo about what he knows about it. Pacey quips. Cue pseudo-whatever "science." Blah blah blah Pattern. Fade to black.
Also, the cool thing about X-Files was that it showed how normal life could have these weird occurrences. Yes, they did have the *big* episodes and two-parters and such. But sometimes the best eps were set in small towns and nondescript homes where small, subtle signs started to show you that something was awry.
Fringe jackhammers you EVERY MINUTE with the idea that SOMETHING BIG is happening or ABOUT TO HAPPEN. Then what happens is ... meh.
I love me some Michael Giacchino, but they need to cut WAY back on that score. It's obtrusive and annoying and it amps up stuff to the point that it seems like laughable melodrama.
One more and out. I don't even know why I'll give it one more hour given how irritating and sloppy I found last night's ep.
I really don't like this show.
And I am a huge fan of "Alias" and "Lost", but this doesn't measure up to either of those nor "The X Files", the show it so badly wants to rip off.
The biggest problem, aside from the shoddy writing, mediocre plots, boring mystery, is the two lead actors. Maybe JJ's gotten me spoiled with Evangeline Lilly and Jennifer Garner, two of the most beautiful women walking the planet - who also kick butt and have emotional range - but Anna Torv isn't any of those things on her best days.
She's bad with emotion, she's not attractive at all, and she's hardly sympathetic.
Then, let's compare the male, romantic leads. On "Lost", you get Matthew Fox and Josh Holloway, two greators, two studs, two conflicted and romantic heros. They couldn't have possibly done a better job on casting. On "Alias", you get Michael Vartan who's chemistry with Garner was sizzling.
"Fringe"? Pacey from "Dawson's Creek". Joshua Jackson is a below average actor, he still looks like a child, and has no chemistry whatsoever with Torv. It's awful. It's like watching a car with its exhaust pipes hanging out, sputtering up the street. You just know at some point the car has to die, but it moves along the road, blissfully unaware how painful it is to the rest of us.
Shame on JJ Abrams for being so arrogant that he thought his name could pass off this drivel as entertainment.
The only 2 actors remotely worth while are Lance Reddick (who must cringe at the writing he has to memorize here vs. the level of writing he dealt with on "The Wire") and John Noble, who's interesting but I couldn't believe less that he and Pacey are related.
I hate this show. I didn't like it last night and then I thought about it afterwards and it's pure hatred.
And JJ's starting to M. Night himself. After giving the world "Alias" then "Lost" (and even "Mission Impossible III" was the best of the 3 MI films) he's now given us "Cloverfield" and "Fringe" and he's become a celebrity, and no longer a talent.
("Cloverfield", if you haven't seen it, is one of the worst movies ever made - period - it's painful to look at).
Sorry for such a negative rant, but I can't hide my absolute digust and disappointment at the man who blew me off my couch with the pilots for "Alias" and "Lost".
Oh well...I guess I'll have to wait for Joss in January to show JJ again who the real king of good writing in science fiction Television is.
I was annoyed that a nurse would just start screaming about the baby and then they don't show it to us. They are trained professionals and have seen a lot so a rapidly aging baby probably wouldn't cause that reaction.
I thought this episode was okay, but I think a bit more of the Pattern storyline needs to be inserted because the procedural was only so-so. I liked Alias, and this show needs to be more like that one. There are enough procedurals on television already.
I am not normally a Josh Jackson defender, but I've seen him in other movies where he does actually act, so it's probably the mediocre writing that is doing him in, along with Anna Torv. Reddick and Noble are just that talented to rise about the writing.
Thought this LA Times recap of Fringe nailed the weaker stuff about the ep as well (uh, that would be all the stuff, I guess):
tinyurl.com/fringelat
Vi said...
Anna Torv is trying wayyyyyyyy too hard here.
She's killing the show.
I assumed that the nurses and doctors could SEE the newborn grow as they were holding it. If it grows at the same rate its whole life, then it would be much more obvious and gross when it was a baby, because each extra lb. would increase its body weight by 1/8 or so. I could imagine that being puke-worthy and not something any doctor or nurse would have been prepared for.
And I think that's why it is good that they didn't show it. You're supposed to imagine what could be so horrific, and it will be better than anything they could have showed. Also, it was worth it just to see that nurse's reaction; it reminded me of the cover of some 50's B horror flick.
I can't watch this series, for one and only one reason:
The Harvard Corporation is much more fear-generating that that Massive group.
And the Corporation would never, ever, ever, EVER allow a convicted crazy person to go back to his lab ON CAMPUS.
Risk Management? Would throw a hissy.
Can't deal with sadistic pituitary vampires (if you can drug a bitch, why not drug her into a coma *then* extract the gland? Unnecessary roughness) if my disbelief refuses to be suspended. Sorry.
cg said...
It just doesn't hold my interest -- I deleted from Tivo after this 2nd episode. (Bad sign for the show -- I was a devoted fan of X-Files.)
I liked this ep better than the pilot, I thought the pacing was better overall and Torv wasn't as distractingly horrible. But, as a die-hard X-Files, Alias, and Lost fan (with entire DVD sets of each), I have to say this show has a long way to go before it even can be called a good imitator. I will probably still watch it after House some weeks, but it's not going to be appointment television.
And when Peter started pulling random objects together to shock the girl's heart, I said to myself "Oh, now I finally see what his role is! Pacey's the McGyver of this show!"
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Fire scour globe for added talent
Frank Klopas -- Getty Images
By Charlie Corr
ESPNChicago.com
In the coming weeks, the Chicago Fire should be announcing an abundance of player options that they are picking up heading into 2012. The Fire have yet to officially state the return of midfielder Pavel Pardo or comment on other players' contract status, but in all likelihood a large portion of the 2011 squad should be on board next season.
