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Investing in scholarships at Heritage University gives talented students an opportunity to pursue higher education. College degrees that may not have been possible are now possible. With scholarships, students grow academically, advance in careers and impact their communities as thoughtful leaders.
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Since the founding of Heritage in 1982, our donors have helped us create opportunities for thousands of deserving students. Heritage provided more than $7.5 million on scholarship aid in 2016 alone. The need remains significant, however. After the distribution of state, federal and Heritage scholarship monies, this year’s unmet student financial needs totaled an additional $2.5 million.
In addition to scholarship funding, our generous donors have enabled Heritage to maintain a PhD-level faculty and to bring in industry experts to share their knowledge and talents with students. They have also helped us build new classrooms and state-of-the-art laboratories as well as support additional degree programs that fulfill the employment needs of the Yakima Valley. Thanks to the generosity of donors, Heritage can ensure that our students are just as prepared to enter their chosen career fields as any other college graduates nationwide.
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“We first became acquainted with Heritage University through several of our friends who serve on its board of directors. We were invited to the annual Scholarship Dinner and ended up going again every year for about six years. After seeing all who are involved and the good work they are doing, it became apparent to us that this was a worthy cause that deserved to be a part of our estate planning.”
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History of Hats
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History and Origin of Hats
Hat is a covering for the head. Hats are worn for various reasons, from fashion to protection, for ceremonies and rituals, for women and men. They were markings of a class to which a wearer belonged and are used to differentiate nationalities, branches and ranks in military.
One of the first images that show a hat, is a painting in a Thebes tomb. It depicts a man that wears a conical hat made of straw. Pileus appeared also very early and it was a simple skull cap. When in Ancient Greece and Rome a slave was freed, he was given a Phrygian cap as a symbol of freedom. That is why Phrygian caps were called Liberty caps while they were worn during French revolution. First hat with a brim is an Ancient Greek petasos. Wearing of hats was not reserved for man only. Women wore different head coverings like veils, kerchiefs, hoods, caps and wimples. One of the basic materials that hats are made of is felt. Felt was discovered at different times in different parts of the world. Ancient Egyptians found felt when they noticed that camel hair that falls into the sandals becomes compact from pressure and moist. Native Americans found felt in their fur moccasins. It is told that St. Clement found felt when he filled his shoes with flax fibers. That is why he is pronounced patron saint of felt hat makers. In 16th century, women began to wear structured hats, similar to those that were worn by men. In 18th century milliners started appearing, usually women, that created hats and bonnets but also designing overall styles. Materials of the highest quality and best hats came from Italian city of Milan. That is where term “milliner” comes from.
One of the most popular women’s hats in 18th century was ‘Shepherdess’ hat with a large brim as a protection from the sun. Bonnets were made from silk with wooden strips or whalebone for a frame and a strip that held hat to a head in bad weather. In 19th century, brim size of bonnets changed from very large to small (when parasols became fashion). At the same time, hats reentered the scene and were in fashion as much as bonnets. They started as riding woman’s riding hats and were made as highland caps, little circular pork pie hats, doll hats decorated with feathers and tall hats. 20th century saw woman’s hat change from smaller to big with large brim to small again. It changed with fashion and hairstyles, economic and social changes, wars, rationing. Man’s hats also changed through history. Simple skull caps changed into Capotain (tall hat with small brim and a belt with a buckle) and that one into a broad, round-brimmed hat that protected from sun and rain, which transformed into tricorne. Tricorne evolved into bicorn (Napoleon wore a bicorn hat). Many styles of hats developed independently or from each other, like beret, Stetson, top hat, sombrero or fez. In time, wearing of the hats declined. Today, they are worn for occasions or as part of casual wardrobe but not universally as they were.
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Four sisters decide to get together and hatch a plan to prevent their youngest sibling CJ (Enchong Dee) from getting married. Eldest sister Teddie (Toni Gonzaga) returns from Spain, taking a break from her life as a maid/waitress despite her family knowing that she is there as a teacher. Second in line is Bobbie (Bea Alonzo) who comes back from New York with her boyfriend TJ (Sam Milby) and his daughter who does not like her. Manila-based Alex (Angel Locsin) is a struggling production assistant doing indie movies. The youngest sister, Gabby (Shaina Magdayao), is dubbed as the old maid and puts her life on hold to take care of their mother. Thinking that their only brother is making a big mistake, the four resort to every form of sabotage, but not without drama because each sister has her own personal dilemma to face.
In terms of acting, there really is nothing to complain about. Toni Gonzaga and Bea Alonzo both benefit from good characterization. With roles that are well-written, they are able to maximize their acting to play their parts well and give a little something extra. Gonzaga as the big sister jealous of her younger sister's success shuttles back and forth from comedy to drama with relative ease, and it is this fluid and quick change between moods that sets her apart from the rest. Alonzo, on the contrary, relies heavily on drama as her forte and leaves most of the comedy scenes to her sisters. These two dominate the movie's climax, which is the family confrontation scene, with strong backup from Coney Reyes as their mother.
Angel Locsin suffers from being relegated to a role that requires less. The attempt to expand her character's clout is evident, as she is pitted several times against Alonzo in several emotionally charged scenes. While she is able to hold her own and prove that she is of the same caliber, her role does not really permit her to go any further, as most of the interesting twists have already been given to the other two.
It is Shaina Magdayao who suffers the most for a role so irrelevant it could have been scrapped and nobody would have cared. Perhaps it is one of he truths of having a large family, one would turn out to be the sibling with the least drama, hence having the least interesting story. But that is real life, and this is a movie. Fail to make a mark and you are quickly forgotten by the audience. In fairness to Magdayao, however, you see her giving her all, but the role just would not allow her to go beyond what is necessary, and what is needed is not much. In the end, the attention given to her character, albeit scarce, could have just been used to make Locsin's character at least on par with that of Gonzaga and Alonzo.
The support cast is okay. Carmi Martin steals every scene that she is in without much effort. Enchong Dee is also good in one confrontation scene. Coney Reyes' presence alone is reason enough for you to root for the mom who wants nothing else but harmony in the household. It is all good, and because the movie gets to tackle both comedy and drama, the product is a good family movie that will make you rethink your relationship with your own kin. This movie should have been screened on Christmas Day!
WRITTEN BY: ihcahieh at 6:23:00 PM
CATEGORY: Filipino, Film
michymichymoo said...
Just watched this. I didn't expect much but this movie made me cry. :)
ihcahieh said...
@michymichymoo - You are not alone in that sentiment. I know a lot of people who cried because of this movie, haha. It's a feel good family drama indeed.
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Seven alpha wolves.
Not brothers by blood, but brothers by nature.
When Jem Stonehouse reunites with the Alpha’s son, Sean, she has no idea just what she is taking on.
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Jem Stonehouse dreams of running free. She closes her eyes on her mundane life as a suburban housewife and is whisked to a realm where she races through trees under the silvery glow of moonlight. Jem shrugs it off as overactive imagination, until a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger leaves her wondering if there’s more to it than that.
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8th January 2019 held at Younger Hall, Kilmun 7.30PM.
PRESENT:) Brian Tester (Convenor), Diane Nicholson (Vice Convenor) Graham Revill, Janet Holm (Secretary), Fraser Smith. Victor Sandall and Mandy Grout
Also Present Councillor A Reid, PC Donald MacKay, Bob Daracott (National Park),
APOLOGIES: Russell Humphreys (Treasurer), Lachie McQuarie, Councillor Y McNeilly and Councillor G. Blair, (BKCDT)
A correction to the last month’s minutes was made as follows:
In response to a question about the planning application for Artaraig windfarm Alan Reid said that he expect the Council’s Planning Committee will refer the application to a public hearing.
It is likely by saying that the application will be decided by Scottish Minsters for the following reasons.
If the Council’s Planning Committee refuse the application, then it is expected that the applicant will appeal to Scottish Ministers.
On the other hand, if the Council’s Planning Committee are minded to grant it, then, because a Scottish Government agency, SNH, has objected, the application is automatically referred to Scottish Ministers.
Either way the Scottish Government decides.
Proposed: Diane Nicholson
Seconded: Janet Holm Carried
BT (Convenor) said that KCC has 2 applications for co-opted members Victor Sandal and Mandy Grout.
Their applications and been circulated round the committee and, at the meeting everyone present (more than 2/3s present ) had no objection to them being co-opted members of the Kilmun Community Council.
The co-optees then now serve, with full voting rights, up to the interim elections in 2020 when they’d be expected to go through a formal nomination process/election.
KCC welcomed Victor and Mandy onto the committee.
Brian said that he had still not received a resignation letter from Andy Mullen but as he does not now live in the area another vacancy for a co-opted member is still open.
Brought Forward £3639.98
Table clothes for festive lunch 2019 248.55
Stationary costs £65.98
Income from Festive Lunch 392.20
General fund 1210.53
Directory donations 7.00
Overall total 3574.03
KCC congratulated Donald Mackay on his recent promotion to Sergeant.
He said that there was little to report over this month.
There had been 13 incidents and 1 crime report.
The crime was a theft of metal from an empty house at Ballochyle. The thieves were apprehended and charged thanks to the very quick response of residents to a neighbourhood watch alert. KCC used the email list from the shore collaboration (40 contacts) and this was quickly disseminated further, Donald was very pleased, that, put to the test, this strategy was very successful.
Responding to a question Donald said the new inspector, Dougie Wilson, hopes to be able to attend the next KCC meeting.
East Cowal Heritage trail leaps into next phase! (project newsletter)
Community Partnership - Social Enterprise Academy Hub Survey! Calling all Village Halls, CDT's and community interest groups! Survey. In partnership with the Social Enterprise Academy, The Community Partnership is looking to develop a Social Enterprise Academy Hub in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Please take a few minutes to complete our very short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2LTJL9W
Letter from some committee members re situation at Blairmore Hall.
Extension to form raised timber deck to front elevation (Retrospective) Charity Cottage Gairletter Cottages Blairmore
Installation of gas tank (retrospective) Novar Kilmun Dunoon
Internal alterations to install shower/changing facilities and installation of replacement roof to outbuilding. The Courtyard Benmore Estate Benmore.
BT has communicated to G Ross (Western Ferries) by email and asked where the 3D visualisation images that have been promised are, as they haven’t been received yet. Mr Ross had promised that they would be available in the first week of January, well before the public meeting. At present BT is concerned that this will not be done in time.
B Daracott said that the planning team at the National Park are also waiting for the information
The Festive Lunch went well and was enjoyed by all. There were less people there than last year and less money was made although it is not a fundraising event. JH said that planning was already taking place for next year to be prepared more ahead of time. Notes were taken of things that could be done more effectively . It was decided that the profits for the event went towards buying wipe clean table clothes that will fit the tables in younger Hall for the lunch next year. These tablecloths, with permission from KCC, can be used by other groups and care has to be taken of them.
A very effective beach clean was done in December across from the Strone in involving 10+ volunteers. An amazing area of rubbish was gathered including a case full of plastic bottles. The most worry plastic rubbish found was hundreds of plastic cotton buds.
JH said that, on the request from a resident been in touch with ABC about the removal of a derelict rowing boat that had been tied up months ago by the coastguard. In recent storms it has been breaking up along the shore. Volunteers from the community are to break up the boat and ABC will collect the parts when the boat is broken up. ABC will collect rubbish from beach cleans etc. The number for this service and the dog warm or other environmental pest issues.
Pavement repairs
The works opposite the health centre are due to start this week and the works on the A815 pavement will follow on as soon as they can be programmed and weather permitting.
Review of public convenience provision
Discussions to take place early this year.
Request for 40mph limit between Sandhaven and Cot House
Roads are in discussion with Police Scotland
Amenity Services confirm that all recyclable waste collected from blue bins is recycled. See https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/recycling-figures for the detailed figures. In 2017, 49.8% of all waste collected in Argyll & Bute was recycled, composted or recovered. This is up from 46.4% in 2016.
In response to a previous question about weeds on the pavements Alan emailed the following response after the meeting.
“Previously amenity services struggled to cover the weed killing programme due to staff shortages, however we look to carry out these works before the end of March 2019 as part of the winter maintenance programme.”
Alan said If nothing’s been done by the February meeting, I’ll send them a reminder.
Bob said that there is very little to report. There was some discussion about whether the Kilmun bird hide project would require planning permission. Bob will find out about this.
A question was asked about the work going on at a house in Kilmun where walls have collapsed and new entrances have been put in the wall at the pavement. Bob will make inquires.
An application for a small grant from ACHA is being made for outdoor excurse equipment for Graham’s Point. Next meeting is in February
GH reported that the village Trust had made the sandwiches for the Festive lunch.
No report and no apologies for non-attendance. BT to send an email to FES to convey his disappointment at the poor support we are receiving from them.
A BURNS LUNCH at the Younger Hall Monday January 22rd 2018 (12 for 12.30)
At the Younger Hall, Kilmun. Tickets: £15.00 (including a glass of wine). Raffle. Tickets can be obtained from Russell Humphreys 01369840345
Further from the report submitted by the secretary from Blairmore Hall committee a letter was sent to KCC explaining the situation from the viewpoint of others on the committee. An Extraordinary meeting is to be held this coming Sunday at Blairmore Hall.
Pat Lynn formulated a response to that letter, and she is to be asked if they want the letter to be put onto KCC website as the previous report was included in December minutes.
No Report.
The Group meeting due to take place on Tuesday 5th February 2019 at 10am in the Timber Pier Building , Dunoon.
The next meeting will be held before the planning meeting above.
GH reported that 4 people had agreed to be trustees of Friends of Kilmun Bird Hide. An application is being made to the ABC sustainable fund. An application is being made to incorporate the group as an SCIO. The Natural History Club is going to be asked if they would like to join as members.
Bob Daracott will check is planning permission will be needed for the renovation work.
Included in Alan Reid’s report.
NTR – To be kept on the agenda
From Discussion Fraser Smith is going to see if he can find out more about the difficulties Les Orr is having getting connected to broadband.
Bob Daracott said the he attended the opening of the Lauder Monument. There is a new car park and footpath.
BT said that he had an email from Robert Aldam re Freedom of Information about grass cutting in Cowal. This is not to be taken further as ACHA are cutting the grass and they own the land.
Place: Blairmore Hall, Blairmore
Date: Tuesday 12th February at 7.30pm.
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The American media’s fraud and corruption are at an all-time high
Recent dishonesty demonstrates why the mainstream media is largely no longer worthy of the trust of the American people.
Following the massacre of movie-goers in an Aurora, Colorado theater early last Friday morning, ABC’s Brian Ross twisted himself into knots to connect the violence with the Tea Party on “Good Morning America” with George Stephanopoulos. Here is the text.
Stephanopoulos: I’m going to go to Brian Ross. You’ve been investigating the background of Jim Holmes here. You found something that might be significant.
Ross: There’s a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it’s Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.
So, Mr. Ross, if you don’t know “if this is the same Jim Holmes,” why even mention this? It’s not like “Jim Holmes” is so unusual a name that it couldn’t be shared by multiple individuals. Is wild speculation your idea of responsible journalism? Or, are you just taking advantage of a horrible crime and the pain it caused to score cheap political points for your own ideology?
Even if it was the same Jim Holmes, there was no indication that the shooting had any connection whatsoever with the Tea Party. Like the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords last year, this is another pitiful and failed media attempt to tie the Tea Party to violent acts.
ABC issued a correction, and then an apology, and that likely will be the extent of its efforts at contrition. However, the family of the man Mr. Ross falsely connected to the shooting was still getting death threats days later.
Question: How can anyone trust Brian Ross’ reporting hereafter, or that of ABC?
The cable network MSNBC got caught manipulating a comment by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, totally changing the context of a statement he made in order to ridicule and demean him.
The fraud that MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell palmed off on her viewers painted Mr. Romney as an out-of-touch elitist who doesn’t understand how retail commerce works.
Ms. Mitchell introduced a video clip, saying “I get the feeling – take a look at this – that Mitt Romney has not been to too many Wawa’s [convenience stores] along the roadside in Pennsylvania.” In the clip, Mr. Romney comments: “I was at Wawa’s, I wanted to order a sandwich. You press the little touch tone keypad, alright, you just touch that, and you know, the sandwich comes at you, touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, there’s your sandwich. It’s amazing.”
Ms. Mitchell and her accomplice yuck it up at the candidate’s obvious ignorance of this common method of selling food: “It’s amazing,” she smirks.
But she pulled a fast one on viewers who trust her to honestly tell them what is going on the in the world. What actually happened was that Mr. Romney, prior to relating the Wawa’s anecdote, commented on how a friend had a simple procedure badly mangled by incompetent government bureaucracy that required him to fill out a 33-page form to notify the government of his change of address. Twice.
He was contrasting government inefficiency with the efficiency and innovative nature of the private sector. But that’s not the message Ms. Mitchell wanted her viewers to get, apparently.
Question: Is Andrea Mitchell’s reporting trustworthy?
After the shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida, a large number of people, aided by media reports, rushed to judgment accusing Mr. Zimmerman of a racially motivated killing of the young man we all came to know from the photo of an angelic-looking youngster taken when he was 12 years-old.
Whether Mr. Zimmerman committed a crime, or merely defended himself will be determined at trial, which every American – even those knee-jerks who jumped to the conclusion that the shooting was racially motivated – needs to understand is the proper setting for such determinations.
News organizations are expected to accurately report to the public what is known about events. A well-informed public is less likely to react emotionally and inappropriately, as so many did in the Trayvon Martin shooting. These days it seems the mainstream media frequently ignores ethical standards.
Supporting that point is the way NBC News edited the recording of Mr. Zimmerman talking with a police dispatcher, and creating the impression that Mr. Zimmerman had a racial prejudice against Trayvon Martin. It then broadcast this deception on the “Today Show”: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black,” George Zimmerman tells police in NBC’s edited version.
Here, however, is original text of the call:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
In these examples, people were deliberately trying to manipulate you with fraudulent reporting, or they are incompetent. When news organizations slant the news, or manufacture the news, whatever the cause, it is unethical, underhanded and unforgiveable.
Labels: America, Arrogance, Fairness, Freedom of the Press, Ideology, Liberalism, Media, Politics, Press Bias
TexasFred said...
The media is the most powerful agent for the left that exists.. It's just that simple...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:47:00 PM
James Shott said...
And it is a powerful tool.
Thursday, July 26, 2012 9:24:00 PM
Faultline USA said...
Totally corrupt no doubt! Great article.
Saturday, July 28, 2012 2:58:00 PM
Thanks, Barb.
Monday, July 30, 2012 9:54:00 PM
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David Bowie is Hiding
January 11, 2016 by Jeff Simmermon
I saw David Bowie give the keynote speech at CMJ in 1995. He wore a perfect white linen suit that glowed a little under the lights.
People started shrieking the second his first wingtip stepped onstage and it turned into the applause version of Queen at Wembley Stadium. We screamed and clapped and shouted and whistled and he just stood there eating it up and beaming it back at us through that smile like a mischievous pile of knives, as if to say:
"Thank you, you're too kind, but really, I'm very used to this and it never gets old."
He walked around the stage gesturing and waving and amping it up, and milked the room for all we had. And eventually, the applause died down - I think we all just got tired.
Once the room finally got quiet, he bowed, said "Thank you so much," and then just walked off stage and disappeared.
Nobody could find him. He was gone for two minutes, then five, then ten. Worried stagehands with headsets and clipboards came onstage.
Everyone that had been applauding started saying "what's going on? Should we go? What's happening?"
One of the stagehands said into the microphone, "Listen, everybody. We, uh, Mr. Bowie is supposed to be here, but, uh, nobody can find him."
The confusion got even louder. And right as people were starting to put on their coats, David Bowie skipped out onstage again and said
"Ah, now that was a bit of fun."
Everyone lost it, laughing, and the applause came right back, louder than the first time. Then he gave his speech, killed it, and got another standing ovation on the way out.
This icon of modern rock and roll whipped a crowd up into a frenzy and then went and hid in a coat closet without telling anybody for fifteen minutes just to prank several thousand people.
It's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And goddamn, is that masterful.
He took us all on this emotional roller coaster and turned one standing ovation into three. He knew exactly who he was to all of us, gave it to us, made us want him even more, then gave it to us and we loved him even more for doing it.
I hope he's doing that again to all of us now.
David Bowie can't be dead. He's just hiding, and when he comes back, we're all gonna go NUTS.
January 11, 2016 /Jeff Simmermon
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It's 6am. It's dark and cold outside. Perfect time to update the website!
Well, autumn of 2017 has nearly passed, and I can look behind me at a beautiful mountain of work. I mastered songs/EPs/albums by French artist Julia Palombe, The Tins, Professor Rhythm, Benjamin Lee / Bass Pair, and a new recording by Ethiopian synth genius Hailu Mergia, plus a stack of others I can't quite talk about yet.
I started teaching History of Music Production at SAE/Expression College, and love the intellectual and creative challenge of speaking with authority on everything from acoustical recording onto wax cylinder to the invention of the DAW, from the mania of Phil Spector productions to how Grimes makes a record, from Nashville in the 1950s to a house party on Sedgwick Ave in the Bronx in 1973.
In October, I traveled to NYC for the AES Convention. It was my first time back in my former hometown since I moved West in 2015. Oh, the heartstrings! I fell right back into the rhythm of the city and experienced intense sonic flashbacks - the sounds of stepping on cellar grates, the melodic whine of the subway rounding particular corners, the thrum of jackhammers, traffic, music seeping out of stores and restaurants. I walked along Crosby Street, now nearly unrecognizable to me, past the graffiti-covered heavy metal door to the Magic Shop, flashbacks of trying to lift that grate in the grips of winter, flashbacks of all the music made in that place.
I was so happy to reunite with my former boss, the Magic Shop's Steve Rosenthal, and get a tour of his new studios, MARS, in Dumbo. I got to hear Wally de Backer / Gotye perform the music of Jean-Jacques Perrey on a meticulously restored Ondioline, hang with my dear friend and mentor Sarah Register at the Tape Op booth, and record a pilot podcast episode with another good friend, Arbo Radiko's Jocelyn Arem.
And when the conference and social hangs ended, I slipped into the Union Square cinema and watched Blade Runner 2049 by myself, then retreated to the time capsule of a Tribeca loft where I was crashing and slept a few hours before my early morning flight back to California.
Ah, I miss you, New York City, but I'm a Californian now.
Up next, I actually spend a little time thinking about the musical moments that moved me most in 2017.
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(Almost) Fall News 2017
It's September! I've been working on records all summer! Here are some new releases to pass through my mastering suite...
Lou Reed.... I have a history with Lou's music. I'll write about it someday. Out this month from the Bottom Line Archive series, hear Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson tell stories about the art of songwriting and play intimate acoustic versions of their songs. There are some incredible stories in this one! The moment that got me though: Lou singing "Tracks of My Tears." Check out these kind words about the album from Rolling Stone.
Ron Pope released his latest album Work last month. It's intimate and raucous and solid top to bottom, and I am thrilled I got to work with Ron and with engineer Ted Young on this release. He's about to embark on a massive tour, so catch him at a venue near you! Here's the video for one of my faves from his record:
Divining Rod (the project of multi-instrumentalist Miyuki Furtado) released Hemlock Blues in July. I love the combination of songwriting, performing, production and all around great energy in this record.
I adored working with Irish-born / LA-based singer-songwriter Mairéad MacMullen on the mastering of her new release, Burn For Love. This is a lovely, passionate record, fiery collection of songs. I can't wait to catch a live show soon.
Outside the studio, I had the pleasure of jumping in to teach History of Music Production at SAE / Expression this summer, and I'll be teaching a pop culture class this fall. I relish the opportunity to think more academically about the music I listen to for work and for pleasure. Which is to say, it is utterly awesome to lecture on Brian Wilson, George Martin, Joe Meek, Black Flag, Kool Herc, Grimes... Who would you want to learn more about in a history of music production class? Drop me a line and let me know.
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Last weekend, I went to Montalvo Arts Center to experience a collection of sound art installations. I was particularly keen on seeing/hearing an installation by my friend Shane Myrbeck and his wife Emily Shisko called Hyphae, which draws inspiration from the underground mycelium networks trees use to communicate. It's a mesmerizing piece that moves with you as you stroll along the switchback path among the trees. I took the same path home that night, and it was even more haunting, creeping up and surrounding me in the pitch-black darkness.
The evening also included tributes to Pauline Oliveros. I'm not usually much of a participator, but I joined in a circle to perform The Heart Chant (2001) (from her book Deep Listening: A Composer's Practice, which is sitting, unread, though not for long, on my living room shelves). During this performance, I felt something I haven't felt in a long time: the synchronized vibrations of many voices, resonating in chests and along arms and fingers, passing from one person to the next. It was a powerful experience and a fitting tribute to Pauline Oliveros.
Still ruminating on the experience, I stumbled (again) on old grad school writings about sound and space:
Thoughts on Bachelard, December 2003:
Walking outside this morning after reading [Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space], I was more aware of the change in soundscape as I moved from space (and place) to space (and place). From my apartment--possessed by low level electronic hums, an occasional footfall from above, a car passing by--to the outside--sirens, loud wind blowing leaves off trees, constant traffic, pedestrians on cell phones. I thought of how Wyoming sounds to me in memories of my childhood--wind whistling, sometimes howling, through pine trees and through the edges of my bedroom windows, the muffled burble of hidden brooks, sounds unhindered by baffles of buildings, people, highway traffic. I thought of how loud air can be, as I rode my bike through Brooklyn this windy afternoon--it whooshed loud enough to erase the sounds of traffic and city life. I thought of how space--I mean outerspace!--sounds in 2001: A Space Odyssey--silent, seizing us with that vastness, deepness, that boundlessness Bachelard wrote about. But I did not think about Euclidian geometry or right angles or miles, meters, blocks of space. Except, then again, I did. Two more blocks to Smith Street, take a left at that corner, budget fifteen minutes to get there by three o'clock.
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spinach dip October 19th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Sorry, I should really fit everything in one post. Kasey deleted her page altogether, but now has a fan page on facebook. You can find her full name all over the internets. Also, most of their friends appear to be random strangers, not people they know IRL. Believe me, once you see the posts, it can’t be anything but a joke. I don’t think they’re really chicks. Their comments to guys on their pages are pretty crude…and just not stuff I’ve ever heard girls say.
katfever78 October 19th, 2010 at 5:06 am
@spinach….. damn, can’t find her.
spinach dip October 19th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Look through the K’s on her friend Savannah’s page. Westmoreland. There are a couple of Katies in there. Our Katie has a middle name that starts with A and a last name that starts with B. And a very tan duck face profile. Here’s her latest update from the 15th:
” I LOVE DECORATIONS!!! grammy would be so PROUD! we are all wearing one of her wigs with our SLUTFEST costums! COME VISIT US AT THE PARTY GRAM!! WE LOVE YOU! GOD BLESS YOUR SPIRIT! xoxoxoxo”
I don’t know why I was modded for using her name earlier…her facebook is open and public. Her name just wasn’t searchable.
jizzy October 19th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Makes you wonder who the hell has the kind of time to do a trolling scenario that takes up this much time. I’mma have to find them and friend them, though, because this really is like a soap opera and I want to watch more.
Here’s today’s thrilling installment:
“I told everyone the yankees suck ass but there still fucking hot as hell… I CANT SLEEP CUZ THIS DAM HOUSE SMELLS LIKE ASS SEX AND ALCOHOL… im still sore from this weekend so someone please come help me clean tomorrow pleeeeaaasse xoxo love you forever GOD BLESS!!!
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ass and sex and alcohol not asssex ew ”
It’s not a very exciting soap opera. It’s stuff like this that makes me think they’re trolling, though (besides the fact that besides Savannah, whose picture I’ve seen somewhere else on the nets, no one on their FB knows them in real life):
“IM MAKING GRAMMY BREKFAST TODAY BECAUSE SHES ALL OUT OF MEDICIN BUT SHE HASNT BEEN COUGHING OR CRYING ANYMORE!!! HORAY GRAMMY IS CURED!!!! GOD BLESSS!!!! xoxoxo
October 8 at 9:37am ”
…and then a few hours later…
“GRAMMY IS IN THE HOSPITAL! WORST DAY EVER!!! SHE DIDNT EAT BREKFAST AND THEN THE AMBULENCE CAME!!! GAHHH ALL ALONE WITH A MESSY HOUSE AND DIRTY CLOTHS AHHH GRAMMY WHY DID YOU GOOOOOOO!!!!!! I want to hang out with roxy:(
October 8 at 3:26pm ”
I cracked up when she tagged those random people in her “thanks for telling me to kill Grammy!” post. Everyone that she tagged, besides Savannah, un-friended her after that.
Can you tell I’m bored?
Keona October 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 am
spinach dip, there’s thousands of Savannahs on FaceBook, which one?
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All-America D Jack Drillock, Pleasantville shoot for unprecedented second straight Section 1 (NY) title
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It was a historic season for the Pleasantville boys lacrosse program in 2015.
The Panthers not only won the Section 1 (NY) title for the first time in its 14-year varsity history but beat four-time Class C sectional champ and defending state champ Bronxville 9-7 in the title game in doing so.
Bronxville had beaten Pleasantville in the sectional finals in 2013′ and ’14. The Panthers also beat Bronxville by two goals during the regular season — 10-8 on April 15. It was Bronxville’s only loss against a Section 1 opponent in 2015.
For a first look at Pleasantville in 2015, we turn to Jack Drillock.
The aggressive, athletic senior is one of the top defenders in New York state. Drillock, who has signed with Siena College, joined 2015 grad and midfielder Josh Della Puca as the first All-Americans in program history last spring.
Drillock, a lockdown, takeaway defender, triggered a Panthers unit that allowed an average of just 4.95 goals per game in 2015 — the lowest in Section 1, which includes Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and Rockland counties.
In addition, Drillock was just named a Golden Dozen honoree by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Westchester chapter. The award recognizes senior football players for both academic and athletic excellence.
Now, here are Jack’s perspectives on the upcoming season.
What have you been doing to get ready for the season?
Throughout the fall and early winter, many members of the team took advantage of the warm weather and went out on to the turf to work on their skills.
We did things such as one-on-one situations, shooting, and of course wall ball, among other things.
Now that it has gotten colder, we have started speed and strength training in order to be a more dynamic team come this spring.
How does your schedule look, what games are you looking forward to most, and who are some of your scrimmages against?
I believe we have a very tough schedule this year. We play a lot of elite programs in Section 1, including John Jay under the lights at their field.
One game I am really looking forward to is St. Joe’s-Trumbull. Everyone is looking forward to giving them a better game this year and coming out with an out-of-state win.
Additionally, we are going to Rye to scrimmage Rye and Fordham Prep, which should be a nice challenge to get us ready for the season.
What players on your team do you think will surprise some people this season?
Many members of our team should have breakout seasons this year. There are several young players that were role players last year who will need to fill the shoes of the people who graduated.
Some of these players include Declan McDermott, Jack Howe, and Cullen Dell. Although these players are still young, they are more than ready to have breakout seasons and turn some heads.
What do you think the strength of your team will be this year?
Overall, I think we are a well-balanced team. We have a lot of experience on the defensive side of the ball with several returning defenseman, including Greg Driscoll, Cullen Dell, and myself. Additionally, our faceoff middie, Mike Hammond, who got hurt midseason last year, is poised to make a strong comeback and be a significant force at the faceoffs.
How do you view the race in your league and who do you think some of the contending teams will be?
We believe everyone in our league wants to beat us since we had such a successful season last year. We still need to get better because everyone else is too. Two teams in particular that will be very tough competition in Class C are obviously Bronxville and a talented Hen Hud team.
We hope to defend our section title and go even further in states than last year.
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March 7, 2018 — Boucherville, Quebec, Canada — Two hospital buildings in New York City are now joined one floor above the ground by a custom-designed aluminum bridge of nearly 40 feet. The structure can be demounted into three pieces and quickly removed using a hoists with trolleys system.
Installed in January 2018, the 2,730 kg- (6,000 lb) bridge’s with special features was designed and manufactured by MAADI Group. This project was atypical for MAADI because it was necessary to provide a complete autonomous lifting system as well as the bolted connections to store the bridge if it were ever to be removed.
The need for these features arose from the easement agreement for the space between the two buildings, which states that nothing permanent can be installed there. Any installation needs to be removable to enable the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to access the century-old, underground sewer should the need arise.
In April 2012, Kevin Krudwig, the Project Architect from Ennead Architects, LLP, in New York City, was researching a solution for an economical removable structure to join the two buildings. After consulting with MAADI, Krudwig and his team team agreed that the MAADI concept was the “perfect solution” for several reasons.
“One, it’s lightweight,” Krudwig said. “It was, in light of the other things we heard, extremely affordable. It would span the width with no concerns at all. It could be demountable. We actually specified that it could come apart in three pieces.”
Other challenges followed. First, the complete bridge, 11.79 m (38’-8”) long and 4.49 m (8’-2”) wide, had to be trucked from Canada through the tight streets of New York City and into a snug loading dock.
Then the bridge had to be inserted between the two buildings. As Dan Bruen, the civil engineer from Turner Construction Company in charge of the installation, noted, “There wasn’t a lot of wiggle room.”
Bruen’s team had to decide whether to take the bridge apart or install it as is. Disassembly was possible because MAADI had thoroughly documented the components shipped. “The information that MAADI supplied for the delivery and erection of the bridge was very useful and very comprehensive, and enabled us to do it without them on site.”
Bruen’s team chose to use a high-capacity forklift to install the bridge as one unit on the fittings. To ease the process, MAADI had designed nylon slings along rigging points on the bridge.
The bridge’s stress analysis meets all the minimum requirements of the Aluminum Design Manual (2010). Its fabrication complies with the standards of W59.2-M1991 for “Welded Aluminum Construction” and AWS D1.2/D1.2M:2003, “Structural Welding Code – Aluminum.”
The aluminum tubular sections consist of 6061-T6 alloy. Welders employed filer ER5356 and 100% inert argon gas.
Besides the handrail on each side, two crash rails below them secure the bridge for passing gurneys. These rails support woven aluminum mesh that forms 50 mm- (2”) square openings out of 6 mm (1/4”) diameter wire.
“It’s a very impressive system,” Krudwig said. “We were impressed from the very beginning by its capability and its cost. So I think that everyone is quite happy with it.”
MAADI CEO Alex de la Chevrotière was proud to play a part in a construction project valued at US $800 million. “The song says, ‘If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere,’ and I agree. Expectations were high, and everyone was very pleasant and professional. We were very happy to be part of such an important project.“
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‘Death to you. Two sons of the North or two of the White Dragon. Your choice. Beware … Excalibur.’ (page 373)
Marcus ap Iorwerth follows his dream to unite Britain and fights Saxon’s threat. Marcus is helped by his wife Claerwen, who foresees the future with what is called ‘fire in the head’.
‘The light burst inside Claerwen, firing magnificent and hot and raging, and from its center she saw a hand ran up through the water’s surface. It was the woman of the lake’s hand, and her graceful, slender fingers clutched a sword’s hilt as sure as strong as any warrior’s. The blade, long and slightly tapered, was forged of fine steel; the hilt, pommel and cross-guard of brilliant, chased gold. Light radiated from it …’ (page 92)
Rival fractions fight each other to impose a new king on Britain, they are also searching another piece of Macsen’s Treasure: the sword Excalibur. Uther, present king, already holds parts of Macsen’s Treasure: the crown, the spearhead, and the torque; but Excalibur is waiting for the new king: Arthur.
Marcus gets injured, so follows a long exile and separation from Claerwen.
Eventually many mysteries are revealed, but Arthur is still a boy …
The Anvil Stone also fights against an enemy: Arthur’s legends and hundreds of books already written about his adventures (legend or truth).
Arthur and Excalibur are the winners.
King Arthur lived in the early sixth century, according to legends he defended Britain from the invaders Saxons. Legends and history tells a story where magic is important and necessary.
The Anvil Stone lacks of magic, fantastic scenery, supernatural events.
Myrddin (or Merlin the Enchanter) spreads a bit of fantastic on Marcus’s life, but insufficient to bear an entire book (it comes at the end of the story): ‘He will be the light that comes out of the darkness. You (Marcus) are a blacksmith. You know of dark and light, fire and iron.’ (page 401)
Marcus and Claerwen’s story is a thoughtful passage of their life. They clarify each other of previous fears, nightmares, dreams.
Marcus’ dark side (Iron Hawk) is unveiled when his past is narrated to Claerwen.
Claerwen: ‘Is this your true nature? Is the disdain for killing just a mask to hide it, a nature you won’t admit to himself except through the Iron Hawk?’ (page 369) ( )
GrazianoRonca | Jan 28, 2011 |
The third installment of the series has been my favorite so far. We a get a more in depth look at the characters without sacrificing plot. This is also the first of the series where I really began to recognize some of the Arthur legend. ( )
janemarieprice | Apr 6, 2010 |
Wow! What a ride!
Kathleen Cunningham Guler's "The Anvil Stone", is the third book in the Macsen's Treasure series, set in fifth century Britain.
This is a difficult book to review without introducing spoilers, because there is so much going on.
Our hero and heroine, Marcus the spy, and his wife Claerwen, return for another adventure, and there is, perforce, another piece of Macsen's treasure to be found. In this case, it is Excalibur, the sword we all know as the one found by the legendary King Arthur and pulled by him from the fabled stone. Guler chooses to construct the story in such a way that Marcus and Claerwen know the name "Excalibur", but for much of the book do not know what, or who, it refers to.
This preliminary quest for Excalibur is interwoven with the ongoing task of keeping the various factions of early post-Roman Britain united against their common enemy, the Saxons.
The story begins with Marcus experiencing a kind of flashback dream to a horrific incident that occurred during his childhood. This turns out to be significant later in the book, and is used to help explain how Marcus became a spy. However, the plot really begins with Marcus receiving a horrific effigy from a stranger who later turns out to be a kind of arch-enemy for both Marcus and Claerwen.
While Claerwen is often found at the side of her husband in his work as a spy, there is a lengthy period of separation that serves as an effective device, allowing the author to advance the plot on two fronts simultaneously.
The characters and plot here are richer and more complex than in the earlier volumes of the series. In addition, the level of excitement the author brings to the many battles and sword fights with gripping narrative has risen to a new high. This makes the book hard to put down.
This book is easily the best of the first three installments in the series, for the interest and complexity of the plot, and the brilliantly written action sequences. ( )
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In fifth-century Britain, only a few souls believed Merlin the Enchanter’s prophecy, that the “once and future king” called Arthur would one day rescue them from fierce and deadly Saxons. In a world where “king” simply meant “warlord,” many wondered: would there even be a Britain left for Arthur to rule once he was born and old enough to wield a sword of his own?
One man refused to let that dream fade into nightmarish despair…
“Freedom is all that matters.” So says spy and master of disguise Marcus ap Iorwerth of his greatest dream. For years, he has courageously struggled to unite Britain’s feuding internal factions and derail the ever-encroaching Saxon threat that has made his homeland a deadly place.
So when a mysterious stranger delivers a gruesome, bloodstained effigy fashioned to look like him, Marcus immediately knows it’s both a warning and a challenge. He and his wife Claerwen—whose gift of second sight makes her a target as well—run headlong into the daunting fray. Rival factions are instigating war both among themselves and with the Saxons, and while Marcus sets out to quash their treachery, Claerwen discovers another crisis. Those same factions have mounted a desperate search for one of Britain’s most cherished symbols—a magnificent sword of the ancient high kings that has been lost for decades. She knows the sword must be found; it is part of Britain’s future and will pass to a great king called Arthur who has been prophesied to come. With battle about to erupt all around, Marcus learns the stranger, an assassin bent on killing him, may be one of the last sources that could lead him and Claerwen to the sacred sword.
The Anvil Stone brings the volatile tribal nature of Dark Age Britain to life and deftly interweaves it with its mystical Celtic roots and the promise of hope found in the Arthurian legend. A stunning display of the storyteller’s craft, this book is the third in the spectacular four-part Macsen’s Treasure series that began with Into the Path of Gods and In the Shadow of Dragons.
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In fifth-century Britain, only a few souls believed Merlin the Enchanter's prophecy, that the "once and future king" called Arthur would one day rescue them from fierce and deadly Saxons. In a world where "king" simply meant "warlord," many wondered: would there even be a Britain left for Arthur to rule once he was born and old enough wield a sword of his own? One man refused to let that dream fade into nightmarish despair...… (more)
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Monday’s Mini-Report, 10.2.17
Today’s edition of quick hits:
* The latest from Las Vegas: “A lone gunman released a rapid-fire barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel late Sunday, killing at least 58 people and injuring more than 500 others attending a country music festival below, officials said.”
* A different mass shooting happened yesterday in Kansas: “Lawrence Police are investigating after at least five people were shot – three fatally – in downtown Lawrence just before 1:40 Sunday morning, according to a news release from Officer Derrick Smith.”
* It’s hard to imagine Spain dealing with this in a worse way: “Catalonia will press ahead with next steps in its push for independence from Spain, its government said late Sunday after clashes between riot police and voters marred a referendum rejected as illegal by Spain.”
* Canada’s suspected terrorist attack: “Canadian officials identified the man who stabbed a police officer and drove a van into four pedestrians in a suspected terrorist attack in Edmonton, Alberta, Saturday night as Somali refugee who had been known to police.”
* Big, long-term news from GM: “General Motors plans to go 100 percent electric, the Detroit automaker announced Monday.”
* Trump-Russia: “Investigators have begun questioning White House staffers as part of the special counsel’s Russia probe, two sources confirmed to Fox News.”
* On a related note: “The special prosecutor investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election has subpoenaed an associate of Gen. Michael Flynn’s Turkish lobbying client. The subpoena, a copy of which was obtained by ProPublica, ordered Sezgin Baran Korkmaz to testify before a grand jury in Washington on Sept. 22.”
* Speaking of Russia: “Two months after signing it, President Donald Trump has not begun enforcing a law imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.”
* Congressional ineptitude: “A college student loan program with bipartisan support will expire Saturday after key Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander blocked legislation to extend it. The need-based program will lapse midnight Saturday, depriving tens of thousands of college students of a source of financial aid that is a mix of federal dollars and college contributions.”
* Fine-tuned machine: “White House Counsel Don McGahn this summer was so frustrated about the lack of protocols surrounding meetings between President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law whose activities are under scrutiny in the Russia probe, that West Wing officials expressed concerns the top lawyer would quit, according to people familiar with the conversations.”
* If athletes who take a knee before the national anthem get booed anyway, then maybe the controversy isn’t about respect for the national anthem?
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An Alt Shop Unveils Two More Funds
Reported by Tommy Fernandez
Direxion [profile] is on a tear.
The firm unveiled earlier this week a long-short global currency fund.
Now, it has launched two ETFs covering global miners.
The first ETF, the Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bull 3X Shares (JNUG), will follow the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index, aiming for three times the index's performance. Meanwhile, the Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bear 3X Shares (JDST) will aim to achieve three times the performance of the inverse of that index.
Here is the press release:
Company Press Release,/i>
New Products Enable Both Bull and Bear Investors to Seek to Capitalize on Equity Performance of Domestic and International Junior Gold-Mining Companies
� Direxion, a leader in alternative investment solutions, has launched two leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the global equity performance of junior gold-mining companies.
The Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bull 3X Shares (JNUG) seeks to achieve daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300 percent of the performance of the Market Vectors� Junior Gold Miners Index. The Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Index Bear 3X Shares (JDST) seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300 percent of the inverse of the performance of the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners Index.
� The index is a market-capitalization-weighted total return index. It covers the largest and most liquid small-cap companies that derive at least 50 percent of their revenue from gold or silver mining, or have properties that do so. The composite includes companies based in the U.S. and other markets, including Australia, Canada and Singapore. As of Sept. 15, 2013, the index had average and median market capitalizations of $362.46 million and $294.74 million, respectively.
� �At a time when a growing number of investors are expressing interest in exposure to companies engaged in the exploration and production of gold, we are offering liquid exposure to this sector with the benefit of added leverage,� said Eric Falkeis, President of Direxion. �These two Funds are designed for traders that wish to take a bullish or bearish stance on the gold-mining industry.�
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Mining firms causing indigenous people's worries
Sun Star Baguio
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Large commercial mining operations of Lepanto, Philex and other large mines are still causing huge worries for Cordillera's indigenous peoples (IPs).
This is because large-scale mining, most of the times, are felt by IPs as "destructive" to the environment, their culture and societies.
This is a very common dissertation during discussion in the recent gathering of the newly formed Benguet Mining Alert and Action Network (Bmaan) where 156 representatives from the 13 towns in Benguet province came together to unite against large-scale mining while marking the International Indigenous Peoples Day on August 9.
Benguet Ibaloi Santos Mero of the Baguio-based Cordillera Peoples Alliance for the Defense of Ancestral Domain (CPA) claimed their worry is because 66 percent of the Cordillera region's land area is covered by various mining applications.
These are over the existing large mining operations of the 70-year-old Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation in Mankayan town and 50-year-old Philex Mines in Itogon town, both in Benguet province.
In recent years, affected residents in host towns of Lepanto and Philex have been at odds over allegations of environmental destruction and exploitation of workers within these mines. These aside from local governments' criticisms of wealth taxes going to Makati City instead of the host towns for their development.
*5 priority mine projects*
Five of the 24 priority mining projects the present administration is pushing for reopening are located in the Cordillera.
These are Teresa Gold Project, Far Southeast Project and Victoria Project all by Lepanto in Mankayan, Project 3000 of Itogon Suyoc Mines, Padcal Copper Expansion Project by Philex Mines, and the Batong Buhay Project by the Philippine Mining Development Corporation.
Except for the Padcal Expansion Project and Far Southeast, the other projects are already in operation. Except for Batong Buhay, the rest are located in Benguet.
Aside from these, there are also transnational mining corporations either applying or operating in Benguet such as UK-based Anglo-American (with Philex Mines, Lepanto, Cordillera Exploration, and Northern Luzon Exploration Company); Australia-based Oxiana/Royalco whose Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) acquisition in Bakun is under question; Anvil Mining Company (Australian), which now owns the Itogon Suyoc Mines in Sangilo, Itogon; Ivanhoe Mines from Canada which has a 12-percent share of Lepanto; Bezant Resources (UK) with an ongoing exploration at Guinaoang and Bulalacao in Mankayan. Bezant also owns 60 percent of Crescent Mining also in Mankayan; Metals Exploration PLC or MTL Philippines (UK) with applications in Atok, Tublay and Bokod town, and Columbus/Magellan Metals, also with applications in Bokod town.
In other provinces, foreign mining firms wanting to operate include Terra Nova Exploration/Wolfland (Canadian), which has exploration activities in Tabuk, Kalinga.
The US-based Phelps Dodge has partnered locally with Makilala Mining, Olympus Mining company (Canada) in Baay-Licuan in Abra, Golden Valley Exploration (Australia) also in Abra, and Oceana Gold/Climax Arimco (Australia), which has partnered with Copper Fields for operations in Apayao province.
Mero claimed the Olympus Mining Company in Abra violated the FPIC of the Binongan communities in Baay-Licuan, Abra. "A stark example where even with the law on indigenous peoples' rights are trampled upon in the name of large-scale mining," he said.
*Dislike for mining*
Local villagers in Baay-Licuan town in Abra earlier registered their dislike for the Olympus-Pacific exploration, but the firm is still hell-bent, with hopes to mine gold and copper mineral deposits.
Forces of the 503rd Brigade were deployed as security forces of the mining companies. Diego Wadagan, spokesman of the Abra-based Agustin Begnalen Command of the New People's Army (NPA) claimed that though the military have belied such insisting they are there because of the presence of NPA.
The 41st Infantry Battalion was redeployed in Baay-Licuan and the surrounding towns of Malibcong and Lacub on July 2008 along with Reengineered Special Operations Team (RSOT) units and other forces of the 503rd Brigade, Wadagan further claimed.
Earlier, the 503rd Army Brigade denied their role in securing big mining interests in Abra, and insisted it is only the NPA which rejects these mining interests because they protect and operate the alleged "illegal small-scale mining" activities in the upland towns of Abra, specifically in Lacub, Tineg, Malibcong, Baay-Licuan, Daguioman, Boliney, and Tubo.
Wadagan, however, argued "long before the NPA established its ties with the people of Abra, small-scale mining was already a way of life of the Tingguians and the people of Abra, Tinggians and Ilocanos alike, will fight and defend their land, life and resources."
He cited the case against the logging operations of the Cellophil Resources Corporation in the 70s, which drove hundreds of the young and brightest children of Abra to the hills to fight Marcos. "Without doubt, the people will again rise and unite against big mining interests in the province," Wadagan said.
But both police and military authorities think otherwise. Cordillera police director Eugene Martin thinks the rebels' "terror" actions against mining companies will boomerang against them because villagers are benefitting from mining operations.
Northern Luzon Command spokesman Rosendo Armas also insists rebels, whose number had dwindled in the past years because of government's successes, are only sending signals they are still there though already a small group. (AA)
Instruments of Hope - **IPs have weapons in fight vs mine firms
By Ace Alegre, Sun Star Baguio - http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bag/2008/08/22/news/ips.have.weapons.in.fight.vs.mine.firms.(conclusion).html
AS AN instrument of hope for indigenous peoples, Windel Bolinget, a true-blooded Igorot from Mt. Province and secretary-general of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) said the Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Undrip) are two instruments indigenous peoples (IPs) in the country can assert over projects which affect them.
"The FPIC is not merely a process but a basic inherent right of indigenous peoples which entails genuine participation and decision-making of IPs. That is, the right to grant or deny their consent to any project in their territories."
Even Mines and Geosciences Bureau-Cordillera Director Neoman dela Cruz vows they are very keen on respecting FPIC when mining firms apply to mine minerals in the Cordillera. Without it, he claimed, firms must be closed down.
While villagers chronicle bad experiences from large-scale mining in the region, communist rebels appear to be on the side.
They had admitted that their stepped-up attacks in the region are closely tied to foreign mining interests.
"Since January this year, the 503rd Army Brigade prioritized Abra in their counter-insurgency operations because of the more than 36 mining applications in the province awaiting approval," Wadagan said.
The 50th Infantry Battalion and the 53rd Reconnaissance Company accordingly concentrated combat operations in the Abra, Mt. Province, and Ilocos Sur tri-boundary particularly in "Dilong Valley", while the rest of the forces of the 503rd Brigade were deployed in Baay-Licuan.
Wadagan claimed the latest mining interest in Dilong Valley -- the Philippine Metals Corporation owned by an Australian mining firm with government paramilitia leader Mailed Molina as local negotiator.
On August 1, rebels ambushed troops from the Bravo Company of the 41st Infantry Battalion killing two of them and wounding two others "as a punitive action, and in defense of revolutionary gains paid in sweat, blood and lives of martyrs," Wadagan said. He insisted they actually killed six soldiers but the military only acknowledged two.
Wadagan admitted rebels used a command-detonated claymore mine on government troops, who "deserves it because they are terrorizing the people of Malibcong Poblacion, Duldulao, and Bayabas, and are forcing the people to allow the establishment of detachments."
Cordillera police intelligence and investigation chief Jesus Cambay acknowledged there is increased rebel activity in various areas in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
Three weeks ago, three Army troopers were also slain in a rebel ambuscade in Pinukpuk town, Kalinga. Three days before that, rebels bombed a Globe cellular site and its equipment also in Pinukpuk town, giving hints to government intelligence agencies of a concerted effort by communist rebels to attack private installations and other government targets around the country.
Abra police director Alexander Pumecha also believed there is increasing rebel activity after communist cadres failed in the Sallapadan, Abra detachment attack in July. He believes rebel attacks in the boundaries of Abra with Ilocos Sur, Mt. Province, and Kalinga might be indications of something authorities must be ready for.
"Their presence in these areas is consistent," Pumecha said.
More than two months ago, intelligence agents have also monitored unusual rebel sightings along the boundary of Benguet and Ifugao, prompting government security forces to fortify possible targets like the Lepanto Mining giant in Mankayan town.
The firm is a rebel target for so long because it has allegedly been polluting Cordillera and Ilocos rivers with its mining activities since the 1930's.
Thousands of Benguet villagers file petition to stop firm's project
Dexter A. See, Manila Bulletin
BAKUN, Benguet -- Thousands of residents here have petitioned government authorities to stop the mining exploration being conducted by a company in Barangay Gambang, this town, saying that the pre-mining activities have triggered misunderstanding and animosities among the villagers.
The petitioners said that Barangay Gambang is predominantly an agricultural area and most of the inhabitants prefer farming as livelihood and do not welcome the mining exploration being conducted by Royalco Philippines Inc., a Nueva Vizcaya-based firm.
In a strongly worded petition, the villagers stated that if a referendum is held to determine if the company is allowed to do mining exploration in the barangay, the customary decision-making process practiced since time in memorial would be the system to be followed.
Expressing their opposition to the method used by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) when it secured the consent of only the tribal elders, the residents said that the customary practice is crucial in the bid to secure a majority vote of the landowners and their heirs.
The petitioners opposing the controversial mining exploration include the communities of Basig, Nametbet, Bolbolo, Liwang, Tacayan, Bagtangan, Batanes, Mogao, Goldstar, Pulag, Mabuhay, Tempogan, Dankigan, Cagam-is, and Ingaan, all in Barangay Gambang.
The protesting communities are located in the areas of the company's Phase III mining exploration concession.
Earlier, the office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in the Cordillera issued a permit to Royalco for the exploration of a 98-hectare land in Gambang despite the vehement opposition by the affected communities.
However, Cordillera MGB officials said they approved the exploration permit only after NCIP issued a pre-condition certification of a free and prior informed consent (FPIC) of the people for the exploration project.
But the petitioners said that only a few elders in the community, who are supportive of mining, were invited to a meeting held in Bangao, Buguias town, where the endorsement of the council of elders for the mining exploration was reportedly approved.
Despite the assurance of Royalco executives that the company will include in its list of priorities the villagers' concerns, the petitioners viewed the "pledge" as just one of the reportedly false promises of the firm.
The provincial board will soon conduct an investigation on the allegation that the endorsement by the council of elders was hastily given and that the legitimate concerns of the affected communities were not addressed by the company.
The mining activities in their communities, the residents said, will lead to the destruction of the environment and their displacement as well as the depletion of the underground water supply and the loss of their sources of livelihood.
*Tribes seek wider role in mining consultations - Additional guidelines on free, prior consent sought*
By Dexter A. See, Manila Bulletin
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- An umbrella organization of indigenous peoples here has asked concerned national government agencies that tribal communities be given a more active involvement in the conduct of consultations on the exploitation of natural resources in ancestral domain.
