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Disney to Produce New “’Please Sign This Release’ Elmo’”
BURBANK, CA (TheBadgerCA) – The Disney Corporation announced today that they would be adding to their Muppets toy line with the new “Please Sign This Release” Elmo doll. The doll, due out at the end of November in time for Christmas, is said to provide the same enjoyment for children that previous Elmo dolls has provided.
“The new Elmo doll will in no way change how children enjoy Elmo or any of the other Muppet products in the franchise”, said Marie Lauenger, Director of New Products for Disney. “The new Elmo provides the same cuddly softness for children and also delivers a strong sense of protection and peace of mind for adults.”
The new Elmo doll is not only fitted with several replaceable release forms that children can enjoy signing, but parents can also purchase the new partner Muppet “Notary Dan” who legitimizes the release once signed. The new Elmo doll also comes with new phrases and sayings, such as “Don’t forget to sign this waiver, or else Elmo gets sad”. The new doll also comes with an infrared sensor and a pre-recorded message stating, “Uh oh! You’re within thirty feet of Elmo. Better back up!”
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Board index President Obama's Eligibility State Ballot Challenges
Kansas ballot challenge
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Post by jtmunkus » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:42 pm
Thus endth the lesson. :D
Post by realist » Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:45 pm
Thus endth the lesson. :D =))
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Post by Northland10 » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:30 pm
KS 2012-10-22 - TAITZ - [link]Opposition to Motion to Dismiss, [/link]Thanks for getting those docs for us, Slash!! :-bd
...compares herself to Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP several times and manages to insult just about everyone else involved in the case. IShe claims she is doing in Kansas what Thurgood Marshall and the NACCP did for African-Americans in the south. If it were anybody else, I would think that was an odd statement.
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Post by AnitaMaria » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:54 pm
From the opposition to motion to dismiss:Additionally, actions by Kobach are even more devastating than actions of others. Kobach is known as one of the leaders and rising stars of the Republican party, a conservative leader, a tea party leader. His actions were more devastating to Taitz, who fought this fight for four years, more so than actions of anyone else. the media had a field day and article appeared in Huffington Post and other National publications that were in essence saying "If someone like Kobach does not believe her, neither should anyone else. All of her on going lawsuits are frivolous"I wonder if the Orlylaw statute that makes ignoring Orly Taitz a crime has enhanced penalties if the perp is a Republican. :-k
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Post by aarrgghh » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:32 pm
I wonder if the Orlylaw statute that makes ignoring Orly Taitz a crime has enhanced penalties if the perp is a Republican. :-kas boromir reminds us:
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Post by TexasFilly » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:43 pm
...compares herself to Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP several times and manages to insult just about everyone else involved in the case. IShe claims she is doing in Kansas what Thurgood Marshall and the NACCP did for African-Americans in the south. If it were anybody else, I would think that was an odd statement.Please recall that the case that put Thurgood Marshall on the map as a Supreme Court advocate was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Just like Orly reminded the Judge in Hawaii about the Korematsu case (although it, too, had no relevance to the case she was arguing).
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Post by raicha » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:48 pm
I wish she'd pull something like this in Mississippi, where earwigging is against the law.
Post by Piffle » Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:51 pm
Yet another hat tip to slash2k... :-bd
KS 2012-09-27 - TAITZ - [link]Motion in Limine, [/link]Mark my words: This motion in limine may amount to the unveiling of a brand-new tactical maneuver in the Taitzkrieg arsenal. It's more brilliant than anything Guderian or Rommel ever came up with!
Think about it:
1. It eliminates the problem of travel costs for her witlesses.
2. Her experts come pre-qualified (subject, of course, to the court being too dense to understand that they've been rejected by other courts in the past).
3. No cross-examination if necessary because the witlesses have already been x-examined or, as in Georgia, the right to confront has already been waived by the President's lawyer.
4. Cross-examination on the hearsay pronouncements of Shurff Joe aren't needed because, ya know, he's a highly respected law enforcement official. Also too, he doesn't have to be sworn in because his oath of office kinda covers that. We can pretend his press conference is under oath, can't we?
5. Come to think about it, it isn't just the nuisance of cross-examination that can be avoided; you don't even need direct examination or evidentiary rulings! Now there's efficiency for ya!
6. It's obvious that she's on firm legal footing because the Kansas defendants have already conceded the validity of her motion. All they could do is try to delay it by asking for stays and engaging in fancy footwork.
7. It benefits society because everybody knows that recycling is a good thing. And Orlylaw uses only free range renewable materials.
8. It's a wonderful time-saver. By jumping over dilatory motions to dismiss or seek summary judgment -- not to mention eliminating pesky depositions -- you can take a case to trial faster than you can say sudetenland.
I predict we'll see this brilliant strategy again in the not-so-distant future.
Post by Northland10 » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:18 am
She claims she is doing in Kansas what Thurgood Marshall and the NACCP did for African-Americans in the south. If it were anybody else, I would think that was an odd statement.Please recall that the case that put Thurgood Marshall on the map as a Supreme Court advocate was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Just like Orly reminded the Judge in Hawaii about the Korematsu case (although it, too, had no relevance to the case she was arguing).I am quite aware of that. In an attempt to avoid helping Orly, apparently I was too subtle.
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Post by Penguin 0302 » Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:10 am
From the Motion In Limine: 1-Motion to allow phone testimony.(redacted) got a phone in so she wants one too, dammit!!Gawd that woman is juvenile.
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Post by Sam the Centipede » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:28 pm
From the Motion In Limine: 1-Motion to allow phone testimony.
(redacted) got a phone in so she wants one too, dammit!!
Gawd that woman is juvenile.Simple Orlylogic, my friend:
(a) Mr (redacted) won.
(b) Mr (redacted) had a phone.
Therefore (c) Mr (redacted) won because he had a phone.
With that insightful analysis, it has to be a winning strategy!
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Post by Kriselda Gray » Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:58 pm
Gawd that woman is juvenile infantile.FIFY
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Post by AnitaMaria » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:04 pm
While Mr. (redacted)'s appearance by phone might have inspired Taitz's request that witnesses be allowed to testify by phone, she does not cite it in her motion. She gives a very clear statement about why her witnesses should be able to testify by phone:Due to the fact that the hearing involves evidence on forgery and fraud in the identification papers of Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, candidate for US President in 2012 election, Plaintiff Taitz respectfully requests the court to allow witness testimony by phone.Race itsa locator.
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Post by ObjectiveDoubter » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:14 pm
And then this gem:
http://i1051.photobucket.com/albums/s43 ... profit.jpg
Either one of two things is true in regard to this:
1) She is lying when she says this
2) Her foundation does have non-profit status in which case she is flaunting the restrictions on non-profits regularly. The IRS should be interested, if so.
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Post by tjh » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:39 pm
1) She is lying when she says this2) Her foundation does have non-profit status in which case she is flaunting the restrictions on non-profits regularly. The IRS should be interested, if so.It's registered in CA as a non-profit. She doesn't claim it's tax-deductible, which would draw the IRS's attention if she did.
1) She is lying when she says this2) Her foundation does have non-profit status in which case she is flaunting the restrictions on non-profits regularly. The IRS should be interested, if so.It's registered in CA as a non-profit. She doesn't claim it's tax-deductible, which would draw the IRS's attention if she did.As I understand it, a non-profit under 501(c), whether eligible for tax-deductible donations or not is subject to certain restrictions regarding types of electioneering. Maybe I am wrong.
Post by Northland10 » Sat Oct 27, 2012 5:57 pm
2) Her foundation does have non-profit status in which case she is flaunting the restrictions on non-profits regularly. The IRS should be interested, if so.It's registered in CA as a non-profit. She doesn't claim it's tax-deductible, which would draw the IRS's attention if she did.Possibly not:
[/break1]sos.ca.gov/cbs.aspx]http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/cbs.aspx
Edit: This is from the Business Search for California's Secretary of State, not the non-profit search.
Entity Name: DEFEND OUR FREEDOMS FOUNDATIONS
Entity Number: C3189036
Date Filed: 02/19/2009
Status: SUSPENDED
Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA
Entity Address: 26302 LA PAZ STE 211
Entity City, State, Zip: MISSION VIEJO CA 92691
Agent for Service of Process: BUSINESS FILINGS INCORPORATED
Agent Address: 555 CAPITOL MALL STE 1000
Agent City, State, Zip: SACRAMENTO CA 95814As for California non-profit registration:
[/break1]doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerification/Details.aspx?agency_id=1&license_id=1381502&]http://rct.doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerifica ... d=1381502&
Full Name: DEFEND OUR FREEDOMS FOUNDATIONS FEIN:
Type: Public Benefit Corporate or Organization Number: 3189036
Record Type: Charity Registration Type: Charity Registration
Issue Date: Renewal Due Date:
Registration Status: Not Registered Date This Status: 4/13/2009
Date of Last Renewal:
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Post by woodworker » Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:04 pm
You can be a non-profit and not be 501(c). As to whether or not her "foundation" otherwise qualifies as a non-profit, affiant sayeth naught.
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You can be a non-profit and not be 501(c). As to whether or not her "foundation" otherwise qualifies as a non-profit, affiant sayeth naught.Which is what I thought. She calls it a non-profit, but it isn't. She is cavalier with her boasts, at best, most likely believing it's a minor thing to stretch the truth this way, that is, she thinks of what she does as non-profit anyhow. In reality: She is just a self-absorbed liar.
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Post by Somerset » Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:58 pm
With that insightful analysis, it has to be a winning strategy!Cargo cult lawyern' at its best
Post by raicha » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:07 pm
You can be a non-profit and not be 501(c). As to whether or not her "foundation" otherwise qualifies as a non-profit, affiant sayeth naught.Which is what I thought. She calls it a non-profit, but it isn't. She is cavalier with her boasts, at best, most likely believing it's a minor thing to stretch the truth this way, that is, she thinks of what she does as non-profit anyhow. In reality: She is just a self-absorbed liar.Woodworker is correct: you can be formed as a nonprofit corporation and not be 501(c). The corporation lookup at the SOS does not tell you whether a corporation is formed as a for-profit or non-profit corporation. It is very possible that DOFF is organized under the non-profit law in California. However, the SOS site does tell you that her corporation is suspended. This is probably due to one or both of two things: 1) failure to file a state tax return, and/or 2) failure to file a statement of officers and directors.A suspended corporation, non-profit or for-profit, loses the ability to contract and to defend or prosecute a lawsuit.
Post by ZekeB » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:08 pm
You can be a non-profit and not be 501(c). As to whether or not her "foundation" otherwise qualifies as a non-profit, affiant sayeth naught.Non-profit is one thing. Tax-deductible non-profit is quite another. If she is leading any of her contributors on to believe their contributions are tax deductible, both she and they may end up in trouble.
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Post by gatsby » Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:57 pm
As for California non-profit registration:[/break1]doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerification/Details.aspx?agency_id=1&license_id=1381502&]http://rct.doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerifica ... d=1381502&Full Name: DEFEND OUR FREEDOMS FOUNDATIONS FEIN: Type: Public Benefit Corporate or Organization Number: 3189036Registration Number: Record Type: Charity Registration Type: Charity RegistrationIssue Date: Renewal Due Date: Registration Status: [highlight]Not Registered[/highlight] Date This Status: 4/13/2009Date of Last Renewal: California has sent Taitz two letters -- in 2009 and 2011 -- requesting more information about the "foundation," but she apparently ignores them:[/break1]scribd.com/doc/111331044/Defend-Our-Freedoms-Foundation-First-Notice-to-Register] ... o-Register[/break1]scribd.com/doc/111331042/Defend-Our-Freedoms-Foundation-Second-Notice-to-Register] ... o-RegisterIn the past, I've tried to find state laws that might prohibit using words like "foundation" in a name unless the organization is registered as a charity. By using that name, it might suggest to donors that the entity is somehow government regulated when it's not.The bigger question: Does Taitz need to report to California and the IRS all donations to her foundation as personal income? If she does, she surely would have sought tax-exempt non-profit status to avoid paying taxes. Unless she simply is not declaring the contributions as income.
Post by realist » Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:03 pm
The one and only Elliewyatt was all over Orly's "corporation" and "foundation"... Did extensive research, contacted the IRS, even confronted Orly on a radio show about its/their status.I hope a search would reveal all or at least some of it. I think it was all on PJ but am not certain.Ellie... We miss you. (
The bigger question: Does Taitz need to report to California and the IRS all donations to her foundation as personal income? If she does, she surely would have sought tax-exempt non-profit status to avoid paying taxes. Unless she simply is not declaring the contributions as income.A corporation, non-profit or for-profit, would file a tax return and would report the "donations". Because DOFF is not a tax-exempt entity, it would be taxed on those donations (less legitimate business expenses of the organization).To the extent that Taitz receives money donated to DOFF over and above legitimate expense reimbursements, she has personal income that must be included on her own tax return.It appears to me that DOFF, after originally incorporating, has never filed a return, registered with the AG, or filed a statement of officers and directors with the SOS.That's why it is suspended today.
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Donald Glover and adidas Originals launch Donald Glover Presents
– Donald Glover Presents is the creative partnership between the multi-talented artist and iconic sportswear brand –
– Glover re-imagines classic adidas footwear styles, the Nizza, the Continental 80, and the Lacombe –
– Donald Glover Presents is a new series of short films, starring Glover and award-winning Actress-Comedian and Executive Producer Mo’Nique, created by Glover with Royalty and produced by Mamag Studios –
LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — adidas Originals and Donald Glover officially launch Donald Glover Presents, revealing the fruits of a creative relationship that began in September 2018. With storytelling at the heart of the partnership, Glover and adidas Originals unveiled a range of new product offerings alongside the premiere of a series of short films.
Donald Glover Presents reimagines three classic adidas styles, the Nizza, the Continental 80, and the Lacombe, in subtle, tone-on-tone white canvas. With a focus on the personal narrative that worn-in sneakers can hold, and the wealth of experiences they bear, the collection is inspired by subtle imperfections.
“Rich is a concept,” said Donald Glover. “With this project, I wanted to encourage people to think about how their stories can be told on their feet. Value isn’t quantified by what you wear, rather the experiences from them. And you make the decision on what works for you, you live through your own lens. The partnership for me is about being able to exemplify what doing your own thing truly looks and feels like.”
Seeking to tell a story through design, the shoes feature a series of deconstructed details, like uneven stitching, inside-out golden eyestays, and a custom 3-Stripe mark that evokes hand-painting. Heightening a sense of depth and character, the edges of the canvas are not stitched down, allowing them to fray over time. Further bringing the theme of wear to life, a moth – the symbol of the collaboration – appears on the heel bumpers and insoles of the footwear. Each pair arrives inside an inside-out adidas Originals box that opens with a tear strip and comes replete with three sets of custom shoelaces designed to fringe with wear.
“Our partnerships are built on a foundation of creating moments of inspiration that we could not achieve alone,” explained Chris Law, Senior Design Director – adidas Originals. “As a visionary, we admire Glover’s capability to surpass ‘genres’ and uniquely tell a story. From a design perspective, we drove the aesthetic of this collection based on adidas’ rich history in classic sneakers and Glover’s philosophy of understated points of interest and appreciation for how shoes evolve with wear, expressing more personality over time. Between Glover’s artistic vision and our expertise, we will continue to evolve and look forward to where that takes us.”
Coinciding with the product launch, Donald Glover and adidas premiered a series of short films, starring Glover and actress-comedian Mo’Nique with a cameo by professional skateboarder Na-Kel Smith, produced by Sylvia Zakhary of Mamag Studios with Wolf Taylor and Fam Rothstein of Royalty and Wolf and Rothstein.
The films, written by Jamal Olori of Royalty with Sam Jay, bring to life a story of defiance, subversion, and creative expression. Embracing acts of fate as opportunities for honesty, growth, and understanding, the films show that worn shoes are not merely “dirty”; they are a reflection of one’s personal experiences. The series is directed by Ibra Ake of Royalty, supported by creative consultant, Sing J Lee of Mamag Studios.
In their efforts to equalize creative access, Glover and adidas Originals chose to unveil the films directly to the young people who continue to inspire them. Tapping into a community of creatives and loyalists, they brought together an eclectic group of people that had the opportunity to interact with Glover on a personal level and experience the films first hand. Celebrating the occasion and emphasizing the ethos of the creative partnership, Glover hosted an inverted Q+A, giving those in attendance the ability to ask their own questions and initiate a conversation.
The Donald Glover Presents film series will release on April 18th and footwear will be available globally on April 26th.
#DonaldGloverPresents @adidasOriginals
Notes to editor:
‘Donald Glover Presents’ Film credits –
Starring Donald Glover and Mo’Nique with a cameo by Na-Kel Smith
Story and concept by Donald Glover with ROYALTY
A Mamag Studios Production
Directed by Ibra Ake
Written by Jamal Olori of Royalty with Sam Jay
Creative Consultancy by Sing J Lee for Mamag Studios
Produced by Sylvia M Zakhary for Mamag Studios
Co-Produced by Wolf Taylor and Fam Rothstein for Wolf and Rothstein
Co-produced by Stephen Glover of Royalty
Wardrobe Stylist by Simon Rasmussen with Style consult by Shanice Castro
About adidas Originals:
Inspired by the rich sporting heritage of adidas – one of the world’s leading sports brands and a global designer and developer of athletic footwear and apparel – adidas Originals is a lifestyle brand founded in 2001. With the adidas archive at its foundation, adidas Originals continues to evolve the brand’s legacy through its commitment to product innovation and its ability to filter the creativity and courage found on courts and sporting arenas through the lens of contemporary youth culture. Marked by the iconic Trefoil logo that was first used in 1972 and championed by those that continue to shape and define creative culture, adidas Originals continues to lead the way as the pioneering sportswear brand for the street.
About Mamag Studios:
Mamag Studios is an award-winning creative agency and production company founded by Sylvia Zakhary in 2016. The studio offers a body of work that acutely focuses on cultural authenticity and disrupts social narratives within commercial and entertainment spheres, bridging the needed gap between culture and commerce. The studio most recently launched the Google Pixel 3 global campaign starring Donald Glover and is also known for the Emmy-nominated mini-series, Great Performers starring the likes of Lakeith Stanfield and Olivia Coleman. Other collaborations by the studio also include Pepsi, Mercedes Benz, and LVMH, amongst others. Mamag has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
About Royalty
Royalty is an independent creative agency comprised of screenwriters, directors, creative directors artists and producers. The Royalty umbrella specializes in media production, strategy, events, and marketing embedded with a focus on quality, innovation, and cultural exchange.
The group formed in the early spring of 2012 as a brain trust and since has amassed multiple accolades including Golden Globes, Emmy’s, Peabody awards, Clios and Grammy’s.
Inclusive of Donald Glover the Royalty team consists of Fam Rothstein, Ibra Ake, Stephen Glover, Chad Taylor, Miles Konstantin, and Jamal Olori aka Swank. Most recently Royalty partnered to create and produce projects from Atlanta on Fx, the Grammy award-winning This Is America, This Is America tour, Pharos festival, Spotify’s Rap Pantheon, Google Pixel 3, and Guava Island.
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https://www.adidas.com/us/donaldglover
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By Manjima Dhakal
Kathmandu, Apr. 3: The government has decided to launch an intensive school enrolment campaign this year in 15 districts, which have weak performance in equity index.
The equity index comprises of education, health, income and poverty concentration status at school level.
Out of 15 districts, seven districts are included from State 2.
The government has allocated a total of Rs. 30 million budget that comprises a budget of Rs. 2 million to each of 15 districts.
The government has allocated special funds to these 15 districts because of their weak performance in enrollment.
The government has however asked 62 district education authorities to utilize regular funds for enrollment campaign.
About 10 per cent of the children aged between 5-7 years of age of 15 districts are still out of schools, whereas an overall enrolment rate of students is 97 per cent, Uttam Kumar Parajuli, Enrolment Section Chief of the government’s Center for Education and Human Resource said.
The government has been planning to conduct the intensive programme at 15 districts namely Rautahat, Sarlahi, Parsa, Bara, Mahottari, Dhanusha and Siraha (State 2) Dolpa, Jajarkot, Humla, Doti Accham and Bajhang (Karnali Pradesh) Rolpa and Banke (State 5).
The centre will introduce a policy to mobilise budget in grassroots as complaints have been received from stakeholders that the budget allocated for enrolment campaign can’t reach to grassroots and only used for promotion.
According to Parajuli the centre drafted policy explains that those districts could mobilize the amount only for dresses, tiffin and stationary for children in needs. These schemes are not for all school children and will be provided for the homeless children, orphans, child labourers, differently-abled children, children of the differently-abled poor and the extreme poor.
This year the slogan of enrolment campaign is `Our Town, Our Village: Let’s Send Our Children to Schools`. This year the student enrolment will start from Baisakh 1 (April 14). This year the government has been planning to promote enrolment campaign through media along with organising a door-to-door campaign.
Meanwhile, there are districts with good equity index and they don’t require any programme for students enrolment.
A total of seven districts, namely Pachathar, Ilam, Dhankuta, Okhaldhunga, Manang, Mustang and Syangja have al most cent per cent enrolment ratio in grade one. They don’t require any special programme, Parajuli added.
According to Parajuli, the districts where the government have been conducting Early Grade Reading Project have had a good enrolment ratio. The project has been implemented in 21 districts.
Because of the project implementation, Saptari has witness a better enrolment and performance in the early grade while remaining of six districts of State 2 have shown weak performance in equity index.
The Early Grade Reading project is a USAID-assisted project implemented under the joint collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Under this project, the children are learning with the help of special curriculum, workbook, trained teachers and different teaching methods.
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Open doors at Brussels’ design, architecture and film production hub L’Amicale
2F4F on a new era of blending sound and visual
Written by Sarah Schug published on September 14, 2012 in Art
In a shared space in Brussels’ St. Gilles neighbourhood there’s a seasoned bunch of creatives who will be flinging open their studio doors to the public this weekend. Witness a bunch of bona fide designers in their natural habitat at L’Amicale, with graphic designers from pleaseletmedesign, architects from Label architecture and video makers from Michigan Films, who’ve united all their creative power under one roof. With Design September in full swing, we dropped in on pleaseletmedesign’s Damien Aresta who told us why you should go check it out .
Why was it important for you to take part in the Open Doors weekend?
It’s a great opportunity to meet new people and do something different.
Are you presenting anything specific this weekend?
This year we are presenting a series of exhibitions in our offices, and every two months we put on another show in collaboration with Gregory De Cock. This weekend’s Open Doors coincides with one of the exhibitions. This one will show works by Sébastien Bonin under the title ‘1 minute’.
Why are you not showing your own work?
When we participated in Design September’s Open Doors programme for the first time four years ago, that’s exactly what we did. But that’s a bit boring. We like to use it as an opportunity for collaborations and to do something different.
What do you hope visitors will gain through visiting your work space?
Even if we’re not focused on showing our own work, participating in Open Doors lets people know we exist. And they can discover our way of thinking, what we like, our philosophy, our mentality. That’s something very important.
Which studio do you wish would open its doors? And whose work are you quite big on at the moment?
We really like what Project Projects in New York, a graphic design studio, are doing. They combine the American way of thinking with a European vision. We’re also big fans of Enzo Mari, who wrote a do-it-yourself-book about furniture, a kind of manifesto, in the 70s.
From 14th to 15th September
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Michigan Films (Movie production) +
Pleaseletmedesign (graphic design)
Rue d’Andennestraat 1 – 1060 Brussels
Friday 18h00 – 21h00
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The Supremacy Jun 21, 2009 11:16:34 GMT -5
Post by Philip S on Jun 21, 2009 11:16:34 GMT -5
Any ideas what to call the machine/AI-human empire?
I was thinking of calling it 'The Supremacy', and have it run and a cyberocracy? (With the Artilects designing tech and running the whole show and human giving feedback and picking options via the net).
I was thinking of various name like 'empire', 'imperium', 'dominion' names but they do not match what it is. The machines pretty much run the whole of industry and defence, they are performing a governmental role, yet they are not 'in charge' and can't really order humans to do anything. The worst that can happen to a human is the service contracts are terminated and the humans no longer get tech-on-demand, auto-defences or Ecorium maintenance. In essence the machines supply goods and services and humans can pick what they want, and work with that.
The Supremacy was a stand in name, but it kinda suck. It seems an appropriate considering at the height of the Supremacy there are 15 billion colonies (quite successful!). So it's not an empire it's a cyberocracy, and that cyberocracy is called the Supremacy...
do you have a better name?
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Post by malika on Jun 21, 2009 11:25:11 GMT -5
Sounds cool to me, I like the name. Including "Empire" or anything like that doesn't really work for me. The whole "Machine Human Empire" seemed more fitting as a working title.
How would the machines designate themselves though?
How are the members of this empire called? "Supremacists"?
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Jun 21, 2009 11:25:11 GMT -5 malika said:
I know what you mean.
Probably after their primary home world of Mars, so they may be 'Martians' under the supreme Artilect of Mars. Or the may simply be 'the machines', 'mecha' of whole bunch of other names in human readable format. As for the machines themselves, they probably have code designators and nodes.
Perhaps collectively all the machines are colloquially referred to as 'the net' (internet derivative) seeing as the machines interact via the net, power the net, and run the net. To most humans the machines would be out in the ether, never directly seen, and the humans interact with artificial sentient minds replicating 'human' communications.
Um, I suppose, though it may not be as obvious as it first seems. The Supremacy is the combination of humans and machine, so I am not sure humans would name themselves after an organisation of two parts. I suppose it's like NATO, we do not call ourselves NATOists - if that makes sense.
Having said that, they may. I think humans of this era have quite a big ego about being 'superior'. It would also be quite provocative. It also probably accurately portrays how we would deal with aliens if we ever met them - considering we would be backed up by the Artilects and the mach-armies-of-ultimate-doom at our finger tips.
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The Supremacy Jun 23, 2009 5:35:53 GMT -5
Post by xeoran on Jun 23, 2009 5:35:53 GMT -5
I always liked the name Cordwainer Smith gave his fictional empire: the Instrumentality. A mix of power, command and destiny in one word. The books are well worth reading too.
Hmm, what about different factions within the Supremacy? And not just different human factions, what about the machines having their own differences as well? Or would this humanize the machines too much?
Jun 23, 2009 5:35:53 GMT -5 xeoran said:
Sounds good, I might have a look at those. I don't think I'll lift 'the Instrumentality' as I want something new.
Ever heard of another empire referred to as the Supremacy?
I think you can have zilliions of human factions and some rogue AG, but I'm not sure about a large AG faction. The machines are 'inhuman' and act in ways that are not really what humans would expect, the machines are highly unified (very 'bee' like) and do not seek to make factions (it make no sense to them considering how they share information and collaborate, and have no fear of death and hence no need to survive in the singular sense).
I think it is important that the AG remain alien, and this will highlight how odd a rogue AG is when it goes off on one!
The Supremacy Jul 2, 2009 10:53:04 GMT -5
Post by malika on Jul 2, 2009 10:53:04 GMT -5
I was pondering a little bit on the economic side of the Supremacy. How does it get its resources? I mean, they would need a whole lot of resources in order for entire worlds to be covered with machines, computers, build Dyson Spheres and so on.
Is the human population put to work in mines, or does the AG trade with humans on the surface? Or are there other machines who strip entire worlds of their resources and then redistribute them as in some for the AG related constructions (chrystals, Dyson Sphere, defenses, etc), some for the humans (Ecopolis), etc. So first strip a world of everything (very similar to how the Tyranids devour a world of all its resources, leaving it a lifeless ball of rock) and then reconstruct it.
Post by Philip S on Jul 2, 2009 12:43:56 GMT -5
Jul 2, 2009 10:53:04 GMT -5 malika said:
The machines get the resources. Everything external to the Ecorium is pretty much the machines domain and their responsibility.
Is the human population put to work in mines, or does the AG trade with humans on the surface?
Humans get to do agriculture work inside Ecorium. Humans support themselves through running the recycling and hydroponic systems, the systems are built by the machines.
Or are there other machines who strip entire worlds of their resources and then redistribute them as in some for the AG related constructions (chrystals, Dyson Sphere, defenses, etc), some for the humans (Ecopolis), etc.
The machines strip nebular and stars, gas giants, moons, asteroids, and planets, even black holes (how they do that is beyond me, and no human has seen it, but they do it)
So first strip a world of everything (very similar to how the Tyranids devour a world of all its resources, leaving it a lifeless ball of rock) and then reconstruct it.
The entire 'war machine' of the Supremacy is really nothing more that gathering resources, from the AG Swam converting a world's surface to AG glory, to Teleporters biting huge chunks out of planets and stars.
If the AG turns up at your world, and you are a sentient alien, you have probably been consumed before you get to wonder what they hell is going on.
The AG side of the Supremacy is humocentric and ruthless, without mercy, and does not care about anything other than humans. To the AG a sentient alien is merely a bag of compounds.
This is why 'we' have 15 billion colonies edit: 50 billion.
The predominant work is agriculture, humans mainly farmers and gardeners. There is no work in anything technical (machines make it), all goods are machines, computers, networks, pipes, doors, floors, racks, clothes, pottery, ovens, you name it: a machine made it. The only thing they (machines) do not make is food, but they will supply the equipment to humans.
The is a healthy craft industry of organic goods made by humans, but these tend to be gifts and symbolic rather than a challenge to the machine industrial might. The simple fact is that if you ask for it, you probably will get it, but what do you ask for?
Some things are useless like cars, travel is limited (as Ecorium as pretty close to a prison) because the machines will not keep on providing life support. They may give you an enviroment suit, and you are free to go outside, but they will not top up your air supply - food and air is down to your Ecorium.
The only deviation is when a world have an Earth like enviroment, but this is very rare, and normally reserved for 'Executives', the descendants of the Executives of long forgotten companies that made the first machines and owned IP rights (and part of the machine's rights in regard to humans stems from these Executives, and the machines act as a proxy, but the Executives have virtually no actual say in the running of the Supremacy, much like the Queen of England and Parliament, the Executives are a 'figure head').
Lots of people like computer games, VR, etc. But they still have to do physical work.
Now this system may seem open to exploitation, as humans like to exploit other humans, but the machines have a trick up their sleeve and it's not nice. If someone wants to be moved to another Ecorium (for whatever reason) they have the right to do that, and if another human tries to get in the way of this transfer, the machines void the entire service and support agreement of that Ecorium and all machine cooperation is withdrawn and the airlocks to the outside world sealed (even fill the external airlocks with solid ceramite). The machines are quite happy to let an entire Ecorium run down and cease to function, clear out the dead and start again. They have no feelings. Simple message - you want to stop being a partner: so be it.
Some humans have tried to go it alone, and some survive for quite a while but without renewed resources and ecosystem balancing, eventually they fail. It's inevitable. The machines can wait for as long as it takes. This can create a bit of a drama, and a need to escape.
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The Supremacy Jul 12, 2009 21:54:08 GMT -5
Post by Troll Forged on Jul 12, 2009 21:54:08 GMT -5
I finally had some free time but thought I might give you a few ideas on the whole machine stripping thing. I would say that the future for us today is the fact we are using atoms now to create computers. It is in the very first stage but some one made a battery, I believe, from this method.
They claim this is the first chance of creating a computer that could be powerfull enough, and complex enough yet remain small enough to make the first human sized AI.
That said, what if the machines strip things down into atoms, or even further, the components of atoms. That would also mean matter and anti-matter could be possible sources.
As far as I know everything has matter, energy seems to be the only thing that does not, but a black hole is super condensed matter, thus could in theory, be harvested. I am however under the idea that anti-matter is much, much more powerful according to real life examples.
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The Supremacy Jul 13, 2009 4:31:13 GMT -5
Post by Philip S on Jul 13, 2009 4:31:13 GMT -5
I think anything is possible when it comes to the machines...
Jul 12, 2009 21:54:08 GMT -5 Troll Forged said:
but a black hole is super condensed matter, thus could in theory, be harvested.
A a quirky idea, you could use my warpengine design concept as a basis of a black hole powered machine!
Surround the black hole with grav-nullifying P-Field Emitter satellites and 'phase' the black hole into some form of drive, power station or even AI (a black hole based AI could use components that are smaller than what is possible in reality because the P-Field Emitters are messing with reality).
Further: the possibilities for the Artilects is pretty much endless - imagine if the super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has been converted into some kind of Artilect machine?
If an AI - would that count as an Artificial God?
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Post by M.O.T.N on Jul 13, 2009 6:22:07 GMT -5
On the subject of the naming convention, the Supremacy sounds a bit too... human?
This will open up a dialog I'm sure concerning the AI being smart enough to anticipate a feeble human minds grasp of such things, therefore choosing something that feels 'familiar' to us humans.
How about something like the 'Algorithm Matrix' (shame the matrix movies have ingrained in peoples consciousness the word matrix with simulated reality: this will be seen as plagiarism hehe) or 'A.0.Algorithm' (Alpha.Omega).
Words like 'System', 'Process', 'Governance', 'Protocols' come to mind.
'Algorithm Governance' or 'Algorithm Protocol' sounds like an inhuman system, it governs the steps and seemingly 'statistical' behaviors of mankind.
(This came to me at work here as I'm sitting writing Algorithms [step by step process maps] for analysing the governance of our outsourced operations and suppliers... funny that. How the mind wanders.)
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Jul 13, 2009 6:22:07 GMT -5 M.O.T.N said:
How about something like...
I think there are probably millions of names for the system. it could have an official name that is hardly ever used, or only reference by executives regarding old documents.
Perhaps: 'The Human Sentient and Derivative Cooperative' or HSDC.
This the human mind is one part of the system and the other is the artificial minds they originally created. Later the original artificial created new artificial minds, but these are still classed as 'derivative'. Therefore the Artilects are classed as a derivative of human sentience.
As to the 'Supremacy' this just a general name people use when referring to the whole lot. Like 'Empire'. Except the true word for it all is a 'Cyberocracy', but that is like saying 'democracy', and does not describe a sovereign state. Which the Supremacy is, but it is a mix of man and machine, with the machine having powers in some areas and not in others, and humans having powers in some areas and not others.
If you see what I mean?
Mine wanders all the time ;D
I'm looking at BuddyPress and thinking about the nature of wounds (still), and while researching I wander all over the place: seems any shiny object captures my attention!
I even set up this on one of my wanders... ShareViaP2P, while distracted from reading about mortality of puncture wounds... funny how I ended up doing that, but one jump lead to another, lead to inspiration, lead to...
My mind jumps about like a jack rabbit - but thankfully I still manage to get a few things done in the process!
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The Supremacy Nov 5, 2009 13:58:36 GMT -5
Post by destecado on Nov 5, 2009 13:58:36 GMT -5
I may be a little late to the whole naming thing...and this may sound too much like a 40k name, but what about The Reticulum.
Its from the latin Reticule, meaning "net'. Since we are talking about AI or Artilects, which may be arranged in a Network of computing clusters, I thought it might be appropriate.
Cluster (computing), a group of loosely coupled computers (or in this case AIs) that work together closely. Since the word can also be used to relate to star groupings, the various "states" or star sectors might be divided into Clusters
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Post by Nightsword on Nov 8, 2009 15:18:50 GMT -5
Except the true word for it all is a 'Cyberocracy', but that is like saying 'democracy', and does not describe a sovereign state. Which the Supremacy is, but it is a mix of man and machine, with the machine having powers in some areas and not in others, and humans having powers in some areas and not others.
I see no reason why you can't call it the Cyberocracy. It's not a common word like democracy, many people wont actually know what it means, so there's nothing stopping us from giving it a secondary or different meaning.
And the thing is, we're (the human race I mean) the ones who give things names. So little Bob lying in the ecorium and working as a bloodthirsty raving lunatic is aware that there's this system, this Cyberocracy, around him (or was around him, the idea is the Supremacy falls right?)
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Post by Philip S on Nov 8, 2009 15:59:54 GMT -5
Nov 5, 2009 13:58:36 GMT -5 destecado said:
what about The Reticulum.
That may work for Stare Into The Abyss.
Nov 8, 2009 15:18:50 GMT -5 Nightsword said:
I see no reason why you can't call it the Cyberocracy.
You can call it that, it is what it is, and their is only one of them (so you could call it the Cyberocracy and no one would be confused within Sciror). However this particular Cyberocracy is called the Supremacy.
the idea is the Supremacy falls right?)
It falls in the 'Stare Into The Abyss'.
Sciror is a framework, a 'generic setting', which is used as a base for 'specific settings'. Sciror handles all the meta stuff. Nothing actually happens in Sciror, everything is run in the specific settings.
It is nothing new or radical, as in many ways it's the same as 'Warhammer' (generic setting) and '40K', 'Fantasy Battle', 'Blood Bowl' etc (specific settings), just as Sciror (generic setting) has 'Twistasy', 'Stare Into The Abyss', and 'Dark Pyre'.
'Stare Into The Abyss' is a specific setting, and it is within this specific setting that the Supremacy does collapse.
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Neural Lace
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“…Along with serving as a rite of passage, it upgrades the human brain to be more competitive against A.I.’s with human-level or higher intelligence.”
Read more - http://nautil.us/blog/-will-this-neural-lace-brain-implant-help-us-compete-with-ai
Categoriesneural lace, neural-jacking, neural_implants, neuroscience, national-security
Tagsimprisonment, risk, humanoid
Chinas Total Surveillance State
"...China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one's every move can be monitored with cutting-edge technology."
Categoriessocial-credit, surveillance, technology, tracking, veillances, security, national-security, monitoring
Tagssurveillance, china, monitoring, ethnicity, control, power
UK Spook Agencies Have Been Spying on Millions of People 'Of No Security Interest' Since 1990s
UK's intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, and GCHQ have been collecting personal information from citizens who are "unlikely to be of intelligence or security interest" since the 1990s, previously confidential documents reveal. The documents were published as a result of a lawsuit filed by Privacy International, and according to the files, GCHQ and others have been collecting bulk personal data sets since 1998.
Emphasis added:
"These records can be “anything from your private medical records, your correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, even what petitions you have signed, your financial data, and commercial activities,” Privacy International legal officer Millie Graham Wood said in a statement. "The information revealed by this disclosure shows the staggering extent to which the intelligence agencies hoover up our data."
Nor, it seems, are BPDs only being used to investigate terrorism and serious crime; they can and are used to protect Britain’s “economic well-being”—including preventing pirate copies of Harry Potter books from leaking before their release date.
BPDs are so powerful, in fact, that the normally toothless UK parliament watchdog that oversees intelligence gathering, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), recommended in February that "Class Bulk Personal Dataset warrants are removed from the new legislation."
These data sets are so large and collect so much information so indiscriminately that they even include information on dead people."
Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04...
AuthorJordan Brown
Categoriesdataveillance, surveillance, tracking, social-implications, national-security
Tagssurveillance_state, surveillance_society, surveillance, GCHQ, MI5, MI6, spying, economics
Aadhaar Unique Identity System in India and Biometrics
Categoriesbiometrics, national-security
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Plan to track Fourth Schedule suspects using chip implants meets scathing criticism
LAHORE: The provincial government’s announcement that it would track people listed in the Fourth Schedule (terrorism suspects) by implanting microchips under their skin has drawn criticism from human rights groups.
At a press conference on February 25, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said people placed on the Fourth Schedule would have to wear anklets with micro-chips in them. That will help the government track their every move. Sharif said the police would also find out if they ever took the anklet off.
However on Wednesday, Home Minister Shuja Khanzada announced that microchips would be introduced in the bodies of people in the Fourth Schedule. He said the government had procured 5,000 microchips for the purpose.
An official in the Counter-Terrorism Department said that the government was considering the option of injecting a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip near the knees of people in the fourth schedule. The chip would carry their bio data and criminal records. The chip could be scanned by special instruments, he said.
Previously, people on the Fourth Schedule would have to inform the police if they wanted to travel to other areas. The official said placing microchips in their bodies would enable them to monitor their movement at all times.
Several human rights activists have spoken up against this idea. Human rights activist Dr Mehdi Hassan said the chips could only help police track people’s location, not their actions. “Treating people like pieces of meat does not seem to be an improvement of any kind,” he said.
Similar tactics of tagging certain people had been used by Stalin in Russia and in Nazi Germany, he said. “They should be inconceivable for a democratic country like Pakistan,” he said. It would be a gross violation of human rights and would damage Pakistan’s image abroad, Hassan said.
Former Supreme Court Bar Association president Asma Jehangir said if the government was considering any such options, it must stop immediately. “This is a barbaric thought which undermines basic human rights…it is not a feasible option. There are provisions in law to place hand collars on certain suspects released on bail. Implanting microchips in people is a denigration of human dignity.”
HRCP Chairperson Zohra Yousaf said this was very disturbing news. “This is harassment and invasive,” she said.
“Such techniques violate almost every fundamental right a person has.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2015.
Categoriesuberveillance, national-security
TagsFourth_Schedule, Lahore, Pakistan, chip_implants, terrorism, terrorists, microchips, RFID
Kwang-Suk Lee on "Uberveillance" in 2012 work "IT Dev in Korea"
"M.G. Michael and Katina Michael (2010) describe this "carceral" phase of power relations with the concept of "uberveillance"- "the sum total of all types of surveillance and the deliberate integration of an individual's personal data for the continuous tracking and monitoring of identity and location in real time" (10). Under the digital conditions of "uberveillance," therefore, mobile tracking is most usefully viewed both as a new experiment in power enforcement and as one of the spatial designs of power in the wireless world of "flows." Elliot and Urry (2010) depict this "uberveillant phase" as a digital "Orwellianization" of self and society, in which there is essentially no movement without digital tracing or tracking" (150)."
Kwang-Suk Lee (2012) IT Development in Korea: A Broadband Nirvana? Routledge.
Categoriesuberveillance, trajectories, experiment, control, privacy, security, national-security
Tagsuberveillance, carceral, integration, personal_data, continuous_tracking, continuous_monitoring, identity, location, real-time, digital, conditions, uberveillant, tracking, power, enforcement, spatial_designs, wireless, flows, flowsOrwellianization, self, society, movement, digital_footprint, Korea, development, IT
Uberveillance on ABC Big Ideas IQ2Oz Debate
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2014/09/04/4081183.htm
Source: http://www.iq2oz.com/debates/we-are-becoming-enslaved-by-our-technology-/
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/enslaved-by-our-technology3f/5598912
Source: http://www.acola.org.au/index.php/news/70-we-are-becoming-enslaved-by-our-technology
Categoriesembedded_surveillance, emerging_technology, futures, GPS, health, human_rights, implants, innovation, intelligence, Internet, lifelogging, mark_of_the_beast, location-based services, microchip_implants, mobile, monitoring, nanotechnology, neural-jacking, neuroscience, policing, privacy, quantified-self, real-time, psychology, resistance, retail, RFID, risk, robotics, safety, scenarios, screens, sensors, security, shoppers, society, sousveillance, spirituality, surveillance, technology, thinking, transhumanism, veillances, watch, wearable-technology, national-security
Tagsuberveillance_society, uberveillance, ABC, big_ideas, iq2oz, debate, antony_loewenstein, asher_wolf, peter, katina_michael, bernard_keane, alistair_macgibbon
No Rush for WA Cop Cams
"The NSW Government has announced a $4 million rollout of military-style "body cams" - lightweight, miniature video cameras clipped to uniforms, helmets or vehicles - to record evidence during incidents.
A spokeswoman for WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said cameras were already used in WA by motorcycle patrol officers, who often worked alone, and in advance-traffic management vehicles. She said Mr O'Callaghan had considered body cameras being used more broadly by WA Police officers but hinted at a cost-benefit analysis before any final decision.
"The value of using body cams for more routine police work has to be weighed against the cost of maintaining a system for recording, storage and retrieval of thousands of gigabytes of data and the complexity of maintaining security protocols around access," she said."
Categoriesbody, body-worn-video, dashcams, monitoring, policing, PoV, security, sousveillance, watch, workplace, social-implications, national-security
Tagscameras, police, rollout, bodycams, NSW, WA, motorcycle, traffic_management, gigabyes, security, protocols, access, uniforms, helmets, vehicles
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Archive for Adar II / Nisan 5769 - March 2009
When HaShem created the universe, then, He first created, as the astronomers tells us, though not taking the billions of years they so confidently specify, a speck of super-dense matter and caused it to explode. When the earth, the sun, the planets, and the stars which grew out of the explosion reached the size that HaShem planned for them He commanded them to stop growing.
Weekly Torah Portion: Tzav
6 Nisan 5769 - March 31, 2009 | Author TI
How do you feel about yesterday? Are you being held back by what was? At dawn, a single kohen – priest – is chosen to remove from the altar an amount of ashes and places them at the base of the altar, a procedure known as “trumat hadeshen” – the lifting up of the ashes and their removal to a pure place. Literally, “yesterday’s ashes.” Torah is teaching us, through the Temple service, how to deal with our yesterdays.
Tzav (Leviticus 6:1-8:36)
Parashat Tzav is read on Shabbat HaGadol:
Nissan 10, 5769/April 4, 2009
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Nissan: Joy to the World
The glorious month of Nissan, the first of months and the month of firsts. From the moment that G-d commanded the children of Israel, while still in Egypt, to reckon Nissan as the first of the months, to the following year, when, on the first of Nissan, the Tabernacle was sanctified and the Divine service begun, signifying the perfection of
G-d’s will, and the fulfillment of His reason for creation, Nissan has come to be known as the month of months.
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Righteous Women, Part I
29 Adar II 5769 - March 25, 2009 | Author BatMelech
The next Bat Melech teaching will appear on April 8, 2009, (Nissan 14, 5769).
Part I of a series in which Rena explores and shares the the great spiritual depths of the righteous women who protected the children of Israel from the evil decree of Pharaoh, and prepared them for their eventual exodus from bondage and emergence as a free people. Part I focusses on Yocheved/Shifra and Miriam/Puah, midwives and guardians of Moses and the nation of Israel.
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28 Adar II 5769 - March 24, 2009 | Author BFM
We need not bother that astronomers assert that the universe began with one particle of matter, while the Sages mention “two spools of thread.” Astronomers and the Sages are referring to two different moments. The universe did begin with one speck of super-dense matter which began expanding. At the next moment HaShem divided the matter into two equal parts. From one the earth was created and from the other, heaven.
Weekly Torah Portion: Vayikra
28 Adar II 5769 - March 24, 2009 | Author TI
The book of Leviticus: All about the korbanot (offerings): Getting closer to G-d. Bringing an offering is a unique opportunity to realign, recalibrate, renew and strengthen our unbreakable connection to G-d.
Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26)
Parashat Leviticus is read on Shabbat:
Nissan 3, 5769/March 28, 2009
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When HaShem had Ya’akov Obinu stay the night at the site of the Beit haMikdash, He by that very fact, without doing anything to the structure of Eretz Yisrael, assured that all the land was beneath him, for the rock he slept on, its deepest parts, underlies all Eretz Yisrael. Afterwards HaShem took the loose stone on which he had laid his head and sunk it into the earth and attached it to the primeval Foundation Stone (Evven Shetiyah)around which the world was created.
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MPOWER is the Massey People, Organisation, Work and Employment Research group. The term MPOWER indicates a research focus on the management of people in the workplace and organisations with a view to empowering people and organisations to perform.
It is a cross-campus, cross-college and cross-institution initiative to enhance, promote and build on Massey’s expertise in the management of people in the workplace and organisations. The group aims to increase Massey’s reputation for expertise in the area of people management; enhance engagement with relevant industry; and leverage our expertise into income generation.
MPOWER mission
MPOWER’s mission is to connect and focus research activity and output from academic staff and post-graduate researchers in broad themes within the field of people management at work.
What does MPOWER do?
The research group seeks to:
profile Massey’s people management research to internal and external stakeholders;
increase Massey’s attractiveness as a base for academic research and preferred choice for post-graduate study in this domain;
deliver better market research activities and expertise via increased Massey capacity in research connections and collaboration;
provide a platform for fostering connections, relationships and research collaboration with external stakeholders; and
seek income through external research grants, contract research and partnerships.
MPOWER’s core areas of research
MPOWER’s core research themes are:
human resource management (HRM);
employment relations (ER);
people management and performance;
equality, culture and diversity; and
employee engagement, health and well-being.
The group focuses on but is not restricted to these areas. The diagram signifies different analytical lenses through which the research areas can be analysed (e.g. with regard to Māori, gender, leadership, critical management and cross-Pacific perspectives and mixed methodologies).
Last updated on Wednesday 07 March 2018
“We are always looking for HR or people management-related research to refine our HR advice and training.”
Angela Atkins
Director, Elephant HR
President (Auckland Branch), HRINZ
Post-graduate researchers
“MPOWER is an exciting new hub that will enable post-graduates to access information and interact with people relevant to their area of research. MPOWER will also provide a forum for collaboration to help address key issues faced by New Zealand organisations.”
Lindsay Eastgate
Massey post-graduate (ER)
“With MPOWER, we can collaborate on projects where we have more power together - plus events, seminars, conferences, etc.”
Tim Bentley
Former Director
New Zealand Work and Research Institute
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==A==
*'''[[Analog]]''', Analog data is data considered to be continuously variable -- that is, data that is not simply on or off (see ''digital''). Temperature is a good example of analog data.
*'''[[FYI:_Arcade_Authenticity|Arcade Authenticity]]''', A measure of how accurately a game visually compares to it's original arcade version (i.e. the original game PCB playing on the arcade monitor it was intended to).
==B==
*'''Bemani''', synonymous with the rythm and dance game genre. Originally from ''Be''at''Mani''a - the first rythm game in the genre.
*'''BYOAC''' short for "Build Your Own Arcade Controls". Also the name of the [http://arcadecontrols.com/ website] and [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/ community] that spawned this Wiki.
*'''BYOACer''' a member of the Build Your Own Arcade Controls community.
*'''Breakout Cable''' A VGA Cable that you can make or purchase to hook up you Regular VGA/SVGA Pc Video Card to an Arcade Monitor. You also need to use a special software to drive your Video card to the level of the Arcade Monitor. In the FREE Section, there is a small diagram of how to make this [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=38228.0 Breakout Cables] (4th post down).
==C==
* '''Cab''' Short for "Arcade ''cab''inet".
* '''[[Cabinet friendly software|Cabfriendly software]]''' Software that is easily operated on an arcade cabinet.
* '''Cap-kit''', [[Capacitor Kit]] - The capacitors (electronic components) on monitor circuit boards tend to go bad after a while, causing color and picture distortion. Replacing the capacitors (and other related electronic components) will often fix such problems. The collection of capacitors and other components that are needed to repair the monitor are referred to as a "cap-kit."
* '''CMYK''' CMYK is a color description scheme used in printing, and stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK. Mixing various amounts of these four colors produces the other colors needed in the printing process.
* '''Cockpit cabinet''' An arcade cabinet that is enclosed. The player sits inside the cabinet to play the game.
* '''Cocktail cabinet''' An arcade machine that is shaped like a small table. Players sit at the table and play the game looking down on the monitor. The monitor is oriented so that it is facing upwards.
* '''[[Coin door]]''' A metal door on an arcade cabinet where players insert money or tokens to be able to play the game.
* '''[[Coin Doors|Coin door]]''' A metal door on an arcade cabinet where players insert money or tokens to be able to play the game.
* '''COM''' Common - a connector on a microswitch that is always used, regardless of whether the other connector used is NC or NO.
* '''Control panel''' The panel of wood on an arcade cabinet or desktop arcade controller that is the home for the pushbuttons, joysticks, and other arcade controls used by the arcade machine.
* '''Control panel''' The panel of wood or metal on an arcade cabinet or desktop arcade controller that is the home for the pushbuttons, joysticks, and other arcade controls used by the arcade machine.
* '''Console''' 1) short for "Game console" (see glossary [[glossary#G]]) or 2) The keyboard/screen combination from which a (remote) computer is operated or 3) The commandline interface to directly issue basic commands to the computer's operating system (example: The DOS version of MAME is lauched from a DOS-console).
* '''Console''' can have different meanings dependant of the context it is used in:
:#short for "Game console" (see glossary [[#G|G: Game console]])
:#The keyboard/screen combination from which a (remote) computer is operated
:#The commandline interface to directly issue basic commands to the computer's operating system (example: The DOS version of MAME is lauched from a DOS-console).
* '''CP''' Short for "[[Control panel]]"
* '''CPO''' Acronym for "Control Panel Overlay." A CPO is a piece of vinyl or similar material originally used to cover the metal or wood control panel, display control instructions and branded game art.
*'''Game console''' A video game system designed for home play with a TV (or occasionally a computer monitor). Systems such as the Nintendo 64 and Sony Playstation are game consoles.
*'''Game console controller''' The unit that plugs into a game console to control the game play. These are usually handheld pads with an analog mini-joystick that controls direction, a digital flat control wheel that serves the same function, and pushbuttons.
*'''Ground Wire''' The Ground Wire will carry electricity from the Encoder to each Microswitch. People usually use black wire for the Ground Wire.
*'''GUI''' Acronym for "Graphic User Interface". A front end is an example of a GUI for MAME. The basic MAME is without a GUI, MAME32 is a version with a GUI.
==H==
*'''Hack''' As used here, modifying a device to use it in a way that is different than originally intended. For instance, using the electronics of a mouse to connect an arcade trackball.
*'''High resolution''' A monitor with a refresh rate of 31.5kHz.
*'''Hot Wire''' A wire that carries electricity from a Microswitch to an Encoder. In our case, this usually only occurs when the button for the Microswitch is pressed.
==I==
*'''Isolation transformer''' A transformer that sits between the building electrical outlet and the monitor, isolating the monitor from the building electrical system.
==L==
*'''LCD Screen''' - '''L'''iquid '''C'''rystal '''D'''isplay. Some front ends support small LCDs, typically connected to one of the computer's serial ports, to display the name of the game that is currently running.
*'''[[pushbuttons#Leafswitch Pushbuttons|Leaf Switch]]''' - A switch type commonly used on older buttons and joysticks. It consisted of two metal contacts, that when united, completed a circuit.
*'''Leafs''' - Short form for ''leaf switch''
*'''[[Light gun]]''' An amusement gun with optical electronics. The spot that is aimed at is determined optically by the gun electronics. Contrast with ''positional guns''.
*'''Low resolution''' A monitor with a refresh rate of 15.75 kHz. Usually referred to as standard resolution.
==M==
*'''MAME''' Acronym for "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator". See also [[Arcade_Emulators#MAME|Arcade emulators]].
==N==
*''NC'' Normally Closed - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is pressed, and activated when it is not pressed. A kill-switch that disables an arcade machine when the back door is opened, releasing the pressure on the switch, is an example of a situation in which you would want to use the NC connector instead of the NO connector.
*'''NC''' Normally Closed - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is pressed, and activated when it is not pressed. A kill-switch that disables an arcade machine when the back door is opened, releasing the pressure on the switch, is an example of a situation in which you would want to use the NC connector instead of the NO connector.
*''NO'' Normally Open - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is not pressed.
*'''NO''' Normally Open - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is not pressed.
*'''NOS''' Acronym for "New Old-Stock." This term is most commonly used to describe original, unused vintage items for sale or auction. Many times unused stock may be found stored away untouched for years. NOS items are not reproductions, they were manufactured by the original manufacturer and should be close to perfect condition.
*'''NTSC''' A television standard mainly used in the US and Japan. It uses 525 lines and 60-fields (interlaced) per second giving 30fps. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee who set the TV standards in the US. It has a some colour issues which were corrected when PAL was developed, and TV engineers will refer to NTSC as "Never Twice the Same Colour".
==Q==
*'''Q-bert''' An arcade game whose sole reason to be here is so that the "Q" category wouldn't be empty. [http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=Q&game_id=9182 KLOV entry].
*'''Quick disconnects''' Small connectors used as method to connect wires to microswitches without the need to solder the wire directly to the microswitch. Usually abbreviated as QDs or MQDs (male quick disconnects) and FQDs (female quick disconnects).
==R==
*'''RGB''' RGB is a color description scheme used for monitors and sometimes in printing, and stands for Red, Green, and Blue. Mixing various amounts of these three colors produces the other colors needed. Contrast with ''CMYK''.
*'''RGVAC''' Acronym for the usenet newsgroup [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video.arcade.collecting?hl=en rec.games.video.arcade.collecting]. This is a newsgroup for arcade collectors and those interested in restoring arcade cabinets to their original form. Regulars to the newsgroup aren't too fond of people that convert rarer arcade cabinets into ermulator cabinets.
*'''ROM''' Acronym for "Read Only Memory". ROMs contain program code, graphics and sound data that is used by the arcade hardware to run the games. Think of it as a CD on a chip. Many emulators require ROM image files to work.
*'''ROM''' Acronym for "Read Only Memory". ROMs contain program code, graphics and sound data that is used by the arcade hardware to run the games. Think of it as a CD on a chip. Many emulators require ROM image files to work. See Also [[ROMs]].
==S==
*'''Standard resolution''' A monitor with a refresh rate of 15.75 kHz.
==T==
*'''T-molding''' A plastic strip placed around the edges of an arcade cabinet for protective and decorative purposes. The strip is shaped like a T, with the long part of the T fitting in a groove in the edges of the cabinet.
*'''[[T-Molding]]''' A plastic strip placed around the edges of an arcade cabinet for protective and decorative purposes. The strip is shaped like a T, with the long part of the T fitting in a groove in the edges of the cabinet.
*'''Trackball''' An optical device used to control on-screen movement along the X and Y axes. As the ball is rolled the on-screen cursor (or arcade game image) is moved correspondingly.
*'''Trigger-grip joystick''' A joystick that has a fire button in the shaft.
==U==
*'''Upright cabinet''' An arcade machine that stands approximately six feet tall with the monitor facing the players while the player stands at the machine.
*'''VOM''' Acronym for Volt-Ohm-Milliemmeter. See multimeter entry.
==W==
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'''Wrapper''' additional applications that allow certain emulators to work properly with a frontend or arcade setup.
==X==
==Y==
*'''Yoke''' Two meanings: 1. A flight yoke used to control flying games. 2. Part of a monitor's electronics resting behind the picture tube.
*'''YMMV''' Acronym for "Your Mileage May Vary," an idiom meaning: "if you attempt this procedure, your results may differ from my results." Common to message boards.
*'''Yoke''' Two meanings:
:# A flight yoke used to control flying games.
:# Part of a monitor's electronics resting behind the picture tube.
==Z==
*'''8-way joystick''' A joystick that moves in the 4 cardinal directions (up-down-left-right) and the diagonals as well. Playing an 8-way based game with a 4-way joystick can be extremely frustrating.
*'''49-way joystick''' A joystick that has 3 possible positions in each cardinal direction, plus a center position, allowing for a total of 49-different possible positions (7 on the X axis, 7 on the Y axis, 7*7=49).
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Analog, Analog data is data considered to be continuously variable -- that is, data that is not simply on or off (see digital). Temperature is a good example of analog data.
Arcade Authenticity, A measure of how accurately a game visually compares to it's original arcade version (i.e. the original game PCB playing on the arcade monitor it was intended to).
Bemani, synonymous with the rythm and dance game genre. Originally from BeatMania - the first rythm game in the genre.
Bezel, A shroud surrounding the monitor of an arcade cabinet so as to frame the monitor and hide the inner workings of the arcade cabinet.
Bucking magnet, A magnet that is glued to the back of a speaker magnet to counteract the magnetic field the speaker produces. Normally used to allow placement of speakers close to monitors without the speaker's magnetic field distorting the monitor's picture.
BYOAC short for "Build Your Own Arcade Controls". Also the name of the website and community that spawned this Wiki.
BYOACer a member of the Build Your Own Arcade Controls community.
Breakout Cable A VGA Cable that you can make or purchase to hook up you Regular VGA/SVGA Pc Video Card to an Arcade Monitor. You also need to use a special software to drive your Video card to the level of the Arcade Monitor. In the FREE Section, there is a small diagram of how to make this Breakout Cables (4th post down).
Cab Short for "Arcade cabinet".
Cabfriendly software Software that is easily operated on an arcade cabinet.
Cap-kit, Capacitor Kit - The capacitors (electronic components) on monitor circuit boards tend to go bad after a while, causing color and picture distortion. Replacing the capacitors (and other related electronic components) will often fix such problems. The collection of capacitors and other components that are needed to repair the monitor are referred to as a "cap-kit."
CMYK CMYK is a color description scheme used in printing, and stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK. Mixing various amounts of these four colors produces the other colors needed in the printing process.
Cockpit cabinet An arcade cabinet that is enclosed. The player sits inside the cabinet to play the game.
Cocktail cabinet An arcade machine that is shaped like a small table. Players sit at the table and play the game looking down on the monitor. The monitor is oriented so that it is facing upwards.
Coin door A metal door on an arcade cabinet where players insert money or tokens to be able to play the game.
COM Common - a connector on a microswitch that is always used, regardless of whether the other connector used is NC or NO.
Control panel The panel of wood or metal on an arcade cabinet or desktop arcade controller that is the home for the pushbuttons, joysticks, and other arcade controls used by the arcade machine.
Console can have different meanings dependant of the context it is used in:
short for "Game console" (see glossary G: Game console)
The keyboard/screen combination from which a (remote) computer is operated
The commandline interface to directly issue basic commands to the computer's operating system (example: The DOS version of MAME is lauched from a DOS-console).
CP Short for "Control panel"
CPO Acronym for "Control Panel Overlay." A CPO is a piece of vinyl or similar material originally used to cover the metal or wood control panel, display control instructions and branded game art.
CRT Cathode Ray Tube - a type of monitor with a glass tube. You are probably most familiar with a CRT monitor in the form of older televisions and computer monitors (non-LCD based).
DDR Dance Dance Revolution. A series of dance arcade games made by Konami. The series is named Dancing Stage in Europe, however many Europeans refer to the games by the DDR name.
Degaussing The process of demagnetizing (removing the magnetic field) of a monitor that can build up over time or occur from external sources, to remove the color or picture distortion caused by the field.
Desktop arcade controller A box that holds arcade controls use to play video games. The box is usually somewhere around 3 feet in width and 1.5 feet deep, and is designed to sit on a desktop when played. Unlike a full arcade cabinet, a desktop arcade controller only holds the arcade controls and internal electronics. No monitors, speakers, or computer are part of a desktop arcade controller. Some people have designed a complete "arcade-in-a-box" that goes beyond this definition, including the computer inside the controller, but this is rare.
Digital Digital data is data that is either on or off, one or zero, high or low. A pushbutton is a good example of data that is represented digitally. The button is either pressed, or not pressed. The amount that the pushbutton is pressed is not measured. A pushbutton that is pressed half-way down is still considered to be "off" until it makes final contact with the microswitch beneath it, at which point it is considered "on." Compare to Analog.
Diode A diode is a device that in simplest terms only allows electricity to flow in one direction. A diode has two ends: a cathode (-) and an anode (+). Current can only flow from the anode to the cathode, but not the other direction. Diodes are sometimes used in keyboard hacks.
DIY Do It Yourself.
DPI Dots Per Inch. Printing term used to describe the resolution of an image. For digital files, it may be better to think of DPI as pixels per inch.
Emulator A piece of software designed to make one computer act as another computer or arcade hardware. See also Emulators.
Encoder An electronic component, usually a microchip, that takes analog or digital signals from a device and encodes it in a format that the computer is able to understand. See encoders.
Front End Software GUI used to launch game roms in one or more emulators
Game console A video game system designed for home play with a TV (or occasionally a computer monitor). Systems such as the Nintendo 64 and Sony Playstation are game consoles.
Game console controller The unit that plugs into a game console to control the game play. These are usually handheld pads with an analog mini-joystick that controls direction, a digital flat control wheel that serves the same function, and pushbuttons.
Ground Wire The Ground Wire will carry electricity from the Encoder to each Microswitch. People usually use black wire for the Ground Wire.
GUI Acronym for "Graphic User Interface". A front end is an example of a GUI for MAME. The basic MAME is without a GUI, MAME32 is a version with a GUI.
Hack As used here, modifying a device to use it in a way that is different than originally intended. For instance, using the electronics of a mouse to connect an arcade trackball.
High resolution A monitor with a refresh rate of 31.5kHz.
Hot Wire A wire that carries electricity from a Microswitch to an Encoder. In our case, this usually only occurs when the button for the Microswitch is pressed.
Isolation transformer A transformer that sits between the building electrical outlet and the monitor, isolating the monitor from the building electrical system.
JAMMA - Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers' Association
A trade association based in Japan; it also the namesake of a trade show hosted in Japan; additionally, JAMMA is a wiring standard for arcade machines that allows for interchangability of video game PCBs without having to re-wire the arcade machine.
Joystick Any of a large variety of devices used to control arcade machines. The joystick has a shaft that extends above the control panel that is manipulated by the player, activating switches (microswitch or leaf switch) at the base of the joystick beneath the control panel, thereby controlling game play.
Keyboard blocking A technique used by keyboard manufacturers to prevent ghosting problems. After a certain number of keys are pressed at the same time, further keypresses are blocked.
Keyboard Encoder - A device used to interpret signals from arcade buttons and joysticks into standard keystroke signals. See encoders.
Keyboard ghosting A problem that occurs in older keyboards that do not feature keyboard blocking in which phantom keystrokes are generated when too many keys are pressed at the same time. For instance, pressing "A" and "C" and "E" at the same time may generate a fourth phantom "T" keystroke.
Keyboard matrix The grid in which a keyboard encoder maps keystrokes. The grid corresponds to the physical electronic traces on the keyboard circuit. A keyboard encoder that has a total of 20 keyboard traces can be arranged in a 10 x 10 matrix, allowing 100 total keystrokes. It can also be arranged in a 12 x 8 matrix, allowing 96 total keystrokes, or any other combination. The manner and method in which a keyboard matrix is designed varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Kill switch A switch that is designed to turn off a circuit when the button is released. Usually used as a precaution on the back door of arcade machines. When the back door is opened, the button is released, killing the power inside the arcade cabinet.
KLOV The Killer List of Video Games website.
LCD Screen - Liquid Crystal Display. Some front ends support small LCDs, typically connected to one of the computer's serial ports, to display the name of the game that is currently running.
Leaf Switch - A switch type commonly used on older buttons and joysticks. It consisted of two metal contacts, that when united, completed a circuit.
Leafs - Short form for leaf switch
Lexan An acrylic plastic used to protect control panels and occasionally as a protective barrier in front of a monitor, available in both clear and smoked varieties. See Plexiglas.
Light gun An amusement gun with optical electronics. The spot that is aimed at is determined optically by the gun electronics. Contrast with positional guns.
Low resolution A monitor with a refresh rate of 15.75 kHz. Usually referred to as standard resolution.
MAME Acronym for "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator". See also Arcade emulators.
Mame32 Windows version of MAME with built in GUI
Marquee Usually located at the top of an arcade machine, this is normally a back-lit colorful sign displaying the name of the video game. Marquees are designed to draw attention to the game.
Medium resolution A monitor with a refresh rate of 25 kHz.
Microswitch A switch with three contacts, two of which are used at any one time. When the small button at the top of the switch is pressed (or released), a circuit is completed between the two contacts in use, activating the button. The three contacts are NC, NO, and COM. NO and COM are primarily used in arcade machine applications.
Multimeter A multimeter is an electronic measuring instrument that combines several functions in one unit. The most basic instruments include an ammeter, voltmeter, and ohmmeter. See the Multimeter Wikipedia entry
NC Normally Closed - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is pressed, and activated when it is not pressed. A kill-switch that disables an arcade machine when the back door is opened, releasing the pressure on the switch, is an example of a situation in which you would want to use the NC connector instead of the NO connector.
NO Normally Open - a connector on a microswitch used when a button is considered idle when it is not pressed.
NOS Acronym for "New Old-Stock." This term is most commonly used to describe original, unused vintage items for sale or auction. Many times unused stock may be found stored away untouched for years. NOS items are not reproductions, they were manufactured by the original manufacturer and should be close to perfect condition.
NTSC A television standard mainly used in the US and Japan. It uses 525 lines and 60-fields (interlaced) per second giving 30fps. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee who set the TV standards in the US. It has a some colour issues which were corrected when PAL was developed, and TV engineers will refer to NTSC as "Never Twice the Same Colour".
OEM Acronym for "Original Equipment Manufacturer." An OEM was the originator of a specific part. Parts from an OEM should be more accurate than reproduction parts made for the aftermarket. Reproduction parts are usually not considered 100% fully interchangeable with parts from the OEM.
Optical encoder The encoder that is the heart of a mouse or other optical device. It takes the data from the detector and sends the information to the computer.
PAL A television standard widely used in Europe and Australia. PAL is based on the US NTSC standard, but unlike NTSC (used in the US and Japan) it uses 625 lines and 50-fields (interlaced) per second giving 25fps. Also, PAL stands for Phase Alternate Line, because the phase of the color carrier is alternated from line to line. This alternation helps cancel out phase errors, and gives a superior colour reproduction compared to NTSC ('hue' control is not needed on a PAL TV set) even though both are composite colour signals.
PCB Printed Circuit Board - the circuit boards at the heart of an arcade machine.
Plexiglas An acrylic plastic used to protect control panels and occasionally as a protective barrier in front of a monitor, available in both clear and smoked varieties. Plexiglas is a brand name that is often used as a generic term. Lexan is another brand of acrylic plastic that is often used.
Positional gun An amusement gun with analog electronics, whose aim is determined by the position of two potentiometers (pots) at the base of the gun. As the gun is aimed, the potentiometers are moved, translating into horizontal and vertical positioning of the gun's aim.
POT Short for potentiometer, a variable resistor whose resistance changes as a shaft is turned. A volume knob is an example of a potentiometer.
Port A port can be either a connection on a computer circuit board or a remake of a game/application on another system than the first release. For example the arcade game Pac-Man was ported from the Arcade to various home computer systems.
Quick disconnects Small connectors used as method to connect wires to microswitches without the need to solder the wire directly to the microswitch. Usually abbreviated as QDs or MQDs (male quick disconnects) and FQDs (female quick disconnects).
Raster graphics A raster-based graphic, such as a JPEG file, is composed of tiny dots, or pixels. Contrast it with vector graphics.
Raster monitor A monitor that draws images on screen as a series of dots. Contrast it with vector monitor.
Refresh rate The rate at which a monitor re-draws the images on the screen, broken into horizontal refresh rates and vertical refresh rates. Phosphors on the screen begin to lose their charge quickly and have to be refreshed to keep the image on the screen.
Resolution The size of the screen display on a monitor. Most PC users will be familiar with 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 resolutions, although many other resolutions are possible. Arcade machine typically used much lower resolutions.
Restrictor plate A metal plate that fits over a joystick, restricting its movement so that an eight-way joystick functions like a four-way joystick.
RGB RGB is a color description scheme used for monitors and sometimes in printing, and stands for Red, Green, and Blue. Mixing various amounts of these three colors produces the other colors needed. Contrast with CMYK.
RGVAC Acronym for the usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.arcade.collecting. This is a newsgroup for arcade collectors and those interested in restoring arcade cabinets to their original form. Regulars to the newsgroup aren't too fond of people that convert rarer arcade cabinets into ermulator cabinets.
ROM Acronym for "Read Only Memory". ROMs contain program code, graphics and sound data that is used by the arcade hardware to run the games. Think of it as a CD on a chip. Many emulators require ROM image files to work. See Also ROMs.
SCART A connector found primarily on European televisions providing stereo sound and video inputs.
Spinner An optical device used to control on-screen movement along a single axis, usually the X axis. As the spinner is turned the on-screen cursor (or arcade game image) is moved correspondingly.
Standard resolution A monitor with a refresh rate of 15.75 kHz.
T-Molding A plastic strip placed around the edges of an arcade cabinet for protective and decorative purposes. The strip is shaped like a T, with the long part of the T fitting in a groove in the edges of the cabinet.
Trackball An optical device used to control on-screen movement along the X and Y axes. As the ball is rolled the on-screen cursor (or arcade game image) is moved correspondingly.
Trigger-grip joystick A joystick that has a fire button in the shaft.
Upright cabinet An arcade machine that stands approximately six feet tall with the monitor facing the players while the player stands at the machine.
Vector graphics A vector-based graphic is composed of a series of mathematically described lines that form shapes.
Vector monitor A monitor that draws images on screen as a series of lines.
VOM Acronym for Volt-Ohm-Milliemmeter. See multimeter entry.
Wrapper additional applications that allow certain emulators to work properly with a frontend or arcade setup.
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YMMV Acronym for "Your Mileage May Vary," an idiom meaning: "if you attempt this procedure, your results may differ from my results." Common to message boards.
Yoke Two meanings:
A flight yoke used to control flying games.
Part of a monitor's electronics resting behind the picture tube.
2-way joystick A joystick that only moves in 2 directions, left-right or up-down. Very few games used a 2-way joystick. Space Invaders (KLOV link) is one such game.
4-way joystick A joystick that moves in 4 directions, normally up-down-left-right. Some games, such as Qbert (KLOV entry), used a 4-way joystick rotated 45 degrees such that they movement was to the diagonals instead of straight up/down/left/right. Playing a 4-way based game with an 8-way joystick can be extremely frustrating.
8-way joystick A joystick that moves in the 4 cardinal directions (up-down-left-right) and the diagonals as well. Playing an 8-way based game with a 4-way joystick can be extremely frustrating.
49-way joystick A joystick that has 3 possible positions in each cardinal direction, plus a center position, allowing for a total of 49-different possible positions (7 on the X axis, 7 on the Y axis, 7*7=49).
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I stopped posting at UC when Dave was put in charge and I won't post there again until he is removed as the big cheese. I support ID but putting Dave Scot in charge of UC was not a very good move. I understand the reason for Dembski doing it. He would like to have a non religious person be a spokesman for ID to counter criticism that ID is religiously based.
But in choosing a person like Dave Scot (who is childish, crude, quick to anger, egotistic, arrogant and confused) Dembski has made a mistake.
For one thing Scot doesn't represent ID in the true sense of the word. He calls himself an agnostic and yet believes in some convoluted form of ID?
You cannot be an agnostic nor an atheist and believe in ID, it's a contradiction. If you don't believe in an intelligent designer then how can you believe in intelligent design?
I feel it is extremely foolish to try and present ID divorced from reference to a God figure as part of the paradigm. The people who do that look like they are trying to con people. There is no need to try and pretend that ID isn't about God. No one believes it anyways, unless you are a confused person like Dave Scot.
Almost all proponents of ID believe that a God built all life. An extremely tiny minority believe in guided evolution. Dave Scot is part of the extremely tiny minority even though he claims to be an agnostic. Confused our poor Dave Scot is. If you believe evolution is guided by an intelligence then how can you possible be an agnostic? What is that intelligence if not a God? And Dembski put that guy in charge of his blog? I know Dembski doesn't believe in what Dave Scot believes in, but if he thinks that by putting out front a non religious face to represent ID will aid in the appreciation of ID, he is sadly mistaken.
People like Dave Scot who claim to believe in guided evolution have to answer a big question. If God or the intelligent whatever could guide evolution to get the desired life forms, then why couldn't God have skipped the billions of years of evolution and just created the life forms without evolution?
Anyways, ID proponents should quit being such pussies when it comes to being upfront with what they believe. ID is about a God paradigm. It's not about anything else.
I believe the ID movement is basically split into two parts. Those people who want to use ID as part of a social/political or personal/profit agenda and are therefore looking for ways to make ID more "palatable" to evolutionists by pretending it's not about God, and those who simply are disgusted with the scientific fraud that is evolutionary theory and who have no social or political or personal agenda in their support of ID.
I belong to the second group. I wish the people in the first group would grow up and quit trying to please everybody all of the time. Stand up and be proud, don't hide behind rhetorical mind games and mental cases like Dave Scot. Your every move is transparent. Be loud and proud, if your agenda was purely scientific then you wouldn't think you have to con people. I am 100% against the agenda of those controlled and paid by the Christian reactionary elements in society.
As long as ID is represented in the public mind with Chrisitan reactionary elements it will be mindlessly fought against on political grounds i.e the friend of my enemy is my enemy.
Putting up angry confused confrontational arrogant rude �Dave Scot types as your representative is not going to help.