"We're still going through that and evaluating the whole season," Fire head coach Frank Klopas said Tuesday. "We've worked very hard to bring a lot of players and feel good with the base that we've built."
So pending the formality of the team announcing the return of much of its roster, Klopas is focused on an overseas trip to find potential talent to fill in some gaps and build off the momentum that Chicago had in the latter half of the previous season.
"We're way ahead of where we were last year as an organization," Klopas said. "We've worked hard to build relationships and find the kinds of players who fit in here financially and with the characteristics of this league."
Read more at ESPNChicago.com.
Posted by Charlie Corr at Wednesday, November 30, 2011 No comments:
Labels: Chicago Fire, Frank Klopas
Eclipse Select's Sarah Rivich named Player of Year by Times of NWI
Eclipse Select's Sarah Rivich
Eclipse Select Communications
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club midfielder and Crown Point High School junior Sarah Rivich is coming off a stellar girls soccer campaign that included her recently being named The Times of Northwest Indiana 2011 Girls Player of the Year.
"Sarah is a special player," Eclipse Select Northwest Indiana coach Tom Naumoski said. "Even with our club, she would do whatever we ask of her. She simply excels. She is always the first person on the field and the last to leave, and she pushes herself to be the hardest worker on the pitch."
Read more at EclipseSelect.org.
Posted by Charlie Corr at Tuesday, November 29, 2011 No comments:
Labels: Eclipse Select, Sarah Rivich
Eclipse Select defender Schissler joins U.S. U-18 WNT training camp
Taylor Schissler
Eclipse Select and U.S. Soccer Communications
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club defender and New Lenox, Ill., resident Taylor Schissler is one of 26 players who were called in to participate in the U.S. U-18 Women's National Team's final training camp of 2011.
The Lincoln-Way Central junior will take part in a Dec. 11-18 training session in Sunrise, Fla. Technical director April Heinrichs will lead this group, which likely will form the core of the team that will compete toward qualification in the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada.
Labels: Eclipse Select, Taylor Schissler
Fire's home opener set for March 24
The Chicago Fire will play in their earliest regular-season home opener when they kick off their 2012 Major League Soccer campaign.
The Fire and other MLS teams announced their 2012 home dates on Tuesday, and Chicago hosts a match at Toyota Park on March 24. Opponents and time slots will be announced at a later date. It marks the second straight year that Chicago has hosted a March home opener. The Fire topped Sporting Kansas City, 3-2, on March 26 this past season at Toyota Park.
Labels: Chicago Fire
Fire roster untouched in draft
Justin Mapp -- Getty Images
Any concerns over losing a portion of the Chicago Fire's roster were put to rest as the Montreal Impact made 10 selections outside of the Fire's unprotected player pool during Wednesday's MLS Expansion Draft.
Former Fire midfielder and Impact head coach Jesse Marsch inherits a franchise that selected former Houston Dynamo forward Brian Ching with the top pick in the draft. Despite reports that Ching said he would retire if selected in the expansion draft, the Impact took him No. 1 anyway.
The Impact's third selection was former Fire midfielder Justin Mapp out of the Philadelphia Union. Mapp started in 24 of 29 games this past season, tallying three goals and four assists.
Labels: Brian Ching, Chicago Fire, Jesse Marsch, Justin Mapp, Montreal Impact
Eclipse Select U-17's Hillsman commits to St. Louis University
Bridget Hillsman
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club U-17 midfielder and Elmhurst, Ill., native Bridget Hillsman has made a verbal commitment to play for St. Louis University. The Fenwick High School junior will join the Billikens for their 2013 campaign.
"It's a huge relief. I'm so excited," Hillsman said of making the commitment. "I've been looking forward to this since I was really little."
The St. Louis program clearly was in a rebuilding mode this year. But by the time Hillsman joins St. Louis, it should be a mostly veteran team. This year's Billikens roster featured three seniors, five juniors, and the top two scorers were underclassmen as they still finished around the middle of the pack in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
"I'm pretty optimistic," Hillsman said. "I know they have a young team, but looking at how they played throughout the season, they have a lot of freshmen who will be juniors when I get there. It will be a little bit of a different situation."
Labels: Bridget Hillsman, Eclipse Select
Eclipse Select alumni report: Duke's Lipp assists 2, advances to Elite 8
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club alumna and Duke junior midfielder Nicole Lipp (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) assisted both of her team's goals as the Blue Devils defeated Ohio State, 2-1, on Sunday to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
Duke had to overcome a 1-0 halftime deficit, and Lipp stepped up in the 54th minute as she took a free kick from the right side and found the feet of freshman Kelly Cobb to tie the score at 1-1. The match stayed that way until the 80th minute, when Lipp took a free kick from a good 40 yards away and found sophomore Kaitlyn Kerr, who headed in the game-winner just inside the far left post.
Duke now prepares for a match against Long Beach State on Friday at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
Labels: Eclipse Select, Nicole Lipp
Gargan among Fire's unprotected list
Dan Gargan -- Getty Images
The Chicago Fire and other Major League Soccer teams submitted their 11-player protected lists Monday in preparation for Wednesday's MLS Expansion Draft for the Montreal Impact.
Among some of the Fire's noteworthy players left unprotected are forward Diego Chaves, midfielder Daniel Paladini, and defenders Dan Gargan, Josip Mikulic and Yamith Cuesta.