The Benguet Federation of Ancestral Domain Indigenous Peoples Organizations (FADIPO) seeks the issuance of guidelines that would govern the grant of free and prior informed consent (FPIC) to companies that intend to undertake mining projects in tribal communities.
The guidelines would be in addition to the procedures being followed by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). This would give the host communities a good chance to present their positions and assert their rights to their resources and ancestral domain.
Cordillera is one of the mineral-rich areas in the country, but much of the mineral resources has not been tapped because of the vigilance of indigenous peoples who do not want to suffer the sad fate which befell communities where mining and power-generating companies operate.
The sad experiences of communities that hosted mining and power-generation activities include the unfulfilled promises of compensation for damaged and claimed properties, depletion of water sources, loss of ancestral domain, and environmental degradation.
The federation of indigenous peoples wants the additional protocol that would expand their participation in the process for the grant of FPIC and in the approval of projects involving exploitation of natural resources.
One of the provisions the federation wants to be included in the guidelines of the NCIP is the active participation of indigenous peoples in the conduct of pre-field investigation conference, which is an initial step towards the grant of FPIC.
Likewise, the federation is seeking the conduct of a mandatory information and education campaign that would make the indigenous peoples fully aware of their rights as well as the related laws and policies regarding natural-resources development projects in their domain.
Under the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), the conduct of an FPIC consultation is a mandatory process in every project proposed in indigenous communities. This must be conducted by the NCIP to inform the indigenous peoples and to get their consent for a specific project.
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Irish legal system turned its back on Marie Fleming
December 20, 2013 ericdo100 Surely we can do better
Update: Was it a guilty conscience on the part of the state, that prompted it to pay most of her legal costs? Unfortunately, its a bit late to be displaying some face saving compassion or mercy now.
With mostly relief, I learned of the death of Marie Fleming last night, combined with a simmering anger that her case is, has and will be repeated countless more times, before the law here drags itself out of the sands of another time.
Her savings were swallowed up, by her doomed attempts to even think that a legal system enshrined in another age, could aid her modern dilemma.
We are told that she died peacefully at home. How peacefully did a woman with no bladder control, restricted use of limbs, diminishing eyesight and terrifying coughing fits live, more importantly?
A woman who couldn’t even scratch an itch. Worse still for being a highly educated academic, used to the better side of life and living. She was being slowly buried alive for years, long before her body finally gave out.
The horrific reality is that these were, in many ways, the easier years. She could have existed on for decades more.
I am glad that she had a supportive partner, family and an opportunity to carve out a career with some financial stability. How more difficult her life would have been without them!
Much was made at the time, about the sensitivity that the Supreme Court judges displayed. That they left their benches, and moved closer to her, in order to hear her strained testimony. Ultimately, they were shackle, by a closed and other worldly inspired, legal system.
So “pro lifers”, you have got your pound of flesh. Thankfully she didn’t die in agony, or in some cold alien environment. Some of her organs still worked, for now anyway.
I’m sure that to many of them, she was a divisive unfortunate. Now she is gone, they can return their heads to the sand, and their sweaty, able hands and voices to praising a birth giving virgin.
On this nonsense our legal system is built! No wonder it couldn’t help Marie Fleming.
But hopefully, the issue has been firmly ignited, and will cause a re-evaluation of what the words “life” and “living” mean to us.
Christmas Day: Just thinking of all the many thousands of Irish people, who will be lucky to see beyond their bedroom today. Painfully laying in their own waste.
I really hope that loneliness, on top of mind numbing dependent routine, can be gotten through at this time of year. So glad its all behind you Marie!
Link used forv this post: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/state-to-pay-most-of-marie-fleming-s-legal-costs-1.1662882
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I named my son Anton because (a) I wanted him to become a violinist, like Anton Stamitz or (b) a short story writer, like Anton Chekhov. He became a fisherman.
There was nobody around during his formative years playing the violin but there was plenty of fishing going on. There were fish innards all over the lawn, scales were stuck to the bench – traipsed inside on people’s shoes; the fridge was full of fish and the front picnic table was a busy industry of cutting and filleting.
a serene Orowaiti river that gave a boy an education that Trinity College could never have given
The rank smell of flounders in sacks overrode all other smells. In the summer of 1986 a record number of 100 snapper were caught. Then along would come whitebait season bringing with it stands and posies and yearly arguments over whitebait nets.
Instead of poetry readings and music, he absorbed the odour of day-old fish and the excitement and cunning of the kill. Instead of photos of him standing on a podium in tails, conducting the orchestra with a violin bow, there were photos of him standing in the kitchen in front of the massive products of the deep.
As he grew older, instead of wool gathering on the river banks with a little pad and pen, scribbling, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o’er vales and hills/ When all at once I saw a crowd/ A host, of golden daffodils,’ he was up to his elbows in mud and water, ferreting out anything that flipped and had scales.
It didn’t help matters that outside our window the Orowaiti presented a yawning gap from horizon to horizon, and that with each incoming tide another bounty of fish flowed in from the sea.
His teacher said, “There’s no topic we discuss in class without Anton being able to bring a fish into it.”
He was actually the explorer who discovered fish in the race that ran the length of farmland in Selwyn District. He pioneered fishing in the Isel Park Stream in Stoke, on the boundary of my Aunt’s house. Fish weren’t part of the aesthetics of the Isel Estate; it was great trees, nurseries, hot houses, gentile folk and Anglicans. Nobody wanted anything as uncultured or rawly primitive as fish anywhere near the property.
Apart from a few stints where he liked gold-panning and then cricket and hockey, its been fishing all the way.
Now he’s invented, or is the founder of, a new kind of fishing – Saltwater fly-fishing on the flats for Yellowtail King fish. And it’s taking off. Australian TV has been over filming it.
It wasn’t always like this. I was the one who actually introduced him to fishing. I reeled in his fish and wrestled and elbowed my way up the queue outside the Westport Tavern to get Anton’s herring weighed.
He found a rare aquatic creature with millipede -like legs, which he took to Biology teacher, the late Ian McLellan, who said it was from a Tauranga Bay pool and had got its directions wrong. He found a lamprey eel in the shallows of the river.
We stayed at Spring Creek outside Blenheim, which had, as its name implied, a deep, clear spring creek. A day later, the peace and quietness – and rather conservative atmosphere of the camping ground – was shattered when someone came trumpeting through the trees carrying an enormous trout, bigger than himself.
high tide covers the mud flat playground
He entered a fishing competition when he was sixteen. He said he was going to fish at the mouth of the river. ‘This will be a fizzer,’ I thought to myself, ‘what kind of fish can he catch at the mouth?’
He left the next morning, biking into a pea soup fog with all his equipment. I nearly ran after him crying, “Come back. Come back. Don’t go.”
I didn’t see him till about eight o-clock that night when he stood on the doorstep armed with Talley’s peas and frozen food, a huge fishing box, a new rod and reel. He’d won the competition. Two things happened after this event: we fed on Talley’s mixed vegetables for weeks, and his fishing career took off.
He plundered the North Island Rivers. At Rotorua he drove me to a nearby lake and we stood reverently in front of it. I guessed we were there, not to look at the convention centre, but to imagine the trout that were swimming beneath its opaque skin. “How could trout, that generally look the same, be different?” I puzzled on many occasions.
I visited him at Atarau, where the Grey River obligingly looped across the farm, not once, but twice. He caught a salmon in here.
I thought his interest would fade away and he’d recognise his true vocation as Victor Borge, telling jokes and playing pieces of music, eloquently.
And now he’s got his own guiding business. The name of his game is catch and release. It annoys him that there are foreign fisherman who hire beat up station wagons, and live on the river banks during summer and when their two-minute noodles run out, they actually eat their fish.
In recent times he’s been guiding in the Mokihinui, and while poised on a rock casting his lure into the water he’s been aware of thousands of aliens crossing the ridgeline. I told him they were cyclists passing along the Ghost Road Cycleway.
There is one other thing I’ve noted about him: he’s named his son Mako after none-other than the mako shark, because he wants him to become a fisherman. I think we will finally have a poet.
Carolyn Hawes
looking for lyrical inspiration in the crab holes
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I loved it. The truth from the mother’s mouth. What better outcome than such an enthusiastic successful fisher man with great people skills and kindness.
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Home of the "Skyscraper of the Plains"
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Founded: 1878, Pop.: (2000) 1524, Elev.: 2251 Ft
Located in Ness County, (County Seat), at the intersection of Hwy's K-96 and US-283 and served by the Central Kansas Railway. A busy and attractive downtown attracts shoppers from a wide region. Oil production, farming, and ranching are all important to the local economy. Unique among the towns of Kansas in that during the era of population shift to metropolitan areas, Ness City has grown and stabilized.
There's a nice city park west of downtown, a good place for travelers to stretch their legs. Most of the first settlers were buffalo hunters who had seen the area and came back to settle.
The city has year-round recreational programs designed for all ages. Softball leagues operate during the summer, educational and exercise programs during the winter. This part of Kansas is famous for its pheasant hunting and nearby lakes, (Cedar Bluff Reservoir and Goodman State Fishing Lake & Wildlife Area), bring serious fishermen.
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07/15 Coming to The area
Wild West Festival Hays City KS July3-6 A typical Kansas fair -- parade, big name music stars, games, demonstrations, competitions and shows, including fireworks.
Dodge City Days Dodge City KS July26-August4 The 10-day celebration hosts more than 50 events including Q-97 FM DODGE CITY DAYS COUNTRY Concert, the top-rated Dodge City Days Rodeo, a 2-day Indoor Craft show with over 200 crafters from a 10-state area, KidFest, and Professional Barbecue Contest.
Kansas State Fair Hutchinson KS September6-15 Each year, over 400,000 visitors flock to the Kansas State Fair to visit a wide array of exhibits, partake in fabulous Fair food, and see the amazing butter sculpture.
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Fairy Tail ZERO (CIVIL WAR) - a play-by-post rpg
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Holly Camelot Returns! And Amber's Girl Talk with Honolulu (Joining Zenpai!)
Posted by : AmberGirl on Jul 25, 2018, 11:56pm
(OOC @ Zenpai: Hey, can I join you Zen? I promise I won't bite XP. Moon, Connor could you unlock Holly for me, thanks.)
(OOC2: Moon, I legit laughed super hard when I read what Honolulu told Amber XP)
(EDITED: Thanks Connor!)
Holly Camelot had came back after a long trip away from the guild. It wasn't like she chose to be that far away, her duties to Princess Amber were absolute and she never wanted to be sent off in first place (long story Zen, but Amber's actually a princess from another country who ran away. Holly is her bodyguard, like Impa and Zelda).
Amber had tricked her, in taking on a quest as a proof of loyalty in protecting her. Holly had been eager to show that she is faithful to her one and only princess and obliged, but it was when Amber shoved her on a train to god knows where did Holly realize this was a scam! There were no missions, it was a one-way ticket to some far off edge of Fiore.
"Why that dirty little princess, she's been corrupted by the outside world, by these people she calls friends," Holly scowled as she had entered through the main entrance of Magnolia city. A lot of people were staring at her, because she had all these leaves and twigs caught in her hair (got it from you Sairento XP). She wanted to spend the night and wash up, but protecting the princess was important, or giving her a royal spanking was the top thing on her to do list.
"She may be my princess, the future queen of the country," Holly mumbled, her fire flaring up even greater, "but i will not tolerate her to stoop this low and trick me. I'll get even with her!"
In front of Esthe was another young female probably using this alley as a shortcut. The woman's hair was short and showed off the peachy colors of her neck. Esthe slowly walked up to the female, *Just a nibble? It won't hurt her right...* The second voice blabbed within Esthe's head. *Take a bite of that nice.. pink ne-*
"What? Who's there?" Holly snapped and pulled out her magical bow and arrow. She was a mean shot, and was already aiming for some guy's crotch if there was a guy trying to flirt with her. She perked her cat ears to listen to sound and swung her tail around like a mad cat.
But all she saw was this weird girl staring at her (that's you Zenpai). "Whm, who are you? What do you want" Holly demanded, bow drawn at full length.
Esthe shook her head out of the trance. The female would turn around and look up at Esthe who was very tall for a woman. Esthe's face turned red before she covered her mouth and booked it out of the alley. She ran past a massive build with massive logo on it. She was rather curious of everything being so large so she wanted to check it out. Esthe walked up to the massive double doors to peek inside the building.
"Who was she?" Holly wondered. The way the girl stared at her felt scary, but it wasn't that bad. Was she having a crush on Holly? but she just got back here to Magnolia, and she wasn't even familiar with the people in the guild her pricness calls friends. A stalker, she wondered. Before she could figure it out, the girl ran off and left Holly Alone. Being a cat and being too curious, she followed, "Wonder what is up with her."
Holly tracked after this strange girl to the back of a bakery shop. She may not have been in Magnolia for long, but this shop she recognized that sold very delicious bagels and pretzels. it went great with beer she believed after a long day of protecting Princess Amber.
The archer girl approached the one who was staring at her and went, "Who are you, what do you want?" Holly waited, but she only saw that girl walk into the double doors of the bakery, "Oh, are you hungry? Is that is?"
Holly gave the girl a look over. She didn't look rich, maybe she was travelling and lost her money. Maybe she was hoping to ask Holly to borrow some jewels (fairy tail currency) to buy something to eat. Deep down, the archer felt bad all of a sudden. "If you're lost and hungry why don't you say so," she muttered, approaching the girl, "Just ask, or else people will misunderstand you."
The archer gave the girl a small pat on the shoulder and smiled, "My name is Holly Camelot. I'm part of the Fairy Tail Guild here," she then looked at the girl to say, "Who are you? Where are you from? And why is your face so red?
(OOC: Zenpai, if you want to bite Holly and drink some blood, you have my permission XP I want to see where this goes.)
------------ AMBER'S POV
“Amber. You should be more considerate of your boyfriend’s frustrations. Do you know how many nights I seem him, doing it by himself in the halls.”
“Yeah, yeah. He gets so lonely, he walks up and down the stairs to vent off the bottle up frustration. You should have seen him in the kitchen, he really went to town there.”
WHAT THE H*LL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? TH-THIS IS A PG-13 GAME! WE DON’T NEED THAT STUFF HERE!!
“Oh. Did I mention how I caught him asking Mint Bell to help him sate his desire.”
………………………………………..HE DID WHAT! TO MINT BELL!? WHY, BOTH AMBER AND THIS NARRATOR WILL STRANGLE HIM WITH—
“Poor girl just up and said ‘Sorry. I’m not very good at grooming your hair. Maybe you should have Amber to do it for you’…is what she said with the sweetest of smiles.”
“And that poor look on his face when he begged Mint Bell to help comb his fur, ah it was priceless how he was so close to tears.”
If that was the case… what did Honolulu Coralheart meant by ‘done it, in private?’.
“Brushing each other’s hair of course. Why, were you thinking of something naughty?”
Amber was a whirlwind of emotions the entire time. She first had her face explode pure red, then confused, and then down right horny yet disgusted a the same time (hey a girl has her urges XP). Just hearing Honolulu making all those suggestive things about her boyfriend gave her the creeps, but she couldn't help feeling her hear racing.
Then she up and went, April fools when she dropped the bombshell of just combing Tobi's fur. He was a shapeshifter, so naturally he had animal fur all over him. Honestly, she never tried to comb him, she was scared if he didn't like her stepping on his privacy. not to mention, someone like him would have their own grooming ritual.
But for Honolulu to make it sound like the couple didn't step things up a bit, that was an insult. So Amber took the words of a full moon to heart and threw a pillow at Honolulu's face.
"What the hell, Lulu?" she snapped, both emberassed and spiteful, "Tobi and I get along fine, we don't need to do intimate stuff like a husband and wife does, no!" Amber ended up rubbing on her eyepatch, a bad habit of hers when under stress, "We could totally make each other happy with just body massages, you know like the Guild Master and her lover! We don't need to, you know, do that."
Amber tried to made it clear for Honolulu, that they aren't going to do the adult stuff. Their bond was special, as much as they want to be intimate, they don't want to rely on animal passion. Although, Amber had been frustrated herself lately, and maybe Tobi was feeling the same. She thought about asking if she could groom him to calm him down, but what could he do to calm her down?
"Oh shit, look what you did you me!" Amber snapped, her face turning redder than her hair. She kept grabbing the pillows from her beach chair and tossed them at Honolulu. Soon, they'll have a bit of a patio pillow fight, both half-naked out on the deck. She wasn't sure if someone was going to walk in on her, but she was so blinded by rage she didnt' stop slapping Honolulu in the face with a pillow, "Take that back! take it all back!"
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Birdy the Mighty: It's Obviously A Woman's World
Shounen Alert!
So far, Birdy the Mighty is the only action/adventure shounen anime that stars, a female lead. That means a female lead with power in spades and superhero-like strength. Let's recap, this might be the only shounen anime with a STRONG female lead. Strong enough to break your face! hahahaha
Why aren't there more shounen anime out there with female leads, like this one? All of the others are cult interests, like vampires or Halloween towns. Do all girls like vampires and Halloween? That's not the way... Or one day everyone will wake up and the female species... will be gone, presumably to Hogwarts or something. Or they'll be the new villains ..._(O.O)_... Aaaaaah NOooo!
But why not regular heriones???
As anime nerds, we already know that some girls are just regular shounen heroines. But there aren't enough themes and main characters to help a girl out. There should be a long list of shounen, not even "shounen", of action/adventure anime starring girls. Stereotypically, the word shounen refers to boys anime, kind of like the superhero cartoons of Japan. But, then why did you guys in Japan make this one? Just to fly in the face of your own conventions? Make more... Please?
Anime like Birdy the Mighty, show anime fans that it is possible. "Birdy" or her Earth codename, came to Earth from a distant planet to investigate powerful alien criminals that go to Earth to do bad stuff. As events unfold, a human boy gets in the way of a fight. The bad guy uses the boy as a body shield (bravery at its finest or is it typical cowardly bad guy behavior) and Birdy disintegrates him with a full body punch. So... the boy has to be revived on her planet and in the meantime Birdy has to share her body with him... As in, let him use it so he can keep going to school, have a social life, and get good grades. But she still fights aliens when he gets home from school.
Birdy is a typical shounen main character with all the shounen features. She's stubborn, optimistic, brave, impervious to evil, and loves a good challenge. She stands up for what's right in the face of danger and stronger enemies. Plus she can also think with such a hard head...
In fact, if she doesn't wear her superhero suit, she might be a tomboy. If I were a girl, she would be one of my favorite shounen/shoujo heroes and I would lament the anime industry for taking so long to get onto the bandwagon.
In short, they need to make more strong female leads for anime. For otaku. For you and for me. For the world. For the FREAKING UNIVERSE!
You can catch Birdy the Mighty for free, streaming on Hulu.com
Modeling is her side job!
I always knew there were Otaku like me out there...
Tags anime, Birdy the Mighty, female, feminine, gender roles, girls, heroine, japanese, pop culture, power, shounen anime, stereotypes, superhero, woman
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Ms Tantalus
by Gush Shalom
TANTALUS IS punished by the Gods for reasons that are not entirely clear. He is hungry and thirsty, but the water in which he stands recedes when he bends down to drink from it and the fruit above his head continually evades his hand.
Tzipi Livni is now undergoing a similar torture. After winning an impressive personal victory at the polls, the political fruit keeps slipping from her grasp when she stretches out her hand.
Why should she deserve that? What has she done, after all? Supported the war, called for a boycott of Hamas, played around with empty negotiations with the Palestinian Authority? OK, she has indeed.. But such a terrible punishment?
HOWEVER, THE results of the elections are not as clear as they might seem. The victory of the Right is not so unambiguous.
Central to the election campaign was the personal competition between the two contenders for the Prime Minister’s office: Livni and Netanyahu (or, as they call themselves, as if they were still at kindergarten, Tzipi and Bibi.)
Contrary to all expectations and all polls, Livni beat Netanyahu. Several factors were involved in this. Among others: the masses of the Left were terrified by the possibility of Netanyahu winning, and flocked to Livni’s camp in order to "Stop Bibi!" Also, Livni – who was never identified with feminism – remembered at the last moment to call Israel’s women to her banner, and they hearkened to her call.
But it is impossible to ignore the main significance of this choice: Netanyahu symbolizes total opposition to peace, opposition to giving back the occupied territories, to the freezing of the settlements and to a Palestinian state. Livni, on the other hand, has declared more than once her total support for the "Two-Nation-States" solution. Her voters opted for the more moderate line.
True, the big winner in the elections was Avigdor Liberman. But his triumph is far from the fateful breakthrough everyone foresaw. He did not win the 20 seats he had promised. His ascent from 11 to 15 seats is not so dramatic. His party is indeed now the third largest in the Knesset, but that is less due to its own rise than to the collapse of Labor, which fell from 19 to 13. By the way, not one of the parties won even 25% of the vote. Israeli democracy is now very fragile indeed.
The Liberman phenomenon is ominous, but not (yet?) disastrous.
HOWEVER, THERE is no way to deny the most significant message of these elections: the Israeli public has moved to the right. From Likud to the right there are now 65 seats, from Kadima to the left only 55. One cannot argue with numbers.
What has caused this shift?
There are several explanations, all of them valid.
One can consider it as a passing phase after the war. A war arouses strong emotions – nationalist intoxication, hatred of the enemy, fear of the Other, longing for unity and for revenge,. All these naturally serve the Right – a lesson sometimes forgotten by the left when it starts a war.
Others see in it a continuation of a historical process: the Zionist-Palestinian confrontation is becoming wider and more complex, and such a situation feeds the Right.
And then there is, of course, the demographic factor. The rightist bloc attracts the votes of three sectors: the Oriental Jews (a majority of whom vote for Likud), the religious (who mostly vote for the fundamentalists) and the Russians (most of whom vote for Liberman). This is a group vote, almost automatic.
Two sectors in Israel have an especially high birth-rate: the religious Jews and the Arabs. The religious vote almost unanimously for the Right. True, the Orthodox and the National-Religious parties have not increased their strength in the elections, probably because many of their natural voters chose Likud, Liberman or the even more extreme National Union. The Arab citizens almost completely abstained from voting for Jewish parties, as many of them used to in the past, and the three Arab parties together gained one more seat.
The demographic development is ominous. Kadima, Labor and Meretz are identified with the old-established Ashkenazi sector, whose demographic strength is in steady decline. Also, many young Ashkenazis gave their votes – at least four seats worth – to Liberman, who preaches a secular fascism. They hate the Arabs, but they also hate the religious Jews.
The conclusion is quite clear: if the "center-left" does not succeed in breaking out of its elitist ghetto and striking roots within the Oriental and Russian sectors, its decline will continue from election to election.
NOW MS TANTALUS must choose between two bitter options: to retire to the desert where there is neither water nor fruit, or to serve as a fig-leaf for an obnoxious coalition.
Option No. 1: to refuse to join Netanyahu’s coalition and to go into opposition. That is not so simple. The Kadima party came into being when Ariel Sharon promised its members – refugees from right and left – power. It will be very hard for Livni to hold the lot together in opposition, far from the seat of power, far from the posh ministers’ offices and from luxurious official cars.
That would give us a rightist government which includes open fascists, pupils of Meir Kahane (whose party was banned because of his racist teachings), the advocates of ethnic cleansing, of the expulsion of Israel’s Arab citizens and the liquidation of any chance for peace. Such a government would inevitably find itself in confrontation with the United States and in worldwide isolation.
Some people say: that’s good. Such a government will necessarily fall soon and break apart. Thus the public will be persuaded that there is no viable rightist option. Kadima, Labor and Meretz will stew in opposition, and perhaps a real center-left alternative will come into being.
Others say: too risky. There is no limit to the disasters that a Netanyahu-Liberman-Kahanist government can bring upon the state, from the enlargement of the settlements that will torpedo any future peace, to outright war. We can’t stake everything on one card, when the chip is the State of Israel.
Livni’s option No. 2: to swallow the bitter pill, give in and join the Netanyahu government as a second, third or fourth wheel. In that case, she must decide at once, before Netanyahu establishes a fait accompli with an extreme-right coalition which Livni would then be invited to join as a junior partner.
I shall not be surprised if President Shimon Peres takes the initiative unofficially and promotes this option – before starting, in a week’s time, the official process of consulting with the Knesset factions and entrusting one of the candidates with the task of forming a government.
Could such a government move towards peace? Conduct real negotiations? Agree to the dismantling of settlements? Accept a Palestinian state? Recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas?
Hard to imagine. In the best case, it will go on with the charade of meaningless negotiations, quietly enlarge the settlements, lead Barack Obama by the nose and mobilize the pro-Israel lobby in order to obstruct any real American moves towards peace. What was will be.
CAN ISRAEL change course? Can a real peace-oriented alternative arise?
The two "Zionist Left" parties have been decisively beaten. Both Labor and Meretz have collapsed. Their two leaders who called for the Gaza War and supported it – Ehud Barak of Labor and Haim Oron of Meretz – have received the punishment they richly deserve. In a normal democracy, both would have resigned the day after the elections. But our democracy is not normal, and both leaders insist on staying on and leading their party to the next disaster.
Labor is a walking corpse – the only "social-democratic" party in the world whose leader’s sole aim is to stay on as war minister. When Barak spread the mantra "there is no one to talk with" he overlooked the logical conclusion "therefore we don’t need anyone to talk with them".
The Labor Party has no party, no members, no political program, no alternative leadership. It will fail in opposition as it failed in government. Barring a miracle, it will end up in the junkyard of history.
It will find Meretz already there. A socialist party that lost its way a long time ago: a party without any roots in the classes at the foot of the socioeconomic ladder, a party that has supported all our wars.
Some believe in easy solutions: a union of Labor and Meretz, for example. That is a union of the lame and the blind. No reason to expect that they would win the race.
THE REAL task is far more difficult. A completely new building must be erected in place of the one which has collapsed.
The need is for a new Left that will include new leaders from the sectors that have been discriminated against: the Orientals, the Russians and the Arabs. A new Left that will express the ideals of a new generation, people of peace, advocates of social change, feminists and greens, who will all understand that one cannot realize one ideal without realizing all of them. There can be no social justice in a military state; no one is interested in the environment while the cannons are roaring, feminism is incompatible with a society of machos riding on tanks, there can be no respect for Oriental Jews in a society that despises the culture of the Orient.
The Arab citizens will have to leave the ghetto in which they are confined and start to talk with the Jewish public, and the Jewish public must talk with the Arabs on equal terms. The Liberman slogan "No Citizenship Without Loyalty" must be turned around: "No Loyalty Without Real Citizenship".
As Obama has done in the US, a new language, a new lexicon must be created, to replace the old and tired phrases.
Much, much must be changed if we want to save the state.
AS FOR Ms. Tantalus: she can contribute to this process of change, or her torture will continue.
Echoing Pyrrhus, king of Epirus and Macedon, she can well say: Another such victory and we are undone.
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Publication speed and advanced online publication: Are biomedical Indian journals slow?
Akash Shah1, Swathi Ganesh Sherighar2, Anup Bhat1
1 Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India
2 Physiotherapy Unit, Mahesh Hospital, Brahmavara, Udupi, Karnataka, India
Date of Web Publication 12-Jan-2016
Akash Shah
Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal - 576 104, Karnataka
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the publication speed (peer review time and publication time) of biomedical Indian journals and identify the journals having the facility of advance online publication (AOP). Materials and Methods: Biomedical Indian journals were identified from the Journal Citation Report of 2013. Thirty original articles published between January 2012 and June 2014 were systematically selected from each journal. Information about the date of submission, revision, and acceptance were extracted from the full text of the articles. Median peer review time (submission to acceptance) and publication time (acceptance to AOP/electronic publication) were calculated for each journal. Results: Of the 19 journals studied, 5 (26.3%), 15 (78.9%), and 6 (31.6%) journals did not mention details about date of submission, date of revision, and date of acceptance, respectively. The individual median peer review time of the journals ranged from 87 to 377.5 days and the combined median peer review time (interquartile range) was 143.5 days (105.5, 238). The individual median publication time ranged from 14 to 349 days. The publication time for journals with AOP was significantly lesser (29.5 [19.6, 50.6] vs. 146.5 [126.5, 202.5]; P = 0.02) compared to journals without AOP. Impact factor of the journal did not correlate with the publication speed. The facility of AOP was provided by 6 (31.6%) journals. Conclusions: Overall, the peer review time and publication time of biomedical Indian journals included in our study seems to be fairly long. Less than one-third of biomedical Indian journals provide the facility of AOP.
Keywords: Medical publishing, research, publication delay
Shah A, Sherighar SG, Bhat A. Publication speed and advanced online publication: Are biomedical Indian journals slow?. Perspect Clin Res 2016;7:40-4
Shah A, Sherighar SG, Bhat A. Publication speed and advanced online publication: Are biomedical Indian journals slow?. Perspect Clin Res [serial online] 2016 [cited 2019 Jul 15];7:40-4. Available from: http://www.picronline.org/text.asp?2016/7/1/40/173775
The process of publication has changed significantly over the past years. Manuscript preparation and submission that was hand written and postal has now become electronic. With the introduction of electronic publication in 1980's,[1],[2] manuscripts were available even before the print version. A relatively recent feature of advance online publication (AOP) has further decreased the publication time leading to early dissemination of research information.[3],[4] Article that is published as AOP is the final version of the manuscript that is copyedited and proofed by the authors. They may not be assigned a print volume or issue but are indexed in databases and can be cited using the digital object identifier.[3],[4]
Behind every manuscript is months and at times years of planning and efforts from the authors to carry out the study. The end result of which is the dissemination of the research findings achieved through the publication. Faster publication would ensure that the manuscript is available early to the readers. In the present scenario where publications have personal and financial outcomes, researchers prefer their work to be published promptly. In a recent survey, authors reported that one of the reasons for choosing to publish in a mega journal was the faster review and publication process.[5]
To our knowledge, publication speed of biomedical Indian journals has not been studied. Hence, we studied the publication speed (peer review time and publication time) of biomedical Indian journals and looked at its trend in publications between January 2012 and June 2014. We looked for correlations between publication speed and journal impact factor (IF). The differences in publication speed of journals with and without AOP were also studied.
Journals listed in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) of 2013 from the Thomson Reuters website (http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/JCR; accessed July 15, 2014) were sorted with country/territory as India. The list was screened, and journals of biomedical specialty were identified and included for the study. [Figure 1] details the procedure of journal and article selection. First original article of each issue appearing on the website of the journals published between January 2012 and June 2014 was selected. To maintain uniformity across the journals, we systematically selected the first original article from each issue. If the journal had 6 or less issues/year, then based on the number of issues, first 2, 3 or 4 articles were selected. For example, Indian Journal of Dermatology Venereology and Leprology publishes bimonthly (6 issues/year) so first 2 original articles were included from each issue. Similarly, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology publishes quarterly (4 issues/year) so first 3 original articles were included from each issue. If this required number of 2, 3 or 4 articles was not met with an issue, then additional article (s) was selected from a previous/subsequent issue. Thus, we obtained a total of 30 original articles, 12 each for the year 2012 and 2013 and 6 for the year 2014 from each journal. Review articles, brief reports, editorials, and correspondence were not included. Special issues were also excluded.
Figure 1: The procedure of journal identification and article selection *Journal Citation Report †Biomedical journals currently or previously indexed in MEDLINE were included ‡Original articles were included
The date of submission, revision, and acceptance were extracted from the full-text portable document format of the articles. The date of publication was considered as the date when the article was first available for the readers to be cited. This date was the date of online in advance publication for journals with AOP and date of electronic/web publication for journals without AOP. The date of publication in the print version of the journal was not studied as the print version is generally made available later. The data extraction was carried out by two investigators independently. The third investigator verified and resolved the discrepancies in discussion with the two investigators. Thus, the time taken from the submission to acceptance, acceptance to publication and submission to publication were calculated for each journal. We considered peer review time as the “time from submission to acceptance” (including the time taken for revision) and publication time as the “time from acceptance to publication (AOP/electronic).”
Data analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and a P ≤ 0.05 was considered to be significant. Median and Interquartile range (IQR) were calculated for all the variables. The Mann–Whitney U-test was used to identify the differences in peer review, publication time and time from submission to publication for journals with and without AOP. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare the difference between acceptance to online in advance publication and acceptance to electronic publication for the journals having AOP. The Friedman's test was used to study the trend in peer review, publication time and time from submission to publication by comparing their medians for the year 2012 (January to December), 2013 (January to December) and 2014 (January to June). Nonparametric correlation was used to study the correlation between IF and variables of publication speed.
A total of 93 Indian journals were identified in the JCR list of 2013. The list was screened, and 20 journals of biomedical specialty were obtained. Journals of other specialties were like physical, biological, life sciences; dental, pharmaceutical, and veterinary sciences were excluded. One journal (Annals of Thoracic Medicine) was excluded as its publisher was not an Indian agency. Thus, a total of 19 biomedical Indian journals were included, of which 5 (26.3%), 15 (78.9%) and 6 (31.6%) journals did not mention details about date of submission, date of revision and date of acceptance, respectively [Table 1]. The facility of AOP was provided by 6 (31.6%) journals.
Table 1: List of the biomedical Indian journals with details about the date of submission, revision, acceptance, and the facility of AOP
We obtained information about publication speed of 14 journals from a total of 420 original articles. [Table 2] details the IFs and variables of publication speed of individual journals. The individual median peer review time (submission to acceptance) of the journals ranged from 87 to 377.5 days. The combined median (IQR) peer review time was found to be 143.5 days (105.5, 238). The individual median publication time (acceptance to AOP/electronic) ranged from 14 to 349 days.
Table 2: Publication times and IF of biomedical Indian journals
In the Mann–Whitney U-test, the median time from acceptance to publication for the journals having AOP was found to be significantly less (29.5 (19.6, 50.6) vs. 146.5 (126.5, 202.5); P = 0.002) compared to the journals that did not have AOP. However, there was no statistically significant difference in the median time from submission to publication (239.5 (183.7, 336.8) vs. 294.7 (259.1, 513.6); P = 0.181) between the journals. No statistically significant difference was seen in the median peer review time between the journals that have, do not have AOP (193 (133.5, 286.3) vs. 114 (92, 144.5); P = 0.108).
In the Wilcoxon sign ranked test, the time from acceptance to online in advance publication was significantly lesser than the time from acceptance to electronic publication (29.5 (19.6, 50.6) vs. 254 (216, 375); P = 0.031) for journals with AOP. In the Friedman's test, there was no statistically significant difference in the median peer review time (P = 0.53), submission to publication time for journals with AOP (P = 0.43) and submission to publication time for journals without AOP (P = 0.96) across January 2012 and June 2014. [Figure 2] shows the diagrammatic representation of the trend in publication speed. The IF of journals did not correlate with any variable of publication speed.
Figure 2: Trend in the peer review and submission to publication time between January 2012 and June 2014
We studied the publication speed (peer review time and publication time) of 19 biomedical Indian journals. Details about all the 3 variables (date of submission, date of revision, and date of acceptance) were mentioned only by 4 (21.1%) journals. Five journals (26.3%) did not give details about any of the three variables. Our study illustrates that the peer review time, publication time and time from submission to publication ranges widely and are somewhat longer for the biomedical Indian journals compared to journals of other specialty.[6],[7],[8] In a similar study done in ophthalmology journals,[6] the combined median peer review time for the year 2010 was 100 days and the individual median peer review time ranged from 35.5 to 263 days. For a 1-year period between 2005 and 2006, the mean peer review time and time from submission to publication for head and face medicine were 95.9 days and 99.3 days respectively.[7] The median peer review time (not including the time taken for revision) for Croatian Medical Journal from February 1998 to December 2001 was 29 days.[8]
Manuscript processing and publication are a multifaceted process requiring meticulous efforts and planning from authors, reviewers, and the editorial team. The entire process may be delayed for several reasons. (1) Exceedingly large number of submissions, (2) slow editorial process due to lack of resources and manpower (3) difficulty in identifying the appropriate reviewers (4) reviewers exceeding the review deadline (4) authors taking a long time to make revisions especially when major revisions are suggested (5) delays in proofreading and final editing by authors after acceptance (6) a large backlog of articles in press and (7) high acceptance rate are some common reasons. One reason that could be relevant to the Indian scenario is that there may be editors working pro bono with other commitments and not receiving any monetary or in-kind benefits. Journals with faster publication are recommended [9] and considered by authors [5] before submitting their work to a journal. This is also important for the ethical responsibility of timely dissemination of research findings. Thus, if biomedical Indian journals have to match the international standards, then appropriate steps have to be taken by the editors, authors, and reviewers to ensure faster publication. We hope that details about the date of submission, revision, and acceptance are mentioned by all journals which will facilitate the authors to decide before submitting to a journal.
Another important finding of our study is that the median publication time for journals that publish online in advance was found to be only 29.5 days (19.6, 50.6). The trend in time from submission to publication over the period of January 2012 to June 2014 for the journals with AOP also shows a positive decrease, however, this was not statistically significant. Nevertheless, it is discouraging for researchers of the Indian community that less than one-third (31.6%) of biomedical Indian journals have the facility of AOP. This could be because of financial, technical, and infrastructural constraints of biomedical Indian journals. Several biomedical Indian journals that do not have AOP, mention only the title of forthcoming articles under the ahead of print section in their website. This information is however of not much use to the readers. We hope that the number of journals with AOP increase in the future. Unlike reported previously, we did not find any correlation between the variables of publication and IF. This could be because of the narrow range of IF (0.234–1.661) of biomedical Indian journals. Another reason could be the low number of issues and articles published by the journals in a year.
Several limitations of our study are worth mentioning. First, the findings cannot be generalized to all biomedical Indian journals as we studied only the journals that were listed in the JCR of 2013. Second, it may be argued that the duration of 30 months is narrow to identify the trend in the publication speed. Third, we did not consider the time taken by the authors for revision as this may vary considerably. Fourth, publication delay is usually described in relation to the date of print publication, but we explained it with respect to the date when the article is first available for the readers to be cited. Fifth, we did not study factors like cited half-life and immediacy index of the journals. It would be interesting to study in the future the trend in publication speed for a longer duration and also compare it with journals that do not have an IF.
Overall, the peer review and publication time of biomedical journals included in our study seems to be fairly long. Less than one-third (31.6%) of biomedical journals included in the study provided the facility of AOP. IF does not correlate with variables of publication speed. Collective efforts by authors, reviewers, and editors are required to enhance publication speed and ensure that manuscripts are available early for the readers. It is our hope that in the future, there is an increase in the number of biomedical Indian journals providing the facility of AOP.
The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Shreemathi Maiya, Mr. Vijay Singhal and Ms. Radhika Chawda for their statistical advice.
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Interview with Cisco Certification Expert Wendell Odom About the New CCNP Route 642-902 Exam and the CCNA Exams
By Timothy L. Warner and Wendell Odom
Interested in finding out what's on the new CCNP ROUTE 642-902 exam and how best to prepare for it? Want to hear from an insider the topics that present the most trouble for Cisco exam candidates? Want to find out about some great study resources for all Cisco certifications? This interview with bestselling Cisco certification author and long-time Cisco trainer Wendell Odom provides the answers to these questions and more. Odom takes you on a brief tour of the new CCNP ROUTE exam, talks about preparation resources and the valuable content in his blog, and wraps up with a discussion of CCNA exam preparation tips.
CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide
Tim Warner: For the sake of the readers who missed our CCNP Round Table interview, let me lead off by asking you to summarize the evolution of the "old" Cisco 642-901 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) exam to the current-generation 642-902 Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) test.
Wendell Odom: Sure, Tim. First, take the perspective as the body of technology—the topics covered, and the depth. From that perspective, the old and new overlap quite a bit. Both have extensive depth on EIGRP, OSPF, and route redistribution; and intermediate coverage of BGP, mostly from an enterprise perspective. ROUTE increases the depth of IPv6 topics and adds some small topics, like IP SLA, policy-based routing, and some basics about branch-office routing with VPNs. Then, looking at the exams themselves, Cisco promises to focus more on the planning aspects of an engineer's work—planning the implementation and planning the verification. This new slant, in my opinion, means that the exam questions will be a bit more challenging on average.
TW: Related to the first question, how much better is the ROUTE exam at evaluating real-world skills, as opposed to the previous version?
WO: That's an interesting question. I think first you've got to look at the real world—are there jobs that have a heavy concentration on the topics in ROUTE, specifically? Or at least in CCNP? Sure. Engineers in larger shops (say, Fortune 500-ish), have enough division of responsibility to where a single person's job is focused on routing. I've met plenty of folks in larger companies who solely work on routers, with other folks solely working on campus-switching. In the smaller of those companies, maybe routing and switching are combined, particularly because of the product mix—with routers doing switching, and switches doing routing—to where the categories don't really work anymore.
That said, I don't know that ROUTE meets this need any better than BSCI. But if you turn the question to the next broader view, does the new CCNP do that better than the old? Absolutely. It is more specialized, narrower—but deeper, which (in my opinion) fits well into the role of engineers in these larger shops.
TW: Keeping our Cisco non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in mind, what can you tell us with regard to the ROUTE exam's specifics? For instance, how many questions are on the test? What type(s) of questions? What is the passing score? What is the time limit for the test?
WO: What I can offer for this one is the same thing you can see at Cisco's CCNP certification website. It's 52 questions, 120 minutes. The passing score isn't published (and may change over time), but for most of the cert exams the score is on the usual 300-1000 scale that makes it difficult to reverse-engineer to determine what you missed, or exactly how many.
As for question types, it appears to have the usual suspects: multi-choice, multi-answer multi-choice (with a stated number of answers), drag-and-drop, sim, simlet, testlet. I've not seen any published reason to expect new question types in ROUTE.
TW: Please explain how a 642-902 certification candidate can use your Cisco Press book CCNP ROUTE 642-902: Official Certification Guide.
WO: Actually, it's one of the easiest books to read sequentially, for most readers. The first two major parts examine EIGRP and OSPF in depth—topics that most ROUTE candidates already know something about already. Each chapter has tools to help you quickly determine if you should read or scan the chapter. The planning tables at the ends of the chapters help you to wrap your head around the planning topics, more than just worrying about specific settings and concepts with the topics. You can build confidence quickly by seeing familiar topics, and get some of the deeper questions answered about OSPF and EIGRP that you wouldn't have seen in CCNA.
After that, most topics are somewhat new to folks who have their CCNA. Route redistribution is conceptually easy at first glance, but gets really sticky in a hurry. I'd say to use this section as normal, reading the entire chapter in each case, but plan on trying out things in your lab. The next major part, BGP, takes you through the details in the same manner as the EIGRP and OSPF parts do, so you can learn from the familiar IGP topics and see similarities and differences compared to BGP. There's also coverage of IPv6 and a short section about branch-office routing.
The big things are the explanations in the chapters, the "key topics" icons that tell you what you must fully master, the planning tables at the ends of the chapters, and the CD question bank—they all help.
TW: Again, related to the previous question, what specific subjects from the ROUTE material cause your students the most trouble?
WO: Easy: BGP and route redistribution. Why? Most companies that aren't ISPs use BGP with very basic configuration, and that configuration stays relatively static. At the point at which most folks pursue ROUTE, they haven't had a lot of BGP experience. However, most folks come to ROUTE with some experience with either EIGRP or OSPF.
Route redistribution poses a challenge for two reasons. First, the particulars of how each routing protocol pulls in redistributed routes varies between routing protocols, so there are some picky little details to remember. Second, as soon as there are two redistribution points between two routing domains, lots of interesting, challenging, and confusing side-effects can occur. In fact, the CCIE R/S lab exam has always included such tricky scenarios, and this is the first exam in the Cisco exam space to examine the topic in any depth.
TW: How/where would you place the CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Cert Kit, which contains computer-based training (CBT) and online flash-card review, in the ROUTE certification candidate's self-study tool belt?
WO: I'd say that you'd want to start using the videos at the same time you start reading the book, and use the flash cards as part of your final review after you've been through the book once. It's always good to hear a second voice or perspective on a single topic, and the videos would work well for that.
TW: As you know, Cisco certifications require that candidates not only possess the requisite theoretical knowledge, but they also must have practical skills with the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS). How can candidates—especially those with limited field experience—gain the Cisco IOS know-how?
WO: Many options. I walk through [those topics] at my website, and I blog about this topic with some regularity. (See CertSkills.com for the lab info and links to my blog.) The short version is that most people who succeed at the CCNP level practice using real IOS, whether on real gear or with Dynamips. But you've got to plan on getting that experience.
TW: Instructor-led training (ILT) is very expensive and time-consuming. Under which circumstances would you recommend that a Cisco certification candidate pursue an ILT solution?
WO: If you can get your boss to pay for it, take the class! I'm a big fan of Cisco authorized training, even though I don't teach anymore. It is time-consuming to take a class—out of work for a week, plus travel—but compared to reading, it may be just as quick as self-study. The trick is to decide which classes to take if the boss will just pay for one or two. For example, you want CCNP, but the boss will pay for one class only—do you take ROUTE, or SWITCH, or TSHOOT? Do you look for a bootcamp that crams it all into six days, knowing that you can't absorb it all that fast? But if you can take it, take the class, particularly if it's Cisco's authorized curriculum.
That said, get the Official Certification Guides, too. Okay, that sounds blatantly self-serving, I admit. But experience shows that most people who take the class also get the Cert Guide books. Speaking from experience, the instructor simply cannot speak all facts, [cover] all perspectives, and outline all examples that matter in the space of the class. Learn all you can in the class, and read the books—which give you ways to know where you're weak—to fill in the holes.
TW: Tell us how your blog benefits Cisco certification candidates.
WO: We spend time talking about all things related to Cisco certifications—it's called "Cisco Cert Zone." We focus a lot on lab topics. I throw out example problems that point out some of the trickier topics. We ramble about the broader issues, like what certifications to get, which paths are better. But mainly I focus on cert tools. You can get links and index pages for various topics at my CertSkills blog.
TW: Let's conclude this interview by discussing the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam briefly. Undoubtedly, some readers have yet to pass the CCNA, which of course is the prerequisite for pursuing CCNP certification. What are the trouble spots with the CCNA skill set that you have identified in your students?
WO: CCNA has lots of pitfalls. First, as essentially an introductory cert, the background of the CCNA candidate varies greatly. As such, almost anything can be a pitfall to any one person. However, the more popular problems are with IP subnetting, frame relay, routing protocol theory, and spanning tree. Everyone probably knows that you have to be good and fast with subnetting to do well on CCNA. For the other three problems, the biggest issue is that they appear to be straightforward when you read about it, and then you get a question that applies it in a different scenario—it's confusing.
TW: How can a CCNA self-study candidate best prepare himself or herself by using your Cisco Press products in a "holistic" manner?
WO: It's pretty straightforward, actually:
Get/use the CCNA Exam Cert Library, which has two books.
Get/use the CCNA Simulator at the same time. Do the labs as you work through the chapters. CertSkills has a guide to tell you when to do each lab.
Get the CCNA Video Mentor. It shows videos explaining the more challenging CCNA technical topics. You can view those around the time of reading the related chapters, to help you make more sense of those specific topics. It doesn't cover everything—just the toughest stuff.
TW: Thank you very much for your time and for sharing your knowledge with us!
WO: My pleasure, Tim.
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Five Years of Freedom of Information in Scotland
The Real Challenge
The Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner (OSIC) turned to Real PR and our design partners, Dynam, for a one off campaign to mark five years of the Freedom of Information Act (2002) Scotland and to launch the Commissioner’s 2010 annual report.
Real Solutions
A three month campaign was managed to raise awareness of FOISA, its five years of success and the publishing of the annual report.
The campaign was trailed in an in-depth interview in a Sunday broadsheet and launched with the release of research showing that voluntary groups were deterred from making FOI requests for fear of damaging their relationship with public bodies. An eye catching photo opportunity was combined with the release of online video on the previous five years of FOI in Scotland. Real pre-sold the story to the main targets with regionalised case studies allowing titles to prepare stories in advance of the Christmas down period.
Real PR also took OSIC through a one day introduction to social media, helping them to understand how to optimise the use of social media in line with their objectives.
Video for the campaign was created by Kevin Cameron - a BAFTA nominated video production specialist.
In the next stage of the campaign OSIC wanted to brief senior members of the media on a potential political threat to FOI in Scotland. Real PR organised two high level dinners, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, with editors and political journalists from all major media outlets n Scotland
Real’s design partners Dynam, created a campaign around the theme of “You Only Have to Ask Motive” which was used across the print, website and visuals for the annual report. Real PR also released regionalised data and a national news release to coincide with the report’s launch. Prior to the report going live, Real PR placed an opinion piece in the Sunday Herald with Lord Wallace of Tankerness who was deeply involved defining the act and getting it onto the legislature.
Real Activity
Over 65 articles were achieved reaching right across Scotland generating 8,000,000 opportunities to see. That is two for every adult of voting age in Scotland.
Broadcast coverage of the launch included BBC’s Reporting Scotland and Newsnight Scotland.
Online video was used by Scotsman.com and Heraldscotland.com as well as through OSIC own channels.
Coverage was maintained throughout the 12 week campaign with at least one article appearing in press per week
In order to reach the law community a round table feature was set up with The Journal for the law society of Scotland. As well as an in-depth feature the event secured the front page of the February issue.
Journalists were reached through an article by Freelance Environmental Editor and FOI supporter Rob Edwards on allmediascotland. The Business press were targeted through an opinion piece in business 7.
The campaign raised the profile of Freedom of Information in Scotland. It reached all main stakeholders and navigated difficult political circumstances. The real test comes later in the year with OSIC’s annual research into public understanding of FOI (which we will update here when we know the results).
Over 1000 people have already viewed the microsite for the annual report. In addition OSIC has started to implement and integrate social media into their marketing and PR activities.
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He was lost and alone. Then he found her.
And the future seemed more fragile than ever.
As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise — until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed.
All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his desire to be everything she needed came so easy…
As easy as it could be for a man who learned that the soul is breakable and that everything you hoped for could be ripped away in a heartbeat.
Easy was one of my favorite books from last year. I loved Jacqueline and Lucas' story so when I heard a book was being written from Lucas’ perspective I couldn’t have been more excited. That being said, when an author writes the same story from a different POV as a reader my expectations are going to be pretty high. Will the story live up to its original version? Will I be bored when I’m reading it because basically it will have the same ending? Will I still love that character just as much as I did the first time around?
Tammara Webber gets an A++ for this book. Breakable honestly felt like a completely different story than Easy. By expertly weaving Lucas’ backstory from before his mother’s attack to when he begins college into the time he first notices Jacqueline to the point in which he falls irrevocably in love her. I felt as though the plot was brilliant and wouldn’t have changed a thing nor could I have asked for anything more out of this journey. From beginning to end I read the book in one sitting. I was literally unable to put it down even knowing how it was going to end!
Breakable allows you to know Lucas in a more intimate way. In giving me the opportunity to see Lucas struggle with the draw he feels pulling him to Jacqueline, to his frustration and struggles in lying by omission and allowing Jacqueline to believe Lucas and Landon are two different people I couldn’t help but love him even more. Being in Lucas’ head also allowed me to understand further his need to protect Jacqueline, and how really her love for him changed his life and opened up a life line back to his father. Breakable gave even more meaning, and further deepened their story.
I imagine if you wanted you could read this book without having read Easy, however, I’m still going to recommend you read Easy first. Allow yourself to be inside Jacqueline head. See and fall in love with Lucas through her eyes first because if you allow yourself that opportunity I think your experience with Breakable will be even more meaningful.
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Pollard off to Montpellier
May 14 • General News, International, Other Tournaments, Top 14 • 422 Views • No Comments on Pollard off to Montpellier
The Blue Bulls Company would like to confirm that Vodacom Bulls and Springbok flyhalf Handré Pollard has agreed terms with French club, Montpellier.
Pollard, currently preparing in Melbourne with the Vodacom Bulls squad to play the Rebels on Friday, indicated his intention to the BBC when a renewal of his contract came up for discussion.
The flyhalf, who has scored 581 points (nine tries, 110 penalties, 88 conversions and four drop goals) for the Vodacom Bulls joined the franchise in 2013, straight out of school.
He has played 56 times for the Vodacom Bulls thus far and became a Springbok in 2014. He also played 39 tests so far, amassing 339 points.
Blue Bulls Company CEO, Alfons Meyer said, “Handre has been a true servant for us for six years. He has been an outstanding asset, not only to the teams he played for, but also our supporters, to whom he endeared himself from early on with his attitude towards the Vodacom Bulls. He will be missed for sure, but we cannot fault his decision to continue his career in France. We wish him well.”
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The British Embassy Bangkok supports the local community with a donation of helmets at Wat Chaimongkol School.
On 28 October 2013, the British Embassy Bangkok donated 230 helmets to students and teachers of the Wat Chaimongkol School in Bangkok. The helmet donation launched the British Embassy Bangkok’s partnership with the Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation on the Helmets for Kids programme to increase helmet use, provide road safety and pedestrian education, and ultimately reduce road traffic fatalities and injuries among children. This partnership is the first of its kind in Thailand, and shows a great commitment from the foreign government to its surrounding community.
Wat Chaimongkol is located in the Rong Muang sub-district of Bangkok province. The British Embassy Bangkok is situated near this community and tourists from the United Kingdom commonly pass through this area. The local market is a popular stop among tourists, and local residents are accustomed to interacting with many British visitors. Sponsoring a Helmets for Kids programme in this location provides an opportunity for the British Embassy to protect the lives of the children living in this area as well as demonstrate its dedication to working for this society to the many visitors that pass through from the UK.
The helmets were donated during a helmet handover celebration attended by Mark Kent, British Ambassador to Thailand, M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Governor of Bangkok, and Mr. Pornpoth Penpas, Deputy Director-General of Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Ministry of Interior. In celebration of this donation, students organized a dance performance with their new helmets and a road safety fashion show. Founder and President of AIP Foundation, Greig Craft, led a proper helmet use demonstration for students and Country Director of AIP Foundation Thailand.
We are so pleased to have this opportunity to help try and improve road safety in our surrounding community,” said British Ambassador Mark Kent. “In Thailand, there are some 50,000 British residents and over 870,000 British visitors per year. In 2011 alone, there were 68,582 road traffic incidents in Thailand that resulted in 14,033 deaths. These affect Thai nationals, expatriates, and visitors so we all must work together to make Thailand’s roads safer.
Despite a national traffic law mandating helmet use for motorcycle drivers and passengers, only 43 percent of motorcyclists wear helmets on Thailand’s roads. Among children, helmet use falls to only eight percent. Many families ignore the helmet requirement as road traffic crashes are not widely regarded to be an immediate threat. Helmets for Kids engages parents to impress upon them the importance of protecting their children from road injury; and at the same time, educates children on road safety and how wearing helmets can save lives.