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy. Once my friend told me that he had found Jesus. I thought to myself, "WooHoo, we're rich!" It turns out he meant something different. -Jack Handey
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LOL this one is funny.
http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/700#more-700
Dave Scot is giving a free lesson for Wesley in how to do science.
Bang goes another irony meter.
Zardoz,
ID has been very, very good to W. Dembski.
My opinion about the ID movement is low. The reason they do not want to mention religion is that they want ID taught in a science class.
In the meantime, a few of them are making pretty good cash from books and appearances. So much so that I can only assume they are too busy to actually be doing any scientific experiments.
Well, "DaveScot" does come close to an insight in his rant. I really could not care less about whether someone who has proved themselves worthy of an IP ban has read access to the site. And so while I could, if i had anything besides velleity for this project, have a look at the source and figure out what it is doing, but it simply isn't worth my time. My only concern would be whether the IP ban code is effective. That experiment has been run, and "DaveScot" has confirmed that the result is positive.
I'm puzzled, though, at why I would care what Dell does in their hiring. Last I heard, they didn't have dolphins or whales available for research. Those who are interested can have a look at The Journal of Experimental Biology 204, 3829-3841 (2001), for a report of a project that I contributed computer hardware and software support to.
Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on Jan. 24 2006,07:38
Dean Morrison
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Hang on if Dave Scot is banned here to the extent that the can't read this forum - how was he able to paste Wesley's explanation into his UP thread?
I love his Tagline - "Fair Warning - comments may be moderated" - I imagine him saying it in a 'Dalek' voice.
A fairer warning would be to list the topics and opinions that will get you 'moderated' - over and above the good manners etc rules that most boards have.
I suppose the list would be too long, and hard for DaveScot to maintain since it seems to be constantly growing.?
Is there a name for this particular pathology?
Dave plugs in his robotics modem to get a dynamic IP, so that he can read these posts.
I just got banned from UD too. Never try and point out that science is a method, they don't like it.
It's a pity I cannot comment there. This whole thing with Dave admitting to "COMMON DESCENT" could have been so interesting.
Sounds very simple, but by observation it doesn't work that way. ALL anti-evolution people, as far as I can tell, find the fact of evolution (as opposed to the proposed mechanisms by which it works) an intolerable affront to their pride. Kind of like overweight people rejecting gravity as a scientific fraud because the alternative is to admit what they really don't want to.
Among the fact-rejecting crowd, the associated motivations seem fairly spread around, not binomial as Zardoz argues. Some are trying to trick a pro-reality system into teaching superstition in science class because they Believe, and want everyone else to. Others consider this dishonest, and instead want to preach against reality on straight religious grounds. Some wish to attain political power sufficient to use civil authority to *coerce* behavior according to their faith. Others are convinced that simply abandoning rationality will be sufficient to guide behavior. Some seek to discover their god hiding somewhere in reality by searching for places where He screwed up and failed to cover His tracks. Others reject this in favor of seeing the Hand Of God guiding every...well, they all have different levels of granularity on this. A few even seem to believe that predictable, natural processes are themselves guided, while others recognize that if this is true, layering on some Guider is superfluous and clumsy.
Essentially, what Zardoz is preaching here is PURE blindness, and he's offended that people like DaveScot give the impression of peeking every now and then. Peeking is a giveaway of confusion. REAL Believers don't do it.
stevestory
Zardoz said:
But Zardoz, doesn't Dembski hisself say it's not necessarily god?:
Is the designer responsible for biological complexity God? Even as a very traditional Christian and an ardent proponent of ID, I would say NOT NECESSARILY. To ask who or what is the designer of a particular object is to ask for the immediate intelligent agent responsible for its design. The point is that God is able to work through derived or surrogate intelligences, which can be anything from angels to organizing principles embedded in nature.
For instance, just because I hold to both Christian theism and ID doesn�t mean that God directly designed and implemented the bacterial flagellum by specifically toggling its components. It could well have happened by a process of natural genetic engineering of the sort envisioned by James Shapiro.
A ...nice...analogy from DaveScot:
I read the Worldmag article you linked. It was kind of tedious and off topic until the end. Then there�s a really good point about scientists not being the ones to define what is and isn�t science. It should be philosophers of science doing the defining. That caught me off guard too. Dembski has a PhD in the philosophy of science, interestingly enough. So WTF are scientists doing telling him what is and isn�t science? That�s like foxes telling farmers how to build chicken coops, isn�t it?
Thanks for pointing that out to me.
Comment by DaveScot � January 24, 2006 @ 1:57 am
btw, i just went to Uncommon Pissant, and the top 5 posts have 0 comments each. I'm sure it's just because they're new, but for a second I thought, "Has he done it? Has he finally banned everyone?"
Why is DaveScot linking to this editorial from the Daily Herald? It's not helping his case.
In our view: Confusing religion with science
To listen to some senators in the Utah Legislature, schoolchildren are being indoctrinated in a strange religion. It is called science, and some senators believe they have the antidote.
Senate Bill 96, sponsored by Sen. D. Chris Buttars, passed on Monday and now moves to the House, where it is being sponsored by Rep. Jim Ferrin of Orem. The bill would require science teachers to tell students that there are several theories on the origin of life.
While the bill does not mention "intelligent design," "divine design" or any other euphemism for creationism by name, the implications are clear: A number of legislators want to push religion into the public schools by force of law. Among those voting for the bill were Parley Hellewell, Curtis Bramble, Mark Madsen and John Valentine.
The fig leaf that provides cover for a legislative enactment of religion in Utah is the notion that teachers impose speculative secular views on students and need to be ordered how by the legislature how to teach. Bramble even goes so far as to suggest that the body of scientific ideas concerning the origin of life and the nature of humanity represents a religion of its own, unsupported by fact, and so it's fair to enact law that forces faith-based views into the classroom. In weighing unprovable concepts, why should our children be fed only secular views that are no more valid than faith?
"Sen. Buttars's bill is only asking that teachers not impose their religious beliefs in this theory on him or upon others, especially upon those who rely on these same teachers to tell them the absolute truth," Sen. Allen M. Christensen, R-North Ogden, said during debate. He also dropped this revealing phrase: "It falls to us as legislators to ensure the truth is taught."
While we understand the lure of symbolic legislation in a state largely populated by religious conservatives, we had hoped our senators might have been a little more circumspect. S.B. 96 (see accompanying text), wants to control instruction concerning "origins of life." Oddly, it is laced with the word "theory." Some form of the "theory" appears in virtually every governing sentence of the bill, sometimes more than once.
The trouble is that there is no scientific theory on the origin of life. There is only speculation, which is something else altogether. A theory arises from a set of observable facts that support one another and suggest a possible cause. Speculation, on the other hand, is based on nothing. It is pure conjecture.
We could end the discussion right here and say that S.B. 96 may be nothing but unenforceable nonsense, since the public schools couldn't discuss an actual theory of the origins of life if they wanted to. None seem to exist. The chemical composition of living things is well established, but what makes them come to life remains a mystery.
And yet in S.B. 96 the Senate suggests that there are current scientific theories (note the plural noun) that deserve a full and fair vetting in the course of a science class. Bombarded by multiple theories about the origins of life, children might become confused about "absolute truth," to use Christensen's phrase. So S.B. 96 orders the public schools to "stress that not all scientists agree on which theory regarding the origins of life ... is correct."
Only Utah's Legislature could come up with such an Aristotelian conundrum. We therefore invite our senators to elaborate on any of the genuine "theories" to which this bill refers. The Herald will provide space on this page for the effort. Please list in detail the scientific observations and measurements that support any, or all, of the theories to which your bill makes reference. We're ready to be enlightened.
Without such guidance, we will continue to be disappointed that our senators passed a bill forcing teachers to combine faith and genuine scientific theory in the public school curriculum.
The dictionary reports that the word "religion" is associated with "belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe" or "a personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship." We think the government would be wise to stay out of this. Unfortunately, S.B. 96 nudges God into science class, using code words like "theory," as though one's belief in God were as externally valid as any scientific pursuit. But the proposition that God exists, that he created the universe and gave life to man is not a theory -- it is faith. It may be true, but it is not science. Misapplying scientific words to what amounts to a faith-based argument is ultimately not constructive. It is dishonest.
While many people believe they have empirical evidence for their faith, the standard of measurement is purely personal, not scientific. That is why there is so much disagreement in the world over religion. That is why James Madison argued so eloquently to keep religious doctrines out of secular laws. And that is why a new government in Iraq that is based on religion is likely to fail.
Other language in S.B. 96 is perhaps more troubling than the overt reference to theories about the origins of life. The bill ambiguously directs schools to present alternatives to what it calls "the origins or present state of the human race." Any attempt to find a concrete meaning in this semantic mush is difficult, but we can clearly see the intent -- and the danger. Buttars and his Senate colleagues want to push creationism into the public school curriculum. In truth, this is an attempt to insert a state-endorsed brand of religion into secular life.
Masquerading as a way to balance the curriculum (as though this were really needed in Utah), S.B. 96 enshrines psuedo-science in law. This is wrong. Decisions on curriculum should be left in the hands of professionals charged with oversight of the schools, not seized by a group of part-time politicians who attempt to think deep thoughts once a year.
Mostly, however, we believe all this is a colossal waste of time. Our legislators should spend their limited days on Capitol Hill doing something that will make a real difference to Utah.
Mr_Christopher
Zardoz, the good news is you can post here and although not many people here are sympathetic to your ideas and cause, there is no expectation of conformity on this site. Being socially appropriate is a good idea though.
For an example of what is not appropriate look for comments by a user named evopeach.
And I agree that the rampant dishonesty about who the deisigner/creator is that is within the ID crowd is most distateful. And I believe denying God is still a sin, no? If that is true you have a trainload of sinners out there promoting the notion that Klingons are responsible for life.
Uncommon Descent is a moral cesspool, a festering intellectual ghetto that intoxicates and degrades its inhabitants - Stephen Matheson
Looks like those who do not wish to join the ID cult of conformity are now posting in coded language to air their concerns.
I wish you could download a decoder ring. �Doing the old fashioned way is time consuming....
I wonder if some of them will ban together and start meeting in secret?
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Comment by Shane � January 23, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
Charliecrs
Keiths - wanted to ask ya question b4 you were booted from "UC" what is the main reason (if not more) [evidence / fact / logic ] , that has convinced you beyond a reasonable doubt that Evolution is a fact ?. Perhaps is the reason pending ?.
Given [fine print] : Evolutions is a well documented and established fact.
The majority of scientist world wide accept evolution as is, unquestioned solid as rock fact.
Real scientists do not question Darwin.
Is it because you belive or accept / know the following ?
- the overwhelming evidence of the fossil record ?
overwhelming evidence period - no questions asked ?
- came to realize that the world is round, instead of being flat like to so called uneducated bible believers thought it was ?
- because the earth / universe is millions / billions of years old ?
therefor we weren't made in 6 so adios los bible believers ?
- because we have *evolved* from the great ape *ape like* creature ?
and have the well documented, "homo every-things" as proofs ?
- was visited by the ghost of Caption Piccard and Eugenie scott, instead of the traditional ghost of Christmas past ?.
Perhaps you accept Darwin for all of the above statements with a couple exceptions. I for one cant understand it.
"You're welcome to discuss things here. Panda's Thumb, and After the Bar Closes, are run by scientists who believe in open discussion"
Huh - a crackpot calling someone else a crackpot. Funny am i missing the irony ?.
I'm not so sure about the "denying God" accusation. The official ID line, insofar as there is one, is that we can use science to distinguish between something designed and something not designed, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can pinpoint the designer. I don't think the argument holds up very well under scrutiny, but it's not completely untenable on its face, and a lot of folks who favor the argument are not motivated to scrutinize it very deeply.
It's important to a lot of Believers that science at least not rule out their concept of God, if not necessarily prove it. And let's face it: the generally scientifically accepted version of evolution does, in fact, rule out certain concepts of God. A subpopulation of ID advocates would be happy enough with a version of science that requires some conscious intelligence without specifying it.
Based on my experience at the local level, most "ID" advocates are really old-fashioned creationists who occupy a spectrum ranging from those who actually want the biblical scenario in the curriculum to those who merely want it not ruled out.
Must... not... scratch... mosquito bite.
Charlie, I've seen a lot of creationists with bad grammar and punctuation and spelling, but I've never seen anyone who put periods after question marks. What's up with that?
Arden Chatfield
Quote (stevestory @ Jan. 24 2006,09:53)
Then there�s a really good point about scientists not being the ones to define what is and isn�t science. It should be philosophers of science doing the defining.
It doesn't get better than that line.
Maybe someone should go onto UD and ask how these 'philosophers'' decisions would be enforced? Jail time for scientists who persisted in practicing science without a license?
Amusing how it now seems to be a fad for the Fundies to rebrand themselves as 'philosphers'. Everyone likes philosophers, right?
"Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus
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Am I wrong or does a totally anonymous proxy enable someone to bypass an ip ban?
As far as Dave espousing common descent; that has been his view ever since I first came in contact with his views some time ago, it's no secret at UD. In fact he likes to compare his views with those of Michael Behe who has also said something or another in favor of common descent.
"Fair Warning: Comments Commenters may be moderated obliterated."
By the way, to all the exiles from Uncommon Descent: welcome!
Quote (Ved @ Jan. 24 2006,12:04)
I think the appropriate term is 'refugee'.
Lol Steve - but im not a creationist so what more can i say there. I do however like ID- so i thought i could have some fun here. Now please do start giving me the 411 about what i belive in, what color my hair is or what i eat 4 breakfast.
Russel - I can easily argue that Evolution is a seat warmer for uneducated atheist /secularists who think they are some dignified smart people because they can be intelligent while rejecting the notion of a "G-d"... You know the type who argues that 'separation of church & state' is in the constitution. While @ the same-time have a lifetime membership to American united for sep. & church [curiously enough]. Uneducated because if they actually read the constitution they would of withdraw their membership a longtime ago.
Quote (Flint @ Jan. 24 2006,09:35)
I don't know what you mean by "affront to pride". For myself and my friends who hold the same views as me on evolution we simply find evolutionary theory too implausible, nothing emotional about it.
All of those reasons fall under what I wrote i.e political/personal, it was meant to include any type of religious or social or political motivation.
RE: "open discussion"
Huh - a crackpot calling someone else a crackpot.
Hey, look! That's just what you've done! And no one erased you! Funny how that works...
Arden: 'refugee', check!
Just joined to ask Kethis a question that i didnt get to ask b4 he got axed. So will the *real* Kethis please stand up ?
"Hey, look! That's just what you've done! And no one erased you! Funny how that works... "
- wonder how long thats going to last though, cux i do have the habbit of mouthing while trying to do it politely lol
Charlie.
FishyFred
Joined: Sep. 2005
One of the latest posts: http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/701
This must be a joke. IIRC, Jack asked Dembski if he wanted to allow another viewpoint to be presented. Dembski said no thanks. Now DaveScot has the gall to pull this out.
Quote (Mr_Christopher @ Jan. 24 2006,11<!--emo& )
Zardoz, the good news is you can post here and although not many people here are sympathetic to your ideas and cause, there is no expectation of conformity on this site. �Being socially appropriate is a good idea though.
And I agree that the rampant dishonesty about who the deisigner/creator is that is within the ID crowd is most distateful. �And I believe denying God is still a sin, no? �If that is true you have a trainload of sinners out there promoting the notion that Klingons are responsible for life.
This will be an answer to you and stevestory. It's not that they believe that romulans or klingons are responsible, what they are trying to do is alter evolutionists perception of themselves as basing their theories on religious beliefs. In effect what they are trying to do is say " It doesn't matter what the designer is we have proof that there must be some type of designer". I think that is a purely tactical rhetorical method used when evolutionists or fence straddlers ask them to describe the designer. Plus they don't really know much or really anything about the designer in the sense of knowing what or how the universe is controlled by the designer.
In my view "god" is a type of alien. Here is my view of the designer which I have learned from my study of vedanta, physics, and personal experience.
A common belief among physcists is a thing called the Higgs Field. Whether it exists or not no one knows, but it is a popular theory. The Higgs field is supposed to pervade the entire universe. It is supposed to be the cause of giving mass to matter along with the hypothesized Higgs Boson particle. Then there is the Quantum Potential and Bells' Theorem. These three theories are postulating an interconnectedness, a unified reality in our universe.
From my way of looking at things I see the "Designer" as being something similar to Bohm's implicate order. The universe (infinite universe:see plasma cosmology, eric lerner et al) which we can perceive is only showing us what is visible to our eyes and to our technological instruments. But there is more then meets the eye and our instruments. It wasn't long ago that the quantum world was unknown to us as well as other things revealed by modern technology, like cosmic microwaves, space plasma, infrared light etc. As our technology has advanced more things pop into our field of view. They were always there but we didn't know it.
To me the designer is something we exist as a part of. 3 dimensional matter/energy and our consciousness/mind are parts of the explicate order, the designer is the implicate order. The world of matter is the quantum expression from a sub quantum substratum of the material universe. The complete holisitic universe is a unified field of an unknown energy comprising many dimensions of which we are usually (most people) only able to perceive the 3 dimensions of matter, plus mind and consciousness.
That unified field is the designer. Mind and consciousness are part of the unified field. Our mind and consciousness exist as parts of the unified field, the unified field as a whole is a single mind and consciousness. A single universal entity. Essentially, reality as we know it, is a living being. We and everything else in our space time exists within and as a part of a conscious intelligent entity, that entity exists in many more dimensions then the ones we can perceive.
As to where it came from? It is part of the natural development of the infinite space time continuum. At some point in time long long ago the original substance of the space time continuum somehow changed from an inert state into an active state. Consciousness and mind was one of the results of that change. We cannot really understand fully what happened because there are many dimensions at play in what happened (is happening) and we can only relate to a few of them. But to give an idea of what happened try to imagine an infinite ocean of ice. In all directions there was ice on into infinity. Then for some unknown reason there was a chemical reaction which created heat in the ice, the ice started to melt and eventually started to boil and kept on boiling from now until forever.
In a similar way the original state of the infinite space time continuum was an inert potential of some type. Some kind of massive change occured to that inert potential and it morphed into a different state. It developed consciousness/mind and gradually developed it's mind and intellect. After a long time it developed it's intellect to the point of being able to build the 3 dimensional world we see around us. It didn't build it like we build something. We build things that are different from ourselves. It builds things out of itself. Matter and the laws of nature exist because they are part of a conscious intelligent being.
Imagine how a virtual reality works. The programmer and computer build a digital world. Everything in the virtual world can seem like it is real, the chair can seem like a chair, the apple can seem like an apple, but in fact all that we experience in a virtual reality is a combination of pixels designed to look like those things. The virtual apple is really a part of the computer which has been designed to appear like an apple.
Quantum particles, neutrons, protons, electrons, atoms, these are like computer pixels to the designer, the designer is like a programmer and a computer in one. We live in a cosmic living computer. Everything exists as part of a cosmic virtual reality.
Quoting Russell..
I'm not so sure about the "denying God" accusation. The official ID line, insofar as there is one, is that we can use science to distinguish between something designed and something not designed, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can pinpoint the designer.
My point is/was that they are fooling no one with their "it could be space aliens or time travelers" theory. They keep trying to fool the public so that they can teach their nutty notions in public science class, but no one is buying their Klingons might have dunnit nonsense.
Zardoz wrote:
As far as Dave espousing common descent; that has been his view ever since I first came in contact with his views some time ago, it's no secret at UD.
A month ago DaveScot was still claiming to be agnostic on the issue:
I�m agnostic regarding common descent vs. common design. How can one distinguish between the two?
http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/606
Of course, you can distinguish the two (unless the Designer is perverse and "plants" the evidence to make common descent appear to be true).
And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G
Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF
Interesting. Although the DI gets all indignant when you say they promote the inclusion of ID in school curricula...
When asked about how biology teachers should teach intelligent design theory, Dembski said teachers should �go as far as you can.�
(from FishyFred's link)
Zardoz, what you are describing are personal beliefs. But there is a difference in personal beliefs and what constitutes science. The issue is the scientific community does not want personal theistsic beliefs being promoted as science.
In over 10 years the intelligent design folks have yet to provide a shred of testable theory or anything scientific.
And to say "hey look at this evidence of design" is not science. Besides, the so called evidence they provide is simply wrong.
Furthermore, saying it could be a space alien or time traveler is not scientific either. It's voodoo. We have no evidence of a space alien or time travelers, so to suggest these imaginary constructs are responsible for shiny objects we see in biology is nonsense.
And until they can produce a space alien or time traveler (or God) and demonstrate how they go about creating, their ID theory will remain unscientific. They might as well say "shiny objects in biology are the reult of wiggly-pigglys" since there is as much evidence for wiggly-pigglyes as there is for Klingons, time travelers and space aliens.
Now there is nothing wrong with theorizing Klingons dunnit, but to suggest that theory is scientific and should be taught in science class is quackery.
And I am sympathetic to the crowd that wants to find God in a petri dish, but if that discovery is ever made it will not likely come from the ID crowd. So far all the ID "scientists" are either bad philosophers, lawyers, or blind quacks like M Behe.
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BOOM IS BACK ON GEORGETOWN'S HISTORIC RAIL LINE
I think Jimmy knew by the end of our ride on Georgetown’s Historic Loop Railroad he’d finally redeemed himself. He certainly pulled out all the stops when it came to the accommodations.
Colorado's historic rails goes to great heights to please their customers.
Jimmy purchased tickets for the First Class Parlor Car. We never travel First Class. Lunch was included. I was shocked! I also knew what he was up to.
This is Jimmy high on trains. He's pretty proud of himself for snagging these seats.
Ever since the debacle surrounding our trip to Illinois’ Railroad Museum this past summer, Jimmy knew he was riding the caboose when it came to my enthusiasm for his favorite mode of transportation, trains. Suffice it to say the heat and humidity that summer day was off the charts. Jimmy was off his rocker suggesting any sort of outdoor activity. He knew it after the fact. I knew it when he railroaded me into an outdoor activity despite my reservations. The
'I-told-you-so’ has been hovering between us ever since.
Jimmy wisely avoided the open coach section of Georgetown’s Loop Railroad.
Jimmy made a very wise choice not purchasing the open coach seating.
Colorado’s summer temperatures can soar but the low humidity usually keeps outdoor activity manageable. The First Class Parlor Car, the Silver Queen, covered all the bases for Jimmy's home run.
I was Queen for the Day on Georgetown's Loop Railroad.
Silver was the driving force behind this particular portion of railroad track the second half of the 19th century. History makes it one of the most significant designs of its time.
The gold mines that had originally drawn prospectors west had been tapped. Many boom towns, including Georgetown, Colorado went bust. When word spread of massive silver discoveries in Leadville, 45 miles southwest of Georgetown, the race was on to breathe life into this once thriving community via rail transportation.
I looked for Miss Kitty and Doc Holiday, but somebody told me they were long gone.
The Union Pacific Railroad had their work cut out for them. Just outside Georgetown, the Clear Creek Valley in the Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains rises almost 640 feet in under two miles suggesting a grade of 6 percent, too much for locomotives. Determined to find a way through Devil’s Gate, the narrowest portion of the pass leading out of Clear Creek Valley, Union Pacific railroad engineer Jacob Blickensderfer devised a simple yet stunning plan to reduce the grade.
Two hairpin turns looping dramatically over itself above Clear Creek reduced the grade to 3 ½
Jimmy, don't even think about throwing mama from the train.
percent. With the construction of the high bridge above Clear Creek three years later, the first train chugged along the circuitous route in March, 1884.
Really, I did not use the miniature train set in our basement to capture this image.
It crossed the creek two more times and climbed through a 30 degree horseshoe curve called the Big Fill before continuing on to Leadville via Silver Plume.
We stepped right back into the 19th century when we stopped at Silver Plume station.
Our 60 minute ride along these historic tracks took us as far as Silver Plume and back. And while lunch was essentially a packaged deal,
Not exactly the lunch Jimmy expected in First Class, I guess.
I appreciated the effort (and extra change) my guy had put into making this particular train experience something to write home/blog about.
I think it’s safe to say, should we decide on a trip on the Orient Express, murder will no longer be the first thing on my mind.
Jimmy seems quite proud of himself. I knew he had it in him!
The Bottom Line on the Georgetown Loop Railroad:
Verdict: Kids, train enthusiasts and supportive spouses will truly love riding the rails into the past on this historic railroad. All the engines (steam and diesel) as well as the passenger cars are authentic pieces donated from railroads across the country.
How to Get There: From Denver take Interstate 70 west to exit 228. Follow signs to Historic District.
Ideal for: The entire family. Kids especially love the popular holiday trains that run from Halloween through Christmas. The Beer and Brats as well as the Wine and Hors d'oeuvres runs are great dates for the over 21 crowd.
Insider Tips: Check times and purchase tickets online if possible via their website. Jimmy
waited 15 minutes in a long line to purchase tickets while I wandered off to take pictures. I thought we might have to wait an hour for the next train. I'd like to believe that Jimmy purchased our First Class Coach tickets as a special treat, but they may have been the only seats left. I didn't ask. He didn't tell. If you’re truly the enthusiast, plan on at least two hours at this federally designated Nationally Historic Railroad Park, three if you’re interested in touring the abandoned silver mine on site.
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SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TYNE-WEAR DERBY
March 4th, 2012 PMcGeary Football, Sport 0 comments 2003
By Paul McGeary
The region will be divided this weekend when the small matter of the Tyne-Wear derby takes over the day – and ensuing weeks – for tens of thousands of Magpies and Mackems alike.
For 90 minutes, friendships will disappear out of the window, while the wake of the game will provide one set with the bragging rights over the other when their differences are patched up come 2pm on Sunday.
Aycliffe Today collected a group of supporters, from both fraternities, and asked them to regale their Derby Day experiences, and put them on the spot as we probed them for a prediction of how this weekend’s big clash will pan out.
• Paul O’Connor is Sunderland born-and-bred, but since the age of 11 has resided in nearby Ferryhill. A season ticket holder at Sunderland since the Roker Park days, he shares with us his memories…
Earliest Derby Day Memory…
’96 at Roker Park. Away fans were banned but there were definitely some strays ‘cos we heard them celebrating when they scored…twice! I think we scored a penalty, but the Mags won.
Derby you’ll never forget…
The ‘one in the rain.’ Super Kev scored that goal. A poor touch took him wide (the Mags gave him pelters, which made it sweeter) but he looped it into the top corner over Tommy Wright. The same game saw Bally [Kevin Ball] hit our own crossbar with a slide tackle, right at the death! I watched it at the Stadium of Light on a large screen beamback. We won 2-1.
Derby you’d love to forget…
Last season, at their place. We just didn’t turn up. Enough said on that. I’ve forgotten about it!
How will Sunday go…
It should be tight. The Mags have had a great season to be fair to them but (barring last week) we’re in great form. I’m biased, but I think we’ll edge this one, 2-1!
• Lee Ramage is 23 and knows nothing other than Sunderland AFC. And I mean nothing! On Monday morning Lee will return to work at the Aycliffe factory Husqvarna, hoping that he can keep his head held high. Here’s his thoughts.
Probably the 2-1 in the rain, can’t remember too much about it though to be honest, where or if I even watched it.
The 2-1 at home, or the 1-1 at home, the quarter past 5 kick off, that was unreal that game, everyone was leathered!
Forgotten it already!!
3-1 Newcastle
• Bryan Levey is black and white, though just black in his opinions of Sunday. Here’s what he has to say…
Fresh from moving to Newcastle from Dunfermline as a six-year-old, I don’t think I had quite grasped the enormity of the first Derby I can remember. Although I wasn’t there, I can remember the radio coverage and subsequent reports of the Mackems winning the 2nd leg of the 1990 playoff semi final at St. James’… not the best first taste of Derby action!
Never forget the 1-0 home win against Sunderland in the 1992-93 promotion season. Monsoon conditions, people sweeping water off the pitch before kick-off, Sellars’ free kick and celebrations that followed – all caught live on Tyne Tees! Magic!
1-2 defeat at home 1999-00; Gullit, Shearer, Ferguson, Robinson – what a mess!
2-1 if Sessegnon plays, 2-0 if he doesn’t!
• Dave O’Hara won’t mind me saying he’s more of a veteran of the Derbies than the rest of this cluster, meaning he has much, much more to share with us. As Sunderland fan Dave prepares to return to work at Ineos on the town on Monday, he had this to share with us…
Numbers one to three are history!
2-2!
• Aycliffe resident Jonathan Clarke has been a season ticket holder at Newcastle for the past few years, watching them in the Premier League to the Championship and back again. What does he have to say, read on…
I can just about remember the 1-2 at St. James’ with Gullit in charge, although the main thing I can recall is the fallout rather than the match. Gullit putting Shearer on the bench, Brucey would be proud of that one! Was a defeat but the catalyst for our revival over the next five years.
Easiest question ever, 5-1. Absolutely tortured them that day.
2-1 defeat at their place in the relegation year. Our team was a pathetic ensemble of over the hill (Butt), overweight (Viduka) and overpaid (all of them but mainly Owen) and the inevitability of the defeat was the worst thing to contend with. Was the only period since I’ve been watching where they were categorically the better of the two sides. Bearing in mind they had El Hadji Diouf and Pascal Chimbonda in the side that shows how bad we were that year.
If you’d asked me two months ago I’d have said 5-0, if you’d asked me two weeks ago I’d have said 0-2. So I’ll sit firmly on the fence in the middle and go 1-1. Both sides are Jekyll and Hyde so it’s a hard one to call.
• Jeremy Forster is another who watches football through his black and white tinted spectacles, but we thought we’d give him a few paragraphs to try to convince us. Here’s what he said…
Earliest derby remember properly is 1996-97. I remember Sellars scoring the winner when we got promoted but probably more from seeing it years later than at the time. I was 12 then so can’t say I recall everything about it. First Premier League Derby was obviously when away fans were banned so atmosphere was strange and it wasn’t a great game, silence when Mackems scored was eerie. Judging by some of Sunderland’s recent crowds I imagine it’s similar there now!
Best derby I’ve been was the 1-4 at their place. Hilarious for various reasons. We were awful first half and Sunderland should have been further ahead, weren’t much better early in the second half but a goal from nothing, quickly followed by two more saw an incredible turnaround. You’d think Luque scoring, running from near enough the halfway line without ever having the ball under control, and Shearer scoring in his last appearance would be the highlight but the real moment of the game came well after the final whistle. A Mackem groundsman took umbrage to the taunts of the away fans, threw all the corner flags onto the floor and having to be restrained by another groundsman. With the whole away end now wetting themselves he took off his jacket, threw it to the floor and stormed off like a three-year-old. One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, until Paul McShane’s performance at St. James’ a few seasons later.
Least favourite for me has to be 1-1 at home the season we went down. I remember after the game saying there’s no way this side will stay up. They were poor and we were even worse, they should have beat us and it was a terrible Newcastle team. The two home losses (in the rain and year after when Shearer missed the penalty) were bad but you knew this was worse.
I’d be lying if I said I was confident about Sunday. We haven’t played well for a while now, few results have papered over some cracks, but equally I don’t think Sunderland are as good as their recent form suggests. If they play one up front, which they would have cried about had Bruce done it, the first goal will be all important. If they score it, they’re quite negative and we might struggle to break them down but if we scored I’d say we’d go on and win handily. I’m hoping they go two up top which would play into our hands, we’ve got much more quality in middle of midfield and I don’t think their back four is great if you can get at them. 3-1, I can see them getting a goal which might mean they don’t go home at half time again.
• Finally, Newtonian Richard Ingman turned his back on the Premier League and Sunderland a few seasons back and instead favours to watch the Northern League these days, but he can’t help get bitten by Derby fever when this fixture comes around. Still a staunch Mackem, here’s his memories…
1979, Gary Rowell hat-trick at St. James’ when we beat them 1-4. I was only 10 at the time, but remember watching it on Shoot!
August ‘99 when we beat them 1-2 at St. James’, Shearer on the bench, Quinn and Phillips in full effect! I was on holiday in Aiya Napa Cyprus at the time, and couldn’t find out the result. Early the next morning I saw a lad in a Sunderland top like mine and he just shouted “Get in there” with a big grin. I still didn’t know the score, but it was enough to know we had beaten them.
The 5-1 last season. It’s one thing getting beaten, but that was a very poor performance. Agent Bruce was given the freedom of Newcastle for his undercover sabotage that day. From that day forward NUFC forums are full of the word “5under1and!”
First goal vital as ever. If Sunderland can get it we may be able to snuff them out and make it over the line for a 1-0 win. If they get one, they might end up getting a few. Head says 3-1 heart says 0-1.
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Meet the Banana Kickers
Agnieszka Pasynczuk
Artworker
Having undertaken a Contemporary Graphic Arts and Design course at Leeds Met University, Aga jumped straight into the graphic design industry creating artwork for international freight transport. She then moved to a new role as a Creative Artworker, specialising in preparing corporate identity documents across a variety of digital and print formats for Lloyds Banking Group. Having recently joined our creative studio, Aga is now enjoying working alongside and learning from our other impressively accomplished Creative Artworkers, and experiencing working in our dynamic and vibrant agency environment.
Most memorable brand experience
For me it’s got to be the Coca-Cola 90s Christmas commercials. From the classic Coca-Cola truck trimmed with festive lights to the cute playful polar bears, watching them as a kid I was always amazed. To this day their Christmas commercials bring back nice childhood memories.
Alfie Johnston
Alfie joins us after a year away travelling the world and having visited 22 countries so far, certainly is a keen traveller. Starting as an Account Executive at Banana Kick in February, Alfie was quick to move over to the design team to pursue what he really loved and develop his creative skills. With a background in Interior Design & Branding, he’s excited to get hands on and immerse himself in studio. Outside of work, Alfie enjoys going to live music gigs and watching sport.
My memorable brand experience would have to be the Guinness Experience in Dublin. From start to finish it really immersed me in their brand, the interior design, branding style and guided tour all married perfectly to provide a great brand experience. As you enter the building, spiralling upwards through the pint glass shaped building, you learn about the company history and famous advertising campaigns before moving up to be educated about the flavour combinations and manufacturing before having the chance to pull your own perfect pint of Guinness in the rooftop bar with 360 views of Dublin. A great multi-sensory experience I won’t forget!
April Fowden
April has built her career working on fast moving retail accounts but is just as comfortable turning her hand to brand experience and brand development projects. Her dedication and commitment to her work is shown through the fantastic client relationships she has built and the memorable campaigns she consistently delivers for clients as diverse as Nisa and Every Can Counts.
“The famous Cadbury ‘Gorilla’ ad was a game changer – it really broke the mould. Taking a traditional and conservative brand and giving it a contemporary twist that everyone was talking about overnight. That’s when I decided I wanted to work in marketing”
Beth Westwood
Senior Social Media Executive
Beth graduated with a degree in Events Management, however, focused her dissertation on social media marketing. After living the high life as a Wedding Assistant in New York, kicking it down under in Sydney and becoming quite the gin connoisseur travelling the UK with The Gin Festival, Beth decided it was time to follow her interest in the world of social media and so began her agency career.
Now with nearly 2 years social media experience from events to retail clients, Beth is excited to expand her knowledge and become a fully rounded digital expert.
My favourite brand experience has to be the moment I followed Innocent smoothies on Twitter. They have truly nailed how to run social media on a relatable and shareable level, constantly posting witty, reactive and hilarious content whilst engaging with their audience in an authentic way. They’re not about pushing their smoothies, they’re about humanising their brand which I think is extremely important in todays social media landscape.
Bradley Freeman
Senior Creative Services Executive
Brad works in our finance team dispatching advice and guidance to our team on all things financial. When he’s not crunching numbers, you might spot Brad helping out at one of our many experiential events, playing rugby for Morley or, more recently, sourcing, counting and stocktaking vast amounts of dinosaur merchandise for Jurassic Kingdom.
“Aldi’s tongue-in-cheek price comparison adverts stand out for me. They really cleverly demonstrated that Aldi stock brands and own label alternatives – both for less. I especially liked the one with gran advertising gin!”
Chris Battery
Over the past 6 years, Chris has worked for a wide variety of retailer and branded clients including Asda, Dixon’s Retail Group, Lidl and Kingfisher. He joins us after living in Glasgow for 2 months while working with Bacardi, and over in America for Walmart for 9 months. Chris’ experience lies in understanding the client, their needs, wants and must haves and he does this expertly for our clients here at BK.
For me, Red Bull is the real stand out performer when it comes to an overall brand package. They have been able to migrate from an energy drinks brand with a so-so advert campaign, to one of the worlds largest and most innovative sporting/extreme adventure brands in the space of 10-20 years. For example, the Felix Baumgartner space jump World Record in 2012 captivated the world at the time – and all under the flag of the brand.
Claire Greenall
With over 20 years experience in the bag, Claire prides herself on building strong client relationships and delivering impactful promotional and shopper marketing campaigns for her clients. Whether you spot her at a Tough Mudder finish line handing out cold bottles of Kingstone Press or engaging with fans at a rugby event, Claire will always be at the forefront of the action!
“I was part of a prize-winning weekend hosted by Coca Cola, that took a group of winners to the Euros 2012 in Ukraine. It was an amazing trip, with excellent brand engagement, including a chartered flight and VIP seats to watch England (lose, unfortunately!).”
Claire Hamnett
Claire is committed to delivering memorable experiential campaigns for all our clients, whether it’s a local store opening for Asda, or showstopping Red Rum activity at the Grand National. When Claire isn’t working at one of our activations or planning future ones, she’s just as passionate about playing netball and watching rugby. So she fits in well at Banana Kick.
“I was lucky enough to have witnessed a round of the Red Bull cliff diving world series in 2013 where people dived 90 feet into the sea from the ICA building in Boston. Could there be a more dramatic way of demonstrating Red Bull’s brand values and personality?”
With more than 20 years’ experience working for communications agencies in London, Leeds, and Manchester, as a Creative Director, Dave prides himself on work that makes an impact, connects with consumers and drives change. Banana Kick has carved out a real niche creating innovative events, campaigns and experiences that allow him to really hit home with sports, leisure and retail clients.
“As a young 21 year old, I was lucky enough to be working in the office next to John Webster, once described as “the best TV commercials creator in Britain, when Britain was the best in the world”. John was famous for the ‘Cadbury’s Smash, The Martians’, TV commercial and many more classics too. Now that experience was unforgettable.
Duncan Liddle
The piece of brand comms that has always resonated most with me is the Reebok “Belly’s gonna get ya’ campaign from the early 00s. I always like an underdog and this struck a chord with me – it got right to the heart of the issue and showed a completely different personality to the slick Nike and Adidas brands.
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Ella Camponi
We know first impressions count which is why Ella is the first person you’ll meet when you visit Banana Kick. Ella joined us after a successful career as a professional dancer, treading the boards of the West End in the hit musical Wicked no less! Ella is there to make your first Banana Kick experience an unforgettable one, with a smile, a coffee and a plentiful supply of biscuits!
“One advert that has always stuck in my mind is the Nike advert with the dancer, Sofia Boutella. Maybe because it is dance-related, but I remember it stopping me in my tracks. And needless to say, I asked for those trainers for my birthday! Brand job done.”
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Ella Husted
Ella, a keen boxer, has joined us as an Account Executive after graduating with an Events Management degree from Leeds Beckett University. Experienced in handling large-scale events for high profile clients such as LadBible and Xercise4Less, Ella is keen to expand her events expertise into the marketing and advertising sector.
My most memorable brand experience is Xbox’s Survival Billboard, promoting the release of their new Tomb Raider game. The concept saw members of the public try to withstand some of the world’s most extreme weather conditions for 24 hours. This campaign stood out to me as it took big steps bridging the gap between virtual and reality, as well as being a great example of experiential marketing.
Eva Pearson
Eva has joined us on her placement year whilst studying Marketing Management at Northumbria University. She has recently returned from a semester in Madrid where she began to develop digital learning and is excited to put her knowledge into practice and learn all things digital, as well as gaining a deeper understanding of a marketing agency.
I will always remember the BarclayCard waterslide ad. It was such a creative and fun way to introduce their new contactless card. I was only a child when it came out but no matter what age, who wouldn’t want to commute to work on a waterslide?
Felicity Clark
Senior Creative Artworker
Felicity has been part of the Banana Kick team for a while, but as a freelancer. She has over 7 years experience, ranging from print design, packaging, retouching, POS and more and after winning BK Freelancer of the Year in 2018 we asked to become a permanent part of the team. We’re happy to say she accepted!
Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ advert campaign. They made Mac’s look like the cutting edge new product with fun additional features that everyone had to have and made PCs look like an outdated, boring product.
Gary Coupland
Head of Studio
With 12 years national and international agency experience behind him, you could say that Gary knows a thing or two about creative artwork. As our Artwork Manager, “Coups” is responsible for the day-to-day production and management of creative artwork for both print and digital projects across all of our clients.
“Being a huge fan of Adidas and of their famous blue trainer box, my most memorable brand experience was seeing an oversized Adidas Originals shoebox designed as a set of bespoke table and chairs, featuring a standout display and ‘try-on area’ where you could sit down and try on a pair of Gazelle trainers. Obviously I bought (another) pair.”
Gary McCall
After a successful client side and agency career, Gary founded Banana Kick with Nick and Rich in 2008. With a passion for delivering memorable customer experiences, Gary is committed to producing truly unforgettable campaigns for our clients.
“During the Gulf War, people stopped flying out of fear of terrorism. British Airways needed to do something to get people in the air again. Their answer – ‘The World’s Biggest Offer’, where all seats on the 23rd April, 1991 were free. 500m people read about the campaign, 200m saw it on TV and 5.7m entered. Within 120 days BA flights were back to pre-war levels – brave, ambitious and successful. A truly memorable brand experience.”
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Hanna Kelly
Hanna graduated from Northumbria University with a Criminology Degree before discovering a passion for marketing. She has since completed a Masters Degree in Advertising and Marketing here in Leeds. Outside of the office, Hanna loves to bake, experimenting with recipes to create the perfect gluten free sponge.
Favourite brand experience:
For me, the CoppaFeel! charity brand experience stands out, from their ‘Trust Your Touch’ campaign to their social media channels. Coppafeel! achieve cut through messages as they are able to create awareness through the use of humour to encourage engagement in a way that does not alienate their audience or downplay the severity of their message.
India McCall
India has recently joined us on a year placement after two years studying Events Management at LBU. She is no stranger to Banana Kick having previously worked as an activator at events such as Jurassic Kingdom and the Leeds sports awards and is now very keen to get involved with the behind the scenes of events, from the concept & planning stage right through to implementation.
This was easy for me. It simply is not Christmas until I have seen the John Lewis Advert. Each year they manage to get more creative and capture more hearts all over the country. I know they’ve done their job when I find myself clicking straight on to Youtube to re watch 30 times over. Just me?
Jamie Ferguson
Jamie has spent his 22 year career delivering high quality and effective marketing solutions to clients as varied as Nisa, Shell, Morrisons, the NHS, Sky Bet, The Car People and Alliance & Leicester. At Banana Kick he is dedicated to ensuring all our clients receive the highest levels of service and quality every single day.
“A brand needs to deliver on its promises but so few actually do. So when I first visited The Corner Café in Leeds and they delivered everything they promised and have consistently done so for the 10 years since, you have to be impressed. That’s why this place is an icon in Leeds and one of the most enduring small brands in the city.”
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Janice Lewis
Creative Artworker
After building up an impressive range of experience in her native South Africa, Janice joined us in our creative studio, where she has been a key member of our team delivering accurate, impactful and creative artwork for all our clients. She has an unmatched eye for detail and a real creative sensibility, so when you put a piece of artwork into Janice you know it will come out bulletproof.
“Toyota South Africa’s ‘Buddy’ campaign is my all time favourite brand campaign. Their range of adverts that featured a wise-cracking, smart-talking dog with attitude was not to be forgotten!”
Jess Robinson
Jess started her career in a leading Hull agency after graduating from Sheffield Hallam Uni with a 2:1 in Retail Marketing. After a successful stint there she joined Hugh Rice Jewellers organising unforgettable events supporting prestigious brands including Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer and Tudor. Now she does the same for our clients.
I loved the “Share a coke” campaign – an amazing campaign to organically share the brand. I know it got me searching for my friends and families names whenever I was in a shop, even if it was just to get a picture to share with them.
Kate Boddy
Kate has joined us on her placement year whilst she completes her International Events Management degree at Sheffield Hallam University. She is excited to further develop her skills and knowledge in both the marketing and events sector and to experience true agency life.
For me, the ‘This Girl Can’ campaign was a game changer for women in sport. Everything about the campaign was captivating and it inspired so many girls to get involved in sport, as well as motivating girls in sport to achieve their goals. My university thought it was so great they started their very own ‘This Hallam Girl Can’ campaign!
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Laura Alderson
Head of Digital and Planning
Working both clientside and agency, Laura has experience working with a multitude of brands from FMCG and retail sectors to financial services. With a focus on all things digital and tech, Laura’s main goal is to optimise and integrate digital channels to create the ultimate brand experience for customers.
“Burberry has always been the brand that inspires me the most. They use the most innovative creative ideas and technology to create a memorable and exciting customer experience. I always refer to The Art of the Trench user generated content campaign as one of the best examples of a highly successful content-first campaign.”
Laura moved north from Cambridge and found a home here at Banana Kick. She is now getting back to her roots and using learnings and skills developed through her maths degree as part of our finance team. She’s also partial to a bit of crochet.
Most memorable brand experience:
“The Always #LikeAGirl Campaign really stands out for me. I liked how it broke through the gender stereotypes to take back the phrase that is often used as an insult – trying to tell us girls are less than.”
Lotte Gibson
Lotte is an Events and Production Management graduate who, before joining Banana Kick, worked closely with a company of artists, sculptors and designers who produce sculpture animated by fire, light and pyrotechnics. She now produces explosive brand experiences for us.
“It has to be the teeny little animals appearing from McVitie’s biscuit packets. As an avid animal lover, this one did it for me.”
Mia Byatt
Mia achieved a marketing degree with first class honours and since then has been working as a fundraising and marketing assistant in a local Yorkshire charity. But she couldn’t resist the pull of a fast paced agency environment so is now a key part of the Banana Kick team.
I know it’s cliché but the most memorable brand experience for me has got to be ‘Share a Coke’ by CocaCola, it was so simple but incredibly effective and engaging!
From the Grand National Festival to the Tour de Yorkshire, Oli has been involved in delivering some of our biggest experiential projects to date. He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and get stuck in. A real team player on and off the rugby field, nothing is too much trouble and he always gets the job done – on time, on budget and to a high standard.
“A standout brand moment for me was seeing the Adidas ‘There will be haters’ advert, as I felt it was something out of the ordinary compared to traditional sportswear advertising. It was edgy, took risks and used something controversial to Adidas’ advantage. Needless to say my current rugby boots are from the brand.”
Pete Chandler
Pete completed a degree in Sports Marketing & PR, followed by a brief but hugely enjoyable stint as a volunteer at the 2012 Olympics. He’s spent the last 5 years concentrating on CRM and data and brings those skills to his role at Banana Kick.
Most memorable brand moment
“Growing up watching my favourite players take to the field in the latest boots and starring in TV ads wearing them fostered the genuine belief that a pair would instantly make me a better player. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case! The constantly changing designs (including the current fluro trend) certainly helps brands attract the attention of budding Cristiano Ronaldos!”
Phil Curry
Head of Creative Services
Phil has over a decade of experience in creative services, having worked at a number of leading agencies in the north and joining Banana Kick 5 years ago. When he’s not managing our studio workflow, Phil is the brains behind sourcing some of the more memorable items we’ve produced for clients, including 3-D roaming dinosaurs and a giant pink tractor! If Phil can’t source it, then it can’t be sourced. He loves a challenge and always delivers. On time and on budget.
“As part of a big promotion for McCain, I had the opportunity to visit the factory in Scarborough where I was involved with putting prizes into pizza boxes for competition winners. I even had to wear a hair net!”
Rachel Brown
With a two year career stint down under, Rachel brings international know how of all things digital gaining experience of managing influencer campaigns to paid media strategy. With a history of working both client and agency side across a variety of sport and retail brands, Rachel is excited to grow her expertise in this space and share her passion for using smart digital insights to deliver engaging customer experiences for online and destination brands.
“In response to a controversial advert from Protein World that appeared to be body shaming, Dove did what Dove does best and celebrated women of all shapes and size with a very clear message, “Yes, we are Beach Body ready” – a clever extension of their real beauty campaign and stand against body shaming adverts.”
Middle-weight Designer
Rachel is a key member of the Banana Kick design team. She understands that a brand is more than just an identity, it’s about how that brand makes someone feel and how that feeling changes their belief or behaviour.
“When I was younger, mum and I used to have the occasional shopping spree. During one trip we came across a Lindt sampling experience. I was handed one of the little red balls of chocolate and was blown away – it reminded me of the chocolate in Holland where I grew up and it has been my favourite brand since then.”
Richard Flaherty
As an original ‘Day One’ Banana Kicker, Rich has pretty much been there, done it and has the promotional t-shirt. With a passion to drive the agency forward in experiential marketing, you’ll find him coming up with big ideas and hoping someone will help deliver them.
“As a self confessed sports fanatic, my first trip to Wimbledon will live long in the memory. As a celebration of all things British, SW19 is a very special place – from the strawberries and cream to the Pimms, it’s all about the experience. My experience was crowned with watching not only Federer and Agassi, but also seeing Tim Henman make his final Wimbledon appearance. Unforgettable.”
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Scott Cranmer
Senior Digital Content Producer
It doesn’t matter if it’s a Nisa retail brief, an Asda event pack, Zeina website designs or a Genting in-casino campaign, Scott always produces great results. When he’s not providing outstanding creative artwork for our clients he doesn’t like to sit still – you’ll either find him playing rugby or competing in triathlons.
“On a family holiday, my son’s teddy bear didn’t make it off the plane. After posting on social media, a member of the British Airways cabin crew got in touch with the whereabouts of Pooh and so began his journey home – flying with a first class ticket and a visit to the flightdeck, and having photos the whole way. BA really bought into the whole story, and I’ll never consider another airline again!”
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Susie Dickens
Susie graduated from Newcastle University and joined us on a work experience placement. We were so impressed we gave her a job.
From building a beach in a shopping centre to activating community initiatives for Asda, Susie has made a real impression. The future is bright for one of our youngest Banana Kickers.
“The Andrex brand is now synonymous with their brand ambassador – the Andrex puppy. As a child I collected soft toys and when Andrex announced they were giving away a puppy soft toy I had to have it. I pestered my parents to change brands to save up the points and eventually the puppy was mine. We never swapped back.”
Tom Elcock
You could say that our Finance Manager, Tom, is the backbone of our agency. Keeping the finances in check is no simple task, yet Tom manages to make it seem a breeze. A keen park runner in his spare time, Tom is used to the fast pace that agency life has to offer.
“Cards Against Humanity’s ‘anti’ Black Friday campaign was a memorable moment for me. After taking their entire website down and encouraging users to buy nothing for $5, Cards Against Humanity managed to raise over $70,000 in a day, which they went on to squander on stuff for themselves. Brilliant!”
After skipping university and jumping straight into agency life, artworker Tom has already racked up over 10 years experience in the industry. Proud of his keen eye for detail and calmness under pressure, Tom has helped produce marketing collateral of the highest standard for our clients, specialising in retail.
“Plusnet’s Valentine’s Day experiential activity at Sheffield train station stands out for me, as it was the first time I’d seen experiential marketing on that scale, with many individual elements all working together in unison. I was amazed!”
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Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from logging in
While Google’s Android apps are only properly available as a pre-loaded app (or through the pre-loaded Play Store), they are openly distributed on forums, custom ROM sites, third-party app stores, and other places online. When a non-compatible device seller (or a user) loads these on a device, they can potentially trigger Google’s new message at login.
The message pops up when you try to log in to Google’s services, which usually happens during the device setup. Users who purchased the device are warned that “the device manufacturer has preloaded Google apps and services without certification from Google,” and users aren’t given many options other than to complain to the manufacturer. At this point, logging in to Google services is blocked, and non-tech-savvy users will have to live without the Google apps.
Source: Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from logging in - Ars Technica
I’m happy that they have an option for the custom ROM community, but I’m still concerned about how much control Google has over a supposedly open-source project like Android.
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The Emergence of Video Processing Tools
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The Emergence of Video Processing Tools presents stories of the development of early video tools and systems designed and built by artists and technologists during the late 1960s and 70s. Split over two volumes, the contributors examine the intersection of art and science and look at collaborations among inventors, designers, and artists trying to create new tools to capture and manipulate images in revolutionary ways. The contributors include “video pioneers,” who have been active since the emergence of the aesthetic, and technologists, who continue to design, build, and hack media tools. The book also looks at contemporary toolmakers and the relationship between these new tools and the past. Video and media production is a growing area of interest in art and this collection will be an indispensable guide to its origins and its future.
Contributors include Richard Brewster, Jon Cates, Michael Century, Michael Connor, Jeremy Culler, Lenka Dolanova, Carolina Esparragoza, Jean Gagnon, Ralph Hocking, Dave Jones, LoVid, Don McArthur, John Minkowsky, Timothy Murray, Marisa Olson, Christiane Paul, Hank Rudolph, Dan Sandin, Tom Sherman, Yvonne Spielmann, Steina, Carolyn Tennant, Jack Toolin, Woody Vasulka, Howard Weinberg, and Walter Wright.
Discussed are designers and technologists including Shuya Abe, Jeremy Bailey, Steve Beck, Peer Bode, George Brown, Tom DeWitt, Phil Edelstein, Bill Etra, Carl Geiger, Bill Hearn, Phil Morton, Ted Nelson, Steve Rutt, Nam June Paik, Matthew Schlanger, Eric Siegel, and many others.
See Intellect Ltd for the tables of contents.
Volume 1: 408 pages
170 halftones
44 color images (16 color pages)
Kathy High is Professor in the Department of the Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Sherry Miller Hocking is Assistant Director at the Experimental Television Center. Mona Jimenez is Associate Professor and Associate Director in the Moving Image Archiving Program at New York University
Intellect publishes a diverse range of academic books and journals in the fields of film studies, creative practice and cultural & media studies.
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Here’s to Halifax – for Harbor Views, History and Literary Highlights
Lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
By Catherine Stier
On a drive in the Canadian municipality of Halifax, I let out a yell. “Lupine! It’s lupine! Just like Miss Rumphius!”
“I have no idea what you are talking about,” my non-writer companion calmly replied.
Along the roadside, stalks of the purple and pink wildflowers known as lupine bloomed, looking like a come-to-life illustration from Barbara Cooney’s award-winning picture book, Miss Rumphius. As fellow fans of kids’ lit may know, this story’s title character longs to make the world more beautiful – and does so by scattering lupine seeds about her unnamed seaside town. Although I had read the book many times (and sources say it is set in Maine), this was my first glimpse of these distinct flowers growing wild in a similarly pretty, seaside location.
This was one of many delights experienced on my visit to Halifax, the capital of a Canadian province I always longed to visit. Truth be told I fell in love, sight unseen, with the province in which Halifax is located years ago, simply for the lyrical, ear-pleasing quality of its name – Nova Scotia.
Halifax, situated on the Atlantic edge of Eastern Canada (and about 230 miles East of Bar Harbor, Maine as the crow flies) is known for fresh seafood and waterfront views. It boasts Canada’s oldest children’s bookshop and a magnificent library. To my mind, it also offers an extraordinary number of cozy, scenic or just plain welcoming places to pause with a pen or laptop to do what writers do. Here’s a sampling of places and pastimes that will beguile writers who venture to this lively, harbor-side city.
Even the most dedicated wordsmiths have to eat. Stroll along the waterfront for a selection of restaurants serving lobster, oysters, crab cakes, handcrafted ales, gingerbread and blueberry desserts. Here one might glimpse all manner of vessels, including sailboats, tall-mast ships and the ferries that cross the water to the community of Dartmouth. Cruise ships, including Cunard’s majestic flagship, the Queen Mary 2, grace Halifax harbor (or harbour, as the Canadians spell it). The Casino Halifax, several shops, and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic round out some of the waterfront offerings. These charming sights, along with the salt-water scented air, may be just the thing to clear the head, opening up room for fresh, creative ideas to take shape.
If rocky coasts call to you, consider the one-hour drive from the city’s center to Peggy’s Cove, site of what may be Canada’s most photographed lighthouse according to the
An inviting spot to write, with a view of the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove
Tourism Nova Scotia website, novascotia.com. The spectacular views come with warnings, however, to avoid the wet and slippery rocks close to the water’s edge. A boon for writers – there are plenty of benches to safely view the scene and spend some time writing en plein air, if that’s your pleasure.
Back in the busy urban area, climb uphill to the Halifax Public Gardens for outdoor contemplation and inspiration. Beyond the intricate, black iron entrance gate, find flowers and walking paths, statues and yes, more benches, within this quiet and lovely Victorian-style garden.
For fascinating, historic tales, continue uphill to the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site, situated just beyond the landmark clock tower. The current Citadel, built from 1828-1856, has protected this region and offers much to explore. An especially eye-opening exhibit of a replicated, WWI trench as used by the Canadian Army in France provides a realistic glimpse of this form of warfare, and how miserable conditions could be for the young Canadian soldiers engaged in it. Guides (some in uniform or costume) throughout the Citadel knowledgably share their insights on operations in the trenches, the challenges faced by WWI nurses, and the daily life of a sentry. The Citadel also offers an Army Museum, bagpipe performances, and, for re-fueling, a coffee shop.
If nothing makes you happier than writing in a pub (a practice that proved effective for at least one famous children’s author), you are in luck here. Halifax boasts “the most pubs per capita in Canada” according to novascotia.com. I quite liked “The Wooden Monkey” on Grafton Street, which offers vegan and other dishes, a cozy interior and a large, old-fashioned mural of two men drinking from tankards at a pub table, perhaps ruminating about the book one holds prominently. Cheers!
The Halifax Central Library
And on the subject of books, the new, five-story Halifax Central Library stuns even before you step in the door with its imposing size and innovative architecture – it is said to look like a stack of books. Upon entering, you can’t miss the eye-catching art installation Library Cards by Cliff Eyland, with 5000 wall mounted works of art, each the size of the traditional library card catalog card. Inviting cafes can be found on both the ground floor and the fifth floor, but opt for the latter with its outdoor dining area overlooking the city. I spent a happy hour within the library’s second floor children’s section, seeking books marked with a maple leaf on the spine. This symbol denoted Canadian-produced books and presented stories I had not found in libraries in the U.S. I curled up in a seat before a large glass window and dipped into these enchanting tales.
Wonder what famous authors also strolled the streets of this city? Download the Halifax Library’s free guide and map titled The Halifax Literary Walking Tour at http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/research/topics/local-history-genealogy/literary-walking-tour.html
Highlights include sites where Oscar Wilde spoke, Charles Dickens visited and Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of the Anne of Green Gables books) worked as a newspaper columnist.
Woozles, Canada’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore
Finally, how could any children’s writer pass up a visit to what claims to be the oldest children’s bookstore in Canada – the wonderfully whimsically named Woozles. Inside the bright yellow converted house, I strolled the toy and book collections and found a most satisfying souvenir among the “local” section. Bright illustrations of familiar Nova Scotia sites, depicted during the day and then at night, fill the pages of the picture book A Nova Scotia Lullaby by Terrilee Bulgar and illustrated by Perry Craig.
The children’s book MISS RUMPHIUS in the Woozle’s shop window
As I left Woozles happily carrying my purchase, I glanced for the first time at the shop’s front window. To my surprise, prominently showcased in the display was the picture book Miss Rumphius. The cover illustration depicted the title character among the lupine by a green and rocky coast, smiling with apparent contentment. I could totally relate.
HALIFAX FOR WRITERS’ RESEARCH
So You Want to Write About…
Halifax, Nova Scotia offers research opportunities/experiences that may be especially meaningful to writers exploring particular subjects or settings. Here are just a sampling:
Canadian Artists – Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; William deGarthe Art Gallery at Peggy’s Cove
Canadian Flora and Fauna – The Museum of Natural History, Halifax
Canadian History – The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site; The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic; The Museum of Natural History, Halifax
Immigration to Canada – Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
Life of a Sentry – The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site
Lighthouses – View the lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove (the interior is not open to the public)
Maritime Art – Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; William deGarthe Art Gallery at Peggy’s Cove
Maritime Subjects – The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Mi’kmaq Culture – The Museum of Natural History, Halifax
Public Gardens – The Halifax Public Gardens
Ships – The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Whales – Several whale watching tours depart from Halifax Harbor
World War I – The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site
World War II – The Halifax Citadel National Historic Site
Travel Like a Writer:
An ongoing blog series by children’s author Catherine Stier chronicling travel destinations from a writer’s eye point of view, as well as other topics in which the subjects of travel and writing/reading kids’ books intersect.
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Archive by category "Wedding"
Look at my lovelyPS3
Look at our lovely PS3
One of the benefits to getting married – apart from the love, commitment and relationship that it celebrates – is the wedding list. A means devised to make sure that your guests don’t all accidentally get you both toasters. Ours was mainly full with new crockery, cooking equipment and other bits and pieces for around the house. What also crept on there was something very shiny.
Speaking to others who have gotten married, mainly grooms, everyone has tried to sneak something on theirs that has been somewhat cheeky: Aston Martins, big tellies, that sort of thing. In a similar vein I managed to add a PlayStation 3 to the end of ours, more in hope than expectation, but thanks to Ali’s extremely generous aunt (or more precisely, her cousin who persuaded his mum) we are now the proud owners of Sony’s current console.
The thought of even asking for a PlayStation made me feel odd to begin with. Not only the MS connection, but I’ve never really gotten along with Sony and throughout the lifespan of the PS2 I only ever owned Pro Evo as I was perfectly satisfied with my Xbox and GameCube combination. With the advent of the “next-gen”, though, I’ve found it harder to resist. From the lure of Blu-ray built in and games such as Little Big Planet I think it was almost a case of when and not if.
First game to be put in the drive was indeed Little Big Planet. After playing Mario on the DS on holiday I can honestly say that my first impression of it is that it takes the baton of 2D side-scrollers and runs with it. The sheer range of challenge, the feel of the controls and the broad and colourful look is simply wonderful.
More on that later but tonight we watch our first Blu-ray. End of our first week back and we settle down to watch Serenity in HD. Shiny.
Mr & Mrs BIGsheep
And so I return a married man. It seems a long time ago now but on 14th March Ali officially became Mrs BIGsheep in a ceremony held at St Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry.
The entire day was an incredible experience, from when Ali appeared looking stunning at the end of the aisle to having so many friends and family around us, and all the little touches that just made the day – one being a Maxi as our wedding car and having a chauffeur driven ride round the historic portion of the city.
Quite where the day went I don’t know as it flew by in a flash. A few experienced grooms had warned me of this but until I was in the thick of it I hadn’t quite expected just how quickly time would tick by. One minute I was there in the hotel attempting to get my usher to put down his hair straighteners and head to the venue, the next the lights were fading up and the DJ was packing away.
A thank you to all the friends and family who were there to make the day so special and a thank you those who we just couldn’t be squeezed in for being so understanding.
The Guest List
It’s been a weekend of madness, rushing in between three birthday gatherings, a Christmas catchup and a family lunch. That, however, has been easy in comparison to the task current facing Ali and I: The Guest List.
Each word deserves capitalisation because of the sheer amount of politics and stress involves in drawing up, even at this early stage, who should come to the wedding. This is the linchpin of all the plans because it determines where we hire, what the food can subsequently be, how much is left for drink and a myriad of other tiny things I never realised before now.
As it stands, the “short” list is twice as large as it needs to be and requires some serious culling. The least helpful question anyone can ask currently is “am I coming” because I have to turn into a politician and spin heavily about how we haven’t quite got to that stage yet.
Excel has come into it’s own, now, as everyone we know is now logged in columns under categories, sub-categories and relationships. Basically, if I know you, you are probably catalogued on my PC and most likely rated, too. It’s not too dissimilar to the Best Friends app on Facebook but at least at the end of this you will probably get cake and a party.
Just thought I’d say thank you to everyone offering their congratulations to Ali and I on our engagement.
Whether it’s been through text, email, comment, Facebook, phone, Xbox Live, forum threads or even the shockingly outdated “face to face” technique, it’s been appreciated.
This opening paragraph has now been rewritten six times. I’ve attempted to spin yarns about “upgrading” and “new starts” but everything I have written has sounded awful and has been at real danger of getting me lynched by those close to me on my return home.
And, so, I will boil it down to it’s most simple element: Ali and I are now engaged.
We celebrated our five year anniversary on Saturday night and to mark the occasion we booked a table and a room in a highly recommended restaurant in Market Bosworth. The room was decked out with flowers and Champagne but it wasn’t Saturday night I popped the question.
On Sunday we went to Ashby Castle, where five years previously we had attempted to have our first date but couldn’t due to the heaven’s opening on us. This time, however, we got in and atop the highest tower I went down on one knee and Ali said “yes”.
This had been in the works for months and so whilst I’ve had time to get used to the fact I’d hopefully be getting married in my head, it’s very weird hearing other people use terms like wife and husband around us now.
Still, Ali seems to have embraced it with both arms, promising to try and become the ultimate “Bridezilla”.
We’ve already started looking at venues and making guest lists meaning despite our ideal date being early 2009, at this rate we’ll be ready to go by Easter.
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Birdquest > South America > Brazil Birding Tours > BRAZIL’S SOUTHWEST AMAZONIA
BRAZIL’S SOUTHWEST AMAZONIA
The specialities of Rondonia, Inambari & Acre
Scaly-breasted Woodpecker (image by Pete Morris)
Rusty-capped Nunlet (image by Pete Morris)
Dot-backed Antbird (image by Pete Morris)
Yellow-cheeked Becard (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Zigzag Heron (image by Pete Morris)
Tawny-bellied Screech Owls (image by Pete Morris)
Zimmer's Woodcreeper (image by Pete Morris)
Black-faced Cotinga (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Blue-headed Macaws (image by Pete Morris)
Amazonian Antpitta (image by Pete Morris)
Curl-crested Aracari (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Pearly Antshrike (image by Pete Morris)
Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher (image by Eduardo Patrial)
White-throated Jacamars (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Ringed Woodpecker (image by Pete Morris)
Large-billed Tern (image by Pete Morris)
White-cheeked Tody-Tyrant (image by Pete Morris)
Sand-colored Nighthawk (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Black-and-white Antbird (image by Eduardo Patrial)
Sunday 5th July – Sunday 19th July 2020
Leader: Eduardo Patrial.
Birdquest’s Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia birding tour is a very unusual and pioneering Brazil birding tour to the parts that others do not reach. Our Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia birding tour focuses on the many endemics and other specialities of the little-visited but bird-rich Rondonia, Inambari and Acre regions.
No other place on the planet is so rich in term of species than the Amazon Forest of South America. One of the reasons for this extraordinary biodiversity is the complex mosaic of vegetation types that covers the entire region, which includes several types of forests and savannas at different altitudes. This ecological complexity over such huge area also results in a remarkably diverse avifauna, with over 1300 species of birds. Another important factor helping to create diversity is the influence of the main rivers of the Amazon basin on the distribution of bird species. The large Amazonian rivers represent important geographic barriers that help isolate their own biotas and create an interesting pattern of evolutionary relationships. As result, there are eight recognized centres of endemism in the region, based on both bird and primate studies: Guiana, Imeri, Napo, Inambari, Rondônia, Tapajos, Xingu and Belem. All of these lie in Brazil, weither as a whole or in part.
In this context, this exciting Brazil tour aims to offer a thrilling birdwatching opportunity in one of the richest area of the whole Amazon, the Madeira River basin in Brazil, a region possessing more than 800 species of birds, almost half of Brazil’s total. The Madeira River watershed in Brazil comprises two of the endemism centres, the Inambari in the west and the Rondônia in the east, both of which are very little covered in terms of birding tours.
Our Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia birding tour starts at Porto Velho, the capital of Rondônia state in southwest Brazil. Initially the tour will cover two distinct areas: the Tabajara area in eastern Rondônia and the Campina habitats around Humaitá in the southern part of Amazonas state. After that we will continue to the Rio Branco area in the neighbouring state of Acre. Despite being part of the ‘arc of deforestation’ in Amazonia, the region still guards some dazzling examples of wild and conserved areas, containing a rare avifauna with at least a dozen of the fifteen new species of birds described for the Amazon basin in 2013 alone!
Commencing at Porto Velho, we first will cover the northeast portion of Rondônia state, giving special attention to the endemics and other rarities of Rondônia. Five hours by car will bring us to the village of Tabajara by the bank of the beautiful Machado River, a large tributary of the Madeira. We shall stay here in simple accommodation in the village in order to explore the heterogeneous habitats present in the area, which include areas of ‘campina’, ‘campinaranas’, ‘terra firme’ and ‘varzea’ forest. In addition, boat trips will be taken to cover the riverine forest along the Machado River. Among the over 400 species recorded in the area, we can expect to find a number of specialities, including the endemic Roosevelt (Stipple-throated) and Aripuana Antwrens, Manicore Warbling Antbird, the gorgeous White-breasted Antbird, the secretive Pale-faced Bare-eye, Hoffmanns’s and Rondonia Woodcreepers, Chico’s Tyrannulet and rarities such as Wing-banded Antbird and Black-bellied Gnateater.
From Tabajara we will return to Porto Velho. We will be crossing the Madeira River to the west bank in search of the specialities of the Inambari endemism centre. Taking the highway BR-319, we will drive about an hour to reach some birding sites in the Campinas of the Humaita area of southernmost Amazonas state, sites which include areas of ‘campina’, ‘campinarana’ and ‘terra firme’ forest. Here we will be seeking such specialities as Western Striolated Puffbird, Humaita Antbird, Madeira (Stipple-throated) Antwren, Inambari Woodcreeper, Tupana Scythebill and the Brazilian endemics Predicted Antwren, Inambari Gnatcatcher and Campina Jay. While covering this region we also will be looking for some other fascinating birds such as Ocellated Crake and the army-ant followers Hairy-crested and White-throated Antbirds, and Reddish-winged Bare-Eye.
After an amazing journey through Rondônia and southern Amazonas, our Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia birding tour continues to the neighbouring Brazilian state of Acre. Based at the state capital Rio Branco, our goal is to give special attention to the ‘terra firme’ forests of the region, especially the bamboo-dominated habitats which are responsible for the presence of several rare and localized species. Here we will cover several dirt roads that lead through some superb birding areas, where we will be looking for recently-described species such as Bamboo Antwren, Acre Tody-Tyrant and Rufous Twistwing, plus a fantastic array of additional bamboo specialties that include Rufous-headed Woodpecker, Rufous-capped and Fulvous-chinned Nunlets, Bamboo Antshrike, Manu, White-lined and Striated Antbirds, Rufous-fronted Antthrush, Bamboo Foliage-gleaner, Peruvian Recurvebill (which as so often is rare here), White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher, Dusky-tailed Flatbill and Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin.
As well as this remarkable array of bamboo inhabitants, the forests of Acre in southwest Brazil are home to hundreds of other bird species, and we should also expect to find such goodies as Blue-headed Macaw, Chestnut-capped Puffbird, White-throated Jacamar, Curl-crested Aracari, Fine-barred and Rufous-breasted Piculets, Goeldi’s Antbird, Amazonian Antpitta, Black-faced and Purple-throated Cotingas, and Opal-crowned Tanager among others.
A major target endemic, perhaps one of the rarest birds in the whole Amazon, is the enigmatic Rondonia Bushbird. This species was, until recently, known only from a single female specimen and two sightings of males at the type-locality in Rondônia state in 1986 and a few subsequent records after the year 2000. Still very poorly known and naturally rare, it inhabits ‘terra firme’ forest dominated by dense vine-tangles and bamboo. This ‘mega-bird’ was recently found (and documented) in the area we will be exploring, so we do have real chances to find and observe it.
Of course, the bushbird is not the only special bird here. Another endemic rarity that we shall look for is the little Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher, plus some other interesting species such as Pearly Antshrike, Ferruginous-backed Antbird and Yellow-browed Warbling Antbird.
Birdquest has operated Brazil birding tours to the country’s Southwest Amazonia region since 2017.
Accommodation & Road Transport: The hotels in Porto Velho and Rio Branco are of good standard. At Tabajara we will stay in simple homestay accommodations. Road transport is by minibus or cars and roads are mostly good but sometimes poor.
Walking: The walking effort during our Southwest Amazonia birding tour is mostly easy, but there are some moderate grade walks.
Climate: It is generally hot and humid. Periods of sunshine alternate with overcast spells and there is regular rainfall.
Bird Photography: Opportunities during our Southwest Amazonia birding tour are worthwhile.
BRAZIL’S SOUTHWEST AMAZONIA BIRDING TOUR: PRICE INFORMATION
Birdquest Inclusions: Our prices include surface transportation, accommodations, meals and entrance fees. Our tour prices also include all tipping, including tips for local guides and drivers. Some bird tour operators do not do this, yet for participants these costs are an unavoidable part of the tour. The value of these inclusions on this Birdquest tour amounts to approximately $250.
2020: £4650, $5890, €5140. Porto Velho/Rio Branco.
BRAZIL’S SOUTHWEST AMAZONIA BIRDING TOUR: DETAILED ITINERARY
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 1 Our Southwest Brazil birding tour begins this evening at Porto Velho, where we will stay overnight.
Porto Velho is the capital of Rondônia State, with a population close to 450,000 and is located on the border of Rondônia and the state of Amazonas. The town is an important trading centre for cassiterite, the mining of which nowadays represents the most important economic activity in the region, and is also a transportation and communications centre. Porto Velho lies on the eastern shore of the Rio Madeira, one of the many tributaries of the Amazon River, which is an important geographic barrier between the two centres of endemism we focus on during this special tour, Rondônia and Inambari. Rondônia state was once almost entirely covered in tropical forest, but with the mining in the 50s came also a trend of human migration to the state (almost a million people), who were allowed by the government to settle on large cattle farms in the region, and for a long time this led a huge area of Rondônia to suffer from unbridled deforestation. Despite the vast loss of forest in Rondônia, there are still some extensive regions of continuous forest and we will be visiting some of these in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the state.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 2 From Porto Velho airport we will travel to the remote village of Tabajara, situated on the Rio Machado, where we will stay for four nights. We should arrive in time for some initial exploration.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Days 3-5 During the first part of the tour we will be concentrating our attentions on the Rondonian centre of endemism, in northeast Rondônia. The village of Tabajara is situated inside the buffer zone of Campos Amazônicos National Park, so it is surrounded by a huge area of forest on both sides of the Rio Machado. That will give us the chance to explore the varied habitats on both banks of the river, including areas of ‘campina’ and ‘campinarana’ (the terms ‘campina’ and ‘campinarana’ both describe white sand savannas that are very poor in nutrients, with stunted vegetation). ‘Campina’ is distinguished as being completely treeless and ‘campinarana’ represents the transition to the rainforest. We will also explore both ‘terra firme’ and ‘varzea’ rainforests, as well as the banks of Rio Machado.
Recent surveys have recorded nearly five hundred species of birds in the Tabajara area. The composition is similar to that around Alto do Bode (in Campos Amazônicos National Park), which is relatively close along the Rio Machado, but in Tabajara we will cover more areas and more habitats. Every site visited in the area will provide good birding, both in terms of quality and quantity.