Fire's 11-player protected list: Sean Johnson (GK), Cory Gibbs (D), Jalil Anibaba (D), Gonzalo Segares (D), Pavel Pardo (M), Logan Pause (M), Marco Pappa (M), Sebastian Grazzini (M), Orr Barouch (F), Patrick Nyarko (F/M), Dominic Oduro (F)
Unprotected list (available for Impact selection): Jon Conway (GK), Alec Dufty (GK), Yamith Cuesta (D), Dan Gargan (D), Steven Kinney (D), Josip Mikulic (D), Pari Pantazopoulos (D), Mike Banner (M), Michael Videira (M), Daniel Paladini M), Baggio Husidic (M), Cristian Nazarit (F), Gabriel Ferrari (F), Diego Chaves (F)
Exempt from selection (Generation adidas or homegrown status): Corben Bone (M), Kellen Gulley (F), Victor Pineda (M)
Posted by Charlie Corr at Monday, November 21, 2011 No comments:
Labels: Chicago Fire, Dan Gargan, Diego Chaves, MLS Expansion Draft
2012 schedule changes benefit Fire
Sebastian Grazzini -- Getty Images
The Chicago Fire struggled mightily against Western Conference teams this past season with a 3-8-7 record, compared to a very respectable 6-1-9 mark against their fellow Eastern Conference sides.
The days of a balanced schedule will come to a close with the Montreal Impact joining MLS as the league's 19th team next year. There will be some significant changes within the league in both the regular season and postseason.
The Impact, coached by former Fire midfielder Jesse Marsch, will become the 10th Eastern Conference team. Next year during the regular season, each Eastern Conference side will play a total of 25 conference matches and nine matches against West teams within the 34-game schedule.
Posted by Charlie Corr at Sunday, November 20, 2011 No comments:
Northwest Herald: Cary-Grove's Holland to play soccer at Marquette
By Joe Stevenson
Erin Holland has played soccer at an elite level since joining the Eclipse Select Soccer club when she was 11 years old.
Holland, a Cary resident and junior at Cary-Grove, made sure she will be playing with another elite team when she goes to college in two years. Holland recently committed to play with NCAA Division I Marquette, which just won its third consecutive Big East Conference American Division title and plays Penn State in the second round of the NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament on Friday.
Holland has seen several Marquette games and has a cousin, senior defender Lauren Thut, on the team.
“[Thut] told me she loved everything there and thought I would love it there too,” Holland said. “I visited there a couple times to make sure it felt right. The players all seemed to be really close and I liked that.”
Read more at NWHerald.com.
Posted by Charlie Corr at Thursday, November 17, 2011 No comments:
Labels: Erin Holland, Joe Stevenson, Northwest Herald
Eclipse Select U-17 defender Schissler commits to Ohio State
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club U-17 defender Taylor Schissler found everything she wanted in Ohio State University's women's soccer program.
The New Lenox, Ill., resident and Lincoln-Way Central junior announced her commitment to play for the Buckeyes starting in 2013, and she joins a Big Ten Conference program that created some national attention last year in advancing to the NCAA Tournament's Final Four.
"It's unbelievable," Schissler said of making the college commitment. "It really hasn't set in yet. I've always wanted to play at the D-I level, a Big Ten school. Last year's Final Four caught my eye, and when I visited there, I think I knew the weekend before I told them that I wanted to go there."
Ohio State was Schissler's top choice, and she also considered Arizona State during her search.
Bradley's Egyptian side falls in debut
Bob Bradley -- AP photo
Former Chicago Fire head coach Bob Bradley, coaching for the first time since his tenure with the U.S. National Team, saw his Egyptian national team debut end in a 2-0 loss to Brazil on Monday in Doha, Qatar.
Brazilian forward Jonas netted goals in the 39th and 59th minutes to pace his side past Egypt.
Bradley last coached the U.S. to a 4-2 loss to Mexico in the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup final in front of 93,000-plus at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.
Labels: Bob Bradley, Chicago Fire, U.S. National Team
Eclipse Select alum David Tiemstra named Big Ten Defender of Year
Back-to-back Big Ten Defender of the Year
David Tiemstra of Ohio State
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club alum and Ohio State senior defender David Tiemstra (Clarendon Hills, Ill./Hinsdale Central) was named the Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year, the conference announced Thursday.
Tiemstra, who also was included on this year's All-Big Ten First Team, led an Ohio State defensive group that allowed only 20 goals in 18 regular-season matches, and only seven goals in six Big Ten games. This marks Tiemstra's second straight Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honor.
Posted by Charlie Corr at Thursday, November 10, 2011 1 comment:
Labels: David Tiemstra, Eclipse Select
Fire wrap training, focus on 2012
Frank Klopas -- AP
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The Chicago Fire capped off their final training session on Thursday, and now the focus squarely shifts toward head coach Frank Klopas' club making the necessary moves to improve their fate for 2012.
The Fire, who posted a 9-9-16 record and put together a winning record in the final third of the season, anticipate that a bulk of this year's team will be retained for next season. That would be a big change of pace considering how hectic the player movement was after the 2010 campaign.
"We did a lot of that last year," Klopas said of the previous personnel changes. "Obviously we have to look to get better. With the expansion draft (Nov. 23, Montreal Impact) there's a possibility that you might lose a player there. Like any team you're looking to get better. I think we feel very good with the base that we have. Now we've got to continue to build on that, and that's the important thing."
Eclipse Select U-17 defender Holland commits to Marquette for 2013
Erin Holland
CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club U-17 defender and Cary, Ill., native Erin Holland has made a verbal commitment to play for Marquette University's women's soccer team. The Cary-Grove High School junior is competing in her seventh year with Eclipse Select and will take her game to the college level heading into the Golden Eagles' 2013 season.
Holland looks forward to playing for a Marquette program that won its third straight Big East Conference American Division title, posting 10-1-0 Big East record and now gearing up for this year's NCAA Tournament. Holland said that Marquette's build-from-the-back style under head coach Markus Roeders resonates with her.
"Our Eclipse Select team right now likes to keep the ball in play and maintain some rhythm," Holland said. "That's pretty much how [Roeders] wants to play."