Ratanawadee H. Winther, spoke about the importance of child helmet use,
as a society, children are our most valued asset. Helmet use is a vital everyday step we must all take for ourselves and remember for our children in order to keep them safe. The programme we have organized for this school will increase students’ safety as motorcycle passengers and bicyclists, as well as pedestrians.
About AIP Foundation
The Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation is a U.S. registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organisation that uses social enterprise, public awareness education, and school-based programmes to reduce the rate of traffic injuries and fatalities in developing countries. AIP Foundation has offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Bangkok, Thailand. In 2001, AIP Foundation built its non-profit helmet assembly plant, manufacturing Protec brand tropical helmets in Vietnam. These helmets offer an environmentally appropriate, safe, and affordable option for motorcycle and bicycle users.
In 2009, AIP Foundation, in collaboration with the FIA Foundation and the World Bank, launched the Global Helmet Vaccine Initiative (GHVI), an international coalition with the objective of “putting a helmet on every head in the Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020).”
About British Embassy Bangkok
British Embassy Bangkok helps sustain and develop the important relationship between the UK and Thailand. It deals with a wide range of political, commercial, security and economic questions of interest to the UK and Thailand as well as visa applications and provides consular services. Over the years, the British Embassy has been calling for improved road safety across Thailand as an increasing number of British tourists come to Thailand each year. This increase brings with it the potential for greater numbers of British nationals to be injured on the roads. The Embassy seeks to raise awareness of the risks to British residents in Thailand and visitors alike
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Board index ‹ General Discussion ‹ Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Films and Television
Disney News Thread
King Kong! Star Trek! The Lord of the Rings! Hellraiser! Star Wars! The Marvel Cinematic Universe! The Universal Monsters! Freddy and Jason! The Dead Trilogy! The DC Cinematic Universe! Battlestar Galactica! Hammer Films! Gorgo! The range of Western Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Movies and Television programs span the scope of the imagination; this is the forum to discuss them!
"Come get some..."
by mr.negativity » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:47 am
From IESB:
Exclusive: Paramount Versus The House of Mouse
Jamie Williams wrote: So what's the big news? Apparently, there is nothing short of a tug of war going on between Disney and Paramount over the properties Par had already lined up and contractually committed to distribute with Marvel. Sadly, it appears that the Mouse may have found a loophole.
How certain are we of this? Certain Disney publicists have already been telling members of the press that Iron Man 3 will definitely be distributed and branded with the Walt Disney logo. Ask the lawyers for details.
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mr.negativity
Location: The Negative Zone
by MouthForWar » Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:12 am
blaaaaarg
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MouthForWar
Location: Livonia, MI
by Dai » Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:00 am
When I saw the title, I thought this was a new fighting game. "Picard vs Donald. Heaven or hell? Let's rock!"
by MekaGojira3k » Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:08 am
Ugh. For god's sake Disney. Sorry you don't make ALL the money, but could you lay off of a decent franchise.
"We Can't Stop Here, This is Bat Country!"
Check out the Gojicast, because if you won't...who will?
MekaGojira3k
Location: Ky, USA
by Jon Leo » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:06 pm
I'd rather see Disney vs. Sony and Fox, so they can get the film rights from to The Fantastic Four, X Men, and Spider Man, and give them back to Marvel.
Jon Leo
Little Godzilla
Location: Trying to Escape From New York
by mr.negativity » Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:27 am
J.J. Abrams Comments on Turning Down Director’s Chair for STAR WARS: EPISODE VII
[quote]“I guess the franchises could go up against each other, but I’m not thinking that far ahead! I’m a huge fan of Star Wars, Empire and Jedi, and the idea of the world continuing is exciting and will be amazing. Kathy Kennedy is a friend and there are no smarter producers. It’s in great hands…there were the very early conversations and I quickly said that because of my loyalty to Star Trek, and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.â€
by metal_bryan » Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:01 pm
That interview from last month is now hilarious now. They must have made him an offer he couldn't refuse!
http://www.facebook.com/mastersofmetalproductions
metal_bryan
by Henry88 » Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:09 pm
more like the house of the shrews
Henry88
Location: Heflin,AL
by O.Supreme » Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:34 pm
Disney is the Mom who gets custody of the kids, and Paramount is the dad paying alimoney & child support for the forseeable future.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.
O.Supreme
Burning Godzilla
Location: Born in the Bay Area, but stuck in Sacto
by mr.negativity » Fri May 10, 2013 4:08 pm
Paramount’s Super Payoff for ‘Iron Man 3′
Par’s percentage adds up on Marvel pics, but the deal it made with Disney will soon expire
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Re: Disney vs Paramount?
by mr.negativity » Fri Dec 06, 2013 6:41 pm
Disney Takes Control of 'Indiana Jones' Franchise
Disney and Paramount have reached an agreement for the future of the Indiana Jones franchise, giving Disney control over all future films.
Rebecca Ford wrote: Disney and Paramount have reached an agreement for the future of the Indiana Jones franchise, giving Disney control over all future films.
Paramount retains rights to the first four films and "will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and released," says the statement from the studios.
The Walt Disney Co. completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm, the moviemaking company founded by George Lucas, in December 2012 for a cash payment of $2.21 billion and just under 37.1 million Disney shares.
The first four adventure films in the Harrison Ford-starring franchise -- 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- were all directed by Steven Spielberg and distributed by Paramount.
More to come...
by jellydonut25 » Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:45 am
If we get Han Solo and Indiana Jones in the same shot somehow as a result of this then: Greatest Acquisition EVER.
Gills.
My DVD/Blu-Ray Collection:
http://jellydonut25.filmaf.com/owned
jellydonut25
Location: Houston, TX via Buffalo, NY
by mr.negativity » Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:57 pm
THR:
'Monster Trucks' Leads Viacom to Take $115M Write-Down
The company is taking the write-down months before the big-budget film opens in cinemas.
Pamela McClintock & Kim Masters wrote: With an estimated production budget of $100 million-plus, one source said the film was intended to be a broad-audience title, but turned out to be more of a kids movie.
Given Paramount's slew of box-office misses this year, Jefferies analyst John Janedis wrote in a Wednesday report that the studio's "issues" were "ongoing." He added: "Viacom indicated there would be a write-down of $115 million related to a future film that will not likely perform to expectations."
And Drexel Hamilton analyst Tony Wible said that the loss "implies that Paramount will have lost about $500 million this year despite a favorable box office, home entertainment and licensing environment."
He added: "The studio is gradually losing its major franchises, and it may be difficult to launch new ones in the increasingly competitive film slate. We are lowering our future margin assumptions for the studio."
Variety:
Rob Moore Out at Paramount Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
Ramin Setoodeh & Brent Lang wrote: Moore, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, has been in his current job since 2008 (and with the studio since 2005), overseeing Paramount’s worldwide marketing, distribution, digital and television arms, and shepherded tentpoles like the “Transformers” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises, “Interstellar” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The studio does not expect to fill Moore’s position.
A source close to the situation said that the decision to ask for Moore’s resignation was made by the board of Viacom, Paramount’s corporate parent.
Moore’s exit comes as the studio is having a particularly turbulent year at the box office, with costly flops such as “Ben-Hur,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and “Zoolander 2″ piling up. This week, Viacom said in public filings that Paramount would take a $115 million write-off on the still unreleased “Monster Trucks,” which bows in 2017.
Following the exit of Dauman, Viacom’s leadership gave a vote of confidence to current Paramount chairman Brad Grey. Moore was the executive in charge of the day-to-day operations at the studio. He was also integral in maneuvering Paramount’s releases in China, frequently traveling to Asia.
Paramount Delays Rings & Friday the 13th Reboot
Paramount Pictures puts the brakes on two long in-development horror sequels, with both Rings and Friday the 13th delayed by several months.
Disflix?
by mr.negativity » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:22 pm
Rumor: Disney Looking to Purchase Netflix to Become Leader of the Streaming World
Re: Disflix?
by XvGojira » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:39 pm
mr.negativity wrote: Rumor: Disney Looking to Purchase Netflix to Become Leader of the Streaming World
Well they did just sign up a bunch of their stuff on Netflex in September, so I could see them doing this, Just don't spike the price and/or make things price walled.
XvGojira
Location: Grand Rapids
by lhb412 » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:57 pm
Netflix has gone downhill ever since they lost the streaming rights to The Warriors a few days ago.
Re: Disney News Thread
by mr.negativity » Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:27 pm
How ‘Bambi’ Got Its Look From 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Art
Daniel McDermon wrote: The Chinese-American artist Tyrus Wong, who died last week at 106, was an incredibly accomplished painter, illustrator, calligrapher and Hollywood studio artist. But as Margalit Fox wrote in her obituary for Mr. Wong, “because of the marginalization to which Asian-Americans were long subject, he passed much of his career unknown to the general public.”
Work on ‘Bambi’
Mr. Wong is most renowned for his essential contribution to Walt Disney’s 1942 animated classic, “Bambi.” While he worked a drudge’s job at the Disney animation studio during the day, he spent nights painting hundreds of watercolors to show his own vision of the film’s look. Mr. Wong’s style emphasized the film’s animal characters in the foreground, evoking the lush surrounding forest with minimal brushwork, gentle washes and slashes of color.
Re: "I'm Mary Poppins, Y'all"
by mr.negativity » Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:08 am
Emily Blunt Is Mary Poppins!
by mr.negativity » Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:40 am
Netflix, ABC Hacker Promises More Leaks: "Hollywood Is Under Attack"
TheDarkOverlord hacking collective claims to have studio films: "We're in the business of earning vast amounts of internet money."
mr.negativity wrote: SONY HACK 2017
Hackers Threaten to Leak Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Unless Disney Pays a Ransom
Jordan Crucchiola wrote:
Earlier today, reports came in that an unnamed, unreleased Disney movie had been stolen from the company by hackers. Company CEO Bob Iger informed ABC employees at a town-hall-style meeting that a movie had been taken, and that it was being held hostage in exchange for a large sum of bitcoin. Deadline is now reporting that the stolen property is the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and that the company is working with the FBI in order to resolve the issue. Iger said that Disney has no plans to pay the ransom, despite the fact that the hackers have threatened to release the entire movie in five-minute-long increments unless the studio antes up with the bitcoin. Parallels are being drawn between this incident and a recent one in which hackers threatened to release the entire fifth season of Orange Is the New Black unless ransom demands where met. Netflix also refused to pay, and the hackers in that case did follow through on their promise, dumping all ten episodes of the upcoming fifth season on the Pirate Bay just last month.
Re: Disney vs Netflix?
by mr.negativity » Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:56 pm
CNBC AUGUST 08, 2017:
Disney will pull its movies from Netflix and start its own streaming services
Michelle Castillo wrote:
Disney announced during its latest earnings report it intends to pull all its movies from Netflix
It also will launch an ESPN video streaming service in early 2018, including MLB, NHL and MLS content.
There's also plans to launch a branded Disney direct to consumer streaming service in 2019
The company announced during its latest earnings report on Tuesday it intends to remove its movies from Netflix.
Instead, Disney plans to launch a branded direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019 starting in the U.S. and expanding globally.
CEO Bob Iger told CNBC's Julia Boorstin Disney had a "good relationship" with Netflix, but decided to exercise an option to move its content off the platform. Movies to be removed include Disney as well as Pixar's titles, according to Iger. Netflix said Disney movies will be available through the end of 2018 on its platform. Marvel TV shows will remain.
The new platform will be the home for all Disney movies going forward, starting with the 2019 theatrical slate which includes "Toy Story 4," "Frozen 2," and the upcoming live-action "The Lion King." It will also be making a "significant investment" in exclusive movies and television series for the new platform.
The company will also launch its own ESPN video streaming service in early 2018. The platform, which will feature about 10,000 sporting events each year, will have content from the MLB, NHL, MLS, collegiate sports and tennis' Grand Slam events.
To power the services, Disney is buying a majority ownership of BAM Tech for $1.58 billion. Disney bought a 33 percent stake in the company, which was spun off from digital media company MLB Advanced Media, in August 2016.
"This represents a big strategic shift for the company," Iger said to CNBC. "We felt that having control of a platform we've been very impressed with after buying 33 percent of it a year ago would give us control of our destiny."
Netflix stock dropped more than 5 percent upon announcement of the news.
THR AUGUST 08, 2017:
Disney to Pull Movies From Netflix, Launch Streaming Service
by lhb412 » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:20 pm
^Disney is probably the only entity that I think can pull this off. Otherwise, I think we'll hit the streaming service limit soon.
by canofhumdingers » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:27 pm
I hate that the streaming stuff is getting broken up into so many different subscriptions. CBS already refuses to put their shows on Hulu. Now I'm sure abc will be moved over to this Disney service since they're owned by the mouse. I've already got Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon prime (well, we do that for other reasons, the streaming is just a bonus). But I flat out REFUSE to subscribe to brand specific streaming services. I hope it fails miserably.
At least I can still get disney's stuff from Netflix via the disc subscription if there's something I want to see.
canofhumdingers
by mr.negativity » Wed Aug 09, 2017 1:30 am
io9:
Disney Is Planning to Pull All of Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service [Updated]
James Whitbrook wrote: UPDATE 08/08 5.45PM:
Speaking to the press on a media call in the wake of the announcement, Disney CEO Bob Iger noted that while Disney’s own movies would definitely move over to the new services, the rights of the Star Wars and Marvel films are still being decided—and in fact, those movies specifically could stay exclusive to a place like Netflix
by lhb412 » Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:44 am
^ God, I love physical media! Nothing better than owning a copy of your favorite movie or TV show or book and not having to worry about losing access to it.
by Dr Kain » Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:01 am
By the time every company does this, the outrageous cost of cable is going to be cheap.
Well whatever. They had already pulled Ultimate Spider-Man before I could finish it, so I had to download the rest. As such, downloading their other shows won't matter much.
Dr Kain
Location: Englewood CO but originally from Buffalo NY
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PA House Podcast – Knowles Interviews Ashley Garecht
Jun. 19, 2019 Download
This Legislative Podcast with Rep. Jerry Knowles is now available. You may use this program in its entirety or edit it down for actualities to use in state government news coverage. Topics discussed in this podcast include: • Rep. Knowles Interviews Ashley Garecht – Mother of Teen Girls Harrassed by State Rep. Brian Sims Outside Philadelphia Planned Parenthood Clinic • Knowles’ House Resolution Calling for Sims Censure
Rep. Knowles Comments on Governor's Budget Proposal
Feb. 06, 2018 Download
The Governor unveiled his 2018-19 state budget proposal before a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg on Tuesday. The Governor’s plan calls for $33 Billion in state spending, approximately $1 Billion more than the Commonwealth spent last year.
Knowles’ Bill to Amend the State Constitution to Shrink the Size of the PA House Approved by State Government Committee
Jan. 23, 2018 Download
Legislation which would amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to reduce the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 203 to 151 has been approved by the House State Government Committee in Harrisburg. The amendment process requires the measure to be passed during two consecutive legislative sessions and then placed on the ballot for voter approval in a statewide referendum. Sponsor of House Bill 153, Rep. Jerry Knowles (R-Schuylkill & Berks), said passage of the legislation shows lawmakers are committed to shrinking the size of state government, and moves the process along so Pennsylvania voters could have the final say in the November election.
Rep. Knowles Comments on Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative
Mar. 22, 2017 Download
A package of legislation designed to protect the rights and freedoms of employees in Pennsylvania was introduced in Harrisburg on Wednesday. The Pennsylvania Open Workforce Initiative package of bills would give employees the right to opt in or out of union membership and would prevent compulsory or “fair-share” union dues by employees who may not support the political activities of their industry’s union.
Knowles Comments on Bills to Curb Illegal Immigration
A package of bills designed to reduce illegal immigration curtail the government incentives that draw noncitizen aliens to Pennsylvania was unveiled on Monday in Harrisburg. The National Security Begins at Home package of bills would mandate employer compliance with the national E-Verify program, introduce penalties for those who knowingly employ illegal aliens, and require state and local law enforcement compliance with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Rep. Knowles Bill Aimed at Withholding Funds from PA Colleges and Universities that Refuse to Comply with Federal Immigration Laws
Dec. 16, 2016 Download
Lawmakers in Harrisburg are already working on bills they intend to introduce in the New Year, including legislation aimed at ensuring that Pennsylvania colleges comply with existing federal immigration laws. A number of major institutions of higher learning in the state have already announced the adoption of campus-wide sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants, but Rep. Jerry Knowles (R-Schuylkill & Berks), is gathering support in the PA House for his legislation that would require schools to choose between state government support and the controversial campus sanctuary policies.
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52 Android 39 Android Lollipop (v5) 18 Android Marshmallow (v6)
40 Quad Core Processor 17 Atleast 2 Ghz Processor 11 Octa Core Processor 3 Dual Core Processor
52 Atleast 5 Megapixels 52 Atleast 8 Megapixels 50 Atleast 13 Megapixels 10 Atleast 20 Megapixels
3 150 to 200 $
7 Huawei
6 Lenovo
6 Xiaomi
4 Asus
4 Meizu
3 Oppo
52 Android OS
13 v5.0 (Lollipop)
12 v5.1.1 (Lollipop)
9 planned upgrade to v6.0 (Marshmallow)
6 v6.0 (Marshmallow)
4 Android 5.1
3 Android 5.1.1
3 v5.0.2 (Lollipop)
3 v6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
52 5 to 10 inch
6 Quad core 1.5 GHz Cortex A53 & quad core 1.0 GHz Cortex A53
4 Octa core 2.0 GHz Cortex A53
3 Quad core 1.44 GHz Cortex A53 & dual core 1.82 GHz Cortex A57
3 Quad core 1.5 GHz Cortex A53 & Quad core 2 GHz Cortex A57
3 Quad core 2.3 GHz
33 5 to 13 MP
47 13 to 22 MP
3 22 to 41 MP
52 1080 x 1920
16 6 to 26 oz.
4 158 to 32768 MB
52 3(1800)
52 LTE band 1(2100)
31 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1 & SIM 2
28 8(900)
27 38(2600)
25 HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
20 20(800)
13 4(1700/2100)
8 17(700)
5 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual SIM model only)
3 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1 & SIM 2 (optional)
3 GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1 & SIM 2
3 HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100
7 8 to 13 Hours
17 13 to 440 Hours
46 Yes
46 with A GPS
29 GLONASS
10 GLONASS/ BDS (market dependant)
7 with stereo speakers
16 Corning Gorilla Glass 3
6 oleophobic coating
5 Scratch resistant glass
22 1.5 to 2.0 GB
43 2.0 to 3 GB
30 3 to 4 GB
9 4 to 6 GB
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Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow), Android 6.0
Quad-core 2.5 GHz Cortex-A72 & quad-core 1.8 GHz ..
'The Huawei P9 is one of the best phones the Chinese company has ever made. '
'The P9 is the best Huawei phone to date. '
'impressive and powerful phone'
'The P9 proves that Huawei can make great phones outside of Google’s Nexus program, and it extends a budding tradition of excellence at Huawei. '
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2, HSDPA 850 ..
Dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.36 GHz Kryo - ..
'The Xiaomi Mi 5 is a fantastic phone, with one major downside. '
'The Mi 5 gets practically everything right, with decent design, excellent performance, good camera quality and great battery life.'
'Surprisingly good for an inexpensive phone.'
'Underwhelming video recording.'
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - all models, HSDPA 850 / ..
Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)
Quad-core 1.44 GHz Cortex-A53 & dual-core 1.82 GHz ..
'The Nexus 5X is a great smartphone that showcases the best of what Android Marshmallow has to offer. '
'Overall the Nexus 5X is great in some areas, lacklustre in others.'
'Pure Android, Decent specs for the price, USB Type C, Excellent fingerprint scanner.'
'Those looking to upgrade from a Nexus 4 or 5 should be quite happy with this new model.'
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 (optional), ..
Quad-core 2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 + quad-core 1.8 GHz Cortex A53
'Huawei's Mate 8 is a fantastic phone. '
'The Huawei Mate 8 is one seriously good-looking smartphone. '
'Disorganized user interface.'
'But, it’s seriously let down by awful software and an inconsistent camera. '
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1800 / ..
Android OS, v5.1.1 (Lollipop), planned upgrade to v6.0 ..
Quad-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53
'The end result is a smartphone that looks practical, like a sports shoe or a torch.'
'The Moto X Play is another solid, good looking phone from the Motorola's stables. '
'Add a splash-proof body that protects the internals from all kinds of spilled drinks, and the option to wildly customise the colours of the phone to suit your exacting tastes and you've got yourself one hell of a smartphone.'
'The Moto X Play is the balancing act between the Moto G and Moto X Style with a tendency to aim high instead of settle for less.'
Android OS, v6.0.1 (Marshmallow), Android 6.0.1
Dual-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A72 & quad-core 1.4 GHz ..
'Sony’s Xperia X isn’t a bad smartphone. '
'The back is very slippery.'
'It isn't an ugly phone by any means; it just lacks imagination. '
'It's wonderfully light, too, at 153g.'
Android OS, v5.1.1 (Lollipop), Android 5.1
'If you want a phone that looks the business but you don’t need all of the bells and whistles, the Samsung Galaxy A5 looks like a great choice at half the price of a flagship.'
'If you're looking for a slender, attractive phone that has the main necessary feature set on board then the Galaxy A5 does a grand job.'
'The A5 is a good phone for multimedia playback thanks to its vibrant display. '
'The new A5 feels more responsive, and overall performance is greatly improved - something that was mirrored in our benchmarks.'
Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2 GHz ..
'The Xperia Z5 is the best phone Sony has ever produced and it's up there as one of the best Android phones on the market right now. '
'Holding a Sony Xperia Z phone is finally something people will be impressed by, that’s only a good thing.'
' Sony's flagship Xperia Z5 is stuffed with a lot of the top tech we expect from a high-end phone. '
'Sharp edges make it uncomfortable to hold.'
Android OS, v5.1.1 (Lollipop)
Quad-core 2.3 GHz, Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400
'It is hard to believe that a $250 phone can look so good.'
'The OnePlus X is possibly the nicest looking phone to have come from the Chinese start-up so far. '
'You need an invitation to buy one.'
'The OnePlus X is a great phone that offers terrific value for money – it will meet most smartphone users needs. '
Android OS, v6.0.1 (Marshmallow), Android 6.0.1
'Considering how good-looking the display is, and how impressive the performance is – and the battery life isn't too bad either – it's hard to see how anyone could be disappointed with the Moto G4. '
'Otherwise, your search for a great phone at a low price ends here. '
'First impressions of the phone are that it’s pretty responsive, but with the odd glitch here and there.'
'No useless software'
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The Librarians: And the Drowned Book Review
THE LIBRARIANS:
AND THE DROWNED BOOK
Now that we've gone through a major storyline of locating magical artifacts for an epic confrontation against Lancelot, we are in Season Two of The Librarians facing against another legendary literary figure: none other than Prospero himself. And the Drowned Book does a wonderful job bringing an update to one of Shakespeare's masterworks in a logical manner while keeping the same offbeat, wacky world of The Librarians, where magic is real and knowledge is power.
Once magic is released into the world, Shakespeare's Prospero (Richard Cox), a powerful Fictional (a figure from literature who can exist outside their story) summons another literary figure to be his servant. Now, the different Librarians are brought together in seemingly random missions to the same location, but they have no interest in working in tandem. Math genius Cassandra Cillian (Lindy Booth) is set to investigate a new weather machine, master thief Ezekiel Jones (John Kim) is wooing a beautiful Italian countess for her pearl earrings, and art expert Jake Stone (Christian Kane) is after a chess set from Milan. The Head Librarian, Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) is pretty joyful that the Junior Librarians are doing their own thing, but the Guardian/Flynn's girlfriend Eve Baird (Rebecca Romijn) is not thrilled. Back at the Library Annex, Jenkins (John Larroquette) is more concerned about artifacts popping in and out.
At the museum's exhibition of a recently-discovered ship, Professor James Worth (David S. Lee) is getting under Flynn's skin for his own powers of deduction and for his ability with Eve, whom Worth continues referring to as "Duchess". Flynn first thinks that Worth is a Fictional himself, none other than Sherlock Holmes. However, thanks to work Eve has been doing in putting the various pieces together, she finds that Worth is really Professor James Moriarty.
The various Librarians now find, bit by bit, that they are actually in their own version of The Tempest, and Prospero has found his book. Determined to regain the world, he escapes with his minion Moriarty, and the Librarians find themselves about to see New York City swept into the Tempest of Tempests. They must combine their forces and intellects to thwart the destruction of NYC, which involves a literal Sun in the Library's Sun Room and all of them working together. With the city saved, the Librarians learn two things. One: Prospero means business. Two: as a team, they are better.
And the Drowned Book is a fantastic opening episode for a variety of reasons. Let's start with the fact that we get the overall story arc for Season Two: the machinations of Prospero and the efforts to stop him. It's good that while we will get a series of adventures, we will see them connect to one overall story.
As a side note, The Librarians now has a greater focus and logic and consistency than Doctor Who. Think on that for a moment.
We also get with And the Drowned Book a wonderful lesson for our heroes: their individual skills are wonderful, but they work best when they unite as a team. There is a wonderful moment when Stone asks Cassandra for help, then is joined by Jones asking Stone for help. As soon as they start helping out, Stone asks why they stopped working together. Jones snaps that it was because Stone kept ordering him around, and soon a fight breaks out. This scene works because we as the audience see that they make a great team, but that they are also individuals with different methods, ideas, and personalities. Rather than attempt to paper over them or give them a false sense of unity, we see that they recognize the other's gifts while still having occasional conflicts. It's that 'unity through diversity' that makes the series work: we like them as a team, and we like them as individuals, and we like them for being real in their clashing world views.
I also think the acting is some of the best I've seen from the series. Whether or not Noah Wyle will play a greater role remains to be seen. It's a tricky thing. On the one hand he is wonderful as the brilliant but easily-distracted Flynn, a man who lives in the head more than on Earth. Wyle gets the character's sometimes bumbling but brilliant manner (and his ability to spout off long lines of dialogue while making it sound coherent is wonderful). On the other hand, would Flynn be a distraction from the great teamwork of Romijn, Larroquette, Kim, Booth, and Kane? We spent a good amount of time with Cass, Stone, Jones, Jenkins, and Eve (curious how the women are known by their first names, and the men by their last names with the exception of Jenkins), that they've gelled into a strong group without Flynn.
Perhaps the best performance was from guest star Lee as Moriarty (who outshines Andrew Scott's overly praised Moriarty on Sherlock). Lee makes Moriarty a fun, even funny figure. When Prospero calls him to escape with, "Come, Villain", Lee stops a bit, puzzled and chagrined look on his face. "Villain? I much prefer 'antagonist'", he says to himself. In his charming of Eve, his somewhat besotted manner with his "Duchess", and his intelligence, Lee turns Moriarty into not quite a dimwitted henchman but not a truly terrifying figure either. I think Lee is in complete sync with The Librarians' overall tone of being light, fun, and unapologetic about it.
That's what makes The Librarians not just fun but family-friendly, and it's good that on the whole, The Librarians keeps that. There is one moment that might be a bit much for younger viewers (when Eve stabs Moriarty with a sword), but it's made clear that a.) it was in self-defense, b.) Eve was not aiming to hurt Moriarty, and c.) because that is not how Moriarty dies in the short story The Final Problem, the stabbing won't hurt him. "That's not how my story ends," he tells Eve before dashing off.
Cox is quite menacing in the 'mad genius bent on world domination' mode, but his early scenes as a janitor were quite effective in fooling people it was the same person. The regular cast work so well together, and they do get their individual moments to show the character's personalities: Kane's more stoic Stone, Cillian's sweet Cass, Kim's shrewd huckster Jones, Larroquette's droll Jenkins. I still hold that The Librarians is one of the best-cast shows around, and guest stars Cox and Lee show it still is.
The story flowed smoothly, and I was impressed at how well they managed to bring The Tempest into And the Drowned Book without being obvious, but building it slowly and logically (or as logically as a show where magic is real can). I also must confess, The Tempest is one of my favorite Shakespearean works, so seeing Prospero rise again fills me with joy.
In fact, The Librarians fills me with joy. There is no jumbled storytelling where illogic rules (like on Doctor Who). There is no gloomy darkness in it (like on Gotham). What The Librarians is really a good, fun, frothy, light, comedy-action series, with strong acting and a sense of self. What can you say about a show where the Sun Room contains a literal sun, and Jenkins asks, "What else would you have in a Sun Room?" with complete sincerity. Eve's reply ("Magazines? Cozy chairs? Mimosas?") underscores The Librarians' goofy but delightful premise.
Good acting, fun story, and a sense of wonder at the world of magic. The Librarians' second season looks like another excellent romp through the magical world of books.
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mentdijinn December 1, 2015 at 1:37 PM
Love checking into this Library every Sunday! Such a treat from other shows that are on.. #TheLibrarians has something for everyone.. Christian Kane is why i started watching and fell in love with the show!
Rick December 1, 2015 at 9:32 PM
Thank you. I love The Librarians and am so happy that it has found a strong audience. I just wanted to see if a series could be made from The Librarian films, and see they've expanded the universe into something wonderfully witty and unapologetically fun.
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Your World With Neil Cavuto : FOXNEWSW : December 7, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
, this may not stop and the climb to 20,000 may not be that far away. this is what he told matt lauer this morning. >> well, i never have been a big person for the stock market frankly. over the years i have bought stock, and i bought them when they were low and saw what was going on with the interest rates being low. it seemed like it was easy to predict what was happening. >> why did you sell the holdings in june? >> because i felt that i was going to be winning. i thought that i would have a really conflict of interest and owning these destinations. >> why not announce this in june when you were under fire for a lack of transparency? >> i let everybody know. i let everybody know. >> now, to be fair donald trump told people that they were leery and it goes further than that when he last appeared on this show to do just that and the wild markets. now this dates back to december 16th, 2014. i want you picture what is going on at the time. the market was in the middle of a free fall and there was fears of a recession building and donald trump just wanted out. he told me that he had gotten o
, this may not stop and the climb to 20,000 may not be that far away. this is what he told matt lauer this morning. >> well, i never have been a big person for the stock market frankly. over the years i have bought stock, and i bought them when they were low and saw what was going on with the interest rates being low. it seemed like it was easy to predict what was happening. >> why did you sell the holdings in june? >> because i felt that i was going to be winning. i thought...
MSNBC Live With Thomas Roberts : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm PST
for secretary of homeland security. all of this as donald trump speaks to matt lauer on "today" about that "time" magazine cover. >> i didn't divide them. they're divided now. there's a lot of division, and we're going to put it back together. >> it says person of the year. it's got your picture and then the subheadline is "president of the divided states of america." you referenced that a little while ago. >> it's divided ed -- i'm not president yesterday so i didn't do anything to divide, and i will say this. i have now gotten to know president obama. i really like him. >> all right. so for more on this story joining me from washington is peter haalexander, hallie jacks, and pete kornacki. this new name cropping up. who is it? >> john kelly, retired general, marine guy. he's sort of been talked about as a possibility for the department of homeland security, but, you know, other names that had come up with been michael mccall. so this is something that has come out. nbc news confirming with multiple sources familiar with the decision that john kelly will be heading up this rea
for secretary of homeland security. all of this as donald trump speaks to matt lauer on "today" about that "time" magazine cover. >> i didn't divide them. they're divided now. there's a lot of division, and we're going to put it back together. >> it says person of the year. it's got your picture and then the subheadline is "president of the divided states of america." you referenced that a little while ago. >> it's divided ed -- i'm not president...
CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello : CNNW : December 7, 2016 6:00am-7:01am PST
to matt lauer that actually he's taking advice from president obama on some of these appointments. and he even said that he made an appointment that president obama liked and approved of and was in his camp on. i wond who aer who that is? >> i don't know about that reporting, but you have clearly seen a change in posture of president-elect trump toward president obama since election day, since that first meeting between the two of them two days after election day when it looked clear to me, anyway, with the two of them sitting in the oval office, that president-elect trump had a new sobriety about his demeanor after having sat down and talked about some serious issues with president obama. it makes sense that if president obama is willing to provide advice, that at least during the transition face, president-elect trump will take it. but 45 days from now, donald trump will be no longer taking advice but making the decisions. >> david, back to you. a president of a divided america, trump didn't like that and said at the end of the interview that it was snarky. he said, i didn't div
to matt lauer that actually he's taking advice from president obama on some of these appointments. and he even said that he made an appointment that president obama liked and approved of and was in his camp on. i wond who aer who that is? >> i don't know about that reporting, but you have clearly seen a change in posture of president-elect trump toward president obama since election day, since that first meeting between the two of them two days after election day when it looked clear to...
MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle : MSNBCW : December 23, 2016 6:00am-7:01am PST
transition team takes it up a step further with matt lauer. >> other countries need to be put on notice that he's not going to sit back and allow them to undermine our safety, our sovereignty. he's going to match other countries and take action. >> two days before christmas, not the president yet, putting other countries on notice. merry christmas. we begin with breaking news out of malta. a libyan passenger plane was forced to land there after two hijackers took control. it was carrying 111 passengers and 7 crew members. we have been watching the live feed. you can see it here, showing dozens of haaostages getting of the plane. cal perry is monitoring the situation for us. >> this plane took off from the sort of south of libya, and it was on its way to tripoli when it was diverted by hijackers apparently having hand grenades. you're seeing again the live pictures from malta where the plane ended up. less than 50 people remain onboard. we have seen passengers trickle off and we understand from the government in malta that things are being negotiated out. the hijackers appear to be, and
transition team takes it up a step further with matt lauer. >> other countries need to be put on notice that he's not going to sit back and allow them to undermine our safety, our sovereignty. he's going to match other countries and take action. >> two days before christmas, not the president yet, putting other countries on notice. merry christmas. we begin with breaking news out of malta. a libyan passenger plane was forced to land there after two hijackers took control. it was...
MSNBC Live With Tamron Hall : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 8:00am-9:01am PST
matt lauer by phone in a wide-ranging interview. one of the headlines a lot of people are talking about this morning. trump being very complimentary of president obama, even noting that while they have policy differences, he really likes him as a person and has sought president obama's advise when it comes to his cabinet picks. >> now gotten to know president obama. i really like him. we have, i think i can say for myself, i can't speak for him, we have really good chemistry together. we talk. he loves the country. he wants to do right by the country. and for country. i will tell you, we obviously disagro very much on certain policies and certain things but i really like him as a person. >> i was fascinate to read in your interview you actually say you talk to president obama about some your possible appointments. >> i do. >> and the people you would surround yourself in the white house. >> sure. >> can you tell me specifically who you mentioned to president obama that you were considering appointing? >> well, i don't thing that would be fair to him but i have asked him what he wo
matt lauer by phone in a wide-ranging interview. one of the headlines a lot of people are talking about this morning. trump being very complimentary of president obama, even noting that while they have policy differences, he really likes him as a person and has sought president obama's advise when it comes to his cabinet picks. >> now gotten to know president obama. i really like him. we have, i think i can say for myself, i can't speak for him, we have really good chemistry together. we...
Shepard Smith Reporting : FOXNEWSW : December 7, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm PST
. you can tell by matt lauer's we do trump this morning that was, are you sort of stringing him along? i think that he is probably not the only one who has had that question, given the relationship between these two guys. and then he has the opportunity for outside people like speaker paul ryan who has publicly weigh in the on romney's behalf saying he would be great. so it is a very interesting situation where you have a public conversation about an important appointment like secretary of state. let's think back to barack obama considering his ultimate choice. hillary clinton for secretary of state when he was president-elect. i mean, it came out that she was being considered. and then it seems like within a day or two, she had the job. there was no, we don't who know the other choices were. at least we didn't at the time. >> in the past, the ap turns redful you learn who it is and then you talk about it. now it comes in a tweet. rahm emanuel was interesting, especially after the dirty campaign laundry. that laundry had to be burned from the campaign. he really raked rahm emanu
. you can tell by matt lauer's we do trump this morning that was, are you sort of stringing him along? i think that he is probably not the only one who has had that question, given the relationship between these two guys. and then he has the opportunity for outside people like speaker paul ryan who has publicly weigh in the on romney's behalf saying he would be great. so it is a very interesting situation where you have a public conversation about an important appointment like secretary of...
Today : WTMJ : December 7, 2016 7:00am-9:00am CST
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, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer along with tamron hall in for savannah once again. it's a big deal, you know. "time" magazine's person of the year. people wait for this all year. >> your social media will go on fire. this will go viral. >> we'll have that live announcement here on the show. immediately following that announcement we will have a live year. but let us begin on this wednesday morning with those newly uncovered images from inside that warehouse in oakland and what investigators are now saying about a possible source of the tragic fire. nbc's stephanie gosk is at the scene this morning. stephanie, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. fire officials say they now have identified all but one of the 36 victims in the fire. as attentions turn almost entirely to the investigation, many are w officials missed important warning signs that could have prevented this tragedy. while the search for victims is o
, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer along with tamron hall in for savannah once again. it's a big deal, you know. "time" magazine's person of the year. people wait for this all year. >> your social media will go on fire. this will go viral. >> we'll have that live announcement here on...
Today : WCAU : December 24, 2016 7:00am-9:00am EST
? >> take three. >> welcome to "today." i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie. >> somebody yell lunch. >> where is my s.a.g. card? >> reporter: once they had chosen the animal characters, this guy working with her voice and state-of-the-art software and $20 mirror to get her expressions right, is bringing savannah the stork to life. but where's matt? along the hall, another team at work. >> half of the performance done by moses and the other half by nichol nicholas. >> welcome to "today." >> coming to a theater near you, matt lauer is raging bull. >> he has the laid back style. >> i like the new look. >> reporter: finally the big reveal. >> drum roll, please. >> welcome to "today." i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie. >> you may be thinking there is something different about these two. >> that's because we g got animation makeovers by "sing." >> i like the new look. >> we look good. we'll be right back. >> reporter: and if it took five guys more than a month to do less than 20 seconds for us, think how much work goes into the whole movie like "sing." >> it's very much a cele
? >> take three. >> welcome to "today." i'm matt lauer. >> i'm savannah guthrie. >> somebody yell lunch. >> where is my s.a.g. card? >> reporter: once they had chosen the animal characters, this guy working with her voice and state-of-the-art software and $20 mirror to get her expressions right, is bringing savannah the stork to life. but where's matt? along the hall, another team at work. >> half of the performance done by moses and the other...
MSNBC Live With Andrea Mitchell : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 9:00am-10:01am PST
-elect told matt lauer on the "today" show that mitt romney isn't out of contention despite strong opposition from trump loyalists. >> let me go back to mitt romney. is he still under consideration? >> yes, he is. >> does he have a chance to become secretary of state? >> he does. >> this isn't about a case of stringing him along as revenge being a dish best served cold for comments he made during the campaign? >> it's not about revenge but about what's good for the country. i'm able to put this stuff behind us. >> the president-elect also mentioned exxon's rex tillerson for secretary of state who he interviewed tuesday as a real contender possibly showing a preference for a global business executive with strong ties to vladimir putin. that could be controversial. joining me katy tur and peter alexander. peter, let me ask you first. you covered mitt romney. you know mitt romney so well. do you think this is still a live option even given all the opposition we heard just the other day on the first day of his thank you tour when he was in ohio where the crowd responded to the presiden
-elect told matt lauer on the "today" show that mitt romney isn't out of contention despite strong opposition from trump loyalists. >> let me go back to mitt romney. is he still under consideration? >> yes, he is. >> does he have a chance to become secretary of state? >> he does. >> this isn't about a case of stringing him along as revenge being a dish best served cold for comments he made during the campaign? >> it's not about revenge but about...
in an emotional interview with me and matt lauer on "the today show." >> this is not a profit. it's a mass grave. i'm only here to say one thing, that i'm incredibly sorry. >>> in charleston, the prosecutor will go for a retrial. the man who shot walter scott to death. the police officer who shot him to death. scott's family promises to continue their fight with a federal civil rights trial. slated for next year. >> i don't care how it looks. it's not over. >>> plus, president-elect trump makes quick remarks to reporters at trump tower. the latest on the trump transition and more speculation surrounding the secretary of state and what we could see play out regarding his nomination for secretary of defense. let's get to the breaking news on the shooting death of former nfl player joe mcknight. we have live pictures for you out of jefferson parish. we're waiting for the sheriff to officially announce charges in this case. records from the office show ronald gasser was booked yesterday on charge of manslaughter. authorities say he and mcknight got into a traffic altercation last thursday
in an emotional interview with me and matt lauer on "the today show." >> this is not a profit. it's a mass grave. i'm only here to say one thing, that i'm incredibly sorry. >>> in charleston, the prosecutor will go for a retrial. the man who shot walter scott to death. the police officer who shot him to death. scott's family promises to continue their fight with a federal civil rights trial. slated for next year. >> i don't care how it looks. it's not over....
Today : WRC : December 30, 2016 7:00am-9:58am EST
"today," friday, december 30th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today" on this friday morning. i'm tamron hall, alongside carson daly. matt's back on monday, and savannah is enjoying her maternity leave. i think we have a beautiful image to show you. times square, a lot of people will be there in about -- how many hours? >> 41 hours from now, that big waterford crystal ball will descen revelers will be there. >>> first, vladimir putin and president-elect donald trump are reacting to the obama administration's decision to punish russia for its efforts to interfear in t interfere with the u.s. presidential election. hallie jackson is standing by. >> reporter: good morning. russia has been threatening now to hit back at the u.s., and today they're explaining how they might do it, by expelling the same number of diplomats that the u.s. did, and by shutting down the same number of government compounds in russia. in other words, it's russia's reciprocal retaliation after the
"today," friday, december 30th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today" on this friday morning. i'm tamron hall, alongside carson daly. matt's back on monday, and savannah is enjoying her maternity leave. i think we have a beautiful image to show you. times square, a lot of people will be there in about -- how many hours? >> 41...
The 11th Hour With Brian Williams : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 8:00pm-8:31pm PST
to matt lauer about his emerging relationship with a man whose presidency he called a disaster not along ago, barack obama. >> we all take in trump in these massive doses, it is literally drinking out of a hire hose. i've heard nothing that's happened since the "today" show this morning, since he described this relationship with president obama, he is the creator of birtherism which became a movement in and of itself and he basically described this president, who now sits at a comfortable 55% approval rating, one of the more popular outgoing presidents we've seen certainly in my political career, he counts him as one of his counselors. my understanding from folks who have heard these communications or of them, he's seeking his input not just on appointments but on policy, specifically on policies that are very important to this president and his legacy. this to me seems like a two-way relationship that could benefit both of them in ways nobody could have expected, that weekend before election day, when we were covering some of the largest campaign rallies which were headlined by pr
to matt lauer about his emerging relationship with a man whose presidency he called a disaster not along ago, barack obama. >> we all take in trump in these massive doses, it is literally drinking out of a hire hose. i've heard nothing that's happened since the "today" show this morning, since he described this relationship with president obama, he is the creator of birtherism which became a movement in and of itself and he basically described this president, who now sits at a...
NBC Bay Area News at 5 : KNTV : December 6, 2016 5:00pm-5:31pm PST
stand here right now. >> the live interview with matt lauer on the "today" show. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez also sat down one-on-one. jodi, he remains remorseful. what else did he say today? >> reporter: well, it was a different derek al mena than the one yesterday. he was much more emotional today. as the pressure continues to mount, the man many say is at the center of it all appears to be having a tough time holding it together. >> it's not a good morning. what am i doing here? >> reporter: a rattled derek almena returned to the scene of the fire this morning, to answer tough questions from the anchors of the "today" show on national television. >> are you the man who should be held accountable? >> what am i going to say to that? should i be held accountable? i can barely stand here right now. >> reporter: with 36 people confirmed dead in the warehouse fire, the self-described grandfather of the space is now in the spotlight. he acknowledges, he leased the building, and together with others turned it into a collective for artists. >> i'm only here to say one thing, that i am in
stand here right now. >> the live interview with matt lauer on the "today" show. nbc bay area's jodi hernandez also sat down one-on-one. jodi, he remains remorseful. what else did he say today? >> reporter: well, it was a different derek al mena than the one yesterday. he was much more emotional today. as the pressure continues to mount, the man many say is at the center of it all appears to be having a tough time holding it together. >> it's not a good morning....
Today : WRC : December 7, 2016 7:00am-9:59am EST
? >> wednesday, december 7, 2016. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer in with tamron hall in for savannah. this is a big deal. "time" magazine, people wait for this all year. >> your social media will be on fire, this will go viral. >> we will have that live announcement on the show. i can tell you immediately following that announcement we will have a live interview with morning with those newly uncovered images from the warehouse fire in oakland and about the possible tragic source of the fire. stephanie gosk, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. fire officials say they have identified all but one of the 36 victims in the fire as the attention turns almost entirely to the investigation, many are wondering if city officials missed important warning signs tragedy. the search for victims is over, investigators are still sifting through the ruins looking for clues and a cause. this morning, the man in theory, licht sparked the inferno. investigators are zeroing in on appliance
? >> wednesday, december 7, 2016. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer in with tamron hall in for savannah. this is a big deal. "time" magazine, people wait for this all year. >> your social media will be on fire, this will go viral. >> we will have that live announcement on the show. i can tell you immediately following that...
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin : CNNW : December 8, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm PST
president obama, said he likes him to matt lauer, receptive of his idea, the question everyone is asking is who is it that president-elect trump is listening to? >> well, what i have heard in my own reporting is that president obama has been trying in conversations, their initial one in particular, to sort of explain to trump how some of these policies, for instance the paris agreement, works on behalf of business, that businesses need certainty for their planning thantd this provides it. he is -- from what i understand he is trying to make these arguments to the president-elect in sort of different terms beyond -- that go beyond the sort of left/right partisan divide. >> eugene, you have a final note on that and our reporting on how they're communicating. >> one of the interesting things trump told matt lauer is one of the appointments president obama spoke very highly of so i wonder if we could see more of that going up to the top level. >> still waiting to get the news on the secretary of state pick. we know manu raju just talked to senator bob corker. he says soon. we'll talk
president obama, said he likes him to matt lauer, receptive of his idea, the question everyone is asking is who is it that president-elect trump is listening to? >> well, what i have heard in my own reporting is that president obama has been trying in conversations, their initial one in particular, to sort of explain to trump how some of these policies, for instance the paris agreement, works on behalf of business, that businesses need certainty for their planning thantd this provides...
MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 6:00am-7:01am PST
to talk global we have to get into trade. here is what he said to matt lauer. >> i believe in free trade. i don't believe in stupid trade where companies move out of our country and fire workers and come back and sell their product with no retribution. if they want to move to mexico or some other country and sell their product into our country they are going to be paying a tax. >> let's start with you. in terms of free trade, a trade deficit is dferent from a budget deficit. americans want to buy cheap products. we show it time and again. if donald trump puts these big tariffs on it will cost more to buy the every day products. who is going to have to stomach that? >> you do make a good point. americans benefit from free trade and the most common every day way is wal-mart goods are cheap because they are largely manufactured in china. while there is a benefit there is a tremendous cost which is we have seen our manufacturing base be depleted. most if they have to pay slightly more for goods they buy but have higher wages i think they will take that trade off. i think the important
to talk global we have to get into trade. here is what he said to matt lauer. >> i believe in free trade. i don't believe in stupid trade where companies move out of our country and fire workers and come back and sell their product with no retribution. if they want to move to mexico or some other country and sell their product into our country they are going to be paying a tax. >> let's start with you. in terms of free trade, a trade deficit is dferent from a budget deficit....
. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today,"ith matt lauer andnah savanguthrie, live fm? studio 1-a rockefe goomorning a morng. veg odd on th person heear they're pmurey in for ofne person. matt lauer along with savaut on gay one of tamron'sty leave. >> i tked to her yesterday. th>>appy tere. have let'tartn mday morni dnghouse brre tlalef thr that ildingy ehe the?.sthere.>>tt,epteooor are we search cou continueor a hours the deathls at 33, nbe?l tt ?gh, number thed exploding through the warehouse there remains no official cause but those who live here in survived believe the fire was electrical. >> a lot of people are hurting right now. the only thing i can think of is people who were lost. >> reporter: with a maze of cluttered wood furniture inside and a makeshift pallet staircase renters at the warehouse known as the ghost ship said the property had two access points, a main door and an emergency exit. witnesses say the fire started people were upstairs, where a dj played music and most of the bodies were recovered. >> i woke up and my room was filled with smoke, like a fog of smo
. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today,"ith matt lauer andnah savanguthrie, live fm? studio 1-a rockefe goomorning a morng. veg odd on th person heear they're pmurey in for ofne person. matt lauer along with savaut on gay one of tamron'sty leave. >> i tked to her yesterday. th>>appy tere. have let'tartn mday morni dnghouse brre tlalef thr that ildingy ehe the?.sthere.>>tt,epteooor are we search cou continueor a hours the deathls at 33, nbe?l tt ?gh,...
Hardball With Chris Matthews : MSNBCW : December 7, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm PST
matt lauer this morning. i know he said it, i know he said all the right things. he wasn't doing to string him out. he said all the denials but i didn't catch any warmth in the name trump when spoke it. your thinking or can you think on this? >> reporter: you are not the only one. and there are some folks who would point out that when donald trump was talking with matt lauer this morning, he made a point of writing up the ceo of exxonmobile as well in contention for that secretary of state job. there have been fears among romney world that this is just trump trying to get even with mitt romney for the way that he spoke about trump during the campaign saying that he was unfit and unqualified and not serious and just not somebody that should hold this officed a vow the catting for pretty much anybody but donald trump. but the two men have had two meetings. one of which was a dinner, both of them came out and said that it went well from all public appearances. on the inside hoe there are questions about whether donald trump would be serious about mitt romney. of course a lot on the mod
matt lauer this morning. i know he said it, i know he said all the right things. he wasn't doing to string him out. he said all the denials but i didn't catch any warmth in the name trump when spoke it. your thinking or can you think on this? >> reporter: you are not the only one. and there are some folks who would point out that when donald trump was talking with matt lauer this morning, he made a point of writing up the ceo of exxonmobile as well in contention for that secretary of...
Squawk on the Street : CNBC : December 7, 2016 9:00am-11:01am EST
as he said on that interview with matt lauer, the opportunities to call up ceos and work deals. that's what he knows how to do. >> right. >> that is been what he's been doing for his entire career. and one would expect that's how he will continue to approach things. i don't know where that sort of ends though. you know, how many ceos can you call? >> well, you start talking to china, what happens when he calls merkel? >> here's "the washington post" this morning, a-1 corporate america unnerved by trump. greg in the piece says twisting arms like this is inherently problematic for president, although "time" points out kennedy did this with the steel companies which has been a long time since it's been this overt. >> presidents have a long history of intervening in strikes or saying bethlehem steel has too many executives paid too much. look, we can analogize anything. last night on "mad money" i talked about the fact that harry truman wrote a critical note to paul hughes, slammed his daughter in a -- president trump, president truman. andrew jackson had 100 duals. he actually kil
as he said on that interview with matt lauer, the opportunities to call up ceos and work deals. that's what he knows how to do. >> right. >> that is been what he's been doing for his entire career. and one would expect that's how he will continue to approach things. i don't know where that sort of ends though. you know, how many ceos can you call? >> well, you start talking to china, what happens when he calls merkel? >> here's "the washington post" this...
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Overheard With Evan Smith : KCSM : December 24, 2016 4:30pm-5:01pm PST
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. well that's why nbc wanted to showcase matt lauer in the commander in chief forum. but in this election it's kind of too important to really use it as a showcase for an entertainer. you've really gotta have the people who can fact check in real time. - [evan] in real time. - who have it in their head like chuck todd and andrea mitchell and jake tapper. i mean those have to be the people when you have a big moment like that. - right. well let's continue down this path. so we're very happy to be hard on trump and hard on clinton. let's be hard on ourselves. - okay. - let's be hard on our profession. maureen, this campaign, i am more convinced than ever, we suck. (laughing) i've just lost confidence in a lot of the people who do the kind of work we do. am i being too hard on us? - well, the press is in a period of deep self-adulation, and it's merited in some cases. if the press doesn't know by now that when they go down to a donald trump hotel for a press conference he's gonna try and turn it into an infomercial for that hotel, you know they need to buy my book. (laughing) cause they shou
. well that's why nbc wanted to showcase matt lauer in the commander in chief forum. but in this election it's kind of too important to really use it as a showcase for an entertainer. you've really gotta have the people who can fact check in real time. - [evan] in real time. - who have it in their head like chuck todd and andrea mitchell and jake tapper. i mean those have to be the people when you have a big moment like that. - right. well let's continue down this path. so we're very happy to...
Today : KNTV : December 5, 2016 7:00am-10:01am PST
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning everyone. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. 7:00 out on the west coast. i'm not sure if vegas has odds on time's person of the year. smart money in one direction. >> i wonder if the vegas is putting odds on when savannah is having her baby. >> we're happy to have tamron hall. a lot to get to beginning with that warehouse fire in oakland. officials held a news conference, announced the death toll has risen to at least 36 people. they revealed work at the site has been halted. miguel almaguer is there, what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning. the grim search for victims has temporarily stopped, firefighters say the building, the warehouse, is just too dangerous for the crews to enter, we're told they will shore it up and re-enter the facility later on today. as you mentioned, the new death toll now stands at 36. crews say it will climb. overnight the heartbreaking recove recovery, the number of those se espera que la cifra de who perished expected t
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning everyone. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. 7:00 out on the west coast. i'm not sure if vegas has odds on time's person of the year. smart money in one direction. >> i wonder if the vegas is putting odds on when savannah is having her baby. >> we're happy to have tamron hall. a lot to get to beginning with that warehouse fire...
Today : WCAU : December 15, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EST
, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a thursday morning. we talked about the approaching cold here in the east. it hasn't arrived here yet but it is on the way. >> i had the puffer coat on early but i know it is coming. it is definitely on the way. >> we'll get al's forecast in just a second. >>> our top story this morning is that bombshell tied to the presidential election. as nbc news first reported, u.s. intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in a covert campaign to interfere with the presidential race. nbc's senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden has the latest on all this. cynthia, good morning. >> good morning. senior intelligence sources tell nbc news that what started as a feud with hillary clinton quickly became an effort to damage the political process in the united states. at the center of it all, the russian president himself. >> reporter: this morning,
, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a thursday morning. we talked about the approaching cold here in the east. it hasn't arrived here yet but it is on the way. >> i had the puffer coat on early but i know it is coming. it is definitely on the way. >> we'll get al's forecast in just a second. >>> our top story this morning is that...