During our stay in the Tabajara area we should expect to record Undulated, Variegated and Brazilian Tinamous, Razor-billed and Bare-faced Curassows, Spix’s Guan, Rufescent Tiger Heron, Capped and Zigzag Herons, Green Ibis, Slate-colored and White-browed Hawks, Sunbittern, Dark-winged Trumpeter, Pied Plover, Large-billed Tern, Black-bellied Cuckoo, Tawny-bellied Screech Owl, Spectacled and Black-banded Owls, Amazonian Pygmy Owl, Great Potoo, Blackish and Ladder-tailed Nightjars, Sand-colored Nighthawk, Mato Grosso Swift, Great-billed Hermit, Crimson Topaz, Blue-tailed Emerald, Green-tailed Goldenthroat, Collared Trogon, Pavonine Quetzal, Green-and-rufous and American Pygmy Kingfishers, Broad-billed and Rufous Motmots, Blue-cheeked, Bronzy and Great Jacamars, White-necked, Eastern Striolated, Pied and Spotted Puffbirds, Rusty-breasted Nunlet, Black-girdled Barbet, White-throated and Channel-billed Toucans, Red-necked Aracari, Scaly-breasted, Ringed, Red-necked and Red-stained Woodpeckers, Red-throated and Black Caracaras, Cryptic Forest Falcon, Scarlet, Red-and-green, Blue-and-yellow, Chestnut-fronted and Red-bellied Macaws, Yellow-crowned and Kawall’s Amazons, Orange-cheeked and Red-fan Parrots, and Golden-winged, Dusky-headed, Santarem and Crimson-bellied Parakeets.
Among the passerine birds: Fasciated, Glossy, Amazonian, Plain-winged, Chestnut-backed, White-shouldered, Natterer’s Slaty, Cinereous, Saturnine and Pearly Antshrikes, Silvered, Rufous-faced, White-browed, Black-faced, Spot-backed, Dot-backed, Ferruginous-backed, Southern Chestnut-tailed, Common Scale-backed, Banded and Wing-banded Antbirds, the amazing White-breasted Antbird, Pale-faced and Black-spotted Bare-eyes, Southern White-fringed, Dot-winged, White-eyed, Amazonian Streaked, Grey Long-winged and Aripuana (this last newly-described) Antwrens, Yellow-browed, Manicore and Rondonia Warbling Antbirds, the uncommon Black-bellied and Chestnut-belted Gnateaters, Variegated, Thrush-like and Alta Floresta Antpittas, Black-faced Antthrush, Rondonia, Hoffmann’s and Uniform Woodcreepers, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Ruddy Spinetail, Slender-billed Xenops, Snow-capped, Flame-crowned, Blue-backed and Black Manakins, Screaming Piha, Spangled Cotinga, Black-necked Red-Cotinga, Cinnamon Tyrant-Manakin, White-crested and Golden-crowned Spadebills, Snethlage’s and Zimmer’s Tody Tyrants, the rare Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher, the newly-described Chico’s Tyrannulet, Yellow-throated Flycatcher, Little Ground Tyrant, Rufous-crowned Elaenia, Pale-bellied Mourner, Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo, Grey-chested Greenlet, Plush-crested Jay (ssp. diesingii), White-banded and Black-collared Swallows, Southern Nightingale and Musician Wrens, Yellow-browed Sparrow, Green and Olive Oropendolas, Rose-breasted Chat and Rothschild’s Grosbeak (split from Blue-black). There are even chances for the uncommon Red-and-black Grosbeak.
In this area we will also be searching for the rare Buff-cheeked Tody Flycatcher, the newly described Aripuana Antwren, Manicore Warbling Antbird, Madeira Stipple-throated Antwren (ssp. dentei, known as Roosevelt Stipple-throated Antwren), Chico’s Tyrannulet and of course the enigmatic Rondonia Bushbird, which we shall look for in specific areas of dense vine-tangles.
As is to be expected, this remote area holds hundreds of bird species, including some of the finest Amazonian birds, such as Razor-billed Curassow, Sand-colored Nighthawk, Striolated Puffbird, Rusty-breasted Nunlet, Great Jacamar, Pavonine Quetzal, Black-girdled Barbet, Gould’s Toucanet, Red-necked Aracari, Cryptic Forest Falcon, Santarem Parakeet, Orange-cheeked Parrot, Kawall’s Amazon, Saturnine and Pearly Antshrikes, Banded and Ferruginous-backed Antbirds, Yellow-browed Warbling Antbird, Dot-backed, Spot-backed, Common Scale-backed and Rufous-faced Antbirds, the endemic ant-swarm followers White-breasted Antbird and Pale-faced Bare-eye, the endemic Hoffmann’s Woodcreeper, Rondonia, Elegant, Striped and Uniform Woodcreepers, the rare Black-bellied Gnateater, Alta Floresta Antpitta, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Snow-capped and Flame-crowned Manakins, the rare Black-necked Red Cotinga, Snethlage’s Tody Tyrant, Little Ground Tyrant, Southern Nightingale-Wren, Musician Wren, White-winged Shrike-Tanager, Masked and Paradise Tanagers, and Slate-colored Seedeater.
Among the more interesting riverine species present in the area are the endemic Glossy Antshrike, Chestnut-backed Antshrike, Silvered and Blackish Antbirds, Amazonian Streaked Antwren, White-browed and Dot-backed Antbirds, Straight-billed and Cinnamon-throated Woodcreepers, Cinnamon Attila, Spotted Tody Flycatcher, the rare Buff-cheeked Tody Flycatcher, Grey-chested Greenlet, Yellow-browed Sparrow and many others.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 6 We will return to the Porto Velho region for an four nights stay in total (spending two nights Porto Veho itself and two nights to the north at the town of Humaita), probably arriving in time for some birding around Porto Velho in the afternoon.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Days 7-9 From now on the emphasis will be on the west bank of the Rio Madeira, where we will be giving special attention to the Inambari specialities. Taking the road BR-319, we cross the Madeira River to the state of Amazonas, the largest in Brazil. we heading north towards the town of Humaita, where we will spend two nights.
Humaita is situated about 200 kilometres or 120 miles from Porto Velho and we will spend our time in the region exploring good areas on the west bank of the Madeira between the surroundings of Porto Velho and Humaita. The Humaita region is famous for its unusual enclave of ‘Cerrado’ vegetation amidst the Amazon rainforest, so besides covering areas of ‘terra firme’ and ‘varzea’ forests, special attention will be given to the savanna habitats, including areas of ‘campina’ and ‘campinarana’.
During our time in the Porto Velho/Humaita region we expect to record Red-winged, Small-billed and White-throated Tinamous, Speckled Chachalaca, Slender-billed Kite, Slate-colored and Black-faced Hawks, Ocellated, Russet-crowned and Ash-throated Crakes, Long-tailed Ground Dove, Hoatzin, Pale-winged Trumpeter, Amazonian Pygmy Owl, Needle-billed Hermit, Green-tailed Goldenthroat, Pavonine Quetzal, Broad-billed and Rufous Motmots, Paradise, Blue-necked, Bronzy and Great Jacamars, White-necked, Brown-banded, Chestnut-capped, Spotted, White-eared, Western Striolated and Semicollared Puffbirds, Gilded Barbet, Brown-mandibled and Curl-crested Aracaris, Golden-collared Toucanet, Spot-breasted Woodpecker, Bar-breasted Piculet, Lined Forest Falcon, Crimson-bellied and Santarem Parakeets, White-bellied Parrot, Mealy Amazon, Fasciated, Glossy, Mouse-colored, Barred and Spot-winged Antshrikes, the rare Black Bushbird, Black, Humaita, and Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbirds, Madeira Stipple-throated, Predicted, Pygmy, Sclater’s, Rusty-backed and Southern White-fringed Antwrens, Peruvian Warbling Antbird, the ant-swarm followers White-throated and Hairy-crested Antbirds and even the rare Reddish-winged Bare-eye, Inambari, Long-billed and Bar-bellied Woodcreepers, Curve-billed Scythebill (ssp. gyldenstolpei, known as Tupana Scythebill), Cinereous-breasted Spinetail, Slender-billed and Rufous-tailed Xenops, Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner, Rusty-belted Tapaculo, Pompadour Cotinga, Stripe-necked and Zimmer’s Tody Tyrants, Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher, Citron-bellied Attila, Cinnamon Neopipo (or Cinnamon Tyrant-Manakin), Blue-crowned and Black Manakins, Azure-naped Jay (ssp. hafferi, known as Campina Jay), Inambari Gnatcatcher, Red-breasted Blackbird, Black-faced Tanager, Plumbeous, Chestnut-bellied and Wing-barred Seedeaters, and Rufous-bellied Euphonia.
A full day will be dedicated to the forests around Humaita. We shall visit a superb area of ‘varzea’ on the east bank of Madeira, where we expect to find such species as Horned Screamer, Speckled Chachalaca, Black-collared Hawk, Sunbittern, Hoatzin, Little Cuckoo, Chestnut-capped Puffbird, Tui Parakeet, Short-tailed Parrot, Festive Amazon, Long-billed and Striped Woodcreepers, Plain Softtail, Rusty-backed and Plain-crowned Spinetails, Blackish and Black-chinned Antbirds, Leaden Antwren, Cinnamon Attila and Masked Crimson Tanager.
We shall also cover more ‘terra firme’ forest on the west bank of Madeira at Ramal Novo Horizonte. This area has great potential for rarities and we will search for such near-mythical species as Undulated Antshrike, Black Bushbird and Reddish-winged Bare-eye. Besides these, birding here can be very rewarding with a number of uncommon and delightful species including Rufous-necked and Brown-banded Puffbirds, Blue-necked Jacamar, Gilded Barbet, Pearly Antshrike, White-throated, Hairy-crested, Humaita and Sooty Antbirds, the Inambari-specialty Predicted Antwren, Madeira Stipple-throated Antwren, Inambari and Bar-bellied Woodcreepers, Curve-billed (Tupana) Scythebill, Rufous-tailed Flatbill, Citron-bellied Attila, White-crested Spadebill, an undescribed species of Hemitriccus, Spangled and Pompadour Cotingas, Blue-crowned, Red-headed and Fiery-capped Manakins, Cinnamon Neopipo, Inambari Gnatcatcher, Cinereous Mourner, Musician Wren, and Masked, Opal-rumped and Paradise Tanagers.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 10 After our pleasant visit to southeast Amazonas, we will drive back into Rondônia, now on our way to the town of Abunã, situated by the Madeira river in the northwestern part of Rondônia, near the border with Bolivia and the state of Acre, where we will spend two nights. Our day on the road starts early after departing from Humaita. We may have time for some birding stops on our way and we will also hope to do some initial birding around Abunã, covering the west bank of Madeira.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 11 Around Abunã we still concentrate our efforts on the west bank of the Madeira. By using a boat, we will access a pristine forest which will probably keep us busy for the whole day.
In this area we will be looking for the uncommon Orinoco Goose, Cinereous, Undulated and Bartlett’s Tinamous, Razor-billed Curassow, Pied Plover, Large-billed and Yellow-billed Terns, Black Skimmer, Sand-colored Nighthawk, Broad-billed and Rufous Motmots, the shy Pale-winged Trumpeter, Scaled Pigeon, Short-tailed Swift, Chestnut-eared and Curl-crested Aracaris, Golden-collared Toucanet, both uncommon Collared and Semicollared Puffbirds, Western Striolated Puffbird, Fulvous-chinned Nunlet, the Stunning Rufous-headed Woodpecker, Bluish-fronted Jacamar, Lined and Slaty-backed Forest Falcons, Crimson-bellied and Cobalt-winged Parakeets, White-bellied and Red-fan Parrots, Blue-winged Macaw, Pearly and Undulated Antshrikes, Reddish-winged Bare-eye, White-throated and Hairy-crested Antbirds, Peruvian Warbling Antbird, Striated and Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbirds, White-chinned, Plain-brown, Cinnamon-throated, Elegant and Inambari Woodcreepers, Buff-throated and Olive-backed Foliage-gleaners, Ruddy Spinetail, Short-billed Leaftosser, Thrush-like Antpitta, Large-headed and Rufous-tailed Flatbills, Yellow-margined Flycatcher, Bright-rumped Attila, Drab Water Tyrant, Snethlage’s and White-bellied Tody Tyrants, Screaming Piha, Spangled and Pompadour Cotingas, Bare-necked and Purple-throated Fruitcrows, White-banded Swallow, Blue-crowned and Band-tailed Manakins, Dwarf Tyrant Manakin, Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo, Buff-cheeked and Ashy-headed Greenlets, Green Oropendola, Slate-colored Grosbeak and Dotted Tanager.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 12 After some superb birding by the bank of the mighty Rio Madeira we will finally reach the state of Acre, situated still further west in the Brazilian Amazon, where we will spend three nights at the state capital, Rio Branco.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Days 13-14 Located in the valley of the Acre River, the city of Rio Branco is bisected by the river with a population of more than 350 thousand people. The settlement in the region started in the early 19th century and the development of the municipality increased during the long period called the ‘rubber cycle’. Nowadays wood is the main export from Acre, besides being a big producer of Brazil nuts, Assai and copaiba oil.
During our time in this part of Brazil we will be exploring the surroundings of Rio Branco, mainly areas of ‘terra firme’ with large clumps of bamboo. As part of the same rich bamboo zone found in southeast Peru, the ones near Rio Branco also hold a number of bamboo specialties. Birding here has a lot in common with the Tambopata region in Peru, a mega diverse area which certainly holds some of the best Amazonian birds.
During our pleasant stay at Rio Branco we have three full days to enjoy our final birding, with a list of birds that includes Cinereous, Little, Brown and Black-capped Tinamous, Speckled Chachalaca, Grey-headed and Double-toothed Kites, White-browed Hawk, Chestnut-headed Crake, Ocellated Poorwill, Silky-tailed Nightjar, White-bearded Hermit, Black-tailed, Green-backed, Blue-crowned, Collared and Amazonian Trogons, Broad-billed and Amazonian Motmots, White-throated and Bluish-fronted Jacamars, White-necked, Chestnut-capped and Western Striolated Puffbirds, Rufous-capped Nunlet, White-fronted and Yellow-billed Nunbirds, Gilded and Lemon-throated Barbets, Lettered, Brown-mandibled, Chestnut-eared and Curl-crested Aracaris, Rufous-breasted and Fine-barred Piculets, Red-stained, Little, Spot-breasted, Chestnut, Cream-coloured, Red-necked and Rufous-headed Woodpeckers, Barred and Collared Forest Falcons, Chestnut-fronted and Blue-headed Macaws, Dusky-headed, Black-capped, Tui and Cobalt-winged Parakeets, Dusky-billed Parrotlet, White-bellied Parrot, Mealy Amazon, Speckled Spinetail, the uncommon Orange-fronted Plushcrown, Peruvian Recurvebill, Bamboo, Buff-throated, Brown-rumped, Ruddy and Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaners, Dusky Leaftosser, White-chinned, Inambari, Elegant and Cinnamon-throated Woodcreepers, Bamboo and Bluish-slate Antshrikes, Dot-winged, Ornate, Sclater’s, Plain-throated, Grey and Pygmy Antwrens, the recently described Bamboo Antwren (IOC still treats as ssp. of Ihering’s Antwren), Grey, Riparian, Black and Manu Antbirds, Yellow-breasted Warbling Antbird, White-lined, Southern Chestnut-tailed, Black-throated, Goeldi’s, Plumbeous and Striated Antbirds, Black-spotted Bare-eye, Black-faced and Rufous-fronted Antthrushes, Amazonian Antpitta, Wing-barred Piprites, the newly described Acre Tody Tyrant, Johannes’s Tody Tyrant, Flammulated Bamboo Tyrant, Long-crested Pygmy Tyrant, White-cheeked Tody Flycatcher, Rufous Twistwing, Olivaceous, Large-headed and Dusky-tailed Flatbills, White-eyed Attila, Black-faced and Purple-throated Cotingas, Purple-throated Fruitcrow, Band-tailed and Fiery-capped Manakins, Sulphur-bellied Tyrant-Manakin, Yellow-cheeked Becard, Southern Nightingale-Wren, Black-billed Thrush, the rare Black-and-white Tanager, Opal-crowned Tanager, Lesson’s Seedeater and White-lored Euphonia.
Brazil’s Southwest Amazonia Birding Tour: Day 15 After a final full day in the Rio Branco region, our Southwest Brazil birding tour ends this evening at Rio Branco airport. (All flights out of Rio Branco towards the coast depart in the very early hours of the morning, sadly!)
BRAZIL'S SOUTHWEST AMAZONIA TOUR REPORT 2018
by Eduardo Patrial
Other Amazonia birding tours by Birdquest include:
AMAZONIAN PERU: IQUITOS
AMAZONIAN PERU: TAMBOPATA & MADRE DE DIOS
BRAZIL’S EASTERN AMAZONIA
COLOMBIA: CHOCO TO AMAZONIA
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Roadworks on the R75 between Port Elizabeth and Despatch
Eastern Cape, 24 June 2019: The South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd (SANRAL) would like to notify travellers that roadworks is taking place from today, Monday 24 June, until Thursday, 27 June 2019 on the R75 between Port Elizabeth and Despatch.
The planned traffic accommodation is as follows:
The left lane between Dyke Road and St. Leonards Road will be closed for 800m during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Port Elizabeth towards Despatch.
The left lane between St. Leonards Road and Spondo Road will be closed for 1.7km during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Port Elizabeth towards Despatch.
The left lane between Chelsea Road and Johnson Road will be closed for 2.4km during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Despatch towards Port Elizabeth.
The right lane between Johnson Road and Spondo Road will be closed for 600m during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Despatch towards Port Elizabeth.
The left lane between Spondo Road and St. Leonards Road will be closed for 900m during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Despatch towards Port Elizabeth.
The left lane between St. Leonards Road and Dyke Road will be closed for 800m during the day and reopened during peak hours when travelling from Despatch towards Port Elizabeth.
Roadworks are expected to take place at the following intersections: The R75 and Dyke Road; The R75 and St. Leonards Road; The R75 and Spondo Road; The R75 and Johnson Road; The R75 and Chelsea Road; and The R75 and Ralo Road.
Lane closures are as follows:
The left lane between Chelsea Road and Ralo Road will be closed when travelling from Port Elizabeth towards Despatch, it will remain closed until further notice.
The left lane between Ralo Road and Chelsea Road will be closed when travelling from Despatch towards Port Elizabeth, it will remain closed until further notice.
“Motorists are asked to plan their trips accordingly, consider alternative routes and to use caution when making use of the road,” said Mbulelo Peterson, SANRAL Southern Region’s Manager.
SANRAL apologizes for any inconvenience caused.
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Bradesco Closes Accounts of Local Crypto Exchange and Owners
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Bradesco, which is one of Brazil’s largest banks, has informed crypto exchange Bitblue that its banking accounts will be shut down later this month, according to local crypto outlet Portal do Bitcoin.
As the outlet has learned from industry sources, Bitblue will face the closure of its accounts in Bradesco on February 26. In addition, the decision extends to the private accounts of Bitblue owners.
Edisio Pereira, CEO of Bitblue, remarked to the news outlet that the company has previously had accounts in four other financial companies; therefore, Bitblue will not appeal against the bank’s actions. However, its co-founders and partners will definitely appeal, as the move can have an impact on their reputation, Pereira added.
The local Association of Crypto and Blockchain (ABCB) has already reported the case to the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), an antitrust regulator operated by country’s Ministry of Justice. In its complaint, ABCB claims that the bank has violated the rules of free competition.
CADE initially launched a probe against six major national banks — including Banco do Brasil, Banco Bradesco, Itaú Unibanco Holding and Banco Santander Brasil — in September 2018. Following several complaints about banking accounts closure, the antitrust watchdog started investigating alleged monopolistic practices in the crypto space.
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The Cuchara Chapel held its first service on August 21, 1949. John and Rae Albright were instrumental in the building of the chapel, not only by the generous gift of the land but also by orchestrating community support for the cost of construction ($3,785.85). The chapel, located in the center of old downtown Cuchara, provided the perfect view of the valley and of the Trinchera mountain range. The words of Psalm 121 carved into the ceiling timbers by then resident artist, Clayton Staples, add to the inspiration: “I will lift mine eyes unto the hills”.
Since the Chapel’s early beginning, hundreds have found a place for summer worship, beckoned by the beauty of the valley to give thanks to the God of all creation. Guest preachers of many different denominations provide the sermon and the worship leadership, while the chapel board oversees the daily operation and care of the facility.
The major benevolence of the Cuchara Chapel is providing scholarships for graduating seniors of Huerfano County. Since the mid 1960’s, scores of scholarships have been given to local students to help with their further education. The Cuchara Chapel is the largest contributor of scholarship funds to graduating high school seniors in Huerfano County.
In 2007, a new memorial organ was added to the chapel, and a new ramp now provides easy access for those with special needs. Locals and those just traveling through are all welcome to worship in this beautiful and intimate place where the people and surroundings are warm and welcoming.
Weekly Sunday Service
July 21 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am MDT
July 21 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm MDT
July 28 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm MDT
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Tobias Jeffus – John Mall High School – Western Colorado University, Gunnison
Kaitlyn Lasley – John Mall High School – University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Alexis Topping – La Veta High School – Adams State University, Alamosa
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Faith Brunner – The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, CA
Grace Foster – Ft. Lewis College, Durango
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Turks Kept U.S. In The Dark About Iraq Bombing Raid
by The Stiletto in All News, Iraq News, Iraq War, Middle Eastern News, The War on Terror, US News, World Politics
Synonyms for the word “ally†include “friend,†“helper,†“partner†and “supporter.†What kind of “ally†has Turkey been to the U.S. in Iraq? Duplicitous and double-dealing.Â
Here’s just the latest example.Â
The U.S. had set up a spy center in Ankara so Turks, Iraqis and Americans can share information about the movements and activities of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels who have repeatedly infiltrated Turkey from the semiautonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to ambush and kill Turkish soldiers. The U.S. provided the real-time intelligence that enabled Turkey to mount Sunday’s airstrike. A U.S. military official tells The Washington Post that we are “essentially handing them their targets.”Â
The Turks are not good at “sharing†because no one in the Turkish government bothered to inform U.S. military commanders in Iraq about the military incursion until the bombing run was already under way. The U.S., in turn, had to inform the Iraqi government, which also complained about being given advance notice. The Iraqi parliament is understandably outraged over the violation of Iraq’s sovereignty and the deaths of two innocent civilians and the indiscriminate destruction of farms and villages that sent 1,800 people fleeing from their homes.Â
Similarly, it is unclear whether Turkey advised the U.S. and Iraq about a follow-up operation two days later in which 300 soldiers penetrated 1.5 miles into Iraq in the dead of night to go after Kurdish rebels trying to infiltrate the Turkish border, or whether this action was also based on U.S. intelligence. The Turks withdrew their troops 15 hours later.Â
Perhaps the surest indication that the U.S. did not know what the Turks were up to is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s inauspiciously timed trip to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, during which she was to meet with Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish regional government (he snubbed her). Had Rice known about the incursion of Turkish ground troops into the Kurdish province of Dahuk (one of three provinces Barzani administers) the confab would have been quietly cancelled since the Iraq trip was unannounced.Â
The Kurdish regional government takes the view that the U.S. “allowed†Turkish bombers to cross into its territory since our military controls the airspace – which means that we “approved†it. Rice denied that the U.S. gave the Turks the go-ahead for the air incursion, but her credibility was immediately undercut by Turkey’s military chief, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, who bluntly stated that “America … opened the [Iraqi] airspace to us. By opening the airspace, America gave its approval to this operation.”Â
The Washington Post points out that tolerating – and aiding – Turkey’s military incursions into Kurdistan actions is alienating Iraqi Kurds, who are our most stalwart allies in Iraq; complicates U.S. efforts to prod the Iraqi government to pass legislation to encourage political reconciliation amongst Iraq’s religious factions; and a large-scale operation by Turkish troops could disrupt the flow of supplies to the U.S. military in Iraq, which receives 70 percent of its air cargo and a third of its fuel through Turkey.Â
The Kurdish provinces are the only stable, economically viable region in Iraq – which means our soldiers can concentrate on fighting insurgents and terrorists, and our tax dollars can finance public works projects that will help the rest of the country get back on its feet. So why is the U.S. selling out our only reliable allies in Iraq to help Turkey, which refused our request to use its territory to mount an attack against Saddam Hussein from the north in 2003?Â
A Boston Globe editorial justifiably terms these developments an “incoherent twist to President Bush’s Iraq policyâ€:Â
Bush has made preserving Iraq’s borders a primary objective. Yet the administration colluded in Turkey’s violation of Iraqi sovereignty – even as Washington is warning Iran to stop sending agents and weapons into Iraq, and is pressing Syria and Saudi Arabia to crack down on foreign jihadists crossing into Iraq.Â
Our complicity in Turkey’s incursions into Iraq “makes the United States look simultaneously incompetent and hypocritical.â€Â
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Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) – Sarah J. Maas
Title: Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. Maas
Publishing Info: October 23, 2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing
Source: Anderson's Bookshop
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Date Completed: November 17, 2018
Related Posts: The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass #0.1 - 0.5), Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1), Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2), Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3), A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1), Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4), A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2), Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5), A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3)
Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . .
Aelin has risked everything to save her people―but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day…
With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation―and a better world.
And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen―before she is lost to him forever.
As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at a future. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever in the explosive final chapter of the Throne of Glass series.
So. This was the end and I had one roller coaster of a ride with this series! I went from enjoying the first book to adoring the next three, like favorite-series-ever adoration, to being super salty about EMPIRE OF STORMS, DNFing TOWER OF DAWN, and falling somewhere in the middle with KINGDOM OF ASH. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a mixed range of feelings toward a series overall, so bear with my thoughts here. I’ll try to express both the loves and the things I didn’t enjoy.
Let’s start with the good things. Sarah J. Maas created this huge series that appealed so to many readers who didn’t think they were fantasy fans, including myself. This was one of the series that launched me into reading fantasy and knowing I could enjoy these big series. She created a very firm, passionate connection with Aelin, packed a lot of punches and surprises, and brought so many characters to life that became immense fan-favorites. I loved how she connected things from the entire Throne of Glass world in the first four books and the ending for Aelin and the crew felt right and satisfying.
My issue throughout all of KINGDOM OF ASH was just that it was too long. In Sarah’s Chicago tour stop, she said she “would die” (yes, that’s a direct quote) if she had to cut any more from this book and I felt like there was a lot that could have been condensed, especially from books 4- 7. There’s a lot that happens on the page with so many characters and as much as they are loved, I think characters like Elide, Manon, Aedion, and Lysandra didn’t really need as much on-page time as they were given in KINGDOM OF ASH. Aedion and Lysandra to carry a lot of that action when things are happening away from Aelin, but it didn’t really push the story forward. There was a lot of battle action and, of course, there was romance, but everything felt like it really could have been shorter and more focused. I didn’t think Nesryn needed any POV chapters at all and her part in this book really didn’t push anything forward. I’m still salty about Chaol’s role in the series, being so prominent through QUEEN OF SHADOWS, being eliminated in EoS only to have ToD and then his real purpose for the series seemed only to bring Yrene to the fray, which was EXTREMELY important and made me even more upset that Yrene only came to the series in a novella and in TOWER OF DAWN when she should have been a much more prominent character of this series from the start. I actually think she should have swapped focus with Manon, who I loved earlier on but didn’t connect with in KINGDOM OF ASH much at all. I also felt like Manon didn’t get the ending she deserved, not because of the THINGS that happened but because I was so excited for her connection with Aelin and how they crossed paths in the previous books and something just didn’t connect. Yes, her storyline does play an important role in the battle at Terrasen but I feel like we left her in a place that is deserving of a whole new series focused on Manon because I just don’t like where her story ended in this series.
I also noticed right away that I had issues with the writing this book. There were a lot of sentence fragments.
On every page.
In so many ways.
In every third paragraph.
And it really broke up the flow of the story. There were a lot of places where a sentence was chopped into fragments where it could have just gone on as a continuing idea and it really made things choppy and dramatic. I get it — they’re for effect — but it doesn’t have to be every other paragraph or every fifth sentence. It was a LOT.
I also felt like there was a real lack of world-building here. There was a lot of time spent with characters and witnessing their actions, but too many big moments and concepts were presented with not a lot of weight supporting them. Some of the big worldly concepts felt like they just happened without a lead up and readers are just expected to accept them as things that are possible in this world because hey, there’s magic. Granted, there’s a certain understanding that some of these characters have fae magic and that doesn’t really need explanation, and that I get, but some of the wyrdkey/portal/magical item/god/magical ability concepts seemed to just sort of happen. For how big and detailed these books are, I felt like more attention should have been focused on some of these interesting details about the political structure and magical rules. Too many characters seemed to be able to just have these certain magical abilities all of a sudden and I wouldn’t question it if it was just one who discovered they had more powers than they knew, but it kind of happened a lot and other moments seemed to come out of nowhere with these random grand magical gestures happening at the most convenient times when they were never mentioned before. I’m not off-put by their existence but I would have liked to see the characters discuss more about how some of these abilities worked, what sort of lore there was behind powers that could destroy the Valg, why some people inherited or developed X powers, etc. There were too many things that I felt like I was just supposed to take as they came instead of making a really cool connection into the rules of the magic.
And lastly, while I did feel like the ending was a great way to wrap up the series, I did still feel like there weren’t enough risks taken and not enough was… sacrificed, mostly because I’ve had these feelings before with the Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy and I couldn’t shake that feeling in this epic conclusion either. War isn’t clean and it isn’t pretty and it doesn’t protect all of the best people. There were some choices made and sacrifices given but it still felt a little too happy and perfect in a few ways. I’m glad I finished the series and I’m glad I read it and it was quite the epic adventure.
A post shared by Brittany S. (@bookaddictsguide) on Oct 26, 2018 at 5:58pm PDT
Kept Me Hooked On: Finales. I am glad that I finished the series! It’s always so complicated ending a series but it’s so refreshing as well.
Left Me Wanting More: PLOT. Ugh, I felt so frustrated that this book barely moved anything forward. It was the finale!! We spent far too much time with the characters and their love stories or random action sequences that did nothing for the book when so much could have been happening.
If you’ve made it to the end, it’s worth finishing! I did like finishing the series even if I didn’t really love it.
BOOKS LIKE KINGDOM OF ASH
Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) – Sarah J. Maas Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) – Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) – Sarah J. Maas Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) – Sarah J. Maas
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Liz March 8, 2019 at 9:53 am
This review was so spot on. I felt the EXACT same emotional rollercoaster through the series that you did, and definitely thought some of the side characters could have been cut. ( LOVE manon, but don’t really give a fig about lysandra) I also felt the ending, just like the other series, was a bit too neat/anti-climatic. And Seriously…Chaol? Sigh.
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Pinaka Mark-2 rockets test fired
Article Posted on : - May 31, 2014
The Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher System. A file photo
BALASORE, ODISHA (PTI): For the second time in two days, India's indigenously developed advanced version of Pinaka Mark-2 rockets were successfully test fired from a multi-barrel rocket launcher from a defence base at Chandipur, about 15 km from here.
The tests were conducted from the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) at Chandipur firing range No 2, defence sources said on Friday.
Chandipur PXE director Appavu Raj told PTI, "A total six rounds, three yesterday and three today, of the Mark-2 version of Pinaka rockets with more than a 60 km range were successfully tested."
Defence sources said, "Pune-based Armament Research and Development Establishment of DRDO personnel with logistic support of PXE, conducted the tests."
Pinaka, the unguided rocket system meant to neutralise large areas with rapid salvos and which has undergone several tough tests since 1995, was inducted into the armed forces and the present trials were conducted with some improvements in the system, the sources said.
The advanced version Mark-II rocket with a range of more than 60 km, capable of acting as a force-multiplier, was developed to supplement artillery guns, the sources said.
The quick reaction time and high rate of fire of the system gave an edge to the Army during a low-intensity conflict situation, they said.
The system's capability to incorporate several types of warheads made it deadly for the enemy as it could even destroy solid structures and bunkers.
The Pinaka system with a battery of six launchers could fire a salvo of 12 rockets in 44 seconds and could neutralise a target area of 3.9 sq km.
India Pinaka Rocket Defence
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Health Center Evaluates Chiropractic
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There has been conflicting research and an ongoing debate regarding the cost value of chiropractic. At the center of the debate is the question: Does chiropractic add to or reduce the total cost of care? The most recent and better designed studies suggest that chiropractic care can not only reduce the immediate cost of an episode of care, but reduce the recurrence of subsequent bouts of conditions such as low back pain. These musculoskeletal conditions are a heavy financial burden on society often requiring expensive tests to pinpoint the exact diagnosis.
A 2012 study offering on-site chiropractic care versus off-site physical therapy concluded that “[These results suggest that] chiropractic services offered at on-site health centers may promote lower utilization of certain health care services, while improving musculoskeletal function.” Additionally, patients who receive chiropractic treatment often have a more conservative, less invasive treatment profile which can significantly reduce the overall cost of treatment.
Note: These mini-reviews are designed as updates and direct the reader to the full text of current research. The abstracts presented here are no substitute for reading and critically reviewing the full text of the original research. Where permitted we will direct the reader to that full text.
Value of Chiropractic Services at an On-Site Health Center. [Link]
J Occup Environ Med. 2012 Jul 17. [Epub ahead of print]
Krause CA, Kaspin L, Gorman KM, Miller RM.
From the Cerner Healthe Clinic (Dr Krause), Kansas City, MO; Cerner LifeSciences Consulting (Dr Kaspinand and Ms Gorman), Beverly Hills, CA; and Cerner Employer Services (Dr Miller), Cerner Corporation, Beverly Hills, CA.
OBJECTIVE: Chiropractic care offered at an on-site health center could reduce the economic and clinical burden of musculoskeletal conditions.
METHODS: A retrospective claims analysis and clinical evaluation were performed to assess the influence of on-site chiropractic services on health care utilization and outcomes.
RESULTS: Patients treated off-site were significantly more likely to have physical therapy (P < 0.0001) and outpatient visits (P < 0.0001). In addition, the average total number of health care visits, radiology procedures, and musculoskeletal medication use per patient with each event were significantly higher for the off-site group (all P < 0.0001). Last, headache, neck pain, and low back pain-functional status improved significantly (all P < 0.0001).
CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that chiropractic services offered at on-site health centers may promote lower utilization of certain health care services, while improving musculoskeletal function.
Cost of care for common back pain conditions initiated with chiropractic doctor vs medical doctor/doctor of osteopathy as first physician: experience of one Tennessee-based general health insurer. [Link]
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2010 Nov-Dec;33(9):640-3. Epub 2010 Oct 18.
Liliedahl RL, Finch MD, Axene DV, Goertz CM.
Axene Health Partners, Winchester, Calif, USA.
OBJECTIVE: The primary aim of this study was to determine if there are differences in the cost of low back pain care when a patient is able to choose a course of treatment with a medical doctor (MD) versus a doctor of chiropractic (DC), given that his/her insurance provides equal access to both provider types.
METHODS: A retrospective claims analysis was performed on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee's intermediate and large group fully insured population between October 1, 2004 and September 30, 2006. The insured study population had open access to MDs and DCs through self-referral without any limit to the number of visits or differences in co-pays to these 2 provider types. Our analysis was based on episodes of care for low back pain. An episode was defined as all reimbursed care delivered between the first and the last encounter with a health care provider for low back pain. A 60 day window without an encounter was treated as a new episode. We compared paid claims and risk adjusted costs between episodes of care initiated with an MD with those initiated with a DC.
RESULTS: Paid costs for episodes of care initiated with a DC were almost 40% less than episodes initiated with an MD. Even after risk adjusting each patient's costs, we found that episodes of care initiated with a DC were 20% less expensive than episodes initiated with an MD.
CONCLUSIONS: Beneficiaries in our sampling frame had lower overall episode costs for treatment of low back pain if they initiated care with a DC, when compared to those who initiated care with an MD.
Cost and use of conservative management of lumbar disc herniation before surgical discectomy. [Link]
Spine J. 2010 Jun;10(6):463-8. Epub 2010 Apr 1.
Daffner SD, Hymanson HJ, Wang JC.
Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-9196, USA. sdaffner@hsc.wvu.edu
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Lumbar discectomy is one of the most common spine surgical procedures. With the exception of true emergencies (eg, cauda equina syndrome), lumbar discectomy is usually performed as an elective procedure after a prudent trial of nonoperative treatment. Although several studies have compared costs of definitive operative or nonoperative management of lumbar disc herniation, no information has been published regarding the cost of conservative care in patients who ultimately underwent surgical discectomy.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the financial costs (and relative distribution of those costs) associated with the nonoperative management of lumbar disc herniation in patients who ultimately failed conservative care and elected to undergo surgical discectomy.
STUDY DESIGN: This is a retrospective database review.
PATIENT SAMPLE: The sample comprises patients within the database who underwent lumbar discectomy.
OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcome measures were frequency of associated procedures and the costs of those procedures.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A search was conducted using a commercially available online database of insurance records of orthopedic patients to identify all patients within the database undergoing lumbar discectomy between 2004 and 2006. Patients were identified by American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology code. The associated charge codes for the 90-day period before the surgery were reviewed and categorized as outpatient physician visits, imaging studies, physical therapy, injection, chiropractic manipulation, medication charges, preoperative studies, or miscellaneous charges. The frequency of each code and the percentage of patients for whom that code was submitted to the insurance companies were noted, as were the associated charges.
RESULTS: In total, 30,709 patients in the database met eligibility criteria. A total of $105,799,925 was charged during the 90 days preoperatively, an average of $3,445 per patient. Average charge for discectomy procedure was $7,841. Charges for injection procedures totaled $16,211,246 or 32% of total charges, diagnostic imaging $15,648,769 (31%), outpatient visits $6,552,135 (13%), physical therapy visits $5,723,644 (11%), chiropractic manipulation $1,177,406 (2%), preoperative studies $426,976 (0.8%), medications $263,039 (0.5%), and miscellaneous charges $1,177,371 (2%).
CONCLUSIONS: Charges for preoperative care of patients with lumbar disc herniation are substantial and are split almost evenly between diagnostic charges (outpatient visits, imaging, laboratory studies, and miscellaneous) and therapeutic charges (injections, physical therapy, chiropractic manipulation, and medications). Although a large number of patients will ultimately require surgical intervention, given that many patients will improve with nonoperative therapy, a trial of conservative management is appropriate. Additional studies to identify patients who may ultimately fail nonoperative treatment and would benefit from early discectomy would be beneficial.
Comparative analysis of individuals with and without chiropractic coverage: patient characteristics, utilization, and costs. [Link]
Arch Intern Med. 2004 Oct 11;164(18):1985-92.
Legorreta AP, Metz RD, Nelson CF, Ray S, Chernicoff HO, Dinubile NA.
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, Calif, USA. alegorreta@healthbenchmarks.com
BACKGROUND: Back pain accounts for more than $100 billion in annual US health care costs and is the second leading cause of physician visits and hospitalizations. This study ascertains the effect of systematic access to chiropractic care on the overall and neuromusculoskeletal-specific consumption of health care resources within a large managed-care system.
METHODS: A 4-year retrospective claims data analysis comparing more than 700 000 health plan members with an additional chiropractic coverage benefit and 1 million members of the same health plan without the chiropractic benefit.
RESULTS: Members with chiropractic insurance coverage, compared with those without coverage, had lower annual total health care expenditures ($1463 vs $1671 per member per year, P<.001). Having chiropractic coverage was associated with a 1.6% decrease (P = .001) in total annual health care costs at the health plan level. Back pain patients with chiropractic coverage, compared with those without coverage, had lower utilization (per 1000 episodes) of plain radiographs (17.5 vs 22.7, P<.001), low back surgery (3.3 vs 4.8, P<.001), hospitalizations (9.3 vs 15.6, P<.001), and magnetic resonance imaging (43.2 vs 68.9, P<.001). Patients with chiropractic coverage, compared with those without coverage, also had lower average back pain episode-related costs ($289 vs $399, P<.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Access to managed chiropractic care may reduce overall health care expenditures through several effects, including (1) positive risk selection; (2) substitution of chiropractic for traditional medical care, particularly for spine conditions; (3) more conservative, less invasive treatment profiles; and (4) lower health service costs associated with managed chiropractic care. Systematic access to managed chiropractic care not only may prove to be clinically beneficial but also may reduce overall health care costs.
Economic case for the integration of chiropractic services into the health care system. [Link]
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2000 Feb;23(2):118-22.
Manga P.
Masters Program in Health Administration, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The role and position of chiropractic care in the health care system must be transformed from being alternative and separate to alternative and mainstream. This transformation requires that chiropractic services become integrated in the many health care delivery organizations that collectively constitute the health care system. There is solid and impressive economic and related justification for the desired integration. Chiropractic care is a cost-effective alternative to the management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions by other professions. It is also safer and increasingly accepted by the public, as reflected in the growing use and high patient retention rates. There is much and repeated evidence that patients prefer chiropractic care over other forms of care for the more common musculoskeletal conditions. The public interest will be well served by this transformation. Musculoskeletal disorders and injuries are the second and third most costly categories of health problems in economic burden-of-illness studies. They rank first as a cause in the prevalence of chronic health problems and long-term disability and rank at the top for activity limitations and short-term disability. They rank first as a reason for consultation with a health professional and second as a reason for the use of prescription and nonprescription drugs. These conditions are more prevalent among the poor, lower-middle income groups, and the elderly, yet those are precisely the groups that make the least use of chiropractic care for reasons of inadequate insurance coverage. The integration of chiropractic care into the health care system should serve to reduce health care costs, improve accessibility to needed care, and improve health outcomes.
Maintenance care: health promotion services administered to US chiropractic patients aged 65 and older, part II. [Link]
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2000 Jan;23(1):10-9.
Rupert RL, Manello D, Sandefur R.
Logan Chiropractic College, St Louis, MO, USA.
OBJECTIVE: Health promotion and prevention services provided by the chiropractic profession historically have been referred to as maintenance care (MC). The primary objective of this investigation was to obtain information regarding multiple health issues of patients age 65 years and over who have had a long-term regimen of chiropractic health promotion and preventive care. The study also sought to explore the nature of the interventions and methods that were most commonly used by chiropractors when administering MC and to determine whether there were differences between patients who have had long-term exposure to these preventive services versus those who have not.
DESIGN: This descriptive study was accomplished by selecting chiropractic patients (age 65 years and over) who had received health-promotion and prevention services for at least 5 years, with a minimum of 4 visits per year. To enhance the probability of securing a more representative patient sample, selection was made through the participation of chiropractors from 6 diverse geographic locations across the United States. Doctors were asked to enroll the first 10 consenting patients who met the inclusion criteria. A battery of diverse assessment instruments were completed by each patient to provide a patient health profile. Information related to each patient included answers to the SF-36D survey, patient health habits, expenditures of health services, frequency of use of health providers, and perceived value of chiropractic prevention and health promotion services.
RESULTS: A total of 73 chiropractors participated in this investigation from the 6 study sites. In addition to an average 1.9 manual procedures used per patient, it was common to recommend stretching exercises (68.2%), aerobic exercises (55.6%), dietary advice (45.3%), and a host of other prevention strategies, including vitamins and relaxation. The patients investigated in this study reported making only half the annual number of visits to medical providers (4.76 visits per year) compared with the national average (9 visits per year) for individuals age 65 years and over.
CONCLUSIONS: On the basis of the response of participating chiropractors, this study describes the therapeutic components of MC for the elderly patient. For these patients, MC does not simply consist solely of periodic visits for joint manipulation, but it involves an eclectic host of interventions (e.g., exercise, nutrition, relaxation, physical therapy, and manipulation) that are directed at both musculoskeletal and visceral conditions.
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Re:Health Center Evaluates Chiropractic
by BarryVictor (11/11/2012 4:59:58 AM)
Chiropractic now have a good benefits in lifestyle of a person and it is consider as a good medical alternative.
by justinedwards (11/19/2012 12:42:51 AM)
It surely reduces the cost of care as it eliminates the need to undergo costly surgeries and uses non invasive procedures to treat ailments.
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
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Wavelength turns 500, goes out with a bang
Jeremy R. JansenA birthday party is a bit of an odd time to announce a memorial, but such was the case this past February when, at the end of the successful 9th anniversary bash for Toronto’s venerable Wavelength weekly music series, it was announced that the 2010, 10th anniversary shows would also mark the final edition of the showcase… at least in its present form. While the weekly showcases are ending, the Wavelength marque and ethos will continue on via monthly showcases and one-off events, thus ensuring that the stages that gave countless Toronto acts – including Broken Social Scene, The Hidden Cameras and Constantines to name but a very few of the better known – will remain open and inviting.
But before the new Wavelength can begin, the old must be celebrated and put to bed, and that’s what the second weekend of February is going to be all about. Wavelength 500 will bring together acts from all throughout its history, some of whom have gone on to bigger things and some who have simply gone but all of whom are crucial parts of Toronto’s musical tapestry over the past decade. The festival will run over five nights at five venues, starting on February 10 and running through to February 14 for what’s sure to be the loudest, sweatiest Valentine’s Day bash on record. The lineups and locales for each night are as follows:
February 10 @ The Music Gallery: Bruce Peninsula, Evening Hymns, Pony Da Look, Deep Dark United, Canaille ($12)
February 11 @ The Steam Whistle Roundhouse – Holy Fuck, The Russian Futurists, Fembots, Diamond Rings, Professor Fingers ($18)
February 12 @ Sneaky Dee’s – From Fiction, The Bicycles, Laura Barrett, Magic Cheezies, Young Mother ($12)
February 13 @ The Polish Combatants Hall – Constantines, Rockets Red Glare, Donne Roberts, Picastro, Danger Bay ($20)
February 14 @ The Garrison – Kids On TV, Barcelona Pavilion, Mean Red Spiders, Neck, Boars (PWYC)
Advance tickets for the first four nights are available at the prices noted, while the fifth and final night will be pay-what-you-can. In addition, festival passes guaranteeing admission to all five shows will go on sale January 7 at the wholly reasonable price of $50. The timing of the festival is a bit unfortunate as there’s a lot a lot of other stuff going on before, during and after that weekend, but it’s not Wavelength’s fault – they’ve had this date circled on the calendar for, oh, a decade.
MP3: Laura Barrett – “Robot Ponies”
MP3: Bruce Peninsula – “Crabapples”
MP3: Canaille – “Vincent Massey” (live)
MP3: Constantines – “Nighttime Anytime It’s Alright”
MP3: Diamond Rings – “All Yr Songs”
MP3: Evening Hymns – “Dead Deer”
MP3: Fembots – “Good Days”
MP3: Holy Fuck – “Lovely Allen”
MP3: Picastro – “Hortur”
MP3: The Russian Futurists – “Paul Simon”
Constantines are no strangers to anniversary parties, having just wrapped up four Toronto shows to mark their own decade mark this past weekend. Spinner talked to frontman Bry Webb about the milestone.
Southern Souls is featuring a couple of video performances from Evening Hymns, who in addition to playing the Wavelength anniversary will be at the Garrison on January 22 for the Out Of This Spark 3rd anniversary show, alongside The D’Urbervilles, Forest City Lovers and Jenny Omnichord. Evening Hymns are also on HeroHill’s “best of 2009” list with a couple of unreleased tracks up for grabs and interviews with many of their picks.
Forest City Lovers frontwoman Kat Burns offers a couple of solo performances and an interview in this video feature from The National Post.
BlogTO has a feature on the Third Floor Sessions which have been happening at Ryerson University and yielding downloadable sessions from the likes of Ohbijou and The Wooden Sky… and yes, that is your cue to make with the clicky and download the goods (while watching the videos, of course).
NXEW is offering a free Christmas EP from Oh No Forest Fires that’s probably louder and fuzzier than your usual holiday fare. Thank goodness.
The Line Of Best Fit’s “Oh! Canada” series of compilations is also back with another volume, just in time for the holidays. Go get.
Tags: Barcelona Pavilion, Bicycles, Boars, Bruce Peninsula, Canaille, Constantines, Danger Bay, Deep Dark United, Diamond Rings, Donne Roberts, Evening Hymns, Fembots, Forest City Lovers, From Fiction, Holy Fuck, Kids On TV, Laura Barrett, Magic Cheezies, Mean Red Spiders, Neck, Oh No Forest Fires, Ohbijou, Picastro, Pony Da Look, Professor Fingers, Rockets Red Glare, Russian Futurists, Wooden Sky, Young Mother
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D//E Interviews: September Girls
After a bunch of early singles which are still available on their Bandcamp page, September Girls released their debut full-length Cursing The Sea on Fortuna POP! and aptly took the world of noise pop by storm. Their latest release, the Veneer EP proved the girls are here to stay.
Keyboardist/vocalist, Lauren answers our few questions…
Congratulations on the release of the two recent videos Veener and Black Oil? There seems to be a running theme between both videos, one is black and white, and the other is inverted, can you explain that in a bit more detail the story and creative process behind the video?
Thank you! The idea for the videos started when Sarah was inspired visually by the lyrics of ‘Black Oil’ and brought her ideas to the table, but we also knew that we were going to release ‘Veneer’ as a single so we decided to make two videos that could play as a set. As the conversation went on, we were excited by the idea of the two being opposites - ‘Black Oil’ very dark, with the band in completely white costume, and ’Veneer’ very white and blown-out with the band in contrasting dark
costume. The songs are thematically similar in that they touch on limitations and feeling stifled, so we shot in a tiny space that almost feels like a padded cell closing in on us. Plus, dressing us all the
same takes away any individuality, hinting at hindered creativity. Jessie – who made both videos - was also inspired by the look and feel of 70s exploitation horror films, so she brought that extra flavor to the visual imagery.
What’s the near future for September Girls like? Are you planning any tours
and will we see more single/EP/LP releases throughout the year to come?
No set plans for any releases at the moment, we’re really just focusing on writing as much as possible now and seeing where it takes us. We’ll be playing in Paris and Dublin in February, and will be heading off on a UK tour with A Place To Bury Strangers in April. Beyond that, 2015 is
pretty unplanned so far!
What has been your best and most memorable live show so far?
We played to our biggest crowd so far at a Record Store Day gig in London last year. Berwick Street was absolutely packed up and down the block – it was kind of terrifying but completely exhilarating! I think my favourite gig so far though has to be our last gig at CMJ in New York last October – we were right at the end of a 7 gig run over 4 days and should’ve been exhausted, but we all just completely let go and gave it everything we had. Great fun!
What helps you draw inspiration, and in terms of other artists who would you say has had an influence on September Girls?
We all have really different tastes, musical and otherwise so we take inspiration from all over the place. There’s a pop foundation that we’ve organically learned to build on over the last couple of years through experimenting with our sound and the way we write. It’s constantly evolving really as we don’t have a lead singer or chief songwriter, so everything we write has a different story that could start with one of us having an idea that we then work together to develop.
What were your favorite releases of 2014?
Gotta give shout outs to some talented friends here with The #1s - “The #1s” and Sissy – “Sissy E.P.”. Dublin power pop and smart punk treats.
Is there a story behind the band name, September Girls?
Not much of a story really - we took the name from the excellent Big Star song. It was covered by the Bangles who were some of our childhood heroes, so that gave it extra meaning for us. We also formed the band in September, so it seemed fitting.
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ECS wins nationwide award for modelling
ECS Engineering Services’ ability to use software to enhance every stage of complex construction projects has won it a UK Tekla Award and it will now go forward to the international stage of the competition.
The UK Tekla Awards celebrate the success of projects modelled using Tekla software in the UK and Ireland. Tekla is a software product family that consists of programs for analysis and design, detailing and project communication. It is widely used in the construction and related industries around the world.
The judges define the criteria they used for assessment of the entries as: showing collaboration between multiple participants and the use of open BIM (building information management); challenges solved with Tekla software products; perhaps a multi-material aspect or complexity of geometry; and most importantly the cool factor – uniqueness of the project and creativity in the project execution.
Projects of all sizes and degrees of complexity could be entered into the competition, so long as they demonstrated collaboration and innovation using digitisation solutions. Many prestigious construction projects, both large and small, were entered into the 2018 UK awards, including multi-storey offices, cultural buildings and sports facilities, industrial and commercial developments and infrastructure projects.
The judges considered all entries and drew up a long list of the most worthy. These were then opened up to review by the public via a dedicated website, who voted for their favourite and the overall winners in each category.
For the competition ECS created a model that integrated a number of recently completed water control projects set in a fictional site. It included lock gates, an FRP (fibre reinforced plastic) footbridge, trash screens, radial gates, fish passes, radar sensors and platforms, stop logs, limpet dams, a hydraulic lift bridge, flap valves, penstocks and associated ladders, access steel, winches, hand railing and fencing.
ECS’s James Kirk explains: “We really wanted to demonstrate our ability to bring together different parts of a project, seamlessly integrating all the data so that everyone has complete information on the project and its progress. Our ambitious entry paid off because it was liked by both the judges and the voting public. The judges said they particularly appreciated the inclusion of the moving mechanical items such as lock gates, which added extra dimensions to the model.”
Tekla’s UK Managing Director, Richard Fletcher, offers his view of the competition: “There are a lot of talented users of Tekla software amongst our customer base that we like to recognise. This year’s entries were a showcase for the digitisation of design for manufacture and assembly within the UK and Ireland. It is great to see the wide variety of work that Tekla Structures is used for.”
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Spicer thinks critics of Emmys appearance should lighten up
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer performs during the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, Los Angeles, California, 17/09/2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
David Bauder| Associated Press
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on September 20, 2017, on page 12.
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Sean Spicer says his surprise Emmy Awards appearance was a chance to have some fun, and suggested Tuesday that people who were upset by it were taking things too seriously.
It was a clear reference to Spicer's first appearance in the White House press room, arguing against photo evidence about the size of President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day audience.
Liberal commentator Keith Olbermann tweeted that the Emmys lost its credibility by lionizing Spicer.
After Spicer's appearance, Colbert got in a rip.
Vox website said it was "incredibly disappointing" to see Colbert joking with Spicer.
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Arena Club Northern Russia’s Premiere Nightspot
In the town of Severomorsk near Murmansk in northern Russia is a new club so cutting edge that visitors might think they’ve been magically transported to Moscow, London or New York.
Arena club recently emerged from the site of an old cinema outfitted in the latest dynamic lighting technology from Martin Professional, and has quickly become the region’s most popular entertainment venue.
Martin distributor A&T Trade, Inc. was commissioned to create a club atmosphere for the multifunctional space, one that included dynamic as well as static lighting. “Use of the installation depends on the type of event,” says Denis Bessonov, director of the company MasterMedia. “The fixtures support the work of the professional artists as well as create different lighting effects on the dance floor. They are used to reflect the mood of the various musical styles.”
Arena is housed in a two-story building with a ceiling height of 12 meters. The original plan called for lighting fixtures to be fixed on the ceiling for dance floor and hallway illumination yet due to the absence of support fixings and taking into account a limited budget, Denis could not turn to his first fixture choice, MAC 500 and 600’s. “So we ordered an aluminium two-level truss that goes around the perimeter of the dance floor,” says Denis “The first level is located at a height of 4.7 meters and the height of the crossbar in front of the stage is 7 meters. As we had a limited budget for this project we chose the MAC 250 which we set at right angles to the dance floor and to the ceiling with the aim of providing lighting for the floor as well as the ceiling.”
Around the perimeter of the dance floor are 10 MAC 250 Kryptons, alternating with MAC 250 Washes. Ten MAC 250 Washes flood the hall and the stage with two Martin Atomic 3000 strobes with Atomic Colors providing colorful punches of energy. Four Wizard Extremes are centrally located with MX-10 Extremes covering the stage and used to project effects on the back of the stage when visitors enter the venue. The MX-10 Extremes are fixed at a height of 7 meters and can be seen at any point in the club. Magnum Pro 2000 foggers provide the atmospheric effect and mid air projection canopy for the dance floor while Magnum 800s work the stage. Lighting control is from a Martin LightJockey. “It was the only possible inexpensive solution for such a quantity of fixtures and as only the DJ will run all the fixtures it was easier to explain to him how to use the software with ready-made lighting solutions,” comments Denis. Company Imlight provided DTS PARs for static stage lighting as well as the dimmer module and aluminium truss.
Visitors and club owners are reportedly quite happy with the installation. “The reason we chose Martin fixtures are many,” Denis says. “Their reliability, simple adjustment and usage, low percentage of defective fixtures, the simple process of repair and spare parts availability, and Martin’s recognized leadership in the sphere of lighting technologies.”
Denis concludes with a word of thanks. “I would like to say thank you to Michael Kuznetsov, Brand Manager of A&T Trade; Maxim Podrushko for his two years of work on this project and with this client; and to Martin for providing the opportunity to visit their headquarters in Denmark.”
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Reaching the Breaking Point?
Only one story to ponder today. Our differently-winged friends have always talked a good game regarding the military. They love our troops!
Of course, actions speak louder than words, and we know the GOP's track record in that regard.
But throughout all of it, we've always seen the politicians using the military as 'props'. Perhaps the most egregious example of late was President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech - as you'll note, that came on May 1, 2003. Sixteen years ago. I wonder what mission was completed?
In any case - it seems like the Pentagon may have finally had enough.
Last week’s news that Donald Trump’s White House sought to keep the words “John McCain” from his view during a trip to Japan for fear he’d have a meltdown marked a new level of pettiness for an extremely petty president. Yet over the weekend, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney—perhaps angling for a permanent role in the West Wing—defended the move. “We all know how the president feels about the former senator, maybe that’s not the best backdrop,” Mulvaney explained on Meet the Press Sunday. “That’s not an unreasonable thing.”
But such demands do appear to be “unreasonable” in the eyes of the Pentagon, which has reportedly asked the White House to leave the military out of Trump’s partisan schemes. Per the Associated Press, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Friday dispatched his chief of staff to the White House military office to “reaffirm his mandate that the Department of Defense will not be politicized.” In what is perhaps a sign of his lack of confidence that the administration will actually heed this directive, Shanahan is also considering issuing a guidance to the military on how to handle such requests in the future. While he told reporters over the weekend that he does not plan to launch an internal watchdog investigation into the McCain incident, he did say he’s examining how officials treated the White House request. “That would give me an understanding on the next steps,” Shanahan said.
The Navy’s participation in the president’s feud with a guy who’s been dead for close to a year is only the most recent instance of Trump dragging the military into his domestic concerns. Trump, who himself was prevented from serving due to not-at-all-made-up bone spurs, frequently makes a performance of his love for the armed forces, even as he spars with and otherwise disrespects the grieving families of fallen soldiers; brags about being smarter than generals and better at catching Osama bin Laden than Navy Seals; and, of course, trashes McCain’s military record. “He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump infamously said of the former prisoner-of-war in 2015. “I like people that weren’t captured.”
Trump has also used the military as a weapon in his culture wars, most notably against Colin Kaepernick and other N.F.L. athletes protesting police brutality and racial inequality during the pre-game national anthem. He’s involved the armed forces in some of his most controversial political schemes, including a costly deployment to the United States-Mexico border that the administration has all but admitted was a stunt to keep Democrats from winning back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms. And he’s repeatedly demanded that the military curtail its training exercises to throw an astronomically expensive parade to honor “veterans” (a.k.a. his own presidential power).
That the president has been able to do all this without much pushback means he’ll more than likely ignore the DOD’s request—particularly considering Shanahan is an “acting” secretary and can be removed at Trump’s whim. Moreover, the former Boeing exec reportedly clinched his position by implying he would show Trump the blind deference his predecessor, James Mattis, did not. And Trump has made clear that he loves the military only to the extent that it benefits him politically—and so long as he’s not required to travel to war zones or in the rain.
Of course, as Commander-In-Chief, he can order the military to bend to his whim. It would be significant if one day they simply stopped showing up to his increasingly histrionic propaganda events.
Is it finally enough?>
Mornin'!
So Raine.. that clip you posted late yesterday. Was that just part of the repertoire the band was playing or was it the only thing?
A few days old, but the Administration is blatantly ignoring a court ruling.
So last night murder of fashion.... wth was that tux? All of the tRumper clan wore it like that. Didn't they stop with that like 40 years ago? Tuxes are so my better nowadays. Ivanka was wearing basically an over fancy shirt dress. What the flipping hell was KellyAnn, Saddlebags, Munchkin doing there at all. And is Tiffany stress eating? (if she is I can empathize with her somewhat, I've been stress eating too)
ANd now I find out itunes is going away - not happy.
once more - a national embarrassment
This USS McCain story REALLY pisses me off.
What if we had an emergency?
Today's Google doodle is quite lovely.
the hell?
Paulie Walnuts is going to Rikers.
This may not end well, TBH.
yikes - yeah, he will be a trophy for someone.
Do you think Dems are gonna go for the bundle when it comes to contempt charges?
Breaking on @MSNBC: NBC News has just confirmed that the White House has directed Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to turn over documents related to her time in the Trump admin to Congress, @kwelkernbc reports. The two faced a subpoena deadline today.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 4, 2019
It's way past time for arrests to be made/
This is getting ridiculous!
haul thier asses in.
Anyone else would be locked up if he defied orders from courts or congress. If they are just going to fine, it needs to be steep and painful. If they are going to lock up, then make the fist and do it.
We are basically becoming damned if we do or damned if we don't if we don't do something soon.
Hope Hicks is defying the White House and cooperating with Congress
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Gorgeous Acacia Honey coming soon!
Exciting news! Gorgeous acacia honey coming soon!
The beekeeping sector is a vital component of the agricultural industry of South Africa and contributes directly into the biodiversity needs for a sustainable economy. Bee inspections were recently carried out at Emdoneni Lodge to help us protect the honeybee and we received some good-, some great- and some exciting news!
Our number 1 hive is phenomenal! From a small colony that moved in during winter and through a dearth period, they have exceeded expectations massively!
Our number 2 hive, is very strong and very healthy, packed with happy, working bees. Not even one hive beetle have been seen!
The local eucalyptus plantations are just coming into flower, from now until April/May – there should be a rich abundance of nectar available to the bees in every direction!
Facts about honey bees
1. Honey bees are super-important pollinators for flowers, fruits and vegetables. This means that they help other plants grow! Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit.
2. Honey bees live in hives (or colonies). The members of the hive are divided into three types:
Queen: One queen runs the whole hive. Her job is to lay the eggs that will spawn the hive’s next generation of bees. The queen also produces chemicals that guide the behaviour of the other bees.
Workers: these are all female and their roles are to forage for food (pollen and nectar from flowers), build and protect the hive, clean and circulate air by beating their wings. Workers are the only bees most people ever see flying around outside the hive.
Drones: These are the male bees, and their purpose is to mate with the new queen. Several hundred live in each hive during the spring and summer. But come winter, when the hive goes into survival mode, the drones are kicked out!
3. What are these buzzing bugs most famous for? Delicious honey! But did you know they produce honey as food stores for the hive during winter? Luckily for us, these efficient little workers produce 2-3 time more honey than they need, so we get to enjoy the tasty treat, too!
4. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen.
5. Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!
6. Each bee has 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell! They use this to communicate within the hive and to recognise different types of flowers when looking for food.
7. The average worker bee lives for just five to six weeks. During this time, she’ll produce around a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey.
8. The queen can live up to five years. She is busiest in the summer months, when she can lay up to 2,500 eggs a day!
9. Honey bees are also brilliant boogiers! To share information about the best food sources, they perform their ‘waggle dance’. When the worker returns to the hive, it moves in a figure-of-eight and waggles its body to indicate the direction of the food source. Cool, huh?
10. Sadly, over the past 15 years, colonies of bees have been disappearing, and the reason remains unknown. Referred to as ‘colony collapse disorder’, billions of Honey bees across the world are leaving their hives, never to return. In some regions, up to 90% of bees have disappeared!
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Build Resource-Friendly Web Services With Lighthttpd
If you're concerned about the impact of Web services on system resources, lighthttpd is establishing itself as a standout alternative to lumbering Apache or IIS.
By Aaron Weiss | Posted Jul 13, 2007
Apache has long been the Big Kahuna in the server room. Not only is it the leading Web server in the world, powering more than 58 percent of Web servers according to the oft-quoted Netcraft Web Server Survey, it is also the most widely used free and open source software. Not that Apache is without its competitors and alternatives. From Microsoft IIS to Sun Java Web Server, a variety of secondary Web servers continue to crunch away in Apache's shadow.
Lighttpd, a fairly recent entrant to the open source Web server field, is attracting remarkable enthusiasm. Its April 2007 debut on the Netcraft Web server survey officially put lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") on the map. With 1.2 percent of the nearly 114 million Web servers out there powered by lighttpd, it's population is sizable, albeit not about to topple Apache for the crown just yet. But lighttpd is well on its way to overtaking Sun for third place, driven primarily by support from administrators looking for an Apache alternative.
Apache, in a nutshell, has grown feature-rich and resource-heavy. This is less a critique than a reflection of its evolution and broad power. Lighttpd grew out of a thesis project by German developer Jan Kneschke in a proof-of-concept attempt to deliver 10,000 concurrent connections from one server. Unlike Apache 1.x's forking model and Apache 2.x's multithreaded model, lighttpd is built around a single-thread, single-process core that uses native event handlers built into the underlying operating system. Its tagline is "fly light," and indeed it does. Rather than integrate modules like PHP into the server process, lighttpd passes dynamic requests to external modules through the retro FastCGI interface.
The performance benefits of lighttpd, particularly for static or PHP-based pages, are no longer just proof of concept. Lighttpd has been put into production use at high-traffic sites like isohunt.com and mininova.org, both of which serve more than 1,000 page requests per second. Lighttpd is even used to serve portions of major sites, including YouTube, Wikipedia and Meebo. YouTube, for example, delivers static content like Flash videos via lighttpd while still using Apache to handle dynamic pages. This hybrid architecture of pairing lighttpd with a full-featured but more resource-hungry server is becoming an increasingly popular way to scale resources.
For administrators, installing lighttpd is a manual undertaking. You can download the 700KB tar distribution and compile from source on most Unix-based platforms or locate a pre-packaged binary, such as an RPM or DEB, for particular Linux distributions. On Linux and Unix, lighttpd is administered entirely by command. Alternatively, the 2MB Windows distribution includes a simple graphical installer and server start/stop shortcuts.
Many lighttpd adopters will have previous experience with Apache. Like Apache, lighttpd is configured through a central configuration file. However, it uses a very different configuration syntax. Whereas Apache's syntax is XML-like, the syntax for lighttpd configuration resembles a scripting language. Although preference for either is a matter of taste, lighttpd enthusiasts believe its configuration language is more concise and yet more flexible (e.g., you can use conditionals) compared to Apache.
Developers converting sites from Apache to lighttpd take note: If you rely heavily on rewrite rules for Apache, they may need to be reformulated for the lighttpd rewrite engine.
A growing range of modules for lighttpd expand on its core functionality, including authentication, content compression, content caching and support for WebDAV. PHP is perhaps the most popular processing complement to lighttpd. At first, lighttpd's support for PHP processing seems downright old-fashioned: It passes requests through the FastCGI module to an external PHP processor. Unlike Apache installations with PHP integrated, this allows the weight of PHP to be invoked only when needed, saving memory and potentially supporting more simultaneous connections in available memory.
Lighttpd also leverages FastCGI to scale efficiently. You can install lighttpd on a public-facing server, and set up a farm of FastCGI servers behind it to process dynamic requests. A simple configuration line tells lighttpd the IPs for the array of FastCGI servers. Lighttpd will load-balance requests among the FastCGI servers, making it easy to add or remove servers, as needed, to handle changes in dynamic load.
Because lighttpd has been designed from the ground up to serve thousands of requests concurrently, it is fast becoming the resource friendly Web server du jour. However, the lighttpd community is significantly smaller and less mature than that of Apache. Consequently, development and support is a growing but still specialized endeavor.
Pros: Extremely fast, especially for static content; Low memory footprint; Proven for thousands of connections.
Cons: Some reports of stability issues, incompatibility with some Apache configurations; Small development and support community.
Original Review Version: 1.4.15
Review courtesy of ServerWatch
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Prince James Uche Dies After Battling Different Ailments For Two Years
After battling different ailments for two years actor Prince James Uche has died. He died around 2:00pm at a Festac private hospital. He was supposed to leave for India this Saturday, but unfortunately lost the battle. Let’s just say the donations came too late. He was survived by wife and three kids and aged 55.
Update! Tonto Dikeh cries profusely as she talks about her failed marriage (video)
In an exclusive interview with media personality, Azuka Ogujiuba, actress Tonto Dikeh wept as she spoke about her failed marriage to her estranged husband, Oladunni Churchill. According to Tonto, she does not regret her marriage and didn't grant the interview to discredit her ex-husband. She stated that she indeed suffered domestic violence while she was with Churchill
"The domestic violence is real. How I lived to suffer it and go through it over and over again, I do not understand. Alot of people have blamed me. A lot of people have said a lot of things. I stayed back in my marriage, not because of my child, but because I loved my husband with all of my heart. I stayed because he begged me to stay a couple of times. I stayed because I just didn't want to give up. I didn't want to give up on the marriage just like that." Watch the video after the cut...
She shared photos and even a video of herself after she was physically abused by her ex husband. Tonto says sometime ago when they were in Ghana, she had to run to the Nigerian Embassy after he had physically abused her
"I also have pictures in Ghana. The Nigerian embassy in Ghana has pictures of me. I had to run to them at some point. The reason I can't release those pictures is because I was stark naked. My husband has humilated me so much and for anybody to tell me I am lying against my husband, that even hurts me more".
Tonto says if she had her way, she would love to delete everything about herself on the internet because of her child
"If I had my way, I would like to delete everything. I would like to delete my whole existence because of my child because I know that the internet never dies. He is going to grow up, he is going to read them and it is going to hurt him@.
The mother of one says associating her with drugs is the most hurtful misconception people have of her.
"Something that has really hurt me in recent times is someone associating me with drugs as a mother. That hurt me so much because nobody sees how good of a mother I am. Nobody knows the sacrifices I have made for my son. I do a drug test almost every month. I write a letter to my son every month on his birthday about how much he has changed my life, how much he has made me a better person, about how I have stopped so many things for him. That really destroyed me. That really broke me into a million pieces. That is the worst thing I have heard".
Tonto says she is aware that her ex-husband PA, Rosey Meurer is sleeping with him
"I am aware of her. I am aware she is sleeping with my husband. I am aware my husband is taking care of her. I am also aware that she is the reason why my husband abandoned his son with me for close to two months just before the big foundation thing we did in December because he took her on a trip. No she is not my husband's sister. My husband is not her brother. She doesn't know me. I have never spoken to my husband about her before but I do know their story and I do know that they are in love. It is not just a mere relationship. I have picrtures of them being on a trip abroad together, that is something my husband has never done for me or his family. Where that hurts me more was that I watched my husband make every single dime that he owns. I know the sacrifices that I have made for my family. All I expect was for him to be good to his family. Women are not the porblem I have with husband"she said
She denied allegations that she physically assaulted her mother in-law. Watch the interview below..
Omg! Tonto Dikeh shares photos from the injuries she suffered from alleged domestic violence
During the interview with Mediaroom Hub, Tonto shared photos of the injuries she claimed she suffered from her estranged husband, Churchill. See more photos after the cut...
German teenager stabs 9yr old boy to death and posts video of the incident on Facebook
Police in the small town of Herne, Germany have launched a manhunt to locate a 19yr old martial arts enthusiast and murder suspect named Marcel H who stabbed his 9yr old victim and shared the video on Facebook.
The body of the child was discovered by police in the cellar of a family home in the town shortly after dusk on Monday. As the boy was stabbed multiple times Marcel H. filmed his demise and posted the video on the so-called 'Darknet' - the lurid, unpatrolled side of cyberspace specialising in pornography, paedophilia, drugs and 'snuff' movies.
It was a Darknet user - who claimed to know the killer - who was upset by the images of the little boy who contacted police to tell them; 'I have just seen a boy murdered on the internet.' After commuting the murder, the killer logged into a chatroom and held up his bloodied hands to the camera. Police say the motive for the crime is still unknown.
Meet the Japanese couple who have been married for 37 years & wear matching outfits everyday (photos)
A Japanese couple who married in 1980 have gained over 120,000 followers on Instagram in two days after two major U.K news websites published an article showing the heart warming lives the couple live.
The Japanese couple who wear matching outfits every day, are in their 60s, have been married for 37 years, possess grey-hair, and are simply known as bonpon511 on IG.
Their Instagram handle is a reminder of their Christian names as well as their wedding date.They posted their very first photo only 13 weeks ago in December 2016 and many young couples have followed them as they see the way they dress- always with matching outfits- as a sign of true long lasting love between the couples. Such a sweet couple!
More photos of the pair below...
Omg! Teenager arrested after police arrive his home to find him with his mother's severed head and a bloody knife
Oliver Funez, 18, was arrested on Monday after he cut off his mother's head then proceeded to call the police on himself. Oliver committed the crime at their home just east of Zebulon, North Carolina, US.
He made the call to the police at about 1 p.m. on Monday and the police arrived some minutes later to find him walking out of the house, carrying a butcher's knife in one hand and his mother's head in the other.
He voluntarily placed the severed head on the floor and gave himself up to be arrested.
35-year-old slain Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado had four children. Oliver was the deceased's oldest son. Two younger children were in the house at the time of the crime but were not harmed. The third was at school.
A neighbour told how he passed by the scene later and saw the police officer wearing a very worried look which he would never forget:
"He just looked like he was just blown away. I mean, he was just in terror, he was so upset," the neighbour said.
Another neighbour said that they saw Machado's husband arrive at the scene, crying so loudly that everyone around the neighbourhood could hear him.
ABC 11 reported that Oliver has been charged with first-degree murder and could appear in court as quickly as Tuesday. Officers told reporters that they could not say how many times Funez's mother had been stabbed before her head was chopped off.
More photos below...
Nigerian Pastor who buried humans alive in his foundation caught in Enugu
The pastor who used human bodies lined up as part of his church foundation has finally been caught. You can run but can't hide because God does His things in mysterious ways.
The corpses were buried inside the foundation of a church building under construction and totally covered with concrete in Enugu state. According to the police, the workers might have been bribed to carry out this evil act and now that the master minder has been caught, hopefully through his confession all other culprits will be apprehended too. See graphic photos of the dead bodies below...so sad!
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Nigerian drug peddler arrested in India with 15 grams of cocaine
A Nigerian drug peddler, Patrick William Uzonna was arrested on Monday, March 6th, by the Commissioner’s Task force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad City, near Post Brew Pub, road no.45, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
The Police also seized 15 grams Cocaine, one Maestro Bike with registration No. B.No.AP13AE7431 and three Cell phones, from the accused.
Patrick Williams Uzonna came to India on visit VISA in September 2016 and stayed in Hyderabad. He met with Mr. Davis Chris Richard Mueller, a Kenya national in a pub, who is drug peddler. Then he hatched a plan to earn money for his lavish life by supplying drugs to needy customers.
Uzonna used to procure 1 gram of Cocaine per Rs.2,000/- from Mr. Davis Chris Richard Mueller and sells the same for Rs.5,000/- to Rs.6,000/- per 1 gram. He used to supply the contraband to the needy customers by moving on two wheeler Maestro Bike and earning easy money illegally.
On Monday evening, police apprehended the accused person near Post Brew Pub, road no.45, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad on his two wheeler along with cocaine.
Efforts are on to apprehend the other accused involved in this trade. The arrested accused along with seized property was handed over to SHO, Jubilee Hills PS, for judicial remand.
The arrest and seizures were made under the supervision of Sri. N.Koti Reddy, Addl. Dy.
Commissioner of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, Hyderabad City, by Sri. Ch.Sridhar, Inspector of Police, East Zone Task Force, Sri. Venkat Reddy, Inspector of Police, Jubliee Hills P.S., SI’s Sri A. Sudhakar, S. Saidababu, K. Srinivas and staff of East Zone Task Force Task Team, Hyderabad City.
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GoodLuck Jonathan Expose Every Detail You Never Knew About Chibok Girls
The immediate past President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who expressed sadness over distorted reports alleging that he refused British Govt’s offer to rescue Chibok Girls, have given a detailed account of the Chibok girls saga.
Response to The Guardian of U.K.
My attention has been drawn to a report in the Guardian of the U.K. alleging that the former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan rebuffed efforts by the British military to rescue the kidnapped Chibok Girls sometime in 2014.
Nothing could be further from the truth and to prove that this story from the Guardian is untrue, the international community will recall that when a Boko Haram affiliate kidnapped a Briton and an Italian, Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara, from Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi state of Nigeria, then President Jonathan personally authorized British Special Forces from the British Military Special Boat Service, to attempt a rescue mission in Sokoto state on the 8th of March, 2012 a full two years before the Chibok Girls Saga.
The British Military sent boots to the ground and these troops were given full and unhindered cooperation by both the then Nigerian government and the Nigerian military.