Labels: Eclipse Select, Erin Holland
Fire's Klopas best suited on sidelines
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- The Chicago Fire have learned at times the hard way that every move has to serve a specific purpose.
Fire owner Andrew Hauptman began Thursday's introduction of now full-time head coach Frank Klopas with an initial dinner meeting the two had before the 2008 season. It ended with Hauptman expressing to Klopas that he wanted him on board that year. But Hauptman did not know right away what that specific role would be.
Following a tough stretch as the team's technical director and then producing a mostly successful interim coaching stint to close out the 2011 season, the results clearly showed that Klopas was best suited to lead the team on the sidelines.
"We made mistakes, we've had some successes, but I think we've all grown a lot along the way," Hauptman said. "This year, when they came to me and said they were going to make a change with the head coach, it made a lot of sense for me at that point for Frank to step in as head coach. I felt like the timing was right. No one really knew the club better than he did. No one knew the players better than he did. And no one understood the possibilities more than he did."
Labels: Andrew Hauptman, Chicago Fire, Frank Klopas
Ex-Fire F Carr steps up for Dynamo
Calen Carr -- Getty Images
Former Chicago Fire and current Houston Dynamo forward Calen Carr has had his share of injury spells over the past several years. This year it was a concussion that he suffered during the Fire's preseason in February when the team was training in Ave Maria, Fla.
Shortly into this year's regular season, the injured Carr found himself headed to Houston as the Dynamo swapped forwards with the Fire, sending Dominic Oduro to Chicago shortly after Houston's regular-season opener.
Oduro found his shooting touch with the Fire en route to 12 goals in MLS play. Carr needed several more months of healing time before he even had a chance to prove his worth for the Dynamo.
"It's been really frustrating not being able to have a run of games where I can put together a full, healthy season," Carr said. "The concussion, some injuries have been freak injuries -- the knee injury was a freak play. The concussion was a freak injury that I felt it would just take a couple weeks but it took longer than I was expecting. I think I've done a good job of coming back from injuries and putting them behind me. I haven't had as much work this season as I would like, but I'm looking to make the most of it."
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Eclipse's Dalton earns Big Ten GK of Year; Forbes takes Horizon GK honor
Wisconsin's Michele Dalton (left) and
UW-Milwaukee's Jamie Forbes
CHICAGO -- Two Eclipse Select Soccer Club alumni earned top goalkeeper accolades in their respective conferences this week.
On Tuesday, Wisconsin senior Michele Dalton (Mount Prospect, Ill./John Hersey) was named Big Ten Conference Goalkeeper of the Year. And on Monday, Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior Jamie Forbes (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles North) earned Horizon League Goalkeeper of the Year and was named Co-Defensive Player of the Year, sharing that honor with Detroit's Alexandra Suschak.
Dalton also was included on the All-Big Ten First Team, becoming only the third Badger in the program's history to accomplish the feat, joining Julie Johnson (1996) and Ursula McKnight (1994). Dalton has played every minute in goal for Wisconsin this year. She is tied for second in the Big Ten with six shutouts, and is fourth in goals against average (0.91), save percentage (.825) and saves (85).
Forbes, an All-Horizon League First Team goalkeeper, has started in 17 of the Panthers' 18 games this season. Forbes has posted a 0.64 goals against average, a .851 save percentage and nine shutouts -- all top marks among Horizon League goalkeepers. During conference play, Forbes allowed only two goals in approximately 620 minutes for a 0.29 goals allowed average.
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Melanie Smithson
Sedona Method
Events, Groups & Seminars
Stress Relief in 30 Seconds!
Meet Melanie Smithson, Stress Expert
Melanie is co-owner of Smithson Clinic, Inc. (Beatrice is not co-owner) in Denver, Co. an Alternative Health Clinic specializing in the body-mind connection. She holds a masters degree in Somatic Psychotherapy, is certified in Dance Movement Therapy, Sedona Method Coaching, EMDR, Hypnotherapy and Play Therapy. She is the author of Reclaiming An Adult Relationship to Play and works with clients to access their innate wisdom and joyful presence. Melanie was adjunct faculty in the Somatic Psychotherapy Department at Naropa University teaching creative therapy classes, sandtray and more. She is available to speak on specific topics or offer full-scale trainings to your group or organization. Her presentations draw from her diverse and extensive trainings in working with the psyche.
Beatrice is a 2-year old lab/border collie mix (and more?) who loves to swim, eat grain-free treats, and help clients with letting go.
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About The Sedona Method
Endorsed by a multitude of motivational and inspirational authors, including Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus author John Gray and Stand Up for Your Life best-selling author Cheryl Richardson, the Sedona Method is an incredibly easy tool fostering dramatic change.
This technique enables users to uncover the ability to let go of counterproductive, unwanted or painful feelings and thoughts. It is from this letting go that happiness, success, peace, fulfillment and the achievement of goals is found. During Melanie’s presentation, she shares this easy-to-follow process and gently guides the audience into the experience of letting go of all negative, self-sabotaging feelings and actions.
Success in life comes from feeling happy, fulfilled, appreciated and whole. However, according to Sedona Method director Hale Dwoskin, it is only a small percentage of our population who truly feels this way. In fact, Hale states that:
One in four Americans feel somewhat “angry all the time” while they’re at work:
- Fewer than half of Americans are satisfied with their jobs
- 35-40 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck
- 54 percent of Americans are concerned about the level of stress in their everyday lives and jobs
- Nearly 19 million Americans suffer from depression during any one-year period
Considering the drastic negative implications of these statistics, it is clear that job-satisfaction and feelings while on-the-job are directly correlated with overall happiness in life. By employing Melanie to explain and train others in the Sedona Method, organizations can decrease these statistics, ensuring their work-force is content and at peace with themselves and their environments. By securing the happiness of employees, an organization can only expect better performance and attitude of all involved.