Today : KNTV : December 21, 2016 7:00am-10:01am PST
matt lauer, and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer with hoda kotb, savannah enjoys maternity leave. should have known better was one of richard marks' songs. >> i just caught on to that. the date, the 21st, four days until christmas, a little panic setting in. >> first day of winter. winter set in today as well. let us begin this morning with that explosion, that tragic explosion that leveled a popular and packed fireworks market near mexico city. the dramatic scene captured on camera. nbc's kerry sanders joins us with the latest on this. good morning. >> good morning, matt. family and friends here in mexico are devastated, three people rushed to the hospital overnight have now died, bringing the death toll to an astonishing 31 people. 32 people are still unaccounted for. setting off fireworks, firecrackers during holt dthe h season is a tradition here. and the market is one of the most popular places to go to purchase them. it means they're all concentrated in one p
matt lauer, and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer with hoda kotb, savannah enjoys maternity leave. should have known better was one of richard marks' songs. >> i just caught on to that. the date, the 21st, four days until christmas, a little panic setting in. >> first day of winter. winter set in today as well. let us begin this morning with that explosion,...
his life, today, tuesday, december >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah gun it -- gun three. >>> good morning, hoda joining us while savannah begins on maternity leave. let's get to our top story this morning. security being stepped up across europe after the attacks in germany and turkey. we'll begin in berlin, where a suspect deliberately ran a truck into holiday shoppers. investigators are still at that scene right now. we're moving that truck overnight, and nbc's ann thompson is in berlin this morning. good morning, ann. >> reporter: good morning, matt. it is a gray day here in berlin to match the city's mood. it's centuries old, marched by an act the truck that was a mass murder weapon, driven in a rampage into a berlin christmas market. a suspect, seen here with his head covered, was arrested and is being questioned by police. ploel media identified him overnight as naved b, arriving nearly a year ago and already known to police for minor offenses. those reports could not be immediately confirmed by nbc news. a passenger in the truck was pr
his life, today, tuesday, december >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah gun it -- gun three. >>> good morning, hoda joining us while savannah begins on maternity leave. let's get to our top story this morning. security being stepped up across europe after the attacks in germany and turkey. we'll begin in berlin, where a suspect deliberately ran a truck into holiday shoppers. investigators are still at that scene right now. we're...
time. when was the last time you were star struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in the parking lot this morning. is that what you mean? >> name a movie that made you cry. >> "titanic". i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg! oh! >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young and -- >> i don't get older. just younger. >> something you're glad you grew out of? in ten seconds. >> spandex! >> all righty. we'll be back cooking with chicken. thank you so much, miss piggy. you look beautiful in your kate spade. >> glad you're cooking with chicken and not -- you know. >> yeah. bobbie's going to share her favorite things from last night. they'll make great gifts for the >>> uh-huh. it's try day friday. hoda is off today so "the blacklist" star ryan eggold is keeping me great company today. last night hoda and i held our annual favorite things party at the rooftop here in new york city including many of the favorite things we've featured this past year on our show. >> i could not make this party, bummed about that, so exci
time. when was the last time you were star struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in the parking lot this morning. is that what you mean? >> name a movie that made you cry. >> "titanic". i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg! oh! >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young and -- >> i don't get older. just younger. >> something you're glad you grew out of? in ten...
Today : WCAU : December 2, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EST
struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in the parking lot this morning. is that what you mean? >> name a movie that made you cry. >> "titanic". i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg! oh! >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young and -- >> i don't get older. just younger. >> something you're glad you grew out of? in ten seconds. >> spandex! >> all righty. we'll be back cooking with chicken. thank you so much, miss piggy. you look beautiful in your kate spade. >> glad you're cooking with chicken and not -- you know. >> yeah. bobbie you love the soft feel of your feet when you take care of them. and at amopé we love it too. but that annoying hard skin just keeps coming back. and always way, way, way too soon. no matter what you do. amopé presents pedi perfect... a new level of hard skin removal. it removes hard skin thoroughly yet effortlessly and reveals the silkiest smoothness you can rely on. because it lasts, and lasts, and lasts. this holiday season give the gift of long lasting smoothness. amopé.
struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in the parking lot this morning. is that what you mean? >> name a movie that made you cry. >> "titanic". i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg! oh! >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young and -- >> i don't get older. just younger. >> something you're glad you grew out of? in ten seconds. >> spandex! >> all...
Today : WRC : December 2, 2016 10:00am-11:00am EST
was the last time you were star struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in t >> name a movie that made you cry? >> titanic. i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg. >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young. >> what are you glad you grew out of in 10 seconds. >> spandex! >> all righty. we'll be back, cooking with chicken. >> glad you're cooking with chicken and not -- you know. >> bobby will share her favorite thing from last night. makes great gifts for the holida buthat annoying hard sn just keeps coming back. and always way, way, way too soon. no matter what you do. amop? presents pedi perfect... a new level of hard skin removal. it removes hard skin thoroughly yet effortlessly and reveals the silkiest smoothness you can rely on. because it lasts, and lasts, and lasts. give the gift of long lasting smoothness. amop?. love every step. should we put a jellybean on the top? purple? absolutely. ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ? i was born a dreamer... ? you bought a wig, a jersey, and overpriced nachos... ...don't let sinus s
was the last time you were star struck? >> i ran into matt lauer's car in t >> name a movie that made you cry? >> titanic. i was so sure they weren't going to hit that iceberg. >> what is the worst thing about getting older, miss piggy? >> i have no idea. >> because you're young. >> what are you glad you grew out of in 10 seconds. >> spandex! >> all righty. we'll be back, cooking with chicken. >> glad you're cooking with chicken and...
NBC10 News at 5pm : WCAU : December 22, 2016 5:00pm-6:01pm EST
you're going back in time. the familiar faces that will join matt lauer on the anchor desk. > that's next at 5:00. >>> i'm tracking some clouds moving for the holiday weekend, but will that mean a christmas washout? we'll have the 10-day on 10. >>> the season is cancelled for princeton's male swim team. the team will not compete in any of its scheduled meet force the rest of the season. we told you last week the team was suspended after officials found misogynistic comments about the women's swimming and diving team. >>> the state of new jersey will loan tiny surveillance cameras to families who believe their loved one may have been abused by a caretaker. today the attorney general announced the safe care cam, that will provide free coameras to those who feel their loved one has been abused in a health care center. you can contact the office of consumer affairs in jersey hill. >>> tonight experts are looking at whether more modern bumpers at the end of the station could have reduced the dam. most of the bumpers used now have shock absorbers. the shock killed one person and
you're going back in time. the familiar faces that will join matt lauer on the anchor desk. > that's next at 5:00. >>> i'm tracking some clouds moving for the holiday weekend, but will that mean a christmas washout? we'll have the 10-day on 10. >>> the season is cancelled for princeton's male swim team. the team will not compete in any of its scheduled meet force the rest of the season. we told you last week the team was suspended after officials found misogynistic...
NBC Bay Area News at 11AM : KNTV : December 22, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm PST
january 9. >> matt lauer's 20th anniversary and the show's 56th anniversary as a broadcast. >>> coming up next, 50 acres of stunning land that's been donated in the east bay. thanks in part to a two-time super bowl champ. we'll tell you who coming up. with two super bowl rings... just made the east bay regional park distri >>> a former football star with two super bowl rings made the east bay regional park district bigger, donating two properties near antioch. who is he and why did he do it? here is joe rosato, jr. >> reporter: there are a few qualities gordon grefel picked up in life. it's a skill the real estate developer developed in his previous career. >> played five years in the nfl. five with the steelers. starting right tackle in super bowl 9 and 10. >> reporter: these days he's attacking real estate deals. his sun crest homes bought more than 30 years ago with plans to build 50 high-end homes. it took decades to get all the permits in place to build. but -- >> then we had the recession. throughout the bay area. it really imploded. >> reporter: rather than plow forw
january 9. >> matt lauer's 20th anniversary and the show's 56th anniversary as a broadcast. >>> coming up next, 50 acres of stunning land that's been donated in the east bay. thanks in part to a two-time super bowl champ. we'll tell you who coming up. with two super bowl rings... just made the east bay regional park distri >>> a former football star with two super bowl rings made the east bay regional park district bigger, donating two properties near antioch. who is he...
Kennedy : FBC : December 7, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm EST
twitter for years as well. this morning mal matt lauer askf he's going to lay off a little bit. >> i think i am restrained. i get out faster than a press release and more honestly than dealing with dishonest reporters. kennedy: in other words, he's not going to quit twitter. why should he? kimberly gill spoil joins us. co-host of "the five." he has taken issue with snl and alec baldwin. he says the impression is mean and is not accurate. he likes alec baldwin as an actor but is doing a horrible job here. do you think he will use the presidency to ban snl? >> the first he didn't lay on alec baldwin. then he started saying this isn't any good it's terrible, it's not funny, and it hasn't been good in years. but it was supposedly amazing because he was on about that time. maybe he needs to go back and reprise his role and play himself. as we get closer torls inauguration day, indianapolis what he's going to do. he has to go on with alec baldwin. i think the writers would have a field day. he was super talented and funny when he was on there. go on, show them who's boss. show them who's t
twitter for years as well. this morning mal matt lauer askf he's going to lay off a little bit. >> i think i am restrained. i get out faster than a press release and more honestly than dealing with dishonest reporters. kennedy: in other words, he's not going to quit twitter. why should he? kimberly gill spoil joins us. co-host of "the five." he has taken issue with snl and alec baldwin. he says the impression is mean and is not accurate. he likes alec baldwin as an actor but is...
Jimmy Kimmel Live : KGO : December 12, 2016 11:35pm-12:38am PST
] >> jimmy: nothing against matt lauer. the holiday shopping season is in -- this is that magical time of the year when we buy stuff nobody needs for people we don't like with money we don't have. americans are expected to spend an average of $936 on gifts this year. which is interesting because jesus preached against the accumulation of material possessions. but he also said, blessed is the new gears of war 4 for x-box 1, for it shall add a variety of awesome new characters and special effects. it's a nuanced message. it's hard because you want to give people something they like, you also might not want to spend a lot of money. that is where television comes in. every year thousands of great low-priced products are advertised on tv. to help you with your shopping we whittled them down to the best of the best. with that said it's time for our fifth annual "as seen on tv" gift guide, enjoy. >> your hands are so tied up you can't even shake. go have fun with the go plate. the go plate is perfect for barbecues, tailgating, or even perfect for a corporate event or elegant party. >> are you
] >> jimmy: nothing against matt lauer. the holiday shopping season is in -- this is that magical time of the year when we buy stuff nobody needs for people we don't like with money we don't have. americans are expected to spend an average of $936 on gifts this year. which is interesting because jesus preached against the accumulation of material possessions. but he also said, blessed is the new gears of war 4 for x-box 1, for it shall add a variety of awesome new characters and special...
NBC10 News Today at 6am : WCAU : December 7, 2016 6:00am-7:00am EST
tamron hall and matt lauer for a preview. hey, guys. >> good morning. >> hi, rosemary. nice to see you both. coming up on a wednesday, investigators are closing in on a pop cause of that deadly warehouse fire in oakland. we are live with new developments in that investigation. >>> also ahead works will be "time's" person of the year? this morning we'll reveal the answer exclusively. >>> and we're now packing studio 1a with stars including kevin costner, chrissy teigen and olympic champion miss i franklin as we get started on a wednesday morning right here on "today." chrissy teigen cooking this morning. >> cannot wait. >> vai and roams this, particular recipe has been on her social media account. i've been drooling over the pictures and the can't wait to actually eat it. >> can't wait for the "time" person of the year. got to be trump. >> i don't know. >> i know nothing. >> yeah, right. >> all right. let's check in now with the weather. >> a live look right now at that. >> cloudy out there. you can see 59 there, that's from the building and the flag flapping and the mighty delaware
tamron hall and matt lauer for a preview. hey, guys. >> good morning. >> hi, rosemary. nice to see you both. coming up on a wednesday, investigators are closing in on a pop cause of that deadly warehouse fire in oakland. we are live with new developments in that investigation. >>> also ahead works will be "time's" person of the year? this morning we'll reveal the answer exclusively. >>> and we're now packing studio 1a with stars including kevin costner,...
NBC10 News Today at 6am : WCAU : December 15, 2016 6:00am-7:01am EST
to hoda kotb and matt lauer. good morning. >> good morning to you guys. u.s. intelligence according to vladimir putin's personal involvement with the election. how will thehouse respond . >>> also ahead, the fear of that knife-wielding student. he believes the officer made the wrong call. >>> we'll talk about president-elect trump and much more as we get started right here on "today." >> also, i can't wait for little mix. >> little mix is going to perform here. >> really? not going to miss that. >> i know it. >> all right. we'll see you in a little while. >> okay. >> okay. >> all right. bye. >>> let's get a check on the weather. a mixture of cold, a mixture of snow out there. taking a live look out there. in philadelphia, you see the flag flapping a little bit there. let's check in with "first alert" weather man, meteorologist extraordinaire bill henley. >> it's going to be a cold one. the winds are brutal today. the temperatures are falling. we saw snow showers overnight. we saw it in that live picture that vai and tracy showed from new jersey. it's just pushed past cape may. it's
to hoda kotb and matt lauer. good morning. >> good morning to you guys. u.s. intelligence according to vladimir putin's personal involvement with the election. how will thehouse respond . >>> also ahead, the fear of that knife-wielding student. he believes the officer made the wrong call. >>> we'll talk about president-elect trump and much more as we get started right here on "today." >> also, i can't wait for little mix. >> little mix is going to...
News4 at 4 : WRC : December 22, 2016 4:00pm-5:00pm EST
for security. built for business. >>> matt lauer will be zitting alongside familiar faces. katie kurk and meredith are returning for a week each in january. they are filling in for savannah guthrie who is on maternity leave. it's going to be a walk down memory lane. next year will be his 20th anniversary hosting tod"today" today. >> that's going to bring back cool memories. >> for matt and a lot of viewers. >>> hgtv aired a new show about flipping houses. >> i'm such an hgtv addict. this one features a local couple who shared their experience flipping homes in the district. mark segraves caught up with them at a place they are renovating. >> reporter: they are your typical d.c. couple. he came for the military. she came for an internship. now they have combined their talents and started a new career in real estate, flipping houses. . they have gotten so good at it they are getting their own tv show. we had a chance to talk with this husband and wife duo. >> we just really love renovating houses. . we started our own rental properties in 2006. and we just really enjoy the process. we l
for security. built for business. >>> matt lauer will be zitting alongside familiar faces. katie kurk and meredith are returning for a week each in january. they are filling in for savannah guthrie who is on maternity leave. it's going to be a walk down memory lane. next year will be his 20th anniversary hosting tod"today" today. >> that's going to bring back cool memories. >> for matt and a lot of viewers. >>> hgtv aired a new show about flipping...
exit. matt lauer spoke to two women about friends and neighbors they've lost. >> we've lost one of our own in the fire and we all knew right aw away. one of our other members tried to save him and wasn't able to and we all knew and we all knew right away. you know, i think he's still officially listed as missing because they haven't recovered his body yet. so we all watched our home burn and we knew he was inside. >> police identified three more victims this morning but waiting to release those names until all families notified. the warehouse was not zoned for residential living but some 25 people called it home. a criminal investigation team currently at the scene and nbc's steve patterson following all the developments for us. what details are we getting? people were living there. the fire station a block away from there. what are authorities saying how people were allowed to live in that building when they weren't supposed to? >> reporter: if i take a few steps to my left, i'd be able to see that fire station. it gives you an idea of how fast moving this fire was. i think the sub te
exit. matt lauer spoke to two women about friends and neighbors they've lost. >> we've lost one of our own in the fire and we all knew right aw away. one of our other members tried to save him and wasn't able to and we all knew and we all knew right away. you know, i think he's still officially listed as missing because they haven't recovered his body yet. so we all watched our home burn and we knew he was inside. >> police identified three more victims this morning but waiting to...
MSNBC Live : MSNBCW : December 10, 2016 10:00am-11:01am PST
during his interview a couple days ago with matt lauer on the "today" show. he brought up the name. there have been a lot of signals the last couple of days and why we've been working our sources. >> with that said, how would you describe the buzz behind the sce scenes? obviously there will be critis.s is this someone the other side feels like they can work with. i was reading an article this morning and people complaining this whole decision of secretary of state seemed like a reality show and we had mitt romney in front of the cameras and so much hoop law about it and now we have a decision. can you put it in perspective for us? >> reporter: there was a lot of pushback as you saw first of all on "meet the press," saying there was a lot of anger among the base, among trump supporters against mitt romney's selection because of the really strong language that he has used in his criticisms of donald trump during the campaign. that said, donald trump praised mitt romney, said their dinner went well, said they had a real connection. mitt romney was also going to be a controversial choi
during his interview a couple days ago with matt lauer on the "today" show. he brought up the name. there have been a lot of signals the last couple of days and why we've been working our sources. >> with that said, how would you describe the buzz behind the sce scenes? obviously there will be critis.s is this someone the other side feels like they can work with. i was reading an article this morning and people complaining this whole decision of secretary of state seemed like a...
NBC10 News at 4pm : WCAU : December 9, 2016 4:00pm-5:00pm EST
. >>> "today" show co-host savannah guthrie gave birth to a baby boy. charles max feldman. matt lauer enjoys holding the baby. so much expression, so early. >> cute, cute boy. >> and i guess dylan dryer is next. >> the "today" show family expanding. >>> bundle up your baby if you're heading outside tonight. >> the arctic area isn't going away, glenn. >> the cold is here to stay, at least for the weekend. we have got some flurries in the area now, but i'm tracking some snow for the weekend and your first alert weather forecast. sure, you could sit around all night waiting for a pizza to be delivered. but wouldn't making it yourself be a lot more fun? it's baking season. warm up with pillsbury. at progresso, we are now using 100% atibiotic and hormone-free white breast meat chicken in all our chicken soups! behold our greatest opus! ♪...nausea, heartburn,♪ indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ here's pepto bismol! ah. ♪nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!♪ >>> nbc news has learned that rudy giuliani h
. >>> "today" show co-host savannah guthrie gave birth to a baby boy. charles max feldman. matt lauer enjoys holding the baby. so much expression, so early. >> cute, cute boy. >> and i guess dylan dryer is next. >> the "today" show family expanding. >>> bundle up your baby if you're heading outside tonight. >> the arctic area isn't going away, glenn. >> the cold is here to stay, at least for the weekend. we have got some...
New Day : CNNW : December 28, 2016 3:00am-4:01am PST
live with them and battle them. let's listen to what she said in 2008 to matt lauer on "today" show. >> if you're manic depressed and you're living with it, it takes balls or the female equivalent and, you know, it's people make fun of it or don't want anyone to know. man, i don't care. it's like a war story. >> that's where the power is, right? when you have that sort of platform, nischelle. >> go ahead, larry. >> what makes her so interesting is that she is hollywood royalty. yet when she speaks about things like that, she's just like anybody else. makes it that much more powerful. >> that's exactly what i was going to say. she was being herself, an authentic. and she made it okay to be flawed. she made it okay for all of us to feel like, well, darn it. if carrie fisher has these struggles, i got them, too. it's kind of okay. we're all in this thing together. she did make it okay. she just kind of put it out there. and, you know, you won't really see that today because everybody's got handlers and everybody's got talking points in hollywood. but she just -- >> so on messgage. >> i
live with them and battle them. let's listen to what she said in 2008 to matt lauer on "today" show. >> if you're manic depressed and you're living with it, it takes balls or the female equivalent and, you know, it's people make fun of it or don't want anyone to know. man, i don't care. it's like a war story. >> that's where the power is, right? when you have that sort of platform, nischelle. >> go ahead, larry. >> what makes her so interesting is that she is...
. >> matt lauer joins us. good morning. >> hi, ladies. coming up on a thursday morning on "today," the overnight raids in germany. of course, tied to a search for a tunisian man tied to the deadly truck crash in berlin. >>> and also, the president-elect, why small businesses around trump tower say they are paying the price for increased security. >>> and then we're going to take a look back at the biggest stories of the past year and how we covered them here on "today." >>> and the big news in the year. we want to you watch, too. >> we'll be watching. >> all right. >> thanks. >> bye. >> let's head up to the pocono mountains now for a live look at camelback mountain resort. not making any snow this morning, but that's all right. meteorologist bill henley has more on the "first alert" forecast. hey, bill. >> the snow guns aren't working but we have seen snow showers in parts of the area. look at the clouds a live picture from the nbc10 studios. the clouds will thin out. we'll get rain drops falling in wilmington. temperatures aren't bad at all. that's why only into south jersey, though.
. >> matt lauer joins us. good morning. >> hi, ladies. coming up on a thursday morning on "today," the overnight raids in germany. of course, tied to a search for a tunisian man tied to the deadly truck crash in berlin. >>> and also, the president-elect, why small businesses around trump tower say they are paying the price for increased security. >>> and then we're going to take a look back at the biggest stories of the past year and how we covered them...
foreman now speaking out. he was the only african-american juror and told matt lauer and me this morning on "the today show," there wasn't just one juror withholding out at the beginning of deliberations and hillary clinton will be on capitol hill later today. an event to honor retiring senate minority leader harry reid. expected to speak for the first time. one of the first times since conceding to donald trump last month. ke] at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a rodent ride-along. [dad] alright, buddy, don't forget anything! [kid] i won't, dad... [captain rod] happy tuesday morning! captain rod here. it's pretty hairy out on the interstate.traffic is literally crawling, but there is some movement on the eastside overpass. getting word of another collision. [burke] it happened. december 14th, 2015. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ so dad slayed the problemt with puffs plus lotion, instead. with lotion to soothe and
foreman now speaking out. he was the only african-american juror and told matt lauer and me this morning on "the today show," there wasn't just one juror withholding out at the beginning of deliberations and hillary clinton will be on capitol hill later today. an event to honor retiring senate minority leader harry reid. expected to speak for the first time. one of the first times since conceding to donald trump last month. ke] at farmers, we've seen almost everything, so we know how...
Today : WTMJ : December 15, 2016 7:00am-9:00am CST
that, matt lauer. >> great to have you back. >> great to be back. ""new york" magazine put together a list of some of the more memorable memes. the start of the year, you remember this? if a dog wore pants, how would he wear them? on the hind legs? president obama settled this legs. saying covering all four would be too conservative. remember this? this vessel. this is the internet's favorite way of name offing anything basically. to the rio olympics, lots of memes. the greased-up flag bearer. usain bolt mugging for the camera as he was racing to gold. 2016 a big political year. didn't get much guy. ken bone, the man who became a social media sensation during that third presidential debate. i'm sure we'll see many more memes on these, the final days of 2016. >> thank you, carson. >>> coming up, dr. oz will show you what to do when someone near you suffers a heart attack. >>> and arnold schwarzenegger right now at kohl's it's time to give the perfect gift so let him be a kid again make her sparkle and help him save the galaxy. at kohl's you'll save a little more with an extra 15% off
that, matt lauer. >> great to have you back. >> great to be back. ""new york" magazine put together a list of some of the more memorable memes. the start of the year, you remember this? if a dog wore pants, how would he wear them? on the hind legs? president obama settled this legs. saying covering all four would be too conservative. remember this? this vessel. this is the internet's favorite way of name offing anything basically. to the rio olympics, lots of memes....
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Third Mainland Bridge to be Shut on July 27, Repairs to Last 27 Months
The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr. Adedamola Kuti, on Wednesday in Lagos said that the emergency rehabilitation/maintenance of the Third Mainland Bridge project would begin on July 27.
Kuti disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting at the Ministry of Works office in Lagos.
He said that the repair works on the bridge would be staggered over a period of 27 months and would be handled by Borini Prono Construction Company.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting was convened by the ministry for stakeholders to brainstorm on effective traffic diversion and management to prevent gridlocks during the period.
Some of the stakeholders at the event include: NUPENG, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Association of Maritime Truck Owners (AMATO), Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) and the police.
He said that the bridge would be totally shut to traffic on the first three days for the contractor to carry out various tests on it.
He said that subsequent closures would be on partial basis.
“A Dynamic Test on Bridge Expansion Joints on Third Mainland Bridge is to be carried out between Friday, July 27, 2018 and Sunday, July 29, 2018 and it has been done in such a way that it will have minimum impact on road users.
“Consequently, the Third Mainland Bridge will be closed to traffic by 12.00 midnight of Thursday 26th July, 2018 and be opened by 12.00 midnight Sunday 29th July, 2018.
“Alternative routes will be plied during this period and traffic control will be in place to direct and help traffic movement.
“We regret any inconvenience this might cause road users as this closure is inevitable,’’ he said.
He appealed for the patience of road users and promised that all alternative routes would be repaired to make them smooth for easy access.
Also, the Lagos State Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Corps, (FRSC), Mr Hyginus Omeje, appealed to motorists to use mass transportation facilities during repair works on the Third Mainland Bridge.
Omeje told journalists that the vehicular occupancy ratio in Lagos was 1:1 which meant that there was an average of one driver per vehicle that plied the road hence, the usual heavy traffic.
He said that all the traffic regulatory and law enforcement agencies at the event were going to work in synergy to prevent gridlock.
“Instead of everybody coming out with their vehicles within this period, can we do the park-and-ride option which we have been advocating to really help us to ease off traffic in Lagos,’’ he said.
He also appealed to the media to increase its awareness campaign on the dangers of drivers of articulated vehicles parking on the roads and bridges.
They should change their attitudes toward indiscriminate parking of trucks on the roads and bridges, Omeje said. (NAN)
Adedamola KutiHyginus OmejeLagosThird Mainland Bridge
FG Declares War on Fake News, Launches National Campaign
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V band
Title: V band
Subject: MWband/doc, M band, Q band, Radio spectrum, E band
Collection: Microwave Bands
IEEE V band
40 – 75 GHz
Wavelength range
7.5 – 4 mm
L / M bands (NATO)
EHF (ITU)
ITU radio bands
1 (ELF) 2 (SLF) 3 (ULF) 4 (VLF)
5 (LF) 6 (MF) 7 (HF) 8 (VHF)
9 (UHF) 10 (SHF) 11 (EHF) 12 (THF)
EU / NATO / US ECM radio bands
IEEE radio bands
Other TV and radio bands
The V band ("vee-band") of the electromagnetic spectrum ranges from 40 to 75 GHz.[1][2] The V band is not heavily used, except for millimeter wave radar research and other kinds of scientific research. It should not be confused with the 600–1000 MHz range of Band-V (band-five) of the UHF frequency range.
The V band is also used for high capacity terrestrial millimeter wave communications systems. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission has allocated the frequency band from 57 to 64 GHz for unlicensed wireless systems.[3] These systems are primarily used for high capacity, short distance (less than 1 mile) communications. In addition, frequencies at 70, 80, and 90 GHz have been allocated as "lightly licensed" bands for multi-gigabit wireless communications. All communications links in the V band require unobstructed line of sight between the transmit and receive point, and rain fade must be taken into account when performing link budget analysis.
Notable uses 1
V band for mobile backhaul 2
Notable uses
On Dec. 15, 1995 the V band at 60 GHz was used by the world's first crosslink communication between satellites in a constellation. This communication was between the U.S. Milstar 1 and Milstar 2 military satellites.[4] 60 GHz is attractive for secure satellite crosslinks because it allows for high data rates, narrow beams and, lying in a strong absorption band of oxygen, provides protection against intercept by ground-based adversaries.
The upcoming Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11ad will run on the 60 GHz (EHF microwave) spectrum with data transfer rates of up to 7 Gbit/s.
V band for mobile backhaul
As mobile operators need more and more bandwidth, they are turning to new frequency spectrums to lower their wireless backhaul costs. Both license-exempt V band spectrum (57-66 GHz) and the newly allocated E Band spectrum (71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 92-95 GHz) has clear technological and economic advantages. The 20 GHz allocated in this spectrum allows multi-Gigabit per second capacities far exceeding the 6-38 GHz bandwidth-limited frequencies.
In the V Band and E Band spectrum, wireless systems can utilize the significantly larger allocated spectrum and channels to deliver multi-Gigabit data rates. This enables a simple, robust, and low cost modem and radio design. Thus, V-Band and E-Band, millimeter-wave wireless systems provide significant cost advantages over 6-38 GHz wireless systems – allowing scaling capacity to Gigabit capacities, without additional radio equipment and licensing fees
^ Leonid A. Belov; Sergey M. Smolskiy; Victor N. Kochemasov (2012). Handbook of RF, Microwave, and Millimeter-Wave Components. Artech House. pp. 27–28.
^ George Kizer (22 May 2013). Digital Microwave Communication: Engineering Point-to-Point Microwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons. p. 62.
^ FCC Rules, Part 15.255
^ "Milstar II at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems".
Radio spectrum (ITU)
3 Hz/100 Mm
30 Hz/10 Mm
300 Hz/1 Mm
3 kHz/100 km
30 kHz/10 km
300 kHz/1 km
3 MHz/100 m
30 MHz/10 m
300 MHz/1 m
3 GHz/100 mm
30 GHz/10 mm
300 GHz/1 mm
3 THz/0.1 mm
← higher frequencies longer wavelengths →
Gamma rays
Terahertz radiation
Visible (optical)
W band
Q band
Ka band
K band
X band
Wavelength types
Extremely high frequency
Oxygen, Ka band, Electromagnetic spectrum, Wavelength, Microwave
Infrared, Gamma ray, Color, Radio, Energy
Russia, Amateur radio, China, United States, Electromagnetic spectrum
Ultra high frequency
Internet, Very high frequency, L band, Ku band, Bluetooth
M band
Extremely high frequency, V band, W band, High frequency, Very high frequency
Ka band, Electromagnetic spectrum, Extremely high frequency, V band, Ku band
Amateur radio, High frequency, Telecommunication, Very high frequency, Ultra high frequency
E band
Radio spectrum, Electromagnetic spectrum, Amateur radio, Ultra high frequency, Extremely high frequency
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Title: 1943 New York Giants season
Subject: New York Giants, Steagles, List of National Football League records (team), List of New York Giants seasons, 1943 NFL Championship Game, 1943 Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) season
This article is about the football team. For the baseball team of the same name in 1943, see 1943 New York Giants (MLB) season.
Head coach Steve Owen
Home field Polo Grounds
Division place T-2nd NFL Eastern
Playoff finish Lost Eastern Division playoff 28–0 (Redskins)
< 1942 1944 >
The 1943 New York Giants season was the 19th season for the club in the National Football League.
2 Playoffs
3 Standings
1 October 9, 1943 at Steagles L 28–14
2 October 17, 1943 at Brooklyn Dodgers W 20–0
3 October 24, 1943 Steagles W 42–14
4 October 31, 1943 Green Bay Packers L 35–21
5 November 7, 1943 at Detroit Lions T 0–0
6 November 14, 1943 Chicago Bears L 56–7
7 November 21, 1943 Chicago Cardinals W 24–13
8 November 28, 1943 Brooklyn Dodgers W 24–7
9 December 5, 1943 Washington Redskins W 14–10
10 December 12, 1943 at Washington Redskins W 31–7
Division December 19, 1943 Washington Redskins L 28–0
NFL Eastern
Washington Redskins 6 3 1 .667 229 137 L-3
New York Giants 6 3 1 .667 197 170 W-4
Phil-Pitt 5 4 1 .556 225 230 L-1
Brooklyn Dodgers 2 8 0 .200 65 234 L-2
List of New York Giants seasons
Founded in 1925 • Based in East Rutherford, New Jersey
Franchise • Seasons • Coaches • Quarterbacks • Division
1925–78 • 1979–93 • 1994–present • Financial history
Polo Grounds • Yankee Stadium • Yale Bowl • Shea Stadium • Giants Stadium • MetLife Stadium
Culture and Lore
Cleveland Bulldogs • The Duke • Sneakers Game • The Greatest Game Ever Played • The Fumble • Crunch Bunch • Gatorade shower • Big Blue Wrecking Crew • I'm going to Disney World! • Wide Right • Little Giants • This team is going to the playoffs! • One Wild Finish • New York Groove • We Fly High • The Helmet Catch • Bob Sheppard • Jim Hall • Yankee Stadium Legacy • The Comeback • 2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game • Big Fan
Philadelphia Eagles • Dallas Cowboys • Washington Redskins • New York Jets • Chicago Bears
Folwell • Alexander • Potteiger • Andrews • Friedman • Owen • Howell • Sherman • Webster • Arnsparger • McVay • Perkins • Parcells • Handley • Reeves • Fassel • Coughlin
Owners: John Mara, Steve Tisch • General Manager: Jerry Reese • Head Coach: Tom Coughlin
1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1938 • 1939 • 1941 • 1941 • 1944 • 1946 • 1986 • 1989 • 1990 • 1997 • 2000 • 2005 • 2008 • 2011
1927 • 1934 • 1938 • 1956 • 1986 • 1990 • 2007 • 2011
XXI • XXV • XXXV • XLII • XLVI
1 • 4 • 7 • 11 • 14 • 16 • 32 • 40 • 42 • 50 • 56
Jessie Armstead • Carl Banks • Tiki Barber • Mark Bavaro • Al Blozis • Rosey Brown • Harry Carson • Charlie Conerly • Frank Gifford • Pete Gogolak • Mel Hein • Jim Lee Howell • Sam Huff • Dave Jennings • Tuffy Leemans • Dick Lynch • Jack Mara • Tim Mara • Wellington Mara • George Martin • Joe Morrison • Charlie Conerly • Steve Owen • Bill Parcells • Andy Robustelli • Phil Simms • Michael Strahan • Ken Strong • Lawrence Taylor • Bob Tisch • Y. A. Tittle • Amani Toomer • Emlen Tunnell • Brad Van Pelt • Alex Webster • George Young
Radio network • Bob Papa • Carl Banks • Howard Cross
New York Giants seasons
Bold indicates NFL Championship or Super Bowl victory
This article relating to a New York Giants season is a stub. You can help World Heritage Encyclopedia by expanding it.
New York Jets, National Football League, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl XLII
List of National Football League records (team)
Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns
1943 NFL Championship Game
Chicago Bears, National Football League, Chicago, Super Bowl XX, Super Bowl
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Egg rolling
Title: Egg rolling
Subject: Traditional Easter games and customs, Easter Monday, Egg tossing, Egg dance, Egg decorating
Collection: Competitions, Easter Traditions, Eggs in Culture
Egg roll on the White House lawn, 1929
Egg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Different nations have different versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled, decorated eggs.
Other countries 4
Starting in 1835, Jacob Grimm and other writers proposed that the pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Grimm also suggested that her animal was "probably" the spring hare, and that the egg symbolized the rebirth of the land in spring. Some claim that Pope Gregory the Great had ordered his missionaries to use old religious sites and festivals and absorb them into Christian rituals where possible. According to Grimm and his followers, the Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ was ideally suited to be merged with the Pagan feast of Ēostre and many of the traditions were adopted into the Christian festivities.[1] In England, Germany and other countries, children traditionally rolled eggs down hillsides at Easter; this may have become symbolic of the rolling away of the rock from Jesus Christ’s tomb before his resurrection.[2] This tradition, along with others such as the Easter Bunny, were taken to the New World by European settlers.[2][3]
In the United Kingdom the tradition of rolling decorated eggs down grassy hills goes back hundreds of years and is known as "pace-egging", from the Old English Pasch meaning Pesach or Passover.[4] In Lancashire there are annual egg rolling competitions at Holcombe Hill near Ramsbottom and Avenham Park in Preston. Egg rolling has been a tradition at Avenham Park for hundreds of years but in recent years chocolate eggs have been used.[5] Other traditional egg rolling sites are the castle moat at Penrith, Bunkers Hill in Derby and Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. Beacon Hill near Newbury, Berkshire is also an ideal spot. The eggs were traditionally wrapped in onion skins and boiled to give them a mottled gold appearance (although today they are usually painted) and the children competed to see who could roll their egg the furthest.[4] There is an old Lancashire legend that says the broken eggshells should be carefully crushed afterwards or they will be stolen and used as boats by witches.[6] The eggs were eaten on Easter Sunday or given out to pace-eggers – fantastically dressed characters who processed through the streets singing traditional pace-egging songs and collecting money as a tribute before performing traditional mumming plays.[7] At the Wordsworth museum in Grasmere there is a collection of highly decorated eggs made for the poet’s children.[7]
The Reagans at the 1982 White House Easter egg roll
Barack Obama at the 2009 White House Easter egg roll
The 2010 White House Easter egg roll
In the United States, the Easter Egg Roll is an annual event, and is held on the White House lawn each Easter Monday for children and their parents.
The Egg Roll itself is a race, where children push an egg through the grass with a long-handled spoon.[8] Surrounding events include appearances by White House personalities in Easter Bunny costumes, speeches and book-reading by Cabinet secretaries, and exhibits of artistically-decorated eggs.
According to tradition,[9] Dolley Madison, the wife of President James Madison, began the event in 1814 and hundreds of children brought their decorated eggs to join in games. The original site was on the grounds of the United States Capitol, but in 1877 a new lawn was planted and the gardeners cancelled the event.[10] Congress then passed a law making it illegal to use the grounds as a children's playground.[11] At the request of a number of children, including his own, then President Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife Lucy Hayes brought the event to the White House lawns.[12] In 1953 Mamie Eisenhower proposed that event be opened to black children, and in 1954 the event was open to blacks.[13]
On April 13, 2009, the Obamas hosted their first White House Easter egg roll. The theme “Let’s go play” was meant to encourage young people to lead healthy, active lives.[14] Celebrities such as J.K. Rowling, the cast of Glee and Justin Bieber attended the egg roll in 2010. It was featured in the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets.
In Germany, a prize is awarded to the contestant whose egg rolls fastest down a track made of sticks. In Denmark, decorated eggs are rolled down slopes in grassland or forest - the contestant whose egg rolls furthest is the winner - and eggs are eaten after the game (if not broken). The tradition is particularly common around the town of Køge. In the Netherlands, the contestant whose egg rolls furthest wins a prize. In Lithuania you collect the eggs that are touched by the one rolled by you. In Egypt, children bowl red and yellow eggs towards another row of eggs and whoever cracks one egg can claim them all. In eastern Europe, there are other traditions such as egg tapping and egg decorating.[15]
Egg dance
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^ england-in-particular: Easter Retrieved on 2008-03-14
^ a b see http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/easter_2.htm Retrieved on 2008-03-15
^ Easter Eggs: their origins, tradition and symbolism Retrieved on 2008-03-15
^ a b see http://www.petticoated.com/curious28.htm Retrieved on 2008-03-15
^ Anon (2012). "Easter Egg Rolling". Preston City Council. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ "Retrieved on 2008-03-15". Timetravel-britain.com. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
^ a b see http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/PaceEgging.htm Retrieved on 2008-03-15
^ "White House Egg Roll Transforms South Lawn". NPR. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
^ "Undocumented legend contends that Dolley Madison sponsored an egg-rolling contest for children on or near the lawn of the nearly-completed Capitol Building, although it was at the time not yet landscaped."; "According to White House curator Bill Allman, the curious tradition of egg-rolling on the White House lawn originated in the mid-to-late 19th century."
^ Lent to Pentecost, a family event: Easter Egg Rolling Retrieved on 2008-03-14
^ Richardson, William (1881). "86". The Public Statutes of the United States, Volume 1.
^ "History of the White House Easter Egg Roll". Clinton2.nara.gov. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
^ New York Times: The egg roll (again!) becomes a stage for controversy Retrieved on 2008-03-14
^ "Obamas host first White House egg roll - TODAY People - White House - TODAY.com". MSNBC. 2009-04-13. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
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Quarterly Pilot Meet-up 01/27/2018
Quarterly Pilot Meet-Up
10 am – 12:30 pm
New Orleans Lakefront Airport
You’ll have the opportunity to meet SouthWings’ staff and learn about our programs and partnerships in the Gulf, the work we’re doing to protect and restore our coast, and what you can do to help.
FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) presents:
Introduction to the FAASTeam
Loss of aircraft control and human factors
Presented by Jeff Rafferty, FAASTeam Program Manager and Mary Donahue, FAASTeam Lead Representative
Attendees will receive Wings Program credit
Also joining us Jay Mize, A&P / IA presenting:
Aircraft System Entropy Degradation and Associated Human Factors
Emmet Bartholomew, SouthWings Gulf Region Volunteer Pilot Recruiter, will host.
6001 Stars and Stripes Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70126 (504)243-4010
Main Terminal Building, 2nd Floor West Wing Conference Room
Aircraft fuel available through Signature Flight Support (504-241-2800) and Flightlinefirst (504) 244-4448
Aircraft parking available on the Terminal Building ramp (area noted in green)
Space is limited and registration is required to attend. Please click here to register.
Learn more about our speakers:
Jeff Rafferty
FAASTeam Program Manager
BS in Organizational Management
3 years with the FAA as a Principal Maintenance Inspector
Over 20 years of aviation industry experience as:
A&P Technician
Aircraft Inspector
Project / Program Manager
Flight Test Coordinator
Maintenance Program Engineer
Quality Control Field Representative
Part 147 A&P School Instructor
Jeff Rafferty is the FAASTeam Program Manager for Louisiana and is based at the Baton Rouge FSDO office. Before joining our FAASTeam, he was a Principal Maintenance Inspector with the FAA between 2015 and 2017 assigned to the Long Beach, CA FSDO office. Prior to that, Jeff had 20 years of experience in the aviation industry which included work as an A&P mechanic, Inspector, Maintenance Supervisor, Project Manager, Flight Test Coordinator, Maintenance Program Engineer, Quality Control Field Representative, and 147 A&P Instructor. Jeff has also worked with 3 corporate jet OEM’s, 3 regional airlines, several large OEM and independent repair stations, a major fractional ownership operator and a state college. Jeff has a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management, an Associates in Applied Science in Aircraft Maintenance Technology and is very excited to return the South where he has he can now focus on the FAASTeam’s aviation safety outreach.
Mary E. Donahue
Lead Representative, FAASTeam
BA Anthropology, University of New Orleans
CFI, CFII, MEI, ATP
FAR Part 135 Charter Operations at KNEW
First Officer L’Express Airlines
FAA Aviation Safety Inspector
Mary Donahue is a native of New Orleans and is married with two children. She received a BA in Anthropology from the University of New Orleans and began her professional aviation career in 1981 as a CFI, CFII, MEI and ATP. Mary worked with various flight schools, Part 135 charter operations and as a First Officer with L’Express Airlines at Lakefront Airport. In 1997 she became a FAA Aviation Safety Inspector working with the Baton Rouge FSDO office where she retired from in 2014. Mary is now is the Lead Representative with the Louisiana FAASTeam.
Jay Mize
A&P / IA
About Jay
United States Navy Veteran
Airframe and Powerplant Certified
Inspector Authorization Privilege
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University / Liberty University, BS – Aviation Maintenance Management
Jay Mize has over 25 years of experience maintaining the safety and well-being of aircraft crews and passengers. Jay joined the U.S. Navy in 1993 where he served as an aircraft powerplant mechanic for a FA-18C squadron based in Japan. Following a honorabe discharge, Jay continued his education at Hinds College in Raymond, MS where he earned his Airframe and Powerplant certificate. Jay continued his career as a mechanic, inspector, and supervisor for national defense contractors and worked with L-3 Communications as an Aviation Maintenance Business Planner. In 2014 Jay relocated to the New Orleans area where he worked with Butler Aviation in Houma, Louisiana as their Director of Maintenance then upon receiving an opportunity with L-3 Communications, Jay returned as an Aircraft Field Engineer where he supported maintenance efforts in Afghanistan. In 2016 Jay accepted a position as a Line Station Mechanic with Corporate Flight Management for the FLY GLO operation at New Orleans International Airport where he supported maintenance efforts for SAAB 340B aircraft. He was promoted to Line Station Maintenance Supervisor and continued with Corporate Flight Management following FLY GLO’s bankruptcy, supporting CFM’s essential Air Service Maintenance Line Station in Macom, GA. Jay continued his education through Liberty University, majoring in Aviation Maintenance Management and has supported Gulf Coast Aviation Flight School at Lakefront Airport as a maintenance contractor.
Emmet Bartholomew
Gulf Region Volunteer Pilot Recruitment
Emmet@SouthWings.org
About Emmet
Emmet is a lifelong resident of Southeastern Louisiana. He joined the SouthWings team in 2014, desiring to match his aviation skills and passion to protect the environment. In addition to flying with SouthWings, he is also an airline pilot, Assistant Chief Pilot with a flight school and Captain, mission pilot, safety officer and instructor pilot with the U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol. Emmet is also a volunteer diver with the Audubon Institute Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans where he helps raise awareness of the fragile wetlands and ecosystem throughout Louisiana. When not in the air or underwater, Emmet enjoys running, hiking, tennis, motorcycling, boating and performing music and stand-up comedy.
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Features and More
Kate Spade’s creations showed us adult life doesn’t have to be boring
A woman walks out of a Kate Spade store in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City in May 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
By Kerry Folan, Special to the Washington Post
Published June 8 2018
I made two major wardrobe purchases in the summer of 2001, the year I graduated from college. The first was a tailored black pantsuit for interviews (picked, mostly, by my mom and the department store sales clerk). The second was a Kate Spade purse, bright as a persimmon and boxy as a present, lined in a floral print and tied up with a little bow, like a secret. Can you guess which one made postgraduate life seem like fun?
It surely wasn’t the suit, which made me look like a stranger to myself in the dressing room mirror. I remember twisting, recto, verso, frowning at my reflection, while my mom reassured me — "The trousers are supposed to be long. They’ll be the right length when you’re wearing pumps." But the suit was dull, and I didn’t own pumps. Rather than grown up, I felt old.
The Kate Spade bag was altogether different. I discovered it on my graduation trip to New York, my first time in that city without a parent and with a credit card, and I was dizzy with freedom. My friend Anne Marie and I skipped the tour of Ellis Island, because we could, and instead walked the streets of SoHo, staring in the shop windows, eating soft serve and imagining our futures aloud.
Kate Spade was one of the few stores we actually dared to go in. There, a blond sales clerk with a cherry-coke manicure offered us something fizzy to drink and pulled bag after bag for the two of us to try. The store smelled of fresh-cut peonies and crisp paper. We were giddy. Shopping there felt like a party — one that we had been expressly invited to. It’s the warmth of the shop that I still remember today, the way two young girls wearing shabby T-shirts and flip-flops were made to feel welcome, rather than intimidated, as we had been in the other boutiques.
I left that day with a purse, my first real bag — one which would replace my L.L. Bean backpack and mark my transition from college student to grown woman. I think it cost $200, which was a fortune for me at the time, but I knew even then that I was buying more than just a purse. I was investing in Kate Spade’s vision of the adult world, one where being a grownup, particularly being a grownup woman, was not going to be gray and boring. Adult life with that persimmon bag was going to be fun.
I was the right generation — and, of course, class — of women to respond to Kate Spade’s cheerful aesthetic when she emerged in the late ’90s and early 2000s. When I graduated from college (and, simultaneously, from our undergrad uniform of Abercrombie jeans and sweaters), there seemed nowhere to go, sartorially speaking, but into the ubiquitous Washingtonian wardrobe of tailored black pants and button-down shirts. At that time, there was a yawning gap between accessible stores like Banana Republic and luxury brands like Louis Vuitton. Kate Spade’s prices were higher than Banana’s, but not unattainable for young professionals, and she filled that niche. She elevated young women out of the generic mall-store doldrums, but she did it with a refreshingly preppy practicality.
The black nylon Sam bag that was everywhere was popular for good reason: It was both chic and truly functional. Though it was large enough for a flip phone, a spiral-bound agenda and a magazine, it remained graciously proportioned. In general, her bags were constructed out of fun fabrics, rather than serious, heavy leathers. They were a modern alternative to the briefcase — ladylike, versatile and cool. You might be wearing a nondescript office uniform, but if you owned a Kate Spade tote, you were really wearing the handbag.
The details mattered. The bags were thoughtfully designed with many of the same luxury details the old leather houses offered: engraved hardware, cleverly placed pockets, elegant, even seams. And there were little touches: the protective dust cover that came with each bag, the whimsical little notes tucked inside, like this one a friend of mine still has, more than a decade later:
"occasionally she dreams of italy. she dreams of cheese shops, persnickety fiats, and very fine leather goods .?.?."
Like preppy fortune cookie predictions, the notes were mysterious and enticing. Who was she, you wondered. Was she me?
And, indeed, you suddenly found yourself on the subway daydreaming about that study abroad trip to Rome and marveling at the pleasures and adventures of life.
Years later, when I was working as a fashion editor, I attended the Kate Spade Fashion Week presentations. The brand has changed hands several times since the Spades sold it to Neiman Marcus in 2006, and the ethos had changed slightly, too. The whimsy was still there, but it favored frivolity over function. The colors were brighter, the hardware flashier, everything dialed up a few notches. If shopping Kate Spade was still supposed to feel like a party, it had turned into the kind of party where the host is always hovering nearby, asking whether you are having fun, insisting you have another drink.
Unlike that first black interview suit, which I wore only a handful of times, I carried my Kate Spade bag every single day — no matter the occasion, no matter the weather — for years. It was the item that most made me feel not just like an adult, but like the kind of adult I wanted to be. A woman who was both practical and creative. Thoughtful and whimsical. Confident and warm. Not a woman of leisure, but a woman of adventure.
Perhaps fashion industry veteran Jen Mankins put it best in one of the hundreds of tributes to Kate Spade that flooded social media after news of her apparent suicide was published. Kate Spade, Mankins wrote, "represented all the possibilities of where life could take you." This is why Spade touched a nerve with my generation — because she celebrated all those possibilities, and designed bags for embarking on those adventures gracefully.
Kerry Folan is a writer and teacher living in the Washington, D.C., area.
Arrest made in deadly shooting outside Tampa mosque
Muhammad Rakibul Haque, 42, turned himself in after learning he was wanted for second-degree murder.
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Strange And Improbably Animal Friendships! (30 Pics)
After spending a lot of time alone in the same room of the owners house, they grew fond of each other. The crow is almost always on the dog's back, the dog even barks when people try to touch his pal. The owner built a custom harness for more comfortable rides.
A black swan feeding fish at a public park.
After a devastating forest fire, fire rescue ran out of crates for the animals saved from the blazes. This fawn and baby bobcat were placed together in the office. Hours later, firemen noticed they'd taken a liking to one another and cuddled for the duration they were kept together.
A duck and house cat raised together by a family. Supposedly the duck hates water and hasn't figured out yet that it can fly.
This macaque and dove lived together in an animal protection center off the coast of China. They ate, played, and slept together for two months before being released into the wild.
A wild life park in China adopted two tiger cubs, which were soon adopted by a worker's dog that happened to be in the pen frequently.
The Fernandez family adopted a tiger cub after he lost his family. He's been raised with the family dog since youth and they are inseparable.
A five week old boar plays with Candy, the jack Russell terrier in Ehringhausen, Germany.
Humphrey was a house pet that became too large and was moved to the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in South Africa, where he was safe but lonely. Cameroon Pygmy Mountain Goat climbed Humphrey's enclosure fence and befriended him.
Sobe the iguana and Johann the cat were both rescued by a woman in Brooklyn, NY. Every day when the iguana is let out of her cage, she seeks out Johann for play time, along with a rabbit also kept as a pet.
A baby hippo was swept away by a tsunami and rescued by a wild life reservation. A 130 year old tortoise immediately befriended him.
Everyone knows who Koko the gorilla that speaks sign language is. For her birthday one year, she signed to her teacher that she wanted a kitten. Koko's teacher wasn't surprised, as Koko's two favorite books were about cats. They adopted one from an abandoned litter and Koko showed it tender care and gentleness.
A lioness abandoned by her pack decides to adopted a baby impala after killing its mother. Several times, she tried to leave the baby in the company of other impalas, but ended up having to take the baby back under her wing after the adult impalas were frightened away by her
A lion, tiger, and bear raised together in the same enclosure at Noah's Ark Sanctuary in GA play ball, cuddle, and chase each other.
A giraffe and ostrich form an odd friendship at Busch Garden's in Florida.
A baby impala was left behind after the rest of its group ran away from the cheetahs. Instead of preying on the impala, they played gently with it a bit before simply getting bored and leaving it.
Owls that hatched at a hawk conservatory were adopted by the park keeper and became friends with his pet dog.
After a family took in this stray cat, she grew fond of their elderly dog. Realizing the dog was blind, the cat took on the responsibility of leading the dog to his water, food, shade, and toys. She would follow closely under his chin to guide him.
A stray cat wandered into this asiastic bear's enclosure at the Berlin Zoo. It's been coming back frequently for 10 years to visit its friend.
This pair have been seen together for over a year in Lake Van, Turkey. They were first spotted by local fisherman who witnessed them sharing a fish and playing together.
At the TIGERS institute in South Carolina, a chimp raises tiger cubs after they were separated from their mother.
A photographer witnessed a wild polar bear coming upon tethered sled dogs in the wilderness of Canada's Hudson Bay. Instead of devouring the dogs, they played and cuddled. The polar bear returned every night that week.
Other examples of strange and improbably animal friendships:
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Nenu Local Audio Launched Grandly
Nenu Local will complete Nani's double hat trick with a bang: Dil Raju
The audio launch of Nani’s next, co-starring Keerthy Suresh as the female lead took place in Kakinada on Saturday, on occasion of Sankranti, and it was quite a grand affair. The film, presented by Dil Raju, titled Nenu Local has ‘Attitude is Everything’ as the tagline. Nani, Keerthy, Dil Raju, Sirish, Devi Sri Prasad, Naveen Chandra, director Nakkina Trinadha Rao, Dorababu, writer Sai Krishna, dialogue writer Prasanna Kumar and other members of the film’s unit joined East Godavari Collector Arun Kumar and Municipal Commisioner Alim Basha to unveil the film’s music.
Prasanna Kumar said, “I had studied Engineering in Kakinada and remember Arya as the first film I watched here. It was at that moment that I wished to be able to work under the Dil Raju banner some day. It took eight years to fulfil that dream. And it’s a happy moment to be here to attend the first ever audio launch happening in the city. When Nani agreed to be a part of Nenu Local, only I know how tensed I felt. Me and Trinadha Rao have developed a good wavelength over time and if I become a director, I’d like to work like him. I also want to thank Siris hand Harshit garu for the chance.”