This already shows that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan had set a precedence of allowing British Military Forces operate in Nigeria to rescue hostages. This proves that not only is The Guardian story untrue, but it was not well researched. Why would then President Jonathan approve that operation and rebuff the other? The story from The Guardian is built on a foundation of lies.
This is however not surprising since The Guardian stated that it was relying not on its own investigation but on second hand hearsay reportage from The Observer.
The international community is reminded that it is public knowledge that then President Goodluck Jonathan wrote letters to the trio of then US President, Barack Obama, then British Prime Minister, David Cameron and French President, François Hollande, asking them for precisely what The Guardian says he refused, help in rescuing the Chibok Girls.
The international community is reminded that so eager was the then Nigerian President to rescue the girls that he personally approved for these foreign governments to fly over Nigerian airspace in order to identify the location of the Chibok Girls.
Not only did Dr. Goodluck Jonathan welcome foreign intervention, he was also the prime mover in the Multi National Joint Task Force involving Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria and authorized the military forces of those nations to fight Boko Haram on Nigeria soil. If President authorized the military forces of these nations to operate against terrorists in Nigeria, why would he refuse similar assistance from Nigeria’s international partners?
And to Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s current minister of information (if he can be so called) who said:
“After the girls were kidnapped and the Jonathan Administration did nothing for all of 15 days or make any determined efforts to rescue them thereafter, our party, the then opposition APC, told the nation several times that the whole Boko Haram crisis was allowed to escalate by the PDP-controlled Federal Government so they can use it as a political tool ahead of the 2015 elections.”
My response to his lies is as follows. Opinions are subjective but facts are sacred. The facts are that then President Jonathan immediately sprung to action to rescue the kidnapped Chibok Girls and it was precisely the fallacious Lai Mohammed, whose words I caution the international community to take with a pinch of salt, that attempted to frustrate the efforts by the then government to rescue the girls.
Below are a factual timelines with dates, names and location. I challenge Lai Mohammed to rebut them with his own facts:
March 12, 2014: The then minister of state for education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, wrote the Governors of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and advised them not to hold the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in areas susceptible to the Boko Haram insurgency. This letter had the reference number HMSE/FME/147/VOL.1/150 and the subject: ‘Security challenges and the conduct of the 2014 WASSCE and SSCE in Borno, Yobe and parts of Adamawa States’.
The Governors of Yobe and Adamawa acknowledged the letter and cooperated with the then Peoples Democratic Party led Federal Government to bus students to secure locations to write their scheduled school leaving examinations.
April 14, 2014: Contrary to the advise given by the Peoples Democratic Party led Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan, the All Progressive Congress led Government of Governor Kashim Shettima, for reasons best known to it, chose to ignore that advise and held the WASSCE examinations in Chibok, a mainly Christian town that was susceptible to attacks from the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram.
On the day in question, the girls of Government Girls Secondary School Chibok were kidnaped by Boko Haram while preparing to write their final physics examinations. Curiously, both the Principal of the school and her Vice were not on the school’s campus as the girls were inside a dormitory.
The Principal of the school, Hadjiya Asabe Kwambura, later claimed to have gone to Maiduguri for a ‘medical check up’ on the day of the abduction. It seemed very inauspicious for a principal of a school to schedule a non emergency ‘medical check up’ for a time when the school she presided over was having perhaps its most important activity of the year, school leaving examinations.
This same woman later changed her story when she told Fox News that she had gone to Maiduguri to buy medicines and was informed by her daughter about the kidnap. But how did her daughter, a student of the school, avoid being kidnapped?
It is noteworthy that this particular principal was never reprimanded or disciplined or in anyway made to take responsibility for this obvious dereliction of duty by the Borno state government who owns the school.
Flash forward to April 2, 2016: Governor Kashim Shettima confessed in an interview with Premium Times that he, the chief security officer of the state, DID NOT inform then President Jonathan when the girls were kidnapped for reasons best known to him.
April 17, 2014: Exactly three days after the kidnap, President Jonathan who had not been formally informed of the issue because of the deliberate refusal of the APC led government of Borno state to brief him called for an emergency meeting at the Presidential villa after the military independently alerted him.
Multiple dates in April, 2004: The military, principally the air force, were given conflicting information as to what direction the fleeing terrorists took when they captured the girls. Were these conflicting information a deliberate effort to send the military on a wild goose chase?
Flash Forward to January 6, 2017: One of the Chibok girls who escaped from her captors granted an interview to the New York Times and revealed that they were not taken to Sambisa Forest by the terrorists as previously thought. According to her testimony, they were rather taken to the Borno state capital of Maiduguri and kept at a house there for months.
Flash Forward to January 11, 2017: Chibok Community leader, Pastor Bulus Baba, in an interview with local media corroborated the New York Times report and said even after they left Maiduguri they were moved to another town and kept in the home of an influential local politician. According to him:
“The girls said, they spent over 8 months in Gwoza local government area along with other abducted women. They said they were kept at a resident of one of the top politicians in that local government area until at a point when a fighter jet dropped bomb that touch part of the house killing some of the girls.”
May 2, 2014: Then President Jonathan sets up a fact finding mission to determine the facts of the kidnap and stresses that the mission’s work would not interfere with search and rescue efforts.
May 2, 2014: Frustrated by the school’s authorities to come clean with accurate information about the identities of the missing girls, the Christian Association of Nigeria released the names of the kidnapped girls for the first time.
May 3, 2014: Charles Eguridu, head of the West African Examination Council’s National Office in Nigeria revealed in testimony broadcast live on national television that WAEC had asked the Borno state Governor not to hold examinations at Chibok due to safety issues, but that Governor Shettima, in writing, had assured WAEC that he would provide adequate security for Chibok, a promise he did not keep. According to Mr. Eguridu:
“The Borno state government also refused to relocate the students from Chibok to safer places like Maiduguri. “Borno state government only agreed to relocate the remaining 189 pupils after the abduction of the girls.”
Talk about medicine after death.
May 4, 2014: After consistent confused and contradictory information from the Borno state Government and various other authority figures, the Presidency invited the principal actors in the Chibok saga to the Presidential villa to ascertain the truth. The Presidency was shocked at the non appearance by officials of the Borno state government. The governor’s wife who was invited shunned the event and when the then First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan saw the scanty representation from Borno she famously exclaimed ‘na only you waka come’?
May 5, 2014: Many residents of Gamboru Ngala were killed by Boko Haram forces after troops stationed there left that town to go to the Sambisa forest area closest to Chibok town to look for the missing girls. The precision behind the arrival by Boko Haram just as the troops left the town gave rise to strong suggestions that the terrorists were tipped off by a mole.
May 6, 2014: The then National Publicity Secretary of the APC and now the current minister of information, Lai Mohammed, released a statement calling the Presidency’s intervention a ‘distraction’.
May 6, 2014: In response to a request by the Nigerian Government for help, then United States President, Barack Obama announced that the US was dispatching personnel into the area to help search for the missing girls.
May 9, 2014: Nigeria welcomed experts from the United States and the United Kingdom to help search for the girls.
May 11, 2014: Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima tells the local and international media the girls had “been sighted”. In view of later testimony by the released girls that they had initially been kept in Maiduguri, Shettima’s accounts now elicit more suspicion especially as Boko Haram released a video a day after the revelation by Governor Shettima.
May 12, 2014: Boko Haram releases a video purporting to be of the Chibok girls. However, in that video, the girls do not look terrified and one of them is shown distracted as she appears to be sending a text or making a call on her mobile phone which was visible to the camera. This video is still publicly available on YouTube. Giving the testimony that they were held in Maiduguri the state capital before being taken to Gwoza, how could this video have been shot in day light without attracting some attention?
May 26, 2014: The Nigerian military revealed through Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, that it knew the location of the girls but could not attack because of fear of loss of lives of the girls after a similar operation in Sokoto to save an Italian and a Briton led to loss of lives of the hostages taken by an affiliate of Boko Haram.
Unspecified Date in May 2014: The Jonathan administration began secret negotiations to secure the release of the Chibok girls.
September 7, 2014: In an interview with foremost Northern Nigeria daily, Leadership Newspaper, some of the parents of the kidnapped girls alleged that the entire saga was a conspiracy. In that interview, a Chibok parent, Bulama Jonah, said:
“We still believe that there was an internal collaboration in the abduction of our daughters by the Boko Haram gunmen, because we have correct information that some of the teachers, who are very senior in the school, managed to move their own daughters and family out of the school premises before the attack.
“That is why we are insisting that (the Borno state) government must provide our daughters and we would not take it lightly if they don’t produce our girls for us. The girls were in their custody, because school premises belong to government; and we believe they were aware of the attack but failed to provide security for them.”
October 6, 2014: Then President Jonathan visits Niamey as part of efforts to secure the release of the Chibok girls with the help of the Nigerien government.
October 15, 2014: During the Presidential Declaration by then candidate Muhammadu Buhari, now the incumbent President, Audu Ogbeh, at that time the Director General of the campaign (he was later replaced) said on live Television that the pressure group Bring Back our Girls, led by a virulent critic of the Jonathan administration, Oby Ezekwesili, lso said that the #BBOG campaign is led by “members of our party, the APC.” This is an exact quote and reflects the politicization of the saga.
Flash Forward to July 12, 2016: President Muhammadu Buhari appoints Bring Back our Girls co-founder, Ms. Hadiza Bala Usman, as the head of Nigeria’s largest and perhaps most profitable parastatal, the Nigerian Ports Authority. Many consider this as a reward to Ms. Usman and a corroboration of the “members of our party, the APC” comment of Chief Audu Ogbeh.
October 17, 2014: A truce was announced with Boko Haram after negotiations which was to allow for the release of the Chibok girls. The truce was broken by Boko Haram who reneged on their promise to release their captives.
From the above, it is clear that Nigeria’s minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has an estranged relationship with the truth.
For and on behalf of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
See Toddler Seen Waving Gun Around During Training To Become An Armed Robber
Video of a toddler waving a gun around has caused outrage after it was posted online. The clip shows a young boy that some sources report to be just three-years-old wearing an Angry Birds T-shirt and aggressively waving a gun at the camera.
Addressing the person making the clip in Spanish, he demands "plata" - slang for cash - as if he is a mugger, while waving around the weapon .
He says: "Give me the money, 30,000 bucks, Bolivian cat."
At one point he says "son of a b****" and other swear words, before adding a racist slur to the mix: "Suck my c***, stupid n*****."
Viewers' outrage was fuelled by the perception that, as the boy is filmed from slightly above, it must have been an adult behind the camera, and therefore the adult was training the boy for a life of crime.
It is unclear if the gun in the clip is real or a toy.
Street crime is known to be a problem in Argentina, with the United States government calling it a "constant problem" for residents and visitors alike.
Update! What Apostle Suleman Said In Church After S3x Scandal
He was at a service yesterday and he spoke about the sex allegations. Here is part of what the Apostle said;
'Nothing attacks reputation like allegations'
'God can’t be fighting when you are fighting. God fights when you are still'
'If the devil/ kingdom of hell wants to get at you and make heaven stand firm for you/at your defense they will attack your reputation'
'Only those who stand out are confronted'
Another Batch Of 171 Nigerians Return From Libya
A total of 171 Nigerians stranded in Libya were on Tuesday brought back home from the North African country. The returnees arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, aboard a Burac Air chartered flight with registration number TNSIB (UZ189/190).
Their return was facilitated by the International Organization of Migration (IOM) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
Officials of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced (NCFRMI) were also on hand at the Lagos airport to receive the returnees.
Among the 171 returnees, were 95 females, consisting 83 adults, 10 children and two infants with 73 male adults, two children and an infant.
Bauchi State Okays Death Sentence For Kidnappers
Kidnapping in Bauchi State is now punishable with death or life imprisonment as Governor Mohammed Abdullahi has signed into law a bill in that direction.
The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ibrahim Umar, made this known on Tuesday while briefing newsmen in Bauchi.
He said Abdullahi also assented to bills on fisheries and accidents. Umar said the governor assented to the bills on Monday.
“Whoever is guilty of the offence of kidnapping shall be punished with life imprisonment. If the victim dies as a result of the kidnapping, the offender shall be punished with death,” he said.
According to Umar, whoever seizes, confines, tricks, abducts or carries away anybody and holds anyone to ransom with or without a weapon, commits the offence of kidnapping.
Umar said the state government also signed into law a bill for the provision of free emergency treatment to accident victims within 24 hours of the occurrence of such an accident.
He said government would provide an accident and emergency unit, an intensive care unit and a blood bank equipped with personnel and effective communication gadgets for each public hospital.
“The law stated that the state government shall provide funds and logistics for joint patrol of the hospital management board and the Federal Road Safety Corps for rescuing accident victims in the three senatorial districts of the state,” Umar said.
Multi-Million Cash Stolen At South African Airport
Suspected bogus police have stolen an estimated US$15-million in cash in a daring late night robbery at Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport.
The heist occurred when "police" stopped GuardForce personnel as they were transporting the money to an awaiting flight bound for London on Tuesday night.
Airports Company South Africa’s O.R. Tambo International Airport said in a short statement the robbery occurred at approximately 7.45pm.
"No shots were fired and no injuries have been reported. The robbers fled‚" it said in a statement.
"South African Police Service (SAPS) and Airports Company South Africa is working closely with other security agencies to apprehend the suspects.
"The investigation is at an early stage. Updates will be provided when more information is available."
The airport authority said "it is not known at this stage what‚ if anything‚ was taken during the incident" but independent sources told TimesLIVE that an estimated US$15-million in cash was stolen.
GuardForce is responsible for securing high risk cargo‚ such as money‚ precious metals and diamonds‚ at a cargo storage facility at the airport.
Separate and independent sources told TimesLIVE from the scene that the attack occurred as the GuardForce employees approached the aircraft.
"A van with 'police' and flashing lights ordered the vehicle to stop as it neared the aircraft.
"They went for specific boxes. It's clear that they knew what they were searching for."
Another source‚ within the Hawks‚ which is investigating the attack‚ described the heist as a "slick" operation.
"They went for a certain number of boxes. The robbers were assigned to look for and grab certain containers.
"They clearly had good info. They knew how to get into the airport and how to get out‚ which exits to use ... Within minutes they were gone ... clear of the airport.
"The money was in numerous foreign currencies. It was being stored at the cargo section of the airport where high value and high risk cargo such as cash is stored."
Hawks spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi confirmed the robbery.
“A high level investigation has been launched but it is sensitive at this stage‚ so we cannot release any further details‚” he said.
In 2006‚ about R100 million was stolen in an Oceans Eleven style heist at OR Tambo Airport. The gang colluded with three airport employees in robbing an international flight carrying foreign currency destined for FNB and Standard Bank.
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February In Review
In contrast to January, February has seemed to have absolutey flown by, so much so I have hardly had time to even notice what products I have been loving lately. However, what I have been loving this month are some real gems that I can't wait to share!
B E A U T Y /
I've never really been one for eyeliner, however this month I picked up Soap & Glory's The Supercat eyeliner and have been really excited to try it out. Although I love their body products, I've actually never tried any of their makeup until now - which I am really impressed by, it makes applying eyeliner really easy, perfect for a newbie like myself.
I also love Barry M's Under The Sea nail polish in the shade Angelfish, the lightest of the four in the range. It's such a unique nail polish because the two-toned formula looks really different in different lights. I'm also really impressed by how long-lasting it is so I really want to try some other shades now too!
M U S I C /
This month I went to see The Script's Freedom Child tour, which was such an incredible concert. Although it was right at the beginning of the month, seeing them really reminded me how good their latest album is so I've gone and listened to it more lately.
I'm also loving Want You Back by 5 Seconds Of Summer, as I mentioned in my last post. I've been awaiting new music from them for such a long time, but I'm so glad they took their time to make it the best possible because I can tell when their third album comes it's going to be a really good one.
T V /
This month I discovered the show The Bold Type, about three girls working in the magazine industry in New York and really enjoyed it. The storylines were amazing and I loved watching the girls grow in their careers and their confidence. I only wish there was more than ten episodes so I can't wait for season 2!
L I F E /
Because I've barely had time to blink in Feburary, it has gone so quick, I can't say I have a lot to report on in the life section, but trying out the dessert place 'Kaspa's' with my friends was a highlight - their chocolate fudge cake was to die for!
What have you been up to this month?
Latest Music Loves
If I've noticed anything different about how I listen to music lately, I know I've definitely not been keeping up with the chart music like I used to. Although I used to worship Spotify's 'Hot Hits UK' playlist, when I played it the other day I realised I hardly knew any of it, and in fact it all sounded a bit... boring and samey. I'm not saying it's all bad, but what exactly have I been listening to at the moment?
One of the music releases I have been anticipating for a really long time now is from 5 Seconds Of Summer. I was definitely a little worried they would conform to everyone's electronic style of the moment but they have stayed true to themselves and their style with their amazing new single Want You Back. I have had it on repeat since it came out, I'm not even exaggerating! I love the lyrics and cannot wait for more new music from them.
Coincidentally, another song I have been loving lately is also called Want You Back, by the band HAIM who I have started to listen to quite a bit lately. I'm really glad I started listening to them - I'm not too sure how I stumbled on their music, I think I just saw someone on Twitter mention them a bit back and (remembering what a tune their collab Pray To God with Calvin Harris was) thought they looked like my sort of music? But, I really like their style of music and Want You Back is currently my favourite of theirs, I really need to go and listen to some more though!
Of course, because I receieved Niall Horan's album Flicker on vinyl I have been loving that a lot lately. I think on his solo album Niall's style has really shone through and I'm so excited about that. My favourite song on the album is On The Loose, also his latest single and it really sold his album to me straight away! It's a song that sounds even better when played on a record player as well, I've realised certain songs sound so much better and it's definitely one of them.
I have also loved James Bay's new single Wild Love, I had a listen when it came out and noticed how good his vocals really are! It's actually such a shame it hasn't charted better, I was really expecting it to be like his first single Hold Back The River - which I went and relistened to recently because it was so good! I love the accoustic sound and it's definitely something the current music is missing right now.
What music have you been loving lately?
Mother's Day is only around the corner now, 11th March in the UK, so today I thought I'd provide some inspiration as to what you should treat your mother to this Mother's Day. I'm going to include ideas for all budgets and price ranges so there really is something for everyone!
A perfect way to treat your mother for Mother's Day is a Luxury Perfume Gift Set. Perfume is always a lovely gift to give because it feels like such a treat to receive some new perfume - you might even find their new signature scent!
Something that mums always seem to love is candles so a Personalised Candle from Yankee Candle would be an amazing gift for any mum. I love how you can choose the perfect scent and size and add a really cute photo and message. It really adds a personal touch to the candles we all seem to go and automatically buy for our mums at this time of year.
Bath and body products are always perfect to give your mum a pampered treat - Soap and Glory products are one of my favourites to give because their scents are always so lovely that it's a real win-win situation.
Another brand whose products are perfect for Mother's Day has to be Lush, especially with their mother's day range now on sale. They do the cutest range for Mother's Day in a selection of prices - you could go for one of the bigger sets alone or get one of their singular products such as the new Mother Of Pearl Bubbleroon, which makes the bath a gorgeous blue and you can tell would be such a relaxing product.
A typical gift but always a winner is some luxurious chocolates - is there really a better way to treat your mum? Thorntons chocolates are always a good choice, and I love how you can personalise their favourite box of chocolates, or write a cute message in some of their alphabet truffles.
Stationery can always be a great gift to buy for your mum too - Paperchase has a gorgeous selection of mum inspired stationery this season, ranging from notebooks to pens to mugs. You know if you went into Paperchase you'd end up finding the perfect gift for your mum, and then probably end up buying way too much for yourself too! Why are Paperchase's products just all so gorgeous?
If you are looking to spend some time instead of money on your mum's present this year, what I actually did last year was bake her some cupcakes! This is definitely a better idea if you are good at baking (unlike me), but it's a really affordable way of treating your mum because you know she will be honoured at the time and effort you put into them - even if they turn out a mess like mine did!
At the end of the day, no matter what your price range is, the most important thing on Mother's Day is to treat your mum to a lovely day spent with yourself! What are you planning on treating your mum to this year?
*sponsored links were used in this post, but all opinions are honest and my own :) x
The Cool Toned Palette Of Dreams | Naked Smoky
When I heard that Urban Decay's Naked Smoky palette was becoming discontinued, I immediately realised how much I needed it in my collection. It seems you never notice how much you need something until it's almost unavailable! Luckily, after a few hints about how I needed it now before it was too late, my mum managed to get me it for Christmas and I have loved staring at the shades excitedly ever since.
As a warm-toned eyeshadow addict (the Naked Heat is seriously my best friend), it's definitely a bit of a wonder why I'm so excited about this palette that is packed full of blue and grey hues. I was certainly looking forward to branching out of my comfort zone and trying something completely new. The Naked Smoky is so different to all my other eyeshadow palettes and this definitely made me feel a bit less guilty about getting yet another palette.
Opening up the palette you are greeted with twelve gorgeous shades, which range from shimmer to satin to matte - in that order, I love how the palette is organised because it makes it a bit easier to put together a look when they're all grouped in formulas. The first three: High, Dirtysweet and Radar, are really gold/brown toned, so of course on first use, these were the shades I opted for, as I was used to shades like these so particularly drawn to them. The formula of the shimmers is lovely, they're plenty pigmented and have a lovely sheen to them. I especially love the shade High because it's a gorgeous highlight - I may have even used it on the cheekbones once or twice because of the amazing glow it gives.
I then started branching out to the cooler shades in the middle of the palette. Armour is a really pretty silver shimmer that works really well all over the lid for a sparkly cool look. I also really like the satin shades Black Market and Smoulder - Smoulder is really quite purple toned and I think it makes it quite unique, and workable with any plum shades I have too in the rest of my collection. Black Market is quite blue toned and blends out really nicely.
The palette includes four mattes which are really the perfect amount for this palette I think. Password and Whiskey are really lovely to blend out in the crease for a smoky look. Of course, the name of the palette is smoky so that's the aim of the game with this one, and with those two shades, it couldn't be any easier. Combust would also work well as a transition shade, then finally Thirteen is a perfect matte highlight. The only thing missing I think, is a real grey toned matte like Magnet in the Naked Ultimate Basics - but I suppose if you have that palette too, that shade in particular works very well with the smoky.
I love the brush the palette comes with, a bit different to the other Naked palettes with an end perfect for creating smoky looks. I find especially useful the little guide the palette comes with as well, making it the perfect palette for smoky beginners or anyone who needs a little inspiration.
When it comes to lip shades to pair the palette with, I like to save all my warm-brown tones for when doing a warm look and get out the more cool, purple toned lip options. Something nude and subtle is perfect when you've got so much going on with the eyes, so I find Stila's Baci liquid lipstick the perfect finish to the look.
Make sure to pick up your Naked Smoky palette before they're all gone from stores forever! There's a few left in some shops such as Feel Unique and Debenhams - you'll regret it if you don't have this smoky selection in your collection! Are you a cool toned eyeshadow lover, or do you prefer to stick to warm tones?
The Script Freedom Child Tour | Manchester
The Script are definitely one of the best live bands I have ever seen - I certainly had the time of my life last year when I went to see them at Blackpool, so of course when they announced an arena tour I jumped at the chance to go and see them again in Manchester, on the 3rd February.
As usual for The Script's support acts, they were joined by someone I had actually heard of - Ella Eyre. I've liked some of her songs like Waiting All Night and Came Here For Love for ages so it was really fun to see them live. Support acts are definitely better when they sing a few songs you do actually know because that's what makes the crowd going, so it was really enjoyable.
I was sat in Block 108, row C, which is the block right at the back of the arena, facing the stage. Although it's far back it provides a great straight-on view of the stage and is always a great view if the band have a B-Stage. Which, luckily The Script did! Just before they were due to come on, a huge curtain came down around the B-Stage, which made us think they must be starting the concert on the second stage. Otherwise, us lot in the back blocks wouldn't have been able to see the main stage!
That they did, and they burst onto the B-Stage, beginning the set with Superheroes, the brilliant single off the fourth album, No Sound Without Silence. I had such a great view of them at this point and wished they would stay on that stage for the entire show. They continued to play some of their fast-paced songs that really get their crowd going, Rock The World and Paint The Town Green, before moving onto the main stage to play more of their classic back-catalogue.
One of the songs that really stood out to me was The Man Who Can't Be Moved. It's a real oldie but a classic of The Script's, and I love how Danny gets the crowd to sing it before they join in with the instruments. The atmosphere feels really electric in the arena. Other favourites included Six Degrees Of Separation, If You Could See Me Now and new song No Man Is An Island. It's such a fun one to dance to!
Another amazing moment was when Danny went out into the crowd. He was stood in the middle of block 103 and some very lucky fans got to choose the song he would play that hasn't been selected for this year's setlist already. Never Seen Anything Quite Like You was the choice, one of my personal favourites so it was really lovely. It's one that doesn't need a lot of production because it has the most beautiful melody so it was perfect to sing in the crowd.
It was also so funny in Rain, the hit song off Freedom Child, a lot of the crowd put their umbrellas up in the air! They then went off before the encore which consisted of No Good In Goodbye, Breakeven and finally, Hall of Fame. I love the beginning of the encore of No Good In Goodbye because the guitar intro is absolutely insane. Breakeven is always a classic live, and although I think Hall Of Fame is getting a bit old now to finish on, when they brought the Manchester choir who appeared in One Love Manchester on was a really lovely touch.
My only disappointment was that the title track of the new album, Freedom Child, wasn't on the setlist! The tour is called Freedom Child, it's only right to play that song when, since the album has been released, it has definitely become one of my all-time favourite songs from The Script already. Hopefully one day I'll hear it live!
I absolutely love seeing The Script live again and I know I will definitely make sure to see them on their tours in the future too! They're definitely the sort of band you can see live again, and again. Have you been to any concerts lately, or got any lined up?
The Latest MAC Lipstick Additions
MAC lipsticks have always been my favourite and lately, I've expanded my collection by a couple more. I've been really excited to try a formula I never have from their selection, and also picked up a shade lately that's a bit darker and different than the rest of my MAC lipsticks.
The first of the two I actually bought a few months back, when I was at the airport on my way to my holiday, but never found a chance to write about it on my blog. The shade I chose was Cosmo, which I was really excited to try because its formula is an Amplified Creme. I would best describe that as the creamy feel a cremesheen has while also having the pigmentation of a satin or even matte formula would. It's a really lovely formula and I'm really glad to have added one to my collection.
The shade itself, Cosmo is a really pretty pink nude. It's perfect to wear everyday, especially because the formula means it is long-lasting and a gorgeous shade without drying out your lips. It's lovely to switch up from the mattes every so often and go for a cream finish so this is perfect for that. I can't say I've worn it loads yet because I tended to stick to brown-tones throughout autumn but I know it will be an essential for me come spring-summer.
My second addition to my collection I purchased while in Chester, where their MAC counter inside Debenhams had 15% off. It was an offer I just had to take advantage of, and the shade Retro was one I had been eyeing up for a while. It's my second of MAC's lipsticks in their satin formula, which is definitely my favourite of all their formulas, so I was so excited to get another one.
When I swatched Retro in store, I'm sure it looked browner than it actually is, but that's not neccessarily a bad thing! Their website describes it as a peachy-pinky brown, whereas for me I'd say it's a bit more red toned, but maybe that's just me?! It's actually good it's a bit different because it's so unlike the rest of my MAC lipsticks, and even all my lipsticks for that matter. I've already worn it twice since I got it only a week or so ago and I know I'll be wearing it a lot. Because it's a bit darker it's probably more of an evening or with a less-smoky-eye look, but I have liked wearing it during the day too.
As I mentioned before, the satin finish is my absolute favourite and it's perfect for a shade like Retro. It's really pigmented, doesn't feel at all sticky like a cream lipstick may do, but there are no drying worries like you might have with a matte. Plus, it can often be a bit more flattering to have a slight-sheen to your lips which is why satin has to be my favourite.
Have you purchased any new lipsticks lately? I definitely don't need to buy anymore now, but I always love reading your favourites and recommendations!
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Dairy Queen employee fired over marijuana cake mix-up: ‘It's not funny to me'
Photo credit: Kensli Taylor Davis
By fox5dc.com staff
Posted Jul 12 2019 12:17PM CDT
Updated Jul 12 2019 12:31PM CDT
FOX NEWS - The funny “Moana” marijuana cake mix-up that went viral earlier this week didn’t leave everyone laughing.
Cassandra Walker, the Georgia Dairy Queen employee who made the drug-themed ice cream cake, said she was fired over the mistake that she claims was not even her fault in the first place.
According to Walker, her manager at the fast-food chain misheard Kensli Taylor Davis’ mother, who placed the order, and thought she said “marijuana” instead of “Moana.” Walker, who has worked at the Dairy Queen for about a year, also alleged her manager gave her approval to make the cake with the illicit theme.
"The manager stood behind me while I pulled the images off the Internet," Walker said to USA Today. "She walked by as I decorated the cake. As I boxed the cake up, she was the one who walked it up to the front."
Walker, a mother of two, said once Davis’ mother came to pick up the cake and explained it wasn’t what she ordered, the store immediately apologized and offered to make a new cake.
"Our cake decorator designed a cake based on what she thought she heard the customer order. When the customer picked it up and said it was not what she ordered, we immediately apologized for the error and offered to redesign it the way she originally intended. The customer said it was fine, paid for the cake and left,” one of the Dairy Queen owners Al Autry said to USA Today.
However, Walker was still let go from her position on Monday, which also was her birthday, USA Today reported. It was not reported if the manager was also fired.
"It’s not funny to me," Walker said to USA TODAY. "This is back-to-school time. I have two little girls here. I have a car that needs fixing. It’s not funny to me."
Walker was offered her position back by a different Dairy Queen manager on Thursday, but she declined the offer because of how she was treated after the misunderstanding.
"It was a mistake," she said to USA Today. "It could been considered a learning experience. I would have accepted that. I would have accepted being written up. But to be at this job for almost a year and not have a write-up, not be in trouble, and to just be let go because of mistake, it’s not funny to me.”
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An Uber glitch overcharged customers in the District and other cities around the U.S. nearly 100 times the amount they were supposed to have paid for their rides.
Social media exploded on Wednesday with complaints that the ride-share company had overcharged for trips. A Twitter post form one user said his wife was charged $9672 for a ride that was supposed to have cost $96.72. Twitter user JeffGEP, who works at FOX 5, said Uber charged him nearly $800 for a trip that shuld have cost around $8.
Uber confirmed the overcharges and said the problem had been fixed. "Riders will only be charged for the accurate amount of their trip distance and duration," they said in a statement. The company said while impacted riders may temporarily see the inaccurate trip fare in their card accounts, they will not be charged that amount. Uber also said that they are working directly with banks on the issue.
Pizzeria puts flyers of lost pets on pizza boxes, encourages other shops to do the same
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A New Jersey pizza shop has been receiving an “outpouring of support” for posting flyers of lost pets on its pizza boxes.
John Sanfratello, owner of Angelo’s Pizza in Mantawan, New Jersey, said he first saw online last week the picture of a missing cat named Hazel. He said the owner was distraught.
“We had had our cat run away a few years back and we went through a similar thing. My kids were younger. There was a lot of crying, a lot of anxiety,” he said.
Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016, more than a week after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information that supports the actor's claims of innocence.
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By: Karen Duarte - Published: October 23, 2018
Paige Kearley not only left behind Peru’s culture, but she left behind the close bond that was created in her host community.
“This summer I volunteered in Huancayo, Peru with the organization Expand Peru through the Global Scholars program offered by FSU’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement.
My mornings were spent as a teacher assistant in a school for children with special needs, and my afternoons were spent at an after-school program in a rural farming village further away from the city.
I had an amazing time learning about Peru’s culture, meeting volunteers from around the world, and creating memories that helped shape my views. Peruvians love to party. Over the summer, there was a holiday every other week, and my school celebrated by dancing and eating all day.
The afternoon program was less structured and the children were aged 2 to 13. One of my favorite memories from that school was when all of the girls wanted me to teach them dances. They were obsessed with “Single Ladies” by Beyonce, so they wanted me to teach them the dance; I tried, but I am not much of a choreographer.
One of the girls, who earlier was being sassy as 13 year olds do, wanted to keep dancing so I started teaching her ballet. I taught her the five positions and how to turn properly, teaching her was not only fun, but also a turning point for me in Peru. I found a way to connect with the girls other than speaking, and remembered how much I love to dance.
Being in one city for two months, meant that I truly learned and grew with the community and natives, especially my students. Also, I was able to meet multiple different groups of volunteers like a group of friends from London and another group from Valencia.
It was great meeting people with different point of views to help broaden my ideas past the United States and Peru. I learned about the differences in education like how in most European countries their majors in university are more specialized. My two months in Peru have taught me more about the world, myself, and life than in all of 20 years combined.”
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New theropod dinosaur suggests that small T. rex-like arms evolved multiple times
Life reconstruction of skeletal remains of Gualicho shinyae and stratigraphic and geographic details of the find. (A) Map of Rio Límay region of northern Patagonia, showing where the holotype of Gualicho shinyae was discovered (star) (B) Schematic stratigraphic column of lower part of Neuquén Group (Upper Cretaceous) strata exposed in the Neuquén Basin with approximate level at which the holotype of Gualicho shinyae was collected from the base of the Huincul Formation. See S1 Fig for excavation photos. (C) Skeletal reconstruction of Gualicho shinyae showing recovered elements in white and missing elements in grey shading. Credit: Apesteguia et al. (2016); Artwork by J. Gonzalez; CCAL
The discovery of a theropod dinosaur with Tyrannosaurus rex-like arms suggests that these unusual forelimbs may have evolved multiple times, according to a study published July 13, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sebastián Apesteguía from the Universidad Maimónides, Argentina, and colleagues.
The Patagonian region of Argentina has previously proven to be rich in fossils from the Late Cretaceous epoch, which can teach us about the dinosaurs living there in this period. The authors of the present study examined a new Late Cretaceous dinosaur skeleton from the Huincul Formation in northern Patagonia and conducted phylogenetic analysis to determine its evolutionary history.
The dinosaur, which they named Gualicho shinyae, is a new theropod species which likely forms a sister taxon to the African dinosaur Deltadromeus. Although the skeleton was incomplete, the authors estimate that the dinosaur was likely a medium-sized slender predator weighing around a half ton, comparable to a polar bear. The analyzed skeleton shares many anatomical similarities with Deltadromeus. However, despite its overall size, the forelimbs were comparable in size to that of a human child’s, and the claws had just two digits (thumb and forefinger). These unusual arms are much more similar to those of the distantly related Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) than more closely-related species and may indicate that the forelimbs evolved independently on two branches of the evolutionary tree, rather than arising from a common short-armed ancestor.
Co-author Peter Makovicky notes: “Gualicho is kind of a mosaic dinosaur, it has features that you normally see in different kinds of theropods,” says corresponding author Peter Makovicky, The Field Museum’s Curator of Dinosaurs. “It’s really unusual — it’s different from the other carnivorous dinosaurs found in the same rock formation, and it doesn’t fit neatly into any category.”
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It is not known why dinosaurs such as G. shinyae and T. rex had such disproportionately small forearms. Whilst this newly discovered dinosaur does not solve the mystery, it adds to evidence that the trait may have evolved independently numerous times. “By learning more about how reduced forelimbs evolved, we may be able to figure out why they evolved,” explains Peter Makovicky.
Sebastián Apesteguía, Nathan D. Smith, Rubén Juárez Valieri, Peter J. Makovicky. An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. PLOS ONE, 2016; 11 (7): e0157793 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157793
Note: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by PLOS.
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Deutsche CEO says he reprimanded execs for having $1,800 suits fitted day of mass layoffs
Christian Sewing, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank AG, pauses as Germanys biggest bank announces full year earnings in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday. Feb. 1, 2019. Deutsche Banks revenue contracted for an eighth straight quarter in the final months of last year, complicating Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewings plan to turn around the lender through cost cutting. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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When asked if there would be any personnel consequences, Sewing said only that he called the “colleagues” involved and discussed the incident with them.
“I assume in any case that the two colleagues will not forget my telephone call,” Sewing said, suggesting he gave them a tongue-lashing.
Deutsche Bank announced Sunday that it was shutting down its global stock trading business and slashing 18,000 positions in a massive restructuring to improve the troubled bank’s profitability.
Deutsche once sought to compete with large American banks on Wall Street, a strategy that began with its $10 billion acquisition of Bankers Trust in the late 1990s.
But the German bank’s aggressive and ambitious strategy to become a global power house ultimately backfired. Deutsche has been severely weakened by a series of costly scandals related to business practices in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis as well as other alleged wrongdoing.
Deutsche reached a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in January 2017 for allegedly misleading investors in the sale of mortgage-backed securities. The bank was also slapped with a $630 million fine over allegations of Russian money laundering.
Those penalties came two years after the bank paid a $2.5 billion fine to U.S. and U.K. regulators for allegedly participating in a scheme to rig interest rates.
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2011 Fire – Moving Forward
With a lot of hard work, community support, and funding from the Minnesota Historical Society, ICHS is back on its feet.
Our new building was constructed in 2013, and we continue to rebuild our collection of historic items.
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With the loss of over 70% of our archives we still need your donations!
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Minnesota Historical Society Assists Isanti County Historical Society After Fire Destroyed its MainBuilding, Collections
July 2011 – Minneapolis, MN
The Minnesota Historical Society is providing the Isanti County Historical Society with disaster relief assistance following the destruction of its building by fire on July 8, 2011.
“We are greatly saddened by this news and the great loss of historical collections and records that the Isanti County Historical Society has preserved so well for Minnesotans,” said Stephen Elliott, MHS director and CEO. “We are working side-by-side with the Isanti Historical Society and their volunteers.
The Minnesota Historical Society provides disaster response assistance, salvage and conservation of historic items in the event of tragedies such as floods, fires and tornadoes. Bob Herskovitz, the Society’s outreach conservator, … provides technical advice, assists in organizing assessments of damaged cultural property, and determines recovery actions for damaged cultural property.
“Unfortunately, the Isanti County Historical Society has lost the majority of its collections,” said Herskovitz, “however there are collections that will be salvaged, perhaps some historical records, documents and photographs.”
Editorial note:
Isanti County citizens, I would like to continue to ask the community to donate to our collection those items of particular import to Isanti County history. While we have made strides with the support of Minnesota Historical grant support since the 2011 arson fire, we are still in critical need of donations. If you can help the Society with a financial donation, this type of support is also needed, and these funds will be directed towards artifact, document and photographic accessioning of items to our permanent collection. We appreciate all of your past support, and continue to ask for support to rebuild this important community resource.
-Lynne Dablow, Executive Director – February 29, 2016
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News Corp's $139 million accord over hacking approved
28 Jun, 2013 - 05:03 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team | 309 Reads
MUMBAI: The media company headed by Rupert Murdoch, won approval of a $139 million settlement of investor lawsuits claiming directors ignored employee misconduct, including phone-hacking.
The settlement of claims that the board turned a blind eye to journalists? illegal reporting tactics, including paying bribes and hacking into celebrities? phones, "is reasonable, fair and adequate," Delaware Chancery Court Judge John Noble said today at a hearing in Dover.
As part of the derivative accord, the $139 million is being paid to News Corp. out of insurance covering directors.
Noble also approved $28 million in legal fees and expenses for investors? lawyers to be paid from the insurance proceeds.
News Corp. officials continue facing fallout from the scandal over the company?s newsgathering tactics. Last week, prosecutors said a journalist at News Corp.?s Sun tabloid newspaper in London and a corrections officer are facing criminal charges over bribes paid for information about operations at English prisons.
Nathaniel Brown, a spokesman for New York-based News Corp., didn?t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the court?s approval.
The case is In re News Corp. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, CA 6285, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington).
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A word from Preemie Parent Alliance's Keira Sorrells: I usually like to remain in control. I like to plan ahead and I love having a schedule. Nothing gives me more satisfaction than making a list and then taking my dark brown sharpie and marking through one of my tasks. When half my list is done, it's time to start a new list on a fresh, clean piece of paper. Control. Having a plan and a purpose. It really is just an illusion though, false security. Any parent of a preemie or parent who has lost a child will tell you that and yet we may find ourselves grasping desperately for something to give us that security back, that sense of purpose. While we may have once seen our lives laid out before us, after the trauma of loss or an extremely early birth, the future turns from high definition to fuzzy and unfocused. How do we get life back into focus? How do we find ourselves in a place where we can once again feel secure and grounded?
My triplet daughter Zoe died four and half years ago, she was 14 months old and had fought numerous battles after she and her sisters were born 15 weeks early. She faced surgeries and procedures, medications and ventilators, hearing loss and oral aversions, therapists and specialists. If you read a list of most common challenges faced by a micropreemie, she probably faced 90% of them. Ultimately, she succumbed to a secondary infection contracted during a rehospitalization for flu and pneumonia. I miss her every single day. I hate that I don't get to see her green eyes and wide smile every morning. But I have Zoe and my surviving daughters, Avery and Lily, to thank for inspiring me to move forward and find my purpose again.
I've immersed myself in the world of Maternal and Child Health as an advocate for parents of preemies and medically fragile babies, and have been touched by stories of tragedy and triumph that no screenwriter could ever conjure for a movie only true life writes stories like these. And I've seen how important the healthcare setting is to the emotional well-being of the parents and their ability to feel confident in caring for their child once they leave the bubble of the NICU. What shocks me is how difficult it can be to get the proper kind of peer support and resources for the parents who desperately need them. Even when the NICU staff is on board and doing everything they can with their limited resources, time and time again parents miss out on easy opportunities to bond with and care for their babies.
Thankfully, I am not the only parent who has been inspired after surviving the death and/or premature birth of their child. I am honored and privileged to lead the newly formed Preemie Parent Alliance, which is a network of support organizations; each led by a passionate, professional parent. Our members follow the continuum of care for a family beginning with high-risk pregnancy and bed rest support, through the NICU and life after the NICU. We also have members with a specific focus on bereavement support or support for fathers and siblings. With all the gaps yet to be filled and bridges yet to be fortified between parents and providers, we have begun to build a strong foundation of respected parent leaders. We have started to create a collective voice for this population of families who need someone to speak for them while they are immersed in the turmoil of parenting a baby facing an uncertain future.
This is very personal to each of us, we were once in these very situations, we understand, have walked the halls of a NICU, sat for hours on end next to an isolette, and now we want to help facilitate positive change. We want every parent of a preemie to feel empowered and supported to know that they are not alone. Each of us can point to a moment when we found our ray of hope along our journey and we want nothing more than to provide that to all parents of preemies.
Keira Sorrells Mom of Avery, Lily, & Zoe (born 25w 5d) Executive Director, Zoe Rose Memorial Foundation Director of Operations, Preemie Parent Alliance Blogger, Tripled Pink
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Condoms galore for athletes at 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
HOME Policy
By Marian Chu
The 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics will distribute a total of 110,000 free condoms to 2,925 athletes who will attend the international sporting event to kick off Feb. 9. That’s about 37 condoms per person.
The games to take place in PyeongChang, South Korea will have the biggest athlete turnout for any winter Olympics, and the 110,000 condoms – donated mostly by domestic condom developer Convenience – will also be the biggest amount ever distributed at the winter games, the organizers said. The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics distributed around a total of 100,000 condoms.
“We are supplying Barunsengkak condoms for athletes attending the Winter Olympics with goodwill, and believe that Korea’s representative condom brand should donate for the event,” said a Convenience spokesperson. “We hope to aid the athletes visiting from various countries to complete their events successfully and safely.”
Employees of Convenience, the domestic producer of Barunsengkak brand of condom, showcase their products to be distributed at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics that kick off on Feb. 9. (Courtesy: Convenience)
The company said it would donate around 100,000 Barunsengkak condoms, worth a total of 100 million won ($93,370), for the Olympic Games. Barunsengkak recorded having the largest market share among domestically produced condoms as of November 2017, it added. The Korean Association for AIDS Prevention will supply the remaining 10,000.
The organizers will distribute condoms throughout athletes’ residences at the Olympic Villages, which officially opened Thursday, as well as at stadium facilities. Organizers will distribute 40,000 condoms in each of the two athletic towns of Gangneung and PyeongChang as well as 12,000 in the Main Press Center and the Media Village. The remaining 18,000 will be divided among 59 stadiums, the committee said. Most will be placed in “condom baskets” in bathrooms, the organizers said.
The Olympics have been long notorious for being sexually unrestrained with athletes in top psychical condition from around the world reputed to enjoy the 17-day long event as a hotbed for sexual activity before, during, and after the games.
The counts of free latex giveaways began in the 1988 Seoul Olympics when Olympic organizers handed out around 8,500 condoms to athletes. The scale of free condom distribution has jumped since; reaching a record-breaking 450,000 condoms distributed during the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics for around 10,500 athletes.
Meanwhile, the issue of whether sex affects athletic performance has been of central debate before most Olympic games. Some say that sexual intercourse has little impact on the physical abilities of athletes who are often in top physical condition with some saying 20 to 30 minutes of sexual intercourse being similar to light jogging. Others have argued that sex hurts athletic performance and mental concentration.
The festivities will start on Feb. 9 for a 17-day run to bring together 2,925 athletes from 92 countries to compete for 306 medals in 15 sporting events.
yjc@docdocdoc.co.kr
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New biography explores real-life Victorian horror behind Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’
By Korea Herald
“Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man who Wrote ‘Dracula’”
By David J. Skal
Liveright (652 pages, $35)
Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many screen incarnations. I was astonished at its powerful sense of creeping, unstoppable horror, still spellbinding more than 100 years after its publication.
In “Something in the Blood: Bram Stoker, the Man who Wrote Dracula,” David J. Skal, a cultural historian who appears to know everything worth remembering about author Stoker and his creation, has written an exuberant combination of biography and cultural history that thoroughly investigates the real-life horrors of the Victorian era that influenced the creation of the Count. Copiously illustrated, it is a keepsake for any Dracula enthusiast.
When Stoker wrote “Dracula,” he was a London theater manager whose work as a writer was completely eclipsed by his boss, the British actor Henry Irving, the man who changed his life.
Stoker was a dutiful child of Dublin’s middle class. Beyond the genteel precincts of Stoker’s Dublin neighborhood, the potato famine ravaged the countryside. Cholera killed with swift, horrifying brutality. In the city, cemeteries were so overcrowded, the decay of corpses threatened public health, and “resurrection men” routinely snatched bodies for medical instruction.
Stoker absorbed it all, but he continually set aside his writing to work another job, or three. A Dublin journalist, theater critic and civil servant, his life took a left turn when Henry Irving came to town -- on the basis of Stoker’s adoring reviews, the English actor recruited him as his business manager and general factotum.
How exquisitely ironic that Stoker’s is the name most remembered today. In his lifetime, Stoker worked completely in Irving’s shadow. He managed Irving’s Lyceum Theater in London and published stories strictly as a sideline -- tales of ghosts and monstrous horror, burbling out of his fertile, repressed Victorian imagination.
Skal goes at the Dracula story from every angle -- its early inspirations, its reflection of Victorian England’s fears of sex, illness and Darwin’s theories. Victorians trying to hang on to the idea of God were more than ready to believe in a devil. He attempts to show that Stoker, if not a closeted gay man, preferred male company and loved men, including the poet Walt Whitman and the popular 19th century novelist Hall Caine, to whom “Dracula” is dedicated. It’s impossible to say. Stoker, a Victorian husband and father, never left any evidence that he expressed physical love for men.
Why did Dracula capture the public’s imagination? Certainly Stoker drew on every trick he had learned in the theater. He studied other epistolary novels (notably Wilkie Collins’ “The Moonstone.”) He soaked up “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Irving’s interpretations of “Faust” and “Macbeth,” the fall of his friend Oscar Wilde and the real-life reign of terror of Jack the Ripper.
Skal believes Stoker would have been surprised as anyone at his creation’s literary immortality.
Caine, Stoker’s fast friend, wrote that Stoker was in it for the money. He “took no vain view of his efforts as an author,” Caine wrote. “He wrote his books to sell.”
“In the final analysis,” Skal writes, “the most frightening thing about Dracula is the strong probability that it meant far less to Bram Stoker than it has come to mean to us.”
(Tribune Content Agency)
By Mary Ann Gwinn
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Antioxidant activities and determination of phenolic compounds isolated from oriental plums (Soldam, Oishiwase and Formosa)
Kim, Se-Na;Kim, Mee-Ree;Cho, Soo-Muk;Kim, So-Young;Kim, Jung-Bong;Cho, Young-Sook 277
https://doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2012.6.4.277 PDF KSCI
The purposes of this study were to determine phenolic compounds and to evaluate antioxidant activities of plums (Soldam, Oishiwase and Formosa). Soldam contains the highest amount of total phenolics among cultivars (Formosa: 4.0%, Oishiwase: 3.3%, Soldam: 6.4% for total phenolic) as well as the total flavonoids of which constituents were mainly myricetin and anthocyanidin. The antioxidant activities were measured by DPPH, ABTS radical scavenging, and SOD-like activities. The DPPH radical scavenging activity of Korean plum extracts (200 ${\mu}g/mL$) showed more than 43%, and the Soldam turned out to be the highest : ID50 value: 160-177 ${\mu}g/mL$ for Formosa and Oishiwase; 58-64 ${\mu}g/mL$ for Soldam. The ABTS radical scavenging activity of Korean plum extracts (200 ${\mu}g/mL$) was found to be more than 50%. The SOD-like activity of Korean plum extracts (200 ${\mu}g/mL$) showed more than 70%. Among three kinds of cultivars, Soldam had the highest antioxidant activity. The nitrite scavenging activity of Soldam was 61.5%, which is the highest, compared with that of the other cultivars, about 50%. From these results, Korean plums turned out to be phytochemical rich fruit as well as to show high antioxidant activities.
Anti-obesity effect of resveratrol-amplified grape skin extracts on 3T3-L1 adipocytes differentiation
Zhang, Xian-Hua;Huang, Bo;Choi, Soo-Kyong;Seo, Jung-Sook 286
Resveratrol (3,4,5-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene), a phytoalexin found in grape skin, grape products, and peanuts as well as red wine, has been reported to have various biological and pharmacological properties. The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-obesity effect of resveratrol-amplified grape skin extracts on adipocytes. The anti-obesity effects of grape skin extracts were investigated by measuring proliferation and differentiation in 3T3-L1 cells. The effect of grape skin ethanol extracts on cell proliferation was detected by the MTS assay. The morphological changes and degree of adipogenesis of preadipocyte 3T3-L1 cells were measured by Oil Red-O staining assay. Treatment with extracts of resveratrol-amplified grape skin decreased lipid accumulation and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity without affecting 3T3-L1 cell viability. Grape skin extract treatment resulted in significantly attenuated expression of key adipogenic transcription factors, including peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins, and their target genes (FAS, aP2, SCD-1, and LPL). These results indicate that resveratrol-amplified grape skin extracts may be useful for preventing obesity by regulating lipid metabolism.
Effect of resveratrol on the metastasis of 4T1 mouse breast cancer cells in vitro and in vivo
Lee, Hyun-Sook;Ha, Ae-Wha;Kim, Woo-Kyoung 294
We investigated the effects of resveratrol on metastasis in in vitro and in vivo systems. 4T1 cells were cultured in the presence of various concentrations (0-30 ${\mu}mol/L$) of resveratrol. For experimental metastasis, BALB/c mice were injected intravenously with 4T1 cells in the tail vein, and were orally administered various concentrations (0, 100, or 200 mg/kg Body weight) of resveratrol for 21 days. After resveratrol treatment, cell adhesion, wound migration, invasion, and MMP-9 activity were significantly decreased in a dose-dependent manner in 4T1 cells (P < 0.05). The numbers of pulmonary nodules were significantly decreased in mice fed the resveratrol (P < 0.05). The plasma MMP-9 activity was decreased in response to treatment with resveratrol in mice (P < 0.05). We conclude that resveratrol inhibits cancer metastasis both in vitro and in vivo, and this inhibition is likely due to the decrease in MMP-9 activity caused by resveratrol.
Effect of quercetin on impaired immune function in mice exposed to irradiation
Jung, Ji-Hye;Kang, Ji-In;Kim, Hyun-Sook 301
Radiation used in cancer treatment may cause side effects such as inflammation. Quercetin is a polyphenol that reduces inflammation. This study evaluated the recovery efficacy of quercetin on impaired immune function in irradiation-induced inflammatory mice. Quercetin administered at two concentrations of 10 and 40 mg/kg body weight was initiated 2 weeks before irradiation and was continued 30 days after irradiation. The animals exposed/not exposed to radiation were sacrificed on radiation days 10 and 30. Splenocyte proliferation, which was diminished after irradiation, was enhanced significantly by quercetin supplementation after 30 days of irradiation. Cytokine secretion increased in the radiation group compared to that in the non-radiation control group. After 30 days of radiation, interleukin (IL)-$1{\beta}$ and IL-6 secretion decreased significantly in the radiation-quercetin groups. When quercetin was administered for 44 days, it showed a possible protective effect against irradiation-induced inflammation in mice. Quercetin could be beneficial in the recovery of irradiation-induced increases in cytokine secretion.
The antihypertensive effect of ethyl acetate extract of radish leaves in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Chung, Da-Hee;Kim, Sun-Hee;Myung, Na-Hye;Cho, Kang-Jin;Chang, Moon-Jeong 308
Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is a cruciferous vegetable, and its leaves have antioxidant and anticancer properties. This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of ethyl acetate extracts from radish leaves on hypertension in 11-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). The SHRs were randomly divided into 3 groups of 6 rats each on the basis of initial systolic blood pressure (SBP) and were treated with oral administration of radish leaf extract (0, 30, or 90 mg/kg body weight [bw], respectively) for 5 weeks. Six Wistar rats were used as normotensive controls. The amount of the radish leaf extract had no effect on body weight. The SBP of the SHRs showed a decreasing trend with the consumption of the radish leaf extract. In the third week, the SBP of the group fed 90 mg extract/kg bw reduced from 214 mmHg to 166 mmHg and was significantly lower than that of the normotensive and hypertensive controls. The extract did not show a significant effect on the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity in the serum, kidney, and lung. The extract increased the concentration of NO in serum and the activities of antioxidant enzymes such as glutathione peroxidase and catalase in red blood cells (RBCs). The serum concentrations of $Na^+$ and $K^+$ were not significantly different between all groups. However, the fecal concentrations of $Na^+$ and $K^+$ increased; the fecal concentrations of $Na^+$ and$K^+$for the normotensive and hypertensive controls were not different. Urinary excretion of $Na^+$ was higher in the normotensive Wistar rats than in the SHRs, while that of $K^+$ was not significantly different. These findings indicate that consumption of radish leaves might have had antihypertensive effects in SHRs by increasing the serum concentration of NO and fecal concentration of $Na^+$ and enhancing antioxidant activities.
Effects of kimchi supplementation on blood pressure and cardiac hypertrophy with varying sodium content in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Lee, Seung-Min;Cho, Yoon-Su;Chung, Hye-Kyung;Shin, Dong-Hyuk;Ha, Woel-Kyu;Lee, Sang-Chul;Shin, Min-Jeong 315
We tested the effects of dietary intake of freeze-dried Korean traditional fermented cabbage (generally known as kimchi) with varying amounts of sodium on blood pressure and cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), as a control group, received a regular AIN-76 diet, and the SHRs were divided into four groups. The SHR group was fed a regular diet without kimchi supplementation, the SHR-L group was fed the regular diet supplemented with low sodium kimchi containing 1.4% salt by wet weight, which was provided in a freeze-dried form, the SHR-M group was supplemented with medium levels of sodium kimchi containing 2.4% salt, and the SHR-H group was supplemented with high sodium kimchi containing 3.0% salt. Blood pressure was measured over 6 weeks, and cardiac hypertrophy was examined by measuring heart and left ventricle weights and cardiac histology. SHRs showed higher blood pressure compared to that in WKY rats, which was further elevated by consuming high sodium containing kimchi but was not influenced by supplementing with low sodium kimchi. None of the SHR groups showed significant differences in cardiac and left ventricular mass or cardiomyocyte size. Levels of serum biochemical parameters, including blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, sodium, and potassium were not different among the groups. Elevations in serum levels of aldosterone in SHR rats decreased in the low sodium kimchi group. These results suggest that consuming low sodium kimchi may not adversely affect blood pressure and cardiac function even under a hypertensive condition.
Sorghum extract exerts an anti-diabetic effect by improving insulin sensitivity via PPAR-${\gamma}$ in mice fed a high-fat diet
Park, Ji-Heon;Lee, Sun-Hee;Chung, Ill-Min;Park, Yong-Soon 322
This study investigated the hypothesis that a sorghum extract exerts anti-diabetic effects through a mechanism that improves insulin sensitivity via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-${\gamma}$) from adipose tissue. Seven C57BL/6 mice were fed an AIN-93M diet with fat consisting of 10% of total energy intake (LF) for 14 weeks, and 21 mice were fed a high-fat AIN diet with 60% of calories derived from fat (HF). From week 8, the HF diet-fed mice were orally administered either saline (HF group), 0.5% (0.5% SE group), or 1% sorghum extract (1% SE group) for 6 weeks (n = 7/group). Perirenal fat content was significantly lower in the 0.5% SE and 1% SE groups than that in the HF mice. Levels of total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and the area under the curve for glucose were significantly lower in mice administered 0.5% SE and 1% SE than those in HF mice. Serum insulin level was significantly lower in mice administered 1% SE than that in HF mice or those given 0.5% SE. PPAR-${\gamma}$ expression was significantly higher, whereas the expression of tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$ was significantly lower in mice given 1% SE compared to those in the HF mice. Adiponectin expression was also significantly higher in mice given 0.5% SE and 1% SE than that in the HF mice. These results suggest that the hypoglycemic effect of SE may be related with the regulation of PPAR-${\gamma}$-mediated metabolism in this mouse model.
Meal skipping relates to food choice, understanding of nutrition labeling, and prevalence of obesity in Korean fifth grade children
Kim, Hye-Young;Lee, Na-Rae;Lee, Jung-Sug;Choi, Young-Sun;Kwak, Tong-Kyung;Chung, Hae-Rang;Kwon, Se-Hyug;Choi, Youn-Ju;Lee, Soon-Kyu;Kang, Myung-Hee 328
This study was performed to investigate the differences in food choice, nutrition labeling perceptions, and prevalence of obesity due to meal skipping in Korean elementary school children. A national survey was performed in 2010 to collect data on food intake frequency, understanding of nutrition labeling, and body mass index from 2,335 fifth grade students in 118 elementary schools selected from 16 metropolitan local governments by stratified cluster sampling. The data were analyzed using the SAS 9.1 and SUDAAN 10.0 packages. Students who consumed three meals for 6-7 days during the past week were classified into the regular meal eating (RM) group (n = 1,476) and those who did not were placed into the meal skipping (MS) group (n = 859). The daily intake frequency of fruits, vegetables, kimchi, and milk was significantly lower in the MS group compared to that in the RM group (P < 0.001), whereas the daily intake frequency of soft drinks and instant noodles (ramyeon) was significantly higher in the MS group than that in the RM group (P < 0.05). The MS group demonstrated a significantly lower degree of understanding with regard to nutrition labeling and high calorie foods containing low nutritional value than that in the RM group. The distribution of obesity based on the percentile criteria using the Korean growth chart was different between the MS and RM groups. The MS group (8.97%) had a higher percentage of obese subjects than that in the RM group (5.38%). In conclusion, meal skipping was related to poor food choice, low perception of nutrition labeling, and a high prevalence of obesity in Korean fifth grade children.
Comparative study on body shape satisfaction and body weight control between Korean and Chinese female high school students
Ro, Yoo-Na;Hyun, Wha-Jin 334
This study was conducted to compare body shape satisfaction, body image perception, weight control status, and dietary habits of Korean and Chinese female high school students in order to provide information for proper body image perception of adolescents. 221 students in Yongin, a city in Korea, and 227 students in Weihai, a city in China, were surveyed using questionnaires. Body shape satisfaction was significantly higher in Chinese students (P < 0.001) compared to Korean students. 76.2% of Korean students and 72.7% of Chinese students wanted a thinner body shape than their present body shapes. Experiences of weight control, laxative or diuretics uses, eating during weight control, and vomiting after eating were significantly higher in Korean students (P < 0.05-P < 0.001) compared to Chinese students. The score for dietary habits was significantly higher in Chinese students (P < 0.001) compared to Korean students, suggesting a more desirable dietary habit among Chinese students. Students of both countries showed a significantly positive correlation between body shape satisfaction and dietary habits, suggesting that as body shape satisfaction increases, dietary habits become more desirable. In conclusion, Korean female students showed a more distorted body image perception and had more poor dietary habits than Chinese students. Nutritional education for the establishment of normal body weight, proper body image perception, and healthy dietary habits are needed.
A study on dietary habits, health related lifestyle, blood cadmium and lead levels of college students
Shin, Na-Ri;Hyun, Wha-Jin;Lee, Hong-Mie;Ro, Man-Soo;Song, Kyung-Hee 340
This study was performed in order to investigate dietary habits, health related lifestyle and blood cadmium and lead levels in female college students. 80 college students (43 males and 37 females) participated in the survey questionnaires. Body weight and height, blood pressure, and body composition were measured. The systolic blood pressure of male and female students were $128.9{\pm}13.9$ and $109.8{\pm}12.0$, respectively. The diastolic blood pressure of male and female students were $77.1{\pm}10.3 $and $66.0{\pm}6.9$, respectively, showing that male students had significantly higher blood pressure than female students (P < 0.001). The BMI of male and female students were $23.4{\pm}3.3$ and $20.2{\pm}2.3$, respectively. Most male students were in the range of being overweight. The dietary habits score of female students was significantly higher than that of male students (P < 0.01).The blood cadmium level of male and female students were $0.54{\pm}0.23$ and $0.52{\pm}0.36$, respectively. There was no significant difference between male and female students. The blood lead level of male and female students were $1.09{\pm}0.49 $and $0.59{\pm}0.45$, respectively. The blood lead level of male students was significantly higher than that of female students (P < 0.001). The blood cadmium level of smokers and nonsmokers were $0.69{\pm}0.29 $and $0.49{\pm}0.29$ respectively (P < 0.05). The blood cadmium level of smokers was significantly higher than that of nonsmokers (P < 0.05). The blood lead level of smokers and nonsmokers were $1.09{\pm}0.43$ and $0.80{\pm}0.54$, respectively. The blood lead level of smokers was significantly higher than that of nonsmokers (P < 0.05). Therefore, proper nutritional education programs are required for college students in order to improve their dietary and health related living habits.
Dietary patterns based on carbohydrate nutrition are associated with the risk for diabetes and dyslipidemia
Song, Su-Jin;Lee, Jung-Eun;Paik, Hee-Young;Park, Min-Sun;Song, Yoon-Ju 349
Several studies have been conducted on dietary patterns based on carbohydrate nutrition in Asian populations. We examined the cross-sectional associations in dietary patterns based on carbohydrate nutrition, including the glycemic index (GI) with dyslipidemia and diabetes among the Korean adult population. We analyzed 9,725 subjects (3,795 men and 5,930 women, ${\geq}$ 20 years) from the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Dietary information was collected using single 24-hour recall. Reduced rank regression was used to derive dietary patterns from 22 food groups as predictor variables and four dietary factors related to the quantity and quality of carbohydrates as response variables. Two dietary patterns were identified: 1) the balanced pattern was characterized by high intake of various kinds of foods including white rice, and 2) the rice-oriented pattern was characterized by a high intake of white rice but low intake of vegetables, fruits, meat, and dairy products. Both patterns had considerable amounts of total carbohydrate, but GI values differed. The rice-oriented pattern was positively associated with hypertriglyceridemia in men and low high density lipoprotein-cholesterol in both men and women. The balanced pattern had no overall significant association with the prevalence of dyslipidemia or diabetes, however, men with energy intake above the median showed a reduced prevalence of diabetes across quintiles of balanced pattern scores. The results show that dietary patterns based on carbohydrate nutrition are associated with prevalence of dyslipidemia and diabetes in the Korean adult population.
A study on the model of homebound senior's meal satisfaction related to the quality of life
Lee, Sun-Mee;Joo, Na-Mi 357
This study was conducted to develop a construct model regarding the daily activities, emotional security provided by food, enjoyment of food, level of satisfaction with delivered food, and the quality of life of homebound seniors who benefitted from meal delivery programs. The data were analyzed by SAS 9.2 and the Structural Equation Model (SEM), which was created by Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) 5.0 packages. The reliability of the data was confirmed by an exploratory factor analysis and through a Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and the measurement model proved to be appropriate by a confirmatory factor analysis of the measurement model in conjunction with AMOS. The results of the correlations between all the variables showed significant positive correlations (P < 0.05). The path analysis demonstrated that the daily activities (P < 0.01) and the emotional security created by food (P < 0.05) had positive correlations with the foodservice satisfaction (P < 0.05), while the daily activities (P < 0.05), the sense of emotional security made by food (P < 0.05), and food enjoyment (P < 0.05) also presented significant positive correlations with the quality of life. However, the food service satisfaction was shown to directly, but not significantly, affect the quality of life. This revealed that the current meal delivery programs needed to be improved in several directions.
How do the work environment and work safety differ between the dry and wet kitchen foodservice facilities?
Chang, Hye-Ja;Kim, Jeong-Won;Ju, Se-Young;Go, Eun-Sun 366
In order to create a worker-friendly environment for institutional foodservice, facilities operating with a dry kitchen system have been recommended. This study was designed to compare the work safety and work environment of foodservice between wet and dry kitchen systems. Data were obtained using questionnaires with a target group of 303 staff at 57 foodservice operations. Dry kitchen facilities were constructed after 2006, which had a higher construction cost and more finishing floors with anti-slip tiles, and in which employees more wore non-slip footwear than wet kitchen (76.7%). The kitchen temperature and muscular pain were the most frequently reported employees' discomfort factors in the two systems, and, in the wet kitchen, "noise of kitchen" was also frequently reported as a discomfort. Dietitian and employees rated the less slippery and slip related incidents in dry kitchens than those of wet kitchen. Fryer area, ware-washing area, and plate waste table were the slippery areas and the causes were different between the functional areas. The risk for current leakage was rated significantly higher in wet kitchens by dietitians. In addition, the ware-washing area was found to be where employees felt the highest risk of electrical shock. Muscular pain (72.2%), arthritis (39.1%), hard-of-hearing (46.6%) and psychological stress (47.0%) were experienced by employees more than once a month, particularly in the wet kitchen. In conclusion, the dry kitchen system was found to be more efficient for food and work safety because of its superior design and well managed practices.
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News: Gypsy tart originated from the Isle of Sheppey
Tramways & Railways
Topic: Chatham Dockyard Railway Connection
Author Topic: Chatham Dockyard Railway Connection (Read 25746 times)
Local Hiker
Re: Chatham Dockyard Railway Connection
« Reply #42 on: August 13, 2016, 09:35:51 »
The branch track has now been severed at its junction with the main line, so sadly is no more.
« Reply #41 on: January 09, 2016, 22:27:05 »
The link below to a Medway Council Plan, showing a shared cycle/bus track, gives some clue to ideas being discussed.
Having been on it recently, (see guess the place Reply #2046 on: December 10, 2015, 08:51:08), it clearly has no future for any Class 66's hauling freight out of the docks.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjQj5an3p3KAhVG2xoKHf6bCj4QFgg1MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.medway.gov.uk%2Fpdf%2FAppendix%2520to%2520Briefing%2520note%2520no.%25203%2520%2520Gillingham%2520Railway%2520map.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGAQUQ7nrtSfsEgJvWp4vXsC4QLgw
JohnWalker
Anyone know if there are plans for the remaining trackway?
Signals99
Trikeman, thank you for posting those shots of the old dockyard spur, it opens up the flood gates of nostalgia for me. As a fireman working out of Gillingham motive power depot, I often did the dockyard run. It brings back memories of C class locos (I don't think any other class could do the runs). I think track restrictions were the reason. Anyway thanks for the memory mate.
Trikeman
History from above
Gillingham Junction for Chatham Dockyard spur - Dec 2015.
Don't suppose the rails will last much longer now that the line has been rudely terminated. How the trees have grown up - they love disused railways!
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
Quote from: peterchall on April 12, 2015, 18:07:11
Isn’t that where the new mini-town – housing, schools and other facilities, is to be built? So no prospect of reinstating the line - quite the contrary, I imagine the bridge will be demolished and the whole line eventually removed.
The railway line from Gillingham station to the Dockyard could become a cycle track perhaps ?
Mark_Smithers
Sadly, Mike this is a myth that has been repeated over and over again! There were ten locomotives on the 18 inch gauge Chatham Dockyard system during its lifetime - six small Manning Wardles, three large Manning Wardles and one Dick, Kerr product, all 0-4-0STs. The 18 inch gauge 0-4-2Ts, 2-4-2Ts and one Manning Wardle 0-4-0ST belonged to the Royal Engineers and were used on the R.E's own tramway serving the R.E. Park and the Chatham Eastern Defences (Borstal) line. The Dockyard's 18 inch gauge railway, or at least locomotive working, lasted until 1949.
Quote from: mikeb on June 13, 2015, 17:57:37
The narrow gauge railway in the Dockyard was first built C1860 and lasted until C1936. It was of 18" gauge and made use of sections of cast plate track sections, some of which can still be seen in the 'yard to-day. A total of twenty six loco's are known to have operated on the system of 0-4-0, 0-4-2, and 2-4-2 wheel arrangements. Most were built new for Chatham but several were transferred from Woolwich Arsenal which had a similar system. And indeed three were subsequently transferred out to Woolmer Military Railway.
The attached photo shows "Vulcan" of 1883, built by Vulcan Foundry, new to Chatham.
Most of the above comes from "Military Railways of Ken"t by R M Lyne.
I hope this is of interest.
Did he know any details about the narrow gauge locos - i.e. what gauge, wheel arrangement, side or saddle tanks etc?
Quote from: Sentinel S4 on June 12, 2015, 19:15:02
The Oracle did say that cameras were not exactly welcomed in the Dock Yard. This was before the preservation movement got going and the likes of Ivo Peters, Arthur Wells and Peter Ransom-Wallis had much easier targets for their work anyway. I doubt very much that there would be any pictures, happy to be proven wrong as always.
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Quote from: Mark_Smithers on June 10, 2015, 22:40:59
Were any photographs taken of these narrow gauge locomotives at the time?
Quote from: Sentinel S4 on November 18, 2013, 17:35:47
I had a very interesting chat with The Oracle last night and the subject of the Dockyard Branch came up (our conversations can be very random at times, I think we were talking about Yukon Stern Wheel River Steamers at the time.....).
The trains for the Dockyard would be formed in the Down Sidings at Gillingham and then with a brake van on the back and the C class (generally) running tender first, the train would be eased down the bank. They would come to a stand at the Dock Gate and wait to be allowed into the yard proper. When there, they would not be allowed beyond a board that stated something like 'No Main Line Locomotives Beyond This Point'. The Dockyard locos would then remove the guards van and shunt the train away, generally 12 vehicles. During this time the fireman would be preparing his fire, very deep at the back under the door and the back corners, to the point that burning coal would fall out when the door was opened. He would also have the water just in the top nut of the water glass, any higher and the loco would carry water into the cylinders when starting on the grade and up the bank. Also at no point were the footplate crew allowed down to the ground. If the driver wished to do some oiling or he wanted to check the front end from the ground he had to be escorted by a Policeman, several always on duty at the gates. He was allowed to climb along the cab sides and onto the running plates PROVIDING he did not set foot on the ground. After some 45 mins or an hour the Dockyard locos would have made up a train of empties and put the Guards van back at which point the ensemble would punch its way back up to the Down sidings and prepare the next train or general shunting if needed.
I asked about the narrow gauge locos and boilers that were stored nearby and if he had seen them. I was told that there were two locos disassembled and a couple of boilers, both had numbers painted on the barrels, along with a large amount of what could only be described as spare parts for them. As an aside, I said things get random, in 1953 The Oracle was part owner of a Robey Steam roller. They managed to get a contract for rolling roads in the dockyard and The Oracle spent three days doing so, his partner had done about three weeks and needed a break. At this point the remains of the locos were still in place then as he had to take on coal from that end of the yard. He said that they were in a triangular compound approx 40' x 50' x 50' surrounded by a chain link fence and completely overgrown by then.
peterchall
« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2015, 21:15:11 »
There is a KHF thread here :
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=16109.msg135112#msg135112
It's no use getting old if you don't get artful
The northern end of the bridge borders the nuclear dump, so I doubt if there will be much development in the immediate vicinity of the bridge.
In fact, Peel Ports "illustrative plan" still has the bridge and rail link to Number 3 Basin amongst all the new development.
See link
http://www.chathamwaters.co.uk/masterplan/illustrative
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Beginning and the End of the Novel
The Epilogue
A Joint Biography
To Live for Literature down to Your Very Last Strand of DNA
Posthumous editions
Dictionary of the Khazars
Difference between Male and Female Version of Dictionary of the Khazars
Landscape Painted with Tea
Inner Side of the Wind
Star Cape
Seven Mortal Sins
Unique Item
Second Body
Paper Theater
The Tale That Killed Emily Knorr
The Glass Snail
Damascene
The Fish Skin Hat
For ever and a Day
Literary Agency Catalog
Books About Pavić’s Fiction
Pavic and Postmodern Literature
Milorad Pavic and Hyperfiction
Special Magazine Editions
Texts about Pavić
Necrologues
Pavić in Theater, movies and TV adaptations
Gallery Jasmina Mihajlović and Milorad Pavić
Gallery Byzantine Tarot
Gallery of Book Covers
Covers of the ''Dictionary of the Khazars''
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Jasmina Mihajlović
Jasmina Mihajlović was born in Niš (Serbia). She is a writer, literary and hyperfiction critic. She is managing „The Milorad Pavić Bequest“ (SER -11000 Belgrade, Braće Baruh 2). J.Mihajlović M. Pavić’s biographer and bibliographer, and editor of his collected works. See her book: „A Tale of the Soul and the Body. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavic“ (Belgrade 1992). (Sf.: Gorup, Radmila. Jasmina Mihajlović. Priča o duši i telu. Slojevi i značenja u prozi Milorada Pavića, Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992. – World Literature Today, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Summer 1993, Vol. 67, N. 3; pp. 636-637.)
Author: Stefano Bisacchi, Tbilisi, Georgia
Jasmina Mihajlović graduated in 1987 from the Faculty of Philology at the Belgrade University — Department of Yugoslav and foreign literature. She taught literature in Belgrade secondary schools since 1987; Between 1989-1991 she cooperated with the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade on the project „Serbian Literary Criticism“, and from 1991 to August of 1999 she was Director of the Council for promoting Serbian culture abroad, with the World Serbian Community seated in Geneva.
Since 1999 she has had the status of freelance artist. She is member of the Serbia Literary Society. She was elected an honorary member of the Kiev scientific journal "Мова та історія" („Language and History“). She was a columnist of the “Lisa”, magazine belonging to the “Burda” corporation, „Grad“, „Jasmin“, „Bazar“, „Fame“, „Ona“ and the author of following books:
Tale of the Body and Soul. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavić (Priča o duši i telu. Slojevi i značenja u prozi Milorada Pavića)- Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992.
Two Tales from Kotor (with M. Pavić) (Dve kotorske priče) – Belgrade, Dereta, 1998, 2005.
Private Collection (Privatna kolekcija) – Belgrade, Dereta, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005.
Travel Album (Putni album) – Belgrade, Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006. / Travel Album received the award „Dereta’s Book of the Year“ for 2004.
Love Story in Two Tales (with M. Pavić) (Ljubavni roman u dve priče)– Belgrade, Čigoja, 2004. (Translated into Slovenian by Nives Vidić, Nova Gorica, „Ma-no“, 2006.)
Love without Secrets (Ljubav bez tajni) – Belgrade, Dereta, 2005.
Love with Dictionary of the Unknown (Ljubav sa rečnikom nepoznatog)– Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2006, 2007(2).