For more information about the Sedona Method, please visit www.sedona.com.
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Press Release: Ai Otsuka’s new single “Chime” chosen as opening theme for TV anime Fruits Basket
Singer-songwriter to perform the song live for the first time at Japan Expo in Paris, France
Digital single available July 5 worldwide
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of her debut, J-Pop singer-songwriter Ai Otsuka’s new song “Chime” has been chosen as the new opening theme for the 2019 TV anime Fruits Basket.
Otsuka recently finished her Japan tour “Ai am BEST, too” in support of her greatest hits album, and will start a tour of Asia in China (4 cities) and Taiwan in July. “Chime”, written and performed by the singer, will debut on the new episode of Fruits Basket on July 5th (Japan time), and the digital single will be available on download sites and subscription services worldwide on the same day.
The remake of the Fruits Basket anime with new staff and cast began in April. Originally written by Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket is a girls manga which was serialized from 1998 to 2006 in the magazine Hana to Yume (Hakusensha), with more than 30 million copies of the series printed worldwide. In 2001, it was animated for TV on TV Tokyo (26 episodes) and later adapted for a live stage production in 2009. Fruits Basket has gained overwhelming support over a wide audience, mainly female, and is still very popular 10 years since the last episode of serialization.
Ai Otsuka – “Chime” MV (Fruits Basket OP)
Otsuka created the up-tempo “Chime” to represent the ringing sound of a new beginning for girls who, like the characters in the anime, want to change but can’t quite take the first step. As a special surprise, the singer will perform the new song live on stage for the first time during her appearance at Japan Expo 2019 in Paris, France, on Saturday, July 6th.
JAPAN EXPO 2019
July 6th (Sat), Parc des Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte
https://www.japan-expo-paris.com/en/menu/musicians_137/invites/ai-otsuka_1223.htm
Ai Otsuka – 26th single “Chime”
TV anime Fruits Basket opening theme song
Advance digital release on July 5th (Fri) on all download and streaming sites
Ai Otsuka playlist: https://avex.lnk.to/aiotsuka_playlist-forfrench
Official website: http://avex.jp/ai/ (mobile & PC)
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/ai_otsuka99
Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiotsuka_official/
Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiotsukaofficial/
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Using Analytics With Open Data to Build a Stronger Government
Published By: SAS Published Date: Jun 26, 2019
To support open government initiatives and uphold the values of transparency, participation and collaboration in the US, federal agencies today make their data open, or publicly accessible. Citizens can use this open data to assess college affordability, the economy, educational issues, environmental damage, health care, taxes, agriculture, the climate and more. Governments can use APIs to pull this open data into SAS Visual Analytics as a way to identify trends and patterns and obtain all sorts of new insights. With public health surveillance, for example, governments can monitor and evaluate indicators that point to high-risk areas so they’ll know where and how to focus efforts. Such public health surveillance can serve as an early warning system for impending emergencies, document the impact of an intervention, track progress toward public health goals, and clarify health problems to inform public health policies and strategies.
Reinventing Branch Office Security: Configuration-less UTM protection for small offices
This white paper explains a new approach for providing complete, affordable and easy to manage security to even smallest branch offices.
astaro, branch office security, configuration, ip networks, data protection, remote workers, security policies, unified threat management, utm, tco, remote access, remote network management, wireless security, total cost of ownership, configuration management
Maximizing the value of your data privacy investments
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable on May 25, 2018, and privacy laws and regulations around the globe continue to evolve and expand. Most organizations have invested, and continue to invest, in people, processes, technology, and policies to meet customer privacy requirements and avoid significant fines and other penalties. In addition, data breaches continue to expose the personal information of millions of people, and organizations are concerned about the products they buy, services they use, people they employ, and with whom they partner and do business with generally.
Threat-Centric Security Solutions for Service Providers
This white paper reveals how Cisco’s Threat-Centric Security Solutions for Service Providers delivers consistent security policy across physical, virtual, and cloud environments by combining the power of open and programmable networks with deep integration of Cisco and third-party security services.
cyber threat, security, security solutions, service providers, security protection, cisco, security policies, security services, access control, application security, internet security, intrusion prevention, security management
The PCI Compliance Guide For Ecommerce
Published By: BigCommerce Published Date: Oct 16, 2018
Whether your company has been selling online for 20 minutes or 20 years, you are undoubtedly familiar with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). It requires merchants to create security management policies and procedures for safeguarding customers’ payment data. Originally created by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express in 2004, the PCI DSS has evolved over the years to ensure online sellers have the systems and processes in place to prevent a data breach.
WI-FI: SECURE ENOUGH FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
One of the few places that pervasive Wi-Fi is not found these days is in US Federal Government office buildings and military bases. Government IT departments explain this lack of modern technology by pointing to Information Assurance (IA) departments who block their planned deployments because of security concerns. IA departments, on the other hand, point to unclear rules, regulations, and policies around Wi-Fi use which prevent them from making informed risk decisions.
government it, modern technology, data security, risk reduction
Maximizing the value of your data privacy investments Data Privacy Benchmark Study
Most organizations have invested, and continue to invest, in people, processes, technology, and policies to meet customer privacy requirements and avoid significant fines and other penalties. In addition, data breaches continue to expose the personal information of millions of people, and organizations are concerned about the products they buy, services they use, people they employ, and with whom they partner and do business with generally. As a result, customers are asking more questions during the buying cycle about how their data is captured, used, transferred, shared, stored, and destroyed. In last year’s study (Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study), Cisco introduced data and insights regarding how these privacy concerns were negatively impacting the buying cycle and timelines. This year’s research updates those findings and explores the benefits associated with privacy investment. Cisco’s Data Privacy Benchmark Study utilizes data from Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Benchma
A Guide for Evaluating the Value of VCE Converged Infrastructure for Data Center Modernization
Published By: Dell EMC Published Date: Sep 12, 2016
Cloud computing is transforming IT in terms of how services are delivered, how infrastructure is deployed and managed, and how IT organizations structure themselves. For the purposes of this study, Forrester is defining a cloud solution as having three major characteristics: “self-service access, full automation of processes and policies, and metering and tracking of usage.”1 It then becomes a question of whether you manage your cloud(s) yourself, outsource it, or use a hybrid combination of private and public cloud resources.