Speaking at the event, Naveen Chandra said, “Dil Raju garu had released my debut film Andala Rakshasi. And now, coming back to his banner for Nenu Local feels amazing. I really want to thank Prasanna garu, Trinadha Rao garu and Bekkem Venugopal Rao garu for trusting me with this role and thinking that I am apt to play the part. This is my second film with music director Devi Sri Prasad garu. The cinematogpraher, Nisar, has been instrumental in making me look great in the film. Everyone has put in a lot of hard work on the film and the result is for all to see soon as we hit the theatres.
Producer Dil Raju shared, “Character-based love stories like Idiot and Arya are films I really like. And a character with the main theme as ‘Attitude is everything’ is going to be a treat for sure and also an indicator to what the film is going to offer. Nani and Keerthy have done a great job in the film. Nani has really come ahead with his own efforts and this film is the sixth after five consecutive hits. This will give him a second hat-trick. The unit members of Cinema Chupista Mama have worked on this film. DSP has scored amazing tunes. The film will release in February. This month Shatamanam Bhavati was a success and next month Nenu Local will follow up this success streak for us.”
Keerthy Suresh said, “Dil Raju, Bekkem Venugopal, Harshit and Sirish, thanks to all of you. Working with Trinadha Rao garu will be an unforgettable experience for me. Nisar’s cinematography has made every frame beautiful. After Nenu Local, this is the second time I am in a film with tunes by DSP and I have to say he has given some wonderful tunes yet again. I am happy I got to work with a great team because of this film.”
Nani shared: “I don’t really know what I can say about this film. But I’d say for sure that you should experience the film. Soon, in February, we intend to release the film and we’ll disturb everyone! Me and Dil Raju garu have been planning a film since very long and it has worked out now finally. It’s only because of him and his team that we were able to make a good film. Naveen Chandra is a hero but still agreed to be a part of this film by means of an important role and I want to thank him for the same. Trinadh garu, Prasanna and Sai Krishna have come up with an interesting story which will keep everyone entertained from the start to the beginning.”
The film’s music composer, Devi Sri Prasad, the star of the evening, said, “If the film is under the Dil Raju banner, the film is a hit for sure! This is my sixth collaboration with him and I am sure this film will be a hit too. I really like Nani’s timing, and feel he is a brilliant actor. Keerthy has done a great job too in this film. I wish Prasanna, Sai Krishna and Uday really supported in making this film what it is today.”
Cast: Nani, Keerthy Suresh and others.
Presented by: Dil Raju
Cinematography: Nizar Shafi
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Story-Screenplay-Dialogues: Prasanna Kumar Bejawada
Director: Trinadha Rao Nakkina
Associate producer: Bekkem Venugopal
Co-producer: Harshith Reddy
Producer: Sirish
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Lies (1983)
Directed by Ken and Jim Wheat.
With Ann Dusenberry, Bruce Davison, Clu Gulager, Gail Strickland, Terence Knox, Bert Ramsen, Dick Miller, Douglas Leonard.
A little fun can be had with this mediocre horror. But ultimately it's too convoluted to be taken seriously.
Struggling, out-of-work actress Robyn Wallace (Dusenberry, from JAWS 2) accepts a job playing a heiress who's committed to an asylum.
The part gets even meatier, when Robyn finds out the heiress goes completely over the deep end and commits suicide.
But wait. Is this a fictional part, or is there some thread of truth to all this? Could it be some all-too-real inheritance coup is underfoot that Robyn isn't aware of?
Will Robyn make it out of this mess alive?
Similar to both 1976's Scalpel (a better version of this sort of thing) and Dead of Winter, this has a few good moments, but tries to be too clever for its own good; its twisty plotlines lose you in the end.
Think of 16 different editings of the classic Vertigo running all at the same time and you have an idea of how this one plays out.
Actually that might sound more complimentary than it's meant to be. Lies isn't anything special, but it is competently directed and boasts decent production values, so mystery aficionados will no doubt find some entertainment here.
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SPR Electoral Fraud: Sarawak, Radio Free Sarawak.
Thread: SPR Electoral Fraud: Sarawak, Radio Free Sarawak.
2nd July 2012, 08:49 AM #1
Democracy Versus Rigged Elections In Sarawak!
Posted Saturday, June 30th, 2012
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Many of the world’s worst dictators try to claim legitimacy through the ballot box, so that they can proudly claim that they are voted time and again into office by their ‘loving’ people.
In fact, they cheat.
Taib is one of these and probably the only person he is fooling is himself.
The methods Taib uses to cheat in elections have become legendary and would often be entertaining, were the consequences not so pernicious.
Already, in advance of GE13, Radio Free Sarawak has recently unveiled cases where the Election Commission has been slyly changing the locations of Sarawak polling stations from nearby places that kampung folk are familiar with to far away locations they haven’t heard of!
No warning given, of course, except to reliable BN voters.
Ultimate insult - this headman was bribed with a cheque that bounced!
And in June, before Najib lost his nerve and delayed the election once more, BN’s business cronies were again seen drawing up at Taib’s home in Demak Jaya carrying suitcases of bribery money for handing out to voters – RM50 for any voter who could demonstrate they had voted BN!
And of course there are the endless cases of ballot box stuffing, false names on the register, threats against teachers and civil servants and people who need state benefits even.
One favourite story from the last election was the trick against one entire longhouse that had threatened to vote for the opposition.
Officials informed them that the polling station would be open only in the afternoon and they were encouraged to drink and celebrate in the morning.
But, when the tipsy folk finally went out to cast their votes it turned out the station was shut – it had only been open in the morning!
Sarawak’s gerrymandering
However, such bribery and bad practice during the election itself form just part of the anti-democratic system that Taib has built to ensure only a minority of people, whom he can control, get a chance to cast their votes.
The Election Commission itself revealed the shocking truth of the situation in its latest report on voter registration in the State of Sarawak. These official figures tell us all we need to know about what has been going on.
A full 28% of the adult people in the state are still not registered to vote!
Too hard to find or just too angry with BN? - most of the native people have not been registered
In fact the whole electoral system has been rigged to ensure that the forest people and the Dayaks have just a handful of voters and only a few of those actually get to the ballot boxes.
Areas where native customary lands have been stripped bare by Taib’s loggers and land grabbed by Taib’s planters are notably places where the BN government have made least effort to give people their identity cards, register them to vote and in many cases even to grant them birth certificates.
For example, according to surveys by the NGO Mafrel (which fights for free and fair elections), in Lawas where there are 30,000 potential adult voters only 6,000 are registered to vote. Nevertheless, in the last state elections those people of Lawas stood up for themselves and booted BN out.
Likewise, in Batang Ai, where lands have been flooded by the dam and huge areas taken by SALCRA’s palm plantations, which have done nothing to help the local people, but much to make Alfred Jabu’s family rich, there are 22,000 people but only 8,000 voters.
And in Belaga out of 23,000 people there are 7,000 registered voters.
These are what are known as rotten constituencies, where Taib has made sure that only a small number of people get a chance to vote – people that BN politicians expect to bribe and influence.
Figures provided by Sarawak Report to UN staff in 2011
After 30 years of Taib his feeble excuse has remained that these people are ‘hard to reach in order to register them’! Yet, it was not hard to reach their trees to cut them down or to reach their lands and plant them with oil palm.
The truth is that the last thing Taib wants is to expand the size of Sarawak’s electorate, because he would lose control of the voters. This is why before the last election the Election Commission, which should be independent, but is notoriously controlled by BN, rejected 90% of the new submissions for voter registrations in Sarawak with no reason given!
These applications had been painstakingly gathered by people who wanted to help the rural folk have their voice in the elections. However, Taib was determined this should not happen.
Urban seats
The scandal of Taib’s gerrymandering (rigging of the voting system) also applies to hundreds of thousands of urban voters. BN have long since lost the support of Sarawak’s sophisticated urban electorate and youth vote. These people have access to information from the internet and learn matters via each other, even though Taib attempts to control the news media.
The populations of Kuching, Miri, Sibu and elsewhere are fed up with corruption, greed, environmental degradation and incompetent government by BN.
So, how does he marginalise them? He does it by giving all these huge numbers of people just a handful of seats between them. While an urban seat may contain 30,000 voters a rural seat, where Taib can bribe and threaten a limited number of registered longhouse folk, may only have 5,000 voters.
Just look at how this worked out in the Sarawak State election. Even after the cheating, bribery and ballot box stuffing by BN the opposition still managed to win 41% of the official vote. Yet, because so many of their voters were in the urban areas they ended up with only 21% of the seats, leaving Taib to hang on to his power-giving domination of over 2/3 of the seats in the Assembly.
Democracy? Even after monumental cheating Taib could only secure just over half the official (rigged) vote. In his own constituency, where his relatives were handing out bagfuls of money his majority was slashed by 2/3.
Of course the huge swing of voters, especially in the towns, to support the opposition was a terrible fright to Taib. Even though he had managed to mask the disaster by securing so many rotten seats.
This explains why the old dictator went scurrying to the office of the ancient Governor in the middle of the very night of the election to make sure he got sworn in before an angry urban mob decided otherwise!
After all, many times in history when townspeople have had enough of cheats like Taib, they have done just that and prevented imposters from remaining in office!
Radio Free Sarawak - highlighted by The Economist as one method for bringing information to the people in the longhouses. But, how many of them have been allowed their right to vote by Taib Mahmud?
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NFL player visits Glenwood after school wins program challenge
J.T. Whitehouse , The Town Crier
Last week, the students of Boardman Glenwood Junior High School had the pleasure of a visit from a local NFL star. The members of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Club had earned the special treat.
Fuel Up to Play 60 is a new club at Glenwood this year. It is a team effort between the National Football League NFL), the National Dairy Council and participating schools. The concept is to get students up and moving by fueling up with healthy food and snack choices and then getting enough physical exercise.
Last fall, as part of the program, members of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Club submitted a video of the students playing flag football.
Posing during a special assembly at Glenwood Junior High School on March 27 are members of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Club, in front row: Tim Combis, Jordyn Ford-Braithwaite, Sloane McNally, Danielle Siembida and Eric Diefenderfer. In back row are: Anthony DeMain, Ben Zilavy, Kamryn Duritza, Audrey Anderson, special NFL guest Daniel 'Boom' Herron, Alexis Mihok, Josh Zilavy, and Zach Gansor.
Daniel “Boom” Herron gives a high five to seventh grade member of the Fuel Up to Play 60 Club, Sloane McNally.
Daniel “Boom” Herron was the special guest at BGJHS last Wednesday as the school was one of six across the nation to have won a Fuel Up challenge and earn a visit from an NFL star. Herron had played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts and Buffalo Bills.
"Our students made the video, our club put it together and submitted it," said physical education instructor and Fuel Up advisor Danielle Siembida. "We were one of six schools across the U.S. to be selected for a visit from an NFL player."
Selected to visit Boardman was Warren G. Harding native Daniel "Boom" Herron. He played for Ohio State, then went on to play with the Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapois Colts and the Buffalo Bills. Herron gave a short talk to the entire Glenwood student body, encouraging them to make good decisions.
"You have to make sure your health is right," Herron said. "There are some bad foods out there. Take care of and respect each other, and respect your teachers."
After Herron was done addressing the crowded gymnasium, he had the honor of referee-ing the seventh and eighth grade student and staff basketball game.
Helping on the sidelines were the club members in their Fuel Up T-shirts.
"Our students are really enjoying the Fuel Up to 60 opportunities," Siembida said.
The club members normally attend the morning open gym and meetings.
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A PIECE OF ITALY IN WACO, TEXAS
How do I love thee, let me count the ways is synonymous with the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You can read the poems of both her and her husband Robert Browning or take in the one of six colorful Italian glass stained windows at the Armstrong Browning Library located on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Robert Browning visited Italy in the mid 1800s spending two weeks in Venice, which later inspired such poems as In a Gondola and A toccata of Galuppis. His tour in Italy continued with Naples, Rome, Asolo, Florence and Pisa.
Years past and after marrying Elizabeth Barrett decided to spend most of their life in Italy beginning and ending with Venice after relocating to Florence, Rome and Asolo. It was the Italian art and experience that moved Robert to compose many of his poems.
Jane Collins, a designer for Willet Hauser Architectural Glass in Philadelphia, was given the task of designing the librarys windows that would produce a visual for the stature of the Brownings heritage. People began to donate these stain glass windows each with some Browning poetry written on it.
The Italy Window shows a grapevine, the Italian peninsula, Leaning Tower of Pisa, fountain in Romes St. Peters Square and ancient lute to evoke the music of Italy with poetry of both Robert and Elizabeth.
A Florentine wreath stands out in the Florence Window, centering on the a scene of the cathedral or Duomo, bell tower or Campanile as the Arno River flows under the Ponte Vecchio and Michelangelos David.
In the Vallombrosa Window, a wreath reflects the foliage with the central image of the Vallombrosa monastery. A close look at the bottom right hand corner reveals a vignette and the image of Elizabeth and her maid Wilson.
Another joyful wreath calls the eyes of the Rome Window with the ruins in the Roman Forum as the center. The Roman Colosseum, Spanish Steps and image of Trajans Column are portrayed here.
In the Venice Window, you can view St. Marks Basilica, the Grand Canal and gondola with the gondolier and mooring poles.
The wreath in the Asolo Window evokes the autumn harvest while the central image is the view from the loggia at LaMura, the summer home of Brownings close friend. Pippas Tower is pictured, along with the Fonanina Zen as well as an image of La Rocca. Probably of most interest is a window entitled The Guardian Angel based upon Giovanni Francesco Barbieris painting L'Angelo Custode located in Fano, Italy. Browning then wrote The Guardian Angel: A Picture at Fano. On Easter Day in 1912, William Lyon Phelps, former professor emeritus of English literature at Yale University and distinguished Browning scholar led a small group of travelers to Fano, where they stood before the painting in the little church of San Agostino and formed the Fano Club. Between them, they gathered 75 postcards to mail to America; unfortunately, all of the postcards went down on the Titanic. For years Phelps carried on a tradition of meeting once a year on May 7 (Browning's birthday), sharing dinner with fellow Fano travelers and then having the youngest member recite the poem, The Guardian Angel. The Fano Club thrives today with over 125 members.
Not the entire Library is focused on the Italian aspect. The Martin Entrance Foyer, for instance has three stained glassed windows, one of many with poetry about Rabbi Ben Ezra, while door panels represent ten of Brownings poems; five of Elizabeth and five of Robert. There is also a portrait of Robert Browning behind what is his original desk.
Stained glass windows fill each of the rooms including the Hankamer Treasure Room that include a collection of 200 books, and the antique Hankamer organ. The Jones Research Hall allows campus students and visitors to research material associated with the Brownings.
In the McLean Foyer of Meditation marble, cathedral windows, walnut paneling, bronze-grilled lighting combine for a relaxation and sometimes gatherings. A major focal point is the Cloister of the Clasped Hands, the bronze casting represents a hand of Elizabeth and Robert and displayed in a glass case. On the right wall is Elizabeth Barrett Brownings sonnet beginning How do I love thee? The opposite wall is Roberts dedication of The Ring and the Book, O Lyric Love!
Elizabeth is quite know for her authorship of forty-four sonnets from the Portuguese, five of which are represented in stained glass in the Elizabeth Barrett Browing Salon. Her writing desk stands in the center of the room with other mementos on display. There are two large mahogany cabinets, needlepoint on a chair and a few afghans as well as portraits of her along the walls.
The Armstrong Browning Library is one of many attractions to visit in Waco as I begin a series.
January 20, 2011 - Giornale Italo Americano
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30,000 for Abu Dhabi’s global green event
Abu Dhabi, September 16, 2012
More than 30,000 delegates from 150 countries will address the business, technology and financial challenges required for sustainable development in a global event set to take place in Abu Dhabi next year.
The Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) will run from January 13 to 17, 2013.
Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, chief executive officer of leading renewable company Masdar, said: “Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week extends the UAE’s momentum as a recognized global leader in sustainable development through open platforms that define the future global landscape for sustainability and encourage investments and partnerships to deliver solutions.”
“The Week builds on the momentum created at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil, particularly in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide the sustainability agenda for the next 20 years. The UAE’s Rio+20 delegation played a key role in developing those goals which many have seen as one of the most important outcomes of the conference.”
SDGs highlight the need for sustainable access to energy, water and food. These challenges will be addressed in the conferences and events to be held during ADSW: The Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) January 13 - 14; the sixth annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES) January 15 - 17; the International Water Summit (IWS) January 15 - 17; the fifth annual Awards Ceremony for the Zayed Future Energy Prize January 15; and the International Renewable Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi (ADIREC) January 15 - 17.
“Meeting the challenges of sustainability is vital both globally and locally. The UAE and Abu Dhabi are diversifying our energy mix to spur future growth through renewable sources,” added Dr Al Jaber.
“Sustainability continues to be an integral part of the UAE’s development plans, from an economic, environmental and social perspective.”
The UAE’s harsh climate and rapidly growing economy are placing a strain on the demand for the electricity needed to desalinate water and cool homes and public places. This challenge will only increase as the region’s population and industries grow, with demand for electricity and water projected to more than double by 2030.
Currently the UAE’s per person consumption of water and electricity is among the highest in the world. While a hot climate and scarce water are contributing factors, overconsumption is also part of the cause, which every resident can personally address by being more conscious of how much energy and water they use.
“Today, more than ever, the time is now for building a clean energy future through comprehensive, action-oriented solutions. Within the UAE, an integrated and comprehensive energy strategy that includes renewable energy, nuclear and hydrocarbons will be fundamental to our nation’s development. I urge all UAE organizations and residents to join the important dialogue that will take place during ADSW,” Dr Al Jaber concluded. – TradeArabia News Service
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Australia airports toughen security measures after terror plot
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that travellers flying domestically and internationally from Australia’s airports will face tighter security measures after the authorities thwarted an apparent plot to “bring down an airplane”.
Authorities ramped up security at all major Australian airports after counter-terrorism police thwarted the alleged terrorist plot.
Several homes in Sydney suburbs were raided and finally four men were arrested after uncovering plans to carry out an attack with an improvised device, according to police. The authority believes that the suspects were inspired by the Islamic State militant group.
The travellers were requested to limit their checked and hand baggage. They were further noticed about the delays caused by additional security measures. The nation’s busiest hub, Sydney saw the major security tightening rules and similar measures were extended to all major international and domestic terminals across Australia on Saturday night.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin on Sunday said officers are “investigating information indicating that the aviation industry was potentially a target” of the planned attack. He declined to discuss potential charges that the four men in custody might face. None of the men worked in the airport industry, he said. Wearing gas masks and ballistic armour, and backed by fire crews and specially trained paramedics, officers from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team stormed five properties in the Sydney suburbs of Surry Hills, Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park
Virgin Australia and Qantas Airways informed its passengers via text messages, emails and on their social media platform about the expected delays.
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Bus Driver Awarded the ‘Diolch Drive’ Customer Service Award
First Cymru and Bus Users Cymru are celebrating the joint winners of First’s Diolch Drive customer service awards. Justin Davies (Managing Director of First Cymru) will be there alongside Margaret Everson (Director, Bus Users Cymru) to present the awards.
Judges found it really hard to choose just one winner and therefore decided to award two.
Port Talbot based Ryan Coslett drives buses between Port Talbot, Neath and Swansea and was nominated by Louise Powell “If he can see me and my husband are trying to rush for the bus he will wait… He always has a smile on his face no matter what happens. He makes the journey more enjoyable”
First Cymru launched the Diolch Drive awards to recognise those First drivers across South Wales who go the extra mile to deliver great customer service.
The awards were launched during Catch the Bus Week and ran throughout July with customers nominating drivers online. The winners receive a special ‘Diolch Drive’ a certificate as well as £100 of vouchers to spend in the store of their choice. The individual successfully nominating the winning driver will also receive a prize in the form of free travel on the local bus network.
Justin Davies, Managing Director of First Cymru said: “We are really pleased to have had so many nominations for our first ever Diolch Drive Awards. Our winners are an asset to our business. Ryan and Phil are a credit to their depots”
He continued: “We want to continually drive up standards of customer service amongst our drivers and these awards are a great way to recognise and reward those people who are already delivering great service. We know we don’t always get it right, and we seek to take appropriate action if and when we identify those that let the side down, conversely, drivers like Ryan, Phil and all those nominated demonstrate that many of our drivers are working hard to make bus journeys more pleasant for our passengers and they deserve recognition.”
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Jeremy Lebens April 24, 2019 1 Comment
Directing9.5
Writing9.5
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Overall9.5
Avengers: Endgame is the greatest cinematic achievement of our lifetime. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo manage to stick a landing that's taken over ten years and 22 movies to make, providing a thrilling conclusion to the Infinity Saga that's full of surprises and all ranges of emotion. This is an instant all-timer.
Directors Anthony and Joe Russo follow last year’s epic Avengers: Infinity War with Marvel’s largest and most conclusive film yet, Avengers: Endgame. Endgame is a three-hour blockbuster that raises the stakes to the absolute highest point, closing one of the most monumental chapters in filmmaking history in almost perfect fashion, thanks to the directors, their writing team and the epic ensemble of the greatest actors and actresses in the business.
Avengers: Endgame is the reason why we go to the movies. It connects us with every single character and story arc on an emotional level, where we feel invested and truly apart of something larger than ourselves.
Infinity War was previously Marvel’s biggest (and best) film to date, leaving us as a collective audience in shock as we witnessed the final moments. For those of you that haven’t seen it, I urge you to watch the film, as my review here will contain slight Infinity War spoilers, but no Endgame spoilers.
Endgame follows the immediate aftermath of Infinity War. Thanos (Josh Brolin) is still the baddest man in the entire universe, while Earth’s mightiest heroes are left broken and defeated, but eager to avenge.
Within ten minutes, Endgame hits the ground running and never lets up. I praised Infinity War for its near-perfect pacing — a nearly three-hour movie that feels brisk, moves fast and covers a lot of ground. Endgame dashes out of the gate with some heavy content, only to retreat for a while to develop some of the thicker plot points. I feel that a repeat viewing or two will help me judge just how efficient its pacing is when compared to Infinity War, but I can tell you that my initial viewing left me looking at my watch, hoping that it would never end.
Endgame isn’t a perfect film, but writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely do a damn fine job piecing everything together, creating one of the most ambitious storylines in movie-watching history. Yes, there are a handful of moments that get glossed over or ask you as an audience to not get too scientific with the material, but these are merely seatbelts to brace you down for the rest of the ride.
Some complain that the Avengers films struggle with capturing the essence of every character. Endgame focuses more on the “core” Avengers, but it does it in a way that makes perfect sense. Some characters do get the shaft, but the set-up and payoff is orchestrated in a way that makes the most thematic sense.
Infinity War was the highpoint for these characters, while Endgame strips them back and has them rebuild. Rebuild as a team.
I’m not even going to cover the cast, because it’s larger than I care to count or comment on. Every single player in this film delivers a reliable and invested performance that ranges from jaw-dropping to gut-busting.
Avengers: Endgame made me audibly laugh at times, only to be followed with uncontrollable sobbing or watery eyes — it captures all of the emotions and on a scale that feels unmatched. Every single moment of this film is earned through the long-form storytelling of the MCU.
There’s another review or essay to be written on Endgame and all of the things that it gets so very right, but I promised myself that this review would not expose the plot or reveal any spoilers, so I will return to this film at a later date.
If you thought that Infinity War was top-shelf Marvel, then get ready to have your fake Thor wig blown back, because Endgame cranks up the volume to twenty. It blows the roof off of what can be expected for such a large film. You can clearly tell that there was so much blood, sweat, tears and heart poured into this film and the ones leading up to it.
People worry about Disney’s ever-growing presence in the world of entertainment and while I agree that it’s no fun without competition, I must applaud their Marvel division for always staying true to their stories and their characters. Endgame does not feel like a lazy excuse to print money.
It feels like a collective movement on celluloid (ok — digital), presenting you the very best from such a wide variety of artists. This is what happens when you gather the very best filmmakers, actors, actresses, set designers, special effects teams, etc.
I have no idea what is in store for the future of the MCU, but I can firmly say that the Infinity Saga has been one of the greatest experiences to be a part of and Avengers: Endgame is the most fitting conclusion to everything before it. No ball has been dropped — this is the ride of a lifetime.
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Fire In The Skies: Johnny Red – Red Devil Rising (Vol. 2) Book Review
Brad July 2, 2012 Leave a comment
Fresh from Titan Books is the second (and brand new) compilation from writer Tom Tully and artist Joe Colquhoun of the loose cannon pilot from the British Royal Navy, Johnny “Red” Redburn. Johnny Red: Red Devil Rising Vol. 2 follows Johnny after he’s unjustly discharged from the R.A.F., and hooks up to fight with the Falcons, a Russian squadron protecting their homeland from Nazi invasion.
Johnny Red is the quintessential military man hardened by war and the epitome of a one-man wrecking crew. He clashes with his fellow pilots, protects the besieged Leningrad, flies like a bat out of hell, spews lines from scripts that could fit Eastwood, and kicks a whole lot of ass in the process. Take for example, this exchange between Red and his doctor after finding out he has a piece of shrapnel stuck in his eye.
Red: My peepers are almost back to normal now.
Doc: But for how long? I beg you comrade, be careful! Avoid sudden strenuous activity as much as possible!
Red: Dead easy, doc. I mean, I’ve got a sitting-down job, haven’t I?
Like any great drama, his vision acts up at the worst moments and puts him in mortal danger within a seconds notice. His “comrades” aren’t too thrilled to have an “English” fighting on their side, so they put him in additional peril whenever possible. His efforts in the war earned him the title “djavol,’ the Russian word for “devil,” and so the Red Devil was born. The length of the war has led to an erosion of the Soviet hierarchy because of the sheer lost of lives, making Johnny the de facto “leader” of the Falcons. Eventually, he earns their respect and leads them in battle. I don’t think I have to tell you what happens from here, do I?
I’ve been unable to read part 1, but the continuity seems to drift from time to time in this volume. There are times when Johnny Red is said to have been discharged from the R.A.F. after punching a superior officer, and then at other times it says he killed the superior officer. This is a curious fact, considering Tom Tully wrote the entire stretch run, but these are minor quips. The writing overall is great fictionalized battle. It’s the equivalent of a big budget action film, where the main character is always in danger, but never in danger of actually losing his own life. Your enjoyment of this series will hinge on the acceptance of that fact. Of course, the story doesn’t work without the beautiful artwork of Joe Colquhoun. The art is scratchy black and white, but after a few minutes of staring you begin to appreciate the incredible little details of his work. It’s always a joy to see the way an artist goes about placing the intricacies of his art within complicated panels with no color.
The book features an opening essay from Garth Ennis (psst check out his Punisher run) where he explores the various incarnations of aerial combat in comic book history, and the fine line they dance between realism and pure fiction. Ennis fancies himself a WWII buff, so he’s the perfect companion piece to explore Johnny Red’s place in military history.
Outside of WWII history fanatics and tough guy junkies, I don’t see this finding a place on the shelf of a mainstream comic book fan. The implausibility of most of the action will turn off readers searching for a realistic and knowledgeable account of aerial combat, and war has been done much better in various other books (like Charley’s War). Still, Titan never skimps on the details and Johnny Red: Red Devil Rising’s black and white panels are beautifully presented in this hardcover. This is a great piece of nostalgic reading for those who grew up with the comic strip, and if that was the mission, I’d say it was a success.
Johnny Red: Red Devil Rising Vol. 2 is available now at Amazon and Forbidden Planet.
British Royal Navy
Charley's War
Joe Colquhoun
Johnny Red
Red Devil Rising
Tom Tully
Brad is an aspiring independent artist and media reviewer whose work has appeared in Fangoria, The Leader Magazine, Basement Cinema, and Benevolent Street. Trapped like a rat on this insane planet, he uses writing to survive this vicious cabaret.
Contact him via @BradTDR or brad@thedailyrotation (dot) com.
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LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
Back from the Deep!
Once it was a beauty spot.
But that was before it became the watery grave of an international drugs dealer.
Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal its gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom.
Instead it came to rest on a ledge after the perpetrators of the most notorious deed in the history of crime in the North West, had bundled him over the edge.
And there it was discovered - that butchered, hideously scarred body which led disbelieving detectives to the earth's four corners in pursuit of those who would kill to protect a multi million pound drugs empire.
This week the Handless Corpse rose once more from the Delph's murky depths. For two days and nights a television crew reconstructed the killing and dumping of Kiwi Martin Johnstone, the man dubbed the Mr Asia of international narcotics smuggling whose ruthless execution 13 years ago put nine behind bars for dealing in drugs and death.
The Lancashire connection will be a dramatised by Granada this autumn as part of a Friday night peak-time crime series. Ironically, perhaps, it will be called All Good Friends.
Those were the words used in a statement by Preston-born Barbara Pilkington, girlfriend of the man who pulled the trigger. She and killer Andy Maher were indeed good friends with Johnstone and his Lancashire lover Julie Hue.
"We examine that friendship and the pressures which finally blew the whole thing apart," says producer Bill Jones
Drugs, Death and a Grisly Man-hunt
He remembers it well. As a newspaper reporter he covered the case in its early stages. Now he watches as two film units bring about the realisation of a project which took him six months to research.
At Leyland in a lock-up garage they recreate the moments in which Johnstone's body was mutilated in the vain hope that even if it was discovered it might never be identified.
And at Eccleston Delph - it's actually in neighbouring Heskin - they film the dumping of his heavily weighted body, its discovery by two amateur divers who thought it was a tailor's dummy, and its recovery by police frogmen.
Lancashire police have co-operated with the makers. Few police forces, they believe, could have concluded the case in the way Lancashire did. From the time they'd finished there were 180 witnesses from across the globe.
"They kept at it like a Jack Russell with a rabbit," says Bill Jones. "It really was an incredible case and it is still a very powerful story."
There is a delay in filming because Mike Armitage is in make up. It takes four hours to get him looking.....like death.
For Mike, underwater expert and boss of Standish-based Northern Diver, is the corpse of Martin Johnstone for the day. When he finally arrives at the Delph, make-up artists continue to work on him, attaching a sandy wig and various prosthetics.
These include specially-made and uncannily realistic handless arms which are placed prayer-like across his chest in the manner they were found. While it is all going on he says with unintentional humour: "The tension is killing me."
Bill Jones looks across the water. There is litter and there are rusting cars and vans beneath the surface. One or two fishermen go about their business: "It's an eerie place," he says. Maybe I think that because of what happened here, but there's something weird about it."
He reveals that Andy Maher will be played by Vic McGuire, Jack in TV's Bread. In reality Maher, then 27, was given a minimum 20 years after an historic 128-day trial at Lancaster Castle, and remains locked away until the last year of this century.
Barbara Pilkington and Julie Hue whose mind-boggling statements finally blew the gaffe on a drugs-running operation spanning Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Britain gave evidence for the prosecution.
Since then they have been living new lives with new identities. Which leaves one more character from the cast of All Good Friends. He is Terry Sinclair, the hugely wealthy Mr Big on whose orders Maher shot his friend in the head.
Johnstone had double-crossed the syndicate. Maher believed his own life would be snuffed out if he didn't shoot Johnstone. So he did - in a layby north of Lancaster.
Sinclair, arrested by armed officers during a dawn raid on a London flat, read books in the dock a Lancaster Castle. So powerful was he that he believed he could simply buy his way to freedom. When he died of a heart attack not long into a 20-year sentence at Parkhurst prison in 1983, Lancashire police were immediately suspicious.
Says Bill Jones "They had put away this fit-looking guy in his mid forties and he'd suddenly had a heart attack. They felt it wasn't him. They thought he might have been sprung from prison and that someone else had taken his place. That's how powerful he was.
"So they went down to look at his body - and they took someone along who knew him very well. It was Sinclair all right, but his hair was white and he'd aged 25 years.
There he lay, the multi-millionaire drugs baron whose downfall had begun with the discovery of a handless corpse in a Lancashire quarry off Halfpenny Lane
Victim Martin Johnstone
His battered "death mask"
Brutal killer Andy Maher
The "Mr Big" Terry Sinclair
PETER RICHARDSON
PC Arthur Marshall is at the waters edge. He is the man who brought Johnstone to the surface all those years ago. Now, 45, he's still with the police, still diving and still enjoying the life.
"I remember it as a job of work," he says. "We were conscious all the time that we had to preserve all the evidence. These days we could have rigged up a video camera and CID could have watched from the surface
"But there was nothing like that then and no one realised the problems we had. There were 140 lbs of weights tied to his legs. It must have been at least two hours before we got him up. He was about 20 to 30 feet down on a ledge.
If they'd dropped him just a few feet away I don't think he would ever have been found." Arthur is taking part in the filming, together with colleagues.
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This South African Teen Went Off In A Poem About Transgender Identity
“What it feels like to be transgender,” according to 19-year-old Lee Mokobe.
By Rawiya Kameir
Lee Mokobe is a 19-year-old from Capetown who started Vocal Revolutionaries, an activist poetry collective. For his accomplishments, Mokobe was invited to be a TED2015 fellow and speaker—the conference's youngest. While addressing a TEDWomen crowd in California, he performed this poem exploring his transgender identity, shifting relationships with family members, and the challenges faced by transgender individuals and the community at large. In the wake of steep violence against trans men and women and higher rates of suicide among transgender Americans, Mokobe's points are especially poignant. Watch the video above, read an excerpt below, and find out more about his life and work via Twitter.
My mother fears I have named myself after fading things.What do you think?
As she counts the echoes left behind by Mya Hall, Leelah Alcorn, Blake Brockington.
She fears that I’ll die without a whisper,
that I’ll turn into “what a shame” conversations at the bus stop.
She claims I have turned myself into a mausoleum,
that I am a walking casket.
-Lee Mokobe
Art, lee mokobe
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C&O Canal Restoration Kick-Off Oct. 5
September 15, 2016 | by The Scoop
Georgetown BID
Georgetown Heritage
Photo by georgetowndc.com
Georgetown Heritage and the National Park Service are kicking off a multi-year restoration of the first mile of the C&O Canal in Georgetown at noon on Wednesday, October 5 at Lock 4 (Thomas Jefferson Street), as Georgetown community members and officials wave goodbye to the old Georgetown boat.
Mules will tow away the Georgetown, which operated as a popular attraction on the Canal until 2011, one last time before it is disassembled at Fletcher’s Cove. National Park Service staff, city officials, and community leaders will also begin the draining of Lock 3 before sharing plans to restore, revitalize and re-imagine this historic one-mile section of the park.
The send-off marks the first phase of the restoration project, October 2016 through April 2018, which will include repairs to Locks 3 and 4, a new boat, and the development of a Comprehensive Master Plan to guide further revitalization of the park.
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Transprocessing: Neurobiologic Mechanisms of Change during Psychotherapy—A Proposal Based on a Case Report
Robert Bota, MD, MSG; Andrei Novac, MD
Perm J 2013 Winter; 17(1):67-71
This article proposes transprocessing (as in "transduction" and "processing") as a term to denote mechanisms by which the brain processes information in psychotherapy and develops solutions that have a lasting, curative effect. The case of a woman with a history of posttraumatic conversions, who recovered after long-term psychotherapy, is presented as the basis for a discussion on psychotherapeutic changes of the brain. Psychological healing and change, in general, is seen here as a result of a large variety of neurobiologic processes that reframe complex or multimodal memories. Through transprocessing, multimodal memories are deconstructed along the different axes of the brain tissue and restored through memory mechanisms at the synaptic, cellular level. Transprocessing requires a sustained interplay between the extended projections of the "language brain" and the repeated, alternating activation and deactivation of the midline structures associated with the self, to form pathways through long-term therapeutic experiences. We propose three separate stages of transprocessing by which new implicit and explicit memories of the therapeutic narrative are internalized into a first-person experience. Those stages are 1) evaluation, 2) acquisition, and 3) contextualization.
Despite rapid advances in neurosciences, the neurologic basis for changes facilitated by psychotherapy remains unclear. The following case report introduces a discussion of newer findings regarding information processing and learning during psychotherapy.
This article proposes transprocessing (as in transduction and processing) as a term to denote mechanisms by which the brain processes information in psychotherapy and the patient develops solutions that have a lasting, curative effect. Psychological healing and change, in general, are seen here as a result of a large variety of neurobiologic processes that reframe complex or multimodal memories. Through transprocessing, multimodal memories are deconstructed along the different axes of the brain tissue and restored through memory mechanisms at the synaptic, cellular level. Transprocessing requires a sustained interplay between the extended projections of the "language brain" and the repeated activation and deactivation of the midline structures associated with the self, to form pathways through long-term therapeutic experiences. We propose three separate stages of transprocessing by which new implicit and explicit memories of the therapeutic narrative are internalized as first-person experiences.
A woman, age 44 years, was referred by a local internist after progressive speech problems and labile affect developed. Findings of the initial examination revealed a history of postpartum depression at age 34 years. At that time, with medication treatment and a 2-year course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the patient showed a full recovery.
On examination, the most striking finding was labile affect in the form of brief attacks of dysphoria, which were immediately relieved after changing the subject of conversation.
The patient's speech pattern was that of dysfluent aphasia. She was able to name objects and say nouns correctly. She was also alert and showed good nonverbal communication. Yet, she was unable to speak in full sentences. She was also speaking in a hoarse voice, which according to her husband, she had never before presented. At home she was irritable and would burst into brief crying spells. She had a recurrence of old nightmares, which we later learned were related to trauma. The rest of the neurologic findings and the results of the magnetic resonance image were normal. Further history revealed that she had been a flight attendant and had been assaulted and raped while walking to her hotel during a layover abroad 15 years previously. She had never received any treatment related to the rape.
She did well until she gave birth to her first daughter ten years before her referral to us, when she developed postpartum depression. During this episode she did not tolerate medications. Working diagnoses of conversion disorder and major depression with a history of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was made.
The patient was seen in dynamic psychotherapy 3 times per week. During interpretations that were rated as essential to autobiography, labile affect worsened temporarily by triggering a catastrophic reaction: a sudden attack of crying, lasting between 20 seconds and 1 minute. This was followed by a smile. The succession between states was dramatic. After about 12 weeks of treatment consisting of 36 sessions, the affect became more stable. She was able to focus on her emotional state, elaborating on it as her facial expressions became more congruent with her internal state. On numerous occasions, when the orbicularis oris muscles contracted and pulled her mouth downward into a sad expression, she would be able to connect to emotions of sadness.
During the following 50 sessions (approximately 3 months), the patient spent most of the time during her sessions talking at length about her deep feelings of loss and her belief that she had suffered a stroke. She was experiencing a sense of lack of control over the future. During the same time, she experienced nightmares and severe nocturnal anxiety. She reported nightmares 2 to 3 times per week and exhibited symptoms of PTSD. She had hyperarousal in the form of attacks of anxiety with palpitations and headaches, which were diagnosed as tension headaches. The nightmares were eventually interpreted by her and by her therapist as expressions of fear of failure in life, which was tied to the emphasis her immigrant parents placed on academic performance. "It is easy to fail in America," her mother used to say. "What if I fail?" had been part of her self-talk since adolescence. During psychotherapy new narratives of self-confidence developed, such as "I was actually privileged … ." It was later that she tied her sense of loss (eg, symptoms of stroke) to a perceived failure to foresee and prevent the rape. She saw herself as paralyzed in front of evil.
During the next six months, the nightmares gradually subsided. What was particular to this patient was a gradual improvement in her speech in parallel with the disappearance of nightmares. She returned to work full time after a year on sick leave.
Her depression lifted gradually, and she returned to old hobbies and interests. She became more involved with her two children and later decided to work half time so as to spend more time with her family. To date, four years since the episode, she has not shown any relapse of symptoms.
On the basis of this case and the existing vast literature on psychological processing, we propose two areas for future exploration pertinent to the healing mechanisms in psychoanalytical psychotherapy: the neuroanatomical basis of processing and transprocessing and the uploading of implicit healing narratives.
Neuroanatomical Basis of Processing
The large amount of literature on the neuroanatomical basis of processing mechanisms (Figure 1) divides it into vertical processing systems, horizontal processing systems, and neuroplasticity and processing. Vertical processing systems: The vertical processing systems include:
1. self-related processing and the subcortical-cortical midline system
2. reentry circuits
3. prefrontal-subcortical circuitry.
Panksepp and Northoff1 have referred to self-related processing attributed to a set of midline structures that start in the brain stem, in the reticular activating system, and are interconnected with higher brain structures in the subcortical and cortical areas, referred to as the subcortical-cortical midline system. These structures accomplish the integrative bodily functions and the convergence of basic emotional systems to form the proposed "bodily self or proto-self"2-10 (see Sidebar Self-Related Processing and Subcortical-Cortical Midline System, item 1).
Reentry, or the cortical-subcortical parallel reentrant circuits11-13 provide the structural basis for an interactive system, between the cortex and the subcortical areas of the basal ganglia and striatum, substantia innominata, and the extended amygdala. This network allows for a bidirectional mirroring between subcortical implicit networks and cortical neural activity.
The prefrontal cortex includes the orbital medial prefrontal cortex and the lateral prefrontal cortex and their connections to the striatum and to the thalamic nuclei. These very dense networks provide a major role in mood regulation (see Sidebar Self-Related Processing and Subcortical-Cortical Midline System, item 2).
Horizontal processing systems: These systems can be subclassified into the interhemispheric and intrahemispheric systems. The interhemispheric components include the corpus callosum and the anterior commissures. Routine conscious speech-driven activity maintains left-brain dominance. For psychotherapy and personal development, developing meaningful narratives about adverse life events have a healing quality.14 A large body of literature has further demonstrated that speech, in an interactional context, involves extended bilateral areas,15-26 which creates a "beltway of communication and awareness" around the entire brain (see Sidebar Self-Related Processing and Subcortical-Cortical Midline System, item 3).
Self-Related Processing and Subcortical-Cortical Midline System
1. Self-Related Processing and Subcortical-Cortical Midline System: The subcortical-cortical midline system includes the periaqueductal gray, an extremely rich connected brain structure,1 and the superior colliculi, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, ventral tegmental area, mesencephalic locomotor regions, preoptic areas, hypothalamus, and dorsomedial thalamus.2-4 Vertical processing also creates an access pathway between cortex, the prefrontal cortex, and brain-stem areas that are believed to generate the basic affective states (Seeking, Fear, Rage, Panic, Nurture, Lust, and Play) that are necessary for survival.2,5
2. Prefrontal Cortex: A detailed review of these networks is beyond this presentation but can be found in Price and Drevets.6 The subdivisions of the lateral and orbital medial prefrontal cortex (dorsal prefrontal, ventral prefrontal, caudal prefrontal, orbital and medial networks) cover, to different degrees, most aspects of human mental activity.
3. Interhemispheric Components: Clinical experience suggests it is the hemispheric synchrony that is created through the massive white-matter network essential in processing. A developmental right to left shift in hemispheric control and dominance in learning has been recognized.7 In the learning process, a dynamic shift in time occurs from task-naive to task-experienced recognition.8,9
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder activate predominantly the right hemisphere during remembering and reexperiencing of trauma. This is unlike people who do not have posttraumatic stress disorder, who have left-brain dominance on brain imaging and evoked potentials. The experience of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing has further suggested a particular healing quality of processing that involves bilateral but alternative speech and brain stimulation. Furthermore, patients with a history of chronic trauma and alexithymia are known to have limited awareness of and/or access to their emotional experiences, with a high prevalence of somatization. Alexithymia and a history of early trauma have been associated with functional and anatomical deficits of the interhemispheric white matter.10-12 Traumatic memories and posttraumatic stress reconfigure a right-brain dominance due to catecholamine overconsolidation13 of memories in right hemispheric tracts early,14,15 before reaching the perceptive speech brain.
Language is described as providing our subjective perception of being able to think.16 By means of the interhemispherical (transcallosal) transfer, information reaches the speech center, which exerts its role in awareness formation. Speech, through words, designs meaning to objects. It decreases emotional charge by diminishing the "incomprehensible" and unpredictable aspects of the environment. Unlike the earlier understanding of speech assigned to left speech centers only, the large, bilaterally extended notion of the "speech brain"17,18 refers to more global (evolutionary) networks of awareness and communication combined.
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3. Panksepp J. Affective neuroscience: the foundations of human and animal emotions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA; 1998 Aug 15.
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Erratum in: Am J Psychiatry 2011 Feb;168(2):213.
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Intrahemispheric processing occurs by means of the white matter tracts that are the structural basis for ipsilateral coordination between different brain structures. Such white matter structures are the inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus and the inferior longitudinal fasciculus.27 The role of these structures has been grossly overlooked in the past.
Neuroplasticity systems: This is a very extensive subject that involves learning processes and human change. Experiential relearning after brain damage has been shown to result in remapping of brain projections.28 Three major areas are of particular interest.
1. Dendrite rebranching, which includes the formation of new dendritic spines and their participation in new associations
2. Hippocampal learning and neurogenesis, referring to the formation of neurons in the hippocampus
3. Synaptic processes, which include a large array of long-term memory-related mechanisms, including protein synthesis, cytoskeletal reorganization, activation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor,29-31 and possible epigenetic mechanisms. New multimodal memories are formed both by "new memory acquisition"32 and by a reworking of old memories at the time of "remembering," a process referred to as "reconsolidation."33
Transprocessing and Uploading of Implicit Healing Contents
In the case presented herein, activation of language, in time, led to an end of her speech abnormalities. Although the speech abnormality was highly suggestive of a neurovascular abnormality, the possibility of a minor cardiovascular anomaly, the lack of any abnormal findings on imaging, the lack of previous cardiovascular risk factors and relevant family history, and the positive history of psychological trauma strongly suggest conversion.
Because of a lack of clear neurologic pathology, conversion disorder was presumed to be the result of an underlying psychological mechanism, with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition, Text Revision) classifying it as a somatoform disorder34 and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision,35 classifying it as a dissociative disorder. Psychiatric treatment36 including psychotherapy37,38 and pharmacotherapy,39 hypnotherapy,40 and transcranial magnetic stimulation39 have all been proposed as methods of treatment for conversion disorder. Neuroanatomically, healing mechanisms involve complex changes in brain functioning. We propose the term transprocessing, a combination of two terms: transduction, meaning a reexpression and translation of a persistent functional brain activity into a new type of cellular activity (eg, transduction of stress in the function of the hypothalamopituitary axis), and processing, which is a function by which the brain makes sense of environmental inputs. The exact sequence of brain events in transprocessing during psychotherapy remains unclear at this time. However, several stages in the course of changes during long-term psychotherapy may take place: evaluation, acquisition, and contextualization.
The first stage, evaluation for new information, occurs when a patient familiarizes him/herself with the therapeutic setting and the analyst. This requires numerous adjustments and an amount of adaptational stress with its catecholamine secretion and formation of new implicit memories. In this stage, new information, perceived through the five senses, is also confronted with the primary affective states (instincts), which originate in the brain stem—seeking, play, panic, grief, fear, lust, and so on41—and with elements of implicit and explicit autobiography.
In the acquisition stage or self-reference stage, new views about oneself are being "uploaded" in the form of new narratives.1 Long-term memory and reconsolidation are necessary to be activated, as is the reference to one's older narratives. The alternation between reflection and verbal exchange during psychotherapy creates an alternation of activation of the language brain bilaterally, like a "beltway" of communication and awareness with the deactivation of the default mode of midline structures. Through repetition and alternation of activation of these, major regions (midline vs external frontal temporal occipital brain surface) may connect by new links. Repeated and alternative stimulations create new links through synaptic protein syntheses and long-term potentiation associated with learning. Some of the newly acquired information may become stored as implicit memories in a variety of subcortical areas, linked to the midline structures of the self. By doing so, an experience becomes a "first-person experience" of the self, hence self-reference processing. The uploading of a new narrative uses the same mechanisms that are at play during rearing and early nurturing. Caretakers do provide, through an interactive manner of uploading, an image of the world for the developing child.42 During development such uploading is both verbal and nonverbal. In humans, speech itself has a privileged learning curve.43 A large well of research data comes from attachment studies and rating of the coherence of a narrative. Coherent narratives in caretakers have been highly correlated with mature attachment in offspring.44 By contrast, poorly coherent narratives, as rated on the Adult Attachment Interview, was highly correlated with immature type of attachment and personality pathology in offspring.45 Hence, healing changes in psychotherapy use preformed long-practiced, developmental pathways, explaining their profound impact on personality.
A stage of contextualization and reconsolidation of one's autobiographic memory occurs through repetition and transference worked through in analysis. Reconsolidation as a memory mechanism has a particular role in reworking a person's identity. Long-term fundamental personality changes may involve epigenetics, but the relationship must be further demonstrated by future research.
Transprocessing is a proposed mechanism by which changes during psychotherapy are internalized and assimilated. The implications of such a multistage mechanism are consistent with long-term clinical experience:
1. All psychotherapies have a common denominator: the restructuring of memories of old dysfunctional patterns of response to the routine social environment.
2. To produce pervasive changes, psychotherapies must include repeated reexposure to newly formed multimodal memories, hence the need for long-term therapies.
3. The emergence of new research that validates a neural model of psychotherapy may also call for public provision to further the availability of psychotherapy as a large-scale preventive and curative intervention. This may lead to further humanization of mental health treatment and to a shift toward a more integrative treatment approach in psychiatry.
Kathleen Louden, ELS, of Louden Health Communications and
Leslie E Parker, ELS, provided editorial assistance.
1. Panksepp J, Northoff G. The trans-species core SELF: the emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks. Conscious Cogn 2009 Mar;18(1):193-215. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.002
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St. Paul police union, Melvin Carter campaign spar over guns stolen from his home
Carter's campaign called letter a "racist attack," said others should condemn it.
By Chao Xiong Star Tribune
October 24, 2017 — 10:42pm
The campaign for mayoral candidate Melvin Carter fired back at the St. Paul Police Federation on Tuesday after the police union wrote Carter raising questions about the theft of two guns from his home.
In a letter dated Tuesday, the federation made note of two recent homicides in the city and asked Carter to address several questions, including, “How did you acquire two guns and where were they purchased?”
“Investigators have still not been able to locate the missing guns or the ammunition that was taken from your residence,” said the letter. “…We realize this is a sensitive matter but believe the risk to the community from two additional guns on the streets of St. Paul at a time of increased violence and as the city gets closer to Election Day creates the need to ask for your answers.”
Carter’s campaign manager, Emily Weber, issued a statement critical of the letter, calling it a “racist attack.”
“The letter we received from the St. Paul Police Federation demonstrates the way people of color are presumed guilty by police every day in our city,” Weber said. “The idea that a victim of a crime could become the accused based solely on the color of their skin is exactly why police culture needs to change.”
Carter, who is black, has called for more police oversight as part of his campaign.
Larobin S. Scott, 24, was charged last week with one count of first-degree burglary for allegedly breaking into Carter’s home on Aurora Avenue on Aug. 15. He allegedly stole two handguns, a video game system, a duffel bag with ammunition and other items from Carter’s home.
The federation urged Carter to address why he apparently has not provided the guns’ serial numbers to investigators, why a metal box containing the guns was not secured or “affixed,” why he stored ammunition in a bag containing the box and why he apparently waited 50 minutes to call police after being notified by his neighbor that someone was in his home, among other questions. Carter returned home and pursued the suspect.
Federation President Dave Titus on Tuesday said it was “completely untrue” that the letter is racist. Serial numbers help police track guns found on the streets, he said.
“I’m concerned that an individual who does not see the significance of this wants to be our mayor,” Titus said. “If you want to call that political, go ahead.”
Weber urged mayoral candidates to condemn the letter, particularly Pat Harris, who has the federation’s backing.
“I was not aware of this letter prior to it being sent,” Harris said in an e-mail Tuesday night.
“Now that I have seen it, I regret any further pain that it may have caused Melvin and his family and as such reject the letter and its contents.”
Chao Xiong is the Hennepin County Courts reporter for the Star Tribune. He previously worked as a Ramsey County, state and Minneapolis general assignment reporter.
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Comic-Cons With Kids
If your kids love superheros or are addicted to video games, a visit to a Comic-Con is in order. These are not just for adult nerds, insists Wayne Rée. The self-professed geek has been to two San Diego Comic-Cons (SDCC or, as Wayne calls it, “the big daddy of Comic-Cons”) and is a regular every year at the Singapore Toy, Game and Comic Convention (STGCC). This year he even presented his own work at STGCC, a book of short stories called Tales From A Tiny Room. He tells suitcases&strollers why Comic-Cons make fantastic family holiday destinations for big and small kids.
Why do you enjoy going to Comic-Cons?
The biggest deal for me is meeting the people who make the comics that I love. I grew up a huge comic nerd, so being able to shake hands, thank and talk to the men and women who work on them is just the best thing ever.
Are Comic-Cons suitable for kids?
Generally, yes. If you're going to STGCC, it's comparatively small and very family friendly. The kids'll get a kick out of the cosplayers dressed up as their favourite superheroes. Heck, I'm a grown man and at this year's STGCC I went nuts over a guy dressed as Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy.
SDCC, on the other hand...well, that's a different beast altogether. It's absolutely massive and it's such an experience. It's more than just comics. Some might even argue that these days, comics are an after-thought at SDCC. It's where celebrities come to promote their latest blockbusters. It's where TV stars come to talk to fans. It's exactly what it says in their slogan: A celebration of the popular arts. Like STGCC, there are tons of cosplayers for the kids to go nuts over. There are panels for their favourite cartoons (the queue for the Adventure Time panel last year was absolutely insane). And there are toys everywhere. But it's such a crowded event. If you are bringing your kids, I'd suggest holding onto to them tight 'cause I'd imagine it'd be so easy for them to get lost.
Why parents should take their kids to Comic-Cons?
The conventions are experiences. They're crazy, they're loud, they're colourful and everyone is there to have fun. Even the grown-ups are there because they're passionate about stuff like comics or sci-fi or video games in a way that kids could easily relate to.
What kinds of attractions are at a Comic-Con?
For STGCC, you get to meet the creators behind these comics. This year, for instance, we had artists that worked on Spider-Man and Batman.
At SDCC, you have, well, everything. You get to meet comic creators, sci-fi and fantasy authors, movie stars, TV celebrities and everyone in between. There are tons of comics on sale, previews of video games, all sorts of geeky stuff to buy and heaps more.
Aside from all the stuff on the convention floor, there's peripheral events and attractions too. Last year there were giant blow-up versions of the Teen Titans, a recreation of Bilbo's house from The Hobbit and a giant recreation of the main baddie from the last Wolverine movie. And that's just the stuff located right outside the convention.
[For more travel tips on Hobbit expeirences, see the suitcases&strollers story Searching For the Hobbit in New Zealand.]
All of San Diego goes SDCC crazy during that time of year. The last two years I went, there was even a Walking Dead-theme obstacle course (where I got to dress up as a zombie and pretend to attack people).