The Paris Kiss. A Novel (Pariski poljubac, roman) - Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2007(2).
Парижский поцелуй (Pariski poljubac) – Санкт Петерсбург, Азбука, 2007.
Travel Collection (Putna kolekcija) – Belgrade, Alnari, 2008.
The Paris Kiss (Pariski poljubac) – Belgrade, Zavod za udžbenike, 2010.
The Paris Kiss (Pariski poljubac) - Amazon.com, Kindle Store, 2011.
On the Shores of the Khazar Sea (Na obali Hazarskog mora- Amazon.com, Kindle Store, English Edition, March 10, 2014.
Travel Collection (Putna kolekcija)- Amazon.com, Kindle Store, 2014.
On the Shores of the Khazar Sea (Na obali Hazarskog mora)- Laguna, Serbian Edition, March 18, 2014.
Two Tales from Kotor (with M. Pavić) (Dve kotorske priče)- Amazon.com, Kindle Store, 2014.
Xəzər dənizinin sahillərində (On the Shores oh the Khazar Sea) - Translation Center under the Cabinet of Ministers "Translation of the Book" series, Baku, 2015.
Xəzər dənizinin sahillərində (On the Shores oh the Khazar Sea, digital edition) - Translation Center under the Cabinet of Ministers "Translation of the Book" series, Baku, 2015.
ხაზართა ზღვის ნაპირებზე (On the Shores of the Khazar Sea) - Intelekti, Tbilisi, 2015.
На берегах Хазарского моря (On the Shores of the Khazar Sea) - Центрполиграф, Москва, 2017.
Jasmina Mihajlović is managing M. Pavić’s Bequest and Foundation, and hold the copyrights (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to all of his books. Her fiction has been translated into the English, Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Azeri and Georgian.
Jasmina Mihajlović, as a literary author, nurtures an eclectic genre of travel and epistolary prose with traces of the anthropological essay and private narrative, which is read with the tenseness of a thriller, horror and great love story.
MILORAD PAVIĆ AND JASMINA MIHAJLOVIĆ IN GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN
Jasmina Mihajlović as a special guest opened 17th International Book Fair in Tbilisi
At the end of May, Jasmina Mihajlović spent five days in the capital of Georgia – Tbilisi, on the invitation of the Intelekti publishing house, which has started a project Pavić in Georgian within which it has published seven books, primarily reissues of Milorad Pavić's books, as well as Jasmina Mihajlović's book, ''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea''. Following novels were published: ''Dictionary of the Khazars'', ''Unique Item'', ''Second Body'', ''A Landscape Painted with Tea'', ''Last Love in Constantinople'', ''Seven Deadly Sins'', and soon ''The Inner Side of the Wind'' and ''A Short History of Belgrade'' will be published. Thirteen people – translators, editors, designers - have been involved in this publishing project. The editor in chief of the project Pavić in Georgian is a renowned Georgian writer and winner of many awards, Zviad Kvaratshelia.
During the visit Jasmina Mihajlović was constantly followed by photographs and reporters, and the editor Gvantsa Jobava, in order that a television program be made and also a book dedicated to the visit of two writers, Jasmina Mihajlović and Milorad Pavić – posthumously.
Jasmina Mihajlović visited the Intelekti publishing house, having talked to all employees about the literary work of the two writers. On the other hand, a four-minute-long inset for the national TV news bulletin was filmed in front of the monastery outside of Tbilisi, which rises above the former capital of Georgia, Mtskheta.
A literary evening dedicated to Jasmina Mihajlović's novel ''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea'' was held in the Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre, where a concert was held by the pianist Ketevan Chkhartishvili, in Mihajlović's honour.
Having in mind that the visit was being planned during the opening of the 17th International Book Fair, Jasmina Mihajlović, their special guest, has been honoured to open the Book Fair, together with the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Georgian Minister of Culture. Billboard with the photograph of the literary couple Pavić – Mihajlović was the most dominant in the hall. Then Mrs. Mihajlović was signing her and Pavić's book at the Intelekti stand, which have a special status in Georgia.
During the literary evening held in the House of Georgian Writers, a beautiful palace with a garden, Jasmina Mihajlović was talking about the literary works and life of Milorad Pavić; a documentary on this Serbian writer followed.
Jasmina Mihajlović then visited the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, where a significant part of her book ''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea'' takes place. The international career of this books has actually started with the translation of this book, which will have been published in Russian by the end of the year, and next year it will be published in Chinese. Mrs. Mihajlović has already received a formal invitation for the promotion of her book on the Shanghai Book Fair, which will take place in October, 2016.
In Baku, Mrs. Mihajlović has paid a formal visit to the Embassy of Serbia, where she has informed the Ambassador of Serbia, Mister Nebojša Rodić of her visit to Georgia, which is a friend of both Serbia and Azerbaijan.
www.baku.mfa.gov.rs
Books by Jasmina Mihajlović
''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea'' in Azerbaijan. Chinese international radio GB Times on literary couple Pavić – Mihajlović. Jasmina Mihajlović's interview for ''Newsweek''
Jasmina Mihajlović's autobiographical prose ''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea'' (Laguna) was published in Azeri (Ajnur Tabrizli's translation). The publisher is the Translation Center under the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan.
„Xəzər dənizinin sahillərində“ is nicely and carefully designed book, with photographs of J. Mihajlović and M. Pavić. At the very end there is a photograph of Pavić'a monument in Belgrade park Tašmajdan, which Azerbaijan has built and gifted to the writer's home town – Belgrade.
http://az.apa.az/news/377464
http://www.aydinyol.az/az/posts/id:778
http://www.azadinform.az/news/a-89181.html
Chinese international GB times Radio (GBtimes Serbia) has put on its English website Jasmina Mihajlović's intervtiew titled ''Wherever I go, I represent two writers'', dealing with Chinese translations of Pavić's books. Radio show was split into four segments.
The March issue of Serbian edition of ''Newsweek'' included a 10-page-long interview with Jasmina Mihajlović. The author of the interview titled ''The Inner Side of Milorad Pavic'' was Aleksandar Djuričić.
http://www.newsweek.rs/kultura/49565-pavic.html
Newsweek Srbija, 16.03.2015, br.6
JASMINA MIHAJLOVIĆ’S NEW BOOK PUBLISHED BY LAGUNA AND AMAZON.COM
On the Shores of the Khazar Sea. The Love Story of Two Writers
In March, 2014, Jasmina Mihajlović published a new book ‘’On the Shores of the Khazar Sea’’. Amazon.com was the first to publish this book translated by Dragana Rajkov, and then Laguna published the book in Serbian, Jasmina’s mother tongue.
Readers have before them a very unusual autobiographical love story. Wrapped in a travelogue through exotic Azerbaijan and a series of private-public memories, it tells of the love of two writers whom death could not part.
Smooth, at times scathing, often melancholy, Jasmina Mihajlovic’s book On the Shores of the Khazar Sea is the testimony to the great love of two Serbian authors.
In this novel the reader will also get a glimpse of Eurosong in Eurasia, find out why in Azerbaijan the Caspian sea is called in the Khazar sea, follow wondrous events to the ends of two continents, but will also have the opportunity to learn about the turbulent, unconventional life of two artists, in Serbia and outside it.
“The Khazar Sea is unlike any other sea or ocean; it resembles a sea of dreams, even more so a sea woven from the Other Reality, but mostly what it in fact is – A SEA OF LOVE. In such (both virtual and actual) temporal and spatial coordinates we encounter the coauthoring couple, who are also the main protagonists, of this book: here Jasmina Mihajlović and Milorad Pavić find their eternal home, for here Love is eternally embodied in Word..."
Dr. Sava Damjanov
Notes on the author
Jasmina Mihajlović is the author of travelogues, essays, novels. Her novel The Paris Kiss was translated into Russian (published by Azbooka) and English, where it can be found on Amazon as an e-book. She is the editor of the selected and collected works of Milorad Pavić. Since Pavić’s death she has been the testamentary heir of his copyrights and the curator of the "Bequest of Milorad Pavić”, founded by the City Assembly of Belgrade.
As a novelist Jasmina Mihajlović nurtures the eclectic genre of travel-epistolary prose with traces of anthropological essay and private memoir, which unfolds with the suspense of a thriller, horror and great love story.
On the Shores of the Khazar Sea . The Love Story of Two Writers is her new book after a literary pause, as after her husband's death she was busy with the posthumous publishing of his works throughout the world and managed to publish over 60 editions from 2010-2013 in America, Russia, China, Korea, Indonesia, France, Greece, Georgia, Mongolia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Albania, Azerbaijan, Mexico, the Czech Republic. The most difficult task was to publish Pavić’s books in Serbia , in his native language.
Media on ''On the Shores of the Khazar Sea''
Emisija za Beograd TV Sky+ 2.4.2014.
Srbija ON Line TV K:CN1 13.2.2013.
Emisija “Nešto novo” 4.5.2014.
Emisija “Portret plus TV Sky+” 19.5.2014; 21:46 - 28:38
Emisija “Ni crno ni belo” TV K:CN1 13.5.2014.
Newspapers:
Nedeljnik: Tajni život Milorada Pavića
Laguna: Intervju - Jasmina Mihajlović: Pavić je svuda više živ nego u Srbiji
Laguna: Intervju - Jasmina Mihajlović: Orem književnu njivu za dvoje
PARIS KISS PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC EDITION OF AMAZON.COM – KINDLE
A novel Paris kiss by Jasmina Mihajlović, was released in October 2011 as an electronic book in the Amazon.com Kindle series. The book was translated into English by Dragana Rajkov. This is the second translation of the same novel. The Russian version of Paris kiss was published inSt. Petersburg in 2007. The book is published by Азбукa and translated by Larisa Savelyeva.
TRAVEL COLLECTION FROM “ALNARI”
The Travel Collection consists of a number of exciting travel stories that take place in Russia, Vojvodina, Greece, Egypt, Tunis and Kotor. If you would like to find out about the Tolstoy family, the earthquake in Santorini, the secrets of the walls of Kotor, and of the Egyptian pyramids, take a walk through this book. New surprises await you from the author of the Paris Kiss.
The Paris Kiss
The Paris Kiss, A novel – Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2007, 225 p.
The Paris Kiss is a specific adventure-travelogue novel. It takes place during four days in Paris. It the same time it’s an amusing metaphysical-philosophical-esoteric novel that can be read as a survival guide for the newest era that we’ve stepped into. It’s a book on how to overcome stress, how to buy a pair of boots in Paris, what the future will be like, what will happen to Christianity and other religions, which cafes in Paris are good, how Belgrade is seen from Paris and how Paris from Belgrade.
Beside the fact that the events take place within a four day span, the Paris Kiss tells of the moment all of us, all of mankind, are in. The junction of the new era and the newest era. Or the crossroads where the analogue era turns into the digital. That’s why it also tells a tale of love, solitude, fear, global climatic changes, nature as the greatest luxury, Paris as a city concealing the entrance to the netherworld, male-female relations and the new era of the female divine. The Paris Kiss seeks and finds the new Messiah the third millennium is longing for.
This detective-alchemist novel with elements of science fiction and the deciphering of urban city codes attempts, through the past, to perceive the future. Among other things, it tells of Mona Lisa’s code, mega-stores, large fashion brands, immortality, and whether speed hastens life or cancels it out. In any case, this is a triple-layer novel of significant volume that much has fit into, including the excitement of the readers to see the end of the initiation search disguised as the purchase of three pairs of boots.
The Paris Kiss is and ultra-light novel with bulky subjects.
The translation of this novel came out of print in Russia in time for the Moscow Book Fair, at the end of November 2007.
The unconventional appearance of the book is the work of Novi Sad designer Jovan Trkulja, whose work has in America been pronounced “The Best Design from Europe”.
Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown – Novi Sad, Ljubitelji knjige, 2006, 154 p.
“Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown” by Jasmina Mihajlović is not just a book of essays on love.
It’s also a collection of recipes for a higher quality, more fulfilled and happier love life, a manual on the right to emotions; a step-by-step guide to overcoming fear of love; a glossary of terms forming the foundation of love; a do-it-yourself for losing guilt trips; an encyclopedia of various kinds of love…
In short, “Love with a Dictionary of the Unknown” is a small female bible of new sensitivity.
In it Jasmina Mihajlović speaks – openly, from the female point of view – of things usually not spoken of in public, let alone written about. She has found the right words to tell what is usually most gladly kept silent.”
Prof. Dr Neda Todorović
Prilog za bibliografiju Milorada Pavića / Contribution to a Bibliography of Milorad Pavić, Beograd, Prosveta, 1991, pp. 231-305. Separately and as part of the book „An Anchoret in New York“ in Collected Works, Beograd, Prosveta, 1990. (Contents: List of all books by M. Pavić fiction, translations of fiction, scholarly and theoretical works; chronological bibliography of works of fiction published in papers, magazines – 1964 -1990; chronologically classified literature on M. Pavić – 1952 -1990).
Priča o duši i telu. Slojevi i značenja u prozi Milorada Pavića / A Tale of the Soul and the Body. Layers and Meanings in the Prose of Milorad Pavić – Belgrade, Prosveta, 1992, 191 p.
Bio-bibliografija Milorada Pavića / Milorad Pavić’s Biography and Bibliography, Separately and as part of the book „An Anchoret in New York“ in Collected Works, Beograd, Draganić, 1996, pp. 165-418. (Contents: Milorad Pavić’s biography; list of all books by M. Pavić; Milorad Pavić’s bibliography: original versions in Serbian; translations; chronologically classified literature on M. Pavić – 1952 -1995).
Two tales from Kotor (with M. Pavić), Belgrade, Dereta, 1998, 52 + 71 p.
Private Collection (short stories), Belgrade, Dereta, 2000, 257 p.
Jasmina Mihajlović’s book Private Collection (Dereta, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005), contains her „Autobiography in Scents“ and six stories: „The Unholy Place“, „Three Tables“, „Breakfast at Cituras“, „Paris is Deodorant for the Soul“, „Russia in Winword“, „Summer in France“. This is a series of exciting travel tales that, apart from unusually experienced places and regions in Serbia, Montenegro, Russia, Greece and France, depict the author’s life with her husband, author Milorad Pavić.
Her stories, along with a detective twist, elements of horror and fantasy, abound in lucid, modern, urban female observations on various phenomena of the final decade of the 20th century. In the Private Collection the reader will find a diary-style, epistolary, autobiographical and travel prose. This book by J. Mihajlović does in fact contain the author’s private collection: of unusual places in time and space, strange events, furniture, families, houses…
Love Story in Two Tales
(with Milorad Pavić), Belgrade, Čigoja, 2004, 2005; 63 p.
Read this exciting literary game! How a wife, an author, ordered from her husband, an author, a tale in which she is to be the heroine.
Travel Album, Belgrade, Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006; 162 p.
Travel Album received the award „Dereta’s Book of the Year“ for 2004. The NIN magazine included it among the ten best books of prose in the same year. It has for nine continuous months been among the top ten on the bestseller list of Dereta’s bookstore.
Travel Album (Dereta, 2004, 2005, 2006) is both a book of stories and a novel in tales, as well as an anthropological essay, a private narrative and a travelogue… It is read as an exciting thriller. It has drama, tenseness, disturbing disclosures, an intimate yet not trivial unveiling of a marriage of two authors, Milorad Pavić and Jasmina Mihajlović. Travel Album is somewhat like a love travelogue with many layers that can be drunk as a glass of spring water, but also a glass of expensive champagne.
Travel Album belongs to an eclectic genre for the new age in which female aestheticism, sensibility, honesty and moral righteousness have the main say.
Love without Secrets , Belgrade, Dereta, 2005, 140 p.
A refreshing, sobering and positive view upon the world.
In the book Love without Secrets (Dereta, 2005) you will find public, private and secret truths on the densest of human emotions – love. These guru essays will leave nobody indifferent. They are an uncompromising view on the past, the present and the future of all kinds of love in a person’s life. The observations of Jasmina Mihajlović must be trusted for they are no cheap, fast food spilling of reheated general wisdoms but rather material on the amorous reality and tomorrow of us and the world.
The condensed ease of depth in these texts inspires us to love, first and foremost, ourselves!
The book „Love without Secrets“, according to the reports of the specialized magizine „Bestseller“, was on the 9th place of the annual non-fiction best seller list for the year 2006 after 14 weeks on the list of most read books.
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Political parties oppose delay in establishing LG administrations
A number of political parties have opposed the delay in establishing Local Government administrations.
The Election Commission has requested the Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government to delay the process by a further one week.
Earlier, it was scheduled to establish the LG administrations on 6th of March.
UNP MP Kavida Jayawardena said it would take some time to make the LG system successful.
Meanwhile, Joint Opposition MP Keheliya Rambukwella said the delay in establishing administrations in LG bodies has created problems.
JVP Provincial Councillor Samantha Vidyaratne says this delay would further aggravate the issues of the rural people.
Meanwhile, the National Organizer of the SLFP, Susil Premajayantha said the legal aspects with regard to the establishment of LG administrations should be debated in Parliament.
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Homeslice Productions
Jessica Levity
The Utility Players
Alchemist Theatre
The Game Show Show
Cincinnati, NV
An Umbrella Company:
Live Entertainment // Creative Marketing // Radio
Homeslice Productions is the umbrella company under which creator Jessica "The Jester" Levity plays with her imagination. The secret to her success are her resources and her instinct; more than anything she loves collaboration. Her most successful collaborations include The Utility Players and Alchemist Theatre. As a solo artist, she thrives on stage as a professional emcee, director, producer, and storyteller. She's also a wedding officiant and metaphysical minister, and enjoys air-time with voiceover work, radio, and audio/video production. Her ability to self-produce, market, organize, and network is what makes her valuable to any project.
more about Jessica
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Rolling Coal
I love that conservative white men’s masculinity is so fragile that the sheer existence of a Prius sets them into a spasm of hatred. Thus, rolling coal.
But to diesel owners like Corey Blue of Roanoke, Ill., the very efforts to ban coal rolling represent the worst of government overreach and environmental activism. “Your bill will not stop us!” Mr. Blue wrote to Will Guzzardi, a state representative who has proposed a $5,000 fine on anyone who removes or alters emissions equipment.
“Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr. Blue wrote.” I will continue to roll coal anytime I feel like and fog your stupid eco-cars.”
He seems nice.
Still, some truck lovers say times are changing.
Danny Voss drives the Clean Sweep, the only emissions-compliant truck at the McHenry truck pull. His vehicle, a Chevy pickup fitted with a 2012 Duramax engine, is sponsored by Calibrated Power, which makes aftermarket parts that conform with emissions rules.
“When a truck like this pulls and you don’t see the smoke, we’re proud of it,” Mr. Voss said.
But when Clean Sweep dragged the heavy sled down the track, the crowd was confused. “Where’s the smoke?” one spectator shouted.
“The air sucks anyway,” said Ben Poncher, who was drinking a beer next to the track. “Smoke’s pretty. I like seeing it.”
Smart take.
Belated Happy Labor Day, Moochers
ITT Is No More
Judas Peckerwood
There must be a better way to announce to the world that you have a tiny, tiny penis.
Lamont Cranston
Mention it during a Republican Primary debate.
bspencer
I keep looking for a “Like” button and not finding one and it gets so frustrating for me.
cpinva
a tiny, tiny flag, on your radio antennae? zipper down and no one notices or cares?
I saw one of these things for the very first time recently, on a high traffic volume, local road. the general response, from other drivers, was decidedly less than enthusiastic.
C.V. Danes
I find the fake testicles hanging off a bumper to be a fairly good predictor of small penis anxiety.
BiloSagdiyev
UGTR
Ungovernable tribal regions.
One thing to keep in mind, when you think of the people who are still very, very mad that we lost in Vietnam, well, an equivalent amount of anger applies to pollution regulations being applied to cars around 1972 or so and taking away their GTO’s and Chevelle SS’s and and and and etc etc. They’re still not over that. Even if we’re currently awash in cars just as fast — and much faster — nowadays.
My pet theory is that part of their fist-shaking on the subject, which they’re not fully conscious of, was that that was the era when a blue collar guy could afford so much speed.
As for the ones who are mad that you still can’t work on ’em with a screwdriver and a rock, well, that group is fading away. (It’s not like the newer generation of them aren’t plugging fuel injected modern Chevy V-8’s into cars of all eras now.)
But because pollution control = lame 1979 Trans Am… all pollution controls and things done for mpg ever, shall always be Why Cars Now Suck. Even if they don’t suck. Even if the technology gave more power and more mpg.
It’s a strange, not-so-isolated cult.
Full disclosure: I don’t like these guys. ; )
I restore and modify older GM pickup trucks. I only install relatively modern GM engines- fuel-injected gasoline engines, that have to meet emission standards upon their initial registration (in Colorado), and as long as the vintage/collector/classic vehicle registration is maintained, there is no future inspection. Even modern gasoline engines vehicles have a two-year interval for emissions testing, but diesels have one every year. My ancient Benz diesel still ‘blows clean’, every time. Hat these guys (and it’s almost always men) spend thousands of dollars to remove, modify and bypass emissions controls, then use programmers to alter the engine computer controls (not much different than VW/Audi did), to produce ‘coal on demand’. I have retired from the auto service business, but I remember refusing to cut off or gut out catalytic converters on gasoline engines vehicles, because there was a $10K federal fine to the service shop, and to the vehicle owner. I didn’t need the headache. All the state or local cops have to do is pull over one of the ‘coal rollers’, and demand an inspection to verify compliance with state or federal standards. If it’s out of compliance, fine the owner and the shop that did the modification, or offer the owner the opportunity to pay to have the vehicle restored to compliance. Modern technology is pretty amazing, in the vehicle sector- I started out with old-school type vehicles (back when they were state-of-the-art) and the new stuff is cleaner, more powerful and actually more durable than the old stuff! My favourite derogatory comment to any of the simpletons who modify their vehicles to produce some outrageous/illegal/unsafe condition- ‘but it looks cool!’. The snark is lost on most of them.
Let me point out that VW/Audi only bungled one metric, not all metrics. NOx is a problem, but they still had excellent soot/particulate control – which is a real public health (and glacier metl) problem, and they still got very good mpg, which is a greenhouse gas issue.
Last I read up on it. I’ve not read up with great energy on that subject, though, but I sensed a mismatch between “they’re POLLUTING!” and the “on nitrous oxides” issue.
They’re still big stinking cheaters and Ferdinand Piech is a real jerk, of course.
flyingsquidwithgoggles
Even so, NOx emissions are also a public health threat, especially to asthmatics and people with compromised respiratory systems. Here’s a Vox article that estimates the VW emissions cheating killed somewhere between 70 and 400 people per year worldwide.
ResumeMan
Also, too, NOx is a precursor to ozone – smog – which is a very major public health issue. Indeed, ozone and fine PM are the most significant contributors to air quality related health issues. So ya, it’s a big deal.
Barry Freed
…an equivalent amount of anger applies to pollution regulations being applied to cars around 1972 or so and taking away their GTO’s and Chevelle SS’s and and and and etc etc. They’re still not over that.
Was that really the cause or was it a combination of the 1973 oil crisis with the fact that that’s around when Detroit started making really shitty cars and better, cheaper, more durable Japanese cars started coming in to the American market.
That didn’t help Detroit in general, but it’s not like Japan was selling competitors to the muscle cars. Once powerful engines became… not as powerful, because of emissions regs.
Technology brought performance back eventually, but that cost money.
While there was a demand for economy cars, many of the pony cars were still being sold, and fhey weren’t as good. And these guys didn’t want economy cars. (Still don’t!)
(Until you tore everything apart and made it gooder, which many of these guys were going to anyway…)
“That didn’t help Detroit in general, but it’s not like Japan was selling competitors to the muscle cars.”
I always found that amusing, calling a GTO a “muscle” car, as if it had a hope in hell of ever competing with a Ferrari or a Lamborghini (or even a vet), in either looks or “muscle”. they were the blue collar guy’s wannabe sports car. put glass packs on them, and they were noisy as hell too. not fast and noisy, just……………noisy. pathetic really.
nosmo king
Actually, at Daytona in 1964, before the Daytona 500, they had a separate 500 mile race pitting Big 3 muscle cars, lightly modified from factory, against European sports cars, also lightly modified for oval racing. The winner was Paul Goldsmith’s Pontiac Tempest Super Duty, finishing 8 laps ahead of the Ferrari entry and more than a lap ahead of anyone else IIRC. Granted, horses for courses and all that, and GM only ever made 12 1964 Tempest Super Duty cars, but to say Detroit never made factory iron that could compete evenly with Europeans is wrong. See also: Ford GT40, which you could get on special order from any local Ford dealer back in the day
Major Kong
It was a combination of govt pollution regulations, fuel prices and a crackdown by the insurance companies in the early 70s.
Today your average V6 Accord or Camry is quicker than most of the muscle cars.
gogiggs
It speaks well of you that you look for a non-awful explanation, but there isn’t one.
This is just another example of conservatism being the opposite of liberals, updated daily.
Back in 1980, America faced a choice. Dad had been caught cheating and left Mom. Mom told us we needed to turn down the thermostat, put on a sweater and be responsible.
Dad told us it was morning in America, we could stay up all night, drive whatever we wanted, eat dessert for every meal and just generally not care.
We went with Dad
We’ve been paying the price ever since.
Area Man
One thing to keep in mind, when you think of the people who are still very, very mad that we lost in Vietnam, well, an equivalent amount of anger applies to pollution regulations being applied to cars around 1972 or so and taking away their GTO’s and Chevelle SS’s and and and and etc etc. They’re still not over that.
I’m a little skeptical of the idea that these jerks, who appear to be in their 20s or early 30s at most, are reacting to regulations that were put in place well before they were born. Granted, such resentments can trickle down through the generations, but no one buying their first car in the last 10 years has any cause to blame environmental regulations from preventing them from having a badass car or truck, if that’s their thing.
People pick a tribe. The choice is shaped by their parents, their friends’ parents, and the media choices of those people.
Then they adopt the attitudes of that tribe, irrespective of whether it makes any sense at all.
We recently turned a very conservative family member onto buying diode light bulbs to replace all their incandescent bulbs. Small victories – but once they do it, they’re never going back.
Granted, such resentments can trickle down through the generations, but no one buying their first car in the last 10 years has any cause to blame environmental regulations from preventing them from having a badass car or truck, if that’s their thing.
Logically speaking. If they’re being logical, and can admit that even today’s V-6 Camaros are fast.
But it’s not a logical thing, and anything and everything the EPA, CARB, and NHTSA ever does is bad and wrong.
Karen24
As a liberal, I think that sucking on tailpipe emissions is completely wrong and should be banned. Also, pumping tailpipe emissions into the passenger cabin while idling in your garage is also a very bad and idea which should be regulated by the EPA.
(((Malaclypse)))
There is nothing that would fill me with helpless rage more than these guys working in the privacy of their own garages, behind a closed door, where Agenda 21 has no reach, modding out their trucks.
Especially if they keep the engine running with the doors and windows closed.
I heard Agenda 21 prohibits just that.
Obama and the Clintons think it’s very, very bad.
Pick up an old GM two-stroke diesel and retrofit it! That’ll show those EPA guys.
Note: I drove one of those in the ’80s and the cab would reek of diesel fumes if you rolled the window down even just a crack. Made for fun in hot weather.
Snarki, child of Loki
I am VERY ANGRY at the regulations that prevent me from showing my strong support of the very important Nerve Gas Industry. It’s important for the national defense, unlike those primitive ‘coalers’. Perhaps I’ll find a way to show them that “they’ve got a lot of nerve”, you betcha.
CrunchyFrog
I’ll add this post to my collection entitled “The Causes of the First Self-Extinction in Earth’s History”.
If I understand it correctly: to roll coal requires modifying your fuel injection to dump more fuel into the motor than it is capable of burning.
They’re literally modifying their trucks to make them run worse.
Bless their hearts.
ArchTeryx
And wrecking their extremely expensive engines prematurely in the process. About the only thing stupider then “foaling roll” is the assholes that fly a huge Confederate flag right next to an equally huge U.S. flag out the back of their pickups.
In Upstate New York.
Stupidity at that level should be a capital crime (and usually is, eventually).
About the only thing stupider then “foaling roll” is the assholes that fly a huge Confederate flag right next to an equally huge U.S. flag out the back of their pickups.
In Upstate New YorkWest Virginia.
I live in upstate New York and drive by a Ford F-250 every afternoon in a nearby driveway that’s been modified with a couple of smokestacks. It doesn’t have a Confederate flag on it but it does have a Trump bumper sticker.
… actually I guess it DOES have a Confederate flag, doesn’t it? I mean, same different.
Matt McIrvin
I’ve seen people rolling coal and people flying the Confederate-and-US-flag combo in my town in Massachusetts.
stamc
I’m from Western NY and this does not surprise me. The small town of Danville had a hot air balloon festival over Labor Day weekend and nearly every vendor there sold confederate flags. I live in NoVA now. We were driving near VA Tech on our way to NC when one of these coal rollers let off their smoke in front of us. We just thought they we having car trouble. Now I realize our Volvo must have triggered him. On a somewhat related note, the car in front of me today had a GALT J vanity plate on a brand new Infinity. Plates were also veteran plate.
Danville, VA? They’re having a great big pity party over that flag lately.
Also, just across the state line in Pelham, NC, may be the HQ of the largest Klan chapter in the US… but I doubt there are any accurate metrics on that self-aggrandizing, I mean, reporting stuff.
Danville, VA? Where Virgil Caine drove the train? (Before Stoneman’s cavalry, anyway).
A Galter who was part of the biggest government jobs program (and drawing a lifelong pension from it)–the US military? Sounds about right.
FlipYrWhig
Might as well slap Trump and Don’t Tread on Me stickers on there and complete the set of “Fuck You, World!” signifiers.
And that is why Veblen was the prophet of our age.
N__B
Chad Veblen, who wrote about the theory of the moron class?
Less reliable, plus less power. OTOH, the smoke they emit does warn you that the occupants are dim-witted fools and to be avoided; clearly a safety plus for others.
Lee Rudolph
There’s a market there (small, probably, but I’m sure not entirely non-existent) for the Faux-Coal-Roll™: a radio-controlled device attached to the top of your truck’s exhaust that, when you push a button in the cab, releases a cloud of environment-friendly black Phony-Smoke™. You can infuriate the libtards in their Priuses while secretly keeping your fuel injectors in tune and saving at the pump!!!
1) didn’t James Bond or some character of his ilk drive a car that could lay down a smokescreen at the press of a button?
2) It seems to me that if you’re going to go that route then black smoke is boring. Brightly colored smoke! Perhaps with sparkles of burning magnesium or some such in it!
The Temporary Name
The smokescreen Bond car was in Goldfinger, and I had the little metal toy version, which was spiffy. The burning magnesium would have improved it.
LNM_in_LA
Back when Goldfinger was released, the Sears store in nearby Inglewood hosted a promotional event for the film, and you got the chance to sit in that DB5. Which I did. I SO much wanted to push that red ‘eject’ button . . .
Brightly colored smoke!
LAVENDER!
That car was the Season 2 Autobot appropriately named Smokescreen.
Linnaeus
While we’re on cultural references from the 1980s, your car could also produce a smokescreen in the video game Spy Hunter.
Also in the video game Autoduel.
Oh man – Autoduel. So many wasted hours.
Spyhunter, definitely one of the best video games ever. No extra charge for the Peter Gunn theme!
Mind you, these motors have so bloody much power that the occaasional setting to “roal coal” is but a blip on the otherwise silly amount of torque on tap day to day.
Don’t tell anybody, but shhh… electronics are involved in most cases, I believe. I don’t keep track of it all, but I get the impression that these aren’t simple mechanically injected diesels anymore. Which is one reason they are playing with so much power at the press of a button… or smoke at the press of a button… or fuel economy at the press of a button.
I have a friend with a truck of this ilk (but he is not of their ilk) and he easily gets 24 mpg hwy, which is shocking for a truck of its size, and with a motor alone that weighs 1,000 lbs.
if it would piss off some liberal, somewhere, they would puncture their own, very expensive tires and run on the rims, all while denying their children medical care because it would also piss off liberals. Major, I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but these are not very bright people.
in the days of old Sparta, according to archeologists/historians, these people wouldn’t have been allowed to live much past birth, because their obvious mental weakness would have been considered a danger to the community. thankfully, we live in a society that doesn’t practice such overt Darwinian weeding out, and they are allowed to live. unfortunately, this also means that, absent some medical condition/accident/etc., they can pass their defective genes on to another generation of born stupid people.
Actually, the Spartans notoriously selected for stupidity.
Nobdy
Even in this election year of bombastic rhetoric on political correctness and climate change, rolling coal stands out as an ideological statement. At its core, it also struggles with a basic, somewhat existential question: Should we seek to minimize the human footprint on the earth, or should we flaunt it?
Teach the controversy.
Should we, as humans, try to maintain the only environment we have as best we can or should we trash it and all die together along with the majority of earth’s flora and fauna?
Truly a puzzler. I find it as difficult to answer as Loomis does the question “Would you like some ketchup with that steak?”
It’s all going to be gone the second I’m dead anyway. Middle fingers up, and suck it libtards!
correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the “rolling coal” idiocy start before the primaries even began? if I recall, this was more a “response” (for lack of a better word) to the new EPA mandates on coal, which I believe preceded the formal election season. as I noted above, I only just recently saw one in person, but I do recall reading/hearing news of them well over a year ago. I could be wrong, it’s been a very busy last year and half in my life.
LWA
Here in the People’s Republic of California, I spotted one of those monster trucks with a bumper sticker that said “I [heart] 8 MPG”
I almost laughed myself silly.
The guy was proud of how low his mileage was. So proud, he went to the trouble of putting it on his bumper. I just imagined how delighted he must have felt every time he filled up, watching the gauge spin madly (“eff you Al Gore! Take That, Pajama Boy!”)
If rage springs from fear, these are very, very fearful people.
And, I think, with good reason.
Surely there are less graphic ways of announcing “I am a YUGE ASSHOLE!”
less graphic – and less expensive!
I spotted one of those monster trucks with a bumper sticker that said “I [heart] 8 MPG”
Hey, I got a suggestion for how he could get EVEN LOWER MPG. It involves dousing his truck with a couple of gallons of gasoline.
Even better if he’s a smoker.
Yet another reason why I can’t wait for oil to go up towards $100 per barrel. Not that that will happen anytime soon though.
as a recently departed wise man once noted, “These are simple people of the soil. You know, morons”
NewishLawyer
IIRC the “rolling coal” thing was a story in the media a few years ago. I can’t remember if it was a story in 2012 or a little later.
It would be interesting to see if “rolling coal” becomes a story every 4 years.
wjts
The first time I remember hearing about it was on this very blog about two years ago.
Fighting Words
Thanks! I recall first reading about it on LGM too.
Origami Isopod
So midterms then! Even more depressing!
ok, good, so my post above wasn’t completely off the mark then. good to know my brain hasn’t turned totally to mush, yet. the current election idiocy of “Political Correctness” (meaning you can’t be a gratuitous asshole in public anymore, and not get called on it.) and Climate Change denial also aren’t completely recent, Trump has just turned the stupid machine up to 11, in a naked appeal to his low intellect base. beats me why though, he seems to have that 40% nailed, unless he gets caught wearing a burqa, and having sex with a transvestite (not that there’s anything wrong with being a transvestite) knowingly. they’re so blind with rage at this point, that might not even do it.
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/dicks-pick-trucks-meme-rollin-coal/
“The air sucks anyway,”
The air BLOWS.
liberalrob
That’s why it’s windy.
grouchomarxist
Paging Mr. Kornbluth: Your morons are marching!
These are the people we’re supposed to “reach out to” and “try to understand.”
I believe they also do it to bicyclists, the kind wearing lyrca and riding faggy skinny-tired road bikes.
This is the kind of populism I have no patience for. It’s just shitting down on people when you can get away with it. Apolitical bully mentality. Again, I don’t think they’re fully conscious of the politics (or class), as usual, just… rich guys… screw you! Nobody they know rides a bike like a sissy.
Full disclsoure: I have been one of those lycra guys in the past. Before the rolling of coal, but not the screaming, throwing of things, etc etc. I understand these guys pretty well. They’re real jerks.
Ugh, yeah.
And if you’re a woman on a bicycle you get catcalled. Or, if these douchebags are in a car versus a truck, one of them leans out the window and slaps you on the ass.
I once was on a lonely country road when I heard the noise of jacked-up-truck tires slowing down… slowly I turned… concerned that I was due for yet another pleasant encounter with the Yeehaw Patrol.
It was two country girls, who wanted to look at the lycra behind. Mwaah mwaaah.
Schadenboner
Dear Bicyclist Monthly,
I never thought I would be writing one of these letters but…
“I woke up later that night in a ditch by the side of the road, with my Zefal frame pump in a most indelicate place.”
The last time this came around, I recall reading that there’s a bunch of YouTube videos of the coal-rollers barfing smoke on attractive women. It really brings it all together.
A bunch of yahoos like that once hit a friend of mine with a beer can while she was riding her bike near campus.
And when I did a lot of street cycling away from my neighborhood the catcalls and insults were constant.
I’ve got the good fortune to be safe from that side of things, but the summer I worked in LA I had at least 3 drivers honest-to-god try to murder me. In San Francisco, the baseline driver is of the “can’t tell if they’re drunk or just that stupid” kind, so I don’t think any of my near misses here have been intentional, but you can never really tell.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
I think I understand them. They’ve been told not to do something, so they think doing it will make them Cool Rebels Who Don’t Play By The Rules. I suspect everyone’s done that at some point or another. Defining yourself by the rules you won’t obey, though, is kind of a stupid way to live your life.
Bruce: I forgive you. Here. [Hands Kevin a copy of Morrisson Hotel] Take this, it’s an 8-track tape. It’s one of the last in existence. I want you to steal a car…
Kevin: I have a car…
Bruce: Steal a car!
Kevin: Steal a car!!
Bruce: I want you to get in it and drive West. Play the tape full blast. When the tape ends, get out and get into a fight, then get back into the car, come to town and meet me at the Carcas Club.
Kevin: What will you do?
Bruce: I will let you in to the most prestigious hotel of all time…
Kevin: Which is?
Bruce: [rolling his eyes] Mor’son Hotel!
Kevin: Then what?
Bruce: Then, you’re gonna be a Doors fan, man.
Jon_H11
Bruce McCulloch on KITH was the one man ultimate take down of idiot (North) American masculinity.
I mean I sort of get that when you are in 7th-10th grade but not much after that even if there are still rules we bristle against and don’t always obey.
These guys really do seem to have a fragile sense of masculinity.
I can’t say I get it. I’ve never really been into sports or cars or traditional guy things. But this never made me feel feminine or unmasculine.
I’ve never really been into sports… cars
When I was too young to drive.
mpavilion
Yeah, I subscribed to “Car and Driver” in middle school / high school, and was minorly obsessed with Porsches. Once I grew up, I could barely care less about cars… though I do have a friend who owns two(!) used Porsches. The fire of his youthful enthusiasm was not extinguished by the thin air of adulthood, or something…
It’s a very childish/adolescent attitude, yeah. It’s not too different from people who rant and rave about motorcycle helmet and seat belt laws. I can’t say I’d be shocked to learn that there’s a lot of overlap between those folks and the rolling coal folks.
I’m into hockey and cars and motorcycles (although maybe biking and playing soccer offsets that in the mind of the Coaly Rollers), and I really don’t get it either.
oh, I understand them fully, I grew up around people like this. they were tortured, flaming assholes in my youth, and are just older tortured, flaming assholes now. they are impervious to change, especially if it means (in their minds, anyway) they are no longer at the top of the American populace food chain. not that most of them ever were in any substantive way, aside from being white, male and “Christian”. but now that’s being “taken away” from them, and they just can’t handle it. soon enough, a fair number of them will either die from blowing a gasket from the rage, or end up in jail, by doing something incredibly stupid from the rage. hopefully, they’ll only damage themselves in the process.
Some citizens are gross polluters, by all metrics.
Jeremy W
Well, 144 citizens are.
Karl Dickman
Yes, but are they gross polluters by all *relevant* metrics?
Refresher training:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaMDE5qrsA
Well I will continue to salt their precious lawns
here is a link to the previous LGM “coal rolling” thread, a bit over two years ago. It got more than 400 comments; since then, our ability to be outraged has been exhausted by a certain orange-hued toupee’d freak, and it’s not as new, so I predict far fewer.
Oh my. There’s a late comment at the bottom of that thread that is chock full of Science, yo.
What a delightful fellow.
PatrickG
Fine (especially ultrafine — those elitist jerks) particles are part of the liberal agenda to prevent diesel-fueled produce delivery.
ETA: can we have a reclassification for ultrafabulous particles?
I dunno. Pretty sure these guys are just really upset about the economy. https://t.co/Xfg5ERv6fP
— bspencer (@vacuumslayer) September 5, 2016
Oh, noes! Bspen has once more quoted herself! What havoc might this wreak upon commenter “skeptic”? Will no-one think of the children?
BobBobNewhartNewhartSpecial
I know, right, we totally need a “The View” perspective on this blog.
LeeEsq
I don’t think this is necessarily about the fragility of white manhood necessarily but you can make a very good faith argument that it is so. My interpretation is that its about taking one trait of Western culture way too far, in this case irreverence. Irreverence, the ability to mock things that people take seriously, has been a part of Western society since Ancient Greece. Aristophanes mocked everything he could think of. The trait of irreverence existed in other culture but I think that the Greco-Roman derived cultures of the West took it farther and made it more central to our value system than others. Irreverence can be very important and useful but some people take it too far.
Irreverence can be very important and useful but some people take it too far.
Hell, I’m as irreverent as fuck, but the only pollution I cause is verbal.
It’s an awful lot of work and money for some simple irreverence, don’t you think?
Whatever happened to just expressing oneself with the quiet dignity of Truck Nutz?
It got coöpted by bicyclists, and is hence too effete for pickup truck drivers.
Ah, yes, “heart shaped”. Hm.
Though, honestly, as a long-time (now former) bicycle commuter I’d settle for people using those if it meant they had a visible light of some sort. One of my pet peeves was my fellow bicyclists not using lights, not obeying signals, not wearing helmets.
Your pribably signalled turns with your left arm, too! Did you always feel silly, like nobody knew what it meant?
Actually, no. I’m too much of a klutz to take my hand off the handlebar to signal turns – even though I know it’s a legal requirement for bicyclists.
Vance Maverick
Nice diëresis, fellow effetist!
twbb
And of course, the one time “casts a cloud” would be a legitimate phrase to use in a New York Times story, rather than sleazy anti-Hillary bias, they don’t use it…
aidian
Rollin’ coal is the sort of thing that by the time you’re able to afford to do it you should have outgrown all interest in actually doing it. There are actually a surprising number of things in this category: stuff I totally would done at 15 but couldn’t afford to do, and now that I could afford to do it I realize it’s the sort of thing only a 15 year old would do.
It’s worth noting that the reason you can’t buy a small pickup anymore is because of the ‘Corporate Average Fuel Economy’ rules which categorize vehicles via size of the wheelbase. That means the little (relatively) efficient pickups I love can’t be made anymore — because they have a wheelbase the same size as a sedan they’re rated to the same standards as one. It’s stuff like this that makes me want to pull my hair out. I don’t like, need, or want a big ol’ 7.3 liter V8 powered full-size pickup. But that’s what the EPA wants me to buy.
I will note that the embrace of emissions controls has a serious disadvantage for the working classes. I long suggested that the people working for the California Air Resources Board should be allowed to implement any pollution rule they think would do some good, but only after they’ve spent a year or two as a single mother with a couple of kids, a minimum wage job and a beater car that has just failed it’s biannual smog inspection and has been labeled a gross polluter by the state.
CARB has a program which will help pay for repairs: All you have to do is pay for them, mail in the receipts along with a form and then wait for the state to reimburse you. Totally reasonable for an overpaid state employee working for CARB. Not so much for someone working at Subway.
Of course the state will only cover $500 max. And hopefully you don’t owe any money to a state or local agency — in which case they’ll pay it off and send you anything left (don’t forget that a $100 ticket in California will cost you about $400-500 even if you pay it on time. A $15-25 parking ticket will run you $200. Depending on the county, they’ll offer the option of sitting in jail at a rate of $50/day). Also, the program runs out of money for the year by late Spring most years.
In the meantime, you can’t register your car, which means you’re at risk every time you drive. Get pulled over once and still can’t pay? Your license gets suspended for an unpaid violation. Get caught driving again and you’re talking about criminal violation, not just traffic infraction…. etc., etc., etc…
It’s situations like this that can quickly make you less than appreciative of clean air rules.
yeah, there’s something to this. Coal rollers excepted, nobody drives a shitty car on purpose
Egads. I did not know that. I just figured that most Americans who want trucks don’t want a sensibly sized truck. We have plenty of evidence that they do like “giant.” I am continually shocked at the size creep that goes on with full sized trucks and how people keep accepting them as normal. (Ongoing military actions in the Middle East, too, but that’s totally unrelated, I swear.)
Similarly, I was tickled when I saw Ford start selling smaller fwd vans for commerical use, since so many businesses don’t need a big blundering Econoline… and while they’ve sold some, it looks like they’ve been selling a lot more of the bigger, and even-bigger new designs now that the Econoline is dead.
Are the V-6’s not an option anymore? Or is that more of a fleet sales and “theortical” option, good luck finding one on the lot? I am tickled to find out that Dodge is now selling a turbodiesel V-6 that is about half the displacement of the Cummins, for a merely sensible amount of great torque, and 29 mpg hwy.
As for CARB and poverty, I must say that clean air is a benefit that applies democratically, but yes, they take things too far with the old cars. And very old cars. And very very old cars.
As for that $500 benefit, egads, reminds me of the bureaucracy I work for. A benefit that benefits the organized, literate, have-a-little-money-put-away lower middle class maybe, but not the actual poor. Whee.
It’s pretty rare to see a full-size pickup w/a V-6. I think you’re right about them being a fleet buy kinda thing because when I do see them they’re usually auctioned fleet vehicles. I’d also guess I’m not the only person who thinks ‘If I’m buying a honking big truck, it’s gonna have a honking big engine.’ Also, at the price of a fullsize pickup, $1500 difference between engines don’t mean much: it’s about $40,000 new either way.
The new smaller engines are interesting, but more in ‘cool experiment’ than in a ‘I’d drive one’ way. The companies are supercharging the hell out of ’em to try and hit the same power specs the bigger engines get while still meeting the new MPG standards, and that probably means they won’t last as long.
I just want to be able to buy a new version of my 1991 Toyota 4×4. 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine. Turning radius smaller than a mustangs. Tough enough for the Taliban. :(
One option we have in this mod-ren age is that mint conditiion cars of any year can be found somewhere in the U.S., so you always have the option of just buying another Toyota truck of that era.
http://bringatrailer.com/2016/08/28/one-owner-w-cold-ac-1986-toyota-4runner/
Change all hoses, belts, spark plugs, oils, coolant, and be on your merry way.
$6,800 is a lot for an old used car, but nothing compared to any new car.
advocatethis
Yeah, I didn’t know that, either. My favorite vehicle I ever had was a 1984 Mazda B2000, which I drove for fifteen years til it was totalled when I got sandwiched at a traffic light (the car behind me apparently didn’t notice the color of said light ). That 1/2 ton truck could haul anything I needed it to, plus it handled like a dream and got close to 30 mpg. I ‘m still bummed that I couldn’t replace it with anything similar.
Well, I realize this is an old thread, but I was pretty surprised by these complaints, and went to check it out.
What about this: http://www.kbb.com/nissan/frontier-king-cab/2016/s/options/?vehicleid=413436&intent=buy-new
Or the Toyota: http://www.kbb.com/toyota/tacoma-access-cab/2016/sr/options/?vehicleid=411703&intent=buy-new
Both in 4cyl versions, the Nissan about 18g base model, 23g for the Toyota
Thanks, that confirms my barely informed opinion on the subject. Every once in a while I spot a modern Toyota pickup truck that seems sensibly sized, and it appears to be a stripper with smaller diameter tires or lower ride height or something. This confirms my suspicion that we’d be seeing more sensibly sized pickups on the road if people… bought them.
I was gonna say Dodge Dakota–had one, not a Toyota quality but small and worked–but then I looked:
The compact pickup segment received yet another blow recently as Chrysler announced it has ended production of its Dakota pickup. With the small truck’s demise, Chrysler joins Ford and General Motors among automakers who have outlines plans to pull out of the declining segment.
Those are still kinda large. “Medium” sized Detroit pickups are still a big bigger than the old Toyota/Nissan/Mitsu/Mazda pickups of yore.
I didn’t even know they were still trying with the Dakota. The Ranger petered out slowly for a long time, too. (Milking the same generation for ever might not have helped, but why invest in something people don’t like anyway?) Rangers used to have a mere 2.3 liter motor and smaller tires, but that was a long time ago. (And the Ranger was closest to being a tidy size.)
Most people who buy Murkin trucks want Big Murkin Trucks.
Not helping? People who like smaller trucks probably aren’t afraid to buy a Toyota and once they’ve gotten a taste of that Toyota truck quality… they’re gone.
jim, some guy in iowa
I remember looking at the Chevy Colorados when they first came out to replace the S-10. The first thing I noticed was how much bigger the Colorado was- seemed like it would be kind of awkward as a mini truck and the thing was, after reading the window sticker for price and fuel economy you might just as well buy a true 1/2 ton
Rollin’ coal is the sort of thing that by the time you’re able to afford to do it you should have outgrown all interest in actually doing it.
This sounds about right. I actually went to a tractor pull when I was in elementary school. My friends and I were oddly (none of us had older brothers/parents that were into cars) obsessed with big trucks for a short period. I remember thinking even then that some of the older people that owned the trucks were a little odd – like seeing someone who seemed just a little too old to be hanging out playing video games at the arcade. And of course, we all lost interest long before any of us were old enough to actually drive.
The best part is when the dump birdseed into their window air vents.
Not sure why they do it.
Is this a trick for use in bear country, perhaps? Hmmm….
As if these trucks get anywhere near “bear country”.
Bear country can be your driveway in many parts of the lower 48. There are a least a half a million of them in the lower 48, I’m guessing. (Wikipedia says 339K to 465K, not counting AK, ID, SD, TX, and WY, whose population sizes are unknown.)
And these guys tend to live more rural areas.
(Not to say they don’t drive to a city to work at a job that gives them money for toys, but I can’t say anything more about that lest I got into my “you call that country?!” rant.)
witlesschum
There’s like seven of these guys in the country, relatively and they command far too much of the brainshare of places like LGM. Every two years, apparently. People who are outraged by these dweebs outnumber them heavily, so are in fact more annoying than them. This is the equivalent of Loomis announcing his dissatisfaction with Nickleback or NAMBLA every two years.
Morbo
I take it you’ve never been to Silver Lake State Park on Labor Day or Memorial Day weekend?
I work in the Ungovernable Tribal Regions, as someone named them above. People who actually modify their trucks to do this are few and far between, even there.
Yeah — I’m a newcomer here (so I know I don’t have the right to complain); this blog and the folks commenting seem pretty great; but a fair amount of the post subjects seem oddly… “small-bore” (especially considering everything goin’ on). But again, I ain’t nobody (“YOU start a blog!”)
A good portion of any intratribal communication is own-group signalling.
I see what you did there. And I like it.
(smoke signals)
No need to be serious all the time. I dig most of Loomis argh ketchup posts, this one just annoyed me.
Some would say that a nonzero amount of post subjects are quite large-bore…
And don’t get me started on the caliber of comments.
I’m not going to suggest you stop, fucko. All I want is to require that the exhaust be routed into the passenger compartment. You are fucked and you are fucking us – do the entire species a favor and fucking die already.
To ponder: since climate change is a direct threat to literally *everyone’s* lives, does it count as “STANDIN YER GROUND” to return fire at these yoyos?
Where there’s smoke there’s fire!!!
get the heck out of our country
Incorrect adjective. He couldn’t possibly have meant “our” country. The proper phrasing would be “get the heck out of MY country.” That’s what he meant to say.
…does it count as “STANDIN YER GROUND” to return fire at these yoyos?
I’d say so. Not only because of climate change, but because of the immediate road hazard created by spewing a dense cloud of vision-impairing smoke. My life is directly being threatened by this person’s deliberate actions. I must be allowed to defend myself, and the surest and quickest way to do that is to blow this dangerous, life-threatening asshole away with my constitutionally kept and borne sidearm. I mean, that’s what it’s FOR, right?
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Laura Perrins - Conservative Woman#502983
By Abernathy
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 12:05 pm #502983
Gobby Ian-Paisley-in-Drag type who is increasingly regularly being invited onto telly as a pundit on programmes like The Daily Politics and Question Time.
She is the co-editor of a repugnant website called "Conservative Woman" .
Sample here : http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/laur ... rth-korea/
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Re: Laura Perrins - Conservative Woman#502986
By mr angry manchester
Saw her on Question Time a few weeks ago and she came across as if there was something slightly wrong with her.
Were going to hell in a handcart, you couldn't make it up!
It’s an outrage, ban this sick filth!
mr angry manchester
Location: Handforth, Cheshire, just half a mile across the border with fantastic Greater Manchester
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:01 pm #502989
She appears to have a pearl as a dental implant.
By Malcolm Armsteen
That's an interesting point. The photo shows two catchlights in her right eye and two on her tooth, nothing on the left. Both of these things are strange...
Perhaps a main/slave flash setup? Or studio lights? Not just a casual snap.
We do'nt need No stinkin' punctyation or speelin here. I bin tole.
Malcolm Armsteen
Location: Sunny Surrey where the vines sit smugly in the sunshine.
Did Mumsnet get too argumentative for them... so they needed to create a new site for their shitness.
She reminded me a bit of one of those horrible, fascist, bastardy nuns from the Magdelene Sisters
By Fozzy
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 12:55 am #503080
Show me someone who uses terms like "leftie", and I'll show you an immature idiot with the vocabulary of a 12 year old.
By mojojojo
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:28 pm #503164
Fozzy wrote: Show me someone who uses terms like "leftie", and I'll show you an immature idiot with the vocabulary of a 12 year old.
Stop virtue-signalling you clock.
MY COMMENTS ARE FROM THE HORSES MOUTH AND ARE ALL FACTS
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By Catkins
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 2:49 pm #503217
Zelo Street skewered her hypocrisy a while ago - she wrote an article complaining about working mothers, and also women who don't change their name on marriage, despite working after kids and under her maiden name.
"The architectural style is early maniac" - Vila Restal
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:20 pm #503320
Isn't that Conservative woman all over, do as I say not as I do?
I remember a Roger Mellie strip (in which he 'did' Question Time, complete with a Jezza-lookalike social worker) coming out with the "if you like it so much why don't you go live in X" line, about 25 years ago. Only thing was, that was a comic strip, and the reader was invited to laugh at the banality of the statement.
By D.C. Harrison
You say that, but I have had a Tory bore in a pub almost scream at me "if you like leftie shit so much, why don't you fuck off to North Korea or Cuba?"
I think I'd set him off by defending the NHS on the basis of how well they'd treated my epilepsy, and he'd started bemoaning how "hard working taxpayers" like him were subsidising my meds. I was looking around checking I wasn't in some unhinged Jeremy Beadle-style sketch.
Point being, these lunatics are actually out there.
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By Boiler
...and regrettably, the laws of this sceptr'd isle do not allow you to adjust their physiognomy with a cricket bat without repercussions.
I know I ain't common 'cause I got class I ain't never used yet.
By Lardboy
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:07 am #503398
Andy McDandy wrote: I remember a Roger Mellie strip (in which he 'did' Question Time, complete with a Jezza-lookalike social worker) coming out with the "if you like it so much why don't you go live in X" line, about 25 years ago. Only thing was, that was a comic strip, and the reader was invited to laugh at the banality of the statement.
I remember that one. They then went on to play "Marbles Up Their Arseholes".
Lardboy
- Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:01 pm #522936
This one is a cracker . Hating the Tories, now :
With the stroke of a pen, the Tories believe they can magically turn men into women and vice versa. They have even instructed the UN to ditch the term ‘pregnant woman’ and use ‘pregnant people’ instead. This is misogyny. This is the Tory party.
A belter.
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An essay that examines whether Briony ever achieves atonement in 'Atonement' by Ian McEwan
At the beginning of the novel Briony is a girl of thirteen her mind filled with romantic stories containing morally certain scenarios; she views the world around her through the same filters and is over-confident in her ability to judge events. When she observes a strange interaction between her sister, Cecilia, and Robbie, the cleaning lady's son, she misinterprets the situation as threatening for her sister. This impression is reinforced when she later interrupts them in the secluded library having an amorous embrace, which she construes as an assault.
Consider the significances of innocence in Part One of Atonement.
However, the trust surrounded with the nursery is broken as he sees 'that the girl was almost a young woman' whilst 'watching her closely'. The reader are led to believe by McEwan that Paul Marshall is caressing Lola, and the description of her 'unblemished incisors' highlights this innocence. Through this, McEwan builds sympathy for Lola as the reader begin to question her ability to notice Paul's intentions. It could be argued that this innocence is a facade: as Lola is first assaulted, McEwan has her 'seeming to bite' down a sob, highlighting her ability to appear vulnerable as she simply wants pity from Briony.
Analysis of the opening chapter of 'Atonement'
Up until this point Briony has lived a relatively protected life, away from the conflict of the outside world, giving Briony a sheltered view on life and relationships. This sheltered view of relationships is shown in this chapter through the characters of her play 'The Trials of Arabella' in which the heroine marries her "medical prince on a 'windy sunlit day in spring.'" To Briony the reality of some relationships, being conflict, heartbreak and possibly divorce, "belonged in the realm of disorder", lost to the idea of a wedding and "a dizzy lifelong union."
English Literature - Atonement (Essay 2)
you', and her later struggle with remorse - is painfully strong"3, encouraging the idea that she can be considered both a victim and villain in tandem. Select 'villainous' vices of Briony - predominantly naivety - are ultimately responsible for Robbie's downfall. Contrarily, Briony assumes some distinctly 'heroic' roles throughout the novel; most noteworthy, her nursing occupation and the 'redeeming' atonement. Her 'villainous' temperament is inadvertent (and nonetheless a literary construction) that affects both her and the other characters in the novel.
How does McEwan capture a sense of desperation in Part 2 of 'Atonement'?
nature of her error, and she greatly wishes to reverse her actions and Part 2 follows her crime's repercussions through the chaos and carnage of World War II. The emotional trauma of the war and the wounded is developed in a manner that allows us to feel the anguish and despair of those fighting for their country. We feel the futility of war and the assault on the physical and emotional fronts of Robbie, Cecilia and even Briony. The gory intricacies of war which Robbie is experiencing are emphasised by his constant flashbacks to a golden past; where on that oppressively sweltering night, in the library, he and Cecilia awakened their sexual awareness and the vagaries of maturity.
The paradox is that while Briony is attempting to pursue adulthood and convince herself of her maturity - "the day had proved to her that she was not a child"3 - she "had to prove herself worthy of it"4, accordingly reverting to a juvenile mindset. This absurd attitude is put into practice during her encounter with Lola Quincey (pages 118-19). The passage exposes the "controlling demon"5 that governs Briony's behaviour; the transition between the child and adult world being presented by McEwan as one of malevolence and possibly even antagonistic drive.
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan essay. Compare the narrative of Appendix 1 with Appendix 2.
It explains the science behind Jed's condition creating sympathy for him which the reader had not held when Parry's victim was narrating. The opening line of Appendix 1; 'Reprinted from the British Review of Psychiatry', immediately informs the reader of the form. 'British Review of Psychiatry' indicates to the reader that what they are about to read is a review on a particular subject and sets the reader for clear information on the syndrome. By portraying the key information about Parry's condition in a report format leaves a lasting effect on the audience and bring McEwan's story to life.
Judging Lines Between Reality and Imagination in Atonement by Ian McEwan
She does not have the constant love and attention of a mother and both her siblings are grown up and lead their own lives. This leaves Briony as somewhat of an only child and certainly fuels her love for writing and creating her own fantasy worlds. Briony is "one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so" (4). She is an innocent pre-adolescent which later creates a huge catastrophe in the lives of Robbie Turner, her long-time family friend, and Cecilia Tallis, her sister.
Although the Sexual Act May seem Private & Personal, in this novel, McEwan shows it is anything but. Discuss.
" '...Like Mozart at the Wigmore Hall' She stopped abruptly. She had not meant to talk her musical ambitions, she believed it was a mistake". This shows that, whilst talking about having a sex - free, but open marriage, Florence cannot help but change the subject to her musical talent, because she feels awkward talking about such a thing. McEwan does this to show the difficulty of communication, especially at the beginning of the sixties, by contrasting the very modern idea of non-marital sex ('free love') with very old, classical music.
Discuss how McEwan uses the setting in part one of "Atonement".
A reason for Cecilia's pessimistic description could be her frustration of being kept here and frustrated about her own laziness to make something of her life as she has just left university with and poor grade and no degree. Cilicia also views that if the unpleasant features where ignored 'the view was fine enough', McEwan may has used this to communicate Cecilia is trying to avoid obstacles in her life. Some of the obstacles is procrastinating in her life such as a childhood friend Robbie, it says that she 'avoided Robbie by hurrying round to the front of the house' this communicates nervousness around this character and foreshadows that she is avoiding confrontations of her new feels from him.
Discuss the usefulness of Dover beach as a key to understanding McEwans aims in Saturday
References to the past ("Sophocles long ago/Heard it on the �g�an") imply that Arnold feel that this 'eternal note of sadness' has been a long time coming. The overall tone of the poem is similar to that of W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939": it offers hope to the reader, the possibility of salvation, but it is awash with negativity at the state of affairs, and uncertain about the future of the world. These ideas resonate strongly throughout 'Saturday'. The final scene of the novel shows Perowne staring contemplatively from his window, "timid" and "vulnerable", and then retreating to the
In this passage of Saturday, McEwan employs techniques which are the hallmarks of his prose. Closer examination of this short passage allows for greater understanding of his writing style.
This partnership between Perowne consciousness and the omniscient narrator is the way in which McEwan presents Perowne's views. The omniscient narrator picks up on external details with relative objectivity, and these observations are then tempered by Perowne's viewpoint. His views on the world are revealed through his interactions throughout the day, with these interactions being described by the narrator. In this way, this section of the novel is less focused on the plot. Instead, it is a collection of Perowne's thoughts, which allow the reader to develop a clearer profile of Perowne's character.
The narrator stops at the most crucial point in the story keeping the reader on edge. Another technique that the author uses is to touch on a point but not expand on it in great detail tempting the reader to read on. When the author does this it gives the reader a taste of what is to come and engages the reader in the story. It is important in a story to always give clues as to what is going to happen next so that the reader is able to use their imagination to engage themselves in the story.
Enduring Love: Chapter 12
We see a mind filled with anxiety and paranoia as Joe begins to relive the morning in retrospect. McEwan divulges into Joe and Clarissa's relationship where cracks seem evident. Joe speaking in first person says 'she seemed to agree', 'seemed because she was not quite whole-hearted'. The repetition of 'seemed' emphasises this uncertainty and their disconnected relationship. Joe is fast to make assumptions without any indication from Clarissa. Joe harbours doubt and Clarissa returns this doubt as she makes a suspicious statement against Joe that 'His [Parrys] writing's rather like yours.' And when Joe attempts to build his argument, Clarissa responses with a less than enthusiastic response: 'Yes'.
How does McEwan use dialogue and other stylistic techniques to show the attitude of other characters to Joes relationship with Jed?
This attitude is continued with "his tiny grey eyes brushed past mine". It shows us how Linley is not interested in engaging with Joe. Also the use of interrogatives in places shows us the further detachment from the subject. He uses these to pull from Joe the relevant information, such as "How did you meet?" Questions like this are fired at Joe constantly, showing how Linley is used to questioning people like this and is disinterested in the answers given. The sentence "You're being harassed and threatened by this character" put forward by Linley portrays his attitude.
Representation of speech
We know from these words, that Jed is going to become obsessed with Joe further in the novel, and we can see Joe's reaction towards this. At the beginning of the conversation in chapter two, Jed approaches Joe asking him "are you alright?" an immediate attempt at controlling the conversation. Joe does not reply to Jed showing the disinterest Joe has in engaging in conversation with Jed. "My silence was hostile". It becomes apparent as you read, that Joe is the less confident speaker, even though he seems to be the most educated shown through the use of first person narrative, which gives an insight into his analytical and rational mind.
It shows his uncertainty and makes it clear that he is emotionally out of touch. The inability to express himself adequately stems from his rational mind controlling his actions. Joe takes comfort in science and this can be seen by the number of science related statements found in this small passage alone. An example of this is 'mental-visceral' and 'diminishing pendulum movement'. His feelings are exact, and he takes comfort in accuracies and specifics. His whole emotional experience is a paradox, he is clearly distraught and confused yet his style is still controlled while still unpredictable.
What techniques has McEwan used to make his opening striking in "Enduring Love"?
Through the use of metanarrative, McEwan refers specifically to time, "This was the moment, this was the pinprick on the time map", whereby the imagery of time being diagrammatically plotted allows the reader to conjure thoughts of before and after the event as well as during; whereby the change in events are linked together, giving the 'story' a chronology, yet still depicting the way Joe cannot see an overview of proceedings at the present time. Gaps within Joe's thought process are described, as if they are merely a memory, "saw the danger.
Enduring Love gracefully bridges genres; it(TM)s a psychological thriller, a meditation on the narrative impulse, a novel of ideas. How far and in what ways do you agree with this view?
In chapter 9 there is both a sense of romance and detective story genres present. Though it is in 3rd person it centrally portrays a relationship between Joe and Clarissa (typically romance), however, it is delivered in a report-like way as if it was the findings of an investigation, or as if it was the commentary of an observation (Detective story). This is showing that Enduring Love is consistently, and successfully, bridging genres. It is arguable that at the centre of the novel is a relationship.
Giving the reader specific details, 'turkey oak', he is very observative of his surroundings. The genre of this novel from the beginning seems like a thriller, the way it is building up to discuss an event, 'this was the pinprick on the time map'. Yet, has elements of romance within him and his wife, 'the ways our love was different from and superior to any that had ever existed'.
How does Ian McEwan engage the interest of the reader in Chapter 1 of Enduring Love?
When we read of the "child's cry" our sympathy is provoked, certainly more with a "man's shout" alone, and from this point we are completely hooked to the book, concerned of the consequences of the accident on both the child and man. In addition to this, although the ballooning accident itself engages our interest, the structural manner in which the story is told also plays a huge role; rather than disclosing what the "danger" was from the start McEwan gradually reveals it by shifting to events both before and after the accident.
Examine the relationship between Jed and Joe as it develops through the course of the novel.
With retrospect, Joe claims it is now "odd to evoke the figure of Jed..." which confirms that from his first meeting an uneasiness had already developed in his mind and that the relationship between him and Jed was one doomed to failure. The extent of Jed's delusional belief in a romantic relationship existing between himself and Joe is fully established at the very end of chapter three - structurally placed at the end to give the most emphasis. Jed calls Joe at 2AM in the morning and says "I just wanted you to know, I understand what you're feeling.
How effective is the opening of ''Enduring Love'' as an introduction to the novel?
Further consideration of this point indicates that the narrator considers himself to have gone through significant, permanent changes as a result of the events which he so eagerly ran towards, as shown by his observation that 'the transformation was absolute'. The writer also hints at the reason why the protagonist is so eager to assist in what appears to be a serious problem: 'a child's cry, enfeebled by the wind that roared in the tall trees along the hedgerows'. The connotations of innocence and helplessness created by the 'child's cry' are further accentuated by the futility of the child's cry being 'enfeebled' by the forces of nature which, the reader learns, are responsible for the predicament.
Does Ian McEwan succeed in creating rounded, plausible characters in the novel Enduring Love?
This is one of McEwan's best reviews from the BBC yet for the film adaptation. McEwan introduces the narrator Joe, as a rational, scientific mind who appears to be a rather simplistic character representing a stereotypical science geek. However, as the novel unfolds, we see signs of paranoia and irrational behaviour coming from Joe, suggesting he is more rounded and has different sides to his personality that slowly become apparent when reading Enduring Love. I find Joe to be a plausible character from beginning to end, however towards the end when he begins to severely break down, it seems almost over the top and not plausible.
Analysing an Extract From "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan
All of these segments of the opening will eventually leave out who this man actually is, what the "danger" actually is and therefore, what he's running to. McEwan uses repetition in the extract in order to illustrate a sense of mystery and re-enforce the importance of this particular moment to the reader. In the first line McEwan shows the reader that "this was the moment; this was the pinprick on the time map." This phrase makes the reader feel as if something important and significant is about to happen.
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Conclusion analysis
Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out.
Do they use key words from the title or question?
Do they answer the question directly?
Can you work out the question or title just by reading the conclusion?
Compare two passages of your choice explaining what they reveal of McEwen's reoccurring themes and concerns?
"In conclusion I would have to say that Ian McEwen does use a lot of the same themes and techniques in his writing and varies the amount he uses them in each story e.g. in the story where he uses a lot of science imagery there is a less religious imagery and also the opposite where there was more religious imagery McEwen added less science. Techniques like using short sentences and lots of punctuation was used to raise tension and anticipation in both extracts as well as in Enduring Love."
"The setting used in part one was used constructively to build depth into the novel. I find the use of setting makes it very much a more interesting read as I can see more depth into the story every time I read it. There are parts about the set which I didn't realise meant anything until I had re-read and studied the book. McEwan use of the setting makes the significance of the events more meaningful. As all the events that happen are set in a symbolic to that situation and the setting mirrors the meanings of the characters and the events."
"Appendix 1 is written in a report form, McEwan has chosen this aspect of narrative to take on a role of a report for a psychiatric journal, in this case Jed Parry. This choice of narrative technique reflects McEwan's character as Joe is a science writer and this report is in a logical format. It explains the science behind Jed's condition creating sympathy for him which the reader had not held when Parry's victim was narrating. The opening line of Appendix 1; 'Reprinted from the British Review of Psychiatry', immediately informs the reader of the form. 'British Review of Psychiatry' indicates to the reader that what they are about to read is a review on a particular subject and sets the reader for clear information on the syndrome. By portraying the key information about Parry's condition in a report format leaves a lasting effect on the audience and bring McEwan's story to life. Appendix 1 is structured as a typical report and is set into five categories; 'Introduction, Case History, Discussion, Conclusion and"
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Company: BMD Fox
Genre: Heavy J-Pop
Reviewer: Greg Watson
If you're feeling brave and adventurous...
Japan's BabyMetal have certainly made waves with the release of their debut album "BabyMetal" back in February. For a while, finding the album was almost like finding the Holy Grail or the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. Hence, we got this one a little late but it's still worth talking about, even 8 months later. The band ended up playing at this year's Download Festival in England to a crowd of huge proportions. If you watch the video on YouTube of their performance, the roars let you know that many metal fans are embracing this very non-traditional metal band with arms wide open. The first thing that jumps out at you when listening to BabyMetal is the fact that there is definitely some blurring of boundaries happening here. The main blur is between metal and what many in the industry refer to as "bubblegum pop", or as I like to call it, "manufactured pop". There are synthesizers, dubstep type electronics, sugary-sweet vocal choruses and even a few hip hop uses throughout the album. Then you take all that and add in some very metal musicians and you’re thrust into this chaotic carnival with hardly an idea of what to think of this bizarre union. Yet, before you can even form an opinion or curl your lip into your best derisive sneer, you find your feet start tapping or your head starts bobbing. One thing BabyMetal has done very well on this album is deliver 13 tracks of catchy, pop metal that breaks down your resistance like a puppy begging for a treat. But now it's time to get into the heart of this review, discussing the songs, the album, and the band overall.
I've listened to the BabyMetal album for a total of about two weeks now and am still no closer in figuring out whether or not this album really is metal and how it fits into our world. Putting that aside for a moment, let me be clear and say right up front that every member of BabyMetal is incredibly talented and gifted in their own way. The opening track, "BabyMetal Death", starts out seemingly innocent before launching into a riff that would rip the face off of a gargoyle. As the song careens onward, the heaviness of the track and the talent of the musicians is clearly evident. Speedy, aggressive riffing with staccato grunts creates just an absolute shit-kicker of an opener. I listened to this track and was floored at the heaviness, speed and the precision that the band possessed and thought that if this was any indication, I would be blown away come the end of the album. Well, I was right but I'll get more into that later. "Megitsune" follows and it is a severe departure from the opening track. Traditional Japanese instruments start it off right before it launches in to a synth fueled whirlwind. "Megitsune" is the first song where we actually get to hear the voices of the singers. Lead singer Su-metal and backing vocalists Moametal and Yuimetal. Su-metal has an incredibly strong voice and it commands your attention as she's delivering her lyrics, all of which are in Japanese. As the song progresses, the mechanized trill of the synthesizers give way to a breakdown that is just absolutely jaw dropping. Downtuned, pissed off, and full of rage it feels as though it was almost strategically placed or put in that spot intentionally to get the type of reaction that I just described. It lasts for about 30 seconds before returning to the synthesized hook that makes up this song. For me, it is one of my favorite tracks on the album just because of the breakdown and I also feel that this track is one of Su-metal's strongest vocal performances on the album. The single released from the album that caught everyone's attention is "Gimme Choko!!", one of the more overtly pop tracks on the album with lots of heavy riffing. This is one of my least favorite tracks as I just feel that the structure of the song was a creation of someone who didn't have the band's interest at heart. However, there is a face melting solo on this song about 2:30 in that is just incredible.
Next up we have "Iine!" which is one of the more astounding tracks on the album. It starts out with another heavy synth hook that is coupled with blastbeat drums and palm muted riffs. It's truly insane to hear it. The vocals sound like they are being run through a synthesizer as well but then laid over the top of them is an almost demonic barking. The chorus of the song is clearly pop-based and is infectiously sugary and catchy. Then comes the giant curveball at 1:27. The hook goes distinctively hip hop with heavy playing while the girls try their hands at rapping. This portion is just totally brain melting and it feels as though I just ventured in to some nightmare world. However, at 1:58 I'm brought back to reality with a fist to my face as the gears switch yet again and a death grunt followed by a titanic breakdown ensues, followed up by a pretty good solo. Then I’m returned to the chirping synthesizer hook yet again. Overall, this song is worth listening to just for the shock factor of going from J-Pop to hip hop to borderline grindcore. "Benitsuki-Akatsuki" is decisively the most metal track on the album with no pop elements found within it at all. It feels more like a power metal ballad and once again Su-metal's voice shines. I could easily see her fronting her own power metal band if she so chose or was given the opportunity to do so. "Do Ki Do Ki Morning" is probably the most pop-tinged track and easily my least favorite track on the album. The metal elements on this track feel extremely out of place and forced in as this feels like a children's song with metal added to it. "Onedari Daisakusen" is a song that primarily features Yuimetal and Moametal on vocals, as evidenced by the tinnier voices that make up the main vocals to this track. Once again using hip hop elements in this track, it feels at this point that the album is slowly beginning to veer towards a pop-oriented album.
Then "4 No Uta" comes on and brings back the metal a little. Blast beats kick this album off with a pretty solid riff making up the verses of the song. The pop elements return on the extremely catchy chorus and then a grindcore breakdown hits you at 1:27 in and then another curveball as a ska/reggae inspired steel drum section hits at 1:40, returning to the grindcore breakdown before returning yet again to the reggae feel at 2:07. This song is another example of the complete insanity that this album possesses and flaunts. At 3:40 of the track, the girls (I'm assuming) burst into a fit of giggling that just feels so out of place and poorly timed. "Uki Uki Midnight" is a track that stands out in my mind as it melds the pop feel the album is clearly based around while adding in black metal elements as well. The whispered and grunted vocals of the chorus give the song an eerie feel until a very dubstep inspired breakdown comes in at 1:35 that totally kills the song in my opinion. "Catch Me If You Can" is a more straight-forward metal feel mixing in elements of death metal and power metal as this song chugs along at a fairly speedy pace. Again, Su-metal proves she has the pipes to really belt out some notes on this one. "Akumu No Rinbukyoku" has a bit of a Nightwish feel to it minus the symphonic elements. Strong vocals provided by Su-metal combined with lush strings and subdued guitars make this track a bit of a departure and a welcome break from the chaos. "Headbanger!!" returns us to the calamity with a brutally heavy riff enshrined by sugary vocals. The verses of the song again have a bit of a power metal feel to them and the electronics make a return on this song as well. Finally, we reach "Ijime, Dame, Zettai", the closer for this strange amalgamation of music. Following the formula thus far you are fooled into thinking it's subdued with a beautiful piano intro that is quickly drowned out by a monster riff and electronics once again. This song however was clearly influenced by DragonForce with the synthesizers being used as more of a background instrument and the guitar work being ridiculously fast on the solos, making me wonder if Herman Li himself is playing on this track.