Transforming the Enterprise with Secure Mobility
Employees who can work securely anywhere help Cisco gain revenues, improve productivity, and deliver better customer service. Employees are mobile because we support everyone with technology and policies that allow them to work flexibly in terms of time, place, and device. We deliver this capability through Cisco products for secure wireless LAN (WLAN) and home and remote access (Cisco Virtual Office and VPN), as well as softphones, Cisco® WebEx®, Cisco Spark™, and extension mobility features. Our bring your own device (BYOD) policies and program allow employees to use their personal mobile devices to access the Cisco network, after the device is registered and confirmed as compliant with our security requirements for making it a secure or trusted device.
Data Analytics to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
We have conditioned patients not only to expect opioids for pain relief, but to utilize more and more of them, and the addiction is both psychological and physical. To remedy the situation, a lot of policies and practices and behaviors must change around how the health care system approaches pain. But we do not yet have the data and analytics we need to determine what specifically to do at the patient level or the policy level. Download this whitepaper to learn more about the resources available and how we can fix this issue.
Cisco Validated Design Summary for BYOD
There are numerous ways to enable a BYOD solution based on the unique business requirements of a specific organization. While some organizations may take a more open approach and rely on basic authentication, other organizations will prefer more secure ways to identify, authenticate, and authorize devices. A robust network infrastructure with the capabilities to manage and enforce these policies is critical to a successful BYOD deployment.
Why it’s harder to protect data on the move and how to solve for it
Published By: Carbonite Published Date: Jul 18, 2018
With more and more employees spread around the globe, IT teams face a conundrum: how to secure an increasing amount of data traveling outside the network while preserving workforce productivity in an increasingly interconnected and global market. It’s up to IT decision-makers to protect and secure company data in a way that promotes user access without imposing overly restrictive or cumbersome device policies. When it comes to protecting data on laptops and mobile devices, several key factors are essential for today’s businesses:
FICO Optimization Solutions Streamline Customer Acquisition
Published By: FICO Published Date: May 11, 2017
A leading communication services company serving more than 50 million individual, business and government subscribers across the United States.
customer experience, credit, credit policies, customer interaction service, customer relationship management, customer satisfaction, customer service, risk management, finance
Five Essential Capabilities for Airtight Cloud Security
It is no secret; security and compliance are at the top of the list of concerns tied to cloud adoption. According to a recent 2017 Cloud Security survey to over 350,000 members of the LinkedIn Information Security Community, IT pros have general concerns about security in the cloud (33 percent), in addition to data loss and leakage risks (26 percent) and legal and regulatory compliance (24 percent)1. The number of reported breaches in enterprise datacenter environments still far exceeds the reported exposure from cloud platforms, but as businesses start using public clouds to run their mission-critical workloads, the need for enterprise-grade security in the cloud will increase. Public cloud environments require a centralized, consolidated platform for security that is built from the ground up for the cloud, and allows administrators to monitor and actively enforce security policies. The tools and techniques that worked to secure datacenter environments fail miserably in the cloud. Se
Security Evolved: Why It's Time To Bring Together Identity, Access and Real-Time Threat Prevention
Enterprises and the threats that target them have all fundamentally evolved over the past decade. In response, the security industry has generated an enormous amount of point solutions and technologies to try and keep pace. However, for all of this innovation and change, the underlying enforcement architecture has remained largely unchanged. A new modern approach to preempting threats is required. One that augments the existing architecture instead of replaces it. This new approach brings full enterprise and business context to real-time enforcement decisions. Identity, behavior, devices, anomalies, and risk all play a real-time role. Just as importantly, enforcement and access options can be graded based on the risk to the business, and policies can actively seek out and adapt to new information.
Evolving Security to Accommodate The Modern Worker
Published By: Dell EMC EMEA Published Date: Feb 28, 2019
In order to keep pace with the growth of business mobility without falling prey to its potential risks, IT must be able to efficiently address complex issues ranging from service provisioning, device procurement, and security oversight. Why? Information workers need access to often sensitive information across a wide range of business applications and devices from wherever they are. In other words, security and privacy policies that doesn’t impede end-user productivity will empower workers and boost their performance. Download this whitepaper to learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel® such as how to boost your workers performance.
Weiterentwicklung der Sicherheit zur Unterstützung moderner Mitarbeiter
Um mit der zunehmenden geschäftlichen Mobilität Schritt halten zu können, ohne ihren potenziellen Risiken zum Opfer zu fallen, muss die IT komplexe Angelegenheiten effizient bewältigen können. Dazu gehören beispielsweise Servicebereitstellung, Gerätebeschaffung und Sicherheitsüberwachung. Warum? Informationsorientierte Mitarbeiter müssen mit verschiedenen Geräten auf oftmals vertrauliche Informationen aus zahlreichen Anwendungen zugreifen – und das unabhängig von ihrem Aufenthaltsort. Anders ausgedrückt: Sicherheits- und Datenschutz-Policies, die die Endnutzerproduktivität nicht behindern, befähigen Mitarbeiter und steigern ihre Leistung. Laden Sie dieses Whitepaper herunter, um weitere Informationen zu Dell Lösungen mit Intel® Technologie zu erhalten.