Do the Comic-Cons welcome kids coming and talking to the authors?
Some of my favourite memories of these cons is watching the kids interact with the creators. In San Diego I saw the guys who co-created shows like Ben 10 giving out free toys to the kids that came by their booth. I saw a kid who couldn't have been more than 10 holding his own in a conversation with one of the colourists from Spider-Man. More than the die-hard adult fans, I think the kids are the ones that the creators are really looking forward to meeting. They are the future of comics, after all.
Are the cosplay costumes scary?
It varies. I've seen some pretty gruesome costumes in both San Diego and Singapore. But, generally, they're fun and colourful.
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How crowded are the Comic-Cons? Is it easy for kids to get lost?
STGCC is pretty small in comparison. It gets crowded but it's relatively easy for parents to keep track of their kids.
SDCC is pure madness. You gotta hold on tight to them there.
Is there any additional live entertainment apart from the stalls?
In STGCC, it depends on the year. Last year, there was a big Iron Man presence. This year, it was mostly stalls.
For SDCC, there's always something to catch the kids' attention. Because Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are massive presences there, you're sure to find the characters hanging around the booths. And when I say "booths" I don't mean tiny stalls. I'm talking massive structures, usually designed to evoke the feel of the shows.
Any tips for how kids can get closer to the most popular stalls?
For STGCC, it's not really a problem. Most of the time it's a queue situation and the queues aren't massive. Plus, most creators do multiple signings over the two days.
For SDCC the more popular creators or authors' signings are often ticketed events. You gotta get to the booths early and get a ticket for the signing itself. There's no hard and fast rule for SDCC signings, as far as I can tell. Just lots of rushing around and lots of luck. Keep an eye on those fringe events happening around and outside the actual convention. Those can be more intimate affairs and feature pretty big-named guests too.
Any tips for parents planning to visit Comic-Cons with kids?
Aside from keeping your kids close by at the bigger cons? Plan your day. Make sure the kids get plenty of rest because these are whole-day experiences. Cons like SDCC are so massive that you will need all four days (yes, four days) to really get as close to a full experiences as possible. You will be waking up early to get into queues for the cartoons' panels. (Don't worry about the queues though – most of the people there are other kids with their parents, so it's almost like a very nerdy play date.) Pack lots of water, bring snacks and try to pack as light as possible because you'll be on your feet a lot.
What are the top 3 most iconic Comic-Cons for kids?
SDCC because, if you're talking about iconic cons, there is none more recognised than SDCC. It even has its own documentary by the guy who did Supersize Me! It's where the cartoon channels put most of their effort and, despite being insane and loud and super crowded, it's also lots of fun.
I've heard good things about the New York Comic-Con. It's probably the next biggest con next to SDCC.
And, of course, I'd recommend STGCC, but only 'cause I think it's great that Singapore has its own Comic-Con. [For more travel tips on things to do in Singapore with kids, see the suitcases&strollers story here.]
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The family whose two children were taken by Oranga Tamariki has finally been reunited. Joris de Bres documents the family court’s ruling to return their daughter.
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The government wants public input on a set of well-being indicators it intends to incorporate into all future Budgets.
The government is developing a list of 100 environmental, social and economic indicators to measure the well-being and success of New Zealanders, alongside traditional economic indicators like GDP.
The consultation process was launched this morning by Statistics Minister and Green Party co-leader James Shaw, who said this was a long-standing central tenet of Greens' economic policy.
Te Hiku iwi-police partnership sets benchmark
A partnership between Te Hiku iwi and police has impressed the Minister of Social Development, who visited Kaitaia earlier this month.
Carmel Sepuloni visited Te Hiku Development Trust and Waitomo Papakainga Trust, to learn how initiatives from Te Hiku Social Accord were progressing. One is Whiria Te Muka, a partnership between the police and iwi designed to reduce and prevent whanau harm.
The innovative approach, launched in January, weaves a team of iwi kaimahi and police officers who work with whanau and support providers to find solutions to reduce domestic violence.
Netsafe to tackle child sexual abuse material online
Press Release: Netsafe
New Zealand online safety organisation Netsafe is voted on to the Board of global INHOPE network, as it ramps up its work to tackle child sexual abuse material online.
Netsafe’s Director of Technology and Partnerships, Sean Lyons, has been voted on to the Board of INHOPE, the umbrella organisation uniting a network of 48 hotlines tackling child sexual abuse imagery online and child sexual exploitation around the world.
New leave for domestic violence victims
New Zealand workers have to wait until 2019 for domestic violence leave, but millions of Australian workers today gained the right to up to five days of unpaid family and domestic violence a year.
From the first full pay period on or after August 1, 2018, Australian workers will be able to apply for five days of unpaid family and domestic violence leave a year.
Similar legislation was passed by the New Zealand parliament last month, giving workers up to 10 days paid leave form April next year, reports YUDU.
Teen parent a ‘survivor’
At just 19 years old, Masterton’s Mere Kawana is a mum and a domestic violence survivor.
And she doesn’t know where she would be today if it weren’t for the Wairarapa Teen Parent Unit, and the blessing of her son TJ, now two years old.
Sexual abuse prevention programme launched in schools
CAPS Hauraki Right2BSafe Project has launched a new strategy for parents and caregivers to help kids keep safer from sexual abuse.
The campaign, called All Children/Tamariki have the Right2BSafe, He Mana tō ia tamaiti, will see information packs distributed to schools within the district.
Project leader Kathy Archibald said the campaign was aimed at primary school-aged children and would later be launched at early childhood centres.
"They're just such good simple, helpful, hopeful messages around protecting children from sexual abuse," she said.
"It's about breaking the silence, and there is a lot we can do to stop the abuse from happening in the first place."
Victim left bloodied and bruised after serious domestic attack
A woman who suffered a severe beating at the hands of her partner was afraid to go to sleep out of fear she might not wake up again, a court heard.
The domestic violence victim endured being dragged by the hair, strangled into unconsciousness and belted around the head multiple times by Kelly Matiu Thompson after she told him they should break up.
Renewed calls for church to be part of Royal Commission
A paedophile priest who left a trail of victims in his wake was allowed to continue as a man of the cloth for nearly two decades after his offending was revealed to the Bishop of Dunedin.
Survivors say it shows why the Catholic Church should be part of a Royal Commission into historic abuse. Chris Morris investigates.
Public 'left in the dark' over suspected serial sex predator, rape agencies say
Sexual violence agencies say the public have been "left in the dark" following revelations about a possible serial predator, and want an explanation from police.
The groups said women had a right to information about their safety so they could make choices. Equally, if there was no danger, police should publicise that, they said.
"At the moment we're in the dark. And that's how sexual violence exists, in the dark, and public awareness helps prevent it," said national Rape Crisis spokeswoman Andrea Black.
"I think they could at least give the community a clue about what's going on."
Hostel spot gets homeless rape-accused away from river
A man facing nine charges of rape and sexual abuse is no longer living "down the river" that runs through central Blenheim.
The man, who cannot be named, told the court a few weeks ago he was living in the Taylor River Reserve, in central Blenheim, having been kicked out of his home.
Men’s counsellor on assault charges
Men’s counsellor and anti-domestic violence campaigner Winton Kere Ropiha has made a preliminary court appearance on five charges of a domestic nature, one of them assault.
Ropiha, 51, appeared in Gisborne District Court yesterday and indicated not guilty pleas would be entered to all the charges and that he would elect trial by jury.
Black Power president jailed for raping gang prospect's partner
The double life of a Taranaki gang boss jailed for raping a woman has been revealed in court.
On one hand, Dennis Craig Weston was lauded as a generous and highly regarded man who helped out his community.
But a much darker picture has emerged of a man with a sense of entitlement, who has a propensity for violence and got his sexual thrills through using force.
In June, Weston - the president of the Stratford chapter of the Black Power - was found guilty of rape and indecent assault after a jury returned unanimous verdicts following a four-day trial in the New Plymouth District Court.
Family 'heartbroken' after state care abuse victim Daryl Brougham dies
The work of a man who helped launch a Crown inquiry into historical state care abuse following his own appalling childhood won't be in vain, his heartbroken widow pledges.
Daryl Brougham, 38, died on Thursday after a two month battle with pneumonia and an unknown virus that left him on life support for four weeks.
He left behind two daughters, aged 4 and 2, with wife Emily Gao. He also had three children from a previous marriage – Felicity, Paige and Zachariah Brougham.
'Evil predator' gets open-ended jail term
The woman Luke James Henry was convicted of assaulting, kidnapping, and raping described him as "an evil predator" before a judge imposed an open-ended jail term.
His victim, who said she had now been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, told the court: "Although I am a victim, I am also a survivor."
After giving evidence at Henry's trial in May, the woman was at the Christchurch High Court today to see him handed preventive detention by Justice David Gendall. The trial was told that she had been assaulted, choked, kidnapped, and raped twice in an incident in September 2016.
Father jailed after admitting incest
An Oamaru man committed incest with his youngest daughter, who became pregnant twice within six months, a court has heard.
The victim, who was a teenager at the time, miscarried on both occasions.
Court documents revealed only one of the pregnancies could definitively be attributed to the father.
A man in his 50s - who has been married to the victim’s mother for more than 20 years - pleaded guilty to three counts of incest and was jailed for three years and four months when he appeared before the Dunedin District Court yesterday.
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Chris Perry of Swarm CIC has helped thousands of people of all ages embark on apprenticeships, but says larger firms are confused by constant changes to levy legislation, and smaller businesses do not see upskilling as a priority with Brexit on the horizon.Mr Perry was speaking following the news that the target of 3m UK apprenticeships by 2020 is now expected to be missed, according to Gerry Berragan, chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships.The announcement was followed by a City and Guilds survey revealing nine out of ten apprenticeship levy paying companies saying they would like to have greater flexibility when spending their funds.”The problem is that the apprenticeship changes came in too quickly, and no one was ready for them. The changes meant the funding couldn’t be spent on short term courses, costing in the region of 5,000,” Mr Perry explained.Students on the City College Norwich apprenticeship course in leadership and management. Picture: City College Norwich”So instead, large businesses put their managers through high level courses of around 26,000 which lasted for a year.
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Gallery Hostel Porto 38802
Free towel, Free breakfast, Free walking tours, Free Wi-Fi Welcome to the Gallery Hostel! Located in the trendiest quarter of Porto, between art district and nightlife, the eco-friendly Gallery Hostel characterizes the new concept of a luxury hostel, where best service, cleanliness and facilit»
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Welcome friends! With a capacity of 116 people in total, Tattva Design Hostel has been inspired from the Sanskrit word meaning Element, representing the five elements from which life evolves: Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Sky. Tattva Design Hostel has an unbeatable location in the 'heart of Por»
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Garden House Hostel is one of the friendliest and most welcoming hostels in Oporto. Located in the heart of the old city, in the famous Rua de Santa Catarina, a pedestrian street where you can feel the essence of Oporto, visit a wide range of restaurants, shops and cafes, such as the well-known Cafe»
Porto Youth Hostel 38980
Porto Youth Hostel accommodates 148 guests in a choice of 24 twins ensuite (2 suitable for wheelchair users), 10 twin with shared sanitary facilities, 19 four-bed dorms and 1 apartment with 4 beds and kitchenette. Since you're staying at the Oporto Youth Hostel, we will be honoured to serve you b»
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Welcome to Peste Surf Hostel in Miramar Beach, 15 kms south of Oporto and 5 minutes walk to the beach. Miramar is situated between Porto and Aveiro. In this whole area (about 60kms of beautiful beaches) you can find all kinds of waves for all types of surfers.»
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Welcome to the Wine Hostel! As the name suggests it's a beautiful thematic hostel inspired by the famous and unique Port Wine. This is the perfect place to start your discovery through Porto, to interact with people or just to relax in the very best part of the city surrounded by historic monuments,»
Hostel GaiaPorto 37276
Gaia Oporto Hostel is a friendly house, where you can spend a good time with your friends or with your girlfriend/boyfriend, or even with your husband/wife. Its in a calm area, so close to everything. Guests can use our kitchen to make themselves their meals, and our laundry to wash their own clo»
So Cool Hostel Porto 37853
Beautiful 19Th century townhouse, build with stone and wood and fully restored in 2013. We have created a cosy environment, so that our guests can feel at home. Big beautiful garden, comfortable dorms and double rooms. We believe it's the best located hostel in town. Please note: Cancel»
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Into The Blue Hostel is a house with 2 floors and lots of exterior space has 4 rooms: one private double ensuite and three other rooms working as dormitories, with 3, 4 and 5 beds. »
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Porto Lounge Hostel & Guesthouse is a completely restored and modernized building that combines the original typical architecture from the XVIII century with a very stylish and modern interior which offers a chic accommodation. Our high standards of comfort, complemented by our multilingual and…»
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We welcome all the backpackers, travellers and guests who search for the unique experience of staying at the first cinema hostel in Portugal, right in the centre of Porto. Enjoy our spacious rooms, the large and well equipped common areas and the exceptional terrace in a prize-winning cinema atmo»
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Pilot Hostel will change the way you see hostels! Modern, Super Fun, Comfortable & Perfectly well Located. Designed to be one of the top modern hostels, it is equipped with led lightening, contemporary furniture and minimal decoration. You will love our terrace with a barbecue, a fireplace an»
Porto Spot Hostel 38450
Porto Spot Hostel offers great rooms, great fun in an architectural milestone, fully refurbished for your comfort. Porto Spot Hostel is here to surprise you. Located in the city center, in a 5 min walk from the airport tube, Spot is close to all the beauties of this world heritage city: Clerigos»
Republica do Fado Oporto Hostel 35434
Meals available for groups (up from 6 people). Republica do Fado hostel is located in Cedofeita (Rua Alvares Cabral ), one of the oldest districts of Porto and less than 5 minutes walking from the metro station, which has a direct connection to the Airport and Campanha Railway station, Superm»
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Come and discover the mysteries of Porto, the hidden locations the city has to offer and the cheapest places to drink and eat all whilst staying at Andarilho hostel, the first hostel of its kind that opened in this city, situated in the city center in a totally renovated house from the nineteenth ce»
Yes! Porto Hostel 38590
Yes! Hostels give a whole new meaning to hostels, providing the best service and infrastructure in the best possible location! This hostel is our newest addition, providing our higher standard of accommodation in this beautiful city. You'll find our super-modern, fully equipped rooms perfect f»
Oporto Sky Hostel 38855
Oporto Sky Hostel, open since March 2008, is a hostel where you can find everything a backpacker needs. It is located in 'Lapa', one of the oldest quarters of Porto and less than 5 minutes walking from the metro station, which has a direct connection to the Airport and Campanha Railway station.»
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Surf & Nature: For those who look for a quiet, safe and central place. Our hostel is a true Oporto Design house full of charm, where tradition and comfort meet perfectly. We are connected with sport, here people from all over the world can enjoy the surf, become friends and exchange experience»
Alma Porto Hostel 37785
After a day of walking and sightseeing, nothing feels better than returning to the beautiful 19th century house that is Alma Porto Hostel. The building is an old jewelery factory and has been fully restored with all the modern facilities but it still keeps the classic Porto style. It has a wonder»
Oporto Invictus Hostel 38415
Oporto Invictus Hostel is located right in the centre of Oporto. Int the heart of the city's nightlife and tourist attractions, Invictus Hostel is steps away from major metro line, bus and train stations. Nuno and Filipe are two brothers who own and manage the Hostel. 'We know what we want to fin»
Porto Alive Hostel 36365
Located in Flores Street, the Hostel is in a historical building is around 100 years old. Porto Alive Hostel is considered the best located Hostel in Porto. At 1 minute from the Metro and Rail Station 'Sao Bento'. Porto Alive Hostel is in the heart of downtown, surrounded by the main square Ali»
Mimhostel 37732
Mimhostel We hope that our guests will enjoy the space and not want to leave!. The house has an unique atmosphere and we want you to add to that. It's friendly, warm and relaxed, a place to wind down and wind up! And our breakfast served between 08.30 and 10.30 am will do you for the day - we ge»
CoolHostel 37788
Located in a recently restored building from the 40’s, the CoolHostel is 100 metres from the picturesque Bolhão Market. It features a 24-hour reception and free WiFi access. Accommodation range from private to shared rooms with individual reading lights and a private locker. Each room is…»
Magnolia Porto Hostel 37736
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Welcome to Oporto Poets Privates. The romantic city of Oporto is Humankind World Heritage, the 2nd biggest city in Portugal, known for the unique Oporto Wine, the impressive sightseeings to Douro river, the typical old districts and the warm locals, always ready to help someone and make your stay»
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Visit Porto - Free Walking Tour! Feel at home with our amazing staff!! Waiting for you @ Nasoni Hostel!! Book Now!! The major architect of the Baroque period in the Porto city is our Host: Nasoni Guest Hostel, welcomes you! The building of the Hostel its a beautiful old building totally re»
Residencial Cristo Rei 37643
Conveniently located in the heart of the city, this hostel in Porto has a privileged position, just a few metres from the main shopping street Santa Catarina and the Bolhao Metro Station. The Residencial Cristo Rei has opened in 1986, and it has 30 en suite bedrooms equipped with phone, television,»
Oporto Fado Hostel 35912
Meals available for groups (up from 6 people). Oporto fado hostel is located in Cedofeita (Rua Alvares Cabral corner with Rua de Cedofeita), one of the oldest districts of Porto and less than 5 minutes walking from the metro station, which has a direct connection to the Airport and Campanha Rai»
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Porto DownTown Hostel is centrally located (Baixa / Downtown), with transport at our doorstep as bus, sightseeing, metro, taxi, train and tram, Porto is accessible and easy to explore. The nightlife of Porto is just around the corner ... So if you want to relax and have fun, this is the right place.»
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Sorry ScoMo, What Australia Needs Is Freedom FROM Religion
James Norman
Writer, editor and author
There was ScoMo just last night, his right hand likely raised heavenward, surrounded by 21,000 devotees at the Australian Hillsong annual conference, pontificating about what Australia needs now:
More prayer, more worship and more love because “that's how things are overcome”.
A noble sentiment perhaps, but reflective of modern, secular Australia? Not so much.
Referring to the government's proposed religious freedom legislation, he reportedly went on to proclaim the government would “do what we need to do" from a lawmaking perspective to protect people's religious rights, adding, “I speak about my faith… because I want everyone in this place to feel comfortable talking about faith in this country. It's not a political agenda, it's who we are.”
Morrison during an Easter Sunday service at his Horizon Church in Sydney. (Image: AAP)
But is it really, PM? It may be who the PM and Hillsong devotees are, which is all well and good, but it is not who Australia is in 2019.
In fact, Australian census figures reveal that the number of Australians who identify as having “no religion” are now the most numerous response to the question of religion -- at just over 30 percent. Those respondents eclipse people who identify as Catholics, Jews, Lutherans, Baptists or, ahem, Hillsong Church members.
So perhaps a more relevant question to be asking in 2019 is not just about freedom of religion but, for the rest of us, what about freedom FROM religion?
As British writer and ethicist AC Grayling has written about those seeking special privilege for their religious beliefs: “On the contrary: to believe something in the face of evidence and against reason -- to believe something by faith -- is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect. It is time to say so.”
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In fairness, Mr Morrison chose his words very carefully at the Hillsong conference this week. He described freedom of belief as “fundamental”, and reportedly said Christians should 'prioritise love over judgements and lectures'.
"That's what we all need. That's what our country needs. That's what our nation needs. That's what we're here to do as Christians. Not here to judge. Not here to lecture. Just here to show the amazing love of God.”
But as the Israel Folau controversy has shown, religion can and frequently has been used as a weapon to further stigmatise and persecute gays and other minority groups -- and there are fears that the PM's so-called religious freedom laws will give legal license to further discriminate.
The real-world consequences of this for the rest of us could impact everything from our rights to work, identify how we want to, or even which schools our children can gain entry to.
The fear that we have already seen playing out elsewhere is that those same people demanding the freedom of religion won't extend that kind of freedom to others.
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I wonder, for example, if Scott Morrison's call for “more love” extends to those who don't fit his hetero-normative mould -- particularly given he was one of the strongest “no” advocates preceding the same-sex marriage vote. I further question if Morrison's brand of “love” extends to transgender teens looking for support from bullying within their own schools, given the PM has consistently opposed Safe Schools programs and warned of “gender whisperers” in our midst.
Already, just early days in his term of office, Mr Morrison is showing himself to be perhaps the most open and fervently religious Prime Minister this country has ever seen. And to be clear he is certainly entitled to his own religious beliefs as we all should be. But that doesn't give him the license to claim that religion is somehow at the core of Australia's national identity in 2019 -- nor that it represents a vast majority viewpoint.
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Morrison appeals for more love and prayer in Australia at the Hillsong conference. (Image: Twitter)
Later in his speech the PM stated: "The freedom to believe is so important, that needs to be nourished and that needs to be protected. What this country needs more than that is the love of God."
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Yes, Prime Minister, no-one is trying to take away anyone's right to believe what they want. But the second point is simply his own opinion, so here is mine: if your 'love of god' gives people a license to discriminate, exclude, or further alienate already marginalised people -- then to me that is not about love, it's about religious privilege that has no place in a secular democracy like ours in 2019.
Particularly when the majority of Australians simply don't share your faith.
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The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, France
A Tale of Love and Darkness
The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell...
Country: Israel, USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, War,
Tommy's Honour
In every generation, a torch passes from father to son. And that timeless dynamic is the beating heart of Tommy's Honour - an intimate, powerfully moving tale of the real-life founders of the modern game of golf.
Interlude in Prague
The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
Country: Czech Republic, UK
Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge
Follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Godard Mon Amour
In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
Country: France, Myanmar
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance,
The Girl King
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Country: Finland, Germany, Canada, Sweden, France
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.
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Kung Fu Panda Holiday
The Winter Feast is Po’s favorite holiday. Every year he and his father hang decorations, cook together, and serve noodle soup to the villagers. But this year Shifu informs Po that as Dragon Warrior, it is his duty to host the formal Winter Feast at the Jade Palace. Po is caught between his obligations as the Dragon Warrior and his family traditions: between Shifu and Mr. Ping.
Genre : Animation, Comedy, Family, Short
Actors : Angelina Jolie, Conrad Vernon, Dan Fogler, David Cross, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Black, Jack McBrayer, Jackie Chan, James Hong, Jonathan Groff
Director : Josh LaBrot, Tim Johnson
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In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His best friends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect over his lifestyle.
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym (“Ernest”) on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities…
April Apocalypse
Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone’s favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silence. And then April moves out of the state. She’s his best friend and support since kindergarten and the love of his life. Three years later Artie finally has the courage to take to the road and go see April to tell her how he feels about her. One car-crash later Artie wakes up in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But this time he’s not going to hide. Artie’s love for April doesn’t give him wings, but does give him the courage to hack, slash, punch and kick himself a part towards the girl he loves. Time is of the essence, because that bite on his hand will make the difference between a French kiss and a bite out of April’s brains.
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Jim Gaffigan: Cinco
America’s king of clean comedy delivers wickedly funny jokes in his fifth hour-long special.
The Man with Two Brains
A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey’s past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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ISRO will Launch GSAT-31 On February 6, 40th Communication Satellite
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to launch its 40th communication satellite GSAT-31 on Wednesday from the spaceport in French Guiana.
The satellite with a mission life of 15 years will provide continuity to operational services on some of the in-orbit satellites and augment the Ku-band transponder capacity in Geostationary Orbit, the space agency said.
In a statement, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the satellite, weighing about 2,535 kg, is scheduled for launch onboard the Ariane-5 (VA247) from Kourou in French Guiana.
"The satellite GSAT-31 is configured on ISRO's enhanced I-2K Bus, utilising the maximum bus capabilities of this type. The satellite derives its heritage from ISROs earlier INSAT/GSAT satellite series. The satellite provides Indian mainland and island coverage," the agency said.
ISRO also said the GSAT-31 will be used for supporting VSAT networks, television uplinks, digital satellite news gathering, DTH television services, cellular back haul connectivity and many such applications.
The satellite will also provide wide beam coverage to facilitate communication over large oceanic region comprising large part of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean using wide band transponder, ISRO said.
The agency added that two Ku-band beacon down link signals are transmitted for ground tracking purpose.
Odisha school headmaster arrested for raping a colleague
Nitin Gadkari only BJP leader with guts, should comment on Rafale: Rahul Gandhi
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HomeLatest News & PoliticsBuhari’s corruption fight is ‘nonsense’ – Queen of England ex-representative
Buhari’s corruption fight is ‘nonsense’ – Queen of England ex-representative
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and ex-Administrative Officer representing the Queen of England, Yahaya Kwande, has described the corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘nonsense.’
The 90-year-old Northern elder told Sun that even before Buhari formed his cabinet in 2015, he (Kwande) told the world that the President cannot fight corruption.
He said that people thought Buhari would cut off his neck for speaking the truth, adding that the current method of war against graft will not work in Nigeria system.
According to him, “I said something on the fight against corruption and they kept on repeating it on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) because they thought Buhari will cut my neck.
“They interviewed me at the time he was yet to constitute his cabinet and I said he can’t even do it (fight corruption).
“They asked again, and I said Buhari cannot and I said but he will try. Now one of the policemen in Aso Rock (Presidential Villa) rang me and sent me a text again to say that they have started talking about it.
“I told them you leave here to go to Abuja and the ordinary man, poor man, 20 of them in a small bus, you are shouting that you are the leader of anti-corruption crusade in the world and in your country, the driver that is sitting driving you; for every police checkpoint he would bribe the police and somebody will take the bribe, he gives the bribe all through from Jos to Abuja; and you say you want to stop bribery in your country, every day you are lying.
“It’s nonsense, what result is it yielding if the ordinary man will not feel happy that his money is his money, and the taxi driver that manages to get some money to buy an old vehicle so that he will pick, N20, N20 on the road, only to share with somebody that is being paid and you are still shouting that you are stopping bribery and corruption because you recovered N10 billion from somebody that has kept it somewhere? Does the poor man care; does he know what is a billion?
“We heard about the billions but every day a clerk now…. I wouldn’t mention that. What bribery are you talking about that you are stopping?”
I’m tired of being governor – Wike
I’m vindicated by APC’s claim that Atiku is a Cameroonian – Nnamdi Kanu
2018 budget heavily padded, full of errors – Senate
December 20, 2017 Yomie Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending.... 0
The Nigerian Senate has observed that the 2018 budget was “heavily padded, inconsistent, full of errors and inaccuracies.” Senate President Bukola Saraki, who made this revelation at the plenary, yesterday, said, the executive arm must […]
FG hails Dangote’s stride in agric sector, set to recapitalise agric bank
September 28, 2016 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending...., Uncategorized 4
According to reports, the Federal Government has commended the chairman of the Nigeria AgricBusiness Group (NABG) Sani Dangote for his contribution towards the development of the agricultural sector in the country. Mr. Dangote is the […]
Militant tells FG to stop payment of oil derivation fund through governors
March 13, 2017 AdeLove Latest News & Politics, Today's Trending.... 6
According to reports, the Reformed Egbesu Fraternity (REF), a Niger Delta militant group, yesterday called on the federal government to immediately halt the disbursement of the 13 per cent derivation fund through governors in the […]
I wonder what impact this old man, Yayaya, had ever made on the lives of the Nigerian poor
It’s quite easy to embarlk on some frivolous theoretical analysis even when you have not made any difference in your own community
I never even heard of this Yayaya’s name
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Again, CJN Onnoghen absent as CCT begins hearing
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The rescheduled proceedings on Monday at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT for thehe non-assets declaration charge preferred against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, again came without his appearance. Commencing proceedings, the […]
Onnoghen sues FG over suspension
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Walter Onnoghen has filed a suit against the federal government over his suspension as the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). The suit was filed by Wole Olanipekun, Adegboyega Awomolo, Kanu Agabi and James Onoja — […]
A permanent discipline awaits Onnoghen if he’s found guilty – Tinubu
Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says a permanent discipline awaits Walter Onnoghen, former chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), if he is found guilty of the false declaration charges levelled […]
NJC gives Onnoghen and Tanko Mohammad 7 days to respond to petitions written against them
The emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) has ended, According to report. The council has given Walter Onnoghen, the suspended chief justice of Nigeria, seven days to respond to a petition filed against […]
No court can stop prosecution before CCT – Falana
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says no court has the right to stop a trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). He said this in reaction to the suspension of Walter Onnoghen, former chief […]
Just In: CCT adjourns Onnoghen’s trial indefinitely
The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has indefinitely adjourned the trial of Walter Onnoghen, suspended chief justice of Nigeria. At its sitting on Monday, the CCT said the trial remains adjourned pending the determination of […]
Onnoghen’s suspension has devastated PDP’s comeback plans – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the suspension of Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has devastated the plans of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to get back to power through “cash and carry” […]
Buhari may remove Ooni of Ife, Sultan, Obi of Onitsha next – Ben Bruce
Following the suspension of the Chief Justice of the Federation, CJN, Walter Onnoghen, Senator representing Bayelsa East, Ben Murray Bruce, has said President Muhammadu Buhari must be stopped. Bruce said if Buhari was not stopped, […]
Buhari scared that senate might sanction him over CJN – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that there are moves by “certain agents” to bribe senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to protect President Muhammadu Buhari from imminent parliamentary sanctions for constitutional breaches. […]
Recall CJN Onnoghen and allow him to step aside
The suspension of Walter Onnoghen as the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) by President Muhammadu Buhari has predictably generated furore within and outside the country, a situation that is less desirable a few weeks to […]
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Home Slider Controversial abortion bills to hit House health panel Wednesday
Controversial abortion bills to hit House health panel Wednesday
A batch of three Republican-sponsored proposals that would substantially restrict access to abortion for Alabama women are set to be considered in a public hearing before the House Health Policy Committee on Wednesday. Advocates and opponents will get a chance to address the bills briefly, after which lawmakers may or may not take roll call votes on the measures.
HB 405 by Rep. Terri Collins of Decatur could almost constitute a de facto ban on abortion procedures outright. The bill, dubbed by Collins the Fetal Heartbeat Act, would prohibit any Alabama doctor from performing an abortion once a heartbeat is detected, usually about six weeks after conception.
Women’s groups say a restriction on the procedures so early in the first trimester would preclude nearly all women in a crisis pregnancy situation from accessing an abortion provider in time to satisfy the requirements of such a law. For the Christian Coalition of Alabama, who is backing all three of the bills in part or in sum, that would not necessarily be a bad thing.
Montgomery Rep. Arnold Mooney has introduced HB 491 or the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act, which allows doctors who have moral or religious objections to abortion or stem cell research to refuse to participate in such research or any procedures pertaining to those subjects. Mooney’s bill also protects health care providers from criminal or civil penalties resultant from their refusal of services.
Hartselle Rep. Ed Henry is also sponsoring a pro-life proposal this Session. Specifically, his HB 527 would introduce an even more systematic threat to abortion clinics and providers by allowing Alabama Department of Public Health officials discretion as to whether or not to issue or renew licenses to facilities that offer reproductive health services that sit anywhere within 2,000 feet — nearly a mile — from a public school.
The distance is a guideline borrowed from geographical restrictions place on sex offenders.
Henry says the measure is necessary to protect the innocence of children, who might see or hear graphic material during a clash between pro-choice and pro-life protestors, a common sight near Planned Parenthood clinics and other abortion providers.
James Henderson, former head of the state Christian Coalition, said his group drafted Henry’s model legislation with an eye toward closing a clinic in Montgomery.
The bills will be heard in the Alabama House joint briefing room at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. A small number of advocates for both sides will be given a chance to address the bills in public testimony.
Depending on the tone of that testimony and the disposition of committee Chairwoman April Weaver, the panel will either hold up-or-down votes on the measures shortly after the bills are presented or hold the votes at a further meeting as soon as next week.
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Wisconsin Library Sued for Barring Creationists from Meeting Room
Christopher Pfeifer of West Allis, Wisconsin, has sued the city for violating his First- and Fourteenth-Amendment rights by denying him access to a library room where he hoped to hold a meeting on creation science and evolution. The Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based conservative religious group, represented Pfeifer in filing the lawsuit in a Milwaukee federal court June 11.
Pfeifer heads the Genesis Commission, a nonprofit group dedicated to educating the public on evolution and creation science, the Associated Press reported June 16. He maintains that West Allis denied his request because the program content might include religious discussion. Mat Staver, lead attorney for the Liberty Counsel, said, “The bedrock principle underlining the constitution is that government can not discriminate against speech, including religious or political speech, because it disagrees with the content of the message.”
Pfeifer’s group is trying to get an injunction that will allow him to hold the meeting and force the city to pay court costs. Assistant City Attorney Thomas Cullen told reporters he had no comment.
Creationist Wins Suit over Library Barring Meeting
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Apple promises fix for GarageBand failing to open after iOS 11 update
Friday, October 13, 2017, 09:55 am PT (12:55 pm ET)
Apple is working to fix a glitch preventing some people from launching GarageBand —the company's simplified music creation tool —after updating to iOS 11, according to an online support document.
"Apple is aware of the issue, and is investigating solutions," the document reads. The problem appears to be related to iCloud, since a stopgap solution involves turning off the app's iCloud support via the Settings app.
With those functions off, new songs will only be saved locally, and users won't be able to access any existing tracks saved in iCloud Drive. The latter music will still be available once iCloud is switched back on.
Apple has encountered a variety of bugs with iOS 11, such as problems with Reachability. In fact the company has already issued three separate point releases, dealing with trouble like crackling audio on the iPhone 8 and haptic feedback on the iPhone 7.
GarageBand is free for any device running iOS 10.3 or later. It was last updated in June, despite the launch of iOS 11 on Sept. 19.
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iCloud,
How to take advantage of iOS 11 privacy options for notification previews
Qualcomm seeks to halt Apple's sales & manufacturing of iPhones in China
Apple posts fifth macOS 10.14.6 developer beta ~1 hour ago
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arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1506.07085
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Title:Comparing NEO Search Telescopes
Authors:Nathan Myhrvold
(Submitted on 23 Jun 2015 (v1), last revised 1 Feb 2016 (this version, v4))
Abstract: Multiple terrestrial and space-based telescopes have been proposed for detecting and tracking near-Earth objects (NEOs). Detailed simulations of the search performance of these systems have used complex computer codes that are not widely available, which hinders accurate cross-comparison of the proposals and obscures whether they have consistent assumptions. Moreover, some proposed instruments would survey infrared (IR) bands, whereas others would operate in the visible band, and differences among asteroid thermal and visible light models used in the simulations further complicate like-to-like comparisons. I use simple physical principles to estimate basic performance metrics for the ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and three space-based instruments - Sentinel, NEOCam, and a Cubesat constellation. The performance is measured against two different NEO distributions, the Bottke et al. distribution of general NEOs, and the Veres et al. distribution of Earth impacting NEO. The results of the comparison show simplified relative performance metrics, including the expected number of NEOs visible in the search volumes and the initial detection rates expected for each system. Although these simplified comparisons do not capture all of the details, they give considerable insight into the physical factors limiting performance. Multiple asteroid thermal models are considered, including FRM, NEATM, and a new generalized form of FRM (GFRM). I describe issues with how IR albedo and emissivity have been estimated in previous studies, which may render them inaccurate. A thermal model for tumbling asteroids is also developed and suggests that tumbling asteroids may be surprisingly difficult for IR telescopes to observe.
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/128/962/045004
Cite as: arXiv:1506.07085 [astro-ph.EP]
(or arXiv:1506.07085v4 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
From: Nathan Myhrvold [view email]
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[v3] Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:17:12 UTC (3,794 KB)
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Lawyers for John Kunco: Child molestation charges no reason to jail him before retrial in rape case | TribLIVE.com
Lawyers for John Kunco: Child molestation charges no reason to jail him before retrial in rape case
Rich Cholodofsky
Fri., September 14, 2018 2:45 p.m. | Friday, September 14, 2018 2:45 p.m.
John Kunco
An Allegheny County man awaiting retrial for rape of a New Kensington woman nearly three decades ago wants to be released from jail, saying his arrest last month on allegations of child sexual assault is not sufficient to keep him behind bars.
Attorneys for John Kunco, 53, filed court documents Friday asking Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani to reinstate bail. The judge last month revoked Kunco’s $10,000 unsecured bail after he was charged in Allegheny County with sex crimes related to allegations made by a 7-year-old girl.
Lawyers with the Innocence Project of New York contend Kunco should not be held in custody without bond for the 1991 rape case.
“Absolutely none of the facts have changed regarding the illegitimacy of the conviction for which he has now demonstrated his innocence and which this court vacated based on the irrefutable evidence presented,” his lawyers wrote.
A jury convicted Kunco for raping a woman in 1990 inside her New Kensington apartment. He was sentenced to serve 45-to-90 years in prison.
In subsequent appeals, Kunco’s lawyers maintained the evidence used to convict him was insufficient, including healed bite marks on the victim’s arms that were matched to Kunco, as well as the lack of any DNA evidence to indicate he was present at the rape scene.
Feliciani in May granted Kunco a new trial, saying he didn’t believe the evidence presented at trial was enough to support the conviction.
Following his release, police in Allegheny County said Kunco molested the young girl. He was charged with aggravated indecent assault and other related crimes but released on $25,000 bail.
A day after his release, Feliciani revoked Kunco’s bond in the rape case, which Westmoreland County prosecutors say they intended to retry. No trial date has been set.
Kunco has denied the new allegations and is scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing in McKees Rocks on Sept. 28.
His lawyers said there is no evidence to support the new allegations and that since his release Kunco was hired as a maintenance worker at a Pittsburgh grocery and restaurant.
“Mr. Kunco’s behavior since his May release has been exemplary, and Mr. Kunco respectfully requests that the court look to the entirety of his record and his history before this court in conjunction with the shocking presentation of the recent allegations,” his lawyers wrote.
Rich Cholodofsky is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Rich at 724-830-6293 or [email protected]
Teen gets 5- to 10-year sentence in fatal beating at Carrick group home
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American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Provisional Definition of Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis for Clinical Trials
David T Felson1,2,
Josef S Smolen3,
George Wells4,
Bin Zhang5,
Lilian H D van Tuyl1,
Julia Funovits6,
Daniel Aletaha6,
Cornelia F Allaart7,
Joan Bathon8,*,
Stefano Bombardieri9,
Peter Brooks10,
Andrew Brown11,
Marco Matucci-Cerinic12,
Hyon Choi4,
Bernard Combe13,
Maarten de Wit14,
Maxime Dougados15,
Paul Emery16,
Daniel Furst17,
Juan Gomez-Reino18,
Gillian Hawker19,
Edward Keystone20,
Dinesh Khanna17,
John Kirwan21,
Tore K. Kvien22,
Robert Landewé23,
Joachim Listing24,
Kaleb Michaud25,
Emilio Martin-Mola26,
Pamela Montie27,
Theodore Pincus28,
Pamela Richards29,
Jeffrey N Siegel30,†,
Lee S Simon31,
Tuulikki Sokka32,
Vibeke Strand33,
Peter Tugwell3,
Alan Tyndall34,
Desirée van der Heijde7,
Suzan Verstappen35,
Barbara White36,
Frederick Wolfe37,38,
Angela Zink24,
Maarten Boers5
1Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
3Medical University of Vienna and Hietzing Hospital, Vienna, Austria
4University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
5VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
6Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
7Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
8Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
9University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
10University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
11University of York, York, UK
12University of Florence, Florence, Italy
13Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France
14Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15Paris-Descartes University, UPRES-EA, Assistance Publique Hôpi- taux de Paris, and Cochin Hospital, Paris, France
16University of Leeds and NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, UK
17David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
18Hospital Clinico Universitario and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
19Wom- en's College Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
21University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
22Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
23University Hospital Maas- tricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
24German Rheumatology Research Center, Berlin, Ger- many
25National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, Kansas and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
26Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
27Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
28New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
29Bristol, UK
30US Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC, USA
31SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
32Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland
33Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
34University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
35University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
36Medlmmune, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
37National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, Wichita, Kansas, USA
38University of Kansas, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Correspondence to Maarten Boers, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, PK 6Z 165, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; eb{at}vumc.nl
Objective Remission in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an increasingly attainable goal, but there is no widely used definition of remission that is stringent but achievable and could be applied uniformly as an outcome measure in clinical trials. This work was undertaken to develop such a definition.
Methods A committee consisting of members of the American College of Rheumatology, the European League Against Rheumatism, and the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Initiative met to guide the process and review prespecified analyses from RA clinical trials. The committee requested a stringent definition (little, if any, active disease) and decided to use core set measures including, as a minimum, joint counts and levels of an acute-phase reactant to define remission. Members were surveyed to select the level of each core set measure that would be consistent with remission. Candidate definitions of remission were tested, including those that constituted a number of individual measures of remission (Boolean approach) as well as definitions using disease activity indexes. To select a definition of remission, trial data were analysed to examine the added contribution of patient-reported outcomes and the ability of candidate measures to predict later good radiographic and functional outcomes.
Results Survey results for the definition of remission suggested indexes at published thresholds and a count of core set measures, with each measure scored as 1 or less (eg, tender and swollen joint counts, C reactive protein (CRP) level, and global assessments on a 0–10 scale). Analyses suggested the need to include a patient-reported measure. Examination of 2-year follow-up data suggested that many candidate definitions performed comparably in terms of predicting later good radiographic and functional outcomes, although 28-joint Disease Activity Score–based measures of remission did not predict good radiographic outcomes as well as the other candidate definitions did. Given these and other considerations, we propose that a patient's RA can be defined as being in remission based on one of two definitions: (1) when scores on the tender joint count, swollen joint count, CRP (in mg/dl), and patient global assessment (0–10 scale) are all ≤1, or (2) when the score on the Simplified Disease Activity Index is ≤3.3.
Conclusion We propose two new definitions of remission, both of which can be uniformly applied and widely used in RA clinical trials. The authors recommend that one of these be selected as an outcome measure in each trial and that the results on both be reported for each trial.
With the advent of new therapies and treatment strategies for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), remission has become a realistic goal1,–,3 and has recently become a secondary or even primary end point for clinical studies and trials.4,–,8 Remission is also regarded as a major therapeutic target in clinical practice9,–,12 and can be achieved in a significant proportion of patients receiving routine follow-up care.13,–,15 However, the formal definition of RA remission differs between studies.
The current American College of Rheumatology (ACR) definition of remission in RA16 was developed in 1981, prior to the introduction of the RA core set measures.17 In this classic article, Pinals et al stated: “… ‘complete remission’ implies the total absence of all articular and extra-articular inflammation and immunologic activity related to rheumatoid arthritis (RA).” Recognising that detecting such a state could entail documentation by ‘extraordinary measures,’ they settled on the concept of ‘complete clinical remission,’ aiming to achieve ‘uniformity in clinical application using generally acceptable and convenient measures.’ Even though this concept is of considerable value as a therapeutic target in trials and clinical practice, the 1981 ACR definition has not been widely used in clinical trials in RA because it contains some elements not in the core set (morning stiffness, swelling in tendon sheaths) and a time requirement. Also, this original version was so stringent that few patients met the criteria. Subsequently, many modifications of the ACR criteria were developed, usually omitting one or more of the measures as well as the time requirement.
The development of composite indices of disease activity allowed definition of cut point values representing remission,18,–,20 but their validation was often limited to comparisons with such modified ACR criteria. For instance, we now know that the widely used definition of remission based on a 28-joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28)21 of <2.618 better represents minimal disease activity than remission, since multiple joints can remain swollen or tender at that score.19 22,–,24 This is further exemplified by the fact that in many recent clinical trials the proportion of patients with an ACR70 response (ie, improvement based on the ACR preliminary definition of improvement25 but applying 70% improvement instead of 20%) is similar to, or even lower than, the proportion of patients attaining remission as assessed by the DAS28.5 26,–,28 Thus, the 1981 statement by Pinals et al16 remains relevant today: “Substantial variation appears to exist in the concept of remission within the group of participating rheumatologists.”
In the meantime, effective treatments for RA have led to more exacting criteria for improvement (eg, ACR 50%, 70%, and even 90% improvement) and have led to recently proposed definitions of minimal disease activity.29 In light of the heterogeneity of definitions of remission, the time has come for consensus on a new, uniform remission definition. Therefore, the ACR and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), together with the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Initiative (OMERACT), jointly convened a committee to redefine remission in RA. This committee subsequently published a systematic review of the prognostic validity of current remission definitions30 as well as an outline of the goals of redefining remission and the methods by which the goals would be attained.2
At noted in this already published outline of our goals,2 the committee decided by consensus to create a stringent definition for remission and agreed that any definition should include, as a minimum, tender and swollen joint counts and levels of an acute-phase reactant. Excluded were treatment, duration of remission (the committee believed this should be specified in each trial report), and measures of physical function and radiographic damage. The latter two were to be used to validate candidate remission definitions: the chosen definition should predict future good functional outcomes and absence of radiographic damage progression. Remission should also predict future remission and minimal disease activity, that is, show stability. Finally, the requirement for full or 28-joint counts had to be studied. The committee suggested that core set measures should be used to define remission and that any definition of remission in clinical trials should look toward and make possible a similar definition in clinical practice.
The selection of the optimal definition of remission was guided by the research agenda as put forth by the committee at the beginning of our deliberations. In general, the evidence-based consensus method was in accordance with similar activities previously performed by OMERACT as well as ACR and EULAR31,–,33 with the intent of deriving a definition that would pass the OMERACT filter of truth, discrimination, and feasibility.34 Herein we present the results of analyses addressing this research agenda, report on later meetings of the committee in which the results were evaluated, and present a consensus definition of remission.
General aspects
The initial committee was formed by inviting members of the ACR committee that had previously formulated the new ACR response criteria,35 principal investigators of recent clinical trials, methodologists and patient experts from the OMERACT community, and ACR, EULAR, and OMERACT leaders, with a view to being inclusive and geographically representative. All members present at one of the committee meetings were asked to consider becoming authors of the present report. A patient expert (or research partner) can be described as a patient involved in research based on personal experience of disease that is not available to most researchers, but that complements researchers' analytical skills and scientific perspective.36 During the development of the remission definition, six patient experts were involved, three of whom (MdW, PM, PR) are authors. Using the specifications provided by the committee, a steering group (DTF, JSS, GW, BZ, LHDvT, JF, MB) designed and performed the necessary investigations; this included a survey as well as analyses of clinical trial data. Clinical trial data banks with slightly different total patient numbers and data composition were created at different centers. Because industry-funded clinical trials have been the largest RA trials carried out and data collected in these trials would be useful for testing hypothesised remission definitions, we solicited industry-funded RA clinical trials data, with the companies' approval. Industry had no role in data analysis, criteria development, testing or evaluating the process, or final choices made by the committee, nor were they consulted or involved in manuscript development. These data were analysed by the steering group according to the committee's specifications and methodologic discussions in the steering group.
Our first goal in selecting candidate criteria for remission was to define what cut points in each of the core set measures might constitute remission. In a survey we asked committee members (experienced RA clinical researchers and patient experts) what level of residual activity in individual core set measures would constitute remission. For all measures except joint counts, we used a 0–10 scale. For C reactive protein (CRP), we used a scale in milligrams per deciliter. For initial analyses of joint counts, we used a 28-joint count and then examined its validity for remission (see below). We asked committee members to state the highest level of each core set measure that would be compatible with remission if it were the only measure assessed, and also asked for the highest level of a particular core set measure that would be compatible with remission if all other measures suggested remission.
Value of patient-reported outcomes
The committee raised the question as to whether patient-reported outcomes should be included in the definition of remission. We addressed this issue by asking whether patient-reported outcomes at the level of remission discriminated between active versus control treatment in trials. In a subset of our data bank, which comprised core set data from four clinical trials,37,–,40 we performed two sets of analyses in each trial. In both analyses the dependent variable was treatment assignment. First, we carried out a logistic regression with each of the core set measures as predictors (recoded as remission level, eg, swollen joint count ≤1: yes or no). Second, we performed recursive partitioning by classification and regression tree (CART) analysis on data from the four clinical trials, in which we ranked core set measures at remission level based on the tree created from a series of binary splits. Recursive partitioning is a statistical method for multivariable analysis, creating a tree with branches that strives to correctly classify members of the population based on a dichotomous dependent variable. If the patient-reported outcomes helped differentiate active treatment from control (either by being a significant predictor in the regression analysis or by having a high rank in the classification tree), then these outcomes would be said to contribute importantly to defining remission. Patient-reported outcomes tested in this analysis were patient global assessment and patient pain. Functional status measurement was not included, for reasons outlined above.
Assessment of predictive validity
Once we had decided that patient-reported outcomes were to be included and had determined the cut points to be used to define remission, we undertook the analysis of predictive validity. To this end we evaluated various 2-year data sets from randomised clinical trials (patient-level data on 80–90% of patients selected randomly) kindly provided by the sponsors of these studies35 37 40,–,43 and obtained permission to use these data for the present analysis. The data are described in more detail in the original publications. For the present analyses, we evaluated only patients for whom all pertinent data over a 2-year period were available.
We initially defined good outcome for radiographic damage and physical function separately. For radiographic damage, the definition comprised stable radiography scores over 1 year (defined as change of ≤0 in Sharp scores44 or modified Sharp/van der Heijde scores45 during the second year of the trial). For physical function, it comprised stable and low scores on the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ)46 (change of ≤0 and HAQ score consistently ≤0.5 during the second year of the trial). We then tested whether patients who met a particular definition of remission at 6 months or 12 months were more likely to have a good outcome in the subsequent period, that is, between 1 and 2 years after trial initiation. Likelihood ratios were used to compare the proportion of patients having the good outcome whose RA was in remission to the proportion of patients having the good outcome whose RA was not in remission. To rank candidate definitions of remission, we used the P value from the logistic regression χ2 test. As has been reported,47 most patients in trials who are followed up long term do not show radiographic progression. This limited our capacity to discriminate between candidate definitions of remission. Moreover, intensive therapy with tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors plus methotrexate (MTX) dissociates clinical disease activity from progression of joint damage, since–unlike patients treated with MTX alone–those receiving aggressive treatments have no or minimal radiographic progression irrespective of their disease activity.48,–,50 Therefore, we primarily performed the analyses on patients treated with MTX monotherapy; however, we also evaluated TNF inhibitor monotherapy and combination therapy in sensitivity analyses. To assess the robustness of the results, we also performed the analyses on a subset of trial patients with an especially poor prognosis in terms of radiographic disease–that is, presence of rheumatoid factor and presence of radiographic damage at baseline. Finally, we tested an additional definition of a good outcome, that is, stability of both radiographic damage and HAQ score.
Selection of candidate definitions
Candidate definitions of remission were selected from two general categories: first, indices that have been widely used, including the DAS28, the Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI), and the Clinical Disease Activity index (CDAI),18 19 21 32 33 51 52 and second, definitions including one or more core set measures at cut points previously defined by the survey, but requiring all included measures to be at or below that cut point. For example, to meet remission defined as low scores on tender and swollen joint counts and physician and patient global assessments, the patient must have had low scores on all 4 measures. These measures are referred to below as the Boolean measures based on their approach, which is to define each core set measure as in remission or not (values of 0 and 1) and use possible combinations of the patient's core set measure remission status to determine the patient's overall remission status (also 0 or 1).*
Further evaluations of candidate definitions including assessment of face validity
After completing the analysis of predictive validity, we tested our candidate definitions for face validity. Since we had decided that any definition of remission must be stringent with respect to not allowing much disease activity, we studied whether patients could meet a definition of remission yet still have moderate to high levels of disease activity in any core set measure. To do this, in the group of patients meeting a certain definition of remission, we studied the 90th percentile and maximum level of disease activity observed in each core set measure. Last, we looked at recent trial data to determine what proportion of patients met each remission definition. It was our goal not to have an undetectably low percentage of patients meeting the definition of remission, or one so high as to be unreasonable given clinical experience with these treatments.
We also examined two related issues for our candidate definitions. First, we wished to select a definition(s) that was reliable, and we determined this by analysing, in one trial with monthly visits, whether a patient whose RA was defined as being in remission at one visit attained the same status at adjacent visits ≤1 month from the first; if the disease was not in remission at the adjacent visit, we assessed whether disease activity remained at minimal levels.29 Second, we were concerned that a 28-joint count might not capture actively involved joints outside these 28; to address this, we reviewed literature and analysed trial data to determine whether we should define remission differently when using 28 versus, for example, 66 joints. For the latter, we evaluated data from a set of trials that included tenderness and swelling counts of individual joints. In these we assessed residual disease activity in ankles and feet in patients with 28-joint counts of ≤1 and determined what proportion of such patients would satisfy the other requirements of our candidate definitions. These patients would represent real misclassification (‘false-positive’ remissions). In the same data set we subsequently investigated whether such misclassification could materially affect the predictive validity of the remission definitions. For this purpose we compared the prevalence of good outcome (damage or function) in patients with ‘true remission’ (ie, based on full joint counts at ≤1) with that in all patients with remission based on 28-joint counts (ie, ‘true’ plus ‘false-positive’ remissions).
Twenty-seven committee members, including two patients, completed the survey on threshold levels for remission (table 1). In the scenario in which only one variable was available, the responses clustered around core set disease activity levels of 1, such that, for example, the swollen or tender joint count should be 1 or less, the CRP level should be 1 mg/dl or less, and patient and physician global assessments as well as patient pain assessment should be 1 or less on a 10-point scale. The question on which was the highest level of a particular core set measure compatible with remission if all other measures suggested remission yielded more varied answers, with thresholds ranging from 2 for swollen joint count (SJC) and CRP level to 4 for tender joint count (TJC). Since this did not provide us with a single threshold value that was uniform across core set measures, we focused on the more stringent cut points.
Threshold levels for remission in the RA core set measures according to the survey of committee members*
Patient-reported outcomes. We then proceeded with an analysis of clinical trial data on active treatment versus control to help determine whether patient-reported outcomes, namely patient global assessment or patient-reported pain, should be incorporated into our definition of remission. In an analysis of 4 clinical trials, both logistic regression and CART analysis demonstrated that these measures added important information to physician-linked measures. In other words, in these trials, patient global assessment and patient-reported pain were statistically significant predictors that discriminated between treatments after controlling for physician-reported measures (TJC and SJC) and a laboratory measure (CRP). For example, in the CART analysis, among the four trials, patient global assessment was the best predictor of treatment assignment among all outcomes in one trial and the fourth best of core set measures in another. Patient-reported pain was the second best predictor (SJC was the best) in a third trial.