Once I finished listening to this album, I was clearly blown away but not in the sense that this album was a must listen for metal fans. More so in the fact that an outfit like this has been able to accomplish the things they have up to this point and continue to gain momentum despite many attempts to derail their progress. This album was not at all what I was expecting and after a few listens, I've come to the following conclusion--it is clear that Su-metal and the musicians that comprise the band need to be given tons of credit and recognition for their contributions. The metal elements on this album are some of the heaviest and craziest that I've heard and the folks behind the masks of the band should stand up and take a bow for playing so well. If it weren't for them, it would be damn near impossible to listen to this album. And Su-metal should truly be praised for her vocals. Showing emotion and power at the age of 16 is nothing to scoff at and she can sing her ass off ladies and gentlemen.
That being said, this album is definitely not for everyone. It's been at the center of many heated debates since BabyMetal burst on the scene. Is it really metal? Is it just pre-fabricated music put together by someone who doesn't understand metal? Does it even deserve to be called metal? The questions are endless and I will close by saying my thoughts on these and other questions that have been sparked by this band. To ask whether this is metal or not is a question that in itself is almost unanswerable without getting into some very slippery territory. In regards to that though, I'd say it's as metal as you want to make it. There are clearly metal elements present on this album yet it is clearly not a heavy metal record through and through. What it comes across as is an attempt to redefine what people interpret heavy metal to be. And everyone's interpretation of this, as with any other album, is their own and nothing any troll or elitist can say will change that. To me, the album is good for what it is, a break from the norm. But I personally don't consider it to be a heavy metal album. I enjoyed the metal elements that were on the album and hell, I even liked a few of the songs a great deal. But overall, I just felt that this was too much to handle with so much going on throughout most of the songs that it's damn near impossible to keep up and not just totally check out altogether.
So, if you're feeling brave and adventurous and want something outside the standard of the metal world to listen to, then this is your album. This is not for the faint of heart or narrow of mind, if you are going to listen to this you need to understand that it is not a metal album in the sense that we traditionalists think a metal album should be. But give it a shot and who knows, you may be the next person caught up in the BabyMetal craze.
About this Writer:
Greg Watson // Greg Watson has been hooked on the loud and heavy sounds since the summer of 1994 when he first heard the opening notes of "Operation: Mindcrime" by Queensryche. Since then his tastes have expanded and grown like the ever evolving heavy metal tree of genres. He has been an active member of Maximum Metal off and on for 10 years. In his spare time, Greg enjoys deciding the fate of his loyal subjects in the realm of Skyrim and secretly playing air keyboard to "Separate Ways" by Journey when no one is watching. He currently resides in Roanoke, VA with his wife and his metal wannabe beagle.
ALL FULL REVIEWS FOR: BABYMETAL
Babymetal Babymetal 2014 Greg Watson 10/22/2014
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Art Scientifique - Show Opening! Thursday, March 3rd! Fresno, Ca / March 2, 2016 by Michael Costa
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle
What happens to us when we die? How will our physical body and soul transform in our last transition in this lifetime? What will become of our energy, our
outer self and our inner self?
Fro-Zen is a series I created in 2007. My vision for these images was to freeze items from nature, then photograph them through the various melting
stages. The series, which seemed to be a simple idea, an experimental concept, has sparked numerous imaginative photographs throughout the years.
Fro-Zen has allowed me to explore the world of macro photography and how to construct quiet, peaceful, and powerful images, while using the
expression of art as my emotional and creative outlet. "Resurrection," is another successful attempt of taking a subject and altering its appearance for artistic expression.
In this image the dragonfly guides us through the mists of illusion to the pathway of transformation. While science tells us there is no reason to
believe in an afterlife and that nothing can go on for ever. Many of us believe the opposite: that our soul will be transformed and our energy will live on forever. This image attempts to illustrate how we transform from a scientific living being into our own resurrection which is the concept of a living being coming back to life after death through Art.
© 2017 Michael Costa
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TRIALGP PORTUGAL PREVIEW
Defending champion Toni Bou (Repsol Honda) starts as a firm favourite for victory at this weekend’s TrialGP Portugal – round five of the 2019 FIM Trial World Championship – at Gouveia on the edge of the beautiful Serra da Estrela Natural Park in the north of the country.
The title fight returns to the venue following last year’s successful event and huge boulders will be on the menu for the best Trial riders in the world.
Bou, who is in pole position to take his 13th consecutive TrialGP title, is unbeaten this season over four rounds and five days of competition and has amassed a perfect 100 points. In fact, the sublime Spaniard hasn’t lost since day two in Japan in 2018 and last time out at TrialGP Belgium he extended his phenomenal win-streak to 10.
“In the Trials still remaining it will be important not to make mistakes and battle hard to win race by race,” he said. “I think we are very clear about the work involved – keep up the good dynamics that we have had so far this year. Our goal is to get wins and the more we get the better.”
Bou’s main rival is his fellow countryman Adam Raga (TRRS) who currently sits in second in the championship standings on 81 points.
The two-time champion has been incredibly consistent this year and has yet to finish off the podium but he was beaten into third in Belgium by Jeroni Fajardo (Gas Gas) who, following two below-par performances at TrialGP Japan, is playing catch-up on 67 points.
All-action fan-favourite Takahisa Fujinami (Repsol Honda) has been on the podium twice this year after solid performances in his native Japan and is just a point behind Fajardo before a big gap back to Jaime Busto (Vertigo) who so far this season has yet to show Trial fans what he’s truly capable of.
The battle for supremacy in the TrialGP Women class resumes this weekend with Emma Bristow (Sherco) leading the way following her double win at TrialGP Japan in early June. The British rider is aiming for her sixth straight crown and she dominated at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit to comfortably top both days.
Sitting second in the championship chase after going 4-2 in Japan, Spain’s Berta Abellan (Vertigo) is tied on points with her compatriot Sandra Gomez (TRRS) who went 2-4. Also from Spain, Neus Murcia (Gas Gas) lies fourth just ahead of Norway’s Ingveig Hakonsen (TRRS) and with the top five riders all having finished on the podium at least once this season it’s an extremely competitive class.
Defending Trial2 champion Matteo Grattarola (Honda) from Italy has been on the podium at every round so far this year and with three wins to his name has opened up a clear lead at the top of the table from Spain’s Gabriel Marcelli (Montesa).
Britain’s Toby Martyn (Beta) narrowly missed out on the 2018 title and has shown flashes of brilliance this year but he desperately needs to start winning if he’s going to improve on his current third place in the championship and challenge Grattarola for the crown.
French rider Alexandre Ferrer (Sherco) took a shock win on day two in Japan but apart from this has not been a serious contender and the top five is rounded out by Francesc Moret (Montesa) from Spain who is still looking for his first podium finish of the season.
TrialGP Portugal also marks the start of the Trial2 Women campaign and with last year’s top two riders Alex Brancati (Beta) from Italy and American Maddie Hoover (Gas Gas) moving up to the premier TrialGP Women class this year, it’s Germany’s Sophia ter Jung (TRRS) who – on paper at least – starts favourite after finishing third last season.
It is, however, too close to call and riders including Norway’s Erika Melchior (Sherco) and Marine Aurieres (Gas Gas) from France will fancy their chances.
The first of two Qualification sessions to determine running order gets under way at 5.30pm local time. You can keep up to speed with the day’s events by checking in to www.trialgp.com or by downloading the free TrialGP Live app and across our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – just search for TrialGP.
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Home » Reviews » DVD Review: ACROSS THE RIVER Is An Atmospheric Italian Chiller
DVD Review: ACROSS THE RIVER Is An Atmospheric Italian Chiller
Posted on June 29, 2014 by Niall Browne in Reviews
Across The River is an Italian horror movie that’s essentially a mood piece – it has its tense moments but this is more about atmosphere than scares. Lorenzo Bianchini’s chiller follows an ethologist who stumbles across an abandoned village on the Italian border with Slovenia. He notices that things aren’t quite right but he becomes trapped in the village when the weather deteriorates and then he realises that he might not be alone.
Bianchini delivers a slow burning film that is more of a ghost story than full-blown horror. It has effectively just one actor (Renzo Gariup) and minimal dialogue meaning that Bianchi has to lean on visuals and editing to tell his story. Daniele Trani’s cinematography makes good use of the wild landscape and the decrepit ruins of the rundown village. He uses his camera as an additional character, one that pulls the audience into the film. At times things touch on going down the ‘found footage’ route, but both Bianchini and Trani pull back, to make sure that things stay traditional. As an editor, Bianchini keeps his pacing deliberate, slowly developing his story as we follow Gariup’s character as he travels deeper into the mountains and finally into the crumbling village. He’s aided by Stefano Sciascia’s eerie score, which perfectly complements the onscreen action (or lack thereof).
If Across The River has a flaw, then it’s the poorly developed subplot that pulls us away from the central story. It’s never fully realised and in a way it is just there to try and explain why things are happening. Sometimes the best horrors are the ones that are unexplained -Bianchini seems to know this, and that’s why he seems to hold back on the explanations. If you’re going to explain, then explain, if not, don’t bother.
Film’s like Across The River will never break into the mainstream, but that’s okay, it was never meant to be populist fare. This Italian chiller is slowly paced and well crafted. More of a ghost story than a horror, Lorenzo Bianchini’s film is an intriguing counterpoint to genre films which are front loaded with shocks.
Monster Pictures is a genre DVD label that delivers the goods on the special features front. Across The River comes with a 25 minute documentary/chat with writer/director Lorenzo Bianchini as well as an 18 minute short film that was directed by cinematographer Daniele Trani (on which Bianchi was key grip) and a trailer which seriously undersells the movie.
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Optimism Among U.S. Manufacturers at Record High Heading into 2019
December 21st, 2018 soheyla Comments off
“This year was one for the record books, with manufacturers’ average optimism for 2018 hitting an all-time high,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons, in a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews.
“Empowered by tax reform and regulatory certainty, manufacturers are keeping our promise to expand our operations, hire new workers and raise wages and benefits. But as this survey also shows, we face challenges, most seriously the workforce crisis. We have more than half a million jobs to fill right now—and by 2028, as many as 2.4 million could go unfilled if we don’t equip more Americans to take on these high-tech, high-paying careers,” Timmons said.
There is a blizzard of emails that hit the MHProNews inbox daily, so frankly, at first this report was initially overlooked. It wasn’t until we saw the White House release on this same topic that we circled back for the toplines of this report.
While NAM represents sentiments of manufacturing in general, it certainly is a useful insight for the producers of manufactured housing. It is also useful for those who are market watchers, investors or those working at other levels in the factory-built housing industry. Why?
Because the broader manufacturing sector is booming. Manufacturers are often somewhat happier about an issue like tariffs, that are rankling investors.
Much of what is imported from nation’s like China are finished goods, produced in a factory. If an improved trade deal emerges from the drama of 2018, that will be welcome news. But if not, it is entirely possible that even more manufacturing will return to the U.S., and that is good for America too.
Two more points, before turning to some toplines from the related White House press release. First, as factory-producers and developers know, there are a growing number of imported units coming into the U.S. Tariffs – if the trade tiff continues – could arguably mean that some will turn to a domestic builder instead of one from China.
Second, all news has to be considered carefully, mainstream or other news. Right or wrong, 92 percent of the news – per third party research – has been negative toward the Trump Administration. It is thus useful to periodically see that vantage point, to balance out the headlines from the left and right that we present each evening during our market recap.
With that intro, let’s look at the latest news and views from the White House.
“American manufacturers think the future looks bright,” Joe Williams reports for the Washington Examiner.
“Nearly 89 percent of the 539 companies polled by the National Association of Manufacturers in the fourth quarter held a positive outlook for their business, bringing the yearly average to 92.4 percent, the highest in the survey’s 20-year history.”
Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of President Donald J. Trump signing historic tax cuts into law. “Kevin Hassett, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, said strong capital spending and economic growth are proof that the good times can be sustained,” Gabriella Muñoz writes in The Washington Times. “We got exactly the growth affect we predicted last year,” Hassett said.
“Thankfully, the era of broken promises ended in 2016,” Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., writes in the Ledger-Enquirer. “For Trump, strengthening American communities is fundamental to American success. The FIRST STEP Act does just that by establishing job-training initiatives to better prepare prisoners to re-enter society after they are release.”
In USA Today, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue writes that the Trump Administration’s new proposed Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) rules will encourage productivity instead of poverty. “The president has directed me, as Secretary of Agriculture, to propose regulatory reforms to ensure that those who are able to work do so in exchange for their benefits.”
“During the 2016 campaign, President Trump promised blue-collar and low-wage service sector workers that he would improve their lot. A new labor-market study by a major business group suggests he’s kept his word,” the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board writes. “The study by the Conference Board, the New York-based global business organization and think tank, found that blue-collar workers aren’t just doing better, they’re now in short supply.”
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NFIB – Small Business Outlook, Optimism, How Can DC Keep it Going?
While the two major parties and their respective media allies battle (sadly, literally) in Washington, Main Street is feeling optimistic.
So says the National Association of Independent Business (NFIB) President, Juanita Duggan.
“Small business owners are highly encouraged by the President’s regulatory reform agenda, and they remain optimistic there will be tax reform and healthcare reform. This is a policy-driven phenomenon,” said Duggan about May’s optimism levels, in a release to MHProNews.
She says that health care reform passage, pending now in the Senate, is important.
Juanita Duggan.
But “essential” to keeping the economy and small business moving ahead is tax reform. This is a perspective that several pro-growth economists, such as former President Ronald Reagan and Trump Campaign adviser, Larry Kudlow, have said.
“If Congress wants small businesses to invest in the economy, then they must cut taxes and simplify the code,” said Duggan. While there are pledges to simplify, NFIB says there are more specifics needed.
Duggan appeared recently on Fox Business, in the video shown below.
“The President’s tax plan would slash taxes for small businesses and level the playing field for businesses of every size and structure,” said Duggan. “Congress also has other good ideas for tax reform, but they need to stop talking and pass a bill.”
NFIB sources have told MHProNews that they have “hundreds” of manufactured home industry connected independent businesses as members. These reportedly include producers, suppliers, vendors, retailers and communities, among others. Their size in MH rivals that of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), but their overall size dwarfs the factory-built home industry. NFIB has some 325,000 members nationally, so they have more members than there are total the estimated numbers of professionals working in manufactured housing.
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Economic, Financial Optimism Surges – Trump Effect?
March 17th, 2017 RC Williams Comments off
NAR headquarters, Washington, D.C. Credit: NAR.
A new survey from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that a combination of job gains and economic optimism are igniting consumer confidence across the country, particularly in rural and middle America.
The ongoing quarterly Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) survey from the NAR asked respondents about their confidence in the U.S. economy and various questions about their housing expectations.
According to the survey, during the first three months of this year, the share of households who believe that the economy is improving jumped to it’s highest level in the survey’s history at 62 percent, up from 54 percent last quarter and 48 percent one year ago.
Credit: NAR.
In a reversal from previous quarters, the surge in positive sentiment about the economy comes primarily from respondents living in the Midwest, 67 percent versus 51 percent last quarter, and rural areas, 63 percent versus 43 percent last quarter.
Lawrence Yun. Credit: The Business Journals.
“Confidence levels generally rise after a presidential election as the nation hopes for the best. Even though it is a highly polarized country, consumers for the most part have upbeat feelings about the economy right now,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.
“Stronger business and consumer morale typically lead to even more hiring and spending, which in turn encourages more households to make big decisions like buying a home. These positive developments would be especially good news for prospective homebuyers in the more affordable Midwest region.“
Increased confidence in the economy is also translating to improved feelings about financial situations at home.
The Monthly Personal Financial Outlook Index indicated respondents’ confidence in their financial situation will be better in six months, jumping to its highest reading in the history of the survey as well, climbing to 62.6 in March from 59.8 in December 2016. The index was 58.1 one year ago.
The Trump Effect
Donald Trump with Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Credit: CBS News.
As Daily Business News readers are already aware, the election of President Donald Trump has provided a spark to the U.S. economy, including small business optimism being at the highest level in 37 years.
In recent commentary to MHProNews on Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index, author David Horowitz laid out the potential impacts for the Trump Effect and how it differs from the Obama Administration.
David Horowitz. Credit: Frontpage Mag.
“While his first few weeks have certainly been volatile and controversial, Trump will be a demanding leader who applies the best of his negotiating skills to push for U.S. growth,” said Horowitz.
“Trump won’t be an ideological purist like Republicans who support free trade but don’t fight for fair trade.”
Horowitz also had strong words about President Trump’s predecessor.
“We’ve had an anti-business president now for eight years who doesn’t take a hard-nosed attitude towards these deals. Trump is going to get better deals for us, which is still free trade.”
“Trump will also lead the way in making infrastructure spending to boost the U.S. economy,” said Horowitz.
“If the economy grows as it will under Trump, there’s going to be a lot more money to spend.”
For more from Horowitz and the impact of President Donald Trump on the economy, click here. ##
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Categories: Advocacy, Analysis, Announcements, Association, Business, Communities, Development, Economy, Election, home buyers, housing, Jobs, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, News Item, People, Politics, research, Trends Tags: David Horowitz, Economic, Effect, Financial, Housing Opportunities and Market Experience survey, National Association of Realtors, NFIB, optimism, Surges, trump
Small Business Optimism Index: January Results
February 17th, 2017 RC Williams Comments off
Credit: Oprah.
Almost one month into the Donald Trump administration, things continue to look up.
According to the National Federal of Independent Business (NFIB) survey, small business confidence, which saw the largest month-over-month increase in the survey’s history in December, has now reached its highest point in more than a decade.
“The stunning climb in optimism after the election was significantly improved in
Juanita Duggan. Credit, NFIB.
December and confirmed in January,” said NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan.
“Small business owners like what they see so far from Washington.”
The Index reached 105.9 in January, an increase of 0.1 points, the highest point since December 2004.
“The continued surge in optimism is a welcome sign that economic growth is coming,” said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg.
“The very positive expectations that we see in our data have already begun translating into hiring and spending in the small business sector.”
Credit: NFIB.
The NFIB survey is a monthly snapshot of small businesses in the U.S., which account for most private-sector jobs and about half of the country’s economic output. Economists look to the report for a read on domestic demand and to extrapolate hiring and wage trends in the broader economy.
“The January jobs report surprised pundits and disappointed critics, coming in strong and well ahead of ‘consensus,’” said Dunkelberg.
“NFIB survey results anticipated the strong showing as their optimism gets translated into hiring action. Gains in expected sales require more workers to produce output and handle sales. The increase in labor force participation was a welcome sign, suggesting that labor markets are not as tight as the unemployment rate indicates which went up, and that, as opportunities materialize and compensation rises, more workers will re-enter the labor force.”
The report from the NFIB is based on a survey of 1,874 small business owners. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), small companies represent 99 percent of all U.S. Employers.
“We’ve had very low growth for years, mainly because small businesses have been tied down by regulations, taxes, and spiraling health insurance costs,” said Duggan.
“Now they can see relief on the horizon, and they are much more optimistic about the future.”
For more on last month’s NFIB survey and commentary from the manufactured housing industry, click here. ##
Categories: Advocacy, Analysis, Announcements, Association, Business, Economy, Election, Manufactured Housing Industry, News Item, People, Politics, research, Small Business Tags: Bill Dunkelberg, business, chief economist, Donald Trump, index, January, Juanita Duggan, NFIB, optimism, president, private sector, Results, SBA, Small, Washington
Small Business Optimism Index Highest in 37 Years
January 16th, 2017 RC Williams Comments off
Credit: Business Financial Services.
America’s small businesses are very optimistic.
Per Bloomberg, The National Federation of Independent Business’s (NFIB) index jumped 7.4 points last month to 105.8, the highest since the end of 2004, from 98.4.
The December numbers represent the largest rise in optimism since 1980 as expectations about the economy’s prospects improved dramatically in the aftermath of the presidential election.
“Rising confidence adds to the economy’s upward momentum,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
Juanita Duggan. Credit: NFIB.
The share of business owners who say now is a good time to expand is three times the average of the current expansion, according to data from the NFIB. More companies also said they plan to increase investment and keep hiring, which reflects optimism surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s plans of spurring the economy through deregulation, tax reform and infrastructure spending.
“We haven’t seen numbers like this in a long time,” said NFIB President and CEO Juanita Duggan. “Small business is ready for a breakout, and that can only mean very good things for the U.S. economy. Business owners are feeling better about taking risks and making investments.”
The report from the NFIB is based on a survey of 619 small business owners through December 28th. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), small companies represent 99 percent of all U.S. Employers.
“Business owners who expect better business conditions accounted for 48 percent of the overall increase,” said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg. “The December results confirm the sharp increase that we reported immediately after the election.”
The Manufactured Housing Industry Speaks
Voices from around the manufactured housing industry also expressed optimism in the wake of President-elect Trump’s November win.
Jim Clayton, credit, MHProNews.
“The economy, regulations, and politics need disrupting. Stay tuned,” said Clayton Homes Founder Jim Clayton.
“I have become increasingly pleased with the outcome, but tempered that with cautious optimism.”
D.J. Pendleton. Credit, MHProNews.
“It’s the dawning of a new day. After the shock and elation or disappointment wash over us, and we all have taken a collective deep breath, we can begin looking to the future. And in that future I think it is safe to say that changes, well, they are a comin’ in,” said DJ Pendleton, Executive Directory of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association.
“For any who might not yet be aware, in addition to President-Elect Trump heading to the White House, both the House and Senate will now be controlled by a Republican majority. All three branches of government are in Republican control. What will this mean? It simply means that there is little in the way of the Republican policy agenda.”
MHARR president and CEO M. Mark Weiss. Credit: MHProNews.
“With a personal background in business, rather than government, Mr. Trump, during the just-ended campaign, has been a consistent critic of innovation-stifling and job-killing overregulation and regulators who ignore or rationalize the far-reaching negative impacts of such regulations on the health of the economy, smaller businesses and consumers,” said MHARR President and CEO M. Mark Weiss.
For more from the manufactured housing industry on the election and the economy, click here. ##
Categories: Announcements, Business, Economy, Election, Manufactured Housing Industry, News Item, People, research, Small Business Tags: 37 Years, Clayton Homes, high frequency economics, Highest, index, Jim Clayton, Juanita Duggan, NFIB, optimism, Small Business, Small Business Administration
Americans’ Optimism Grows about Housing Market
January 8th, 2014 Matthew Silver Comments off
A monthly housing survey indicates half of the respondents are optimistic about obtaining credit for a mortgage, an increase over the 45 percent who felt that way one year ago, despite the recent rise in mortgage rates. This survey from December marks the highest sentiment of respondents since Fannie Mae began tracking consumers’ attitudes three years ago. Respondents who think it is a better time to sell their house and to buy a house both rose in the survey, MHProNews has learned from nationalmortgagenews.com. Says Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae, “The marked improvement in housing market sentiment over the course of 2013 bore out our view going into the year that the housing recovery was on a firm footing. These consumer attitudes should support a continued but measured housing recovery as we move through 2014.”
(Photo credit: Greg Vote/Getty Images–two-story manufactured home for sale)
Categories: Business, Economy, home buyers, News Item Tags: Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae, fannie mae economist, home sellers, homebuyers, Housing Market, mortgage market, NationalMortgageNews, optimism
Consumer Sentiment Rising
June 28th, 2013 Matthew Silver Comments off
A survey released today (June 28) indicated consumer sentiment among higher-income families nearly rose to its highest level in six years, hitting 84.1 in late June, 2013, just below the 84.5 six year high in May. Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast 82.8 for June, as MHProNews has been informed by rvbusiness. Since consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the national economy, some analysts base their judgments on the optimism (or not) of consumers about the economy. Survey director Richard Curtin says, “Consumers believe the (economic) recovery has achieved an upward momentum that will not be easily reversed.” Consumer spending in the first quarter grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 percent, faster than the 1.8 percent in Q4 2012, but below the government prediction of 3.4 percent growth.
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Categories: Economy, home buyers, News Item, Trends Tags: consumer sentiment, Consumer Spending, consumers, curtin, director richard, economic recovery, economists, first quarter, income families, judgments, MHProNews, national economy, optimism, q4, Reuters, RVBusiness, six years, survey director, upward momentum
Real Estate Guru Expresses Optimism
November 15th, 2012 Matthew Silver Comments off
Dr. Mark Dotzour, chief economist at Texas A & M’s Real Estate Center, proclaims tax credits to buy homes or cars represents a fake economic recovery. When people buy because they want to marks a real recovery, which he says is starting to happen now because there is so much pent-up demand. As reported in CommercialSource, speaking to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) gathering, Dotzour stated that real estate is an investment, but the commodity markets are “hedging instruments, not investments.” He says Americans once again have credit after five years of postponing life events because of the economic downturn, which gives him optimism that the housing recovery is taking hold. But as MHProNews has learned, he also says many commercial real estate loans are buried in the system. Requiring another 5-8 years to flush them out. For more of his remarks, click here.
(Photo credit: CommercialSource/NAR’s Jan Hope welcome Dr. Mark Dotzour)
Categories: Advocacy, Economy, News Item, Trends Tags: 8 years, amp, association of realtors, cars, chief economist, commercial real estate, commodity markets, dr mark, economic downturn, economic recovery, guru, investments, MHProNews, National Association of Realtors, optimism, real estate center, real estate loans, s real estate, tax credits
NAHB Cautiously Optimistic
October 18th, 2012 Matthew Silver Comments off
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), while noting their prediction of a 21% rise in single-family housing starts this year to 528,000 units, and next year to 665,000, says the uncertainty of how the Dodd-Frank Act plays out is preventing lenders from loosening credit, and further constraining the housing recovery. In addition, the unknown effects of the “fiscal cliff” of mandatory budget cuts and tax increases at the beginning of 2013 have put some investors on hold. Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics, forecasting optimism, says the GDP will grow two percent for the year and housing starts will total 1.1 for 2013. But he also notes hiring will not pick up until the “fiscal cliff” is resolved. And as MHProNews has learned, the economy will be stymied until hiring increases.
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Categories: Advocacy, Economy, home buyers, News Item, Trends Tags: analytics, budget cuts, dodd, economy, GDP, investors, lenders, Mark Zandi, MHProNews, NAHB, National Association of Home Builders, optimism, single family, tax increases, uncertainty
Consumer Confidence Nudges Up
August 17th, 2012 Matthew Silver Comments off
HousingWire says analysts with Econoday report consumer confidence rose slightly in August to 73.6 over 72.3 in July, according to the University of Michigan and Reuters. While the consumer outlook on current market conditions rose nearly five points to 87.6 in August, Econoday says “this gain isn’t translating into any more optimism on the outlook as the expectations index fell more than one point to 64.5 versus 65.6 in July.” The Dow moved immediately higher in response to the news. As MHProNews has learned, while the numbers for the housing market improve, the overall economy continues to face substantial risks.
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Categories: Economy, News Item, People, Trends Tags: consumer confidence, current market, Dow, econoday, economy, expectations index, five points, Housing Market, optimism, Reuters, substantial risks, University of Michigan
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UPDATE 7:00A UTC March 20 2013
Crews finally placed the Kulluk aboard Xiang Rui Kou on Tuesday. They reported it being an challange due to the conical shape of the drilling unit. When the rig started to spin - well, you get the idea!
Designed as an Earl & Wright/Sedco Arctic drilling vessel: inverted, truncated, conically shaped ice-strengthened hull. The shape promotes ice to flow around the vessel.
The innovative design was to allow ice to pass safely around the vessel, to meet the challenge of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Listed as 27,968 Gross Tonnage. Tower height - 160 feet, capable of supporting 1.25 million pounds.
It will take a few days to weld the Kulluk to the lift ship deck.
There has been no word from Shell as to where the Kulluk will be delivered. One has to wonder why Asia instead of Vigor Marine and Engineering in Tacoma, who prepared the rig for the 2012 drilling season.
A safety zone has been declared by US Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard. The safety zone - excludes all vessels not associated the the transfer of the Conical Drilling Module Kulluk to the Heavy Lift Vessel Xiang Rui Kou.
As you read this document, notice ¶6, "Protest Activities." This article refers to "demonstrations," and is aimed at organizations such as Green Peace protests in Wellington, New Zealand.
Lucy Lawless lead a group to the top of the Noble Discoverer's drill tower, to protest Shell's plan to drill in the Arctic. Thy made their presence known when the Noble Discoverer was prepared for delivery to Shell's 2012 Arctic Expedition.
Original Post Monday March 18, 2013.
After steaming from Hong Kong, the COSCO X-Class semi-submersible Heavy Lift Vessel Xiang Rui Kou arrived in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on Sunday March 17, 2013.
The distance from Hong Kong to Dutch is 7329 kilometers or 4,554 miles or 3,957 nautical miles. And that is " As the Crow Flies."
The Xiang Rui Kou is in Dutch Harbor to pick up, literally, the troubled Conical Drill Module Kulluk. She will be "dry docked" to Asia for repairs, after spending a harrowing week grinding on a beach on Sitkalidak Island.
Dutch Harbor has a long colorful history. Positioned darn near half way between North American ports and the Orient on the Great Circle Route, Dutch became an important coaling station. And that also included vessel movement into the Bering Sea and Arctic.
From a document of the early years, in 1898, an estimated 40 vessels a month stopped in Dutch to bunker coal. It is almost equidistant from North America to the Orient via a Great Circle route. Establishment of a coaling station proved to be a logistical advantage for ship owners, who could transit eastbound or westbound, with only half their bunkers of coal.
This provided more cargo capacity. Of course, they were depending on reaching Dutch Harbor for additional bunkers.
During the 10 years of the Alaska Gold Rush (1899-1909) the population of Dutch Harbor was estimated at 20,000.
During World War II, Dutch Harbor was struck two days in a row by aircraft launched by a Japanese aircraft carrier. American casualties numbered 33 military and ten civilian dead, 64 wounded, and 11 U.S. planes from Umnak Island were lost.
And you may recall Dutch Harbor hosting Discovery Channels "Deadliest Catch."
Meanwhile, her sister ship, Xiang Yun Kou, is dry docking Kulluks drilling partner, Noble Discoverer, to South Korea for repairs.
With the containment barge, Arctic Challenger still alongside at Bellingham Washington, the curtain begins to fall on Shell Oil's abysmal 2012 Arctic Expedition ...
Index: Arctic Challenger, Dutch bombed, Dutch Harbor, Great Circle Route, Kulluk, Lucy Lawless, Nanuq, WWII, Xiang Rui Kou, Xiang Yun Kou
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DfT and British Horse Society Partner Up
THE DFT AND BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY PARTNER-UP TO REDUCE HORSE AND RIDER DEATHS
In a brand new partnership announced today, The Department for Transport (DfT) are putting their support behind The British Horse Society’s (BHS) Dead Slow campaign by producing a short, public information film to show car drivers how to pass horses safely on the roads.
The BHS’s Dead Slow campaign was launched in March. In the five years since the launch of its horse accidents website, more than 2,000* reports of road incidents involving horses have been reported to the charity.
This new initiative falls under the DfT’s THINK! road safety campaign. The film uses clips from the charities original Dead Slow campaign video which has already been viewed 2.6 million times. The campaign is asking drivers to ensure that they give horses plenty of space and to slow down when they see them.
Alan Hiscox, the charities Director of Safety, said: “We know most drivers are kind and careful when they drive past horses and riders, but some aren’t. Tragically people and horses do get killed when cars come too close. A full-grown horse weighs about the same as a Grand Piano, so if they are hit it makes a big impact – cars get written off and the people inside can get hurt.
“With help from the DfT, we will be able to reach millions more drivers, showing them exactly how to pass a horse on the road and save people’s and horses lives.”
Transport Minister Andrew Jones said:
“Britain has some of the safest roads in the world but people should continue to be as vigilant as possible.
“We support the British Horse Society’s campaign to remind drivers when overtaking riders it is important to slow down, give plenty of room and be ready to stop.
“The Highway Code makes clear drivers must show reasonable consideration for other road users and can be prosecuted for putting horse riders in danger.”
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Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable
Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and philanthropists. Causes acquired Votizen to augment shallow clicktivism with a way to remind friends to vote. But after Facebook went mobile and the web platform waned, Parker arranged Causes’ sale to his newer civic tech effort Brigade, for which he’d led a $9.3 million Series A and later fed more money. Brigade’s ballot guide was used by 250,000 people in the 2016 election, leading to 5 million Get Out The Vote messages sent, but the startup’s apps for connecting with campaigns or debating political issues never went viral like Causes.
Now both Causes’ and Brigade’s stories are coming to an end. In February, we caught wind of Brigade selling off its high-grade engineering team to Pinterest in an acqui-hire while it sought a home for its IP. Today, Brigade announces its technology and data have been acquired by politician-tracking service Countable. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s unlikely that Brigade’s Series A investors earned a return.
“While we didn’t reach the ultimate mountaintop, I think we moved the entire civic tech space forward,” Brigade CEO Matt Mahan tells me. “Countable offers a unique opportunity to bring greater scale to some of our best ideas, and our previous work will in turn accelerate their already impressive progress.”
Brigade’s features
Countable lets people view summaries of upcoming legislation, contact their representatives about their opinion and track the officials’ votes. “Brigade was founded with the non-partisan mission to reinvent how Americans participate in politics. When they decided to bring their journey to a close, Matt and Brigade’s leadership team sought a mission-aligned company to acquire their technology, and a responsible place to point any members of their community who were eager to remain civically active and engaged,” says Countable CEO Bart Myers, whose tech has powered 35 million civic actions. “They approached Countable — an obvious fit for our commitment to lowering barriers to civic entry and empowering meaningful action, and we’re excited to provide a home for their technology moving forward.”
Brigade CEO Matt Mahan
Mahan admits that a potentially fatal wrong turn for Brigade was pivoting its product to “debates” in 2016. “We quickly learned that this level of openness resulted in less substantive discussion, more personal attacks and fewer participants willing to add their voices: the opposite of our goals. By removing too many barriers, debates empowered the loudest and most aggressive voices in the room,” he tells me. The startup course-corrected to focus on making real political impact with petitions and tools for contacting representatives.
By 2018, Mahan realized that “after two election cycles Brigade had not achieved the user scale we know is required to fundamentally transform our politics . . . For a company set up to be a civic moonshot, this was simply not good enough.” Parker’s team did not provide TechCrunch a statement or commentary on Brigade’s decline. The startup’s San Francisco-based engineering team was too pricey for civic tech companies to afford, but those that could pay the steep price didn’t need Brigade’s IP. So after approaching a half-dozen potential acquirers, Mahan split the company, selling the team to Pinterest and the tech to Countable. The cash and stock deal will make Brigade investors shareholders in Countable, and Mahan is taking an advisory role.
To further their contribution to the democracy innovation community, Countable has agreed to open-source Brigade’s voter matching software. This allows apps to tie a user to their official voting record to offer personalized features, like reminders of upcoming elections, petitions for local issues and ways to contact their elected officials. Seth Flaxman, the CEO of civic tech software developer Democracy Works, which built TurboVote, says, “This is extremely difficult technology to build and can help TurboVote determine which of our 6 million users needs more help registering to vote. They are passing the baton, making it possible for nonprofits like ours to build off their progress.”
But there was one more loose end to tie up. Causes sucked in a ton of Facebook user data in the early days of the platform before restrictions were put in place (too late to stop Cambridge Analytica). So Mahan tells me, “Brigade proactively reached out to Facebook and worked with them and a third-party consultant to conduct a comprehensive review to identify and delete user data that was not essential for providing the existing app experience. In all, we deleted billions of rows of data that ethically we felt should not be transferred.”
As one of the most well-funded civic tech startups, Brigade’s breakup could cast a shadow on the space that includes MoveOn and Change.org. Consumer-focused apps for improving democracy are tough to monetize. It may fall to more sustainable democracy-focused startups like grassroots mass-texting app Hustle or nonprofits like Avaaz to arm the public with the equipment and knowledge necessary to participate in the political process. Given the deep polarization and animosity between nations’ political parties around the world, we need all the tools to amplify truth and civility we can get.
Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable Reviewed by on May 01, 2019 Rating: 5
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NEON ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS TO SUNDANCE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY HONEYLAND
February 13, 2019 @ArtShrian
NEON has acquired the North American rights to Honeyland, the wistfully delicate and visually stunning documentary from Macedonian filmmaking duo Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska. The film marks NEON’s fifth acquisition out of Sundance, with the company landing more films than any other key player at Sundance this year.
Honeyland has gathered rave reviews following its World Premiere in Sundance, receiving three jury prizes for: World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography and World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality.
Nestled in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. She’s the last in a long line of wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the closest city – a mere four hours' walk away. Hatidze’s peaceful existence is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of an itinerant family, with their roaring engines, seven rambunctious children and herd of cattle.
Directors Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska say “Honeyland began as just another simple story, but it grew to become so much more. We are so proud of the final film, and there is no better way to get immersed in it than to experience it on the big screen. Thank you, NEON, for the opportunity to bring Honeyland to audiences the way we always wanted it to be seen.”
Stefanov and Kotevska’s debut feature was produced and edited by Atanas Georgiev and stars Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam, and Mustafa Sam, with cinematography by Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma.
Submarine Entertainment is handling sales. The deal was negotiated by NEON and Submarine on behalf of the filmmakers.
NEON premiered Todd Douglas Miller’s stunning cinematic event, Apollo 11 and John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm at Sundance 2019, and had an impressive hot streak of acquisitions, nabbing the rights to Alejandro Landes’ cinematic thriller, Monos, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's horror film, The Lodge, Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters, and Julius Onah’s Luce. NEON recently garnered an Academy Award® nomination for Border and continues to acquire some of the most anticipated titles, including: Tom Harper’s Wild Rose starring Jessie Buckley; and Bong Joon-Ho’s highly-anticipated drama Parasite.
ABOUT NEON:
2018 was a record-breaking year for NEON, with the release of Craig Gillespie’s runaway hit I, Tonya starring Margot Robbie and the Academy Award winner for best supporting actress, Allison Janney, as well as Matt Spicer's Sundance and Independent Spirit Award-Winner Ingrid Goes West. Three years after inception, the company continues to push the boundaries and take creative risks on bold content.
NEON acquired three of the most talked about features at last year’s Sundance Film Festival: Reinaldo Marcus Green's Monsters & Men, winner of the Sundance Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature; Sam Levinson's Assassination Nation; and Tim Wardle's Three Identical Strangers, winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Storytelling which has surpassed $13m at the box office. Upcoming releases include: Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum, John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm, the electrifying Amazing Grace, and Todd Douglas Miller’s cinematic event, Apollo 11, which just had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
After their successful collaboration on I, Tonya, in January 2018, 30WEST (Dan Friedkin's and Micah Green's strategic venture) partnered with NEON's Tom Quinn (Founder & CEO) and Tim League (Co-Founder) to become majority investors in the company.
ABOUT Trice Films:
Trice Films Is a Macedonian Production Company focused on making creative groundbreaking documentaries, independently or in partnership with other production companies.
We always seek to find exceptional stories from wherever they may come and to connect them to a worldwide audience with post-production being our forte.
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EMU Men - Green and White Claim Home Victory at EMU Triangular
by RunMichigan Staff, Jan. 23, 2016
Provided by EMU
YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University men's track and field team took home a team victory at the EMU Triangular, Jan. 23, against Central Michigan and Oakland. The Eagles finished with 138 points, and the team set many career bests on the day, including the entire 3000m group.
Beginning with the 60m, junior Tyler Brown (Findlay, Ohio - Findlay) led the Eagles, finishing second with a time of 6.98. Just behind him, freshman Nicholas Herbert (Portage, Mich. - Portage Northern) took fifth in 7 seconds, while senior Wayne Blanchard (Toledo, Ohio - St. Francis De Sales) took sixth in 7.01. Four more Eagles were within .05 of Blanchard. Redshirt junior Nick James (Troy, Ohio - Troy) managed to finish second in the 200m, clocking in at 22.48. Blanchard took third in the event with a time of 22.57, which was a career best, while freshman Tyler Underwood (Clinton, Mich. - Clinton) took fourth.
Moving to the 400m, senior Matthew Williams (Moreno Valley, Calif. - Vista Del Lago) took home gold with a time of 49.97. Freshman Mark Cooke (Edison, N.J. - John P Stevens) was just behind him, crossing the finish line in 50.21, with Underwood rounding out the Eagles in fourth. Senor Scott Bradley (Battle Creek, Mich. - Lakeview) paced EMU in the 800m, taking home top honors in 1:54.17. Graduate student Joshua Sabo (Akron, Ohio - Revere) finished second with a time of 1:54.73, and senior Mason Waynes (Kenosha, Wis. - Bradford) nabbed fourth in 1:55.81.
Redshirt sophomore Nick Raymond (Erie, Mich. - Mason) was the Eagles' top finisher in the mile, clocking in at 4:15.23, which was good for second. Redshirt freshman Nick McFarland (Hillsborough, N.J. - Hillsborough) nabbed fourth in 4:18.84. The distance group kept the ball rolling on the 3000m, as all four runners finished with career bests. Sophomore Csaba Matko (Racalmas, Hungary - Szechenyi Istvan Gimnazium) was the top finisher by over eight seconds, as he crossed the finish line in 8:30.67, while second-place finisher redshirt sophomore Abel Flores (Defiance, Ohio - Defiance) posted a time of 8:38.53.
In the 60m hurdles, redshirt senior Solomon Simmons (Murrieta, Calif. - Murrieta Valley) led the pack, finishing first with a time of 8.19. The Green and White also took the second and third spots, with freshman Frank Douglas (Mansfield, Ohio - Madison Comprehensive) and senior Bryce Lindsey (New Middletown, Ohio - Fairfield Senior) posting times of 8.27 and 8.30, respectively. From there, EMU took second, fourth, and eighth in the 4x440m relay, with their top time sitting at 3:15.86.
Redshirt junior Anthony Jones (Sandusky, Ohio - Sandusky) then took second in the weight throw with a mark of 20.84 meters/ 68 feet 4.5-inches, while redshirt senior Keith Williams (Sherman, Ill. - Williamsville) took fourth with a throw of 18.75 meters. Fellow redshirt senior Andrew Wentz (Napoleon, Ohio - Napoleon) posted a career best 17.52 meters/ 57 feet 5.75-inches, which was good for fifth. In the shot put, junior Quinn Levering (Caledonia, Ohio - River Valley) took home the event title with a toss of 16.79 meters/ 55 feet 1.0-inches, which was a career best. Williams also took third, notching a mark of 16.08 meters/ 52 feet 9.0-inches.
Moving to the jumps, freshmen Cameron Hart (Columbus, Ohio - Bishop Hartley) and Micah Peters (York, Ontario - Vaughn Road Academy) participated in all three events. Hart's best finish came in the triple jump, where the Columbus, Ohio native took third with a jump of 13.40 meters/ 43 feet 11.50-inches. Peters also had a solid triple jump, as he finished second with a mark of 14.17 meters/ 46 feet 5.75-inches. In the long jump, Brown paced the field, taking home the title with a jump of 7.05 meters/ 23 feet 1.50-inches. Redshirt junior Zach Waldron (Grand Rapids, Mich. - Northview) also took second in the long jump with a mark of 6.87 meters/ 22 feet 6.50-inches. Closing out the day, Waldron paced EMU in the pole vault, finishing with a vault of 4.46 meters/ 14 feet 7.50-inches.
With their lone home meet on the season completed, EMU will be on the road for the rest of the year. The Green and White continue their season with the Penn State National, Jan. 29-30.
EMU Individual Results (* signifies a personal record)
60m Dash
2. Tyler Brown 6.98
5. Nicholas Herbert 7.00*
6. Wayne Blanchard 7.01
7. Brandon Bolden 7.02
8. Aitor Ekobo 7.03
9. Solomon Simmons 7.04
10. Nick James 7.06*
13. Tyler Underwood 7.24*
2. Nick James 22.48
3. Wayne Blanchard 22.57*
4. Tyler Underwood 22.75
1. Matthew Williams 49.97
2. Mark Cooke 50.21
6. Frank Douglas 51.30*
8. Elijah Barber 52.17
1. Scott Bradley 1:54.17
2. Joshua Sabo 1:54.73*
4. Mason Waynes 1:55.81
7. Mitch Lenneman 1:57.46*
9. Tom Jozwiak 2:00.15
11. Nick McFarland 2:02.91*
Mile Run
2. Nick Raymond 4:15.23
4. Nick McFarland 4:18.84
10. Caleb Hess 4:28.39
13. Morgan O'Flahrity 4:33.94*
14. Davis Saporito 4:35.59
15. Christian Lopez 4:46.21*
1. Csaba Matko 8:30.67*
2. Abel Flores 8:38.53*
8. Alec Keaton 9:05.83*
9. Adam Beck 9:10.98*
60m Hurdles
2. Frank Douglas 8.27*
3. Bryce Lindsey 8.30
6. Jeff Elam 8.55
8. Alex Jacobs 9.27*
4x400m Relay
2. EMU Team A 3:15.86
4. EMU Team B 3:26.56
8. EMU Team C 3:33.14
Weight Throw
2. Anthony Jones 20.84m/ 68 feet 4.50-inches
4. Keith Williams 18.75m/ 61 feet 6.25-inches
5. Andrew Wentz 17.52m/ 57 feet 5.75-inches*
6. Elijah Albert-Grayer 17.48m/ 57 feet 4.25-inches*
7. Kevin Bouchard 15.69m/ 51 feet 5.75-inches*
8. Austin Hazek 15.51m/ 50 feet 10.50-inches*
9. Zach Purcilly 15.40m/ 50 feet 6.25-inches*
1. Quinn Levering 16.79m/ 55 feet 1.0-inches*
3. Keith Williams 16.08m/ 52 feet 9.0-inches
5. Mike Hierholzer 14.72m/ 48 feet 3.50-inches
2. Micah Peters 14.17m/ 46 feet 5.75-inches*
3. Cameron Hart 13.40m/ 43 feet 11.50-inches
6. Nick Herbert 12.22m/ 40 feet 1.0-inches
1. Tyler Brown 7.05m/ 23 feet 1.50-inches
2. Zach Waldron 6.87m/ 22 feet 6.50-inches
4. Nick Herbert 6.73m/ 22 feet 1.0-inches*
5. Cameron Hart 6.65m/ 21 feet 9.75-inches*
6. Micah Peters 6.50m/ 21 feet 4.0-inches*
1. Zach Waldron 2.02m/ 6 feet 7.50-inches*
5. Micah Peters 1.87m/ 6 feet 1.50-inches
6. Cameron Hart 1.87m/ 6 feet 1.50-inches
4. Zach Waldron 4.46m/ 14 feet 7.50-inches*
5. Brett Lara 4.31m/ 14 feet 1.75-inches
7. Alex Jacobs 4.01m/ 13 feet 1.75-inches
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Toronto Pearson International Airport is Canada’s busiest passenger hub, handling over 44 million travellers and 450,000 aircraft every year. We may occasionally complain about a cancelled or delayed flight but we often don’t think about the impressive scale of operations of the airport itself.
And part of what makes it work so well is the complex power system and the highly skilled electricians and contractors who make it seamless.
Electrical contractor Marek Ciuba of Hart-Well Electrical Company has been “going to work” at Pearson for close to two decades. He lives in Mississauga and feels very blessed to be able to live and work in the same community.
It takes a lot of power to keep it working safely and reliably: almost 300,000,000 kWh per year. Two dedicated sub stations that could otherwise power a small city ensure that everything from air traffic control to the communications stay powered.
Hart-Well’s President Michael Mulgrew is equally proud of their work at the country’s busiest airport which allows millions the freedom to travel world-wide safely and reliably.
For an electrical system as complex as the one at Pearson, it could only have been built by the best trained electrical workers in the world. Over 1,100 members of IBEW Local 353 spent 3 years putting together Terminal 1 alone.
“It takes highly trained and highly skilled IBEW electricians to make sure the work is done right and is done safely because millions of travellers depend on it”
“Many people probably don’t think about the critical role the electrical infrastructure plays at an airport, particularly a large airport like Pearson. It takes highly trained and highly skilled IBEW electricians to make sure the work is done right and is done safely because millions of travellers depend on it,” said Mulgrew.
Hart-Well Electrical is a member of the Electrical Contractors Association of Ontario (ECAO) and has a contractual relationship with IBEW to ensure the electricians on the job are well trained and certified.
The airport is connected to two different electrical grids, and even if those both go dark, there are banks of backup generators that would take over instantly. Travellers would continue to come and go, and everything would continue to operate safely.
“All of our members are so well trained that they can do whatever is required,” says Local 353 Business Manager Steven Martin. “IBEW electricians, communications workers and linespersons make the difference between whether or not a job can be done safely, on time and on budget.”
For one of the largest airports in the world, only the best technology would do. From body scans to keep flights safe to complex computer networks to keep passengers up to date, only electricians with the most up to date training could make it happen.
“Toronto is on the leading edge,” says Martin. “Our members are always looking for the next step forward. They see where the technology is going, and they know we can bring it forward.”
IBEW training programs are the most comprehensive in the construction industry. And they’re only available to IBEW members. They help us keep our commitment to being the best electrical workers in the world, he added.
They helped power the system that keeps Canadians moving freely wherever they need to go for business, for family, and for pleasure
Mulgrew said one of his company’s main focus right now is maintaining and when necessary expanding the airport’s electrical security system “In today’s world, the airport’s electrical security system can’t fail. It’s as simple as that.” We are proud of the work we do at Pearson.”
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Each neighborhood website is sponsored by one community-minded real estate professional who loves and cares about the community.Johnson, along with actress Helen Hayes founded the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982 on 60 acres of land in East Austin, Texas.A variety of boat rentals are available around Lady Bird Lake.Visitors discovered the Golden Ratio on their arms, hands, in a hurricane, on an ant and zebra, and more. Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center was a surprise of how vast the area and hiking trails has to offer.My favorite place on the lake is the statue to Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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Ed & Sam Murray, Cricklade, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"Dear Paul, We would both like to thank you and your army of men for the job that you have done here. You were unbelievably quick, tidy and did what you said, when you said it. On a couple of occasions you went out of your way to deliver the goods when you said you would (the flue for the boiler and the French doors) which we were so grateful for. The rooms have made the most amazing difference us, and the kids, that we don't know how we ever managed before. Thanks once again, we would have no reservations in using you again, or recommending Paul Cook Construction Ltd to friends and family (which we already have!)" View more Paul Cook Construction Ltd customer reviews and recommendations for your total peace of mind in choosing the best local Swindon builders for your next home improvement building project."
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Flood Damage House Refurbishment Recommendation from Julie & Phil Peck, Eagle Close, Swindon, Wiltshire
"Our 'Home'
We are writing this letter to tell you how much we LOVE our newly refurbished home.
Due to the floods of July 2007 our house was submerged in 4 ft of water making our house uninhabitable and the devastation was beyond belief throughout the whole of the bottom floor.
After being let down by a local builder our insurance company put us in touch with Paul Cooke Construction to deal with the renovation of our house. As a company and as a team they proved to be honest, flexible and hard working and nothing was too much trouble.
Paul Cook was accessible throughout the refurbishment and if anything wasn't done exactly the way we envisaged it to be, Paul made sure it was taken care of personally. And he followed up everything as well! It's refreshing to find a builder who cares about the people as much as the end product. We were especially pleased that Paul shared our vision of how the finished product should look as well as understanding and listening to our concerns.
We look forward and feel confident to use Paul Cook Construction as builders again and also to recommend them to anyone else.
Julie & Phil Peck, Eagle Close, Swindon, Wiltshire
"Our 'Home' We are writing this letter to tell you how much we LOVE our newly refurbished home. Due to the floods of July 2007 our house was submerged in 4 ft of water making our house uninhabitable and the devastation was beyond belief throughout the whole of the bottom floor. After being let down by a local builder our insurance company put us in touch with Paul Cooke Construction to deal with the renovation of our house. As a company and as a team they proved to be honest, flexible and hard working and nothing was too much trouble. Paul Cook was accessible throughout the refurbishment and if anything wasn't done exactly the way we envisaged it to be, Paul made sure it was taken care of personally. And he followed up everything as well! It's refreshing to find a builder who cares about the people as much as the end product. We were especially pleased that Paul shared our vision of how the finished product should look as well as understanding and listening to our concerns. We look forward and feel confident to use Paul Cook Construction as builders again and also to recommend them to anyone else.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/flood-damage-house-refurbishment-recommendation-from-julie-phil-peck-eagle-close-swindon-wiltshire/
House Extension Recommendation from Adam M Whyte, Avonmead, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Paul Cook Construction Ltd.
Now that the building of our extension is complete, I would like to take this opportunity to place on record our pleasure and appreciation at the work you have done.
From the start I was impressed by your professionalism when you came to quote for the work, particularly when you identified an existing structural defect which other builders had missed or ignored, putting it into a "too difficult to do" box. You were candid about every aspect of the quote and remained so throughout the whole build.
Once the work started, you and your team made rapid progress without ever giving us the impression that the work was being rushed. Even our supply of cups of coffee could not slow the progress - if only I had taken shares in Nescafe before work commenced!
All the team showed continuous respect for our home and accommodated all our little requests with the best of humour. On the subject of humour, it has been great fun having you all here during this project and the banter and fun has been a continuous source of enjoyment and also helped us to manage our levels of stress and anxiety over undertaking such a major change to our home. Of course, along the way, some unexpected issues and small snags cropped up, mainly owing to an error in the plan drawings, but you found a suitable solution which not only solved the problem but also avoided any extra costs.
At the end of the job, we were very happy with the standard of finishing and the tidy state in which the house, garden and driveway were left. When you came out to check the work at the end, you spotted things we had not and, no messing around, you had them done to your satisfaction. I should also mention the good work carried out by the plumber and electrician you used on this job, both tradesmen have done a tidy job and everything even works!
In summary Paul, thank you to you and to all your team, we are delighted with what you have achieved here. I would have no reservation in recommending you to anyone needing building work done and I would most certainly hope that you would be available if we decide to have any other building work done in the future.
Adam M Whyte
Adam M Whyte, Avonmead, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Paul Cook Paul Cook Construction Ltd. Dear Paul, Now that the building of our extension is complete, I would like to take this opportunity to place on record our pleasure and appreciation at the work you have done. From the start I was impressed by your professionalism when you came to quote for the work, particularly when you identified an existing structural defect which other builders had missed or ignored, putting it into a "too difficult to do" box. You were candid about every aspect of the quote and remained so throughout the whole build. Once the work started, you and your team made rapid progress without ever giving us the impression that the work was being rushed. Even our supply of cups of coffee could not slow the progress - if only I had taken shares in Nescafe before work commenced! All the team showed continuous respect for our home and accommodated all our little requests with the best of humour. On the subject of humour, it has been great fun having you all here during this project and the banter and fun has been a continuous source of enjoyment and also helped us to manage our levels of stress and anxiety over undertaking such a major change to our home. Of course, along the way, some unexpected issues and small snags cropped up, mainly owing to an error in the plan drawings, but you found a suitable solution which not only solved the problem but also avoided any extra costs. At the end of the job, we were very happy with the standard of finishing and the tidy state in which the house, garden and driveway were left. When you came out to check the work at the end, you spotted things we had not and, no messing...
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/house-extension-recommendation-from-adam-m-whyte-avonmead-swindon-wiltshire/
House Extension Recommendation from Dr A.M. and Mrs G.E. Dancyger
"To Paul Cook Construction,
Your company completed a large, single storey, extension for us recently. From start to finish, it took about five weeks and came within the estimated price, which we considered to be very competitive.
While working at our property, your work force were always polite and pleasant and we felt perfectly safe to leave them in the house without us. The quality of the work was excellent. We were very impressed with your attention to detail and unfailing helpfulness, in particular, when we had a few problems with our kitchen fitters, and you went out of your way to help resolve the situation, even though it had nothing to do with you.
We have no hesitation in recommending you to other customers and indeed would use your company again ourselves. "
Dr A.M. and Mrs G.E. Dancyger"
"To Paul Cook Construction, Your company completed a large, single storey, extension for us recently. From start to finish, it took about five weeks and came within the estimated price, which we considered to be very competitive. While working at our property, your work force were always polite and pleasant and we felt perfectly safe to leave them in the house without us. The quality of the work was excellent. We were very impressed with your attention to detail and unfailing helpfulness, in particular, when we had a few problems with our kitchen fitters, and you went out of your way to help resolve the situation, even though it had nothing to do with you. We have no hesitation in recommending you to other customers and indeed would use your company again ourselves. "
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/house-extension-recommendation-from-dr-a-m-and-mrs-g-e-dancyger/
House Extension Build Recommendation from Martin Campbell, Grosvenor Rd, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Now that the first floor extension is complete and we have decorated, fitted carpets and furnished the two bedrooms I would like to extend my thanks to you and your team for a job well done and completed on time.
Right from the start of the project you took the time to help and advise me with the planning requirements and submissions to the local authorities. Once the work started you kept me fully informed on what was planned for the next day and week ahead. All the people involved roofers, plasters etc. were very competent, good timekeepers, trustworthy and always made an effort to clean up at the end of the day.
So once again my thanks goes out to all of them and I would have no hesitation in recommending your company to anyone.
Martin Campbell, Grosvenor Rd, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Dear Paul, Now that the first floor extension is complete and we have decorated, fitted carpets and furnished the two bedrooms I would like to extend my thanks to you and your team for a job well done and completed on time. Right from the start of the project you took the time to help and advise me with the planning requirements and submissions to the local authorities. Once the work started you kept me fully informed on what was planned for the next day and week ahead. All the people involved roofers, plasters etc. were very competent, good timekeepers, trustworthy and always made an effort to clean up at the end of the day. So once again my thanks goes out to all of them and I would have no hesitation in recommending your company to anyone.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/house-extension-build-recommendation-from-martin-campbell-grosvenor-rd-swindon-wiltshire/
Repairs to house in Cricklade completed April 2012
Insurance remedial work to repair the damage caused to a house in Cricklade by a nearby tree, was allocated to Paul Cook Construction.
From the moment I met Paul Cook I was reassured by his manner, knowledge and expertise. Nothing was too much trouble and at all times during the remedial work he enquired if everything was as required. I was invited to observe and take photographs at all stages - nothing hidden; no short cuts that later return to cause further problems.
As for Paul's standard of work and that of his team, I can only say it was exceptional. Brickwork, plastering, painting and wallpapering were all very high quality.
I am no building expert and as such have to rely on those that purport to be. There are many TV programs about building disasters and one starts off being wary of ending up on ‘Watchdog' or some other similar show. I honestly believe that Paul Cook will never feature in any of those programs as the high quality of his work precludes him from participating in them.
Many thanks Paul to you and your team for everything and thanks to the insurance repair people, Carter Construction, for choosing you.
Insurance remedial work to repair the damage caused to a house in Cricklade by a nearby tree, was allocated to Paul Cook Construction. From the moment I met Paul Cook I was reassured by his manner, knowledge and expertise. Nothing was too much trouble and at all times during the remedial work he enquired if everything was as required. I was invited to observe and take photographs at all stages - nothing hidden; no short cuts that later return to cause further problems. As for Paul's standard of work and that of his team, I can only say it was exceptional. Brickwork, plastering, painting and wallpapering were all very high quality. I am no building expert and as such have to rely on those that purport to be. There are many TV programs about building disasters and one starts off being wary of ending up on ‘Watchdog' or some other similar show. I honestly believe that Paul Cook will never feature in any of those programs as the high quality of his work precludes him from participating in them. Many thanks Paul to you and your team for everything and thanks to the insurance repair people, Carter Construction, for choosing you.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/repairs-to-house-in-cricklade-completed-april-2012/
Conservatory Build & Kitchen Upgrade Swindon Builders – Conservatory Build Recommendation from Mr S D Lippiatt, The Maltings, Burnivale, Malmesbury, Wiltshire. www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk Recommendation from Mr S D Lippiatt, The Maltings, Burnivale, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
"Paul Cook Construction Limited. CONSERVATORY / KITCHEN PROJECT, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you personally for your outstanding work on our property. The conservatory has been completed for 6 months and it was the quality of your workmanship, amongst other factors that led Becky and I to choose your company to embark on our rather enthusiastic kitchen project. I'm glad to say that you lived up to and beyond our expectations. Reliability was one important factor we considered in choosing a company to undertake work on our property. Becky and I were kept informed of exactly what would be happening on a daily basis and your team of contractors were always punctual and hardworking. Any problems arising were dealt with without fuss and your flexibility was much appreciated. Trust was another important factor to consider in choosing a company. Your company's trustworthiness was beyond reproach and we had no problem giving you or your contractors free reign of the house. The quality of workmanship on both projects was exceptional. You completed both jobs with minimum fuss in a friendly and professional manner. What's more we have been so impressed with the quality of your work that we would like for you to quote for laying a new patio. Many thanks Paul. As a result of your hard work and professional competence we are now the owners of one of the most desirable houses in our street! Yours sincerely, Mr S D Lippiat"
Mr S D Lippiatt, The Maltings, Burnivale, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/conservatory-build-kitchen-upgrade-swindon-builders-conservatory-build-recommendation-from-mr-s-d-lippiatt-the-maltings-burnivale-malmesbury-wiltshire-www-recommendedbuildersswindon-co-uk-rec/
Commercial Building Contract Recommendation from Paul Lee, Young Black Industrial Stapling Ltd, Thistle House, Radway Road, Britannia Business Park, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. Paul Cook of Paul Cook Building Contractors has just completed a medium building contract at our site on Britannia Business Park, Swindon. I have found Paul's work to be to a very good standard, with a very competitive price and the job was started and completed in the stated timescale. Paul has completed the job to my entire satisfaction and done exactly as I asked. I found him to be courteous and reliable and would recommend his company for building contracts. Yours faithfully, Paul Lee WAREHOUSE MANAGER YOUNG BLACK I.S. LTD"
Paul Lee, Young Black Industrial Stapling Ltd, Thistle House, Radway Road, Britannia Business Park, Swindon, Wiltshire.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/commercial-building-contract-recommendation-from-paul-lee-young-black-industrial-stapling-ltd-thistle-house-radway-road-britannia-business-park-swindon-wiltshire/
Conservatory Build Swindon Builders Conservatory Build Recommendation from Ian & Penny Constant, Salmon’s Leap, Calne, Wiltshire www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.ukRecommendation from Ian & Penny Constant, Salmon’s Leap, Calne, Wiltshire.
"Ref: Paul Cook Construction We commissioned the building services of Paul Cook and his team to construct our new conservatory. We found the project to be managed efficiently, professionally and delivered on time, despite some appalling weather during the construction period. The work was of extremely high quality, Paul himself taking a very hands-on and proactive involvement at every stage of the build. The construction was solidly built, with no cutting of corners, and the attention to detail was very high. We didn't have to worry about the workmanship, the timescale, the reliability or the mess. Builders often have a bad reputation, but Paul and his team will dispel those fears. We strongly recommend his services and will continue use him for any of our future projects. Ian & Penny Constant"
Ian & Penny Constant, Salmon's Leap, Calne, Wiltshire.
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/conservatory-build-swindon-builders-conservatory-build-recommendation-from-ian-penny-constant-salmons-leap-calne-wiltshire-www-recommendedbuildersswindon-co-ukrecommendation-from-ian-penny-co/
Garage Conversion Recommendation from Mike Fraser, Town End, Faringdon, Oxfordshire.
"Dear Paul, We are writing to tell you we are very pleased with the work that you have done on our garage conversion. The work was carried out promptly and efficiently, and we are very pleased with the end result. The thing that most impressed us was that the brickwork is very well matched to the rest of the house, and the new room looks like it has always been there. Two people in the street have already asked for your number. I have given your number and suggested they give you a call. Yours faithfully, Mike Fraser"
Mike Fraser, Town End, Faringdon, Oxfordshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/garage-conversion-recommendation-from-mike-fraser-town-end-faringdon-oxfordshire/
Garage Rebuild Recommendation from P B & J A Partridge, Sedgebrook, Liden, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"Dear Mr Cook, Replacement of Garage at Sedgebrook Swindon. I write to confirm that I have advised RWA Consulting that I am now content with the garage you constructed and for the outstanding moneys to be released to you. The garage has steadily dried out and the roof, which has been subjected to rain and snow, has proved to be sound. I would also like to thank you for the manner in which the work was completed. I am aware that you experienced difficulties with the inclement weather, however the garage was competed promptly and, to my eyes, a high standard. I would also be grateful if you could thank the tradesmen who worked on the project. They were a pleasure to have on site. In particular if you could extend my apologies to the roofer who I, as events have now proven, gave an unjustified hard time. He was right; I was wrong - but it did not seem that way at the time. Wishing you all the best for the future, yours sincerely, P.B.Partridge"
P B & J A Partridge, Sedgebrook, Liden, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/garage-rebuild-recommendation-from-p-b-j-a-partridge-sedgebrook-liden-swindon-wiltshire/
House Extension Build Recommendation from R J Thorpe K A Mearns, Townend Road, Faringdon, Oxforshire
"Dear Mr Cook, Please find enclosed cheque for final balance. We both appreciate the work you and your team put into our extension project It has made such a difference to the way we use our house and five people doesn't seem like a crowd. I have and will continue to recommend you and your team to anyone who asks, we were especially pleased with the way you kept the job tidy, with minimal disruption to us. Thank you, Yours sincerely, Robert Thorpe. Ps ... Our new kitchen isn't coming until 27 June. I'll be in touch about skimming the kitchen and installing the waste."
R J Thorpe K A Mearns, Townend Road, Faringdon, Oxforshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/house-extension-build-recommendation-from-r-j-thorpe-k-a-mearns-townend-road-faringdon-oxforshire/
Porch & Garage Build Builders Swindon – Porch & Garage Build Recommendation from Philip Bole, Okebourne Park, Swindon, Wiltshire www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk Recommendation from Philip Bole, Okebourne Park, Swindon, Wiltshire
"Paul Cook Construction Ltd. Dear Mr Cook, Porch and Garage. Please find enclosed a cheque for the last remaining 10%. The cheque for £x,xxx.00, means that all the work is now paid for. We seem to have had no further problems with the water finding its way under the lead flashing as so it looks as if the problem has been cured. We have certainly had our fair share of rain to put it to the test. I understand from our conversation that we will receive the paper work from the council once the building inspector has sent the appropriate paper work to them. In the meanwhile Meriel and I would like to thank you for all your work for us. You have been very easy to get on with and we are pleased with both the porch and the garage. Yours sincerely, Philip Bole"
Philip Bole, Okebourne Park, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/porch-garage-build-builders-swindon-porch-garage-build-recommendation-from-philip-bole-okebourne-park-swindon-wiltshire-www-recommendedbuildersswindon-co-uk-recommendation-from-philip-bole-o/
Conservatory Build Recommendation from Di Goor, Moresby Close, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"Dear Paul, Just a note to say many thanks for the efficient job which you did on the conservatory. I know to you it was just a job but I was really pleased how you went about it. I'm glad pride in doing a good job is still around. It's now several months since you've finished and we have had no problems at all. I don't usually write this type of letter but I was impressed with the work and more to the point you did it in the time which you said. If you ever need a recommendation I would be more than happy to give same. - something else I don't normally do. Again many thanks for a job well done. Di Goor"
Di Goor, Moresby Close, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/conservatory-build-recommendation-from-di-goor-moresby-close-westlea-swindon-wiltshire/
Interior Refurbishment Recommendation from Tracy Rowland & Tom Gilbertson, Woodcutters Mews, Groundwell West, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"Paul Cook Construction Ltd. Dear Paul, As well as enclosing a cheque for the full amount for the building work undertaken by you and your team, we would also like to take the opportunity to thank you again for the fabulous end result you have provided. The difference you have made to our home is amazing, from the plaster on the walls and ceiling to the tiles on the floor. Your whole team were polite, courteous and informative at all times. We would be grateful if you would pass on our sincere thanks to Derek who worked extremely hard at all times and was always singing (although we don't think Simon Cowell will be in touch). We had taken "before" photographs before you arrived and will be taking more when we've finished decorating and will be happy to e-mail some to you once taken. We would have no hesitation in recommending you and your team to anyone requiring building work of any type. In fact, we have already recommended you to a work colleague, so we're sure they will be in contact with you soon. Thank you again and we will be in touch with you for my next project! Kind Regards, Tracy Rowland & Tom Gilbertson"
Tracy Rowland & Tom Gilbertson, Woodcutters Mews, Groundwell West, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/interior-refurbishment-recommendation-from-tracy-rowland-tom-gilbertson-woodcutters-mews-groundwell-west-swindon-wiltshire/
Garage Conversion Recommendation from Brian Duffy, Sandgate, Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, Wiltshire
"Paul Cook Construction. Mr. Cook, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your colleagues for the first rate conversion of our garage into a kitchen/dining area. Although the project took longer than you anticipated due to the buildings inspector, you were prepared to work when you could over the weekends and during the Christmas break I would have no hesitation in using your services in the future, and indeed we have discussed the probability of you block paving my drive and erecting a conservatory, once the present work is fully complete. Yours Sincerely, Brian Duffy"
Brian Duffy, Sandgate, Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/garage-conversion-recommendation-from-brian-duffy-sandgate-stratton-st-margaret-swindon-wiltshire/
Interior Refurbishment Recommendation from Churchwarden, Pauline Davis, The Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Haydon Wick, Swindon, Wiltshre.
"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: We contacted Paul Cook Construction Limited to carry out work for St. John's Parish Church at Haydon Wick, Swindon which included demolishing a supporting wall and putting in a studded wall in a different area to form a new room and new kitchen in a different place within the church. A new drain was installed into a major draining area, RSJ was installed, Velux windows were put into the roof of the church and cupboards were erected - this was ail part of the contract together with new electricity installed in the new rooms radiators installed and some existing ones re-positioned. Further to the original contract the whole church was re-decorated, installation between walls and roof installed, rooms replastered, re-wiring of music system in the main worship area. Paul Cook was always willing and helpful in resolving the many problems that arose during the work, his willingness to accommodate changes to our requirements and agreeing to undertake other new work along the way. Paul also kept the the site tidy and cleared up afterwards. His work was to a very high specification. Paul was always professional and ensured the Building inspector was fully informed during the project that was undertaken and kept us fully informed as to progress. He attended any necessary meetings we called, to discuss any of the work with other professional people (i.e the Architect, Building Surveyor etc.). We would highly recommend this company for work and would certainly return to Paul Cook for any further work that we required. Yours, Mrs Pauline Davis - Churchwarden"
Churchwarden, Pauline Davis, The Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Haydon Wick, Swindon, Wiltshre.
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Interior Refurbishment Recommendation from Mr & Mrs Williams, Abbey Meads, Swindon.
"To whom it may concern. RECOMENDATION. We have recently had some building work completed by Paul Cook Construction Ltd. We chose them initially because of some work that they had done for an organisation that we belong to. The estimate provided was very competitive and comprehensive. We knew what work was to be done and the timescale needed to complete this. The work was done to a very high standard in accordance with current building regulations All the workers that we had contact with were pleasant, courteous, hard working, conscientious and trustworthy. We had no problem in leaving a key with them so that they could get on with the work whilst we went away for a few days. We are extremely pleased with the finished product and would willingly show this to any of Paul Cook Construction's potential customers. We were in constant communication with them throughout the process and so there were no hidden extras added to the invoice. This was completely in sync with the original estimate We will definitely use this Company again if the need for this type of work occurs in the future. Yours sincerely, Mr & Mrs Williams."
Mr & Mrs Williams, Abbey Meads, Swindon
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/interior-refurbishment-recommendation-from-mr-mrs-williams-abbey-meads-swindon/
Garage Conversion Recommendation from Raymond J Shirley, Toothill, Swindon, Wiltshire.
"Dear Paul, Just a little letter, to thank you for doing the conversion works to our property. My wife and I are very happy with the outcome. We were very happy with your method of work and the finish. Some our neighbours have commented that the conversion is in correct proportion with the rest of the property and it all blends in well. I would not have any hesitation in recommending your work from any enquiries and I will certainly be using your skills in the near future for any future developments. The carpet and the decoration inside have now been finished and I would like to invite you round to view the final outcome. Yours sincerely, Raymond J Shirley"
Raymond J Shirley, Toothill, Swindon, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/garage-conversion-recommendation-from-raymond-j-shirley-toothill-swindon-wiltshire/
Interior Refurbishmint Recommendation from Simon Haisman, Bartons, Compton Bassett, Calne, Wiltshire.
"Dear Paul, Sorry it's taken us so long to write but things have been a bit busy on the work front. As promised though, here is a letter confirming that we are more than happy with the work you carried for us recently and the overall fireplace project is almost complete. Thanks again for the speed and professionalism you showed during the time you spent working at our house. As you suggested, I've now bricked up the spare front door and have even had a go at plastering, although you make it look far too easy! I hope you're well and busy? Thanks again, Simon Haisman"
Simon Haisman, Bartons, Compton Bassett, Calne, Wiltshire
http://www.recommendedbuildersswindon.co.uk/testimonials/interior-refurbishmint-recommendation-from-simon-haisman-bartons-compton-bassett-calne-wiltshire/
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Arsenal Injury Update – Giroud, Walcott, Debuchy and more
Randy O. | November 28, 2016 | Arsenal | No Comments
Ahead of Arsenal’s clash with Southampton in the League Cup, the Gunners are once again dealing with a few injury worries.
Below is a round-up of all the immediate fitness concerns in the squad, excluding players who are known to be spending long-term spells on the sidelines.
The Frenchman remained on the ground at full-time on after playing a part in the 3-1 victory over Bournemouth as a substitute.
Giroud appears to be struggling with a hamstring problem according to Arsene Wenger.
“The only worry we have is Giroud. He looked to touch his hamstring. We have to see how deep the damage is. He told me on his first movement he felt a twinge.” the Gunners boss said
Walcott was the man who went off to be replaced by Giroud during the weekend as he featured for 76 minutes, scoring an important goal.
The 27-year-old had an ice bag on his leg when he returned to the bench but the Arsenal manager insists the forward’s problem is “only a kick”.
The French full-back was forced off with an injury, only 16 minutes into his first start of the season as Gabriel came on to play at right-back.
According to Wenger, the 31-year-old is set to undergo tests which will determine whether he is set for another long spell on the sidelines or not.
“I have to speak to medical people, but you can only assess it really after 48 hours,” said Wenger. “You have to let it bleed and usually they have an MRI scan 48 hours later to see how big the damage is.”
Hector Bellerin
The Spaniard has revealed he is making a very speedy progress towards recovery after the ankle injury he suffered against Tottenham.
Bellerin could be back in action within two weeks.
Arsenal working on agreeing £27m deal to sign South American attacker
Wenger: Walcott and Koscielny’s fitness
No Comments | Dec 3, 2015
BBC’s David Ornstein reveals update on Arsenal’s move for 21-year-old star
‘Wenger has to go’ – New man joins call for Wenger to leave Arsenal after transfer window horror
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Preface to Volume 11, 3 B
The present volume brings together two works that at first sight seem quite disparate: the Chamber Symphony for 15 solo instruments op. 9, in the version for orchestra of 1914, and the Three Pieces for Chamber Ensemble of 1910. The Chamber Symphony, which had been composed in 1906, was a culminating point in Schönberg’s artistic development, though its significance was at first not apparent even to the composer himself. The wealth of themes and melodies in the work, developed through variation and combined contrapuntally in constantly new ways; the tonality, expanded to the very limits; the concentration of both expression and form – in all of these respects the work had gone as far as it was possible to go, and the only future course of action was a complete breakthrough, which Schönberg achieved, two years after completion of the Chamber Symphony, in the programmatic final movement of his second String Quartet op. 10. As the work’s title implies, the Chamber Symphony is paradoxical in character, combining inward, purely musical compression with outward-directed effect, and this dual nature also had consequences for performance, inasmuch as the work survives in more versions than any other composition of Schönberg’s, the different realizations seeking to bring out either the chamber or the symphonic aspects of the work.