Why Legacy Security Architectures Are Inadequate in a Multi-cloud World
Published By: Fortinet EMEA Published Date: Nov 26, 2018
Cloud services are a pillar of a digital transformation, but they have also become a thorn in the side of many security architects. As data and applications that were once behind the enterprise firewall began roaming free—on smartphones, between Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and in the cloud—the threat landscape expanded rapidly. Security architects scrambled to adjust their technologies, policies, and procedures. But just when they thought they had a handle on securing their cloud-connected enterprises, new business imperatives indicated that one cloud wasn’t enough. Modern enterprises operate in a multi-cloud world, where the threat landscape has reached a new level of complexity. Security teams are juggling a hodgepodge of policies, threat reports, and management tools. When each cloud operates in its own silo, the security architect has even more difficulty supporting the CISO or CIO with a coherent, defensible security posture.
MobileIron Content Security Service Datasheet
Published By: MobileIron Published Date: Feb 17, 2015
The personal cloud is the most persistent data loss threat to the enterprise today because many employees use their own cloud services to store work documents. Traditionally, content security solutions functionally link security and storage which requires the migration of work documents to a new content storage repository in order to enforce security policies. This increases complexity by creating more repositories for the enterprise to manage. Most importantly, this approach does not solve the personal cloud problem because individual users continue to store their work documents, for convenience, in cloud services that IT cannot secure.
cloud, mobileiron, mobile, security
Mobile Security: Confidence Ebbs as BYOD Booms
Security risks have grown roughly in proportion to the meteoric growth in employee-owned mobile devices within the workplace. Meanwhile cyber-attacks are growing in sophistication and severity. According to data from a new IDG Research survey, these dynamics have IT decision makers scrambling to tighten and revise BYOD policies while addressing the holistic issue of endpoint security. Download this two-page paper detailing the IDG Research results and for expert advice on securing your organization’s data in an increasingly mobile world.
security risks, byod, cyber attacks, byod policies
Published By: Dell EMC Published Date: Aug 06, 2018
Technology is transforming how we do our jobs, and employees expect the business to accommodate their work habits. › Companies must identify roles and profiles and support their needs. Not every employee will require the same devices to get their jobs done efficiently and effectively. It is paramount for organizations to seek out specific devices to enable different worker personas. › IT must become a trusted partner to keep security top of mind. Employees showed a lack of trust toward IT when facing an issue with their device or ecosystem. It is imperative for IT to become part of the solution and not the problem; otherwise, workers will find ways to go around security policies and fix problems on their own, putting the firm at even more risk. › Employees require a more complete ecosystem. Employees need not only devices to get their jobs done effectively but an entire ecosystem as well. Without this, businesses will fall further behind in a fiercely competitive market and lose employ
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1:37 AM ET Nick Quinn A mouth watering day across the country with Randwick and Flemington taking centre stage. Both programs look punter friendly and I am keen on two runners at both cards. BEST BET: Sylvia’s Mother (Flemington Race 7, No.1) NEXT BEST: Sir Elton (Randwick Race 3, No.1) VALUE BET: Scholarly (Randwick Race
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Tiny House Party
Among the FAQs we get asked about tiny house living: Don't you miss having people over? Our answer: We haven't missed entertaining, because we still have people over all the time. Sure, things got tight the afternoon we had nine neighbors in for happy hour on a wet, cold day—but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves despite (or because of?) the close quarters.
When we decided to live more sustainably, it didn't mean we wanted to be more isolated or less social. From first sketch to final build, we tried to design hospitality into our living space.
Want to host a horde in your mini manse? Here's what's worked for us :
Fresh air "rooms." Three seasons of the year, we entertain al fresco more than indoors. We have a 160-square-foot screen house—no electricity, but plenty of room to cook and eat and relax with forest views on three sides. Plus, we have a deck that's almost twice the size of our house; we love serving coffee and brunch there. On fall days, we often move the party to our campfire ring and break out the marshmallows.
No wasted space. Inside a tiny house, every inch has to count. There's no room for hallways or dead-end spaces. Things need places they can be neatly and easily stowed away. We started our design by looking at how we wanted to live—and entertain. We wanted room to sit around with friends and sip wine. A kitchen big enough to fit more than one cook with shelves to store extra dishes for company. A ground-floor bedroom for us or our guests to sleep comfortably.
Lots of light. A bright space feels airy. We have glass doors and 11 windows in our tiny house. Nothing feels closed off, because the windows connect the interior to the outdoors. We're hardly the only people to have figured this out; we have friends who put 16 windows into a house even smaller than ours.
In and out. No one wants to feel trapped in a small space. We have three exterior doors, so there's never a problem for people coming and going.
Flexible furnishings. We can easily reconfigure our space from our day-to-day setup to accommodate dinner for six or a party for twelve. How? We built two, almost identical counter-height tables; one for the screen porch, one for the house. We can move them together (in the house or porch or on the deck) to seat ten. When not being used as tables, they're part of our kitchen counters, great for a buffet. Another example: the two, wheeled, wood boxes that store our linens and office supplies. Most of the time, they serve as ottomans. When we need a coffee table for happy hour drinks and snacks, we push them together and take the cushions off. When we need more seating for a crowd, we push them to the wall.
Folding chairs. Easy to stash when not in use (some people hang them on their walls), the folding chair is a tiny house mainstay. Our folding kitchen chairs can be stashed in the shower if we need more floor space. Two small folding chairs sit outside our screen porch, easily moved to the house or deck for extra seating. And then there are the two folding chairs that fit in a few extra inches left between a wall and the screen house kitchen.
Counter space. We wanted a sink big enough to hand wash clothes, fill buckets, stash a dish drainer—and more. But that doesn't mean giving up counter space. When we want to spread out a buffet, we pop in our butcher-block sink inserts. Any dirty dishes are hidden away and we have three more feet of counter for drinks and nibbles.