Based on these preliminary analyses, we developed a list of candidate remission definitions to test for predictive validity. When presented with the more stringent definitions versus the more relaxed definitions, our committee selected those in the more stringent category and as a consequence, we present results only for these. In accordance with the committee's charge and the assessment of the contribution of patient-reported outcomes, we mainly focused on measures that comprised TJC, SJC, CRP level, and patient global assessment. We tested combinations of these and other core set measures to determine if any group of measures would have important advantages.
We then tested whether patients whose RA was in remission according to one of these definitions had a higher likelihood of a good outcome. We focused on patients receiving MTX monotherapy, although we obtained similar results (not shown) when we analysed data from all patients. We found that patients whose RA was in remission by several of the Boolean candidate definitions, as well as by the traditional SDAI definition (≤3.3) and CDAI definition (≤2.8), had an increased likelihood of radiographic stability during the subsequent year (table 2). However, this was not the case for the DAS28 definition, either at the traditional cut point (<2.6) or at a more stringent cut point (<2.0). In contrast, being in remission by any of the definitions increased the likelihood of stability on HAQ scores, without important differences between definitions (data not shown). When we defined good outcome as the combination of radio graphic and HAQ stability, we again found that being in remission by any of the candidate definitions increased the likelihood of a good outcome (table 3). As expected, the performance of the DAS28 at either cutoff was not as good as that of the other definitions. Similar data were also obtained in an additional data set from the COBRA (Combinatietherapie Bij Reumatoïde Artritis) study42 (data not shown). However, reaching remission according to the DAS28, both at the traditional cut point (<2.6) and at a more stringent cut point (<2.0), was associated only with the likelihood of HAQ stability, and not radiographic stability. Candidate definitions of remission did not differ in their prediction of HAQ stability (data not shown). Additional definitions were tested, including incorporating either remission level pain or patient global assessment and other variations, and results were similar. Apart from the DAS28 result, the analyses did not help to distinguish between definitions. This was also the case in the analysis using a more strict definition of good outcome, and when we studied only patients with a poor prognosis (data not shown).
Predictive validity of candidate remission definitions for good outcome in adiographic damage*
Predictive validity of candidate remission definitions for good outcome in both radiographic damage and HAQ*
Face validity of the different candidate definitions, expressed as residual disease activity in the presence of remission, is shown in table 4. For the Boolean definitions, the high values, as expected, tended to be for core set measures that were not prespecified by the rule. For example, if we used the definition of TJC, SJC, CRP, and pain all ≤1, we found that 10% of patients (90th percentile) had physician and patient global assessment scores compatible with active disease. If we used TJC, SJC, and CRP all ≤1, then the patient-reported outcomes often suggested high levels of symptoms. For the traditional DAS28 definition (<2.6), we found that many of the core set measures remained at levels that would be incompatible with remission. This was even the case for DAS28 <2.0, which was a threshold few patients reached. It was not the case for other index measures that defined remission, such as the SDAI or CDAI, where results were closely aligned with the Boolean definitions and the results of our survey.
Face validity expressed as residual disease activity in the presence of remission*
When we examined the proportion of patients in trials who met candidate definitions of remission (table 5), we felt that the high prevalence of remission according to the current DAS28 definition lacked face validity. Otherwise, 18–26% of patients receiving combination therapy with TNF inhibitors and MTX met most of these definitions, compared to only 5–10% of those receiving either monotherapy. We believe these percentages reflect face validity.
Face validity expressed as the prevalence of remission (%) in recent trials of patients with rheumatoid arthritis*
Consensus activity
The committee met prior to the ACR Annual Scientific Meeting in October 2009 to discuss the analyses described above. As noted, the committee did not select, in any case, a more relaxed definition of remission, consistent with its earlier directive. During the committee meeting two subgroups were formed to discuss the tabular results presented, especially including results regarding predictive validity. Both groups voted that there should be both a Boolean approach and an index-based definition. One group voted among individual definitions of remission, and in doing so, the highest vote was received for the Boolean definition that included TJC, SJC, CRP, and patient global assessment, all at levels ≤1. The index definition with the highest vote count was SDAI ≤3.3. In the other subgroup, after a discussion involving all study group members, the same conclusion was reached without a formal vote.
Members of this subgroup noted that in the clinical setting an acute-phase response measure is often not available at every visit and the subgroup suggested that a definition of remission be developed for clinic-based practice that would not require an acute-phase reactant, as long as it would capture remission as stringently as the measure used for clinical trials. Indeed, a Boolean measure comprising TJC, SJC, and patient global assessment provided statistical results similar to those obtained with the same measures encompassing CRP and those obtained with the CDAI, which does not include CRP (table 2). Thus, these definitions of remission may be used in clinical practice until better measures for that purpose become available.
In a trial with monthly visits we found that our selected definitions of remission showed good reliability. Specifically, among patients whose RA was in remission at one time point, the disease remained in remission 1 month later in 66%, and all the rest met criteria for minimal disease activity.29
Joint counts
We consulted published literature and our own data analysis to determine if remission thresholds for 28-joint counts should be the same as thresholds for counts with more joints assessed (such as 66 or 68 joints). One study53 examined whether adding ankles and metatarsophalangeal joints to the 28-joint count affected remission and showed that <10% of patients with no tender or swollen joints in a 28-joint count had tender or swollen ankles or metatarsophalangeal joints and that the average patient global assessment score in these latter patients was significantly higher, suggesting that they would not meet proposed definitions of remission. Landewé and colleagues24 also noted that defining a patient's disease as being in remission using a 28-joint count often concealed active joints elsewhere, especially in the feet and ankles. However, they also reported that global assessments for patients who had 28 joints in remission but actively involved joints elsewhere resembled those for patients whose disease was not in remission based on a 28-joint count, suggesting that requiring a low patient global assessment score will, to some extent, mitigate the limitation of using a 28-joint count.
In the two trials in our data set that included counts of individual joints with tenderness and swelling, remission prevalence using 66 and 68 joints was 4% and 9%, respectively. As in the studies cited above, we found that patients with 28-joint counts ≤1 often had residual tenderness or swelling in the ankles or feet. However, most of these patients did not satisfy the other requirements of our candidate definitions of remission. Nevertheless, the estimates of remission prevalence increased to 6% and 14%, respectively, of the total population when 28-joint counts were used. In another data set from two trials with 2-year follow-up data, we compared patients whose RA was in remission according to full (66/68) joint counts versus those whose RA was in remission according to only 28-joint counts (ie, with residual disease activity in joints not assessed). Among the patients with ‘full joint count remission,’ 80% had good outcomes in terms of radiographic damage (no change in Sharp score); this number decreased by 1% among patients with only ‘28-joint count remission.’ Likewise, among the patients with ‘full joint count remission,’ 90% had good HAQ outcomes; this number decreased by 1% and 4%, respectively, in the 2 trials, among patients with only ‘28-joint count remission.’ Based on these analyses we concluded that the overall impact of (misclassification) due to reduced joint counts is small.
The final recommended definitions of remission are presented in table 6. Specific suggestions on how to measure components of the definitions are also provided.
American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism definitions of remission in rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials*
Based on considerations of face and predictive validity, the need for stringency, and the need to include patient-reported outcomes, the ACR/EULAR committee charged with defining remission in RA has produced two definitions for evaluating remission in clinical trials. One is a Boolean-based definition, more categorical in structure than the traditional definition from Pinals et al,16 and the other is based on a composite index of RA activity, the SDAI.19 51
Ideally, we would have liked to select a candidate definition that clearly differentiated patients whose long-term course was without disease progression versus those whose disease continued to progress. Our analysis of long-term data confirmed the findings of our systematic review30 that most definitions of remission did well–that is, that patients whose RA was in remission at any point during a clinical trial, based on any of the definitions we used, were likely to have long-term courses that were better than those of patients who did not meet the definition of remission. One exception was the DAS28, which has been shown previously to allow for significant residual disease activity.19 22 23 54 55 Thus, except for DAS28-based definitions, differences in predictive validity between candidate definitions were small (see tables 2 and 3), and it was difficult to differentiate the course of patients meeting any of these definitions of remission. Among the many definitions tested, none importantly exceeded the ability of the ultimately selected criteria to predict favorable long-term effects on radiographic progression and physical function. Although we can confirm the predictive validity of remission, the goal of the work was to define remission, not to develop a predictive marker.
In our data sets we assessed definitions of remission by 28-joint counts. When we examined more comprehensive counts among patients with disease remission in the 28 joints, we found that residual disease activity was frequently present in ankles and feet. However, most of these patients failed to meet other criteria in the remission definition (eg, their patient global assessments were often high). In other words, even when joints other than the 28 joints counted were swollen or tender, other measures of disease activity often prevented misclassification of these patients as having disease in remission. In addition, the impact of misclassification on long-term outcome proved to be small. We should also bear in mind that the assessment of ankles and forefeet is particularly limited and poorly reproducible.56 In line with this, the discordance between tenderness and swelling has proved to be greater in the joints of the feet than in other joints.57 Therefore, we do not require inclusion of ankles and forefeet in the assessment of remission but recommend that these joints are also included in the examination. Investigators should always report which joints were examined.
In 2008, EULAR and the ACR recommended that in each RA trial, the percentage of patients achieving a low disease activity state and remission should be reported.32 33 On the basis of the present analyses and consensus, we suggest that remission based on one of the definitions recommended here be reported as a preselected outcome measure in trials, and that results for both be included in trial reports. Of the approaches to defining low disease activity, the OMERACT definitions of ‘minimal disease activity,’ designed to reflect the ‘next best’ option apart from remission, have been the best vetted and were consensually developed.29
There are a few limitations to our approach, and possibly to the definitions produced as a consequence. First, we used a HAQ score of ≤0.5 as evidence for stability of the remission criteria; while this is a disability score that is essentially above values obtained in the general population,58 many of the studies evaluated were of patients with longstanding disease who are known to accumulate significant irreversible disability.59 However, we accounted for this potential contrast to the normal situation by also requiring that HAQ scores did not deteriorate at all over a full 1-year period (HAQ change ≤0 during the second year of observation).
Second, we have not yet validated the recommended definitions of remission in observational data sets. This is the next step in our work. In developing definitions, we anticipated clinic-based evaluations, trying to choose definitions of remission that would be easy to apply in an observational context and take advantage of variables that are probably already being measured. In clinical practice, data on acute-phase reactants are frequently not immediately available, and therefore, an additional set of a Boolean definition and an index-based definition not requiring acute-phase reactants is provided for that setting. Nevertheless, our preliminary suggestions for defining remission in clinical practice are still incomplete, as we did not test them in a clinic-based setting. While the remission definitions not requiring an acute-phase reactant performed comparably with those that do require this parameter, the committee believes that including an acute-phase reactant for reporting remission in clinical trials is preferable because acute-phase reactants are important predictors of later radiographic damage.60,–,62
Another limitation of the proposed definition is that the patient experience of remission may not have been adequately captured with only one element, the patient's global assessment of his or her disease activity. Indeed, an index based on patient measures alone may clinically discriminate between active and control treatment as well as do some of the indexes tested in this effort.63 64 However, the committee had stipulated that joint counts should be part of the remission criteria; moreover, joints are the ‘organ’ involved in RA, and in the context of assessing remission it was deemed advisable to assess that organ.
Further, fatigue was not evaluated.65 However, fatigue was not assessed in most trials published over the last decade, including those used here for the derivation of the remission criteria. We were also unable to procure data sets that contained information on other non-core set measures. As these data sets are likely to become available only over the course of several years, we decided not to postpone the development of the new remission definition. Indeed, we believe it was important to spend more time developing the concept of patient-assessed ‘absence of disease.’ This will require qualitative research involving focus groups, as well as quantitative research, for example, collection of patient-related outcome data in clinical trials, a task that will be taken forward within the OMERACT framework. Once a working definition of this concept is available, it can be compared with the proposed definition of remission.
Yet another theoretical limitation is that imaging results are not included in our definition of remission. Our goal was to use clinical parameters that are widely used and convenient to assess, but we recognise that residual synovitis may exist in many patients whose disease appears inactive based on conventional clinical evaluation.55 66 67 Importantly, however, our definitions of remission were associated with a retardation of radiographic progression, suggesting that the clinical definition has biologic meaning. Moreover, findings of a recent sonographic analysis of RA patients whose disease was in remission as defined by different means55 were in accordance with the present results. Thus, while our definitions permit a tender or swollen joint to be present, we require multiple pieces of evidence of inactive disease (1 or no tender or swollen joint, low acute-phase reactant level, and assessment by the patient that the disease is inactive) before a patient meets remission criteria. Since inactive disease may be accompanied by 1 residual swollen or tender joint and since the reliability of the examination diminishes with the number of joints with active disease, this procedure enhances the sensitivity of our definition of remission.
We should note that the trial data sets we tested included CRP more frequently than erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), explaining why our definitions present thresholds for CRP. A similar ESR threshold for inactive disease might be <20 mm/h for men and <30 mm/h for women, or even lower, but this may require further testing.68 Our preference for CRP is in part because it can be standardised across centers, making it the preferred acute-phase reactant measure in multicenter trials. Also, while CRP levels may have different upper limits of normal in different laboratories, the test is widely standardised today, and a value of 1 mg/dl covers all of these upper limits; at 1 mg/dl or less the progression of joint damage is minimised.60 61 Given these findings, the practicality of using the same value, that is, 1, for all measures was deemed more important than searching for potential minimal differences between cut points of 1 mg/dl or slightly less.
A ‘treat to target’ approach may yield better outcomes than a conventional approach to therapy for RA, and remission can serve as that target for some patients. However, remission according to the stringent definition presented here may not yet be a realistic goal for most patients.10
In conclusion, we present new definitions of remission for use as outcome measures in RA clinical trials: either the compilation of 4 individual measures or an index-based alternative. We hope that these new definitions will be adopted widely and can provide a uniform approach to assessing this increasingly important outcome.
The authors are grateful to several colleagues who participated in the committee discussions but declined to be named as coauthors on this report, and to Abbott, Amgen, and Wyeth for sharing clinical trial data.
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↵* Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
↵† Genentech, South San Francisco, California
DTF and JSS contributed equally to this work.
This criteria set has been approved by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Board of Directors and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Executive Committee as provisional period. This signifies that the criteria set has been quantitatively validated using patient data, but it has not undergone validation based on an external data set. All ACR/EULAR-approved criteria sets are expected to undergo intermittent updates.
The American College of Rheumatology is an independent, professional, medical and scientific society which does not guarantee, warrant, or endorse any commercial product or service.
This article is published simultaneously in the March 2011 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.
The views presented in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Food and Drug Administration.
↵* Boolean measure is the logic that computers use to determine if a statement is true or false. There are 4 main Boolean operators: AND, NOT, OR, and XOR (exclusive OR). Below is an example, from defining remission, of how one operator works:
Assume that x and y are both core set variables for RA whose values are in the range of remission, x AND y returns True if both x and y are true; otherwise the expression returns False. False means that patient's RA is NOT in remission.
Funding The American College of Rheumatology, the European League Against Rheumatism, and the NIH (grant AR-47785). Dr. Smolen has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Amgen, Abbott, Centocor, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche, UCB, and AstaZeneca (less than $10 000 each); he has received grants from Schering-Plough, Roche, UCB, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott. Dr. Aletaha has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Abbott, Roche, UCB, Bristol- Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, and Wyeth (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Allaart has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Schering-Plough, Centocor, and UCB (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Bathon has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Crescendo Biosciences and Roche (less than $10 000 each); she has received research contracts from Biogen Idec. Dr. Brown has received speaking fees and/or honoraria from Schering-Plough, Abbott, and Pfizer (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Matucci-Cerinic has provided paid consul- tation to Pfizer, Actelion, and Schering (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Choi has received honoraria for serving on advisory boards for TAP Pharma- ceuticals and Savient (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Furst has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Abbott, Actelion, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Biogen Idec, Centocor, Genentech, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Nitec, Novartis, UCB, Wyeth, and Xoma (less than $10 000 each); he has received research funding from Abbott, Actelion, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Nitec, Novartis, Roche, UCB, Wyeth, and Xoma. Dr. Gomez-Reino has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or hono- raria from Schering-Plough, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth, Roche, and UCB (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Khanna has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Abbott and UCB (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Landewé has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Abbott, Centocor, Schering-Plough, Wyeth, Pfizer, UCB, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Amgen (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Martin-Mola has received consulting fees from Merck, Sharp, and Dohme, Pfizer, and Roche (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Pincus has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Amgen, Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor, UCB, Wyeth, and Genentech (less than $10 000 each) and research grants from Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, UCB, and Centocor. Dr. Simon has received consulting fees from Affinergy, AstraZeneca, Abraxis, Alpha Rx, Nuvo/Dimethaid Research, Roche, Pfizer, Novartis, PLx Pharma, Hisamitsu, Dr Reddys, Avanir, Cerimon, Alimera, Paraexel, Nitec, Bayer, Rigel, Chelsea, Regeneron, Cypress Biosciences, Nicox, Biocryst, Extera, Wyeth, Solace, Puretech- ventures, White Mountain Pharma, Abbott, Omeros, Jazz, Takeda, Teva, Zydus, Proprius, Alder, Cephalon, Seprecor, Purdue, EMD Merck Se- rono, Altea, Talagen, TiGenix, Antigenics, Forest, Genzyme, CaloSyn, King, Pozen, IL Pharma, Analgesic Solutions, and US WorldMeds (less than $10 000 each) and from Savient and Horizon (more than $10 000 each); owns stock or stock options in Savient; and has provided paid consultation to Leerink Swann, Luxor, Nomura, and Fidelity, investment analysis firms. Dr. Sokka has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Abbott, Pfizer, and UCB (less than $10 000 each). Dr. Tugwell has received consulting fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chelsea, and UCB (more than $10 000 each); he has received research grants from Aventis (HMR), Biomatrix, Cigna, Genzyme, Merck, Novar- tis, Parke Davis, Pfizer, Rhone-Poulenc, Sandoz, and SmithKline Beecham. Dr. Zink has received speaking fees from Abbott, Bristol- Myers Squibb, Roche, Wyeth, and UCB (less than $10,000 each).
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The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
February 18, 2018 February 15, 2018 ~ Alicia @ A Kernel of Nonsense
Title: The Beautiful Ones
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Release Date: October 24th 2017
“In a world of etiquette and polite masks, no one is who they seem to be.
Antonina Beaulieu is in the glittering city of Loisail for her first Grand Season, where she will attend balls and mingle among high society. Under the tutelage of the beautiful but cold Valérie Beaulieu, she hopes to find a suitable husband. However, the haphazard manifestations of Nina’s telekinetic powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.
Yet dazzling telekinetic performer and outsider Hector Auvray sees Nina’s powers as a gift, and he teaches her how to hone and control them. As they spend more and more time together, Nina falls in love and believes she’s found the great romance that she’s always dreamed of, but Hector’s courtship of Nina is deceptive.
The Beautiful Ones is a sweeping fantasy of manners set in a world inspired by the Belle Époque.“
“Hector raised his hands, the candle flames rising with them, and with one movement of his arms they merged into a prodigious ball of fire that he then snuffed out with a clap of his hands, causing several spectators shriek because, for a moment, it seemed like he was about to scorch himself.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Beautiful Ones is a character-driven novel that combines fantasy and romance in a eloquent story rapt with emotion. Antonina “Nina” Beaulieu has been invited to stay with her cousin in Loisail for her first Grand Season. The city is a far cry from Nina’s home in the country, but she can’t help but see its appeal when she meets the mysterious Hector Auvray. A gifted telekinetic, Hector has risen to prominence performing for audiences across the globe. When Hector begins courting Nina, she’s convinced that they are meant to be. Hector, however, has a ulterior motive, one that will bring Nina’s world crashing down.
Moreno-Garcia juggles three perspectives and does a masterful job of fleshing out each character, making them feel real to the reader and allowing each to have their strengths as well as their faults. Nina is more comfortable trying to catch beetles and butterflies than a potential husband. Not the kind of young woman that suitors line up for in a city like Loisail, Nina finds rules regarding etiquette to be stifling. It doesn’t help that her telekinetic ability often manifests at inopportune times. While those in Loisail can appreciate such a talent as a means of entertainment, it is not something suitable for ladies to display. Nina is markedly younger than the other two characters and it very much shows. Hopelessly romantic and naive about the world, Nina is easily taken in. She believes the very best about people because she has never been exposed to those who would use others for their own gain. Her inexperience opens her up to plenty of heartache. Though her openness was one of the first things I admired about her, her growth as a character made me appreciate her even more. I loved that Moreno-Garcia took the most humble of the three characters and allowed her to develop and show strength unparalleled.
Hector is not a character that you immediately fall in love with. Yes, in some ways, he can be seen as simply a tragic figure. Coming from nothing, Hector has managed to accumulate the kind of wealth that people in Loisail are either born with or marry into. While trying to recognize this dream, he ended up losing his first love in the process. His choice to court Nina only as a means to get close to another instinctively made me bristle. That being said, his is a really rewarding character arc as he is forced to confront his own naivety. Even as a grown man, he still has a lot to learn. Hector learns to see the past and present how they are and now how he wishes them to be.
At times I wanted to dislike Valérie wholeheartedly, but Moreno-Garcia has created such a complicated character that it’s difficult not to admire her in some way. Valérie was pressured into marrying Nina’s cousin Gaeten in order to save her family from financial ruin. But lest you think she is some tragic figure, Valérie is also vain, resentful, and prone to jealousy. She often regards Nina with disdain because, unlike her, Nina has more freedom to choose who she marries. Nina also has the love of her cousin, something Valérie doesn’t necessarily want, but which her proud personality demands. She’s an incredibly manipulative person who is much more comfortable being cruel than sentimental. For her, loving someone means they have power over her and she refuses to be under another’s thumb. There’s no way to justify Valérie’s every decision, but because she is such a well-developed character, I understood why she did the things she did and this ultimately made her an exceptional antagonist.
The Beautiful Ones showcases just how versatile and gifted a writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia is. The world she builds is very easy to fall in love with and my only criticism is that I wanted to see more of the telekinetic aspect. Still, there are few books that leave me feeling completely satisfied and The Beautiful Ones is one of them.
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17 thoughts on “The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia”
I love complicated characters and this book sounds wonderful. Great review!
This book is amazing. I loved reading about all the characters. Thank you!
Kelly G says:
I’ve had my eye on this book for ages now! It sounds like such a treat…I loved Certain Dark Things oh so much so I’m glad to see that her talent really shines through in this book, as well. Fantastic review!
You must pick this one up! I enjoyed it even more than Certain Dark Things. I’m so in love with it. Thank you!
You’ve sold me. Great review!
I’m so glad, Lauren! Thank you 🙂
Sam Frost says:
I had not heard of this at all but I’m so glad to read your review! It’s definitely, definitely going on my TBR. Thanks for getting it on my radar!
Yes, please add t to your TBR. It was an amazing read.
Would you recommend this book or Certain Dark Things for a book club? We’re meeting Sunday, and I think this author could be a good suggestion. Are they YA? We’re reading a YA novel in March and try to shake things up.
Neither of them are YA. Certain Dark Things is urban fantasy and I’d label The Beautiful Ones is historical romance even though it has a dash of fantasy. I’d love to hear what your book club ends up picking up!
Thank you! I’m leaning toward Certain Dark Things.
Ruzaika @ The Regal Critiques says:
Complex characters are always welcome, imo, and everyone here sounds brilliantly layered! I’m glad this worked out for you as much as it did- the writing sounds exceptional! Great review, Alicia!
Ruzaika @ The Regal Critiques
There were so many complex and enjoyable (and not so enjoyable, but compelling nonetheless) characters in this one. Thanks!
This sounds awesome! I’m usually not a fan of multiple perspectives/storylines, but it sounds like this one was done really well!
Technically it is third person limited, so I found it pretty easy to switch between perspectives.
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The Dead Hand of Islam (Pakistan)
The seed of destruction of Islam is latent in Islam itself.
Mijanur Rahaman
Who is responsible for the ghastly blast in a Mosque in Jumrad, Pakistan on 27th March ’09 that tolled more than 80 lives and critically injured over 150 Muslims. The unfortunate Muslims assembled in that mosque to pay the Jumma Namaz, Friday prayer, a most important weekly rituals of muslims as considered. That massacre is not done by any Hindu Zionist or Indian Military or US or the Christian or Jews.
Each and every genocide in the present world concerned the Kashmiri Hindus or the Bangladeshi Hindu Minorities or any non-muslim minorities any where in this world is caused by the Islamic Fundamentalist cum Terrorists or they are the seed cause. The fatal plight over the innocent Palestine Muslims by Israel is nothing but the reaction against the conspiracy of Muslim world to finish Israel.
We can blame the Jews or the Christians or the Hindus or the Buddhists for everything to blame them and to praise us dogmatically.
But in comparison they are much better than us in every respect of philanthropisity, humanity and practicability.
Islam is now termed as the Dead Hand of Islam.
Those who have committed such a sin as to kill men at prayer, are nothing but the incarnation of Iblish, the Satan.
The muslims consider the Jumma Namaz, i.e. Friday Prayer is most important and the greatest. But these Islamofascists are free to do any impermissible in the name of Islam. We should start to hate such Islam for ever. Denounce this murderous Islam to save the humanity.
They are the enemy of mankind. They are the beasts. They claim that Islam is religion of peace; they have turned this religion as a manifesto of terrorism. Down with these zealots.
Pakistani-Talibani-Deobandi-Saytani Murdabad.
These Islamic fanatics are most active in this subcontinent through the support of their Mosques, Madrashas and the school of Deobandis.
In Bangladesh the recent coup in Bangladesh Rifles, or the black Friday blast in Pakistan or the Mumbai attack in 26/11, all are caused by this pro-active fanatical school of Pan Islamists. They are the most dangerous threat to the humanity.
But, the seed of destruction of Islam is latent in Islam itself.
This Pakistani-Talibani-Deobandi-Saytani nexus against any reform in Islam should be exposed and we have to fight all out against this Mullah-tantra (Islamic network) at any cost.
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Blair Says:
Pakistan split from within by terrorist threat
By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor
30 Mar 2009, telegraph.co.uk
THIS was not the first victory that Pakistan’s security forces have achieved over gunmen striking an urban target, but it was certainly among the quickest and least bloody successes in recent history.
Compared with the brazen assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3, when all the attackers managed to escape and only a handful of police fired a shot against them, the security response was far more effective. But it could scarcely have been worse. And the fact that the gunmen chose to raid a police training centre, surely one of the toughest targets on offer, showed their confidence.
More than anywhere else, the struggle against Islamist terrorism in Pakistan has some of the features of a bitter civil war. Many of the extremist groups were once nurtured by the security forces, not only to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan but also to fight what Pakistanis regard as a just war against India’s “occupation” of Kashmir.
In Lahore, barely half an hour’s drive from the Indian border, the Kashmir conflict looms larger than Afghanistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the armed group which executed last year’s raid on the Indian city of Mumbai, has its stronghold in Lahore.
LeT was founded to wage “jihad” in Kashmir and once enjoyed the full support of Pakistan’s security forces. By promising to shut down groups such as LeT, the Pakistani state has made itself a legitimate target in their eyes. But many Pakistanis passionately support LeT’s ambition to force India out of Kashmir, which has a Muslim majority, and unite this territory with their own country.
If they are forced to choose between their government and LeT, many Pakistanis would support the self-styled “liberators” of Kashmir. This struggle splits Pakistani society from top to bottom, rendering the country acutely vulnerable. In Afghanistan, 62,000 Western troops limit what the Taliban and its allies can achieve.
Pakistan has no such insurance and the country is split from within. At present, it is probably more vulnerable than Afghanistan.
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Posts Tagged ‘Kill the Cricketer’
Sachin Tendulkar & Sourav Ganguly are in Hit List of Pak Terror
Pak terrorists plan to kidnap Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
Pak based Islamic militants plot to kidnap Indian cricketers Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
By Dean Nelson in New Delhi
Telegraph.co.uk, 19 Mar 2009
Fears over the threat to cricket posed by Islamic terrorism grew yesterday as it was revealed that two top Indian players were the targets of a kidnap plot hatched by Muslim militants.
A Pakistan-based Islamic group planned to kidnap the country’s former national cricket captain, Sourav Ganguly, together with legendary Test batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
A court in India has heard that a Pakistan-based Islamic group planned to kidnap the country’s former national cricket captain, Sourav Ganguly, together with legendary Test batsman Sachin Tendulkar.
The confession was made by Tariq Mohammed and Ashfaq Ahmed, who were members of the Harkat ul-Jehadi Islami (Islamic Holy War Movement), a Kashmiri separatist organisation which draws inspiration from Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
US told it must hold talks with Taliban’s Mullah OmarThe pair told detectives that they had trained in Afghanistan and entered India from Bangladesh on a mission to kidnap the two cricket stars to force the release of two terrorist leaders being held in Indian jails.
Although the confessions were made in 2002, they have sent a chill through the Indian cricket establishment in the wake of the gun attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore at the start of this month.
Details of the plot emerged as the Indian Premier League dropped Delhi and Jaipur as host venues for the forthcoming Twenty-20 cricket tourmament, amid fears that terrorists might attack key matches or abduct top cricket stars.
Indian home minister, P Chidambaram, had voiced doubts over whether the tournament would go ahead at all. Officials are concerned that it coincides with campaigning for the Indian general election, and fear the country’s security forces and police will be dangerously overstretched if they have to protect both events.
British and American officials have voiced fears that another terrorist attack in the run-up to the election could cause a new war between India and Pakistan.
The latest Premier League fixture list has now dropped Delhi and Jaipur from the list of venues, and shifted key matches to Dharamsala, the Himalayan hill town known as the home of the Dalai Lama.
It is a fact that not only Sachin or Sourav, they can finish every icon of Indian Society, if Terror Pakis get chance.
But What is the reaction of Sachin & Sourav. Sachin is a typical Mumbaikar, but Sourav is a communist. Does Sourav know that he is compared with Kasav The 26/11 terroist ??
See the pages 20 to 22 in the book Mumbai, Dance of the Devil by Zaid Hamid at Mumbai Dance of the Devil
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12581965/BrassTacksMumbai-Dance-of-the-Devil
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James Oswald: Natural Causes & The Book of Souls Sunday, Feb 9 2014
Uncategorized Edinburgh series, fantastical elements, murder mysteries, police procedurals Auntie M Writes Crime 12:22 am
DUE TO WEATHER ISSUES, PLEASE ENJOY JAMES OSWALD FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
AUNTIE M WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH A NEW BLOG!
James Oswald is a Scottish livetock farmer who raises pedigreed Highland cattle and New Zealand Romney sheep. He’s also a writer with several different genres under his belt, who happens to be friends with crime author Stuart MacBride. (MacBride writes a wonderful series featuring DS Logan McRae and several other stand-alones which Auntie M has reviewed at times; check him out.)
Oswald credits MacBride with pushing and supporting him as he turned his hand from other novels, comic scripts, an epic fantasy series, and even a travel book to writing a crime series. Readers will be happy that MacBride has such discerning taste.
Each of the first two books in Oswald’s series featuring DI Anthony MacLean have been shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award. It should be noted that in his own series, Oswald named a character DC MacBride for his friend and supporter. Ian Rankin gets a mention, and perhaps a character named Dalgliesh is an homage to P D James, although the name is of Scottish origins.
Natural Causes opens the series and introduces MacLean, man whose grandmother lies in a coma months after suffering a stroke. MacLean has his own demons to deal with in the form of the gruesome murder years before of his fiancee, Kirsty, killed by The Christmas Killer whom MacLean helped put behind bars.
Oswald starts off with one of the most horrifying and gripping first chapters Auntie M has read in a long time, reminiscent of Denis Mina’s early books, with powerful imagery of a grotesque act that is as haunting as the evil that MacLean seems to feel.
This is the same Edinburgh of Rankin, but vastly different in tone with the cast of recurring characters and a fantastical element that doesn’t hit the reader over the head but serves to give pause.
The killer of a prominent city elder is found less than a day after the murder and commits suicide. It appears as if this case closed itself, until a second murder days later bears haunting similarities to the first, even though once more the murderer swiftly confesses and then kills himself. These scenes are horrifying in their own way as the reader is privy to information that eludes MacLean at first.
Meanwhile McLean is investigating the discovery of the body of a young woman who has been walled up in the basement of an old Edinburgh mansion. She had been brutally murdered, and her internal organs removed and placed around her in six preserving jars. Forensic evidence suggests this happened over sixty years ago, and MacLean’s research shows is possibly linked to an attempt to re-enact an ancient ceremony to trap a demon in the dead girl’s body, thereby conferring immortality on the six men who each took one of her organs.
McLean’s grandmother, who raised him after his parents were killed when he was a young boy, finally dies. When he’s handed the investigation of a series of unusual, violent suicides, plus that of a cat-burglar who targets the homes of the recently dead, he feels fragile and overloaded, unable to process his grief.
Then another prominent Edinburgh businessman is killed, and McLean suspects there may be a connection between the murders, the suicides and the ritual killing of the girl found in the basement as the same names repeatedly appear. What he needs is a rational explanation as to how that connection works. But how can he stop the evil force he feels is behind these coincidences?
MacLean’s supporting cast is well-drawn: Emma, the SOCO he has a loose relationship; pathologist Angus Cadwallader; his friend and old school roommate, Phil; and of course, DC MacBride. They provide a counterpoint to MacLean and feel believably drawn. Dark Edinburgh, as conceived by James Oswald, provides an excellent setting for this crime series. The multiple plot strands all come together to create a tight, plausible tale of murder and deception that is as unusual as it is complex.
In the second MacLean outing, The Book of Souls, it’s the Christmas season, a particularly difficult time for MacLean, as this was when
Kirsty was murdered. The manner in which MacLean found Donald Anderson is unclear; most of all, to McLean himself. Something took him to the man’s antiquarian bookshop, and something else made Anderson, the Christmas Killer, let down his guard. In a cellar under the killer’s shop, his torture chamber was found. Anderson went to prison and the yearly murders stopped.
Then Donald Anderson is murdered in prison, and MacLean knows he lies in a grave. But soon after, another young woman is found murdered in the same manner as Kirsty: naked, her body washed, her throat slit, all after being kept prisoner and raped.
Did MacLean put the wrong man behind bars? Or is this a copycat killer? In MacLean’s mind he keeps seeing Anderson on the streets of Edinburgh, but he’s seen the man’s grave and knows he’s dead and buried.
Instead of the once a year murders of Anderson, similar abductions and murders start to pile up. Facing added stress from his nemesis, DCI Duguid, MacLean is tasked with investigation a series of arson fires, and these end up including MacLean’s own tenement home.
Once again, those responsible are too close to home and perhaps too close to people MacLean is growing to care for, so the stakes are upped. The fantastical element is subtle and yet the plot has twists and turns that will make it difficult for readers to put this one down. If anything, Oswald’s second is even stronger than the first.
There are two more in this series which will be reviewed at a future date: The Hangman’s Song, and not in print until this July, Dead Men’s Bones. Auntie M can’t wait to share these with you.
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Mad Men Monday – Season 7, Episode 14: “Person to Person”
May 18, 2015 Amy McDonald
The ambiguity! After his emotional awaking with Leonard in the retreat circle, did Don finally find inner peace and decide to leave his New York persona behind? Or did his awakening give him the clarity of vision to return to McCann and write one of the most iconic ad campaigns of all time for Coca-Cola as his sly smile seems to suggest? Are we really left to believe that the only substantive result of Don’s odyssey is that he’s now learned to embrace his cool, calculating cynicism?
Don streaks across the Bonneville salt flats in a Chevy Chevelle SS and indicates the presence of a shimmy to a couple of gear heads once back in the garage. Despite his transient existence he’s still in touch with Sally, who, during a brief phone conversation, reveals Betty’s illness. Don phones Betty and insists on coming home to be with her and take care of the kids. Betty, in the name of maintaining as much normalcy as possible for them, insists on his continued absence. His absence, after all, has been an important part of their normal.
Joan and Richard visit Key West and try cocaine. Referring to her life as “undeveloped real estate,” Richard tries to persuade Joan to leave New York City and take advantage of all he can offer her. Marriage is discussed and dismissed. She later dines with Ken who is seeking the name and number of a producer that worked on the Birds Eye account. She agrees to help.
Pete leaves McCann for the last time. Peggy congratulates him and says she is happy for him. Pete says that Peggy will be a creative director somewhere by 1980. Peggy also meets Joan for lunch after agreeing to write the script for Dow’s film. She hands her a check in payment for two more additional scripts. Citing her workload, Peggy demurs. Joan suggests that they partner and turn the work into a production company: “we won’t have to answer to anyone.” Peggy ponders the proposition.
Don is dropped off at Stephanie’s house in L.A. Both are worn down by life. In the morning Stephanie leaves for a retreat and insists that Don accompany her. After Stephanie is confronted by a fellow retreat attendee about abandoning her child she leaves Don without saying goodbye . . . and without a ride. Don phones Peggy collect. After chiding him for leaving, she softens and suggests that he’d be welcomed back at McCann if he returns. After all, doesn’t he want the chance to work on Coke? Don says he phoned only to say goodbye. Peggy phones Stan to express her concern and during the conversation he confesses his love for her. After talking out her feelings, Peggy realizes that she reciprocates.
Roger visits Joan to let her know that he has decided he wants Kevin in his will. Joan accepts and chuckles when Roger says he is marrying Megan’s mother, Marie. Later Joan cancels a date with Richard in favor of a business meeting. Richard chafes at the time and attention she is devoting to her business that could be given to him. The phone rings and Joan takes the call. Richard wishes her well and leaves.
The morning following Don’s emotional awakening with Leonard, he sits in the lotus position on the cliffs above Big Sur chanting a new age mantra. He closes his eyes, smiles, a bell sounds. Cue the famous 1971 “Hilltop” Coke commercial with its message of love, harmony, and acceptance. Don has accepted who he is.
Last night’s show featured references to Chevy, turtleneck shirts, cookie tins, and the lotus, among other things. Enjoy our selection of highlighted ads that reflect the brands and themes that Mad Men characters interacted with last night.
A gallery of our selected advertisements may also be found on Flickr.
Post contributed by Josh Larkin Rowley, Reference Archivist for the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History.
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Mad Men Monday–Season 7, Episode 13 “The Milk and Honey Route”
May 11, 2015 Kate Collins
This week’s episode opens with Don Draper’s Cadillac methodically rolling down a dark, deserted highway. The hum of wheels on pavement is interrupted when he is pulled over by a patrolman that, once he’s confirmed the driver’s identity, cryptically says, “You knew we would catch up with you eventually.”
Of course the scene is only a dream and Don wakes in a modest motel room somewhere in Kansas, a long way from the luxury of Manhattan. His vision-quest through Middle America continues south only to be interrupted by car trouble in Oklahoma. He’s dropped at a hotel where he meets the owner, Del, and his wife, Sharon. Sharon tries to convince Don to stick around town for a VFW gathering to benefit a veteran whose kitchen burned down. A day later, Don reluctantly accepts despite a repaired Cadillac and his own rambling spirit. After several shots of Old Crow, a few cans of Lone Star beer, and some prodding from intoxicated vets, Don tells the table that he killed his Commanding Officer in Korea. Later that night, Sharon lets three angry vets into Don’s hotel room who are convince that he stole the cash from the donations jar. They leave without the money but with the keys to Don’s Cadillac which will be held as collateral until the money is returned. Don confronts Andy, a housekeeper at the hotel, about his theft of the money, demands its return, and suggests that he get out of town. Kindly, Don agrees to drive him to the nearest bus stop where he hands him the car keys and steps out of the car with some sage advice for the budding con artist, “don’t waste this.” His possessions whittled down to what will fit inside a Sears bag, Don looks content.
Pete bumps into Duck Phillips on the elevator at McCann and Duck asks for a private conversation in which he tries to convince him to help persuade Learjet to hire him as a headhunter. Pete reluctantly agrees to meet and, over the course of dinner, quickly realizes that he’s been tricked into an interview for the position. Despite Pete’s adamant lack of interest, Duck persists and tries to convince him to attend a second dinner with the spouses. Pete approaches Trudy about her possible attendance at the dinner and in the process reminds her how much she used to love client dinners. Trudy admires Pete for his ability to be sentimental about the past but adds that she, on the other hand, remembers things as they actually were. After Duck spins Pete’s no-show at the dinner as a reaction to Learjets initial salary offer they up it coniderably. Pete shows up at Trudy’s in the pre-dawn hours, tells her of his job offer in Wichita, professes his love, and invites her to move with him and reunite the family. Reluctant at first, she eventually accepts.
Betty struggles up the stairs at the university only to stumble and fall, injuring a rib and wounding her pride. At the hospital a doctor requests that she phone her husband as her condition appears to be more serious. In the car after the doctor’s visit, Francis has a tantrum and threatens to sue the hospital for frightening Betty. A second doctor, however, confirms the findings of the first: Betty has an aggressive form of lung cancer and is given months to live. Back at the house, Francis castigates Betty for refusing to seek treatment and accuses her of giving up. Against Betty’s wishes, Francis goes to Sally’s college, gives her the bad news, and enlists her to convince Betty to seek treatment. After brushing off Sally in the kitchen, Betty enters her bedroom that evening for a conversation. Sally accuses her of taking pleasure in the tragedy of her condition. After watching her own mother die slowly Betty simply wishes to spare Sally that same experience. She also hands her a letter with instructions to be opened after her death. Back in her dormitory, Sally reads the letter detailing practical matters such as burial site and Betty’s preferred dress, hairstyle, and lipstick. Betty says she loves her and knows that her life will be an adventure.
Last night’s episode featured references to apples, Learjet, and Old Crow whiskey among others. Enjoy our selection of highlighted ads that reference the brands and themes that Mad Men characters interacted with last night.
A gallery of our selected images may also be found on Flickr.
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Mad Men Monday – Season 8, Episode 12 “Lost Horizon”
May 4, 2015 Katrina Martin 1 Comment
The move to McCann is underway and a number of the SC&P staff are finding the transition challenging in their own unique ways.
Don is welcomed with enthusiasm by Jim Hobart, who expects Don to “bring things up a notch around here.” Later Don attends his first meeting in which Conley Research presents its findings on the market for a new Miller “diet beer.” Don seems out of his element in a room full of creative directors all taking notes. He watches a plane fly by high up in the air and walks out.
Joan was welcomed by two women copywriters who have interest in her accounts. They invite her to join them for drinks sometime. Later she has conference calls with her clients and her ill-prepared colleague Dennis, who interrupts Joan and thinks he has better ways of handling her clients. When she complains to Ferg about working with Dennis he promises to make it better, which means that she will work directly with him instead. His lecherous intentions quickly become clear.
Peggy’s move is thwarted by the fact that McCann has mistaken her for a secretary and did not reserve an office for her. She refuses to move her belongings over until she gets an office and so spends a few surreal days in an empty SC&P working on Dow.
Don planned to drive Sally back to school, but found out belatedly from Betty that she got a ride from a friend instead. As he drives back to the city he impulsively takes a detour towards Pennsylvania and keeps driving all the way to Racine, Wisconsin. While his colleagues wonder where he is over the next few days, he tries to find out where Diana is from her ex-husband by posing as someone who has a prize for Diana. Her ex gets irate and sees through Don’s charade. He tells Don that Diana is a tornado who destroys everything.
Peggy and Roger drink too much vermouth and talk at SC&P before they make their official moves over to McCann. Peggy is later seen walking confidently into the office with her belongings and Bert Cooper’s artwork that Roger gave her.
Joan meets with Jim Hobart and says she’d rather not work with Ferg on her accounts. Jim belittles her and her status at SC&P. She says she’s willing to take the money she is owed and walk away, but he retorts that he will only give her fifty cents on the dollar. She threatens to contact the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the ACLU regarding the sexism at McCann. Later she finds Roger waiting for her and he tells her to take the offer and that he can’t help her. She dejectedly agrees to the deal and walks out with her Rolodex and a photo of her son.
Don keeps on driving and picks up a hitchhiker headed to St. Paul.
Last night’s show featured references to Ladies Home Journal, Tampax, Miller, and Westinghouse, among other things. Enjoy our selection of highlighted ads that reflect the brands and themes that Mad Men characters interacted with last night.
Post contributed by Jacqueline Reid Wachholz, Director of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History.
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Portland Trail Blazers new logo
By Sidney, September 18, 2013 in Concepts
Sidney 173
Location:Bordeaux (France)
Hey I've decided to redesign the Portland Blazers logo because to me, it's time to change something, so I post something.
Give me your feeling.
mr.nascar13 783
@loganaweaver
Location:Cookeville, TN
It looks a thousand times better by itself than on the black logo. Another great piece, my friend
mvk 1
Nice work, though I prefer the current design to it, myself. I'm not sure the differing sizes (widths) of 'trails' works to well on this logo, just seems a bit off to me.
MEANS 207
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Your mark starts to look like an "S" which reminds me of the Sonics wordmark. The line treatments are interesting but the clip-art basketball just looks placed in the center without any thought to it. If the basketball could be re-worked to work with the mark better plus some tweaks to the spacing of the extending lines I think you may have a good logo.
Windell918 287
Location:The Cornfield
this is a better designed the original I think. However I still hate the overall concept. I just don't think a hurricane symbol makes sense for the Trail Blazers. I've said that the blazers need a complete overhaul of their look for a long time. but nonetheless good work Sidney
Funkatron101 202
I was about to post the same thing as both MEANS and GoNordiques. I'll also point out that the logo with the black background has a lot of wasted space.
Kudos for exploring other options for the Blazers logo, but I think it misses the mark. Don't give up on this though, I would like to see how it progresses.
Thanks for feedbacks I've made some researchs on the meaning of the logo but I didn't saw anything on the five stripes. But Now I can say that I've learn something
I'll post updates soon
TheGiantsFan 132
That Hand-Drawn Series Guy
Location:Salinas, CA
In my opinion, I think the "Portland Trail Blazers" text on your logo is a bit too small. Just enlarge the text and it'll look better. But other than that, it's amazing!
Shadojoker 992
*round of applause* great job man...very good job!! Btw Nordiques is right. I don't know how much "research" you did but the blazers logo is supposed to represent 5v5 basketball..no biggie though. Good job.
upperV03 4,861
Jonah Henderson
Location:Salem, OR
If it were me, I would make the logo wider to avoid it looking like an 'S'.
On my research I've found something about the conquest of the west, and about some actors....
Yea a lot of symbol research is so vague I only remembered Portland's cause someone posted an article about it months ago...your right too bout the west expansion(Oregon trail,)..etc..
So if U guys do have something a web site with the history of teams to learn more about them
Hey, I've made updates, waiting on your feedbacks
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9581986/the-definitive-guide-nba-team-names-part-2
1. Portland Trail Blazers
What a wonderful name for a team, even if it wasn't close to the most popular choice in the "name the team" contest Portland held upon the birth of the franchise as part of the NBA's 1970 expansion. Fans overwhelmingly voted for "Pioneers," which evokes the settlement of the region, the Oregon Trail, and the brave struggles of those who staked early claim to the land.
But a local college, Lewis & Clark, was already using "Pioneers," and the new Portland franchise was aiming for something both original and without potential intellectual property baggage. They settled upon "Trail Blazers," a suggestion nearly 200 fans sent in during the contest, and, holy cow, did they make the right call. The name serves as a historical callback in the fashion of "Pioneers," but it's unique within the major sports landscape, it's fun to say, it carries an easy shorthand in "Blazers," and it recalls basketball and sports more readily than "Pioneers."
"Blazers" implies speed, perfect for a fast sport, and the full name pegs the franchise as one seeking both stylistic originality on the court and a trailblazing impact (along with the Seattle SuperSonics, founded three years earlier) in spreading NBA hoops to a new region. The 1977 title team famously played with a progressive unselfishness, using big man Bill Walton as its passing fulcrum, and the use of a "Knickerbocker"-style collective term works especially well for this franchise. The Blazers were long the only major pro sport in town, and there is a unique closeness here among fans, players, and team.
The Trail Blazers name also inspired the team's pinwheel logo, one of the rare abstract logos in all of sports. The red and white stripes (five of each) blazing in opposite directions, but coming together at the center, are meant to represent the blur of two opposing basketball teams working against each other while moving back and forth across center court. That's beautiful.
The full name is a bit of a mouthful, and the team's choice of mascot — Blaze the Trail Cat — is a clunky fit. But everything else is poetic. Portland wins.
I'm still not a fan of the varying sizes/widths of the 'trails'. Also, the basketball seem out of place/just stuck on, and not really a "part" of the logo - maybe it is the white lines on the ball. Sorry, but to me the Trailblazers logo is one that does not need to be re-done or updated.
Thank you for the link
I'll post something with same size widths of the trail. When I'll find the good fit I'll work on the ball.
sparky chewbarky 1,116
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I've learned, (with altering the old Nordiques logo), that it's sometimes easier to design an entirely new logo than tweak a classic.
So why not go down THAT road?
The old logo always (to me) looked like the letter "S". Why?
...And I like what you're doing here with the graduated lines.
Remove the grey lines altogether so you're only representing the 1 team (Blazers).
Put the grey (silver) into the panels of the ball and remove the white outline.
Now, horizontally flip the image and bingo-bongo, you've got a dynamic new "P" logo, that...
"Respectfully pays tribute to the old Blazers classic blah-blah-blah".
pianoknight 2,598
Location:Eugene, OR
When you skewed the swooshy things (is that what they're called?) the result was a logo that looks like an "S."
Seattle Trailblazers!
Keep making it wider and you've got something
which one the left one? or both .
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Tag Archives: Guillermo Del Toro
cmdstore 3:18 pm on February 18, 2016
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Own the Ultimate Striker Eureka from Pacific Rim and NECA
Celebrate Guillermo del Toro’s iconic 2013 film with this new release from NECA. Here’s the Pacific Rim Ultimate Striker Eureka, a continuation of the Ultra Deluxe Series by the acclaimed toymakers. He stands seven inches tall and features an open chest of rockets that is actually an interchangeable piece that swaps out to show a fiery missile launch!
There’s even a nuclear payload that attaches to the back of the figure. The Australian mech is made from the actual digital files utilized by ILM in the creation of Pacific Rim for exacting accuracy and detail. Click the image below to shop him now!
cmdstore 5:52 pm on March 28, 2015
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All mechanical muscle: Pacific Rim and Sideshow’s Striker Eureka statue
Most people would agree that when your entire continent is under attack from a gigantic monster, you should probably build another gigantic monster to fight it. Right? That’s exactly what Striker Eureka from Pacific Rim was slated to accomplish, with the added bonus of it being the last Jaeger constructed and the only Mark-5 Jaeger ever. All the stops were pulled out for this dude in the movie, and so Sideshow has done the same with this 19-inch deluxe statue figure.
The Skyscraping Soldier of Australia is ready to slice through both bone and steel with Sting-Blades. As this statue was crafted as a collaboration between award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and Sideshow Collectibles, the Striker Eureka looks like it just stepped out of the silver screen. Behold his intricately designed armor and paint deco, underscored by red and blue LED light-up features. Get your hands on this gorgeous statue before it’s too late!
Kaijus are no match for this big boy.
cmdstore 3:32 pm on October 29, 2014
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Two new figures in the Justice League Dark series make the New 52 a supernatural affair
The Justice League Dark, known for their supernatural powers and their handling of matters deemed too extraordinary for the original Justice League, are an indispensable and unique squad. First announced in 2011 as a new First Wave title in the New 52 conglomerate, the “JLD” are now rushing to us in action-figure form!
The original comic-book narrative touches on more melancholy themes of the struggle and tension that the heroes experience in relation to otherworldly powers, and these 6 inch renderings evoke the dark mood appropriately. And this is even more exciting given that this past July, Guillermo del Toro confirmed that he was working on a screenplay for a feature-length film centred around the JLD. So much excitement! Own Constantine (pictured below) or Zatanna now.
Constantine is one of two new Justice League Dark figurines for fall.
cmdstore 11:11 am on November 20, 2009
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Two pieces of Hobbit News
The One Ring (theonering.net) is a little concerned that Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro could go kid-oriented when he directs the upcoming Hobbit movies. Personally, I don’t think anyone who’s seen The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth or even Hellboy 1 or 2 would think Del Toro the type to go that way, so it’s clear TheOneRing is playing this one tongue-in-cheek, but the list it’s come up with is awesome. You can read the whole thing here, but here’s an excerpt…
3. Keep Leonard Nimoy Away From the Soundtrack!
Yes, Nimoy’s version of “Bilbo Baggins” is the greatest music video in history (except perhaps for the DaVinyls “I Touch Myself”). But it’s also exactly the wrong note for the new Hobbit movie.
This is exactly the light-hearted silliness that makes The Hobbit fun to read as a child, but hard to sit through in a feature-length film. Unless Nimoy plays Gandalf. No offense to Ian McKellen, but that would be awesome.
Naturally, they include this video as a chilling reminder…
And in other Hobbit news, remember those bones that were found a couple years back? Small and humanoid, they were dubbed ‘hobbits’ and had even archaeologists and their ilk scratching their heads. Well, a little bit of the mystery has been solved: They weren’t humans at all! The Mirror explains…
Hobbit-like creatures who lived 18,000 years ago were a lot less like us than we thought, say scientists.
Researchers have decided the 3ft 6ins tall tribe from the Indonesian island of Flores are an unknown sub-species of modern man. Their remains caused a sensation when unveiled five years ago and they were dubbed Hobbits after the elf-like creatures in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
Some researchers argued they were modern humans with a disorder called microcephaly accounting for their tiny brains.
But analysis of the most complete skeleton, of a female called Flo, suggests she was a different branch of human. Anthropologist Dr Karen Baab said: “Dwarfing syndromes and microcephaly bear no resemblance to the unique anatomy of Homo Floresiensis.”
It is thought the little folk were wiped out 12,000 years ago by a volcano.
And that’s all, it seems, for real-life Hobbit news and the fantasy Hobbit-news we’ll of course be keeping up on–especially when WETA starts sending out the merch! ‘Til then, we do have a wide selection of Lord of the Rings figures and collectibles still available, which of course feature a couple Hobbit/LOTR crossover characters. Look out for ’em.
cmdstore 9:58 am on June 11, 2009
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Peter Jackson to appear at Comic Con International!
With the release of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I became a huge Peter Jackson fangirl. They’re still in my top 5 favourite movies (I count them all as one and have indeed done the single-day LOTR marathon–extended editions, of course) and I’m eagerly looking forward to the incredible Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming take on The Hobbit (with Jackson directing). So suffice it to say that I am now looking even more eagerly forward to my first trip to Comic Con because now I’ve gotten the news that Peter Jackson’s will be making his first SDCC/CCI appearance! And while he’s there to promote the upcoming District 9 rather than The Hobbit, I’m sure we can expect a few dropped hints and there’s also no doubt that District 9 will rock all on its own.