As a note in the original printed edition of 1912 makes clear, Schönberg had envisaged from the outset that an ‘orchestra-sized number’ of strings, complemented by occasional doubling in the winds, was a possible option in the event of performances in larger halls. Although the specific realisation of this adaptation had originally been left to conductors, in the light of his own growing experience as a conductor Schönberg added a note, in the ‘Revised Edition’ of 1914, that ‘performance in large halls is permissible only from a score specially adapted for the purpose, which the publisher will make available on request’. He had made this arrangement of the score himself during the summer months of 1914, ahead of a planned performance that he was to conduct in St Petersburg. The changes in question essentially accord with his own indications of 1912: the string parts are given to larger numbers of players, and the wind parts are doubled ‘in the places where it is necessary’. Amendments to the original sonority through doublings by another (wind) instrument at the unison or octave are infrequent and are made only for purposes of clarification. This early version for orchestra therefore occupies a mid-way position between the original version and the later orchestral arrangement, op. 9B, of 1935: it offers a genuine alternative to each version, by improving the balance in sonority between wind and strings while avoiding the unchamber-like showiness of the wind writing in op. 9B with its added trumpets and trombones.
Schönberg’s continuing preoccupation with the hybrid genre of the chamber symphony is evident not only from the second Chamber Symphony op. 38, which he began writing immediately after op. 9 in a version for soloists and which was not completed until three decades later in a revised version for orchestra, but also from the second work contained in the present volume, the Three Pieces for Chamber Ensemble of 1910. This extremely short work – the first, and longest, piece runs to no more than twelve bars, and the fragmentary third piece would probably not have been much more substantial – comes, like the monodrama Erwartung op. 17 (1909), the Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19 and the Lied Herzgewächse op. 20 (both 1911), at the end of the process of transformation which led to the almost total dissolution of the traditional categories of music and their associated conventions that had been taken to their limits in the first Chamber Symphony. Here, musical gestures replace motifs in the thematic sphere, and ultra-subtle variations in sonority create contrast and cohesion at the different levels of form. The structural use of instrumental timbre and coloration – previously regarded as lower-order musical parameters – is shown in the gradual increase in the number of instruments from the first to the third piece, and in the sonority created by the organ (or harmonium) and celesta in the third. The miniatures resemble the Chamber Symphony in the sense that the scoring for twelve solo instruments gives the work a similarly hybrid character midway between orchestral and chamber music. Apparently, Schönberg had at first thought in terms of orchestral forces in the string parts, only subsequently scoring the parts for soloists – in other words, he reclaimed, as it were, the orchestral palette for the purposes of chamber music, in a reversal of his procedure with the first Chamber Symphony, where the early orchestral version of the work had constituted a translation of specifically chamber writing into orchestral terms.
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Apple 'iPhone 8' Latest News & Updates: Touch ID Out, 3D Facial Recognition In
Aside from the removal of Home button that will allow the iPhone 8 for an edge-to-edge display, Rod Hall has revealed new update for the smartphone. According to Hall, Apple has plan to replace the Touch ID feature for iPhone 8 and replace it with 3D laser scanner for facial recognition.
Apple iPhone 8: A Whole New Evolution
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iPhone 8 Latest Update: 2,700 mAh L-Formed 2-Cell Battery Pack; Will Use A Substrate-Like PCB Mainboard; Body Measures 4.7 Inches
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Apple 'iPhone 8' Leaks & Updates: Release Date, Price, OLED Screen, Steel Body & Wireless Charging
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iPhone 8 Latest News & Update: Apple’s Newest Anniversary Phone, Amounts To More Than $1,000?
In line with Apple’s 10th anniversary is the release of the newest iPhone. iPhone 8 comes with the newest updated features in accordance to the pleasure of the public and will likely cost more than $1,000.
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Eset Taps Former Ingram Micro Exec to Head North America Region
By Sarah de Crescenzo
IT security software and services company Eset has hired Brent McCarty, former vice president of global sales at Ingram Micro, to head its North America division.
McCarty was named president Aug. 1, a role formerly referred to as CEO North America. Eset's North America headquarters are in San Diego.
The company, established in 1992, is based in Slovakia. It opened its North America office in 1999.
Eset's chief operating officer Palo Luka has been serving as interim CEO of North America as the company conducted a search for its next leader for the region. Former North America CEO Andrew Lee, who was hired for the role in 2011, left the company at the end of 2017.
McCarty was previously with Ingram Micro for 12 years. In addition to his most recent role he also formerly served as country chief executive for Ingram Micro UK and Ireland, vice president and managing director for Ingram Micro UK and Ireland, managing director of DBL Distributing, Ingram’s North American consumer electronics business, and was senior director of value-added reseller sales in Canada.
As Ingram Micro's vice president of global sales solutions, McCarty grew targeted global customer revenue 54 percent in one year, expanding market share and improving profitability of the division, Eset said.
Richard Marko, CEO of Eset, said the U.S. makes up more than 20 percent of the company's global revenue.
“We spent a long time and vetted many candidates and found that Brent has the tenacity and leadership skills to lead and grow Eset in the North American market,” he said.
Reach reporter Sarah de Crescenzo at sarahd@sdbj.com.
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Rocksport Bar and Grill, Seattle
Update: Rocksport closed in July 2012
A prototypical boring sports bar, whose saving grace for me was that they serve some of the tastiest salsa I've ever had.
4209 Southwest Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98116-4524 - (206) 935-5838
Est. 1995 - Closed 2012
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Sneakers, Seattle
In 1980, Dick Oldham bought a sputtering new bar across from the Kingdome parking lot called "Stanley's Ticker Tape," and renamed it "Sneakers." Of course, "sports bars" had existed for many, many decades in various cities, but Oldham did some things that few if any other bars in the country had done at the time. He got the idea to put televisions everywhere -- 10 TVs, so that patrons could follow simultaneous games and see them from anywhere in the joint. When lineman Reggie McKenzie was traded to the Seahawks, he flew in a chef to teach Oldham's crew how to make spicy chicken wings like they did back in Buffalo, NY (hence, "Buffalo Wings"). And he very actively collected an idiosyncratic set of memorabilia and autographs from local players/patrons and players from around the country. Sneakers (sold in 1996 and now "Sluggers") was often listed as one of the best sports bars in the nation.
But I'll always remember Sneakers for a much more personal reason. In January of 1996, I got an unusual opportunity to sell some of the stock I had in our private company. Four years before that, my wife's breast cancer had begun metasticizing into other parts of her body. She'd outlived the estimates, but we knew she was dying. The stock sale gave us a considerable amount of money, the ability to pay off mounting credit card debts, and the chance for me to tell LeRoux "We can do anything you want to do." This was after the miracle 1995 Mariners season and the first thing she said was, "Let's buy season tickets!"
We did, and in '96 we went to every game she felt well enough to attend. And after almost all of those games, we'd head over to Sneakers for drinks and to play the NTN satellite trivia game. Sneakers would fill quickly after the games, and LeRoux's legs didn't work too well by then. So I'd sneak out to the Kingdome runway to watch the last out, then dash over and save us a seat, and she'd come trudging over after watching the end of the game from our seats.
We had a lot of fun. We got to recognize all the Kingdome vendors and other regulars who would often play trivia after the ballgames. Of course this included Ed the Tuba Guy, whom all the regulars could imitate, including his regular outburst of "I disagree!" whenever he missed a question (which was often). "Tuba," my wife once shouted at him, "You don't have your tuba!" "He explained that they didn't let him bring it into the restaurant, and a passing waiter remarked, "Well thank God for small favors." "I disagree!" said Ed.
This kind of pleasant banter and distraction is especially welcome when you could use some breaks from more depressing realities. I can't tell you how much I loved those nights and those silly trivia games. But in mid July LeRoux went into the hospital and then the hospice, where she had to follow the Mariners on the radio. On the morning of August 25th, a hospice volunteer woke me from the chair next to her bed where I'd sleep and informed me, "Sir, Cheryl has died."
October 12th of that year was the last day before Sneakers closed. I went down, played trivia again, and dropped a note to Dick, the owner, about how much the place meant to Cheryl and me. Dick came over to talk to me and invited me to a private closing party the next day. I attended of course, and Dick bought my dinner, read a letter from Mayor Rice and the note from me, and finally had Ed play inside the restaurant. And before the night was over Dick gave me two glass mugs with the Sneakers logo on them, which I now keep, as I always will, in a cabinet with the most prized glassware I own.
(Added 11/21/09 from two posts made previously)
The Mai-Kai, Ft. Lauderdale - 10/7/2005
The fabulous grand-daddy of all tiki bars.
maikai.com - critikis
(more photos)
Address: 3599 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Labels: Highest Recommendation, History, Tiki
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Also Noted
A decade of success for iluminar
Ginger Schlueter
IRVINE, Calif—Last month signified a decade in the security business world for iluminar, a manufacturer and supplier of IR and white light illuminators, and license plate recognition products.
Read more about A decade of success for iluminar
On the Editor's Desk
Iluminar CEO Eddie Reynolds wins inaugural SIA Progress Award
Paul Ragusa
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named industry veteran Edwina (Eddie) Reynolds, president and CEO of Iluminar Inc., as the 2018 recipient of the inaugural SIA Progress Award, an honor presented by SIA’s Women in Security Forum celebrating individuals who pave the way to success for women in the security industry. The award will be presented to Reynolds during SIA Honors Night on Wednesday, Nov. 14, in New York City, in conjunction with the ISC East conference and expo.
“I am truly humbled to be the first recipient of the SIA Progress Award, and I want to thank SIA for this incredible honor,” Reynolds said in the award announcement. “I have been working in the security industry for over 25 years, and while challenges still exist, the industry has made a lot of progress, and I am committed to continuing to advocate for more equality and more diversity across the field. As influencers, leaders and companies across the security industry have a greater focus on the advancement of women, I believe we can truly empower women to be leaders and agents of change in their respective fields and shift the narrative in our industry.”
Reynolds has been the founder and CEO of multiple established CCTV lighting companies. She began her security career as an account executive for U.K. integrator Chubb Fire & Security in the mid-1990s and went on to work for Pinkerton Security, Rainbow CCTV and Sony. From 2005 to 2008, Reynolds was the U.S. partner for a U.K.-based CCTV lighting company, and she founded Iluminar in 2009. Reynolds has led Iluminar to develop award-winning solutions and be the lighting solution partner for several market leaders. In 2018, she was appointed to the SIA Executive Council, where she works with other security leaders to launch initiatives that support the growth and advancement of the security industry at large.
“SIA is proud to present Eddie Reynolds with the first-ever SIA Progress Award for serving as a longtime advocate and role model for women in the security industry,” Don Erickson, SIA’s CEO, said in the announcement. “Mentorship and thought leadership are critical to helping women grow in this field, and we applaud Eddie for her dedicated involvement in the industry and contributing her expert insight, knowledge and advice.”
Reynolds has been a longtime supporter of initiatives to support the advancement of women and overall diversity in the security and technology industries. As part of these efforts, she traveled to the University of Arkansas on behalf of the International Organization of Black Security Executives in early 2018 to speak to students about career development skills and job opportunities within the industry.
Reynolds recently contributed to the first women-authored issue of SIA Technology Insights with an article on the importance of external illumination systems when lighting for video surveillance and will speak on a women’s panel at ISC West 2019, coming up April 10-12 in Las Vegas, Nev.
In addition to presenting the SIA Progress Award, SIA will honor industry leaders at Honors Night 2018 with the George R. Lippert Memorial Award, the Insightful Practitioner Award, the Jay Hauhn Excellence in Partnerships Award and the Women in Biometrics Award. SIA will also honor the 2018 recipients of the SIA RISE Scholarship and the inaugural Denis R. Hebert Identity Management Scholarship.
Editor’s Note: Security Systems News is excited but not surprised to see Reynolds honored in this way, as SSN featured her in our annual Women in Security issue in 2016. You can read the profile here. And speaking on women in security, if you know of a woman who is making a difference in the industry, we would love to highlight her in our December Women in Security issue. Emails can be sent to: [email protected].
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Women in Security: iluminar's Eddie Reynolds
CEO and co-founder blazing her own path
IRVINE, Calif.—Edwina “Eddie” Reynolds is president, CEO and co-founder of iluminar, a manufacturer and global supplier of infrared and white light illuminators, as well as license plate recognition products.
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Baseball Splits Doubleheader with Bucknell
Bucknell 4, Saint Joseph's 3 (Box Score)
Saint Joseph's 2, Bucknell 1 (Box Score)
MERION STATION, Pa. - The Saint Joseph's baseball team split a doubleheader with Bucknell on the Maguire Campus on Saturday afternoon, dropping the seven-inning opener, 4-3, before taking game two, 2-1. Kevin Kratochwill drove in three runs on the day, including the game-winner in the bottom of the eighth inning in game two.
Bucknell (11-9) scored four runs in the top of the second and starter Ryan Ebner made them stand up as a late Hawk rally ultimately fell short in a 4-3 defeat. Kratochwill drove in a pair of runs for SJU while Alex Pracher tossed a complete game in the loss, striking out eight.
Gerry Runyan led off the second with a double for the Bison and came around to score on a ground-rule double by Matt Lamore. Lamore and Robb Scott then crossed the plate on a double by Mark Figgie, who eventually came in on a passed ball to give Bucknell the early 4-0 lead.
Saint Joseph's (5-18) answered with a pair in the bottom half when Kratochwill's single up the middle plated Tommy Cunningham and Mike Muha. Cunningham doubled earlier in the inning while Muha and Drew Stoll worked two-out walks to load the bases for Kratochwill.
The teams traded zeroes until the bottom of the seventh. Kratochwill led off with a single to right and advanced to second on a single by Anthony Cirillo. Two batters later, Quinn Renner ripped a single to right center to score Kratochwill and cut the deficit to one. Unfortunately for the Crimson and Gray, Bucknell's Alex Cillo closed out the inning with a strikeout to preserve the win.
Ebner improved to 2-3 after allowing two runs on three hits in six innings, walking six against two strikeouts. Cillo earned his fifth save on the season.
Pracher gave up seven hits across seven innings, allowing four runs, three of them earned. He allowed just one walk and fanned eight, matching his season high.
In the nightcap, the Hawks got an early run and a late run as Jordan Carter and Steven Schuler held the Bison at bay en route to a 2-1 SJU victory.
Ryan Pater led off the game for the Hawks and was hit by a pitch. A stolen base and a Stefan Kancylarz single moved Pater to third, and he came in to score on a single by Cunningham to give SJU a quick 1-0 lead.
The Bison equalized in the fifth, scratching across a two-out unearned run after Justin Meier reached on an error and eventually scored on a single by Mark Figgie.
The score remained tied at one apiece until the bottom of the eighth. Eddie Palmer drew a leadoff walk and was replaced on the basepaths by pinch runner Tim Craig, who moved up to second on a sacrifice bunt by Pater. Kratochwill then followed with a single to left to score Craig with what turned out to be the winning run.
Schuler retired the side in order in the ninth, his second inning of work, to close the door on the Bison. He improved to 2-0 on the year, striking out three and not allowing a hit.
Carter was outstanding in his seven innings, scattering nine hits and allowing just a single unearned run. The sophomore struck out one without walking a batter. Bryson Hough (1-3) went the distance for Bucknell, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks while fanning three.
The teams will close out the series on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
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You are here: Home > Dr. Bob Sears serves his typical anti-vaccine effluvium, seasoned with self-pity and accompanied by a side of anti-Semitism
June 17, 2015 | 215 Comments
Dr. Bob Sears serves his typical anti-vaccine effluvium, seasoned with self-pity and accompanied by a side of anti-Semitism
Update: Please sign the petition asking Dr. Bob Sears to withdraw his odious comparison.
Dr. Bob Sears is a jerk.
That’s not news.
What’s news is he’s now serving his typical anti-vaccine effluvium, seasoned with self-pity and accompanied by a side of Jew baiting.
From his Facebook page:
The effluvium:
So, I’ve been getting a lot of new patients. Well, refugees really. Patients who have been kicked out of their doctor’s offices all across Orange County as pediatricians band together to form a united front against parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. Even declining one vaccine gets you cut from the team. Not exactly sure what team that is. Society perhaps? …
When I tell them they are completely welcome here, that about half my patients don’t vaccinate, and that they are in good company, I can see all the tension leave and the relief flood into them. It angers me to see how other doctors, sworn to serve these families, have made these patients feel. It’s so far outside the Hippocratic Oath that I don’t even know what to say.
When was the last time an anti-vaxxer was worked to death, starved to death or gassed to death. NEVER!
Dr. Sears wouldn’t known the Hippocratic Oath if it slapped him in the face. He apparently needs to be reminded of one of its first principles, primum non nocere, first do no harm. It’s hard to imagine anything more harmful than encouraging patients to turn their backs on one of the most important and successful public health measures of all time. The only thing more harmful than that is to do so knowingly, unethically and simply for profit.
Dr. Sears knows that vaccines work. That’s why he explains in his best selling book touting his “alternative” vaccine schedule that it is okay to skip vaccination … as long as you make sure that your neighbors don’t skip it, too.
As a 2009 article in The New England Journal of Medicine The problem with Dr. Bob’s alternative vaccine schedule explained:
Perhaps the most disingenuous comment in the book is directed at parents who are afraid of the measles-mumps- rubella (MMR) vaccine. “I also warn [parents] not to share their fears with their neighbors,” writes Sears, “because if too many people avoid the MMR, we’ll likely see the diseases increase significantly.” In other words, hide in the herd, but do not tell the herd you’re hiding; otherwise, outbreaks will ensue…
Dr. Sears’ warning implicitly acknowledges that vaccines are highly effective and that their effectiveness is dependent on herd immunity. Those are the benefits of vaccination. But vaccines also have burdens: side effects. Therefore, he advises parents to foist the burdens on others and claim the benefits for themselves … and that’s unethical both for him to advise and for parents to follow.
The self-pity:
Each time I meet one of these new families, I can see the scars. The fear. The uncertainty. Even in MY office. It’s as if they can’t yet believe there’s an office who will accept them. As I ask each new patient what brought them to my office, they look around the room (not sure what or whom they are looking for – listening devices, hidden cameras, Child Protective Services? Their previous doctor? A state Senator?). They fidget with their hands, and whisper “We didn’t want to vaccinate.” …
So I tell them they don’t have to whisper. They can say it loud and clear, with confidence…
How sad for them that they can’t proudly blare their stupidity, gullibility and unethical behavior.
How about the Jew baiting? First, a definition. The best definition I’ve seen is that Jew baiting is making provocative, anti-Semitic statements while innocently declaring that the statements aren’t anti-Semitic.
Sears wrote:
Scarlet “V” anyone? No, not scarlet. Let’s make it yellow. And not a V – a star would be better. That way everyone can know at first glance who is safe to be around and who is not.
The yellow star has a long and ugly history of anti-Semitism. According to the Holocaust Memorial Center:
The Jews of Europe were legally compelled to wear badges or distinguishing garments … at least as far back as the 13th century. This practice continued throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissnace, but was largely phased out during the 17th and 18th centuries…
The Nazis resurrected this practice as part of their persecutions during the Holocaust…
…Those who failed or refused to wear the badge risked severe punishment, including death. For example, the Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland announced that “… the authorities have warned that severe punishment – up to and including death by shooting – is in store for Jews who do not wear the yellow badge on back and front.”
And then, as is characteristic of Jew baiting, he declared that the statements aren’t anti-Semitic.
This post is not intended as a reference to a holocaust. Rather, it’s intended to raise the issue of prejudice and discrimination…
Bullshit. Obviously it is intended as an EXPLICIT reference to the Holocaust, a monstrous event that resulted in the death of 6 million Jews (and many millions of others) for no other reason than having even one Jewish grandparent. They were slaughtered not for what they did, not for choices that they made, but because of who they were.
When was the last time an anti-vaxxer faced death for his beliefs? NEVER!
When was the last time an anti-vaxxer faced deportation to a concentration camp for her belief. NEVER!
Dr. Sears is not merely anti-Semitic; he’s profoundly confused. There is nothing prejudiced about holding people to account for actions that harm others. An anti-vaxxer claiming that people are prejudiced against him is no different than a drunk driver claiming that laws against drunk driving indicate prejudice against drunk drivers. As two different Supreme Court Justices have noted: “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” In other words, although government power should be restricted, the government must be able to ensure survival of the state and its people.
The Tuteur family was a German family. Everyone who has ever had the last name Tuteur was descended from two brothers. Almost the entire family, hundreds of members, were living in Germany at the time the Nazis came to power. Every single Tuteur either escaped or died, from the oldest to the youngest. There are Tuteurs who survived the early years of the Holocaust who are still living. The horrors they endured are beyond description.
That Bob Sears chooses to compare the inconveniences faced by anti-vaxxers (because of their dangerous beliefs) to the horrors endured by Jews in the Holocaust (simply because their parents or grandparents were Jews) demonstrates that he is not merely an unethical charlatan shilling for profits. He is also a reprehensible human being and a vicious bigot.
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Moishe Kahan
Oy vey, we all must be suffering from Alzheimer’s, we forgot how many kids were dying in the streets from chicken pox. Thank G-d we now have a vaccine, so what if it increases chance of brain cancer.
https://www.bcm.edu/news/cancer/chicken-pox-may-reduce-risk-of-brain-cancer
https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
Nicole Worsham
Interesting thoughts. Vaccination is a choice. Being born Jewish is not.
Nick Sanders
Not exactly the point. The yellow star was specifically a symbol for marking Jews.
Frum lady
I can relate to the line he gave his patients who are not vaccinating, something to the tune of “the authorities have you scared, now, dont they”, sounds like the crunchy lay midwife who once told me regarding my decision to have a planned c-sec because I had already had 2 previous ones, and a scar-thickness-ultrasound revealed a very thin one, not risking rupturing….she says to me “ohhh, they have you real scared, don’t they”…as if all I had to do was overcome the fear of having my baby actually expluse into my abodmen during a homedeath, I mean homebirth and then my wishes will all come true. I believe there is a diagnosis in the DSM iV one of the symptoms are this Wishful thinking. “…….everything will now be soo much better”.
Another thought, was that the article above mentioned he works in Orange County. Is he referring to clients of Middleton New York, Kiryas Joel, the hassidic village? Its crazy, because I am a part of the ultra orthodox hassidim, and I too am catching this message wave that friends, and folks that vaccines are “soooo dangerous”. And the folks are being sold on this anti-vaccine stuff. Its so dangerous. Yes of course there have been a few severe reactions, but they save lives!
I so badly try to talk education into people, but there was recently this P.E.A.C.H magazine that launched something like Parents against vaccines, page after page of every reaction any child ever had, with personal stories, and cartoon comics about the illogic of injecting radioactive and live deadly viruses into the vulnerable pure child.
I had a conversation with my yiddish speaking friend following that horrible afternoon, in which 2,000 jewish families had this put in their mailbox across town, and my friend said “What are you talking about…of course its dangerous, my son’s arm swelled up and he went into respiratory distress”.
Now I hardly have but a few friends who vaccinate. And unfortunately the homebirth brainwash movement is infecting us as well. We are not immune to the mentality of the Nation we live in, no matter how insular we live in our shtetls.
DelphiniumFalcon
So he can see the scars on his poor, poor refugee patients?
Would those be Chicken Pox, liver scarring from vaccine preventable hepatitis, or gangrene scarring from bacterial meningitis?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/06/18/california-doctor-invokes-holocaust-analogy-compares-non-vaccinating-parents-to-jews/
Yup. I’m sure his “refugees” look just like the mixed race refugee children of Vietnam like Le Van Minh here.
Edit: Though if he keeps to his current course, his “refugees” just might end up looking like Le Van Mihn…
She poses a question for him:
You also included the following in today’s post “Note: no recently-vaccinated kids allowed. We wish to take precautions against viral shedding.” There is not scientific evidence that recently vaccinated children pose any significant risk to other children through “viral shedding.” Can you explain what you mean or respond to this?
I can give her the answer: “I am playing to the ignorance of my followers. You know there’s no risk, and I know there’s no risk, but they don’t, so I can use it as a way to make a dig at those pro-vaxxers without having to worry about my supporters realizing that I’m making shit up. I mean, they believed the crap I put in my book, so apparently, they’ll accept anything I say as long as I say, ‘It seems reasonable.'”
KarenJJ
OT: A rally that was going to be held in my city to protest against the removal of government benefits from parents that don’t vaccinate their kids has now been changed to a “support” picnic in a secret location. Because once you take anti-vax thinking outside the protective bubble of enablers like Dr Bob Sears and certain echo-chambers on the internet, it just doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
If you’re in Queensland, like myself, it has been changed to a park in Acacia Ridge.
Undercover work, nice.
I wonder if Meryl D will make an appearance, only a couple of hours up the new road from her anti-vaxx enclave.
Take a vomit bag, listening to everyone going on about their rights will be very sickmaking.
I can’t go – my best friend’s mum will be there, and tends to shriek (a lot). I refuse to be the cause of a riot even if it would give me that chance to heckle SM (who will probably be there)
Edit: Someone failed at maps, it’s actually in Queens Park, George St. Brisbane. So if you don’t want to have to deal with anti-vaxxers, stay away. Here’s hoping they don’t cause another outbreak.
When’s it on?
Sunday at 11:00am – 1:30pm.
And who’s SM?
Box of Salt
I’m guessing SM is Marvelous.
Stephanie Messenger, of Melanie’s Marvellous Measles infamy.
OT: A friend of mine recently told me, “I need some reassurance. My daughter is to get her boosters soon and I know it’s incredibly dumb but I’m a bit worried. I never was when she was little but then anti-vaxxers became vocal, the internet appeared and so on.” Her daughter is a teen, by the way. I looked at her and told her, “Each time before my dad leaves, he turns himself into a veritable pin-cushion for all the vaccines in all the countries their ship is expected to go. He got the yellow fever shot at least 3 times (that I know of.) Better safe than sorry. For now, he can still talk coherently, make jokes, and enjoy his beer.” She looked at me and laughed. “Gods, I’m an idiot, eh?”
She isn’t. And it never occurred to her to actually not get her daughter her boosters. But I think it’s quite telling about the corrosive influence loonies have on the rest of us.
KeeperOfTheBooks
Oh yeah. BTDT. With DD, I was 100% certain we’d get her vaccinated, and fully and on time at that. And we did. Still, the first night after each series of shots had me worried sick: she has a diaper rash! She’s a bit fussy! She just ate more than usual! AAAAAGH! Clearly I did the Wrong Thing and she’ll be brain-damaged for life!
I didn’t wholeheartedly believe that line of thinking, but it was definitely lurking back there. Mind you, at the time DH often went on work trips to a country where a LOT of kids die from VPDs every year. We were entirely committed to vaccinating. Still, they do have that influence, that incessant “what if.”
Nope, your friend isn’t an idiot…she just has heard all the crap a few too many times, like I have.
Not an idiot at all. And before the intertnet kindly give anti-vaxxers the world as their platform, she was never bothered by the “what ifs” because they were placed where they belonged – on the shelf of the Very Rare Exceptions.
A funny anecdote: we were discussing Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, with the elephants faking bellyache so they’d get booze, and she remembered that her daughter felt obliged to have ochies after each shots, just to make sure she got extra ice-cream. She remembers it as ridiculous and a source of great entertainment, and predicting that she was raising a great actress.
And then, the anties stepped in.
Bwahahaha! DD’s too young to fake much yet–she’s 15 months–but if I know her, that’s not far away. 😉 Fortunately, in our city the zoo is within walking distance from the pediatricians’ office, so her wounded little legs are soothed by red-tailed pandas, big cats, and the like. (And, natch, ice cream.)
The Holocaust. Good God. Does the man really understand what he’s saying?
I’ll expand this line of reasoning. You see, anti-vaxxers are actually more discriminated against than Jews were during the WWII! For many years, my grandfather kept in touch with a Jewish classmate from this time who left for Israel a few years later. As to anti-vaxxers, he claims they’re mad and he refuses to hear more about them because no person with a bit of wit would do such a thing. He doesn’t care to know more about their parental concerns and great scientific discoveries. He thinks they’re all dumb and insane.
He says no such things about Jews, let alone all Jewes.
Anti vaxxers are more discriminated against than Jews in occupied Europe during world war II?
I have friends who lost parents, grandparents, uncles, and who are the last members of their families because of the Holocaust.
Before you make the claim that pro vaccine activists are worse than the Nazi regime (and that is JUST what you are doing now) I want you to do just one simple thing – show me six million bodies that the pro vaccine activists have killed.
Show me the anti vaccine activists bodies.
If you won’t (and you won’t, because you can’t) then please be quiet until you have something real to say to add to the discussion.
I’ll give you a chance to edit the idiocy that you just wrote. You know, when you decide to hit a site where you have no idea which one of the regular posters holds what views, it might do you some good to read more of the posts of the person you’re attacking. Click on my user name and read my vaccine posts. You might be surprised.
I’ll admit I was wrong about you. But in my defense, your post hit a nerve. A big one. I know people who lost family to the Nazi’s and Sear’s commentary about this isn’t tolerable. What I read from your comment seemed to be in support of it.
Now I see that you were showing what HIS line of thought might have been. So I do apologize.
By the way, I did read your earlier comment. I tend to ignore the names attached to comments. It’s a bad habit and one I’ll try to rectify.
No problem. New posters often don’t get the inside jokes and sarcasm and I do tend to be quite sarcastic. My pet peeve is not the Holocaust comparison which is a new one but his “hide in the herd but don’t tell the herd you’re hiding” and “parents are only responsible for their own children”. I had a classmate whose parents sold their house for his heart surgery. It didn’t help. He died. I think if he had caught something preventable from me, something that I recovered in two days and he sustained a serious damage because I was too special a snowflake to have nasty toxins injected in me, my mom would have thrown herself from our 7th floor window. But then, she isn’t an enlightened antie. Just your average human being.
If he’d genuinely “intended to raise the issue of prejudice and discrimination”, he would have stuck to the “Scarlet V” analogy, which does that admirably. The only reason to bring up a yellow star is to evoke the Holocaust as explicitly as possible without going full Godwin.
Call me when you’re herded into ghettos, starved, beaten, robbed, shipped off to death camps and your bodies thrown into incinerators. Until then, you are nothing like Holocaust victims.
I think an acid green interlaced AV would be quite stylish.
Tosca, I couldn’t agree with you more, and here is why…
I have a couple of friends, elderly. They got into England as children during 1938 or so.
Every last member of their family went to the camps. Mother gone, father gone, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, all gone.
Now people like Sears are not only insulting pro vaccine activists who believe in sound science, but also they are desecrating the memory of the dead.
no longer drinking the koolaid
Did anyone also read his previous post about SB 277 where he states that the CA Senate if going after just one religion (Judaism) by eliminating the religious exemption?
Sullivan ThePoop
Get this, now his post says that he having some kind of get together to talk about Sb 277. It says, no recently vaccinated kids allowed. We want to protect everyone from viral shedding
He is going full wackjob antivaxx now
He’s climbed into a very leaky boat, one captained by good old Andy Wakefield.
I feel sympathy for his patients. What happens to his deliberately unvaccinated clients when a child with pertussis is in his waiting room?
The same thing that happened when an unvaxxed patient of his brought measles from Switzerland in 2008. An epidemic.
*facepalm* I have no words.
“Be the only one in your neighborhood who doesn’t vax so that we can use their herd immunity” or “Only congregate with unvaxxed people so you don’t get nasty herd immunity on you”?
I don’t like this story, too many plot holes.
Dr Sears and the Glaring Continuity Issues.
See, every time I talk to conspiracy theorists like this they yell “Do the math!”
I’m honestly trying but I can never find a way to solve for “Why?”
Haa!
Well, when you do the math you and your family will probably wind up at your doctor’s asking to be kept up to date on your immunizations. The anti vaccine advocates don’t mean “Do honest math!”.
They mean: “Do OUR math.”
indigosky
Slightly OT: Just found out that Dr. Bob takes TriCare. Is there any way to recommend to TriCare to not have him for one of their providers anymore? Military families have enough crap without possibly having to deal with a crazy like him.
He does take tricare. And anyone with tricare standard could see him even if he were out of network. Tricare won’t drop him. The ones who use him chose him so they are already mostly crazy. You can’t convince them.
I don’t know that there is a way.
Sadly, Mythsayer is right.
The best part of living near Dr. Sears is that now I have a much easier way of identifying the crazy people around me who don’t vaccinate, I just have to ask who their pediatrician is.
yentavegan
We are not being paranoid. The is a renewed acceptance of Antisemitism among the educated intelligentsia.
I don’t think Sears et al can be considered the intelligensia. (Which is not to say that there isn’t a resurgence of antisemitism in the intelligensia, just that Sears isn’t part of it. He’s a different branch of traditional US-American antisemitism: the know-nothings.)
This. There’s a strain of thought among certain Americans that since Obama won two elections, racism MUST be dead, and since they hate Arabs and Muslims more, they can’t POSSIBLY be antisemitic.
Gozi
I shake my head at the black people who believed the lie that just because Barack Obama was elected president that racism is dead. They should have definitely known better. Wonder what they think now?
You think any black people believed that? I think that racist white people CLAIM it as a shield for their now-more-open racism.
I am sorry. There were black people who believed that. I am not imagining it. Black people even said it to me.
Yes, I know it is hard to believe anyone would be that gullible.
I wish that I didn’t agree with you on this, Amy. I really do.
But I know family members who have said to me “I’m not racist! But…”
Yeah… I don’t remember black people claiming that…
I’ve only ever heard racist whites claim that. It’s the new “I’m not racist BUT…”
My not-so-favourite is: “Don’t hate people. See, getting rid of racism is THAT easy.”
Ughhh.
It’s mostly whites that think that not blacks. The blacks (well the young males anyway) are still afraid to walk down the street, with good reason. (Ferguson, etc.)
baileylamb
What do you mean renewed. I don’t think it ever left (and I’m not Jewish btw). Restricted covenants and redlining by race, ethnicity or religion made the major cities (in Ohio) what they are today. Heck even after WWII and defeat at the Supreme court redlining in the city I live in didn’t stop till the early 90’s. Think about all those people who thought holocaust and Nazis were bad, but didn’t want Jews in their neighborhood?
I will never forget backpacking around Europe with my sister in the early 2000s. City after city listed in the guidebook recommended we check out the historical Jewish neighborhood, and almost all these recommendations were accompanied by the peak Jewish population, often in the thousands, and the current Jewish population, often in the single digits. Not even the visit to Dachau made the same impression on my about how devastating the Holocaust was. I find it absolutely disgusting when people compare minor modern inconveniences to it.
I agree. I have friends who are holocaust survivors. (Sent to England as infants during the 1930’s.) Every last one of their other family members died during the war.
What Sears is doing is not only an insult to proponents of good science and immunization, it is ALSO a desecration, an insult to the memories of the dead.
RMY
I stopped talking to a blogging buddy if a year when they told me they were educated about vaccines because they read that book by Doctor Sears. The blogger was a nutcases in general.
My grandparents and their siblings were Holocaust survivors. My grandmother was in Bergen-Belsen, I think my grandfather was Mathausen. They met in a DP camp, which though no longer a concentration/death camp, still had many disease outbreaks, due to overcrowding. I don’t know too many details, they didn’t like to talk about it, but some of the main reasons they survived is that they (being Hungarian) weren’t deported until 1944, and they were young (early 20s).
As soon as they could, they came to America—so they could live freely, practice their religion freely and raise healthy children, whose lives were much better than their parents’ generation. I suspect they would be disgusted by people eschewing the safe, excellent vaccines we have today and by Dr. Sears in particular because he’s a huge db.
Hungary had control over much of its pre-WWI territories during the Second World War thanks to aligning with Germany. Save for massacres in the provinces. Jews of Hungary proper were insulated against mass deportations until 1944. Reasons for this are complex, but when due to losing battles and fear of Hungary going the Italy route and capitulating the Nazis took over control of the country, the most brutal chapter of Holocaust began. In only a couple of months almost half of million Jewish people from Hungary ( and occupied parts of Romania, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Ukraine…) were sent to their death in concentration camps. Every third victim of Auschwitz is a victim of Hungarian Holocaust: http://degob.org/index.php?showarticle=2031
I live in former Jewish district, and last year my daughter and I took part in commemorating the lives of Jewish inhabitants of our building. I was not able to locate any survivors or descendants of the families who lived in our building.
My grandparents fought against Nazism and I live among the ghosts of its victims. I can’t tell you whether Dr.Sears posting this on facebook or catering to the needs of antivaxxers is ethical or not from medical standpoint, but I will say that it is completely and inexcusably amoral from where I live and how I was raised.
I wouldn’t let my children near him as a doctor, not because he allows unvaccinated children in his practice, but because he is a repulsive and vile creature who will without a shred of empathy abuse past historical traumas to push his agenda in such a manner that I felt physically ill reading what he wrote.
Here, the Jews were relocated from the capital to the country and many men were sent to labour camps, though. Property was forfeit. I also live in the former Jewish district and I knew old Jews who, a few years ago, still wrote letters arguing for old properties and compensations for what turned out to be a terrible ordeal; I knew others who were simply so happy to have escaped deportation and death and found themselves in a friendly environment in the country. But listening to the one and the others, one could feel just how traumatic it was for them – and they were NOT even victims of the Holocaust, simply because within the borders of the old Bulgaria there was no Holocaust, on this everyone agrees, although there are other arguments regarding the new territories (a completely invented ones, if you ask me). They didn’t lose anyone in it. I don’t want to imagine what it was like for those who suffered the Holocaust.
Dr Sears is vile. An unworthy human being. And his adoring anti-vaxx-anti-human fans are clearly people who have never suffered in their sheltered lives. They are as despicable as their guru is. How they can take delight in martyring themselves in such way, I’ll never know.
My husband’s grandma’s family raised a lot of money from selling two farms, sewed it into Oma’s dress and had her bring the bribe to the town record keeper before the Netherlands was invaded so the records would be changed to hide the fact their ancestors were Jewish. (In fact, Oma would go to the local synagogue with her housekeeper when Oma was a girl. The maid, Esther, stayed with her family when Oma’s family moved. She, and her whole family, died in the concentration camps. I hope I have a daughter one day so her name will be remembered.)
Nico’s family in the Netherlands has tried to find out anything about their erased relatives, but we can’t even find the family names. The older generation protected Oma’s generation by not telling them the names.
My friend’s grandad was very sick in hospital, and became very agitated when he heard the family was clearing the house in preparation for him going to an assisted living environment. When they spoke to him about it, he said to be sure to keep his old black coat. When pressed, he told them to cut off the buttons and look. Turned out they were solid gold, covered in fabric, he’d been hanging onto all these years since leaving Eastern Europe after the war, so convinced was he that he’d one day have to walk out again with only the clothes on his back.
That’s heart-breaking.
When my mother-in-law was a teenager, she was riding on top of a hay wagon that was going into the barn. She saw a dangling piece of binder twine and reached up to grab it. Opa ran screaming across the yard, dragged her off the wagon, and pinned her to the ground and started yelling at her in Dutch. After a minute, he switched into English and she realized he was telling her that she could never touch the wires because of the grenades on them.
Opa was having a flashback of when he was a boy in the Netherlands. The Germans would hang wires connected to grenades over fields attached to outbuildings to detonate when paratroopers landed. Seeing his daughter reach for something like a wire by a barn caused him to panic.
They’ve lived in Canada and the USA for most of their lives (64 years, now) but they’ve only started talking about what they saw during the war – Esther’s death and Oma’s guilt that she (as a 5 year old) couldn’t protect her, Oma’s premature infant brother dying during a bombing, both of their memories of the Hunger Winter, lying to soldiers to protect their siblings in the resistance – in the last three years.
Oma’s always said that there are no children during wars. Now we are learning why.
I hope for Oma, Opa, your friend’s granddad and everyone else haunted by the past will not haunt them forever – even if that means in the next life, or next dimension or whatever follows death.
Yes it is shocking how long these shadows can be. Reading this story I thought about all the people fleeing war and suffering in the world at the moment, what they’ll carry with them and how that will affect them and their families forever, however well and happily their futures go. Just to add to their suffering they seem to be victims of demonisation in our bit of the world at least-politicians here are sailing very close to, if they haven’t already arrived at-‘refugee equals terrorist’.
Shame we can’t seem to stop hurting ourselves and others.
I wish I could say that I am surprised that he finally sunk this low, but after months of following his bizarre and mostly incoherent Facebook rants, I don’t think anything he could say about vaccines would surprise me anymore.
As far as I’m concerned, this is all part of a calculated and cynical ploy to attract more business to his practice and sell more copies of his book. If the Bill fails to pass, he’s reassured his anti-vaccine base that he still supports them and would welcome more anti-vaccine families in his practice. If the Bill passes, now anti-vaccine parents will know where to go to get their bullshit medical exemption. It’s a win-win situation for him. It’s amazing what you can get away with when you have no ethics or professional standards.
“now anti-vaccine parents will know where to go to get their bullshit medical exemption”
I hadn’t thought of that, and should. Will Sears and Gordon be able to pass out exemptions like Jolly Ranchers, or will there be some basic regulation to make sure only, well, actual medical exemptions are given?
Sara Lucy
Dr. Pan has made a few amendments to give doctors some flexibility to make these decisions, going so far as to explicitly allow medical exemptions for family members of people who have been “vax injured” in some way. Pan assured them that he had known of no doctor being punished for using his/her
professional judgment to grant an exemption, but it is clear Dr. Bob will be using his political judgement and self interest in most cases so… who knows?
I can’t see what would stop them. Even though they’re idiots they are practicing licensed physicians. It’s unfortunate but true.
The weird thing is that they do recommend vaccines, on schedule even. They don’t encourage non vaccination. They’ll go along with it. But they don’t encourage it. They do in fact recommend vaccines. Or maybe it was just the partner who did…
Well, as the yellow star has a long, pre-Holocaust history, I suppose it’s possible he could’ve intended to reference the medieval persecutions instead. Perhaps he wishes to evoke the massacre of the Jews in York, for example, rather than in Auschwitz. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. But the question is, why would that matter? His use of the yellow star is very obviously a comparison to the persecution endured by the Jews, whichever century he is thinking of. It cannot possibly mean anything else. Does he think he deserves a cookie if he’s co-opting 19th century pogroms instead of 20th century gas chambers? I see no distinction.
Spiderpigmom
AFAIK, while the compulsory wearing of yellow badges (of various shape and size) is very old and has been used in diverse eras to single out Jews, the yellow star of David is specific to Nazi Germany.
(Petition: signed)
Allie P
We really want to move to CA, but I don’t think I can take any more woo than my current neighborhood. At least the uptake here is higher, despite the woo.
Do you enjoy navy showers? De rigeur in this ‘hood.
Sounds kinky. We’re not in the scene….
Cue the Village People “In the Navy”. A rousing disco anthem makes everything livelier. And navy showers are as kinky as you wanna make them.
We subscribe to if it’s yellow let it mellow
There’s a horrible drought going on here in CA. And several large companies moving away due to socialism/taxes. And lots of corruption among state politics & the high-speed rail. If you’re in the taxpaying demographic, it won’t be a wise choice to move here.
Socialism? And there’s a budget surplus. If you have a fear of taxes, I understand Texas is lovely this time of year.
Oh please. Socialism and taxes. Take your tea party ass elsewhere.
And several large companies moving away due to socialism/taxes.
Good riddance if so. A company that doesn’t have the sense to know that high taxes mean good schools (better educated workers, more customers), good infrastructure (easier to transport merchandise and for customers to get to you), and a healthy economy then they don’t deserve to be part of that society. Compare the economic health of Minnesota and Wisconsin before you talk about the evils of “taxes and socialism”.
I live in “Taxachusetts.” You know, home to the best schools, the lowest divorce rate, low teen pregnancy rates, highest rate of insured individuals, and highest rate of educational attainment. One of my colleagues just got back from a national educators’ conference where she discovered that high school teachers here are, on average, better-educated than college professors in many other states.
If this is what socialism/taxes gets us, I’ll take it! Let the other states take a gamble on Tea Party politics and see where it gets them.
I’d love to live in Tasachusetts. Apart from my paranoia about the risk of another molasses disaster.
They are due, are they not?
Taxachusetts. Stupid dyslexia. (Actually, that one was probably a flat out inattention error.)
We’d love to have you!
I was just telling my husband two weeks ago that if I were to live anywhere else in the Union, it would be Taxachussets for just the reasons you mention. As well as leading the way on gay marriage. (My work keeps us in CA, which is all right in some ways but frustrating in others.)
Oh, and nice racism/classism dogwhistle: the taxpaying demographic. Who, pray tell, is not in that demographic? (Cue the usual suspects.) I can affirm that with a sales tax of 9%, pretty much everybody in LA county is paying taxes.
Who, pray tell, is not in that demographic?
The 1%.
Yeah, I know who it’s supposed to be, but the actual non-tax payers are the 1% or, more accurately, the 0.00001%. Taxes are for little people.
A moment of silence for Leona Helmsley – caught saying publicly what the superrich (I imagine) just say among themselves.
militaryvet
Dr. Bob is only paying 8%, OC is 1% lower than us in Los Angeles. At one point we lived one block from OC so we’d go that direction to eat and shop to save that 1%.
Well, everybody knows black folks don’t pay taxes. We are all deadbeats, welfare queens, and in jail….HARF!!!
Gatita
Different dog whistle. She’s referring to the Mexicans, aka illegals. But who employs and takes advantage of all that cheap labor? So seriously, fuck off with that nonsense.
Then do us a favor and leave. My family has been here 150 years and we think it’s pretty good here. I’ve had to spend some time away due to being in the military (coughKansascough) which just reinforced how much I loved CA.
I love California. We won’t be leaving.
Oh, for Pete’s sake.
I got into a tiff on FB with an antivaxxer when she parachuted into the comments of a pro-vax article I posted. When she was politely set straight by my friends, she started whining that she was being bullied and subjected to hate speech. She did this even though one of the people commenting was a woman with an autoimmune disorder who could die if she catches a VPD. The anti-vaxxer kept insisting that she was the real victim. The sense of entitlement and complete lack of empathy took my breath away, esp. because it wasn’t random internet person but someone I know IRL. All this to say that Dr. Sears and his star comment don’t surprise me at all.
I feel like the anti-vaxxers are going for something like what I’ve heard the Slactivist discuss re: Christians in America. They want to feel Good and Heroic, and so Sears is giving them a narrative that can make them feel Good and Heroic. He doesn’t care if he offends actual Holocaust survivors and their families. He only cares about making his cash-paying clients feel like they’re Special and Brave, not anti-science dunderheads.
Also the “War on Christianity” and “War on Christmas” rhetoric. We’re the REAL victims, doncha know?
Timely, from a recent Slactivist post:
“Perry’s offering them a double-shot of the intoxicating narrative of self-righteous indignation over imaginary persecution. And as we’ve already seen countless times, when they’re drunk on that stuff, these folks will swallow anything.”
Splice in Sears, and it still sounds apropos.
He didn’t intend to reference the holocaust when he went on about how people who didn’t vaccinate might (in his imagination and nowhere else in the world) be forced to wear gold stars? Um…how can that be a reference to anything else?
You get a gold star for pooping in the potty? Lord knows.
LibrarianSarah
Here I was speculating that he is still bitter about never getting a gold star in Kindergarten because of his unwillingness to share, play nice with others or spell cat without a “K.”
It’s the silent q that always confuses me
He doesn’t even have plausible deniability. He KNEW people would take it as a reference to the Holocaust, so instead of choosing different words that wouldn’t directly compare being disliked for having stupid and dangerous viewpoints to being systematically persecuted and slaughtered, he added a lame disclaimer.
Kinda like “I’m not racist, but…”
To quote Tyrion Lannister, anything you say before “but” doesn’t really mean anything.
As in “I’m not anti-vax but. . . “
“I am not an anti-anti-vax but I cannot understand why they do their thing, why they think they have no obligations to the rest of us, why they think they have the qualifications to know what they’re talking about, and why they’re such bloody leeches…”
Damn it! I’m an anti-anti-vax!
Someone just tonight told me, “I am not antivaxx, but vaccine pushers …” Really?
Ugh. He didn’t intend to reference the Holocaust with his gold star labels? Riiiight. Did he think we’d go with “gold stars on your behavior chart?” Even I can tell that’s gonna piss off people with living memories of events far, far, far worse than shunning anti-vaxxers, and I’m pretty oblivious
If he wants to make a historical connection, he has my permission to reference The Scarlet Letter, a lovely label my ever-so-sweet Puritan ancestors actually used. The Scarlet AV. More accurate, too. Hester Prynne was shunned, not sent to a concentration camp, her daughter gassed, and herself starved, beaten, and worked to death.
Daleth
He didn’t even say gold star–he said YELLOW. That could not be anything other than a holocaust reference.
PrimaryCareDoc
Right. He said yellow star. Very little room to misinterpret that statement.
Why didn’t he just stick with the scarlet letter analogy? Of course, that would mean comparing anti-vaxxers to adulterers instead of innocent victims of persecution.
Yeah, at least the scarlet letter analogy made a certain amount of sense. But then again, the message might be wrong: Hester in The Scarlet Letter was considered to have done something that was wrong and damaging to the community and was punished by being ostracized for her behavior. In the end, she agreed, to some extent, that her punishment was, if not just and proportionate, at least an expected consequence of her own behavior. Perhaps Sears was worried that his patients’ parents would see the message a bit too well and wanted to change to a group that was more clearly simply the victims of prejudice without any ambiguity about whether or not they brought the punishment on themselves.
Hmm…it occurs to me that there’s a second unfortunate implication from Sears’ point of view to using The Scarlet Letter as his analogy: Who ends up with the worst burden of guilt and punishment? The one who “hides in the herd” and doesn’t admit to what he was doing. Dimmsdale followed Sears’ advice to hide his “transgression” and ended up worse off than Hester who admitted it (albeit because she couldn’t hide it).
All in all, Sears may have been wise to move away from that particular analogy.
I had no problem with the scarlet V. It would even bring attention to the fact that the sins of the parents are paid for by the innocent child – another theme in The Scarlet Letter. Oh, and the hypocrisy of the father who enjoyed freedom and prestige while Pearl is shunned with her mother.
True, at least adulterers chose to do something.
So he did. My mistake.
Dr Amy Tuteur
I was wondering if you could answer a question by writing a topic about it not just in the comments box which some people may not get time to read through. They do read your topics however.
I’ve read on some boards that lactivists and others who are so obsessed with all things “natural” seem to think that breastfeeding negates the need for vaccinations.
I’ve read that humans differs from other mammals in that human babies are born with immunities and that antibodies come only in colostrum which is produced in the first few days after a baby is born. This lines the small intestine wall but isn’t really absorbed into the human baby’s bloodstream unlike in other mammals whose young often need their mother colostrum.
Is this why human babies do so well on clean formula made with boiled water with sterilized bottles? Whereas in the 3rd world clean water may not be available and could pose a serious risk to newborn?
Some posters seem to think that the mother passes antibodies like colds, flus, even antibodies like bird or swine flu through human breastmilk. Surely the only effective way to immunise a baby is by vaccination against specific diseases?
If a mother has been vaccinated against polio, TB, MMR etc these antibodies are not passed on through breastfeeding as if this were the case only 1 generation would need to be breastfeed to ensure the antibodies were passed on (like that wouldn’t be putting pressure on mothers to breastfeed!). However seeing as newborns are not automatically immune to these diseases and have to be vaccinated I’m puzzled how lactivists seem to think that other antibodies (bird and swine flu) ARE passed on in breastmilk.
To clarify ‘immunity’ – antibodies are proteins with short half-lives, on the order of two weeks. Antibodies are made by B-cells, with help from T-cells and professional antigen-presenting cells like dendritic cells and macrophages. The mother can pass IgG antibodies (systemic antibodies with high effector function) through the placenta; she can also pass some IgA antibodies (gut-specific antibodies with lesser effector function) through breastmilk. Long-term immunity requires kids to make their own full immune response to generate long-lived B and T memory cells.
So the short version is – the mother can pass some very limited and short-term immunity to VPDs through the placenta. The breast milk antibodies do little to nothing against VPDs. Long-term protection requires vaccination.
The immunology goes hand in hand with the observed effect of BF vs FF, which is that the only robust health effect of the former is a moderate decrease in mild GI infections.
Josie, the above comment by Roadstergal is a very concise and accurate explanation. Those on the other board who are commenting to the effect that a baby who is breastfed doesn’t need immunization have an incomplete understanding of how vaccination and immunity actually work.
Humans do not differ from other mammals, all mammals differ from one to another. Humans, like dogs and cats, get most of their immunity through the placenta before birth, so colostrum is not that important and a baby who does not get it is likely to be fine.
Other species like cows and horses get 100% of their immunity through colostrum and are therefore very likely to die if they don’t get colostrum.
Very simply put, you could separate maternal antibodies in two category: Those are are absorbed by the newborn (passed through the placenta and colostrum in the first 48h of life) and those that act locally (present in breastmilk)
Logically, a mother can only pass on antibodies for diseases for which she is immune. Immunity that she got through vaccine can be transferred to the baby.
However, What she gives is only antibodies. It does not teach the baby how to defeat the infection, it does not make the baby produce it’s own antibodies.
What the maternal anti-bodies do is slow down the progress of the infection until the baby’s own immune system can start fighting it on it’s own. Usually, it takes a few days after an infection for the immune system to produce anti-bodies and white blood cells adapted to fighting off a specific infection.
The mother give a finite number of antibodies, when those are all used up when fighting the infection, then the baby is on it’s own.
Anti-bodies also have an ‘expiration’ date. So the immunity given by the mother usually only last a few months. Which is why you still have to vaccinate each new generation.
Antibodies present in the breast milk 48h after birth will give an added local protection directly in the infant gut. It is not absorbed by the infant and is directed mainly toward pathogen that are more likely to be found in the gut. It will not offer any protection against polio or measles or the flu. In first world country, where everything is cleaner and where we use clean water for formula, this added immunity is of little importance.
Humans do not differ from other mammals, all mammals differ from one to another.
I love this statement.
My pediatrician explained to me that my nursing would somewhat weakly help protect my too-young-to-be-vaccinated baby from the measles outbreak, but would not be nearly as effective as an actual vaccination, and would not last PAST nursing. It’s not creating actual immunity in my baby, just sharing my own.
Measles protection is not very good through breast milk because IgG antibodies are needed not IgA.
There is such a thing as passive immunity, where the fetus (and then the newborn for a few months) DOES get some antibodies from the mother. My (limited) understanding is that the passive immunities may remain in the breastmilk for 3-6mos postpartum, and by then the baby’s own immune system should be handling whatever its exposed to. I believe the antibodies that the newborn gets are IgA, which can be protective against stomach bugs, but they do NOT get lasting immunity to anything that the mother was vaccinated against.
Well, the antibodies are only IgA antibodies the mother has already made. They are always in the milk, but only circulate in the infants bloodstream for 3-6 months. Some of the antibodies seem to have an effect after that, but only in the gut as they no longer circulate.
Yep – AND they are limited to the organisms that the mother has developed immunity to.
Well, then all those babies shouldn’t have died from vaccine preventable diseases back in the day before vaccines. Historical education needs to be better in the U.S. We have people who make up their own history and I am sick of it.
Simple answer: if breast milk were a magic elixir against infectious diseases, then inifectious diseases would not have been the greatest cause of childhood mortality in the times before vaccines and antibiotics existed, and when most people had few choices other than breast feeding.
QED.
According to my anti-vax uncle, that’s because they didn’t have hygiene. And humanity just happened to develop the right kind of hygiene to fight specific diseases at different times that corresponded with the development of vaccines for those diseases. Or all the people who are still getting those diseases are just misdiagnosed. Or something.
Let’s not forget about this poor unvaccinated baby who died of invasive strep pneumo from an untreated ear infection: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/06/16/whats-the-harm-a-preventable-death-from-an-ear-infection/
Likely it would have been prevented with Prevnar.
Or antibiotics…
GiddyUpGo123
That’s an awful story. That poor baby.
What really gets me is the huge gap in logic with people who fear western medicine. You don’t trust doctors not to harm your children, so you keep them at home, away from doctors, thus allowing them to be harmed by lack of medical intervention. How exactly do you sit there and watch your baby get sicker and sicker, and continue to think to yourself, “well, at least she won’t be hurt by one of those evil doctors.” At some point don’t you eventually recognize that she’s being hurt more by your actions, and that her only real hope is not another packet of herbal tea, but a trip to the ER? You’d have to be in some really crazy effed up alternate reality to sit there and watch your baby die, because in your mind death at home is far better than the possibility that she might have to take an antibiotic.
How exactly do you sit there and watch your baby get sicker and sicker, and continue to think to yourself, “well, at least she won’t be hurt by one of those evil doctors.”
Note that she was “being treated” with homeopathy. Because, you know, unlike those evil western medicine doctors, homeopaths are so bloody trustworthy. They are dumb as rocks, but hey, you can trust them!
The mom didn’t even learn her lesson. She killed her daughter through neglect and still blames modern medicine.
There is something seriously wrong with anyone who doesn’t want vaccinations especially a doctor.
Try living in the 3rd World where children aren’t routinely vaccinated and see them dying of even the measles or pneumonia, both of which are treatable.
Try seeing their parents in tears because their baby or child has died of a disease that has been eradicated in the West.
I’ve had it with “natural”…
1. Natural birth (no painkillers) – Strap these people to a dentists chair and make them get fillings and root canal with no painkillers and see how long they last,
2. lactivism, – Wasn’t there a higher infant mortality rate from early 20th century backwards to the dawn of humans?
3. no vaccinations – ok so we all go around and hope we don’t catch any diseases like polio or cholera or TB? seriously WTF?????
If they want to be “natural” go and live on an uninhabited island with no electricity or any modern conveniences. Try growing crops in winter, don’t use any pesticides to treat fungi that infect crops and kill them, hunt animals, don’t cook meat or any other food and live in a cave. This also means they can’t use ANY painkillers for anything like even a broken limb.
Funny these people who advocate all things “natural” seem to use a very unnatural modern invention call the internet to bully mothers from a distance who want epidurals, elective caesareans, vaccinations and all behind a cover of anonymity.
I believe one of Tom Clancy’s books–the one about Ebola, IIRC?–featured the Bad Guys, who thought we all ought to be living in, essentially, the third world with no tech/medicine/etc, getting chucked into the Middle Of Nowhere, Jungle Edition by the Good Guys and being told that if they liked nature so much, they should have no trouble surviving on their own there.
None actually made it out.
Most of us wouldn’t risk going back to caveman times as we know that even if a small cut gets infected we could die.
Who would wish such a risk to the children?
Christopher Hickie
I despise Sears professionally for what he has done to ruin vaccination rates in this country and now he is utterly despicable as a human being as well. –Chris Hickie, MD, PhD
You and me both! It’s really hard to undo his damage at all, let alone during a 15 minute office visit!
So true– and the fact that neither the American Academy of Pediatrics or the Medical Board of California have had the slightest desire to reprimand him. Opposing a mediagenic glory hound like Sears is difficult without some sort of open condemnation by a larger medical entity.
The AAP disgusts me in their willingness to let Sears, et al. spout off their disproven, dangerous, and outright fabricated “alternatives” without challenge or repercussion.
Aap isn’t the villain here
https://www.aap.org/en-us/professional-resources/practice-support/Vaccine-Financing-Delivery/pages/The-Problem-with-Dr-Bobs-Alternative-Vaccine-Schedule.aspx
That quiet post does incredibly little in the face of Sears still being endorsed by the AAP in the eyes of parents.
What endorsement? Where do you see that aap has endorsed him?
Well, aap did publish an article refuting the non-science in his antivax book.
As I have posted in other threads in which the asinine Holocaust victims-antivaxxers comparison has been brought up: I’m pretty damn sure that anyone who spent time in a concentration camp would be on-their-knees-grateful for having been vaccinated against, say, typhus. Or measles. Or cholera. Or TB. Or pneumonia/flu. Or…
Hell, if you told them there was, say, a 1-5% mortality rate among the vaccinated (and there’s no vaccine that I know of with that sort of mortality rate, excepting perhaps more like 1% in the early smallpox vaccines) as a direct result of a vaccine reaction, they’d still have queued up for the things in droves.
(Not, as I certainly hope is obvious from my post, that I think that anyone should have been in such a horrible situation in the first place. What I’m saying is that disease killed thousands and thousands of people in those camps, and that effective vaccination of the prisoners against the most common of the diseases would have greatly reduced that number.)
Two words: Anne Frank (died of typhus just three months before the end of the war). With a vaccine, she would have survived.
Yes, one of the particularly revolting ironies about this little rant is that Jews herded into concentration camps and ghettoes in revolting conditions died like flies from what are now vaccine preventable diseases. Exposure to such diseases was literally part of the extermination strategy used by the Nazis.
MHAM
What a joke. My pediatrician would eat him for lunch. A Kosher lunch. With a side of science and a big plate of ethics.
Out of curiosity–non-Jew here, with only a *very* passing familiarity with dietary laws–is jackass a Kosher meat?
Bring it down south; we eat anything here. Don’t fool around and put a good barbeque sauce on it….
Mmmmm. Slow-roast that sucker, maybe in a good smoker….*drools* Add some rolls and some potato salad alongside, maybe a pie for dessert…mmmmmmmm
(Yes, I am trying to eat healthier and exercise more of late, why do you ask?)
Just don’t put cheese on your jackass sandwich and you’re good.
What no cheese!?!? I think I need to lie down.
Also not Jewish, but I think it’s in part the way the animal is killed.
Dr Kitty
Asses don’t have a split hoof, so not Kosher. I think.
But asses themselves are split, are they not? Right down the middle.
I was thinking of how some of the turkeys my grocery store sells are kosher and some are Amish and some are from the big name company
http://www.ikckosher.com/IKC_kosher_meat.html
Do these antivaxxers ever talk to people who were children before vaccines became widely available? Even then, many families couldn’t afford them.
Some of them claim they were those children. I have a hard time believing it though
My mother and husband are two I know. My mom remembers a young sibling being treated for “spasms” by rubbing garlic on his feet. Oh well, it was likely organic.
Prevnar wasn’t around when myself and my siblings were children. We had ear infections, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, and chest infections regularly. Compared to my three kids, who are exposed to more germs and have only needed antibiotics for a combined total of 3 ear infections and 3 bouts of tonsillitis spread over nearly 9 years. I’m cheering and grateful for Prevnar.
My mother and all her siblings got the measles. One of them is deaf in one ear because of it. My siblings and I all had chicken pox, and my brother ended up in the hospital with secondary infections. No thank you, pass the needle.
Indeed. And, at the time when all of us had every “childhood infectious disease”, outcomes for childhood leukaemia were terrible, we had no way of opening blocked coronary arteries at the time of heart attack, breast cancer treatment was very invasive, and laparascopic surgery was rarely used.
At the same time, there was no internet.
Why would we want to go back to those times?
I’d like him to meet a REAL refugee, who hasn’t been vaccinated because he was living in a poverty-stricken village in the middle of nowhere with no access to medicines. You’d better believe REAL refugees are more than happy to get someplace where they can get life-saving shots.
DaisyGrrl
When I went to my city’s flu shot clinic last fall, a significant portion of the people in line were relatively recent immigrants. I suspect people are much more interested in receiving immunizations when they see the effects of the disease first hand.
Of course they are. Immigrants from poor countries are typically blamed for disease outbreaks, and I’m not saying that’s never ever happened, but equally they tend to be extremely damn keen on getting vaccines whenever they get the opportunity!
Except in Minnesota where the anti-vaxxers have taken advantage of an autism cluster among Somali immigrants to poison their minds against vaccination. It’s despicable.
Renee Martin
The refugees and immigrants hear make full use of the health departments vax program.
Liz Leyden
I live in crunchy Vermont, and I used to work in a school district with a significant refugee population. A lot of those parents had either experienced vaccine preventable diseases or seen them close-up. The refugee parents would move heaven and earth to get their kids vaccinated. Only the Americans worried about “toxins” and “overloading my child’s immune system.”
Just curious — how many of the developers of today’s vaccines were themselves Jewish? Jonas Salk of course comes to mind, but I’m sure there are many more. Perhaps Dr. Sears is suggesting that vaccines are really some nefarious Jewish plot? He wouldn’t be the first to harbor ideas like that.
AlexisRT
Sabin was Jewish. Maurice Hilleman, who developed more vaccines than anyone else, was not.
If so, may this Catholic thank the entire Jewish people profusely for them. I should send some chocolates to the local synagogue as a gesture.
Me too. Kosher chocolates all around!
And diptheria has been diagnosed in Spain, in an unvaxxed child.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/10/spain-catches-anti-vaxx-fever-and-resurrects-diphtheria.html
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/vaccines-and-immunization/news/news/2015/06/diphtheria-detected-in-spain
Must make Dr Bob so proud…
Montserrat Blanco
Yes, 28 years without a single case and here we are, with a 6 year old boy fighting death at an ICU for more than two weeks. The parents say they feel cheated by antivaxxers. The antivaxxers have said that it is a strange occurence and that everybody else that does not vaccinate should keep not vaccinating. After that some antivaxxers have claimed that “we don’t know how the child was”, implying that it is because he did not eatenoughkale/exercisedenough/eatorganicenough, blaming the family. It is absolutely disgusting. Some pro vaxx people claim we should ask for hospitalization cost (treatment is completely paid with taxes here) and that vaccination should be compulsory.
So yes, here we are. Apparently the vaccine is more effective than we previously thought because at least 9 people had it inside their throats without any symptoms at all (they were vaccinated) so it is likely the bacteria has been running around the community and we just noticed when someone unvaccinated got it. Vaccination agaisnt diphtheria for every child started in 1945 in Spain so pretty much the whole population is vaccinated.
I was horrified by this, as I was by the NZ boy with tetanus in the last year or two.
What will it take for people to realise what they are doing by making this ignorant choice?
I don’t think anything will because that would mean that they can’t view themselves as good people who make wise decisions, and some people just can’t cope with that realisation.
Unless it happens to their own child they just seem to dig in. They swear that healthy, well nourished children do not die from these diseases and when they do antivaxxers harass their parents. They swear that no child has been harmed by measles in over 15 years in the US and ignore the little four year old boy dying from SSPE right now. Oh, and they swear the boy who has diphtheria in Spain must have gotten it from a vaccinated child because things like this don’t just appear.
Of all the silly nonsense you’ve just quoted-not to mention the plain vicious attacks on parents whose children do get sick-the one that blows me away is ‘they probably got it from a vaxxed child’. Surely one more reason to be vaxxed if at all possible? But no, that’s not how it works, apparently.
I get brain-ache from thinking about it.
That argument makes no sense whatsoever.
If everyone vaccinated for Diptheria, the organism basically hangs around and doesn’t make anyone sick.
If you DON’T vaccinate for Diptheria, it doesn’t make the Diptheria organism suddenly disappear, it just means that if you come into contact with it you get sick.
Do the anti-vax people think Diptheria has been eradicated in the same way as smallpox, just because no one has had it recently in Spain? 3000 odd people died from Diphtheria worldwide in 2013.
Diptheria is a bacterium, it can survive on surfaces and can be spread by direct contact and droplets too. It is likely that Diptheria bacteria are all over the place, but that no-one is getting sick because the vaccine works.
Unless you plan to keep your unvaccinated child in a bubble, they will be exposed to viruses and bacteria. Unlike the vaccinated children though, if they are exposed to the ones that cause VPD, they’ll get sick. Why is this hard to understand?
And just to counteract the sad news, there was a child diagnosed with tetanus in Ontario last month. He is improving, and many antivax parents decided to get their kids immunized.
http://london.ctvnews.ca/tetanus-case-in-grey-bruce-prompts-increase-in-vaccinations-1.2404925
Sad that the kid had to go through that, but hopefully no long-term harm and additional cases are prevented with the awareness this case raised.
NoLongerCrunching
Anybody see that episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, where a teenager was diagnosed with tetanus? She died an absolutely horrific death.
A, was it tetanus? I thought she had rabies.
Whoops you’re right. Well those families probably don’t vaccinate their pets either.
They do not!
Because their pets might become autistic if they did?
My mother ‘diagnosed’ my sister’s dog as autistic following the poor puppy surviving her climb over the railing and subsequent fall from the balcony. Why? Because Mia likes things to be just so, and lines her toys up neatly. She also puts each one back in the line when she’s done playing it.
Rita Rippetoe
I was witness to a lamb dying of tetanus after its tail was docked without a vaccination afterwards (which is routine but was neglected by inexperienced owner. The first symptom was clumsiness–he ran into a fence post–followed by trembling, inability to eat, etc. Fortunately it did not last long–complicated reasons for it not being euthanized immediately after the diagnosis.
We had a case on a dog when I was back in vet school. Poor thing. It spent 2 weeks in ICU, stiff as a stick, unable to move, unable to even open it’s jaw. It had to be fed through a tube. Any kind of visual/auditory/tactile stimulation would send it in full tetanic contraction. It’s face was also pure expression of pain.
Luckily, the local hospital had antitoxin and it survived. But it’s a truly horrible disease. Wouldn’t wish it in anyone.
I was kind of waiting for that. I predicted here a few months ago that it was only a matter of time before diphtheria rebounded, a la the post-fall-soviet-union countries.
On the bright side and on a personal note, America isn’t so disorganized as most of those post-fall countries were; we still have effective vaccines, and they’re being delivered to most kids, which is good. (The issue in the former SU was that there wasn’t much infrastructure, vax records got lost, vaccines weren’t being produced in sufficient quantities or, in most places, administered at all.) America isn’t the only country in the world, though, much though we sometimes think it is :p, and there are a hell of a lot of places out there with much worse infrastructures and, correspondingly, vaccine rates.
Freaking. Idiots.
Spain? former Soviet Union? Thinking Spain makes me think more of south europe than SU…
Not saying Spain is a former SU country–I said “a la former SU countries.” 😉 There was a pretty big outbreak in the former SU when it fell because of vaccine rates/schedules getting screwed up en masse at the same time as all the other post-fall chaos. Lasted for a few years.
Oh, ok. Now I understand what you wrote. Thanks for clarifying.
There is another connection: Spain had to get the antitoxin to treat the boy from Russia – one of the few places that still has it on hand.
Alex Tulchner
Taking a brief pause from controlling the media/ Hollywood to note that when he was called out in the Facebook comments section for completely misrepresenting the Orthodox Jewish consensus on the issue (short summary of the truth: WE ARE PRO-VAX), he replied “I don’t know one way or another. That is just what the one orthodox person told me.”
…And that, my friends, is what I call data analysis.
sigh. orthodox here, too. and very pro-vax. we’re in a community that follows rabbinic leadership fairly seriously but i still find myself getting into playground fights with the 1-2 idiots who don’t vax their kids (one of whom even said “i did my research”. oh yeah? she also said her vaccinated husband contracted measles and she thought he would die. but G-d forbid her kids should have an MMRV. how’d her husband catch the measles again?). did they ask the rabbis? no of course not!
When Dr. Pan, the author of SB 277, posted an article that the opponents had hooked up with and taken money from a notoriously anti-gay group all the comments on his page were, “My gay and lesbian friends think you are despicable.”
namaste863
I visited the Auchweitz camp when I was 18. Reading about it in textbooks is one thing. Standing in the main gas chamber and seeing the walls scratched by people desperately trying to claw through them in their last minutes of life…….seeing cells in a damp basement where people were gruesomely tortured…….it’s been ten years, and I am still haunted by that place in my dreams. I challenge any of these spoiled, over-privileged, egotistical brats to visit it and say to me that whatever inconvenience they bring on themselves through their shitty decision is even remotely comparable to the level of human suffering that took place there.
You probably mean Auschwitz. Like Auschwitz-Birkenau.
I have also visited Auchwitz and Birkenau, both places that you cannot leave without having cried at least once. The bin of glasses and prosthetic limbs of the victims was particularly heart-wrenching. To compare the idiocy of anti-vaxxers to the immeasurable suffering of those people is disgusting. I already had little respect for Dr. Sears and I disdain him more for this show of callousness as well as his ignorance.
FrederickBPerez
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An utterly disgusting waste of space and resources. How DARE he make that comparison!
What a selfish, shady, shady man.
He is squirrely as hell when you ask him questions too. That is if he deigns to answer instead of blocking you.
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Floundering UK Camera Chain Jessops to Re-Launch
In Customer Engagement, Customer Experience, Featured on App, Marketing and Sales by Vaughn Highfield April 2, 2013
UK camera specialist chain Jessops is to re-launch and re-open high-street stores just two months after going into administration – reappearing as a sleeker and smaller operation.
Set to open with just 30 to 40 stores across the country, the London and Birmingham branches are part of a £4m investment into the company from entrepreneurs like Dragons' Den's Peter Jones.
Speaking to the BBC, Jones said: "I think it's a great day for British retail.
"The main reason why I think it's going to be successful is that it's going to be a lower overhead base, lower cost."
He also believes that Jessops core market is the amateur photographer who shun that "perfect photo" taken on a mobile phone.
"The amateur photographer [is Jessops' target market], you wouldn't see them walking down the street taking that perfect picture with a mobile phone."
Jessops will also hire 500 staff members, comprised primarily of former Jessops staff – of which there were 1,500 let go when the chain collapsed.
Ever the optimist, Jones continued by saying: "I believe Jessops is an iconic British brand which can lead the retail resurgence on Britain's high streets, powered by new innovations and world-leading, expert staff."
By combining the online side of Jessops' business with a new and invigorated retail side with strategically placed stores, Jessops should be able to survive in the rather hostile environment that is the new model of retail.
It is, however, good to see that investors are still seeing merits within the high-street model and that the need for a specialist store such as Jessops is also noted.
After all, it's what the customer wants that dictates the success of a business.
Do you think investors are doing the right thing by reviving a high-street retailer like Jessops?
Is their new business model of fewer stores and prominent online presence enough to keep them afloat?
Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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500 forest industry leaders are in Prince George to talk turkey and tariffs
The Tree Frog Forestry News
Category: Today's Takeaway
More than 500 forest industry leaders have gathered in Prince George for COFI’s annual conference to talk turkey and tariffs (and supply shortages, and pest threats and labour force turnover…). In related news: the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is hailed by the Business Council of BC, COFI and others; and FEA Canada (Wood Markets) released its annual survey of the “top 20” Canadian and US lumber producers.
In Forestry news: The BC Forest Practices Board is on the lookout for a new chair; Tolko is retooling for burnt timber; Cowichan Valley is reducing the danger of fires in “interface areas”; and Iceland is reforesting lands cleared by the Vikings a millennia ago.
In Wood news; an engineer explains how tall wood can meet Ontario’s Building Code; mass timber is celebrated in Montreal; Toronto; and Sudbury; while the US concrete industry says this type of construction is “fueling fires nationwide“.
Finally, a back-to-the-future moment as paper straws are reintroduced as the solution to plastic straws in our landfills; and cell towers are disguised as… pine trees!
–Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor
Froggy Foibles
Residents oppose plan for cell tower disguised as pine tree
Associated Press in the Lincoln Journal Star
Category: Froggy Foibles
Region: US East, United States
OMAHA — Several Omaha residents are against the proposed installation of an AT&T cell tower disguised as a pine tree. The 92-foot tower would be placed at the main entrance to Omaha’s Memorial Park, according to the plan proposed by the cellphone provider and Brownell Talbot School. The tower would sit between the private school’s parking lot and the park. …Nearby trees are much shorter than the proposed camouflaged tower, said several neighbors. “It’s hard to see that a fake tree is going to fool anybody,” said resident Matt Johnson. “I understand why they want to put a cell tower there. But I don’t think it’s the right fix for the city, the park or the neighborhood.”