Keeping things cool. Our under-counter fridge may be compact, but most of the year we keep drinks and any food overflows in a second "refrigerator," a counter-height cooler in the screen house. Spending more for a sleek, silver cooler was one of the best investments we made. (A couple milk jugs of ice keep things cool on the hottest of days; we keep spare ice blocks on the ready in our friend's freezer.)
HAppy, Tiny Holidays
At the close of last year, we could look out on the snow-covered shell of our house. Now, it's our warm, cozy home—complete with a wee Christmas tree. We've had the pleasure to welcome dozens of visitors, and we look forward to hosting more guests in the coming year.
A micro living space isn't a good fit for everyone, but there's so much we all need to be thinking and talking about. Clean energy sits high on the list of world-wide concerns. For Bill and I, learning to grow some of our own food is another priority. But whatever your focus in 2016, I hope we will all be thinking about how we can live in harmony with one another and this planet we call home.
That's What Friends Are For
We have loved building this tiny house. Let me start with that before saying this: Some evenings we are so bone-tired it's all we can do to climb the stairs to our third-floor abode and plop on the sofa.
It's not just the work on the house. We've been cutting down invasives, chainsawing fallen trees, leveling ground, digging postholes, building raised beds, hauling stones, building a retaining wall....On those days it feels as though we aren't making enough progress. Why isn't the house built? Why isn't the garden planted?
Right around that time is when the universe invariably sends us some new enthusiasm. We get a call or an email or a FaceBook message: Can I come to see the tiny house? Yes! Yes, please!
Visitors are our elixir. This weekend it was cousin Tom, sister Jill and friends Giselle and Katie (not to mention Giselle and Katie's dogs). In taking them on (tiny) tours of the house and garden plot, the path to the stream and the screen house, I suddenly see all that we've done--instead of focusing on all we haven't done. We sit in the screen house to talk; it didn't exist a year ago. We walk through the tiny house; last August it was just a black equipment trailer. Now, it has ceiling and walls, electricity and lights--and even the first of three ceiling fans in operation.
Building a tiny house from scratch isn't easy. But it's wonderfully challenging, creative, stimulating and satisfying work. Sometimes you just need a few friends to remind you of that.
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Ghost Munchers
A yellow, pie-shaped character named Pac-Man runs along inside a maze, eating dots as it avoids four ghosts. Each ghost has its own unique personality and gobbling one of the four super dots makes Pac-Man invincible to the ghosts for a given period of time.
The four ghosts, which your character must avoid, each have a different color, name, nickname and personality. The pink ghost is Speedy, nicknamed “Pinky” he’s fast. The red ghost is Shadow, nicknamed “Blinky” he’s always behind you and it’s hard to shake him. The light blue ghost is Bashful, nicknamed “Inky” he’s terribly shy and will actually run away from you. And the orange ghost is Pokey, nicknamed “Clyde” he will try his best to get you, but he is slow.
The Muncher must clear the maze of all 240 dots and all four energizers to proceed to the next level of difficulty. As Pac-Man eats the dots, the ghosts chase him around the maze and if Pac-Man collides with one of the ghosts, he is a goner. He can eat one of the energizers to turn the ghosts dark blue, which make them edible for him. But after Pac-Man has eaten any of the ghosts, their eyes will return to the pen in the middle of the maze where they will each regenerate into their former selves and return to chase him again.
Occasionally, a bonus fruit or prize will temporarily appear in the middle of the maze below the ghosts’ pen. Pac-Man can eat those bonus items to receive extra points. Also, there is an escape tunnel in the sides of the maze which Pac-Man can use to get away from any of the ghosts that may be pursuing him.
After the maze has been cleared of all 240 dots and all four energizers, the entire sequence will begin again with increased difficulty. Between every two, three, or four completions, there are musical, animated intermissions to amuse the player while he or she waits for the next challenge to begin. However, these intermissions are not seen anymore once the 18th board 6th key is reached.
Everything Pac-Man eats has different point values. The dots are 10 points each, the energizers are 50 points each. The dark blue ghosts are respectively 200, 400, 800 and 1600 points. There are different point values for every bonus fruit or prize that is eaten: cherries, 100 points strawberry, 300 points peach, 500 points apple, 700 points grapes, 1000 points Galaxian, 2000 points bell, 3000 points and key, 5000 points. You will also get a bonus Pac-Man at 10,000 points switch selectable…can also be 15,000 points, 20,000 points, or no bonus.
It is possible to follow a pattern on each maze that will always clear the screen without being caught by the ghosts.PIt is possible to hide forever in one place on the screen. Here is how where PacMan starts there is a Tlike wall above him. If you go up to the rightmost part of the T from the bottom without any ghosts seeing you go in, they will never enter that spot. Also, do not move stay still, facing up.
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Lucius: “Hey, Doreen”
After last year’s Lucius EP, the five-piece indie-pop band from Brooklyn is preparing to release their first full-length album Wildewoman on October 15th through Mom+Pop Records. Our first glimpse at the 11-track album comes in the form of the delightfully sunny “Hey, Doreen”. As usual, the track is led by intertwining vocals from Holly and Jess and backed by an ecstatic, fuzzed out soul groove. The psychedelic touches of reverb and washed out organs give the song a perfect retro feel to compliment the powerful vocals and undeniably catchy hook. On the bridge, the fuzz drops out and gives way to layers of sequenced synthesizers, which is at once totally surprising and totally great. Despite its length of almost five minutes, “Hey, Doreen” is so infectious that it never drags. If anything, I could stand to hear that hook a few more times!
Be sure to keep a look out for Wildewoman when it comes out in October.
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