Here’s confirmation from UPI.com:
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., June 8 (UPI) — New Zealand-born filmmaker Peter Jackson says he plans to make his first appearance at Comic-Con International in San Diego next month.
He said he is attending to support TriStar Pictures’ “District 9,” a movie he produced.
Jackson’s previous film credits include “The Frighteners,” “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “King Kong.”
The “District 9” panel discussion is to take place in the San Diego Convention Center’s Hall H July 24. Jackson will speak on the panel with the film’s director, Neill Blomkamp, and star, Sharlto Copley, Sony Pictures Entertainment said in a news release.
“After all these years, I’m thrilled that I finally have the opportunity to visit San Diego for Comic-Con,” Jackson said in a statement. “I am especially excited that I am attending to support ‘District 9.’ Neill is a tremendously talented young director and he’s made an extraordinary film, so it was important to me to come to San Diego to spread the word. I look forward to attending my first ever Comic-Con and I know that those who visit us on July 24 in Hall H will be in for quite a ride.”
“District 9” is slated for release in U.S. theaters Aug. 14.
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How to Get Free Phone Service on Android
Sick and tired of paying huge cell phone service bills? Ready to reduce your dependence on major cell phone providers like AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Boost Mobile? Even prepaid minutes plans through companies like Cricket Wireless can add up to big bucks for cellphone users. We will show you how to get free phone service on Android.
Now you can try a few new methods to get free service on your Android phone. That means you can take calls, receive calls, have a voicemail, and even have some messaging features added in – all for free. These are all free apps from the Google Play Store that are very simple to install and set up. Some of them even give you new phone numbers for free.
How does these apps provide free phone service? Instead of using cell phone towers to ‘bounce’ the signal around, they use your internet connection, specifically your Wi Fi. So, you will need to be connected to the internet and a Wi-Fi signal in order to use them. As long as you have a Wi-Fi router at home, that’s a simple and straightforward investment that ends up being far less expensive in the long run to have phone service.
Below are the four most popular free phone-calling apps: WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Google Voice, and TextNow.
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WhatsApp is the most popular of the app phone calling and messaging apps. Like the other apps, it uses the internet to make phone calls, not your cellphone service provider, so that helps to save money. But unlike the other two free service apps listed below, WhatsApp does use your regular phone number. You don’t get a new number, but you do get a WhatsApp voicemail. You keep your contacts within the app and you can call them for free.
To place a voice call, just open WhatsApp and then open up the chat with the person you want to voice call. Tap ‘Voice Call’ which is the phone icon. When receiving a voice call, you’ll see a message pop up on the screen saying: ‘WhatsApp Voice Call.’ You can either accept the call, decline it, or reply with a quick texted message.
Google Hangouts offers to Google account users free messaging, free video calls for up to 10 people in a group chat, and, best of all, free phone calls. You will need to have the internet on your phone for this app to work, but if you have a prepaid cell phone or other type of phone that does have internet, this is your best and cheapest option.
Go to the Google Play Store app on your phone and install the Google Hangouts app. You will also need the Hangouts Dialer. Tap on the ‘phone’ icon to bring up the Phone Call section of the app. Tap on ‘New Conversation’ and then you can type in the phone number of the person you want to call.
It also tells you the price of the phone call next to it. The first time you use the app, you will have to register your phone with it, although you can add a new free number (which you can get with Google Voice, listed below).
After that, you can make phone calls and also FaceTime with the speaker, too. Tap the ‘Dial Pad’ icon to bring up the dial pad, where you can tap out the phone number. People can also call you through the Google Hangouts app, too. It’s so simple to import your contact list through the ‘Settings’ icon on the main menu.
This Google Hangouts app works in the United States and Canada to give you free phone service for unlimited phone calls.
If you’re not too keen on the features of Google Hangouts, but also want a Google product to help you get free phone service, then try Google Voice. It gives you a free telephone number, which you can then use to text, call, or check your voicemail from a single app. There’s voicemail transcription, too.
With this Google Voice app, as with Google Hangouts, you can sync to your computer and even make calls from there, saving more money in the process. This app also contains messaging for anyone in your Google Groups contacts list. Any calls can be forwarded, and spam is automatically filtered. However, it only allows unlimited calls and messages in the US, not Canada.
Another popular way to get free phone service and make calls or receive calls on Android is through the free TextNow App. It’s available on the Google Play store. There are paid plans, but with the free plan, you get a free phone number and voicemail, free calling, and unlimited calling and texting to the USA over Wi-Fi only, and high-speed data over Wi-Fi only. For only $2.99 per month, you can upgrade to get the ads removed, a caller ID, and call forwarding, which is still much less expensive than most major cell phone service providers.
To use TextNow, go to the Google Play store on your phone. Install the TextNow app. Create your free account and get your new phone number. Then, you can tap the ‘phone’ icon and dial the number to make calls.
As cell phone bills climb, more and more cell phone users will seek alternative ways to call loved ones. While calling over the internet on a phone technically isn’t free, since it still uses data, it’s an ideal way to keep in touch with loved ones and friends.
These types of apps would be best for users who don’t make a lot of phone calls and communicate primarily through other means. You’ll also notice the quality of the phone call over the Internet is slightly less clear and with more distorted clarity than it would be over a cell phone service provider.
But if you’re ready to chop your cell phone bill, then using it as mostly a computer with some free calling app capabilities just might be your best bet.
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"Here come the Nationals": Washington DC ABC affiliate previews the baseball season in prime time; baseball players should learn chess
On Friday night, March 30, local ABC affiliate in Washington DC preempted ABC regular programming and aired “Here Come the Nationals” with host Tim Brant.
The show covered the upcoming baseball season, which opens Monday, April 1, when the Nationals host the Florida Marlins with Stephen Strasburg pitching.
The show included portraits and brief interviews of Stephen Strasburg (who was shut down at the end of the year by an innings limit), Gio Gonzales (who had to fight off association with a doping clinic in Florida), Ryan Zimmerman, and Adal LaRoche, who had a protracted signing battle this winter, and, of course, Bryce Harper, now still just 20.
ESPN has an interview with Manager Davie Johnson.
There's another interview with Bryce Harper close by.
We’ll miss Michael Morse, who was traded to Seattle for less than what should have been expcted. The Nationals did have a mediocre record in the Grapefruit League, 14-18.
Do any baseball players play chess? It’s probably a good thing mentally if they do? I lost a game at the Arlington Chess Club Friday night where I had picked off an “exchange” in the opening and succumbed to a Kings side attack by Black, because all of my pieces were on the left side of the board winning material.
In the first position I played “16 Nxd4” instead of “exd4” (isolating the d pawn) because otherwise Black could play “..b5” and trap the white Bishop. The opening had been a Grunfeld, a line considered sharp but not Black's first choice. My opponent wanted fun. Offer material, and let a dogmatic, material-greedy and positional player like me live on the precipice. Did I pay for greed?
In the second position I must play 19 “Be4” immediately rather than take the time"obvious" for “19 Rac1” so that the fianchettoed Bishop helps defend the king side against the coming sacrifice on e3. (Black still has about three pawns and a lot of play for a rook in the coming attack, but it won’t be quite enough this time.) Sometimes you have to be accurate. “Normal” moves are not enough! But complicated, speculative attacks can be very difficult to defend over the board.
After Black won the game. I felt like Drew Storen after that 9-7 loss to the Cardinals at home in the playoffs last year.
I think that relief pitchers should definitely know how to play chess. I wonder if anyone on the Nats plays. Ryan Zimmerman seems a bit more cerebral than some of the other players.
Oops: the last picture is at Citi Field, from a trip to NYC last year.
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Labels: baseball, sports
ABC 20-20: "The Ultimate Betrayal": a psychopath trashes a woman he meets (on a plane) on the Internet
ABC 20-20, on Friday, March 29, ran three stories of personal stalking and gullibility on “The Ultimate Betrayal”.
The most interesting was the second one. A young woman living in Arlington VA met a man Bruce Stimon, on a plane from Boston to Washington. She give minimal contact information. The end result, according to 20-20, was the trashing of her reputation with fake profiles and links to porn sites, fake sex tapes, and even involvement of her “friends” on her social media lists. She was fired from her job, as her employer held her responsible for her own social media reputation (employers often do this). He had become jealous when she rebuffed him; she got restraining orders on him. When he drove to Arlington from New Hampshire, police were waiting and he wound up with a seven year sentence.
The ABC story by Jim Dubrueil is here.
One revelation was that Stimon was married and had a child, and his wife was shocked at the development. When she filed for divorce, he tried to trash her social media presence, too.
This shows the danger of social media, when others abuse it. As I’ve noted elsewhere, people are much more touchy about photography in discos than they were even two years ago because of media reports of abuse.
I've met people on planes before, given them my website and blog addresses, and never had a bad experience. I met a law associate one time and had a discussion about gay marriage.
This story sounds like the act of a (heterosexual) psychopath who cannot stand rejection. The 20-20 broadcast started with the story of an even more violent sequence in Colorado, of a psychopathic husband who would do anything, including hire killers, to get his way.
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The last story involved a young woman who moved to LA with little money, and inadvertently got involved with drug dealers to make ends meet. She wound up spending thirty days in jail and a year of house arrest, but a felony conviction, as part of a plea deal for a “snitch”. Her story is becoming a book and a movie from Paramount. (It started as a blog.) ABC used the tag line, “when a mug shot becomes a head shot”. Don’t do it!
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Labels: ABC 20-20, Internet safety and reputation
Anderson Cooper swims with crocodiles in an African river, "paying his dues" again
Anderson Cooper paid his dues as a young man, as a reporter working in Vietnam. He had even interned with the CIA (which I didn’t know was possible until I saw it on Wikipedia, although this fact comports with my own novel).
He also paid his dues again recently in Botswana, helping a zoologist lasso a crocodile, and then diving underwater to film them. This seems dangerous. Because of a weather cycle, the crocodiles were not particularly hungry, but he probably could not have escaped had they attack. In the boat, he also helped tag them. Cooper, 45, is a good swimmer and has previously swam with sharks to film them, and also swam on Live with Kelly a couple years ago.
The dive was shown on AC360 last night but had appeared on 60 Minutes. It did not appear to be embeddable, but here is the url link.
There was an embeddable video put up by CNN.
Curiously, videos owned by CBS were not embeddable. I have noticed this consistently with CBS.
AC360 has covered the gay marriage debate in the Supreme Court this week like all other media (Jeffrey Toobin has done most of the commentary for CNN). Anderson himself has kept rather cool about it. This must be an interesting time for him, since he “came out” in mid 2012. Curiously, he has told Oprah that he is mildly dyslexic. That’s what makes your brain scramble words as you type! I do it all the time.
Note: See "BillBoushka" blog March 28 for story on litigation involving "spoilers" for ABC's "The Bachelor".
Labels: Anderson Cooper
PBS Travis Smiley Reports on "Education Under Arrest"
Travis Smiley Reports, American Graduate, “Education Under Arrest”., aired on WETA Tuesday night at 8 PM, link here.
The one hour documentary examines the downstream consequences of school systems’ “zero tolerance” policies, which result in juveniles being locked up (or placed in “lockdown”) and learning the ways of prison life and culture even at ages under 12. “Zero Tolerance” was motivated particularly by Columbine.
“Zero tolerance” effectively condemns kids to a life of crime by kicking them out of the system, the documentary maintains.
The early part of the documentary did show kids in lockup, and showed how they learn the values of the criminal underworld in jail, even in the juveniles system.
Alternative schools (middle and high) offer an alternative to lockup in some communities. One judge explained how this is one resource he can use because he is appointed, and not elected.
There was particular attention to an alternative high school near Spokane, WA, and to explaining how an alternative high school system works. A teacher said that most teachers and employees find it challenging to be drawn into the world of personal problems of the kids, including lack of health insurance, homelessness, pregnancy, drug use. She challenged the idea, “These aren’t my kids and aren’t my problem”.
There was a case presented of a teenage girl disciplined when she was mistakenly identified for being at the scene of a fight when she wasn’t. She said she is told she has to accept the authority of adults even when it isn’t always fair. Her older sister cried with her.
Labels: education, PBS special documentaries, Travis Smiley
PBS: An academic year at DC Met, an alternative high school
Tonight, WETA and PBS presented Part II of “180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School”, about life at an alternative highs school, Metropolitan High School in Washington DC (“DC Met”), link here.
Each part of the film runs two hours. It appears to be indirectly part of Frontline.
The full link is here and the “reality documentary” was produced by Black Public Media.
The film stresses the difficulties teachers have in bringing students up to even about the 30% percentile in grade level achievement in math. The introduction of free response questions troubles them, particularly in questions where students have to respond to an analysis piece. (I remember seeing SOL free responses when I was a sub; one kid actually wrote about why we were in Iraq.)
A physics teacher discusses the difficulty of teaching relative motion to students who don’t get Algebra I, let alone calculus. Reading and math levels when kids reach the high school seems to be about sixth grade.
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Labels: 180 Days, education, PBS frontline
CNN airs biographies of Justin Timberlake, and then Beyonce
On March 24, 2013, at 8 PM EDT, CNN aired a couple of celebrity documentaries, “The Justin Timberlake Experience”, (perhaps "Triumph") and “The Beyonce Experience”.
CNN reviewed Justin’s history with Disney as a child (“Mousketeer”) in Tennessee, and gave the history of the founding of Nsync, first in Florida. I can remember on January 31, 2001 when everyone celebrated on the Internet the fact that Justin Timberlake “was no longer a teenager”. (More recently, they said that about Taylor Lautner.) He was quite compelling at that age, appearing on Larry King Live and other shows, and was the most conspicuous member of Nsync (maybe Lance Bass shared the honor at times). His appearance became more erratic after the group broke up, as he moved into acting and played roles of less wholesome (sometimes tattooed) characters in movies like “Alpha Dog” and “Southland Tales” (the latter of which was about terrorism).
On the other hand, Timberlake made Sean Parker, in "The Social Network", into a powerful character and influential on the young Mark Zuckerberg in the growth of Facebook.
Timberlake was actually home-schooled during the last part of his youth so he could advance his singing. This seems to have worked very well with a number of celebrities (even in classical music). At the same time, the economy threatens arts and music programs in public schools, something celebrities can address with philanthropy.
I do recall an appearance on NBC’s “Ellen” show where Justin played piano solo (around 2010), and I think played some Gershwin. He actually has considerable piano skills as well as voice.
Timberlake has also gotten interested in producing films, probably direction soon, and some sports (golf). (Could he direct my film?)
The best CNN link for the report is here.
CNN brushed off the “wardrobe malfunction” incident at the Super Bowl in 2004; I remember that was big headlines on AOL even during the game.
“Bye Bye Bye” was a popular “puppet act” then for the boy band. Another song, involving toy soldiers in a retail store (a “Toy Story”) , seemed to be trying to make fun of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”.
I attended an ‘Nsync “Popodyssey” concert at the Metrodome in Minneapolis on a Sunday night in late June 2001 (curiously, gay pride Sunday in Minneapolis). The show was very athletic, with some singing from trampolines and ropes. Curiously, security was tight (with weapons checks) entering the stadium for that show even though this preceded 9/11.
As I noted yesterday, a music background opens a lot of other doors.
Labels: CNN Presents
SNL: Adam Levine rerun: you don't need to see him shirtless
I think that SNL (Saturday Night Live) last night was a rerun, and maybe it was a good thing I missed it the first time, after the inauguration. Adam Levine hosted it. He was immediately challenged to go shirtless. Jerry Seinfeld, looking older himself, tried to “protect” him. But all of the sudden, we saw Levine, covered with tattoos (that’s how he looks on Wikipedia), his bod defaced and desecrated as far as I’m concerned, ruined. His chest hair, whatever had survived, was cropped to a fuzz.
I could say that the episode proves the existence of heterosexuality. Heterosexual men wouldn’t notice or care, right? Not necessarily.
The first skit was about being gay anyway. But later the show got into some legitimate stuff, like the problem of Catfishing and being fired over social media – as Dr. Phil used to say, “Internet mistakes”.
I see that Justin Timberlake did March 9, which I haven’t watched yet. (More on Timberlake is coming from CNN tonight.) The opening on the replay online is tame enough (the introductory pharmaceutical commercial is way too long. Steve Martin gets in the picture quickly, with his intimations of ‘Nsync. Justin has been defaced before, too.
As far as other possible hosts – how about Nev Schulman, with his whole career of reporting on catfishing and Okie Noodling. He is laid back, and actually conservatively masculine in his appearance and demeanor, if gentled. (Remember that line from “Catfish” – “O My God …”)
I think that Reid Ewing (Dylan on “Modern Family”) would make an interesting host. His videos are genuinely funny. I don’t know what the legal ramifications with ABC and Disney would be for using materials that had appeared on the mockumentary MF. But I can imagine a lot of skits on “Do Me…” and “Imagine Me Naked”, as well as Carmageddon on the 405 (where I stayed the last time I was in LA), “Reid-ing” at the public library, and the short film “Inner Child” (that takes two).
Could a classical musician host SNL? How about the upcoming (Brooklyn) pianist-composer Timo Andres? Would Mozart recompositions go over well? (Actually, a lot of today's stars began with piano lessons, including Justin Timberlake, who has proved he is still quite capable on the piano, at least to Ellen. Reid also started out with piano, apparently. There's something about music lessons as a child that increases the chance of public success later in life in a positive way.)
I’m told that the way you get tickets to SNL is to show up early Saturday Morning at Rock Center; it’s first come first serve. At least that’s what a hotel told me the last time I was in NYC. (If someone actually knows, please comment). I’ll have to watch for who the upcoming hosts will be.
Have they ever broadcast SNL from LA instead? Burbank would make sense.
Labels: SNL
ABC 20-20 looks at legal subtleties of Steubernville case
On Friday, March 22, 2013, ABC 20-20 aired a report “Steubenville: After the Party Is Over”.
The basic incident occurred in August, 2012, and is summarized on Wikipedia here. Ironically, I visited the city on November 11, 2012 (my motel was in Weirton, W Va). I had not paid any attention to the case at that point and was in the area to look at the fracking issue.
The 20-20 report stressed the digital detective work, since so much of the incident wound up on social media. It’s pretty easy to determine who transmitted what from cell phone numbers and possibly IP addresses.
The report also stressed the legal ambiguities of the case. “Jane Doe”, 16, as indeed touched or manipulated inappropriately while she was intoxicated, and apparently that met the Ohio definition of rape. But what is more critical is whether transmission of the incident in social media was a crime, or, even more pertinently, whether other kids or parents had a legal duty to report the incident under Ohio law. My COPA blog entry on Jan. 5, 2013 takes up some of those questions.
It still is rather shocking that teenagers thought that it was funny to post this on social media, and that idea of “power” and demanding submission or humiliation seems so important to the teen brain.
The age of consent in Ohio is 16 (according to Wikipedia), so statutory rape charges wouldn’t occur as they would in other states like California or Virginia, where it is 18. However, other states may have other different ways of interpreting the events here.
Labels: ABC 20-20, criminal justice system issues
"Katie" examines the possibility of preventing aging, and a new story of the afterlife
Today, Friday March 22, 2013, Katie Couric led a particularly interesting show, which kept me off the phone checking on some financial stuff. It will have to wait until Monday.
The first part of the show concerned a girl now 20 who had stopped growing at age 5. But it appears that he cells have stopped “aging”. She seems to be the only person in the world with this condition. The young woman is Brooke Greenberg,, from suburban Baltimore, MD. The Huffington Post has a story on her situation here. Her "condition" is called 'Syndrome X".
There would be a difference between stopping growing and actually stopping aging, or aging in reverse, as in the movie “Benjamin Button”. There is a jellyfish that actually does that. Presumably, aging occurs partly because of entropy in physics, and that is why reproductive life counteracts entropy.
We don’t know if Brooke is “immortal”, but this would be impossible without some sort of energy source to prevent entropy. Maybe a bizarre virus (like a retrovirus) could impart that genetic or epigenetic change.
A second guest is a young woman who cannot feel pain, but does feel emotion and empathy.
The third guest was a neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander, who was in a coma for days after sudden acute meningitis as an adult. He told his biographical story, about his adoption and estrangement from biological parents. His book is “Proof of Heaven” which I will review soon. He did describe Heaven as a physical place with a geography. I have imagined the afterlife as a situation where you don’t experience anything but are aware of everyone else’s motives just as they are aware of yours. It’s hard to imagine Heaven as another planet with high rise condos.
I discuss some of this on my movie review of “Upside Down” on March 21, on my movies reviews.
Anderson’s daytime show today covered identity theft and fraudulent IRS returns, as “lucrative” for criminals and difficult for the IRS to stop. The most likely subjects are children, those in nursing homes, or other people who don’t file their own returns.
Labels: afterlife, Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric
"Katie" examines the value of trade education v. college
Today, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, the “Katie” show on ABC (Katie Couric) examined the high cost of college, particularly from the viewpoint of college dropouts and people who don’t go to college.
Of course, some of the world’s most successful business people dropped out of college.
But the most interesting part of the program concerned the value of “trades”, and people skilled in them (such as plumbing or maybe power company linemen) are becoming increasingly expensive and scarce. We could get to the day when money won’t buy you all the skills you need.
“Mike Rowe” from “Dirty Jobs” presented the value of “learning a trade” instead of college, link here.
One interesting question: how can students afford to take internships and pay back student loans> Can recent engineering graduates afford to go overseas to the underdeveloped world to work on water projects, for example?
During the Vietnam war, student draft deferments were generally available only to college students in science and math.
Labels: dirty jobs, Katie Couric
CNN report about Wayne Williams, Atlanta, and CIA strains credibility
Sunday night (March 17, 2013), CNN offered a revised special report (the original had aired in 2011) about the Wayne Williams conviction for the Atlanta Child disappearances and killings near Atlanta GA in the early 1980s.
Williams is now in his mid 50s and was interviewed by Soledad O’Brien.
The two-hour report is significant because there are hints that the 65-inmch Williams had been trained as an insurgency specialist by the CIA, at a time when it was suspected that KGB moles lived in the United States (the series “The Americans”).
It is hard to fathom any motive for the slayings, which resemble those in the film “West of Memphis” (movies, Jan. 25, 2013).
Williams also failed lie detector evidence. But forensic evidence, based on unusual carpet fibers, seems questionable.
The program invited audiences to vote on the verdict. About 69% had voted guilty, 27% “not proven”.
The link is here. The revised documentary is simply called "The Atlanta Child Murders". CNN seems to be moving more into "formal" documentary film, similar to HBO, sometimes adapting material having appeared at festivals.
Update: March 21, 2015
CNN re-aired a condensed version of "Atlanta Child Murders" on March 21, 2015. There is a white supremacist who could have been a suspect.
Again, the idea that the CIA trains employees “to kill” seems to strain credibility.
Labels: CNN Presents, The Americans
Piers Morgan interviews Martin Sheen, Mia Farrow, and Craig Kielburger ("We Day") about Pope Francis
Mia Farrow and Martin Sheen appeared on Piers Morgan this evening, to discuss the humility and austere poverty of the new Pope Francis, who has certainly “broken the rules” as to security, and who lived in a simple apartment in Buenos Aries.
The new Pope chose his own name, so "Francis" suggests humility and service.
Mia and Martin both mentioned their disappointment with the Vatican’s attitude toward gay people “as a group”, and see it as contradictory to the Vatican’s emphasis on humility.
Martin said that he would remain Catholic even without a Pope.
Craig Kielburger also appeared. Kielburger’s activisim to free children from slavery and his “Me to We” movement has been covered on Nov. 25, 2012 (CNN) and May 26, 2008 (in connection with Oprah).
The link for Morgan’s interview tonight is here.
Vatican morality may have a “generic” point: sometimes people need to meet needs of others as they are confronted with these needs, and people may not always have a choice about this. In a world with sustainability issues and intractable inequality, to run away from such personal challenges might seem cowardly.
Piers Morgan then shifted the focus of the debate over to gun safety.
But then he got back to Kielburger’s “We Day”. You have to volunteer to get in. Kielbeurger says that service (and activism through activity) is as important as education. If you look at the world of the inner city and gang life, this could make sense.
Mia Farrow talked about “The Two R’s”< “Responsibility” and “Respect”. They also talked about empathy.
Later there was discussion of the Steubenville, Ohio trial.
Labels: Piers Morgan, We Day
PBS News Hour updates "The Invisible War" with more on sexual harassment in the military
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, PBS World News Hour reported on the problem of sexual assaults in the military, mostly of female enlisted, and the unwillingness of commands to prosecute them (only about 190 courts martial of about 19000 reports in 2012). A few victims were male. In the past, female Naval officers who complained of harassment were remanded to psychiatric treatment!
Sexual harassment in the military is a throwback to days when men tended to connect sexual powers to having personal authority over others – in other words, power and manipulation. Lookism matters little in the military perception of masculinity. (Sort of like characterizing a chess gambit position where "material means nothing!")
It’s interesting that the report followed SLDN’s Annual Dinner by only a few days.
One could almost postulate, "Heterosexuality is incompatible with military service".
The report mentioned the documentary film “The Invisible War” (June 26, 2012 on the movies blog).
The PBS Hour also reported on new efforts by Erin Brokovich in environmentalism, testing for chromium in drinking water, starting in her own town in the Mojave Desert.
Labels: military, pbs news
The "Bachelor" wants to get married (heterosexually) on live reality TV, on ABC
“The Bachelor” finale, “After the Final Rose”, turned silliness to dressy dignity, as Sean Lowe shows up in good clothes, having chosen Catherine (aka Kate), sitting on top an elephant in Thailand (the countryside looks very flat, and artificial, like another planet).
Chris Harrison, who says he is an ordained minister, interviewed him. Sean says he hasn’t set the heterosexual (and metrosexual) wedding date yet, but he wants to get married on live reality television.
There is a certain resemblance between his body and looks and that of “Brady” on “Days of our Lives”, of you know what I mean. Good thing women don’t care.
Lindsay, “the sub”, paid Sean a visit, and professed her love for him. She’s gotten over it.
Sean is on a red-eye flight tonight to appear on ABC GMA Tuesday morning. I wonder where ABC puts people up. Sean is a people person, a salesman, I think. I don’t think a cabin in the Yotel (on 10th Avenue, in Hells Kitchen, filled with MacBooks on the lobby floor) would appeal to him. I does to me, my favorite hotel n Manhattan.
ABC resumes another favorite, “Dancing with the Stars”, March 18.
Labels: reality, The Bachelor
CNN: "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare", already had a theatrical release, unusual for the network
CNN tonight aired the two hour documentary by Matthew Heinenam, “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare”.The metaphor in the title comes from a forest fire fighting technique demonstrated as the film opens.
The film seems to be a close rework of the film aired previewed at the West End Cinema in Washington DC on Oct, 7, 2012 (see movies blog). CNN has repackaged the work under the brand "CNN Films" and apparently lengthened if to almost a full two hours (probably by restoring deleted scenes). I'll re-summarize a few of the points here.
This is the first time that I can recall that CNN aired a documentary in something close to the original theatrical format. Usually CNN originates its own documentaries, some of which would obviously lend themselves to theatrical adaptation (such as Anderson Cooper's "Planet in Peril").
The focus of the film was reimbursement system of health care as a business, which encourages doctors to see as many patients as possible and see them repeatedly for the same problems, rather than prevent or fix the problems. This is the problem with the “fee for service” model. We we could call it a "profitable disease care system".
Innovations were many, however. The Cleveland Clinic hires all doctors on salaries, and puts profits back into the hospital and has one of the lowest costs of any hospital company in the nation. One female patent had over 27 stents before going to the Clinic. Stents are said not to prevent actual heart attacks. Apparent she also had two bypasses. She had the stents before risk factors were controlled.
One session showed a tidewater Virginia doctor giving acupuncture to a wounded soldier.
Another sequence showed a family man with many stents back in the hospital repeatedly for heart disease systems, and he wasn’t that old.
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (Trailer) from Our Time Projects on Vimeo.
The link for the film is here.
Sanjay Gupta held a half hour town hall afterwards, which he also titled "Rescuing Health Care" and explained particularly how many stents are unnecessary. 70% of stents and angioplasties are done in patients with symptomatic heart disease and unstable angina.
Supporting Gupta (and the film) is a report from ABC News on Feb, 28, 2012 by Carrie Gann, "For coronary artery diseases, meds are efficient as stents", link here.
It's possible to have acceptable EKG's but irregular heartbeat associated with increasing hypertension and narrowing of coronary arteries. The latest information suggests that stents are not that helpful. Bypass surgery is often done quickly, but can also fail. Some patients may do as well with just medication and no surgical intervention.
People vary as to temperament how much intervention they want. Some people with tolerable symptoms (anginas, palpitations, etc) may do better doing very little unless they are willing to submit to invasive procedures and try everything. There seems to be a wide gap in opinion as to how aggressive surgery should be, Remember that TV host David Letterman was hauled into emergency coronary bypass surgery in January 2000 but has done well since. Esquire Magazine poked fun at him for joining "the Zipper Club".
Gupta showed a number of medical devices and explained how the cost is so high. (That portion was also on an earlier special.)
Compare this film with Michael Moore's "Sicko".
Labels: CNN films, eldercare and healthcare, HBO
ABC 20-20 covers the "buyer beware" problem in residential real estate
Tonight’s ABC 20-20 episode was “Inside Secrets of Real Estate Agents”, and the show presented real estate as a competitive, go-getter and manipulative business (“always be closing”). Barbara Corcoran did a lot of the reporting, especially about homeowner staging. I had friends in the business when I lived in Dallas in the 1980s and it didn’t seem so wild as it is now.
The film covered homeowner hazards.
The most recent controversy concerns sinkholes in Florida, including the recent catastrophe where a man fell into a sinkhole to his death while in his bedroom near Tampa FL. The show did not show as much of the science of sinkholes (and the problems of aquifer draining and honoring mandatory insurance coverage) as have other films (including CNN and an important short film fom Vice Media on my CF blog March 6). The report did show a contractor fixing the foundation of a sinkhole-vulnerable home for about $50000.
The report also covered a family that moved into a foreclosure in Oregon, only to find remnants of crystal meth in the house, exposing the kids. The family had to rent another house and keep paying a mortgage, although the "as is" house was only $35000.
Another family moved to Louisville KY and found it self constantly awakened by cargo planes from the nearby airport.
And a family in upstate New York had seriously problems when the power company expanded a nearby generating station. Could that affect the operation of PC’s and electronics?
The link for the report from Jim Avila is here.
One family lives in a cemetery, and another Doomdsay Prepper lives in an underground nuclear weapons shelter.
Labels: ABC 20-20, real estate shows
"King of the Nerds" finale tonight on TBS: Are nerds "special"?
I sampled the finale of the TBS reality series “King of the Nerds” tonight.
The comic show goes through a spoof of all the bigger reality shows – but this is more a biggest winner than biggest loser. “Celeste” won, with her gaming tattoos. I’m not much a fan of body art unless its non-destructive and removable. But then you’re “faking it”.
One of the cute games was a reality maze, where people drive through on mopeds. What I think would be cool would be something like a reality model railroad, where people live electronically in the cities and spaces on the model railroad layout. That could be be pretext of a sci-fi horror film (in fact, something like that happens in my 2004 Project Greenlight screenplay “Baltimore Is Missing”).
At the end, one of the guy (Ivan)s said, a good nerd is “special without being different”. Clark Kent had out it in reverse, “I’m different, but I’m not special.” Sure, someone who can catch his own forward passes isn’t special?
The link is here.
In the video above, Brando is the professor of neuroscience, a subject that might be tainted now., but this clip is more ancient.
There’s no reason that nerds shouldn’t be “attractive”. They can even become pop stars.
Labels: reality
"Body of Proof" resurrects "The Exorcist" with another Regan
Was the episode “Breakout” on ABC’s “Body of Proof” last night (10 PM) a spoof of “The Exorcist”? The poor girl (Brooke Lynn Howard) was aspirating on her own vomit (at least not the green split-pea soup in the movie), and was stabbed a couple times with chest tubes. She seemed to be bleeding out, as if with Ebola. This didn’t even look like something that would be medically survivable. And all Dad could say was that she needed “The Lord” or something like that. She probably needed detoxification from drugs.
This time, the background isn’t Georgetown in Washington DC, but center city Philadelphia, right over the 30th Street Station so beloved to Amtrak passengers. At least it looked like Philly to me. Maybe the gilr’s house is in Fishtown, a favorite place for libertarian writer Charles Murray.
Very seriously, on “Katie” recently, there was an episode where a mother related an incident where her daughter, after a bad trip with argo-fake marijuana, was admitted to a psychiatric ward (I think in Philadelphia), and was so uncontrollable that she was put into a medically induced coma (about to happen on “Breakout” as the episode ended). The parents were told that the daughter might become brain dead or become permanently dependent. Actually, the real life teenage girl is recovering, although slowly, and appeared on Katie.
Regarding Amtrak, the trains used to stop also at North Philadelphia, in an area now documented in the film “A Place at the Table” as one of the nation’s worst “food deserts” for poor people.
Imdb says that some of the first season of “Body of Proof” was actually filmed in Rhode Island. I didn’t pick up any familiar scenery, although I had visited the late filmmaker Gode David in Providence in 2003.
Labels: Body of Proof
"Red Widow": An ex-housewife joins the Mafia to protect her kids, maybe?
I guess ABC’s idea of a “Red Widow” is a wife who discovers her husband’s illegal business affairs and winds up working for the Mafia herself after her husband is taken.
Radha Mitcell plays the devoted wife Marta Walrwven, raising her three kids (the oldest, Gabriel, is played by the appealing Sterling Beaumon) is ritzy suburb north of the San Francisco Bay. Her husband, Evan (Anson Mount) is heavily involved in shady dealings with longshoremen and imports of cocaine. The opening scenes of the Pilot (2 hours, March 3, directed by creator Mark Pellington) give us a preview when bad guy Nichola Schiller (Goran Visnjic) knocks off some enemies on the dock. Pretty soon, Marta finds Evan shot on her own driveway. In the ensuing scramble, she finds that she will have to play the Mafia’s game to protect her family.
There is a subplot in that the husband had intended that his wife and kids enter witness protection. That puts an end to any aspirations for an Internet career for the kids.
I don’t know whether the premise – of a woman learning the ways of organized crime to protect her kids, will hold an audience over time. But the series (based on a Dutch series called “Peniza”) has only eight episodes.
The writing seem to follow the didactics of Screenwriting 101 -- create dire urgency.
The official site is here.
Labels: Red Widow, television series (dramatic)
On Saturday night, March 2, CNN aired the honorarium, “Ben Affleck: Back on Top”, a one hour report on how Ben Affleck’s career has rebounded, to the winning of Best Picture for his 2012 film “Argo”. (CNN calls him an "auteur!) The report starts at the beginning, with his boyhood. His career started in Cambridge MA with his friend Matt Damon, growing up two blocks away. Both had single moms but pretty much raised one another. They collaborated in the 1990s on “Good Will Hunting” after both had moved to California.
Ben started to “slip” and checked himself into a rehab center in 2001 (Martin Sheen drove him there). Some of his films in the middle 00’s flopped (I thought that “Paycheck”, which I saw on New Year’s Eve before 2004, wasn’t bad). “Daredevil” hadn’t done much for me.
His career picked up when he went back to Massachusetts and directed “Gone. Baby Gone”, casting his younger brother Casey. (Casey Affleck and Matt Damon had made “Gerry” for Gus Van Sant, a tragic story of two young hikers lost in the Mojave Desert). Later, Ben would make “The Town” (remember, “I’m going to hurt some people.”)
Executives from The Weinstein Company (formerly connected to Miramax) and Cohen Media Group (which prefers international films) discussed Affleck's work.
The link for the show is here.
At the Oscars, Ben said “You gotta get up” when you’re down as he accept the Oscar for Best Picture, even though he had been “shunned” for Best Director
In 2004 I saw the play “Matt & Ben” at the DC Arts Center, as put on by the Accokeekcreek Theater Group, by Mindy Kalig and Brenda Withers.
Although both Matt and Ben are married to women, gay publications tried to make a lot of their friendship in glossy rags in the 90s.
Labels: awards ceremonies, CNN Presents, That's entertainment
Michael and Sons Helping Hands (link), on Saturday mornings at 10 AM on NBC4 (NBC Washington) is presented as a “paid program”. That was a bit of a surprise.
Today, the heating contractor helped a single mom with three sons, the youngest of whom has multiple sclerosis. The two older brothers are responsible for looking after him.
An oil furnace had failed (I think the house was in Massachusetts), and could not be repaired. Michael agreed to replace her system with an electric furnace for very little house.
She had been using an oven and electric heaters to heat some rooms in the house.
Michael also lectured one of the older sons to make the most of himself.
Today, the company helped a woman raising a disabled son in Central Virginia, where the home was damaged by both the 2011 Louisa County earthquake, and a tornado. The foundation was very unstable. The site of the home appeared to be near the Twin Oaks intentional community, which I reviewed on my "Major Issues" blog on April 7, 2012.
The website for the show is here.
Update: March 8, 2014
The broadcast this morning may have been the same, A young man, with tattooed forearms, has to take care of a seriously disabled brother, and mother, near Triangle VA. I'm not sure if this is a different episode or not. I see people having to take care of younger siblings (not their own kids) all the time on shows like this. It happens.
Labels: Helping Hands
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Janet Jackson - Birth Chart
(Janet Damita Jo Jackson)
Gary, Indiana
Moon: Ari
ASC: Sco
composer, singer, actress, dancer
Janet Jackson - Astro, Birth Chart, Horoscope, Filmography
16 May 1966 - 19:00 (CDT, DST)
US, Gary:
41°36'N, 87°21'W
Astrodienst, Astro.com (C)
(Janet Jackson 2018, 2019 - Biography, Wikipedia info, Astrological Signs)
(composer, singer, actress, dancer, instagram)
Janet Jackson - Filmography - Actor (IMDb.com)
(2016) - Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
(2015) - BET Awards 2015
(2014) - Mobilize
(2011) - The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America
(2010) - Why Did I Get Married Too?
(2010) - For Colored Girls
(2009) - MTV Video Music Awards 2009
(2009) - Michael Jackson Memorial
(2009) - Michael Jackson: Unmasked
(2007) - Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
(2007) - Why Did I Get Married?
(2005) - The Work of Director Mark Romanek (music video)
(2004) - The X Factor
(2004) - The Teen Choice Awards 2004
(2003) - Michael Jackson: Number Ones (music video)
(2003) - Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(2003) - 50 Sexiest Video Moments
(2002) - MTV Icon: Aerosmith
(2002) - The 44th Annual Grammy Awards
(2002) - Eigo de shabera-night
(2002) - American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
(2002) - American Bandstand's 50th Anniversary Celebration
(2002) - Tha Westside
(2002) - Janet Jackson: Live in Hawaii
(2001) - MTV Icon: Janet Jackson
(2001) - The Concert for New York City
(2000) - 2000 MTV Movie Awards
(2000) - Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
(2000) - Janet Jackson: Doesn't Really Matter
(1998) - CD:UK
(1998) - Janet: The Velvet Rope
(1998) - Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope Tour - Live in Concert
(1998) - Hollywood Aids
(1997) - Michael Jackson: HIStory on Film - Volume II (music video)
(1997) - Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 1997
(1996) - Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (music video)
(1995) - Michael Jackson: Video Greatest Hits - HIStory (music video)
(1995) - Michael & Janet Jackson: Scream - HIStory in the Making
(1994) - The Jackson Family Honors
(1993) - TLC: Get It Up (music video)
(1993) - Dangerous: The Short Films (music video)
(1993) - Poetic Justice
(1992) - Punkt 12 - Das RTL-Mittagsjournal
(1992) - Malcolm X
(1990) - Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation
(1989) - Rhythm Nation 1814 (music video)
(1985) - Larry King Live
(1982) - Ebony/Jet Showcase
(1982) - Fame (TV series)
(1981) - Entertainment Tonight
(1979) - A New Kind of Family (TV series)
(1978) - Diff'rent Strokes (TV series)
(1976) - The Jacksons
(1974) - Good Times (TV series)
(1964) - Top of the Pops
Janet Jackson - Partner relationships
(*1983) Lee Ryan (rumour)
(*1972) Jermaine Dupri
(*1969) Matthew McConaughey
(*1972) Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (rumour)
Janet Jackson 2019 - Astrological Charts, Astrology Online
Janet Jackson Astro-Databank - Astro Database Categories
Birthday May 16 | 1966 births | Chinese Horse | Life Path 7
Sun in Taurus + Moon in Aries + ASC in Scorpio | ASC 14° Scorpio | IC 24° Aquarius | Sun 25° Taurus | Sun in 7th house | Moon 15° Aries |Moon in 5th house | Mercury 13° Taurus | Mercury in 6th house | Venus 13° Aries | Venus in 5th house | Mars 21° Taurus | Mars in 7th house | Uranus Retrograde | Neptune Retrograde | Pluto Retrograde | Balsamic Moon Phase 319° |
Occupation: Composers | Occupation: Singers | Occupation: Actors | Occupation: Dancers
Janet Jackson, Birth Chart Horoscopes & Signs - Taurus
Moon in Aries
The feeling of uncertainty can make you solve problems faster then is natural. Do not rush as if there was a deadline. Try to slow down so that you can decide what you want to do and proceed at your own comfortable pace. -»
People with Scorpio on the Ascendant need to fight against dark and destructive power in their life. For some, this power can also come from within, in the form of jealousy, envy or lust for power. The dark and hidden things in the soul must come out. It can be reflected in artwork, for example. -»
Balsamic/Dark Moon
Incubation, Preparation, Closure, Transformation, Renewal, Purity
Horse (Fire)
Horse has good taste, and overall is very versatile. People born in the Year of the Horse love grand shows, concerts, social and sports events. As on the horse race, so in life they easily conquer most of the barriers or skillfully and stealthily bypass those. The Horses are irresistible and easily gain followers and admirers. -»
These people prefer mental work. They want to realise their potential and work hard in order to improve themselves. They need friendship in their life. -»
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Janet Jackson - composer, singer, actress, dancer
Janet Jackson was born on May 16, 1966 in Gary, Indiana, United States
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The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
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My path to The Good Earth by the Nobel prize winner Pearl S Buck was one I almost did not take. I had asked two colleagues in Korea to suggest local authors. Their first choice sounded appealing – it was a best seller called Please Look After Mom (click on the title to see my review). I was less enthused by their second recommendation – The Good Earth – because it was set in China not Korea and was written by an American author. My preference is to read native authors wherever possible but I was heartened subsequently to learn that Pearl S Buck was in fact very familiar with China’s rural life and traditions having spent much of her early life there as the daughter of missionaries.
My reservations about The Good Earth didn’t last for long. Right from chapter one I was hooked by this novel about the rising/falling fortunes of two families: the peasant farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan and the rich, wealthy House of Hwang headed by The Old Lord and the Old Mistress.
The book opens on Wang Lung’s wedding day and then charts their progress through successive years during which time their family grows, they enjoy plentiful harvests and manage to become landowners only to see it all disappear -and then astonishingly they get it back many times over. Meanwhile the rich Hwangs, for whom O-lan once worked as a house servant, go through a reverse experience because of the Old Lord’s penchant for multiple concubines and his wife’s addiction to opium. Their fortunes dwindle to the point they can no longer remain in their large house with its lavish furnishings. Wang Lung seizes the opportunity to make his mark on local society and becomes the new owner.
It’s a story that has so many twists and turns it feels like a soap opera at times. What sustained my interest was Pearl Buck’s portrait of Wang Lung and his deeply rooted believe in the beneficial power of the earth.
He took his life from this earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver.
He enjoys the wealth his toil brings not simply because it brings peace of mind because he can now feed and sustain his family but as time goes on it brings him a new status in his community. “… everyone knew now that Wang Lung owned this land and in his village there was talk of making him the head.”
But of course such pride makes his fall even more acutely felt. When the harvests fail, when every grain of rice and wheat has been eaten and the ox killed for food and when he has used every coin he possesses, there is no other path open than to go south. Either he has to see his family die or he has to give up the land and find work and food in a more wealthy province. to the city to try and find a new life. There they are reduced to living in a makeshift hut while Wang Lung pulls a rickshaw, earning barely enough to buy rice for the next day. He gets a break and obtains enough money to take his family back to their native land where he begins to rebuild his life, so successfully he becomes one of the wealthiest men in the locality.
At times Wang Lung seems to feel the earth has mystical powers – early on in his married life in fact he erects two crude figures on his plot of land to which he regularly pays homage. Throughout the novel, the land is the “good earth”; providing Wang Lung, with physical, emotional and spiritual nourishment. He is at his happiest when he works in the fields, knowing he is following in the footsteps of many generations of his family. Whenever he is troubled, physical labor on the land restores him. Whenever he is away from it, he feels out of his element. Even when he is wealthy old man who is too weak to get behind the plough, the pull of the earth sustains him:
… of his land he thought no more what harvest it would bring or what seed would be planted or of anything except of the land itself, and he stooped sometimes and gathered some of the earth up in his hand and he sat thus and held it in his hand, and it seemed full of life between his fingers. And he was content, holding it thus, and he thought of it fitfully and of his good coffin that was there; and the kind earth waited without haste until he came to it.
I’m glad I laid my initial reservations about this book to one side because The Good Earth proved a fascinating insight into the culture of China in the years spanning the end of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of World War 1.
The Book: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck was published in 1931. Its commercial and critical success was considered an influential factor in her award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. The Good Earth is the first book in a trilogy.
The Author: Pearl S Buck was taken to China when she was five months old and lived there for much of her life as the daughter and then the wife of a missionary. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued to write and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures,
My edition: e-book
Why I read this: As part of my project to read more books by authors outside of the traditional western canon.
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PROPHET (Bridge & Sword #8)
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“In through the out door. Further down. Below...”
Allie and Revik race against the clock, looking for the remaining names on a mysterious list of humans and seers meant to rebuild the world after the apocalypse––hopefully before Shadow kills them all. Meanwhile, a mysterious new player starts buying up List seers and humans on the black market faster than Revik and Allie can save them.
Whoever they are, they seem to have their own copy of the Lists, and while they don’t appear to be killing them, more and more Listers disappear into Dubai, the most heavily guarded of Shadow’s quarantine cities. Before Allie can decide her next move, another group appears, claiming to be loyal to her.
As Allie finds out more about this new group, however, everything in her world starts to unravel. Worse, the people closest to her seem to be turning against her, including––maybe especially––her own husband.
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Standalone novel. No cliffhanger.
PROPHET is book 8 in the Bridge & Sword series. It is also related to the Quentin Black World, and takes place in the wider history/world of the seers.
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THE BRIDGE & SWORD WORLD is a dark, gritty science fiction and apocalyptic series with strong romantic elements, starring Alyson Taylor and her partner, dark and dangerous infiltrator, Dehgoies Revik. For fans of gritty, character-driven science fiction and fantasy worlds, filled with twists and turns and backstabbing betrayals, with heroes and villains who can be equally relatable (and sometimes the same people). The Bridge & Sword books span continents and historical periods as Allie and Revik try to save the human and seer races from destroying one another, and keep their friends and loved ones alive in the process.
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Butuan Stories
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Butuan: My Hometown Story
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by Cas S. Garcia, M.D.
I’m not certain, the hazards of aging, hazy memory, 1947 or 1949, either date.
On a languid, lethargic afternoon, I was draped on a chair built by my oldest brother from discarded mahogany sticks pilfered from the Golden Ribbon Lumberyard the summer before, (for years after the Great War, all the students of Butuan Central Elementary School had to bring their own chairs or desks for their personal use). I was seated by a window, distracted from my midsummer mid-afternoon reverie by the multiplication table being droned out by rote by a fidgeting classmate in front of the class and our snake-eyed predatory teacher-in-charge.
Following the waves of clouds being chased away by the sun, at the same time counting the dragonflies perched on the electric wires hung between tall, thick wooden poles, part of me was contemplating the absence of traffic on partially coral-paved Juan Luna Street, the air infused by the scent of a potpourri of recently spread sawdust and overflowing, melting black and sticky asphalt in large metal barrels, the combination, to a pre-adolescent, a powerful sedative.
Butuan was engulfed in a typical tropical summer afternoon silence. I was a heartbeat away from somnolence when I heard a soulful two-note tolling of the church bells, an echoing rendition of sadness, resonating across Rizal Park, across the town, announcing the loss and impending internment of someone dear; a Catholic proclamation of death.
Maria Montilla Sanchez, my great-grandmother, mother of my grandfather, she was “Apo” to me. She had died the night before. She had lived with my grandparents for quite a while. Old, really ancient. Senile, she was wrinkled and stooped, grey haired and all. And she exuded that inescapable smell of accumulated years of solitude and loneliness. All of her contemporaries had already gone before her. And all the kids were scared of her and all stayed away from her. I, too, was intimidated by her. I truly believed she could read my mind and that she knew of all the mischief being hatched up in my head, of which, as a child, was prolific.
Proprietary in their admonition and gentle in their parental restraint, my parents did not allow me to view the remains. I guess they did not want for me to have nightmares. They did not want me to attend the funeral services and burial either because I was not to miss school. I had to have a perfect class attendance. I was the golden boy. I was going to be the first doctor in the family. I was to rise above everyone and everything but the sky. I, naturally, was upset. I wanted to attend the funeral services. But displaying a primitive emotion such as anger or defiance was a character flaw, a sign of inferiority and my parents never tolerated it and so I complied. I went to school.
But, as I got older, I realized that they really just wanted to shield me from one of the inevitables of life – death. I don’t know why. Did they not realize that I would have to confront it and be confronted by it at some time, that there was no escaping it? As a doctor or as a man? I guess it was because I was the youngest of four and would always be too young for this or that. The baby.
They took a picture of the Montilla-Calo-Sanchez clan in front of the dilapidated, brownish-red brick church. I saw the picture. I can’t find it anymore.
I walked home from class, quite a distance then, but now, actually, almost just across the street. I was silently conversing with myself as I was wont to do. I thought about this error of a perfect God – death. I tried to reason out the fragility of life. I asked the why and the where. I wondered whether it was best to die when one was young like me or to die as old as Apo was. Apo, who was already clinging to the last vestiges of relevance to her children and the other people around her, her unfulfilled dreams and unredeemed hopes all but forgotten. Where was Apo now? Was she playing the lyre with the angels? Or will she be waiting for me when I get home? Will she be staring at me with a scowl that could desiccate a banana plant, reprimanding me with her eyes for a transgression I haven’t even plotted yet?
But, still, deep inside of me, I knew I would miss her. She had been a fixture in my grandmother’s house and it would be different without her.
I got home and as I reached the transom, I tried to wave away that inexplicable faint smell of dying candles, candles that were not there.
I decided I would be sleeping between Mama and Papa that night.
♣ ♣ ♣ ♣
June 22, 2015 butuanstories Leave a comment
Cel Atega Rosales-Amores is a grandmother who works for TV but has recently taken to blogging and writing e-books. She wants to preach the value of cultural story-telling to the youth, especially to young Butuanons in particular.
Jasper Caesar Espinosa Jampac is a son of Butuan who grew up under the Sacred Heart and Urian teachings. He joined several publications starting at Urios (Urian Graders, The Gleaner), then at UP Diliman (Philippine Collegian), and at AIM (The Asian Manager). Jasper has also written for Woman Today and edited the ASEAN magazine, LINKS98, while studying at the National University of Singapore.
Malou Monet-Solidum is a dentist with Butuanon roots.
Mamet Magno has been involved in development projects for the past 20 years. She comes from the Villanueva-Magno-Rosales clan. She graduated from UCHS in 1982.
Mark F. Villanueva is a boxing writer, boxing trainer, and founder of the Villanueva Boxing Academy for underprivileged youth. His boxing articles from various sites are compiled in his blog – BoxingInsight.blogspot.com.
Myle T. Macalam is Butuan born and bred. She is one of the Tius of Silongan Street by way of her mother Lette. While enjoying a corporate career in Strategy and Communications in the big city, she continues to pine for her hometown by the river where she spent the first sixteen years of her life.
Ramil L. Cabela. After topping the Philippine Nursing Board Exams in the 1990s, Ramil worked in New York as a critical care nurse while going to business school. Upon earning his MBA in 2001, he launched a career in the pharmaceutical industry where he has been leading drug safety teams in the last 15 years. He loves to travel the world with his wife, Gina, a family medicine physician.
Rene C. Vargas, M.D., FPCS was born and raised in Butuan. He is an Urian (High School Class of ’55) and a graduate of the UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery ’62. He was an active member and former officer of the Philippine Medical Association and a past president of the Agusan del Norte Medical Society. He is a Senior Fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons.
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By Matt Levin published: November 7, 2018
The rent control initiative just lost: What’s next for renters?
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Proposition 10, the statewide ballot initiative that would have allowed California cities to expand rent control, has gone down to defeat. And while the state may not finish counting votes for weeks, it looks like Prop. 10 is going to lose badly.
On one hand, the rent control initiative’s defeat was eminently predictable. The polling started bad, and then got miserable. The “No” campaign—largely funded by landlords and Wall Street firms with large California single-family-home portfolios (the loosened rent control laws could apply to their properties if Prop. 10 passed)— out-raised the “Yes” side 3-to-1. Even in a “blue” wave, the California electorate is still predominantly homeowners. The math was never good.
We’ve written extensively on the reasons Prop. 10 was tanking so bad in the polls, but there’s more to the story that will certainly leak out from the “Yes” side in the days ahead.
The big question among tenants’ rights groups and housing wonks is what happens next? Governor-elect Gavin Newsom has pledged to negotiate a compromise on rent control early in his tenure, but the chief of the “Yes” campaign has publicly stated he doesn’t trust Newsom enough to negotiate. Perhaps the bigger question is what incentive the landlords have to compromise at all. If nearly two-thirds of Californians rejected an initiative to expand rent control, why compromise? The voters have spoken.
Tenants’ groups still hold a few other points of leverage. They’ve talked about putting an initiative on the 2020 ballot, with the hope that presidential turnout and better ballot language could reverse their fortunes. They are also still campaigning at the local level for new rent control ordinances, including in major cities like Sacramento. The landlord association doesn’t want to have to spend money on those fights.
But despite over $20 million spent against them and slogans of “The rent is too damn high!” echoing across the state, the landlords appear to be in a better position than they were before the Prop. 10 campaign began.
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