Top 20 Lumber Producers, Soaring Prices (But Subdued Production Trends) In 2017
FEA Canada (WOOD MARKETS)
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, United States
FEA Canada/WOOD MARKETS’ 2017 annual survey of “top 20” Canadian and U.S. lumber producers featured mixed production trends despite a runaway lumber market in the U.S. With few mill acquisitions, almost all of the production gains arose from improvements at existing mills. Of the top 40 companies, 8 in Canada and 6 in the U.S. recorded production declines. …Total Canadian softwood lumber shipments declined by 1.7% to 28.0 billion bf while U.S. production increased by 3.7% to 33.9 billion bf. …The wild card for 2018 is the extremely high level of U.S. lumber prices (inflated partly by the imposition of U.S. duties on Canadian lumber and also because of only small increases in North American lumber output). High prices attracted a 50% increase in offshore exports in 2017 and there are a dozen new sawmill projects planned for the U.S. South. …at some point, this new supply (and imports) will put negative pressure on prices.
Local mill revival? Horgan name drops appurtenancy
By Andru McCracken
Region: Canada, Canada West
John Horgan
In his throne speech last month, Premier John Horgan said his government is interested tying timber harvests to local jobs, and in a follow-up interview, he named the policy he wants to see. Horgan told Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer that his NDP government wants to bring back a policy called appurtenancy. Appurtenancy refers to a policy that ensured Crown timber was processed in the same region where it was logged. After the BC Liberals rescinded the policy in 2003, forestry companies were allowed to ship logs to larger centres rather than process them in small forestry-reliant communities. Soon after the policy ended, both major mills in Valemount and McBride closed and their forest licenses were sold: 120 people lost their jobs in Valemount and 100 in McBride. …Prince George-Valemount Liberal MLA Shirley Bond said there are no details about Horgan’s promise. She wouldn’t say whether she supported the policy.
Catalyst and Powell River mayor address market challenges
By David Brindle
Powell River Peak
In an internal memo sent to its Canadian and American employees on March 29, Catalyst Paper Corporation president and chief executive officer Ned Dwyer stated that a new United States Department of Commerce anti-dumping duty is a “critical challenge to our company.” The memo contained information about how the company is addressing the challenges, including growing offshore markets, closely working with federal and provincial governments, and actively lobbying the United States government. A 22.16 per cent duty on most of Catalyst’s uncoated groundwood paper, on top of a 6.09 per cent duty announced in January, “will hurt the market as well as manufacturers,” stated Dwyer. The CEO added that the company’s BC mills, including Powell River, are also dealing with elevated fibre costs, supply challenges and increasing energy costs.
Forest industry leaders gathering in city
By Frank Peebles
The Prince George Citizen
The lumber industry hasn’t faced issues so big or so complex in years. It’s a prime time in international trade history to have COFI hold their annual convention in Prince George where such topics as American border tariffs, Asian market potential, softwood timber supply shortages, new pest threats to the forest and the baby boomer turnover in the forestry labour force are all on the front burner at the same time. More than 500 industry and government leaders are in the city throughout the week to explore these issues in a concentrated fashion. According to COFI, this is the largest annual gathering of the forest sector in Western Canada. “Prince George is one of 140 communities across the province that depend on the forest sector” said COFI president Susan Yurkovich. …”This year, we are especially pleased to be welcoming new members from the coastal forest sector to the COFI family.”
Trade deal good for B.C. and province’s forestry industry
By Greg D’Avignon, Susan Yurkovich, Stewart Beck and others
For over 250 years, British Columbia’s entrepreneurs, skilled workers and communities have contributed to a growing and successful forestry industry. …We often associate forestry with B.C.’s rural communities, supporting jobs, local businesses, and community facilities. That is entirely true, but it is also one of B.C.’s largest urban employers. …But make no mistake, all of these forest-sector benefits are dependent on open access to international markets and the export demand for our high-quality pulp, paper and wood products. …It is against these realities and market opportunities that we are particularly supportive of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). As a small, open economy, Canada depends on trade for our quality of life. …The CPTPP is good for B.C. forestry and forest dependent communities from Vancouver to Vanderhoof to Victoria.
Expressions of Interest extended for Chair of BC Forest Practices Board
BC Forest Practices Board
The Forest Practices Board is seeking an experienced leader who is respected by a wide range of forestry-interested stakeholders. Do you have a reputation for high standards, objective and balanced judgment, fairness and consistency? Are you an innovator with the vision to guide the Board? Do you thrive on objectively analyzing forestry issues of public importance and providing strategic direction? This is an opportunity to combine your experience working both on the ground in resource management and in administration, policy or legislation. The role of Board Chair will enable you to make a solid and lasting contribution to the stewardship of forest and range resources to benefit all citizens of British Columbia.
Finance Minister Tom Osborne says government committed to mitigating impact of tariffs on Corner Brook mill
By Gary Kean
The Western Star
Region: Canada East, Canada
Tom Osborne
While there isn’t any line in the provincial budget that offers financial assistance to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper, Finance Minister Tom Osborne says the government will do what it can to help the mill. …The mill is facing two levies the American government is considering slapping on newsprint and softwood products imported from Canada that could cost the paper company millions of dollars. Osborne said Premier Dwight Ball, along with Natural Resources Minister Siobhan Coady and two cabinet ministers from western Newfoundland — Municipal Affairs and Environment Minister Eddie Joyce and Fisheries and Land Resources Minister Gerry Byrne — have been working on the issue.
Wood, Paper & Green Building
12 Storey tall wood tower to be built on Toronto waterfront
By Lloyd Alter
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Things are happening so fast in the wood world these days that it is hard to keep up; we had not even covered Toronto’s George Brown College short list of architects for a tall wood building for its new waterfront campus when they announce the winner. It is Moriyama and Teshima, a long-time favourite in these parts, and Acton Ostry Architects, who built what is for the moment the world’s tallest timber tower in Vancouver, British Columbia. The 12 storey tall Arbour Building (sorry for all the Canadian spelling here, lots of extra e’s and u’s) “is expected to be net-positive, reducing the college’s carbon footprint, and in turn, lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Once built, students and researchers will learn to design, construct, operate, and monitor climate-friendly buildings.” It is also going to be a “smart” building, ” networked, intelligent, sensitive, and adaptable.
Developers of Montreal condo project embrace challenges of timber-based construction
By Betrand Marotte
…Amid [new] developments [in Montreal] there is a new kid on the block: the eight-storey Arbora condominium-apartment complex. While on the outside appearing not much different from its neighbours, Arbora on closer inspection turns out to be quite special. The three buildings making up the complex are built with wood skeletons instead of the standard steel or concrete. Arbora’s promoters say the 366,000-square-foot development – made of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and clad in brick, steel-aluminum and fibre-cement – is the world’s largest residential project using a mass-timber structure. …“The innovation involved in construction brought about a certain level of complexity,” said Marc-André Roy, president of Montreal-based developer Sotramont, one of four partners behind Arbora. …In the end, everyone was reassured and even – in many cases – impressed, Mr. Roy said. “The firemen who came to us at first with skepticism and lots of questions ended up being quite taken with the product.”
Canadian firms to design new Waterfront campus building
By Chau Nguyen
The Dialog | GBC Student Newspaper
Two Canadian architectural firms have won the right to design The Arbour, George Brown College’s (GBC) tall wood building near the Waterfront campus. The firms, Moriyama & Teshima and Acton Ostry are planning on using Canadian sourced wood for The Arbour, which is slated to be 12 storeys and the first tall wood building in Ontario. The building will be located in the East Bayfront neighbourhood, north of the Daphne Cockwell Centre for Health Sciences (Waterfront campus). Other than housing the first tall wood research institute in Canada, this low-carbon, net-positive building will also have GBC’s school of computer technology and a new child care facility. “We’re leading the way from an environmental point of view,” said Anne Sado, GBC’s president. “We want to make a commitment to create a low-carbon, net-zero building that would make a statement around the changes that we have to make to support the environment and sustainability.”
Architecture school wins provincial design prize
Sudbury’s McEwen School of Architecture has been recognized with a 2018 Design Excellence Award from the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA). The Laurentian University school was named as one of 10 recipients selected from more than 111 submissions. According to an OAA press release, the 20 finalists were judged on a number of criteria, including creativity, context, sustainability, good design/good business and legacy. …Located in the city’s downtown core, the McEwen School of Architecture consists of a new 36,480-square-foot steel and concrete studio wing and a new 15,670-square-foot cross-laminated timber (CLT) library wing. …“McEwen’s Library Wing is a CLT demonstration project funded by the Centre for Research & Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE). CLT is a sustainable engineered wood product that could be manufactured in many parts of northern Canada,” the OAA wrote in its analysis.
Engineer outlines ‘Ontario-made’ solution to tall wood buildings
By Don Procter
The Daily Commercial News
David Moses
A technical manual that tells how tall wood buildings can be designed as “alternative solutions” to achieve performance standards that meet the Ontario Building Code will help building officials, architects, developers and constructors move forward in a new era of building. Ontario’s Tall Wood Building Reference, released late last year, offers a “distinctive Ontario-made solution” said David Moses of Toronto-based Moses Structural Engineers, who co-authored the manual with Steven Croft, principal of CHM Fire Consultants Ltd., of Ottawa. …“We understood that our building codes are so slow to change that we had to do something different,” he said. “We started to realize that there were target audiences that needed the assistance, to bridge this gap in knowledge.”
Connecticut Concrete Promotion Council’s Build With Strength Campaign Focuses on Insulated Concrete Forms
By National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
ForConstructionPros.com
America is burning. Construction practices utilizing wood frame construction in low to mid rise buildings are fueling fires in multi-story buildings nationwide. The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association’s (NRMCA) Build With Strength campaign is educating architects, engineers and specifiers on alternative design methods- specifically the utilization of insulated concrete forms (ICFs) in the construction of low to mid-rise residential and commercial buildings. …These ICF properties, when combined with concrete, produce a building that far surpasses a wood frame building as far as longevity, durability and environmental friendliness. …ICF’s, when utilized in a system with ready mixed concrete, are becoming a basic building technique for multi-story residential, municipal and commercial buildings due to their strength, energy efficiency and ease of construction.
UMaine scientists envision smart mills, new papers for medicine and food packaging
By Lori Valigra
Doug Bousfield
The current potato chip bag will go the way of the dodo by 2025 if Doug Bousfield has his way. The University of Maine professor aims to develop fully recyclable packaging using cellulose nanomaterials derived from wood pulp. The cellulose nanomaterials hold promise for replacing the thin layer of noncompostable aluminum used now to keep oxygen from getting in to spoil the chips, and grease from the chips from getting out through the package to soil consumers. …Researchers like Bousfield are developing new types of paper and paper coatings that they hope will create new markets for paper. …Caitlan Howell, an assistant professor in chemical and biomedical engineering at UMaine is focusing on patient care using coated paper products that may eventually be more effective in diagnosing and preventing infections. …Other UMaine researchers are focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to make paper mills run more efficiently and automatically.
Waitrose builds on plastics pledge by switching to paper straws in cafes
Edie.net
Region: International
UK — Waitrose has revealed it will build on a commitment to stop selling packs of single-use plastics straws later this year, by replacing all plastic straws used in its onsite cafes with Forest Stewardship Council certified paper alternatives. In January, Waitrose announced that it will stop selling packs of plastic straws at all supermarkets by September 2018. Before the phase out is completed in stores, Waitrose will convert all plastic straws in cafes to paper variants by the end of April 2018. ‘‘Plastic straws may seem insignificant but their impact on wildlife can be devastating. We hope this step will make a positive contribution to our environment.’’
Klopper and Davis Architects propose a 10-storey timber hotel for Perth
Architecture AU
A revised design for a hotel would see a 10-storey tower with an all-timber structure rise above an early 20th Century heritage building… The proposed Leadlight Hotel, by Perth-based practice Klopper and Davis Architects, has been presented to the Metropolitan Development Authority (MDA) for consideration. The hotel’s proponents had previously received development approval for a taller building that would not have involved the extensive use of timber. …The primary structural material of the hotel tower will be engineered timber, the entirety of which could be sourced and fabricated locally. The design proposes a combination of both cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. Adam Zorzi, director of developer Australian Development Capital, said, “Embodied energy is rapidly becoming a factor that builders and developers must consider, and timber is a far more sustainable product that … results in far fewer greenhouse gas emissions during construction.”
NSERC grant for the use of drone imaging in forestry
By Université TÉLUQ
Cision Newswire
Category: Forestry
Wassim Bouachir
QUEBEC CITY – TÉLUQ University, in partnership with Groupe DDM, has received a $25,000grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) under the Engage Grant partner program for universities. The grant will fund the project “Using drone computer vision to estimate the number of planting microsites.” “Thanks to research, drones are being used more and more in applications with a real impact on the economy, society, and the environment,” said TÉLUQ director general Martin Noël. …Professor Wassim Bouachir of TÉLUQ University’s Department of Science and Technology …adds that the project “will lead to innovative drone imaging solutions. This work is now possible thanks to the infrastructure of SmartForests Canada, a pan-Canadian initiative recently funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and in which TÉLUQ University plays a key role.”
New Student Ranger Program launched in BC
BC Local News
VICTORIA – Young people throughout British Columbia will have an opportunity to acquire a diverse range of job skills while working in the province’s spectacular natural environment, through the new BC Parks Student Ranger Program. This is the first program established with the proceeds that were generated from specialty BC Parks licence plate sales. “We are giving young adults a chance to gain important job skills in some of the most beautiful parks and protected areas British Columbia has to offer,” said George Heyman, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Strategy. “Student rangers will help protect sensitive ecosystems, while preserving the natural, cultural and historical values that British Columbians cherish.”
Burned timber stumpage rates averaging $65 per cubic metre
By Monica Lamb-Yorski
Stumpage rates for burned timber sales in Williams Lake and 100 Mile House are averaging about $65 per cubic metre, BC Timber Sales (BCTS) confirmed last week. “The market is showing this timber is in high demand,” said Lindsey Wood, a resource manager with the Ministry of Forests during a recent presentation to the Cariboo Regional District. A spokesperson for BC Timber Sales confirmed the bids represent the fact the timber is partially burned, has high Douglas-fir content, and the haul distances are short. In seven recent sales in Williams Lake and two in 100 Mile House — the stumpage rates ranged from $42.72 per cubic metre to $103.2 per cubic metre.
For the love of toads
Breeding season is upon the western toad. Preparations have been made along Toad Alley at Inland Lake in Powell River’s backcountry to protect more toads and their little toadlets from being squished by bikers and hikers. Volunteer members from Powell River’s trail building Chain Gang and Powell River ATV Club were recently at Inland Lake completing some work to make life safer for the toads when they move en masse in their unique circle of life. The toads move in such large numbers that they have been known to close roads. Last August, approximately 1,800 finger-nail sized toadlets were crossing trails near Whistler every hour. …“The male toads all gather together in the same location and when the females come they basically are just swimming around and grabbing anything that looks toad-like in the hopes it’s a female,” said Wind. “The only way they know if they have a male or a female is the males are designed to squeak if they get grabbed from behind.”
Six Cowichan Lake neighbourhoods lead the way to fire safety
By Lexi Bainas
The Cowichan Valley Citizen
Doug Knott and Ross Forrest
Steve Vatcher, first lieutenant and fire risk manager for the Lake Cowichan Fire Department, handed out awards to the enthusiastic members of six local neighbourhoods. They were the first six communities on Vancouver Island to be certified FireSmart, he told them during a ceremony at Lake Cowichan’s council chambers on March 29. The idea behind FireSmart is to reduce the danger of fires in “interface areas”, where neighbourhoods are backed by wild forest land. It takes education and effort to reduce risks from wood piles, careless handling of waste wood, and much more. …In addition, Knott was honoured… for their assistance in fighting the wildfires in the B.C. Interior in the summer of 2017.
Why is there logging near Ymir’s drinking water?
Letter by Jim Dorey
The Nelson Star
I visited the Quartz Creek Reservoir during the summer of 2017 to find the water level dangerously low. …Clear-cut logging will also cause lower summer water flows, which would add further strain to the flows into the treatment plant. …Why with all the forest in the Salmo valley would you log near Ymir’s drinking water? The local mills wrote that they have to log watersheds in order to survive. Do they really mean that they have to destroy communities for the sake of a little bit of fiber?
Tolko gears up for processing wildfire timber in Williams Lake
The Williams Lake Tribune
Tolko Industries Ltd. Soda Creek Division will be on a heavier diet for the next two to three years because of the 2017 wildfires. …Normally the sawmill processes white wood such as spruce, pine and balsam or alpine fir, but now in the aftermath of the fires that has changed to 70 per cent of the feed being Douglas-fir. The change in wood density has had a noticeable impact on the machinery, Walter said. “We’ve had to slow our machinery down,” he noted. “It used to run at 450 to 520 board feet a minute and now our feed speeds are 390 for the dual ring debarker and 290 for the single ring.” …Charcoal from the burned bark is dangerous and very abrasive, so it is also important to thoroughly clean the mill weekly, Walters said.
Chemo RV partners with West Fraser to replant thousands of trees
By Angie Mindus
The owner and staff at Chemo RV are taking steps to be leaders in the wildfire recovery efforts. …Chemo RV has partnered with West Fraser to purchase and plant the trees, promising to plant 1,000 trees for every RV sold at their locations in Quesnel and 150 Mile House from April, 2018 until the end of October, 2018. …“The whole idea is to replenish what we all lost. It’s just about giving back to the community,” Bell said. “We had a catastrophic event that we aren’t going to forget any time soon. But now we’d like to put the focus on rebuild and regrowth.”
Regional District of Central Kootenay to write to forest minister about Laird Creek logging
By Bill Metcalfe
The Regional District of Central Kootenay board is writing a letter to Minister of Forests Doug Donaldson asking for an independent assessment of plans for logging at Laird Creek, which flows into Kootenay Lake near Balfour. They also want legislative changes to a process known as the professional reliance model. The RDCK’s letter to the minister will also relay public concerns about a timber harvesting proposal near Argenta because of its proximity to the Johnson’s Landing slide of 2012 that destroyed several houses and killed three residents. …“The community wants to see an independent qualified professional assess it,” said RDCK chair Karen Hamling about Cooper Creek Timber’s plans, “because there has been a slide there before. People are nervous and they want to be sure.” Al Walters of the Laird Creek Water Users told the Star his group has petitioned the RDCK about their concerns about the road.
Approval being sought to expand Corner Brook Pulp and Paper harvesting on Baie Verte Peninsula
BAIE VERTE, NL – The Department of Fisheries and Land Resources is seeking approval for Corner Brook Pulp and Paper to harvest additional land in the Baie Verte Peninsula area. …The new areas will offset timber in North Twin area transferred to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper from the Crown in forest management district 10, according to the environmental assessment documentation registered with the province. …The undertaking states sustainable harvest levels will not be exceeded and will be balanced by reducing the proposed harvest levels in other approved operating areas. It was also noted that mitigations for caribou habitat are in place in the Three Corner Pond area, including seasonal restrictions during calving and post-calving times.
Speakers focus on sustainable solutions in Moncton
By Tamar Atik
Wood Business – Canadian Forest Industries
Peter Robichaud
The Canadian Woodlands Forum’s 99th annual general meeting and 2018 spring meeting is taking place at the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Moncton, N.B. …“One thing that we spend a lot of time doing is to present issues and challenges that members of the whole supply chain face day-to-day,” Peter Robichaud, executive director of the CWF, told CFI. “We’re dealing with very hot topics in forest management, as well as looking at harvesting operations, and efficiency and productivity levels of our contractors that are doing the work, and then also focusing on taking the wood from outside and moving it in through the mill gates.”
Portlander Receives Community Forestry Award
By Travis Loose
Portland Patch
Region: United States, US West
PORTLAND, OR — For more than 20 years, Mary Harrell has offered her assistance in educating thousands of Portlanders on the value and importance of the city’s trees and environmental infrastructure. This week, Harrell’s efforts were honored by the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and the Oregon Community Trees nonprofit organization when they announced her as one of four recipients of the 2018 Oregon Urban and Community Forestry Award. Manager of the Friends of Trees’ Portland office, Harrell has been with the nonprofit since 1996, serving under every director the organization has seen, from founder Richard Siedman to current Executive Director Scott Fogarty.
Washington Fighting Fire With Fire This Spring
By Emily Schwing
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Forests and grasslands in Eastern Washington state are at high risk for large, intense wildfire. This spring Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife plans to use controlled burning on more than 1,000 acres in Okanogan, Ferry and Pend Oreille counties. WDFW Prescribed Fire Manager Matt Eberlein said the controlled burns won’t prevent wildfires altogether, but they will reduce potential damage. …The areas chosen for burning include grasslands as well as Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests where debris and slash were left behind after commercial logging.
Conifers are encroaching on coastal meadows
By Mark Freeman
GOLD BEACH — Wildlife biologists and an army of chainsaw-wielding volunteers are in the early stages of an ambitious effort to reclaim for wildlife portions of 334 acres of former forest meadows that are losing their long-term battles with encroaching fir trees. Lack of wildfire and commercial forest thinning have allowed Douglas firs and other conifers to overtake the edges of a series of Coast Range meadows in Curry County that are home to Roosevelt elk, black-tailed deer and forest birds such as grouse and quail. Under an agreement with the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is cutting back these encroaching conifers to restore some of the fragmented habitats, said Bree Furfey, an ODFW wildlife biologist.
Forestry Panel Addresses Controversy
By Camilla Mortensen
The Eugene Weekly
Chandra Legue
GreenLane Sustainable Business Network will hold a forum on sustainable forestry April 12 to address last year’s controversy around seating a timber company representative on the environmental group’s board. The panel grew out of a contentious board election in November 2017, at which Casey Roscoe, senior vice president of public relations for the Seneca timber companies, joined GreenLane’s board. At the time, several board members threatened to leave, including Shawn Donille of Mountain Rose Herbs, who called Seneca’s joining of the GreenLane board “greenwashing.” At the April forum, GreenLane seeks to facilitate a civil dialogue “to explore different sides of the issues, challenges and problems faced by forest industry businesses, environmentalists and scientists.”
Vikings cleared the forests, now Iceland is bringing them back
By Melissa Breyer
Before the first settlers arrived, forests covered up to 40% of what is now barren Iceland. Reforestation has been challenging, but progress is being made. …While many might assume that the bare land has to do with location or climate, it has much more to do with the Vikings. …But now, thanks to the Icelandic Forest Service with assistance from forestry societies and forest farmers, trees are making a comeback. But alas, it’s not without some controversy. The only forest-forming species native to Iceland is downy birch (Betula pubescens). …But thanks to a changing climate, much of the downy birch that has been planted over the last half century has failed to thrive, and in fact, is dying. So there has been much effort made in identifying non-native species that are better suited for warmer temperatures, species such as spruces, pines and larch.
Bob Brown Foundation holds tea party protest at Rapid River
By Lachlan Bennett
AUSTRALIA — Protesters have set up an impromptu tea party in the middle of forestry operations at Rapid River. Forestry operations were suspended after the protest commenced. …Bob Brown Foundation campaign manager Jenny Weber said the globally unique rainforests of the Tarkine were “being logged right now for woodchips and the controversial Sarawak timber company Ta Ann”. “The logging of these ancient rainforests in the Rapid River is as bad as it gets for Tasmania,” she said. Liberal Braddon MHA Adam Brooks described the protest as an “irresponsible stunt” that disrupted workers in an area designated as a Permanent Timber Production Zone.
Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
New atlas shows projected impact of climate change across Canada’s major cities
By Noella Ovid
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Toronto is expected to have more than 100 searing-hot days a year in the coming decades if it doesn’t reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new mapping project released by the University of Winnipeg’s Prairie Climate Centre. …“Climate science has been something that has been inaccessible to Canadians. They hear about it in this top-down kind of way that the climate is changing and they haven’t been given the tools to see it,” said Dr. Ian Mauro, co-director of the project. …“We’ve got a big problem,” Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna said. …It’s forest fires that we saw in Fort McMurray and British Columbia, it’s flooding that we’ve seen in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.”
The Government of Canada is helping Canadians understand and adapt to our changing climate
By Environment and Climate Change Canada
TORONTO – The Government of Canada is committed to helping Canadians understand and adapt to the ways climate change is affecting our environment, communities, and economy. Investing in climate adaptation is essential as we work to reduce carbon pollution and ensure a safe and prosperous future for our children and grandchildren. Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced in Toronto the Government of Canada’s work to create the Canadian Centre for Climate Services to provide reliable climate information, data, and tools as well as training and user support to help increase climate resilience across Canada. The Centre is an important part of implementing the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
New pellet mill to transform landscape, create jobs
KRQE News 13
JEMEZ, N.M. – Wildfires in the Jemez Mountains have left thousands of acres in the Santa Fe National Forest damaged. For many, that damage meant the loss of grazing areas, industry and other valuable lands. However, a new pellet mill is designed to change that. “Having this mill here is a way for us to be able to take some of that material out of the forest and utilize,” that for economic development,” said James Melonas, a forest supervisor. After six years of hard work and planning, Walatowa Industries and local wood industry expert Terry Conely, are restoring the forests one load of damaged trees at a time. “Wood pellets are one thing that it doesn’t matter how crooked or how small or what you can make a wood pellet out of them,” said Terry Conely, TC Company owner. The factory will not only make pellets for burning, but it will also make wood chips for landscaping and even custom vigas for homes.
Time to talk ticks
By Carolyn Grant
Category: Health & Safety
As the weather starts to warm up, people across the Interior Health region are spending more time outdoors. This can mean an uptick in tick bites. Ticks are small bugs, about the size of a sesame seed, which feed on the blood of humans and animals –and, sometimes, transmit diseases. Ticks are prevalent throughout the Interior and are typically found in tall grass and wooded areas. Signs of many tick-borne infections can be quite similar and include fever, headache, muscle pain, and rash. …Ixodes ticks are the species that transmit Lyme disease. They are more common throughout coastal B.C. but may be present in some Interior Health areas. While less than one per cent of Ixodes in B.C. carry Lyme disease, it is important to recognize the symptoms.
BC Forest Safety Council and FPInnovations work together to improve forest industry safety performance
By BC Forest Safety Council and FPInnovations
Nanaimo and Vancouver – The CEO of the BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC), Rob Moonen, and the President and CEO of FPInnovations, Stéphane Renou, are pleased to announce that the two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work collaboratively on enhancing safety performance in the forest industry by sharing leading, innovative scientific and technical applications. Under the MOU, individual projects and financial support agreements for specific activities will be identified through consultation between the two parties, with FPInnovations providing research expertise and non-proprietary technical resources or materials to assist the BCFSC in improving or expanding the support it provides to the forest industry to reduce serious injuries and fatalities.
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This�Spartan Sword is�like one that might have been used in the battle against the Persian Empire.
At age twenty, the Spartan citizen began his membership in one of the syssitia (dining messes or clubs), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member. Here each group learned how to bond and rely on one another. The Spartan exercised the full rights and duties of a citizen at the age of thirty. Only native Spartans were considered full citizens and were obliged to undergo the training as prescribed by law, as well as participate in and contribute financially to one of the syssitia.[60]
Spartan men remained in the active reserve until age sixty. Men were encouraged to marry at age twenty but could not live with their families until they left their active military service at age thirty. They called themselves "homoioi" (equals), pointing to their common lifestyle and the discipline of the phalanx, which demanded that no soldier be superior to his comrades.[61] Insofar as hoplite warfare could be perfected, the Spartans did so.[62]
Thucydides reports that when Spartan men went to war, their wives (or another women of some significance) would customarily present them with their shield and say: "With this, or upon this" (Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς, �i t�n �i �p� t�s), meaning that true Spartans could only return to Sparta either victorious (with their shield in hand) or dead (carried upon it).[63] If a Spartan hoplite were to return to Sparta alive and without his shield, it was assumed that he threw his shield at the enemy in an effort to flee; an act punishable by death or banishment. A soldier losing his helmet, breastplate or greaves (leg armour) was not similarly punished, as these items were personal pieces of armour designed to protect one man, whereas the shield not only protected the individual soldier but in the tightly packed Spartan phalanx was also instrumental in protecting the soldier to his left from harm. Thus the shield was symbolic of the individual soldier's subordination to his unit, his integral part in its success, and his solemn responsibility to his comrades in arms � messmates and friends, often close blood relations. � This particular sword has a dark brown skin wrapped handle.� It comes with a nylon sheath with attached shoulder strap and zipper.�
▪ Includes: Nylon sheath with shoulder strap and zipper.
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On June 10,
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apple was accused of five copying Google
PCWorld us technology website published an article called in some ways, apple also in pursuit of Google. 1. The public transportation information. 2. Split screen display. 3. The news to the client. 4. Familiar with wearable function. 5. The iOS 9 Spotlight from Android desktop.
say what plagiarism, it is for reference, not now.
amazon China’s first membership program
amazon China officially launched its first membership in the Chinese market project “the amazon family”. For, mid pregnancy, produce period from the early stages of pregnancy, 0 to 6 months at various stages, such as “family” amazon provides members with “member preferential privilege”, “individual exclusive service” and “parenting knowledge sharing” three big customized service.
mother’s best to earn money, that’s pet project.
manufacturers Atmel microcontroller intends to sell
Atmel microcontroller manufacturers (ATML. O) is studying strategic alternatives, including selling the whole company. Atmel is Qatalyst and investment Banks, the sale process. But Atel may not decide to sell. Atmel located in SAN jose, California, the production of micro controller and the other can be used to “Internet of things” technology hardware equipment.
want to sale can’t say out, just the most lonely.
mango TV completed A round of funding, value exceeds 7 billion yuan
vice head of hunan radio and television NieMei said that hunan satellite TV, mango TV network video platform at present, more than 500 million financing has completed A round of investors including Shanghai new countries and, the capital, xiamen c&d, China vote, company valuation of more than 7 billion, this year the mango TV on new three board.
apparent before 10 billion valuation yo, how shrunk.
— about acquisition and denied acquisition
IBM announced acquisition of cloud solutions provider Blue Box
IBM unveiled a takeover, IBM will make delivery at the customer’s own data center of a public cloud experience, so as to help enterprises to reduce the burden of traditional private cloud deployment. IBM announced the acquisition of Seattle Blue Box group, which is committed to provide enterprises with hosting type private cloud solutions based on it, make customer even in span multiple hybrid cloud environment, also can more easily work deployment.
however, IBM did not buy the specific financial information disclosure.
ctrip denied full acquisition is easy to
for ctrip full acquisition easily to rumors, ctrip official response, according to the current, ctrip not 100% acquisition is easy to transport, only a strategic investment, minority shareholders and is easy to use. Ctrip said at the same time, will continue to support the all-round development of easy to transport, easy to transport will continue to maintain the independent operation of the company.
– the price! Mobile phone will drop, Xbox began to drop
Zhou Hongyi: to do two no enemy planes
360, chairman and CEO Zhou Hongyi in weibo, according to the great god phone mainly do three things, one is that looking for CEO and product technology and so on various aspects of talent, reshape the entrepreneurial team. The other two things are respectively, the first I need to change a bit machine and five hundred yuan to one thousand yuan, make the real national mobile phone. The third is to launch two real unbeatable price at once, the red sea into blood.
Microsoft announced the Xbox One price, push the new version 1 TB capacity
Microsoft announced that it will bring the Xbox 500 gb version One, the price down to $349, at the same time launched version 1 TB storage capacity. The new capacity of 1 TB Xbox One price is $399, with 3.5 mm headphone jack is equipped with the new handle. In addition, this edition USES the frosted appearance, rather than the previous glossy appearance.
– in change of life, good luck, the editor you also want to change the name
Nubian “independent” renamed “Nubian technology co., LTD.”
in set up three years later, the strong as Nubian phone expressed the hope that “Nubian” can be used as a founder of the independent brand by outsiders to know, instead of “zte Nubian”, therefore even decided to start a new company called “Nubian technology co., LTD.”.
all the film and television changed its name to all video website of
all the film and television, film and television program community official weibo announcement, according to the original all the film and television changed its name to all video website, and stop using the old domain name yyets.com, jump to a new domain name allyingshi.com. And is committed to collect the latest and most film related sites, fundamental knowledge popularization of subtitles.
purple light international $124 million investment in 124 million lottery
purple light international will subscribe and direct purchase of new ClassA issued 63500500 shares of common stock, the total purchase price of about $124 million in cash. Purchase price $1.95 per share, after the deal, purple light international will become 500 lottery net the first big shareholder, purple light group co., LTD., chairman of wei-guo zhao will be the new director.
– privatization, not completed, is on the way
hand swim announced privatisation deal for $22 per ADS
in the mobile game, announced with Pegasus Investment holding co., LTD. (Pegasus Investment Holdings Limited) and Pegasus merge subsidiaries (Pegasus Merger Sub Limited) private agreement. According to the agreement, Pegasus will be $1.5714 per share of common stock at the price ($22 per ADS) in the mobile game.
e-house China received chairman Zhou Xin buyout offer
e-house Zhou Xin and board chairman of China announced that it has been submitted to the board of directors of the e-house China and shen director the privatization offer, officially launched to privatise a e-house China strategic plan. Two people offer per American depositary shares (” ADS “) $7.38 in cash for Zhou Xin, shen, or their respective associated entities are not currently held by all e-house common stock, the price is the company over the past 15 trading day’s closing price rise by an average of 25%.
jiayuan received modified privatisation proposal
announced jiayuan jiayuan the special committee of the board has been received from Vast Profit of modified nonbinding privatisation proposals. Vast Profit proposed to cope with consideration instead of $3.58 a share, or American depositary shares at $5.37) per share rose to $4.80 a share (us American depositary shares at $7.20) per share.
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King of the Hill: The Difference Between Galettes des Rois and King Cake
January 5, 2010 Cakespy
CakeSpy Note: the King Cake photo above left is from a previous post on this site, from flickr user bobby_emm.
Christmas may be over, but the season of the King is just about to begin. No, not Elvis--we're talking King Cake. And as the Epiphany (aka King Cake Kickoff Date) draws ever closer, it seemed like a good time to examine the Galette des Rois and the King Cake to see some of the differences. Ready?
First, let's discuss the physical differences--what are these cakes?
Galette Des Rois: This cake consists of rounds of flaky puff pastry, layered with a gorgeously dense filling of frangipane. By many accounts, this popular version of the cake seems to hail from northern France.
King Cake: This version, as we know it in the USA, is largely associated with New Orleans, and is defined by wikipedia as "a ring of twisted bread similar to that used in brioche topped with icing or sugar, usually colored purple, green, and gold (the traditional Carnival colors)... Some varieties have filling inside, the most common being cream cheese followed by praline."
Both cakes are often garnished with crowns--the galette des rois version commonly being a paper version which can be worn.
Based on my research, the New Orleans King Cake more closely resembles another regional French variation which goes by various names: Gâteau des Rois, or sometimes the couronne, or sometimes the Twelfth Night Cake, which is made of brioche and candied fruits--one could surmise that the New Orleans version is a derivation of this. (Note: Not to confuse things, but it does seem that occasionally galette des rois and gateau des rois are used interchangeably).
Physical differences aside, there are several other subtle differences between the two cakes:
The Trinket
With both the Galette des Rois and the King Cake, there will be a trinket hidden inside the cake, and the person who finds it in their slice is declared "King". However, what the trinket is can vary.
With the Galette des Rois, Individual bakeries may offer a specialized line of fèves depicting diverse themes from great works of art to classic movie stars and popular cartoon characters. According to Dorie Greenspan's entry on Serious Eats,
Feve means bean and, originally, that’s what the trinket was. But over the years, while the word feve remained, the beans gave way to fanciful trinkets. (There are feve collectors all over the world now.) It probably goes without saying, but this being Paris, the best pastry chefs change their feves each year and, yes, vie to be the most original.
With the King Cake, while variations exist, by far the most popular trinket is a baby figurine. Why? Well, as you learned in last year's King Cake entry, some say is to represent the young Christ of the epiphany; however, we like this explanation so much better: "a local bakery chain got a large shipment of such plastic dolls from Hong Kong very cheaply in the 1950's and had to use them up and there is no more signifigance than that." Who knows the real truth, but hey, it makes a good story.
The Duties of the King
Additionally, the duties associated with being crowned king can vary. With both cakes, the lucky trinket-finder gets to wear the crown that traditionally garnishes the cake; while in both cases this person is declared king of the moment, it seems that a tradition more closely tied to the King Cake is that this person is also responsible for buying the cake for the next party. It would make sense that this tradition is tied only with the King Cake though, as it is available for a longer period of time and therefore there would be more occasions for the cake to be served. Which brings us to the next point...
Dates Available
Another major difference between the cakes is the dates of availability. Though both make their big debut on the Epiphany (January 6), the Galette des Rois has a noticeably shorter season--it is generally available through the month of January, whereas the King Cake will be available for the full Carnival Season, culminating on Mardi Gras (mid to late February, or sometimes even March).
Now, by this point you may be feeling a royal hankering for one or the other of these cakes--happily, there are sweet, sweet resources for you. Ready?
Here is a recipe for the galette des rois; here is a recipe for the King Cake.
As for places to buy?
For the galette des rois, look to your local French bakery--anyone worth their fleur de sel should have it available at least on January 6th. As for the King Cake? Alas a harder species to find, unless you're in the New Orleans area--however, joyfully, several bakeries, such as Gambino's, Haydel Bakery, and Randazzo will ship King Cakes anywhere in the US.
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Lions Fans Get Some Bad News About Matt Patricia
by Dave Rappoccio on May 15, 2018 at 12:01 am
New Lions coach Matt Patricia might be a sexual assulter. Well, at least it’s a coach who might be bad this time? That’s new I guess. Twist on the formula.
It came out last week that someone unearthed an old sexual assault charge on Patricia from back in ’96. Apparently he and some other creep broke into a hotel room of a college student and assaulted her. What assaulted is in this instance hasn’t been defined, but sexual assault isn’t good no matter what degree it is so that part doesn’t matter. Patricia got charged, he got indicted, and the case got dropped 10 months later due to the victim apparently not wanting to go through with a trial. So yeah. 22 years ago Matt Patricia may have been a very bad person. That’s about all we know.
First off, before anything else, so much has been made of the Lions “not doing their due diligence” in finding this information out in the job interview. I call phooey on that. The Lions didn’t find this case, no, but apparently no one else did either for need I remind you…22 years. For 22 years apparently nobody did their homework on the dude and found this? If this information was so easy to find why didn’t anyone notice it till now? I don’t blame the Lions for trusting the guy and not looking into it. Nobody else did until whoever found this out. Honestly I think it’s a bigger indictment on the Patriots that they apparently were “unaware” of this despite Patricia being an employee there for 13 years. I think the Pats probably did know but chose to be fine with it, but obviously they aren’t going to tell the public that. #Metoo is a pretty new phenomenon, it would be pretty easy to brush something like this under the rug in the 90’s and 2000’s when we didn’t give it as much attention.
I don’t know if I think Patricia did it or not. I don’t think we’ll ever know at this point. Patricia gave a pretty definitive “I AM INNOCENT” speech but like, so did Rafael Palmeiro about steroids. Remember that? Funny how that turned out to be the fattest lie. I’m not taking anything out of Patricia’s mouth at face value. If it is true, it’ll be pretty hard to prove it at this point, so there’s no use in Patricia saying anything else other than he was falsely accused. He has everything to lose and the chance it meaningfully backfires on him is small, so of course he’d lie if he did it.
I think something bad happened, and Patricia did a bad thing, the extent of which is tough to gauge (because we don’t know very much), and the woman gave up because the stress of making an accusation like this is ridiculous. The victim blaming, all that stuff which makes it so hard for victims to come forward these days would be amplified 22 years ago. I feel like if this woman was just out to falsely accuse Patricia there’d be a bigger chance we’d have already known about this, or she would have come forward since this news broke to grab some spotlight. Dropping the case so close to trial seems inherently suspicious but everything I read about the case being dropped makes it sound to me like the woman honestly just wanted to be done with it. Maybe she felt wronged and wanted justice but the justice system sucks and was just making her trauma worse with prolonged stress, so she dropped it and went ahead to move on with her life. It really sounds like a textbook case of how the justice system tends to treat sexual assault victims. At this point, if my speculation is the truth, I feel really bad for the woman. She’s had 22 years to get over this wound and now, out of the blue, the scar is likely being ripped back open. She doesn’t deserve this. If Patricia is innocent, he doesn’t deserve this either.
After 22 years, no matter what the truth, the people involved have likely moved on and this is just reopening old trauma for headlines. We aren’t suddenly going to get the truth now. The case was dropped. It was ages ago. This story will be a talking point for a little while, nothing will come of it, and everything will move on. It’s just a bummer situation. Life is pain.
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May 15, 2018, 2:00 am | # | Reply
Eli’s paying off people with fake Merchandise, Matt patricia was a scumbag for a reason other than being a patriot.
Weird week for slow offseason news, usually we’d have gotten a “mascot does stupid thing” by now.
May 15, 2018, 6:52 pm | # | Reply
I miss weed lion http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/2012-offseason/
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Pats fan
Man, I’m glad his came out after he was a Patriot
That said, she dropped the case. She decided it wasn’t worth going forward. And Patricia didn’t get his chance to tell his side of the story. If he said something anything acknowledging guilt, it would be one thing. But he’s claiming innocence, and she dropped the case.
Sorry, not going to “internet mob justice” someone over that.
She made a choice not to go forward with this, and now the only fair option is to respect that choice and move on.
Ozmett
“Patricia got charged, he got indicted”
that right there says something, he was indicted. the burden of going through a sexual assault case is extremely large. While we will never know what happened and every one has the right to due diligence and the presumption of innocence, to completely disregard the situation as he said she said is a scary notion.
John Mara's class
Either way we’ll never know the whole truth.
patsfanelevenoneoneohoneoneoneexclaimationmarkoneohone
indictments mean nothing. a prosecutor once said “i could indict a ham sandwich.”
The Breesus
That’s how “Internet justice” mob works. On the Internet, you are guilty until proven innocent. That being said, something bad probably happened.
Reall Ozmett, because from what I have heard, getting an indictment is not that hard. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m guessing neither are you.
Now, getting a conviction in a rape case is very hard. But without seeing the evidence or hearing both sides of the story, I’m not making a judgement call. Especially since this is Patricia’s statement:
“As someone who was falsely accused of this very serious charge over 22 years ago, and never given the opportunity to defend myself and clear my name, I find it incredibly unfair, disappointing, and frustrating that this story would resurface now with the only purpose being to damage my character and reputation. I firmly maintain my innocence, as I have always done.”
Maybe he’s a lying shitbag. But if he is, he gets away with it this time.
Eh, at least it’s not “Scumbag Kicker”
My scumbag prediction for this years is that someone will find something on Jon Gruden
JPP's Hand
My scumbag pick of the year is gonna be DeShaun Watson. He seems like the perfect target for a Michael Vick situation. Godspeed, my dear Watson
That Annoying Eagles Fan
Makes a change from comics about suicidal Niners fans.
Im predicting by week 6 we will be looking at suicidal Giants fans.
Dave Rappoccio
If we didn’t kill themselves last season this season will be fine. No expectations.
Wait until Eli Manning is still trying to survive behind that O-Line.
Maybe you didn’t see last year’s O-line.
It can’t get much worse. At least now we have a left tackle with actual ability.
May 15, 2018, 4:38 pm | #
Careful, Flowers might be planning something against Solder for all we know.
May 16, 2018, 8:36 am | #
I’m not sure why you’re tempting fate like this
Sorry to burst your bubble but remember the last time we though we had a talented LT?
It was Flowers
Dave Gettleman played Byron Bell for a year, then spent an offseason saying “the answer is on the roster” with a straight face, somehow, and then said Bell was good enough for another full year. Giants fans are about to be amazed at how much worse Gettleman can make your line.
Nate Solder could be half the player he was in NE and still be twice the player Ereck Flowers is.
Nothing is going to come of this directly, but I think teams will at least be adding lexisnexis searches to their background checks.
All that said it only makes complete sense and surprises absolutely no one outside of Boston which team was the first to conveniently not find this story out.
Dave made me a very pissed off lady
Dave, are you saying that women aren’t strong enough to take somebody to court?
I can’t tell if this is a serious post or a larf but if it’s serious I’m genuinely not sure how you read that and arrived at this conclusion of all conclusions from what I wrote. I am on her side and completely understanding of how hard it is to come forward about stuff like this, especially back in the 90’s when victims got even less sympathy. My only generalization about women in the entire post is about how difficult it is for victims to come forward because the system works against them. Women are not weaker, they just have a bigger hill to deal with.
I absolutely think women are strong enough to take somebody to court. Why this particular woman relented is really known only to her, and if she just wanted the stress to be over I can respect and understand that, and it’s shitty that something she probably spent years getting over is now back in the spotlight.
If the accusations are true, of course. I think they probably are, but I doubt we’ll ever know for sure.
BartyMae
I think Dave’s position can basically be summed up that something like this is usually an extremely difficult and stressful situation (and it doesn’t help that there are often economic and social ramifications to go along with it). You don’t have to be a woman to find a situation like that too difficult to keep bothering with when you have the option to choose to just let it die – though they manifest themselves differently, we all have our limits.
I remember certain someone from the media trying to push Patricia to Giants before going for trade OBJ route.
Fuck yoooooouuuu Pat Leonarrrrrrrd
The Football gods
On one hand, taking sexual assault more seriously and ending the silence on the issue is good. However, internet mob justice condemning someone who has not been found guilty in a court of law is incredibly dangerous.
I don’t think anyone’s going really mob justice on this, I think mostly we’re all just commenting on a skeleton somebody had in their closet that came out. I don’t think Patricia should get fired or anything for an incident he was technically cleared of 22 years ago. Not unless more horrid details come out, Cosby style.
“I like it when the DP gets dark” might not be the best tag for a comic about sexual assault…
Yeah, looking at it now, you’re right. Let me fix that.
I may be in the minority, but I thought it was hilarious. Should’ve kept it.
The timing for this was super weird. Evidently the woman was contacted but did not wish to comment at this point. Just an odd situation that will probably disappear, only brought up by those wanting to troll Lions fans. As if life didn’t do that enough already.
Honestly I am getting a little tired of the #metoo movement. Not because I don’t think it is justified. I despise rapist and men who sexually manipulate women but because the #metoo movement has replaced our own justice system when it comes to public opinion and seems to include everyone accused in the same category. Whether it be horrendous allegations (that I think is true), Cosby (also I think true) or disc jockey whose hand got a little too low for a photo shoot with Taylor Swift (also I think true) or a culture at a work place that sexualized women (true) but not in the same Ball Park as a Weinstein or Cosby. Some of these allegations are based on a cultural change that our country is going through (and needs to go through) but not a situation where they need to be classified as rapist. Patricia I don’t know and we probably will never know but let’s remember we are a nation of laws not a nation where public opinion based on a time of #metoo can be judge jury and executioner
the only thing i would dispute is that the system itself is corrupt to a certain extent. when you have swimmers or high school football players getting light sentences because of good ol boy mentality ‘justice’ is far from certain.
I agree rape is a horrible crime that needs to be dealt with harshly. However, I think we need a some reform to trials and guilty verdicts. In many of these cases it’s a she said vs he said and we are to quick to just believe the accuser. Such was the case of Brian Banks a high school football player with a full ride to USC who was accused and served five before his accuser was was recorded saying she falsely accused him so her family could sue the school district for $1.5 million. Brian Banks isn’t the openly life behind bars because of false accusations. In a event to make sure things like this don’t happen I believe accusers that lie should serve the time designated to the crime they lie about. Also something has to be done in high school about statutory rape in high school. You are putting a bunch of horny teenagers in a school together and if a senior sleeps with a sophomore he/she could have to register as a sex offender the rest of their lives even if it was consensual. Anyway I am rambling.
I understand what you are saying and agree, though i think things tend to lean on the accuser being more trustworthy. In general it is an issue that needs more work and not just screaming at each other (not that we are here). I think it is also unsavory that male victims of rape are made to feel weak and there for don’t come forward. While we are a much better country than others in terms of sexual assault that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of room for improvement. thank you for your thoughts as well.
May 15, 2018, 12:01 pm | #
I fully agree our society has so much room for growth when it comes to sex and gender, and you are right because right now we are a society that is just yelling at each other and not taking proper steps in hearing (really hearing) the other point of view whether it is about gender equality, race, politics, gun violence…. the list is too long and not many people want to have any sort of compromise
This is impossible. The Internet told me that there are only two sides to these topics and that there was nothing left to learn on these subject matters.
A grand jury only rules on whether there probable cause, and only the prosecution gets to present evidence, meaning only the “she said” part of he said/she said is enough for an indictment. In many (most?) places the grand jury is a rubber stamp for the prosecution. It’s a very low bar and you really can’t read much into it. As the saying goes, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich.
The hotel room they “broke into” was a Radisson, which is a reasonable mid-level hotel. Every one of these I’ve been in has metal door frames and strong locks. You cannot “break into” a room like this without anyone hearing and noticing. It seems likely to me that someone let them into the room.
The fact that everyone involved was on Spring Break (drinking?) and had met on the beach earlier (drinking?) leads one to reasonably wonder whether alcohol was involved with all the interested parties.
Anyone can make an accusation, it’s very dangerous to assume guilt based just on that. Especially now when this stuff will live forever on the internet.
Drinks With Two Fists
What is this? Actual facts on the internet? How dare you use facts when there is blind outrage to be had!
That being said, you are correct that a grand jury inidictment means next to nothing about his guilt, just that there was probable cause for an arrest. And the bar for probable cause is depressing low in a lot of cases, sometimes only the supposed victims statement and the accused knowing them is all it takes.
Instances like this are a great way of showing how the public at large has very little to no knowledge on how the legal system in the US actually works, or what the steps of a trial actually entail.
Shanjo
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The thing that bugs me about things like this is the assumption people don’t change over the course of 22 years. If that’s his only incident and he’s done nothing since, then either he obviously learned something, and helped make him a better person, or he was innocent (but still could have learned something).
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Splash Mountain>Space Mountain
Come at me.
Averien
When I was a wee lad, I went to Disney Land for the family’s big vacation. We didn’t have a ton– my mom was a single mom at the time, and she’d just finished college (put herself through, working the whole time, no loans. She’s incredibly awesome). So, we go from Washington down to California. Splash Mountain was new that year, so I was super incredibly hyped. We did all the other stuff, but back in my mind, I wanted that one.
I finally talked my mom into it. We waited in line for two and a half hours for that ride, until I could finally taste it– three logs left… two logs left… ONE FREAKING MOTHER LOG LEFT AND IT’S MY TURN!
“We’re sorry. The ride has broken and will be down for repairs the rest of the day.”
Splash Mountain can burn in the foulest pit of the darkest hell. It killed my unquestioning love of Disneyland.
Famous Jameis Crab Legs
While reading your tragic story, I shed a solitary tear. I am truly sorry for your hardship, my friend. Also Space Mountain > Splash Mountain any day. There, I said it.
Bad Moon
This take is as cold as the gross water in one note Splash Mountain.
An unLUCKy colts fan
Kinda looks like a colts logo in the noose shadow, if it is, that makes sense, we suck, at least we have quinton Nelson
RockdudeD
Damn, Jay from RLM is taking this very hard.
Replace the last panel with any of your Cutler comics where he says “Don’t caaaaaare”.
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Download LOL Boys’ FADER Mix
This week's FADER mix comes via LOL Boys, the collaborative effort of Montreal's Markus Garcia and LA's Jerome Potter, longtime internet friends who've just released an EP, Changes, on Friends of Friends. In conversation, the guys affectionately finish each other's sentences, but in spite of that closeness, and though they're physically together for stretches of time here and there, they've never recorded in the same room. The way they make music is perhaps a testament to the fairness of their friendship; they pass songs back and forth, a deliberate rule that ensures no one's ever in charge or taking orders. Their mix recasts sentimental radio fare from this summer and pool party seasons past, layered with delicate jazz cymbals and tickled piano. The pace is consistently, appealingly reclined, like laying back in a camp chair, misting fan in hand. Download the mix, read an interview with Garcia and Potter conducted over three-way iChat and check out the tracklist, filled with refreshed favorites, below.
Download: LOL Boys' FADER Mix
There’s a lot of piano on this mix. Is rave over, and lounge the next big thing? JEROME POTTER: There is a lot of piano i guess! I guess the idea was to take some of our favorite pop songs, or things we are feeling in general and make nice chill edits of them for the summer. Also to show that we are really influenced by pop music. MARKUS GARCIA: Rooftops and beaches and pools. POTTER: Bedrooms and cars. We just want people to go into it with no expectations. Structurally, our songs are very much house-informed, but it's all just pop music in the end.
Can you speak on how those pop influences show up in your new EP? POTTER: Well on this EP we got to work with vocalists. So, given that opportunity, we challenged ourselves to make songs, as opposed to making “tracks.” We started listening to a lot of stuff that originally made us become internet friends too. Like Q and Not U, TV on the Radio. But then stuff that's way more mainstream, a lot of R&B.
Where do you envision people listening to the EP? Are you making pop songs for dancing to IRL? GARCIA: Beats by Dre headphones. POTTER: Some of the songs can definitely work in the club, but we wrote this EP thinking about outside the club. Like before and after; what you listen to before you go out or when you come home. When you're with someone, or when you're alone. When you are happy or sad, yin-yang. That balance is important to us. Especially since we are a duo. We are very yin-yang.
How do your personalities complement each other? GARCIA: We live on opposite coasts. POTTER: So we bring different geographical influences. In LA we have what seems to be infinite space. But Markus and I have pretty similar, internet-heavy lifestyles.
How often do you see each other? POTTER: We were both in Montreal in the month of December. Apart from that time though, we really only see each other on tour. Which varies, but I'd say typically once a month. We "see" each other online almost everyday. It's nice that with the internet, location is irrelevant. Physical space is in a way erased. I have been on message boards since I was about 14, being involved in music. I remember meeting kids from those boards at concerts when I was in high school, and that’s continued to this day. Or even people from MySpace, Friendster, Orkut. GARCIA: Wow... Orkut. POTTER: We met in person for the first time not that long after we decided to begin the project. I visited Markus in Chicago when I was on break from school. GARCIA: I think I was sleeping in a converted storefront next to the Congress. Jerome threw a pillow at me. He had long hair that was wild. We got along very well.
Which message board did you meet on? POTTER: It was a NASA forum. They had a weird music section. GARCIA: “Tunes you would want to listen to in outer space.” POTTER: Most people were talking about post rock and stuff but we had a thread about Chicago house. There was some remix contest and we were both doing solo stuff, but since we had some common interests we were like, Hey, let’s try this out by doing it together over the internet. We were happy with it so we decided to start this weird project, being an internet based group by sending project files back and forth. It’s becoming more common, though. Purity Ring works this way as well. GARCIA: We were constantly showing each other new music, so when he was DJing and I was DJing, we are always on a similar tip.
Would you guys ever want to share a studio? GARCIA: For sure, but we haven't recorded together. POTTER: We definitely have come to grow used to this process. We have done everything the same way, even when we have been in the same city. It makes a true, collaborative art project. When you are in the studio together, there is always a balance of control. The way we do it, at one point, one of us has 100% control of the direction of a song. Then it'll be sent to the other who then has 100% control, then it shifts. It's different but it makes it exciting to see where the song ends up.
The songs you've been making aren’t especially funny. Do you ever regret the LOL in your name? GARCIA: Lullabies is a tight name for a group though! Thats how we pronounce it you know. I like going through customs and telling the person asking what band I’m in, because I am traveling with so much equipment, “LOL Boys."
1. Lil Wayne - Nightmares of the Bottom
2. Cloud - Turning
3. Avicii - Levels
4. John Legend - Tonight
5. Radiohead - Talk Show Host
6. Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
7. Christina Milian - Chameleon
8. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
9. Kanye West - Mercy
10. Jeremih - Keep It Moving
11. Kreayshawn - Summertime
12. R . Kelly & Jeremih - Misunderstood
13. Basement Jaxx - Romeo (Acoustic Version)
From The Collection:
FADER Mix
LOL Boys Naomi Zeichner
Electronic, FADER Mix, LOL Boys, Naomi Zeichner
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Anne Donovan (born November 1, 1961 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is one of the most decorated figures in women's basketball, both as a college player and as a head coach in the WNBA. With the Seattle Storm, she became the first female coach to win a WNBA title, and the only person to have both played to a national women's college title and coached a team to a professional title. She is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Donovan joined the New York Liberty as an assistant coach in the spring of 2009, then took over as Interim Head Coach of the Liberty on July 31, 2009.
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After attending Paramus Catholic High School in Paramus, New Jersey, the 6' 8" Donovan was the most recruited player in the nation going into college. At Old Dominion University (ODU), the center led the Lady Monarchs to the 1979-80 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women basketball championship (this was before the NCAA disbanded the AIAW). She was the first female Naismith College Player of the Year in 1983. She set ODU career marks for points (2,719), rebounds (1,976), and blocked shots (801), and seasonal marks for most games played (38), most minutes played (1,159), most field goals (377), and field goal percentage (.640). She averaged a double-double for her entire career, with 20 points and 14 1/2 rebounds per game. Donovan's 50 points in a single game against Norfolk State on December 11, 1980 is still a school record, while her 801 career blocked shots is still best in NCAA history.
While at ODU, Donovan helped the Lady Monarchs win the 1980 AIAW national title (their second straight) with a 37-1 record. In 1981, ODU finished third in the AIAW National Tournament, having compiled a 28-7 record.
The first two NCAA Women's Final Fours (1982 and 1983) were hosted by ODU at Scope in Norfolk, Va. In 1982, Old Dominion (28-7) lost to Kansas St. in the East Regional Semifinals. In Donovan's senior year, the Lady Monarchs (29-6) advanced to the 1983 Final Four in their home town, but lost 71-55 in the National Semifinals to their then arch rivals from Louisiana Tech.
As there were few professional opportunities for women professional basketball players in the U.S., Donovan played pro ball in Shizuoka, Japan and Modena, Italy from 1983 to 1989.
Upon her retirement as a player, she became an assistant coach at ODU from 1989-1995, then head coach at East Carolina University from 1995-1997, reaching the Colonial Athletic Association finals against her alma mater, Old Dominion. Her coaching career moved to the pro ranks via a brief stint with the American Basketball League's Philadelphia Rage in 1997-1998. As the ABL folded, she joined the rival WNBA, where she coached the Indiana Fever for the 2000 season, then led the Charlotte Sting to the WNBA Finals in 2001, losing to the Los Angeles Sparks. In 2002, she led the Charlotte Sting to an 18-14 record, losing to the Washington Mystics in the first round of playoffs.
Donovan was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995,[1] and as part of the inaugural class of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.[2]
In 2003, Donovan was hired as the second head coach of the Seattle Storm, inheriting a team with two number one draft picks from 2001 and 2002, the Australian Lauren Jackson and University of Connecticut star Sue Bird. In her first year, Donovan's team narrowly missed the playoffs, but in 2004, after Donovan became director of player personnel and added Betty Lennox, the Storm earned the city of Seattle its first national championship in 25 years.
In the 2005 season, in which Donovan became the first female coach to win 100 games, the Storm made the playoffs but lost in the first round. At season's end, Donovan's contract was extended to keep her in Seattle for several years.
With her 120th victory on August 6, 2006, she became the coach with the third most WNBA victories, passing former Los Angeles Sparks coach Michael Cooper. She trails only Van Chancellor and Richie Adubato in victories.
On November 30, 2007 Anne resigned from her position of head coach of the Seattle Storm.
On April 28, 2009 Anne was appointed as an Assistant Coach for the New York Liberty. She assumed the title of Interim Head Coach of the Liberty on July 31, 2009, replacing former head coach Pat Coyle.
A three-time Olympian, she earned gold medals in 1984 and 1988. Her team did not go to the Olympics in 1980, due to the 1980 Olympic boycott.
Donovon also played on two USA Women's Pan American Teams. She played on the 1983 team, winning the gold in Venezuela,[3] and on the 1987 team winning the gold in Indianapolis, Indiana.[4]
In January 2006, USA Basketball named Donovan head coach of the 2008 Beijing Olympics US women's team.[5] She had been the assistant coach of the team four years earlier. Her USA team won the Gold medal, beating Australia.
Two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American while at ODU.
Inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 1994.
Inducted into the ODU Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.
Inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Received the NCAA 25 Year Award on January 13, 2008.
On October 24, 2004, she was named by the Sun Belt Conference as its All-Time Women's basketball Player.
Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during the 109th commencement ceremony (December 13, 2008) from Old Dominion University in recognition of her recent and past contributions to Women's Basketball.
In May 2009, she was named to the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, which honors athletes, coaches and administrators who contributed to sports in southeastern Virginia.
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^ "Hall of Famers". Basketball Hall of Fame. http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/tag/anne-t-donovan. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
^ "WBHOF Inductees". WBHOF. http://www.wbhof.com/inductees.html. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
^ "NINTH PAN AMERICAN GAMES -- 1983". USA Basketball. http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=wpag_1983. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
^ "TENTH PAN AMERICAN GAMES -- 1987". USA Basketball. http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=wpag_1987. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
^ "Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad -- 2008". USA Basketball. http://www.usabasketball.com/news.php?news_page=woly_2008. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
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Early morning fire strikes Fort Garry campus
Investigators trying to determine cause of fire in Central Energy Plant
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The south side of the Central Energy Plant on the Fort Garry campus after an early morning fire. Photo by Craig Adolphe.
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Image by Craig Adolphe November 6, 2015
Firefighters were called to the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus just before 6 a.m. this morning to put out a fire.
The fire started on the South side of Central Energy Plant, located on the corner of Maclean Crescent and Service 1 Rd S, across from Mary Speechly Hall.
As of 9:20 a.m. no cause had been identified for the fire but firefighters, police, and university security services remained on site while investigators worked to determine the cause.
A tweet from the University of Manitoba’s official twitter account warned that the university’s heating system may be affected by the damage.
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Game 133, Mariners at Padres
marc w · August 29, 2018 at 12:00 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Erasmo Ramirez vs. Joey Lucchesi, 12:40pm
After one of the most baffling, frustrating losses of the year last night – a night in which Jacob Nix shut down the M’s offense despite not registering a single strikeout over 8 1/3 frames – the M’s face another rookie hurler with funky mechanics and something of a trick pitch. What could go wrong?
Joey Lucchesi roared out of the gate in April, confusing hitters with his frankly bizarre change-up. Lefties couldn’t elevate the ball at all, righties didn’t see it well, and Lucchesi’s delivery added enough deception to make him a surprisingly tough at-bat despite 91 MPH velo. More recently, the sheen (or novelty) is wearing off, and righties in particular seem to be figuring something out. They’re starting to hit for average against his weird churve and hit for power against his heavy, sinking four-seam fastball. A part of this may be that for all of its supposed novelty, Lucchesi’s signature pitch doesn’t look too odd by movement. It only looks odd when you insist on calling it a change-up.
Lucchesi (a lefty, btw) has a sinking fastball and than a “change” that moves 1″ *gloveside* and has about 1″ of vertical drop. That’s…that’s not a change-up. I’m going to acknowledge here that it’s Lucchesi’s pitch, not mine, and that he throws it with a change-up grip. I’ll stipulate that it may look kind of change-uppy out of his hand or something, but if we classify pitches based on what they DO, and not how pitchers developed them or what they like to call it, it’s very, very clearly not a change. A change typically breaks armside, often more than the fastball. A splitter may have little armside run, but when it’s cutting like this, I can’t fathom why he’d call it a change.
Per BrooksBaseball, but not Statcast, Lucchesi also throws the occasional curveball. The pitch is mentioned in the article linked above, so I have no doubt Lucchesi firmly believes he throws one, but here’s the thing: it has the exact same velocity, horizontal movement, and vertical movement as his “change-up.” I’m not a strict baseballing essentialist, but I’d like to point out that, at least to batters, when you have two pitches that are completely alike in everything save perhaps the pitcher’s intent, you do not in fact have two pitches.
What do we have here? We’ve got a pitcher throwing a change-up that looks absolutely nothing like a change-up, and a curve that has very little movement compared to a ball thrown without spin. That…that sounds weird. But everything takes on a very different cast if we just called all of his non-fastballs sliders. By movement, they become completely normal – boring, even. Whatever Lucchesi wants to call it, and however many of them Lucchesi insists there are, it looks for all the world like Lucchesi throws a fastball at 91 and a slider at 79-80. He’s still got some deceptiveness, but everything else starts to make sense- a brilliant start that fades as batters adapt to his three-pitch mix that isn’t a three-pitch mix at all. The “churve” that’s so beguiling initially starts to seem a bit more hittable once you stop trying to think of a change that moves like *that* and just look slider.
This isn’t to suggest that Lucchesi’s terrible. Lefties really do have trouble elevating the ball, and he misses a ton of lefty bats…exactly what you’d expect from a lefty who throws sliders all the time. The platoon splits, the righty HR trouble, all of it makes perfect sense if we just give up the fiction of the “churve.” Now, last night, the M’s couldn’t quite figure out Jacob Nix, who, despite an actual, really good, change, can’t quite disguise his pitches. You can have flaws, even big ones, and beat this offense if things break right. The M’s need to ensure that things don’t break right for Lucchesi, or they give themselves too much work to do against the A’s. Yes, the M’s still have 7 games left against their Wildcard rival, but they can’t afford to slide further back than the 5.5 game hole they find themselves in now.
1: Haniger, LF
2: Segura, SS
3: Cano, 2B
4: Cruz, RF
5: Healy, 1B
6: Seager, 3B
7: Zunino, C
8: Maybin, CF
9: Erasmooooo
The M’s brought up Shawn Armstrong, the former Cleveland Indians reliever and the standout star of Tacoma’s bullpen this year. Nick Rumbelow’s been optioned back to T-town, whose home schedule is now over. Armstrong was dominant down the stretch, and is still an intriguing guy, as I wrote about back when they picked him up late last year.
I haven’t written much about the M’s system, as I just got tired of writing about minor league free agents doing stuff in AAA/AA while the few impact prospects the M’s had struggled or had TJ surgery. Since that fatalistic shrug, though, Evan White’s been on a tear, as John Trupin details at LL. I’m not completely convinced yet, and the Cal League’s a great place to show some pop, but it’s a well-argued piece and a very, very hopeful sign. It helps make up for Kyle Lewis’ disappointing 2018 and helps make the wait for Julio Rodriguez go a bit faster.
5 Responses to “Game 133, Mariners at Padres”
WTF_Ms on August 29th, 2018 2:51 pm
Well, apparently everything has gone wrong in this series. ‘‘Tis the end of our run. As I always say, maybe next year?
Jake on August 29th, 2018 5:09 pm
Rumbelow was optioned to AA, not Tacoma.
schwingy on August 29th, 2018 10:55 pm
The Ms just seem so ‘soft’. Who fights on this team? I know this has no bearing on baseball play, but when was the last time this team brawled? If someone punched them in the face, it seems they’d reply with a high five and a smile. We just seem so far away from having a team that is ready to compete by grinding out at bats from the first out
mrakbaseball on August 30th, 2018 10:31 am
I think the ’98 & ’99 teams had 3 or 4 brawls a year, how did they finish in the standings?
Sorry, not my point. I was speaking figuratively. Fight, grinding out at bats from the 1st inning. Somehow we need to develop a more physically and mentally tough group of players. We have a few ‘nice’ pieces here and there, but when you compare us to the elite teams right now we seem like a universe away. Maybe they’ll go on some amazing run and prove me wrong. I’d love that. I like Servais’ approach overall, but we still need a lot of horses to pull this cart.
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Trump, Omarosa trade insults, charges
Published: Tue, August 14, 2018 @ 12:00 a.m.
President refers to Youngstown native as ‘wacky,’ ‘not smart’
President Donald Trump and former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman faced off Monday in a messy clash that involved an explosive tell-all book, secret recordings and plenty of insults – reviving their roles as reality-show boss and villain.
Trump accused Manigault Newman, the former White House liaison to black voters, as being “wacky” and “not smart” after his former co-star revealed her recording of a phone conversation with the president during a media blitz for her new book.
Beyond their war of words, the row touched on several sensitive issues in Trump’s White House, including a lack of racial diversity among senior officials, security in the executive mansion, a culture that some there feel borders on paranoia and the extraordinary measures used to keep ex-employees quiet.
In an unusual admission, Trump acknowledged that the public sparring was perhaps beneath a person in his position, tweeting that he knew it was “not presidential” to take on “a lowlife like Omarosa.” But he added: “This is a modern-day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry!”
The dispute has been building for days as Manigault Newman, a Youngstown native and graduate of The Rayen School, promotes her memoir “Unhinged,” which comes out officially on Tuesday. The book paints a damning picture of Trump, including her claim that he used racial slurs on the set of his reality show “The Apprentice.”
In a series of interviews on NBC, Manigault Newman also revealed two audio recordings from her time at the White House, including portions of a recording of her firing by chief of staff John Kelly, which she says occurred in the high-security Situation Room, and a phone call with Trump after she was fired.
Trump officials and a number of outside critics denounced the recordings as a serious breach of ethics and security – and White House aides worried about what else Manigault Newman may have captured in the West Wing.
The latest tape recording appears to show Trump expressing surprise about her firing, saying “nobody even told me about it.” But Manigault Newman said he “probably instructed General Kelly to do it.”
On Twitter Trump declared on Monday that she had been “fired for the last time,” a reference to her appearances on his reality TV show. He said Kelly had called her a “loser & nothing but problems,” but he himself had tried to save her job – because he liked her public comments about him.
“I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!” Trump tweeted.
Responding on NBC, Manigault Newman said: “I think it’s sad that with all the things that’s going on in the country that he would take time out to insult me and to insult my intelligence.”
She added: “This is his pattern with African-Americans.”
Manigault Newman’s exit does highlight the lack of diversity among Trump’s top aides. She was the highest-ranking African-American on the White House staff. She said on NBC that in her absence “they’re making decisions about us without us.”
Manigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her $15,000 a month to accept a “senior position” on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement.
The offer raises fresh question about the ways that White House aides are being offered safe landing spots after they leave.
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Christman, Clark and Hoover take charge at Squaw Creek
July 21, 2018 at 12:10a.m.
By Greg Gulas | sports@vindy.com
Cole Christman of Kennsing ton Golf Course and Anthony Clark of Yankee Run each carded 1-over-par 73 at Squaw Creek on Friday to share the first-round lead at this year’s Greatest Golfer of the Valley 17-U junior championship, presented by Avalon Lakes.
In 17-U girls action, New Castle Country Club’s Erika Hoover fashioned an 82 to lead Hannah Keffler of Flying B Golf Course by seven strokes heading to today’s finals at Avalon Lakes.
Boys 17-U division finals begin at 12:10 p.m. today, girls 17-U division tees off at 12:15 p.m., 14-U girls hit the tees at 1:30 p.m. while boys 14-U finals begin at 1:50 p.m.
In all, 46 golfers representing 18 Mahoning Valley golf courses and five counties are taking part in the Greatest Golfer’s ninth season. The event is produced by The Vindicator and hosted by Farmers National Bank, Covelli Enterprises and Superior Beverage along with 14 other companies and golf course sponsors.
“This course plays fast like it always does so you need to position yourself, especially on the greens,” Christman said. “There are a lot of trees, so you need to have a plan off the tees.”
Christman, a two-time Greatest champion who is vying for his third title, authored a 2-over 37 on the front nine.
“I was driving really well and had a lot of confidence,” he said. “My wedges were great and I gave myself a chance for birdie, which is all that you can ask for. I just need to eliminate some dumb, pointless errors on Saturday. I three-putted twice, left an 80-yard wedge shot in the bunker and had two double bogeys.”
Clark shot 35 on the front nine and finished with 38 on the back nine. His round included 10 pars and three birdies.
“I got off the tee really well on the front nine, was hitting the greens and felt like my putting went well,” Clark said. “I had three bogeys on the back nine and that was because of bad drives. Overall, my putting was better than usual.
“If I expect to remain in contention on Saturday, every part of my game will have to be in sync. Getting off the tee and putting will be the keys.”
Keegan Butler’s 75 was good enough for third place entering today’s final round. He is two strokes off the pace set by Christman and Clark.
His round included 10 pars and two birdies.
“The course set up really well and while I didn’t hit particularly well today, I scrambled enough to keep myself in it on Saturday,” said Butler of Mill Creek Golf Course. “I don’t particularly have a good history at Avalon Lakes, but I’m looking to change that this weekend.”
Hoover’s 82 leads Hannah Keffler of Flying B Golf Course, who carded 89 and Mill Creek’s Jenna Jacobson whose 90 was a stroke behind Keffler.
She shot 41 on both the front and back nine holes, had eight pars, failed to register a birdie while hoping to eliminate 10 bogeys from her first-round.
“I started well on the front nine because I had great drives, all of which were right down the middle,” she said. “I had success with my irons and made a couple long putts. I also had a couple putts that lipped out. The pins were challenging so on Saturday, I just need to go out and manage my game. Avalon Lakes is a little tougher, so I’ll need to putt and chip really well.”
Squaw Creek assistant golf pro Josh Pearlman said the juniors are always great to host.
“We absolutely love hosting the Greatest juniors,” Pearlman said. “They bring a different atmosphere and it helps build junior golf in the area. It was a very nice day today and luckily the weather held up.”
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Allan Dwan
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Number: OOPCDDM104
BLUE JEANS (CD)
Composed by: Nico Fidenco
BLUE JEANS (seq.2) 02
BLUE JEANS (seq.10) 11
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After “La ragazzina”, with “Blue Jeans” (1975), an erotic film with dramatic implications, director Mario Imperoli once again confirms the artistic relationship with actress Gloria Guida and with composer Nico Fidenco. In this movie Gloria Guida plays the role of Daniela, a seventeen year old prostitute, who, while working on the streets uses the nickname "Blue Jeans". After being arrested the girl claims to be the daughter of Dr. Carlo Anselmi (Paolo Carlini), a rich restorer, long separated from the supposed mother of Daniela. The police leave the girl in the house of Dr. Anselmi and so the provocative girl brings the chaos to his home. She and his boyfriend Stefano, also accommodated in the house acting like a dumb student, have a diabolical plan to get profit on the father’s wealth. Both want to kill Anselmi, but once the trap comes into action, Daniela starts to feel remorse and so she evokes a violent struggle between the boyfriend and the father that ends with the death of both. "Blue Jeans" then renounces everything and returns to the street. Digitmovies presents for the first time on CD the original full stereo soundtrack composed by Nico Fidenco (from the same composer we have already released the OST from the movie "La ragazzina" - Digitmovies CDDM087). That time "Blue Jeans" was only released on a 45 rpm single (Rca TBBO 1114) with the songs "Blue Jeans" and "A final step" performed by the group Cyan. For this special edition CD we used every musical note recorded in full stereo and found on the original tapes preserved in the RCA archives. Nico Fidenco wrote a sweet flavoured soundtrack dominated by a pastoral main theme, a romantic ballad that we present in a slow vocal version (Tr.1) as well as in a faster one (tr.18). This particular main theme is reprised with several different arrangements using harpsichord, flute, strings and rhythms (Tr.2), guitar and strings (Tr.3); other orchestrations include a joyful version with flute and rhythmics (Tr.5), harmonica and strings (Tr.11). a country-style version using harmonica and strings (Tr.15) and a “vivace” version using once again the harpsichord (Tr.16). Nico Fidenco provided a second main theme that we can listen both in vocal version (Tr.9) and reprised in instrumental versions (Tr.12, Tr.13).
1. BLUE JEANS (Titoli vocal – seq.1) (3:15)
2. BLUE JEANS (seq.2) (3:39)
9. A FINAL STEP (5:24)
10. BLUE JEANS (seq.9) (2:17)
11. BLUE JEANS (seq.10) (5:18)
18. BLUE JEANS (Finale vocal - seq.17) (3:15)
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LA VIA DELLA PROSTITUZIONE (EMANUELLE AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE)
EL CHE GUEVARA
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